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of the city. This brave fellow in his way to execution, exullingly 

 »a-nd loudly exclaimed, that he had friends who would revenge his 

 cjeath on the treacherous banian. You and I are pretty well ac- 

 quainted with Lullabhy's character, though I believe I know the 

 most of his villainy. I have lately been reading Fielding's Life of 

 Jonathan Wild the Great; the more I see and reflect upon the 

 character of Lullabhy, the more I think him entitled to the glori- 

 ous epithet of the Great Man. The proclamation, issued under 

 his auspices by Bascar Row, is likely to be altogether as perma- 

 nent as the general moral system of Lullabhy. Notwithstanding 

 its recent and solemn promulgation, the privilege of distilling and 

 vending arrack for one year, was farmed three days ago for seven 

 thousand rupees to the sircar, and one thousand soocry, (a douceur) 

 to Bascar Row. Yesterday the annual customs collected at the 

 Baroche phoorza, were farmed to a banian from Malwa, for ninety- 

 one thousand rupees, and five thousand soocry. It is plain the 

 man came from a far country; for should the trade continue as 

 flourishing as under our government, of which there is no prospect, 

 the farmer must lose from twenty to thirty thousand rupees; of 

 this you, who was so many years phoorza-master at Baroche, must 

 know the truth. 



" You may guess my situation among this rapacious and op- 

 pressive people; hourly hearing of grievances I cannot redress, and 

 cruelties I cannot mitigate. I particularly lament the fate of the 

 worthy Afsaram, and many other of our native friends, who, at 

 the vile instigation of Lullabhy, are now under the displeasure of 

 the new pundit for their grateful attachment to us. They are 

 almost forbidden to visit me, especially poor Afsaram, who feels it 



