The Resident, apprehending that these poor females might be further disgraced, and Ghalib Jung starved to death, determined to interpose, and demanded an interview, while the King was still in bed.  The King was sorely vexed, and sent the minister to the Resident to request that he would not give himself the trouble to come, if his object was to relieve Ghalib Jung’s family, as he would forthwith order the females to be taken to their homes.  The minister had not been to the Resident for ten or twelve days, or from the first or second day after the fall of the favourite.  He prayed that the Resident would not speak harshly to the King on the subject of the treatment Ghalib Jung and his family had received, lest he, the minister, should himself suffer.  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.  The females were all sent back to their homes, and Ghalib Jung was permitted, to have four of his own servants in attendance upon him.

The Resident reported all these things to Government, who entirely approved of his proceedings; and desired that he would tell his Majesty that such savage and atrocious proceedings would ruin his reputation, and, if persisted in, bring on consequences most injurious to himself.  When the Resident, at the audience above described, remonstrated with the King for not calling upon his officers periodically to render their accounts, instead of letting them run on for indefinite periods, and then confining them and confiscating their property, he replied—­“What you state is most true, and you may be assured that I will in future make every one account to me every three months for the money he has received, and never again show favour to any one.”

Rajah Dursun Sing, the great revenue contractor, and at that time the most powerful of the King’s subjects beyond the precincts of the Court, had, like the minister himself, been often thwarted by Ghalib Jung when in power; and, after the interposition of the Resident, he applied to have him put into his power.  The King and minister were pleased at the thought of making their victim suffer beyond the immediate supervision of a vigilant Resident, and the minister made him over to the Rajah for a consideration, it is said, of three lacs of rupees; and at the same time assured the Resident that this was the only safe way to rescue him from the further vengeance of an exasperated King; that Rajah Dursun Sing was a friend of his, and would provide him and his family and attendants with ample accommodation and comfort.  The Rajah had him put into an iron cage, and sent to his fort at Shahgunge, where, report says, he had snakes and scorpions put into the cage to torment and destroy him, but that Ghalib Jung had “a charmed life,” and escaped their poison.  The object is said to have been to torment and destroy him without leaving upon his body any marks of violence.