He ill-treated the sons of Moqtadir and Abu Ahmad, and ultimately assassinated his patrons Munis and Yalbak, whose guardianship he resented.
The white inhabitants, still mostly French, were subjected to an English rule that until the Quebec Act of 1774 was chiefly military, and as a consequence many of the more thrifty sought homes elsewhere, and the Indians, most of whom had been allies of the French, were so ill-treated, both by the officers and traders, that under Pontiac, chief of the Ottawas, a simultaneous attack on the English posts was planned.
His brother shut him up in honorable confinement for the rest of his life, though otherwise he was not ill-treated.
While he was negotiating, a number of British subjects had been brutally ill-treated at Bona, without his knowledge.
All of those interviewed by Amnesty International described being tortured or otherwise ill-treated.