. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . and THE EUROPEAN EMPIRE: THE RISE OF CLIVE 69 [1764 ] carry off all their knives and forks, which might have been weapons in theirhands. Next day, the 5th of October, in the evening, was the time of the prison-house was surrounded by Sumroo and his band. Then thebutchery of the prisoners was begun. It is said that they made all the resist-ance in their power, by throwing bottles and stones at their murde
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . and THE EUROPEAN EMPIRE: THE RISE OF CLIVE 69 [1764 ] carry off all their knives and forks, which might have been weapons in theirhands. Next day, the 5th of October, in the evening, was the time of the prison-house was surrounded by Sumroo and his band. Then thebutchery of the prisoners was begun. It is said that they made all the resist-ance in their power, by throwing bottles and stones at their murderers. Butof course, in vain. Some were cut to pieces with sabres, others shot downwith musketry, and then barbarously mutilated. In both cases, the mangledlimbs were flung into two wells, which were afterwards filled up with the whole number of intended victims, only one was spared; a surgeonknown to the nawab, and William Fullarton by name. The reduction of Patna by the English, which speedily followed the atro-cious act within its walls, completed their conquest of Bengal. Under theirauspices, Mir Jafar was once more proclaimed as nawab throughout the ^^. Hall op Public Audience, Delhi province. But, meanwhile, the thrusting forth of Mir Kasim — the dispos-session by an European force of one of the native princes — seemed to thelatter an act far more atrocious than the massacre of Patna. It gained favourfor the exile at the court of Oudh, and the court of Oudh was then among themqst powerful in India. Sujah-ud-Daula, the resources of his ownvast province, could wield at his pleasure the authority, slender though itmight be, that yet adhered to the imperial name. The titular emperor ofDelhi, Shah Alam, had taken refuge with him, and had named him his Alam, in real truth, was an exile and a wanderer, his very capital, Delhi,being held against him by Mahratta invaders, and half laid in ruins by theirfiu-y; but amidst every privation, in the eyes
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