120 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
to redress us out of our odious and inhuman imprisonment ! we 
presume it may not be of too much impertinence, now out of 
course, if we first give your honr, etc., a particular relation of 
the Govt.’s proceedings against us since the departure * of (and 
some time before) the Agent * and Councill from Bengall in the 
conclusion of which what relating to the Rt. Honble Compy’s 
affaires and that which is of the greatest importance we shall 
represent to your honr, &c. 
the arrival of Ca apt. Wm. Heath’s* letter to the Nabob 
(which was the 29th 8ber last) ® wherein the Fortiffication etc. 
was requested, the Nabob the 3rd of 9ber ® ordered several 
gun men to surround our Factory to be spies upon us and to 
follow us wherever we went which continued untill the 16th 
: ul about 200 gun men to enter our house and to 
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windowes of every roome in the house. and all the time this 
lasted which was till the 22nd of January we were not suffered 
to fetch or carry anything to or from our Chambers without 3 
or 4 of our guard along with us: Our very cloths which were 
carried to ye oe were searched soe that the Nabob’s in 
tentions were apparently knowne that if any iscivbanes 
should happen tae the English and the Government then 
to secure all, which accordingly was put in execution the 20th 
January upon the news of the fleet’s arrival at Chatgaam!” 
1 This refers = what is described below. The English were evidently 
imprisoned in Shaista Khan’s time also, for we find that Eyre and Braddy il 
wrote as follows to Soh Charnock : ‘« We are not permitted to lie in our 
i arnock twice left the Hughly. The occasion referr red to is 
She ree Acero with Capt. Heath. (See tikroduction to this Part.) 
+ See Introduction to this Part. 
5 October. 
: November. 
, 1 Bar rdar: the final n in the text must be a mistake for r. 
an re egg 9 pro ig fe ao for a c, making the word Borevardar 
8 On November | 
10 The fleet arrived outside Chittagon, 
gon 17th January. It is not 
a hl why this should have caused the Na wab to treat the English more 
he ke y> toe nothing but Heath’s arrival at Chittagong could by this time 
th le to the Nawab. It may be that a false report came to the effect 
at the English were honbheding Chitences (see note below). 
