The grounds alleged by him were not
considered valid, and the pargana was made over to Shams-ud-din. The
pargana now yields 40,000 rupees a year, and under good management
may yield 70,000.
At Mr. Fraser's recommendation, Amin-ud-din went himself to Calcutta,
and is said to have prevailed upon the Government to take his case
again into their consideration. Shams-ud-din had become a debauched
and licentious character; and having criminal jurisdiction within his
own estate, no one's wife or daughter was considered safe; for, when
other means failed him, he did not scruple to employ assassins to
effect his hated purposes, by removing the husband or father.[9] Mr.
Fraser became so disgusted with his conduct that he would not admit
him into his house when he came to Delhi, though he had, it may be
said, brought him up as a child of his own; indeed he had been as
fond of him as he could be of a child of his own; and the boy used to
spend the greater part of his time with him. One day after Mr. Fraser
had refused to admit the Nawab to his house. Colonel Skinner, having
some apprehensions that by such slights he might be driven to seek
revenge by assassination, is said to have remonstrated with Mr.
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