The Resident insisted upon an audience.

He found the King sullen and doggedly silent.

The minister was present, and spoke for his master.

He denied, what was known to be true, that the prisoner had been kept for two days and two nights' without food or drink; but admitted that he had been tied up and flogged severely, and that the females of his family were still there, but he promised to send them back.

He said that it was necessary to confiscate the property of the prisoner, since he owed large sums to the State.