As to Nundcomar, they fell upon him with a vengeful fury.

He fought his battle as well as he could; he opposed bribe to bribe, eagle to eagle; but at length he was driven to the wall.

Some received his money, but did him no service in return; others, more conscientious, refused to receive it; and in this battle of bribes he was vanquished.

A deputation was sent from Calcutta to the miserable Nabob, to tear Nundcomar, his only support, from his side, and to put the object of all his terrors, Mahomed Reza Khan, in his place.
Thus began a new division that split the Presidency into violent factions; but the faction which adhered to Nundcomar was undoubtedly the weakest.

That most miserable of men, Mir Jaffier Ali Khan, clinging, as to the last pillar, to Nundcomar, trembling at Mahomed Reza Khan, died in the struggle, a miserable victim to all the revolutions, to all the successive changes and versatile politics at Calcutta.