"That having looked upon the Nabob's answer as an evasive one, and that he was not inclined to comply with his request, he never wrote, nor thought, more upon the subject, until he received a second letter from Jugget Seit, in answer to his first, after the success against the King's son, mentioning that the Nabob had turned the thing in his mind, and was willing to grant him a jaghire in Bengal; but the nature of it, where, or what value it was to be, he was entirely ignorant of till the patent explained it. Jugget Seit was a banker, and a man of great interest and weight with the Nabob."--Parliamentary Reports, vol. iii. p. 154. * * * * * * Transcriber's note: Obvious errors of punctuation and diacritics were corrected. There are at least two unpaired double quotation marks which the transcriber felt unable to correct with confidence. Inconsistent hyphenation was made consistent. The footnotes themselves have footnotes and have been included in the consecutive numbering; therefore, there appear to be missing numbers in the text itself. P. 7: embassador at the court -> ambassador at the court. P. 9: want of of personal courage -> want of personal courage. Pp. 19, 21, 22fn, 25fn, 26, 27: Pondichery -> Pondicherry. P. 86: informed of these prepaparations -> informed of these preparations. P. 137: Footnote anchor was missing and placed at a conjectured location. P. 150fn: can be no justication -> can be no justification. P. 173: the absolute recal -> the absolute recall. P. 375: accessary to the disgrace -> accessory to the disgrace.