A sum of 20 millions sterling was voted as compensation to the planters.
The currency of the colony, which had formerly twelve shillings to the pound sterling, was assimilated to that of England in 1842.
Both were admirable civil servants, and they had a mutual admiration for each other's sterling qualities.
The revenue of the state is about one million sterling; and large reserves have been accumulated, from which two millions were lent to the government of India in 1887, and later on another million for the construction of the Gwalior-Agra and Indore-Neemuch railways.
For seven years, from 1611 to 1618, he was ambassador at the Turkish court, where he amassed a fortune of some 16,000 sterling by doubtful means, and was bastinadoed by order of the sultan for his frauds.