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210 JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE
that my determination, $-c, had undergone a full
discussion; that the members of the court ac-
quitted me of all blame, saying, I had only done
my duty ; and, although they had no hope of in-
ducing me to alter my resolution, it was their
duty to make another essay, and should send for
that purpose a deputation of persons of higher
rank next morning. If I may believe Mr. Mon-
courtuse, the deputation was very favourable in
their report of my conduct to them, and the Ar-
rakan messenger launched forth in praises of the
Bengal government; stating, without reserve, in
the public court, the prompt and kind attentions
that had been shewed to him. While at Mhee-
ghoon, a half-cast native, dressed like a gentleman's
servant, came to my bungalow, and told me a melan-
choly tale of his being a servant of a Captain Black-
well, who was lying very ill at a place called Reop-
tolove, and requested I would have the goodness to
send him some wine and spirits. I then suspected
his story, but, unwilling that my want of faith
should be the means of withholding so trifling an
aid from an unfortunate Englishman, I gave him
the spirits and wine. This evening, seeing the
same man passing my house very gaily dressed, I
immediately concluded he had imposed on me,
and had him called, to question him; his answers
confirmed my suspicions, as every other word was
a lie, and he also behaved very impertinently. I
that my determination, $-c, had undergone a full
discussion; that the members of the court ac-
quitted me of all blame, saying, I had only done
my duty ; and, although they had no hope of in-
ducing me to alter my resolution, it was their
duty to make another essay, and should send for
that purpose a deputation of persons of higher
rank next morning. If I may believe Mr. Mon-
courtuse, the deputation was very favourable in
their report of my conduct to them, and the Ar-
rakan messenger launched forth in praises of the
Bengal government; stating, without reserve, in
the public court, the prompt and kind attentions
that had been shewed to him. While at Mhee-
ghoon, a half-cast native, dressed like a gentleman's
servant, came to my bungalow, and told me a melan-
choly tale of his being a servant of a Captain Black-
well, who was lying very ill at a place called Reop-
tolove, and requested I would have the goodness to
send him some wine and spirits. I then suspected
his story, but, unwilling that my want of faith
should be the means of withholding so trifling an
aid from an unfortunate Englishman, I gave him
the spirits and wine. This evening, seeing the
same man passing my house very gaily dressed, I
immediately concluded he had imposed on me,
and had him called, to question him; his answers
confirmed my suspicions, as every other word was
a lie, and he also behaved very impertinently. I