Memoirs of the Revolution in Bengal, Anno Dom. 1757Watts, William, active 1737-1758
History
Memoirs of the Revolution in Bengal, Anno Dom. 1757
Watts, William, active 1737-1758
East India Company -- History; India -- History -- 1526-1765; Plassey, Battle of, Palashi, India, 1757
VIII. Ditto for _Omichund_ 30 D^o.
IX. Whatever Ground there is within the _Calcutta_ Ditch,
belonging to the _Zemindars_, to be given to the
_English_, and Six hundred Yards without the Ditch
all round.
X. A Tract of Land, whose Rents in the King's Books
amounts to 100,000 Rupees Yearly, to be bought at a
reasonable Value, from the Zemindary, and the Nabob
to assist us in the Purchase, we paying the annual
Piscash or Revenue, as usual, to the Nabob. Whatever
Profit may arise from this Zemindary, is to go
towards paying our Military.
XI. Whenever the Nabob wants the Assistance of our Troops,
the extraordinary Expence to be paid by him.
Footnote 1:
The Rupee is a Silver Coin, struck in the _Moghul_'s Mints, with an
Inscription of his Name and Titles, the Year of his Reign, and the
Place at which it was struck. It weighs from 7 _dw._ 10⅓ _gr._ to 7
_dw._ 11 _gr._ and the Proportion of Allay to fine Silver, is as 1 or
2 to 100. One hundred thousand Rupees make a Lack, One hundred Lacks a
Coroe or Crore, One hundred Crores an Arrib.
_TABLE_ of _RUPEES_.
Lack of Rupees. £. _Sterling_.
1 12,500
10 125,000
20 250,000
30 375,000
40 500,000
50 625,000
60 750,000
70 875,000
80 1,000,000
90 1,125,000
A Crore 1,250,000
His Plan of the Treaty was returned, with Alterations: Some of the
Articles were modified, and a Blank left for the Company's Demand, that
in case _Meer Jaffeir_ should think it too extravagant, Mr. _Watts_
might have Liberty to moderate it, and he was desired to get it carried
into Execution; but it will appear in the Treaty itself, which will be
hereafter given, that Mr. _Watts_ got the Treaty executed, without any
Deduction or Modification. This was a Work equally arduous and
hazardous, as Things then stood, when every Look, every Word, every
Motion of his was suspected, and which at the same time rendered the
procuring its Conclusion expeditiously a Circumstance of the utmost
Consequence. In all this, the Risk might be truly said to fall entirely
upon himself; so that it is not easy to imagine, how any Man's
Circumstances could be more critical than his actually were in this
Conjuncture. We shall however see, that they really became so
afterwards, and this in a very high Degree, and in very many Respects,
from Causes that could not be avoided, and which produced a Train of
unforeseen Events.
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