James Sutherland Cotton

“ In a letter of Mr Watts of later date he is represented as saying to the nawab (Suraj-ud-daula) : “He had lived under the English protection these forty years; that he never knew them once to break their agreement, to the truth of which he took his oath by touching a Brahman's foot; and that if a lie could be proved in England upon any one, they were spit upon and never trusted.” ”

“ OMICHUND (d. 1767) , an Indian whose name is indelibly associated with the treaty negotiated by Clive before the battle of Plassey in 1757. His real name was Amir Chand; and he was not a Bengali, as stated by Macaulay, but a Sikh from the Punjab. It is impossible now to unravel the intrigues in which he may have engaged, but some facts about his career can be stated. He had long been resident at Calcutta, where he had acquired a large fortune by providing the “investment” for the Company, and also by acting as intermediary between the English and the native court at Murshidabad. ”