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I am a merchant, & have resided in Calcutta about 25 years.
Abot 8 or 9 months ago I one evening went to the prisoner’s ho to look at some cloth [which] he had bot & desired me to see. A Cahimirian came thither & in my presence demanded a sum of money the price of cloth [which] prisr had purchased, & said he cod not stay any longer.
The prisr said I told