_Pope's "honest Factor."_--I shall be obliged if any of your readers can
inform me who was the "honest factor" referred to in Pope's "Sir Balaam"
in the lines:
"Asleep and naked, as an Indian lay,
An honest factor stole a gem away:
He pledg'd it to the knight," &c.
I have seen it noticed in the biography of an individual who held some
official post in India, but have forgotten the name.