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fortune was raised hy fraud and usury to upwards of two hundred 
thousand pounds, independent of houses ; yet with affluence to 
which he had never been brought up, and which, of course, he 
knew not how to enjoy, he never did a generous act, and never had 
a friend. His dependents, who had faithfully served him through 
life, he left to poverty at his death. To his brother, who came out hi- 
ther, he liberally gave fifty rupees per month, saying, with a curse, 
" Let him work for his bread, as I have done !" In an account of his 
life which I have seen, it is said that he made a great deal of money 
by securing the property of the natives in troublesome times, on 
their paying him twelve per cent. The fact is, that he opened a 
regular pawnbroker's shop, where he advanced twelve per cent, on 
any goods or jewels, the people having a right to redeem them 
within the year by paying twenty-four per cent. ; but if that was not 
done, he kept them for ever ; and this very frequently happened ; 
sometimes even by his own management in keeping out of the way 
towards the end of the period ; so that his debtors, if capable and 
willing, had no means of redeeming their pledges. The late 
Nawaub's idiotical propensities were another fruitful source of 
profit to him ; he purchased different articles in Europe, and sold 
them at 100/. 200l. or 500/. per cent, lending him at the same time 
money to pay himself at 3/. per cent, per month. In this branch of 
his profit I am sorry to say that many English, resident at Lucknow, 
deeply participated. General Martin certainly loved his money 
dearly, but he loved fame still more, and at an immense expense 
he laboured to acquire it. From this idea he built the vast habi- 
tations in this neighbourhood, and finished them in the most expen- 
sive manner ; and from the same idea, the mass of his property is 
