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endeaveurs to obtain a clearance of no effect, considering 
that we have given no manner of provocation for any such 
proceedings and that there is no possibility of getting any 
redress here without submitting to terms directly contrary 
to our Honble Masters Interest Agreed therefore that we re- 
quest the Honble President ete Council to direct the gentle- 
men at Cassimbazar to apply to their Durbar for a Perwannah 
for the currency of our business. 
st September 1740. The 27th ulto. arrived here Wil- 
liam Bucknall Esq. with a letter from the Honble the President 
& Council to Messers Feake and Boukett dated 11th inst. 
importing that they had appointed him to succeed the deceased 
Mr. Freame. 
Our affairs with the Government still continue on the 
same bad terms as has been represented by Messers Feake 
and Boukett and as we have but little hopes of a change 
therein but from the present Nabob’s leaving this place which 
it is expected he will do in a few days agreed that we defer 
coming to any Resolution for a few days. 
6th September. The Nabob having this morning left 
pute any orders from Muxadavad in our favour though he 
himself did. Agreed that we write to the gentlemen of Cos- 
simbazar. 
22nd September. The 19th received a letter from the 
Govr. & Council dated the 12th inst in answer to our of 
Hossein Cooly Caun? is coming here Nabob and expecting 
that he will on his arrival demand a visit and stop our busi- 
ness till we comply, we are of opinion that if there is no 
probability of a change being soon m the Government that 
it will be absolutely for the Company’s advantage to agree to 
it without any delay. 
29th January. Notwithstanding we have desired the 
Nabob to appoint a day for the visit and have made him 
ee ee ee 
. Mr. Freame’s tomb is not to be found now in Dacca. 
2 On Ali Verdi Khan becoming Nawab Nazim of Bengal in 1740 he 
appointed his nephew and son-in-law, Nawazish Khan, to be N aib Nazim 
of Dacca. The latter preferring to live in Murshidabad put in Hossain 
Kuli Khan as his deputy. This man acquired great favour with and in- 
fluence through Ghasita Begum, wife of Nawazish, but was assassinated 
in Murshidabad at the same time as Hosainuddin Khan was assassinated 
