And now your Lordships shall hear in what
manner he accounts for this appointment to Gobind Ram, the _vakeel_, or
ambassador, of the Nabob Asoph ul Dowlah at Calcutta. It is in page 795
of the printed Minutes.
_Extract of an Arzee sent by Rajah Gobind Ram to the Vizier, by the
Governor-General's directions, and written the 27th of August,
1782._
"This day the Governor-General sent for me in private. After
recapitulating the various informations he had received respecting
the anarchy and confusion said to reign throughout your Highness's
country, and complains that neither your Highness, or Hyder Beg
Khan, or Mr. Middleton, or Mr. Johnson, ever wrote to him on the
state of your affairs, or, if he ever received a letter from your
presence, it always contained assertions contrary to the above
informations, the Governor-General proceeded as follows.
"That it was his intention to have appointed Mr. David Anderson to
attend upon your Highness, but that he was still with Sindia, and
there was no prospect of his speedy return from his camp; therefore
it was now his wish to appoint Mr. John Bristow, who was well
experienced in business, to Lucknow.
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