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From L. C. Esq. Resident at Baroche, dated 16th July 1783. 



" I cannot tell you, my dear friend, what I suffered 

 after seeing you all cross the Nerbudda, and finding the settle- 

 ment forsaken by that social circle which so lately enlivened it. 

 Your letter gave me some pleasure in finding the weather favourable, 

 and the roads tolerable, considering the late heavy rains. Your hos- 

 pitable reception atSurat I had no doubt of; it is the characteristic 

 of India, and your host is particularly renowned for that virtue. I 

 have written fully to Dalton of Bascar Row's infamous conduct 

 in reversing several late decrees by the English judges in the 

 Court of Adawlet at Baroche, justly awarded during their govern- 

 ment. 



"That insidious and complicated oppressor Lullabhy, whose 

 power was so humanely curtailed under the English administra- 

 tion, has entirely ingratiated himself with Bascar Row, and is 

 hourly pointing out to his ready ear some new victim of oppres- 

 sion. Lullabhy has completely besieged him; every man in the 

 durbar is his creature, and Bascar Row the instrument of his 

 tyranny. This ungrateful banian, so patronized by many of our 

 late Board, is now constantly hinting that the English acted with 

 too much lenity in favour of several individuals; at the same time 

 urging him to overset the decrees, or at least to pretend to do so, 

 that money may flow into the coffers of himself and Bascar Row. 



" A few days ago a Pinjaree, named Rhaman, formerly an inha- 

 bitant of Baroche, but who on account of some dispute with Lul- 

 labhy left the place of his nativity, and lived at Duan, was sent 

 for by Bascar Row, and at the instigation of Lullabhy, met with 



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