The trade they carried on, and which more resembled robbery than commerce, anticipated the resources of the tyrant, and threatened to leave him no materials for imposition or confiscation.

Thus this miserable country was torn to pieces by the horrible rapaciousness of a double tyranny.

This appeared to be so strong a case, that a deputation was sent to him at his new capital, Monghir, to form a treaty for the purpose of giving some relief against this cruel, cursed, and oppressive trade, which was worse even than the tyranny of the sovereign.

This trade Mr.Vansittart, the President about this time, that is, in 1763, who succeeded to Mr.Holwell, and was in close union of interests with the tyrant Cossim Ali Khan, by a treaty known by the name of the treaty of Monghir, agreed very much to suppress and to confine within something like reasonable bounds.

There never was a doubt on the face of that treaty, that it was a just, proper, fair transaction.