A pause ensued: Major Calliaud's seal was not at hand; but Mr.Lushington was sent near half a mile to bring it.

It was brought at length; and the instrument of blood and treachery was completely executed.

Three seals were set to it.
This business of the three seals, by some means not quite fully explained, but (as suspected by the parties) by means of the information of Mr.Holwell, who soon after came home, was conveyed to the ears of the Court of Directors.

The Court of Directors wrote out, under date of the 7th of October, 1761, within a little more than a year after this extraordinary transaction, to this effect:--that, in conjunction with the Nabob, Major Calliaud had signed a paper offering a reward of a lac of rupees, or some such sum, to several black persons, for the assassination of the Shahzada, or Prince heir-apparent,--which paper was offered to the then Chief of Patna to sign, but which he refused on account of the infamy of the measure.

As it appeared in the same light to them, the Directors, they ordered a strict inquiry into it.