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LV. That, in consequence of these representations, it appears that the
said Resident, Richard Johnson, did promise that an application should
be made to certain of the servants of the Nabob Vizier to provide for
their subsistence.
LVI. That Captain Jaques being relieved from the duty of imprisoning the
women of Sujah ul Dowlah, the late sovereign of Oude, an ally of the
Company, who dwelt in the said lesser palace, and Major Gilpin being
appointed to succeed, the same malicious design of destroying the said
women, or the same scandalous neglect of their preservation and
subsistence, did still continue; and Major Gilpin found it necessary to
apply to the new Resident, Bristow, in a letter of the 30th of October,
1782, as follows.
LVII. "SIR,--Last night, about eight o'clock, the women in the
Khord Mohul [lesser palace] or zenanah [women's apartment] under the
charge of Letafit Ali Khan, assembled on the tops of the buildings,
_crying in a most lamentable manner for food,--that for the last four
days they had got but a very scanty allowance, and that yesterday they
had got none_.
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