No merchant could say, "I am worth so much;"-- the next post might inform him that he was a beggar.

A feeling of dread and anxiety had seized every family.

The sums already lost in England and this place were reckoned at thirty millions of pounds sterling, and yet the crisis was far from being at an end.
Misfortunes of this kind fall particularly hard upon persons who, like the Europeans here, have been accustomed to every kind of comfort and luxury.

No one can have any idea of the mode of life in India.

Each family has an entire palace, the rent of which amounts to two hundred rupees (20 pounds), or more, a month.