That she had solicited the loan of money, to
satisfy the demands of the Company, from every person that she imagined
would or could assist her with any; but that the opulent would not
listen to her adversity. She had hoped that the wardrobe sent to Lucknow
might have sold for at least one half of the Company's demands on her;
but even jewelry and goods, she finds from woful experience, lose their
value the moment it is known they come from her. That she had now
solicited the loan of cash from Almas Ali Khan, and if she failed in
that application, she had no hopes of ever borrowing a sum equal to the
demand":[73]--an hope not likely to be realized, as the said Almas Ali
was then engaged for a sum of money to be raised for the Company's use
on the security of their confiscated lands, the restoration of which
could form the only apparent security for a loan.
XLIX. That this remonstrance produced no effect on the mind of the
aforesaid Resident,--who, being about this time removed from his
Residency, did, in a letter to his successor, Mr.
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