HE SETS OUT FOR HAIDARABAD. 487 Subaciar ; that he could force him to dismiss from his chap. service, and submit to condign punishment, all those Xl ' who had plotted against him ; he knew that it needed 1756 but the faintest whisper to Balaji to pour a Maratha army into the Dakhan. But he was guided by other considerations than by a mere desire for vengeance, or by an anxiety to replace himself by force. He could not forget, in fact, that his position at Haidarabad had been the consequence of the earnest requests of the Subadar ; that he had thus ever been regarded, at least by the outer world, as conferring a favour by his stay ; he could not forget that, though he might forcibly rein- state himself, the very resort to force would entirely change his position: that from being the invited pro- tector, he would become the hated subjugator; nor that, sooner or later, under such circumstances, his fall would become inevitable. He knew, on the other hand, the facile disposition of the Subadar ; he knew that he was acting merely from the influence of others ; that in a little time he would feel the want of the counsels to which he was accustomed, the worthlessness of his new advisers. Under these circumstances he felt that it was his policy to act, as he had ever before acted, as the faithful servant of the Subadar ; to obey his orders and instructions, leaving it to time to bring about that change which he distinctly saw looming in the future. No sooner then had he received the order dismissing him, than he prepared to march to Haidarabad, there to await the course of events. No sooner had he set out (the 25th May), than he re- ceived a messenger from Balaji, conveying his congratu- lations on having quitted 44 so perfidious and ungrateful* a nation as the Mughals, and offering him at his own court the same positions, the same emoluments, and the same allowance to his troops that had been granted at
- Orrae, who says, " these were his expressions,' 1
