Lord Clive reestablished him in a secure, easy independency.

He confirmed him, under the British guaranty, in the rich principality which he held.
The Mogul, the head of the Mussulman religion in India, and of the Indian empire, a head honored and esteemed even in its ruins, he procured to be recognized by all the persons that were connected with his empire.

The rents that ought to be paid to the Vizier of the Empire he gave to the Vizierate.

Thus our alliances were cemented, our enemies were reconciled, all Asia was conciliated by our settlement with the king.

To that unhappy fugitive king, driven from place to place, the sport of fortune, now an emperor and now a prisoner, prayed for in every mosque in which his authority was conspired against, one day opposed by the coin struck in his name and the other day sold for it,--to this descendant of Tamerlane he allotted, with a decent share of royal dignity, an honorable fixed residence, where he might be useful and could not be dangerous.
As to the Bengal provinces, he did not take for the Company the viceroyalty, as Mr.Holwell would have persuaded, almost forced, the Company to do; but, to satisfy the prejudices of the Mahomedans, the country was left in the hands nominally of the Subah, or viceroy, who was to administer the criminal justice and the exterior forms of royalty.