'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. I.' [‎151] (176/342)

FORSTER’S TRAVELS.
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mayed by ill fortune, the Vizier at length refolved to throw himfelf
unrefervedly on the clemency of the Englifli. He difpatched Mon-
fieur Gentil, a French gentleman, to the Englifh camp,^ to obtain
an actual knowledge of the difpofition of his enemies. This
agent delivered to the commanding officer, an addrefs from the
Vizier, couched in a tenor far different from his former letters.
He obferved, that the animofities which had arifen between them,
mud be attributed to the difpenfations of Providence : that of this
he had now manifeft witnefs by the events which had been produced,
and that he was determined to commit himfelf to the juftice of the
illuftrious Englilh chiefs, conftant and unchangeable in their friend-
fhip. In the conclufion, written by himfelf, he fays, u I regard not
“ wealth, nor the rule of dominion : your friendfiiip and favour are
* c all I defire. I will, pleafe God, foon be with you 5 when you
u may do that for me, which you may think be^l. ,, Lord Clive,
who at this time had arrived in Bengal, was empowered by the Go-*
vernment, in conjundtion with General Carnac, to negotiate with
the Vizier: and having met him at Allahabad, in the month of
Aiignfi, 1765, a^treaty of peace was finally concluded. The fub-
ftance was,—That there fhould be a perpetual treaty of peace be
tween the contrafting parties.—That in the event of the dominions
of either being invaded, a military aid fhould be furnifhed by the
* Nudjef Khan was employed alfo by the Vizier on this cccafion to negotiate with
the Englifh; but that ohicer was more ferioufly engaged in accompliihing his own
purpofes, than in procuring terms for his mailer.
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