144 W. Irvine—Zhe Bangash Nawibs of Farrukhabad. [No. 2, 
was in the service of Ahmad Khan, without whose leave he could not go: 
Najib Khan told him that he should not have aceepted such a lowly posi- 
tion. Hafiz Rahmat Khan informed him that there were others, for Sa’dul- 
lah Khan and his whole army had been subsidized, their expenses had been 
paid from the Nawab’s treasury, to that date seven lakhs of rupees had 
been advanced. He promised to go next day and ask the Nawab for per- 
mission. The next day, Ahmad Khan having made no objection, Hafiz 
Rahmat Khan and Najib Khan commenced their mareh. When they 
reached Khudaganj, Shekh Kabir was asked to accompany them. They 
paid their respects to the Emperor, and then went to Shuja’-ud-daula. They 
told him he ought to return to the east again. At length the Emperor 
and Shuja’-ud-daula set out eastwards. When they arrived at Korah, Najib 
Khan and Hafiz Rahmat Khan took their leave. Najib Khan followed the 
route to Delhi, while Hafiz Rahmat Khan returned to his own camp. Next 
morning, Nawab Sa’dullah Khan and the other Rohelas came to take leave 
of Nawa4b Abmad Khan. He distributed gifts and dismissed them. The 
Shahjahanpur leaders also, ’Abd-ullah Khan and others, were given leave 
to go, after gifts and dresses of honour had been conferred on them. 
Shuja’-ud-daula takes refuge at Farrukhabad, 
After his defeat at Baksar on the 23rd October, 1764, Shuja’-ud-daula 
first sought aid from the Rohelas at Bareli, and for safety removed his 
women and jewels to that place. As the Rohelas declined to enlist on his: 
side against the English, the Wazir and Hafiz Rabmat Khan came to 
Ahmad Khan at Farrukhabid. Not succeeding in inducing any of the 
Pathans to join him, Shuja’-ud-daula marched eastwards, only to be again 
defeated in May, 1765, at Korah-Jahanabad. Having again fled to Far- 
rukhdbad, he was persuaded by Ahmad Khan and Hafiz Rahmat Khan to 
come to terms, the result being the treaty signed at Allahabad in August, 
1765.* A long speech by Abmad Khan, dissuading from hostility to the 
English, will be found set forth in the “ Siyar-wl-Mutakharin.” + 
A few anecdotes connected with Shuja’-ud-daula’s visit have been 
handed down. The encampment was at Haiyat Bagh, and then at Fath- 
garh. One day the Pathiéns suggested that the Jrdni (Shuja’-ud-daula) 
should be murdered, since his father, Safdar Jang, had murdered five of 
the Nawab’s brothers. 'The Nawab is said to have replied that treachery 
was not the habit of his family ; by God’s grace, he killed his enemies, if at — 
all, in the open field. 
* Aitchison’s Treaties, Vol. IT, p. 76. 
+ Edition, 1789, Vol. II, p. 367. 
