'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.' [‎152] (177/342)

ip FORSTER’S TRAVELS.
other. — That the Vizier is not to receive Caffum AH, Sotnbro, ot"
any Englifli deferters into his fervice. — That Corah and Allahabad
be ceded to the King. —That Bulwunt Sing be continued in
the zemindary of Benares, which is to be confidered a fief of the
Subahdary of Oude:—And that Chunar-Ghur, a fort in that
province, be given up to the Engliih. That no duties be colle£ted
on the merchandize of the Company, in any part of the country of
the Vizier. That all fuch fubjedls or relations of the Vizier, who
may have affifled the Englifh during the late war, be pardoned; —
and, That this treaty remain in force with the defcendants of
the Vizier.
Thus was Shujah-ud-Dowlah reftored to the poiTeflion of his
dominions by the vi 61 :orious Englifh, after having been reduced by
their arms to the verge of ruin. The terms granted to him breathe
a liberal heroic fpirit, and confpicuoufly diflinguifhed the mind
from which they fprang. The memory of the Indian hero, ill
merits the flain impreffed on it by Mr. Dow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. , who fays, £C Shujah-
ud~Dowlah, was Rill poflefled of wealth, and the virtue of the con-
<c querors, was by no means proof againfl temptation.” — But it
.“is a fa£t fupported by the pureft authority, that Lord Clive
obflinately rejefted every offer of gratuity, made to him by the
yizier. Exclufive* of the articles of the treaty, a private agree
ment,
* The a£t of reinftating the Vizier in his dominion, not only contributed to exalt
chara&er of the Britifh nation, but was ftri&ly confonant to the principles of found
policy.