On The 22d Of May I Went To The King At The Durbar, To Solicit His
Authority To Get Back A Youth Named Jones, Who Had Run Away From Me To
An Italian, Who Protected Him To The Disgrace Of Our Nation, By Using
The King's Name.
The king gave me an order for his delivery; but the
prince, who waited every opportunity to injure us, for the sake of his
favourite, Zulphecar Khan, moved the king in private to send for the
youth first, to the Guzalcan, which was done.
I had newly broken off
from conferring with the prince, on account of his partiality to
Zulphecar Khan, and had sent him word that I would no longer refrain
from stating our grievances to the king in person, which was the cause
of his enmity towards me. When Jones was brought before the king, being
instigated by the protection and countenance of the prince, he railed
against me to my face, with the most virulent malice, beseeching the
king to save his life; on which the king resolved not to deliver him up
to me, but to send him as a prisoner to Surat. But the prince, to brave
me, begged to have him for a servant, as the fellow had renounced his
country, on which the king did so, in spite of every thing I could
allege. On this the prince gave him 150 rupees, with the pay of two
horsemen, and commanded me not to meddle with him.
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