For,
LIII. That, so early as the 6th March, 1782, Captain Leonard Jaques, who
commanded the forces on duty for the purpose of distressing the several
women in the palaces at Fyzabad, did complain to the Resident, Richard
Johnson, in the following words. "The women belonging to the Khord
Mohul (or lesser palace) complain of their being in want of every
necessary of life, and are at last driven to that desperation that they
at night get on the top of the zenanah, make a great disturbance, and
last night not only alarmed the sentinels posted in the garden, but
threw dirt at them; they threaten to throw themselves from the walls of
the zenanah, and also to break out of it. Humanity obliges me to
acquaint you of this matter, and to request to know if you have any
directions to give me concerning it. I also beg leave to acquaint you I
sent for Letafit Ali Khan, the cojah who has the charge of them, and who
informs me it is well grounded,--that they _have sold everything they
had, even to the clothes from their backs, and now have no means of
subsisting_.
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