 The same courier who carried this " soothing letter," as Clive calls it, to the Nabob, carried to Mr. Watts a letter in the following terms : " Tell Meer Jaffier to fear nothing. I will join him with five thousand men who never turned their backs. Assure...  Literary Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review - Page 430by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 702 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Malcolm - India - 1836 - 454 pages
...backs ; and that if he fails seizing him, we shall be strong enough to drive him out of the country. Assure him I will march night and day to his assistance, and stand by him as long as I have a man left." Clive, in his letter to Mr. Watts, of the 5th of May, expressed his opinion, that Omichund, on account... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 514 pages
...nabob, carried to Mr. Watts a letter in the following terms:—"Tell Meer Jaffier to fear nothing. I will join him with five thousand men who never turned their backs. Assure him I will inarch night and day to his assistance, and stand by him as long as I have a man left." But another... | |
 | Edward Thornton - India - 1841 - 608 pages
...apprized Mr. Watts of these " soothing" epistles, he says, " tell Meer Jaffier to fear nothing ; that I will join him with five thousand men who never turned their backs ; and that if he foils in seizing him (the Soubahdar) we shall be strong enough to drive him out of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
..." Tell Meer Jaffier to fear nothing. I will join him with five thousand men who never turned Iheir t make men drunk. He conceives it to be perfectly...possible for men to exercise their intellects vigorously nad so many ramifications should long remain entirely concealed. Enough reached the ears of the Nabob... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1848 - 332 pages
...backs ; and that, if he fails seizing him, we shall be strong enough to drive him out of the country. Assure him I will march night and day to his assistance, and stand by him while I have a man left." It is impossible, perhaps, to carry on political intrigues of any sort without... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1848 - 334 pages
...backs ; and that, if he fails seizing him, we shall be strong enough to drive him out of the country. Assure him I will march night and day to his assistance, and stand by him while I have a man left." It is impossible, perhaps, to carry on political intrigues of any sort without... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...Nabob, carried to Mr. Watts a letter in the following terms: — "Tell Meer Jaffier to fear nothing. I sness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and the stage were nad so many ramifications should long remain entirely concealed. Enough reached the ears of the Nabob... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...Nabob, carried to Mr. Watts a letter in the following terms: — "Tell Meer Jaffier to fear nothing. I will join him with five thousand men who never turned...and stand by him as long as I have a man left." It w^s" impossible that a plot which nad so mptff ramifications should long remain entirely concealed.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 596 pages
...Nabob, carried to Mr. Watts a letter in the following terms : " Tell Meer Jaffier to fear nothing. I will join him with five thousand men who never turned...suspicions. But he was soon quieted by the fictions 113 and artifices which the inventive genius of Omichund produced with miraculous readiness. All was... | |
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