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CHAP. I.]
RA ST AM MANAK.
Manak for assistance. Eastam at once went with his
accustomed boldness to Goa, and appealed for justice
to the Portuguese Governor-General Senor Vizrael,
and the outcome of his effort was satisfactory to
both himself and his client. His relations with the
English factory remained friendly till 1690, when a
circumstance arose which led to his retirement from
the office of broker to that factory. This was through
a disagreement with Sir Nicholas Waite, formerly head
of the English factory at Surat and then Governor of
Bombay. The heads of the Surat factory, however,
were not rn favour of his dismissal.1
1 " While he (Sir Nicholas Waite) was President at Surat, Eastam,
whom, from his first arrival, he had employed as broker, continued,
from interested motives, attached to his views ; but after he assumed
the office of General at Bombay, this cautious native, discovering that
his object was to make that island the centre of trade, explained to
Mr. Bonnel and Mr. Proby, the English Company's servants at Surat,
that Sir Nicholas Waite had promised to give him fifty thousand
rupees to use his influence with the Governor to keep Sir John
Gayer confined, which sum was to be paid to him individually, by
advances on the prices of the Company's goods to that amount. When
Sir Nicholas Waite was informed of this conduct of Eastam, he dis-
missed him from the English Company's employment, notwithstanding
the "United Trade was then indebted to him 140,000 rupees, and the
separate Companies 550,000 rupees ; and if the Surat council had not
prevailed on the merchants to take their bills, the whole property of
the English would have been seized.
" This state of affairs, between Sir Nicholas Waite and Mr. Proby,
could not but produce animosities :—the former began with protesting
against the conduct of the latter and of Mr. Bonnel, and they retaliated
by declaring in their letters to the Court that it was impracticable to
procure regular investments under the contradictory orders which Sir
Nicholas Waite sent to them ; and, in fact, it was impossible to execute
them ; and therefore, unless Eastam should be restored, they neither
RA ST AM MANAK.
Manak for assistance. Eastam at once went with his
accustomed boldness to Goa, and appealed for justice
to the Portuguese Governor-General Senor Vizrael,
and the outcome of his effort was satisfactory to
both himself and his client. His relations with the
English factory remained friendly till 1690, when a
circumstance arose which led to his retirement from
the office of broker to that factory. This was through
a disagreement with Sir Nicholas Waite, formerly head
of the English factory at Surat and then Governor of
Bombay. The heads of the Surat factory, however,
were not rn favour of his dismissal.1
1 " While he (Sir Nicholas Waite) was President at Surat, Eastam,
whom, from his first arrival, he had employed as broker, continued,
from interested motives, attached to his views ; but after he assumed
the office of General at Bombay, this cautious native, discovering that
his object was to make that island the centre of trade, explained to
Mr. Bonnel and Mr. Proby, the English Company's servants at Surat,
that Sir Nicholas Waite had promised to give him fifty thousand
rupees to use his influence with the Governor to keep Sir John
Gayer confined, which sum was to be paid to him individually, by
advances on the prices of the Company's goods to that amount. When
Sir Nicholas Waite was informed of this conduct of Eastam, he dis-
missed him from the English Company's employment, notwithstanding
the "United Trade was then indebted to him 140,000 rupees, and the
separate Companies 550,000 rupees ; and if the Surat council had not
prevailed on the merchants to take their bills, the whole property of
the English would have been seized.
" This state of affairs, between Sir Nicholas Waite and Mr. Proby,
could not but produce animosities :—the former began with protesting
against the conduct of the latter and of Mr. Bonnel, and they retaliated
by declaring in their letters to the Court that it was impracticable to
procure regular investments under the contradictory orders which Sir
Nicholas Waite sent to them ; and, in fact, it was impossible to execute
them ; and therefore, unless Eastam should be restored, they neither