The price of this second revolution was, according to their shares in it, (I believe I have it here,) somewhere about 200,000_l._ This little effusion to private interest settled the matter, and here ended the second revolution in the country: effected, indeed, without bloodshed, but with infinite treachery, with infinite mischief, consequent to the dismemberment of the country, and which had nearly become fatal to our concerns there, like everything else in which Mr.Hastings had any share.
This prince, Cossim Ali Khan, the friend of Mr.Hastings, knew that those who could give could take away dominion.

He had scarcely got upon the throne, procured for him by our public spirit and his own iniquities, than he began directly and instantly to fortify himself, and to bend all his politics against those who were or could be the donors of such fatal gifts.

He began with the natives who were in their interest, and cruelly put to death, under the eye of Mr.Hastings and his clan, all those who, by their moneyed wealth or landed consideration, could give any effect to their dispositions in favor of those ambitious strangers.

He removed from Moorshedabad higher up into the country, to Monghir, in order to be more out of our view.

He kept his word pretty well, but not altogether faithfully, with the gentlemen; and though he had no money, for his treasury was empty, he gave obligations which are known by the name of _jeeps_--( the Indian vocabulary will by degrees become familiar to your Lordships, as we develop the modes and customs of the country).