He concluded by saying, that, 'if the Vizier so little
regarded his family and personal honor, or his natural duty, as to wish
to disgrace his father's mother for a sum of money, let him plunder her
of all she has, but let him send her safe up to Delhi or Agra, and, poor
as I am, I will furnish subsistence for her, which she shall possess
with safety and honor, though it cannot be adequate to her rank.'
"This, Sir, is a most exact detail of the conversation (as far as
related to that affair) on the part of Mirza Shaffee Khan. On my part I
could only say, that I imagined the affair was misrepresented, and that
I should write as he requested. Let me therefore request that you will
enable me to answer in a more effectual manner any further questions on
this subject.
LXXXII. "As Mirza Shaffee's grandfather was brother to Sufdar Jung,
there can be no doubt of what his declaration means; and if this measure
of dismissing the old Begum should be persisted in, I should not, from
the state of affairs, and the character of the Amir ul Omrah, be
surprised at some immediate and violent resolution being adopted by
him.
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