"تقرير جديد عن جزر الهند الشرقية: يتناول ملاحظات وتعليقات النقيب أليكساندر هاميلتون الذي كان يسكن في تلك الأجزاء من ١٦٨٨ إلى ١٧٢٣، حيث كان يتاجر ويسافر بحرًا وبرًا إلى معظم البلاد والجزر المعنية بالتجارة والملاحة، بين رأس الرجاء الصالح وجزيرة اليابان. الطبعة الثانية. المجلد II." [‎١‎٠] (٣٦٢/٢٥)

10 A nem Account
This double-headed Government conti
nued in Calcutta, till January 1709. that
Mr. W 1 eldon arrived with the Company's Com-
miflion to fettle it at Bombay and Fort St.
George, which were under the Management
of a Governor and Council, which thofe of
the Direftion in England took to be a better
Way to promote their own Creatures, as well
as their own Interell. His Term of governing
was very fliort, and he took as fhort a \V ay
to be enriched by it, by harafTing the Peo
ple to fill his Coffers. There was one fmgu-
lar Inftance of it. A poor Seaman had got a
pretty Mujlice Wife, a little inclined to Lewd-
nefs in her Husband's Abfence. She enter
tained two Armenians, whq were like to
quarrel about iliaring her Favours, which co
ming to the Governor's Ears, he reprimand
ed them: However, by t he ftrong Peifwa-
lion ot 500 Rupees paid in hand by one of
them, he awarded him to have the fole Right
to her, and he carried her to Hughly, and
bragg'd openly what his Purchafe had colt
him, to the great Credit and Praife of the
Governor; and when the poor Husband re
turned, he was forced to fubmit to lole his
Mare,, under the Pain of Flagellation : Yet
he was very fhy in taking Bribes, referring
thofe honeft Folks, who traffick'd that Way,
to the Difcretion of his Wife and Daughter,
to make the belt Bargain they could about
the Sum to be paid, and to pay the Money
into their Hands. I could give many Inftan-
ces of the Force of Bribery, both here and
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