At last, feeling
my helpless situation, I collected my wardrobe and furniture, to the
amount of about three lacs of rupees, besides fifty thousand rupees
which I borrowed from one place or other, and sent Major Gilpin with it
to Lucknow. My sufferings did not terminate here. The disturbances of
Colonel Hannay and Mr. Gordon were made a pretence for seizing my
jaghire. The state of the matter is this. When Colonel Hannay was by Mr.
Hastings ordered to march to Benares, during the troubles of Cheyt Sing,
the Colonel, _who had plundered the whole country, was incapable of
proceeding, from the union of thousands of zemindars, who had seized
this favorable opportunity_: they harassed Mr. Gordon near Junivard
[Juanpore?], and the zemindars of that place and Acberpore opposed his
march from thence, till he arrived near Taunda. As the Taunda nullah,
from its overflowing, was difficult to cross without a boat, Mr. Gordon
sent to the Phousdar to supply him. He replied, the boats were all in
the river, but would, according to orders, assist him as soon as
possible.
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