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BENARES, PAST AND PRESENT. 201
that my reliance on his faith, and his breach of it, were
the principal causes that no other provisions had been
made for the detachment, and that it suffered much
want in consequence." 1
Such was the first serious charge brought against the
Eaja. The second was, in principle, the same. I again
quote the words of "Warren Hastings. " On the second
of the month of November, 1780, a resolution passed
the Board, that a letter should be written to the Nabob
Vizier, advising him to require from the Nabob Eyz-
Oolla Khan the number of troops stipulated by treaty,
expressed, as it was then understood, to be 5000 horse;
and that the like demand should be made on Eaja Cheit
Singh for all the cavalry in his pay which he could spare
for our service. At that time we stood in need of every
aid that could be devised, to repel the multiplied dangers
which surrounded us. The Eaja was supposed to main-
tain a very large and extensive standing force; and the
strength of his cavalry alone was estimated at two thou-
sand. I had formerly experienced their utility, in the
war with the Seneasses, in which they were successfully
employed, and liberally rewarded. The demand was
formally made, both in a letter from myself, and, in
person, by the Eesident, Mr. Fowke, in the easy and
indefinite terms mentioned above. His manners were
evasive, pleading (as I recollect, for I am not in pos-
session of them,) scantiness of the establishment, its
employment in enforcing the collections, and the danger
of these failing, if the detachment were withdrawn. At
length, a more peremptory order was sent to him,
1 Insurrection in Benares, pp. 3, 4, 5.
that my reliance on his faith, and his breach of it, were
the principal causes that no other provisions had been
made for the detachment, and that it suffered much
want in consequence." 1
Such was the first serious charge brought against the
Eaja. The second was, in principle, the same. I again
quote the words of "Warren Hastings. " On the second
of the month of November, 1780, a resolution passed
the Board, that a letter should be written to the Nabob
Vizier, advising him to require from the Nabob Eyz-
Oolla Khan the number of troops stipulated by treaty,
expressed, as it was then understood, to be 5000 horse;
and that the like demand should be made on Eaja Cheit
Singh for all the cavalry in his pay which he could spare
for our service. At that time we stood in need of every
aid that could be devised, to repel the multiplied dangers
which surrounded us. The Eaja was supposed to main-
tain a very large and extensive standing force; and the
strength of his cavalry alone was estimated at two thou-
sand. I had formerly experienced their utility, in the
war with the Seneasses, in which they were successfully
employed, and liberally rewarded. The demand was
formally made, both in a letter from myself, and, in
person, by the Eesident, Mr. Fowke, in the easy and
indefinite terms mentioned above. His manners were
evasive, pleading (as I recollect, for I am not in pos-
session of them,) scantiness of the establishment, its
employment in enforcing the collections, and the danger
of these failing, if the detachment were withdrawn. At
length, a more peremptory order was sent to him,
1 Insurrection in Benares, pp. 3, 4, 5.