Excerpt from Bengal in 1756-57, Vol. 2: A Selection of Public and Private Papers Dealing With the Affairs of the British in Bengal During the Reign of Siraj-Uddaula, Edited With Notes and an Historical Introduction

In consequence of this recommendatory letter and the reasons urged by Mr. Watts, they were received in the Settlement, and treated with all possible regard. Whether Mr. Watts knew, or can be supposed to have judged, that Raagbullob's family going to Jaggernaut to worship, was a pretence only to facilitate their obtaining a protection in Calcutta, I cannot say, but I recollect the President's communicating to me another letter he received from Mr. Watts, about the time the death of the old Suba was deemed inevitable, wherein he advised it expedient.

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