Receivers of the public revenue, their correspondence extended all over Asia; and there are those who are of opinion that the house of Juggut Seit, including all its branches, was not worth less than six or seven millions sterling.
This house became the prey of Cossim Ali Khan; but Mr.Holwell had predicted that _it should be delivered over to Satan to be buffeted_ (his own pious expression).

He predicted the misfortunes that should befall them; and we chose a Satan to buffet them, and who did so buffet them, by the murder of the principal persons of the house, and by robbing them of great sums of their wealth, that I believe such a scene of nefarious tyranny, destroying and cutting up the root of public credit in that country, was scarce ever known.

In the mean time Cossim was extending his tyranny over all who were obnoxious to him; and the persons he first sought were those traitors who had been friends to the English.

Several of the principal of these he murdered.

There was in the province of Bahar a man named Ramarain; he had got the most positive assurances of English faith; but Mr.Macguire, a member of the Council, on the receipt of five thousand gold mohurs, or something more than 8,000_l._ sterling, delivered him up to be first imprisoned, then tortured, then robbed in consequence of the torture, and finally murdered, by Cossim Ali Khan.