1920. ] Dacca Diaries. 155 
30th September. _ The 25th inst. recd. a lre. from Jno Foster 
Esq Chief & Council at faytegctin 2 enclosing Nawagis Mahmud 
Caun’s ! Perwanna to our Nabo r the clearance of our busi- 
Pe pay to him and his officers viz 
Sicca Rs 
To Nawagis Mahmud Caun. .. 2000 
Hossein Cooly Caun re go ODO 
Duan Bunderabund* .. .. 1000 
Hadjee Hosain 2 -Pi £0 
The Durbar officers Sy cath! seca 
h December. This morning recd. a genl. lre, from the 
Honble the President and Council of Calcutta dated the 28th 
Novr. in answer to ours of the 21st and 22nd, They | observe 
the importunity of our new Nabob ® in regard to payin hi 
the usual visit. They have taken this affair into consideration 
Peter Cooper under whose care we had ‘sont to Mr. Daleity at 
Jugdea the 7th inst. Thirty three thousand Arcot Rupees that 
there was a great number of Muggs* in the way he was obliged 
to pert which he thought too hazardous to attempt with the 
party he had with him. Agreed we dispatch to him all 
the European soldiers we » have at the Factory and twenty 
Buxerries with orders to make ye best of his way to Jugdea 
on the arrival of the party we now send him unless he has 
certain advices that the number of Muggs is so great as to ren- 
der it it impracticable for him to amie 
| He was the Naib Nazim we Dacca but lived in Murshidabad. Hos- 
sain Kuli Khan was his Deputy + Baoete Nawazish was the husband of 
Ghasita Bibi daughter ad ae Verdi Kha 
indaban—not t 
8 Does this <peie that ¢ Hossainuddin Khan had already come as Deputy 
: ee the. i pgatigae trouble at this time. Cf. entry in 
iret a letter from Jugdea of Novem- 
us to order the Pinnace to be with them 7 the e 
of their cloth and achest of good powder with a lanthorn 
or two” 
