_I am at this moment overwhelmed in misfortune.

Whilst the blood is flowing from my wounds, neither I nor my children nor my servants have wherewithal to procure subsistence_; nor have I it in my power either to purchase remedies or to reward the physician: _it is for the sake of God alone that he attends me_.

Thus loaded with calamity upon calamity, I am unable to support life; for I find no relief from any affliction either day or night.

Do you now stand in the place of my father; grant me fresh life by speedy acts of benevolence.
"For these two last years his Excellency established a pension for me of twenty thousand rupees; but I never received the full amount of it, either last year or the year before.

Should it, however, be paid me, though inadequate to my desires, I shall still be enabled to support myself.