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P A P E R S
PRESENTED to THE House of comMons
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N A B O B of the C A R N A T I C.
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No. 15.
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L I S T of P A P E R S
*Preſented to the Honourable the House of Commons, purſuant to their Orders
dated the 11th, 21 it, and 23d June 18oz.
Copy of INSTRUCTIONS to Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neº, dated 5th and 6th July
1801 * * * * * * * * * - - - - - - , , ... - ... ..., Page 3
Copy of INSTRUCTIONS to Lieutenant Colonel Bowser, dated 11th July
18oi - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
== - - - - - - - - 7
Copy of INSTRUCTIONS to Meſſrs. We B be and Close, dated 15th July 1801,
when they proceeded to the Palace of the late Nabob O M D UT U L OM RAH - ibid.
Copy of a REPORT of Meſſrs. We B B E and Close, explanatory of their Proceedings
at the Palace of his late Highneſs the Nabob, in their Interviews or Negociations with
the Regents and TAJ E U L OM RAH * * * * * * * - - - - - 8
{N. B. In this Document are contained the Propoſitions from TAJ E U L OM RAH,
and from NAJ E B KH A N and Juke All KH AN, required by the 4th and 5th
Orders of the Honourable Houſe.—Vide Pages 15 and 17.
Copy of the TREATY between the Company and his Highneſs the Nabob MAH om ED
AL I, dated in 1792, commonly called Lord Cornwallis's Treaty - - - - - 25
Copy of a TREATY between the Company and Aze E M U L Dow LA H, dated 31ſt
July 1801 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 33
Copy of a DECLARATION of the Governor of Fort St. George, dated the 31ſt July
1801: With an Appendix thereto - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 37
Copy of a LETTER from the Governor General to his late Highneſs the Nabob, writ-
ten 28th May 1801 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 65
Memorandum : -
This Letter is preſented on a Suppoſition that it is the ſame which is required by
the 11th Order of the Honourable Houſe, and therein deſcribed as having been
ſhewn by Meſſrs. WEB B E and Close to the Regents, on the 15th July 1801.
. Copy of PROCEEDINGS of the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, on ſigning
the Treaty between the Company and Aze E M U L Dow LA H - - - - - - - 66
Copy of CORRESPONDENCE between the Governor General and the Governor
of Fort St. George, on the Subjećt of the Carnatic, from the Period of the Death of
his late Highneſs O M D G T U L OM R A H, to the Elevation of Aze E M U L Dow LA H to
the Muſnud - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 68
Copies and Extracts of LETTERS from the Governor General and the Governor in
Council of Fort St. George, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, rela-
tive to the Revolution in the Carnatic, and the Aſſumption of its Government by the
Company - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 77
copy of ORDERS publiſhed to the Settlement of Fort St. George, dated 31 July 1801,
relative to the Treaty between the Company and Az E E M U L Pow LA H - - - 89
INFORMATION, explanatory of the Reaſons why ſeveral Orders have not been fully
complied with - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 91
Copy of the AFFIDAVIT of the Phyſician of the late Nabob of Arcot, on the State
of his Highneſs’s Health, dated 22d June 1891 - - - - - - - - - - - 93
Copy of the EXAM{NATION of certain Perſons, taken before Meſſrs. W G B B E and
Close, at Veliore and Seringapatam, in the Month of May 18oo, by Order of Mar-
quis wellesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 94
copy of ſuch Parts of the CORRESPONDENCE diſcovered in the Palace at Seringa-
patam, and alluded to in the Letter from the Right Honourable the Goverror in Coun-
cil of Fort St.George, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, dated the
3d Auguſt 1801, as are not included in the Appendix to the Declaration of the Go-
veinor of Fort St. George, dated 31ſt July 1801 - - - - - - - - - ***
Copy of MINUTE of Lord Citys, dated 29th September 1821, relative to the Pe-
cuniary Proviſion to be made for the Families of the late Nabobs M A Ho M E D A LI
and O M D G T U L O M R A H, &c. &c. - - - - - - - - - - - - - **5
Copy of a PAPER, purporting to be a Letter from Huss EIN ALLY, the reputed Son of
the late Nabob of Arcot, to JAMEs Stu A R T HALL and SAM UB I. Johºrº F.
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Eſqrs. - - - - - - - - - -
Eaſt India Houſe
the 23d June 1892.
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Copy of INS T R U C T I O N S to Lieutenant Colonel .*
MAC NEIL, dated 5th and 6th July 1801 ; &c.
To Lieutenant Colonel MAC NEIL:
Sir,
T • HE precarious State of his Highneſs the Nabob's Health being ſuch as to
indicate the Probability of his Highneſs's early Diſſolution, the Right
Honourable the Governor in Council has judged it expedient, for the Preſervation
of Order, to ſtation a Party of Troops at the Palace of Chepauk; and his Lord-
Thip, relying on your Prudence and Diſcretion, has been pleaſed to appoint you to
the Command of the Troops. -
2. The Detail will conſiſt of Three Companies of His Majeſty's Scotch
Brigade, Five Companies of the 1ſt Battalion 4th Regiment of Native Infantry, a
Subaltern, and Thirty Europeans, and One Company of Native Artillery with
Four Six Pounders, and Thirty Troopers from the Governor's Body Guard. A
farther Portion of the Garriſon of Fort St. George will be held in Readineſs to join
you, if Occaſion ſhould render that Meaſure neceſſary.
3. The principal Obječt of your Care being the Preſervation of Order within
the Palace of Chepauk, at the Period of the Nabob's Diſſolution, the Governor
in Council directs you, after ſecuring the firſt Gate of the Garden, to march the
Detachment to the principal Gateway of the Palace, and take Poſſeſſion of it.
4. A Communication of this intended Meaſure will be made to the Nabob
ſufficiently early, it is hoped, to prevent any Alarm in his Highneſs's Mind; and
the Expedition and Secrecy with which it will be executed, will probably prevent
any Oppoſition or Confuſion.
5. Having taken Poſſeſſion of the principal Gateway, it will be neceſſary to
make a Diſpoſition of your Force for maintaining that Poſition.
6. In carrying this Part of your Orders into Effect, the Governor in Council
deſires you to uſe every Degree of Conciliation and Reſpect towards the im-
mediate Family of the Nabob, and towards the confidential Officers of his High-
neſs’s Government. By an Adherence to that Mode of Condućt, the Governor in
Council expects that no Difficulty will occur ; but if, notwithſtanding this Mode-
ration, you ſhould be oppoſed in the Execution of theſe Orders with reſpect to
poſſeſſing the Gateway, you will, after making the beſt Explanation of your Orders
which Circumſtances will admit to the Nabob's Officers within the Gateway,
remain
4.
PAPERS Co N C E R NING T H E LATE
No. 1.
continued.
remain Thirty Minutes, and if, after the Expiration of that Time, you ſhall have
received no Communication from Major Grant, the Military Secretary of the
Governor, you will obtain Poſſeſſion of the Gateway by Force.
7. After having eſtabliſhed yourſelf at the Gateway of the Palace, you will
confider the beſt Means of reſtraining the Intercourſe of Perſons with the Interior
of the Palace; but as it is impoſſible to deſcribe, with ſufficient Accuracy, the dif-
ferent Paſſages through the external Wall of the Palace, I am dire&ted to inform
you, that when the Event of the Nabob's Death ſhall occur, it will be your Duty,
to the Extent of your Power, to prevent the Introdućtion of any Partizans into
the Palace, to reſtrain any apparent Commotion, to protećt from Violence the
Perſons of the Nabob's immediate Family, and to provide the beſt pračticable
Means for preventing his Highneſs's Property and Treaſure from being removed
from the Palace. In executing this Part of the Order, you will obſerve that the
Governor in Council does not conſider the Brothers of his Highneſs to conſtitute
any Part of his immediate Family; and you will endeavour to reſtrain them, by
Force if neceſſary and pračticable, from entering the Palace until ſome Arrange-
ment of Affairs ſhall be made.
8. As ſoon as may be pračticable, after taking Poſſeſſion of the Gateway, you
will endeavour to aſcertain what Number of armed or unarmed Men may be
within the Walls of the Palace, and you will cauſe that Number to be ſo far
diminiſhed as you ſhall judge neceſſary to the tranquil Execution of theſe Orders;
you will particularly endeavour to expel, from within the Walls of the Palace, all
ſuch armed Men as may not be in the immediate Service of his Highneſs the
Nabob; upon this Point you will make an early Report, and it is the Intention of
the Governor in Council to furniſh you, at the earlieſt poſſible Period of Time
after the Death of the Nabob, with more detailed Inſtructions for the Guidance
of your Condućt.
9. It will be obvious to you that the Governor in Council conſiders the Truſt now
repoſed in you, to involve Conſiderations of the greateſt Delicacy and Importance,
and his Lordſhip direčts me to expreſs his confident Expectation, that your Con-
dućt in the Diſcharge of it will be ſuch as the Nature of the Conjunéture, and the
Situation of his Highneſs's Family, demand from the Liberality and Dignity of
the Britiſh Government.
Io. During this Service, you will addreſs immediately to the Governor ſuch
Communications as may become neceſſary, and obey ſuch Orders as you may
receive direétly from his Lordſhip.
I am, Sir, &c. &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) }. Webbe,
5 July 1891. } Chief Secº to Gov".
(A true Copy.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
Sec",
N A B O B O F THE C A R N AT I C.
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To J. WEBBE, Eſq; Chief Secretary to Government,
'Sir
I REQUEST you will be pleaſed to inform the Right Honourable
Governor, that, agreeably to his Lordſhip's Inſtructions, I marched the Troops
placed under my Command for the Preſervation of Order at Chepauk, through
isoth the Gateways leading to the Palace; of theſe Gates I took Poſſeſſion, and I
have placed Guards at Three other Gates leading through the exterior Wall.
The Communication which the Right Honourable Governor was pleaſed to
make of his Lordſhip's Intentions, ſeemed to have conſiderably reconciled the
Nabob to the Meaſure itſelf; but he was very much averſe to Guards being placed
within the interior Gate. The Space there in Front of the Palace is very ſmall,
and the immediate Entrance to the Palace is quite cloſe to the Gate.
As there ſeemed to be no immediate Neceſſity for ſtationing Guards within,
and as the Nabob was ſo much averſe to any being placed there, I judged it fit to
accommodate his Highneſs's Inclinations as far as poſſible: I have therefore
p\aced Sentries only at the Gate, and the Body of the Troops cloſe to it on the
Outſide. -
There is no Kind of Commotion whatever within the Palace Walls, and there
is every Appearance of Tranquillity being preſerved. -
# have the Honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
Chepauk, } - (Signed) D. MacNeil,
5th July 1801. L' Col.
A true Copy
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
SecY.
To Lieutenant Colonel MAC NEIL, commanding a Detachment at Chepauk.
Sir,
Right Honourable the Governor in Council, to expreſs his Lordſhip's entire Ap-
probation of your conſenting, under the Circumſtances you have ſtated, to with-
draw the Guards from the interior Part of the Gateway of his Highneſs the Na-
bob’s Palace. It being the Intention of the Right Honourable the Governor in
Council, that every Degree of Attention and Conciliation ſhould be ſhewn to the
perſonal Wiſhes of the Nabob, his Lordſhip is deſirous that you ſhould be ſtudious
to meet his Highneſs's Wiſhes in every Point, not involving the Security of the
great Objećt entruſted to your Care.
In Addition to the general Inſtrućtions contained in my Letter of Yeſterday, I
am directed to defire that the greateſt Degree of Caution may be uſed in your
Communication with the Nabob, or with his Highneſs's Family and Miniſters, to
avoid the Appearance of any Concurrence on the Part of the Britiſh Government
in the Arrangements which his Highneſs may be defirous of making with reſpect
either to his immediate Property, or to the general Affairs of the Carnatic; for
the ſame Reaſon you will abſtain from giving Countenance to any Party which may
be formed in the Palace in favour of any Part of the Nabob's Family, or of his
Highneſs’s Miniſters.
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I HAVE received your Letter of this Date ; and am direéted by the
No. 1.
continued.
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PA PERS C on C E R N IN G T H E LATE
No. 1.
continued.
It is underſtood that the principal Part of the Nabob’s Treaſure is depoſited in
the Apartments of his Highneſs's Siſter, the Boody Beegum; and I am direéted
to communicate this Intelligence to you, in order that your Attention may be par-
ticularly directed to thoſe Apartments, in carrying into Execution his Lordſhip's
Orders for preventing the Removal of the Treaſure from Chepauk,
I am, &c. &c, &c.
Fort St. º (Signed) j. Webbe,
5th July 1801. Chief Secº of Gov".
(True Copy.)
(Signed) }. Webbe,
Chief SecY to Gov".
(A true Copy.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
Sec'.
Si To J. WEBBE, Eſq; Chief Secretary to Government.
Sify
I HAVE the Honour of your Letter of this Date, and I beg leave to
aſſure the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, that every Part of his
Iordſhip's Orders ſhall be duly obſerved and executed.
I have taken ſuch Precautions as I think will render it altogether impoſſible for
Treaſure (unleſs in very ſmall Sums, or in covered Doolies) to be carried out of
any Part of the Palace. May I requeſt the Honour of his Lordſhip's Permiſſion
to apprize the Nabob, that Conveyances of that Deſcription are not expected to be
£ent from the Palace
I have the Honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
(Signed) IDan. Mac Neil,
L' Col.
, Chepauk,
$th July 1801. :(A true Copy.)
- (Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
- SecY,
To Lieutenant Colonel MAc NEIL, commanding a Detachment at Chepauk.
'Sir,
IN reply to your Letter of laſt Night I am direéted to acquaint you,
that until his Highneſs the Nabob ſhall expire, the Right Honourable the Gover-
nor in Council does not confider it expedient to impoſe any Reſtraint on the Egreſs
of covered Palankeens from the Palace of Chepauk; but after that Event ſhall
have happened, you will prevent the iſſue of covered Palankeens from the Palace,
until you ſhall have received further Orders from the Governor in Council.
In iſſuing theſe Inſtrućtions, the Governor in Council confines the Operation of
them to the Period of Time during which Order ſhall prevail in the Interior of the
Palace; but if any Commotion ſhould ariſe previouſly to the Death of the Nabob
you will take effectual Meaſures for reſtraining the Iſſue of Treaſure, by any Mode
of Conveyance whatever, until you ſhall receive the farther Direétions of the Go-
vernor-in Council.
If, previouſly to the Death of the Nabob, you ſhall have Reaſon to ſuſpect an
Attempt to carry Treaſure from the Palace, without his Highneſs's Conſent, you
will
NA B O B O F THE CAR NAT I C, ?
will alſo in that Event reſtrain the Iſſue of it, until the Nabob's Conſent ſhall be No. 1.
obtained for the Paſſage from the Palace.
£ontinued,
I am Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
'Fort St. º (Signed) j. Webbe,
.6th July 1801. * Chief Secºy to Gov".
(A true Copy )
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
* Secº.
No. 2.
Copy of INSTRUCTIONS to Lieutenant Colonel Bowser,
dated 11th July 1801.
Diary to Milº Con*
I 1th July 1801.
Sent the following Letter
to Lieut. Col. Bowſer.
'Sir, 4. *
THE Right Honourable the Governor in Council having judged it
expedient to aſſemble a ſmall Force, conſiſting of Five Companies of the 2d
Battalion 17th Regiment of Native Infantry, Five Troops of the 2d Regiment
Native Cavalry, and Two Six Pounders with a Proportion of Artillery; I am
direéted to inform you, that the Right Honourable the Governor in Council has
ſelečted you to command it; you will accordingly proceed to join the Detachment
which is now encamped in the Bed of the Long Tank, and take whatever Mea-
ſures may be neceſſary for keeping it ready to move at a ſhort Notice.
Fort St. º * I am, &c.
1 I th July 1801. 3
(Signed) J. Webbe,
Chief SecY to Gov"
No. 3.
Copy of INSTRUCTIONS to Meſſrs. WEBRE and Close,
dated 15th July 1801; when they proceeded to the
Palace of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah.
To Joſiah Webbe, Eſq. and Lieutenant Col. Cloſe.
:Gentlemen,
IN conſequence of the Death of his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul
Omrah, it is my earneſt Deſire, founded on the Inſtructions of his Excellency the
Governor General, that a complete Adjuſtment of the Affairs of the Carnatic
ſhould be made with the leaſt pračticable Delay.
The Nature of the Evidence which has been obtained of the Violation of the
Alliance by the Nabobs Mahomed Ali and Omdut ul Omrah, and the Courſe of
. Reaſoning
§,
PAP E R S CO N.C E R N IN G T H E LATE
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continued.
Teport, july
35th, 1891.
Reaſoning upon the Condition in which the Family of their Highneſſes has, by that
Diſcovery, been placed in relation to the Britiſh Government, are subjects ſo familiar
to you, that any particular Inſtructions from me with regard to the Principles, or
to the detailed Conſiderations of the Queſtion, appear to be ſuperfluous.--It will
be ſufficient for me therefore to ſtate, that the Death of the Nabob has produced
no Change in the Principles by which it will be proper to regulate the Condućt of
the Britiſh Government towards the Family of his Highneſs: But in the Appli-
cation of thoſe frinciples to the ačtual State of Affairs, I judge it to be of the
greateſt importance to the National Charaćter, as well as to the critical State of our
Affairs, that the Arrangement of the Affairs of the Carnatic ſhould be adjuſted by
an amicable Negociation.
iſ accordingly depute you to condućt this Negociation, and hereby authorize
and empower you to exerciſe your own Diſcretion for the Purpoſe of carrying
into Effect my Intentions, and the Inſtrućtions of his Excellency the Governor
General.
The Officer commanding the Forces at Chepauk, will obey ſuch Orders as he
may receive from you. *
i.am, &c. &c.
Fort St. sº …
15th July 1801. (signed) Clive.
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No. 4.
Copy of a REPORT of Meſſrs. WEBBE and CLose, explana-
tory of their Proceedings at the Palace of his late High-
ºneſs the Nabob, in their Interviews or Negociations with
the Regents and Taje ul Omrah.
[N. B. In this Document are contained the Propoſitions from Taje.ul Omrah, and
from Najeeb Khan and Juke Ali Khan, required by the 4th and 5th Orders
of the Honourable Houſe; vide Pages 15 and 17.] . . . -
* July 15th, 1801.
IN conformity to your Lordſhip's Inſtrućtions, we proceeded to the Palace of
Chepauk, having previouſly cauſed a Meſſage intimating our Approach to be
communicated, through the Channel of Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neil, to the
principal Officers of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah. -
On our Arrival at Chepauk, we were received by Nejeeb Khan, Tuckia Ally
Khan, Kadir Nawas Khan, and Mr. Thomas Barrett, who introduced themſelves
as the principal Officers of the Government of his Highneſs Omdut ul Omrah.
Nejeeb Khan appeared to hold no diſtinét Office, but to have been a Companion
of the Family ſince the Time of Anwar ud deen Khan, and to have been conſulted
generally on all Occaſions of Intereſt to the Nabob of the Carnatic. Tuckia Ally
Khan was entruſted with the Military Affairs of the late Nabob. Kidir Nawas Khan
ſuperintended the general and internal Departments of his Highneſs's Government:
But the moſt important Department of his Highneſs’s Government, the Admi-
miſtration of the Revenues, of the Carnatic, had been entruſted to the Charge of
Mr. Barrett. As that Branch of the Nabob's Government affected more particu-
larly than any other the Rights and Intereſts of the Company, we judge it to be pro-
per to explain to your Lordſhip, that Mr. Barrett is of the loweſt Tribe of Native
Portugueze, equally deſtitute of Education, Manners, and Knowledge. W
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N A B O B O F THE CARN AT I C.
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We enquired whether any particular Arrangement had been made by the
Nabob for the Adminiſtration of the Affairs of his Government, in the Event
which had recently occurred ; and having been informed that an authentic Will,
under his Seal and Signature, had been left by Omdut ul Omrah, we deſired that
it might be produced. Nejeeb Khan, who direéted the Converſation, made the uſual
Objećtions, founded on the Recency of the Nabob's Death, on the Neceſſity of
allowing a ſufficient Interval of Time for the Ceremonies of the Occaſion, and on
the Decorum of poſtponing to open the Will until the Heir appointed ſhould
be at Liberty, in conformity to the uſual Pračtice, to attend to the Tranſaćtion
of public Buſineſs. We replied, that the Britiſh Government was aware of the
prevailing Uſages obſerved by the Profeſſors ef the Mahomedan Religion on all
ordinary Occaſions of this Nature; that your Lordſhip could have no Wiſh that
thoſe Uſages ſhould be unneceſſarily tranſgreſſed; but that the Affairs of a great
Government, on which our Requeſt was founded, could not be regulated by the
ordinary Pračtice of individual Families. Having in conſequence been informed
that the Nabob had appointed his reputed Son (Fadjul Omrah, commonly called
Ally Huſſain) to be his ſole Heir, we again urged the Neceſſity of producing the
Will, and requeſted that the young Man ſhould be introduced to us. The Khans
having retired to conſider this Demand, we learnt, during a deſultory Converſa-
tion with Mr. Barrett, that the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah had become acquainted
with the Intention of Huſſam ul Mulk to employ an armed Force at the Palace of
Chepauk for the Accompliſhment of his Views, at the expected Termination of
his Highneſs's Life : that the Meaſure of ſtationing a Body of the Company's
Troops for the Protećtion of the Family, had in conſequence been entirely ac-
ceptable to his Highneſs, and (to uſe his own figurative Expreſſion) that the
Security, derived from that Arrangement, had been the Means of prolonging his
Highneſs's Life.
The Khans having been joined by Mr. Barrett, returned, aſſenting to our Requeſt;
and, after a ſhort Delay, the young Man was introduced with the Will in his Hand.
The Will having been opened and read by Kadir Nawas Khan, was found to be an
authentic Inſtrument, expreſſing in clear, diſtinét, and explicit Terms, the Will of the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, that his reputed Son (Ally Huſſain) ſhould ſucceed him
in the Poſſeſſion of all his Rights, Poſſeſſions, Property, and in the Sovereignty”
of the Carnatic. The Will alſo appointed Mahomed Nejeeb Khan, Salar Jung,
and Tuckia Ally Khan, to aſſiſt the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah in the Ad-
miniſtration of his Affairs.
The Will having been read, we excuſed ourſelves to Ally Huſſain for an Intru-
ſion, which, although unſeaſonable, was indiſpenſably neceſſary; and he immediately
retired, returning Expreſſions of Civility.
On the Departure of Ally Huſſain, we requeſted a private Conference with the
Two Khans only, who had been appointed by the Will of Omdut ul Omrah to aſ.
ſiſt the Counſels of his Son. After ſome preparatory Obſervations on the Im-
portance of the Subjećt, which we were deſirous of diſcuſſing, and on the conſe-
quent Neceſſity of ſuperceding the ordinary Forms obſerved in private Families on
ſimilar Occaſions of Misfortune, we proceeded, with the Concurrence of the Khans,
to ſtate the Nature of the written Documents diſcovered at Seringapatam. Nejeeb
Khan expreſſed the greateſt Degree of Surprize at this Communication, profeſſed
his entire Ignorance of the Subjećt, and proteſted that it was impoſſible for the
Nabob Omdutul Omrah to cheriſh the Intentions imputed to his Highneſs. Some
C of
No. 4.
continued.
* The Engliſh
Word “ So-
“vereignty”
is in the Will.
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P A P E R S C O N C E R N IN G T H E L A T E
• , No. 4.
continued.
or in any way authorized to give Anſwer upon ſo momentous a Queſtion, with-
of the principal Documents having been produced, Nejeeb Khan afferted, that they
contained none but Expreſſions of Civility and Compliment; that the Marquis
Cornwallis had repeatedly enjoined the Nabobs MahomedAliy and OmdutuiOmrah,
to cultivate a friendly Intercourſe with Tippoo Sultaun; that the whole Tendency
of the Correſpondence produced was direéted to that Obječt in conformity to the
Injunétions of Lord Cornwallis, and that the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah had recent.
ly addreſſed himſelf to Lord Cornwallis on the Subječt of theſe Communications:
The particular Warmth of the Expreſſions uſed by Omdut ul Omrah, in his Letter
addreſſed to Gholam Ally Khan on the 14th Mohurrum 1209, having been pointed
out to Nejeeb Khan, he obſerved that it was nothing more than an Expreſſion of
Civility which might have been uſed on any ordinary Occaſion. The Copy of the
Cypher having been produced, Nejeeb Khan took the Opportunity of ſaying that
the Moonſhy of the Nabob was preſent, and could be examined with reſpe&t to the
Authenticity of the Hand-writing; that although the Cypher appeared, as was
ſtated by us, to be a Paper of a very ſecret Nature, calculated to provide for the
Tranſačtion of Affairs of great Importance, it might have been conveyed into the
Archives of Tippoo Sultaun by the Enemies of Omdut ul Omrah ; that, upon be.
ing furniſhed with the Proofs of the ſuppoſed treacherous Intercourſe between
Tippoo Sultaun and the Family of the Nabob Mohamed Ally, ſuch Explanations
ſhould be afforded, and ſuch Anſwers given, as the different Caſes might require,
and that, the Proofs being compared, the Company might form a complete Judg-
Iſlent.
This Diſcourſe being apparently intended to confound the Objećt of our De-
putation, we ſtated to the Two Khans that in Caſes of diſputed Points between in-
dependent Powers, neither Party could erect itſelf into a Judge of the Condućt of
the other Party; that on thoſe Queſtions an Appeal could be made only to the
general Pračice of the Nations of the World; and that ſuch Differences could only
be decided by the Means poſſeſſed by each Party reſpectively to provide for its
own Security; that with reſpect to the preſent Caſe, the moſt abundant Proofs
were in the Poſſeſſion of the Britiſh Government of the Violation of the Alliance
between the Company and the late Nabob, and particularly of the expreſs Stipula-
tions of the Treaty of 1792 ; that the Britiſh Government, being ſatisfied of the
Sufficiency of thoſe Proofs, had no Intention of conſtituting itſelf a Judge of the Con-
dućt of its Ally : But that being prepared to appeal, if neceſſary, to the eſtabliſhed
Maxims of the public Law of Nations, it had reſolved to demand from the late
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, Satisfaction for his Violation of the Alliance, and Secu-
rity for its Rights and Intereſts againſt the future Operation of his Highneſs's hoſ-
tile Councils; that the Indiſpoſition, which had terminated in the Death of the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, had prevented the Execution of the Governor General’s
Orders for this Purpoſe; that although his Highneſs's Right to the Support and
Friendſhip of the Company had been entirely cut off by his Violation of the Alli-
ance, the Britiſh Government being ſtill deſirous of preſerving the Connexion ſo
long ſubſiſting, would be diſpoſed to extend thoſe Sentiments to the reputed
Son of Omdut ul Omrah, if an adequate Security could be eſtabliſhed for
the Rights of the Company in the Carnatic through the Channel of an amicable
Adjuſtment. The Two Khans repeated, that they were ignorant of the
Exiſtence of the ſuppoſed ſecret Intercourſe between the Nabobs Walajah
Omdut ul Omrah and Tippoo Sultaun ; and Nejeeb Khan in particular ſtated,
that from the Tenor of his Intercourſe with the Family of the Nabob, as
well as from the Expreſſions of the Will, he did not confider himſelf at Liberty,
Qū:
NAB O B O F THE CARN AT I C. f
out conſulting and obtaining the Conſent of the Family and Miniſters of the late No. 4.
Nabob.-We proceeded to explain ſlowly and diſtinétly to the Two Khans the continued.
Courſe of Reaſoning and the Propoſitions contained in the Declaration tranſmitted
from Bengal, which the Khans having heard with great Attention, they ſtated that
they diſtinétly comprehended the Objećt of the Declaration and the Force of the
Reaſoning; they admitted the Concluſions drawn from the Faëts, provided the
Faćts ſhould be true; but at the ſame Time ſtrenuouſly aſſerted their Diſbelief of
the hoſtile Intercourſe with Tippoo Sultaun, imputed to the Nabobs Mahomed
Ally and Omdut ul Omrah.—After a defultory Converſation on this Subjećt, in
which the Two Khans inſiſted on the Reaſonableneſs of their entering into the De-
fence of Omdut ul Omrah's Condućt in regard to the ſeveral Points ſtated in the
Declaration, and in which we repeated the Arguments founded on the Pračtice of
Nations, and on the Right of the Britiſh Government to provide for the Safety of
its Intereſts, we endeavoured to reduce this very long Conference into the Reſult
of a fingle Propoſition, by demanding to know whether the Khans, on the Part of
Ally Huſſain, were diſpoſed to an Adjuſtment of the Claims of the Britiſh Go-
vernment through the Channel of an amicable Negociation.—They profeſſed the
greateſt Degree of Reſpect and Attachment to the Britiſh Government; ſtated that
they conſidered themſelves and the whole Family to be under its immediate Pro-
tećtion; dwelt on the general Impoſſibility of their proceeding by any other than
amicable Means in the Settlement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, or of the exiſting
Differences with the Britiſh Government; but carefully avoided a dire&t Anſwer
to the Propoſition we had ſtated on that Subjećt.—The Day being far advanced,
the Khans took an Opportunity of urging the Neceſſity of their Attention to the
Funeral of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and to the Preparations of removing the
Corpſe to Trichinopoly.—This Plea was urged in ſo forcible a Manner, upon the
Grounds of public Decorum, and of Conſideration for the F eelings of the F amily,
that we yielded without further Diſcuſſion to the evident Deſire of the Khans to
conclude the Conference, without giving a poſitive Anſwer to our Propoſition.—
It was agreed, however, that an Interview ſhould take place on the Evening of the
next Day, at which the Khans aſſured us that they would be prepared to give a ſpe-
cific Anſwer to our Propoſitions, after conſulting the Family and Miniſters of the
late Nabob upon the Subjećt of this Conference. -
In proceeding to take Leave of the Khans, we aſſured them in the moſt unequi-
vocal Terms, that on the Anſwer which they intended to give to our Propoſition
would depend, whether the Britiſh Government would acknowledge the Claims of
the reputed Son of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah to the Support of the Com-
pany, or whether the Britiſh Government ſhould proceed to take ſuch Meaſures as
it might deem to be expedient for the Security of its Rights and Intereſts in the
Carnatic.
.. July 16th-At Seven o’Clock this Evening we proceeded, according to Appoint-
ment, to meet the Two Khans at the Palace of Chepauk. Before we proceeded to
the direét Objećt of the Conference, we communicated to Najeeb Khan and Tuckia
Ally Khan, a Perſian Tranſlation of the Declaration. After peruſing a confiderable
Part of the Paper, Nejeeb Khan obſerved, that it contained the ſame Matter as was
explained to him on the preceding Day; that he entirely comprehended the Courſe
of the Reaſoning, and that he did not require any farther Explanation on the Sub-
jećt.—He repeated his Convićtion, that it was impoſſible for Omdut ul Omrah to
engage in a Correſpondence injurious to the Britiſh Intereſts; and ſtated, as a Con-
firmation
12
P A PERS CON C E R NING T H E LATE
No. 4.
continued.
firmation of his Belief, the Adherence of the Nabob to the pecuniary Stipulations
of his Engagements, and the Probability that theſe Means had been adopted by his
Highneſs's Enemies to injure his Reputation.
In order, however, that the Concluſion drawn from the Propoſitions ſtated in the
Declaration, and the conſequent Determination of the Britiſh Government, might
be fully underſtood, that Paſſage of the Paper was read, and diſtinétly explained by
us to the Two Khans.
We proceeded to enquire whether the Khans were prepared (according to the
Reſult of the Conference of Yeſterday) to enter into a friendly Negociation, for
the Eſtabliſhment of an adequate Security for the Right and Intereſt of the Britiſh
Government. The Khans replied, that the whole Family of Omdut ul Omrah
was under the Protećtion of the Britiſh Government, and that it could feel none
but friendly Diſpoſitions towards the Company; at the ſame Time, however, they
perſiſted in denying the Proofs of the Violation of the Alliance by Omdut ul Omrah,
on the Foundation of which the Demand of the Britiſh Government reſted, and, by
a ſtrange Inconſiſtency, proceeded to enquire the Conditions on which we pr opoſed
to eſtabliſh an amicable Adjuſtment of our Claims on the Family of the late
Nabob.
We proceeded accordingly to ſtate to the Khans the Inconveniences which had
ibeen experienced from the Effects of a divided Government; the Difficulty of
applying, under ſuch a Syſtem, the Reſources of the Carnatic to the Exigencies of
the Public Service; and the Impoſſibility of introducing a regular Form of internal
Government, until the Defects of the exiſting Syſtem ſhould be connected. We
then informed the Khans, that the only Remedy applicable to the Errors of the
preſent Government of the Carnatic was, the Subſtitution of one permanent Autho-
ºrity, in lieu of the fluêtuating Authority which had hitherto ſubſiſted; that the Ap-
propriation of the Reſources of the Carnatic, during the Government of the Nabob,
and under the Preſſure of ačtual War, had been found from Experience to be in-
compatible with the Objećts of the Alliance; and therefore the only adequate
Security for the Rights and Intereſt of the Britiſh Government in the Carnatic,
againſt the Dangers with which they had been menaced, was the entire and exclu-
five Adminiſtration of the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic. We
accordingly informed the Khans, that this Condition would form the Baſis of the
Arrangement which it was our Intention to propoſe to them. Nejeeb Khan ob-
** ſerved, that ſuch 3. Propoſition was calculated to fruſtrate the profeſſed Objećt of the
Arrangement; for if the entire Government of the Carnatic ſhould be transferred
to the Hands of the Company, the Station of Nabob of the Carnatic would be an-
nihilated.—We replied to the Khans, that the Condition now propoſed ačtually
exiſted in the Treaties of 1787 and 1792; and that although the entire Civil and
Military Government of the Carnatic had been transferred, under the Operation of
...that Condition, to the excluſive Adminiſtration of the Company, no Doubt was en-
tertained that the Rank and Dignity of Mahomed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, as
the Nabobs of the Carnatic, had been preſerved; we therefore drew this Conclu-
fion, that the Rank and Dignity of the Nabob of the Carnatic could not be injured
by extending the Operation of that Condition; and that the Objećt of propoſing an
amicable. Adjuſtment, inſtead of proceeding to exerciſe the Rights acquired by the
Britiſh Government, was manifeſtly founded in the Deſire of preſerving to the
family the Rank, Dignities, and Splendour of the Nabobs of the Carnatic.—The
. . . . . . . . . . ~~ & ' - Khans
N A B O B C F T H E C A R N AT I C, 13
Khans admitted this Argument to be concluſive, but without coming to any De- No. 4.
termination on the fundamental Propoſition ſtated by us, appeared to be deſirous of continued.
knowing the general Outline of the Arrangement, which it was in the Contempla-
tion of the Britiſh Government to eſtabliſh.-We thought it expedient to ſatisfy, by
deſcribing the principal Parts of the Plan intended by your Lordſhip and by the
Governor General, in the Event of an amicable Adjuſtment of Affairs: But we ap-
prized the Khans at the ſame Time, that the intended Arrangements, with reſpect
to the Family Affairs and Dependants of Omdut ul Omrah, would be regulated by
the Acceptance or Rejećtion of the fundamental Propoſition; for in the one Caſe
the Britiſh Government would be at Liberty to conſult the Dićtates of Moderation,
Liberality, and Friendſhip, but in the other Caſe it would be compelled to adopt
ſuch Meaſures of Precaution, for the Security of its Rights and Intereſts, as the
hoſtile Condućt of Omdut ul Omrah had juſtified, and as would be rendered ne-
ceſſary by the Perſeverance of his reputed Son in the Spirit of thoſe Councils.
The Khans entered into a deſultory Converſation on the long ſubſiſting Conne&tion
between the Company and the Family of the late Nabob; in which they were more
deſirous of referring the Pretenſions of Ally Huſſain to the Stipulations of the Treaty
of 1792, than to the actual Circumſtances which had occurred. We thought it
therefore not unneceſſary to ſtate again, that the Right of Omdut ul Omrah to the
Support of the Company, was founded on the expreſs Letter of the Treaty of 1792;
that the whole Spirit of the Alliance having been vitiated previouſly to the oſtenſible
Concluſion of the Treaty of 1792, the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah had, by his own
Condućt, annihilated the Rights intended to be conveyed to him by that Inſtrument;
that conſequently he left his reputed Son in his own Condition; that having placed
himſelf in the Relation of a public Enemy, his reputed Son had ſucceeded to that
Condition ; that although the Britiſh Government had ſuſpended the Exerciſe of
its Rights, it acknowledged no other Claim on the Part of Huſſain, and that there-
fore, in admitting him to negociate upon any Terms, it was aétuated by Motives of
Generoſity, unconneéted with any Right in the Family of Mahomed Ally to reſiſt
its Demand for Security. The Khans made a civil Anſwer to the Subſtance of this
Communication, but at the ſame Time indicated, in the ſtrongeſt Manner, that they
were by no Means diſpoſed to accede to the fundamental Propoſition of the intend-
ed Arrangement; they ſtated that it was a Subjećt of ſo much Importance, as to
preclude them from giving an Anſwer without a full Conſultation with all the
Branches of the Family; they therefore requeſted that they might be permitted to
poſtpone until the next Day their final Anſwer upon the Subjećt of the Two Con-
ferences. . - -
In the aëtual Situation of the Family of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, we
conſidered ourſelves at Liberty to accede to the Requeſt, under a formal Intima-
tion to the Khans, that as the Arrangement of the Affairs of the Carnatic could not
be protracted without material Injury to the internal Tranquility of the Country, we
ſhould expect to receive an Anſwer ſo determinate as to enable the Britiſh Govern-
ment to proceed to adopt the Meaſures ſuſpended by the preſent Negociation. We
accordingly took Leave of the Khans, with an Aſſurance that they would be prepared
to deliver a final Anſwer the next Day. -
July 17,-We proceeded to the Palace of Chepauk at Three o'Clock in the Af.
ternoon, according to the Appointment of the preceding Day. w - - . .
T} Nejeeb
I4.
P A P E R S C O N C E R N IN G T H E LATE
No. 4.
continued.
* All the Au-
thority con-
veyed by the
Will to theſe
Khans is con-
tained in the
Perſian Word
Imalad, which
literally ſigni-
fies Aſſiſtance.
+ This con-
tradićts, in the
moſt dire&t
Terms, Nejeeb
Khan’s Ex-
preſſions of
Surprize on
this Subjećt, in
the firſt Con-
ference.
Nejeeb Khan and Tuckia Ally Khan proceeded to inform us that the whole
Family, and the Miniſters of the late Nabob, had been aſſembled for the Purpoſe of
deliberating on the Propoſition ſtated by us on the preceding Day; and that the Re-
fult of their Deliberation was a Convićtion in their own Minds, that, notwithſtand-
ing the decided Terms in which our Propoſition was communicated to them, the
Britiſh Government would ſtill be diſpoſed to accept a Modification of the Terms
required for its Security in the Carnatic. They accordingly produced a contra
Projet, which they deſired might be ſubmitted to your Lordſhip's Confideration. A
Tranſlation of that Paper is annexed to the Report of this Day's Conference.
We informed the Khans that we poſſeſſed full Authority from your Lordſhip
and from the Governor General for rejećting, on the Part of the Britiſh Government,
any Propoſal inconſiſtent with the Extent of the Security already required, and that
our Propoſition for veſting excluſively in the Hands of the Company the entire Ad-
miniſtration of the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic, contained the
Baſis on which alone the propoſed Arrangement could be founded. We reminded
the Khans of the Importance which they had, at an earlier Stage of the Conferences,
attached to the Extent of this Propoſition, and of their conſidering their Authority
inſufficient to decide ſo momentous a Queſtion. We warned them that the Inter-
pretation they were about to give to the Will of Omdut ul Omrah, involved them
in a heavy Reſponſibility to his reputed Son, which the Terms of the Will itſelf did
not juſtify; * and we ſtated for their Conſideration, that whatever might be the Re-
ſult of theſe Conferences, the Effect to be produced on their own Intereſts could
bear no Compariſon to the Effect to be produced on thoſe of Ally Huſſain.
The Khans replied, that the Subjećt of the Evidence diſcovered at Seringapatam,
had been agitated in the Durbar for more than Twelve f Months ; that Meaſures
had been taken for juſtifying the Condućt of Omdut ul Omrah, which they aſſerted
to be innocent of any treacherous Intention towards the Britiſh Government; that
our Propoſitions, containing the fundamental Baſis of an amicable Arrangement,
had been fully diſcuſſed and debated ; that they (the Khans) had fully confidered
the Nature of the Authority and of the Reſponſibility which the Will of Omdut ul
Omrah devolved on them ; that they were prepared to give a decided Anſwer on
the Propoſition, and that the Paper delivered to us contained, finally and unequi-
vocally, the only Terms on which they could accede to our Arrangement of the
Affairs of the Carnatic by Negociation. .
Our Endeavours to accompliſh an amicable Adjuſtment being thus defeated in
limine, by the formal Rejećtion of your Lordſhip's fundamental Propoſitions, we
ſhould have felt ourſelves juſtified in bringing the Negociation to an immediate
Concluſion; but knowing the earneſt Deſire of your Lordſhip and of the Governor
General, to obtain the Security required for the Rights and Intereſts of the Britiſh
Government in the Carnatic by an amicable Negociation, and conſidering the Pro-
poſal of the Khans to be ſo extravagant as to be undeſerving of ſerious Attention,
we judged it to be our Duty not to exclude the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah
from an Opportunity of declaring his genuine Sentiments upon a Point of ſo much
Intereſt to himſelf, and of relieving himſelf from the Effects of the infatuated or
treacherous Councils of his appointed Adviſers. We therefore informed the Khans,
that in a Queſtion which appeared to relate excluſively to the Intereſts of the Na-
bob Omdut ul Omrah's reputed Son, we were deſirous of receiving from himſelf a
- - Declaration,
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N AT I C.
† 5
Declaration, which would determine his future Situation, either as the acknow-
ledged Nabob of the Carnatic, or as a mere Dependant on the Bounty of the Com-
pany. The extreme Anxiety which the Khans diſcovered in attempting to evade
this Demand, confirmed in our Judgment the Expediency and Neceſſity of per-
ſiſting in it. t
It would be tedious to detain your Lordſhip with a Repetition of the various Sub-
terfuges urged by the Khans to avoid a Compliance with this Requeſt; all founded
on his Youth,” his Inſufficiency to condućt a Conference, the Fears of his Mother,
and the Recency of his Father's Death. It was not without a very long and
tedious Converſation, that we obtained from the Khans the Appointment of a Time
for our receiving, from the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah, his own Determina-
tion on the Propoſition communicated to the Two Khans. The Interview was at
length fixed for the next Day.
APPENDIX to the Third Day's Conference.
Tranſlation of a PAPER delivered by Nejeeb Khan Behauder, Salar Jung,
and Mahomed Fukia Aly Khan Behauder, to Mr. Webbe and Lieutenant
Colonel Cloſe, on the 5th Day of Rubee ool aul 1216 of the Heygra.
IN as much as we are jointly employed in a Buſineſs of Truſt, and are deſirous
of adhering to the Will of our late Lord and Maſter, we have accordingly con-
ſidered with great Attention the Matters which have been ſtated on each Side
during our Converſations ; and although we do not remember, Word by Word,
what has been urged by each Party, we yet recollect the Subſtance of what paſſed.
You explained to us that Marquis Welleſley Behauder, had ſhewn himſelf diſ.
pleaſed with the Intention of the Condućt of the late Nabob, in maintaining a
Correſpondence with Tippoo Sultaun, the late Ruler of Myſore; and that in conſe-
quence the Son of the late Nabob, we mean our preſent benevolent and gracious
Maſter, had forfeited his Right to the Protećtion of the Company. We cannot,
Gentlemen, ſpeak poſitively as to the Writings alluded to, but from our Knowledge
of the Temper, Diſpoſition, and Sentiments of the late Nabob, we are impreſſed
with a full Aſſurance that he was incapable of acting contrary to his own Dignity,
and the Engagements of his Alliance, which he ever reſpected; and indeed we our-
ſelves know that he never correſponded with any Power in Hindoſtan, unleſs by means
of the Company; and the Company were well acquainted with the Correſpondence
which did take place, and which conſiſted only of Letters couched in warm Expreſ.
fions of Congratulation or Condolance. If, beſides the Correſpondence of this
Deſcription, any Writings have come to light, containing the Matters of which
you have read to us a ſhort Abſtraćt, we apprehend that they have originated with
evil Perſons, for the Purpoſe of ſhaking the Friendſhip and Union ſo long eſtabliſhed
between the late Nabob and the Company. Nor do we believe that the Company,
on mature Conſideration, can hold it to be true, that the late Nabob engaged in
a Correſpondence contrary to their Intereſts; and, adverting to the amicable and
friendly Behaviour obſerved by the Company till the laſt Moments of the Nabob,
the whole World will be impreſſed that they entertained no fuch Suſpicions; and
with us it is Matter of Regret, that at a Junéture when the Nabob is deprived of the
Means of Juſtification, his Reputation ſhould be publicly injured. But, Gentlemen,
without dwelling on theſe Matters, we confider ourſelves as being honoured with
. - the
No. 4.
continued.
* He is nearly
Eighteen
Years old.
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No. 4.
continued.
the Office of Agent on the Part of the preſent Heir, according to the Will of his
illuſtrious Father; and we have to obſerve that you, Gentlemen, have ſeen that
Wiil, and been made acquainted with the Power which it has veſted in Sahib
Zahah, the preſent Heir. The ſaid Heir, according to the Law and Rules
which hold amongſt us regarding Succeſſion, is found to inherit the Whole of the
Rights and State of his Father, and is in every Reſpect the true hereditary Suc-
ceſſor of his Father. In this Caſe he has ſpecially derived Protećtion from the
Treaty of 1792 A.D. and we have held ourſelves bound on his Part by the ſaid
Treaty from the Moment we entered on this great Charge, namely, the Care of
the Perſon and Government of the ſaid Heir. Gentlemen, without adverting
to any of the Contents of the above Treaty, you have, on the Part of the Governor
General Behauder, demanded of us, who are the Agents of the ſaid Heir, either to
deliver the Heir aforeſaid and his Kingdom, entirely into the Hands of the
Governor General, or to communicate our Inclinations reſpecting ſuch an Arrange-
ment as would be aſſented to by the Governor General. We were happy,
Gentlemen, that you did not inſiſt on an immediate Anſwer to your Demand; as
in the Interval that has taken place, we have minutely conſidered your Demands,
as well as the Truſt that has been confided in us; and we apprehend, that when
you made the ſaid Demand, the Treaty of 1792 A. D. was not in your Contem-
plation, for the ſaid Heir, Succeſſor of the late Nabob, is clearly included in the
Treaty aforeſaid. In this Caſe the ſaid Heir has become the Protećtor of the
Agreements and Stipulations of his illuſtrious Father, and has ſucceeded to the
Right, to benefit by the Stipulations of the Company contained in the ſaid Treaty;
and we are ready to abide in the fulleſt Manner to every Point that he has agreed
to therein. We have not ſaid that we were unwilling to agree to any Treaty
heſides that above-mentioned; on the contrary, we are prepared to hear any Demands
that may be propoſed, and to exert ourſelves to the Extent of our Ability for the
Purpoſe of adjuſting them. We do not perceive much Defect in the Means long
eſtabliſhed by the Treaty, for promoting the Security and Union of both Sides.
In every Event, if it can be modified for the Intereſt of the Company, the aforeſaid
Heir will be happy at all Times to attend to any Wiſh that you may communicate;
nor would we ſay that we ſhould confider ourſelves fortunate in being the Means of
adjuſting ſo defirable an Arrangement. We muſt infer, that you could ſcarcely
hope that the Demand, at which you hinted at the firſt Meeting, and ſo clearly
explained at the ſecond, that it could not be miſunderſtood, would be accepted;
as, Gentlemen, you well know that we, who are charged with the Care of the
Country, and the Affairs of the Heir, have no Authority to engage in ſuch Diſ-
affection and Faithleſſneſs, as to deliver up unconditionally the whole Rights and
Property of our Maſter, and commit him and his Family, in a State of Want and
Subječtion, to the Company. We cannot therefore comprehend the Subſtance
and Meaning of your Demand, more than that it occurs to us that you have pro-
poſed a heavy Demand to us, in the firſt Inſtance, under the Idea, that it might
be diminiſhed at future Conferences; and that you might aſcertain our Sentiments
touching a freſh Agreement for renewing the Friendſhip and Union that has ſo
long ſubſiſted between the Company and the Nabob of the Carnatic.
Gentlemen, with the View to meet the juſt Wiſhes of the Company, we have
confidered the Objećts and Advantages which were often mentioned to the late
Mabob, and we have reſolved to act in conformity to them to the Extent of our
Ability; and regarding them as the beſt Foundations for an Arrangement, we ..
preſent
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preſent a ſeparate Paper, containing a few correſpondent Propoſitions; and in the
Event of their being approved, they may be eaſily inſerted in the Treaty of 1792,
A. D. The happy Effects of which have been witneſſed by the Company and by
us. We hope that in theſe Propoſitions we have ſtrongly demonſtrated the Will
of the Heir, as well as ours, to promote the true Intereſt of the Company, without
entirely ſacrificing the Rights of the Heir, which are committed to our Care;
and we truſt that, confidering what we have ſtated above, our Motive for bringing
forward the Propoſitions alluded to, muſt be clear beyond the Poſſibility of Doubt.
Adverting to the Reſponſibility we ſuſtain, from the great Affairs and Intereſts in
which we are engaged, we have to requeſt that you will deliver to us in Writing,
any Demands you may wiſh to ſtate in reply, in order that we may be free from
any Imputations hereafter. We are confident that you will conſider the delicate
Circumſtances which have led us to this Requeſt, and allow them to plead our
Excuſe.
(Signed) MAHOMED NEJ EEB KHAN, .
SALAR JUNG,
MAHOMED TUCKIA ALI
KHAN BEHAUDER.
TRANSLATION of PROPositions from the Heir.
Article I.-He cedes to the Company ſovereign Authority over the Poli-
gars; but the Company ſhall give Credit for Two Lacks Sixty Thouſand Sever,
Hundred and Four Star Pagodas, on account of the Poligar Peiſhcuſh, in the
Kiſts of the Nine Lacks payable each Year.
Article II.—The Heir grants full Authority to the Company to colle&t the
Revenues, &c. of the following Diſtrićts:—The Revenues of theſe Diſtrićts are
detailed below, but they amount to more ; viz. &
Tinniveily - - - - 4,06,508 S. Pagodas.
Madura - - - - - 64,945
Ongole - - - - - I 3,534.
Palnad - - - - - 24,657.
The Amount of theſe Two Articles, including the Poligar Peiſhcuſh, is 8,54,848
S. Pagodas; and this Sum being dedućted from the 9 Lacks payable each Year,
leaves a Balance of 45,152 Star Pagodas.
Afticle III.-The Sum of 45,152 Star Pagodas, which is the Balance of the Nine
Hacks allotted to defray the Expence for the Defence of the Carnatic, and the Sum
of 6,21, Io; Star Pagodas, which is allotted to diſcharge the Debts of the Nabob
Walajah, according to the Treaty, will be paid to the Company Yearly by the
Heir ; and ſhall be diſcharged in Ten equal Kiſts, from the 1ſt to the 15th of each
Month, from the Beginning of September to the Month of June; and on the Debts
of the Nabob Walajah being diſcharged, the Payment of the Sum of 6,21, 16;
Star Pagodas ſhall ceaſe, and the Sum of 45,152 Star Pagodas only, ſhall conti-
nue to be paid Yearly, agreeably to the Stipulations of 1792; and the Whole of
the Contents of this Paper ſhall be confidered as referring to the ſaid Treaty.
Article IV.—After the Diſcharge of the above Debts, the Heir ſhall liquidate
the new Cavalry Loan, and he will not only acknowledge that Debt, but alſo
the Intereſt due on it. * *
E. Article V.
No. 4;
continued.
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No. 4.
continued.
Article V.-In the Event of Failure, in the Payment of the Kiſts ſtipulated in
the 3d Article, then thoſe Parts of the Treaty of 1792 ſhall be carried into Ef-
feet, which relates to the Diſtrićts detailed in Schedule No. 2 of the ſaid Treaty,
and which, according to the 2d Article of this Paper, have not been transferred;
and with the Exception of the Matters modified as above, the Whole of the Ar-
ticles of the Treaty of 1792 ſhall continue in full Force.
The Heir, out of his Regard and Friendſhip for the Company, will make over
to the Company, as an Aćt of Favour, the Whole of his Rights touching the
Pearl Fiſhery.
July 18th—Having perſonally communicated to your Lordſhip our Suſpicion,
founded on the Anxiety of the Two Khans to prevent our Interview with the reputed
Son of Omdut ul Omrah, that their Condućt might not be conformable to the Wiſhes
and Intentions of that Perſon, your Lordſhip authorized and inſtrućted us to com-
municate to Mr. Fitzgerald (the confidential Phyſician of the late Nabob) who had
perſonal Acceſs to his Highneſs's reputed Son, the actual Exiſtence of the Gover-
nor General’s Orders, and your Lordſhip's poſitive Determination to execute thoſe
Crders, for the Purpoſe of obtaining an adequate Security for the Rights and In-
tereſts of the Britiſh Government in the Carnatic. Such Parts of the Governor
General's Orders as were ſufficient to remove all Doubt on this Subjećt, were
accordingly communicated to Mr. Fitzgerald, from his Excellency’s original Diſ-
patches. It being neceſſary, in conformity to this Intention, that farther Time
ſhould be allowed for the Qperation of this indireét Communication, the Interview
appointed for to Day was poſtponed; and Reaſon exiſts for believing that (as far as
the Opinion of Mr. Fitzgerald was allowed to have Effect) the reputed Son of
Qmdut ul Omrah, as well as his Two Adviſers, Nejeeb Khan and Tuckia Ally
Khan, were, in the Courſe of this Day, apprized of the aëtual Circumſtances in
which they ſtood, through the Channel of a confidential Perſon, who could have
no Intereſt in augmenting the Appearance of the Danger, which ačtually menaced
the immediate Intereſts of Ally Huſſain. * *
Although this Tranſačtion forms no Part of our public Negociation, we have
judged it to be proper to include it in the official Report of this Day. It will de-
monſtrate that no Care was omitted, which could conciliate the Mind of Ally
Huſſain, and of his appointed Adviſers.
July 19th.-We proceeded about Noon to the Palace. We enquired whether a
, further Confideration of the Subjećt of our Conferences had created in the Minds of
the Two Khans any Alteration of their Sentiments delivered at the laſt Interview
They replied, without Heſitation, that it was not the Intention of Ally Huſſain to
recede from the Terms communicated to us in a written Paper at the laſt Inter-
view : We then ſtated our Belief, that under that Declaration they were prepared
for the ſerious Conſequences of the alternative, frequently deſcribed to them.
The Khans replied, with much apparent Compoſure and Reſolution, that
they were prepared, to meet thoſe Conſequences, on their Reſponſibility, under a
perfeót Reliance on the Protećtion of the Company, and on its Adherence to the
exiſting Engagements. We reminded the Khans, that it was uſeleſs to recur to the
Stipulations of the Treaty of 1792, the vital Spirit of which had been annihilated,
and that the Violation of Omdut ul Omrah's Engagement had conſtituted the
Right of the Company to demand the Security now required.
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N A B O B O F T H E C A R N A T I C.
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The reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah being, at our Defire, introduced accord-
ing to the former Appointment, we excuſed our Intruſion on his Grief, by explain-
ing our Unwillingneſs to receive from any Perſon but himſelf the final Rejećtion of
a Propoſition, made with great Indulgence to him, on the Part of the Britiſh Go-
vernment, and involving Conſequences of the greateſt Importance to his immediate
Hntereſts. We then ſtated, in a ſuccinét Manner, the Nature of that Propoſition,
with the concluſive Rejection of it by his appointed Adviſers; and expreſſed our
Deſire of knowing whether the Motives of the Khans for thus rejčing, at ſuch
apparent Hazard to his Welfare, the Friendſhip of the Company, were conform-
able to his own Sentiments and Reſolution, He replied (the Khans being preſent)
that he conſidered them to have been appointed by his Father for the Purpoſe of
aſſiſting him; and that the Objećt of his own Councils was not ſeparate from that
of the Khans.
According to the Plan previouſly arranged by your Lordſhip for this probable
Event, we made known, without farther Delay, your Lordſhip's Intention of hold-
ing a perſonal Conference with Ally Huſſain (previouſly to the final Adoption of the
Meaſures then in your Lordſhip's Contemplation.)—This Communication was
unexpe&ted, and the Khans endeavoured to evade it by repeating the Excuſes they
had uſed at the former Interview ; but, being aſſured that your Lordſhip's Orders
in this Reſpe&t admitted of no Excuſe, the Khans retired at the ſame Time for
the Purpoſe of preparing the Equipage of Ally Huſſain. During this ſhort Inter-
val, the young Man, with much apparent Anxiety in his Manner, whiſpered in a
Jow Tone of Voice, that he had been deceived by the Two Khans.—Ally Huſſain
accordingly proceeded, without farther Communication with the Two Khans, to
the Tent of the Officer commanding the Troops at Chepauk, at which Place we
had the Honour of a perſonal Interview with your Lordſhip.
After the firſt Ceremonies of the Meeting had ſubſided, the Attendants of Ally
Huſſain, including Nejeeb Khan and Tuckia Adly Khan, were direéted to with-
draw, and the Tent was rendered entirely private. Before your Lordſhip's Inten-
tion in this Interview could be entirely explained, Ally Huffin interrupted the
Converſation by expreſſing his Senſe of your Lordſhip's Conſideration. He then
proceeded to ſtate, of his own Accord, that the Conferences had been condućted
by the Two Khans without his Participation in their Councils; and that he diſap-
proved the Termination which had in conſequence been given to the Nego-
ciation.
In conſequence of this Avowal, the entire Subſtance of the Conferences was re-
capitulated to Ally Huſſain, the Nature of the Proofs of the Violation of the Alli-
ance was diſtinétly deſcribed, and the Extent of the Security required by the Britiſh
Government conciſely explained.—Ally Huſſain, after ſtating that he compre-
hended the Whole of this important Queſtion, declared himſelf ready to conclude
an Arrangement with the Britiſh Government on the Baſis of the Propoſition com-
municated by us to the Two Khans. He then proceeded to make Enquiry into the
fºcondary Branches of the Arrangement in your Lordſhip's Contemplation, par-
ticularly with reſpect to the Proviſion for his perſonal Expences, and to the Ex-
tent of his Power over the public Treaſure of his Father, which he confidered to
be large. . After a deſultory Converſation of ſome Length, interrupted by the
Importunity of Nejeeb Khan, Ally Huſſain propoſed that a Treaty ſhould be pre-
Pared by us, upon the Baſis of veſting the entire Civil and Military Government of
the Carnatic in the Hands of the Company; and ſtated, that he would be ready
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No. 4.
continued.
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PAPER'S CONCERNING THE LATE
No. 4.
continued.
...to execute the Inſtrument, with or without the Conſent of the Khans, at another
ſeparate Conference, which was appointed for the next Day, within the Lines of
the Britiſh Troops.
July 20th.-According to the Appointment of Yeſterday, we proceeded to the
Palace of Chepauk ; and Ally Huſſain having been introduced to us, ſaid, in a
reſolute Tone of Voice, and with more apparent Firmneſs in his Manner than we
had before obſerved, that the Two Khans had been appointed by his Father's Will
to aſſiſt his Councils; that he could not adopt a Line of Condućt inconſiſtent with
their Advice; and that therefore any farther Interview with your Lordſhip was
unneceſſary.
Theſe Expreſſions we attributed to Ally Huſſain's Deſire of concealing his real
Sentiments in the Preſence of the Khans; and proceeded to ſtate, that the Confer-
ence of Yeſterday having been interrupted by the Importunity of Nejeeb Khan,
your Lordſhip was reſolved to bring it to a Termination at the Interview ap-
pointed for this Day. We accordingly attended Ally Huſſain to the Tent, which
having been again rendered entirely private, the young Man ſtated, in the ſame
Tone of Confidence, that this Interview was unneceſſary, as it was impoſſible for
him to deviate from the Sentiments already expreſſed by the Two Khans. This
inexpected Change of Sentiments in the Mind of Ally Huſſain having excited
ſome Surprize, your Lordſhip deſired that he ſhould explain himſelf more diſtinétly.
In reply he ſtated, that he was aware the Sentiments now expreſſed by him differed
entirely from thoſe expreſſed on the preceding Day; that the Truth was, he had
ſeriouſly refle&ted on the Subjećt of Yeſterday's Conference; that the whole Fa-
mily had been aſſembled to deliberate on the State of his Affairs; that he had in
conſequence given a better Conſideration to the aëtual Circumſtances in which he
was placed; that he retraćted the Opinion communicated to your Lordſhip Yeſ-
terday; and that he conſidered it to be totally incompatible with his Intereſts and
Honour to accede to the Propoſition, on the Baſis of which he had agreed to con-
clude the Treaty.
We reminded him, by your Lordſhip's Direétion, - of the Deception ſtated by
himſelf to have been uſed by the Khans, and expreſſed our Confidence that, not-
withſtanding this unaccountable Change of his oſtenſible Manner, the genuine
Sentiments of his Mind were expreſſed at the Conference of Yeſterday.—He ſaid,
that this was not the Caſe; that he had ſpoken at that Time from an haſty Im-
preſſion; but that the Sentiments, which he now declared, were the Reſult of
ſerious Refle&tion, and of a Convićtion on his Mind, that by purſuing this Line
of Condućt, he ſhould adhere to the Intention of his Father and to the real In-
tereſts of his Family. We ſtated in reply, that he deceived himſelf, if he en-
couraged any Expediation of ſecuring the Intereſts of his Family on any other
Baſis than that of an amicable Adjuſtment, for the alternative Choice was either
to become the acknowledged Nabob of the Carnatic, or one of many Penſioners
dependent on the Bounty of the Company; that the Choice, which he now ap-
peared to have made, was ſo inconſiſtent with Prudence, as to juſtify our con-
ſidering him to act under ſome improper Reſtraint.—We proceeded therefore to
explain, that he was now ačtually within the Britiſh Encampment; and that if he
apprehended any Conſequences of perſonal Danger or Inconvenience from the
Purſuit of the genuine Wiſhes of his Heart, your Lordſhip would immediately
' ' . . . . . . . . . ſecuré
NAB O B O F T H E C A R N AT I C. 2 :
fecure him againſt any Inſults he might apprehend, by keeping him under the No. 4.
Protećtion of the Company’s Forces. He replied, that he aëted from no Im- continued.
preſſion of that Deſcription ; but that the Sentiments, which he now expreſſed,
contained the genuine Feelings of his Heart.
We expreſſed your Lordſhip's and our own Suſpicion, that he had been en-
couraged by intereſted Perſons to diſbelieve the Exiſtence of the Orders from the
Governor General, under the Authority of which the fundamental Propoſition of
the Negociations had been ſtated to him, and we enquired whether he had received,
from Mr. Fitzgerald, any Communication on that Subjećt. Ally H uſain anſwered,
that Mr. Fitzgerald had ſpoken to him on the Subjećt; and that his Determination
was not governed by any Diſtruſt of our Communications relative to the Orders of
the Governor General. We explained our Alluſion to the Advice of intereſted
Perſons, by ſtating, that thoſe who held Tuncaws or other Claims on the Carnatic,
were deeply intereſted in perſuading him to reſiſt an amicable Negociation; becauſe
in the Event of an amicable Adjuſtment for veſting the Civil Government in the
Hands of the Company, they could have no Hope of recovering thoſe Claims;
whereas thoſe Hopes would ſtill be cheriſhed as long as he ſhould be perſuaded to
keep the Affairs of the Carnatic in an unſettled State. We further ſtated, that
the Principles of Perſons of that Deſcription encouraged every Expectation that
they would be deſirous of ſacrificing the permanent Intereſts and Honour of his
Family to the Attainment of their immediate Advantage: We added, that ſuch
Perſons, as well as the general Body of his Father’s Creditors, would feel an In-
tereſt in perſuading him to rejećt the Propoſition now offered to him, and to
cheriſh a Belief that the Meaſures of this Government would be diſapproved by the
Court of Direétors, and that the Arrangement, which he might compel your
Lordſhip to adopt, would be reverſed. We warned Ally Huſſain of the
Effects of ſuch a Fallacy, by aſſuring him that the Orders of the Governor General
were founded on a previous Communication with the Court of Direétors, and
with His Majeſty's Miniſters; and on a Knowledge that the Sentiments of the
Government at Home concurred entirely with thoſe entertained by his Excellency
and by your Lordſhip, relative to the Violation of the Alliance.
We were the more earneſtin urging this Point, with your Lordſhip's Permiſſion,
on the Attention of Ally Huſſain ; becauſe the Projet, delivered to us at the
Third Conference by the Two Khans, contains manifeſt Proof of having been
tranſlated from an European Language; and becauſe it is equally manifeſt, from
the Tenor of that Paper, that the Author of it was intereſted in excluding the
Executive Government in India from participating in the Adminiſtration of the
Funds, now allotted by Treaty to the Liquidation of the Conſolidated Debts of the
Nabob Mahomed Ally. *
Ally Huſſain denied that he ačted from any Motives derived from the Per-
ſuaſion of others, and repeated that his Choice was now founded on his Determi-
nation to adhere to the Councils of the Khans, appointed by his Father's Will to
aſſiſt him, and finally to rejećt the Arrangement which had been propoſed to him.
We enquired whether he clearly underſtood the Conſequences of that Determi-
nation with reſpect to himſelf; he ſaid, that it had been clearly explained to him ;
but that, notwithſtanding the Explanation, he aſſured himſelf of the Favour and
Protećtion of the Company, as well as of your Lordſhips's paternal Care. In
proceeding to conclude the Conference, your Lordſhip deſired Ally Huſſain to
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No. 4.
continued.
prepare himſelf to receive your Lordſhip's final and moſt ſerious Reſolution. It
was then explained to him, that no Pains had been omitted, which could warn
him of the Conſequences he was about to incur; that the Duties of Humanity to-
wards him, and the Duties of Attention to the National Charaćter of the Britiſh
Government had been ſatisfied; that he had himſelf determined the Situation in
which he would hereafter be placed, and that your Lordſhip, with Concern for
himſelf individually, now apprized him, that his future Situation would be that of
a private Perſon, hoſtile to the Britiſh Intereſts, and dependent on the Bounty of
the Company. •
This Declaration Ally Huſſain received with a Degree of Compoſure and Con-
fidence, which denoted that he aëted from no Impreſſion of Fear ; and a Smile of
Complacency, which appeared on his Countenance throughout this Diſcuſſion, de-
noted an internal Satisfaction at the Line of Condućt he was purſuing. Being
aſked if he wiſhed to make any further Obſervation, he ſaid that he did not; and
being alſo aſked whether he had any Objećtion to the Introdućtion of the Khans
into the Tent, he ſaid that he had none; which being accordingly done, he was
direéted by your Lordſhip to leave the Tent.
July 21ſt.—Your Lordſhip having communicated to us your Intention to open,
if poſſible, a Negociation with the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah ; Endeavours were
accordingly uſed to eſtabliſh a Communication with him, but it was found that ſo
ſtrićt a Watch had been eſtabliſhed over him by the Adherents of Omdut ul Omrah,
that no Means appeared to be pračticable for opening a private Communication
with him; while any Attempt to effect it by open Means, appeared liable to the
ſerious Objećtion of precipitating the Fate of the young Prince.
July 22d.—In this Situation of Things it was reported to your Lordſhip, by
the Officer commanding the Troops at Chepauk, that Nejeeb Khan and Tucky
Ally Khan had already performed the Ceremony of inſtalling Ally Huſſain in a
private Manner on the Muſnud of Arcot; and that they had reſolved to inſtal
him in a public Manner on the following Day.
Your Lordſhip reſolved to prevent a Meaſure calculated to produce immediate
Commotion in the Provinces of the Carnatic ; for that Purpoſe Lieutenant Colonel
Mac Neil was dire&led to take entire Poſſeſſion of the Palace of Chepauk with
the Britiſh Troops; and to remove entirely all the Guards of the late Omdut ul
Omrah, who had been permitted to remain at their Poſts during the late Nego-
ciations. This Meaſure eſtabliſhed the immediate Means of relieving Azeem ul
Dowlah ; and a Party of the Company's Troops was ſubſtituted at the Hovel in
which that Prince was confined, in lieu of the Guards ftationed over it by the
Adherents of Omdut ul Omrah.
As ſoon as the firſt Surprize of the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah permitted him to
receive an Explanation, that the Guard was intended for his greater Security and
Protećtion, he expreſſed his Satisfaction at the Change, together with the Deſire of
being permitted to explain his Situation.
July 2 3d. On the Morning of this Day Lieutenant Colonel MacNeil waited
apon the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah, for the oftenſible Purpoſe of excuſing and ex-
plaining to him the Cauſe of ſtationing a Party of the Company's Troops ".
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Płace in which he reſided. Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neil took this Opportunity
of informing the Prince, that if he ſhould have any Deſire of repreſenting the State
of his Affairs to the Britiſh Government, the Means of doing ſo without Danger
had now been opened to him.
In conſequence of this Communication, a Time was appointed by your Lord-
fhip’s Directions for our meeting the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah. At the Interview
which enſued, the Converſation on the Part of the Prince was confined to a State-
ment of the Injuries which he had ſuſtained, and of the Hardſhips he continued to
ſuſtain, from the Depreſſion of his Fortune and from the Poverty of his Circum-
flances. He requeſted, with much Earneſtneſs, that his Caſe might be conſidered
in the general Arrangement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, and appeared to limit his
Expectation to a more comfortable domeſtic Arrangement for his Family. Suffi-
cient Grounds however appeared in the courſe of the Converſation, to ſatisfy our
Judgment that the Prince was capable of ſuſtaining a more important Charaćter,
and that his Senſe of his own immediate Intereſts would diſpoſe him to meet with
Cordiality any Overture on the Part of the Britiſh Government for reviving, in his
Perſon, the Alliance ſo long ſubſiſting between the Company and his Family. r
The Converſation ended with an Aſſurance on our Part of your Lordſhip's im-
mediate Attention to Azeem ul Dowlah’s Difficulties, and to the Proviſion of a
more ſuitable Accommodation for his Family. -
July 24.—An Interview having been appointed for communicating to the Prince
this Day the Reſult of your Lordſhip's Conſideration of his Caſe, we met him at
an early Hour in the Tent of Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neil. —The Converſation
was opened by ſome diſtant Obſervations of the State in which the Affairs of the
Carnatic had been placed by the Death of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah; and the
Remarks of the Prince continuing, in our Judgment, to be favourable to the Im-
preſſion we had received of his Underſtanding and Diſpoſition, we proceeded to
explain to him the actual Situation in which the whole Houſe of Mahomed Ally
had been placed, in conſequence of the Violation of the Alliance by that Prince,
and by his Succeſſor Omdut ul Omrah. The Curioſity of the Prince being na-
turally excited by this Converſation, connected with his previous Knowledge of the
Manner in which the Conferences with Ally Huſſain had terminated, we proceeded
to diſcloſe to the Prince the Nature of the Rights acquired by the Company; the
indiſpenſable Neceſſity of exerciſing thoſe Rights for the Eſtabliſhment of an ade-
quate Security for our Intereſts in the Carnatic; and the great Reluctance with
which the Britiſh Government would feel itſelf compelled to uſe its Power for the
Attainment of that Objećt, which could not fail of producing the entire Humilia-
tion of the Houſe of Mahomed Ally.
A long deſultory Converſation enſued on the different Points of this Queſtion,
the Subſtance of which has been ſtated in an earlier Paſſage of this Report, and it
ended in a i)eclaration of the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah of his Acknowledgment of
the Right acquired by the Company under the Diſcovery made at Seringapatam;
and of his Readineſs to afford, in the Event of his Elevation to the Muſnud, that
Satisfaction and Security which your Lordſhip and the Governor General had
deemed to be neceſſary to the Preſervation of our Intereſts in the Carnatic.
Having
No. 4.
continued.
24 P A PERS C O N C E R N IN G T H E LA T E
No. 4. Having accordingly deſcribed to the Prince the entire Outline of the Arrange-
cºntinued, ment propoſed for the Settlement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, on the Baſis of
this Propoſition, it was agreed that the Arrangement ſhould be prepared in the
Porm of a Treaty, to be diſcuſſed at an Interview appointed for the next Day.
July 25-Having accordingly prepared the Draft of the Treaty, we proceeded to
the Tent, for the Purpoſe of diſcuſſing with the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah the
general Principles, and the particular Articles of the Agreement propoſed by your
flordſhip.
The Prince having acceded to the fundamental Articles, in conformity to his
Acknowledgment of the preceding Day, directed his Attention to that Article
which ſtipulates, that a Fund ſhall be appropriated for the Expence of maintaining
the Family of the Nabobs Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah : he ſtated, that although
it could not be incumbent on him to interrupt on this Account an Arrangement ſo
beneficial to the different Branches of the Family, and to himſelf in particular; he
yet felt it to be intimately connected with his Reputation and Honour to urge
their Situation upon your Lordſhip's moſt indulgent Conſideration. We explained,
in conſequence, to Azeem ul Dowlah, that the Motives of the Britiſh Government
for entering into any Diſcuſſion for the Purpoſe of eſtabliſhing an amicable Adjuſt-
ment, could be founded on no other Wiſh than that of preſerving the Family from
that State of Degradation, into which it was about to have been precipitated, by
the faithleſs Condućt and by the perverſe Spirit of the Councils of its principal
Members; and we reminded the Prince, that in making him the Inſtrument of
re-eſtabliſhing the Alliance, it was neceſſary to furniſh him with the moſt powerful
Means of ſecuring the Attachment of the Family, by rendering the Amount of the
Stipends or Jaghires to be allotted for its Support dependant on the Pleaſure of the
Britiſh Government; which Communication with his Highneſs would proceed to
apportion the Amount to be appropriated for this Purpoſe, according to the Merits
sof the Individuals concerned. §
In diſcuſſing that Part of the Treaty which ſtipulates the Acknowledgment of
the Debts due by his Anceſtors to the Company, the Prince expreſſed his Senſe of
the Reaſonableneſs of that Stipulation; but ſtated diſtinétly and repeatedly that he
did not conſider himſelf involved by that Article in any perſonal Reſponſibility for
the Amount of theſe or of any other Debts. We expreſſed our entire Concur-
rence in his Highneſs's Interpretation of the Article; and a Clauſe was added to the
Article, for the expreſs Purpoſe of obviating any Doubt on this Point.
The remaining Clauſes of the propoſed Treaty having been diſcuſſed and aſſented
to, the Prince affixed his Signature to a Perſian Draft of the propoſed Treaty,
binding himſelf to execute a more formal Inſtrument at the Period of his intended
Inſtallation. • - - . .
In concluding our Report of this Conference, we cannot omit to ſtate to your
Lordſhip, the Impreſſion made on our Minds by the decorous Deportment, Mode-
ºration, and good Senſe, by which Azeem ul Dowlah diſtinguiſhed himſelf upon this
ſudden Elevation from a State of Penury and Wretchedneſs to the Poſſeſſion of
sprincely Magnificence, Honours, and Rank.
July 26th–This Morning we had the Satisfaction of preſenting his Highneſs the
Prince Azeem ul Dowlah in a formal Manner to your Lordſhip, and of ſubſe-
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quently condućting him, as the oſtenſible future Nabob ofthe Carnatic, to the Ameer
Baugh, the Reſidence of his Highneſs's Father the late Ameer ul Omrah.
(Signed) j. Webbe,
By Cloſe.
(A true Copy.) .
j. Webbe,
Chief SecY of Gov".
No. 5.
Copy of the TREATY between the Company and his
Highneſs the Nabob Mahomed Ali, dated in 1792 ;
commonly called Lord Cornwallis's Treaty.
TREATY between the Honourable Eaſt India Company and the
Nabob of Arcot. - -
WHEREAS a certain Engagement was entered into between the Honour-
able Engliſh Eaſt India Company, and his Highneſs the Nawaub of the Carnatic,
bearing Date 24th February 1787, for the Purpoſe of cementing an everlaſting
Friendſhip with each other, and of contributing mutually towards the Defence of the
Carnatic, and Countries dependent thereon ; whereby it was ſtipulated that the ſaid
Company ſhould maintain a Military Force, and that the ſaid Nawaub ſhould pay
Annually a certain Sum of Money ariſing from the Revenues of the Carnatic, and
ſhould furniſh ſufficient and ſatisfactory Security, under certain Conditions expreſſed
in the ſaid Engagement, for the regular Payment of the Sum ſtipulated to the ſaid
Company: And whereas it appears by the Repreſentations of the ſaid Nawaub, con-
tained in a certain Letter addreſſed by him to the Governor General, &c. &c.
dated the 18th of the Month Shawal 1206 Hejeree, (correſponding with the 9th
June 1792,) that the Reſources of the Carnatic are not competent to enable him to
perform the Stipulations in the ſaid Engagement : And whereas it further appears,
that the Security which the ſaid Nawaub agreed in the above-mentioned Engage-
ment to furniſh for the due Payment of the ſtipulated Sum to the ſaid Company, is
in its Nature inadequate to the End intended : And whereas certain Agreements
have alſo been entered into between the ſaid Company and the ſaid Nawaub, for the
Tiſcharge of certain Debts due by the ſaid Nawaub to private Perſons, it has
been mutually agreed, in conſequence of the above written Circumſtances, that the
Engagement aforeſaid ſhall henceforth be conſidered by the Contračing Parties
as annulled, and no longer of Effect or in Force: And in lieu thereof, the Right Ho-
nourable Charles Earl Cornwallis, Knight of the Moſt Noble Order of the Garter,
Governor General, &c. &c. &c. &c. inveſted with full Powers on the Part of the
ſaid Honourable Engliſh Eaſt India Company to direét and controul the Affairs of
the ſaid Company in the Eaſt Indies, in the Name of and for the ſaid Company,
their Heirs and Succeſſors, on one Part; and the Nabob Wallah Jah, Ameer ul
Hind, Omdut ul Mouik, Aſophul Dowlah, Unevar ul Deen Khan Behauder, Zuf.
ſer Jung, Sepah Salar, Nahob of the Carnatic, in his own Name, and for himſelf and
his Succeſſor his eldeſt Son Nawaub Omdut ul Omrah, Meyun ul Moulk, Affud
ul Dowla Haſſein, Ally Khan Behauder, Zool Sicar Zung, and his Heirs and suc-
G
ceſſors,
No. 4.
continued.
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P A P E R S C O N C E R N IN G T H E LATE
No. 5
£ontinued.
ceſſors, on the other Part, agree to the following Articles, which ſhall be binding on
the reſpective Contraćting Parties for the Purpoſes contained therein, notwithſtand-
ing all or any of the Conditions ſtipulated in the Engagement dated 24th February
1787, to the contrary. -
Articie 1ſt.—The Friends and Enemies of either of the Contračting Parties ſhall
! be conſidered the Friends and Enemies of both.
Article 2d.-In order to execute the foregoing Article in its full Extent, the
Honourable Engliſh Eaſt India Company agree to maintain a Military Force, and the
Nawaub Wallah Jah Behauder agrees to contribute Annually a certain Sum of
Money hereinafter mentioned, as his Share of the Expence of the ſaid Military
Force; the ſaid Nawaub further agreeing that the Diſpoſal of the ſaid Sum, toge-
ther with the Arrangement and Employment of the Troops ſupported by it, ſhall
be left entirely to the ſaid Company.
Article 3d.--It is hereby alſo agreed, that for the further Security and Defence
of the Countries belonging and ſubjećt to the Contraćting Parties in the Carnatic,
&c. that all Forts ſhall be garriſoned by the Troops of the ſaid Company; and in
the Event of War breaking out in the Carnatic and Countries appertaining to either
Party, and dependant on the Carnatic, or contiguous thereto, it is agreed, for the
better. Proſecution of it, that as long as it ſhall laſt, the ſaid Company ſhall poſſeſs
full Authority over the Carnatic, except the Jaghires belonging to the Family of
the ſaid Nawaub, amounting to Star Pagodas 2, 13,911, which, on Condition of the
good Behaviour of the Jaghiredars of the ſaid Jaghires, and of their Fidelity to the
ſaid Nawaub and to the ſaid Company, ſhall be continued to them, ſubjećt to the
Pleaſure of the ſaid Nawaub only, and except alſo certain Charities amounting to
Star Pagodas 21,366, ſubject to the ſame Conditions as are mentioned with reſpect
to the Jaghires, and ſhall colle&t the Revenues thereof, the ſaid Company hereby
engaging that, during ſuch War, they will pay to the ſaid Nawaub One-fifth Share
of the Net Revenue ariſing therefrom ; and that at the Concluſion of the War, the
Carnatic ſhall be reſtored to the ſaid Nawaub, except in certain Caſes, which are
hereinafter mentioned.
Article 4th–The Nabob Wallah Jah agrees to pay to the ſaid Company, for
the Purpoſe of mutual Defence, the Sum of Nine Lacs of Star Pagodas Annually, as
his Share of the Expence for the Military Force, and alſo in conſequence of certain
Agreements entered into by him with the ſaid Company, and guaranteed by the
Parliament of Great Britain, for the Purpoſe of liquidating certain Debts due by
the ſaid Nawaub, a further Sum of 6,21,105 Star Pagodas Annually, which further
Sum of 6,21,105 Star Pagodas ſhall ceaſe on the full Liquidation of the Debts
above mentioned, and the Sum of 9,00,000 of Star Pagodas only ſhall continue to
be paid by the ſaid Nawaub to the ſaid Company.
Article 5th. —The ſaid Nawaub having agreed to pay the aggregate Sum of
15,21, 1o 5 Star Pagodas, as mentioned in the 4th Article, determines that the Tri-
butes or Peſhcuſh, payable by the Poligars, as more particularly mentioned in the
Schedule No. 1, hereunto annexed, ſhall be collected by the ſaid Company, who agree
to make the collection thereof at their own Expence and Riſk, and that they will not
encreaſe the Demand on the ſaid Poligars beyond the Sum mentioned in the ſaid Sche-
dule, except in the Caſe hereinafter mentioned, nor charge to the ſaid Nawaub, either
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the Expence attending the Colle&tion, or any Deficiencies that may ariſe thereon,
but will give Credit to the ſaid Nawaub Annually for the aforeſaid Tributes or
Peſhcuſh, in Part Payment of the Sum of Nine Lacs of Star Pagodas above-
mentioned, without any Dedućtion whatever; although the Contraćting Parties
have, in the preſent Inſtrument, agreed that the Sum of 2,64,704 Pagodas
20 F. 26 C. be dedućted from the Sum of Nine Lacs of Pagodas, as the Amount
of the Tributes or Peſhcuſh from the Poligars; yet, ſhould it on future Enquiry
appear that the ſaid Poligars ought, by virtue of any exiſting and lawful Engage-
ments, to pay a larger Sum, it ſhall be demanded of them, and any Addition that
ſhall thus be made to the Sums mentioned in the ſaid Schedule, ſhall be dedućted
from the Sum of Nine Lacs, in like Manner with the Sum of 2,64,704. 20. 26; and
a fimilar Dedućtion ſhall in conſequence be made in the Kiſtbundy hereinafter men-
tioned. It is however mutually agreed, that the Diminution of this aggregate
Sum, which ſhall take place on the full Liquidation of the Debts as ſpecified in
the 4th Article, ſhall make no Change in this Article, which ſhall, notwith-
ſtanding ſuch Diminution, remain in full Force.
Article 6th.-The ſaid Company, deſirous of preſerving the Rights of Sovereignty
over the ſaid Poligars to the ſaid Nawaub, engage, to the utmoſt of their Power,
and conſiſtent with the Realization of the Tributes or Peſhcuſh from them, to
enforce the Allegiance and Submiſſion of the ſaid Poligars to the ſaid Nawaub in
all cuſtomary Ceremonies, and in furniſhing the Poligar Peons according to
eſtabliſhed Cuſtom for the Colle&tion of the Revenues, the Support of Govern-
ment, and for the Protećtion of the Property of the Inhabitants of the ſaid
Nawaub’s Country, promiſing that all Aćts of Authority ſhall be exerciſed in,
and all Accounts of Revenue (of which Accounts the ſaid Nawaub, if he ſo wiſhes,
ſhall be Annually furniſhed with Copies) ſhall bear his the ſaid Nawaub’s Name.
For the better Execution of this and the 5th Article, the ſaid Nawaub promiſes to
furniſh to the ſaid Company, that is to ſay to their Repreſentatives the Preſident
and Council of Fort St. George, the neceſſary Orders, under his Sea, and Sig-
nature, addreſſed to each Poligar, and to the Purport hereof, without Delay.
Article 7th-After dedućting from the above mentioned Sum of Nine Lacs of
Star Pagodas, which forms a Part of the aggregate Sum of 15,21, Io; Star Pagodas,
mentioned in the 5th Article, the Amount of the Tributes or Peſhcuſh from the
Poligars, as ſpecified in the Schedule No. 1, the ſaid Nawaub agrees to pay
Annually the remaining Sum, being 6,35,295 : 15 : 54, together with the further
Sum of 6,21, Io; for the Purpoſe mentioned in the 4th Article, making the Sum
of Star Pagodas 12,56,400 : 15:54,-at the following Periods.
On the 1ſt September tº 4 º' gº • • I 3OO, OOC
, ' Iſt Oétober tº gºs - º tºº ISOO,OOO
1ſt November º &º º dº gº I ,OO3OOO
1ſt Cecember tº • gº tº º tºº • } ,OO,OOO
1ſt January $º ſº tº gº *Re I,CO,OOO
1ſt February gº tºº º &º tº- I 3OO,OOO
1ſt March - - - tº º tºº 1350,000
1ſt April - - - * gº are, I 350,000
1ſt May - ſº gº gº sº ſº 23 OO,OOO
1ſt June 4 º' i. tº tº ºn gº 1,56,400: 15 : 54
tº
©º
iº
Star Pagodas 12,56,400 : 15 : 54.
And
No. 5.
continued.
º:3 º P A P E R S C O N C E R N IN G T H E L A T E
No. 5. And it is mutually agreed, that on the full Liquidation of the Debts before men-
cºntinued tioned, when the Payment of the Sum of Star Pagodas 6,21,105, ſhall ceaſe by
virtue of the 4th Article, a Redućtion in equal Proportion ſhall take place in the
above Inſtalments.
Article 8th–The ſaid Nawaub engages to make good to the ſaid Company the
Payments of the Sums, according to the Inſtalments or Kiſtbundy contained in
the 7th Article; and if, contrary to his fincere Intentions and Exertions, any of
: the ſaid Sums ſhall not be fully paid at the Expiration of Fifteen Days from the
Time limited, in that Caſe the ſaid Nawaub agrees, that the ſaid Company ſhall
aſſume the Management of and make the Colleótion of the Revenues from the
Diſtrićts mentioned in the Schedule No. 2. hereunto annexed, according to the
following Conditions; and for this the preſent Engagement ſhall be confidered
ſufficient Authority, the ſaid Company, through their Preſident and Council at Fort
St. George, giving immediate and explicit Information, according to the Tenor
thereof, to the ſaid Nawaub, who ſhall, on the Arrival of the Company’s Officers
in the ſaid Diſtrićt, recall all his Officers, except one in each Diſtrićt; which Of.
ficer ſhall remain at the Sudder Cutcherry, and ſhall be furniſhed Annually, by the
Officer of the ſaid Company, with Copies of the Sudder Cutcherry Accounts, of
the Groſs Colle&tions, and of the Net Receipts, under the Atteſtation of the Officer
of the ſaid Company, and of the Sudder Omlah of the Diſtrićt. -
Firſt.—The ſaid Company ſhall aſſume the Management of ſuch Diſtrićt or
Diſtrićts, the Revenue of which, after dedućting the Charges of Colle&tions, ſhall
equal the Amount of the Kiſt which ſhall have fallen in Arrear. .
Second—The ſaid Company agree, thata Dedućtionſhall take placeproportionably
from the Amount of each of the Ten Kiſts above mentioned, equal to the Amount of
the Net Revenue of the Diſtrićt or Diſtrićts which ſhall have been aſſumed as above,
ſuch Dedućtion commencing from the Day that the Aſſumption ſhall take place. It
is alſo mutually agreed, that an Account, called Balance Account, ſhall be imme-
diately opened for this and other Purpoſes hereinafter mentioned, bearing an Inte-
reſt of 8 per Cent. per Annum, between the ſaid Nawaub and the ſaid Company;
in which the ſaid Nawaub ſhall be debited for the Balance accrued in his above
ſtipulated Payments, and alſo for the Amount dedućted as above from the Ten
• Kiſts, and ſhall be credited for the Net Revenue colle&ted from the ſaid Diſtrićt or
Diſtrićts, the ſaid Company continuing to exerciſe Authority in, and to make the
Colle&tions from the ſame, until, in conſequence of the full Liquidation of the
Debts and Diminution of the Annual Sum, to be for that Purpoſe paid by the
Nawaub to the ſaid Company, according to the 4th Article, the ſaid Balance Ac.
count ſhall be equal on the Debit and Credit Side, and nothing ſhall remain due to
the ſaid Company, then the ſaid Diſtrićt or Diſtrićts ſhall revert to the Manage-
ment of the ſaid Nawaub. - - .
Third.—Whenever the ſaid Diſtrićt or Diſtrićts thus aſſumed ſhall be reſtored,
according to the above Condition, it is agreed, that in caſe of any of the Kiſts for
the Sum remaining (after the Dedućtion of the Sum of 6,21, 105 Star Pagodas;
that is to ſay, for the Sum of 6,35,295 : 15 : 54, be not paid Fifteen Days
after the Expiration of the Time limited, the ſaid Company ſhall poſſeſs equal
Power to aſſume the Diſtrićts mentioned in the ſaid Schedule No. 2. as in the firſt
Inſtance, and ſhall accordingly aſſume ſuch Diſtrićt or Diſtriás, the Revenue of
which, after deduéting the Charges of Collection, ſhall equal the Amount of the Kiſt
g - which
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which ſhall have fallen in Arrear, from which they ſhall realize the Balance that
ſhall have ariſen in the Payment of the Kiſts, and ſhall give Credit to the ſaid Na-
waub for the Surplus and ſubſequent Net Revenues, in part Payment of the Sum
of Star Pagodas 6,35,295 : 15 : 54. And in this Cafe the Management of the
Diſtrićt or Diſtrićts thus aſſumed ſhall for ever continue in the Poſſeſſion of the
ſaid Company, any Thing contained in the 3d Article of the preſent Engagement
to the contrary notwithſtanding: And the ſaid Company agree to give the Na-
waub Credit for the Revenue ariſing therefiom.
Fourth.-In order to prevent any Loſs ariſing to either Party from this Mea-
ſure, it is mutually agreed, that the Diſtrićt or Diſtrićts which ſhall thus be aſ-
ſumed by the ſaid Company, ſhall be entire, as mentioned in the ſaid Schedule,
and not Parts of Diſtrićts.
Fifth. – In conſequence of this Meaſure, whereby the Diſtrićts mentioned in the
Schedule No. 2, become reſponſible for any Arrears that may accrue in the Pay-
ment of the above ſtipulated Kiſts, the ſaid Nawaub agrees that he will not grant
Tunkaws or Aſſignments on any Account on the Revenues thereof; and if, con-
trary to this Condition, any Tunkaws or Aſſignments ſhould exiſt, where the ſaid
Diſtrićts or any of them ſhall be aſſumed by the ſaid Company, ſuch Tunkaws
or Aſſignments ſhall be declared by the ſaid Company and the ſaid Nawaub to
be of no Value, nor ſhall they remain in Effect.
Sixth.-It is agreed between the Contračting Parties, that the above deſcribed
Balance Account ſhall be Annually adjuſted, and a Committee, conſiſting of Four
reſpectable and capable Perſons, of which Two ſhall be nominated by the ſaid
Company, and Two by the ſaid Nawaub, ſhall aſſemble on the 1ſt Day of Auguſt
of every Year, commencing with 1793, for the Purpoſe of adjuſting and draw-
ing out a fair and equitable Statement thereof. -
Article oth.-In caſe the ſaid Nawaub ſhall at any Time have Occaſion for
any Number of Troops for the Collection of his Revenues, the Support of his
Authority, or the good Order and Government of his Country, the ſaid Com-
pany agree to furniſh a ſufficient Number of Troops for that Purpoſe, on publi
Repreſentation being made by the ſaid Nawaub to the Preſident and Council of
Fort St. George, of the Neceſſity of employing ſuch Troops, and of the Obječts
to be obtained thereby. And the ſaid Nawaub agrees to defray the additional Ex-
pence of ſuch Troops, ſo long as they may be employed at his Requeſt. This
additional Expence being the Sum over and above the Expence of ſuch Troops
while in Garriſon or at fixed Quarters; and it ſhall be at the Option of the ſaid Na-
waub to reimburſe the ſaid ſurplus Expence, either on the Concluſion of the Ser-
vice on which ſuch Troops may have been employed, in Money, or to add it to the
Debit Side of the Account called Balance Account, and more particularly ex-
plained in the Second Condition of the 8th Article. -
Article ioth-The ſaid Nawaub ſhall receive regular Information of all Nego-
ciations which ſhall relate to declaring War or making Peace, wherein the ſaid
Company may engage, and the Intereſts of the Carnatic and its Dependencies may
be concerned ; and the ſaid Nawaub ſhall be conſidered as an Aily of the ſaid
Company in all Treaties which ſhall in any Reſpe&t affect the Carnatic, and Coun-
tries depending thereon, or belonging to either of the Contraćing Parties contiguous
thereto ; and the ſaid Nawaeb agrees that he will not enter into any Negociation
or political Correſpondence with any European or Native Power, without the
Conſent of the ſaid Company. i.
H *- This
No 5.
continued.
3O
P A PERS C O N C E R N IN G T H E LATE
No. 5. This Treaty, conſiſting of Ten Articles, and having Two Schedules annexed
continued. thereto, marked No. 1 and No. 2, ſhall be in Force and have Effect from 12th
Day of July 1792, (correſponding with the 22d Day of the Month Zekaida 1206
Hejeree); and the Contraćting Parties having affixed their reſpective Seals and Sig-
natures to Two Counterparts on the Dates undermentioned; that is to ſay, The
Right Honourable Charles Earl Cornwallis, K. G. Governor General, &c. &c. &c.
ſhall affix his Seal and Signature to one Counterpart, on the Part of the Honour-
able Engliſh Eaſt India Company; and the Nawaub Walla Jah Behauder, N awaub
of the Carnatic, ſhall affix his Seal and Signature to another Counterpart, ſhall
be exchanged. . . . A.
Signed and Sealed at Chepauk,
Houſe, this 22d Day of
Zekaida 1206, and 12th {
Day July 1792. . . ."
(A true Copy.) 1. 4.
(Signed) G. F. Cherry,
Perſian Tranſlator to the Gov' General.
S C H E D U L E, No. 1.
LIST of Polygars, with the Amount of their reſpective Tributes or Peſhcuſh,
as mentioned and referred to in the 5th Article of the accompanying Treaty, in
force from 12th Day July 1792, correſponding with 22d Day of Zekaida,
1206 Hegira. - * *
-v- S. P. F. C.
Camar Yackum Nair - - -|Vencategherry - - - - - - - 21,673 Io 64.
Vencataput Nair - - - - Caleſhe - - - - - - - - - IO,775 — —
Juppaty Rammanaud - - - Sydapoor - - M. P. 6,ooo — — 6,600 — —
Bomrauze - - - - - - - - - - - * * * 32,586 9 —
Princewaſs Row - - - -Armee - - - R. Io,oco — 2,857 5 II
Butehey Naih - - - - -|Marangapoory - - 12,093 12
Lingama Naike - - - -|Nallum - - - - 8,598 I 2
Zongama Naigh - - - - Comavandy - - - || Io,483 12
Saumy Naik - - - - -|Ramgunny - - - 1 1,731 4
Moorea Naik - - - - -|Petta Molingy - - - 9,556 4
Combia Naik - - - - -Wenamatapotam - - 6,400 —
Boſamopa Naik - - - - Youmula - - - 642 2.
~ - * Rupees - - - 60,505 I4 16, 154, 26 20
Maduram Sing Pettaputty -
Ramnautporam - - - - - - - - - * * * 62,857 5 II
Warriat Tarver, Mapilla in the
Room of the Ranee and in- -
fant Heireſs of - - - -Shevigungo - - - - - - - 50,000 — —
Polygars of the Diſtrićt - - Madura - - - - *... •. ºn 3,751 – -
Varayoo Narama Vunnyan - -Shevigeruy - - -] II,176 -
Yeſrapa
N A B O B O F T H E CAR N AT I C. - 3 I
S C H E D U L E, No. 1.—continued. -
— w——— — No. 5.
S. P. F. . C. conthued.
Yeſrapa Naik - Ellaporam - - _i 11,176 — —
Madurapah Taven - - - -lwootamaley - - 8, 128 — --!
Cootala Taven - - - - - Nadoorvarcoocky - I, 574, 8 —
Indera Talwen - - - - - Talwencotta - - 609 6 —
Saule Talewen - - - - - Soumden - - -| 508 — —
Tady Taleven - - - - - Cadombar - - -] 1,016 — — .
Nulla Cooty - - - - - - Lingumputty - - 3 I4 — — .
Chaturoyen - - - - - - woorcad - - - 3O4 8 —.
Choca Tulevan - - - - Maucuby - - - - ...} 1,OI6.— —
Cutaboon Naik - - - - Pandilem Country - 1 1,176 — —
Androoconda Vunnyan - - Ellyarumpuny - - 6,096 — –
Numja Naik - - - - - Malemondy - - - 1,016 — —
Erapa Naik * - - - - Negataporam - - 6,604 — —l
Sevemaul Naik - - - - Caudelloody - - 1,320 8 —
Pedenna Naik - - - - - Attingherry - - - I,727 2. —
Chinnum Naik - - - - Munnarcotia tº ºne 2,540 — –
Avalapa Naik - - - - - Pawaly - - - -] 1,168 4 —
Reddy Coody Wunnyan - - Aligoopoory - -| 108 7 —
Geokilapa Naik - - - - Gettaputty - - - 1,168 5 —
Colingada Gundon - - -|Callarputty - - - 6,604 — —
Chinnamunga Tavers - - - Chocumputta - - 6,604 — —
Comur Naik - - - - -|Saupetoor - - - 5,791 2 –
Golapa Naik - - - - - Laudioor - - - I 393d 4 –
Ena Chinnama Naick - - - Zelmurry - - - 1,016 — —
Totta pa Naick - - - - Chinnulgoody - - 1,696 5 —
Annechy Naick - - - -Colatoor - - - I,oi6 — —
Tomichy Naick - - - - Parvor - - - - 3,332 5 —
Triſſennada Tawen - - - Shatoor - - - - 5,08o — —
Paule Taleren - - - - - Ovideahporam - - I 3224. 3 –
Vanda Tawen - - - - - Gollingundon - - 365 8 —
Chuckrums - - - - - - - <! 1593:499 5 - 57,450 — —
*–4–
Total Star Pagodas - - 2,64,704 20 26.
Signed and Sealed at Chepauk Houſe,
this
A true Copy.
(Signed) G. F. Cherry,
o Perſian Trans to Gov' General.
Signed and Sealed at Fort William
in Bengal, this -
32 P A P E R S C O N C E R N E N G T H E LAT E
No. 5.
-continued. S C H E D U L E, No. 2.
: LIST of the Diſtrićts, with the Amount of the Net Revenues from each,
at which they ſhall be eſtimated and aſſumed, according to the 8th Article
of the accompanying Treaty in force, from 12th July 1792, (correſpond-
ing with 22 Zekaida 1206 Higera.)
Tinnevelly - - - Net Revenue - – , – --> º 4,66,508
NMadura - * º º * º º º ..sºme “º 64,945
Trichinopoly including Warriore, Pollom, and Arrialore - - 2, 5 ( , ! 39
* Nellore - * * -º gº * - gºe º - ſºme 3,3 3783
*Ongolr - - - wº -> * º º gºe º º 93,334.
Pulnaud – tºº sº º º wº Z- º Jº &ºme 24,657
Northern Diviſion of the Arcot Province sº & \º * 1,69,404
Star Pagodas -
amº
-
I 324. I,77O
By the Firſt Condition of the 8th Article of the ſaid Treaty, it is agreed, that
“the ſaid Company ſhall aſſume the Management of ſuch Diſtrićt or Diſtrićts, the
Revenue of which, after dedućting the Charges of Collečtion, ſhall equal the
Amount of the Kift which ſhall have fallen in Arrear. The -ſaid Company there-
fore, by virtue of this Condition, ſhall aſſume a Diſtrict or Diſtrićts from among
the above named, the Net Revenue of which ſhall be as near as poſſible equal to
, the Amount of the Kiſt which ſhall have fallen in Arrear.
Signed and Sealed at Chepauk Houſe,
this
Signed and Sealed at Fort William in
Bengal, this
(A true Copy.)
(Signed) G. F. Cherry,
JPers" Trans' to Governor Gen".
|
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N A T I C.
No. 6.
Copy of a TREATY between the Company and
AZEEM UL Dowl. AH; dated 31ſt July 1801.
TREATY for ſettling the Succeſſion of the Soubahdarry of the Territories of
Arcot, and for veſting the Adminiſtration of the Civil and Military Govern-
ment of the Carnatic Payen Ghaut in the United Company of Merchants
of England trading to the Eaſt Indies.
WHEREAS the ſeveral Treaties, which have been concluded between
the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eaſt Indies, and their
Highneſſes, heretofore Nabobs of the Carnatic, have been intended to cement and
identify the Intereſts of the Contraćting Parties: And whereas in conformity to
the Spirit of this Alliance, the ſaid Company did, by the Treaty concluded on the
12th of July 1792, with the late Nabob Walajah, relinquiſh extenſive pecuniary
Advantages acquired by the previous Treaty of 1787, with the View and on the
Condition of eſtabliſhing a more adequate Security for the Intereſts of the Britiſh
Government in the Carnatic: And whereas ſubſequent Experience has proved that
the Intention of the Contračting Parties has not been fulfilled by the Proviſions of
any of the Treaties heretofore concluded between them: And whereas the Munſub of
the Soubahdarry of the Territories of Arcot has now become vacant: And whereas
the Right of the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder, founded upon the heredi-
tary Right of his Father the Nabob Ameer ul Omrah Behauder, to ſucceed to the
Rank, Property, and Poſſeſſions of his Anceſtors, heretofore Nabobs of the Car.
natic, has been acknowledged by the Engliſh Eaſt India Company: And whereas
the ſaid Company, and his ſaid Highneſs the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder,
have judged it expedient that a new Treaty ſhall at this Time be executed, for the
Purpoſe of ſupplying the Defečts of all former Engagements, and of eſtabliſhing the
Conneétion between the ſaid Contraćting Parties on a permanent Baſis of Security in
all Times to come: Wherefore the following Treaty is now eſtabliſhed and concluded
by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Clive, Governor in Council of Fort St.
George, by and with the Sanétion and Authority of his Excellency the Moſt Noble
the Marquis Welleſley, K. P. Governor General in Council of all the Britiſh Poſ-
feſfions in the Eaſt Indies, on Behalf of the ſaid United Company, on the one Part;
and by his Highneſs the Nabob Walajah Ameer ul Omrah, Mader ul Mulk, Ameer
ul Hind, Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder, Showkut Jung Sepah Salar, Nabob
Soubahdar of the Carnatic, on his own Behalf, on the other Part; for ſettling the
Succeſſion to the Soubahdarry of the Territories of Arcot, and for veſting the
Adminiſtration of the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic in the United
Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eaſt Indies.
Article 1ſt.—The Right of the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder to ſucceed to
the State and Rank, and the Dignities dependent thereon, of his Anceſtors, here-
tofore Nabobs of the Carnatic, is hereby formally acknowledged and guaranteed by
the Honourable Eaſt India Company to his ſaid Highneſs Azeem ul Dowlah
Behauder, who has accordingly ſucceeded to the Soubahdarry of the Territories of
Arcot.
H Article
34 P A P E R S C O N C E R N IN G T H E LA TE
No. 6. Article 2d.—Such Parts of the Treaties heretofore concluded between the ſaid
continued. Eaſt India Company and their Highneſſes, heretofore Nabobs of the Carnatic, as
are calculated to ſtrengthen the Alliance, to cement the Friendſhip, and to identify
the Intereſts of the Contraćting Parties, are hereby renewed and confirmed; and ac-
cordingly the Friends or Enemies of the one Party ſhall be conſidered to be the
Friends or Enemies of both Parties.
Article 3d.-The Honourable Company hereby charges itſelf with the Main-
tenance and Support of the Military Force neceſſary for the Defence of the Carna-
tic, and for the Protećtion of the Rights, Perſon, and Property of the ſaid Nabob
Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder ; and with the View of reviving the fundamental
Principles of the Alliance between his Anceſtors and the Engliſh Nation, the ſaid
Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder ſtipulates and agrees, that he will not enter
upon any Negociation or Correſpondence with any European or Native Power,
without the Knowledge and Conſent of the ſaid Engliſh Company.
Article 4th-It is hereby ſtipulated and agreed, that the ſole and excluſive Ad-
miniſtration of the Civil and Military Government of all the Territories and De-
pendencies of the Carnatic Payen Ghaut, together with the full and excluſive Right
to the Revenues thereof (with the Exception of ſuch Portion of the ſaid Revenues
as ſhall be appropriated for the Maintenance of the ſaid Nabob, and for the Support
of his Dignity) ſhall be for ever veſted in the ſaid Engliſh Company; and the ſaid
Company ſhall accordingly poſſeſs the ſole Power and Authority of conſtituting and
appointing (without any Interference on the Part of the ſaid Nabob) all Officers for
the Colle&tion of the Revenues, and of eſtabliſhing Courts for the Adminiſtration of
Civil and Criminal Judicature.
Article 5th.—It is hereby ſtipulated and agreed, that One-fifth Part of the Net
Revenues of the Carnatic ſhall be Annually allotted for the Maintenance and Sup-
port of the ſaid Nabob and of his own immediate Family, including the Mahel of
his late Highneſs the Ameer ul Omrah, the ſaid Fifth Part ſhall be paid by the
Company in Monthly Inſtalments of Twelve Thouſand Star Pagodas; and, what-
ever Circumſtance may occur affecting the Net: Revenues of the Carnatic,
the ſaid Inſtalments ſhall not be leſs than Twelve Thouſand Star Pagodas.
Whatever Balance of the ſaid Fifth Part may remain due at the Expiration of
each Year, ſhall be liquidated upon a Settlement of the Accounts ; and the ſaid
Fifth Part ſhall be at the free Diſpoſal of the ſaid Nabob, conſiſtently with the
Principles of the ſaid Alliance.
Article 6th.—The Fifth Part of the Revenues, as ſtated in the preceding Article,
ſhall be calculated and determined in the following Manner; viz. all Charges, of
every Deſcription, incurred in the Collection of the Revenue, the Amount of the
Jaghire Lands, ſtated in the 9th Article of the Treaty of 1787, at Pagodas
2, 13,421, and the Sum of Pagodas 6,21, 105, appropriable to the Liquidation of the
Debts of the late Mahommed Ally, ſhall, in the firſt Inſtance, be dedućted from
the Revenues of the Carnatic, and after the Dedućtion of thoſe Three Items ſhall
have been made, One-fifth Part of the remaining Net Revenue (including the
Poligar Peſhcuſh, which ſhall always be calculated at the Sum of Star Pagodas
2,64,704:26:26, according to the Treaty of 1792) ſhall be allotted for the Main-
tenance of the ſaid Nabob, and for the Support of his Highneſs's Dignity.
Article
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N A T I C.
35
Article 7th—Whereas it was ſtipulated by the 4th Article of the Treaty of
1792, that the Sum of Six Lacks, Twenty-one Thouſand One Hundred and Five
Star Pagodas, ſhould Annually be applied to the Diſcharge of certain regiſtered
Debts due by the late Nabob Mohammed Ally to his private Creditors, under
Agreements concluded between his Highneſs and the Honourable Company, and
guaranteed by the Parliament of Great Britain, until the ſaid regiſtered Debt
ſhould be liquidated; the Honourable Engliſh Company accordingly hereby
charges itſelf with the Annual Payment of 6,21, Io; Pagodas from the Revenues of
the Carnatic, until the Remainder of the ſaid regiſtered Debt ſhall be liqui-
dated.
Article 8th.-Whereas certain Debts are due to the ſaid Company by the
Anceſtors of the ſaid Nabob: And whereas it is expedient, in order that
the preſent Treaty may include a complete Arrangement of all Affairs de-
pending between the ſaid Company and the ſaid Nabob, that an Adjuſtment
ſhould be made of the abovementioned Debts; wherefore the ſaid Nabob for-
mally and explicitly acknowledges the Debt, commonly called the Cavalry Loan,
amounting with its Intereſt to Star Pagodas 13,24,342 : 6:47, and alſo the
Portion of the regiſtered Debt, heretofore paid by the ſaid Company to the
Creditors of the late Nabob Walajah (according to the annexed Schedule) to be
juſt Debts: And whereas, excluſively of the abovementioned Debts, other
unadjuſted Debts alſo remain, which were referred to the Adjuſtment and Deciſion
of the Governor General in Council of Bengal : And whereas the ſaid unadjuſted.
Debts have not been determined according to that Intention, the ſaid Nabob
hereby engages, that whenever the ſaid Determination ſhall be made, his Highneſs
will acknowledge to be a juſt Debt the Amount of the Balance which ſhall be ſo
declared to be due to the ſaid Company. It is not, however, the Intention of
this Article, to cauſe any Diminution from the Fifth Part payable to the ſaid Nabob,
but, on the contrary, it is ſpecified that no Dedućtion ſhall be made from the
Revenue on any Account whatever, excepting the Three Items ſtated in the 6th
Article, previouſly to the Determination of his Highneſs's Proportion.
Article 9th.-The Engliſh Company engages to take into Conſideration the
aćtual Situation of the Families of their Highneſſes the late Nabobs Walajah and
Omdut ul Omrah Behauder, as well as the Situation of the principal Officers of his
Highneſs's Government; and the Britiſh Government ſhall charge itſelf with the Ex-
pence chargeable on the Revenues of the Carnatic, of a ſuitable Proviſion for
their reſpective Maintenance. The Amount of the above mentioned Expences, to
be defrayed by the Company, ſhall be diſtributed with the Knowledge of the ſaid
Nabob, in ſuch Manner as ſhall be judged proper.
Article I oth.-The ſaid Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder ſhall, in all Places,
on all Occaſions, and at all Times, be treated with the Reſpect and Attention due to
his Highneſs's Rank and Situation as an Ally of the Britiſh Government, and a
ſuitable Guard ſhall be appointed from the Company's T roops for the Protećtion
of his ſaid Highneſs's Perſon and Palace. *. *
Article 11th.-The entire Defence of the Carnatic againſt Foreign Enemies,
and the Maintenance of the internal Tranquillity and Police of the Country, having
been hereby transferred to the Britiſh Government, his ſaid Highneſs engages not
tC)
No. 6.
continued.
P A P E R S C O N C E R N IN G T H E LATE
36
No. 6.
continued.
to entertain or employ in his Service any armed Men without the Conſent of the
Britiſh Government; who will fix, in concert with his Highneſs, the Number of armed
Men neceſſary to be retained for the Purpoſes of State. Such armed Men as his
Highneſs may, in conſequence of this Article, engage in his Service, ſhall be paid at
the excluſive Coſt and Charge of the ſaid Nabob.
Article 12th.-The Hon. Eaſt India Company ſhall, in conformity to the Sti- .
pulations of this Treaty, enter upon the excluſive Adminiſtration of the Civil and
Military Government of the Carnatic, on the Day of and
his ſaid Highneſs the Nabob ſhall iſſue Orders to all his Civil and Military Officers,
to transfer the Diſtrićt or Diſtrićts under their reſpective Charge to ſuch Perſons
as ſhall be appointed by the ſaid Company to manage the ſaid Diſtrićts; and alſo
to deliver to the Perſons appointed all Records, Accounts, and official Papers, be-
longing to their reſpective Cutcherries or Officers.
This Treaty, conſiſting of Twelve Articles, having been executed by Edward
Lord Clive, Governor in Council aforeſaid, on the one Part, and his Highneſs
Azeem ul Dowlah on the other Part, is hereby mutually interchanged; the ſaid Ed-
ward Lord Clive engaging that a Copy of the ſaid Treaty ſhall be tranſmitted to
Fort William, for the Purpoſe of being ratified by his Excellency the Moſt Noble
the Marquis Welleſley, Governor General in Council ; and that as ſoon as the rati-
fied Treaty ſhall be received from Bengal, it ſhall be delivered to his ſaid Highneſs,
who will then return to his Lordſhip the Copy which he now receives.
In the Hand-Writing of Azeem ul Dowlah.
(God is Gracious.)
I Azeem ul Dowlah having peruſed and fully comprehended the ſeve-
ral Articles of the above Treaty, have approved and conſented to
the Whole of the ſaid Articles. In witneſs whereof I affix my
proper Signature ;
the Beiz of
Azeem ul Dowlah
(A true Copy.)
(Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief SecY to Gov".
Separate and Secret Article.
Whereas his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, by the 8th Article of the
Treaty now concluded, has acknowledged the Debt called the Cavalry Loan, due
by his Highneſs's Family to the ſaid Company, amounting to Pagodas
And whereas no Account has been yet taken of the Public Treaſure of the late Go-
vernment; It is ſtipulated and agreed, that his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul
Dowlah ſhall immediately enter upon an Inveſtigation of the State of the Public
Accounts and Treaſure, and that if, in Communication with the Britiſh Govern-
ment, the ſaid Treaſure ſhall be found adequate to the Purpoſe, a Portion of it ſhall
be
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N AT I C.
37.
be immediately applied to the entire Liquidation of the ſaid Debt called the Cavalry No. 6.
Loan, in ready Money. continued.
In the Hand-writing of Azeem ul Dowlah.
(God is Gracious.)
I approve and conſent to this ſeparate and ſecret Article. In
witneſs whereof I affix my proper Signature; J
the Beiz of
Azeem ul Dowlah.
(A true Copy.)
(Signed) }. Webbe,
Chief Secº to Gov".
No. 7.
Copy of a DECLARATION of the Governor of Fort St.
George; dated 31ſt July 1801.
DECLARATION of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council of
Fort St. George, by and with the Authority of his Excellency the Moſt
Noble the Governor General in Council of all the Britiſh Poſſeſſions in
the Eaſt Indies.
AN Alliance of the moſt intimate Union and Friendſhip has long ſubſiſted
between the Honourabie the Engliſh Eaſt India Company, and the Family of their
Highneſſes Mahommed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, late Nabob of the Carnatic
Payen Ghaut : By the Aid of that Alliance his late Highneſs Mahommed Ally
was enabled, under Providence, to ſupport his Pretenſions to the Poſſeſſion of the
Carnatic at the Death of his illuſtrious Father, to defeat the Power of his Enemies
in Arms, and finally to eſtabliſh his Authority in the Government of Arcot and
its Dependencies, on the Foundations of the Britiſh Power.
For the Defence and Protećtion of the valuable Poſſeſſions thus acquired by
the united Arms of the Engliſh Company and of the Nabob of Arcot, various
Treaties and Obligations have been eſtabliſhed, by which it was intended that the
Intereſts, Security, and Power of both Parties in the Carnatic Payen Ghaut
ſhould be cemented and identified. In conformity to the Faith and Spirit of theſe
Engagements, the Honourable Company has invariably applied, not only the
Reſources derived from that Alliance, but the whole Power of the Britiſh Empire
in India, to maintain the Government of the late Nabobs of the Carnatic againſt
all their Enemies, and has cauſed them to be acknowledged by Foreign States as
the Allies of the Britiſh Nation. By theſe Means, and by the unabated Exertion of
its whole Power, the Engliſh Nation was enabled, during the War which continued
from the Year 1780 to the Year 1783, to ſupport the Pretenſions of the Nabob
Mahomed Ally, and to reſcue his Dominions from the Violence of Hyder Ally
Rhan, and of his Succeſſor Tippoo Sultaun, who, by the Aſſiſtance of the French
K Nation,
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No. 7.
continued.
ſubſiſting between the Company and the Nabobs of the Carnatic.
Ration, had been enabled to conquer a conſiderable Part of the Carnatic, and to
eſtabliſh their Authority over the greateſt Portion of the territorial Poſſeſſions of
the ſaid Nabob.
To ſupport the Authority of the Nabob Mahommed Ally, and to ſecure the
Britiſh Intereſts in the Carnatic, it became expedient for the Contraćting Parties
to enter into ſpecific Engagements for the Maintenance of an adequate Military
Eſtabliſhment. The Engliſh Company accordingly bound itſelf by a Treaty,
bearing Date in the Month of February 1787, to maintain the whole Military
Force required for the Protećtion of the Territories of the Allies; in conſideration
of which Engagement the Nabob Mahomed Ally agreed, among other Conditions,
and under certain Penalties therein ſpecified, to pay an Annual Subſidy, amount-
ing to Fifteen Lacs of Star Pagodas.
According to the farther Stipulations of that Engagement, rendered neceſſary
by Experience for the mutual Safety of the Contračting Parties, the Engliſh
Company, in the Year 1790, charged itſelf with the Adminiſtration of the
Civil Government, in addition to the Military Defence of the Carnatic, in a
critical Junéture of Affairs, when the Ambition and implacable Enmity of the
late Tippoo Sultaun compelled the Britiſh Government in India to reſort to Arms
for the Support of its Rights, and for the Protećtion of its Allies.
At the Concluſion of the War in the Year 1792 (the ſucceſsful and glorious
Termination of which tended in the moſt direčt Manner to ſecure the Safety and
Proſperity of the Poſſeſſions of his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic) the
Britiſh Government reſtored the Civil Government of the Carnatic to his High-
neſs, thereby manifeſting the firićteſt Adherence to the Stipulations of the exiſting
Engagements of 1787 ; but the Britiſh Government did not confine itſelf to the
mere Diſcharge of the Stipulations of its exiſting Engagements; its Views were
extended to an enlarged and liberal Conſideration of the Principles of the Alliance
*
At that Period of Time, the Nabob Mahommed Ally, relying on the friendly
Biſpoſition of the Britiſh Government, repreſented, in the moſt urgent Manner
to the Marquis Cornwallis, the Inadequacy of his Highneſs's Reſources to diſcharge
the pecuniary Engagements of the Treaty of 1787; and the Governor General,
aćting in conformity to the Spirit of the Alliance and Friendſhip ſo long ſubſiſting
between the Nabobs of the Carnatic and the Engliſh Company, relieved his
Highneſs from the burthenſome Terms of that Engagement, thereby ſurrendering
the pecuniary Rights acquired by the Company under the Treaty of 1787, for
the Purpoſe of promoting the Tranquillity, Comfort, and Intereſts of the Nabob
Mahommed Ally.
With this liberal View of the Principles of the Connexion eſtabliſhed between
the Britiſh Government and the Nabob of Arcot, an indulgent Modification of
the Treaty of 1787 was framed; and by a ſubſequent Treaty, bearing Date in
the Month of July 1792, the pecuniary Contribution cf his Highneſs the Nabob
of the Carnatic, towards the general Defence and Protećtion of the Rights and
Poſſeſſions of the Allies, was diminiſhed from Fifteen to Nine Lacs of Star
Pagodas. The Spirit of Moderation by which the Britiſh Councils were guided
in reſpect to this Alliance, was unequivocally manifeſted by a farther Stipulation
for
N A B O B. OF THE CA R N AT I C.
39
for the Purpoſe of ſecuring to the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, the Son and Pre-
ſumptive Heir of the Nabob Mahommed Ally, the Succeſſion to the Territories
of his Father, on the Terms and Conditions of the Treaty of 1792.
In return for this Relinquiſhment of a conſiderable Portion of its pecuniary
Reſources, the Engliſh Company obtained no other Advantages than an extended
Renewal of the territorial Security, already provided by the Treaty of 1787, for
the Performance of the Nabob Mahommed Ally's pecuniary Engagements, and
a Repetition of his Highneſs's previous Obligation not to contraćt Alliances, nor
to enter into Correſpondence with any European or Native Power, without.
the Knowledge and Concurrence of the Britiſh Government; conformably there-
fore to this indulgent Modification of the Treaty of 1787, the Government of
the Carnatic was reſtored to the Nabob Mahommed Ally : On the Death of his
Highneſs the Nabob Mahommed Ally, in the Year 1795, the Nabob Omdut
ul Omrah ſucceeded to the Poſſeſſion of his Father's Territories, according to
the Proviſions of the Treaty of 1792.
The Nabob Mahommed Ally, as well as his Son and Succeſſor, had repeatedly
granted Tuncaws or Aſſignments of Revenue on the Diſtrićts pledged to the
Company, in direét Violation of the Treaty of 1792, and to the manifeſt Injury of
the territorial Security provided by the Company for its Intereſt in the Carnatic.
The Britiſh Government however continued to extend to their Highneſſes the in-,
dulgent Operation of the beneficial Conditions of the Treaty of 1792, by abſtain-
ing from the Exerciſe of the juſt Rights acquired againſt their Highneſſes under.
the expreſs Stipulations of that Engagement, and under the acknowledged Inter-
pretation of the Law of Nations. -
Under theſe Circumſtances the Britiſh Government might juſtly have required
from the Houſe of Mahommed Ally, not merely the exact and rigid Obſervation
of the Treaty of 1792, but a zealous and cordial Attachment to the Spirit of an
Engagement, under which the Nabobs of the Carnatic had found the moſt ample
Protećtion, accompanied by the moſt indulgent and liberal Conſtruction of every
Stipulation favourable to their ſeparate Intereſts, and by the moſt lenient Relaxation
of thoſe penal Articles, the Obligation of which their Highneſſes had reſpectively
incurred by violating the Article of the Treaty of 1792, relative to the Grants of
Tuncaws or Aſſignments of Revenue on the Diſtrićts pledged to the Company.
It is with the deepeſt Concern that the Governor in Council is compelled to
declare, that thoſe ancient Allies of the Company, the Nabobs Mahommed Ally
and Omdutul Omrah, have been found not only deficient in every active Duty of
the Alliance, but unfaithful to its fundamental Principles, and untrue to its vital
Spirit. y
In the full Enjoyment of the moſt abundant Proofs of the Moderation, Indul-
gence, and good Faith of the Honourable Company, the Nabob Mahommed Ally
and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, ačtually commenced and maintained a ſecret
Intercourſe with Tippoo Sultaun, the determined Enemy of the Britiſh Name,
founded on Principles and direéted to Objećts utterly ſubverſive of the Alliance
between the Nabob of the Carnatic and the Company, and equally incompatible
with the Security of the Britiſh Power in the Peninſula of India.
After
No. 7.
continued.
4.O
P A P E R S CO N C E R N IN G T H E LA TE
No. 7.
rom/inued.
After the Fall of Seringapatam, the Britiſh Government obtained Poſſeſſion of the
original Records of Tippoo Sultaun; the Correſpondence of that Prince's Am-
baſſadors, during their Reſidence at Fort St. George in Attendance on his Sons the
hoſtage Princes, in the Years 1792 and 1793, eſtabliſhed ſufficient Ground of Ap-
prehenſion, that their Highneſſes the late Nabob Mahommed Ally and the late Na-
bob Omdut ul Omrah, had entered into a ſecret Intercourſe with the late Tippoo
Sultaun of a Nature hoſtile to the Britiſh Intereſts in India. The Enquiries of the
Britiſh Government have been fince direéted to aſcertain a Faćt ſo intimately con-
neéted with the Security of its Rights in the Carnatic. The Reſult has eſtabliſhed
the following Propoſitions by a Series of conneéted written and oral Teſtimony.
Firſt.—At the very Period of Time when the Nabob Mahommed Ally ap-
pealed to the Generoſity of the Britiſh Government for an indulgent Modification
of the Treaty of 1787, his Highneſs had already commenced a ſecret Negocia-
tion for the Eſtabliſhment of an intimate Intercourſe with the Nabob Tippoo Sul-
taun, without the Knowledge of the Britiſh Government, and for Purpoſes evident-
ly repugnant to its Security and Honour.
Second.—The Nabob Omdut ul Omrah (who was empowered by the Nabob
Mahommed Ally to negociate the Treaty of 1792 with the Britiſh Government,
and who ačtually negociated that Treaty for himſelf and for his Father) was ačtually
employed at the ſame Period of Time, under his Father's Authority, in negocia-
ting for himſelf and for his Father the Terms of the ſaid ſeparate and ſecret Inter-
courſe with Tippoo Sultaun. -
Third.—The Tendency of the ſaid Intercourſe was direéted to the Support of
Tippoo Sultaun in Vićtory and Triumph over all his Enemies.
Fourth.—In the Month of December 1792, the Nabob Mahommed Ally im-
parted ſecret Information to Tippoo Sultaun, regarding the Sentiments and Inten-
tions of the Britiſh Government in India, with relation to the hoſtile Views and Ne-
gociation of Tippoo Sultaun at the Courts of Poonah and Hyderabad ; and on the
firſt Intelligence of the War between Great Britain and France in the Year 1793,
the Nabob Mahommed Ally imparted ſecret Information to Tippoo Sultaun, re-
ſpecting the Views and Power of France in India and in Europe, and reſpecting the
intended Operations of the Britiſh Forces againſt the French Poſſeſſions in the Car-
natic. And the Nabob Mahommed Ally conveyed to Tippoo Sultaun ſecret
Admonitions and friendly Advice reſpe&ting the moſt favourable Seaſon, and the
moſt propitious State of Circumſtances, for the Violation of Tippoo Sultaun's En-
gagements with the Honourable Company.
Fifth. The Nabob Omdut ul Omrah was employed by his Father or one of the
Agents to convey ſecret Intelligence, friendly Admonition, and ſeaſonable Advice
to Tippoo Sultaun, through the confidential Agents of Tippoo Sultaun, who were
furniſhed with Inſtrućtions from the ſaid Sultaun of Myſore, to receive ſuch Com-
munications from the ſaid Nabob of the Carnatic, and from the Nabob Omdut ul
Omrah.
Sixth.-A Cypher was compoſed and ačtually introduced into the ſeparate and
ſecret Correſpondence between the Nabobs Mohammed Ally and Tippoo Sultaun;
the original Key of the ſaid Cypher, diſcovered among the Records of Seringapa-
tam, is in the Hand-writing of the confidential Moonſhee (or Secretary) of the
Nabob Mohammed Ally and of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ; and the ſaid Cy-
pher was delivered by a confidential Agent of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah to the
Ambaſſador of Tippoo Sultaun, for the expreſs Purpoſe of being tranſmitted to
Tippoo Sultaun. tº $9.
Seventh.—The Terms employed in the ſaid Cypher, particularly thoſe intended
to deſignate the Britiſh Government and its Allies, the Nizam and the Maharatta
State,
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N A T I C.
4. E.
State, united in a defenſive League againſt Tippoo Sultaun, contain the moſt
powerful internal Evidence that the Communications propoſed to be diſguiſed by
the ſaid Cypher, were of the moſt hoſtile Tendency to the Intereſt and Objećts of
the ſaid Alliance, and calculated to promote the Cauſe of Tippoo Sultaun in
oppoſition to that of the ſaid Allies.
Eighth.—The Nabob Omdut ul Omrah under his own. Hand-writing, in the
Month of Auguſt 1794, corroborated the Evidence of his Intention to complete the
Purpoſes herein deſcribed, of the ſecret Intercourſe which he had negociated with
Tippoo Sultaun; and the Continuance of the ſame Intention is manifeſted by
Hletter from the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and from his confidential Agent, ad-
dreſſed to the ſuppoſed Agent of Tippoo Sultaun in the Year 1796, ſubſequently
to the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's Acceſſion to the Government of the Carnatic
under the Treaty of 1792.
Ninth.-At the Commencement and during the Progreſs of the late juſt, neceſ.
fary, and glorious War with the late Tippoo Sultaun, the Nabob Omdutul Omrah,
to the utmoſt Extent of his Means and Power, purſued the Objećts of his ſecret
Intercourſe with Tippoo Sultaun, by a ſyſtematic Courſe of Deception, with reſpečt
to the Proviſion of the Funds neceſſary to enable the Britiſh Troops to march into
Myſore, as well as by a ſyſtematic and ačtive Oppoſition to the Supply and
Movement of the allied Army through different Parts of the ſaid Nabob's Do-
minions.
Tenth.--The Stipulations contained in the 15th Article of the Treaty of 1787,
and the Ioth Article of the Treaty of 1792, by which the Nabobs of the Carnatic
were bound not to enter into any political Negociations or Correſpondence with
any European or Native Power or State, without the Conſent of the Government
of Fort St. George, or of the Company, formed a fundamental Condition of the
Alliance between the ſaid Nabob and the Company; and the Violation of the
ſaid Stipulations neceſſarily involved the entire Forfeiture, on the Part of the
Nabob, of all the Benefits of the ſaid Alliance.
Eleventh.-The Nabob Mohammed Ally and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah
have violated the ſaid Stipulations, and have thereby forfeited all the Benefits of
the ſaid Alliance; and the Nabob Mohammed Ally and the Nabob Omdut ul
Omrah, having violated the ſaid Stipulations for the expreſs Purpoſe of eſtabliſhing
an Union of Intereſts with Tippoo Sultaun, thereby placed themſelves in the
Condition of public Enemies to the Britiſh Government in India.
It is manifeſt, therefore, that the Intentions of the Nabobs Mohammed Ally and
Omdut ul Omrah, have been uniformly and without Interruption hoſtile to the
Britiſh Power in India, and that thoſe Intentions have been carried into Effect to
the full Extent of the actual Power poſſeſſed by their Highneſſes reſpectively, at
the ſeveral Periods of Time in which they have acted in purſuance of their Syſtem
of Co-operation with the Enemy.
By adting on theſe Principles of Condućt, the Nabobs Mohammed Ally and
Omdut ul Omrah not only violated the Rights of the Company, but by uniting
their Intereſts with thoſe of the moſt implacable Enemy of the Britiſh Empire, the
Nabobs Mohammed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah ačtually placed themſelves in the
Relation of public Enemies to the Britiſh Government, dangerous to the Extent
of their reſpective Power, and active according to the Means and Opportunities
L afforded
No. 7.
continued.
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No. 7.
continued.
afforded to them by the Circumſtances of the Moment, and eſpecially by the moſt
ſevere Exigency and Preſſure of War; every Principle therefore of public Law
releaſe the Britiſh Government from the intended Obligations of the Treaty of
1792; and every Confideration of Self-defence and Security authorized the Com-
pany to exerciſe its Power in the Manner moſt expedient for the Purpoſe of fruſ.
trating the hoſtile Councils of the late Nabob of the Carnatic, modelled upon the
artful Example ačtuated by the faithleſs Spirit, and ſančtioned by the teſtamentary
Voice of his Father. -
In proceeding to exerciſe this Right, it was painful to the Britiſh Government
to be compelled to expoſe to the World all theſe humiliating Proofs of the Ingra-
titude and Treachery of the Nabobs Mohammed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, to-
wards that Power which has uniformly proved their Guardian and Protećtor; and
in acting from the Impreſſion of this Sentiment, the Britiſh Government was more
deſirous of conſulting its own Dignity, than of admitting any Claims on the Part
of thoſe infatuated Princes to its Generoſity and Forbearance.
In conformity to this Spirit of Temperance and Moderation, it was the Intention
of the Britiſh Government to have made a formal Communication to the Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah, of the Proofs which had been obtained of his Highneſs’s Breach
of the Alliance, with the View of obtaining, by the moſt lenient Means, Satis-
fačtion for the Injury ſuſtained by the Britiſh Government, and Security againſt
the future Operation of the hoſtile Councils of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah.
Circumſtances of Expediency, conneéted with the general Intereſts and Policy of .
the Britiſh Government, interrupted the Communication of this Document to the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ; the intermediate Illneſs of his Highneſs protraćted the
Execution of that Intention, ând his ſubſequent Death fruſtrated the Wiſh of the
Britiſh Government to obtain from that Prince ſatisfactory Security for the Rights
pledged to the Company in the Carnatic. •- , …
The Death of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah has not affected the Rights acquired
by the Britiſh Government under the IJiſcovery of his Breach of the Alliance.
Whatever Claim the reputed Son of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah may be ſup-
poſed to poſſeſs to the Company's Support of his Pretenſions to the Government of
the Carnatic, is founded on the Grounds of the Right of Omdut ul Omrah to the
Aſſiſtance of the Company in ſecuring his Succeſſion to the Nabob Mohammed Ally
in the Government of the Carnatic, was founded on the expreſs Stipulations of the
Treaty of 1792. The Reſult of the Propoſitions ſtated in this Declaration has
eſtabliſhed abundant Proof, that the fundamental Principles of the Alliance be-
tween the Company and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, as well as the expreſs Let-
ter of the Treaty of 1792, had been abſolutely violated and rendered of no Effect
- by the Nabobs Mohammed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, previouſly to the oftenſible
Concluſion of that Inſtrument. It is manifeſt, therefore, that the Nabob Omdut
ul Omrah could derive no Rights from the formal Ratification of that freaty, the
vital Spirit of which had already been annihilated by the hoſtile and faithleſs Con-
dućt of his Highneſs, and that the Nabobs Mohammed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah,
by forming an intimate Union of Intereſts with Tippoo Sultaun, had ačtually placed
themſelves in the Relation of public Enemies to the Britiſh Empire in India.
!
Whatever
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*Whatever Claim to the Company’s Protećtion and Support the reputed Son of No. 7.
*Omdut ul Omrah may derive from his ſuppoſed Father, had been utterly deſtroyed continued.
hy the hoſtile Cóndućt of Omdat ul Omrah ; it follows, therefore, that the reputed s
Son of Omdut ul Omrah has ſucceeded to the Condition of his Father, which Con-
dition was that of a public Enemy; and, conſequently, that at the Death of Omdut
ul Omrah, the Britiſh Government remained at Liberty to exerciſe its Rights,
founded on the faithleſs Policy of its Ally, in whatever Manner might be deemed
moſt conducive to the immediate Safety and to the general intereſts of the Company
ân the Carnatic. *
Before the Britiſh Government proceed to exerciſe this Right, founded on the
Violation of the Alliance, and on the Neceſſity of Self-defence, it was deſirous of
manifeſting its Attention to the long eſtabliſhed Connexion between the Company
and the Houſe of Omdut ul Omrah, by ſacrificing to the Sentiments of national
Magnanimity and Generoſity the Reſentment created by his Highneſs's fiagrant
Breach of the Alliance. In the Spirit of thoſe Councils therefore, with which it
had been the Intention of the Britiſh Government to demand Satisfaction and Se-
curity from the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and to avoid the Publication of Fačts ſo
Humiliating to the Family of that Prince, the Britiſh Government communicated
to the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah, Knowledge of the Proofs now exiſting in
the Poſſeſſion of the Government at Fort St. George of the Violation of the Al-
liance, at the ſame Time the Britiſh Government manifeſted a conſiſtent Adherence
to the Principles of Moderation and Forbearance, by opening a Latitude to the
reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah to form, by Means of an amicable Adjuſtment,
that Satisfaction and Security which the hoſtile and faithleſs Condućt of his ſup-
poſed Father had entitled the Britiſh Government to demand, and which the Dic-
tates of Prudence and Self-defence compelled it to require.
The reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah, by and with the Advice of the Perſons
appointed by his Father's Will to aſſiſt his Councils, has perſiſted in oppoſing a
determined Refiſtance to this Demand, thereby exhibiting an unequivocal Proof
that the Spirit which ačtuated the hoſtile Councils of the Nabobs Mahommed Ally
and Omdut ul Omrah, has been tranſmitted with unabated Vigour to the ſuppoſed
Son of Omdut ul Omrah, ſecured in its Operation under the ſančtimonious Forms
of their teſtamentary Injunétions, and preſerved with religious Attachment by the
oftenſible Deſcendant of that Prince. .
Fruſtrated in the Hope of obtaining, from the reputed Son of the Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah, Reparation for its Injuries and Security for its Rights, the
Britiſh Government is now reluétantly compelled to publiſh to the World the
Proofs of this flagrant Violation of the moſt ſacred Ties of Amity and Alliance,
by the Nabobs Mahommed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, and the hereditary Spirit
of Enmity manifeſted by the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah to the Intereſts of
the Britiſh Government. The Duty and Neceſſity of Self-defence require the
Britiſh Government, under the Circumſtances of this Caſe, to exerciſe its Power
in the Attainment of an adequate Security for its Rights; juſtice and Moderation
warrant, that the Family of Omdut ul Omrah ſhall be deprived of the Means of
completing its ſyſtematic Courſe of Hoſtility; Wiſdom and Prudence demand,
that the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah ſhall not be permitted to retain Pot.
feſtion of Reſources dangerous to the Tranquility of the Britiſh Government in
the Peninſula of India. -
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No. 7. Wherefore the Britiſh Government, ſtill adhering to the Principles of Mode-
continued, ration, and ačtuated by its uniform Deſire of obtaining Security for its Rights and
Intereſts in the Carnatic, by an Arrangement founded on the Principles of the long
ſubſiſting Alliance between the Company and the Family of the Nabob Mahommed
Ally, judged it expedient to enter into a Negociation for that Purpoſe with the
Prince Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder, the Son and Heir of Azeem ul Omrah, who
was the Second Son of the Nabob Mahommed Ally, and the immediate Great
Grandſon by both his Parents of the Nabob Anwer ud Deen Khan of bleſſed
Memory. And his Highneſs the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder having entered
into Engagements for the expreſs Purpoſe of reviving the Alliance between the
Company and his illuſtrious Anceſtors, and of eſtabliſhing an adequate Security
for the Britiſh Intereſts in the Carnatic, the Britiſh Government has now re-
ſolved to exerciſe its Rights and its Power, under Providence, in ſupporting and
eſtabliſhing the hereditary Pretenſions of the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder
in the Soubahdarry of the Territories of Arcot, and of the Carnatic Payen
Ghaut. -
And, for the more full Explanation of the Grounds and Motives of this Decla-
ration, the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, by and with the Authority
of his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General in Council, has cauſed
atteſted Copies and Extraćts of ſeveral Documents diſcovered at Seringapatam to
be annexed hereunto, together with an Extraćt from the Treaties of 1787 and
1792.
By Order of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council,
(Signed) j. Webbe,
Fort St. George } Chief Sec'y to Gov".
31ſt July 18OI. (A true Copy)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
- Sec".
APPENDIX to the Declaration of the Right Honourable the Governor
in Council of Fort St. George, bearing Date the 31ſt July 1801.
No. 1.
Extra6ts from a LETTER from Gholaum Alli Khaun and Alli Rezza Khaun,
to Tippoo Sultaun; dated the 26th Tuckee 1220, (anſwering to about the
15th June 1792.)
THE following Converſation took place at a Viſit made by the Princes
to the Nabob Wallajah on the 21ſt Tuckee 1229, (anſwering to about the Icth
of June 1792.)
we preſented Nuzzurs of Eleven Gold Mohurs to the Nabob Wallajah, of
which his Highneſs took one, and riſing embraced us and ſaid, “ May God long
preſerve Tippoo Sultaun, who is the Pillar of the Religion of Mahomed. Night
and Day I uſed to be abſolved in this Contemplation, and to pray for his High-
neſs's Proſperity; I call God to witneſs this Faët, becauſe the Confederacy of
Three Allies was for the Subverſion of the Mahomedan Religion. It is ſolely
- • £O
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N AT I C. 45
to be attributed to the Divine Goodneſs, that the Prayers of us Sinners have been Agº to
1 ° * * \ He, a rº- złe ſelfar f th No. 7.
- .# 1 (eV6 ue, that I from my Heart deſire the Welfare of the º
. Believe it true, y continued.
º Uliſſa Uli). w -
When the Princes and we took leave of the Nabob Wallajah, and were going
away, he came up to us, and with a great deal of Warmth deſired us to ſtay, as
he had ſomething to ſay to us. We replied we were ready. He then told us,
that his Life was now drawing to a Cloſe; that for what had hitherto taken place
between his Highneſs and your Majeſty there was no Remedy; but now, merely
out of a Regard to the Faith (of which your Majeſty was a Pillar) he was deſirous
of eſtabliſhing a cordial Harmony with your Majeſty; and if we, having in view
the Claims of both Parties (upon our Endeavours) would in the Preſence of God
exert ourſelves for this Purpoſe, the Almighty would reward us, and both Parties
would reap the Benefits of this Event, which were great and numberleſs; that
although his Highneſs wanted to prevent the War between your Majeſty and the
Three Allied States, yet that Nizam Alli Khaun, at the latter Period of his Life,
was thus preparing for Futurity, by exerting himſelf for the Deſtrućtion of Reli-
gion. It was ſolely from a Regard to the Faith, that his Highneſs did not encourage
the Meaſure, and that he now declared that, in a thouſand Points of View, it WaS
adviſeable that perfeót Harmony ſhould reign between your Majeſty and his
Highneſs. We replied, that we would undoubtedly report all this to your
Majeſty. 3 - - -
Farther Extraćt.
ON the 24th of Tuckee (13th June 1792) Wallajah, Omdut ul Omrah, and
Huffien Nawauz Khaun, younger Son of Wallajah, Lord Cornwallis, and General
Meadows, came to viſit the Princes. They ſat Two Hours (about Three Quarters
of an Hour Engliſh) and talked a great deal with them. His Highneſs took
Occaſion to obſerve, that we conſidered him to have been an Enemy, whereas he
declared in the Preſence of God, that he was not, and is not; that, on the Contrary,
he was a Friend and Well-wiſher; and that he had oppoſed the Breach between
your Majeſty and the Three Allied States to ſuch a Degree, that every one decided
in his own Mind, that inwardly your Majeſty and his Highneſs were one; and he
deſired us to aſk Lord Cornwallis and General Meadows, who were preſent, whether
he ſaid true or not. i - -
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
Perſian Tran' to the S. G.
No. II.
'Extraćt of a LETTER from Gholaum Alli Khan and Alli Rezza,
Sultaun; dated 3d of Sumree of the Year Schir 1226, A. N.
(anſwering to about the 21ſt June 1792.)
to Tippoo
Mahomed
WE had the Honour to receive your Majeſty's moſt gracious Letter,
dated 8th Turkee (about the 28th May 1792) giving Cover to a Slip of Paper,
upon which were written two Couplets on the 28th Turkee. We have fom the firſt
underſtood the Writing, your Majeſty knows of, as your Majeſty has explained it,
M and
46
P A P E R S CO N C E R N IN G T H E LATE
Appendix to
No. 7.
continued.
* There is evi-
<dently an Er-
ror in theſe
JDates.
and when Occaſion requires, will ačt in conformity to your Majeſty's Commands.
Your Majeſty has deſired that we will not diſcloſe this Subjećt to any Perſon. God
is our Witneſs that we have, from the Commencement of our Service to the preſent.
Time, inviolably kept your Majeſty's Commands, which we conſider as a religious
Obligation; and we declare to your Majeſty that we have not divulged, neither will
we divulge them to any one: We are the Servants of God, the Diſciples of Ma-
homed, and the Dependents of your Majeſty, during our Lives, and never will.
An Obſervance of the Secrets of our Maſters is enjoined by the Khoran. By the
Grace of God, and through the Bleſfing of the Salt of your Majeſty, the King of
Kings, we have never infringed and never will infringe this Injunction in the
ſlighteſt Degree upon any Occaſion.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) IV. B. Edmonſtone,
&c. &c.
TNo. III.
Tranſlation of an ARzEE from Alli Rezza Khan and Gholaum Alli Khan, to
Tippoo Sultaun; dated the 4th of Sumree of the Year Schir 1220 A. N.
Mahomed (anſwering to about the 22d June 1792.) e
ON the 14th Jaffree” (about 23d July 1792) we had the Honour to re-
ceive by Two Meſſengers your Majeſty's Letter, dated 8th Sumree * (about the
26th June 1792) encloſing a Slip of Paper containing a Couplet. We were before
acquainted with the Meaning of the Couplet, as explained by your Majeſty, and
accordingly have before this written to your Majeſty in conformity thereto, and
and will ſtill continue, as Occaſion may require, to write to your Majeſty. Your
Majeſty deſires that we will not divulge the Circumſtance to any one. Refuge of
the World! we conſider the Concealment of the Commands and Secrets of our
Superiors in the Light of a religious Duty; not to divulge the Orders of Princes is
enjoined by the Khoran, and this is a Duty impoſed upon all Servants by the Word
of God. Who would be ſo forgetful of his God, and regardleſs of Religion, as to
facrifice, by a Diſcloſure of Secrets committed to his Charge, his preſent and future
Happineſs In the Preſence of Almighty God, we declare to your Majeſty, that
from the Time we entered your Majeſty's Service to the preſent Moment, a Term
of Eleven Years, none but Almighty God is or or ſhall be privy to the Commands
with which you have entruſted us. Such is our Fidelity, that Divine Providence
may perhaps, through its Bleſfings, proſper us in this and a future State, and keep us
fupported in Reſpe&tability and Credit near your Majeſty. All farther Particulars
will be fully made known to your Majeſty from the Arzees which we have ſucceſ-
fively diſpatched to you. The Princes, who are in Health, beg to offer their moſt
humble Reſpects to your Majeſty.
(A true Tranſlation.)
- (Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone.
NAB O B O F THE CARN AT I C.
47
No. IV.
Extract from a LETTER from Gholaum Alli Khan and Alli Rezza Khan, to
Tippoo Sultaun; dated the 16th of Jaafree of the Year Schir 1220 A. N.
Mahomed, (anſwering to about 4th Auguſt 1792.)
ON the 8th Tehejeh (29th July 1792) the Nabob Wallajah ſent a Meſ-
ſage to us by Mahomed Abdoolla Khan, that the following Day, being that pre-
ceding the Eed, he would, if we deſired it, pay a Viſit to the Princes, as he was
very anxious to ſee his Sons (as he called them.) In reply, we begged he would
give our Reſpects, and repreſent to his Highneſs, that the Houſes of the Princes,
and they themſelves, were his own, and that the Princes were his Gueſts, that he
was their Superior, and his Company there would afford them much Happineſs;
but that, if he wiſhed it, we ourſelves would moſt readily attend him. Accord-
ingly at One Pans of the following Day (about 9 o'Clock) Walajah, accompanied
by Omdut ul Omrah and Haſſein Newauz Khan, paid a Viſit to the Princes, and
taking them upon his Knees for about Two Hours, bleſſed them, and ſaid, May
God long and permanently preſerve the Shadow of Tippoo Sultaun extended over
you and me, ſince in this Age the Preſervation of Religion depends upon him
alone. I have paſſed my Eightieth Year, and in that Time many are the Things
I have ſeen and done, and experienced. What is paſſed is paſſed, and God only
knows what Futurity may bring to light. At preſent the Maintenance of Religion
reſts with Tippoo Sultaun, and may God preſerve and keep him vićtorious and
triumphant. I do not ſay this merely in your Preſence; but I ſay it, taking
to witneſs Him who knows all that is hidden. Night and Day, after the Prayers
of the Day, and on Friday after public Devotion, I offer up my Prayers (mean-
ing for Tippoo Sultaun) and require the People alſo to do the ſame. His Highneſs
ſpoke to us alſo in Terms of great Warmth and Friendſhip, and after ſitting Two
Hours went away. As Walajah had paid a Viſit to the Princes, it became ne-
ceſſary that they ſhould return it, and conſequently they waited upon him the
next Day, which was the Eedoo Zoha (or Feaſt of the Camel); the Nawaub, ac-
companied by Omdut ul Omrah and the other Sirdars, came out to meet them
as on the Feaſt Day, and having aſſiſted the Princes in alighting from their
Palanquins, took them within the Houſe, where he repeatedly careſſed them both,
and ſaid—“ God preſerve the Sultaun in Safety, for through him alone theſe
“Rituals and Obſervances of the Faith (alluding probably to the Eed) yet re-
main.”—He then obſerved to us—“In my firſt Converſation with you, I ſpoke
to you upon the Subjećt of eſtabliſhing a Friendſhip and Harmony between me
and Tippoo Sultaun. Have you intimated it to him, and have you received a
favourable Anſwer?—We replied, that we had ſet forth to your Majeſty, Word
for Word, the friendly Sentiments his Highneſs had expreſſed, and that your
Majeſty had written in reply, that Friendſhip, Union, and brotherly Regard had
from the Beginning been eſtabliſhed among the Profeſſors of Iſlamiſm, as was
..evinced by the Teſtimony of the Holy Book, agreeably to the Preſcriptions of
which your Majeſty wiſhed, that cordial Friendſhip and Attachment ſhould,
without Prejudice or Partiality, be eſtabliſhed between the Followers of the Faith
as the Means of ſupporting the Religion of Mahomed:” And that your Majº
added,—“God preſerve the Nawaub Walajah, who is a Prince, and one of the
3.eaders of the Faithful, and a Pillar of the Faith. –At the Term, a Pillar of
the
Appendix to
No. 7.
continued.
48
PA PERS CONCERNING THE LATE
* Appendix to
No. 7.
continited.
the Faith,’ the Nawaub could not ſuppreſs his Tears, and ſaid, “ I am what I
know myſelf to be.”—Tell the Sultaun, that he is the Pillar of the Faith; and
may God preſerve him and grant him a long Life, fince I and all Muſſulmen
derive Support from him; for otherwiſe the State of Affairs here is evident.—
That which is evident does not require Explanation.”—We alſo, in conformity
to your Majeſty's Commands, mentioned to his Highneſs in a becoming and
ſuitable Manner, whatever there was to ſtate upon the Subječt of Friendſhip and
Attachment. His Highneſs replied, “In conſideration of the Complexion of the
Times, the State of which is manifeſt, and that the Support of the Religion of
Mahomed in this Country, entirely depends upon the Sultaun, my nightly and
daily Prayer is offered up for his Good.” He then ſaid to the Princes—& Oh!
my Sons ! if my Life and Property can be of any Service to you, God is witneſs
that I will not refuſe them to you.”—He then gave Orders to the Superintendant
of the Gardens, to carry every Day Fruits and Flowers to the Prince, before his
(the Nabob's) own Children; and ſaid to us—“You are not acquainted with the State
and Order of Affairs here. Conſider me from my Heart your Well-wiſher and ſin-
cere Friend ; and at all Times be aſſured, that in whatever I may be able to effect
your Benefit, either by Word or Deed, I will not decline my Exertions. What
I ſaid and wrote to his Lordſhip upon the Subjećt of making Peace, God well
knows who was then or is now deſirous of it. His Lordſhip, however, poi-
ſeſſed uncontrouled Authority, was a Man of Wiſdom, and liſtened to the Advice
of others, and my Qbſervations made an Impreſſion upon me. God preſerve you
and me from the wicked Deſigns of others.” Major Doveton and another Officer,
being of the Party, his Highneſs appealed to them, obſerving, that they had been
preſent at the Time, and could ſpeak to the Truth or Falſity of what he ſaid.
Major Doveton replied, that it was very true ; and that ſeveral Engliſh Gentlemen
were conſequently much diſpleaſed with his Highneſs. That one Day, when his
Highneſs had aſſembled all the Gentlemen, under Pretence of giving them an En-
tertainment, but really for the above Purpoſe, and had accordingly ſuggeſted pa-
cific Meaſures, the Expediency of which he urged in a thouſand Ways, they were
ſo diſpleaſed that they went away without partaking of the Entertainment; nay,
that to their Animoſity might be attributed the Aſſumption of his Highneſs's Coun-
try: That when the Orders were received from the King of England to reſtore the
Country, they framed the Pretence among themſelves that his Highneſs was too
much attached to Tippoo Suitaun ; and that the Reſtitution of his Country would
conſequently be an impolitic Meaſure: But his Lordſhip maintained his Opinion
fingly, and, diſregarding the Animoſity of all the others againſt his Highneſs, de-
livered to him (his Highneſs) the Country, agreeably to the Directions of his Ma-
jeſty. The Story is very long. We have only written to your Majeſty a very
ſmall Part of it. At preſent the Commanding Officer of the Fort, and the other
Engliſh Gentlemen who are here, behave towards the Nawaub Walajah as if they
were his Servants. The Princes ſtaid Two Hours with his Highneſs, and at the
Time of Departure were preſented by him with Two Khellauts of Embroidery for
the Tenanch, Two Kulgus, and Two Surpaiſhes of the fineſt Jewels. We made
endleſs Apologies, and requeſted that he would excuſe our Acceptance of them.
He ſaid, “This is a Feſtival, and l have given to my Sons and my whole Family
new Garments. Theſe are alſo my Children, and I entertain for them even a greater
Degree of Regard, and I muſt not neglećt them ; theſe Things poſſeſs little Value,
and it is not your Province to interpoſe between me and my Children.” In like
Manner his Highneſs preſented Gholaum Alli Khaun with a Khellaut, conſiſting
of a Khulgu and Surpaiſh, me with a Surpaiſh and Khellaut, and Shirkh Soliman
Khan
NABOB OF THE CARN AT I C, 49
He then took a Hand of each of the Princes, and deſcending Appendix to
from the upper Part of his Houſe, accompanied them to the outer Door of the No. 7.
Toſhuk Honnah, where he took Leave of them. Omdutul Omrah, and his other “”
Sons, attended them to the Road, where they left them, after ſeeing them into
their Palanquins, and the Nabob at parting embraced them with the greateſt
Warmth.
Khan with another.
We have thus communicated to your Majeſty the Particulars of the friendly
Condućt of the Nabob Walajah and the other Sirdars; in fact, the Diſpoſition of
all Ranks of People is equally favourable, for whenever the Princes go out any
where, Thouſands of them ſtand in the Street, and offer up Prayers for your Ma-
jeſty's Proſperity. On Feſtivals and on Fridays in Congregation, all the Muſſul-
mans firſt offer up their Prayers for your Majeſty’s Preſervation. May God fulfil
them | Upon our Return dancing Girls and Muſicians, &c. were ſent with the
Prince's Retinue, and after our Arrival at the Prince's Houſe, and fitting there
for Two Hours, danced, and were then diſmiſſed.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
&c. &c. &c.
No. V.
Extraćt from a LETTER from Tippoo Sultaun to Alli Rezza Khan and Gholaum
Alli Khan; dated at Seringapatam, the 16th of Hejree, of the Year Schir
1220 from the Birth of Mahomed.
I HAVE received and underſtood the Contents of your Arzee, intimating the
diſtinguiſhed Kindneſs and Regard with which the Nawaub Walajah treats my
Sons, and the ſincere Friendſhip which he entertains towards me. It is evident
that the Nawaub is a Pillar of the Mahomedan Religion, the Elečt of the
Almighty, a Man of Dignity and worldly Experience; whatever Favour and
Attention he may ſhew towards my Sons, who are his Gueſts, and you, I ſhall
aſſuredly conſider as a Kindneſs conferred upon myſelf. This Circumſtance has
afforded me much Pleaſure. f
My Hopes from Almighty God and his Divine Meſſenger are, that the Nawaub
will do whatever may tend to the Support of the Religion of Mahomed, and that
he will give the neceſſary Attention to this Point. You will mention to him that
he muſt conſider my Sons as his own; that, in conformity to the Command of
God and the Prophet, the Improvement of Friendſhip among the Profeſſors of
Iſlamiſm will be beneficial to various Concerns both Spiritual and Temporal, and
that, deeming me attached to our common Religion and to his Highneſs's Perſon,
he will direét his Attention accordingly ; you will alſo ſtate to the Nawaub the
other Points of Friendſhip, which you have repeatedly heard from my Mouth.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
&c. &c. &c.
N
go
PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE
Appendix to
No. 7.
continued.
Theſe
*Words are
written by one
of Tippoo
Sultaun’s
Moonſhees,
+ The Deſig-
nation of the
Nabob We-
lajah in the
‘Cypher.
No. VI.
KEY to a CYPHER found among the Records at Seringapatam, and
received at Calcutta on the 2d of March 1800. ,”
OH God, glorious and exalted Oh Prophet of God! May the Bleſſing
of the Lord be upon him. Religion. Biſhteh.
The Nabob Walajah, The Nabob Tippoo The Engliſh,
the Friend of Mankind. Sultaun, Newcomers.
the Defender or Proteffor The Mean or Deſpi-
Alli Rezza, of the Faith. cable,
the Diffinguiſhed in Nothing or Nonentity, :/he Mahrattas.
Friendſhip. Nizam ul Dowlah. A Flower,
The Vićtorious, A Preſent.
The Power of God, A Scymeter. –6–
A Saddle. A State or Dominion, The Reſtorer of the
g’ & " A Ring. Faith,
Hearts, The Faith Religion, Omdut ul Omrah.
Sons. Gholaum Alli Kham.
Nawaub Laheb, &
‘The Spring, a Flower 26, .º
p &º. 2. §§
A Letter, an Interview. s 3.
Benevolent, the Hand. & $
A Heart, A Seal. oš
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone.
&c. &c.
TNo. VII.
Tranſlation of a LETTER from Gholaum Alli Khan to Tippoo Sultaun.
THE Departure of Alli Rezza Khan at this Time, in conformity to
the Orders of the Preſence, is very expedient, eſpecially for the Purpoſe of bring-
ing to a favourable Iſſue the Propoſitions of Lord Cornwallis, and the f/Well-wiſher
of Mankind, which is moſt ardently to be wiſhed.
There are many Points which cannot be committed to Paper, and can only be
communicated in Perſon ; at this Time the Friendſhip and Goodwill of both
Sirdars is from God, and the royal Auſpices: The Particulars of this Summary,
which is an unlooked for Good, will be made known to your Majeſty by the
verbal Repreſentations of Alli Rezza, who attends the Preſence eſpecially for that
Purpoſe; although it is contrary to the Rules of Reſpect to preſume to give an
Opinion upon this Subjećt, yet I am emboldened by my long Attachment and
my Senſe of the Duty I owe your Majeſty; when your Majeſty ſhall have maturely
- deliberated
NAB OB OF THE CAR N AT C.
5 I
deliberated upon and fully brought home to your Mind the Repreſentation of
both the Sirdars, from a Conſideration of the Changeableneſs of the Times, your
Majeſty's agreeing to this Affair—(upon the Principle recommended in the Words
of Hafiz, of Shiraz; the Mercy of God be upon him! With Friends, Cordiality;
with Enemies, Diſfimulation)—ſeems highly expedient and advantageous to Your
Majeſty's Intereſts.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
&c. &c.
No. VIII.
Tranſlation of a Copy of a LETTER from Tippoo Sultaun to the
Nawaub Walajah.
IN the Name of the moſt merciful God! After reiterated Praiſes and un-
bounded Adoration to the Almighty, who aſſembled the Body of Muſſulmans under
the Banners of Mahomed, and lighted the Torch of mutual Attachment among
them, and Praiſe to the choſen of Prophets, who promulged the ſaying, “ All
Muſſulmans are Brothers,” and took upon himſelf the Taſk of Interceſſion for all
Appendix to
No. 7.
continued.
Believers; and after intimating my Deſire of being perſonally known to your High-
neſs, and which, as it exceeds the Power of the Pen to deſcribe, muſt be left to the
Heart to conceive, I have the Honour to repreſent that the Receipt of your High-.
neſs's kind Letter after ſo long a Lapſe of Time–(according to the ſaying, “ all
Things depend upon the appointed Seaſon”)—rejoiced me extremely, and your
Highneſs's obliging Recolle&tion of me excited my Acknowledgments, and I re-
turn Thanks to Almighty Providence for the joyful News of the Welfare of the
Well-wiſher of Mankind (meaning the Nawaub himſelf); my delaying to addreſs
your Highneſs has been owing to my not having been favoured with any Letters
from your Highneſs. By the Grace of God your Highneſs is pre-eminent, cha-
raćterized for all praiſe-worthy Qualities, and acquainted with all Affairs. It is
probable that your Highneſs's Delay in writing to me may have been occaſioned by
the particular Circumſtances of the Times, and in conſequence I alſo have delayed
to write, elſe I ſhould have written to you an hundred Times. Now by the Re-
ceipt of your Highneſs's Letter, and the Account of your Highneſs's Friendſhip
and Attachment, which I have had from the verbal Communication of the High
in Rank, *the Diſtinguiſhed in Friendſhip, the Truſty. I am certain that (according
to the Words of the Prophet, the Union of the Muſſulmans is as that of the Soul
with the Body) that Warmth of Attachment, original Affection, implanted among
Muſſulmans, exiſts between us, My Hope from Almighty God, and my Confi.
dence in the Prophet is, that, according to the Command of God, and of the
Prophet, which is well known to all Muſſulmans, all the Faithful will exert them-
ſelves with Heart and Soul in maintaining and rendering permanent the Religion
of Mahomed upon your Highneſs, who is one of the Heads of the Faith; this is
an abſolute Duty, and I am confident that your Highneſs will by all Means con-
'ſtantly employ your Time in performing what is obligatory on you; and lamperfeót-
ly ſatisfied that you will ſhew that Kindneſs which is becoming your exalted Station,
towards my Two Sons, your Gueſts, and who are as your own. I hope that re-
garding me inwardly and as your Well-wiſher, and that of all Muſſulmans, you
will
Vide Key to
the Cypher No.
VI.
52.
PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE
Appendix to
No. 7.
continued,
will continue to rejoice me by Letters; you will learn my Father's Sentiments
from the Repreſentations of the High in Rank, the Diſtinguiſhed in Friendſhip.
Dated 11th of Takree of the Year Sikir 1220, from the Tenth of Mahomed,
(correſponding with the 29th of November 17 92.)
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
&c. &c.
No. IX.
Tranſlation of a Copy of a LETTER from Tippoo Sultaun to Omdut ul
t . Omrah, the Nabob of the Carnatic.
AFTER reiterating Praiſes and unbounded Adoration to the Almighty,
who hath adorned the Multitude of the Profeſſors of Iſlamiſm with the Gem of
Religion, and lighted the Torch of Friendſhip for each other in the Region of the
Heart, and endleſs Thanks worthy of the laſt of the Meſſengers of God (Mahomed)
who with his prophetic Tongue ſpoke this divine Saying, “ That all Muſſulmans
are Brothers;” and who was pleaſed to take upon himſelf the Taſk of Interceſ.
fion for all Believers ; and after intimating my Deſire of perſonal Communication,
and which, as it exceeds the Power of the Pen to deſcribe, muſt be left to the
Heart to conceive, I ſet forth my Obječt: By the Grace of God the moſt ſincere
Attachment and perfeót Unanimity have from the Beginning been eſtabliſhed among
the Believers of the enlightened Dočtrine of Mahomed, but every Event has its
proper Seaſon, and hence no Opportunity has yet offered for the external Demon-
ſtration of our mutual Regard, Now however the Receipt of your kind Letter, re-
plete with the friendly Sentiments with which our Hearts are mutually impreſſed,
has doubly added to my fincere Attachment and cordial Regard; when I learnt alſo
from the Intimation of the High in Rank, the Diffinguiſhed in Friendſhip, the Truſty,
of your great and noble Qualities, and the fincere Friendſhip and Cordiality you en-
tertain towards me, my Happineſs was greater than Language can adequately ex-
preſs ; may God realize this Source of Happineſs; that is to ſay, that perfect At-
tachment and Union among the Followers of Iſlaum, which is the greateſt Gift
of the Almighty, and than which nothing is more eſſential to the temporal and
eternal Intereſts of Mankind. May God render it attainable, and may he preſerve
us firm in the Faith of Mahomed, the boundleſs Benefits reſulting from which
will by the divine Grace be manifeſted.
I am confident that you will dire&t your Attention to the Adjuſtment of Affairs
between me and the Well wiſher of Mankind, who is the chief and principal of the
Profeſſors of Iſlamiſm; and that deeming me from my Heart your Well-wiſher,
you will always keep me in your Recollection by your friendly. Letters: All other
Particulars may be made known to you from the Repreſentations of the High in
Rank.
May Proſperity and Happineſs attend you ! * f
Dated the 15th of Zakru of the Year Sehir 1220, (anſwering to the 29th of
November 1702.) - e
792.) (A true Tranſlation)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
&c. &c.
NABOB OF THE CARN ATIC.
$3.
INo. X.
Tranſlation of a LETTER from Gholaum Alli Khan to Tippoo Sultaun.
- (Without Date.)
ON the Second of Rehmany of the Year Schir 1200, Mohummudee
(anſwering to about the 14th January 1793) the Nabob Walajah ſent a Meſſage
by Khadir Nawaz Khan to this Effečt,-Whatever Animoſity and Eſtrange-
ment formally exiſted between us (meaning himſelf and Tippoo Sultaun)
are now, thank God, completely removed. If the ſlighteſt Trace of them remain
in my Heart, I am no Muſſulman, nay of another Sečt ; and on the Part of the
Hyderee Sircar alſo, I am confident the ſame friendly Sentiments are entertained :
God knows, and the Prophet is witneſs, on the moſt deliberate Reflećtion and deep
Conſideration, I fee no one Sirdar who has at Heart the Intereſts of the true Faith
except Tippoo Sultaun, and after him this Sinner (of whom the ſame may be ſaid
in ſome Degree). In the ſecond Place, the Sight of the Princes gives new Force
to the Attachment and Regard that my Heart feels; indeed it is ſuperfluous to ex-
preſs this; hence I offer up my moſt earneſt Prayers to God for the Welfare of
the Sultaun, and the Proſperity of the Affairs of the Hydree Circar. From the
lmpulſe of theſe Sentiments it is requiſite that I ſhould communicate ſome Articles
of Intelligence, which are as follows: I have always kept ſtationed in Bengal ſe-
veral Perſons of the higher Claſs, for the Purpoſe of colle&ting and tranſmitting
ſecret Intelligence daily. In the Paper of Intelligence which came on the 25th of
Rubuoſſaunce 1207 (10th of December 1793) it is ſtated, that Sir Charles Mulet,
the Engliſh Reſident at Poonah, has written to Lord Cornwallis, that numerous
Meſſengers from the Khodadad Sircar daily paſs to and fro between Seringapa-
tam and Poonah; whence it would ſeem that Tippoo Sultaun was endeavouring to
form a cloſe Conneétion and Affiance with the Poonah Government, and through
that Government with the Mogul (Nizam Alli Khan); and that deeming this
Information of Importance, he had written it to his Lordſhip. The Members of
Council in Bengal on hearing this, are ſaid to have ſtated their Opinion to his
Lordſhip, that Tippoo Sultaun was infringing the Settlement which had taken
place between him and his Lordſhip, and was entertaining Views of a ſiniſter Na-
...ture; that, for Example, the Sultaun withheld Payment of the Kiſts, as pre-
ſcribed in the Treaty, and refuſed to releaſe the European and other Priſoners,
Subjećts of the Company; that this Sort of Diſcourſe had excited ſome Degree of
Suſpicion, nay even of Alarm in his Lordſhip's Mind. Such is the preſent State
of Affairs: What, in the Judgment of this Well-wiſher, now appears expedient is
this, in a ſhort Time his Lordſhip will go to Europe; the Princes, pleaſe God,
will ſoon return, and the Kiſts are in a Courſe of Payment; after his Lordſhip's
Departure the Liquidation of the Kiſts and other Points, whatever may be his
Highneſs's (Tippoo's) Pleaſure, will be right and proper; at preſent it is better
to be filent upon every Thing, becauſe at this Time his Highneſs’s Honour
would at all Events be called in queſtion. When another ſhall arrive from Europe,
the Imputation will in every Reſpect and in every Meaſure fall upon him.
A true Tranſlation.
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
&c. &c.
O . Noie
Appendix tº
No. 7.
continued,
$4. IPA PERS CONCER NING THE LATE
Appendix to Note—The following Extraćt is preceded by an Account of the Nabob Walajah's
º having invited the Princes to an Exhibition of Fireworks, on Occaſion of
vvºverravºv- the Eed or Feſtival. The Governor of Madras lent his Garden for the
Purpoſe.
No. XI.
Extračt from a LETTER from Gholaum Alli Khan and Alli Rezza Khan, to
Tippoo Sultaun ; dated 22d Ahmedy of the Year Sehir 1221, A. N. M.
(anſwering to about 2d of May 1793.)
THE Princes having arrived at the Garden, the Nawaub Walajah ſent
Omdut ul Omrah to them, deſiring him to remain in Attendance upon the Princes
as long as they ſhould ſtay at the Entertainment. Omdut ul Omrah accordingly
attended the Princes at the Exhibition of Fireworks until Nine o’Clock at Night,
when he took leave and went away. At parting Omdut ul Omrah ſaid to us,
* You will give my reſpectful Compliments, by way of Remembrance to his Ma-
jeſty, and inform him that he may conſider me from my Heart attached to him,
and that, pleaſe God, at a proper Occaſion my Fidelity towards him ſhall be made
smanifeſt to him.”
(A true Tranſlation.) -
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
&c. &c.
No. TXTI.
Fxtraćt from a LETTER from Gholaum Alli Kan and Alli Rezza Khan, to Tip-
poo Sultaun; dated 25th Behauree of the Year Sehir 1221, A. N. Maho-
med (anſwering to about the 5th of June 1793.) XXC
REFUGE of the World! Yeſterday the Well-wiſher of Mankind ſent the
following Meſſage by Khadar Newaz Khan : “ At this Time a complete Rupture
has taken place between the Engliſh and French. The Story of the King of the
French and their domeſtic Commotions are well known. Six or Seven European
Powers have united for the Deſtrućtion of the French, and you will ſoon hear that
the Whole of the French Territory has been divided amongſt others. The Engliſh
(Troops) here at Madras will proceed in a Day or two againſt Pondicherry. .
Although there is a Body of Troops in that Place, yet domeſtic Diſſentions have
riſen to the utmoſt Pitch there, and nothing will be done, and the Place will at
length be taken. My Objećt in mentioning this Event is this :-The Vakeel of the
Ahmedy Sircar, who was at Pondicherry, has lately, it ſeems, returned to the Pre-
ſence (Tippoo Sultaun). Pleaſe God, there is no Doubt that the Sultaun keeps in
View all the Ups and Downs of the Time. At this Time no Kind of Aſſiſtance
will be afforded ; but out of that Friendſhip which I feel for the Sultaun, I recom-
mend that the Vakeel remain a ſhort Time at the Preſence, and alſo that Epiſto-
lary Correſpondence be diſcontinued for a ſhort Time. Although a friendly Con-
nexion has long ſubſiſted with the French on the Part of the Ahmedy Sircar, yet,
conſidering the Circumſtances of the Times, it is not adviſeable (that is to main-
- Jālū
NABOB OF THE CARN AT I C.
55
tain an Epiſtolary Correſpondence with the French); ſhould there be any Point of Appendix ta.
Urgency to communicate, there is no Objećtion to do it verbally. For God’s Sake,
let not the Sultaun aſcribe what I ſay to a wrong Motive; I am ačtuated ſolely by
my good Wiſhes in making this Communication. Since the Day that a cordial
Union took place between us, let me be no longer a Muſſulman, nor a Servant of
God, if I have not always offered up my Prayers for the Sültaun's Good, and after-
wards for my own. May the Almighty preſerve firm and uninjured the Mahome-
dan Church, and the Safety of the Sultaun
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
&c. &c.
"No. XIII.
Extraćt from a LETTER from Gholaum Alli Khan and Alli Rezza Khan, to
Tippoo Sultaun; dated 15th of Sumree, of the Year Sehir 122:, A. N. M.
(anſwering to about the 23d July 1793.) -
THE Nawaub Walajah has repeatedly ſent Word to us, by Khadir Newaz
Khan, that he had ſomething of a ſecret Nature which he wiſhed to ſay to us in
private ; adding, that if we would go under Pretence of ſeeing a Moſque which
his Highneſs has built, he would ſend Omdut ul Omrah alone to meet us. Ac-
cordingly on the 17th of Tuckee (anſwering to about the 21ſt of June 1793) we
went to the Moſque; whither Omdut ul Omrah repaired alſo. On the left of the
Moſque is the Tomb of a celebrated Devotee (by Name Futtah Shah) who died
about Six Months ago, and erected at his Highneſs's Expence. Under Pretence
of performing the Fautehah (or Prayers for the Dead) Omdut ul Omrah took
“our Hands and carried us into the Tomb. When there, he aſked us whether we
had full Powers from your Majeſty, or were under the Neceſſity of making Re-
ference; upon every Subjećt. We replied, that we had been a Year and more in
Attendance here, during which Period many Points of Buſineſs had been negociated,
and continued to be negociated, by us; and that, pleaſe God, our Proceedings
were and would be approved and confirmed by your Majeſty; and that with his
(Omdut ul Omrah's) Knowledge of this, his Queſtion appeared very extraordi-
“nary to us. That it was proper to put to Vakeels, that we were only Servants and
Well-wiſhers of the Sircars; and that we had Powers to act in any Thing that
appeared to us calculated to promote your Highneſs's Intereſt and Welfare; but
in the other Caſe not. Omdut ul Omrah was much pleaſed, and, ſmiling, ſaid to
us, “So it ought to be.” He then delivered the following, on the Part of the
Nawaub Walajah:—That for a very long Time there had been, without a Cauſe,
a Veil (or want of Cordiality) between his Highneſs and your Majeſty, which had
been produćtive of Injuries to both; but now that, by the Favour of God, a Syſ.
item of Harmony, ſuch as is becoming among the Profeſſors of Iſlamiſm, had
taken place, his Highneſs confidently hoped from God, the prime Cauſe of all,
that the Time paſt might be amply redeemed; that for his Highneſs's own Part,
conſidering from his Heart himſelf, his Country, and his Property, to belong to your
Majeſty, he had made it a teſtamentary Injunétion to his Children and Family, taking
'God and his Holy Prophet to witneſs, to pray Night and Day for the Pillar of
£aith; (that is to ſay) your Majeſty; and to confider their Proſperity and Welfare
3S
No. 7.
continued.
56
PAPERS CONCER NING THE LATE
Appendix to
No. 7.
continued,
as inſeparably conneéted with your Majeſty; that we muſt aſcertain your Majeſty's
Wiſhes on this Head in a Manner ſatisfactory to both, and if your Majeſty ſhould
be, from your Heart, ſolicitous of this propoſed cordial Harmony, his Highneſs
would, under the Teſtimony of God and his Prophet, detail to us his Sentiments
fully at the Time of our Departure, which, pleaſe God, would ſoon take place.
May it pleaſe your Majeſty | His Highneſs is in FXpectation of an Anſwer from
you to theſe Points, and we ſhall repreſent to his Highneſs whatever Reply your
Majeſty may direét us to make. Pleaſe God we ſhall hereafter have Occaſion to
Vide Key to
the Cypher
No. VI.
addreſs your Majeſty, notifying our Succeſſion ; the Affairs you know of.
May the Sun of Proſperity, &c. &c.
A true Tranſlation.
(Signed) *. N. B. Edmonſtone,
. &c. &c.
No. XIV.
Extract from a LETTER from Gholaum Alli Khan and Alli Rezza Khan,
to Tippoo Sultaun (without Date,)
PRIOR to this we communicated to your Majeſty the Circumſtances
of the Nawaub Omdut ul Omrah's coming to the Moſque ; our Meeting there,
and his communicating to us ſeveral Points, with which Particulars your Majeſty
muſt ere this have become acquainted. On a ſubſequent Day, the 3d of Sumree,
we ſent a Meſſage to him, purporting that we were going to the Garden to ſee
and arrange the Effects we had with us; and that if he alſo would come there,
under Pretence of taking the Air, we ſhould be very happy. Accordingly on the
next Day we went to the Garden with Omdut ul Omrah. We ſat together for
Four Hours, (about an Hour and a Half Engliſh); and Omdutul Omrah diſcourſed
in the moſt undiſguiſed Manner on the Part of the Nawaub Wallajah, as well as on
his own, of the Sincerity of their Friendſhip, Attachment, and Regard.
He alſo made uſe of ſome particular Expreſſions of his Attachment, requiring
us upon Oath not to commit them to Writing, but to defer the Communication
of them until our Return to your Majeſty. “Since” ſaid he, “I have expreſſed
myſelf as I have done merely from my Regard for the Faith, and from my Friend-
ſhip and Goodwill towards the Defender (or Protećior) of the Faith. Pleaſe God,
you will ſhortly be with his Majeſty, when you will communicate them in Perſon.”
We anſwered, that we would ačt as he deſired, and not divulge what he had ſaid
to any One.
Protećtor of the World: Concerning the Affair with which your Majeſty is
acquainted, we have, under ſuitable Pleas, and a proper introdućtion, prevailed
upon Omdut ul Omrah to lay the Foundation of it, and he is exerting himſelf
with Zeal in this Buſineſs. Pleaſe God, we will inform your Majeſty of the
Reſult. s t
A true Tranſlation. -
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
N A B O B OF THE CARNATIC.
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No. XV.
Extract from a LETTER from Tippoo Sultaun to Gholaum Alli Khan and Alli
Rezza Khan; dated 28th Sumree of the Year Sehir 122 I, A. N. M. (an-
ſwering to about the 6th of Auguſt 1793.)
I HAVE underſtood what you have written relative to the Conferences with
Omdut ul Omrah: I deſire that you will privately commit to Paper his Diſcourſe
with you, and ſend the ſame to me. You will alſo write me Information of the
Tranſačtion, with which you are acquainted.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
- &c. &c.
No. XVI.
Tranſlation of a LETTER from Gholaum Alli Khan and Alli Rezza Khan to
Tippoo Sultaun; dated the 24th of Jaafree of the Year Sehir 1221, A.N. M.
(anſwering to about the 31ſt Auguſt 1793.)
(After the uſual Form of Addreſs.)
WE have had the Honour to receive your Majeſty's Two gracious Letters,
giving Cover to a Paper containing a Form of Obligation, and a Queſtion of Or-
thodoxy, by the Hands of Mahomed Bewan.—We aſſembled all the Servants, high
and low, belonging to the Sircar, and communicated every Thing to them; and
enjoined them, that on the next Day, which was Friday, they ſhould all bathe,
put on their beſt Cloaths, and attend us. On that Day Gholaum Alli Khan was
indiſpoſed (as he ſtill continues), and therefore I, Alii Rezza, carried all the Ser-
vants of the Sircar with me to the Jaumah Moſque: There were preſent the Cauzy
of the City, the Khuttub (or Preacher) Syed Mahomed, a Perſon of great Learn-
ing, and others, to the Number of near a Thouſand ; and likewiſe the Sons of the
Nawaub Walajah. As it happened the Koſtba was well adapted to our Purpoſe.
After the Friday's Prayers were over, I cauſed all of them to ſit down, and firſt
applied to the Cauzy, and other Perſons of Learning who were preſent, to have
the Koſtba delivered in the Hindooſtanny Language, in order that every Body
might underſtand it. One of them accordingly explained the Contents of the
Koſtba, which comprized the Command of God to wage Holy Wars, not to take
to Flight in combating with Infidels; to form an Union among all the Profeſſors
of Iſlamiſm; and other Obligations of the Faith. I then aſked the Cauzy what was
the Law, if any Muſſulman ačted contrary to theſe Commands 2 to which the
Cauzy replied, That, according to the Duties and Obligations of Muſſuimans, who-
ever neglećted to ačt up to the Commands was a Sinner. Upon which I remarked,
it was very extraordinary that, notwithſtanding the Notoriety of this and the great
Plurality of Muſſulmans, they ſhould ſo depart from the Obligations of the Faith
as to take up their Abode in ſuch a Place, and chooſe to render Obedience to thoſe
of a different Perſuaſion. God grant it may turn out well for the Muſſulmans of
this Place | I then ſaid, it is written that the Prayers which are offered up in the
Koſtba in favour of a Prince who fights for the Faith, are accepted of God; but the
Prayers in favour of thoſe who do not are rejećted. Either reconcile the Law in
P
this
Appendix to
No. 7.
continued.
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PAPERS CONCERN ING THE LATE
Appendix to this Inſtance to the Care of him in * whoſe Name you have read the Koſtba, or
No. 7.
continued.
* Shah Allum.
elſe conform to the Law ; why are you knowingly guilty of Sin : To this he re-
plied, “All Things depend upon their appointed Seaſon.” After this I aſked, ac-
cording to the Law of the Faith, what was the Duty of Servants 2 he anſwered,
The Sentence of the Khoran is plain, “Obey God and his Prophet, and thoſe of
yourſelves who are placed in Authority over you.”—In other Words, the Moſt
High God hath blended Obedience to the Sovereign with Obedience to himſelf,
and to his Meſſenger; hence it is incumbent upon all Servants to do that which
belongs to Fidelity, and to the Intereſts of Religion. I anſwered, that although
this, that is Obedience to the Prince, was a Duty indiſcriminately binding upon
all Muſſulmans, yet I wanted after Prayers (the Bleſfing of which I prayed might
deſcend upon every Individual) to take an Obligation from the Servants of the
Khodadad Sircar. Accordingly, after I and all the Servants of the Ahmedy Sircar
had finiſhed the Prayers in conformity to your Majeſty's Commands, I addreſſed
all the People, and ſaid, “The Error of which ye have hitherto been guilty is, for
the Sake of God and of his Meſſenger, forgiven on the Part of his Majeſty.”—
Upon this they, one by one, aroſe and declared, that ſince all their Errors had
been forgiven on the Part of your Majeſty, they now, under the Teſtimony of
God, his Meſſenger, and the Holy Book, bound and engaged themſelves, that
hereafter, as long as they lived, their Condućt ſhould manifeſt nothing elſe than
Fidelity, Devotion, Truth, and Zeal; that they would never be guilty of Flight
in the Face of an Enemy, of Theft, of lying, of injuring, wiſhing ill, or of En-
mity towards thoſe who wiſhed well to the Khodadad State, nor of any Thing that
belonged to Treachery and Ingratitude; adding, that they would never ſwerve from
this Engagement a Hair’s Breadth; that they would cultivate Friendſhip and
Union with the Followers of the Faith, and among one another; that they confi-
dered the Honour of all Muſſulmans as an Objećt of individual Concern, and would
never commit Oppreſſion and Violence upon any one, either by Word or Deed.
After this a Fautchah (or Service for the Souls of the Dead) was performed, and
Prayers that the Khodad Sircar might be triumphant and vićtorious. We then
came out of the Moſque, and halting in the Area of it, I took an Engagement from
the Hindoos with me to this Effect; that as they derived their Support from the
Ahmedy Sircar, they engaged upon Oath, and upon the Faith of their Poorauns,
that they would be faithful to the Duties committed to their Charge; that their
Condućt ſhould ever manifeſt Fidelity, without their ever being guilty of Theft;
or falſe ſpeaking or writing: To this they added, that if they departed a Hair’s
Breadth from this Engagement, they ſhould conſider it tantamount to their having
killed and eaten of a Cow in the Holy City; and that they ſhould be conſidered as
Delinquents againſt the Sircar.
Protećtor of the World! Mahomed Dewan verbally communicated to us your
Majeſty's Commands, that we ſhould not ſuffer ourſelves to feel any Apprehenſion
in fulfilling this Ceremony. Cheriſher of the World! We can only feel Appre-
henſion and Heſitation in not obeying the Orders of the Preſence. What Appre-
henſion can we entertain in Obedience and Submiſſion to Commands, ſuch only is
the Apprehenſion we felt in the preſent Inſtance. The Commands of the Preſence
are impoſed upon their Servants, not upon others; Princes and Governors who
entertain Servants, do ſo for the Purpoſe of experiencing from them Obedience
and Devotion to their Intereſts; and if they exact from them the Obligations and
Conditions of Obedience, Fidelity, and Devotion, what Harm is there in it 2
Others who every Sunday aſſemble in Church, and, according to their Laws and
Regulations,
NAB OB OF THE CARNATIC. § 59
Regulations, deliver Precepts and Admonitions, who entertain Troops, and Appendix to
exerciſe them daily, do ſo with a View to the Adjuſtment of their own Concerns. No. 7.
If we alſo, with a View to the Arrangement and Adjuſtment of our Concerns, take continued.
Obligations and Engagements from our Servants, where is the Objećtion : Pleaſe
God, this Meaſure, which your Majeſty has ſuggeſted, your having taken Obliga-
tions and Engagements from the Servants in Attendance upon your Majeſty, and
your direéting us to do the ſame here, is highly proper, expedient, and adviſeable ;
and in Sight of Men of Underſtanding, the good Effects and Benefits of it are
endleſs and without Bounds. The Meaſure was neceſſary too ; for what is the
Meaning that there ſhould not be an Union among the Profeſſors of the Faith;
that they ſhould not devote themſelves to the Intereſts of their Maſters, and that,
diſregarding the Claims of Gratitude, they ſhould turn their Backs upon the
Enemy in the Day of Battle ; theſe Engagements and Obligations are very proper,
and involve many Advantages ; farther Particulars will be made known to your
Majeſty by the verbal Repreſentations of Mahomed Dewan, who attended, and
was an Eye Witneſs to all that paſſed. A Liſt of the Servants who are here preſent,
and who entered into the Engagements, is encloſed. *
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone, }
&c. &c.
No. XVII.
Tranſlation of a Note, written with a Pencil upon Half a Sheet of Poſt
Paper, with an Envelope of Engliſh Paper, by his Highneſs Omdut
ul Omrah; apparently addreſſed to Gholaum Alli Khan.
GOOD Faith is the Law for (or Pračtice of) Syeeds. I complain of
frequent Neglects; let me be ſometimes called to Remembrance; at all Events the
Jntelligence of the Marriage of the Princes has rejoiced me. The Preſents uſual
on ſuch Occaſions from my Father will be ſent, or (it may beinterpreted) are now
ſent. Repeat the following Couplet on my Part to the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun.
In the Preſervation of thy Perſon is the perpetual Permanence of the Faith.
Let him not remain who wiſheth not thy Preſervation.
Make my Complaints to his Highneſs of his not Writing to me; if Permiſſion
be required (for ſtating thoſe Complaints) you will obtain it. To the Princes
3Reſpect; to Rezza Alli Khan Compliment. Gholaum Huſſain. -
Dated 14th Mohurrum 12cy, (correſponding with the 12th Auguſt 1794.)
(A true Copy.)
(signed). N. B. Edmonſtone,
- &c. &c.
60
PA PERS CON CERNING THE LATE
Appendix to
No. 7.
continued.
No. XVIII.
Tranſlation of a LETTER from Mahomed Ghyauſs and Mahomed Ghoſe
Khan, Ambaſſadors from Tippoo Sultaun to his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic; dated 6th of Takree of the Year Shaud 1223, A. N. Ma-
homed, (anſwering to about 17th December 1795.)
THE humbleft of the Servants of his Majeſty, the Shadow of God,
Tippoo Sultaun, King, Defender of the Faith, may his Dominion endure for
ever ! Mahomed Ghyauſs and Mahomed Ghoſe, after performing the Ceremonies
of Obeiſance, humbly repreſent to thoſe who ſtand in the enlightened Preſence.
Prior to this we had the Honour to forward an Addreſs to your Majeſty from
Ryacottah, whence we proceeded, and by regular Stays, arrived on the 28th near
Tirmulkerry.
From that Place we wrote a Note to Khader Newaz Khan, which we diſ.
patched by Hircarrahs ; a Reply arrived, ſignifying that the Nabob Omdut ul
Omrah was much rejoiced at our Approach, and deſired that we would proceed
with all poſſible Expedition; adding, that an Habitation was prepared for our Recep-
tion: At about Three o’Clock in the Afternoon we arrived there, and immediately
a Gentleman waited upon us, and told us he was come to perform the Rights of
Hoſpitality. We anſwered, that it was perfectly conformable to his Highneſs the
Nabob's known Kindneſs and Urbanity: He then cauſed Firewood and earthen
Pots to be brought, and told us he had brought a Hundred Rupees for our im-
mediate Expences. We anſwered, that we were come on an Occaſion of Con-
dolence, what Neceſſity was there for Money : He was very importunate with us
to accept it, but we made him carry it back. He returned with it however
again, and again we ſent him back with it. About Eight o’Clock at Night, Khader
Newaz Khan himſelf came, and told us that the Nabob was much diſpleaſed;
however, if we would not accept the Money he would ſend us dreſſed Proviſions.
We replied, that, as we were his Highneſs's Gueſts, he might do ſo for a Day or
two: After paying Khader Newaz Khan the Compliment of the Paun and Ottur,
we let him take leave. In the Morning his Highneſs ſent us Proviſions from his
own Kitchen; this was continued for Three Days, and was continuing longer,
but we ſent Word to Khader Newaz Khan, in the moſt earneſt Manner, that for
Three Days it was very well, but if the Pračtice was continued we ſhould be
under the Neceſſity of ſending the Proviſions back.
Immediately on our Arrival at Tirmulkerry, we ſent our Compliments by a
choidar to the Governor, who returned for Anſwer, that he was happy to hear of
our Arrival. The next Day an European, named Grant, who commands the
Governor's Body Guard, came to fee us, and invited us to wait next Day on the
Governor, who would condućt us to the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah. We accord-
ingly next Day went to the Governor’s, to whom we delivered your Majeſty's
Letter, and the Khelaut (or honorary Dreſs). The Governor aſked after your Ma-
jeſty's Health, and we replied in ſuitable Terms; after complimenting us with
the Paun and Flowers and Roſe Water, he told us that he would introduce us
early the next Morning to the Nabob. We then took Leave and returned Home,
and ſent Notice to Khader Newaz Khan, that the Governor had poſtponed the
intended Viſit of that Day, but that we were deſirous only of conſulting his
- Highneſs's
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N A TI C.
6E
Highneſs's Pleaſure, and ſhould act as his Highneſs might direct; he returned for Appendix to
Anſwer, that it was no Matter, we might come the Day following. Early the next
Morning we went to the Governor, and taking him with us we proceeded to the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and delivered the Khelaut of Mourning and Letter of
Condolence; his Highneſs was very much pleaſed, and converſed about your
Majeſty's Health, and other Subjects, a whole Hour (23 Minutes.) He then
complimented us with the Paun and Ottur, and allowed us to depart; on our
taking Leave he took our Hands, and obſerved to us with a great deal of Anger,
that we were his Gueſts, and it was not proper for us to decline receiving Pro-
viſions, conjuring us for God's Sake not to ſend back the Proviſions which ſhould
be ſent us while we remained here. We reſiſted as much as poſſible by Argu-
ment, but his Highneſs would not liſten to our Refuſal, and again conjured us by
Oath not to return the Proviſions which ſhould be ſent to us while we remained;
we could ſay no more and returned Home. The next Day his Highneſs, having
ſent for Nuffur ul Dowlah, appointed the next Day for our again attending him,
and we then delivered the Khelaut and Letters which were for him (Nuſſur ul
Dowlah.) He alſo made Enquiries after your Majeſty's Health, to which we
made a ſuitable Reply. His Highneſs then gave us the Ottur and Paun, and
ſuffered us to take leave. The Day after we again went to the Durbar, taking
with us the Letter and Khelaut of Congratulation, the Jewels and Horſes. We
delivered the Letter and Khelaut, preſented Nuzzers of Five Rupees each, and ſat
down. His Highneſs, with the greateſt Degree of Kindneſs, placed us cloſe to
himſelf, and launched out into great Praiſes of your Majeſty, and appeared de-
lighted with the Subjećt, telling us that it was his Intention to ſend for us, and ſay
what he had to ſay in private ; adding, that our Arrival at this Time was ex-
tremely proper. His Highneſs told us, that he had committed the late Nabob
Walajah's Body to the Earth, at the Shrine of the Saint named Mucktdoom Sahib,
at Mylapore, to be removed in Four Months.
May the Sun of Proſperity always continue to ſhine.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
&c. &c.
No. XIX.
Tranſlation of a L E T T E R from Mahomed Ghyaſs and Mahomed Ghoſe
Khan, deputed by Tippoo Sultaun to the Nabob of the Carnatic, to the
former (without Date.)
AFTER diſpatching our Arzee, the Nabob Omdut ul. Omrah ſent for us
and ſpoke a good deal upon the Subjećt of Friendſhip between the Two States;
and then ſaid to us, “You are both come cn the Part of my Friend, and I do not
deſign to part with you ſoon.” We replied, that we certainly confidered both
States as one, but that at preſent ſome preſſing Buſineſs required our Return, and
therefore we muſt requeſt him to give us leave to depart. Upon which he ſaid, that
pleaſe God he would ſoon do ſo; but, ſaid his Highneſs it is not proper in you to
ſend back the Proviſions, as you have repeatedly done ſo, I ſwear to God, that as
long
No. 7.
continued.
62.
PA PERS CONCE R N IN G T H E LATT.
Appendix to
No. 7.
continued.
** Manuſcript
effaced.
long as you remain here, I ſhall ſend you Proviſion, and you muſt alſo, for my par.
ticular Satisfačtion, wear Clothes that I will provide you; you muſt not return
them. We ſaid in Reply what appeared ſuitable to the Occaſion, but his High-
'neſs would not liſten to it, but renewed his Adjuration, and giving us the Ottur and
Paun diſmiſſed us, The next Day, the 12th Takree, at Three in the Afternoon
Khadir Newaz Khan came with Cloth and Taylors, and told us it was his High-
neſs's Command to him, to ſee the Cloth cut out before us and fitted to US ; we
Conteſted the Point to the utmoſt with Khadir Newaz Khan, but he told us his
Highneſs had taken an Oath, and that it was not proper in us to refuſe. At length
he cauſed Four Pieces of ſpotted Muſlin, and Four Pieces of * for each of
us, to be cut out, and ſet the Taylors to work, with Injunétions to get the Whole
ready by the Evening.
From Sunday, during Five or Six Days, the Rains were inceſſant. On the Six-
teenth, when it ceaſed a little, Khadir Newaz Khan ſent a Meſſage, that the Rain
had latterly prevented our receiving our Diſmiſſion, but now the Khelauts for your
Majeſty, the Elephants and Horſes, &c. would be ſent on that Day, and that the
following Day his Highneſs would ſend for us, and give us our Diſmiſſion. Accord-
ingly, at about Three o’Clock in the Afternoon, an Elephant and Five Horſes, Two
Khelauts of Embroidery, and Two Pieces of Jewellery, one a Khulgu, and the
other a Surpaiſh, beſides a large Box ſealed, in which were Khelauts of ſpotted
Muſlin, &c. and another Box alſo ſealed, containing the Otturdawn and Paundaun,
were brought by Daood Khan, and the Keeper of the Wardroke, &c. who deſired
us to take Charge of theſe Articles, and convey them ſafely to your Majeſty; that
his Highneſs had moreover ſent Two Khelauts of Embroidery for us, and that he
would ſend for us the following Day, and after having communicated to us that he
had to ſay, would give us Leave to depart. At their Deſire we took a Memorandum
of the Articles. The next Day we were prevented from waiting upon his High-
neſs by the Violence of the Rain. On the 3d Day, at about Nine o’Clock A. M.
his Highneſs ſent Word to us to come in the Clothes which had been nearly made,
as it would be a great Gratification: To pleaſe him we accordingly did ſo. After
many Salaams his Highneſs, with the Appearance of great Satisfaction, aroſe, and
taking our Hands ſaid, Now am I extremely happy. We then ſat in a private
Place, when his Highneſs expatiated during Two Hours with great Warmth upon
the Subjećt of Union and Friendſhip; after which he gave us the Ottur and Paun,
and ſuffered us to take leave and we returned Home. At Three o’Clock in the
Afternoon we received a Note from Khadier Newaz Khan, ſtating that his High-
neſs ſent 2,0co Rupees for our Horſes, and 300 Rupees for the Three Duffadars,
Naik of Hircarrahs and Duffadar (or Hoad) of Khidmutgaes. We, in the Pre-
fence of his Highneſs's Naik of Hircarrahs, made Preſents to his Highneſs's Ser-
vants out of that 2,000 Rupees. We write this for your Highneſs's Informa-
tion. -
A true Tranſlation.
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
&c.
Note—The Original of the following Tranſlation is written in the ſame Hand
as the Nabob of Arcot's Letters invariably are ; but on the Cover, in Place of
the Seals, are written the Name of “ Gholaum Huſſain;” and in the Place of
- Direction,
N A B O B O F T H E S CARN A TI C. 63
;Pire&tion, “ Gholaum Alli.” The Date of its Receipt is the 9th Rejeb 121 1, *: to
: ino wi º º - O. 7.
(correſponding with the 8th January 1797 .) continued.
No. xx.
Tranſlation of a LETTER from the Nabob-Omdut ul Omrah, to
Gholaum Alli Khan.
AFTER a Lapſe of Time, and the Moment my Heart was deſirous of
learning Accounts of your Health, I had the Pleaſure to receive your friendly
Letter; and I was gratified by the News of your Welfare.
‘I have fully comprehended the ſeveral Points contained in that Letter; you
will become acquainted with the Circumſtances alluded to from the Communi-
cations of Mahomed Ghyauſs and Mahomed Ghoſe Khan. Deeming me deſirous
of receiving the pleaſing Accounts of your Health, you will gratify me by com-
municating them. -- -
(Endorſement on the Letter by one of Tippoo Sultaun's Monſhees.)
Received the oth of Rehmaunu of the Year Shaud 1223, A. N. Mahomed,
anſwering to the 9th Rijib 1211 Hegeree, (correſponding with the 8th
January 1797.) - -
- A true Tranſlation.
- (Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
- &c. &c.
No. XXi.
Tranſlation of a LETTER, under the Seal of Khader Newaz Khan, to
Gholaum Alli Khan. -
D E E M IN G my Deſire of the Honour of a Meeting, which is replete with
Happineſs, beyond the Power of Writing, or Speech to expreſs, I proceed to re-
preſent the Purpoſe of this Addreſs.
Your kind Letter, intimating that you had been indiſpoſed after your leaving this
Place, but that your Health was completely reſtored, has reached me, and its Con-
tents have been underſtood. Although I am concerned at the Accounts of your
indiſpoſition, my Thanks are offered up to Almighty God for your Recovery.
What you write of the Satisfaction of the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun Behaudar, may
his Shadow be extended ! Upon the Intimation of my Attachment, has called forth
my higheſt Thanks and endleſs Praiſes; and I beg you will preſent my reſpectful
Acknowledgments for his Kindneſs and Favours towards me. I have been from
firſt to laſt endeavouring, that, through the Favour of God, the Degree of Union
between theſe Two choſen of the Lord (meaning the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah
and Tippoo Sultaun) which is calculated to promote the Happineſs of God's People,
may daily be ſtrengthened and cemented, and mutual Friendſhip and Attachment
be confirmed and eſtabliſhed; and Thanks to the Almighty, that the Syſtem of
Harmony and Union has acquired the requiſite Degree of Stability and Firmneſs,
(literally, that as it ſhould be, ſo it is)—Always believe me anxious for the News
of your Welfare, and conſtantly praying for your Health and Happineſs.
(Endorſement
64.
P A P E R S CO N C E R N IN G T H E LATE
Appendix to
No. 7.
éontiued.
(Endorſement on the Letter by one of Tippoo Sultaun's Moonſhees.)
Received the 10th Rehmauny of the Year Shaud 1223 A. N. Mahomed,
anſwering to the 9th Rejeb 121 1 Hegeree, (correſponding with the 8th
January 1797.)
(Superſcription on the Cover.)
Be it honoured by the reſpected Peruſal of Syed Gholaum Ali Khan Behaudar,
Muſheddy (i. e. Muſhud, a Place in Khoroſan.)—Be his Favour perpetualſ
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
- &c. &c.
Extraćt from the TREATY concluded in 1787, between the Engliſh
Eaſt India Company and the Nabob of the Carnatic.
Article 15th.
“WHENEVER the Company ſhall enter into any Negociation wherein the
Intereſts of the Carnatic and its Dependencies may be concerned, the Preſident
in Council of Fort St. George ſhall communicate the Proceedings to his Highneſs
the Nabob of the Carnatic, as the firm Ally of the Company; and alſo the Di-
rečtion of the combined Force of the Country is committed entirely to the
Honourable Company or their Repreſentatives.—It is nevertheleſs underſtood, that
his Highneſs ſhall be informed of all Meaſures, which ſhall relate to the declaring
of War, or making Peace with any of the Princes and Powers of Hindoſtan, ſo
far as the Intereſts of the Carnatic may be immediately concerned; and the Name
of his Highneſs ſhall be inſerted in all Treaties regarding the Carnatic; and his
Highneſs will not enter into any political Negociations or Controverſies with any
State or Power, without the Conſent or Approbation of the Preſident in Council
of Fort St. George.”
Extraćt from the TREATY concluded in 1792, between the Engliſh
Eaſt India Company and the Nabob of the Carnatic.
Article I ºth.
“T H E ſaid Nabob ſhall receive regular Information of all Negociations
which ſhall relate to declaring War or making Peace, wherein the ſaid Company
may engage, and the Intereſts of the Carnatic and its Dependencies may be con-
cerned; and the ſaid Nabob ſhall be confidered as an Ally of the ſaid Company
in all Treaties, which ſhall in any Reſpect affect the Carnatic and Countries depend-
ing thereon, or belonging to either of the Contracting Parties contiguous thereto;
and the ſaid Nabob agrees that he will not enter into any Negociations or political
Correſpondence with any European or Native Power, without the Conſent of the
ſaid Company.” - -
(True Copies.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
- Secretary.
N A B O B - O F T H E C A R N A Ti C,
No. 8.
Copy of a LETTER from the Governor General to his late
Highneſs the Nabob. *
[Written 28th May 1801.]
Mem.—This Letter is preſented on a Suppoſition, that it is the ſame which
is required by the 11th Order of the Honourable Houſe, and therein
deſcribed as having been ſhewn by Meſſrs. Webbe and Cloſe to the
Regents on the 15th July 1803.
To the Nabob of ARcot.
FOR ſome Time paſt your Highneſs muſt have obſerved, that although I have
received various Communications from you with relation to the internal Govern-
ment of the Carnatic, and to the general State of your Affairs, 1 have not deemed
it conſiſtent with my public Duty to return any Reply to any other Letters, which
I have had the Honour to receive from your Highneſs, excepting thoſe containing
the uſual Interchange of Compliments between your Highneſs and the Britiſh Go-
vernment; the Cauſe of my Silence is of the moſt ſerious Nature, and has oc-
caſioned the deepeſt and moſt ſincere Regret to my Mind.
The Succeſs of our Arms againſt the late Tippoo Sultaun, has brought to light
many important and extraordinary Tranſačtions. My Determination on the Subječt
of the Proofs which I poſſeſs has been formed after the fulleſt Deliberation; and
after the moſt diſpaſſionate Review of all the Circumſtances of the Caſe, I have
communicated my final Opinion to Lord Clive, with my poſitive Directions to
carry into Effect, without Delay, thoſe Arrangements which the Nature of the Caſe
appears to me to require, for the Security of the Britiſh Intereſts in the Carnatic.
Lord Clive will enter into a full Explanation of all the Evidence which has been
diſcovered at Seringapatam, and will alſo ſtate to your Highneſs the Purport of
the Inſtrućtions which he has received from me. I requeſt your Highneſs to con-
fider Lord Clive to be fully authorized by me to terminate the requiſite Arrange-
ments, and under this View of the Queſtion, I truſt that you will not expect
from me any Interruption to the courſe of thoſe Meaſures which I have judged to
be indiſpenſably neceſſary, and which I have direéted Lord Clive to accompliſh
without further Reference to my Authority.
(A true Copy.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
P. T. to the Governor.
(A true Copy.)
$ (Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief Secr' to Government.
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PAPERS CO N C E R N ING T H E LATE
No. 9.
Copy of PRocee DINGs of the Governor in Council of
Fort St. George, on the ſigning of the Treaty between
the Company and Azeem ul Doulah.
To His Excellency the Moſt Noble the Marquis WELLEsly, K. P.
Governor General in Council at Fort William.
My Lord,
LORD Clive has had the Honour of informing the Governor General
of the Demiſe of his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ool Omrah, the late Nabob of
the Carnatic, on the 15th Inſtant. His Excellency has alſo been apprized by his
Lordſhip of the Meaſures adopted by Lord Clive, in conformity to the ſeparate
Diſpatches of the Governor General, for eſtabliſhing the Rights and Intereſts of
the Britiſh Government in the Carnatic, on the permanent Baſis of territorial
Security. -
2. Thoſe Diſpatches, and the Reſult of Lord Clive's Meaſures for the Arrange-
ment of the Affairs of the Carnatic, having been communicated to us; we have
the Honour to acquaint your Excellency in Council, that a Treaty has been this
Day concluded, ſubjećt to the Ratification of the Governor General in Council,
for ſettling the Succeſſion to the Soubehdarry of the Territories of Arcot, and for
veſting the entire Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic in the Hands of
the Company.
3. The ſeparate Diſpatches of Lord Clive will have explained to his Excel-
lency the Governor General the Cauſe which prevented his Lordſhip from com-
municating to the late Nabob Omdut ool Omrah, the Nature of the Governor
General's Inſtrućtions, founded on the written and oral Teſtimony taken a
Seringapatam; the ſubſequent Demand made by Lord Clive of an adequate Se-
curity for the Britiſh Intereſts in the Carnatic, from the reputed Son of Omdut
ool Omrah ; the poſitive and formal Rejećtion by that Perſon of an amicable Ad-
juſtment of the Affairs of the Carnatic, founded on the Rights acquired by the
Company, from his reputed Father's Violation of the Alliance, and of the expreſs
Stipulations of the Treaty of 1792; the ſubſequent Motives of Lord Clive for
opening a Negociation with the Prince Azeem ool Dowlet Behauder, for the Pur-
poſe of reviving the Alliance between the Family of his Highneſs and the Britiſh
Government, founded on the Inſtructions of the Governor General to avoid the
Humiliation of the Family of the Nabob Mahomed Alli, if it ſhould be praćticable
to obtain by Negociation the Security required for our Rights in the Carnatic, and
finally the Terms of the Arrangement which has been concluded by the Deputies
under the immediate Authority of Lord Clive; theſe Points having been fully
ſtated in his Lordſhip's ſeparate Diſpatches, we truſt that it will be ſufficient for
us to refer the Governor General in Council to thoſe Diſpatches, with the Ex-
preſſion of our entire Concurrence in the Arrangements adopted by Lord Clive
inder his Excellency’s ſeparate Inſtrućtions.
.* - 4. We
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4. We have now the Honour of tranſmitting to your Excellency in Council, an
official Copy of the Treaty, which has this Day been executed, and interchanged
by us, with the Nabob Azeem ool Dowlet Behauder; and we recommend that a
ratified Copy of the Treaty may be tranſmitted to us with all pračticable Expedi-
tion, for the Purpoſe of being delivered to his Highneſs.
5. The Change of Circumſtances ariſing from the Condućt of Alli Huſſein,
and the Perſons appointed to aſſiſt his Counſels, has rendered it neceſſary for Lord
Clive to introduce a correſpondent Change in the Strućture of the Declaration
tranſmitted to his Lordſhip by the Governor General. We have the Honour of
ſubmitting to your Excellency in Council, a Copy of the Declaration, in the Form
in which we ſhould judge it adviſeable to publiſh that Paper, if your Excellency
ſhould deem the Publication of it to be expedient.
6. It is our Intention that a Copy of the Declaration in this Form ſhall be im-
mediately tranſmitted to the Governor in Council at Bombay, and to the Refi-
dents at Hyderabad and Poona, for the Purpoſe of communicating to them the
Grounds on which the Succeſſion to the Soubehdarry of the Territories of Arcot,
and the Arrangement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, have been ſettled and eſta-
bliſhed; but we ſhall uſe no further Means for the Diſtribution of that Document,
unleſs we ſhould receive Inſtructions for that Purpoſe from your Excellency in
Council. .-
7. In concluding an Arrangement involving Conſequences of ſo much Import-
ance to the Britiſh Intereſts in India, it is impoſſible for us not to feel a Degree of
Anxiety correſpondent to the Magnitude of the Subjećt, until we ſhall be honoured
by the Receipt of the Determination of your Excellency in Council on this Tranſ-
aćtion. In the mean while, anticipating with Confidence the Concurrence of
your Lordſhip's Sentiments with our own, we offer our Congratulations to your
Excellency in Council on the Concluſion of an Arrangement, by which the Rights
and Intereſts of Great Britain in the Carnatic have at length been fixed on the ſolid
Foundation of territorial Security.
8. We have the Honour to inform your Excellency in Council, that his High-
neſs the Nabob Azeem ool Dowlet Behauder has this Day been inftated in the
Muſnud of his Anceſtors, as Nabob Soubehdaur of the Carnatic, with every Mark
of public Reſpect from the Britiſh Government, and with every pračticable
Degree
of Splendour conformable to the Uſages of India. -
9. It is our Intention to diſpatch the Whim Packet immediately for the Pur- --
poſe of conveying to the Honourable the Secret Committee of the Court of Di.
rećtors our Diſpatches on the Subjećt, which is now ſubmitted to the Governor
Seneral in Council.
We have the Honour to be,
My Lord, with great Reſpect,
Your Excellency's,
Moſt obedient and humble Servants,
(Signed) Clive,
Fort St. George, }. Stuarí,
31ſt July 1801. - Wm. Petrie,
- E. W. Fallofield.
No. 9.
continued.
68
| A PE R S C C, N C E R N J N G T H E LATE
No. 1 o.
Copy of the Correſpondence between the Governor General
and the Governor of Fort St. George, on the Subjećt of
the Carnatic ; from the Period of the Death of his late
Highneſs Omdut ul Omrah, to the Elevation of Azeem
ul Dowlah to the Muſnud.
{Official, N° 18.)
To His Excellency the Moſt Noble the Marquis WELLESLEy, K. P.
&c. &c. &c.
My Lord,
I HAVE the Honour of informing your Lordſhip, that his Highneſs the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah departed this Life about Nine o’Clock this Morning.
The Arrangement which I informed your Lordſhip had been made for the Pre-
fervation of Order at the Palace of Chepauk, upon the Occurrence of his Highneſs’s
Death, hath completely anſwered the Purpoſes intended by that Meaſure; and I
have the Satisfaction of acquainting your Lordſhip that entire Tranquillity prevails
throughout the Neighbourhood of Chepauk and of Madras. This Meaſure of
Precaution proved to be entirely ſatisfactory to the Mind of the late Nabob, from
the Time his Highneſs became acquainted with the Intention of it.
Tippoo Padſha (or Hiſſum ul Mulk the Furth Son of the late Mahommed
Ally, from whom principally I expected an Attempt to excite a Commotion on
the Death of the Nabob, is at preſent under the Protećtion of the Troops ſtationed
at Chepauk. -
Previouſly to the Receipt of your Lordſhip's Diſpatches committed to the
Charge of Mr. Webbe, I had determined to take immediate Meaſures, on the
Demiſe of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, for exerciſing the Government of the
Carnatic on the Part of the Company; but ſince the Receipt of thoſe Diſpatches,
which define more diſtinétly your Lordſhip's Wiſhes in regard to the Mode of
executing that Intention, I have judged it adviſable to ſuſpend the Declaration
of the Right of the Britiſh Government to aſſume the Adminiſtration of the
Affairs of the Carnatic, and to preſerve the gracious Appearance of National
Forbearance and Moderation as long as it might be conſiſtent with the ačtual
Security of the Britiſh Intereſts.
With
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With this View I deputed Mr. Webbe and Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe to the
Palace of Chepauk, for the Purpoſe of conferring with the principal Officers of
the late Nabob upon the Subjećt of any Arrangement which it might have been
the Intention of his Highneſs Omdut ul Omrah to provide, for adminiſtering the
Affairs of his Family and of his Government.
An authentic Will was produced to the Deputies, under the Seal and Signature
of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, appointing his reputed Son Alli Huſſain Khan
(Tadjh ul Omrah) to be Heir and Succeſſor to all his Highneſs's Poſſeſſions of
every Deſcription, and nominating Nejeeb Khan and Tuckia Aily Khan to be the
Guardians and Supporters of his Highneſs's reputed Son.
In conformity to my conditional Inſtrućtions, the Deputies proceeded to
diſcloſe to the Guardians, Tuckia Ally Khan and Nejeeb Khan, the Nature of the
Diſcoveries which had been made reſpešting the Breach of the Alliance between
the Company and the late Nabobs Mahommed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, by
the hoſtile Condućt of their Highneſſes. Having explained, during this Con-
ference, the entire Grounds on which the Right of the Company to uſe its
Diſcretion in ſecuring the Intereſts pledged to it in the Carnatic is founded, the
Deputies preſſed Tuckia Ally Khan and Nejeeb Khan, to concur in a Negociation
for an amicable Adjuſtment of the Affairs of the Carnatic, rather than to compel
the Britiſh Government to proceed to the Exerciſe of its own Rights and
Power. f ... •
The Plea of Delay, founded on the Decency and Neceſſity of providing for the
immediate Funeral of the late Nabob, was urged in a Manner ſo conſiſtent with
public Decorum, and with the Feelings natural to the Family of his Highneſs on
this Occaſion, that Colonel Cloſe and Mr. Webbe judged it expedient to allow a
Latitude until Seven o’Clock To-morrow Evening for the Declaration of a final
Anſwer to the Propoſition of an Adjuſtment by Negociation. In granting this
Latitude, the Deputies were careful to refuſe all Validity to the Will of the late
Nabob, and concluded the Conference by an Aſſurance to the Guardians, that
upon their Anſwer to be given at the next Conference, would abſolutely depend
either the Acknowledgment of the Will of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah by the
Company, or the Neceſſity of aſſerting the Rights of the Company, by proceeding
to exerciſe the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic.
The Guardians having declared their Intention to give a categorical Anſwer
at the Time propoſed, I ſhall be prepared, at the Expiration of it, to act according
to the Termination of the Conference, either by acknowledging the Succeſſor of
Omdut ul Omrah, and receiving Poſſeſſion of the Carnatic through the Channel
of Negociation, or by aſſerting the Right of the Company, and immediately pro-
ceeding to exerciſe the Government of the Carnatic.
I ſhould have availed myſelf of the earlieſt Opportunity of opening a Negocia-
tion with his late Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, upon the Grounds of
your Lordſhip’s Diſpatches, but having ſatisfied myſelf, upon the ſolemn Declara-
tion of his Highneſs's Phyſician, taken on Oath, that the Communication of
important Buſineſs at the Time of my receiving your Lordſhips's Inſtructions
might have been attended with fatal Conſequences to the Life of the Nabob, I re-
frained informing his Highneſs of the Arrival of thoſe Diſpatches; the gradual
S y Decay
No. Io.
continued.
7o PA P E R S CO N C E R N IN G T H E LATE
No. 10. Decay of the Nabob has fince continued to render it impracticable for me, on the
continued, ſame Motives of Humanity, to make any Communication to his Highneſs
founded on your Lordſhip's Inſtrućtions.
I have the Honour to be,
Fort St. George, &c. &c. &c.
I 5th July 1801. - (Signed) Clive.
(A true Copy.) N. B. Edmonſtone,
Secº.
(Official, N° 19, Secret.)
- - - To His Excellency the Moſt Noble the Marquis WELLEsley, K. P.
... •T *- &c. &c. &c.
My Lord, - - .
I. IN my Diſpatch of the 15th Inſtant, I had the Honour of communi-
cating to your Lordſhip my Intention of endeavouring to effect an Arrangement
of the Affairs of the Carnatic through the Channel of Negociation.
2. I have confidered that to be a Mode of Adjuſtment ſo preferable to the Exer-
ciſe of the Rights of the Britiſh Government, by the Aſſertion of its Power, that I
judged it to be adviſeable, in my verbal Inſtrućtions to the Deputies, to provide,
that their unceaſing Attention ſhould be dire&ted to the Accompliſhment of that
Objećt. The Conferences opened in conſequence, were condućted in a Manner
entirely conformable to this Principle. The Khans, appointed by the Will of the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah for the Aid of his reputed Son, were apprized by Mr.
Webbe and Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe of the poſitive Grounds of Right, on which
it was the Determination of the Britiſh Government to obtain Security for its In-
tereſts in the Carnatic; at the ſame Time every Argument of Conciliation and
Perſuaſion was urged by the Deputies, founded on the long eſtabliſhed Conneétion
between the Company and the Family of the Nabob Walajah ; on the humiliating
Conſequences of publiſhing to the World the Evidence of the hoſtile Conduct of
Omdut ul Omrah diſcovered at Seringapatam ; and on the different Degrees of
Dignity, Splendour, and Comfort, which would attach to the reputed Son of that
Prince under Circumſtances of friendly Accommodation, or of hoſtile Reſiſtance to
the Demand of Security on the Part of the Britiſh Government.
3. The Negociation was interrupted at its earlieſt Stage by a Refuſal on the
Part of the Khans, appointed to aſſiſt the Son of Omdut ul Omrah, to acquieſce in
the Demand conuained in the fundamental Propoſition of the Deputies for terri-
torial Security, to the Extent of veſting the Civil and Military Government of the
Carnatic excluſively in the Hands of the Britiſh Government. To this Demand
the Khans oppoſed an uniform Reſiſtance; and the Deputies would have been
juſtified in bringing the Negociation to a Concluſion on this Point of Difference.
Reaſon however exiſted for believing, that their Condućt was not conformable to
the Sentiments of the young Man; it was conſiſtent with the Motive for proceed-
ing by Negociation, that every pračticable Degree of Facility ſhould be given to
that Plan of Arrangement. An Opportunity was therefore offered to Ally Huſſain,
of
N A B O B O F THE C A R N AT I C.
7 I
of declaring his genuine Sentiments; and accordingly, in a ſeparate Converſation
with myſelf, he diſtinétly ſtated that he had not participated the Councils of his
Aſſiſtants.
4. In conſequence of this Declaration, it was my Intention to have relieved the
reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah from the Situation in which he appeared to have
been placed by the Condućt of his Father's confidential Miniſters. A ſecond
Meeting was accordingly appointed for the Purpoſe of completing the Arrange-
ment neceſſary to the Acknowledgment of Ally Huſſain's Title, and for the
Eſtabliſhment of territorial Security for the Rights of the Company. At this
ſubſequent Conference, which was alſo condućted without the Preſence of his
Aſſiſtants, Ally Huſſain retracted his Declaration of the preceding Day; he ex-
preſſed his unequivocal Concurrence in the Sentiments of the Khans, together
with his Reſolution not to depart from the Reſult of their Councils; and declared
his Reſolution to meet, at whatever Hazard, the Conſequences of refuſing this
reaſonable Demand of Security on the Part of the Britiſh Government.
5. Having exhauſted all the Means in my Power of impreſſing on the Mind of
the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's Son a juſt Senſe of the Right acquired by the
Company under the Violation of the Alliance, or of the Determination of the
Britiſh Government to exerciſe that Right for the Attainment of an adequate Se-
curity, I was reluétantly compelled to diſcontinue all farther Communication with
the immediate Family of Omdut ul Omrah. Y
6. The Detail of thoſe Conferences, which it is my Intention to tranſmit at a
future Period of Time to your Excellency, will evince that the Deputies ap-
pointed by me have adhered to the Spirit of Moderation and Temperance, which
I had preſcribed for the Condućt of the Negociation; for although the Negocia-
tion was formerly ſuſpended by the Rejećtion of the firſt Propoſition, a full Com-
munication was made both to Ally Huſſain ſeparately, and to his Adviſers jointly,
of the Plan of Arrangement intended by your Excellency for the Preſervation of
his Father's Family from entire Humiliation: Your Excellency will alſo obſerve,
that Omdut ul Omrah's reputed Son (who is of an Age to appreciate the Con-
ſequences of his own Condućt) and his Adviſers, have ſignified their final Rejećtion
of this fundamental Propoſition, under the Expreſſion of their entire Belief of the
Exiſtence of your Lordſhip's Orders, and under the Impreſſion of the fulleſt Know-
ledge of the Conſequences of that Rejećtion.
7. The Failure of my Endeavour to accompliſh an Arrangement of the Affairs
of the Carnatic, by a conciliatory Negociation with the reputed Son of Omdut uſ
Omrah, was as little expected by myſelf as by your Excellency. The Delay which
has in conſequence occurred, was inſeparable from this Mode of Procedure; but
whatever temporary Inconvenience may attach to it, I have no Doubt that your
Lordſhip will confider me to have adhered, in the Purſuit of an amicable Adjuſt-
ment, to the Spirit of your Councils, Inſtrućtions, and Wiſhes.
8. The Intention of obtaining an adequate Security for the Rights and Intereſts
of the Britiſh Government in the Carnatic, through the Channel of an amicable
Negociation, having been fruſtrated by the unexpected Reſiſtance oppoſed to my
Demands by the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah, it remained for me to apply the
Principles
No. Io.
continued.
72
P A P E R S C O N C E R N IN G THE LA TE
No. 10.
continued.
Principles ofyour Lordſhip's Policy and Orders to the Change of Circumſtances,
and the actual Condition of the Caſe.
9. The Reſult of the Propoſitions, founded on the Proofs of the Violation of the
Alliance, by the Condućt of Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, eſta-
bliſhes the Right of the Britiſh Government to exerciſe its Power in ſuch a Man-
ner, and to ſuch an Extent, as ſhall be judged adviſeable for the Attainment of an
adequate Security for its Rights and Intereſts in the Carnatic. The Mode of ex-
erciſing that Right is therefore limited to Conſiderations of Expediency: The Diſ-
patches which I have had the Honour of receiving from your Lordſhip by Mr.
Webbe, leave no Doubtin my Mind, that your Excellency conſiders that to be the
moſt expedient Mode of exerciſing our Right and Power, which ſhall be moſt con-
fiſtent with the Magnanimity of Moderation and Forbearance, under the Injuries
we have ſuſtained, and moſt conformable to the Nature of the Connection ſo long
ſubſiſting between the Company and Mahomed Ally.
Io. The Attainment of an adequate Security by Means of Negociation from the
immediate Family of Omdut ul Omrah, has been rendered impracticable, under
the Letter of your Lordſhip's laſt Inſtructions, by Ally Huſſain's Rejection of the
fundamental Propoſition for that Purpoſe; but the Spirit of your Lordſhip's
proviſional Orders, under Date the 26th of March 1800, is ſtill applicable to the
aćtual Circumſtances in which the Affairs of the Carnatic have now been placed.
Confiderations, independent of thoſe conneéted with our external Relations, are
ſuggeſted by the State of cur domeſtic Affairs: The Rebellion in the Southern
Provinces has aſſumed a more formidable Aſpect than could have been expe&ted;
and although the Force aſſembled is, I truſt, ſufficient for the Suppreſſion of it, the
Movement of Troops required for that Purpoſe has unavoidably ſo reduced the
appointed Force of the Provinces, as to render extremely inconvenient any Mea-
ſure calculated to augment the Number of diſaffected Perſons. During the re-
cent Negociations, Circumſtances have occurred which eſtabliſh my Belief of the
Exiſtence of a very confiderable Treaſure in the Poſſeſſion of the Family of the
late Nabob, and it is of great Importance that ſo pregnant a Source of Miſchief
ſhould not now be thrown into a Scale adverſe to our Intereſts.
1 1. The Objećt of the Orders which I am inſtrućted by your Excellency to
carry into Effect, is the Attainment of an adequate Security founded on the Poſ-
ſeſſion of Territory; if that Objećt ſhould be attainable with the Conſent of the
Houſe of Mahomed Ally, it is manifeſt that the Degree of Security will be greater,
than if the ſame Objećt ſhould be obtained by the Exerciſe of our Power, even
under the Qualification of our indiſputable Right; becauſe ſuch a Mode of Proce-
dure is calculated to conciliate the Affections of our Muſſulman Subjećts, inſtead
of inflaming the diſcontented State of their Minds, and to ſecure at leaſt a negative
Application of the ſuppoſed Treaſure to the ordinary Uſe of the Family, inſtead
of diverting it to the Purpoſes of Treachery or Hoſtility.
12. On a Review of all theſe Circumſtances and Confiderations, I have judged
the Principles of your Lordſhip's Orders to remain in full Force, although the
Mode of applying them has failed with reſpect to the ſuppoſed Son of Omdut
ul Omrah; but every Conſideration of our general Policy, of Expediency with
reſpect to our external Relations, and of Prudence with regard to our in-
- * ternal
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73
ternal Tranquillity, requires, in my Judgment, that the aëtual Eſtabliſhment
of our Security on the Baſis of Right to exerciſe the entire Civil and Military
Government of the Carnatic, ſhould be accompanied by the gracious and conci-
liatory Meaſure of eſtabliſhing a Branch of the Houſe of Mahomed Ally in a
Degree of Rank and Splendour, ſuited to its long ſubſiſting Conneétion with the
Company, and conſiſtent with the actual Circumſtances of the Carnatic.
13. I have already apprized your Lordſhip by my private Diſpatches, that,
under the Impreſſion of theſe Sentiments, I had directed my Attention to the
situation of Azeem ul Dowlah, the only Son of the late Ameer ul Omrah, and
that in determining to advance him eventually to the Soubahdarry of the Territories
of Arcot, I had confidered myſelf at Liberty to extend to the preſent Situation of
the Affairs of the Carnatic, the proviſional Inſtrućtions contained in your Lordſhip's
Diſpatch of the 26th of March 1890. Having adopted, in conſequence of this in-
tention, the neceſſary Meaſures of Precaution for removing the Reſtraint impoſed
during a long Period of Time, by the Family of Omdut ul Omrah, on the Perſon
of Azeem ul Dowlah, I direéted Mr. Webbe and Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe to
open a Negociation with that Prince, upon the Grounds of the Rights acquired
by the Company, from the Violation of the Alliance on the Part of his Family;
and upon the Wiſh of the Britiſh Government to avoid, as far as might be con-
fiſtent with its actual Security, the Humiliation of this ancient and illuſtrious
Houſe.
14. I have the Honour of acquainting your Lordſhip, that the Negociation has
been brought to a ſucceſsful Determination, and I encloſe the Draft of a Treaty "
which Azim ul Omrah has bound himſelf to execute in a more formal Man-
ner, as ſoon as Circumſtances may be ſufficiently advanced to admit the Exe-
cution of a public Inſtrument.
x 5. In providing a ſuitable Maintenance for the Succeſſor of Omdut ul Omrah,
I have thought it more adviſeable to render the Amount dependant on the general
Proſperity of the Country, than to fix an unconditional Stipend for the Support
of his Dignity: This Mode of Arrangement, while it cannot encroach upon our Se-
curity, is calculated to qualify the entire Transfer of the Civil Government of the
Carnatic to the Hands of the Britiſh, with the Preſervation of an active Principle
for ſecuring an Union of Intereſts between the Nabob of the Carnatic and the
Company in the Adminiſtration of the Affairs of the Country; and this Mode
poſſeſſes the farther Recommendation of relieving the Proviſion for the Main-
tenance of the Nabob from the Appearance of a mere Penſion. On the ſame
Grounds of Reaſoning, I have judged it expedient to ſecure the Income of the
Nabob from the Effects of any confiderable Failure in the Revenues of the Car-
natic. On the Principle adopted, I expect that the Income of the Nabob will
not much exceed Two Lacks of Pagodas, and the future augmented Income will
probably never exceed the Sum of Three Lacks of Pagodas.
16. I have adopted the Principle ſtated in your Lordſhip's Letter to his
Highneſs the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, of the 24th April 1799, containing.
the Plan of a propoſed Treaty for the complete Adjuſtment of all his Highneſs’s
Affairs with reſpect to the Company, and a Clauſe has accordingly been in-
troduced into the preſent Treaty, by which Azeem ul Dowlah formally acknow-
ledges, on the Part of himſelf and of his Predeceſſors heretofore Nabobs of the
T Carnatic,
No. Io.
continued.
* Wide Copy of
Treaty tranſ-
mitted in the
Diſpatch from
the Goyernor
in Courcil of
Fort Saint
George, dated
31 July 180 i ;
- —No.6. P. 33 •
74.
PAPERS conce RNING THE LATE
No, Io.
Continued.
* Vide Copy of
Declaration
accompanying
Diſpatch from
the Governor
in Council of
Fort Saint
George, of
31ſt July
• 18or 5–N° 7.
p. 37.
neceſſary to poſtpone
Carnatic, the Debts due by their Highneſſes to the Company on Account of the
Cavalry Loan, and on Account of the Proportion of the Conſolidated Debt of
1777, paid by the Company to the Creditors of the Nabob Mahommed Ally.
By the ſame Clauſe his Highneſs Azeem ul Dowlah has further bound himſelf to
acknowledge, as a juſt Debt, the Amount which ſhall be decided to be the juſt Ba-
lance of the unadjuſted Accounts referred to the Determination of the Governor
General in Council, by his late Highneſs the Nabob Mahommed Ally.
17, I have judged it to be my Duty to ſtimulate this formal Acknowledgment
of the Debts due to the Company by the Nabobs of the Carnatic, not more from
the Defire of providing a final Settlement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, than from a
Regard to Juſtice in ſecuring to the Public a Portion of whatever Sum may eventu-
ally be appropriated to the Liquidation of the floating Debt of the late Nabobs
Mahommed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah. I have conſidered this Duty to be the
more urgent, from the Reports now prevailing with reſpect to the Progreſs already
made towards an Arrangement for the Conſolidation of thoſe Debts, and from the
manifeſt Neceſſity of ſecuring, in ſuch an Event, a more adequate Proportion of the
Revenues of the Carnatic for the Defence of the Territories ſubjećt to this
Preſidency.
13. I have introduced into the Declaration tranſmitted to me by your Lordſhip,
ſuch Alterations as the Change of Circumſtances appears to have rendered neceſſary ;
and I have now the Honour of ſubmitting to your Excellency a Copy of the De-
claration,” in the Form in which it is my Intention to tranſmit it to the Reſidents
of Hydrabad and Poonah, and to the Government of Bombay. I ſhall not take
any farther Means for the Publication of this Paper, until I may become acquainted
with your Lordſhip's Sentiment on that Subject.
19. It is neceſſary to apprize your Lordſhip, that upon the Death of the Nabob
Omâut ul Omrah, I confidered it to be inconſiſtent with my Deſire of negociating
an amicable Adjuſtment of the Affairs of the Carnatic, to iſſue the Orders I had
propoſed previouſly to the Receipt of your Excellency's Diſpatches, tC) tranſmit £O
the Officers of the Company for the Purpoſe of authorizing them to exerciſe the
Government of the Carnatic. The Delay which has in conſequence occurred in
the transfer of Authority, is not likely to produce any ſerious Inconvenience, par-
ticularly with reſpect to the Revenue, at this Seaſon of the Year; and it will enable
me to tranſmit, together with the Orders of the Governor in Council to the Officers
thoſe of his Highneſs Azeem ul Dowlah to the Officers of the
of the Company, * Aº ‘º º º • . . . . /*
late 㺠for the regular and formal Eſtabliſhment of the Authority of the
Company in the Civil Government of the Carnatic.
ao. Circumſtances conneéted with the Situation of his Highneſs. Azeem ul
Dowlah, and of the Family of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, will render lt
the Ceremony of inſtalling his Highneſs for a ſhort Period
of Time; and until theſe Arrangements can be adjuſted, it will be impradicable
to tranſmit the Treaty in an official Diſpatch from the Governor in Council, for the
Purpoſe of being notified by the Governor General in Council.
21. Since the Termination of the Conferences with the Khans, on the Part Cºf
Omdut ul Omrah's Son, I have received from them an Addreſs, containing a formal
Communication of the Succeſſion of Ally Huſſain to the Rank and T º:
NAB O B O F THE CAR NATIC.
75
pointed by the Willof his ſuppoſed Father, together with an Intimation of the Readi-
neſs and Deſire of that Perſon to perform the Obligations of the Treaty of 1792.
This Communication was immediately ſubſequent to a poſitive, formal, and per-
ſonal Declaration from myſelf, that I could no longer conſider Ally Huſſain to
have any Pretenſions to thoſe T itles, in conſequence of the Refuſal on his Part to
afford the Degree of Security required by your Lordſhip's Orders. The Condućt
of thoſe Khans, and of Ally Huſſain, has ſince been conformable to this Affectation
of independent Rights. The poſitive and direčt Communication of the Intention of
the Britiſh Government, has not deterred thoſe Perſons from proceeding to the or-
dinary Ceremonies of inſtating Ally Huſſain in the oftenſible Rank of Nabob of the
Carnatic. This Mode of Procedure manifeſts, on the Part of Omdutul Omrah's re-
puted Son, and of his Adviſers, a ſyſtematic Adherence to the Spirit of Hoſtility
which animated that faithleſs Ally, and a perfect Obedience to the teſtamentary
Counſels of his Father. I have therefore been compelled to guard againſt the Conſe-
quences which ſuch an Appearance of Oppoſition to the Britiſh Authority is calcu-
lated, and may be intended to produce on the internal Tranquillity of the Country;
and I have judged it expedient for that Purpoſe to take complete Poſſeſſion of the
Palace of Chepauk, by Means of the Britiſh Troops, and to cloſe the public
Offices until the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah ſhall be inſtated.
I have the Honour to be,
Fort St. George, &c. &c. &c.
27th July 1801. (Signed) Clive.
By the Right Hon” Lord Clive.
(Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief SecY to Gov".
(A true Copy.) N. B. Edmonſtone, SecY.
(Official, N° 20.—Moſt ſecret.)
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Marquis WELLESLEy, K. P. &c. &c. &c.
My Lord,
1. THE general Grounds of Belief of the Exiſtence of a very large Trea-
fure in the Family of the late Nabob Mahomed Ally, has been confiderably
ſtrengthened by Circumſtances which have occurred during the recent Negocia-
tions with the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah ; I have therefore judged it to be my Duty
to endeavour, by the preſent Arrangements, to provide that a Proportion of the
Treaſure ſhould be appropriated to the Liquidation of the Cavalry Loan.
2. No Doubt can exiſt of the Juſtice or of the Expediency of ſuch a Provi-
fion; but under the actual Circumſtances of the Caſe I fear that conſiderable Dif.
ficulties will be oppoſed to the Execution of it. The Prince Azeem ul Dowlah
has been ſo long excluded from the Knowledge of public Affairs, at the Durbar of
the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, that it may be praćticable to conceal from his
|Knowledge the Mode in which the Treaſure may have been diſtributed, if (as
may be expected) the greateſt Portion of the Treaſure has been diſpoſed of
among
No. Io.
continued.
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PAPERS CO N C E R N IN G THE LATE
No. Io.
continued.
among the Female Part of the late Nabob's Family, or if it ſhould have been de-
poſited in the interior Apartments of the Palace, the Recovery of it muſt be at-
tended with much Embaraſſment: The Neceſſity of reſorting to the Meaſures re-
quiſite for that Purpoſe, could not fail of rendering the Elevation of Azeem ul
Dowlah unwelcome to many Branches of the Family, and impede, to a certain
Extent, that general Submiſſion to the Arrangement concluded with him, which
I conſider it of Importance to conciliate from all our Muſſulman Subječts.
3. In this View of the Queſtion I have judged it adviſeable to ſtipulate with
Azeem ul Dowlah a ſeparate and ſecret Article, providing for the eventual Diſ-
charge of the Cavalry Loan from the Treaſures which may be diſcovered. The
Knowledge of the Exiſtence of this Article, after Azeem ul Dowlah ſhall have
been eſtabliſhed in the Saubahdarry of the Territories of Arcot, not being liable
to the Inconveniences which render the Diſcovery at preſent inconvenient, it is
my Intention to keep this Article profoundly ſecret; and I truſt that your Lord-
ſhip will conſider me to have provided by this Mode the beſt Security for the
Diſcharge of the Debt which is conſiſtent with the extreme Delicacy of the Queſ.
tion, and with the Advantages of relieving the firſt Meaſures of Azeem ul HDow-
lah's Government from the ungracious Conſequences of demanding the immedi-
ate Reſtoration of the public Property.
4. I have the Honour of encloſing a Copy of the Article for your Lordſhip's
Information. . *
I have the Honeur to be,
&c. &c. &c.
Fort St. George, * Clive.
27th July 1801. -
By the Right Hon” Lord Clive.
(Signed) }. Webbe,
Chief SecY to Gov".
(A true Copy.) ** t
º N. B. Edmonſtone,
- SecY.
NAB.o.B of THE CARNATIC.
77
No. 1 I.
Copies and Extracts of LETTERs from the Governor Ge-
neral and the Governor in Council of Fort St. George,
to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors;
relative to the Revolution in the Carnatic, and the
Aſſumption of its Government by the Company.
To the Honourable the Secret Committee of the Honourable the Court of
IDireétors.
Honourable Sirs, --
Par. 1, Y O U R Honourable Committee has been already made acquainted, by
the Diſpatches of his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General, with the
written Evidence diſcovered at Seringapatam, of the treacherous Conduct of their
Highneſſes the Nabobs Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah.
2. On the Receipt of the Governor General's ſeparate Diſpatches, Lord Clive,
in conformity to his Excellency's Deſire expreſſed in a private Diſpatch, ap-
pointed Mr. Webbe, the Chief Secretary of this Government, and Lieutenant
Colonel Cloſe, the Reſident in Myſore, to be Commiſſioners, for the Purpoſe of
condućting the oral Examinations neceſſary to complete the Proofs of theſe moſt
extraordinary Tranſačtions.
3. The Report of the Commiſſioners, with the Proceedings, was received by
Lord Clive, and tranſmitted to his Excellency the Governor General, in the
Month of May 1800, with a Diſpatch from Lord Clive, containing his Lord-
ſhip's Sentiments on the Reſult of the Enquiry inſtituted at Seringapatam.
4. Circumſtances connected with our general Policy and Intereſts, rendered it
expedient for the Governor General to poſtpone his Excellency's Determination,
with reſpect to the Meaſures to be adopted in conſequence of this flagrant Viola-
tion of the Ties of Amity and Alliance by the Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Om-
dut ul Omrah. The Cauſes of this unavoidable Delay are explained in a recent
Diſpatch, received by Lord Clive from the Governor General, containing the
Refult of his Excellency's Deliberation on this important Queſtion, together with
his Lordſhip's Inſtrućtions in regard to the Nature and Extent of the Security to
be required for the Rights and Intereſts of the Company in the Carnatic.
5. During the Time when this Subjećt was under the Confideration of the Go-
vernor General, the State of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's Health became ſo
precarious, as to portend Conſequences fatal to the Exiſtence of his Highneſs.
/
IJ 6. At
78 PAPERS CONCER NING THE LATE
No. 1 I. 6. At an early Period of Time, after the Diſcovery of the Papers found at Se-
*inued, ringapatam, the Governor General had judged it expedient and prudent to tranſ-
mit eventual Inſtructions to Lord Clive, applicable to the Contingency of the Na-
bob Omdut ul Omrah's Death, previouſly to the Determination of the Meaſures
which might be rendered neceſſary to our Safety by the Detection of the faithleſs
and hoſtile Condućt of his Highneſs. Lord Clive was alſo enabled to receive In-
ſtrućtions from the Governor General, applicable to the Contingency of the Na-
bob's Death, ſubſequently to the Determination of the Syſtem of Policy to be
purſued for the future Security of our Intereſts in the Carnatic.
7. Theſe Diſpatches were entruſted by the Governor General, together with
his Excellency's verbal Inſtrućtions, to Mr. Webbe, who arrived at Fort St.
*George previouſly to the Diſſolution of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah. Although
the important Meaſures conneéted with the Execution of the Governor General's
Orders, rendered Lord Clive extremely anxious to demand, at the earlieſt pračica-
ble Period of Time, an adequate Security for the Britiſh Intereſts againſt the hoſ.
tile Councils of his Highneſs, yet the extreme Debility of Omdut ul Omrah
appeared, upon the Affidavit of his Highneſs's Phyſician, to be ſuch as to deter
Lord Clive from communicating to his Highneſs the Arrival of the Governor
General's Diſpatches. The ſubſequent Death of Omdur ul Omrah, which hap-
“pened on the 15th Ult. fruſtrated the Intenſion of Lord Clive to open a Negocia-
stion with his Highneſs according to the Inſtructions of the Governor General.
7. On the Demiſe of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, Lord Clive deputed Mr.
Webbe and Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe to open a Conference with the principal Of.
ficers of the late Government, for the Purpoſe of demanding from the Succeſſor
of Omdut ul Ormah the Security required by the Inſtrućtions of the Governor
General. {.
See Nº 4.p.3. 8. The Manner in which thoſe Conferences were condućted, is deſcribed in a
Report of the Deputies; and the Reſult of them was a Declaration by Ally Huſ-
ſain (the reputed Son, and the Heir appointed by the Wii of the late Nabob Om-
dut ul Omrah) of his final Reſolution not to acquieſce in Lord Clive's Demand
of Security to the Extent conſidered by the Governor General, and by his Lord-
ſhip, to be indiſpenſably neceſſary to the Security of the Britiſh Intereſts.
9. During theſe Conferences with the Perſons appointed by Omdutul Omrah
to aſſiſt the Councils of his Highneſs's reputed Son, the Deputies nominated by
Lord Clive endeavoured to impreſs on the Minds of thoſe Khans the Nature of
the Proofs eſtabliſhed on the written and oral Teſtimony taken at Seringapatam ;
and no Means of Aſſurance, Argument, or Perſuaſion were omitted, which could
...tend to convince thoſe Perſons of the Exiſtence of the Governor General’s
Orders, founded on the Inſtrućtions of your Honourable Committee, and of Lord
Clive's ſerious Determination to carry thoſe Orders into Effect, to the Extent of
obtaining an adequate Security for the Rights and Intereſts of the Company in
the Carnatic. Under the Circumſtances of the recent Death of the Nabob Omdut
ul Omrah, and of the indeterminate State of the Affairs of his Highneſs, ſome
Degree of Delay was inſeparable from theſe Negociations; but we have no Doubt
that your Committee will conſider the Inconveniences ariſing from that Delay, to
be compenſated by the Generoſity of affording to the Family of Omdut ul Omrah,
in this Spirit of Temperance and Moderation, ſufficient Leiſure to appreciate the
ſerious
NAB O B O F THE CARNATIC. 79
ſerious Effects of this alternative Choice on its immediate Intereſt. The Khans No. I.I.
appointed to act on the Part of Ally Huſſain having perfitted to refuſe tC). the De- continued.
puties the Security required by the Governor General, Lord Clive judged it to be
his Lordſhip's Duty, previouſly to the Adoption of the Meaſures dependant on
that Refuſhi, to obtain, if poſſible, a Knowledge of the genuine Sentiments of Ally
Huſſain himſelf on this important Propoſition. Lord Clive accordingly held tWO
perſonal Interviews with the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah, at which none
of the Officers or Adviſers of the late Government were preſent, the Place at
which theſe Interviews were held being within the Encampment of the Britiſh
Troops. The Mode of this Meeting was attended with the further Advantage of .
affording to Ally Huſſain immediate Security and Protećtion in the Event of his
deſiring to relieve himſelf from the deſperate and infatuated Councils of his Ad-
viſers. At theſe perſonal Interviews, the Nature of the Rights acquired by the
Britiſh Government was explained to Ally Huſſain; the Determination to exerciſe
thoſe Rights was ſtated; and the Conſequences of a Refuſal on his Part to afford,
in an amicable Manner, the Security required by the Britiſh Government, were
announced in the moſt ſerious and formal Manner by Lord Clive to the reputed
Son of Omdut ul Omrah. In reply to this Communication, Ally Huſſain
diſtinctly and formally ſtated his Reſolution to adhere to the Councils of the Khans
appointed to aſſiſt, and to refuſe, with a perfeót Knowledge of the Conſequences ^
of that Refuſal, to accede to the Demand for the Eſtabliſhment of an adequate
Security for the Intereſts and Rights of the Company in the Carnatic.
Io. In conſequence of the Reſiſtance, unexpectedly oppoſed by Ally Huffain to
this reaſonable Demand, it remained for Lord Clive to apply the Inſtructions and
Authority conveyed to his Lordſhip by the Governor General to the actual State
of Circumſtances. In proceeding to exerciſe the Rights of the Britiſh Government,
which the Condućt of Ally Huſſain had compelled his Lordſhip to aſſert, Lord
Clive ſtill judged it to be conſiſtent with the Sentinents of National Magnanimity
and Generoſity, that the Britiſh Government ſhould refrain from the Exerciſe of
: the Company’s Power, and from the abſolute Humiliation of the Family of Ma-
homed Ally, if an adequate Security could be obtained through the Channel of an
amicable Adjuſtment. Under the Impreſſion of theſe Sentiments, Lord Clive
direéted his Attention to the Claims and to the Situation of the Prince Azeem ul
: Dowlah Behauder. This Prince is the only Son by a formal Marriage of the late
Ameer ul Omrah, who was the Second Son of the late Nabob Mahomed Ally,
and is the immediate Great Grandſon, by both his Parents, of the Nabob Ameer
Ud Deen Khan, the Founder of the Family. The Rights of Omdut ul Omrah,
founded on the Treaty of 1792, having been vitiated by that Prince's Violation
of the Alliances, and of the Stipulations of that Inſtrument, the hereditary Claims
of the Houſe of Mahomed Ally deſcended to the Second Branch of the Family,
repreſented by the Prince Azeem ul IDowlah, the Son of Ameer ul Omrah, who
was the Second Son of the Nabob Mahomed Ally.
1 1. As ſoon as the Reſtraint impoſed by the Family of Omdutul Omrah on the
*Perſon of the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah could be removed, Lord Clive direéted
the Deputies, Mr. Webbe and Lieut. Col. Cloſe, to open a Communication with
that Prince, for the Purpoſe of reviving the Alliance between his Anceſtors and
the Company, and of eſtabliſhing the Rights and Intereſts of the Britiſh Govern-
ment in the Carnatic on a permanent Baſis of Security. The Grounds of the
Reaſoning in which this ſetermination was founded, are ſtated in a ſeparate
Diſpatch
See N° jo.
3×3
PAPER S CO N C E R N IN G T H E LATE
No. “I f.
continued.
See N° 7.
Ibid.
Diſpatch from Lord Clive to the Governor General, to which we refer your
Honourable Committee. -
12. The Prince Azeem ul Dowlah having been informed by the Deputies, of
the Foundation on which the Right of the Britiſh Government to demand an
adequate Security was ſupported, and of the Nature of the Security required, ſig-
nified his Acknowledgment of that Right, and his Willingneſs to afford, in the
Event of his Elevation to the Muſnud of his Anceſtors, the Security demanded by
the Authority of the Governor General. The Deputies accordingly proceeded to
frame a written Engagement on theſe Principles, which was executed by the Prince
Azeem u | Dowlah.
-i 3. In conformity to this Arrangement we have acknowledged Azeem ul
Dowlah to be Nabob of the Carnatic, and reſer your Committee to the detailed
Grounds of this Meature to a Declaration, which has been tranſmitted to the Go-
vernor General in Council, to the Governor in Council at Bombay, to the Go-
vernor of Ceylon, and to the Reſidents at Hydrabad and Poonah; for this Pur-
poſe we alſo-refer the Committee to the Treaty, which has been concluded with
the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder,
14. The Mode of providing for the Support of the Dignity of his Highneſ,
the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, is conformable to the Principles on which the
Alliance between his Highneſs's Family and the Company has been revived and
eſtabliſhed. By theſe Means the Intereſts of his Highneſs will become united
with thoſe of the Company in the general Proſperity of the Carnatic; and while
the aëtual Security of the Britiſh Intereſts, provided by the preſent Arrangement,
remains undiminiſhed, the Mode of ſupplying a Fund for the Expences of the
Family in the Manner ſuitable to its Rank, and to the Dignity of the Britiſh Go-
wernment, by the Allotment of a Proportion of the Public Revenues for that Pur-
poſe, is entirely relieved from the degrading Name and Appearance of a ſtipen-
diary Maintenance. r - - -
15. In conformity to the Plan deſcribed in the Governor General's Letter of
the 24th April 1799, to the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, for including in the
Treaty, at that Time propoſed to his Highneſs, a complete Adjuſtment of all the
Affairs of his Highneſs, and of his Highneſs's Anceſtors, which yet remain unad-
juſled with the Company, Lord Clive deemed it to be his Duty to ſtipulate an
entire Adjuſtment of the Debts due by the Family of the Nabob to the Com-
pany. His Highneſs having aſſented to this Demand, a Clauſe has accordingly
een introduced into the Treaty, by which the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah ac-
knowledges on his own Part, and on that of his Anceſtors, heretofore Nabobs
of the Carnatic, the Debt commonly called the Cavalry Loan, and the Debt
ariſing from the Proportion of the Conſolidated Debt of 1777, paid by the
Company to the private Creditors of the late Nabob Mahomed Ally, to be juſt
Debts due to the Company, together with the Intereſt ariſing thereon. His
Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah farther binds himſelf to acknowledge,
as a juſt Debt due to the Company, the Amount which may be pronounced by
the Governor General in Council, to be the juſt and fair Balance of the unad-
juſted Accounts between his Family and the Company, according to the Engage-
ment by which the Nabob Mahomed Ally bound himſelf to abide by the De-
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N A T I C.
8:
ciſion of the Gövernor General in Council, when his Highneſs referred thoſe
Accounts to the Determination of the Supreme Government.
16. It will be obvious to your Honourable Committee, that the Intention of
Lord Clive, in ſtipulating this Article of the Treaty, was direéted to ſecure to the
Company the Appropriation of the Sum of Six Lacks and Twenty-one Thouſand
Pagodas, unincumbered by any Dedućtions, to the Diſcharge of the Public Debt
due to the Company, as ſoon as the Conſolidated Debt of 1777 ſhall have been
liquidated, under the exiſting Engagements with the Conditions of the Nabob
Mahomed Ally.
17. The Objećt of ſecuring this Sum, for the Liquidation of the Debt due to
the Company, did not appear leſs important to Lord Clive, than the Expediency
of providing that, under any Circumſtances which may occur, a more adequate
Proportion of the Revenues of the Carnatic ſhould be applied tâ the Military De-
fence of thoſe valuable Poſſeſſions, than can now be appropriated to that Purpoſe.
The calamitous Impoveriſhment of every Source of Wealth and Population, of
which the Cauſes have been repeatedly ſtated to your Honourable Committee,
leaves no immediate Expectation that the Net Revenues of the Carnatic will ex-
ceed the Sum of Nineteen Lacks of Star Pagodas. This Fund, after allotting a ſuffi-
cient Sum for the Support of the Expences of the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, for
the Maintenance of the principal Officers, Miniſters, Dependants, and Family of
the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and for the Payment of the Amount appropri-
ated to the Liquidation of the Conſolidated Debt of the Nabob Mahomed Ally,
will afford a Sum, probably not exceeding Nine Lacks of Pagodas for the Defray-
ment of the Charges of defending theſe extenſive Territories,
18. That Sum exceeds, by a very ſmall Amount, the Proportion of the Revenue
which the Province of Tanjore contributes to the general Exigencies of the State,
and bears a very inadequate Proportion, either to the Expence of defending the
Carnatic, or to the Rate of Aſſeſſment levied for the Public Protećtion in every
other Part of the Territories ſubjećt to this Preſidency. The preſent Dedućtion of
Six from Fifteen Lacks of Pagodas, is therefore ſo diſproportioned to the preſent
Revenues of the Carnatic, that we can indulge no very ſanguine Hope of an imme-
diate Augmentation of our pecuniary Reſources from the Adminiſtration of the
Civil Government of the Carnatic. The progreſſive Decline of the Revenues of
the Carnatic may be confidered to have approached that Stage, at which your
Committee have been prepared to expe&t the entire Failure of the Nabob’s Go-
vernment, and, under the exiſting Engagements, the Augmentation of our
Reſources muſt be proportioned to the gradual Reſtoration of the Wealth and
Proſperity of the Country; every Confideration, therefore, of the actual Expence
of protećting the extenſive Provinces of the Carnatic, every View of the indiſpenſa-
ble Neceſſity of maintaining an adequate Military Force for the Defence of the
Britiſh Poſſeſſions in the Peninſula of India, and every Motive of Attention to the
alarming Preſſure on the Finances of this Preſidency, required Lord Clive to
eſtabliſh, by the preſent Treaty, the beſt poſſible Security for a more adequate Ap-
plication, in future, of the Public Revenues of the Carnatic to the Exigencies of
the Public Service.
19. We feel great Pleaſure in congratulating your Honourable Committee on
the Completion of an Arrangement, which has at length ſecured the Britiſh Intereſts
- - X in
No. 11.
continued.
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No. 1 r.
continued.
& The Docu-
ments here
referred to,
form an
Appendix to
this Diſpatch,
and a Liſt
(A.) is en-
cloſed.
in the Carnatic on the ſolid Baſis of territorial Poſſeſſion; and which is, at the ſame
Time, calculated to confirm the Reputation of our National Magnanimity, Gene-
rofity, and Moderation. We have no Doubt, that your Honourable Committee
will concur in our Sentiments, that the Negociation, which has terminated in the
Accompliſhment of theſe important Objećts, has been condućted in a Manner
conſiſtent with the liberal Policy of the Nation, unbiaſed by the adventitious Ad-
vantage which might have been derived from the early Excitement of a Competi-
tion, founded on the Variety of adverſe Intereſts dependent on the Determination
of the Britiſh Councils.
We have the Honour to inform you, that, in conformity to the Terms of the
Treaty, the Inſtallation of the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah was completed on the
31ſt Ult. accompanied with every Demonſtration of public Reſpect, ſupported by
every poſſible Degree of Splendour, and confirmed under the Obſervance of the
moſt formal Procedure. We have the Honour to be, with the greateſt
Reſpect,
Honourable Sirs,
Your faithful humble Servants,
w (Signed.) Clive,
Fort St. George, } - T. Stuart,
3d Auguſt I 801. Žn Petrie,
E. W. Fallofield.
Extraćt of a LETTER from Marquis WELLESLEy, to the
Secret Committee.
Dated Moonghyr, 28th Sept. 1801.
THE principal Documents reſpecting the final Settlement of the Carnatic,
have already been forwarded to you from Fort St. George; I have the Honour to
annex to this Diſpatch Copies of ſuch Documents”, relating to that Subjećt, as are
now at this Preſidency. The Georgiana will touch at Madras, in order to take
Duplicates of the Papers already tranſmitted to your Honourable Committee from
that Preſidency, with ſuch farther Advices, reſpecting the State of the Carnatic,
as the Right Honourable the Governor in Council may be prepared to tranſmit to
Europe. The Mornington Packet will convey to you a Review, which I am now
preparing, of the Circumſtances which have led to the late Arrangements in the
Carnatic; in the mean while the Diſpatches from Fort St. George, will have ſuf-
ficiently apprized your Honourable Committee of the Principles which governed my
Condućt in my Inſtrućtions to Lord Clive, and in the Ratification of the Treaty
concluded by his Lordſhip with the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah.
Extract of a Secret L E T T E R from Fort St. George, dated
1ſt Oétober 1801. *
Par. 1. ON the Third of Auguſt laſt we had the Honour of communicating to you,
by the Whim Packet, the Death of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and the Progreſs
of the Tranſačtions which had terminated in the Elevation of the Prince Azeem
ul Doulah Behauder to the Rank of the Nabob Soubadar of the Carnatic, and in
the Eſtabliſhment of the Rights and Intereſts of the Company in the Carnatic, on
the
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the ſolid Foundation of territorial Security. Duplicates of that Diſpatch having No. 1 r.
been tranſmitted by the Overland Conveyance, and ſubſequently by the extra Ship continued.
Bridgewater, we truſt that your Honourable Committee will have received the
earlieſt Intelligence of thoſe important Events.
2. We have ſince had the Honour to receive the Determination of his Excel-
lency the Moſt Noble the Governor General in Council, on the Subjećt of the
Treaty concluded by us with his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah; and we
have the Satisfaction of informing the Committee, that the Governor General in
Council has expreſſed his Excellency's entire Approbation of the Condućt of this
Government, during the Progreſs of the various Events which have terminated ſo
highly advantageous to the Intereſts of the Honourable Company.
3. The reputed Son of his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, having met
the juſt and moderate Propoſitions, founded on the Inſtrućtions of the Governor
General, for the Security of the Britiſh Intereſts in the Carnatic, by a deliberate
refuſal to enter into any Engagements, abſolutely neceſſary to that indiſpenſable
Obječt, his Excellency conſidered the general Spirit of the Inſtrućtions convey-
ed to Lord Clive at different Times under the various Changes which have taken
place in the Situation of Affairs, entirely to warrant this Government in offering
to the Son of the late Ameer ul Omrah the ſame Terms which had been offered to
the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah ; and the Eſtabliſhment of the acknowledged
Heir of the Ameer ul Omrah in the Rank of Nabob of the Carnatic, was there-
fore, in the Judgment of the Governor General, a Meaſure of Moderation and
Wiſdom.
4. Under theſe Circumſtances, his Excellency in Council has been pleaſed to
expreſs his entire Approbation of the general Spirit and Stipulations of the Treaty
concluded with the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah.
5. The Governor in Council accordingly ratified the Treaty executed at Fort
St. George, but being deſirous of introducing ſome Improvements of Importance
into that Treaty, the Governor General ſtated his Opinion of the propoſed Modi-
fication, ſubjećting the Adoption or Rejećtion of it, without farther Reference,
to the Diſcretion of this Government.
6. The Governor General having deemed it to be neceſſary that a Change of the
Terms of the Preamble, and of the firſt Article of the Treaty, ſhould be intro-
duced, for the Purpoſe of ſpecifying more diſtinétly, that the Nabob Azeem ul
TXowlah owed his Elevation, not to any hereditary Pretenſions, but to the Libe-
rality and Generoſity of the Britiſh Government; a Copy of the Treaty, ſo modi-
fied and ratified by his Excellency in Council, was tranſmitted to us. The Go-
vernor General in Council having alſo deemed it to be expedient, that explanatory
Articles of Charge to be permanently dedućted from the Revenue, previouſly to
the Allotment of the Nabob's Proportion, for the Purpoſe of relieving the Com-
pany from the Appropriation of the Jagheers in Land, and of ſubſtituting pecu-
niary Stipends for the Support of the Families of the Nabob Mahomed Alii and
of the Nabob Omdat ul. Omrah, and for the Purpoſe of limiting the Income of
the Nabob, on Account of his Proportion of the Revenue, to an ultimate Sum,
his Excellency in Council tranſmitted to us Inſtructions for framing additional
Articles, in conformity to the Suggeſtions of the Governor General.
7. Lord
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No. I I.
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7. Lord Clive had great Satisfačtion in remarking the peculiar Delicacy
obſerved by the Governor General in propoſing thoſe Modifications, and the
Confidence which his Excellency repoſed in this Government, by committing to
the Exerciſe of its Diſcretion the eventual Adoption of the Improvements con-
ſidered by his Excellency to be requiſite to the final Arrangement of the Affairs
of the Carnatic.
8. In the Mode adopted by the Governor General for conveying his Excel-
lency’s Obſervations and Inſtrućtions, Lord Clive had ſincere Pleaſure in receiving
the moſt flattering Teſtimony of the Succeſs which has attended his Lordſhip's
anxious and uniform Endeavours to cultivate the Confidence of the Supreme
Government, by a zealous and cordial Co-operation in the Syſtem of Meaſures
adopted by the Governor General with reſpect to this Government; and Lord
Clive took that Opportunity to aſſure his Excellency of the unfeigned Satisfaction
which he felt on this Occaſion, and which he will feel on all CCCaſions, in carrying
into Execution thoſe Arrangements which his Excellency may judge moſt con-
ducive to the Honour and Proſperity of the Empire in India.
9. We have the Honour of informing the Committee, that the Reference to
the hereditary Pretenſions of Azeem ul Doulah, as ſtated in the Preamble and
firſt Article of the Treaty, was entirely voluntary on the Part of Lord Clive, and
that throughout the late Negociations, the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah ſtated his
Convićtion that the Right of his Highneſs's Family, founded on its Conneétion
with the Company, had been annihilated, and that his Highneſs confidered the
Cauſes of his own Elevation to have flowed from the Generoſity and Moderation
of the Britiſh Government. Lord Clive was therefore relieved from the ſuppoſed
Difficulties ſtated in the Governor General's Diſpatch, in propoſing to the Nabob
Azeem ul Dowlah the Modification of the Preamble, and of the firſt Article of
the Treaty executed at Fort St. George. º
ro. In conformity to the Principles repeatedly declared by his Highneſs, the
Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah received this Propoſition with the utmoſt Degree of
Chearfulneſs, and relinquiſhed all Claim to the Acknowledgments of his heredi-
tary Pretenſions, without expreſſing any Diffidence or Alarm with reſpect to the
Intention of the propoſed Modification. The modified Treaty, tranſmitted by the
Governor General, has accordingly been executed by us, and formally delivered
to the Nabob Azeem ul Doulah. *
11. In obedience to the further Inſtrućtions of the Governor General in
Council, with reſpect to the explanatory Articles, we have executed and inter-
changed with the Nabob Azeem ul Doulah ſeparate Articles, to be annexed to
the Treaty, and we have tranſmitted a Copy of thoſe Articles for the Purpoſe of
being ratified by the Governor General in Council.
12. In fixing the ultimate Amount of the Nabob’s Income, we have been
guided by the Governor General's ſeparate Diſpatches to Lord Clive; and your
committée will obſerve, that the Principle of Calculation adopted by us will limit
his Highneſs's Proportion to about Three Lacks of Pagodas, under the moſt
beneficial Arrangements now adopted for the Adminiſtration of the Revenues of
the Carnatic,
13. We
NAB O B O F T H E CAR N AT I C.
8;
13. We have the Honour to inform the Committee, that the ratified Treaty,
with the explanatory Articles, was interchanged with his Highneſs the Nabob
Azeem ul Doulah, on the 16th Ultimo, under every Circumſtance of public
reſpect ſuited to the Importance of the Occaſion.
14. We entertain a juſt Senſe of the Honour which the Governor General in
Council has conferred on us, by the Expreſſion of his Excellency's public Thanks
on the Occaſion of executing this Treaty; and we have aſſured his Excellency, that
we conſider the Manner in which his Sentiments have been conveyed to us, highly
honourable to the Adminiſtration of the Affairs of this Government.
15. Reflećting on the Progreſs and Termination of this Tranſaction, Lord
Clive deemed it his Duty to beſtow that Tribute of Praiſe which is due to Mr.
Webbe and to Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe. His Lordſhip conſidered himſelf fortu-
nate, that Circumſtances permitted him to employ the Services of thoſe Gentle-
men, according to the Wiſhes of the Governor General, in the oral Examinations
taken at Vellore and Seringapatam, and that he ſhould be enabled, at a ſubſequent
Period of Time, to avail himſelf of the ſame Services in the Condućt of the late
Negociation,
16. Lord Clive has no Doubt that the Governor General and the Honourable
Committee, will concur in the Importance which his Lordſhip attaches to the
conſiſtent Form preſerved by thoſe Means, in the Progreſs of the Tranſačtion,
and to the peculiar Advantage derived from the Employment of European Gentle-
men of Honour, eminently qualified by their Knowledge of Eaſtern Manners and
Hlanguages, to condućt an Affair of ſo much Delicacy.
17. Lord Clive knew that it was unneceſſary for his Lordſhip to direét the
Attention of the Governor General to the Merits of Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe
and Mr. Webbe; but his Lordſhip felt it to be no leſs an Aćt of Juſtice, than of
perſonal Satisfaction, to expreſs to his Excellency in Council his Lordſhip's high
Senſe and Approbation of the Temper, Judgment, and Ability manifeſted by
thoſe Gentlemen in the Accompliſhment of an Arrangement, by which the
Government, ačting under the Authority of the Governor General in Council,
has been enabled to adjuſt the Affairs of the Carnatic in a Manner ſo honourable
and advantageous to the Company and the Nation. -
18. Lord Clive having, in concert with his Highneſs the Nabob, and in
conformity to the Inſtrućtions of his Excellency the Governor General in Council,
framed an Arrangement for the Support of the Families of the Nabobs Mahommed
Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, and for the Maintenance of the principal Officers of
the late Government, has communicated to us the Plan propoſed by his Lordſhip;
in which we entirely concur. -
19. We have the Honour of tranſmitting a Copy of Lord Clive's ſeparate
Minute for the Information of the Committee; who will have the Satisfaction of
obſerving, that the total Amount of the pecuniary Stipends, Penſions, and
Eſtabliſhments, is leſs than the Sum provided by the Treaty of 1792, for the
Family Jagheers of the late Nabobs; and that the ſtated Principle of Diſtinétion,
while it ſecures a liberal Support to every Branch of the Family, will neceſſarily
produce a gradual Diminution of the total Expence to be incurred by the Com-
pany. -
Y From
No. 1 1.
continued.
86 PAP E R S C, O N C E R N IN G T H E LAT E .
No. 1 T. ~ ; - -
continued. From Marquis WELLEsLEY to the Secret Committee; dated 21 O&tober 1801.
To the Honourable the Secret Committee of the Honourable the
Court of Direétors.
Honourable Sirs, .
Par. 1.-AT the Moment of cloſing my Letters intended for the preſent Diſpatch
Overland, I received a Letter from the Right Honourable the Governor in Council
of Fort St. George, under Date the 22d Ultimo, notifying the final Concluſion
and Exchange of Engagements between the Honourable Company and his High-
neſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, in conformity to the Direétions contained in
the Orders of the Governor General in Council to the Government of Fort St.
George, under Date the 18th of Auguſt (a Copy of which accompanied my Diſ.
patch (D), dated the 28th September by the Georgiana Packet), and encloſing for
my Ratification two explanatory Articles, framed according to the Inſtrućtions of
the 18th Auguſt; which Articles had been executed by the Right Honourable the
Governor in Council and his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah.
2. Being abſent from the Preſidency of Fort William, on my Progreſs towards
the Upper Provinces, I have this Day ratified the explanatory Articles of the
Treaty of the Carnatic. -
3. By the Georgiana Packet, I have had the Honour to tranſmit, for the In-
formation of your Honourable Committee, a Copy of the Treaty of the Carnatic,
as it was originally concluded between the Government of Fort St George and his
Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, together with all the Documents con-
neéted with the Subjećt of this important Arrangement.
4. By thoſe Diſpatches your Honourable Committee will be apprized of the
State of the Negociation with his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah at the
Period of Time when thoſe Documents were tranſmitted. Your Honourable
Committee will certainly receive a Communication of the Reſult of the late Nego-
ºciation with his Highneſs, from the Right Honourable the Governor in Council of
Fort St. George, by the Ships under Diſpatch from that Preſidency, together with
Copies of his Lordſhip's Addreſs to this Government of the 22d. Ultimo, and of
the explanatory Articles which accompanied it.
5. With the View, however, to afford your Honourable Committee the earlieſt
Information of the Arrangement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, as well as to mul-
tiply the Channels of Intelligence upon this important Subject, I deem it expedient
to tranſmit by the preſent Diſpatch Overland the following Documents :-
Copy of a Letter from the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, dated 31ſt
July 1801 : - * * -
Copy of the Treaty concluded with his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah,
tranſmitted in the foregoing : - -
Copy of a Letter from the Governor General in Council, dated the 18th
Auguſt: Y- -
Memorandum of the propoſed Modification of the Treaty with his Highneſs the
Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah : i -
Copy
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87
Copy of a Letter from the Right Honourable the Governor in Council of Fort
St. George, dated 22d September:
Copy of the Explanatory Articles encloſed in the foregoing.
6. I requeſt your Honourable Committee to accept my Congratulations on the
Concluſion of an Arrangement, which, while it is highly creditable to the juſtice
and Moderation of the Britiſh Charaćter, has happily eſtabliſhed the Rights and
Intereſts of the Honourable Company in the Carnatic upon the ſecure and perma-
nent Foundations of territorial Poſſeſſion, of excluſive Civil and Military Govern-
ment, and of undivided influence and Power.—It is a great Satisfaction to have
ultimately accompliſhed an Objećt, long and anxiouſly deſired by the Honourable
Company, and earneſtly recommended by the Court of Direétors to my ſpecial
Attention, when I had the Honour to receive the Charge of this Government.
Your Honourable Committee is apprized of the early Solicitude which I manifeſted
for the Accompliſhment of this important Meaſure, upon my firſt Arrival at Madras
in the Month of April 1798, as well as of the repeated Attempts which I made on
various Occaſions in the Years 1798 and 1799, to effect the ſame ſalutary Arrange-
ment; the ſucceſſive Failure of theſe Attempts, combined with the Refle&tions
ariſing from the equally unpropitious Reſult of every preceding Propoſition of a
fimilar Nature, have enhanced in my Mind the Pleaſure of witneſſing the Conclu-
fion of the late Treaty. The intimate Connexion of this happy Event, with the Suc-
ceſs of your Arms in Myſore, forms a peculiar and intereſting Feature of the whole
Tranſačtion; nor can your Honourable Committee fail to remark, that the Poſſeſ.
fion of the Records of the Houſe of Hyder Alli, in diſcloſing to your Government
the whole Syſtem of the Policy of your Enemies in India, is the Source from which
we have derived that Information which has enabled us to complete the Settlement
of the Carnatic.
7. The Introdućtion into the Carnatic of the wiſe and benevolent Syſtem of
Government, to which theſe Provinces are indebted for their preſent Happineſs and
Proſperity, will be the next Obječt of my Anxiety and Care. The Union of all
local Authorities, and the Extinétion of every Principle of conflićting Power, will
preclude the Operation of thoſe Cauſes of Diſcord and Counteraćtion, which muſt
ever have impeded the Progreſs of good Government in the Carnatic, while the
Adminiſtration of Affairs continued in the Hands of the Nabob.
8. I conſider it to be a moſt grateful Part of my Duty to expreſs to your
Honourable Committee the high Senſe which I entertain of the Zeal, Judgment,
and Temper, which has diſtinguiſhed the Condućt of Lord Clive, and of the Go-
vernment of Fort St. George, during the whole Courſe of thoſe important Tranſ.
aćtions, and arduous Negociations, which have terminated in a Manner ſo advan-
tageous to the Intereſts of the Honourable Company in India.
9. To his Lordſhip's judicious Exerciſe of the Powers veſted in him by my
Authority for the Settlement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, is principally to be
aſcribed the Succeſs of thoſe Meaſures which the Treachery and Ingratitude of their
late Highneſſes the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah, compelled me to
adopt for the Preſervation of the Rights and Intereſts of the Honourable Com-
pany in that Country.
10. Juſtice to the Merits of Mr. Webbe, Chief Secretary to Government at
Port St. George, and of Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe, late Reſident in Myſore, re-
quires
continued.
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No. 1 r.
continued.
quires me to expreſs to your Honourable Committee my cordial and grateful Ap-
probation of the important Services rendered by thoſe Gentlemen to the Public,
during the Courſe of the late Tranſačtions and Negociations at Fort St. George.
The Aſſiſtance which Lord Clive has derived from the Zeal, Talents, and Know-
ledge of Mr. Webbe and of Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe, contributed in an eſſential
Degree to the Succeſs of his Lordſhip's Meaſures for the Arrangement of Affairs
in the Carnatic.
11. The Diſcretion manifeſted by thoſe Gentlemen in the Condućt of the
Examination of Gholaum Alli and Alli Rezza, inſtituted by the Government of
Fort St. George under my Orders of the 7th April 1800, under Circumſtances of
peculiar Delicacy and Difficulty, deſerves the higheſt Applauſe.
12. I acknowledge with Gratitude the Aſſiſtance which I received from the
Abilities and local Knowledge of Mr. Webbe, whom I direéted to attend me at
Fort William, for the Purpoſe of aiding me in framing the Syſtem of Meaſures to
be adopted for the future Adminiſtration of Affairs in the Carnatic, in conſequence
of the deteóted Treachery of their late Highneſſes the Nabobs Wallajah and
Omdut ul Omrah. -
13. The eminent Services of Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe, have already attraćt-
cd the diſtinguiſhed Notice of the Honourable Company.
14. The Obligations of public Duty, and the moſt indiſpenſable Rules of
Juſtice, concur to demand from me a recorded Teſtimony in favour of the inde-
fatigable Aétivity, of powerful Abilities, and proved Integrity of Mr. Webbe,
who adds to thoſe Qualities a moſt accurate Knowledge of the oriental Languages,
and an intimate Acquaintance with every Branch of your Affairs in the Peninſula.
I 5. In confirming the honourable Teſtimony afforded by the Right Honour-
able the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, in his Lordſhip’s Addreſs to
this Government, under Date the 22d ultimo, to the public Merits and Services
of Mr. Webbe and Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe, on the important-Occaſion which
attraćted his Lordſhip's Approbation, I confider it to be incumbent on me to
ſolicit the ſpecial Attention of your Honourable Committee, and of the Court of
Direétors, to the unremitting Exertions of Mr. Webbe in the Service of the Ho-
nourable Company, ſince the Commencement of the late War in Myſore; being
ſatisfied, through the regular public Channels of Information, as well as by my
perſonal Obſervation, that the laborious Induſtry of that Gentleman has been
employed in the moſt difintereſted Zeal, and with great Succeſs, to render
himſelf an uſeful Inſtrument, under the Government of Fort St. George, of pro-
moting the Intereſts of the Honourable Company, of ſecuring the Integrity and
Vigour of the Adminiſtration of Government, of improving the Condition of our
Native Subjećts in the Peninſula, and of augmenting the Reputation and Honour
of the Britiſh Name in every Part of the extenſive Dominions ſubject to the Pre-
fidency of Fort St. George.
16. By the next Diſpatch I hope to be able to tranſmit to your Honourable
Committee a detailed Review of the Cauſes, and a Proſpect of the probable Con-
ſequences, of the Settlement of the Carnatic.
I have the Honour to be, Honourable Sirs, with the greateſt Reſpect,
Patna, 7 Your moſt obedient and faithful Servant,
: 21ſt Oét. 1801. (Signed) WELLESLEY.
NA B O B O F T H E C A R N A T I C.
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No. 1 2.
Copy of ORDERS publiſhed to the Settlement of Fort
St. George, dated 31ſt July 1801, relative to the Treaty
between the Company and Azeem ul Dowlah.
Revenue Department.
P R O C L A M A T I O N.
1. WHEREAS the Objećt of the Connexion ſubſiſting between the Honour-
able Company and their Highneſſes, heretofore Nabobs of the Carnatic, was in-
tended to cement the Union and Alliance between the Contraćting Parties, and
to eſtabliſh, on a ſolid Foundation, the Security and Rights of the ſaid Con-
tracting Parties in the Territories of the Carnatic: And whereas the ſeveral En-
gagements concluded for that Purpoſe, have failed to anſwer the Intention of
the Contračting Parties, whereby the Form of Government throughout the Pro-
vinces of the Carnatic has been ſubjećted to Changes injurious to eſtabliſhed
Opinions, to general Confidence, and to permanent Proſperity: And whereas
the Munſub of the Soubadarry of the Territories of Arcot having become va-
cant, his Highneſs the Nabob Walajah Ameer ul Omrah, Madar ul Mulk,
Ameer ul Hind, Azeem ul Dowlah, Shewkul Jung Sepah, Salar Anwerodeen
Khan Behauder, has ſucceeded by the hereditary Rights of his Father, and by the
full Acknowledgment of the Honourable Company, to the Poſſeſſion of the ſaid
Munſub::-Wherefore his ſaid Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder,
and the ſaid Company, being deſirous of correóting ſuch Errors as have been
heretofore introduced into the Government of the Carnatic, and of ſupplying the
Defećts of all former Engagements between the ſaid Contraćting Parties; and
being alſo anxious to give full Vigour and Efficiency to the Government of the
Carnatic, with a View to fix the Rights of the People, and the Intereſts of the
State, on a broad and ſtable Foundation, have mutually, and of their own
Accord, agreed, by a Treaty bearing Date the 31ſt July 1801, that all former
Proviſions for ſecuring a partial or temporary Interference on the Part of the
Honourable Company in the Government, or in the Adminiſtration of the Re-
venues of the Carnatic, ſhall be entirely annulled; and that in lieu thereof a per-
manent Syſtem for the Colle&tion of the Revenue, and for the Adminiſtration of
Civil and Criminal Judicature, under the ſole and undivided Authority of the
Honourable Company, ſhall be eſtabliſhed throughout every Village, Purgunnah,
and Province, of the entire Territories of the Carnatic. -
2. Now Proclamation is hereby accordingly made to all Zemindars, Jaggeerdars,
Talookdars, Polygars, Cavilgars, and Inhabitants of every Deſcription of the Car-
natic, that the Honourable Company have, by the Treaty above mentioned, acquired
a perfect Right to aſcertain, determine, and eſtabliſh Rights of Property, to fix a
reaſonable Aſſeſſment upon the ſeveral Purgunnahs and Villages of the Carnatic,
and to ſecure a fixed and permanent Revenue, to be colle&ted and accounted for
by ſuch Officers as ſhall from Time to Time be appointed for that Purpoſe
by the ſaid Company. And it is further publiſhed and declared, that the ſaid
Gompany have alſo acquired a perfeót Right to eſtabliſh Courts for the due Ad-
Z miniſtration
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No. 1 2.
continued.
Fort St. º (A true Copy)
miniſtration of Civil and Criminal Judicature, under the ſole Authority of the
ſaid Company, which ſaid Courts ſhall be condućted by Officers to be appointed
from Time to Time by the ſaid Company, under ſuch Ordinances and Regula-
tions as ſhall from Time to Time be enaëted and publiſhed by the Governor in
Council of Fort St. George.
3. And whereas his ſaid Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder
has diveſted himſelf, by the Treaty above mentioned, of all Controul, Authority.
or Interference in the Colle&tion of the Revenue, or in the Adminiſtration of
Civil and Criminal Judicature : Wherefore all Zemindars, Jageerdars, Talook-
dars, Polygars, Cavilgars, and Inhabitants of the Carnatic, are hereby required
to take Notice of the ſame accordingly. And it is hereby farther proclaimed and
declared, that the Engagement now entered into between the Contraćting Parties
for the Purpoſes above mentioned, are unconditional, and liable to no Change
whatever. Therefore the ſaid Zemindars, Jageerdars, Talookdars, Polygars,
Cavilgars, and Inhabitants of the Carnatic, are required to take Notice, that the
Right and Power of fixing and colle&ting the Revenue, as well as of adminiſter-
ing Civil and Criminal Judicature throughout the Provinces, Purgunnahs, and
Villages of the Carnatic, are veſted in the ſaid Company alone, as long as the
Sun and Moon ſhall endure. - - .
4. Wherefore all Zemindars, Jageerdars, Talookdars, Polygars, Cavilgars,
Officers, and Inhabitants of the Carnatic, are ſeverally and colle&tively required, by
virtue of the Rights and Powers acquired to the ſaid Company by Compact
with the preſent lawful Nabob of the Carnatic, his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul
Dowlah Behauder, to yield due Obedience to ſuch Officers as may be appointed,
and to ſuch Ordinances or Laws as may be enaćted by the ſaid Company alone, for
the Adminiſtration and Government of the Territories of the Carnatic, and in all
Time to come.
5. Although the Right Honourable the Governor in Council truſts that the Ex-
perience which the Inhabitants of the Carnatic have already had, will have ren-
dered it unneceſſary for his Lordſhip to explain the general Principles of Modera-
tion, Juſtice, Protećtion and Security, which form the charaćteriſtic Features of
the Britiſh Government; yet his Lordſhip, in accepting the ſacred Truſt trans-
ferred to the Company by the preſent Engagements, invites the People of the
Carnatic to a ready and chearful Obedience to the Authority of the Company, in
a confident Aſſurance of enjoying, under the Protećtion of public and defined
Laws, every juſt and aſcertained civil Right, with a free Exerciſe of the religious
Inſtitutions and domeſtic Uſages of their Anceſtors.
By Order of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council.
(Signed) }. Webbe,
Chief Secretary to Governm'.
jn' Hºdgson,
31ſt July 1801.
- Secº to Gov".
NAB O B O F T H E CARN AT I C.
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No. 13.
INFORMATION ſubmitted to the Honourable Houſe
of Commons, in obedience to ſeveral Orders dated
11th June 1802 :
Stating Reaſons why the ſame have not been fully complied with.
THE Papers required by the 3d Order, are preſumed to be contained in the
Documents numbered I and 2.
The Paper required by the 4th Order, is contained in Paper N* 4, Page 17;
and that required by the 5th Order in the ſame Document, Page 15.
The Atteſtation of the Mahomedan Lawyers, and of the Families of the Na-
bobs Mahomed Alli and Omdut ul Omrah, required by the 6th Order, have not
been tranſmitted to the Court of Direétors by the Government of Fort St. George;
nor has the Correſpondence required by the 8th Order, or the Proceedings and
Minutes required by the 13th Order, or the ſeparate Minutes required by the
I 5th, or the Proceedings required by the 16th, been yet received.
The Company have not any Record in England of the Will of the late Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah, required by the 20th Order.
N A B O B O F THE C A R N A TI C.
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No. 14.
Copy of the AFFIDAVIT of the Phyſician of the
late Nabob of Arcot, on the State of His Highneſs's
Health ; dated 22d June 1801.
MAURICE FITZGER ALD, Eſquire, Phyſician to his Highneſs the
Nabob of the Carnatic, having been apprized by the Right Honourable Edward
Lord Clive, Governor in Council of Fort St. George, of his Lordſhip's Deſire
to communicate to the Nabob of the Carnatic the Arrival of a Diſpatch from
the Moſt Noble the Governor General in Council, involving Conſiderations of
great Importance relative to the Affairs of the Carnatic, and of the Government
of Fort St. George; and the ſaid Mr. Fitzgerald being farther informed, that it is
the Intention of Lord Clive to ſolicit the Nabob's Appointment of an early Pe-
riod of Time for the Conſideration of the Objećt of that Diſpatch, unleſs the
Medical Gentlemen attending his Highneſs's Perſon ſhould be of Opinion that
ſuch a Communication would be attended with Conſequences injurious to the
State of his Highneſs’s Health: Declares upon Oath, That although from the
"aétual State of his Highneſs's Illneſs, he the ſaid M. Fitzgerald cannot take upon
himſelf to ſwear, that the Communication of Lord Clive's Intentions above de-
ſcribed would produce Effects immediately dangerous to the Exiſtence of the
Nabob ; yet, as a Profeſſional Man, he can have no Doubt, and accordingly de-
clares on Oath, his Belief that the Knowledge of the Arrival of Diſpatches from
the Governor General, ſeriouſly affecting the Intereſts of the Carhatic, would
tend to aggravate and inflame the dangerous Symptoms which now threaten his
Highneſs's Life. - - a:
(Signed) M. Fitzgerald.
Sworn before me - -
at Fort St. George, }
this 22d June 1801. (Signed) Clive.
Witneſſes preſent,
e , W. A. Grant.
(Signed) łż. Wilks.
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No. I 5.
Copy of the EXAMINATION of certain Perſons,
taken before Meſſrs. We BBE and CLose, at Vellore
and Seringapatam, in the Month of May 1800, by
Order of Marquis WELLESLEy. r
— — — . . - Vellore, 3d May 1800.
ALLY REZZA having been required by Lieutenant Colonel Doveton to attend
the Commiſſioners, is accordingly introduced, and is informed of the Orders of
the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, and of his Lordſhip's Authority
committed to the Commiſſioners, for the Purpoſe of conduéting an Enquiry into
certain Tranſačtions of great Importance, conneéted with the Intereſts of the
Honourable Company.
Previouſly to the Commencement of his Examination, the following introduc-
tory Explanation having been tranſlated into the Perſian Language, is read, and
explained to Ally Rezza. -
“The Conſideration which the Engliſh Company has ſhewn to the Family of
Tippoo Sultaun, and to the Dependants of his Government, muſt have manifeſted
to all Deſcriptions of Perſons the Liberality and Moderation by which it has been
always guided; and it muſt be equally evident, that having conſulted the Claims
of Humanity, as well as the Dignity of its own Charaćter, in this diſtinguiſhed
AManner, the Engliſh Government would meet, with the utmoſt Degree of Regret
and Concern, any Neceſſity which ſhould compel it to modify the Arrangements
which have been made for the Comfort and Happineſs of the Dependants of the
late Tippoo Sultaun. * -
“It is however not inconſiſtent with this Magnanimity, that the Britiſh Govern-
ment ſhould exačt from thoſe who have accepted its Bounty, the Duties of Attach-
ment and Truth, in all Matters connected with its Intereſts; and it requires no
Explanation to ſhew, that as the Britiſh Government has the Generoſity to for-
give, ſo, if neceſſary, it poſſeſſes the Power to puniſh thoſe who may wilfully
depart from the Duties which they owe to it.
“It is known to you, that after the Fall of Seringapatam the Whole of the Re-
cords and Papers, public, ſecret, and confidential, of the Government of Tippoo
Sultaun, fell into the Hands of the Conquerors; and, conſidering the Cauſes
which produce the Neceſſity of the late War, it will be obvious to you, that the
Engliſh Government has been inquiſitive to diſcover the Arrangements and
Councils, by which it was the Intention of the late Sultaun to have effected his
Purpoſes of Enmity againſt us. *.
“ This Enquiry has naturally led to the Diſcovery of much important Matter,
and many original Documents, plain as well as in cypher, relative to the Meaſures
and Intentions of the late Sultaun. Some of theſe Meaſures require the Explana-
tion, which it is known to be in your Power to give : The Engliſh Government
has therefore appointed us to be Commiſſioners for receiving this Information ;
and it will be your Duty, as well as your very near Intereſt, reflecting on what
is already ſtated, to give a faithful and juſt Explanation. F
tº TOII?
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From the Treatment which you have already experienced, it will be evident to
you that the Britiſh Government places too juſt a Value on the Obſervance of
Fidelity, to impute to the Servants of the late Sultaun any Blame for being the
Channel of executing his Orders or Meaſures. According to the eſtabliſhed
Pračtice of the Law of Nations; according to the Principles of Juſtice and
Reaſon, Servants are not held to be reſponſible for executing the Orders of their
Sovereigns, as far as they may be conſiſtent with the Public Law, by which the
Intercourſe between Independant States is regulated ; you may therefore rely on
a liberal Conſtrućtion of your Condućt by the Britiſh Government; and it is not
the Intention of that Government to deprive you of any of the Works of the
Public Bounty which you now enjoy, unleſs by Prevarication, or any treacherous
Attempt to conceal the Truth, you ſhould render yourſelf unworthy of the Con-
tinuance of its Favour. -*
“From the Manner in which this Enquiry has originated, as well as from the
Means adopted for carrying it into Effect, you will perceive that it is Matter full
of Importance and Gravity ; it will therefore be expedient for you to deliver your
Sentiments and Explanations, with the Degree of Conſideration and Reſpect which
is becoming the Occaſion.” -
Ally Rezza acknowledges that he comprehends and feels the Force and Mean-
ing of the foregoing Exhortation, and having himſelf peruſed it in the Perſian Lan-
guage, profeſſes his entire Readineſs and Deſire to anſwer all Queſtions, and to
give all Information which may be required, to the beſt of his Power and Know-
ledge. • . . - -
The Commiſſioners proceed to the Examination of Ally Rezza.
The Papers marked (Nos. 14 and 15,) in the Correſpondence tranſmitted from
Bengal, having been produced and read to the Witneſs, are immediately recog-
nized by him. - ... " - -
Queſtion. What did Omdut ul Omrah communicate to you in the ſecret
Meeting which you held with him in the Garden, ſubſequently to the 23d July
1793? . .
#ºver Omdut ul Omrah informed the Vakeels, of the probable Rupture
between the French and the Engliſh, and of the conſequent Attack on Pondi-
cherry; he ſtated, that Tippoo Sultaun had a Vakeel, Ram Row, at that Place;
that the keeping a Vakeel at that Time might give Offence; and that therefore
the Nabob Walajah, from his Attachment to the Faith, made this Communication
to prevent any Indiſpoſition between Tippoo Sultaun and the Company; that theſe
Sentiments were communicated from a Regard to the Welfare of Tippoo Saltaun.
He recommended, that after the Departure of the Hoſtages, the Sultaun ſhou;
appoint an Ambaſſador at Madras, which would be attended with the beſt Conſe-
quences, and ſtated that this was not communicated from any Partiality to the
Engliſh, but from good Wiſhes towards Tippoo Sultaun.
Q: What were the particular Expreſſions of his Attachment to Tippoo Sultaun,
which Omdut ul Omrah required you not to commit to Writing, but to defer the
Communication of them until your Return to the Preſence of your Maſter
A. Having repeated the Subſtance of his Anſwer to the preceding Queſtion,
Ally Rezza was about to explain the Expreſſion of the “Affair known,” which
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No. I 5.
continued.
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No. 1 5.
continued.
is mentioned in the laſt Paragraph of Papers (Nos. 14 and 15,) but was inter-
rupted.
Q. What Anſwer did Tippoo Sultaun return to the ſaid Communication from
Omdut ul Omrah, and through what Channel was that Anſwer tranſmitted :
A. The Sultaun replied, that the Vakeels were Perſons of Ability and Informa-
tion, and would condućt their Affairs for the Benefit of the Sircar.
The Vakeels communicated the Meſſage after their Arrival in the Preſence,
that no immediate Obſervation was made upon it; that Nine Days after they fell
under the Diſpleaſure of the Sultaun, and that the Intercourſe between them and the
Sultaun was in conſequence diſcontinued.
The only ſubſequent Communication was on the Subjećt of a Letter from
Bengal, relative to the Releaſe of the Engliſh Priſoners, and to the War between
England and France. Tippoo Sultaun, notwithſtanding the Contents, fully directed
him (Ally Rezza) to prepare an Anſwer, and ſend it to the Preſence that it might
be diſpatched.
Q, Did Tippoo Sultaun return any Anſwer to the Letters, Nos. 14 and 15
A. Yes. He direéted us to enquire into the Particulars of the Affair, to repre-
ſent them after our Arrival, when he would ačt according to Propriety.
Q. Have you any Recollečtion of receiving from Tippoo Sultaun, a Letter di-
rećting you to commit to Writing, and to tranſmit to the Preſence, the Communi-
cations of Omdut ul Omrah ... • - ~.
A. No. He wrote nothing more than the above.
He (Ally Rezza) ſays, that at the Departure of the Vakeels, Omdut ul Omrah
made Three Obeiſances; and directed them to aſſure the Sultaun of his (Omdut
Rul Omrah's) Regard, and to adviſe him not to break with the Engliſh; that he
ſhould not conſider this Communication to be a Deviation from the Principles of
their Religion, but that the true Iſlam conſiſted in preſerving Unity with the
Engliſh.
% [The Paper (No 13,) is produced.]
Q Do you recolle&t this Letter :
A. Yes; and he wrote beſides to the above Effect.
Q State the Nature and Objećt of the Agreement, which was eſtabliſhed
through you, between the Nabob Wallajah and Tippoo Sultaun ?
A. At the Time of the Departure of Lord Cornwallis, his Lordſhip deſired
me to proceed to Seringapatam, and to communicate to the Sultaun much Matter
of Advice, containing Obſervations on the State of Hoſtility, which had been
protraćted for a long Time, from the early Deſcent of Hyder Ally into the Car-
natic, and the Aétion of Colonel Baillie: That Lord Cornwallis wiſhed the Sultaun
to preſerve the Relations of Peace and Friendſhip ; and deſired that Ally Rezza
ſhould proceed from Madras to Seringapatam, to repreſent verbally and fully the
Subjećt of this Diſcourſe.
That at the ſame Time the Nabob Wallajah alſo made ſimilar Obſervations,
with Profeſſions of his friendly Diſpoſition towards the Sultaun.
On his Arrival at Seringapatam, he (Ally Rezza) repreſented the Whole of
this Diſcourſe, and, according to the Orders of the Sultaun, committed it to Writ-
ing, which was delivered to him (the Sultaun): That Tippoo Sultaun wrote an
Anſwer
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N AT I C.
Anſwer to Lord Cornwallis, profeſſing his Diſpoſition and Wiſh to preſerve Peace
and Friendſhip; that the Letter was very full on this Point, and was accompanied
by Preſents to Lord Cornwallis, Governor Oakeley, Mr. Cherry, &c.
He (Tippoo Sultaun) alſo ſent Letters to the Nabob Wallajah certainly ; but
the Witneſs does not recoilećt whether any were ſent to Omdut ul Omrah.
Q. In the preceding Queſtion, you were deſired to explain the Nature of the
Agreement eſtabliſhed between Tippoo Sultaun and the Nabob Wallajah; in your
Anſwer you have not done ſo?
A. The Agreement was to preſerve the Friendſhip eſtabliſhed between the
Two Durbars, the Engliſh and Tippoo Sultaun, as well as the Intercourſe of
Civility and Attention.
Beſides this the Nabob Wallajah, at the Time of taking Leave, preſented
Khelats, &c.; and Omdut ul Omrah delivered a Khelat into the Hands of Sir
Charles Oakeley, to be given to the Vakeels of the Sultaun; which was accord-
ingly done. Omdut ul Omrah told them that it recommended the Preſervation
of Friendſhip, Peace, and Attention. A Copy of this Letter was delivered to the
Vakeels, which they opened at Conditoor", and were ſurpriſed to find, that it
contained nothing more than the ordinary Expreſſions of Friendſhip, and a Liſt
of the Preſents. The Letter was delivered to the Sultaun.
The Nabob informed the Vakeels, that it was his Highneſs's Wiſh to grant a
Jagheer for the private Expences of the Princes, as well as of the Vakeels: They
replied, that it was contrary to the Cuſtoms of their Government to receive thoſe
Jagheers; but that they ſhould repreſent this Wiſh of his Highneſs, on their
Arrival at Seringapatam.
Q: Did you, according to the Sultaun's Orders, commit to Writing the Matter
of a ſecret Nature, which was communicated to you by Omdut ul Omrah
A. I complied with the Orders in the Sultaun's Letter.
Q. In what Manner *
A. By writing to the Sultaun the Particulars of the Profeſſions of Regard,
which had been communicated by Omdut ul Omrah. Cº
No. 15.
continued.
* Two Stages
from Madras,
Having again referred to Nos. 14 and 15, and 13, the Witneſs is aſked what
Anſwer he gave the Sultaun ? * 3
A. That he had been enjoined at his Departure to poſtpone the Communication
until his Arrival at Seringapatam, and that he would accordingly repreſent it in
the Preſence.
Q: Why did Omdut ul Omrah defer this Communication till your Departure ?
And why did he exaët an Oath of Secrecy on the Communication of this Regard - *.
and Friendſhip for the Sultatin \,,
A. Perhaps from Apprehenſions that this Intercourſe ſhould be known, and
give Diſpleaſure to the Engliſh.
Q. Did he exaët a formal Oath:
A. No ; he conjured us.
Q. It appears that the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah ſtated, in the
Preſence of Engliſh Gentlemen, their Regard and Friendſhip for Tippoo Sultaun:
Why ſhould they be ſo anxious to conceal it in the private Meeting?
A. He repeats the ſame Anſwer, and can give no other Explanation.
The Paper (No. 14,) is again produced and read.
B. b. Q: Reconcile
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No. I 5. Q. Reconcile the Formality of the Proceeding deſcribed at the Moſque, with
continued. the mere Profeſſions of Friendſhip 2 * ,
A. He acknowledges that the Formality may be conſidered preparatory to more
important Matter ; but nothing paſſed except Profeſſions of Regard, the Pro-
priety of keeping up a friendly Intercourſe, and an Offer of ſettling ſome Munſbon
themſelves, which they declined in a ſuitable Manner. º,
Q. During your Reſidence at Madras, did you underſtand that there was any
Reſtraint on the Intercourſe of the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah with
the Hoſtages, or with the Vakeels?
A. There was no Reſtraint, they had but four or five Meetings, which were
with Major Doveton's previous Knowledge. -
Q. Did Major Doveton know of the Meeting at the Moſque 2
A. No; the Vakeels told him that they were going to the Moſque for the
Fatihah. In regard to the Meeting at the Garden, they informed him that they
were going to arrange their Effects for the Journey.
Q. As you found at the firſt Meeting with Omdut ul Omrah at the Moſque,
that he had nothing to communicate but Profeſſions of Friendſhip, why did the
Vakeels depart from their eſtabliſhed Cuſtom by concealing from Major Doveton
the intended Meeting at the Garden : .
A. As the Nabob Omdut, ul Omrah intimated a Wiſh of ſeeing them pri-
vately, they thought that the Preſence of Major Doveton would be embarraſſing
to his Highneſs. At my Departure from Seringapatam on my Return to Madras,
Tippoo Sultaun communicated to me his Deſire of forming a Connexion by .
Marriage between his own Family and that of the Nabob Wallajah. This
Meſſage I delivered by the Sultaun's Orders to Gholam Ally Khan; and on our
meeting at the Garden a ſecond Time I withdrew ; a Converſation took place
(between Omdut ul Omrah and Gholam Ally Khan. From him I afterwards
underſtocd that the Agitation of the Affair was ſuſpended, until the entire Com-
pletion of the Treaty of Seringapatam, and the Releaſe of the Hoſtages, in
order that the Diſpoſition of the Sultaun might be well aſcertained at the Diſtance
of ſome Time; that in the mean while there was neither a poſitive Defire nor
Indiſpoſition expreſſed by the Nabob Wallajah for this Connexion. -
The Propoſal was firſt made from the Sultaun; and as it paſſed in the Lifetime.
of the Nabob Wallajah, I conclude that the Anſwer of Omdut ul Omrah was
with his Knowledge. After the Return of the Vakeels to Seringapatam, they
fell under the Diſpleaſure of the Sultaun; and I underſtood that Gholam Ally
Sudder and Pooniah were deputed to Gholam Ally Khān, to aſcertain what Pro-
greſs had been made in the Affair of the Connexion, wiſhing at the ſame Time
that Gholam Ally Khan ſhould give a Letter on that Subjećt to Omdut ul Omrah. .
This Letter he ſuppoſes to have been granted, but does not know.
Q: Did any Orders paſs from the Sultaun on the Subjećt of the Marriage
before your Return to Seringapatam from Madras %. -
A. No. This Queſtion was not agitated before. On my Arrival at Seringapatam,
Tippoo Sultaun enquired of me the Particulars relative to the Children of Wal-
Ally Rezza, of himſelf ſtates, That the Nabob Wallajah communicated in
the moſt earneſt Manner, taking God to witneſs, his Entreaty to the Sultaun, that
he ſhould refrain from breaking with the Engliſh, and that he ſhould adhere to
the Friendſhip eſtabliſhed between them. - - -
*Q. The
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N A TI C.
99
Q. The Propoſal of Marriage having been made in the firſt Inſtance on the
Part of the Sultaun, it was certainly Evidence of his Wiſh to cultivate a good
Ajnderſtanding with the Nabob Wallajah's Family. It is extraordinary therefore
that the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, on making a ſimple Propoſition of Friendſhip,
hould doubt the Sultaun's Acquieſcence, and ſhould on that Doubt poſtpone the
final communication of his Sentiments until the Anſwer of the Sultaun ſhould be
received : *
A. He (Ally Rezza) acknowledges that the Propoſition for the Marriage was
an indication of entire and cordial Friendſhip. But although he underſtood from
Gholam Ally Khan, that the Nabob Wallajah was diſpoſed to this Connexion, he
yet learned from others that the Caſe was different; he therefore conjećtures that
the Nabob ſhewed a Deſire of ſimple Friendſhip, without Reference to the Mar-
riage. -
Q, when the Nabob W allajah made his Propoſition of fimple F riendſhip, re-
quiring an Anſwer, how did it happen that the Vakeels, who were in Poſſeſſion of
the Sultaun's Orders to effeót a much more intimate Connexion, did not ſatisfy
the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah of the Diſpoſition of the Sultaun, without farther
Reference to Seringapatain: - i
A. A Propoſition of Marriage being of a very delicate Nature among Muſſul-
mans, and confined in this Inſtance to Gholam Alli Khan only, it was not proper
for both Vakeels to interfere on this Subjećt; the Converſation was entirely con-
fined between Omdut ul Omrah and Gholam Alli Khan at the Garden ; when
they took Leave at parting, Ally Rezza ſtates of himſelf, that after the Vakeels
had arrived at the Mount (on their final Return to Seringapatam) Omdut ul
Omrah came to the Mount, and had a ſeparate Converſation with Gholām Ally
Khan, which he ſuppoſes to have related to the Propoſition of the Marriage.
Q were you, or were you not, on Terms of confidential Communication with
Gholām Ally Khan, relative to the Progreſs of this Affair of the Marriage 2
A. I was ; and heard from Gholam Ally Khan, that the Nabob Wallajah had
conſented, although I underſtood from other Quarters that this was not the Caſe.
Q. Both Vakeels being (as is ſtated in your Anſwer) in confidential Communi-
tion relative to the Point of the Marriage; how did it happen that they did not
take on themſelves to ſatisfy the Doubts expreſſed by the Nabob Wallajah, in or-
der to promote the Wiſhes of the Sultaun; there being no Impediment to a proper
*Communication either between the Vakeels themſelves, or between Ghola
{{han and Omdut ul Omrah 2 -
A. Having obſerved the Doubts of the Nabob with reſpešt to the Diſpoſition
of the Sultaun, I took Occaſion to ſuggeſt to Gholam Ally Khan, at the Time of
the Meeting at the Tomb, the Expediency of ſatisfying the Doubts of Omdut ul
Omrah, by pointing out the poſitive Proof of the Sultaun's Diſpoſition evinced in
his Propoſal of Marriage. I then retired with Kadir Nawas Khan, and under-
ſtood from Gholam Ally Khan, after the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah went away, that
he (Gholam Ally Khan) had made a Communication to his Highneſs to that Effect,
and that his Highneſs. had acquieſced. The Witneſs repeats that he had heard
from others, that the Nabob Wallajah was averſe to this Connexion. -
m Ally
Q. As the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah acquieſced in the Arguments of Gholam
Ally Khan, why did it become neceſſary to apply for a further Declaration of the
Sultaun's Diſpoſition, on the Propoſition of ſimple Friendſhip 2 -
A. I conceive that there are Two different Queſtions, one of the Marriage,
the other of ſimple Friendſhip, and the Vakeels t
Sultaun on that Point. -
hought it neceſſary to addreſs the
Q. In
No. 15.
continued.
1oo
PA P E R S CO N C E R N J N G T H E L A T E
No. 1 5.
<chtinued.
Q. In the Paper (No. 14,) the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah is ſtated to communi-
cate his Wiſh of diſcovering a Matter of Secrecy, and accordingly a Secret Meet.
ing W3S contrived for that Purpoſe. By your foregoing Anſwers, the Reſult of
this Propoſition is nothing more than a ſimple Propoſition of Friendſhip, conneéted
with a Doubt of its being received by the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun.
- At the very ſame Time that this Doubt is ſtated, the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah,
is ſaid to have been reminded of the Proof of the Sultaun's Diſpoſition, contained
in his Propoſal of Marriage, and (according to Gholam Ally Khan) to have
acquieſced in the Arguments.
. It is extraordinary that Omdut ul Omrah ſhould require ſo much Secrecy in
*claring his Wiſh of cultivating the Friendſhip of Tippoo Sultaun, and it is
inconſiſtent with Reaſon that he ſhould doubt this Proof of the Sultaun's Diſpo-
tion at the Moment of his endeavouring to diſcover it. This Explanation of
Omdut ul Omrah's Propoſition cannot be therefore reconciled with the Explana-
tion which has been given; for as the reſpective Propoſitions of Marriage, and of
ſimple Friendſhip, did not depend on each other, either the Doubt of Omdut ul
Omrah muſt have been without Foundation, or the Neceſſity of farther Reference
to the Sultaun under the Appearance of Secrecy, muſt refer to other Matter
Mem.—The foregoing Queſtion is explained and ſtated in every Point of View
to Ally Rezza, with a ſerious Warning to confider it, and to declare the Truth.
A. He acknowledges the Inconſiſtency, but takes God to witneſs in the moſt
ſolemn Manner, that nothing paſſed at the Moſque with his Knowledge, ſave the
Communication between Omdut ul Omrah and Gholam Ally Khan, on the Sub-
jećt of the Marriage, the Declaration of Omdut ul Omrah's Deſire of cultivating
Tippoo Sultaun's Friendſhip, and his Offer for eſtabliſhing Jagheers and Munſº
for the Princes and the Vakeels. - -
Q. You have ſtated, that on purſuing the Copy of the Letter delivered to you
through the Means of Sir Charles Oakeley, you were ſurprized to find that it cor-
tained nothing but Expreſſions of Civility, and a Liſt of Preſents. What did you
expećt the Letter to contain : -
A. I expečted that the Letter would relate to the Propoſition of Marriage, or
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Friendſhip, or to the Jagheers or Munſubs.
Q: What do you mean by the Expreſſion in No. 14, “to redeem the Time
“ paſt?” - -
A. That the Injuries of Enmity would be replaced by the Benefits of Friend-
fhip. The Letter in Figure Cypher is now produced, and Ally Rezza acknow-
ledges it to have been written by him.
Q: Was any other Cypher uſed in the Correſpondence with T ippoo Sultaun ?
A. I do not recolle&t any other.
Q, when was the Cypher delivered to you ?
A. When I was returning from Seringapatam to Madras.
Q, For what Purpoſe was it given to you?
A. For the Purpoſe of writing Intelligence and other Matters of a ſecret
Nature. - -
The Witneſs ſtates, that he once received a Letter in Cypher in Tippoo's
own Hand-writing, which could not be explained, and was referred back to him.
He alſo ſtates, that the Sultaun was at the Time extremely intereſted in the
State of French Affairs; and was deſirous of obtaining Information reſpecting
them by every poſſible Means; and he told the Vakeels ſo, upbraiding them for
not having tranſmitted Intelligence. .
Q_Explain
NAB O B of THE CARN AT I C.
H OF
o, Explain the Affair referred to in the laſt Paragraph of No. 15 ; and ſtate
how Omdut ul Omrah became the Means of laying the Foundation of it :
A. It refers to the Propoſition of Marriage ; and Ally Rezza explains, that it
was the Wiſh of Tippoo Sultaun to obtain a Daughter either of Wallajah, or of
Omdut ul Omrah, for Sultaun Moyen ul Deen. -
The Affair was communicated to Omdut Ul Omrah, and he was made the far-
ther Inſtrument of Communication to the Nabob Wallajah,
Ally Rezza ſtates of his own Accord, during this Part of the Examination, that
he took Occaſion of ſtating to General Harris (he believes through Captain
Macleod) at Seringapatam, the Anxiety which had been expreſſed by Lord Corn-
wallis, the Nabob Wallajah, and Omdut ul Omrah, that Tippoo ſhould refrain
from the Infraćtion of the Treaty, and ſhould be induced to preſerve Friendſhip
and Cordiality with the Engliſh, as the only Means by which the Fortunes of his
Houſe could be ſupported; and that he (Ally Rezza) had explained theſe
Sentiments to Tippoo Sultaun in vain. -
The Paper (No. 16) is produced and read.
Q: Was Omdut ul Omrah preſent at the Ceremony deſcribed in this Letter?
A. No ; the younger Sons of Wallajah were preſent.
'G). What was the Objećt of this Ceremony
A. He explains; that it was a Pračtice of Tippoo Sultaun's to adminiſter Oaths
to his Servants, Dependants, and Officers of his Government, cn the Points ſtated
in the Paper, and that the Order was received by the Vakeels for ſwearing thoſe
at Madras, which was accordingly done in the Manner deſcribed.
Q: Was it not to engage the Congregation preſent to aſſiſt the Khodadad
Sirkar, and to throw off their Allegiance to the Britiſh Government
A. The Oaths were adminiſtered only to the Servants of the Khodadad Sirkar.
The Diſcourſe was addreſſed to all the Muſſulmans preſent; and it is obvious,
from the Letter itſelf, that the Intention was to attach the Muſſulmans to T ippoo
Sultatin, and to reprove them for adhering to thoſe of a different Perſuaſion. He
(Ally Rezza) adds, that he diveſts himſelf of all Difficulty in making this Con-
feſſion, ſince it is the Objećt of the preſent Enquiry to obtain the Truth.
Q. Did the Nabob's Sons, who were preſent, join in the Prayer, that the Kho-
sdadad Sirkar might be triumphant and vićtorious?
A. The Prayer for Victory and Triumph refers entirely to the Servants of the
{{hodadad Sirkar.
Why did Tippoo Sultaun imagine that you might feel apprehenſive in fulfilling
his Orders reſpecting this Ceremony: - &
A. Becauſe the Ceremony was to be performed in the Territories of a Foreign
power, and becauſe the Nature of the Oath adminiſtered to the Servants was .
verſe to thoſe of a different Perſuaſion.
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Q: Was the Qbligation and Engagement taken on that Day in the Moſques
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:from the Servants of Tippoo Sultaun only; or was it a general Union among
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thoſe profeſſing the Mahomedan Faith, reſident at Madras; --
A. No Perſon but the Servants of the Khodadad Sirkar received the Oath.
Q. When did you leave Madras for Seringapatamº
A. On the 22d Jaffer 1209 Hagry “.
Q: How often did you go to Seringapatam?
A. Once during the Refidence of the Princes at Madras?
C.c Q: W hen
No. 1 5.
continued.
* A Miſtake,
this anſwers
to September
1794.
IV. B. º,
I O2
P A P E R S C O N C E R N IN G T H E L A TE
No. I 5.
continued,
{}. When did you return to Madras
A. I was abſent nearly Three Months, and returned about the 18 or 19 of
Jemrady ul Ovol. ... . . - 3.
The Paper, No. 7, is produced.
Q: Who was meänt by the Term Well-wiſher of Mankind
A. The Nabob Wallajah. *
Q: Why was he diſtinguiſhed by that Name 2 .
A. In conſequence of a Deſire expreſſed by the Nabob Wallajah to be diſtin-
guiſhed by that Epithet, in order to ſhew that he was not confined to any Party,
but well-diſpoſed to all Mankind.
Q: What are the Points which could not be committed to Paper, and could
only be communicated in Perſon 2 - - - - -
A. To recapitulate, according to Lord Cornwallis's Direétions, the Courſe of
hoſtile Tranſačtion which had taken place from early Times between the Two
States ; to inſiſt on the Detenſion of the Priſoners by Tippoo Sultaun, and his
Cruelty towards them ; to inculcate the Neceſſity of a Reform in his Sentiments
towards the Britiſh Nation, and to lay the Foundation of permanent Friendſhip,
to be farther confirmed in Europe.
Theſe Propoſitions of Lord Cornwallis were confirmed by the Advice of the Na-
bob Wallajah, founded on his long Experience and Age.
Q: What Sirdars are meant in the Paſſage “At this Time the Friendſhip and
“ Goodwill of both the Sirdars is from God and the Royal Auſpices f"
A. Lord Cornwallis and the Nabob Wallajah,
Q: Why could not theſe Points be committed to Writing at Madras, ſince
they were committed to Writing after your Arrival at Seringapatam : -
A. The Time of paying the Kiſts had paſſed; and the Priſoners were ſtill de-
tained; it was with the Intention therefore of uſing my perſonal Influence with
the Sultaen in theſe Points, ſince all Writing had proved vain.
Ally Rezza ſtates from himſelf, that about this Time he had received a Letter
from Tippoo Sultaun, mentioning that no Priſoners remained in his Dominions;
that this Communication was in conſequence made to the Britiſh Government,
but that in One Month Three Priſoners made their Eſcape and arrived.
o, where were you in the Months of Mehurreon and Suffer 1209 :
A. In Seringapatam. * *
Q, Were you at that Time in the Habit of attending the Durbar of Tippoo
Sultaun ? -
A. It was ſtopped. No. ---
Q. Were you in the Habit of correſponding with the Nabobs Wallajah and
Omdut ul Omrah, after your final Return to Seringapatam : . - .
A. No; there was Intercourſe between theſe Nabobs and Tippoo Sultaun by
Means of Letters, and of Mahomed Ghyaus and Mahomed Ghaus Khan.
Q, were any other Perſons employed beſides thoſe Two Perſons as Vakeels
at Madras 2.
A. I was under Confinement; but believe not.
Q. Did you at any Time receive Letters from the Nabobs Wallajah or Omdut
ul Omrah, after your Departure to Seringapatam
A. N Oſlº. Q. Did
N A Bo B O F THE CAR N AT I C.
zog
O. Did you receive any verbal Meſſages?
A. None ; I was confined.
Q. Do you know whether the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah uſed any
Cypher in writing to Tippoo Sultaun ? -
A. I do not; I only recolleót Two Letters from the Nabob Wallajah, and
One to him from Tippoo Sultaun.
[The Paper (No. 6,) is produced.]
Q: Did you ever ſee this Paper?
A. I have ; it was inſtituted by Wallajah for Purpoſes of ſecret Communica-
tion, and the Original I believe was written in Pencil by Kadir Nawas Khan, or
ſome Perſon about the Nabob Wallajah. -
Q. You ſtated that you knew but of One Cypher, and you acknowledge to
have ſeen this Second Cypher now produced ; . .
A. It is very true; but although this Paper was intended for Purpoſes of ſecret
Communication, it was of a different Deſcription from what I meant by the
Cypher. To my Knowledge this Paper was not brought into Uſe, it having been
intended for Uſe after the Departure of the Hoſtages, in caſe of Neceſſity.
Q. Did you carry this Paper with you to Seringapatam, when you went with
Lord Cornwallis's Propoſitions :
A. Yes, I did.
Q From whom did you receive it; and to whom did you deliver it after
your Arrival at Seringapatam : . *
A. It was delivered to Gholam Ally Khan by Kadir Nawas Khan, and to me,
at my Departure, by Gholam Ally Khan, who told me that it had been compoſed
for Communication between Tippoo Sultaun and the Nabobs Wallajah and
Omdut ul Omrah ; that a Copy ſhould be given to Tippoo, and the Original
brought back to Madras. Tippoo Sultaun however kept the original Paper.
Q. It appears that Pains were taken to procure private Meetings with the
Vakeels at Madras by Omdut ui Omrah, and it appears that Two Cyphers
were eſtabliſhed for the Purpoſe of ſecret Communications. It is therefore very
extraordinary, that ſo much Trouble ſhould have been taken to conceal Matters,
which, if accompliſhed or known, muſt have tended to increaſe the Friendſhip
between Tippoo and the Britiſh Nation ? k -
A. I acknowledge another Inconſiſtency between the Means uſed and the Pur-
poſes already ſtated, and that ſuch an Inconſiſtency does afford Ground for Suſ-
picion. With reſpect to the Second Paper, I do not know of its having been
brought into Uſe ; and I call God to witneſs, that I am ready to meet any Ex-
tremity which the Engliſh Government may chooſe to inflićt, if any Point was
agitated with my Knowledge beſides thoſe already ſtated. Ally Rezza adds, by
way of Explanation, that the real Cypher (in Figures) was intended for Com-
munication of Intelligence between the Vakeels and Tippoo Sultaun, and not to
be uſed between the Two Durbars. He (Ally Rezza) once took Occaſion to
enquire of Gholam Ally Khan what was the Reaſon of this Attention to the Ob-
ſervance of Secrecy in Affairs which were apparently innocent. Gholam Ally
Khan ſaid, that a certain Delicacy of Concealment (Hijalee) was to be obſerved in
the Affair of the Marriage.
Q. You have ſtated, that when you received from Gholam Ally Khan the Cypher
(No. 6,) you confidered it to be for Purpoſes of ſecret Communication. What
was your Idea of the Nature of the intended ſecret Communications;
A. I
No. 15.
coutinued.
IO4.
P A P E R S CO N C E R N J N G T H E L A T E
No. 15.
A. I concluded it to be for the Purpoſe of concealing the mention of any Affair
º 7. x, la - X- * * . -*. g $, 1 &
continued whatever; whethel relating to the Engliſh, or the Nizam, or the Mahrattas, or
any other Point referred to in the Paper.
Q: A Paper of this Nature is generally prepared for ſome particular Purpoſe;
for what particular Purpoſe do you believe this Paper (No. 6,) to have been pre-
pared 3
Mem.—Great Pains have been taken to explain the above Queſtion, Ally Rezza,
after fully comprehending the Purport, and after due Conſideration, ſtates:
A. That he conceived the Paper (No. 6,) to have been prepared for Uſe, in
caſe of any Neceſſity whatever, but that it was not intended for any particular
Purpoſe.
Q. It appears that all Intercourſe had been ſuſpended for a long Time between
the Durbar of Tippoo Sultaun, and that of the Nabob Wallajah; that a Com-
munication was opened on the Concluſion of Peace, under great Suſpicions and
Doubts on the Part of the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah, with reſpect
to the Diſpoſition of Tippoo Sultaun ; and although that intercourſe is ſtated to
be merely for a friendly Communication between the Two Durbars, yet the Nabobs
Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah put into the Hands of Tippoo Sultaun a con-
fidential Paper, calculated to condućt hidden Correſpondence of a general political
Nature. - - -
A. I acknowledge, that to an indifferent Perſon there are ſtrong Grounds to
fuſpećt, that more was intended than appears ; but I repeat, that I do not know
of any particular Objećt for which the Paper (No. 6, ) was prepared.
He (Ally Rezza) adds, that it was delivered by Kadir Nawas Khan to Gholam
Ally Khan, between whom ſome Communications paſſed, of which he (Ally
Rezza) had no Knowledge. - -
Mem.—The foregoing Anſwer being judged inadequate to the Weight of the
Queſtion which it follows, the Commiſſioners think it neceſſary to explain this
Deficiency in the fulleft Manner , to refer Ally Rezza to the diſtinét Explanations
contained in the Preamble, and to attract his ſerious Attention to the Difficulty of
this Paſſage in the Examination.
With a full Senſe of this ſerious Exhortation, Ally Rezza repeats, that he has
ſtated every Thing within his Knowledge, on the Points ſtated in the Examina-
tion; that the Inconſiſtencies pointed out are obvious, but that he is unable to
give a further Explanation of them. - .
Q, Do you attach any other Meaning to the Expreſſion of “the Affair known
“ of "except that of the propoſed Marriage : • -
A. None whatever. If I had, I would have mentioned it.
Mem,--Here Ally Rezza inſiſted how much it would be adverſe to his Intereſts,
and contrary to the Devotion he owes to the Company, to withhold any Part of
the Truth. The Fac Simile of the Indorſement on the Cypher (No. 6,) is pro-
.duced. -
Q: Do you know this Hand-writing:
A. I do not.
Q, where were you in the Month of Zawkry, of the Year Shaud I 223,
A. Under Diſpleaſure at Seringapatam. - - *
Q: Were you in the Habit of being in any Degree conſulted by Tippoo
, M. P
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Sultaun ?
A. I was not conſulted ; Tippoo Sultaun inſtrućted Mahomed Ghyaus and
Mahomed Ghaus Khan to ſay, in the Event of Omdut ul Omrah º any
- - - - nquiry
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N A T I C.
Io;
Enquiry for Ally Rezza or Gholam Ally Khan, that they attended the Durbar
as uſual.
Q. what was the Object of that Deputation :
A. I do not know; I was in Confinement.
- Q: Did you ſend any Letters or Meſſages by thoſe Ambaſſadors to the Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah ; *
A. None.
Q. Did you receive any Letter or verbal Meſſage by them from Omdut ul
Omrah ;
A. None.
Q. Did you receive any Letters from Kadir Nawas Khan?
A. None; I had no Intercourſe.
. Q. What were the Couplets which Tippoo Sultaun ſent to you ſoon after your
Arrival at Madras : *
A. I have no Recolle&tion of them, the Papers (Nos. 2 and 3.) are produced,
Q. What are the Couplets of which you acknowledge the Receipt: ...'
A. Ally Rezza repeats the following Couplet, which was intended, he ſays, té
explain or ſerve as a Key to the Cypher in Figures, viz. * , *
Q: What is “ the Writing you know of" mentioned in the Letter?
A. The Couplets explaining the Cypher.
Q You have ſtated that the Cypher in Figures (the Specimen of which is pro-
duced) was brought to Madras at the Time of your Return to that Place from
Seringapatam * -
A. It was firſt delivered to me at that Time.
Q. If ſo, it is impoſſible that the Couplets can refer to the Cypher, becauſe by
Dates they appear to have been ſent from Seringapatam before your Departure
from Madras with Lord Cornwallis's Propoſitions? - -
A. Ally Rezza aſcribes this to ſome Miſtake of his Memory, but makes no
Change in the Matter of Fačt with reſpect to the Cypher.
[The Paper (No. 5,) is produced.]
Q. What were the Expreſſions of Friendſhip which Ti
to have heard from his Mouth 2 -
A. I never heard any Expreſſions of Friendſhip from his Mouth, and conſider
the Expreſſion to be nothing more than Form.
The Papers (Nos. I and 4,) are produced.
ppoo Sultaun ſtates you
Q. It is ſtated that the Nabob Wallajah diſſuaded Lord Cornwallis from the
War. Did you hear the Nabob ſay ſo -
A. The Nabob Wall
thoſe Expreſſions.
tº
ajah did addreſs himſelf particularly to me, and did uſe
Q. Did you believe the Nabob Wallajah ſincere in theſe Expreſſions:
A. I did not.—There was no Sincerity on either Part in thoſe Expreſſions.
Q: Although you do not believe any Sincerity to have been intended by the
Nabob Wallajah, in his Expreſſions of Friendſhip towards Tippoo Sultaun, do
you give any Credit to his Profeſſions of Interference founded on his Attachment
to the Religion of Mahomed -
D d - A. The
No. 15.
continued.
Ioff
P A P E RS C O N C E R N IN G T H E L A T E.
No. 15,
comtinued.
A. The Whole is Compliment. How is it poſſible that the Nabob Wallajah
could forget the Indignities ſuſtained by his own Family at the Hands of Tippoo
Sultaun, when Abouel Wab Khan was confined, and his Daughter and Grand-
daughter taken into the Mahal And if there was any Sincerity in theſe Expreſ
fions of Friendſhip, why was not the Chain preſerved after the Departure of the
Princes from Madras P
Q_ Is the Warmth of the Expreſſions in this Letter (No. 4.) conſiſtent with
the general Forms of Civility ? p
A. In the Weſtern World, People are correót and limited in expreſſing them-
ſelves, but the People of India exaggerate extravagantly their Expreſſions of Re-
gard. I regard the Whole of the Expreſſions in this Letter (No. 4) to be exag-
gerated. * ~.
Q. Did the Nabob Wallajah ačtually make uſe of theſe Expreſſions :
A. It was cuſtomary for the Vakeels to heighten the Expreſſions of Regard
which fell from Lord Cornwallis, or the Nabob Wallajah, or any other Perſon, for
the Purpoſe of conciliating the Mind of Tippoo Sultaun.
Q: Did the Nabob Wallajah ačtually uſe the Expreſſion, “ That the Sultaun
was the only Pillar of the Faith; and that with reſpect to himſelf, the State of
Affairs here (meaning at Madras) was well known P. &
A. The Expreſſion is certainly heightened; but the Nabob Wallajah did allude
to the Difference of Circumſtances between himſelf and the Sultaun, with reſpect
to Power and Independance, ſo as to form a ſufficient Foundation for the Repre-
ſentation of the Vakeels. - :
Mem.—It being now Eleven o’Clock, and impoſſible to conclude the Examina-
tion of Ally Rezza this Night, great Pains are taken by the Commiſſioners to im-
preſs on him, in the moſt earneſt Manner, the abſolute Neceſſity of obſerving the
ftrióteſt Secrecy on the Subject of this Enquiry. It is further explained to him,
that the Knowledge of the Circumſtances of the Enquiry being confined to the
Commiſſioners and himſelf, any Diſcloſure of the Proceedings muſt certainly be
traced to him, and as certainly followed by the Privation of his Penſion.
Ally Rezza ſtated, in a very impreſſive Manner, the Duties which he owed to
the Company; and urged, as a Confirmation of his own Deſire to adhere to thoſe
Duties, the intimate Conneétion of his perſonal Intereſts, which could in no Manner
be ſo well ſecured to him, as under the liberal Protećtion and Proviſion which he
now enjoys from the Company.
Vellore, 4th May 1800.
Ally Rezza again attends the Commiſſioners, and, previous to his Examination,
he requeſts Permiſſion to ſtate Two Points, which did not occur to him in the
Examination of Yeſterday.
The Firſt was, that at the Departure of the Vakeels from Madras, they had
been charged with ſome rich Preſents and Jewels, by the Nabobs Wallajah and
Omdut ul Omrah, for Tippoo Sultaun, which were accordingly delivered to
him. - .
The Second was, that the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah had expreſſed
a ſtrong Defire of obtaining an Eſtabliſhment of Land within the Dominions of
Tippoo Sultaun. - .
The oſtenſible Objećt was, the greater Convenience of ſending Preſents and
Pilgrims to Mecca from ſome Place on the Malabar Coaſt, than from any Part of
wº- * the
N A B OB O F T H E C A R N A T I C.
IoW
the Carnatic; and the Nabobs were in conſequence deſirous of obtaining an In-
terchange of Diſtrićts for this Purpoſe.
The Commiſſioners proceed to the Examination of Ally Rezza.
Q, Did you ever ſend to Tippoo Sultaun a Deſcription of the Works of Fort
St. George 2
A. I did.
Q. By what Means did you become acquainted with the Deſcription of them
A. I made the beſt Deſcription I was able, from my own Obſervation, and
from the Information of a Maiſtey Carpenter, ſent for that Purpoſe from Seringa.
patam by Tippoo Sultaun.
Tippoo Sultaun was defirous of building a Fort on the Model of Fort St.
George, and alſo an Arſenal, of which the Maiſtey took a Drawing.
Q, Was the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah privy to this Order?
A. No ; the Order was kept ſecret.
Q, Did you ever receive any Intelligence from the Nabobs Wallajah or Omdut
ul Omrah of a ſecret Nature ? -
A. The Vakeels received Intelligence of the Death of the King of France,
with Advice from Wallajah to withdraw Tippoo Sultaun's Wakeel from Pondi-
cherry.
Q: Did the Nabob explain his Intention in giving this Intelligence 2
A. The Nabob explained, that his Motive for doing ſo aroſe from good Wiſhes
towards Tippoo Sultaun.
Q. In your firſt Viſit to the Nabob Wallajah, he appears to have made a Pro-
poſal for the Eſtabliſhment of Union and Harmony between his Highneſs and
Tippoo Sultaun. Soon after he enquired whether any Anſwer had been received at
a ſubſequent Period; Omdut ul Omrah enquired whether you had full Powers, and
poſtponed the Communication of his Sentiments until the final Departure of the
Vakeels. He them did not make the Communication until he had exacted the
moſt ſolemn Adjuration of Secrecy. What did you ſuppoſe to be the Cauſes of
this Anxiety and Caution, and what did you expect to be the Reſult of this Pre-
paration ?
A. I certainly expected that ſome Affair of Importance to Tippoo Sultaun, and
of a ſecret Nature, would in conſequence be communicated; but I had no fixed
Idea of what that Affair would be.
[The Paper (No. 11,) is produced.]
Q: What do you ſuppoſe to have been the Intention of Omdut ul Omrah's
Propoſitions of Friendſhip deſcribed in this Letter
A. The Eſtabliſhment of Cordiality.
Q. Conſidering the long eſtabliſhed Rivalry and Enmity between the Two
Families, ſomething more than mere Cordiality appears to be imputable to the
Anxiety of Omdut ul Omrah • ‘
A. The Proſecution of the former Wars had been attended with great Detri-
ment to both Parties, and he (Ally Rezza) conceives that Omdut ul Omrah's
Motive was to repair thoſe Loſſes by the Preſervation of Peace.
Q. From the general Warmth of the Expreſſion in the Correſpondence of
Tippoo Sultaun and Omdur ul Omrah, do you ſuppoſe that it was the Intention
tC)
No. 15.
continued.
Yoğ
P A P E R S C C, N C E R N IN G T H E L A T E.
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No. 1 5.
continued.
to extend the Union and Harmony of thoſe Princes, to a Means for the general
Advancement of the Mahomedan Cauſe 2
A. I do not believe that their Views were extended to any Objećt of that Kind.
Q. It appears from many Paſſages in the Correſpondence, as well as from the
Proceedings at the Jaurrah Moſque, that Prayers were offered for the Triumph
and Vićtory of Tippoo Sultaun; if thoſe Prayers had been ſucceſsful, there is no
Reaſon to believe, from the former Condućt and Enmity of Tippoo Sultaun, that
his Vićtory would have been attended with any temporal Advantage to the Nabob
Wallajah's Family; - v
A. Of courſe the Succeſs of thoſe Prayers would have been extremely diſad-
vantageous to the Nabob Wallajah.
Q. Then the Objećt of Wallajah and Omdut ul. Omrah, in offering thoſe
Prayers, muſt have been extended to the general Succeſs of the Mahomedan In-
tereſts 2 "w - *
A. It was the Language of the Tongue, and not of the Heart.
Q. Is not that Language ſtronger than that uſed in the ordinary Intercourſe
between Princes :
A. It certainly has the Appearance of Exaggeration, but to my Knowledge it
did not extend beyond Civility.
[The Paper (No. 12) is produced.]
Q. What is meant by the Expreſſion ? “It is certain that no Aſſiſtance will
be offered from thence P’’
A. That the Sultaun, attending to the Circumſtances ſtated in the Letter, would
not certainly aſſiſt the French. *
Q: Was there any Communication between the Vakeel Ram Row at Pondi-
cherry, and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ; - r
A. None.
Ally Rezza ſtates, that at the Time of the Equipment againſt Pondicherry, Sir
C. Oakeley acquainted the Vakeels in a private Manner, that Pondicherry would
certainly fall into the Hands of the Engliſh, and that if Tippoo ſhould offer the
French Aſſiſtance, it would as certainly be attended with injurious Conſequences to
him.
[The Papers (Nos. 8 and 9,) are produced.]
Q. Confider the particular Points inſiſted on in theſe Letters, and explain the
Objećt of them : * * * -
A. It is well known that the Objećt of the Sultaun was to unite all Muſſulmans
for the Purpoſe of extirpating the Făgliſh; or of falling in the Attempt; and the
frequent Repetition of Oaths to his Servants and Army was directed ſolely to that
Objećt. * -
Q. This Intention of the Sultaun's being well known, is it not reaſonable to
conclude, that the frequent Alluſions of the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul
Omrah, to the Intereſt taken by the Sultaun in the Mahomedan Cauſe, may be
referred to the ſame Intention, and included under the ſame Confideration?
A. I think not; but that they were Expreſſions of Civility. On one Occaſion
the Nabob Wallajah ſtated, that the Sultaun ſhould confider the Connexion with
the Engliſh to be the proper Object of his religious Care.
Q: Was
N A B O B O F THE CA R N A TIC.
Io9
Q, was Kadir Nawas Khan the only Perſon of Rank through whom Commu-
nications between the Vakeels and the Nabobs Wallujah and Omdut ul Omrah
paſſed ? º
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A. Yes.
Q. was Kadir Nawas Khan acquainted with “the Affair known "
A. He was.
Q, was it intended to have kept the Marriage, if it had taken place, ſecret
from the Engliſh :
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A. It was intended to have been effected with the Knowledge of the Britiſh
Government. I brought Preſents for the Purpoſe, which were to have been
delivered in caſe of Succeſs; and otherwiſe to be returned to Seringapatam, which
municating his ultimate Meſſage previouſly to your leaving Madras:
was accordingly done.
Q: Was Kadir Nawas Khan acquainted with the Uſe of the Cypher, No. 6;
A. He was ; he gave it to Gholaum Ally. . -
Q, Do you recollect the particular Phraſes uſed by Omdut ul Omrah, in com-
* • 1,
*
A. I do not; but am certain that nothing more paſſed with my Knowledge than
what I have ſtated.
is tranſlated and committed to Writing; and Ally Rezza, after full
Reſource, and ačted accordingly.
improper in a Perſon entruſted: Being without Reſource,
to the Orders of my Maſter.
Q. You are acquainted, that your Report on the Works of Madras, and your
Exhortations to the Muſſulmans at the Jaumah Moſque, have come to the Know-
ledge of the Britiſh Government: You muſt be ſenſible alſo, that in the one Caſe
you had taken Advantage of the Confidence repoſed in you by the Britiſh Govern-
ment, as an Hoſtage, to betray its Intereſts under the Maſk of Friendſhip.; and,
that, in the ſecond Cafe, you have preached the Language of Rebellion in the
Capital of the Company's Dominions. -
In both Inſtances you can have no Doubt that you have acted contrary to the
Laws of Nations, and are therefore liable to the Reſentment of the Britiſh Go-
Vernment. *
The Principles on which the Britiſh Government aćts, in reference to theſe
Points, were explained to you at the Commencement of this Examination; and
as you will juſtly have forfeited all Claim to its Favour, if, on the Examination of
other Perſons, you ſhould be proven to have deviated from, or to have ſuppreſſed
the Truth, which is the Objećt of this Enquiry; it is earneſtly recommended to
you by the Commiſſioners to trace the whole Subjećt in your Mind, and to correót
any Errors which you may have committed, while it is yet not too late.
Mem.—The foregoing Queſtion, being of a very ſerious Nature to Ally Rezza,
delivers the fºllowing Anſwer, written by himſelf in the Perſian Language.
Anſwer. The Truth
of my Maſter. He gave me particular Injunctions to procure Information on theſe
Points, and alſo ſent a Carpenter in order to examine the works. In this caſe it
was not in my Diſcretion to ačt Contrary to thoſe Orders
h I had obſ, º & ; I therefore made known
whatever I had obſerved. According to the Rights of Peace, this Condućt was
I ačted in conformity
In reſpect to the Exhortation, I acted under ſimilar Circumſtances.
Although theſe Aéts, in a Foreign Territory, were improper, yet I was without
E e : - With
Confideration,
* **, that in giving this Information I was under the Orders
No. 15.
continued.
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P A P-E R S C O N C E R N H N-G T-H E LATE
No. Y §.
With regard to the Recommendation of the Commiſſioners to trace the Subject
continued. of the Enquiry in my Mind, in order to correót any Errors which may have
tº See before
:*, *.*94.
will repreſent it without any Deviation.
occurred, or any Omiſſions of, the Truth, the Caſe is this: The Tranſaćtions are
of long ſtanding; in every Caſe in which I have been queſtioned, have anſwered
to the beſt of my Remembrance; if any Thing farther ſhould occur to me, I
Qy
It is for Conſideration, whether a Perſon like me, enjoying ſuch Favour from
the Company, would, by concealing any Matters in his Knowledge, wilfully
expoſe himſelf to Injury.
It will never be, that I ſhall conceal from the Company any Thing of a ſecret
Nature in my Knowledge. . In every Point in which I have been queſtioned, I
have repreſented whatever I knew ; and I repeat, that if any new Mafter ſhall
ariſe in the Enquiry, I ſhall be ready to give Information to the Excent of my
. . Ability.
The Injunétions on the Subjećt of Secrecy having been repeated to Ally Rezza,
: his Examination is cloſed; and the Commiſſioners think it their Duty to ſtate,
that throughout the Examination of Ally Rezza they have obſerved (as far as
depends on exterior Manner) a ready Diſpoſition on his Part to give the fulleſt
Information; and that although great Inconſiſtencies appear in the Courſe of the
Enquiry, the Commiſſioners did not diſcover any wilful Prevarication, or outward
- Endeavour, to ſuppreſs the Truth.
- (Signed) j, Webbe,
By Cloſe.
t
(A true Copy.)
! (Signed) M. Wilks,
Mily Secretary.
(A true Copy.)
...N. B. Edmonſtone,
SecY.
* * Seringapatam, 9th. May 13co.
• ‘GHOf AUM ALI KHAUN attends the Commiſſioners, by the Direétions
of the Honourable Colonel Welleſley, and they proceed to take his Examination;
* Colonel Welleſley being preſent. .**
The introductory Paper of Explanation, tranſlated into the Perfian Language,
and prefixed to the Examination of Ally Rezza, is read and minutely explained to
Gholaum Ally Khaun, who acknowledges himſelf to underſtand the Meaning and
Extent of the Paper, and profeſſes himſelf at the ſame Time ready to anſwer any
Queſtions that may be propoſed to him.
The Papers (Nos. 14 and I 5,) of the Gorreſpondence are produced, and Gho-
laum Ally Khaun acknowledges the Contents of them.
Q What did Omdut ul Omrah communicate to you in the ſecret Meeting
, which you held with him in the Garden, ſubſequently to the 23d of July 1793?
A. i recommended to Lord Cornwallis, that before his Lordſhip's Departure,
... ſome Means ſhould be taken to eſtabliſh Harmony and Cordiality between the
Families of Tippoo Sultaun and of the Nabob Wallajah ; and the beſt Means
which occurred to me of doing ſo, was that of reciprocal Marriages in the Two
: Families, and this Affair is the Ground of the Two Letters, (Nos. 14 and 15.)
'O. What were the particular Expreſſions of Attachment to 'Tippoo Sultaun,
which Omdut ul Omrah required you not to commit to Writing, but to dººr the
communication of them until your Return to the Preſence of yºur Maſter :
. A. That
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N A T I C.
I I It
A
q."
the Connexion firſt originated with the Nabob Wallajah.
• the Correſpondence and from t
-committed to Writing; he therefore ordered Ally Rezza to attend the Preſenc
on that Point.
particularly, neceſſary 2
A. That the Enmity between the Families of Tippoo Sultaun and the Nabob
Wallajah had been removed by the Interference of Lord Cornwallis; and that
Unity had been eſtabliſhed between them. The whole Subſtance of the Diſcourſe
however referred to the Object already explained. w
Q: What Anſwer did Tippoo Sultaun return to the Communication from
Omdut ul Gmrah, and through what Channel was that Anſwer tranſmitted :
- º * - - e te
A. The Anſwer was, that on the Arrival of the Vakeels this Communication
would be made known, and taken into Conſideration. - *
Q, In, what Manner did the Affair of the propoſed Connexion ariſe.” And how
... was it condućted 2 t
A. The Object of our Miſſion was to attend the Hoſtages until the Completion
of the Treaty. Tippoo Sultaun, finding that there was a Diſpoſition on the Part
of the Nabob Wallajah to eſtabliſh Cordiality and Harmony between the Two
Families, thought that the beſt Means of effecting it would be by Marriage; and
therefore direéted the Vakeels to make a Propoſition to that Effeót.
Mem.—It is explained to Gholaum Ally Khaun, that this Enquiry is of great
: Importance, and that it will be neceſſary for him to recolleót, in order that his
Anſwers may be conſiſtent.
a
Anſwer. Gholaum Aily Khaun then ſtates, that the Agitation of the Affair of
Mem.—This Anſwer being ſo inconſiſtent with the Faët, as it appears from
he other Teſtimonies; the Caution is repeated:
And, - -
A. He ſtill adheres to the laſt Explanation.—Gholaum AIliadds, that Tippoo
Sultaun, on receiving this Communication, confidered it to be an Affair of great
Delicacy, and not to be condućted by Writing. He therefore ordered. Ally
Rezza to attend the Preſence, and returned by him a Meſſage, with confiderable
Preſents. - -
..Q. You have ſtated, that the Nabob Wallajah was: the firſt Agitator of this
j **
Affair. In your Letter (No. 15,) you ſtate, that you have made Omdut ul
Omrah the Foundation of the Affair. Explain the Inconſiſtency
A. It is true that the Nabob was the firſt Agitator of it, but in a diſguiſed
Manner; and therefore Omdut ul Omrah was made the Inſtrument of Com-
munication. - -
Q: What was the Objećt and Intention of Ally Rezza's Journey from Madrās
to Seringapatam, during the Reſidence of the Hoſtages at Madras P. *
A. The Sultaun conſidered the Affair to be of great Importance, not to be
e
... [The Paper (No. 7,) of the Correſpondence, is produced and read.]
Q. It is ſtated in this Letter, that the Affair cannot be committed to Writing;
and that therefore you (the Vakeels) conſidered the Departure of Ally Rezza to-be
A. The Departure of Ally Rezza was conſidered particularly neceſſary, “ in
- “ conformity to the Orders of the Preſence.” -
- *
t
‘Gholaum Alli ſtates, of his own. Accord, that after the Death of the Nabob Wal-
lajah, He (Gholaum Alli) wrote to Omdut ul Omrah, renewing the Negociation
by Order of Tippoo Sultaun, which Letter was ſent to Madras by Mahomed
Ghyau's of Cuddapah, º The Anſwer was not brought to him, but he has ſince
- underſtood
TNo. 15.
continued.
* {3. P A P E R S CO N C E R N J N G T H E LATE
No. 15, underſtood from Ghyauſs, that Omdut ul Omrah had ſaid in reply, that the
continued. Princeſſes were the Daughters of the late Nabob Wallajah, and his Property;
with which Omdut ul Omrah was not at Liberty to interfere.
Q. The Propoſal having originated with the Nabob Wallajah, and Tippoo
Sultaun having ſhewn his Diſpoſition to agree, by ſending Ally Rezza with Pre-
ſents for the Occaſion; how did it happen that the Affair failed of Accompliſh-
ment, both being willing : g r
A. The Nabob Wallajah conſidered Lord Cornwallis's Leave to be neceſſary,
but which was not obtained. This was the Cauſe of the Impediment. *4,
Q. Was the firſt Propoſal, on the Part of the Nabob Walajah, communicated
to the Vakeels, with the Knowledge of Lord Cornwallis :
A. The Nabob ſaid Ten Times, in the Preſence of the whole Durbar, that it
was proper to eſtabliſh ſuch a Connection, and that, for his Parr, he would con-
ſent to and effect it, if his Lordſhip would have no Objećtion.
[The Paper (No. 6,) is produced, and an immediate Change was obſerved, as
well in the Countenance as in the Manner of Gholaum Ally Kkaun.]
Q: Did you ever ſee this Paper ?
.A.. I never ſaw it before this Day, and do not know the Intention of it.
[The Paper (No. 7,) is again produced.] s
Q. Who is meant by the Term, “The Well-wiſher of Mankind?”
A. Wallajah. . . . .
“Q. Why did you call him The Well-wiſher of Mankind?
A. The Nabob told me to uſe that Phraſe, and not his own Name, Wallajah.
Jº ... [The Paper (No. 8,) is produced.] -
Q. Who is meant in this Letter by the Term, “Well-wiſher of Mankind?” "
A. The Nabob Wallajah, who was always diſtinguiſhed by that Name in
Tippoo Sultaun's Letters. *
Q: Who was meant by the Term, “ The Diſtinguiſhed in Friendſhip.?”
A. Ally, Rezza. • * * A st
Q, Was that a Title conferred on him :
A. It was a mode of Addreſs fixed for him. ſº
Q. By whom *
A. The Author of the Letter. !
r
Gholaum Ally ſtates, of his own Accord, that formerly Tippoo Sultaun diſt,
stinguiſhed the Nabob by the Name of Wallajah, and latterly by that of “Well-
“ wiſher of Mankind.” ... • *
He adds alſo, that, the Paper (No. 6,) contains certain figurative Terms, eſta-
sibliſhed in the Dar-al-Inſha, or Secretary's Department.
Q. At what Time was: it eſtabliſhed.?
A. I do not know.
Q. You ſay that it was eſtabliſhed for the Condućt of Buſineſs in the Dar-al
Inſha. On what Occaſion ? * . . . -
A. I did not attend the Durbar for Five Years, and I ſuppoſe it to have been
-invented for that Purpoſe.
Q: What is meant by this Paſſage in No. 8, viz. “I am perfeótly ſatisfied,
“ that you will ſhew that Kindneſs, which is becoming your exalted Perſon, to-
*...*.*, *...* “ wards “Hearts your Gueſts.”
. Herſian Letter. - ... •
.A. The
N A B C B O F T H E C A R N AT I C.
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A. The Children.
Mem –It is neceſſary here for the Commiſſioners to explain, that the Witneſs
at once gave the above Anſwer ; but, on Recolle&tion, he endeavoured to refer the
Term “HEARTs” to its literal Meaning in the Compoſition of this Paſſage, by
explaining that Tippoo Suitaun meant his Hearts, (which was the ſame as Heart,
i. e. the Plural for the Singular) ſhould be the Gueſt of the Nabob Wallajah, and
that Wallajah ſhould beſtow his Affection on it. * *
It being evident to the Commiſſioners that the Witneſs is wilfully prevaricating
on this Point, from a remarkable Change of Manner and Countenance; it is
judged proper to repeat the Injunctions contained in the Preamble to this Enquiry,
and that Paper in the Perſian Language is again read to him, and minutely ex-
plained. - : - * -
Gholaum Ally Khan again repeats, that he perfeótly underſtands the Paper, and
acknowledges himſelf liable to the Penalty eventually or conditionally denounced.
Q. You have ſtated that the Nabob Wallajah expreſſed his Defire of being diſ.
tinguiſhed by the Name of “Well-wiſher of Mankind.” Recolle&t yourſelf, and
deſcribe the Particulars reſpecting the Communication of that Deſire P
A. At the Time of Ally Rezza's Departure from Madras to Seringapatam, the
Nabob Wallajah expreſſed his Peſire to both the Vakeels, that the Name of
“Well-wiſher of Mankind” and not of Wallajah, ſhould be uſed whenever it be.
came neceſſary to mention his Name. • 1 - -
Q: Did the Nabob Wallajah deſire that his Name might be uſed only in
Tippoo Sultaun's Letters, or did he deſire that it flould alſo be uſed in the
I letters of the Vakeels : , , a * * * *
A. The Vakeels being both preſent when Ally Rezza took Leave, the Nabob
Wallajah ſaid, that he was become an old Man ; that he was a Fakir; that he had
now nothing to do with the Title of Wallajah, and direéted the Vakeels to tell
Tippoo Sultaun, that he wiſhed to be diſtinguiſhed by the Name of “The Well-
“ wiſher of Mankind.” A. *
... Q. Did you receive the Expreſſion of Wallajah's Deſire from his own Mouth,
or through the Medium of another Perſon 2
A. From Wallajah’s own Mouth.
Q. In what Place did he communicate this Deſire
A. In the Fort, when the Nabob Wallajah came laſt to give Leave to Ally
Rezza. * - * *
Q: Who were preſent beſides yourſelf and Ally Rezza
A. No Perſon. - r
Q: Did the Nabob retire to a Place of Secrecy, as only Three Perſons were
preſent : -
A. I was fitting in my Chair,” and the Nabob and Ally Rezza came cloſe to
make the Communication to me. w
Q Did the Nabob Wallajah expreſs any Wiſh thar any other Perſons or
"Things ſhould be diſtinguiſhed by ſimilar fićtious Titles s
A. No ; only with reſpect to himſelf.
Q: When was the Title of “ Diſtinguiſhed in Friendſhip” firſt conferred on
Ally Rezza : - - . . .
A. It appears, from the Correſpondence of Tippoo Sultaun, Ally Rezza was
formerly diſtinguiſhed by another Title, which I forget; but on Ally Rezza's Return
to Seringapatam, he requeſted that his Title might be increaſed. This was done.
F f Q: Did
No. 1 5.
continued.
* Heislame and
Can Il Ot II, QVC,
1:4 T” A PER S C O N C E R N IN G T H E L A T E.
No. 15. Q. Did Tippoo Sultaun communicate to you this Increaſe of Ally Rezza's
cºntinued. Title -
A. No. g ~
Q. As no Communication was made to you of the Increaſe of Ally Rezza's
Titles, how was it poſſible for you, or for the Nabob Mohammed Ally, to know
who was meant by the Diſtinguiſhed in Friendſhip 2
A. Becauſe Ally Rezza was himſelf the Bearer of the Letter.
Q. At what Time did Ally Rezza return from Seringapatam to Madras
A. I do not recolleót; but believe that I can aſcertain the Point, from a Me-
morandum of the Preparation made by me to receive Ally Rezza. .
Q Both Vakeels being preſent at Madras, did it ever happen that one of them,
wrote ſeparate Addreſſes to Tippoo Sultaun ? *
A. When both were preſent, they wrote jointly.
Q. The Explanation which you have given of the Expreſſion “Hearts,” &c.
being ſo conſtrained, as to render the Paſſage almoſt void of Meaning; how do
you reconcile the Abſurdity of this Paſſage, according to your Conſtruction, with
the uſual Style of Tippoo Sultaun's Letters, which is evident and reaſonable 2
A. I explain it thus; viz. “Our Heart is in fact, or truly, [for] your Houſe,
and [for] your Little Ones. In this Manner [for this Reaſon] there is the fulleſt
Confidence, that Kindneſs becoming exalted [great] Characters, will be put in
Pračtice.” - -
Q. Do you think that Tippoo Sultaun would have written a Paſſage ſo abſo-
lutely deſtitute of Meaning? -
A. He nas written it.
Mem.—After a full Diſcuſſion of this Conſtrućtion, it is ſtated to the Witneſs,
that the Inconſiſtencies and Abſurdities of his Explanation have eſtabliſhed a Be-
lief, that he is endeavouring to conceal the true Meaning, which it remains for
him either to remove, or to be anſwerable on his Reſponſibility to the Company.
Q. On this Queſtion being firſt put to you, you gave a direét Anſwer, which
was intelligible; but, on Conſideration, you have ſubſtituted an Anſwer which is
not to be underſtood. --> * . . *
A. It is true, I may have ſaid ſo.
The Paper, No. 6, is put into the Hands of Gholaum Alli Khaun again,
and he is aſked, in the moſt ſerious Manner,
• Did you ever ſee this Paper, or not? or did you ever hear of its being
throught into Uſe:
A. I now ſee that Omdut ul Omrah's Name is at the Bottom of the Paper.
After the Death of his Father, Omdut ul Omrah ſent it to Tippoo Sultaun, to be
aiſed in their Correſpondence. - -
Q: How do you know this ? -
A. Becauſe it is endorſed by one of the Moonſhees of Tippoo Sultaun. *
: What Conneétion is there between the Endorſement and the Period you
have deſcribed: And on what Grounds have you fixed the Period at the Death
of Wallajah -
A. [It is impoſſible to obtain any Anſwer; but he ſays, that] it came in the
£over of a Letter, which muſt have been dated,—I am reſponſible for this Fačt.
Q. It
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Q. It has been explained to you, that the Engliſh Government is in Poſſeſſion
of the Records and ſecret Papers of the late Tippoo Sultaun; and, conſequently,
that they have ample Means of examining all Perſons who appear to have had
any Share in the Tranſačtion of his Affairs; confider well, and anſwer this
Queſtion on your Reſponſibility to the Company —Did you, or did you not,
‘receive this (No. 6,) written in Pencil, from Omdut ul Omrah :
A. No.; I did not. --
After further Heſitation, Gholaum Ally ſays, if he ſent it, he may have ſent it
by means of Ally Rezza.
Q. If he ſent it at the Time of the Death of the Nabob Wallajah (as you have
ſtated), how could he have ſent it by means of Ally Rezza : *
A. I ſpoke from Conjećture. …”
Mºm.—It appears from the Whole of Gholaum Ally Khaun's Anſwers, that
'he is wilfully prevaricating, and that no Explanation can be obtained from him.
As he appears, therefore, to be callous to the manifeſt Falſehoods in his Teſti-
mony, the Commiſſioners deem it unneceſſary to purſue this Part of the Examina-
tion further.
Q: Was there any Cypher in uſe in your Correſpondence with Tippoo Sultaun?
A. If there was, it was lodged with Ally Rezza, and I underſland that ſuch a
Paper was given to him on his Return to Madras.
After further Heſitation, Gholaum Ally ſtates, that Ally Rezza deſired him to take
a Copy of the Cypher, which he declined, ſaying that he was not a Perſon to be
engaged in thoſe Affairs. ~. .*
Q. Was it ever uſed by Ally Rezza
A. He never told me of his having done ſo.
Q. Did you ever hear that it was brought into Uſe 2
A. Never, never. -
Q. Did Ally Rezza ever communicate to you that he had uſed it?
A. One thing is true, that Tippoo Sultaun did write a Letter in Cypher to Ally
Rezza. -
Q: Did it ever happen, that both Vakeels being preſent at Madras, they corre-
ſponded ſeparately with Tippoo Sultaun ? *
A. No.
Q, Did Tippoo Sultaun ever ſend any Letter ſeparately to either Vakeel, when
both Vakeels were preſent at Madras: *. s: - *
A. No. --
Q: Did the Letter above-mentioned in Cypher come to Ally Rezza alone, or ad-
dreſſed to both Vakeels : *
A. Ally Rezza told me that he had received the Cyphered Letter, but I declined
having any Concern with it.
Q: Was you not confidered to be the principal Vakeel ?
A. Ally Rezza had Charge of the Expences, and I was entruſted with political
TNegociation. .
Q: Was it uſual for Tippoo Sultaun to write in Cypher on the Subjećt of your
Expences at Madras? -
A. I know that he wrote one Letter in Cypher.
Q: Did
No. Ji 5.
continued.
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P A P E R S C C, N C E R N IN G T H E L A T E
No. I 5.
continued,
> .
Q. Did Tippoo Sultaun ever communicate to you any Circumſtance whatever
by means of a Cyphered Letter :
A. No.
Q. Did he ever communicate any Circumſtance in Cypher to Ally Rezza *
A. No ; no Letter was received. He ſhewed me one Letter.
Q. Did you ever hear that Ally Rezza had, on any Occaſion whatever, written
to Tippoo Sultaun by means of a Cyphered Letter? - ar
A. I did not know of it: I never heard of it; and never was told of it.
Q. What were the Orders of Tippoo Sultaun for condućting your Correſpond-
ence 2
A. He gave us no Orders; none whatever.
Q. Did you ever hear that Tippoo Sultaun had ordered an Oath of Fidelity to
be adminiſtered to his Servants, at the Moſque in Madras 3. .
A. Yes; Orders came for that Purpoſe, which were executed by Ally Rezza.
Gholaum Ally Khaun having earneſtly requeſted Permiſſion to retire, Leave is
accordingly granted to him; it being evident, from his Determination to prevari-
cate, that no farther uſeful Matter can be obtained from his Teſtimony. ... '
* Seringapatam, I j th May 1800.
Gholaum Ally Khaun again attends the Commiſſioners, agreeably to his Ap-
pointment. ..] -
[The Paper, N° 7, in the Correſpondence is produced.] -
Q. What are the Points which could not be committed to Paper, and could
only be communicated in Perſon 2 - - #
A. The Communication of the Friendſhip and Harmony which was felt for
Tippoo Sultaun. .. -
Q. What Sirdars are meant in the Paſſage, “At this Time the Friendſhip
* and Good-will of both Sirdars is from God and the Royal Auſpices *
A. Lord Cornwallis and the Nabob Wallajah. - -
Q. What appeared to you to be fo extraordinary in the Friendſhip and Good-
will of both Sirdars, as to make you think and ſay that it could only have pro-
ceeded from God and the Auſpices of Tippoo Sultaun ? - . . .
A. Formerly Enmity was eſtabliſhed between the Two States; I therefore con-
ſidered this Diſpoſition now manifeſted to be a moſt fortunate Occurrence.
Q: Why did you conſider what had paſſed between you and the Nabobs
Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah, as an unlooked-for Good -
A Becauſe I found a better Diſpoſition than I expected towards my Maſter.
Q. What was the Subjećt alluded to in this Letter, in which Tippoo Sultaun
was to deliberate maturely, and to bring fully home to his Mind 2. -
A. The Harmony and Friendſhip which is mentioned in the Letter.
Q. What was meant by the Alluſion in this Letter to the Changeableneſs of
the Times P - tº
... A. The Inſtability of human Affairs; I therefore meant to impreſs on the Sul-
taun's Mind the Neceſſity of forming uſeful Friendſhips. $ -
Q: What was the Affair which you were deſirous Tippoo Sultaun ſhould
agree to : -->
A. My
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A. My Objećt was to promote a Diſpoſition on the Part of the Sultaun to cul- No. t 5.
tivate this Friendſhip.
Q. How did you mean to apply the Paſſage from the Poet Hafiz Who
were the Friends with whom Tippoo was to maintain Cordiality ? and who were
the Enemies with whom he was to diſſemble : *
A. I meant to impreſs the Policy of cultivating the Friendſhip of the Two Sir-
dars; and of keeping apart from the Mahrattas and the Nizam.
Q. Did you at any Time receive Letters or Meſſages from the Nabobs Walla-
jah or Omdut ul Omrah, after your final Return to Seringapatam
A. Soon after my Return I was put under Reſtraint, and I received no Com-
munication whatever, either by Letter or Meſſage from the Nabob Wallajah, or
from Omdut ul Omrah. g
[The Paper, N° 17, of the Correſpondence is produced.]
Q. Do you recollect receiving from Omdut ul Omrah the Letter, of which
this is a Copy &
A. As it is an Anſwer to the Letter which was written under my Seal, by the
Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, I did not receive it.
Q: Did you receive any verbal Meſſage or Letter from the Nabob Omdut ul
Omrah, or from any Perſon in his Confidence, through the Channel of the Am-
Saſſadors Mahomed Ghyaus and Mahomed Ghous?
A. None.
[The Paper, N° 20, is produced.]
Q. Do you recollečt to have received this Letter?
A. No.
Q. Was your Seal ſent for more than once by Tippoo Sultaun ?
A. No.
Q. How many Years are paſſed ſince the Sultaun ſent for your Seal
A. I do not recollect; it is a conſiderable Time, upwards of Two Years, as far
as I can gueſs.
Q. You ſay that the Sultatin ſent for your Seal but once; Two Letters have
been produced from Omdut ul Omrah to you, after an Interval of Two Years
and a Half, in each of which a Letter from you is acknowledged; one of them
therefore muſt have been written by yourſelf?
A. The Sultaun kept my Seal for Five Days, and may have prepared different
Covers of Letters with it; I know nothing of the Letter myſelf.
Q. Did you at any Time receive a Letter from Kadir Newaz Khaun ?
A. I received one ; it was a Letter of Recommendation.
Q. Reſpecting whom *
A. I do not recolle&t his Name; he was a Gentleman deſtined for this Quar-
ter; I returned no Anſwer.
Q: Did you receive any other Letter from Kadir Newaz Khaun ?
A. No. |
[The Paper, Nº. 21, in the Correſpondence is produced.]
Q: Did you not receive from Kadir Newaz Khaun, ſome Time in the Month
of Rajeb 121 Higery, a Letter, of which this is a Copy?
A. I did receive it.
G g Q. When :
continued.
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P A PERS CO N C E R N N G T H E LATE
a
No. 1 5. . .
continued.
Q. When 2 • * 4
A. I have no Recolle&tion of the Time. .
Q. It does not appear to be a Recommendation of any Gentleman
A. It is the only Letter I received; and it might have contained a ſeparate
Note of Recommendation.
Q_ By whom was it brought 2
A. The Gentleman above-mentioned, about a Year after my Return from
Madras.
Q: What were the Contents of your Letter to Kadir Newauz Khaun, which
is acknowledged in this Letter : 9. *
A. Informing him of my Arrival, and communicating the Expreſſions of
Friendſhip and good Wiſhes towards the Sultaun. *
Q: What was the Nature of the Intimations of Kadir Newauz Kaun's Attach-
ment to Tippoo Sultaun, which had occaſioned Tippoo Sultaun to expreſs through
you his Satisfaction : y &
: A. Nothing more than the Deſire already expreſſed of eſtabliſhing and pre-
ſerving Cordiality and Friendſhip between the Two Durbars. g - **
1. Q. Through what Channel were the ſaid Intimations conveyed to Tippoo Sul-
taun ? . . . .
A. I delivered the Meſſage of Kadir Newauz Khaun, on my Return to the
Preſence, and acquainted him with the Reception of it by the Sultaun. This is
the Anſwer to my Letter. *
Q: What did Kadir Newauz Khaun mean by ſaying, that the Syſtem of Har-
mony and Union between Tippoo Sultaun and Omdut ul Omrah had acquired
the requiſite Degree of Stability and Firmneſs? -
A. I explain, that being a Man not very opulent, Kadir Newauz Khaun was
deſirous of rendering his Inſtrumentality in eſtabliſhing the Friendſhip and Cordi-
ality uſeful to himſelf, by obtaining a Preſent from Tippoo Sultaun.
, as * Q, Did he obtain any : *
A. None. The Object of the Connection was not accompliſhed.
**
Q, You muſt be ſenſible, that, from the Inconſiſtency of your Anſwers, you have
endeavoured to fruſtrate the Objećt of this Enquiry, and we have explained to you
that this Examination will be tranſmitted to our Superiors. We refer you, therefore,
again to the ſerious Exhortation which was given to you at the Commencement of
this Equiry; and, as the Prevarication in your Teſtimony is too obviouſly intended
to conceal ſome Matters connected with the Enquiry, we recommend that you ſhould
conſider the Nature of the Evidence you have given, left it ſhould ſubječt you to
the ſerious Diſpleaſure of the Britiſh Government? . . . .
Mem.—The above Queſtion having been verbally explained to Gholaum Ally
Khaun, he is informed, that it will be tranſlated into the Perſian Language, and fent
to him in the Morning (it being now very late); and that he will be required to
ſubſcribe his own Anſwer in the ſame Language at the Bottom of the Queſtion.
Gholaum Alli Khaun accordingly withdraws.
Seringapatam, May 12th, 1800.
The queſtion recorded Yeſterday, having been tranſlated into the Perſian Lan-
guage, is ſent to Gholaum Ally Khaun, by Colonel Cloſe's Moonſhee; and after a
conſiderable Interval, the following Note is received from Gholaum Ally himſelf.
“ The
N A B C B O F T H E C A R N A T I. C.
“I I9
“The Moonſhee is deſirous that I ſhould write at the Bottom of the Paper ſent
“ to me. At one o’Clock To-morrow I will wait on the Gentlemen, and communi-
“cate ſomething. For the preſent, I requeſt that the Moonſhee may be recalled.”
Seringapatam, May 14th, 1800.
In conformity to his Note of the 12th Inſtant, Gholaum Ally Khaun attends the
Commiſſioners: And, after ſtating the Reluctance which he felt for diſcloſing the
Secrets of his Maſter entruſted to him, delivers the following Anſwer (written by his
own Moonſhee) to the Queſtion recorded in the Proceedings of the 11th Inſtant;
viz. * -
“ God and his Prophet know and witneſs, that whatever was known to me from
“ the Beginning of the Year 12O7 to the Year 1214 Higiry, has been explained,
“ without Deviation or Difference, before the Gentlemen of the Company.” 4.
Q. In your Note of the 12th Inſtant, you ſtated, that you had ſomething to com-
municate. What is that ſomething -
A. It was my Intention to mention, that on the Departure of Ally Rezza from
Madras, he was charged by the Nabob Wallajah with a Sword and a Saddle of
Value as a Preſent to Tippoo Sultaun. • ‘
It was alſo my Intention to ſtate, that the Ink was ſcarcely dry on the Treaty
(of 1792), when Tippoo Sultaun ſent for his Vakeel from Pondicherry; I did not
know what paſſed between them, but I explain the Obſcurity of the Paſſage in the
Letter (No. 8.) by referring the Word “Hearts,” to Tippoo Sultaun himſelf, and
the word “Khordegaum,” to the French.
Q. There being the moſt rooted Enmity between the French and the Nabob
Wallajah, how could Tippoo Sultaun, in a Letter of Civility to the latter, denomi-
nate the former the Children of his. Highneſs : •
A. It was an Alluſion. * -
[The Paper (No. 10,) of the Correſpondence is produced.]
Q: Did the Nabob Wallajah ačtually communicate this Intelligence to you ?
And did you tranſmit the Meſſage without Addition to Tippoo Sultaun?
A. I received the Intelligence through the Means of Kadir Newauz Khaun.
On drafting the Letter, I ſhewed it to Kadir Newauz Khaun, and he having ap-
proved of it, it was diſpatched to the Preſence. - :
Q: What is the Meaning of this Paſſage, viz. “What in the Judgment of this
“Well-wiſher now appears expedient is this. In a ſhort Time his Lordſhip will
“go to Europe, and the Keſts are in a Courſe of Payment. After his Lordſhip's
“ Departure the Liquidation of the Keſts and other Points, whatever may be his
“Highneſs's (Tippoo's) Pleaſure, will be right and proper. At preſent it is better
* to be ſilent in every Thing, becauſe at this Time his Highneſs’s Honour would at
“all Events be called in queſtion. When another ſhall arrive from Europe, the
“Imputation will in every Event and in every Meaſure fall upon him *
A. The French,-the French,-the French,--a thouſand Times the French.
* Q. How could the Agitation of the Affairs here alluded to, before the Departure
of Lord Cornwallis, be attended with Diſreputation to Tippoo Sultaun”
A. Becauſe Lord Cornwallis himſelf being a Party to the Treaty, any Deviation
from it on the Part of Tippoo Sultaun, at ſo early a Period as during his Lord-
ſhip's reſidence in India, would be particularly injurious to the Character of Tippoo
Sultaun. q
- } : - Q: How
No. 15.
continued.
I 2C
P A P E R S C O N C E R N IN G T H E L A TE
No. 1 5.
continued.
Q. How could the Departure of Lord Cornwallis remove any Part of the Diſ.
reputation of violating the Treaty 2
A. By the Poſſibility of their being able to conciliate the New Comer to their
Views. *
Q. Do you mean to include the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah in this
intended Arrangement for conciliating the New Comer ? º
A. I received the Meſſage from Kadir Newauz Khaun on the Part of the
Nabob Wallajah, and therefore only include him in it.
Q: What Anſwer did Tippoo Sultaun return to this Propoſition ?
A. An Anſwer was received and delivered to the Nabob Wallajah, but the Con-
tents were not explained to me. The Sultaun informed us that he had received
our Diſpatch, and encloſed a Letter for the Nabob Wallajah from himſelf, which
was accordingly delivered. - -
Q: Was the Letter tranſmitted to the Nabob Wallajah by means of Kadir
Newauz Khaun ?
A. It was delivered to the Nabob Wallajah himſelf at one of his Viſits to the
Princes. -
Q. The original Meſſage from the Nabob Wallajah having been verbally com-
municated to the Vakeels, did his Highneſs make no Mention to you of the Pur-
port of the Anſwer which he had received from Tippoo Sultaun ?
A. No ; I made no Enquiry on the Subjećt.
Q. You have ſtated, that the Whole of the Affair alluded to in this Letter re-
fers to the French ; but the very Subjećt of the Letter is founded on the too fre-
quent Communication between the Sultaun and the Government of Poonah. How
do you reconcile this *
A. It is true, that the Letter refers principally to Poonah; but the Nabob Wal-
lajah's Caution was general, and included all.
Q, Do you underſtand, that in giving this Advice the Nabob Wallajah com-
municated his Intention to the Britiſh Government?
A. I have no Knowledge on this Point.
[The Letter in figured Cypher is produced, and recognized by Gholaum
Alli Khaun.]
Q: Did you tranſmit to the Sultaun the Deſcription of the Works of Fort St.
George, promiſed in this Letter?
A. No, we did not; who would permit us to obtain the Information ?
Q. The Britiſh Government is in Poſſeſſion of a very long and detailed De-
ſcription of the Works of Fort St. George, written during the Reſidence of the
Vakeels at Madras 2
A. It may be, but I have no Recolleótion of it. If ſuch a Letter was written, it
will have fallen into the Hands of the Britiſh Government. *
Q. At what Place did you take your laſt Leave of Omdut ul Omrah
A. At the Mount. ..
Q. As Omdut ul Omrah appears to have met the Vakeels at the Garden on
the Plain for the Purpoſe of delivering his laſt Meſſage, why did he follow them
to the Mount : - z
A. After our Return from our Meeting at the Garden, we received a Meſſage .
from Kadir Newaz Khaun, that the Nabob would entertain us at the Mount, and
accordingly Omdut ul Omrah came thither. -
Q: Had
NA B O B O F THE CARN AT I C.
i 2. I
Q. Had you any particular Converſation with Omdut ul Omrah on that
Occaſion?
A. No ; none whatever.
Q. Had you any particular Converſation at the Garden when you took Leave
of Omdut ul Omrah ;
A. None. That Meeting was Five or Six Months previous to our ačtual
Departure.
Q: Was the Affair which Omdut ul Omrah required you not to commit to
Writing, communicated only to yourſelf, or to both the Vakeels :
A. To both.
Q. Was there at that Meeting any Converſation between yourſelf and Omdut
ul Omrah unknown to any other Perſon : *
A. Yes : We converſed on the Subjećt of the Conneétion by Marriage, and
of the Harmony of Tippoo Sultaun and the Engliſh, during which Time Alli
Rezza was on one Side. f
Q: Was there any ſeparate Converſation between yourſelf and Omdut ul
Omrah at the Tomb : *
A. Yes. There was on the Subjećt of the Conneétion. . . .
Q. It appears that you held private Converſations with Omdut ul Omrah at
the Moſque, and in the Garden; recollect whether you had not alſo yourſelf a
ſeparate Converſation with him at the Mount . . .
A. None whatever.
Gholaum Alli Khaun retires. ex
& * (Signed) j. Webbe.
By. Cloſe.
H h
No. I 5.
continued.
I 2.2 PAPERS conc E R NING T H E LATE
No. 16.
Copy of ſuch Parts of the CORRESPONDENCE diſ-
covered in the Palace at Seringapatam, and alluded
to in the Letter from the Right Honourable the
Governor in Council of Fort St. George to the Secret
Committee of the Court of Direétors, dated 3 Auguſt
18or, as are not included in the Appendix to the
Declaration of the Governor of Fort St. George, dated
31ſt July 1801.
Tranſlation of a LETTER from Mohummud Oſmaun, Vakeel at Madras,
to Hyder Ally Khan ; dated 6th of Zykeed 1186, anſwering to the 30th
January 1773. -
“AGREEABLY to your Orders, I had an Audience of the Nabob, at
which, after expreſſing in ſtrong Terms the Friendſhip that ſubſiſted between us, I
requeſted the Paſſport for the Arms. Immediately on hearing theſe Expreſſions of
Friendſhip, his Highneſs acquieſced in my Demand of the Paſſport, and taking
me by the Hand, led me to the Top of the Houſe, where there was a Room,
from whence the beautiful Proſpect of the Sea, Fort St. George, &c. like a Plain,
appearing to our View, he remarked what a beautiful Spot it was, and added,
May Almighty God ſoon produce a Cauſe, from which the Nabob Hyder Ally
Khaun and I ſhall be enabled here to ſet and enjoy ourſelves together.” He
proceeded in theſe Words, “ The Nabob Hyder Ally Khaun, inattentive to the
Value of my Friendſhip, has always confidered me ſeparate from himſelf; whilſt
I have ever conſidered us as one: I may ſay indeed that I look on his Exiſtence as
my own Fleſh and Skin, and it is incumbent upon him to do the ſame. It is ne-
ceſſary that a Friendſhip ſhould ſubſiſt between us ſo firm, as that both our
Countries alſo ſhould be one ; that if any Enemy, (which God prevent,) ſhould
burn one of his Villages, I ought to feel as if one of my own was conſumed; and
were one of mine to be deſtroyed by the Fire of an Enemy, he ought to feel as if
one of his were deſtroyed : Again he obſerved, Your Maſter may make many
Friends, and doubtleſs will, but ſuch a Friend as I am he never can acquire ;
when Friendſhip ſhall be eſtabliſhed between us, then it will be ſeen what the
Friendſhip of Friends is. I am that Friend who, if he (which God prevent)
ſhould require the Sacrifice of my Child, as a Means of promoting his Proſperity
and Dominion, would, looking upon this as the greateſt Bleſſing in the World,
moſt willingly deliver my Offspring up to him. It is my Wiſh to eſtabliſh ſuch a
Friendſhip with your Maſter, that our Children after us may be united in the
Bonds of Affection and of Love. Let us therefore, during this tranſitory Life, be
friendly and united, and render good Offices to each other, ſince in the next no
Perſon can be conneéted with another; it is indeed ſingularly happy that Al-
mighty God has been ſo bounteous to each, as that we want for nothing elſe than
Friendſhip and Affection; it is incumbent upon us mutually to tranſmit to one
another Preſents and Rarities, &c. which God has beſtowed on both, which,
amongſt Friends, is a Source of Satisfaction, a Means of over-awing others, and
iń.
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in every Reſpect ſeemly. If therefore any Thing in your Maſter's Country ſhould
be wiſhed or required by me, let me take it without any Apology; and in like
Manner ſhould he want any Thing from mine, let him ſend for it without Ex-
cuſe; this is the Mode in which the Princes of former Times diſplayed their
Friendſhip for each other, and in the preſent Times it is the ſame.” Your Slave
(Mohummud Oſmaun) upon hearing all theſe friendly Expreſſions, made the two
following Remarks, “ Almighty God has beſtowed upon your Highneſs (the
Nabob) a general Knowledge of every Matter, and a clear Underſtanding, my
Maſter (Hyder Ally) contemplating by Anticipation from his own great Fore-
fight all that I have now heard, and wiſhing to promote a Unity with you, ad-
dreſſed to you a Letter, wherefore did your Highneſs not write him in return ?”
He anſwered, “I am convinced that your Maſter wrote me that Letter of Con-
dolence in Friendſhip; but while I cheriſhed in my Mind his friendly Sentiments,
I judged it unproſperous and improper, as a Beginning of Friendſhip, to reply to a
Letter of Condolence, and therefore failed to write to him; but ſhould he wiſh in
future to maintain a Correſpondence with me, I will look upon him, and addreſs
him as a King.” My ſecond Obſervation was as follows: “ Almighty God has
made your Highneſs powerful and great. The Mahrattas you know to be evil-
minded and wickedly diſpoſed; during Three Years they were at War with my
Maſter, and over-run and deſtroyed his Country to Value of many Crores.
Notwithſtanding his repeated Demands of Aſſiſtance from you, with an Offer of
paying the Expences of the Troops, how did you continue inattentive to his Wiſh,
and an ina&tive Spectator : It would appear then, that you were unwilling to
have him for a Neighbour (or a Friend,) and preferred the Neighbourhood (or
Friendſhip) of the Mahrattas.” He replied, “The Sentiments you expreſs are
preciſely my own. May the Almighty deſtroy and root out the Mahrattas. It
is with this Objećt in view, that I am anxious to eſtabliſh an Alliance with
your Maſter, that in future whatever we may do may be concerted and en-
gaged in with one Heart and Tongue, whether to make War or Peace, be-
cauſe hitherto he has not, in the firſt Inſtance, made Application to me, nor
communicated with me, upon any Subjećt. When he attacked the Europeans,
and made Peace with the Engliſh, who were my Servants, it depended upon
my Conſent to conclude it. I was the Prince and Owner of the Country, and
was at no great Diſtance from the Scene ; but not a Word, not a Sentence,
not even a Man, did he think proper to ſend to me. Hence I could not but
conclude, that he wiſhed not to be in Unity and Friendſhip with me, and conſe-
quently what ought I to have to do with his other Wars and Pacifications. Had
your Maſter maintained Friendſhip and Correſpondence with me, and had I then
neglected to fulfil my Obligations, and remained an ina&tive Spectator, theſe
might be Grounds for Complaint: But let us totally forget the paſt, and if the
Nabob Hyder Ally Khaun ſhould conceive that nothing or no Advantage is to be
gained from my Friendſhip; let him reflect that the moſt trifling Degree of its
Advantage is this; that if every Year, whatever Number of Arms he may be able
to purchaſe and carry away from this Quarter, he may do ſo without Moleſtation;
it is no leſs a Privilege than what he poſſeſſes in his own Country. In the pre-
ſent Inſtance, when you applied for a Paſſport to the Governor, you knew the
Anſwer he gave ; he does not chuſe to comply with your Requeſt. Upon a Prin-
ciple of Forefight, I confider your Maſter's Friendſhip as paramount to
every Thing; it is incumbent likewiſe on your Maſter to do the ſame by me,
and continue firm in his Friendſhip, for our two Hearts are in reality one.”
His
No. 16.
continued.
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P A P E R S CON C E R N IN G T H E LA T E.
No. 16.
continued.
His Highneſs further added, that an odd Incident had occurred, and told me,
laughing at the ſame Time, that when your Highneſs came down upon the Eng-
liſh, he was in this very Garden where we were, and ſending Anſwers to the Let-
ters which he received; that the People told him, “ To-day the Engliſh Gentle-
“men are embarking upon a Pilgrimage.” Here the Converſation broke up,
and his Highneſs deſired me to come To-morrow for the Duſtuck.
P. S. In your former Letter to the Nabob, your Addreſs was ſuch as to pro-
duce an Obſervation from him, “ That People in general write thus to their
* Servants.” It will be neceſſary therefore to conſider this in future, that no
Offence may be taken. His Highneſs gave me an Engliſh Pocket Book, as a
Preſent for you, which I encloſe. If you ſend him ſomething handſome in ex-
change, I think it would be proper,
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
Perſian Tranſlator to the Government.
N A B O B O F , T H E C A R N A T I C.
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chinopoly, particularly in the Pagoda of Seringam, the Means of recompenſing
No. 17.
(Copy) Minute of Lord Clive, dated 29th September
1801, relative to the pecuniary Proviſion to be made
for the Families of the late Nabobs Mahomed Ali
and Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. -
Minute of Lord CLIVE, in Council, 29th September 1801.
I HAVE the Honour of communicating to the Board a Statement of the pe-
cuniary Proviſion which I propoſe to make for the Family of their late Highneſſes
the Nabob Mahomed Ally and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, as well as for the
principal Officers and Dependants of the late Government. This Statement has
been prepared in communication with his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah.
Reaſon therefore exiſts for believing that the Proviſion now propoſed extends to
every Branch of the Family, and that the Company will be liable to no further
Expence for its Support, - -
It appears by the Accounts with which I have been furniſhed from the Durbar
of the Nabob, that the Appropriation of the Family Jagheers by the Nabob
Mahomed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah has been extremely capricious; by theſe
Means many Members of the Family have lived in the Enjoyment of ſuperfluous
Abundance, while the greater Part has with Difficulty commanded the Means of
Subſiſtence. This Mode of Appropriation has therefore afforded no Guide for the
Allotment of the pecuniary Stipends; and I have judged it moſt expedient to
divide the Family and its Connexions into ſeparate Claſſes, according to the
reſpective Gradations of the different Branches.
In propoſing Haif a Lack of Rupees for the Support of each of the legitimate
Sons of the Nabob Mahomed Ally, I have allowed myſelf perhaps to exceed the
Bounds which a ſtrićt Interpretation of the Situation of thoſe Princes might
juſtify; but I have been unwilling to detraćt from the Liberality by which the
Britiſh Government has been guided throughout the recent Tranſačtions con-
nečted with this Family; and it did not appear to be conſiſtent with this Plan of
Arrangement, that a leſs Income ſhould be allotted to the legitimate Sons of
Mahomed Ally, than that appropriated to the Support of the elder Sons of the
late Tippoo Sultaun. To the inferior Branches of the Family I have allotted
Stipends, calculated in a relative Proportion, according to the reſpective Claſſes to
which they have been referred.
Some oppreſſive Exaétions having been made by Huffin ul Mulk (the Second
ſurviving Son of the Nabob Mahomed Aliy) in his Capacity of Foujdar of Tri-
the Sufferers will hereafter be a Subjećt of Conſideration for the Governor in
Council, but I ſhall conſider it indiſpenſably neceſſary to apply a great Portion
of the Stipend of Huſſain ul Mulk to this Purpoſe; for the ſame Reaſon I ſhall
propoſe to reimburſe the Company in the Amount of the Arrear paid to the
Troops of Sultan ul Niña Begum, the favourite Siſter of the late Nabob Cindut
ul Omrah, from the Stipend allotted to that Princeſs.
-- I i ". The
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No. 17.
continued,
The only Deviation I have admitted from the Principle of diſtributing the
Family into Claſſes, is in favour of Tudjul Omra, the eldeſt reputed Son of the
late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah. The Operation of that Principle would have
referred him to the Claſs of Nekare Sons, and perhaps a ſtrićt Interpretation of
his Condition might be more conſiſtent with that Principle, becauſe a Deviation
in his Favour can only be founded on Conſiderations connected with his former
Rank and Expectations, and might therefore be liable to the Imputation of
encouraging Hopes, which having been decidedly cut off it may be unwiſe to
indulge. I am diſpoſed however, in the preſent State of Circumſtances, to conſider
Ally Huſſein to be more an Objećt of Compaſſion than of Danger, and I think
that the propoſed Stipend of Rº 24,000. per Annum, affords ſufficient Means of .
gratifying his Wiſhes, without encroaching on the Expediency of ſuppreſſing his
Pretenſions to the Government of the Carnatic. -
The Liſt of the Officers of the late Government is not extenſive, and the Proviſion
which I propoſe to make for them is liberal. Of the four principal Officers of the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, introduced to the Deputies after the Death of that Prince,
I have included only Tucky Ally Khan; and I have allotted to him a Stipend pro-
portioned to his former Rank in the Durbar. Nejeeb Khan (the other Perſon named
in the Will of Omdut ul Omrah) holds at preſent a Jagheer, which will hereafter
come under the Confideration of the Board, and will afford, I have no Doubt, ample
Means of maintaining that Khan. The Part which Hadir Nawaz Khan has aéted
in the extraordinary Negociations of the late Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Omdut
ul Omrah, has rendered it impoſſible to include him in the Arrangement of the Af.
fairs of the Carnatic upon the preſent Foundation; and with reſpect to Mr. Barret, it
will be manifeſt, from the Deſcription of that Perſon contained in the Report of the
Deputies, that the ſame Conſiderations do not apply to him, which apply to the
Muſſulmen Gentlemen of Rank and Charaćter in the Service of the late Govern-
Iſlent. - -
The Three Princes connected with the F amily of the Emperor Delhi have, I un-
derſtand, reſided in the Neighbourhood of this Preſidency, and have been ſupported
by the Bounty of the late Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah during a
long Period of Time; I have therefore judged it neceſſary, in framing the preſent
Arrangement, to ſecure to Perſons of their Deſcription the certain Means of Subſiſ-
tence through the Channel of the Company's Government.
Having concluded theſe Arrangements with his Highneſs the Nabob, in confor-
mity to the Stipulations of the Treaty, I conſider it to be conſiſtent with the Spirit of
that Inſtrument, to give every Appearance of Support to the Dignity and Rank to his
preſent Highneſs, and to reſtrain the Spirit of Hoſtility which has been avowed by
many Branches of the Family towards the Nabob Azeemul Dowlah. While there-
fore I propoſe to ſecure to each Branch of the Family the actual Enjoyment of the
Penſion allotted to it, by rendering it payable at the Company’s Treaſury to ſuch
Perſons as may be appointed to receive it, I judge it to be indiſpenſably neceſſary,
to the Preſervation of good Order and Harmony in the Family, that the Receipts
to be granted by the different Members of it ſhould be previouſly ſubjećted to the
Nabob's Inſpe&tion, and that the Payment of the Penſions ſhall be ſuſpended unleſs
ſuch Receipts ſhall bear the Seal and Signature of his Highneſs.
I conſider it to be extremely deſirable that every Precaution ſhall be uſed for ſe–
curing the Happineſs and Comfort of the Nabob on the Foundation of the preſent
Arrangement;
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N A T H C.
Arrangement; in order therefore to preſerve his Highneſs from the Errors of his
Predeceſſors, to defend him from the Machinations of intereſted Perſons, to reſtrain
his Expences within the Limit of his Income, and to impreſs conſtantly on his Mind
the Principles of his Connection with the Britiſh Government, I judge it to be ex-
pedient that a Perſon ſhould be appointed to attend his Highneſs's Durbar, and to
choid a conſtant perſonal Communication with him on the Part of this Government.
The general Obječts of this Arrangement will be ſubject to the immediate Super-
intendance of the Government ; and the Duties of the ſubordinate Office, which
I propoſe to create, will be direſted to the Maintenance of that Intercourſe, to
the timely Communication of the intended Meaſures of the Nabob, and to the
Eſtabliſhment of an immediate Controul, under Circumſtances contributing at the
fame Time to the Honour and Reſpect due to his Highneſs's Station.
The Nature of theſe Duties is ſuch as to require the Appointment of a Muſ-
fulman of good Charaćter and Underſtanding, rather than an European Gentleman.
I have the beſt Opinion of the Fidelity of Gholaum Huſſain, the principal Moonſhy
in the Perſian Office, and of his Qualifications to diſcharge the Duties of that
Station with Satisfaction to this Government and Advantage to the Company. I
propoſe accordingly to nominate Gholaum Huſſain to attend (under the immediate
Orders of the Governor) the Durbar of his Highneſs the Nabob, with a Salary of
One Hundred Pagodas per Month, and with an Allowance of Fifty Pagodas for
Equipage and Servants. Theſe Sums of Money it is my Intention to charge on
the Fund to be appropriated to the Support of the F amily and Dependants of the
Nabob.
The Board will obſerve, by the Statements which I have the Honour of com-
municating to it, that the Amount of the propoſed pecuniary Proviſion for the
Family and Dependants of the Nabob, is leſs than the Amount appropriable to that
Purpoſe, according to the Stipulations of the Treaty of 1792; and the Nature of
the preſent Arrangement is calculated to ſecure a gradual Diminution of this
Expenditure. -
. I propoſe that the Payment of the Stipends ſhall commence from the Firſt Day
rof Oétober. * , , , .
. STATEMENT of the pecuniary Proviſion to be made for the ſurviving
Branches of the Families of their Highneſſes the late Nabob Mahomed
Ally, and the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah.
FAMILY of the Nabob Mahomed ALLY.
Three Sons by legitimate Marriage; viz. . . - Rupees.
Sief ul Mulk - - - - - - - - - - 50,000
Huſſain ul Mulk - - - - - - - - - - - 50,000
Nuſſur ul Mulk - - - - - - - - - 50,000
- I 50-ooo
Three Daughters by legitimate Marriage; viz. .
Sultan il Niſſa Begum - - - - - - - 25,000
Mullickil Niſſa Begum - - - - - - - 25,000
Qmdutul Niſſa Begum - - - - - - - 25,000
~ 75,000
Ten
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No. 17.
continued.
128 P A PER'S CON CERN IN G T H E LATE
No. 17. - * Rupees.
continued. Brought forward - - 225,000
Ten Sons by Nika; viz.
Huſſain Nawaz Khan - - - - - - - Io,000
Serafraz Khan - - - - - - - - - Io,000
Abdul Hamud Khan - - - - - - - Io,000
Nuffur Oollah Khan - - - - - - - - Io,ooo
Gholum Mahomed Khan - - - - - - Io,ooo
Iſmael Khan - - - - - - - - - - Io,000
Huſſain Mahomed Khan - - - - - - ro,ooo
Aboo Tuſab Khan - - - - - - - - Io, ooo
Abdul Mahhood Khan - - - - - - - Io,000
Abdul Ghuffar Khan - - - - - - - Io,000 .
- IO3,OCO
Five Nekail Ladies; viz.
Rieſel Niſſa Begum 5,OOO
Zub ul Niſſa Begum - - 5,Ooo
Lal Mahal - - - - - - - - - - - 5,000
Khuttajah Begum - 5,OOO
Padſha Begum - 5,OOO
— 25,000
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Twelve Daughters by Nika; viz.
Nejubul Niſſa Begum - - - - - - - 5,000
Aziezul Niſſa Begum - - - - - - - 5,000
Serojul Niſſa Begum - - - - - - - - 5,ooo
Afzul ul Niſſa Begum - - - - - - - 5,000
Fachnul Niſſa Begum - - - - - - - 5,000
T}owlut ul Niſſa Begum - - - - - - - 5,000
Rizzia Begum - - - - 5,OOO
Reheem ul Niſſa Begum 5,900
Fuzulut ul Niſſa Begum 5,OOO
Kaabia Begum - - - - - - - - - 5,000
Lutful Niſſa Begum - - - - - - - - 5,000
Hafiza Begum - - - - - - - - - 5,000
. . 60,000
One Grandſon by Nika; viz. - .
Abdul Bofil Khan - - - - - - - - - - - 3,000
Inferior Nekail Ladies; viz. r * ſ
3,OOO
Purſun Buby - - - - - - - - - -
‘Hudjaing Buby - - - - - - - - - 1,200
Aumunah Buby - - - - - - - - - 1,200
Kanullah Buby - - - - - - - - - 1,200
‘Four Circaſſians - - - - - - - - - 4,2CO
Muddary Begum - - - - - - - - 1,200
- * . - - - I 2,OOO .
The Haram - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8,4CO
Total - - - 4,33,400
2d FAM IELY
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- 2d F A MILY of the Nabob Omdut ul Qmrah.
Three Sons by Neka; viz.
Tadjul Omrah - - - - - - - - - 24,000
Shab Sowar Jung - - - - - - - - Io,000
Bakir Huſſain Khan - - - - - - - 1 O,OOO
* 4,430CO
:G)ne Daughter by Neka; viz.
Huſſa bul Niſſa - - - - - - - - - - - - 5,000
Four Nekail Ladies; viz. & * *
Guffaty Begum - - - - - - - - - 5,000
Colſum Begum - - - - - - - - - 5,000
Chuloor Begum - - - - - - - - - 5,000
Mahatab - - - - - - - - - - - 5,000
- & 2O,OOC
One inferior Concubine, recently admitted into the Mahal
with her infant Son - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2,400
The Haram - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4,053
• , . Total - - 1,00,453
3. The Family of Abdul Wahab Khan, the legitimate Brother of the Nabob
Mahomed Ally; viz.
- . • e Rupees.
Two Sons by legitimate Marriages; viz. -
Dileer Jung - - - - - - - - -
w 24,000
Khan Jehan Khan -
12,OOO
—— .36 ,OOQ.
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sº
-
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dº
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Four Sons by Neka; viz.
Serafra Khan - - - - - - - - - 3,000
Needum Oollah - - - - - - - - - 3,000
Abdo Rezzakkhan - - - - - - -
-čº
- 3,OOO
Kurrein Odeen Ahmeed - - - - - - - 2,0co
* * 8,000
‘One legitimate Wife, Lally Begum - - - - - - - - - - 6,oco
Three Nekail Ladies; viz.
Allah Rukky - - - - - - - -
- – 2,000
Muſtura Khanum - - - - - - - - 1,000
Sulliah Bee - - - - - - - - - - 5OO
:Five Daughters; viz. . 3,500
Kurrem ul Niſſa - - - - - - - - - 2,000
Rahmului Niſſa - - - - - - - - - 2,000
Ahmedy Begum - - - - - - - - - 2,000
Buddyul Begum - - - - - - - - - 2,000
Wugjyui Niſſa - - - - - - - - - 2,000
** w Io,ooo
The Family of Fétadar Khan, a Son by Neka - - - - - - - 2,000
Total - 65,500
. - - Rupees.
The Begum Dolary Begum - - - - - - - - - - - - 25,000
No. 17.
continued.
* So in the
Original.
K. k } 4. The -
I 3G P A P E R S C O N C E R N IN G T H E LA T E.
No. 17. 4. The Family of Maphooz Khan, the Brother of the Nabob Mahomed Ally
continued. by Nika. Rupees.
One Son Maphooz Khan - - - - - - - -
* Three Daughters ; viz.
The Wife of Mahomed Merad - - - - - 2,000
gº 6,ooo
Do. of Mahomed Ally Khan - " - - - - 25COO
Buby Saheb - - - - - - - - - - 1,200
- ºmº 5,2OO
Total - 1 1,200
s: separate conneāions of the Nabob Mahomed Ally Abdul Kadir, Rºse.
the Nephew of Mahomed Ally by his legitimate Siſter - - 12,000
The Family of Jan Jehan Khan, Nephew of Maho
med Ally by his legitimate Siſter - - - - - - - 5,000
The Family of Lewad Khan, a Nekail, Son of Maho-
med Ally - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5,000
The Family of Huſſain Ally Khan, a Nekail, Son of
Mahomed Aily - - - - - - - - - - - 5,000,
The Family Nejeeb Ollah Khan, a Nekail, Brother
of Mahomed Ally - - - - - - - - - - - 2,000
The Family of Budder ul Iſlam Khan, a Nekail Brother
of D° - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3,000
Total - 32, ooo
6. Offices of the Government of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, not
included in the Proviſion made for the Family of his Rupees.
Highneſs Mochtar Jung Foujdar of Tinnwelly - - - 4,200
Ally Newaz Khan, Killadar of Arcot - - - - - 4,200
Purky Ally Khan, one of the Miniſters at Madras - - 4,200
Meer Aſſud Ollah Khan - - - - - - - - - 4,200
Kuttub Oodun Khan - - - - - - - - - - 432OO
Jowaher Allv Khan, Killadar of Rylaſgur - - - - I 32OO
- Scrafrag Ally Khan, Kiiladar of Terrioor - - - - 132CO
Bakir Gowar, Killadar of Chittoor - - - - - - I 32OO
Ameen Üd Dun Ally Khan Behauder - - - - - 2,400
Commandant Mahomed Ibrahim - - - - - - - I, 2OO
Moonſhy Gholaum Huſſain - - - - - - - - - 6,320
Total - - 34,520
7. Three Relations of the Emperor of Delhi, penſioned by the Nabob
Mahomed Ally.
Rupees.
Humacoin Bucht – 6,ooo
Ally Bucht - - - - - - - - - - - 4,2CO
His young Brother - I,2OO
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NAB O B OF THE CARN AT I C.
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R EC A P IT U L A TI O N :
**. & Rupees.
. Family of the Nabob Mahomed Ally - - - - - - - 4,33,400
. D* - - - D* - - - Omdut Ul Omrah - - - - - - Loo,453
D" - - - D - - - Abdul Wahab Khan - - - - - - 65,500
. D* - - - D* - - - Maphooz Khan - - - - - - - I 1,2OO
. Separate Conneétions - - - - - - - - - - - - 32,OOO
Officers of the late Government - - - - - - - - - 34,520
Relations of the Emperor - - - - - - - -
- - I I,4OO
Grand Total - - 698,473
(Signed) Clive.
A true Copy.
(Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief Secº of Gov".
No. 17.
continued. -
H 32. PAP E R S CO N C E R NIN G T H E LAT E
No. I 8.
copy of a PAPER, purporting to be a Letter from
Huſſein Ally, the reputed Son of the late Nabob of
- Arcot, to James Stuart Hall and Samuel Johnſtone,
Eſquires.
From his Highneſs the Nawaub wallajah, Omeer ul Hind, Tajool Omrah,
Omeer ul Mulk, Moren ud Dowlah, Mahommed Ally Huſſein Cawn,
Bahodar Juffer Jung, &c. &c. &c. &c.
To James Stuart Hall and Samuel Johnſtone, Eſqs.
WHEN I look around me, and perceive the many Dangers which beſet me,
am overwhelmed with Difficulties; every Objećt occaſions new Alarm, and my
little Experience in Buſineſs, my Unacquaintance with the World, and my great
Want of Friends in a Trialſo ſerious, leaves me little able to encounter the Difficul-
ties which preſent themſelves. Though a Stranger in Perſon, yet I would perſuade
myſelf that, in Relation and Charaćter, I am not wholly unknown; nor will you for-
get the anxious Solicitude with which my ever honoured and lamented Father re-
commended his only Offspring to you, atyour Departure from theſe Regions; a pious
Solicitude, which ſeemed to anticipate the awful and melancholy Moment which
has ſince enſued.
Appriſed as I am of the Eſteem in which you was held by his late Highneſs the
Nabob, of your unalterableConcern for his true Intereſts, and of your ſincere Friend-
ſhip for his Family, I naturally turn to you in this Embarraſsment of my Affairs,
and moſt earneſtly entreat the Benefit of your Advice and Endeavours to extricate
me from ſurrounding Perils.
I have not truſted to a Stranger's Aid to make known theſe Circumſtances, which
it is my firſt Wiſh to be communicated to you: I will detail them to you with my
own Hand; I will trace the unhappy Events which have happened, and the Evils which
they have introduced in their Train; I will explain to you the Sentiments to which
they have given riſe; the Reſults to which they have already led; and the Conſe-
quences which they may eventually occaſion. Theſe will not only direét your
Services, of which I confider myſelf ſecure, to proper Objećts, but will be the Means,
(for I am confident in the Juſtice of my Claims), of obtaining the Redreſs which
I am ſeeking. A true and faithful Account of my Situation, to whom it may be re-
quired to be made known, will be all ſufficient to the Succeſs of my Application.
In order that you may have a complete Knowledge of all that has happened, it
will be neceſſary to begin with Circumſtances apparently remote, though certainly
not unimportant nor unconnected with the preſent Situation of Affairs: I ſhall there-
fore firſt acquaint you, that early in the Month of June laſt his Highneſs the
* Nabob
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I 33
Nabob of the Carnatic was ſeized with very dangerous Symptoms, which continued,
with little Variation, for the Space of ſeveral Days, and were ſufficient to alarm his
Family and Friends for his Highneſs's Safety and Life: It pleaſed the Al-
mighty to allow his Highneſs an Interval of a few Days of Quiet and Tranquility,
to arrange and ſettle the Particulars of his Houſe, and to provide for the Succeſſion
to his Dominions; and ſo ſerene and untroubled a Moment of Freedom from Bodi-
ly Pain and Infirmity did His Highneſs enjoy, that his Family and Servants had a
moſt reaſonable Hope that he might be able to overcome the Violence of the At-
tacks. After a few Days, however, the Diſeaſe returned with an Increaſe of Violence,
and diſappointed all the Expectations and Prayers which had been kindly conceived
and fervently offered up for his Highneſs's Recovery : Tears will not allow me to
deſcribe with Exačtneſs the Scene which followed : You will in a Word learn, that
his Highneſs lay on the extreme Bed of Sickneſs, awaiting the Summons from an
eventful Life with a dignified Patience and Reſignation, affording a ſtriking Leſſon,
never to be forgotten, of the Vanity of ſublunary Greatneſs; and in this painful and
agonizing State he continued until the 15th of the ſucceeding Month, when his
Spirit and Soul forſook him, in their Way to a higher Glory and more perfect
Happineſs.
On the 5th July, about Ten Days previous to the melancholy Event which
I have laſt-mentioned, a large Body of Troops, conſiſting of European and Na-
tive Infantry and Cavalry to the Number of 8oo Men, with a proportionable
Number of Artillery, ſupplied with requiſite Stores and Field Equipage of every
Denomination, were ſent by Government under the Command of Colonel
M’Neil (one of the Company's Officers) to take Poſſeſſion of the Garden and
Palace of Chepauk, under the Pretence of defending them againſt any Inſult or
Violence, which the Deceaſe of his Highneſs the Nabob might poſſibly pro-
duce; a Meaſure which had been adviſed and adopted without any Communica-
tion either with his Highneſs or his Miniſters, until the very Moment of its Exe-
cution, when Major Grant, the Town Major of Fort St. George, was ſent to the
ſick Chamber of his Highneſs, to acquaint him with the inſtant Approach of
the Troops, and to explain to him the Reaſons which had determined that extra-
ordinary Aćt of Government.
It will not be neceſſary for me to attempt a Relation of the various Emo-
tions, under the Conflićt and Agony of contending Paſſions, which this ſudden
and unſeaſonable Communication unfortunately excited ; you will be able to
form ſome Conjećture at them, if you advert to the Situation and Condition of
his Highneſs at that Moment, and to the Hand which executed the Meaſure.
Whether from this or ſome other Cauſe, I am too deeply and dearly intereſted to
dare to form an Opinion, his Highneſs's Diſorder augmented daily in Violence,
and ended in the unfortunate Way which I have before been obliged to ſtate.
The Troops, notwithſtanding the Repreſentations and laſt Entreaties of his
Highneſs, ſurrounded his Highneſs's Apartments, and the inmoſt Receſſes of his
Palace at the Time of his Demiſe ; and although but one Mind manifeſted itſelf
amongſt his Highneſs's Relations, and the Miniſters of his Affairs; although the
moſt uninterrupted Order and Regularity every where appeared, and a Spirit of
Loyalty, 1 am proud to ſay it, univerſally ſhewed itſelf to his Highneſs's Succeſſor ;
yet the Military Force ſtill kept its Poſition under the ſame Inſtructions, and
feemingly with a View to dićtate the Order and Terms of the Succeſſion,
~5 L l Under
No. 18.
continued.
I34.
P A P E R S CO N C E R N IN G T H E L A T E
No. 18.
continued.
Under theſe unhappy Circumſtances, did an old and honourable Ally draw his
extreme Breath. In this degrading Situation, did his unoffending Succeſſor begin
the Cares of his Government and Dominion.
Decent Attentions had ſcarcely been paid to the inanimate Form of his High-
neſs to prepare it for its Shroud, when Mr. Webbe, the Secretary of Government,
and Colonel Cloſe, the Reſident of Myſore, were ſent to the Palace under the In-
ſtrućtions, as they repreſented, of the Right Honourable the Governor. His
Highneſs departed this Life at about a Quarter paſt Ten, and at a Quarter paſt
One of the ſame Day, I was adviſed of the Approach of the Commiſſioners of Go-
vernment : I am thus circumſtantial in my Detail, as I cannot but conceive, that
it will tend to ſhew the Features of the Policy which was intended to be adopted
in the Beginning, and which has eventually terminated in the utter Subverſion of
every Thing like Right and Juſtice.
Though ſecure from the Poſition of the Force about the Palace of every
Acceſs to it, and of the Knowledge of every Aét which might paſs within it, yet at
the ſacred Hour of Sorrow, and into the Chamber of hallowed Afflićtion, did
thefe cold Commiſſioners obtrude themſelves, not with the tender Offers of
“Friendſhip or Condolence, but with Offers of Indignity and Inſult.
It would not be believed, unleſs ſolemnly aſſerted, and I do aſſure you, on the
Honour and Faith of a Prince unuſed to any Subterfuge or Compromiſe, that at
this melancholy Junéture, I was drawn by peremptory Meſſages from the Side of
the great Deceaſed, to anſwer to the countleſs Interrogatories of Commiſſioners
inſtructed to examine me: I hope I ſhall not ſuffer in the Eyes and Contempla–
tion of good Men, in yielding to Importunities ſo unworthy of myſelf and them,
which nothing leſs than the Peace and Tranquillity of my Family, and the Fear of
Pollutions, which I cannot bring myſelf to think of, could poſſibly have led to
but they are paſt, and I will endeavour to be calm.
Attended by ſeveral of my principal Officers, I went to the Apartment where
the Commiſſioners were waiting, when I was immediately accoſted by one of
them with an Enquiry as to the Diſpoſition which his Highneſs had made of his
Affairs : I anſwered with Calmneſs, but not without a Senſibility natural to my
favoured Situation (from the Bounty of my Royal Predeceſſor) that ſuch Diſpo-
fition was clear, ſhort, and unequivocal, and was contained in a written Paper,
which had been executed in Quadruplicate, the ſeveral Parts of which had been
ſent many Days previous to his Highneſs's Demiſe, to their ſeveral Deſtinations;
one of them had been forwarded to his Majeſty the King of Great Britain, one
to the Court of Direétors, one to the Governor General, and the remaining Part
was firſt delivered to his Highneſs’s Chief Miniſter, and had by him, ſince the
Deceaſe of his Highneſs, been delivered into my Poſſeſſion, where it then
remained. - -
The Commiſſioners requeſted to ſee the Papers to which I had immediately.
alluded, when one of my Officers, ſtruck with the Impropriety of the Requeſt at
ſuch a Seaſon, could not reſtrain himſelf from obſerving, that the preſent Moment
was devoted, as well by Feeling as Cuſtom, to the Indulgence of Grief; and he
truſted, that they would not again advert to the Paper, or to Circumſtances to
which it;iad Relation, but would ſuffer the Intervais allowed to humane and re-
3. ligious
N A B O B O F T H E C A R N A TI-C.
. I 35.
ligious Confiderations, not to be moleſted with worldly Cares or Reflećtions; that,
after Three Days, his Highneſs would be happy to produce the Will, and Con-
ſult with them on the Objects conneéted with it, ſo far as they related to the Com-
pany. But the Commiſſioners would not hear this conſiderate Suggeſtion, but in-
ſiſted, with a Firmneſs to which I was unuſed, on the immediate Produćtion of
the Paper. -
Fearing that ſome poſſible Doubts might have been entertained, as to the Re-
ality of the Paper, if it had not been produced at the Time when demanded, I
gave it to their Hands with as little Reluétance as the Occaſion could permit;
they examined it in my Preſence, and in the Preſence of my Officers, with a par-
ticular and ſcrupulous Care, obſerving, when it was returned to me, “That his
º Highneſs had appointed me to the entire. Dominion and Government of the
* Carnatic, and, with very ſmall Exceptions, to the Poſſeſſion of all his Pro-
“ perty; but that in Contemplation of my Youth, had placed me under the Guar-
“ dianſhip of Two of the Noblemen, or Cawns, about his Highneſs's Perſon,
« who were to fill the Office of Regents, until I ſhould arrive at my Nineteenth
“Year.” I inſtantly obſerved to them, “That I had been long ſenſible of this
* Diſpoſition of his Highneſſes's Affairs; that I was well aware and greatly
“ thankful for the kind and tender Precaution of his Highneſs, in committing
c. my Inexperience into ſuch able and worthy Hands; that I well knew and
“ highly reſpected them, and was ready in all Things to abide by their Council and
“ Advice;” and concluded with remarking, “That fince his Highneſs had ſo diſ-
“ poſed of me, and had ſo conſigned the Buſineſs of the Government, it were un-
“ neceſſary.that I ſhould be conſulted further at a Moment ſo inauſpicious. The
cc Regents, I was ſure, had not leſs Inclination to meet and forward the Deſire
“ of the Company, than what I now felt, and ſhould ever continue to feel, being
, “ the firſt and earlieſt Impreſſion. I had received, and would, I hoped, be the
“ laſt that would remain with me.” On this I was preparing to depart, when
, the Commiſſioners deſired that I would yet remain, having ſomething important
to communicate to me, and which they begged to deliver in private, or, at
leaſt, in the Preſence only of the Regents and myſelf: On this my Officers and Ser-
vants were inſtructed to withdraw, when the Commiſſioners proceeded in the
... Manner in which I ſhall now ſuccinétly and clearly relate.
{
On the immediate Departure of my principal Servants, the Officers of Govern-
ment produced a Letter, repreſented by them to have been written by the
Marquis Welleſley, and intended for his late Highneſs the Nabob ; which ac-
cuſed my Royal Grandfather, and my much revered Father, of an improper and
unjuſtifiable Correſpondence with the Sultaun of Myſore, and concluded with
demanding an immediate Surrender of all the Country of the Carnatic for an
alledged Breach of Treaty. After the reading of this Correſpondence, they re-
-marked that the Territory of his Highneſs had been forfeited to the Company
by the Aét which had been ſtated in the Letter, and that of conſequence he
had no Manner of Right to diſpoſe of it by Will; yet to ſhew that the Com-
pany had every Diſpoſition to ſerve and protećt the Son, whom his Highneſs
had ſo favoured, they were fully inclined to make a very liberal Proviſion for
him, on Condition of his previous Surrender of all the Dominions which had
been nominally willed to him. The Regents being preſent, were as much moved
as myſelf at the extraordinary Communication which had been juſt made to us;
, , e. Yº . . .” . . . . . . . . . . . . and
... •. : : a * * , :* * . . . .
Yo. 18.
continued.
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No. 18.
continued.
and although we were fully convinced that no unauthorized Correſpondence
had ever taken place between his late Highneſs or his Predeceſſor, with
the Sultaun of Myſore, yet we were ſo much agitated and afflićted at the ſeri-
ous Manner in which the Charge was preferred, as not to be able to afford a
cool and diſpaſſionate Anſwer. After ſtating our internal Impreſſions, that nei-
ther of the reſpected Perſonages, to whom Alluſion had been made, could have
ever been engaged in a clandeſtine Communication with any Foreign Power, in
Enmity with the Britiſh Intereſts, and our great Mortification at the Propoſal
which had been offered, as founded on that ſuppoſed Faël, we begged for a few
Days Conſideration of the Terms which had been ſuggeſted; which was conceded
to us after ſome Diſcuſſion. -
Every Enquiry was made in the Interval to aſcertain the Correſpondence which
had at any Time taken place of the Nature already mentioned, when no Veſtige
could be traced which could throw the ſlighteſt Stigma on the venerable Names
which had been implicated in ſo unfortunate a Charge,
The only Correſpondence which had ever occurred between the Parties in
queſtion, and which could have given Riſe to the Suſpicion entertained by the
Company, happened at the Inſtance of the Earl Cornwallis, after the Termination
of the War ſo ſucceſsfully condućted by his Lordſhip againſt the late Sultaun,
and related to a Family Connexion, which, from well known Circumſtances, never
took place. This Correſpondence naturally produced mutual Communication of
Courteſy on ſeveral domeſtic Events, which concerned either of the Parties per-
ſonally as Occaſion happened, but nothing that could affect any Intereſts con-
neéted with national or public Conſiderations.
The Regents, at the Conference on the next Evening, being confirmed in their
firſt Impreſſions of the Rečtitude of his late Highneſs's Condućt in the Particulars
referred to, ſtated, in perſpicuous Terms, the Steps which they had purſued to
inveſtigate into the Truth of the Accuſation which had been alledged to have been
contained in the Letter of the Marquis Welleſley; and that they had found, on a
“full Inveſtigation, that there was not the ſmalleſt Foundation for the Charge which
had been urged; but on the contrary, that the only Correſpondence which had
occurred between his Highneſs and the late Sultaun, had been carried on with the
Knowledge and Conſent of the executive local Government, and had been for-
warded officially by them; and in Proof of this Aſſertion referred the Commiſ-
miſſioners to their own immediate Records.
The Regents then expreſſed their Concern that the Matter of this Accuſation
had not been made known, and enquired into, in the Lifetime of his late High-
neſs, when it might have been fairly and candidly explained and anſwered. This
Circumſtance alone led them to hope, that the Company did not ſeriouſly believe
that Correſpondence of ſuch a Deſcription had in reality happened, though they
might have felt themſelves authorized in requeſting an Explanation concerning it;
and, under this Convićtion, they could not but conclude the Terms propoſed to
them at their laſt Conference would be given up, as they were applicable to a
Situation of Things which did not exiſt,
The Regents next profeſſed themſelves moſt ready to receive any Propoſals,
which might ſerve to promote a good Underſtanding in reſpect to the exiſting
Engagements,
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Engagements, or might render them more convenient to either of the ſubſcribing
Parties, though they were not ſenſible how they could be improved, at the ſame
Time they were apprehenſive that a new Arrangement might give Riſe to Diſcuſ-
fions which had been long ſet at reſt by the ſubſiſting Treaty.
The Commiſſioners ſtill ſtood on their firſt Ground, and inſiſted, in peremptory
Jianguage, on the Propoſal which they had before made. Seeing there was no Poſ-
iſibility of diverting them entirely from this Objećt, the Regents conſidered of an
Expedient, which, in their Expeditation, might have induced the Commiſſioners
to have foregone their Propoſal, at leaſt in the Extent in which it had been
moved, being well aware, from an intimate Knowledge of his late Highneſs’s
Affairs, that the preceding Governors of Fort St. George had looked for Poſſeſ.
'ſion of the Tinnevelly, and ſome of the adjacent Countries, as more convenient
to their Affairs, and ſenſible, that the preſent Government, from the Nature of
the Propoſal made, had ſimilar Views, though in a more extended Shape; they
determined, under the peculiar Circumſtance in which they ſtood, to meet their
3Defires, in as much as they could, conſiſtent with their own Honour and the
Intereſts which they had been given in charge; and with this Intention, they pro-
poſed to deliver into the Hands of the Company (for their entire Management
and Controul) the Whole of the Tinnevelly and Madura Provinces to the South-
ward, and Ongole and Palnaud to the North, on the Condition that the Prince of
the Carnatic ſhould be allowed in his periodical Kiſts the Amount Rent of ſuch
Diſtrićts, agreeable to the Schedule No. 2, annexed to the Treaty of 1792; being
a Yearly Sum equal to the full Amount of the Subſidy claimable by the Company
by virtue of ſuch Treaty.
To the Propoſal of the Regents, the Officers of Government gave a ſhort
Tºeply: “That it would not in any way do ; and that nothing ſhort of the De-
mand which had been made could be accepted or confidered.”—In conſequence
of this Diſpoſition, on the Part of the Commiſfioners, the Regents requeſted a
farther Time to reflect, and were indulged to the next Day. t
I ſhall not trouble you with the Particulars of the next or the ſucceeding
Meeting on the Day following, for you will find them circumſtantially related in
the Journal of the Regents, which I have direéted to be forwarded with this.
You will readily anticipate, that although the Regents have been diſpoſed to have
rendered up more of the Countries (which really was the Caſe) on a like Condi-
tion with thoſe already tendered by them, they could not unworthily bring them-
ſelves to make an unqualified and unconditional Surrender of thoſe Rights, which
it was their Duty to protect and guard. The Meetings therefore, to which I
have laſt requeſted your Attention, paſſed without Effect.
Seeing that the Regents were inflexible in their Duty, and conceiving, from
my Want of Knowledge in public Concerns, that I might poſſibly be rendered an
'Inſtrument (as I cannot but conſider) to my own Undoing; the Commiſſioners,
at the laſt Conference, and towards the Concluſion of it, ſent a Note to Lord
Clive, who thereupon appeared at the Palace; but, inſtead of going to the Apart-
ment where Negociations had hitherto been carried on, his Lordſhip went to the
Tent of Colonel M’Neil in charge of the Troops about the Gardens, and imme-
diately requeſted my Attendance on him,
M ſm I cheerfully
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continued.
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No. 18.
continued.
I cheerfully complied with his Lordſhip's Requeſt, and to the Tent: His
Lordſhip then accoſted me with ſeeming Kindneſs, and begged “I would well
“ conſider the Company’s proffered Terms, which, if then negle&ted, would
“ evade my Acceptance for ever; that they were now offered for the laſt Time;
“ that a liberal Allowance ſhould be made out of the Collections (but which his
* Lordſhip did not particularize) if I would liſten favourably to his Propoſals,
“ but that if I did not incline to them, that I ſhould be reduced from the Gran-
“ deur which awaited me, into an humble and private Station.” I obſerved to
his Lordſhip, “ that I was not acquainted with Matters of ſo high Concern; that
“ I was indeed an utter Stranger to Buſineſs; that my Royal Predeceſſor had
“ wiſely committed me to the Care and Attention of others, and had recom-
“ mended my Conformity to their Advice ; that, in reſpect of my Father's Will,
“ and to the Perſons to whom my Affairs were truſted, I could not think of an-
“ ſwering, of myſelf, the important Propoſitions made to me; but from Regard
“ to his Lordſhip's Character, and to the Intereſts which he repreſented, I was
“ inclined not only to give my ready Attention to what his Lordſhip communi-
“ cated, but would adviſe the Regents, if it were compatible with their Honour,
“ and my own Safety, to overlook any formal Difficulty which might ſtand in
“ the way of the Acquieſcence; for this Purpoſe I would beg leave to ac-
“ quaint them with what had paſſed, and would appoint an early Day when his
“ Lordſhip ſhould have my Anſwer.” His Lordſhip obſerved, “that he would
“ wait on me the next Day at the ſame Place, and took his Leave.”
In conſulting with the Regents, and the Cawns and Omrahs of my Empire,
before whom the Whole of what had paſſed at the preceding Conferences was
laid, I was fully adviſed of the Dangers to which my Affairs and Family might
be expoſed by the Acceptance of Terms ſo diſreſpectable and ſo vague, an Ad-
vice which I had no Reaſon to ſuſpect of Prejudice or Infidelity, and by which,
after the moſt mature Conſideration, I was determined to govern my Condućt:
Accordingly, when the Governor came the next Evening, I acquainted him inge-
nuouſly, “That I could not accede to the Offer, which he had Yeſterday the
“ Goodneſs to make me ; that I had every perſonal good Wiſh for the Proſpe-
“ rity of the Company, and for the real and ſubſtantial Intereſts of the Britiſh
« Nation, which I had been taught to admire from my earlieſt Years ; but that
« I could not ſacrifice my own and my Family's Rights for any ſuppoſed Benefit
« to the Company, or any proviſional Good which I was given to expect ; be-
« ſides, the Mode of Surrender dićtated, and the Ground on which it profeſſed to
« be founded, was ſuch that I could not adopt it, without rendering a Credit to
« Suggeſtions highly diſhonourable to thoſe whom, by Duty and Religion, I
« was bound to honour and revere : I had already ſhewn an Inclination to attend
“ to the Company's Requiſitions, in ſo far as they could be attended to, and
« was much induced by my own Sentiments to extend the Propoſal which
« had been made on my Behalf, even to a greater Latitude, on the Principle of
“ the Footing on which it had been made. My Motives therefore for the Non-
“ acceptance of his Lordſhip's Offers could admit of no Doubt, that I had the
“ higheſt perſonal Confideration for his Lordſhip, and would hope that the frank
“ and explicit Anſwer which I had now given him, would not occaſion Offence.”
while I was delivering what I had to ſay, a Number of Troopers rode around
the Tent with drawn Swords, and an unuſual Guard of Sepoys were poſted at the
Door, who traverſed conſtantly to and fro; and a certain Degree of Confuſion
ſeemed to reign around ; I endeavoured, nevertheleſs, to preſerve a Coolneſs and
- r Conſiſtency
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conſiſtency of Demeanour ſo requiſite for the Occaſion, and have to thank Heaven,
that my Reaſon and Fortitude was not to be ſhaken by a Circumſtance calculated
to move them, and which, from after Pračtices, I am ſorry to add, that I cannot
but imagine was contrived with that View.
After I had concluded what I had to anſwer, his Lordſhip replied, “That I was
“ extremely badly adviſed ; that I had ſacrificed my beſt intereſts to ſpecious Ap-
“ pearances, and that I ſhould rue the Rejećtion of his Propoſal; that it was the
“ very laſt Time that he ſhould addreſs me on the Subject,” and with a few
Words of Form he departed the Tent.
*
I have taken ſome Pains to acquaint you with the foregoing Circumſtances,
as well by myſelf, as by the more detailed Account of the Regents, as they tend to
ſhew the true Grounds of the Diſagreement which exiſted between me and the
Government, and which have been made the Pretence of diſpoſſeſſing me of a
Throne, to which by perſonal Right, as well as by the Will of my Royal Prede-
ceſſor, I was lawfully and indiſputably entitled. *
From the Detail of which you are in Poſſeſſion, you will readily perceive the
Policy on which the Madras Government have acted ; that they had an ambitious
Deſign, from the Beginning, of poſſeſſing themſelves of the whole Dominions of
the Carnatic; a Deſign, which the Circumſtances of the Times ſeemed peculiarly
to favour: Apprehenſive, however, of the Opinions of the European and Aſiatic
World, they determined on arriving at their Ends by Means the leaſt alarming
and ſuſpicious. . They therefore firſt betook themſelves to him, whom they well
knew, if he could be brought to conſent, could give not only Effect but Legality
to their unbounded Views; but they ſoon experienced, from the wiſe Precautions
of his Predeceſſor, that he was not left a ready Inſtrument to their Purpoſes,
though not indiſpoſed in Sentiment to accept any reaſonable Terms; and judging
from the latter Circumſtances (which ſhewed a Pliancy of Charaćter) that he might
yet be made, what the Government deſired to ſee him, they endeavoured by
Promiſes, Allurements, and Threats, to mould him to their Wiſhes; but ſeeing
in the Event, that all their Stratagems failed, while their Ambition remained un-
abated, they reſort to other Expedients that ſeemed to promiſe, if not a more
honourable, at leaſt a more ſucceſsful Iſſue. Their Ambition ſtill exhibited its
original mixed Charaćter, it poſſeſſed not any of that daring, open, and dazzling
Quality, which leads the World to overlook the Means, in the Splendour of the
Event, but a lofty and towering Mind, with a diminutive and half-aſſured Spirit,
which affects, but can never perfeót, a great or admirable Atchievement.
Diſappointed in their firſt Expedtation, the Government fought to accompliſh
their Objećt, by the Inſtrumentality of the next immediate Prince to the Muſ-
nud of the Carnatic ; and, unmindful of the Order of Succeſſion, and of the Diſ.
poſition of his late Highneſs, did not ſcruple to open Negociations with him for
filling the Imperial Seat. But I ſhall not trouble you at any Length, on the many
Subterfuges uſed on this Occaſion, or of the Meaſures adopted, through an oblique
Medium, of obtaining their originally intended End.
On the 23d July, about Eight Days after the Demiſe of his late Highneſ, the
Commiſſioners of Government, whom I have had ſo often Occaſion to mention,
ſent for Huſſain ul Dowlah, (Son of the Ameer and Nephew of his late Highneſs)
to the Tent of Colonel M’Neil, and there entered into a Conference with him
for
No. 18.
continued.
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No. 18.
continued.
for ſome Hours. They repeated their Viſits every Day, at ſome Times bringing
with them large Supplies of Money, until the Inſtant, when the Ameer’s
Son was removed with great Ceremony, and under a ſtrong Eſcort of the Com-
pany's Cavalry, to a Houſe provided for him by the Government, at which Place
a Treaty was deviſed and executed; alienating, as I am told, the whole Territories
and Countries of the Carnatic, to the Poſſeſſion of the Company.
During the Time, even when theſe Tranſaćtions were paſſing, ſeveral Repre-
ſentations were made to me through Colonel M’Neil, of the favourable Diſpoſition
of the Government to me, and of the Advantages which would be loſt by my re-
fuſing to meet their Wiſhes ; that he was well aſſured, that the Ameer's Son
would readily accept any Terms, which the Government ſhould graciouſly grant to
him. But as I had delivered my Sentiments publicly to the Officers of Govern-
ment, and at open Conferences, I declined to hear any private Propoſals, and ſo
informed the Colonel; obſerving at the Time, that I implicitly believed whatever
he told me reſpecting the Ameer's Son, for I well knew that he would receive
what the Company would be pleaſed to give him, in lieu of the Territories of the
Carnatic ; for he would be receiving every Thing, when he had nothing in
reality to return.
I need not acquaint you, (for it is a common Conſequence of the Policy I have
been deſcribing) that every Means were uſed to ſpread Diſſentions in the Family,
and provoke counter Claims, in order to give the Government a Colour for In-
terference; and notwithſtanding the Variety of contending Intereſts, which this
Stratagem put in Motion, I am happy to ſay, that a Senſe of Juſtice finally pre-
vailed, and that there was but one Opinion as to the Succeſſion, which ought to
be conſulted; and but one Sentiment of the Condućt of Government, as to the
Meaſures adopted by them.
And thinking that the united Senſe of the Family, and of the moſt learned Ma-
hommedan Lawyers, might have had a Weight and Influence, I incloſed Two
written Inſtruments to the Government, declarative of their Opinions and Senti-
ments on the Aćt which Government were about to ſančtion. Copies of which
Papers are incloſed for your further Information.
And hearing ſhortly after that Government intended to place the Ameer's Son
on the Muſnud at all Events, and at all Conſequences, I requeſted the Regents in a
public Letter (a Copy of which accompanies) to addreſs the Right Honourable
the Governor in Council on the Subjećt of my Affairs, recapitulating what had paſſed
at the Conferences with me and them, profeſſing our joint Wiſhes to form ſuch an
Alliance with the Company as might enſure our mutual Intereſts, and begging that
they would open a Negociation with us in Writing, and in a direct Way, which they
had always previouſly declined, and we would endeavour to ſatisfy their Expecta-
tions as far as our Means would allow. But to the Addreſs of the Regents, the
Government did not return an Anſwer. -
Being informed on the 29th, that a public Notification had been made through
the different Streets of Madras, that the Ameer’s Son would be placed on the
Muſnud on the 31ſt Inſtant, under the Influence of Government, I immediately
addreſſed the Governor, with the Advice of the Regents, on the ſuggeſted Meaſure,
and propoſed to accept the Terms which had been at firſt offered; a Meaſure which my
Mind revolted at, but ſeemed to be demanded by the trying Exigencies of the Mo-
ment,
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ment, and I felt confident within myſelf that if my Offer had been accepted, that the
Liberality of the Britiſh Nation would have never held me bound by Conditions
which had been ſo compulſorily impoſed on me, or would have ameliorated a Situa-
tion that had been produced by Means which neither Honour or Juſtice could
bear to contemplate. My addreſs was wholly and totally diſregarded.
I cannot repeat the Scene which followed, that inſulted every noble Feeling and
outraged every Right: I have endeavoured, under the mortifying Events which
have happened, and the Variety of Senſations which have poſſeſſed me, to acquaint
you of the unhappy Situation in which I find myſelf expoſed, and I am afraid that
I have ill ſucceeded ; I need not endeavour to impreſs you with the Horrors of the
Situation to which I feel myſelf reduced; you have but to pićture to yourſelves the
Height of human Grandeur, and the ſad and miſerable Reverſe of it; the higheſt
and loweſt Condition of which Humanity is capable; but even the meaneſt Subjećt of
the very worſt Government poſſeſſes a Bleſfing which my Fortune and Fate forbid.
He owns the gratifying Senſation of knowing himſelf ſafe amidſt the Society of his
Fellows, while I, alas ! have no friendly or kindly Sociality, none of thoſe Rela-
tions and Ties which are made to ſecure the Comforts and Happineſs of Life; an
Unit, as it were, in the Sum of the People of the Carnatic: I am delivered into the
Hands of an Enemy, who has but one Aćt to execute to finiſh his Career.
If I fail of your active Services, your zealous and ſtrenuous Support, there is
but one ſhort Step to inevitable Deſtrućtion; let me entreat and implore, that
you take the immediate Time to ſeek the Removal of Ills which are about to
overwhelm me, from the Diſtance which intervenes, from my Ignorance of the
fit and proper Means of Remedy, and from my Senſibility of the Injuries with
which I am ſeverely galled: I know not what Courſe to try: In your Judgment,
Experience, and cooler Determination, I confide and reſt. *
It is my Buſineſs to inſtrućl you with a complete Information of my State, the
Amendment of it muſt be your better Care, and more fortunate Atchievement;
you have Prudence, Courage, and Ability, and with thoſe no Circumſtances or
Cauſe unattainable are loſt.
I have furniſhed you with a Detail of Particulars, and with all the Documents
which it may be neceſſary eventually to uſe; you will eaſily perceive that my firſt
Object is to obtain what is right at the Hand of Government by all pračticable
Means, but they failing, we muſt afterwards reſort to the Juſtice and Sentiments
of the People.
You will firſt betake yourſelves to the Sovereign, the very beſt of Kings and
Men, and preſent my humble Addreſſes; and then to his Royal Highneſs the
Prince of Wales, who has always evinced a very particular and friendly Regard
for the Intereſts of my Family. It will be unneceſſary to ſtate any Thing to them
further than what is mentioned in my Letters. Theſe high and auguſt Perſonages
will want no Inducement to lend their utmoſt Aid to repel oppreſſion, ſo flagrant
and ſo indefenſible as in my unhappy Caſe. C
To the Preſident of the Board of Controul, and the Court of Direétors, whom
you will next accoſt, you will uſe all the Information and Means herein afforded,
to explain and enforce my Claims, and avail yourſelves of the co-relative Aſſiſt-
*nce which is requiſite in a Cauſe leſs honourable and juſt, For I know you will
N n *. have
No. 18.
continued.
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PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE NABOB, &c.
No. 18.
continued.
have to combat with a Legion of bad Paſſions, and a Hoſt of hoſtile Intereſts.
I almoſt ſhudder ſor the Event.
Your laſt Reference will naturally be to the Houſe of Commons, when the
Petition of his late Highneſs's Brother, which alſo accompanies, will afford you
no inconſiderable Strength, and to this I hope you will be enabled to add the
numerous Liſt of Creditors of his late Highneſs the Nabob and his illuſtrious
Predeceſſor, who are intereſted in no ſecondary Degree in the Succeſs of my Ap-
plication ; it being my determined Reſolution to do them ample Juſtice in the
Allowances and Conſolidation of their Claims, in the Event of my Reſtoration to
the Dignities of my Fathers.
This you may juſtly inform them was the only Obſtacle to my accepting, in
the firſt Inſtance, the Offers and Advances of Government, which, if accepted,
would have proved an eternal Barrier to the Recovery of their reſpective Cre-
dits; for it would have been no difficult Matter to have ſtipulated for a clear
Revenue, which would have ſatisfied individual Splendour, and every perſonal
Conſideration. But feeling, I hope honourable, for the Character of thoſe who
have preceded me in the Ties with which they were bounden, and the neceſ-
ſary Obligations of the Sovereignty, I diſdained to make any Compromiſe which
I could not reconcile to their Memories, and to the Opinions of Mankind. I have
ſuffered a temporary Loſs, which I cannot ſay but I feel with great Grief and
Concern, but certainly with leſs Fnotion, than I ſhould regret a ſeparture from
thoſe Principles which have been religiouſly inſtilled in me. That the Loſs may
not be more than temporary, I rely moſt firmly on your Advice and Aëtivity;
and that as our Cauſe is juſt, the Almighty will it to be proſperous ! What need I
ſay more ? ! $
P A P E R S
PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
Purſuant to their Orders of 16th December 18 oz,
‘F R O M T H E
Eaſt India Company,
R E G A R b I N G T H E
A FFA I R S of the C A R N AT I C.
“mºº ºne-
Ordered to be printed 10th Auguſt 1803.
17s. A.
|L I S T OF P A P E R S
PRESENTED TO THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF com Mons,
f
Purſuant to their Orders of the 16th December 1802.
1.—Copy of the INSTRUCTIONS from the Governor General in Council to
the Governor of Fort St. George, dated the 26th March 1800; together
with all Minutes, Letters, or Proceedings, which gave riſe to the ſaid In-
ſtrućtions, or aroſe out of them, or have relation to them :—
Contained in Volume I. of the accompanying Papers regarding
the Affairs of the Carnatic.
2.—Copy of the Governor General’s LETTER to the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah,
dated the 24th April 1799; together with all Minutes, Letters, or Proceed-
ings, of the Governor General in Council, or the Governor of Fort St. George,
which gave riſe to the ſaid Letter, or aroſe thereout, or have relation to it.
3–Copy of the DECLARATION tranſmitted by the Governor General to the
Governor of Fort St. George, noticed in the 18th Paragraph of Lord Clive's
Letter to the Governor General, dated 27th July :-
Contained in Volume I. of the accompanying Papers regarding
the Affairs of the Carnatic.
4.—Copies of LETTERS, Minutes, and Proceedings, of the Governor General, and
the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, as have relation to the Attempts
made by the Governor General to obtain Poſſeſſion of the Carnatic in April
1798, and in 1798 and 1799; alluded to, in the 6th Paragraph of the Go-
vernor General’s Letter to the Court of Direétors, dated the 21ſt Oétober 18OI.
5.—Copy of the ORDERS from the Governor General to Lord Clive, dated 7th
April 1800, alluded to, in the 11th Paragraph of the ſame Letter; together
with Letters, Minutes, and Proceedings, of the Governor General, or Governor
of Fort St. George, which have relation thereto :—
Contained in Volume I. of the accompanying Papers regarding
the Affairs of the Carnatic.
6 & 7.-Copies of LETTERS, Minutes, and Proceedings, of the Governor in
Council of Fort St. George, as have any relation to the Nabob of the Car-
natic, from the Year 1798 until the lateſt Period.
8.—Copies of LETTERS, Minutes, and Proceedings, of the Court of Direétors,
as have any relation to the Nabob of the Carnatic, from the Year 1794 until
the lateſt Period. A.
9–Copy of the CORRESPONDENCE between the Government of Fort St.
George and the Court of Dire&tors, from the Year 1771 to the Year 1774,
on the Subjećt of a propoſed Negociation between the Nabob of the Carnatic
and Hyder.
Io. —Copy
[.. iv. I
ro.—Copy of the CORRESPONDENCE between the Nabob of the Carnatic and
the Government of Fort St. George, during the ſame Period, on the ſame
Subiećt.
if.-Copy of the CORRESPONDENCE between the Governor General of
Bengal, and the Government of Fort St. George, and the Court of Dire&tors,
from the Month of May 1799; regarding Letters and Papers found at
Seringapatam, and objećted to by their Highneſſes Mahomed Alli and Omdut
ul Omrah as a Breach of Treaty ; and regarding every other Matter relative to
the Carnatic and the Government thereof, and to their Highneſſes the Nabobs
beforementioned:—
Contained in the accompanying Four Volumes regarding the
Affairs of the Carnatic.
12.—Copies of the ORDERS and INSTRUCTIONS of the Court of Direétors
to the Governor General of Bengal, and the Government of Madras, from
the Year 1794 to Auguſt 1801 ; regarding Meaſures to be purſued in order
to obtain Poſſeſſion of the Carnatic, and reſpecting the Government of the
Carnatic and its Dependencies, and regarding the Nabob thereof.
13.-Copies of LETTERS addreſſed and received from Tippoo by the Nabobs
Mahomed Alli and Omdut ul Omrah, from the Commencement of the Year
1792; as ſent to the Government of Fort St. George by their Highneſſes, in
their reſpective Lifetimes:—And alſo,
14.—Copy of the TREATY between Tppoo Sultan and the Company, executed
in 1792.
15 & 16. —Copies of CORRESPONDENCE with the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah,
regarding the Payment of his Kiſts, from the Years 1798 to 1801 ; including
the Information required in the 16th Order.
The Papers required by the 17th Order, are contained in thoſe already
preſented to and printed by the Order of the Houſe of Commons,
(21ſt & 23d june 18O2.) Folios 9, &c. and 65.
18.—Copy of the INSTRUCTIONS and the Arrangement ſent by the Governor
General to the Governor of Madras, as mentioned in the Letter of the Go-
vernor General to the Nabob of Arcot, dated 28th May 1801 :
Contained in Volume I. regarding the Affairs of the Carnatic.
19–A Copy of the DEMANDS made by the Governor of Madras, “ of an
“ adequate Security for the Britiſh Intereſts in the Carnatic of Tage ul
“ Omrah,” as mentioned in the Letter of the Government of Madras to the
Governor General, dated 31ſt July 1801 :
Contained in Folio 8, &c. of the above-mentioned Papers,
already preſented to and printed by the Order of the Houſe of
Commons.
20.—A Copy of the CORRESPONDENCE between the Princes and Princeſſes
of the Families of Mahomed Ali and Omdut ul Omrah, and the Governor
General, and the Governor and Government of Madras, from the 31ſt July
1801, to the lateſt poſſible Period:— #
Contained in Volume II. regarding the Affairs of the Carnatic.
21.—A Copy of the CORRESPONDENCE between the Governor General, the
Governor of Fort St. George, and Court of Dire&tors, on the Subject of the
Death of Tage ul Omrah, the Son and Succeſſor of Omdut ul Omrah : —
Contained in Volume II, regarding the Affairs of the Carnatic.
[ v J
23.-Copy of the “ IMPROVEMENTS of the Governor General,” in the Treaty
with Azem ul Dowlah ; as mentioned in the 6th Paragraph of the Secret
Letter from Fort St. George, dated 1ſt Oétober 1801 :--
Wide Letter from Bengal to Madras, dated 18th Auguſt 1801 ;
Memorandum of propoſed Alterations ; and the Treaty as
modified by the Governor General in Council; all contained
in Volume I. regarding the Affairs of the Carnatic.
24,-Copy of the PROCEEDINGS of the Governor in Council of Fort St. George,
from the Period of Mr. Webbe's return from Bengal, with the Inſtrućtions
and Direétions of the Governor General relative to the Carnatic, to the 15th
July 1801, and the Minutes of the individual Members of Council relative
thereto :- *
Contained in the abovementioned Papers already printed by
the Order of the Houſe of Commons; and in Volume I.
regarding the Affairs of the Carnatic.
25.-Information ſubmitted to the Honourable Houſe of Commons, in obedience to
their Orders of 16th December 1802, ſtating Reaſons why they have not been
fully complied with.
EAST INDIA HOUSE,
1 oth Auguſt 1803. }
This Claſs of Papers is in XI. ſeparate Diviſions; and each Diviſion is reſpectively
marked Vol. I. &c. on the Sides of the Pages. The following is a brief Sum-
mary of their Contents: -
3/OLUME I. (N* 1, 3, 5, 11, 18, zo, 2 I, 233 and 24.) - from pp. 1 to 49*
Proceedings of the Government of Fort St. George, regarding the Affairs
of the Carnatic:—This Paper
.C O N T A INS
Letter from the Governor General in Council at Fort William to the Secret Committee of the
Honourable Court of Direétors; dated 23d April 1800 wº tºº * page ºf
Letter from the Governor General to Lord Clive; dated 7th April 1800; marked (A.) with
* , º
Five Encloſures - º gº
... *sº gº pp. 2 to 29
Letter from Lord Clive; dated Fort St. George, Auguſt 1 1, 1801 * * : º gº 29
Letter to His Majeſty from the Nawaub Azeen ul Dowlah Bahadur - - - * º 29
Letter to the Prince of Wales from the Navab Uzim ul Dowlah Bahadar º º ſº 30
Letter from the Navab Azim ul Dowlah Bahadar, to the Court of Directors - tºº 30
(B.) Encloſures in the Secret Letter from Fort St. George, of the 3d Auguſt 1801. [N. B. The
Secret Letter is inſerted in the Papers ordered to be printed 22 and 23 june 1802, pp. 77 to 82.] 3 I
(C.) Official Letter from the Governor General to Lord Clive; dated 11th May 1800; with
Two Encloſures - - ſº ... º tº
tº – * gºne 32
(D.) Report of the Commiſſioners for condućting the Examinations at Vellore and Seringapatam;
18th May 1801 - - - sº sº * - * tº 35
(G.) Official Letter from Lord Clive to the Governor General; 23d May 1800 º º 49
.(H.) Official Letter from the Governor General to Lord Clive, 28th May 18or ; with Four
Encloſures - <º º º tº * * sº tº * gº tºº 42
‘(I.) Official Letter from the Governor General to Lord Clive; dated 26th March 1800
J
* tº- gº - sº tºº
tº º tº
- 59.
:(K.) Another ; dated 4th June 1801 - - - - - - - - - - 60
Explanatory Obſervations - dº gº agº. • wº • ‘º º tº * º tºº as º gº 62
(P.) Memorandum ; and Explanatory Gåſervations ... sº tº iº º -- º ſº gº ib.
From the Nabob Wallajah to the Court of Direétors; 6th Očtober 1801 ſº * & tºº 63
..Extraćts from Fort St. George Secret Conſultations, and from the Diary to Secret Conſultations;
with Explanatory Qāſervations; from 25th july 1801 to 5th March 1802 - - -- 64
Separate Correſpondence - - tº . . ºs
tºº *- * sº • A-me *
- 83 to 91
‘VOLUME H. - - - - - - - - from pp. 93 to 152
Proceedings of the Government of Fort St. George, regarding the Affairs
of the Nabob of Arcot; including their Repreſentations to the Court of
Dire&tors on this Subjećt:—This Paper
C O N T A I N-S
Extračts of Public Letters—of Political Letters—of Public Conſultations—of Political Con-
ſultations; and of Diary to Political Conſultations;––Between Očtober 1801 and July 1802.
VOLUME III. – aº - 4 º' ... ºt & º gº from pp. I 53 to I73
Proceedings of the Government of Fort St. George, relating to the Nabob
and the Affairs of the Carnatic, from Oétober 1802; including thoſe
recently received, and the Orders from England approving and confirm-
ing the Treaty concluded with His Highneſs on the 16th September
1801:—This Paper . .
C O N T A INS
Letters from the Secret Committee of the Court of Direétors to the Governor in Council at
Fort St. George—Extraćts of Letters from Fort St. George to the Secret Committee of the
faid Court—of Political Letters—of Political and Foreign Conſultations—Account Current
between the Nabob and the Company—of Correſpondence with the Nabob and Lord Clive:
—Between January 1802 and February 1803.
wOLUME IV. - - - - - - - from pp. 175 to 201
Proceedings of the Government of Fort St. George, relative to the Arrange-
ment made for the Adminiſtration of the Revenues of the Carnatic, in
conſequence of the Treaty with the Nabob (including their Repreſentations
to the Court of Direétors on the Subject) and the beneficial Conſequences
which have reſulted therefrom:—This Paper -- '
C O N T A IN S
£xtracts of Revenue Letters from Fort St. George—from Lord Clive to the Court of Direétors-
.. Comparative Statement of the Expenſe of managing the Revenues of the Carnatic-Extracts
of the Reports of the Board of Revenue at Fort St. George—of Proceedings of the Board
of Revenue.:——Between October 1801 and January 1893, 3. -
*
I viii
W. - - (N* 2, 4, and 12.) sº - from pp. 203 to 217
. . This Paper C O N TA INS
Extraćt of Political Letter from the Court of Direétors to the Preſident and Council at Fort
St. George—from Lord Mornington to the Secret Committee—from the Preſident and
Council of Fort William—of Secret Letter fiom Fort St. George—of Correſpondence with
the Nabob of the Carnatic—of Political Letter to Fort St. George—of Letter from Lord
Clive to the Secret Committee—of Letter from Fort St. George—of Letter from the
Governor General to Lord Clive—from the Secret Committee to Lord Mornington—from
Lord Mornington to the Secret Committce: Between Oétober 1797 and April 1800.
VI. t- ** 4 (Nº. 6. and 7.) - - * from pp. 219 to 229
This Paper C O N TA INS
Extraćts of Political Letters from Fort St. George—of Revenue Letters from Ditto–And,
Explanatory Obſervation : Between February 1798 and March 1801.
VII. ** (Nº. 3.) - cº º from pp. 231 to 152
This Paper C O N TA INS
Extraćts of the Company’s Political Letters to Fort St. George—of Political Letter from Fort
St. George—Letter from the Court of Directors to the Nabob of Arcot, in 1796–of Com-
pany’s Public Letter to Fort St. George—of Company’s Commercial Letter—of Revenue
Letter : Between February 1794 and March 1802: With an Explanatory Obſervation.
VIII, •ººl tºº - (N* 9. and Io.) - - - from pp. 253 to 266
This Paper CONTAIN S
Extračts of the ſeparate Military Letters from Fort St. George—of Fort St. George Military
Conſultations—of Select Conſultations—of Correſpondence with the Nabeb : Between
Oćtober 1773 and December 1774.
HX. º tº º (Nº 13.) tºº tºº - from pp. 267 to 279
This Paper CONTAINS
Letters and Correſpondence with the Nabob of the Carnatic, Tippoo Sultaun, and the
Government of Fort St. George : Between February 1794 and November 1797.
X. - - - (N* 14 ) º - - from pp. 281 to 288
Copy of the Treaty between the late Tippoo Sultaun and the Engliſh,
6th March 1792:
Extračted from the Fort St. George Military and Political Conſultations, of 7th April 1792.
XI. * -º tºº (N* 15. and 16.) - Gºs from pp. 289 to ses
The Governor's Correſpondence with the Nabob, reſpečting his Punétuality
in the Payment of his Kiſts:—This Paper
C O N TA INS
£xtračts of the Political Letters from Fort St. George, between Oétober 1798, and March
1801; and the above Correſpondence, from January 1798 to June 1801.
V O L U M E I.
-msm--
N” I, 3, 5, 1 1, 18, 20, 21, 23, & 24,
ORDERS of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 16th December 1802.
Proceedings of the Government of Fort St. George, regarding
the Affairs of the Carnatic. -
From the Governor General in Council to the Secret Committee; Vol. I.
dated 23d April 1800.
To the Secret Committee of the Honourable Court of Direétors, &c. &c. &c.
Honourable Sirs, + r
Para. 1. E have the honour to tranſmit, for the information of your Com-
mittee, a copy of a ſeparate diſpatch from the Right Honourable
the Governor General to the Right Honourable the Governor of Fort St. George;
dated the 7th inſtant.
2. This diſpatch, although bearing only the ſignature of the Governor General,
and, for the reaſons aſſigned in it, addreſſed individually to Lord Clive, was written
with our knowledge and entire concurrence.
3. The Governor General propoſes hereafter to take a full review of the im-
portant and extraordinary tranſačtion which forms the ſubjećt of the diſpatch now
encloſed. - *
4. In the mean while theſe documents will ſufficiently diſcloſe to your Honourable
Committee the grounds of his Lordſhip's inſtructions to Lord Clive.
5. The ſtrength of the Evidence afforded by theſe papers of the perfidious con-
dućt and dangerous views of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, when combined with a
due conſideration of our ačtual ſituation, required that the Governor General ſhould
give a proviſional authority to Lord Clive to aſſume the Civil and Military adminiſ-
tration of his Highneſs's territories.
We have the honour to be,
Honourable Sirs,
N With the greateſt reſpect,
Fort William,
Your moſt obedient and faithful Servants,
April 23d 18Oo. - (Signed) Mornington,
A. Clarke,
P. Speke,
W. Cowper.
I75. - B
p A P E R S R E LAT 1 N G T O THE
*Vol. Y.
*(A.)
pany this letter, is annexed to this diſpatch.
(A.) with Encloſures (b. c. d. c. & f.)
‘From the Governor General to Lord Clive; dated 7th April 1800.
(Official) N° 13.
To the Right Honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c. Fort St. George.
(Secret.) •
My Lord,
Para. 1.-I HAV E the honour to tranſmit to your Lordſhip, copies, in Perſian,
of various Extračts from Letters, and other Papers, found in the Palace of Seringa-
patam. The Perſian documents are accompanied by tranſlations in Engliſh, and the
Perſian copies, as well as the tranſlations, are atteſted by the Perſian Franſlator of
this Government, whoſe Report to me on the contents of theſe important papers is
alſo encloſed. A liſt of all theſe papers, and of the other documents which accom-,
2. The embarraſſments oppoſed by the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's Officers to the
-collection and movement of our ſupplies, during the laſt war with Tippoo Sultaun,
repeatedly called for my interpoſition during my reſidence at Fort St. George, and
induced conſiderable doubts in my mind of His Highneſs's fidelity to the fundamental
principles of his engagements with the Company. In the laſt Council which I
had the honour to hold at Fort St. George, previous to my departure from that Pre-
Aſidency, your Lordſhip may recolle&t that I ſtated my ſuſpicions, that both the
Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah had been engaged in a ſecret correſpondence
with Tippoo Sultaun, ſince the Peace of 1792. Thoſe ſuſpicions were founded on
a curſory view of the documents compoſing the ſeries of papers now tranſmitted to
your Lordſhip. The ſubjećt has ſince engaged my moſt ſerious attention; ſeveral of
the moſt important of theſe papers have recently reached my hands, and a deliberate
conſideration of the evidence reſulting from the whole of theſe documents has not
only confirmed, in the moſt unqueſtionable manner, my ſuſpicions of the exiſtence
of a ſecret correſpondence between the perſonages already named, but ſatisfied my
judgment, that its objećt, on the part of the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul
Omrah, and eſpecially of the latter, was of the moſt hoſtile tendency to the Britiſh
intereſts. . x *
3. The Report of the Perſian Tranſlator on the nature of theſe papers is drawn with
ſo much ability, and ſo accurately detailed, that I do not judge it neceſſary at preſent
to enter into a more particular comment upon them; I ſhall hereafter, however,
review the whole ſubjećt. The objećt of the preſent Letter is ſolely to convey to your
Lordſhip my inſtrućtions with regard to the meaſures neceſſary to effeót a more full
-diſcovery of all the circumſtances of this extraordinary tranſačtion, as well as to
ſecure the Britiſh intereſts in the Carnatic againſt any poſſible conſequences to be
apprehended from the diſaffeótion of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, during the interval
of the requiſite.enquiry into his condućt. -
4. The proofs ariſing from the papers would certainly be ſufficient to juſtify the
..Britiſh Government in depriving that faithleſs and ungrateful Prince of all means of
rendering any part of the reſources of the territories, which he holds under the pro-
ºtećtion of the Company, ſubſervient to the further violation of his engagements, and
-to the proſecution of his deſperate purpoſes of treachery and ingratitude. But it
will be more conſiſtent with the character of the Britiſh Government to regulate its
proceedings by a regard to its own dignity, and ſyſtematic moderation, than by the
ſtandard of His Highneſs's crimes. It is therefore my intention to proceed to a deli-
berate enquiry, founded on ſuch further documents as we may be able to obtain
-at Seringapatam, as well as on the oral teſtimony of the principal perſons concerned
- | I].
AFFAIRS OF THE CAR N AT I C. 3.
in this correſpondence. This enquiry muſt be concluded previous to the adoption Vol. I.
of thoſe arrangements, which, I am perſuaded, muſt be the ultimate conſequence of
a juſt inveſtigation of this tranſačtion. - - (A.A
5. With theſe ſentiments, I requeſt your Lordſhip to loſe no time, after the re-
ceipt of this diſpatch, in examining the ſeveral witneſſes, of whom a liſt is an-
nexed ; and in dire&ting Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe to make ſuch further enquiries as
he can proſecute, and to furniſh your Lordſhip with ſuch written and oral teſtimony
as he may be enabled to obtain at Seringapatam. * .
6. I have annexed to this diſpatch a memorandum, which may ſerve to aſſiſt your
SLordſhip in the condućt of the intended enquiry. I refer you to that paper, as con-
taining a ſummary view of my ideas with regard to the mode of regulating the
examination of the ſeveral witneſſes. I cannot, however, relinquiſh this part of the
ſubjećt, without recommending to your Lordſhip's moſt particular attention the
neceſſity of enquiring, with the utmoſt degree of accuracy, into the condućt of the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, ſubſequently to the date of the letter N° 21, received at
Seringapatam on " the 8th of January 1797, and to trace his correſpondence with *N.B. This
Tippoo Sultaun down to the period of our preparations for the laſt war, throughout *
the ſeaſon of thoſe preparations, and throughout the campaign which enſued.
7. I am perſuaded, that your Lordſhip, and all the public Officers employed
under your orders in the condućt of this examination, will advert to the great im-
portance of obſerving the ſtrićteſt ſecrecy until the period of its final cloſe, and of
the arrival of my inſtructions, founded on your Lordſhip's report to me of the evi-
dence collečted by you.
8. I requeſt you to forward the reſult of your enquiries to me by an expreſs veſſel
(to be engaged immediately for this purpoſe) and in duplicate overland, in order that
my ultimate inſtrućtions may be tranſmitted to you with the leaſt poſſible delay.
9. The reſult of the enquiry direéted by this diſpatch will probably render it my
duty to deprive the Nabob Ondut ul Omrah of the Civil and Military Government of
the Carnatic, under ſuch modifications and regulations as may be deemed expedient
to ſecure the ſafety of our intereſts in that valuable poſſeſſion, with the leaſt pračticable
degree of preſſure on his Highneſs's feelings. If this diſpatch had contained a poſi-
tive inſtrućtion to your Lordſhip to aſſume the Government of the Carnatic without
delay, I apprehend that the neceſſary preparation for carrying that meaſure into effect
muſt have occupied a more conſiderable ſpace of time than will now be required for
the propoſed enquiry, and for the communication of my judgment upon it. Although
it is my wiſh to delay the ačtual aſſumption of his Highneſs's Government until
that enquiry ſhall be completed, I deem it neceſſary to authorize your Lordſhip to
proceed immediately to make every arrangement preparatory to that meaſure, which
now appears to have become inevitable. In addition to theſe powers, my confidence
in your Lordſhip's diſcretion, and my ſenſe of the extreme peril to which the diſaf-
fećtion of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah may eventually expoſe the Carnatic, induce
me to furniſh your Lordſhip with a general authority of aſſuming his Highneſs's
Civil and Military Government, and of taking any ſuch further ſteps as the exigency
of circumſtances on the ſpot may appear to require. In ſuch a poſture of affairs, it
is impoffible to frame any rule from which the preſſure of the moºnent might not
demand a departure ; I ſhall therefore content myſelf with apprizing your Lordſhip
of my anxious deſire to avoid the extremity of aſſuming the Government of the Car-
natic, previous to the completion of the enquiry, and to the arrival of my final inſtruc-
tions after the reſult of that enquiry ſhall have been communicated to me. I cannot
foreſee any event of leſs importance than the ſtrong probability of an hoſtile invaſion,
or of internal commotion, either in the Carnatic or in Myſoor, which could render it
neceſſary for your Lordſhip to aſſume the country without previous reference to me;
you will, however, underſtand the intention of this diſpatch to be, to give you a diſ-
cretionary power of ačting according to your deliberate view of the neceſſity of the
caſe before you. - - -
Io. Your Lordſhip will concur with me in opinion, that the diſcloſure made by the
annexed documents of the diſaffection of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, ſuperſedes the
neceſſity of any further conſideration of the ſtate of the Company’s connexion with
I75. - - .4 that
P A PERS RE LAT IN G TO THE
Vol. I.
(A)
that Prince, under the orders lately conveyed by the Honourable Court of Direétors.
to your Lordſhip in Council. While thoſe orders were under my confideration, a.
combination of fortunate circumſtances revealed that correſpondence, which at once.
furniſhes an explanation of the perverſe ſpirit of his Highneſs's Councils ſince his
acceſſion to the Muſnud, and demands the explanation of the ſole effectual remedy
for the evils which thoſe Councils have brought upon his people. -
1 I. Although the accompanying papers, as well as the preſent inſtrućtions to your
Lordſhip, have been read and approved in the Secret Department by the Governor
General in Council at Fort William, I have deemed it expedient to tranſmit this
diſpatch to your Lordſhip in the preſent form, inſtead of addreſſing it to your Lord-
fhip in Council.
I have the honour to be,
Fort William, -- 4. ~ &c. &c. &c.
April 7th 1800. (Signed) Mornington.
By the Right Honourable
the Governor General. A true Copy. * ,
(Signed) MZ. Kirkpatrick, }. Webbe,
Secº to Gov". - Ch' Secº to Gov".
(b.) in (A.)
Letter N° 13.-Official; dated 7th April 1800.
Copies of Perſian Documents marked (a) and numbered from 1 to 21 in-
cluſive. -
Tranſlations of the above Perſian Documents marked, (b.) and numbered from
I to 21 incluſive. - - -
The Report of the Perſian Tranſlator, upon the contents of the above documents
marked, (e.) - 's
A Liſt of the Packet marked (d.) *
A Liſt of Witneſſes to be examined under the inſtrućtions contained in this Diſ.
patch, marked (e.) * - - - *
A Memorandum relative to the condućt of the Examination marked (f.)
(A true Copy) - *
(Signed) j. Webbe,
- Chief Secº to Govt.
[The ſucceeding Encloſures in the letter from the Bengal Government to the
Secret Committee, dated 23d April 1800, have already been preſented to
the Honourable the Houſe of Commons, and will be found in the Papers
ordered to be printed on the 21ſ; and 23d of june 1802; folios 44 to
64.]
(c.) in (A.)
“,
Further Encloſures in the Secret Letter from Bengal of the 23d April 1800.
Mr. Edmonſtone's Report, 6th April 1800.
Among the Records of the late Tippoo Sultaun's Government, diſcovered in the
Palace at Seringapatam, has been found a very voluminous correſpondence between
the Sultaun and his Vakeels Ghoolam Alli Khan and Alli Rezza Khaun, who accom -
panied the hoſtages delivered by Tippoo Sultaun at the termination of the War in
1792, to Madras; from this correſpondence a number of papers have been ſelected,
of which the tendency to fix a charge upon his late Highneſs the Nabob Walajah,
Qfa breach of the alliance ſubſiſting between his Highneſs and the Honourable Com-
pany's,
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N AT I C.
5
pany’s, implicate the preſent Nabob Omdut ul Omrah as a party therein, and to
eſtabliſh a ſimilar charge againſt the latter, after his acceſſion to the Muſnud.
From the contents of thoſe papers, the following fačts may be colle&ted: -
I. That the late Nabob Wallajah maintained a ſecret intercourſe and corre-
ſpondence with Tippoo Sultaun, through the medium of the Deputies Gholaum Alli
Khaun and Alli Rezza Khaun above mentioned, for the purpoſe of forming a con-
neétion with Tippoo Sultaun, ſubverſive of the reliance ſubſiſting between his
Highneſs and the Honourable Company, and directly adverſe to the Britiſh Intereſts
in India. - - . . . s. - - . . . . .
2. That the Nabob eſtabliſhed ſuch conneétion, and proceeded to ağt under it, by
communicating certain articles of intelligence of a nature calculated to betray the
intereſts of the Honourable Company, and to favour the finiſter deſigns of Tippoo
Sultaun againſt them. . . . . Af
3. That the preſent Nabob of the Carnatic, Omdut ul Omrah, was a principal
channel of communication between his father and the Vakeels, for maintaining the
ſecret intercourſe before mentioned; that he cordially united, both on his Father's
account and on his own, in promoting the objećts of it: And, -
4. That the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, after his acceſſion to the Muſnud, conti.
nued to maintain a ſecret intercourſe with Tippoo Sultaun, in the fame ſpirit which
he manifeſted in his intercourſe with the Vakeels of the Prince during the loſs time
of his father. - -
The firſt indication of the Nabob Wallajah's diſpoſition to connect himſelf with
Tippoo Sultaun, by the ties of political intereſt, appears in a letter, dated in June 1792,
from the Vakeels Gholaum Ally Khaun and Alli Rezza Khaun to Tippoo Sultaan,
in which they give an account of what paſſed between the Nabob, the Princes, and
themſelves, at an interview which took place ſoon after their arrival at Madras. After
the warmeſt expreſſions of attachment to Tippoo Sultaun, the Nabob is repreſented
to have reprobated the preceding war, as having been undertaken by the Allied Powers
for the ſubverſion of the Mahomedan Religion. He is repreſented to have ſtated, that
“ he uſed (pending the war) night and day to pray for the Sultatin's proſperity,
“ becauſe the confederacy of the three Allies was for the ſubverſion of the Mahom-
“ medan Religion.” It is obvious from theſe expreſſions, that, from the very corn-
mencement of the war between the Allies and Tippoo Sultaun, the Nabob Walajah
wiſhed ſucceſs to the arms of Tippoo Sultaun againſt the Power with which he was
connected by the moſt ſolemn obligations of onion and alliance; and that by enter-
taining ſentiments ſo inimical to its intereſt, he violated the fundamental principles
of that alliance. This pre-eſtabliſhed fact gives additional force to the open decla-
rations which the Nabob ſubſequently made, of his deſire to eſtabliſh an union of in-
tereſts, and ſo cloſe alliance with the Sultaun; and accordingly, at the ſame inter-
view above mentioned, the Nabob is ſtated to have declared his wiſhes upon that
ſubjećt in the moſt unqualified manner to the Vakeels. The ſentiments above
quoted are repreſented to have been expreſſed in the preſence of Marquis Corn-
wallis, Sir C. Oakley, &c.; but it is eaſy to conceive the facility with which the
Nabob might have held ſuch diſcourſe, without being overheard by the perſon who
interfered between him and his Elordſhip; nor can it be ſuppoſed that he would have
uttered ſuch ſentiments in the hearing of any perſon who underflood, and might
communicate them, to his Lordſhip. The communication, however, ſubſequently
alluded to, was made in a more private manner, and for the expreſs purpoſe of
being communicated to Tippoo Sultaun, as appears by the report of the Vakeels;
who ſtate, that when the party “ was going away, the Nabob came up to them, and,
“ with a great deal of warmth, deſired them to ſtay, as he had ſomething to ſay to
“ them.”—That he then expreſſed himſelf in the following terms; viz. “That his life
“ was now drawing to a cloſe; that for what had taken place hitherto between his
“ Highneſs and the Sultaun there was no remedy; but now, merely out of a regard
“ for the Faith (of which the Sultaun was a pillar) he was defirous of eſtabliſhing a
“ cordial harmony with the Sultaun; and if they (the Vakeels) having in view the
“ claims of both parties (upon their endeavours) would, in the preſence of God,
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Vol. I. “ exert themſelves for that purpoſe, the Almighty would reward them, and both.
— “ parties would reap the benefits of that event, which were great and numberleſs.
(*) “ That although his Highneſs wanted to prevent the war between the three Allied:
“ States and the Sultaun, yet Nizam Alli Khaun, at the latter period of his life, was
“ thus preparing for futurity by exerting himſelf for the deſtruction of religion; that
“ it was ſolely from a regard to the Faith that his Highneſs did not encourage the
“ meaſure, and that he now declared, that in a thouſand points of view, it was ad-,
“ viſable that perfeót-harmony ſhould reign between the Sultaun and his Highneſs.”
At a ſubſequent conference between the Nabob and the Princes, accompanied by the
Vakeels (an account of which is given by the latter on a report to the Sultaun, dated
the beginning of Auguſt 1792) the Nabob is ſtated to have expreſſed his attachment
to the Sultaun, and his diſpoſition to eſtabliſh a union of intereſts with him in terms,
ftill ſtronger than before; his Highneſs is alſo repreſented, upon that occaſion, to have
expreſſed a ſolicitude to know in what manner the Sultaun had received the former
communication of his ſentiments. The ſubſtance of what paſſed at that conference
is related by the Vakeels in the following terms: “ The Nabob Walajah, accom-.
“ panied by Omdut ul Omrah and Huſſain Newauz Khaun, paid a viſit to the Princes,
“ and taking them upon his knees for about two hours, bleſſed them ; and ſaid,
“ May God long and permanently preſerve the ſhadow of Tippoo Sultaun extended
“ over you and me, ſince, in this age, the preſervation of religion depends upon him
“ alone. I have arrived at my eightieth year, and in that time many are the things
“ I have ſeen and done, and experienced: what is paſt is paſt; and God only knows,
“ what futurity may bring to light; at preſent, the maintenance of religion reſts with
“ Tippoo Sultaun, and may God preſerve and keep him vićtorious and triumphant.
“I do not ſay this merely in your preſence, but I ſay it, taking to witneſs Him who
“ knows all that is hidden, night and day, after the prayers of the day, and on Friday
“ after public devotion, I offer up my prayers (meaning for Tippoo Sultaun) and
“ require the people alſo to do the ſame. The Vakeels ſtate, thāt as Walajah had
“ paid a viſit to the Princes, it became neceſſary that they ſhould return it, and
“ conſequently they waited upon him the next day, which was the Eederl z, or-
* Feſtival of the C. The Nabob, accompanied by Omdut ul. Omrah and the other.
“ Sirdars (perſons of rank) came out to meet them as on the firſt day; and having
“ aſſiſted the Princes in alighting from their palanquons, took them within the
“ houſe, where he repeatedly careſſed them, and ſaid, “God preſerve the Sultaun in
“...ſafety, for through him alone theſe rituals and obſervances of the faith (alluding
“ to the Eed) yet remain.” He then obſerved to us, “ In my firſt converſation
“ with you I ſpeak to you upon the ſubject of eſtabliſhing a frien ſhip and harmony
“ between me and the Sultaun; have you intimated it to him, and have you received
“a favourable anſwer?”—We replied, “That we had ſet forth to your Majeſty, word
“ for word, the friendly ſentiments his Highneſs had expreſſed, and that your Majeſty
“ had written in reply, that friendſhip, union, and brotherly regard, had from the
“ beginning been eſtabliſhed among the profeſſors of Iſlamiſm, as was evinced by
“ the teſtimony of the Holy Book (the Koraun) agreeably to the preſcriptions of
“ which your Majeſty wiſhed that cordial friendſhip and attachment ſhould, without
“ prejudice or partiality, be eſtabliſhed between the followers of the faith, as the
“ means of ſupporting the religion of Mahommud; and that your Majeſty, under
“ God, preſerve the Nabob Wallajah, who is a Prince, and one of the leaders of the
“ Faithful, and a Pillar of the Faith. At the term, “A Pillar of the Faith,” the Nabob
“ could not ſuppreſs his tears, and ſaid, “I am where I knew myſelf to be ; tell the
“ Sultaun that he is the Pillar of the Faith, and may God preſerve him, and grant
“ him long life, ſince I and all Muſſulmen derive ſupport from him, for otherwiſe
“ the ſtate of affairs here is evident ; that which is evident does not require explana-
“ tion. We aiſo, in conformity, to your Majeſty's commands, mentioned to his
“ Highneſs, in a becoming and ſuitable manner, whatever there was to ſtate upon
the ſubjećt of friendſhip and attachment, in conſideration of the complexion of the
“ times, the ſtate of which is manifeſt; and that the ſupport of the religion of
“ Mahommed in this country entirely depends upon the Sultaun. My nightly and
“ daily prayer is offered up for his good. May my prayers be acceptable in. the
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“ fight of God!” He then ſaid to the Princes, “.. O my ſons, if my life and pro- Vol. I.
“perty can be of any ſervice to you, God is my witneſs, that I will not refuſe them −
“ to you.” He then gave orders to the Superintendant of the Gardens to carry (A.)
every day fruits and flowers to the Princes before his (the Nabob's) own children;
and ſaid to us, “You are not acquainted with the ſtate and order of affairs here ;
“ confider me from my heart your well-wiſher and ſincere friend ; and at all times
“ be aſſured, that in whatever I may be able to effect your benefit, either by word or
“ deed, I will not decline my exertions.” . . . . . . . .
From the foregoing quotation, it is manifeſt, that the Nabob Walajah formerly
propoſed to Tippoo Sultaun, through the medium of his Vakeels, to form an al-
liance with that Prince, avowedly for the purpoſe of ſupporting the intereſts of the
Mahommedan religion, although the ſimple fačt of his Highneſs's negociating an al- .
liance of friendſhip with the Sultaun, without the participation of the Britiſh Power,
would (according to the Ioth article of the Treaty of 1792, by which it is ſtipulated
that the Nabob ſhall not “enter into any negociation, or political correſpondence
“ with any European or Native Power, without the conſent of the Company)” be
a breach of treaty with the latter; yet the views and objećts ſo well underſtood
by the phraſe, “ſupporting the cauſe of religion,” of which, one of the firſt duties is
to wage eternal war againſt thoſe of a different perſuaſion, warrant a concluſion, that
the deſigns of his Highneſs, in eſtabliſhing this conneétion, were of a nature decidedly
hoſtile to the Britiſh Nation in India. When his Highneſs aſſerts, that a war which
the Britiſh Government was forced into by the unprovoked aggreſſion of Tippoo !
Sultaun, was undertaken for the ſubverſion of the Mahommedan-religion; and when,
by parity of reaſoning, he muſt aſcribe the ſame objećt to any future war againſt a
Muſſulman Power, however juſt and neceſſary, no other conſtrućtion can be put
upon the ſolicitude he ſhews' in ſupport of the Mahomedan Faith, than enmity
againſt the Power by which he conſidered it to be endangered; and when he ſtigma-
tizes the co-operation of the Nizam as an act that would hazard his hopes of hap-
pineſs in a future ſtate, it may juſtly be inferred, that the Nabob Wadiajah would
not ſcruple to betray thoſe intereſts, which, as an Ally of the Company, he might at a
futºre period be called upon to ſupport. It appears by a letter from Tippoo Sultaun to
his Vakeels, dated the beginning of September 1792, that he eagerly availed himſelf
of the Nabob's favourable diſpoſition towards him, and direéted his Vakeels to encou- }
rage his Highneſs in it, and to expreſs to him his confidence, that “the Nabob would
“ do whatever might tend to the ſupport of the religion of Mahomined, and that
“ he would give the neceſſary attention to that point.” Tippoo Sultâun, in the ſame
letter, directs his Deputies to ſtate to the Nabob, that, “in conformity to the com-
“ mand of God and the Prophet, the improvement of friendſhip among the pro-
“feſſors of Iſlamiſm would be beneficial to various concerns, both ſpiritual and
“, tempora; ; and that deeming him (Tippoo Sultaun) attached to their common re-
“ligion, and to his Highneſs's perfon, his Highneſs would no doubt direét his atten-
“ tion accordingly.” There is every reaſon, indeed, to believe, that the Vakeels
had ſecret inſtrućtions from Tippoo Sultaun, to endeavour to eſtabliſh this connec-
tion with the Nabob, and thoſe inſtrućtions are probably alluded to in the following
paſſage in the letter laſt referred to : “You will alſo ſtate to the Nabob the other ,
points of friendſhip, which you have repeatedly heard from my mouth.”—That the
Vakeels were charged by Tippoo Sultaun with ſome concealed commiſſion at Ma-
dras, appears from ſeveral of the accompanying documents, particularly from two
letters from the Vakeels to Tippoo Sultaun, dated in June 1792, in which they No. 2. & 3.
promiſe and profeſs the moſt inviolable ſecrecy; and alſo, from the myſterious ex-
preſſion, ſo frequently made uſe of in the correſpondence between the Vakeels and
Tippoo Sultaun”, “ The affair you know of : " but what the nature of it was . No 13, &c.
does not clearly appear. The Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, however (it appears by a vide Nºte at
letter from the Vakeels to Tippoo Sultaun, of a date ſubſequent to July 1793) was bottom of
made acquainted with it, and promiſed to exert himſelf to effect, the objećt of it. N° 13.
The expectations which Tippoo Sultaun was thus induced to entertain, from the
Nabobs Waulajah and Omdut ul Omrah, are plainly expreſſed, and the views to
which they were directed are ſtrongly implied in the terms of two letters, dated the
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end of November 1792, from Tippoo Sultaun, reſpectively, to the Nabobs Waulajah
and Omdut ul Qumrah, in reply to letters from them, which appear to have opened the
epiſtolary correſpondence between them. In the former he writes, “My hopes from
Almighty God, aid my confidence in the Prophet is, that, according to the com-
“ mand of God and the Prophet, which is well known to all Muſſulmen, all the
“ faithful will exert themſelves, with heart and ſoul, in maintaining and rendering
“ permanent the religion of Mahommed. Upon your Highneſs, who is one of the
“ Heads of the Faith, this is an abſolute duty; and I am confident that your High-
“ neſs will by all means conſtantly employ your time in performing what is obliga-
“ tory on you.” And, in his letter to Omdut ul Omrah, Tippoo Sultaun writes, “I
“ am confident that you will direét your attention to the adjuſtment of affairs between
“ me and the Well wiſher of Mankind, who is the Chief and Principal of the profeſſors
“ of Iſlamiſm.” - -
Theſe two documents are of particular importance, not only as they tend to
eſtabliſh the exiſtence of a reciprocity of views between the Nabob and Tippoo Sultaur,
but as carrying upon the face of them almoſt poſitive proof of a ſecret intercourſe
between thoſe Princes; and alſo, as they throw conſiderable light upon another
document, which is otherwiſe very myſterious and obſcure. Previous, however, to
a further notice of that document, it is neceſſary to advert to another very im-
portant paper, the exiſtence of which alone would almoſt ſuffice to eſtabliſh the
faćt of a clandeſtine correſpondence between the Nabob and Tippoo Sultaun.
This document is a key to the cypher for proper names and terms, at the bottom
of which is a note in the hand writing of one of Tippoo Sultaun's Moonſhee's, pur-
porting that the paper is written by Omdur ul Omrah. After a cloſe compariſon
between the hand-writing of that paper, and the hand in which the letters from the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah are invariably written, there cannot remain a doubt of their
being the ſame. But the genuineneſs of this document does not reſt upon that ground
Nº. 3. & 9.
alone; for in the letters above referred to, from Tippoo Sultaun to Wallajah and
Omdut ul Omrah, Wallajah is mentioned with a ſlight variation, viz. (Well-
wiſher, for Friend) by the very name which is affigned to him in the cypher, viz.
Well-wiſher of Mankind; and in the letter from Tippoo Sultaun to Wallajah, the
former mentions his Sons by the fiétitious term, Hearts, which is aſſigned to the
word Sons in the cypher. - - - V -
... It is neceſſary to return to the Document (Nº 7.) firſt adverted to. This is a
letter from Ghooalaum Alli Khaun to Tippoo Sultaun, written on occaſion of Alli
Rezza's return to Seringapatam, for the purpoſe of making certain verbal communi-
cations to the Sultaun. The contents of this letter are as follows: “ The departure
“ of Alli Rezza Khaun at this time, in conformity to the orders of the Preſence, is
* very expedient, eſpecially for the purpoſe of bringing to a favourable iſſue the
“ propoſitions of Lord Cornwallis, and the Well-wiſher of Mankind (the deſignation
“ of the Nabob Waulajah in the cypher) which is moſt ardently to be wiſhed.
“ There are many points which cannot be committed to paper, and can only be
“ communicated in perſon. At this place, the friendſhip and good-will of both the
“ Sirdars is moſt fortunate (literally, from God and the Royal auſpices): the parti-
“ culars of this ſummary, which is an unlooked-for good, will be made known to
“ your Majeſty by the verbal repreſentations of Alli Rezza, who attends the Pre-
“ſence eſpecially for that purpoſe. Although it is contrary to the rules of reſpect
“ to preſume (to give an opinion) upon this ſubječt, yet I am emboldened, by my
“ long attachment, and my ſenſe of the duty I owe your Majeſty. When your Ma-
“, jeſty ſhall have maturely deliberated upon, and fully brought home to your mind
“ the repreſentation of both the Sirdars, from a conſideration of the changeableneſs
“ of the times, your Majeſty's agreeing to this affair upon the principle recom-
“ mended in the words of Hafiz of Sheerauz (the mercy of God be upon him :)
“ With friends cordiality, with enemies diſfimulation—ſeems highly expedient, and
“ advantageous to your Majeſty's intereſts.”
Nabob, be not connected with theſe on the part of Marquis Cornwallis, and whether,
From the expreſſions uſed in this letter, a doubt might be ſuggeſted, whether the
communications to be made by Alli Rezza to Tippoo Sultaun, on the part of the
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by the expreſſion “both Sirdars,” be not meant his Lordſhip and the Nabob ; in other Vol. I.
words, it may be aſked, Whether Alli Rezza was charged with any ſecret commu- —-
nications from the Nabob to the Sultaun ?-This doubt appears to be obviated by (A.)
the letters before mentioned, from Tippoo Sultaun to Waulajah and Omdut ul
Omrah. In his letter to Waulajah, the Sultaun writes as follows: “ Now, by the
“ receipt of your Highneſs's letter, and the account of your Highneſs's friendſhip
“ and attachment, which I have had from the verbal communications of the High in
“ Rank"—the Diſtinguiſhed in Friendſhip—the Truſty – I am certain that, according “No name
“ to the words of the Prophet, the unity of Muſſulmen is as that of the ſoul with mentioned.
“ the body: that warmth of attachment, and that original affection implanted among
“ Muſſulmen, exiſts between us.” .
In his letter to Omdut ul Omrah, the Sultaun writes as follows: “When I learned
“ alſo from the communication of the High in Rank—the Diſtinguiſhed in Friend.
« ſhip—the Truſty—of your great and noble qualities, and the ſincere friendſhip and
“ cordiality you entertain towards me, my happineſs was greater than language can
“ adequately expreſs: May God realize this ſource of happineſs, that is to ſay, that
“ perfeót attachment and union among the followers of Iſlaum, which is the greateſt
“gift of the Almighty, and than which, nothing is more eſſential to the temporal and
“ eternal intereſts of mankind.”
Two circumſtances in thoſe letters indicate, that the perſons mentioned by the
deſignation, “ the High in Rank—the Diſtinguiſhed in Friendſhip,” was Alli Rezza,
and that the Diſtinguiſhed in Friendſhip is the term aſſigned to Alli Rezza's name in the
cypher ; the other, that Tippoo Sultaun, in both letters, refers the Nabob for
farther particulars to one perſon only, from which it is to be inferred, that one of the
two Vakeels was abſent from Madras. This point eſtabliſhed, there can be little
doubt that “ both the Sirdars” were meant Watalajah and Omdut ul Omrah ; that
the “unlooked for good” was ſome propoſition on their part favourable to Tippoo's
views ard intereſts, and probably of no ſlight importance, as Alli Rezza is ſtated to
“ attend the Preſence eſpecially for that purpoſe;” and that “the affair” which
Gholaum Alli Khann ſo earneſtly recommends to Tippoo Sultaun's adoption, was
the propoſition with which Alli Rezza appears to have been charged. No further
trace of this propoſition, whatever it might be, appears in the correſpondence. In
corroboration of the foregoing, it may be remarked, that the circumſtances of Alli
Rezza's departure to Seringapatam, and his return to Madras before the Hoſtages
quitted that Preſidency, are conformable to fact, i
By a letter from the Vakeels to Tippoo Sultaun, dated in July 1793, ſubſequent
to the return of Alli Rezza to Madras, and before the departure of the Hoſtages,
it appears, that the Nabob Waulajah ſent a meſſage to the Vakeels by Kauder
Newauz Khaun, purporting that he “ had ſomething of a ſecret nature, which he
“ wiſhed to ſay to us in private ; adding, that if the Vakeels would go under pretence
“ of ſeeing a moſque which his Highneſs had built, he would ſend Omdut ul Omrah
“ alone to meet them ;" and accordingly, when the Vakeels repaired to the appointed
ſpot, they were met by Omdut ul Onirah, who led them into a neighbouring tomb,
lander pretence of offering up provers for the deceaſed devotee to whom it was
conſecrated. Upon this occaſion, Qmdut ul Omrah appears to have been very par-
ticular in aſcertaining the extent of the powers veſted by T ippoo Sultaun in his
Vakeels; and, when ſatisfied on that head, he diſcloſed his purpoſe to this effect: . --
“ That for a very long time there had been, without cauſe, a veil (or want of cordi-
* ality) between his Highneſs and him (Tippoo Sulraun), which had been pro-
“ ductive of injuries to both ; now that by the favour of God, a ſyſtem of harmony,
“ as was becoming the profeſſors of Iſlamiſm, had taken place, his Highneſs confi-
“dently hoped from God, the prime cauſe of all, that the time paſt might be amply
“ redeemed ; that for his Highneſs (Walajah's) own part, conſidering from his heart
“ himſelf, his country, and his property, to belong to your Majeſty, he had it a
“teſtamentary injunétion to his children and family, taking God and his Prophet to
“ witneſs, to pray night and day for the Pillar of the Faith (meaning Tippoo Sultaun),
“ and to confider their propriety and welfare as inſeparably connected with him
“ (Tippoo Sultaun); that they (the Vakcels) muſt aſcertain the Sultaun's wiſhes upon
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“ that head, in a manner ſatisfactory to both ; and if the Sultaun ſhould be from his
“ heart ſolicitous for this propoſed cordial harmony, his Highneſs would, under the
“ teſtimony of God and his Prophet, detail to the Vakeels his ſentiments fully at the
“ time of their departure, which, pleaſe God, would ſoon take place.”
It will be obſerved, that in the firſt part of the foregoing communication, the Nabob
ſpeaks of the ſyſtem of harmony as having been already eſtabliſhed with Tippoo Sultan,
which is in perfeót conſonance with the negociations before adverted to, and in ſome
meaſure an additional proof that thoſe negociations ačtually took place. The re-
mainder of the communication conveys ſentiments utterly repugnant to the faith of
the Nabob's alliance with the Company.
It further appears, by another letter from the Vakeels, ſubſequent in date to that
above quoted, that the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah held another ſecret conference with
the Vakeels, by their appointment, at a garden to which they propoſed to go for the
purpoſe of arranging their effects preparatory to their departure. On that occaſion,
Omdut ul Omrah is ſtated to have diſcovered in the moſt undiſguiſed manner on the
part of the Nabob Wallajah, as well as on his own, of the ſincerity of their friendſhip,
attachment, and regard. That he alſo made uſe of ſome particular expreſſions of his,
(the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's attachment) requiring the Vakeels upon oath not to
commit them to writing, but to defer the communication of them until their (the
Vakeels) return to Tippoo Sultaun—“I have expreſſed myſelf as I have done (ſays
“Omdut ul Omrah) according to the report of the Vakeels, merely from my regard for
“ the Faith, and from my friendſhip and good-will towards the Defender (or Protećtor)
“ of the Faith, the term by which Tippoo Sultaun is deſignated in the cypher: Pleaſe
“ God, you will ſhortly be with his Majeſty, when you will communicate them in
“perſon.”
It has already been remarked, that the phraſe of Supporting the cauſe of the Faith
(and which is ſo frequently mentioned by and on the part of the Nabob) implies a
determined hoſtility againſt thoſe of another perſuaſion; that the Nabob conſider it
in a ſenſe oppoſed to the Britiſh Intereſts is manifeſt, from his denominating the defen-
five war in which the Company and their Allies were engaged with Tippoo Sultaun,
a war againſt Religion ; but neither can he be ſuppoſed ignorant of the doćtrines which
his own religion inculcates, and the hoſtile and aggreſſive meaſures which it ſanctifies.
ander the term Supporting the cauſe of the Faith. The views, however, which the
Sultaun himſelf veiled under that plea, were in preſence of the Nabob's ſons (as
appears by a report of Ali Rezza's to Tippoo Sultaun, dated the beginning of Auguſt
1793) plainly and publicly avowed in a ſolemn convocation of the Muſſulmen in the
ſervice of Tippoo Sultaun, (and which it is to be ſuppoſed many other Muſſulmen at-
tended, as it was held on Friday, the Sabbath of the Muſſulman’s) at a moſque at
Madras, by the orders of Tippoo Sultaun, for the declared purpoſe of binding them
by a ſolemn obligation to ſupport the intereſts of the Mahomedan faith. {n the courſe
of the ſolemnity, the obligations impoſed by the Muſſulmen religion—To wage holy
war, not to take flight in combating with infidels, and to form a union among all the
profeſſors of the Faith, were ſtrongly inſiſted upon, and the perſons who ſhould diſ-
regard theſe obligations were denounced as ſinners in the fight of God; and, as if he
intended to point out more unequivocally the objećt of this converſation Ali Rezza
repreſents himſelf to have remarked upon having that denunciation, “That it was very
extraordinary that notwithſtanding the notoriety of that, the plurality of Muſſulomen
ſhould ſo depart from the obligations of the faith, as to take up their abode in ſuch a
place, and chooſe to render obedience to thoſe of a different perſuaſion. God grant that
it may turn out well for the Muſſulmen of this place l’” —This was preaching the lan-
guage of rebellion in the very heart of the Counpany’s dominions ; and it affords no
ſlight preſumption of the truth of the allegations againſt the Nabob and Ondut ul
Omrah, that Ali Rezza ſhould have ventured to hold ſuch language in preſence of
the latter; and that Omdut ul Omrah ſhould have heard it without communicating
what paſſed on this occaſion, to the Britiſh Government. The merit of waging war
with Infidels was further inculcated by Ali Rezza's remark, “That the prayers, which
“are offered up in the moſque in favour of a Prince who fights for the Faith are ac-
“cepted of God, but the prayers in favour of thoſe who do not are rejećted." Alli
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Rezza proceeds to ſtate, “ That every individual preſent bound himſelf by the moſt
“ſolemn engagements, that hereafter, as long as he lived, his condućt ſhould manifeſt
“nothing elſe than fidelity, devotion, zeal, and truth ; that he would never be guilty
“ of flight in the face of an enemy, of theft, of lying, of injuring, of wiſhing ill, or
“ of enmity towards thoſe who wiſhed well to the Khordadand (Tippoo Sultaun's)
“ State; and that he conſidered the honour of all Muſſulmen as an objećt of individual
“ concern.” Alli Rezza adds, “ that prayers were afterwards ſaid, that the Khooda-
“ dand Sirkar might be triumphant and vićtorious.” It appears, that Tippoo Sul-
taun himſelf conceived that his Deputies might entertain ſome apprehenſion of per-
forming ſuch a ceremony as this in the very heart of the Britiſh Dominions, which
implied a diſpoſition on his part hoſtile to the Britiſh nation ; as Ali Reza quotes
Tippoo Sultaun's commands to him and his colleague, not to ſuffer themſelves to be
deterred by any ſuch apprehenſion; and Ali Rezza, in diſclaiming all apprehenſions
of that nature, defends the meaſure, and aſcribes to it many great and perſpe&tive ad-
vantages to the intereſt of the Muſſulman cauſe. t
It may be alledged in defence of the Nabob, that this ceremony was performed
ſubſequently to the intercourſe between him and the Sultaun; but beſides that, there
is every reaſon to believe that the Nabob and the Sultaun perfeótly underſtood each
other. The ſame attachment to the cauſe of religion, and to Tippoo Sultaun, is ex-
preſſed in a letter to Gholam Ali Khan, in the hand-writing of Omdut ul Omrah,
although under the fictitious name of Gholam Huſſain, which appears in the written
charaćters upon the cover in the place of the ſeal, and in which is a couplet of
verſes to the following effect:—“In the preſervation of thy perſon is the permanence
of the faith. Let not him remain who wiſheth not thy preſervation.” This is an epitome
of the terms in which the Nabob Walajah is repreſented to have profeſſed his ſolici-
tude to maintain the cauſe of the Muſſulman Religion, and to have declared his devo-
tion and attachment to the intereſts of Tippoo Sultaun; and as Omdut ul Omrah .
appears to bave been the principal channel for the negociation between the Nabob and
Tippoo Sultaun, theſe expreſſions muſt be confidered as conveying the ſentiments of
both. They confirm the prior negociations, and being ſubſequent in date to the cere-
mony above deſcribed (at which the ſons of Walajah were preſent) it muſt be inferred,
that the Nabob Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah underſtood the phraſe “ of ſupporting
“ the cauſe of the Faith,” in the ſame ſenſe that Tippoo Sultaun himſelf intended to
convey by it. Of the authenticity of the Note (Nº. 17.) there cannot be a doubt, as
it is certainly written by the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah himſelf, whoſe hand-writing
cannot be miſtaken, although ſigned (as well as ſuperſcribed) Gholam Hooſſain.
The uſe of this fićtitious ſignature is a further corroboration of the ſecret and clandeſ-
tine intercourſe which ſubſiſted between Tippoo Sultaun and the Nabobs Walajah and
Omdut ul Omrah, and will be more particularly noticed in a ſubſequent part of this
report. f . *
It further appears, that the Nabob Walajah ačted in conformity to his profeſſions
of devotion and attachment to the intereſts of Tippoo Sultaun, and under the con-
neétion which he had formed with him, in two diſtinét inſtances.
1. By communicating to Gholam Ali Khan for the information of Tippoo Sultaun,
and an article of ſecret intelligence, which his Highneſs had received from certain
emiſſaries in Bengal, whom he employed for the purpoſe of colle&ting and tranſ-
mitting ſecret intelligence, purporting that the Sultan was ſuſpected by the Britiſh
Government of maintaining a finiſter negociation with the Mahrattas, and recom-
mending him to ſuſpend his views until a more favourable opportunity, the Nabob
is ſtated to have ſent Kaudir Nawauz Khan to Gholam Ali Khan (Ali Rezza being
then abſent on his miſſion to Seringapatam) for the purpoſe of communicating this
article of intelligence, which he prefaced with the ſtrongeſt profeſſions of attachment
to the intereſts of Tippoo Sultaun; adding, that it is from the impulſe of that attach-
ment that he makes the communication. He then ſtates, that from the report of
certain perſons, whom he has ſtationed in Bengal for the purpoſe of collečting and
tranſmitting ſecret intelligence, he learns that the Reſident at Poona had written to the
Governor General, that from the frequent Meſſengers paſſing between Seringapatam
and Poona, there was reaſon to believe that the Sultaun was endeavouring to form a
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cloſe conneétion and alliance with the Poona Government, and through that Govern-
ment with the Nizam : That as this information had excited ſome ſuſpicion in the
Governor General's mind, it was expedient for him (Tippoo Sultaun) to fuſpend his
views, until the Governor General Marquis Cornwallis's departure for Europe, which
might ſoon be expected. The words are as follºws:– “ in a ſhort time his Lordſhip
“will ſoon go to Europe; the Princes, pleaſ: God, will ſoon return, and the kiſts are
“in a courſe of a payment. After his Lordſhip's departure, the liquidation of the kiſts
“ and other points, whatever may be his Highneſs's (Tippoo Sultaun's) pleaſure, will
‘ be right and proper. At preſent it is better to be filent upon every thing, becauſe
“at this time, his Highneſs's honour would at all events be called in queſtion. When
“ another ſhall arrive from Europe, the imputation wiłł in every event, and in every
‘ meaſure, fall upon him.” . . . . .
This communication evidently manifeſts ſentinents inimical to the Britiſh in-
tereſts, and favourable to Tippoo Sultaun in a point of view oppoſed to thoſe intereſts ;
whatever may have been the fact as it reſpects Tippoo Sultaun, the Nabob himſelf
was unqueſtionably culpable to the extent; in which Tippoo Sultaun was ſuſpected,
whether thoſe ſuſpicions were well founded or not; for if the meaſure aſcribed to the
Sultaun of endeavouring by clandeſtine negociation, to detach the Company's alliances
be deemed hoſtile to the Britiſh Intereſts, what conſtruction muſt be put upon the
condućt of an Ally, who, with the view to place the Sultaun on his guard, informs
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him, that he is ſuſpected cf adopting that meaſure, and preſuming that the ſuſpiciºn
is well founded, far from endeavouring to difiuade him from the proſecution of his
ſuppoſed views, manifeſts a participation in them, by adviſing the Sultaun to ſuſ.
pend his operations until a more favourable opportunity; and cautions him againſt
ſhewing any indications of hoſtility towards the Britiſh Power while there was upon
the ſpot a perſon like Marquis Cornwallis, who poſſeſſed vigilance, activity, and
ability to defeat his projećts, and whoſe charaćter ſtood ſo high in the general eſti-
ination, that in a queſtion of good faith the univerſal ſuff age would be in his
favour!—This communication appears to have been made in the month of De-
2. By communicating to the Vakeels for Tippoo Sultaun's information, as
appears by the report of the former, under date May 1793, intelligence of the in-
tended march of the Britiſh troops againſt Pondicherry in conſequence of the rupture
between England and France, and recommending him to be cautious in his future
intercourſes with the French, to avoid epitolary correſpond.nce, and to maintain his
communication with them by emiſſaries. After neticing the rupture between Eng-
land and France, the intended march of the troops againſt Pondicherry, and the
probability of its failing in conſequence of internal diffentions, the Nabob is re-
preſented to ſtate, by the mouth of Kaudir Newauz Khan, as follows:– “ The
* Vakeel of the Ahmedy Circar, who was at Pondicherry, has lately, it ſeems, re-
“‘turned to the Preſence (Tippoo Sultaun). Pieaſe God, there is no doubt that the
“ Sultaun keeps in view all, the Ups and downs of the time — At this time no kind
“ of aſſiſtance will be afforded ; but out of the warmth of that friendſhip, which I feel
“ towards the Sultaun, I recommend that the Vakeel remain a ſhort time at the Pre-
“ fence, and alſo that epiſtolary correſpondence be diſcontinued for a ſhort time.—Al-
“ though a friendly connection has long ſubfifted with the French on the part of the
“ Ahmedy Circar, yet, confidering the circumſtances of the times, it is not adviſable
“ (i. e. to maintain epiſtolary correſpondence with the French); ſhould there be any
“ point of urgency to communicate, there is no objećtion to do it verbally. Further,
“ I am ağtuated ſolely by my good wiſhes in making this communication.-Since
“ the day that a cordial union took place between us, let me be no longer a Muſſul-
“ man, nor a ſervant of God, if I have not always firſt offered up my prayers for
“ the Sultaun's good, and afterwards for my own.— May the Almighty preſerve
“ firm and uninjured the Mahommedan Church, and the ſafety of the Sultan.”—
The conduct of the Nabob Walajah in communicating to Tippoo Sultaun the
rupture between England and France, and the projećted expedition againſt Pondi-
cherry, with the view to recommend caution to him in his future intercoufe with
the French; his pointing out the mode by which the Sultaun might maintain his
correſpondence,
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correſpondence with the greateſt ſecurity, and his aſſigning as the motive for theſe Vol. I.
communications his ſolicitude for the weifare of Tippoo Sultaun, was evidently in-
conſiſtent with the faith of his engagements, and alliance with the Company.
But why, it may be aſked, ſhould the Nabob think it neceſſary to caution the Sultaun
with reſpect to his intercourſe and correſpondence with the French, unleſs he was
aware that the nature of Tippoo Sultaun’s intercourſe with them either was or was not
likely to be advice to the Britiſh intereſts, fince Tippoo Sultaun was not bound by the
proviſions of treaty to abſtain from all intercourſe with Foreign Powers.--A ſuſpicion
hence ariſes, and is ſupported by all that previouſly paſſed between the Nabob and
the Sultaun, that his Highneſs was not ignorant of the views, which we now know
Tippoo Sultaun at that very time entertained againſt the Britiſh Power, and the
aſſiſtance which he hoped to derive in the proſecution of them from his conneétion
with the French. Confidering this tranſaction in its moſt favourable point of view,
it is ſtill a confirmation of the cloſe conneétion ſuppoſed to have been previouſly
eſtabliſhed between his Highneſs and Tippoo Sultaun; and a direct breach of the
loth article of the treaty of 1792 between his Highneſs and the Company. From
the whole of the foregoing, the following facts appear to reſult.
1. That ſo early as pending the war of 92, the Nabob Walajah entertained
ſentiments inconſiſtent with the faith of his aliance with the Britiſh Nation, by
deeming the defenſive war in which the Britiſh Power and its Allies were engaged,
a war againſt the Muſſulman Religion, and wiſhing ſucceſs to the arms, of their
enemy.
2. That ſubſequently to the war the Nabob Wallajah, in the ſame ſpirit, propoſed
to Tippoo Sultaun to form an intimate conneétion with him, for the avowed
purpoſe of ſupporting the cauſe of the Mahomedan religion, and utterly in-
compatible with the engagements ſubfitting between his Highneſs and the
Company.
3. That during the whole period of the reſidence of Tippoo Sultaun's Vakeels
at Madras, the Nabob Walajah maintained a ſecret intercourſe and correſpon-
dence with Tippoo Sultaun, for the purpoſe mentioned in the foregoing article.
4. That the objećts of the propoſed connection were of a nature ſubverſive of the
alliance between the Nabob and the Company, and direétly has ſtill to the Britiſh
intereſts in India. . 3. . . - * *
5. That Tippoo Sultaun eagerly met and encouraged the Nabob's diſpoſition
to eſtabliſh an intimate conneétion with him for the purpoſes above mentioned;
and that the Nabob Walajah did accordingly enter into that conneétion, and did
thereby violate his faith, and virtually abandon his alliance with the Britiſh
Nation. . . . . . . . . -
6. That the Nabob Walajah, by certain overt acts, founded upon his recent
connection with Tippoo Sultaun, manifeſted a participation of views and deſigns
with that Prince, hoſtile to the Britiſh intereſts in India. .
7. That the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah was a principal channel of communi-
cation, and a moſt ačtive and zealous agent between his father the Nabob
Walajah and the Vakeels, for eſtabliſhing the connection before mentioned with
Tippoo Sultaun; that he was a party in it, and cordially united in promoting the
objećts of it. º
It may be proper in this place to enquire more particularly what degree of credit
is due to the evidence from which the foregoing concluſions are deduced. It may
be ſuggeſted that the Deputies, to gratify their Maſter, exaggerated the friendly ex-
preſſions uſed by the Nabob Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah; and that the latter, in
their ſolicitude to ſhew attention and civilities to the ſons of Tippoo Sultaun, and to
manifeſt, in imitation of the Britiſh Government, a deſire to be upon terms of perfeót
amity with Tippoo Sultaun, may have expreſſed ſentiments of attachment which
they never felt, and the language of compliment may have been converted by the
report of the Vakeels into expreſſions of devotion and attachment, and a deſire to
form a connection with the Sultaun upon the baſis of mutual intereſt and their
common religion. The accuracy of reports from Agents, natives of India, to their
Principals, cannot under any circumſtances be implicitly relied on ; and in one of
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themſelves, the Princes, and the Nabob, at which Colonel Doveton was preſent, a
ſpeech is aſcribed to that gentleman which is evidently fabricated; a circumſtance
which tends to weaken the validity of all their reports; and if the evidence of the
Nabob's condućt reſted ſolely upon them, the proofs might be conſidered as ex-
tremely defe&tive and problematical: but ſeveral of the other documents are of an
unqueſtionable nature, and tend to eſtabliſh the general credit of the reports of the
Vakeels. Of theſe, the moſt decifive is the key to the cypher, which (as has been
already remarked) is undoubtedly tranſcribed in the hand-writing in which the pre-
fent Nabob's letters are, and the late Nabob Walajah's uſed to be invariably written.
The mere exiſtence of this cypher would afford ſtrong preſumption of an intercourſe
between the Nabob and Tippoo Sultaun, that could not ſafely be avowed; and when
its exiſtence is combined with all that is related by the Deputies, as well as with other
circumſtances, amounts as nearly to poſitive proof as the nature of ſuch caſes gene-
rally admits. But it appears that feveral of the cyphered names were ačtually
adopted by Tippoo Sultaun in writing to the Nabobs Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah.
(as has been before remarked); a circumſtance which eſtabliſhes the uſe of the
cypher between the parties. It will alſo be obſerved, that the terms ſelected to
deſignate the Nizam and the Mahrattas, are in perfeót conſonance with the oppro-
brious terms in which the Nabob is repreſented to have ſpoken of the co-operation
of the former in the war, and with the ſentiments which, upon the fame principle, he
muſt have entertained with reſpect to the Mahrattas, and thoſe which his Highneſs
is ſtated to have expreſſed generally with regard to the Triple Alliance; the terms
are, for the Mahrattas, Paoet (or mean, deſpiſable), and for the Nizam, Hee (no-
thing, or non-entity). It is alſo to be obſerved, that the Engliſh are deſignated by
the ſignificant term of New-comers. It is impoſſible, with any degree of conſiſtency,
to ſuppoſe that a cypher compoſed of terms ſo pointedly alluſive to charaćters and
circumſtances ſhould have been invented but for purpoſes adverſe to the Britiſh
intereſts; and hence, while the cypher confirms in a great degree the truth of the
reports of the Vakeels, its mere exiſtence is a proof of a diſpoſition on the part of
the Nabob hoſtile to his alliance with the Company. Another document, of even
leſs diſputable authenticity than the former, and which corroborates the charge againſt
the Nabob, is the Note written by Omdut ul Omrah himſelf with a pencil; the
language it contains is in ſtrićt conformity to that which is ſo repeatedly aſcribed to
his father and himſelf, in the reports of the Vakeels. Indeed, the mere circumſtance
of his writing to Ghoolaum Ally Khan in the terms he has written, would ſuggeſt
and warrant the concluſion, that ſomething to the effect of thoſe expreſſions had
before paſſed between them; added to which, the fićtitious ſignature of Ghoolaum
Hooflain, gives to the whole an air of myſtery in itſelf very ſuſpicious ; and, when
combined with other conſiderations, affords as concluſive evidence as can be ex-
pećted in ſuch tranſačtions. The letters from Tippoo Sultaun to the Nawaub
Waulajah and Omdut ul Omrah, alſo came ſtrongly in aid of the general body of
evidence. Thus ſupported, there is every reaſon to give credit to the general ſub-.
ſtance of the reports of the Vakeels Ghoolaum Ally Khan and Ally Rezza. The
fačt of their holding a ſecret conference with Omdut ul Omrah at the moſque or
tomb, and in the garden, can hardly be ſuppoſed a fabricated ſtory, and would pro-
bably be thought worthy of credit though no other circumſtances appeared to ſupport
it. The circumſtance alſo, as related by the Vakeels, of the Nabob's communicating
to them the ſecret intelligence which he had received from Bengal, and the intimation
relating to Pondicherry and to the French, bear intrinſic marks of authenticity.
It has been ſhewn, that the Nabob Omdut ul. Omrah was a principal channel, and
a moſt ačtive and zealous agent, for the ſecret negociation between the Nabob
Wallajah, his father, and Tippoo Sultaun, and that he rendered himſelf a party in it .
both by his inſtrumentality in promoting it, and by uniting his individual ſentiments
with thoſe of his father. But it may be proper to collect into one point of view the
ſeveral paſſages in the correſpondence; from which it appears, that Omdut ul Omrah
maintained a ſecret intercourſe with the Vakeels on his own part with the ſame view
as on the part of his father, and pledged his individual attachment to the intereſts of
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Tippoo Sultaun. In another report from the Vakeels, not yet noticed, and dated in
May 1797, the Nabob Omdut ul Cºmrah is ſtated to have profeſſed his devotion to Vºl.
Tippoo Sultaun in warm terms, and to have deſired the Vakeels to aſſure their Nº.
Maſter, that “ at a proper ſeaſon, his fidelity towards him ſhould be made manifeſt.”
Further, at a ſecret meeting that took place at a garden, between Omdut ul Omrah
and the Vakeels, by the appointment of the latter (vide Nº 5), Omdut ul Omrah is
deſcribed to have “diſcourſed in the moſt undiſguiſed manner on the part of the
“ Nabob Walajah, as well as on his own, of the ſincerity of their friendſhip, attach-
“ ment, and regard;” and alſo to have “ made uſe of ſome particular expreſſions
“ of his attachment, requiring them (the Vakeels) upon oath, not to commit them to
“ writing, but to defer the communication of them until their (the Vakeels) return
“ to Tippoo Sultaun; and that he added, I have expreſſed myſelf as I have done,
“ merely from my regard for the Faith, and good-will towards the Defender of this
“ Faith. Pleaſe God, you will ſhortly be with his Majeſty, when you will commu-
“ nicate them in perſon.”—Again, in the ſame paper : “Concerning the affair with
“ which your Majeſty is acquainted, we have, under ſuitable pleas, and by proper
“ introdućtion, prevailed upon Omdut ul Omrah to lay the foundation of it, and he
“ is exerting himſelf with zeal in this buſineſs.”—Laſtly, the note written with his
own hand (and before quoted) affords the ſtrongeſt teſtimony of his particular and
individual attachment to the “combined cauſe of the Mahomedan religion, and the
“ intereſts of Tippoo Sultaun.” It remains to examine what has been the condućt
of Omdut ul Omrah fince his acceſſion to the Muſnud, as far as it is expoſed by the
documents under diſcuſſion. X-
It appears by two reports from Mahomed Ghyan's and Mahomed Ghores Khan, No. 18, & 19.
the two Ambaſſadors deputed by Tippoo Sultaun the latter end of the year 1795,
with Khelauts, and letters of condolence to Omdut ul Omrah for the death of his
Father, and of congratulation upon his acceſſion to the Muſnud, that the Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah expreſſed a deſire to hold, and did ačtually hold a private con-
ference with thern, upon the ſubjećt of his attachment to the Sultaun. The direét
proof of it is confined to the two following paſſages in their reports above adverted
to:--‘‘His Highneſs, with the greateſt degree of kindneſs, placed us cloſe to him-
“ ſelf, and launched out into great praiſes of your Majeſty, and appeared delighted
“ with the ſubjećt, telling us, that it was his intention to ſend for us, and ſay what
“ he had to ſay in private; adding, that our arrival at this time was extremely proper
“ (or, as it may be interpreted, extremely opportune.)” The ſecond paſſage is as
follow ; “after many ſalems (obeiſances) his Highneſs, with the appearance of great
“ ſatisfaction, roſe, and taking our hands, ſaid, Now am I extremely happy. We
“ then ſat down in a private place, when his Highneſs expatiated during two hours
“ (near an hour Engliſh) with great warmth, upon the ſubjećt of union and friend-
“ ſhip.” From the ſummary terms in which the purport of the Nabob's diſcourſe is
deſcribed, it may perhaps be inferred, that it conſiſted of little more than empty
compliments, ſince it may be ſuppoſed, from the minuteneſs of their other deſcrip-
tions, that the Ambaſſadors would have been more particular in reporting a conver-
ſation of any importance, and the circumſtance of ſetting down in a “private place”
is ſo common an occurrence, and ſo often takes place without adequate occaſion,
that perhaps little could be founded on this fimple fačt: On the other hand, the
ſecret intercourſe which Omdut ul Omrah maintained with Tippoo Sultaun, through
the medium of his Deputies, in the lifetime of the Nabob Walajah ; the diſpoſition
ſo ſtrangely manifeſted by him to form a cloſe alliance with the Sultan, together
with all the other circumſtances of his condućt as before detailed ; the vexations
which at that particular time he openly declared himſelf to feel at the meaſures pur-
ſued by the Government of Madras to effect a modification of the treaty of 1792;
the extraordinary attention which his Highneſs appears to have ſhewn towards Tippoo
Sultaun's Ambaſſadors, and in particular, the two documents hereafter noticed, leave
no doubt of the continuance of the Nabob's favourable diſpoſition towards Tippoo
Sultaun, and of his diſaffection towards the Britiſh Nation, and conſequently warrant a
well founded belief of his having availed himſelf of the preſence of the Ambaſſadors,
to convey and confirm his ſentiments in that ſpirit to the Suitaun. The firſt of two
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documents above alluded to, is a letter written in the hand-writing in which the
Nabob's letters are invariably tranſcribed, as were thoſe of his Father, and the ſame
in which the key of the cypher before noticed is written, addreſſed to Ghoolaum
Ally, without ſeal or ſignature ; but in the place of the former, upon the cover, ap-
pears in written charaćters, the name Ghoolaun Huſſein, the fićtitious name under
which his Highneſs before wrote (as has been particularly noticed) to Ghoolaurn
Ally with his own hand, in Auguſt 1794. The letter is endorſed by one of Tippoo
Sultaun’s Moonſhees, as having been received on the * 8th January 1797; its con-
tents are as follows: “After a lapſe of time, at the moment my heart was deſirous
“ of learning the accounts of your welfare, I had the pleaſure to receive your very
“ friendly letter, and I was gratified by the news of your health ; I have fully compre-
“ hended the ſeveral points contained in that letter ; you will become acquainted with
“ the circumſtances alluded to ; from the communications of Mahommed Ghyans
“ and Vlahomed Ghons Khan. Deeming me defirous of receiving the pleaſing
“...accounts of your health, you will gratify me by communicating them.” There is
no addreſs whatever inſide the letter, and the cover is ſuperſcribed, To Ghoolam Ally,
without any other form. This unuſual derelićtion of the eſtabliſhed forms of addreſs,
which is only admiſſible in letters to perſons ſtanding in a very inferior ſtation to the
writer, the hand-writing of the letter, the nature of its contents, and in particular
the name of Goolaum Huſſain in the place of the ſeal, denoting that it came from
a perſon of that name; when it is recoilećted, that a former letter to Ghoolam Alli
Khan, unqueſtionably from the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah himſelf, was ſigned and
ſuperſcribed by that name, prove beyond a doubt that the letters in queſtion were
from Omdut ul Omrah. The reference to the verbal communications of Moham-
ed Gheganſs, and Mohammed Ghons and Khan, for the knowledge of certain
circumſtances alluded to in the ietter which the Nabob acknowledges from Goolaum
Alli, ſhe ws, that Omdut ul Omrah had held ſome ſecret communication with thoſe
Ambaſſadors. That thoſe circumſtances related to affairs in which Tippoo Sultaun
was concerned, was to be inferred from the circumſtances of the letter being in-
dorſed by one of the Sultaun's Moonſhees, and preſerved among his records. The
terms in which the Nabob refers to the verbal communications of the perſons above-
mentioned, ſeem to warrant a concluſion that the circumſtances which they were to
detail were communicated to them by the Nabob in perſon; but the lapſe of time
between their miſſion at Madras, and the date f of the receipt of the letters tends to
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weaken that conjećture, unleſs it be ſupported (what may probably have been the
caſe) that they made a ſecond viſit to the Naboo at Madras. It does not however,
* Vide Note in page of this Report; by which it appears, that the date of the receipt of the
letters here alluded to is erroneouſly endorſed upon it, and that it was received at Seringapatam on the
20th January 1796. •. -
+ Since the original Report was diſpatched to Madras, an apparent error has been diſcovered in the
date of the endorſement on the letter now under confideration, N° 20, and aiſo in N° 2 I : The endorſe-
ment on both is as follows:– “ Received io h. of Rhemannee of the year Shaud 1223 A. M. Mo-
“ hamed ; anſwering to the 9th of Redjib 121 1 of the Hedjeree a. a.”—As a regiſter is kept in the
Perſian Tranſlator's office of ine correſponding dates in the iMuſſuiman and Chriſtian aeras, and as the
accuracy of that regiſter can be implicitly relied upon, it was thought ſufficient to aſcertain the date
according to the Chriſtian aera, which anſwers to the 9th of Redjib 121 1 in the regiſter, viz. 8th of
January 1797, without proceeding to a calculation of the Sultany date; that calculation however
having ſince been made, the date 10th Rhemannee of the year Shaud 1223 is found to correſpond with
the 9th of Redjio 12 ſo, which anſwers to the 20th January 1796. The accuracy of the calculation
upon which the correſpondence of dates between the Sultany and Chriſtian aeras in the reſt of the docu-
ments, is founded, has been ſo far prove , that if there be an error it cannot exceed one month. The
calculation in the preſent inſtance may therefore be relied on in the ſame degree as in the former.
Hence there muſt have been an error in the endorſement of a whole year, citber in the Sultany or
Muſſulman date. It is not probable that the error ſhould have been in the former, becauſe the variation
would have been, not merely of a figure, but alſo of the name of the year of the cycle; whereas in the
letter the variation turns ſimply upon the ſubſtitution of an unit for a point (or cypher); an error ſtill
more likely to have occurred from the circumſtance of the Muſſulman date being very ſeldom in uſe
with Tippoo Sultaun. The inference is, that as the Ambaſſadors Ghyanſs Mohammed Khan and
Mohammed Ghons Khan ačtually took their departure from Madras in December 1, 95 or January
1796, they muſt have been (as corjectured) the two letters, N° 20 & 2 i. ' .
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affect the queſtion of a ſecret intercourſe with thoſe Ambaſſadors, and this lattter fast Vol. I.
corroborates the circumſtances before detailed, of the Nabob's having held a private
conference with thoſe Ambaſſadors at Madras, and combined with the Nabob's prior
intrigues, and avowed diſpoſition to connečt himſelf in alliance with Tippoo Sultaun,
affords a ſtrong ground of belief, that the objećt of this intercourſe was the ſame as
that which he and his Father before held with the Sultaun's Vakeels. It will be re-
marked, that the letter acknowledges the receipt of one from Ghoolaum Alli. The
circumſtance of Ghoolaum Ally’s being the channel of communication upon this
occaſion, and of the Nabob's adoption of the fićtitious name Goolaum Hooſſain,
may be accounted for as meaſure of precaution, as well as from the circumſtances of
Gholaum Alli's having been originally the channel of the ſecret intercourſe with Tippoo
Sultaun, the ſame arguments afford additional reaſon to believe, that the communi-
cations to be made by the Ambaſſadors were upon the ſame ſubjećt as the former
clandeſtine intercourſe with the Vakeels. That Ghoolaum Alli wrote to the Nabob
by Tippoo Sultaun's expreſs ſanétion is more than probable, not only becauſe he
would ſcarcely have ventured to correſpond with Omdut ui Omrah without ſuch
ſanótion, but from the ſtrong corroborative fact of the letter in queſtion being en-
dorſed by Tippoo Sultaun's Moonſhee, and placed among his records. If the letter
did not refer to ſomething that could not ſafely be avowed, where was the neceſſity
for all this myſtery; if it did not relate to the mutual concerns of Tippoo Sultaun, and
the Nabob, why ſhould it have been ſhewn to, and recorded by the Sultaun ?–Theſe
proofs are ſtill further corroborated by the ſecond of the documents before adverted -
to. It is a letter to Ghoolaum Alli, from Kaudir Newauz Khan, a favourite and con- Nº 21.
fidential ſervant, both of the late and preſent Nabob, and who, it has been ſhewn,
was a principal channel of negociation between them and the Vakeels in 1792–3,
as well as between Omdut ul Omrah and the Ambaſſadors in 1795. It was re-
ceived at Seringapatam on the 8th of * January 1797, and contains the following
paſſages: “What you write of the ſatisfaction of the Nawawb Tippoo Sultaun,
upon the intimation of my attachment has called forth my higheſt thanks and
endleſs praiſes, you will preſent my reſpectful acknowledgments for his kindneſs and
favours towards me; I have been from firſt to laſt endeavouring, that through the
favour of God, the degree of union between the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah and
Tippoo Sultaun, which is calculated to produce the happineſs of God's people,
may daily be ſtrengthened and cemented, and mutual friendſhip and attachment be
confirmed and eſtabliſhed ; and, thanks to the Almighty, that the ſyſtem of har-
mony and union has acquired the requiſite degree of ſtability and firmneſs.”
The firſt part of this quotation tends to confirm the accuracy of the report of
Tippoo Sultaun's Vakeels reſpecting the inſtrumentality of Kawdir Newauz Khawn
in the intrigues between the Sultaun and the late Nabob ; in the latter the continua-
tion of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's attachment to the Sultaun is explicitly avowed;
with the additional intimation, that “ the ſyſtem of union and harmony between
“ them has acquired the requiſite degree of ſtability and firmneſs.”
Theſe documents ſhew that the ſecret intercourſe with Tippoo Sultaun was
carried on by the Nabob to ſo late a period as the end of f 1796. Admitting that at
the commencement of this intercourſe 1792-3, it was the policy of the Britiſh
government to conciliate the friendſhip and good will of Tippoo Sultaun to the
utmoſt pračticable degree; and even ſuppoſing, for the ſake of argument, that the
Nabob Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah, in profeſſing their attachment towards
Tippoo Sultaun, far from entertaining ſentiments repugnant to the principles of
their alliance with the Company, or injurious to the Britiſh intereſts, only purſued
the line of policy adopted by the Britiſh Government, ſtill that argument would not
apply to the latter period of this clandeſtine intercourſe, where the condućt of
Tippoo Sultaun, in aſſembling an army on his Highneſs the Nizam's frontier, ren-
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* Vide the foregoing Note. t
+ Vide the Note in page ; by which it appears that this is an error, occaſioned by a miſtake in
the endorſement on Nº. 20. & 21.
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dered it neceſſary for the Britiſh Government to arm for the eventual defence of his
Highneſs's dominions; and when there was every reaſon to believe (what has ſince
been confirmed) that the Sultaun entertained the moſt hoſtile deſigns againſt the Britiſh
Empire in India. But, in fact, the argument is equally untenable when applied to
the firſt as to the laſt-mentioned period. If it had been the Nabob's deſign merely
to purſue the line of policy adopted by the Britiſh Government, no motive could
exiſt for ſecrecy. The exiſtence, and the uſe of a cypher, between the Nabob and
Tippoo Sultaun (ſo incontrovertibly eſtabliſhed) and the deſignations reſpe&tively
given in that cypher to the three Allied Powers, and the information reſpecting
Bengal and Pondicherry, are utterly inconſiſtent with the foregoing ſuppoſition ; and
had ſuch only been the views of the Nabob Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah, they
would have ſought to comprehend the Company in this projećted league of amity,
inſtead of negociating a diſtinét and ſeparate connection with Tippoo Sultaun, of
which the Britiſh Government had no knowledge, and from which the Britiſh power
was pointedly excluded. . *
It yet remains to be obſerved, that while Tippoo Sultaun (as we have now diſ.
covered) was endeavouring by emiſſaries, by correſpondence, by every means in his
power to conciliate the alliance of every State in India, for purpoſes hoſtile to the
Britiſh Nation in India, it is not probable that he would neglect any attempt to con-
tract an alliance with a Muſſulman Prince, who, like the Nabob of the Carnatic,
might have it in his power to be of the moſt eſſential ſervice to his views in the
event of hoſtilities between him and the Company ; and it is not, perhaps, going
too far to ſuppoſe, that when (as appears by the printed tranſlations of documents
found at Seringapatam, Tippoo Sultaun propoſed the landing of the French troops
which he expected at Porto Novo, there to form a junétion with his own army; he
had every reaſon to depend upon every aſſiſtance which the Nabob could afford to-
wards the ſucceſs of the expedition; it is even not improbable that the Nabob was
made acquainted with the plan. If to all the circumſtances, inferences and argu-
ments herein detailed, be added the perverſe (not to ſay hoſtile) condućt of the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah towards the Britiſh Government during the late war, the
whole conſtitutes a body of powerful proof that his Highneſs had conneéted himſelf
for ſeveral years paſt with Tippoo Sultaun by ties of intereſt, and community of
views, ſubverſive of the fundamental principles of alliance between him and the
Company in the ſeaſon of peace, and abſolutely hoſtile to the Britiſh nation in that of
war; and, that had the opportunity occurred, he would have openly ſupported the
cauſe of Tippoo Sultaun and the Muſſulman intereſt againſt that of the Company.
Fort Williarn, - (Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
April 6th 1800. Perſian Tranſlator to the Gov".
- (A true Copy.)
(Signed) }. Webbe, .
Chief Secº to Government.
(e.) in (A.)
Liſt of Witneſſes to be examined.
Gholam Ali Khan - - - - -
Ali Reza - - - - - - - - | at Vellore.
Mohamed Ghejauze - - - - - *
Mahomed Ghauze Khan.
Liſt of Perſons to be eventually examined.
Gholam Ali Suddon - - - - - at Vellore.
Punnah - - - - - - - - at Seringapatam.
Uſud Univivi - - - - - - Formerly Monſhee of Tippoo Sultaun.
Mahomed
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- -in Kerai ſh; Stated to have proceeded on an Embaſſy Vol. I.
Mahomed Huſſein Keraiſhi ‘º } to the Carnatic in September 1796. º,
Syhed Fukir ud di Reſidence not known: he was Ambaſſador (*)
Synºd Fukirua alºn. - - - -i at Poona in 1793.
(A true Copy.) X-
(Signed) } Webbe,
Secº to Gov".
(f) in (A).
INSTRUCTIONS for condućting the Examination of Gholam Ally
Khan, Alli Rezza, Mahorned Ghyauze, and Mahomed Ghauze Khan.
1. The examination ſhould be preceded by the fulleſt aſſurances to the ſeveral
witneſſes, that the objećt of it is wholly unconnected with any charge againſt any of
them; that a full declaration of the truth with relation to the papers produced, and
the intercourſe and correſpondence between Tippoo Sultaun and the Nabobs
Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah, is all that is expected from them; that no imputation
can attach to them, as having been the channel of ſuch intercourſe or correſpondence,
becauſe in the whole tranſactions, they ačted under the orders of their Sovereign.
They may therefore rely on a liberal conſtrućtion of their condućt by the Britiſh
Government ; nor is the leaſt intention entertained of depriving any of them of the
marks of its bounty which they now enjoy, unleſs by prevarication, or by any trea-
cherous attempt to conceal the truth, they ſhould render themſelves unworthy of a
continuance of our favour.
2. It will alſo be neceſſary to enjoin the witneſſes, in the ſtrongeſt manner,
not to diſcloſe any circumſtance conneéted with their examination, or with the diſ-
covery of the papers in queſtion, to any perſon whatever, eſpecially to the Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah, or to any of his Reſidents or connections. They muſt
be informed, that any ſuch diſcloſure cannot fail to be immediately diſcovered,
and to ſubject them to the total loſs of their penſions, and to the heavy diſ-
pleaſure of the Britiſh Government. Every poſſible precaution muſt be uſed to
prevent this correſpondence with any perſon whatever, from the time of their
examination until the neceſſary ſteps ſhall have been taken to guard the Britiſh
intereſts, by the moſt effectual ſecurity, againſt the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's
treacherous deſigns.
3. The ſeveral witneſſes muſt be examined ſeparately; and it is extremely deſirable
to prevent all communication between them, until the cloſe of their reſpeštive ex-
3: Ill I) at 10 ſ) S. - -
4. It is underſtood, that the three firſt-named witneſſes are a&tually at Vellore,
being penſioners, who have fixed their reſidence at that place. It is recommended
that the examination ſhould be condućted by Mr Webbe, together with Captain
Wilks, or Major Grant, or any other perſon acquainted with the languages, of the
moſt approved diſcretion and integrity, and enjoying the full confidence of
Government. If it were poſſible to obtain the aſſiſtance of Lieutenant Colonel
Cloſe in the examinations, it would be highly deſirable to delay all proceed-
ing for a few days with that view. This advantage, however, appears to
be unattainable, and perhaps Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe may be as beneficially
employed in purſuing the traces of this treaſon at Seringaparam, through ſuch
evidence as he may be able to diſcover on the ſpot. The Examiners ſhould
proceed to Vellore, and ſome oftenſible cauſe (which will be better framed at
Madras than here) ſhould be aſſigned for their viſit to that fortreſs. This cauſe
muſt not be the removal of Futteh Hyder; any ſtep taken towards that meaſure,
previous to the examination, might tend to alarm the witneſſes, and to excite an
apprehenſion that they were implicated in Futteh Hyder's Offences.
5. The Examiners ſhould proceed to Lieutenant Colonel Doveton's houſe, and
ſhould employ Lieutenant Colonel Doveton to cauſe all the witneſſes to repair nearly
at the ſame time to that place. It appears to be a neceſſary precaution, that this
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meſſage ſhould be ſent in the name of Lieutenant Colonel Doveton, and not in that
of the Examiners. !
6. As ſoon as the witneſſes ſhall have arrived at Lieutenant Colonel Doveton’s
houſe, they ſhould be placed in ſeparate apartments, proper meaſures being taken to
prevent their conceiving any alarm at this circumſtance. - -
7. If any of the witneſſes ſhould be abſent from Vellore, but within reach of a
fummons from that place, the examination ſhould be delayed until the arrival of ſugh
witneſſes, unleſs it ſhould appear more adviſable, and ſhould be praćticable for one
of the Examiners to proceed to the ſpot, Mahomed Ghyauze's teſtimony is, in one
point of view, the moſt important to be obtained accurately, as his evidence will affect
the condućt of the Nabob Omdut ul C mrah, ſince his acceſſion to the Muſnud. The
colleague of Mahomed Ghyauſe Khān does not appear to have been a perſon of equal
diſtinčtion with Mahomed Ghyauſe, but the teſtimony of Mahomed Ghyauſe, is alſo
extremely deſirable. He appears " to have been among the Bukſhies, who received
a ſum of money from the Commiſſioners for the affairs of Myſore, and were permitted
to repair whither they pleaſed. His preſent reſidence is not known, but it may not be
difficult to aſcertain it. . \ - *
8. It would certainly be deſirable, that the evidence ſhould be taken down in the
Perſian language, in order that the witneſſes may atteſt their reſpective evidences
under their ſeals and ſignatures. No native Moonſhee, however, can ſafely beenployed
in the proceeding ; and unleſs ſome European of ſufficient conſequence can be found,
the examination muſt be taken down in Engliſh. -
9. It is of great importance, that the examination ſhould be completed in one day;
but if this ſhould be found impracticable, proper precautions muſt be adopted to pre-
vent any communication between the witneſſes, during the intervals of their exa-
miñations. g
Io. If the reſult of the examination, or any ſtage of it, ſhould diſcloſe matters
affecting Kaudir Nawauz Khān, or any perſon at Madras, to ſuch a degree, as to require
the ſeizure of his perſon or papers, the Examiners muſt diſpatch an expreſs to Madras,
ſignifying the ſame, in order that the neceſſary ſteps may be taken before any other
advices can reach Madras. --
i 1. It appears probable, that it will be judged expedient to ſeize the papers of
Kaudir Nawauz Khan. In that event, the ſeizure ſhould be made before any intimation
of the nature of the examination at Vellore can have tranſpired,
12. Care ſhould be taken to make it appear, that the proceedings at Vellore, as
well as any ſeizures which may be determined on, in conſequence of the examination
having taken place, ſolely on the authority of the Government of Fort St. George,
and not under any direétions from the Supreme Government, as ſuch a perſuaſion will
be calculated to prevent the Nabob from adopting any deſperate courſe on the occa-
ſion, and to induce him to wait the iſſue of a reference to the Governor General in
Council. It is however, hoped, that the objećt of the Examinations, and even of the
* It may be uſeful, however, to obſerve, that a perſon named Mahomed Ghyauſe Khan, appears in
the liſt of Meer Meerans, entered in the proceedings of the Commiſſioners for the affairs of Myſore.
He is ſtated in that liſt to have been ſent by Tippoo Sultaun ſome time before the ſiege of Seringapatam
Satrinenungalum. His abſence accounts for his not being among the penſioned Meer Meerans. He is
more likely, perhaps, to have been the colleague of Mahomed Ghyauge Khan than the Bukſhy
Mahemed Ghyauſe. - - - s ºf
Note.—It appears by a letter from Major Doveton, dated in September 1796, that an Ambaſſador
from Tippoo Sultaun paſſed Byacottah in the middle of that month, on his way to Madras. Major
Doveton calls this Ambaſſador Mahomed Huſſein Koraiſhi. It is poſſible that this was the embaſſy of
Gby auſe Mahomed and Ghyauſe Khan; and that Major Doveton may have been misinformed with
regard to the names of the Ambaſſadors. It cannot be difficult to trace the fact, if Mahomed Huſſein
Koraiſhi ſhould prove to have been a ſeparate Ambaſſador, he muſt be ſought for, and ſtrictly examined
with reſpe&t to the objećts of his miſſion. * *
N. B.-It is proper to remark, that a perſon named Mahomed Huſſein, with the addition of Buntoree
inſtead of Boraiſhi, appears by the liſt of Meer Zunnah, and that he is flated to have been killed in the
aſſault of Seringapatam. It will be eaſy to aſcertain whether this is the ſame perſon as Mahomed
Huſſein Koraiſhi. -
Note.—The Moonſhee, who writes the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah’s letter, would alſo be able to give
information reſpecting the ſecret intercourſe between the Nabob and Tippoo Sultaun, and his papers
might lead to ſome important diſcoveries on the ſubject. -- - *
ſeizure
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º I
..
feizure of any perſon or papers at Madras, may be kept entirely ſecret until the final
inſtructions of the Governor General in Council can reach Fort St. George.
13. It appears probable, that much light might be thrown on the ſubjećt of the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's conneétion with Tippoo, by Pumcah Hubub Ollah and
tjſſud Unwar (the two laſt of whom were the confidential Moonſhees of the Sultaun)
and poſſibly by other perſons at Seringapatam or in Myſore. The Naicks of Hir-
carrah's, it is well known, enjoyed the confidence of Tippoo in a very high degree,
and were in a manner joined in the commiſſion of every Vakeel diſpatched by the
Sultaun to Foreign Courts. Theſe Naicks were in the habit of correſponding ſeparately
with the Sultaun; and if the Naicks who accompanied any of the Embaſſies to
Madras can be diſcovered, much important information might be obtained from
them. The whole of theſe inſtrućtions, with copies of all the important documents
and orders now diſpatched to Fort St. George, ſhould be referred to Lieutenant Colo-
nel Doveton, who ſhould be authorized to proſecute ſuch enquiries as may be deemed
prudent; and the reſult of his proccedings ſhould be communicated to the Governor
General in the fulleſt detail. It may be uſeful to add, that the originals of many of the
letters, of which extraćts accompany this, are endorſed in the hand-writing of Uffud
Unwar. * * .
in the confidence of Tippoo Sultºun. The principal of the Vakeels ſent to Poona, Syed Fakir
ud dieu, in 1798, alſo enjoyed the confidence of his maſter in a high degree. Theſe men are, no
doubt, capable of affording important information. -
QUESTIONS on the Correſpondence to be propoſed to the
Witneſſes at Vellore.
Previouſly to commencing the examination, it will be proper to apprize the
witneſſes, that the whole of their correſpondence during their reſpective miſſions to
Madras, together with all the papers and documents conneéted with the ſame, are
in the poſſeſſion of Government, and atteſted copies in the hands of the Examiners.
- To Gholam Ally, and Ally Rezza.
Produced and read to the witneſſes, Queſtion.
N“14. and 15. of the Correſpondence. What did Omdut ul Omrah commu-
: nicate to you in the ſecret meeting which
you held with him in the garden, ſubſe-
quently to the 23d of July 1793 :
- Queſtion.
What were the particular expreſſions
of his attachment to Tippoo Sultaun
which Omdut ul Omrah required you
not to conimit to writing, but to defer
the commºnication of them until your
return to the preſence of your Maſter
Queſtion.
What anſwer did Tippoo Sultaun re-
turn to the ſaid communication from
Omdut ul Cinſah, and through what
channel was that anſwer tranſmitted P
Queſtion. -
State the nature and objećt of the
agreement which was eſtabliſhed through
you between the Nabob Wallajah and
Tippoo Sultaun ?
Queſtion.
N. B. It is eſſential that the queſtions
ſhould be put in the order here ſtated,
and eſpecially that the examination ſhould
commence with the N° 14, and 15, of the
Correſpondence.
State the nature and objećt of the
agreements eſtabliſhed through you, be-
tween Omdut ul Omrah and Tippoo
Sultaun ?
If it ſhould appear, from the anſwers
given by the witneſſes to theſe queſtions,
175. that G
Note—Gholam Ali Sudder, who reſides at Vellore, was one of the Meer Murans, and moſt ‘. .
Vol. I.
(A.)
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PAP E R S R E LAT IN G To T H E
*Vol. I.
(A).
that the witneſſes are fincerely diſpoſed
to give a faithful account of the whole
tranſačtion, their narrative and details of
the ſame ſhould be taken down in a
conneéted form; but if, on the contrary,
they ſhould ſhew an inclination to preva-
ricate, or ſhould affect that the inter-
courſe related to no political objećls, and
tended merely to eſtabliſh an interchange,
of ordinary good offices, they are to be
required to reconcile ſuch interpretations
with the Correſpondence, underlined with
red ink; and they muſt be croſs exa-
mined until they ſhall be induced to make
a full confeſſion. -
N° 15. of the Correſpondence; laſt
paragraph. -
N° 16. of the Correſpondence.
N. B. Theſe queſtions, marked f, are
to be put to Ali Rezza, Ghoolam Ali
Khan not having been preſent at this
ceremony.
N° 7. of the Correſpondence.
(Queſtion particularly to Gholam Ali;
Ali Rezza may alſo be queſtioned on this
detter.)
Queſtion.
Explain the affair referred to in this
paragraph, and ſtate how Omdut ul
Omrah laid the foundation of it 8
* Queſtion.f
Was Omdut ul Omrah at the ceremony
deſcribed in this letter, and was this
ceremony the affair referred to in Nº. 15 °
Queſtion.f -
What was the object of the ceremony P
Was it not to engage the congregation
preſent to aſſiſt the Khodabad Sirkar, and
to throw off their allegiance to the Britiſh
Government? -
- ueſtion.f
Did Omdut ul Omrah enter into the
'ſame engagements ſtated to have been
taken by the congregation aſſembled at
the Moſque: #
Queſtion.f w
Did he join in the prayers that the
Khodabad Sirkar might be triumphant
and vićtorious P
Queſtion.
Why did Tippoo Sultaun imagine that
you might feel apprehenſive in fulfilling
his orders reſpecting this ceremony
Queſtion. -
Was the obligation and engagements
taken on that day in the Moſque, from
the ſervants of Tippoo Sultaun only 2 or
was it a general union among thoſe pro-
feſſing the Mahomedan faith reſiding at
- Madras :
Queſtion. -
When did Ali Rezza leave Madras for
Seringapatam
How often did Ali Rezza proceed to
Seringapatam during the reſidence of the
Princes at Madras 2 ;
At what time or times did he proceed
to Seringapatam :
When
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23.
When did he return from thence 2
Who was meant by the Well-wiſher to
Mankind P
What are the points which could not
be communicated to paper, and could only
be communicated in perſon 2
What was the purpoſe for which Alli
Rezza is ſtated in this letter to have
eſpecially attended the preſence of Tippoo
Sultaun ?
What Sirdars are meant in the paſſage,
“. At this time the friendſhip and good-
“ will of both the Sirdars is moſt fortu-
“ nate, literally is from God, and the
“ Royal Auſpices P’’
What appeared to you to be ſo extra-
ordinary in the friendſhip and good-will
of both Sirdars, as to make you think and
ſay, that it could only have proceeded from
God, and the Royal Auſpices of Tippoo
Sultaun ?
Why did you confider what had paſſed
between you and the Nabob Wallajah
and Omdut ul Omrah (and to communi-
cate which to Tippoo Sultaun, Ali Rezza
eſpecially proceeded to Seringapatam) as
an unlooked for good?
What was the ſubjećt alluded to in
this letter, upor, which Tippoo Sultaun
was to deliberate maturely, and to bring
fully home to his mind?
N° 17. of the Correſpondence.
Queſtion to Ghol
Reza.
175.
am Ali and Ali
What was meant by the alluſion in
this letter to the changeableneſs of the
times
What was the affair which you were
deſirous that Tippoo Sultaun ſhould agree
to, and in what conſiſted its expediency
and its advantage to the intereſts of
Tippoo Sultaun ? -
How did you mean to apply the
paſſage of the poet Hafiz
Who were the friends with whom
Tippoo was to maintain cordiality, and
who were the enemies with whom he was
to diſſemble 2 -
Why was it expedient for Tippoo
Sultaun to differnble with the enemies to
whom this paſſage refers :
What advantage was to be expected
by Tippoo Sultaun from cordiality with
the friends to whom this paſſage refers ?
- Queſtion. -
What were the propoſitions of Lord
Cornwallis, and the Well-wiſher of Man-
kind, referred to in this letter :
Vol. I.
(A.)
Where were you in the months of
Mohurrum and Suffer 1209
Were you at that period in the habit
of
24 P A P E R S R E LAT IN G To THE
Vol. I.
(A.)
To Gholām Ali.
(Produced Nº. 17.)
To be put, if Gholam Ali ſhould ac-
knowledge having received the letter,
Nº. 17.
Nº. 6. of the Correſpondence.
(A ſpecimen of the hand-writing of
N°6. accompanies this diſpatch, and is
marked A.)
X-
Produced N° 6.
TN. B. It is of importance to aſcertain
by what Moonſhee of Tippoo's the cy-
pher in queſtion was endorſed; and if he
is alive, and within reach, much uſeful
information might be obtained from him.
A fac ſimile of the endorſement is en-
cloſed in Nº. 6. and is marked (D.)
N° 18. Correſpondence.
Queſtions to Gholam Ali Khan and ,--
Ali Reza. -
of attending the Durbar of Tippoo
Sultaun ? -
Were you in the habit of correſpond-
ing with the Nabobs Wajajah and Omdut
ul Omrah, after your final return to
- Seringapatam ?
Did you at any time receive letters
from the Nabobº Walajah or Omdut ul
Omrah, after your return from Serin-
gapatam : *-
Did you at any time receive verbal
meſſages from Walajah or Omdut ul
Omrah, after your return to Seringa-
patam : -
Did you recolle&t receiving from Om-
dul ul Omrah the letter, of which this is
a copy ---
What did Omdut ul Omrah mean by
the words, “ Good Faith is the law for
“ Seyuds 2" *: •,
What were the frequent neglešís, of
which Omdut ul Omrah complained in
this letter P -
What did you underſtand by the cou-
plet quoted in this letter -
Did it refer to any engagements ſub-
fifting at that time between Omdut ul
'Omrah and Tippoo Sultaun ?
Did it refer to the deſtrućtion of the
Britiſh power
Did you ſend any anſwer to this letter?
Did you employ any cypher, in
writing to Tippoo Sultaun from Fort St.
eorge
Do you know whether the Nabobs
Omdut ul Omrah and Walajah uſed any
cypher in writing to Tippoo Sultaun ?
Do you recoilećt the whole, or any
part of the cypher ſo employed P
Did you ever ſee this cypher ?
Do you know by whom, and when
this cypher was compoſed ?
Through what channel was this cypher
communicated to Tippoo Suitaun ?
What do you ſuppoſe to have been
the motive of Tippoo Sultaun, and of the
Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah,
in eſtabliſhing a cypher for their cor-
reſpondence
Where were you in the month Zan-
kree, of the year Shand 1223, A. H. or
December 1795 : -
Were
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25
(Produced Nº. 20.) g ºt
(A ſpecimen of the hand writing of
Nºzo, being the ſame as that of Nº.6.)
accompanies this diſpatch, and is marked
(A); a fac fimile of the endorſement on
N° 20. is alſo incloſed, and marked (E.)
* N. B. It appears expedient to con-
ceal from Gholām Ali, in the firſt in-
ſtances, that this letter purports to have
been written by a perſon of the real or
fićtitious name of Ghoolam Huſſain.
(Queſtion to Gholam Ali.)
I 75.
Were you at that time in the habit Vol. I.
of attending at Tippoo Sultaun's Durbar,
or of being in any degree conſulted by
him -
Did you know of the deputation of
Mahomed Ghyauſe and of Mahoſhed
Ghouſe Khan to Madras P
Were you conſulted by Tippoo Sul-
taun, on occaſion of the deputation of
thoſe perſons 2
What were the objećts of their depu-
tation P * -
Did you ſend any letters or meſſages
to the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah by theſe
Ambaſſadors ; and if you did, to what
purport 2 -
Did you receive any verbal meſſage,
or any letter, from the Nabob Omdut ul
Omrah, or from any other perſon in his
confidence, through the channel of thoſe
Ambaſſadors, on their return from the
Carnatic; and if you did, what was the
purport of ſuch letter or meſſage 2
Where were you the beginning of
January 1797 ?
Did you receive about that time a
letter, of which this is a copy
The Nabob Omdut ul Omrah * here
acknowledges the receipt of a letter from
you ; what was the purport of the letter
to which this refers 2
The Nabob Omdut ul Omrah here
ſays, “ That he has comprehended the
“ ſeveral points contained in the letter
“ which he had received from you.”
What were the points to which this
paſſage refers ?
What were the circumſtances with
which you were to become acquainted
from the communications of Mahomed
Ghyauſe and Mahomed Ghouſe Khan 2
What communications did Mahomed
Ghyauſe and Mahomed Ghouſe Khan
make to you on their return from the
Carnatic 2 w º,
Did you attend the Durbar of Tippoo
Sultaun after the return of Mahomed
Ghauſe Khan and Mahomed Ghyauſe
from the Carnatic P *
What did you underſtand to have been
the nature of the communications which
had taken place between the Nabob Om-
dut ul Omrah and the Ambaſſadors :
Were you in the habit of receiving
letters from any perſon in the confidence
of Walajah, or of Omdut ul Omrah,
H after
(A.)
P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O T H E
Vol. I.
(A.)
(Produced N° 21.)
f
z
after your return from the Carnatic to
Seringapatam :
Did you ever receive any letters after
your return to Seringapatam from Kau-
dir Newaz Khan; and if you did, to
what purport
Did not you receive from Kaudir
Nawauz Khan, ſome time in the month
of Rejeb Anno Higeree 121 1 (January
1797) a letter, of which this is a copy
By whom was this letter brought to
Seringapatam from Madras : .
What were the contents of your letter
to Kaudir Nawauz Khan, the receipt of
which is acknowledged in the letter now
produced?
What was the nature of the intimation
of Kaudir Nawauz Khan's attachment
to Tippoo Sultaun, which had occaſioned
Tippoo Sultaun to expreſs through you
his ſatisfačtion in the ſame
Through what channel were the ſaid
intimations conveyed to Tippoo Sultaun ?
In what terms did Tippoo Sultaun ex-
preſs his ſatisfaction relative to Kaudir
Nawauz Khan 2 w
To what degree, and in what manner,
and for what purpoſe, did Kaudir Na-
wauz Khan daily endeavour to improve
and cement friendſhip and union between
Omdut ul Omrah and Tippoo Sultaun ?
How was ſuch union and friendſhip
between Tippoo Sultaun and Cmdut ul
Omrah calculated to promote the happi-
neſs of God’s people :
What did Kaudir Nawauz Khan mean
by ſaying, that the ſyſtem of harmony
and union between Tippoo Sultaun and
Omdut ul Omrah had acquired the requi-
ſite degree of ſtability and firmneſ, or
literally—that as it ſhould be, ſo it was
What was confidered to be the requiſite
degree of ſtability and firmneſs in the
ſyſtem of union and harmony between
Tippoo Sultaun and Omdut ul Omrah
QUESTIONS to be put to Mahomed Ghyauſe and to Mahomed
Ghauſe Khan.
When did you leave Seringapatam, for
the purpoſe of proceeding to Madras
When did you arrive at Madras :
What letters did you carry with you ?
How long did you remain at Madras;
How many letters did you write to
Tippoo Sultaun during your continuance
at Madras P -
What was the objećt of your miſſion
to Madras
Eid
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Did you receive your inſtrućtions from Vol. I.
Tippoo Sultaun in writing, or verbally —
State the ſubſtance of your inſtrućtions? . (Å.)
How often did you viſit the Nabob
Omdut ul. Omrah during your ſtay at
Madras P
How often did you viſit Kaudir Na-
wauz Khan 2 *...
How often did Kaudir Nawauz Khan
viſit you ? . -
(Produced and read Nº. 18.) Do you recolle&t writing the letter, of
- - which a copy is now produced
Relate all that paſſed between you and
Kaudir Nawauz Khan, during the viſit
mentioned in this letter
(Produced and read Nº. 19.) : Do you recollect writing the letter, of
- which a copy is now produced ; .
Relate all that paſſed between you and
Omdut ul Omrah, in the interview men-
tioned in this letter P -Z
You ſay in this letter, that in your laſt
viſit to Omdut ul Omrah you retired to
a private place with him, where Omdut
ul Omrah expatiated during two hours,
with great warmth, upon the ſubječt of
union and friendſhip ; relate what Omdut
ul Omrah communicated to you on this
occaſion :
What letters did you carry with you on
your return to Seringapatam : r
What verbal meſſage did you receive
in charge from Gindut ul Omrah to
Tippoo Sultaun ? -
What verbal meſſage did you receive
in charge from Kaudir Nawauz Khan to
Tippoo Sultaun, or to any other perſon
at Setingapatam :
Did you carry letters from Kaudir
Nawauz Khan to Tippoo Sultaun, to
Gholam Ali Khan, and to Alli Reza P
Were not you the bearer of the letter
from Kaudir Nawauz Khan to Gholam
Ali Khan, of which a copy is now pro-
duced ; -
(Produced and read Nº. 21.) - Were you not the bearer of a letter
from Omdut ul Omrah to Gholam Ali
. Khan - - :
(Produced and read Nº 20.) Omdut ul Omrah, in a letter to Gholam `
Ali Khan, writes, that he (G. A. K.)
sº would become acquainted with certain
circumſtances, from the communication
of Mahoºned Ghyauſe Khan and Ma-
homed Ghouſe Khan ; what were the cir-
cumſtances alluded to in this paſſage 2
How ſoon after your return to Serin-
gapatam did you ſee Gholam Ali Khan?
When did you communicate to Gholam
Ali Khan the circumſtances which you
- - - Were
tº .
28
P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O THE
Vol. H.
(A.)
were charged to communicate to him by
Omdur ul Omrah, and by Kaudir Nawauz
Khān P
Queſtion to be put to all the witneſſes, Was the intercourſe which had been
and to be preſſed upon them in every eſtabliſhed between Tippoo Suitaun and
poſſible form ; Omdut ul Omrah, continued by letter, or
otherwiſe, during the continuance, or ini-
mediately previous to the commence-
ment of the late war :
(True Copy.)
'. (Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief Secº to Goyº.
Extraćt of a L E T T E R from Marquis Weſleſley to the Secret
Committee; dated 9th June 1860. - .*
Par. 23. --MY diſpatchin Council to your Honourable Committee, dated the 23d of
April laſt, will have brought under your view various important documents relative to
a perfidious and dangerous correſpondence which ſubſiſted between Tippoo Sultaun and
the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdutul Omrah. The propoſed examination announced
in that diſpatch has ſince taken place, but not to the extent, or exačtly in the manner
deſired. It was found that ſome of the perſons propoſed to be examined were dead,
or placed beyond the immediate reach of the Commiſſioners. Notwithſtanding the
inſufficiency of the examination, and the groſs prevarication and manifeſt falſehood of
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ſome of thoſe examined, evidence has appeared to ſatisfy my judgment, that an intrigue
of a nature hoſtile to the Britiſh Intereſts, had been carried on between Tippoc Sui-
taun, Wallajab, and Omdut ul Omrah ; it is alſo incontrovertibly eſtabliſhed, that
Omdut ul Omrah employed or framed, with a view to employ in his correſpondence
with the late Tippoo Sultaun, the cypher, a copy of which has been aiready tranſmitted
to your Honourable Committee. It appears that Omdut ul Omrah carried on ſuch
a correſpondence with Tippoo Sultaun, ſubſequently to the death of the Nabob
Wallajah, His concern, however, in ſuch a correſpondence during the lifetime of his
father, conſtitutes, according to a fair and reaſonable conſtruction of the ſpirit of the
aijiance between the Company and the Nabob of the Carnatic, a violation of the treaty
of 1792, for which he is no leſs reſponſible (confidering the ſhare which he exerciſed
in the direétion of his Father's Government) than he would have been for the ſame
condućt, if purſued during his own immediate Adminiſtration.
24. My attention is now direéted to the , meaſures proper to be adopted with
reſpect to the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, under the view in which his criminality is
placed by the oral evidence collečted. I am aiready ſatisfied that a due regard for
our ſafety, renders it indiſpenſably neceſſary that we ſhould obtain ſome more certain
pledges of the fidelity of Omdut ul Omrah that we now poſſeſs; the preciſe nature
or extent of the additional ſecurity to be demanded from hiº, will be arranged between
Lord Clive and me ; and I will adviſe your Honourable Committee of the reſult.
Extraćt of a LETTER from the Secret Committee to the Governmen
of Bengal, dated 4th December 1800, communicated to the Court of
Directors, with the permiſſion of the Right Honourable the Commiſ-
ſioners for the Affairs of India.
IN this diſpatch, we are referred to the Governor General’s Inſtrućtions to the
Governor of Madras of the 7th of April, on the ſubjećt of certain papers found in the
palace of Seringapatam, of a tendency to create the moſt alarming ſuſpicions, that
both the late and preſent Nabob of the Carnatic had been engaged in a correſpondence
with the late Sovereign of Myſore, with views utterly incompatible with their political
engagements as Allies of the Company, and with their relative ſituation, as living
under the Company’s immediate protećtion. Although the examination which took
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place in conſequence of thoſe inſtrućtions did not go to the expected extent, we have Vol. I.
inevertheleſs been informed, in Lord Welleſley's diſpatch of the 9th June laſt, that
evidence has appeared to ſatisfy his Lordſhip’s judgment, that an intrigue of a nature (A.)
hoſtile to the Britiſh Intereſts, had been carried on between Tippoo Sultaun, Walla-
jah, and Omdut ul Omrah ; of the degree of criminality on the part of the latter, ſub-
ſtantiated by the late examination, we are unable to judge, the examination not having
been yet tranſmitted to us. But as the Governor General has declared himſelf ſatis-
fied by the oral evidence which has been colle&ted reſpećting Omdut ul Omrah, that
a due regard for the Company’s ſafety renders it indiſpenſably neceſſary, that ſome
more certain pledges of his fidelity ſhould be obtained than we now poſſeſs, we have
no heſitation in expreſſing our entire approbation of his Lordſhip's intention to de-
mand from the Nabob the -additional ſecurity required, of the nature of which, and
of the ſubſequent arrangements, we feel no ſmall degree of ſolicitude to be adviſed.
The proceedings which have hitherto been reported to us upon this important ſubjećt
we entirely approve. . -
Several circumſtances might be urged, in addition to what is ſtated in the 2d Para.
of the before-mentioned Inſtrućtions to Lord Clive, to ſtrengthen the doubts which
have been entertained of the Nabob's fidelity to the fundamental principle of his en-
gagements with the Company, of which, one of the moſt ſtriking at this moment oc-
curs to our recollečtion. When in the year 1796, the Nabob, after repeated ſolici-
tation, reluctantly yielded to your applications for putting the Company’s troops in
poſſeſſion of the Fort of Chandernaghery, which by the treaty of 1792, of right be-
longed to the Company; the officer, who took charge of the fort, found that the
ordnance and ſtores appertaining to it had been previouſly removed by the order of
the Nabob, to a village in the vicinity, thus leaving it quite deſtitute of all defence, and
the guns and ſtores requiſite for its ſafety expoſed to the moſt imminent danger of
falling into an enemy's hands upon the firſt invaſion of the Carnatic. A more decided
inſtance of diſaffe&tion towards the Company, can ſcarcely be imagined.
[The Letter from the Governor in Council at Fort St. George to the Secret Com-
mittee of the Court of Direčiors, dated 3d Auguſt 1801, ſhould be inſerted
in this place. A copy of it has already been laid before the Honourable Houſe
of Commons, and will be found in the printed Papers, before referred to ;
folios 77 to 82.] - . . . -
To the Honourable the Chairman of the Court of Direétors.
Honourable Sir,
The Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah having judged it to be proper for him to addreſs
letters to His Majeſty, to His Royal Highneſs the Prince of Wales, to the Honour-
able Court of Directors, and to the Marquis Cornwallis, on the occaſion of his
elevation to the Muſnud of his anceſtors, has requeſted me to tranſmit them by the
preſent diſpatch. I have accordingly the honour to incloſe them, agreeably to his
Highneſs's deſire; and to convey to you his Highneſs's farther requeſt, that the letter
addreſſed to His Majeſty, and the Prince of Wales, may be conveyed to them with
the cuſtomary circumſtances of reſpect. •
Fort St. George, I have the honour to be, &c. .
I Ith Auguſt 186 I. - (Signed) Clive.
Tranſlation of a LETTER to His Moſt Excellent Majeſty the King
of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c. from his Highneſs the Nawaub Azeem
ul Dowlah Bahadur. .
On the 15th July 1801 my reſpected Uncle departed from the ſtage of this
tranſitory life to the world of eternal duration ; in conſequence of which event your
Majeſty's Repreſentatives, that is to ſay, the Governor in Council of Madras, in
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Vol. I. virtue of my right of inheritance derived from my grandfather and father, were
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right as heir, in the Muſnud of the Government of the Carnatic.
pleaſed to inſtate me in the Muſnud of the governing the Carnatic.
I offer my gratitude and acknowledgment to your Majeſty's Governors, and con-
ſider myſelf by heart and ſoul pledged to your toyal favour.
I hope that your Majeſty's protestion and Royal regard will in every reſpect be
beſtowed upon me, as it was on my venerable Grandfather. r
(A true tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
* P" Tº to Government.
Tranſlation of a LE T T E R to his Royal Higneſs the Prince of Wales,
from his Highneſs the Nawab Uzim ul Dowlah Bahadar.
(After compliments.)
In conſequence of the death of my late reſpected uncle, the Nawab Omdut ul
Omra Bahadar, the Governor in Council of Madras inſtated me, in virtue of my
I make offer of my gratitude to your Royal Highneſs upon this occaſion, and
requeſt to be honoured by your Royal Highneſs's recommendation of me to His
illuſtrious Majeſty the King of Great Britain.
I truſt that your Royal Highneſs will alſo honour me always with your own
gracious regard. - -
(A true tranſlation.) - -
- (Signed) A. Falcomar, --
P" Tº to Government.
Tranſlation of a LETTER from his Highneſs the Nawab Azim ul
Dowlah Bahadar to the Honourable Court of Directors, &c. &c. &c.
After the demiſe of my late reſpected Uncle, which happened on the 15th July
1801, the Repreſentatives of your Hononrable Court, that is to ſay, the Governor
in Council of Madras, inſtated me in the Muſnud of the Government of my
anceſtors: it is with pleaſure that I offer my graneful acknowledgments to your
Honourable Court. I remain ſtaunch and ſtedfaſt, by all means, in the ſafe path of
friendſhip and fidelity, and truſt that your Honourable Court will always honour
me with your cordial friendſhip, in the ſame manner that you beſtowed it upon my
anceſtors. -
I refer your Honourable Court for further particulars to the diſpatches of the
Right Honourable Lord Clive.
(A true tranſlation.)
. (Signed) A. Falcomar, -
P" T' to Government.
AF FAIRs of THE CARN AT I C.
4;
(B.)
E N C L OS U R E S in the Secret Letter from Fort St. George, of the
g . . 3d Auguſt 1801,
Copy of an Official LETTER from the Governor General, with two
Encloſures, - - -
(Official, N° 17.)
To the Right Honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
(Secret.) Fort St. George.
My Lord,
A further examination of the papers found at Seringapatam has led to the diſco.
very of another letter from Tippoo Sultaun, Gholam Ally, and Ali Rezza; and of
one from the latter to their Maſter. Copies and tranſlations of ſuch parts of
theſe letters as relate to the ſecret intercourſe which ſubſiſted between Tippoo
Sultaun and the Nawaub Wallajah, are incloſed for your Lordſhip's information.
I have the honour to be,
Fort William, &c. &c. &c.
May 7th 1800, . . - (Signed) Mornington,
By the Right Honourable the Governor General.
(Signed) W" Kirkpatrick,
Secº to Gov" in Secº & Po' Dep".
In (B.) i
Extraćt from a LET T E R from Tippoo Sultaun to Ghoolaum Ally
Khaun. and Ally Rezza Khan; dated 12th July 1792. .
You write, that Wallajah Bahadur ſent Mahammud Abdoolla Khaun, a perſon
of reſpe&tability and rank, and Mahammud Jawied Khaun, an eunuch, on the pre-
ceding day, with a ſmall box, containing a time-piece, and a European cage for
parrots, and a meſſage to this effeót: “That Almighty God and the Prophet were
“ witneſs, that he (Wallajah) conſidered them, more dear to him than his own
“ children; and that they might be aſſured, that if his life and property could be of
“ any ſervice to them, he would devote and ſacrifice them to their intereſts; that
“ they might conſider him as devoted to them and to me whom he terms the Pillar
“ of Religion); and that, pleaſe God l his friendſhip would now be made manifeſt
“ to them and to me; that they ſhould never conſider him otherwiſe than as attached
“ to them, and praying for their welfare.” This I comprehend. You will continue
to communicate to the Nawaub Wallajah every poſſible expreſſion of friendſhip,
attachment, and regard; you will tell him, that he is wife, and attached to the Faith,
and that the preſervation of the religion of Mahammud in that quarter entirely
depends upon him; and that it is incumbent upon him to ſuggeſt whatever points
may be calculated to promote the increaſe of friendſhip, and the permanence of the
Mahomedan religion; that you (Vakeels) are ready with your hearts and ſouls :
that, agreeably to the commands of God, it is proper that all Muſſulmen ſhould
unite in obeying the holy words; and that he (the Nawaub) ſhould ſpeak whatever
he may have to ſay, without apprehenſion. In ſhort, repreſent füch points of friend-
ſhip as there may be to ſtate, and write me all particulars. You will preſs theſe
points, for the moſt part, perſonally; and having aſcertained his real intentions,
inform me of them. --- -
Further Extraćt.
The circumſtance of the Nawaub Wallajah's coming to viſit the Princes, and the
latter's going to call upon the Nawaub, I have underſtood. You are prudent, and
will continue to carry into effect whatever meaſures may be ſuitable to the occaſion.
I have alſo underſtood the ſentiments of friendſhip which the Nawaub Wallajah
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him, in a proper manner, the expediency of friendſhip and union among the fol-
lowers of Iſlaaum; and having aſcertained his intentions, communicate them to me.
- (True tranſlations.) *
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
- Perſian Trans' to the Gov".
(A true copy.) .
(Signed) }. Webbe, -
Chief SecY to Gov".
In (B.)
Extraćt from a LETTER from Ghoolaum Alli Khaun, and Alli Rezza
Khaun to Tippo Sultaun—without date. -- .
In the month of Zihejech he gave us an entertainment, and ſent us a moſt
fumptuous dinner. He conſtantly ſends Mohummud Abdoolla Khaun (Kauder
Newauz Khaun) at the interval of five and ſix days, to enquire after the health of the
Princes. On one occaſion he ſent a meſſage to the following purport; That from a
parity of age, and by virtue of the traditional ſaying, that all Muſſulmen are brothers,
there had ſubſiſted a fraternal attachment between him and his Highneſs (meaning
Hyder Ally) and that he conſequently conſidered your Majeſty's ſons as his own:
that God was witneſs, he regarded himſelf as their ſervants; that he had before
expreſſed ſeveral friendly ſentiments towards your Majeſty; which we would no
doubt have communicated to your Majeſty that we would inform him of the
anſwer when it ſhould arrive: that under the teſtimony of God! he declared he
was devoted to your Majeſty, and offered up his prayers for your welfare.
(A true tranſlation) -. *
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
- Perſian Trans' to the Gov".
(A true Copy) - *
(Signed) J. Webbe. -
Chief Secretary to Government.
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t Official, N° 19. - - .
Copy of an Official LETTE R from the Governor General to Lord
Clive, I Ith May 180o. (two Encloſures.) :
To the Right Honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c. Fort Saint George.
My Lord, . *
I have the honour to tranſmit to your Lordſhip a paper, which may contribute
to illuſtrate the charaćter and views of the late Wallajah, and may be conneéted
in ſome meaſure with the enquiry now in progreſs, relative to the ſecret cor-
reſpondence which ſubſiſted between the late Tippoo Sultaun and the Nabob of
the Carnatic. -
The Paper is a tranſlation of a letter to Hyder Ally Khan, from his Agent at
Madras dated in 1773. I have added a memorandum on the contents of this
curious document, drawn up by Mr. Edmonſtone, the Perſian Tranſlator of this
Government. º
Fort William, I have the honour to be, my Lord, with great eſteem,
It thivſa rºo Your Lordſhip's faithful Servant,
- cł ~/\-) • * - Y- & . .
y 180C (Signed) Mornington.
By the Right Honourable the Governor General.
d ..º. (Signed) Wm. Kirkpatrick.
- Sec’ to Gov".
[Here follows the Tranſlation of a Letter from Mahamed Ozmaum—which is
contained in folios 122 & 124 of the printed papers before referred to.)
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A FFA Î R S OF T H E C A R N AT I C.
N° 2, in (C.)
M E M O R A N D U M of the Perſian Tranſlator on the contents of the
preceding letter from Hyder Ally's Vakeel, in 1773.
Among the records of Seringapatam has been found a moſt curious, intereſting,
and important ſeries of letters from Mohummud Oſmaun, Hyder Ally's Vakeel at
Madras, in the years 1771–2, and 3, to his employer, diſcloſing a ſcene of political
intrigue between him and the Nabob of Arcot particularly illuſtrative of the views
and diſpoſition of the latter, and furniſhing a clue to his condućt in the tranſačtions
which took place between him and the Britiſh Government, not only at that period,
but during the whole courſe of his conneétion with the Britiſh power, aſſuming as a
leading principle, what will appear ſufficiently evident on an examination of theſe,
documents, and a review of the Nabob's general condućt, that he aimed at abſolute
independence, and that he felt as a grievance the ſuperiority of the Engliſh Power,
and his dependence upon it. It will be found that he was guided on his projećts of
alliance, and in his general ſyſtem of condućt, by that principle, and that he ſought a
conneétion with this or that Power, as appeared moſt conducive to this ultimate.
objećt of ambition. The circumſtances however, the moſt important, which are
diſcloſed by the documents adverted to, is the intimate conneétion which he appears
to have formed with Hyder Alli, at a time when he was ſuppoſed by the Britiſh
Government to entertain the moſt inveterate animoſity againſt him. The riſe and pro-
greſs of this connečtion is to be traced in the letters of Mohummud Oſmaun, which
are very voluminous ; but the nature and tendency of it, is ſufficiently developed by
the accompanying tranſlation of one of them, dated in 1773, relating the ſubſtance of
private conference between him and the Nabob, in which the latter is repreſented to
have expreſſed his attachment to Hyder Ally, and his diſpoſition to conneét himſelf
with that Prince by ties of common intereſt, in terms as forcible as language can
convey : terms not only incompatible with the faith of his alliance with the
Britiſh Nation, but indicating and implying a deſire for the ſubverſion of the
Britiſh Power in India, and an anxious wiſh to eſtabliſh his own independence upon
the ruins of it. — The whole of the Nabob's converſation is in this ſpirit, but ſome
paſſages of it deſerve particular remark. -
Mohumnud Oſmaun writes, “ The Nabob, taking me by the hand, led me to
“ the top of the houſe, where there was a room from whence the beautiful proſpect
of the ſea, Fort Saint George, &c., like a plain appearing to our view; he re-
marked what a beautiful ſpot it was ; and added, May Almighty God ſoon produce
“ a cauſe from which the Nabob Hyder Alli and I ſhall be enabled here to
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“ ſubſiſt between us ſo firm, as that both our countries ſhould be one. Your Maſter
may make many friends, and doubtleſs, with but ſuch a friend as I am, he never
can acquire—I am that friend, who, if he (which God prevent) ſhould require the
ſacrifice of my child, as a means of promoting his proſperity and dominion, would,
“ looking upon this as the greateſt bleſſing in the world, moſt willingly deliver up my
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“that our children after us may be united in the bonds of affection and of love.” After
further expreſſions of a ſimiſar nature, Mobum mud Oſmaun ſtates himſelf to have
reproached the Nabob with refuſing his aſſiſtance to Hyder in the war he had been
engaged in with the Mahratras, whom he terms evil-minded, and wickedly diſ-
poſed.—The Nabob is ſaid to have replied, “That he had the ſame opinion of the
Mahrattas, and that is was with the view to extirpate them that he was anxious
to eſtabliſh friendſhip and an alliance with Hyder Aili; that in future (he adds)
whatever we may do, may be concerted and engaged in with one heart and tongue,
whether, to make war or peace, becauſe hitherto he (Hyder) has not in the firſt
inſtance trade application to me, nor communicated with me upon a ſubjećt. When
he attacked the Europeans, and made peace with the Engliſh, who are my ſervants,
175. - K : it
ſit and enjoy ourſelves together.” Again : “It is neceſſary that a friendſhip ſhould
offspring to him.–It is my with to eſtabliſh ſuch a friendſhip with your Maſter,
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it depended “ upon my conſent (to conclude it): I was the Prince and owner of the
country, and was at no great diſtance from the ſcene ; but not a word, not a ſen-
tence, not even a man did he think proper to fend to me.—Hence I could not
but conclude that he wiſhed not to be in amity and friendſhip with me, and con-
ſequently what ought I to have to do with his other wars and pacifications.”
What judgment may be formed from the foregoing, of the reality of the Nabob's
attachment to the intereſt of the Engliſh, and of his ſolicitude for their ſucceſs in
the war (which terminated in 1769) it is evident that he wiſhed to impreſs Hyder
with a belief that he was neutral in the cauſe ; that Hyder ought not to have con-
ſidered himſelf at war with the Nabob becauſe he was at war with the Engliſh, but
that he ought to have conſidered him as a totally independent power, and to have
made him the Mediator of a Peace, as not being a party in the war, and as being
diſpoſed to be on terms of perfect friendſhip with him. Were theſe ſentiments con-
ſiſtent with the nature of the Nabob's connections with the Engliſh Were they
compatible with the aid which the Britiſh Government had a right to expect from
him And did they not point out to Hyder Alli the neutrality, if not the affiſt-
ance, which he might expect from the Nabob in a future war with the Engliſh 2–
The Nabob proceeds to ſay: “But let us totally forget the paſt; and if the Nabob
“ Hyder Alli Khaun ſhould conceive that nothing, or no advantage is to be gained
“ from my friendſhip, let him refle&t, that the moſt trifling degree of its advantage
“ is this, that of every year, whatever number of arms he may be able to purchaſe
“ and carry away from this quarter, he may do ſo without moleſtation; it is no leſs
a privilege than what he poſſeſſes in his own country?”—Such is the friendſhip,
ſuch the aſſiſtance which the Nabob proffers to a Prince, who, a few years ago,
had compelled the Engliſh to accede to his own terms of pacification at the gate
of Madras, and againſt whom he affects to entertain the moſt inveterate hatred
Mahommed Oſmaun further ſtates, “That the Nabob told me, (laughing at the ſame
“ time) that when your Highneſs came down upon the Engliſh, he was within his
‘ garden, where we were ; and ſent fundry anſwers to the letters which he received;
“ that the people told him, “ To-day the Engliſh Gentlemen are embarking upon:
“ a pilgrimage ;” (meaning, that they would all be cut off by Hyder) at which
“ humourous intelligence the Nabob was much pleaſed.” - .
The ſpirit of independence, and the deſire of emancipation from the controul o
the Engliſh which this letter exhibits on the part of the Nabob, was by no means
recent. A retroſpect to an account given by Mr. (now Sir John Macpherſon) of
his ſecret miſſion by the Nabob to England in the year 1768, will ſhow how
anxiouſly the Nabob deſired to emancipate himſelf from the grievance he felt (as
it is expreſſed in the Report of the Select. Committee of the Houſe of Commons
upon this ſubjećt in 1782) at the ſuperiority of the Britiſh Nation, and his depen-
dence on it; and that the objećt of his ambition was to raiſe himſelf to the ſtation
of Soubadar of the Decan. Among the comments made by the Select Committee
upon Mr. M'Pherſon's exertions to promote the Nabob's ambitious views, are the
following: “It was therefore highly reprehenſible in Mr. M'Pherſon, and per-
“ fečtly contrary to his duty as a Britiſh ſubječt, to inveſt and propagate in Europe,
“ and inſtill into the mind of his employer in India, a miſchievous and groundleſs
“ fićtion, by which an Officer of the Moghul, wholly upheld in his authority by
“ the ſtrength of this Nation, operating through the Company, was to be raiſed to
“ a rank equal with the Sovereign Powers in Europe, and to be conſidered as a
* Member of their general ſyſtem. By means of ſuch flattering deluſions, the
“ ambition of Mahommed Ally had been, before this invention, as well as ever
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“ ſince, ſtimulated to deſperate deſigns and enterprizes, which have diſturbed the
“ſpeace of India, and ſhaken the lawful Government of the Company at Madras;
* It is remarkable that the Government of Madras, in their comments upon the Treaty of Peace
concluded in 1769, expreſs an opinion, that the Nabob would rather ſuffer his whole country to be laid
waſte, and ſubmit to all the fatal conſequences ſo juſtly to be apprehended from proſecuting the war,
than conſent to a peace. Theſe ſentiments they aſcribe to his rooted enmity againſt Hyder.—Had
they been aware of his ambitious views, they might, perhaps, have aſcribed them to another cau.e.
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“ waſted his own revenue, and at length brought the power of Great Britain in
“ that part of the world to the verge of ruin." º
This ſhews the ſenſe which the Adminiſtration in England entertained of the
Nabob's views; and that thoſe views were incompatible with the faith of his alliance
with the Britiſh Nation, and, in their tendency and operation, ſubverſive of its
proſperity in India. The ſentiments reported by Mahommed Ofinaun, to have
been expreſſed by the Nabob, are evidently in the ſame ſpirit, and ſubjećt to the
ſame comments.
It is remarkable that the expreſſions alluded to are, in ſubſtance, almoſt the ſame
that he is ſtated to have made uſe of to Tippoo's Vakeels in 1792-3. If it be ad-
mitted that the political tranſactions ſubſequent to the year 1773, were of a nature to
increaſe the Nabob's dependence upon the Engliſh, to aggrandize that ſuperiority
which the Nabob long before felt as a grievance, to limit his abſolute authority over
his dominions, to abridge the extent of them, to occaſion heavy drains upon his Trea-
ſury, can it under theſe circumſtances be ſuppoſed that his deſire of independence and
emancipation was weakened . That he, who at a period when his authority and in-
dependence were comparatively much greater, ſtill aimed at more, and felt the reduc-
tion of the Britiſh Power to be eſſentially neceſſary to the ſucceſs of this view,
ſhould, under circumſtances of diminiſhed authority and independence, on his own
part, and of increaſed ſupremacy and controul on that of the Britiſh nation, aban-
don thoſe views 2 If not, would it be unjuſt to aſcribe to a rooted diſaffection, and to
{tudied deſign, the backwardneſs he manifeſted in the war, which commenced in
1780, to aſſiſt the exertions of the Madras Government by troops, by ſupplies, and
by money at that perilous period, a backwardneſs ſo loudly complained of at that
time Was it not rather in the ſpirit of his former ambition, and his more recently
expreſſed attachment to the Power with which the nation was then at war Might not
the lukewarm exertions, not to ſay the treachery of the Nabob's officers at that time,
be attributed to the operation of thoſe views and ſentiments? And finally, may not
this pre-eſtabliſhed diſpoſition of the Nabob, by a parity of argument, be ſuppoſed to
have adhered to him to ſo late a period as the war which terminated in 1792, and to
afford additional credit to the charges which have juſt been exhibited againſt him :
Conſiſtently with every rule of reaſoning upon the principles and paſſions of the human
mind, theſe queries can only be anſwered in the affirmative. {
It is not improbable, that a more minute examination of the condućt of the Nabob
in the courſe of his tranſačtions with the Britiſh Government, in the interval between
the years 1773 and 1790, may produce further indication of the views and ſentiments
aſcribed to him; and, from the ačtive part which the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah took in
the ſuppoſed treacherous negociations between his Father and Tippoo Sultaun, the
teſtimony which fixes the charge of treachery upon the Father muſt operate relatively
with reſpect to the Son. -
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
P. T. to the Goy'.
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R E PO R T of the Commiſſioners for condućting the Examinations at
Vellore and Seringapatam, 8th May 1801.
To the Right Honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
My Lord, -
We have the honour to inform your Lordſhip, that in conformity to your verbal
orders, we proceeded to Vellore, for the purpoſe of examining the perſons included
in the liſt tranſmitted to your Lordſhip by the Governor General.
The material evidence to be obtained on the ſubjećt of this enquiry being that of
*Gholam Aliy Khan, and Ally Rezza Khan, we are concerned that the reſidence of the
former being at Seringapatam, and that of the latter at Vellour, we were unable to
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Vol. I. complete their examination in the manner direéted by the Governor General; but we
have the ſatisfaction of beiieving, that by travelling poſt from Vellour to Seringapatam,
immediately after the evidence of Ally Rezza had been cloſed, we were enabled to
anticipate any communication between the two Vakeels. -
The information obtained by us being principally founded on the teſtimony of
Gholam Ally Khan and Ally Rezza, we think it neceſſary to apprize your Lordſhip,
that while we diſcovered in the latter an earneſt diſpoſition to develope the truth,
the former has endeavoured to defeat the objećt of the enquiry by the aſſertion of poſi-
tive falſehoods, and by perſiſting in a negligent indifference to the conſequences of
detection. - f -
As our obſervations on this report will be chiefly confined to the propoſed eſta-
bliſhment of friendſhip between the Nabobs Tippoo Sultan and Qmdut ul Omrah,
it may be uſeful to premiſe an explanation of ſome of the doubtful but leſs material
paſſages of the Correſpondence tranſmitted from Bengal. We have therefore the
honour to inform your Lordſhip, -
1 , 1. That the couplets, the receipt of which is acknowledged in the N° 2. and 3. of
the Correſpondence, as well as the expreſſion of “ the writing known of,” appear to
refer entirely to a cypher in figure, with which the Vakeels were furniſhed for the
tranſmiſſion of private intelligence ; the couplets contain a key to that cypher, and
are entered on our Proceedings. . . w
2. That the expreſſion of “the affair known of,” ſo frequently repeated in the
Correſpondence, appears to refer to the ſubject of a propoſed connection, by marriage,
between the families of Tippoo Sultan and the Nabob Walajah; and although the ge-
neral teſtimony concurs in the fact, the mode in which the propoſal of this purpoſe
originated is variouſly deſcribed. -
3. That Ally Rezza acknowledges the intention of his exhortation at the Jummah
Moſque in Madras, was, to have detached the Muſſulmans from their allegiance to the
Company ; but that the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah was not preſent at this ceremony.
The younger ſons of the Nabob Walajah did, however, attend the Moſque on that
occaſion; and Ally Rezza underſtood that the Cauzy had made a report on the ſubjećt
to the Nabob Wallajah himſelf. - -
4. That Alli Rezza acknowledged, without any heſitation, the means taken by
the Vakeels to obtain information reſpecting the works of Fort St. George, and the
tranſmiſſion of a particular deſcription of them to the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, but
that Gholam Ally denies any knowledge of this fačt whatever; at the ſame Time
that he has repeatedly informed us, that the letters of the Vakeels were always
jointly addreſſed to Tippoo Sultaun. .
5. Although ſome allowance ſhould be made for the exaggeration of the two Va-
keels, in reporting to their maſter the verbal communications of the Nabobs Wallajah
and Omdut ul Omrah, it is ſufficiently obvious that the warmth of expreſſion at-
tributed to thoſe perſonages far exceeds the ordinary intercourſe of civility. Gholam
Ally Khan, however, generally aſcribes theſe expreſſions to form ; but although
Ally Rezza ſtates the Vakeels to have exaggerated the expreſſions of the Nabobs
Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah, he yet aſſerts, that the ſubſtance of the ſentiments
thus deſcribed was ačtually contained in their communications.
6. The foundation thus laid in general expreſſions, appears to have been intended
to ſupport a communication of a more intimate nature; and we accordingly find
that the ſecret meetings at the Moſque and in the garden, deſcribed in the Papers
N° 14, and 15. of the Correſpondence, have been authenticated by the teſtimony
of both the Vakeels. - g -
7. Your Lordſhip will obſerve, that this part of the enquiry was preſſed with
great earneſtneſs on Alli Rezza, from whom alone the truth could be expected;
but his teſtimony is deficient, becauſe a ſeparate converſation was held on both oc-
caſions between Gholam Ally Khan and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah. Gholam
Ally Khan has confeſſed theſe ſeparate converſations between himſelf and his High-
neſs the Nabob; but pertinaciouſly confined his explanation of the ſubjećt of them
to the propoſed conneétion by marriage. -- * -
8. Both the Vakeels have aſcribed the objećt of theſe meetings to the propoſed
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conne&tion by marriage; but the numerous inconſiſtencies involved in this expla-
nation, forbid our conſidering it, to have been the only ſubjećt of diſcuſſion on the
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occaſion deſcribed. -
. Ally Rezza aſſerts, that the firſt intimation which was made to him on the
ſubjećt of the marriage, was by Tippoo Sultaun himſelf, at his (Aliy Rezza's)
return from Seringapatam to Madras; on the other hand, Gholām Ally Khan de-
ſcribes the queſtion to have originated with himſelf, with Tippoo Sultaun, and the
Nabob Wallajah. -
ro. We are aware of the general delicacy obſerved in the communication of a pro-
poſed marriage between Muſſulmen families, and have, on this ground, given due con-
fideration to the incongruous ſtatements of the Vakeels with reſpect to this affair; but
it is impoſſible to believe that the Nabobs W alajah and Omdut ul Omrah could be
ſerious in doubting the diſpoſition of Tippoo Sultaun to receive a propoſition of fimple
friendſhip, at the ſame time that a propoſal of marriage, with the acknowledged con-
currence of both parties, was in agitation between them ; for, either the propoſition
muſt have extended beyond a ſimple friendſhip the doubt is unreaſonable, and we ac-
cordingly rejećt this ſolution becauſe the propoſition of fimple friendſhip appears
to have been made without any reſerve or ſuſpicion at ſome of the earlieſt interviews
between the Vakeels and the Nabobs Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah. -
11. If the propoſition of marriage originated with Gholaum Ally, or with the
Nabob Walajah, or with Omdut ul Omrah (according to Gholaum Ally’s decla-
ration) it is evident that it muſt have been communicated to Tippoo Sultaun by
writing, and without the exačtion of any ſecrecy; the ſubſequent injunétions againſt
committing to writing what had been already written, and the oath not to divulge
what had been already ſtated to Tippoo Sultaun, are utterly inconſiſtent with the
preceding part of this tranſačtion. If, on the other hand, the propoſal of marriage
was made (according to Alli Rezza) by Tippoo Sultaun himſelf, it is manifeſt that
the whole delicacy of the queſtion reſted with the Sultaun; and Omdut ul Omrah
could therefore have no reaſon for requiring this extraordinary degree of ſecrecy:
becauſe, if the Nabob Walajah had accepted the propoſal, the affair was to have
been concluded with the knowledge of the Britiſh Government; and if the propoſal
had been rejećted, Omdut ul Omrah could have no grounds for exačting ſo ſolemn
an obſervance of ſecrecy in an affair in which the Vakeels had received the inſtruc-
tions of their own Sovereign to communicate their progreſs in writing.
12. Whatever may have been the origin of the propoſal of marriage, it is evident
that the firſt communication on the ſubjećt muſt have been previous to the meetings
at the garden and in the Moſque ; and if the firſt communication, in which conſiſted
the whole:Queſtion of delicacy, was aétually made in the uſual courſe of communi-
cation between the Vakeels and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, it is manifeſt that
ſecret and ſurreptitious meetings for condućting the negociation afterwards were un-
neceſſary; becauſe it appears from the declaration of the Vakeels, and is a notori-
ous fact, that there was no reſtraint in the communication between them and the
Nabobs Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah. It is to be preſumed, therefore, that the
anxiety of Omdut ul Omrah to preſerve ſecrecy muſt have been proportionate to his
own feelings of the part he was ačting; and it is unreaſonable to refer that anxiety
to a cauſe which originally produced no ſimilar effect.
13. It cannot therefore be doubted, that as the expreſſions of friendſhip on the part
of the Nabobs Walajah and Omdut ul. Omrah were more warm and glaring than
could be juſtified by the relations in which they ſtood to Tippoo Sultan, or by the
figurative compliments of Eaſtern manners, to the ſerious and ſolemn preparation
by Omdut ul Omrah for the communication of his ſentiments, was ſuperfluous for a
mere propoſition of ſimple friendſhip.
14. It appears accordingly, that,the means of communication between Tippoo
Sultan and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah was ſecured in a manner adequate to its
importance, by the eſtabliſhment of a cypher; a cypher not confined to any domeſtic
arrangements, but capable of being extended by general political ſubjećts. If there-
fore, the inconſiſtencies already ſtated did not contain ſufficient evidence againſt the
ſolution given by the Vakeels of the Nabob Omdut ul Qinrah's converſation, this
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pendently of its being too comprehenſive for the ſuppoſed purpoſe, it is manifeſt either
that as the firſt principal communication had paſſed without more than the uſual
obſervance of ſecrecy, there could have been no cauſe for adopting a cypher at that
period of the negociation at which the cypher, N° 6. appears to have been introduced;
or that if the cypher, N° 6. was ačtually compoſed for communication on the ſubjećt of
marriage; the injunctions againſt committing that ſubjećt to writing are prepoſterous
and abſurd. - r *
15. On the produćtion of the cypher, N° 6. Ally Rezza at once acknowledged it,
and informed us, that the original had been delivered by Kadier Nawar Khan to Gholam
Ally Khan, and by the latter to him (Ally Rezza) for the purpoſe of being conveyed to
Tippoo Sultaun at the time of his departure from Madras, to communicate the propo-
ſitions of Lord Cornwallis. The intention (according to Ally Rezza) was, that
Tippoo Sultan ſhould take a copy of it, and return the original, which however was
not done; and this accounts for the original paper having fallen into our hands, which
muſt have been tranſmitted to Tippoo Sultan in an authentic form, in order to obtain
his confidence in the propoſed mode of ſecret communication.
16. Gholam Ally Khan, on firſt ſeeing the paper, abſolutely denied any knowledge
of it; an aſſertion in which he has perſiſted with the utmoſt degree of effrontery, and
with the moſt callous indifference to the dedućtion of his falſifications.
17. We think it neceſſary to apprize your Lordſhip in this place, that the examina-
tion of Gholam Ally Khan commenced with the moſt artful affectation on his part of
imbecility and dotage, and this feigned condition was ſo well aſſumed, as, joined to his
own age and infirmities, was well calculated to elude the enquiry ; but the unexpečted
produćtion of the paper Nº. 6. threw him off his guard, and involved him in ſo much
perplexity before he recovered his compoſure, as to eſtabliſh ſufficient proof of his
acquaintance with the uſe of the cypher: your Lordſhip will, however, obſerve from
this part of the examination, that be endeavoured to receive this diſcovery by the moſt
barefaced and unqualified provocation. -
18. By reference to the examination of Ally Rezza, your Lordſhip will obſerve
that we have preſſedupon him, as forcibly as poſſible, the inconſiſtency between the
meaſures adopted to preſerve ſecrecy, and the end to be obtained by it, according to
his explanation of the tranſaction. Ally Rezza had no heſitation in acknowledging
this very marked inconſiſtency, but was unable to give any better explanation of the
true objećts of theſe private meetings. He has, however, relieved himſelf from the
burthen of a more ſatisfačtory explanation, by referring to the ſeparate and ſecret
communication between Omdut ul Omrah and Gholam Ally Khan, to which he had
not acceſs.
19. Gholam Ally Khan has acknowledged the ſeparate converſations at thoſe meet-
ings, which had been ſecretly contrived by Omdut ul Omrah, but has perſiſted in
withholding any ſatisfaitory account of thoſe converſations at the expence of his ve-
racity and common decency. -
20. On theſe grounds, we have no doubt that the ſecret propoſitions of Omdut
ul Omrah were diſtinét from the propoſed conneétion by marriage ; and it is evident
by the letter from Tippoo Sultaun, N° 13. of the Correſpondence, that he confidered
them to be diſtinčt ſubjects; for he direčts the Vakeels to inform him, “both of the
“ propoſition of Omdut ul Omrah, and the progreſs of the affair known of.” It is
impoſſible, therefore, that the propoſed conneétion by marriage may have been uſed
as an additional means of concealing the true objećt of theſe ſecret meetings, even
from Ally Rezza, and that the real intentions of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah are
confined to himſelf and to Gholam Aily Khan. * -
21. Although the obſtinacy of Gholam Ally Khan has defeated our endeavour to
diſcover thoſe intentions, it is manifeſt that his ſtudious concealment of the truth has
given an importance to theſe ſecret communications, which could not have been de-
rived from the inconſiſtencies already noticed, and even from the introdućtion of the
comprehenſive cypher, N° 6. We are concerned that this part of our enquiry has
failed of ſucceſs; but we truſt that your Lordſhip will be ſatisfied, that no endeavour
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has been omitted to develope the truth ; and we ſubmit to your Lordſhip's confidera- Vol. I.
tion the condućt of Gholam Ally Khan on his reſponſibility to the Company.
22. The two Vakeels, Gholam Ally Khan and Ally Rezza, appear to have fallen
under the diſpleaſure of Tippoo Sultaun in a ſhort time after their return from Madras,
and never to have been re-admitted to his confidence. We have therefore been un-
able to trace, through their means, the progreſs of the ſecret communications of
Omdut ul Omrah; but there is no reaſon to believe that they were not revived after
the confinement of Gholam Ally Khan.
23. With reſpećt to the Letters N° 17, and 20. of the Correſpondence, which ap-
pear to have been written ſubſequently to that period, it appears that Tippoo Sultaun
had ſent for the ſignet of Gholam Ally Khan at the time of his deputing Mahomed
Ghyans and Mahomed Ghyans Khan to Madras, and that Gholam Ally Khan was un-
acquainted with the letters ſent in his name to Omdut ul Omrah, or with the anſwers
received from that Prince. -.
24. The probability of this fačt is confirmed by the teſtimony of Hubbeeb Otta,
who informed us, that it was a practice with the late Sultaun to uſe the ſeals of indi-
viduals in writing letters, the contents of which were unknown to themſelves. As
Tippoo Sultaun, however, appears to have ſent for the ſeal of Gholam Ally but once
during his confinement, we conſider this to be an unſatisfactory explanation, on
account of the great interval of two years and a half between the dates of the two
letters, N° 17. and 20. in the Correſpondence; and it is demonſtrable under the
prevarication of Gholam Alli Khan, reſpe&ting the letter of Kader Nawas Khan
(Nº 21. of the Correſpondence), that he might have received, and did receive, letters
from the Carnatic. .
25. We have been unable to examine Mahomed Ghyans and Mahomed Ghoſe
Khan, according to your Lordſhip's inſtrućtion; the former having retired to Cud-
dapah, and the reſidence of the latter being unknown. We are ſatisfied however,
from the concurrent teſtimony of Gholan Ally, Meer Suddoor, the Dewan Purniah,
and Hubbeeb Olla, that the embaſſy entruſted to them was merely a matter of
form on the death of the Nabob Walajah; and this information is much ſupported
by the charaćter of thoſe perſons who are not likely to have been entruſted with any
ſecret negociation. * - -
26. We have been unable to diſcover, by the ſpecimen tranſmitted from Bengal,
the writer either of the endorſement on Nº. 6. or of the letters N* 8, and 9. of the
Correſpondence : Seed Fakir ud Deen, who was ſuppoſed to be the writer of the
latter, was examined ; but ſome miſtake muſt have been made in identifying the
ſpecimen of this hand-writing tranſmitted from Bengal. !
27. Offud Anwar was killed during the ſtorm of Seringapatam, and Hubbeeb Olla
was not engaged in the ſervice of Tippoo Sultaun for ſome time after the releaſe of
the Hoſtages; at that period, Syed Fakir ud Deen was an Anzhezzy, and not ad-
mitted to the Councils of the Sultaun; and Mahomed Huſſan Koraiſhy was the ſame
perſon as is deſcribed to have been killed under the name of Mahomud Huſſain
Buntaoz. *
28. We examined Gholam Ally Meer Suddoor, the Dewan Purniah, and the
Moonſhey Hubbeeb Olla; but as their teſtimony did not eſtabliſh any fačt, we
thought it unneceſſary to record their evidence.
29. Theſe three perſons agreed, that an affair reſpecting a propoſed conneétion
by marriage between the families of Tippoo Sultaun and the Nabob Walajah had
been agitated; but ſpoke of it as a matter whiſpered in the Durbar at that time,
without being able to throw any farther light on the ſubjećt.
30. Theſe perſons alſo agreed, that no affair of moment had been agitated between
Tippoo Sultaun and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ſince the releaſe of the Hoſtages;
and they invariably concur in aſcribing to Tippoo Sultan a rooted contempt and a
diſtruſt of Omdut ul Omrah and his whole family.
31. The Dewan Pooniah informed us, that Tippoo Sultan had, on one occaſion,
verbally mentioned to him a deſire expreſſed by the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah to
obtain a place or eſtabliſhment within the dominions of the Sultan; but from the
general manner in which the ſubjećt was ſtated, as well as from the neglect with
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which the requeſt was treated by the Sultan, we have been unable to aſcertain
whether this diſpoſition to the propoſed interchange of territory mentioned by Ally
Rezza, for religious purpoſes, or to the wiſh expreſſed by Omdut ul Omrah, to be
ermitted to beſtow Jahgeers on the Hoſtages, and Munſaly on the Vakeels. But it
may be inferred, that both theſe points having been communicated to Ally Rezza,
neither of them could have been the ſubjećt of the ſecret communications between
Omdut ul Omrah and Gholam Ally Khan. *
32. We think it our duty to attract your Lordſhip's notice, in a particular manner,
to the explanation given by Gholam Ally Khan of the letter, N° o, of the Cor-
reſpondence. By that explanation it appears (as far as Gholam Ally Khan may be
credited) that the intention of the Nabob Wallajah, in communicating the meſſage
therein deſcribed, is preciſely that which is ſtated in the report of the Perſian
Tranſlator, with the farther ſuggeſtion of his Highneſs the Nabob Tippoo Sultan,
that he ſhould endeavour to conciliate the Succeſſor of Lord Cornwallis by corrupt
means; a ſuggeſtion by no means inconſiſtent with the principles of the Nabob
Walajah’s own Government. N. *.
33. We beg leave to acquaint your Lordſhip, that it was our intention to have
taken down, in the Perſian language, the evidence of the perfons examined ; but it
was manifeſt, from the firſt anſwers of Ally Rezza, that the enquiry was likely to
take a turn different from that which might have been expected from the importance
of the written documents with which we were furniſhed.
34. The examination of the two Vakeels have accordingly increaſed to ſuch a
bulk, as muſt have rendered this proceſs not only extremely laborious, but very
dilatory ; and as the teſtimony of the Vakeels has not been of that delicate nature
which might have been expe&ted, we have been induced to record the whole pro-
ceedings in the Engliſh language; but ſhall any time be ready to atteſt the authen-
ticity of our interpretation in the moſt ſolemn manner. - -
35. The preamble to the examination was tranſmitted, and committed to paper
in the hand-writing of Lieutenant-Colonel Cloſe, previouſly to the commencement
of Ally Rezza's evidence; ſome other points of the examination were alſo tranſlated
into the Perſian language, and the anſwers of the Vakeels, written by themſelves;
but from the flowneſs of this proceſs, as well as from the great difficulty of obtaining
intelligible anſwers from Gholam Ally Khan, we are ſatisfied that an adherence to
that mode would have protraćted the enquiry to a period extremely inconvenient to
the duties of our reſpective ſtations. -
We have the honour to be, with great reſpect,
My Lord, *
Your Lordſhip's moſt faithful Servants,
Seringapatam, - -> j. Webbe.
*8th May 1801. B. Cloſe.
(A true Copy.)
- (Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief SecY to Gov".
[Here follow the Examinations taken at Vellore and Seringapatam, which
accompanied the foregoing Report of the Commiſſioners, and are contained in
folios 94 to 121 of the printed Papers before referred to..]
(G.)
COPY of an Official Letter from Lord Clive to Governor General,
23d May 1800. -
To the Right Honourable the Earl of Mornington, K. P. Governor General.
My Lord, -
Your Lordſhip is already acquainted, by my private letters, with the means which
I adopted for condućting the examination directed in your Lordſhip's official º
N° 13.
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C. 4. I
N° 13. dated the 17th April; and I have now the honour to tranſmit, for your Lord- Vol. I.
ſhip's confideration, a copy of the Report of the Commiſſioners whom I appointed
to inveſtigate the ſubjećt. -- e
It is proper that I ſhould ſtate to your Lordſhip, that had the Commiſſioners
omitted their concluding remark on the evidence of Allr Rezza, I ſhould have been
ſtrongly diſpoſed to conſider him equally informed as his colleague of ail the ſecret
communications between the Nabobs Walajah, Omdut ul Omrah, and the late
Tippoo Sultan ; but as the Commiſſioners have preſſed on Alli Rezza the great in-
conſiſtencies in his evidence, I conclude this opinion to have ariſen more from the
manner in which his evidence was delivered, than from the matter it appears to con-
ain. I am inclined, therefore, to coincide in the impreſſion of his apparent wiſh to
diſcover his own knowledge of fačts, which the Commiſſioners have aſcribed to him
from a perſonal ſcrutiny of the whole ſcope of his countenance and manner; for if
Alli Rezza was really unacquainted with the whole of the communication be-
tween the Nabobs Omdut ul Omrah and Gholam Ali Khan, his ignorance might ac:
count for the inconſiſtencies which he acknowledges. But on the other hand, it is
material to obſerve, that a contrary ſuppoſition ſolves all thoſe inconſiſtencies, which
are inexplicable on the ſuppoſition of his having adhered to the truth. Let it be ſup-
poſed, as is perfeótly conſiſtent with probability, that the framing the cyphers and
concerting the agreements for a ſecret correſpondence, the parties had likewiſe provided
for the contingency of a dete&tion of the intercourſe ; that the tale of the matrimonial
conneétion was the explanation deviſed for the purpoſe of ſatisfying ſuſpicion, and
that the principal details of the Correſpondence were fabricated, ſo as to be eventually
referable to ſuch a conſtrućtion : this reaſonable hypotheſis will be found to remove
every difficulty in the ſolution of the whole ſeries of the documents. *
It will only remain to diſcover a poſſible motive for the obſtinate adherence of the
Vakeels, under their preſent circumſtances, to a condućt ſo inconſiſtent with their moſt
obvious intereſts, as to riſque the dete&tion of ſo important a falſehood. -
Under the irreſiſtable convićtion of the exiſtence of hoſtile deſigns on the part of
the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, ariſing from the combined conſiderations of the whole
ſubjećt, and more eſpecially from the unconteſted fact of his compoſition of the cypher,
and the ſpirit in which the Engliſh and their Allies are deſignated in that document,
it will be difficult to account for this condućt of the Vakeels, without the ſuppoſition
of ſome projećt of ſo atrocious a nature as to exclude the hope of pardon, even on
condition of diſcovery; and referring to ſuch a ſuppoſition, it is impoſſible to avoid the
recollečtion of the general belief and notoriety of a former projećt of the Ameer ul
Omrah to relieve himſelf and his family from the controling power of the Engliſh
Government by meaſures of the moſt deſperate extreme. -
Connecting (as I now do) the known ambition of the Nabob Mahomed Ali to
emancipate himſelf from our influence; his intercourſe at an early period with Hyder
Ali Khan for that purpoſe; the projećt of independence aimed at by his Highneſs's
favourite ſon, and Miniſter Ameer ul Omrah ; the revival of a ſimilar intercourſe be-
, tween the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah and Tippoo Sultan; and finally, the eſtabliſh-
ment of a ſecret mode of correſpondence between them, I refer to theſe cauſes the
ſolution of the warm expreſſions of attachment on the part of the Nabobs Walajah
and Omdut ul Omrah to the inveterate enemies of the Britiſh Empire, as well as of
the difficulties which have been invariably oppoſed by their Highneſs to the progreſs
of our arms againſt thoſe of the Houſe of Hyder Ali Khan. Aithough, therefore, the
particular object of the ſecret correſpondence eſtabliſhed by Omdut ul. Omrah has yet
eſcaped detection, I have no heſitation in aſcribing to his Highneſs a courſe of
ſyſtematized Councils, fundamentally hoſtile to the intereſt of Great Britain in India.-
This opinion is corroborated by the whole courſe of his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut
ul Omrah's Adminiſtration, by the determined obſtinacy which he has oppoſed to the
improvement of the Government of the country, and by his repeated violations of
the exiſting engagements by which he is bound to the Company. -
With this ſtrong evidence of internal treachery, and of open oppoſition to our in-
tereſts in the Carnatic, eſtabliſhed by Treaty, it is my deliberate opinion, that a farther
. adherence to the letter of the Treaty of 1792, while the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah has
* A 75- - - ſy, . been,
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been and is now perfidiouſly betraying the ſpirit and ſubſtance of the alliance between:
himſelf and the Company, would be as inconſiſtent with the true principles of Public
Faith, as it would be obviouſly incompatible with the preſervation of our juſt rights
and intereſts. -
On theſe grounds, I have no heſitation in recommending to your Lordſhip the im-
mediate aſſumption of the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic, under ſuch
proviſions as your Lordſhip may be pleaſed to authorize to his Highneſs the Nabob,
his Higneſs's family, and the Principal Officers of his Government.
-** I have the honour to be
Fort St. George, - &c. &c. &c.
23d May 18OO. (Signed) Clive.
(True Copy.)
(Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief Secretary to Govt.
—- sº
(H.)
‘C OPY of an Official Letter from the Governor General, 28th May 1801,
with Encloſures (b.) (c.) (d.) and (e.) º
To the Right Honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
(Moſt ſecret.)
My Lord,
Para, I.-My determination has long been formed on the important ſubjećt of the
future arrangement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, conneéted with the condućt and
deſigns of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ; but various confiderations have hitherto
prevented me from ſignifying to your Lordſhip my final inſtrućtions for your
guidance in that arrangement. - - - .. -
2. At the period of time when I received from your Lordſhip the reſult of the
oral examination taken at Vellore and Seringapatam, the critical ſtate of the nego-
ciation depending with the Nizam, which has ſince terminated in the Treaty con-
cluded at Hydrabad on the 12th of Oétober 18¢o, appeared to me to render it
adviſable to poſtpone the adoption of meaſures required for the ſecurity of the
Carnatic. The ſucceſsful iſſue of the negociation with the Nizam would neceſſarily
lead to a commutation of ſubſidy for territorial ceſſion, and appear, therefore, likely
to facilitate the arrangements which became indiſpenſibly neceſſary in the Carnatic;
while a premature proſecution of thoſe arrangements might have impeded, and
perhaps fruſtrated, the ſucceſsful iſſue of the negociation at Hydrabad. When the
Treaty of Hydrabad was concluded, I entertained a competent hope of being
enabled to viſit Fort St. George in the courſe of the approaching ſeaſon, and to
affiſt your Lordſhip, with the preſence of the Supreme Authority of theſe Govern-
ments, in the accompliſhment of the final ſettlement of our affairs with the Nabob
of Arcot.
3. I continued to entertain this expectation until the arrival of the Georgiana
Packet, when I found myſelf abſolutely precluded from all hope of being at liberty
to quit this Preſidency before the change of the Monſoon. At this time the pecu-
liar nature of our ſituation at Fort St. George appeared to me to render a perſonal
communication with your Lordſhip, or with ſome Public Officer fully apprized
of your ſentiments, and of the aëtual ſtate of affairs in the Carnatic, an indiſpenſable
preliminary to any ſpecific inſtrućtions with regard to the courſe of meaſures to be
purſued with the Nabob of Arcot: I therefore fignified my anxious wiſh that Mr.
Webbe, Chief Secretary to the Government at Fort St. George, ſhould proceed to
Fort William. -
4, The delay which has occurred has enabled me to receive the ſentiments of
the Preſident of the Board of Commiſſioners for the Affairs of India, and of the
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Secret Committee of the Court of Direstors, on the ſubjećt of the correſpondence Vol. I.
of the late and preſent Nabob of Arcot with Tippoo Sultan; thoſe ſentiments −
entirely accord with your Lordſhip's, and with mine, on the ſame ſubjećt. Since (*)
Mr. Webbe's arrival in Bengal, I have carefully reviſed the documents conneéted
with every branch of this extraordinary tranſačtion; and I now proceed to com-
municate to your Lordſhip the reſult of the opinions which I have formed on the
written evidence of the papers diſcovered at Seringapatam, and on the oral
examinations which have been taken by the Commiſſioners appointed by your
Lordſhip. *
5. The tendency of thoſe examinations is of a nature, in ſome important parts
of the evidence, rather to awaken than to confirm the impreſſion made on my
mind by the written documents; in other branches of the evidence, the oral
teſtimony has ſerved to illuſtrate and ſtrengthen the proofs afforded by the Corre-
ſpondence diſcovered at Seringapatam. Combining the reſult of the whole body of
proof together with all the explanations given by the Vakeels Ghoolam Ally Khan
and Ally Rezza Khan, my judgment is convinced of the criminal purpoſe, and of
the aëtual endeavours of the late and preſent Nabob of Arcot, to eſtabliſh an union
of intereſts with the late Tippoo Sultan incompatible with the exiſting en-
gagements between the Nabob of the Carnatic and the Company, tending to ſub-
vert the Britiſh Power in the peninſula of India. y
6. It is my intention to record, with the leaſt pračticable delay, the courſe of
reaſoning which I have drawn from the papers diſcovered in Seringapatam, from
the ſubſequent proceedings of the Commiſſions, and from the general tenor of the
condućt of the Nabob Mahomed Ally, and of his Highneſs’s ſon the Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah. I ſhall tranſmit this detailed review of the evidence to your
Lordſhip at a future period. Your Lordſhip is ſo fully acquainted with every part
of the evidence as not to require any recapitulation of its ſubſtance, and ſtill leſs any
review of its details for your information.
7. This diſpatch is accompanied by the originals of ſuch of the papers diſcovered
at Seringapatam as it may be neceſſary to exhibit to the Nabob Oindut ul Omrah, for
the purpoſe of convincing him, that his deſigns have been brought to light. To
theſe Papers I have added the reports of Mr. Edmonſtone on their contents, and (b.)
alſo on the tenor of the oral examinations taken at Seringapatam. In addition to \
theſe documents, I ſhall confine myſelf at preſent to a ſummary ſtatement of my
general ſentiments on the caſe, concluding with my final directions for the purpoſe
of imparting to your Lordſhip the authority neceſſary to enable you to act, without
delay, in eſtabliſhing the ſecurity of our intereſts in the Carnatic on a permanent
foundation. f
8. Their Highneſſes the Nabob Mahomed Ally and the Nabob Omdut ul
Omrah, by negociating a ſeparate connection with Tippoo Sultan, have violated
not only the fundamental principle and vital ſpirit of their alliance with the Britiſh
Power, but the expreſs letter of their engagement with the Company. The nature
and principle of the propoſed conneétion with Tippoo Sultan, as avowed in the
Correſpondence; the implacable enmity of Tippoo Sultan to the Britiſh Power, and
his known views in the hour of that negociation, furniſh a convićtion that the
objećt of the intrigue on the part of the family of Mahomed Ally, was hoſtile to
the permanence of the Britiſh Power. - t
9. In refle&ting on the condition of our intereſts in the Carnatic, previouſly to
the diſcovery of the Correſpondence now tranſmitted to your Lordſhip, I have
frequently found conſiderable difficulty to aſſign any rational ſolution of the perverſe
temper of the Councils of the Houſe of Mahomed Ally. Your Lordſhip and i,
in the various diſcuſſions which we held together at Fort St. George, have frequently
agreed, that nothing leſs than the proof of an exiſting union and concord with the
views of the common.enemy could reconcile, with any courſe of reaſon and con-
iſiſtency, the uniform reſiſtance oppoſed by the Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Omdut
sul Omrah to every poſſible approach towards the improvement of their conneétion
with the Company; the prevailing charaćter of animoſity and contention which per-
waded every ſtage of Omdut ul Omrah's negediations with Lord Hobart, with me,
I75. * - and
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and with your Lordſhip; his Highneſs's determined averſion to every conciliatory
propoſition for the final adjuſtment of his relations with the Company; and laſtly,
his unremitted counteraćtion of every effort of your Lordſhip's Government, and
of my Authority, for the equipment and march of the army, in the moſt critical
ſeaſon of the late conteſt with Tippoo Sultan. *- . -
Io. The ſelection of theſe apparent inconſiſtencies is annexed to this diſpatch;
the cauſe of all our embarraſſments in the Carnatic is how explained; and I cannot
expreſs to your Lordſhip with more force the impreſſion of this diſcovery on my
mind, than by requeſting you to call to your remembrance my repeated declaration
during the courſe of the late war, that the condućt of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah
was incompatible with any other principles of policy than a determined hoſtility
to the Britiſh Power, and a ſecret attachment to the cauſe of the enemy.
I 1. The treaty of 1792 impoſed cn the Nabob Mahomed Ally a perfeót
obligation; and, while his Highneſs profeſſed to tranſmit to his Succeſſor that
obligation in the ſančtimonious form of a teſtamentary injunétion, he had ačtually
violated the perfeót right acquired by the Company, under the correſpondent pro-
viſions of the Treaty. If the hoſtility of the Nabob Mahomed Ally had been
diſcovered during his life, the Company would have been at liberty to enforce that
right againſt his Highneſs to the extent which might have been deerned expedient.
The Nabob Omdut ul Omrah was the confidential Agent of his Father, and the
aćtual Negotiator of the Treaty of 1792; and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, by
ſecuring to himſelf the right of ſucceſſion under the ſame conditions and obligations
which attached to the rights of his Father, ačtually became a Contraćting Party
to the Treaty of 1792, previouſly to the death of the Nabob Mahomed Ally. The
tenor by which the Nabob Orindut ul Gmrah held the right of ſucceſſion was there-
fore equally connected with his Father's good faith, and with his own ; and the
rights of both, under the alliance, were equally involved in a juſt adherence to its
obligations and duties. , " ' - -
12. It is now manifeſt, that while the Nabob Mahomed Ally employed his ſon
and ſucceſſor the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah to negociate the Treaty of 1792 with
the Britiſh Government, his Highneſs delegated the ſame Prince, at the ſame moment,
to eſtabliſh the foundations of an intimate conneétion between his Highneſs's family
and the hereditary and implacable enemy of the Britiſh Empire in India. The
Nabob Mahomed Ally, and his ſucceſſor Omdut ul Omrah, had ſecretly deſtroyed
the fundamental principle on which alone the Treaty of 1792 could be veſted;
previouſly to the oſtenſible concluſion of that inſtrument the ſpirit of that engage-
ment, which had been vitiated in its origin, was farther impaired ſoon after its
concluſion, by the condućt of the Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah,
in communicating the march of the Britiſh troops againſt Pondicherry; in warning
Tippoo Sultan of the imprudence of diſplaying any ſymptoms of attachment to the
declining cauſe of France in India; in admoniſhing Tippoo Sultan, that his intrigues
at the Court of Poonah had alarmed the vigilance of the Marquis Cornwallis.
The Nabob of the Carnatic expreſſed no anxiety to fruſtrate the hoſtile deſigns of
the Sultan of Myſore ; nor did our Ally, according to the duties of the alliance
communicate to the Britiſh Government any intimation of Tippoo Sultan’s
hoſtile views, or warn or admoniſh the Company to take the neceſſary precautions
againſt their proſecution. In both inſtances the Nabob Mahomed Ally not only
violated the expreſs ſtipulations of Treaty, but ačtually promoted the Sultan's views,
by perſuading that determined foe of the Britiſh name to poſtpone his exertions
to a more favourable ſeaſon, when a more propitious concurrence of circumſtances
ſhould facilitate the execution of his vindićtive plans. - .
13. Subſequently to the concluſion of the Treaty of 1792, the Nabob Omdut ul Om-
rah has expreſſed his intention to revive an intercourſe with Tippoo Sultan, correſpon-
dent with the terms of the previous negociation during the life of his Father, abſolutely
incompatible with the exiſtence of the Britiſh Power in India. The Nabob Omdut ul
, Omrah, in his own hand-writing, in the month of Auguſt 1794, corroborates the evi-
-dence of his intention to complete the purpoſes of the ſecret intercourſe which he
...had negociated with Tippoo Sultan ; and the continuance of the ſame intention is
- - smanifeſted
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manifeſted by letters from the Nabob Omdur ul Omrah, and from his confidential Vol. I.
Agent, addreſſed to the ſuppoſed Agent of Tippoo Sultan in the year 1796, ſub- –
ſequently to the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's acceſſion to the Government of the (H)
Carnatic, under the Treaty of 1792; the exiſtence of that intention has alſo been
corroborated by the overt condućt of his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah,
in a flagrant attempt to deceive the Britiſh Government, with reſpect to the im-
portant conſideration of providing the funds neceſſary to enable our army to march
into Myſore in 1799, and alſo by a ſyſtematic courſe of ačtive exertions cal-
culated to fruſtrate the meaſures of the Britiſh Government, in the moſt critical
period of the late conteſt with Tippoo Sultan. - . .
14. It is manifeſt therefore, that the intentions of the Nabobs Mahomed Ally and
Omdut ul Omrah, bave been uniformly and without interruption, hoſtile to the ex-
iſtence of the Britiſh Power in India; and that thoſe intentions have been carried
into full extent of the aëtual power poſſeſſed by their Highneſſes reſpectively, at the
ſeveral periods of time in which they have ačted in purſuance of their criminal ſyſtem
of co-operation with the enemy. By acting on theſe principles of condućt, the
Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, have not only violated the rights of
the Company, but by uniting their intereſts with thoſe of the moſt implacable
enemy of the Britiſh Empire, ačtually placed themſelves in the relation of public
enemies to the Company’s Government, dangerous to the extent of their reſpe&tive
power, and ačtive according to the means and opportunities afforded to them by the
circumſtances of the moment; and eſpecially by the moſt ſevere exigency and preſ-
ſure of ačtual war. Every principle therefore of public law, releaſes the Britiſh
Government from the intended obligations of the treaty of 1792 : and every con-
ſideration of ſelf defence and ſecurity requires us to exerciſe our power in the manner e
moſt expedient for the purpoſe of fruſtrating the hoſtile councils of the preſent
Nabob of the Carnatic, modelled upon the artful example, ačtuated by the faithleſs
ſpirit, and ſančtioned by the teſtamentary voice of his Father. -
15. In determining the mode in which it may be expedient to exerciſe the rights of
the Britiſh Government, under this diſcovery of the Nabob's violation of the alliance,
our right to eſtabliſh whatever ſyſtem ſhall be judged adviſable for adminiſtering the
Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic, is entirely relieved from the impedi-
ments hitherto oppoſed to the progreſs of improvement, by confiderations perſonal
to the Nabob and to his Highneſs's family. In all the different diſcuſſions which have
taken place in every modification, which has been propoſed for the improvement of
the connečtion between the Company and the Nabob of Arcot, territorial poſſeſſion
has juſtly been conſidered to afford the only adequate ſecurity for the military ſubſidy
of the Carnatic. My knowledge of the internal adminiſtration of his Highneſs’s
affairs convinces me, that the reſources of the Carnatic can never be faithfully ap-
ºpied to the exigencies of public affäirs, while his Highneſs ſhall exerciſe the Execu-
tive Government. I have no heſitation therefore, in ſtating my decided judgment,
that no ačtual ſecurity can be eſtabliſhed for the rights pledged to the Company in
the Carnatic, for the effectual reſtraint of the adverſe and faithleſs diſpoſition of the
Nabob of Arcot, or for the ſucceſsful introdućtion of an improved ſyſtem of finance, re-
venue, and judicature, into the territories ſubjećt to the Government of Fort St. George,
by any other mode than by adminiſtering, through the Company’s Officers, the en-
tire Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic, º -
16. In the execution of this neceſſary meaſure, it would have been ſatisfačtory to
&ny mind, if the ſafety of the Britiſh intereſts had permitted me to conſult the per-
“ſonal convenience of the Nabob of Arcot, to the extent propoſed in the modification
of the treaty of 1792, offered by Lord Hobart to his Highneſs's acceptance, and
in the general plan for the arrangement of his Highneſs's affairs, which I propoſed
to him during the progreſs of the late War in Myſore. It would have been an ast
of wiſdom to have ſacrificed to the principles of National moderation and magna.
nimity, the advantages which I had propoſed to ſurrender for the attainment of
the Nabob's cheerful concurrence in an engage ºnent which he was conſidered at
liberty to rejećt; but his Highneſs's hoſtile diſpoſition having tranſpired, his vio-
lation of the moſt ſacred ties of amity and alliance having been dete&ted, it is be-
1 / 5. “ • N - ÇO Tº
46
P A P E R S R E L A T | N G T O T H E
Vol.4. come my-duty to deprive him of the future means of injuring the Britiſh Govern.
W.
, (H.)
&c.)
:(d.)
ment. Wiſdom and prudence require, juſtice and moderation warrant, that his
Highneſs ſhould not retain the poſſeſſion of ačtual reſources greater than ſhall be
requiſite for the ſupport of the rank which he ſhall hereafter be permitted to hold
in the Carnatic. Reduced by his own condućt to the condition of a public enemy,
he has forfeited all poſitive right to any ſhare of the reſources of the Carnatic.; and
his future ſituation muſt be determined entirely by the prudence of the Company,
tempered with thoſe conſiderations of lenity, which, I truſt, will always enter into the
Councils of every Britiſh Authority. Under this view of the ſubječt, it is my opi-
nion, that the ſtipend to be allowed to his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah,
and to his Family, ſhould not exceed the ſum of pagodas three lacs, nor be leſs
- than the ſum of two lacs of pagodas. ...' r.
17. I, conſider it to be extremely deſirable, that the Nabob ſhould be induced,
aunder, a full convićtion of the rights acquired by the Company, in conſequence of
the diſcovery of his Father's negoeiations, and of his own, to accede to the pro-
poſed arrangement in the form of a treaty. In expreſſing this wiſh, I am more de-
ſirous of conſulting the dignity of the Britiſh Government, than of admitting any
claim to its generoſity and forbearance on the part of the Nabobs Mahomed Ally
and Omdut ul Omrah. It would, however, be painful to your Lordſhip, and to
me, to be compelled to expoſe to the world all the humiliating proofs of the ingra-
, titude and treachery of thoſe infatuated Princes towards that Power which has uni-
formly proved their guardian and protećtor. I therefore requeſt, that your lordſhip
will immediately open a negotiation with the Nabob Omdut ul Cºnrah, for the pur-
poſe of adjuſting an arrangement for the entire transfer of the Civil and Military
Government of the Carnatic to the hands of the Company, on the terms ſpecified in
the draft of a Treaty, which I have now the honour of tranſmitting to your Lord-
ſhip. -
18. In order to obtain his Highneſs's acquieſcence in this mode of adjuſtment, it
will be proper for your Lordſhip (after having fully apprized the Nabob of the nature
of the proofs which we poſſeſs of his correſpondence with Tippoo Sultaun) to offer the
inducement of the largeſt proviſion to be made for his Highneſs's perſonal expences;
and in that event, I authorize your Lordſhip to inſert in the treaty the ſum of three
lacs of pagodas. - -
19. It is poſſible, however, that in the actual ſtate of his Highneſs's Councils and
itemper, the Nabob may be diſpoſed to rejećt even this moderate propoſition; and to
appeal to the authority of the Honourable the Court of Direétors. In that event,
...being already in poſſeſſion of the ſentiments of the Secret Committee, founded on the
diſcovery of the Nabob's faithleſs condućt, I ſhall conſider it to be injudicious and un-
neceſſary to admit the appeal, and by that admiſſion to enter upon a formal trial of
his Highneſs's criminal condućt. The caſe requires that we ſhould ačt as againſt a
State on the baſis of the general law of nations, and that we ſhould employ the power
of the Britiſh empire in India to demand, and, if neceſſary, to enforce an adequate
ſecurity for our rights and intereſts againſt the machinations of a faithleſs Ally, who has
...violated the fundamental principles of a public alliance, to the extent of placing him -
ſelf in, the condition of a public enemy. If therefore the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah,
by refuſing to acquieſce in the propoſed arrangements, ſhould compel the Britiſh Go-
vernment, contrary to its wiſhes and intentions, to exerciſe its rights and its power
to their full-extent, I authorize and direét your Lordſhip to aſſume the Civil and Mi-
litary Government of the Carnatic; and l have the honour of incloſing a Declaration,
which in that event I requeſt your Lordſhip to publiſh under the authority of the
Governor General in Council; even under this contingency, it is not my intention that
the allowance, to be made to the Nabob ſhould be leſs than two lacs of ſtar pagodas.
20. Under every contingency, it will be prudent and humane that proviſion ſhould
be made, chargeable on the revenues of the Carnatic, for the principal Officers of his
Highneſs's the Nabob's Government, for his Highneſs's dependants, and for the family
of the late Nabub Mohammed Ally, upon the principles obſerved in the ſettlement of
the affairs of Myſore, and to the extent which may be deemed neceſſary, after the
, fulleſt inveſtigation by your Lordſhip in Council. - . a'
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A F F A ºf R S O F THE C A R N AT I C. 47
21. The proviſion for theſe perſons is to be defrayed from funds ſeparate from the Vol. I.
contingent ſum of two or three lacs of pagodas, deſcribed in the 16th paragraph of the
HDiſpatch, that ſum being intended by me to be applicable excluſively to the perſonal
expences of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and to the charges of his Highneſs's
Mahl. t
22. I have the honour to annex to this diſpatch, a letter to be delivered to the (e.)
TNabob Omdut ul Omrah, whenever your Lordſhip ſhall deem it adviſable to com-
municate to him the nature of theſe inſtrućtions; copies of that letter alſo accompany (e.)
for your Lordſhip's information. . .
xºse
(H.)
I have the honour to be,
Fort William, ** &c. &c. &c.
May the 28th 18O.I. (Signed) • Welleſley,
By order of his Excellency the moſt
Noble the Governor General. A true Copy.
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone, (Signed) j. Webbe.
3. ..Secº to Gov. Chief Secy to Gov".
N° 1. in (H.) (b. 4.)
*Ultimate R E PORT from the Perſian Tranſlator.
By the examination of Ally Rezza Khan, much of the evidence of the papers ac-
companying the Perſian Tranſlator's Report of the 6th April is confirmed, ſome parts
of it are weakened or invalidated, and ſome new matter is brought to light.
With a view to form an ultimate judgment on the pending queſtion, it may be proper
to ſhew: – Firſt. What parts of the evidence of the papers are weakened or invali-
dated by Ally Rezza Khan's teſtimony P-Secondly. What parts of the evidence are
confirmed 2–Thirdly. To conſider what degree of credit is due to Ally Rezza
Khān's evidence P and Fourthly. What are the moſt probable concluſions to be drawn
from the whole of the evidence. - - ---
In the Report of the Perſian Tranſlator, it has been obſerved, that the expreſſions of
attachment and devotion atcribed by the Vakeels to the Nabob Walajah and Omdut
ul Omrah are probably much exaggerated, and that iittle dependance ought to be
placed upon the exiſtence of fačts inferred merely from ſuch expreſſions; this con-
jećture is confirmed by Ally Rezza Khan, who acknowledges they were much ex-
aggerated, and that it was cuſtomary with the Wakeels to heighten the expreſſions of
regard which fell from Lord Cornwallis or the Nabob Walajah, for the purpoſe of
-qualifying the Sultaun; and obſerved very joſtly, that the people of this country con-
4tantly exaggerate their expreſſions of regard to an extravagant degree. He acknow-
ledges at the ſame time, however, that the general tendency of their reports of the
Nabob's converſation was correót. . . "
In the report of it, is ſtated “That the Vakeels were charged by Tippoo Sultan,
* with ſome concealed commiſſion at Madras, appears from ſeveral of the accom-
“...panying documents, particularly from two letters (N* 2 & 3.) from the Vakeels to
“ Tippoo Sultaun, dated in June 1792, in which they promiſe and profeſs the moſt
“ inviolable ſecrecy; and alſo from the myſterious expreſſion ſo frequently made uſe
“ of in the correſpondence between the Vakeels and Tippoo Sultaun; “The affair
“ you know of;” but what the nature of it was, does not clearly appear.
From Ally Rhezza Khan's evidence, however, it appears that their promiſes of
inviolable ſecrecy referred to the key of the figured cypher, which Tippoo Sultan
iſent to his Vakeels, for the purpoſe of communicating ſecret intelligence, and “ the
“ affair you know of" to a marriage projećted between the families of the Nabob and
Tippoo Sultan, and not to the ſuppoſed political negociations between the Nabobs
and the Sultan. V.
The ambiguous terms of the paper, N° 7. afforded great reaſon to believe, that
when Ally Rezza Khan returned to Seringapatam, he was charged with ſome ſpecific
175. - j negociation
43 P A P E R S R F LAT I N G T o T H E
Vol. I, negociation between the Nabob and Tippoo Sultan; by a * paper however which
was diſcovered after the date of the Report of the Perſian Tranſlator, it appeared that
(*) he had repaired thither at the inſtance of Marquis Cornwallis, and that the contents
of the paper, N° 7. referred to what he had to communicate on the part of his Lord-
fhip and the Nabob jointly ; this is fully confirmed by Ally Rezza Khan's evidence,
and therefore the inferences deduced in the Report from the documents abovemen-
tioned muſt be conſidered as erroneous. - ..?
In Ally Rezza Khan's deſcription of the ceremony of adminiſtering oaths of fidelity
to Muſſulmen in Tippoo Sultaun's ſervice, (Nº. 14.) he mentions that “the Nabob's
“ ſons” were preſent; hence it is preſumed, in the report of the Perſian Tranſlator,
that Omdut ul Omrah was preſent ; but by Ally Rezza Khan's evidence, it now ap-
pears, that only “the younger” ſons of Walajah were preſent; a circumſtance from
which nothing can be inferred with certainty, than that his Highneſs was made ac-
quainted with what paſſed at the Moſque ; the inferences therefore deduced from the
ſuppoſed preſence of Omdut ul Omrah muſt alſo be conſidered as erroneous.
Again, to ſhew the aëtual participation of Omdut ul Omrah in the ſuppoſed ſecret
negociations between his father and the Sultaun, the following paſſage in Nº 1 5. of the
papers is quoted in the report concerning the affair, &c. (vide Report, page 62) as it
appears clearly from Ally Rezza Khan's evidence, that this paſſage refers to the affair
of the marriage, the inference deduced from it muſt be conſidered erroneous.
Three circumſtances are ſtated in the evidence of Ally Rezza Khan and Gholaum
Ally Khan, which ſeem to explain the occaſion of the letters which paſſed between
the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, Ally Rezza Khan, and Kaudir Newaz Khaun (N* 20
& 21) at the period of the miſſion of Mohummud Ghyans and Mohummud Ghous
Khaun, and tend to diſcredit the fačts inferred from them in the report ; one is, that
the Vakeels were diſgraced by Tippoo Sultan ſoon after their return to Seringapatam,
and even in diſgrace at the time that Mohummud Ghyans and Mohummud Ghous
Khaun were deputed to Madras. Another, that Tippoo Sultan had poſſeſſion of
Golaum Ally Khaun's ſeal, and occaſionally made uſe of it. The cauſe of their diſgrace
is ſaid to be (though it is not ſtated by Golaum Ally Khaun or Ally Rezza Khaun) a
ſuſpicion on the part of Tippoo Sultan, that they were attached to the Britiſh intereſts.
—A third is, that Mohummud Ghyans and Mohummud Ghous Khan were inſtrućted
to ſay, in the event of Omdut ul Omrah making any enquiry of Ally Rezza Khaun
and Golaum Ally Khaun, that they attended the Durbar as uſual. - .
Judging from theſe circumſtances, it is not improbable that Tippoo Sultan wrote
letters to Omdut ul Omrah and Kawder Newauz Khaun, made Golaum Ally
"Khaun's ſeal, with the expectation that the anſwers to thoſe letters might lead to
ſome diſcovery reſpecting the condućt of his Vakeels, and that he ſent thoſe letters
to Mohummud Ghyans and Mohummud Ghous Khaun, who (it is aſcertained)
carried back the anſwers; hence the circumſtance of theſe anſwers being en-
dorſed" by Tippoo Sultaun's Moonſhee, and placed among his Records (a
circumſtance upon which conſiderable ſtreſs is laid in the Report) is account-
ed for. r
The ſecond point to be ſtated is, what ſpecific facts detailed in the Report,
are confirmed by the evidence of Alli Rezza Khaun. . . . . . *
The account given by Ali Rezza Khaun of the cypher (Nº. 6.) is, that it was
delivered by Khaudir Newauz to Golaum Alli Khaun, and by the latter to Alli
Rezza Khaun at his departure for Seringaparam ; that Golaum Alli Khaun told
him that it had been compoſed for communication between Tippoo Sultain ind
...the Nabobs Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah ; that a copy was to be given to
Tippoo Sultan, and the original brought back to Madras; that Tippóo Sultâun
however retained the original paper. Alli Rezza Khaun adds, that he conſidered the
cypher to be: “ for the purpoſe of concealing the mention of any affair what-
* An abſtraćt of the contents of this paper was diſpatched to Fort St. George, with a duplicate of
, the Report, on the 13th April. - * * . . . - -
ever
*
AFFAIR s of T H E cARNATI c.
49.
“ ever, whether relating to the Fngliſh, the Nizam, or the Mahrattas;” but he
abſolutely denies his knowledge of any particular objećt for which the cypher was
prepared ; he acknowledges, however, the apparent inconſiſtency of preparing a
cypher for purpoſes purely innocent, and the cauſe which there conſequently is for
ſuſpicion. In another part, he adds, that it was intended for uſe after the depar.
ture of the Hoſtages, in caſe of neceſſity.
Vol. I.
The ſecret meetings between the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah and the Vakeels
at the Moſque and at the garden (N* 14. and 15.) are confirmed, with all their at-
tendant circumſtances, by Alli Rezza Khaun's evidence ; he maintains, however,
that notwithſtanding the formality, ſecrecy, and cautiouſneſs of the proceeding, the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's propoſition was merely the eſtabliſhment of a friendſhip
with Tippoo Sultaun: he ſtates, that ſome ſeparate converſation took place between
Omdut ul Omrah and Gholaum Alli Khaun, upon the ſubjećt of the propoſed
marriage between the families of Tippoo Sultaun and Walajah, and that Omdut
ul Omrah alſo on that occaſion, offered to ſettle “Jaggeers and Munſubs” upon the
“Princes and the Vakeels.” With regard to what paſſed at the ſecond ſecret meeting
at the garden, Alli Rezza Khaun ſtates, that Omdut ul Omrah communicated the
probability of a rupture between the French and Engliſh, and the conſequent attack
of Pondicherry; that he adviſed Tippoo Sultaun's withdrawing his Vakeel from
that place, when his continuance at that time might give offence, and that therefore
the Nabob, from his attachment to the Faith, made this communication to prevent
any indiſpoſition between Tippoo Sultaun and the Company; that theſe ſentiments
were communicated from a regard to the welfare of Tippoo Sultaun; that Omdut
ul Omrah farther recommended, that after the departure of the Hoſtages, the
Sultaun ſhould appoint an Ambaſſador at Madras, which would be attended with
the beſt conſequences, and flated that this was not communicated from any par-
tiality to the Engliſh, but from good wiſhes towards Tippoo Sultaun. It was by a
repetition of the ſubſtance of the foregoing, that Alli Rezza Khaun explained
what were the particular expreſſions of his attachment to Tippoo Sultaun, which
Omdut ul Omrah required the Vakeels not to commit to writing, but Lo defer the Sic Orig.
communication of them until their return to Seringapatam.—Alli Rezza Kaun
adds, that a ſeparate converſation took place at this meeting alſo, between Omdut
ul Omrah and Golaum Ali Khan about the propoſed marriage. Alli Rezza
Khan aſcribes Omdut ul Omrah's conjuring the Vakeels (for he denies that an
oath is exačted) to ſecrecy, to an apprehenſion that this intercourſe ſhould be
known, and give diſpleaſure to the Engliſh. Alli Rezza Khan's evidence confirms
the fačt of the Nabob Wallajah's communication to the Vakeels reſpecting the
French and Pondicherry, as deſcribed in Nº. 12. -
The communication which appears by N° 1 c. to have been made by the
Nabob to Gholaum Alli Khan (in Alli Rezza Khan's abſence) reſpecting Tippoo
Sultaun's correſpondence with Poona, is confirmed by Gholausn Ali Khan's
evidence. - - - -
It is neceſſary now to make ſome remarks upon the evidence of Alli Rezza
Khan, and the degree of credit that is due to it.
This examination exhibits many contradićtions and inconſiſtencies ; but it is not
therefore to be inferred that he was deſignedly infincere; and the reaſon is to be
traced in the habits and charaćter of the people A native of this country is
ſcarcely ever croſs-examined, without expoſing himſelf to the imputation of incon-
fiſtency and falſehood; ſuch inconſiſtencies and contradićtions undoubtedly deſtroy
the credit of the evidence in a great degree, but do not prove intentional decep-
tion on the part of the deponent. Alli Rezza Khan, however, cannot perhaps be
entirely acquitted of mental reſervation. This is in no part of Ajii Rezza Khan's
evidence, as, in his account of what paſſed between Omdut ul Omrah and the
Vakeels, in the two ſecret meetings at the Moſque and at the garden, when re-
quired to ſtate what Omdut ul Omrah communicated to them at the ſecret meeting
at the garden, he ſtates it to have been the communication repeting the French,
and repeats the ſame anſwer in ſubſtance when defred to ſtate what were the parti-
cular expreſſions of attachment towards Tippoo Suitän which Omdut ul. Omrah
enjoined the Vakeels not to commit to paper. - -
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so
PAP E R S R E LAT IN G To THE
Vol. I.
(H.)
That this communication-cannot have been what was meant by particular expreſ-
ſions* of attachment, is clear from this circumſtance; that the Vakeels, in their letter
N° 12. to Tippoo Sultan, ſtate, that the Nabob ſent Khauder Newauz Khan to them
to communicate this intelligence and advice; and that letter is dated the 5th June,
about two months before the meeting deſcribed: Alli Rezza Khan, however, ſtates
that the Vakeels communicated the meſſage on their arrival at Seringapatam ; that no
immediate obſervation was made upon it; and that ſome days after they fell under the
diſpleaſure ºf thesultan. In a ſubſequent part of Alli Rezza Khan's examination,
being aſked, if he did, according to the fSultaun's orders, commit to writing the
matter of a ſecret nature which was communicated to him by Omdut ul Omrah—he
replies, that he did ſo by “ writing to the Sultan the particulars of the profeſſions of
“regard which had been communicated by Omdut ul Omrah ;” and being then
again ſhewn the papers, N° 14, 15, and 13, and aſked what anſwer he gave the
Sultaun—he replies, that he had been enjoined at his departure to poſtpone the
communication until his arrival at Seringapatam, and that “ he would accordingly
“repreſent it to the Preſence.” **. * .
* -
There is beſides, in various parts of his evidence, a great appearance that ſome of
his anſwers are the effect rather of immediate invention than of recolle&tion, and the
objećt apparently to avoid being convićted of inconſiſtency. ^.
His attempts to do away the inconſiſtency pointed out by the Commiſſioners of the
Nabob's requiring a declaration from Tippoo Sultaun of his diſpoſition to eſtabliſh
friendſhip between them, when he poſſeſſed ſo ſtrong an evidence of that diſpoſition in
the Sultan’s propoſal of marriage, are unſucceſsful; and he is at laſt compelled to
acknowledge the inconſiſtency, but without acquieſcing in the inferencef. He
acknowledges a ſimilar inconſiſtency relative to the cypher, N° 6. which has been
already noticed.
The following is an additional inſtance of the inaccuracy of Alli Rezza Khan's
evidence: he ſtates, that he brought the figured cypher with him from Seringapatam
to Madras; whereas one of the papers written by Alli Rezza Khan in that cypher
contains a promiſe to ſend an account of the fortification of Fort St. George to
Tippoo Sultaun, which account was ačtually diſpatched, and is dated in September
1792, before Alli Rezza Khan returned from Madras to Seringapatam: there are
other inconſiſtencies in the evidence, which however, it is unneceſſary to particularize.
To give an opinion on Alli Rezza Khan's teſtimony collečtively, it may be ſaid
that the accuracy of his replies cannot be entirely depended upon, even when they
are neither inconſiſtent nor contradićtory; that they have in ſeveral inſtances the ap-
g ſug
pearance of being ſuggeſted by the exigency of the moment; that he has not concealed
what he knew and recollečted; but that he has endeavoured to render his evidence as
favourable as poſſible to the Nabob. Under the inconſiſtencies apparently attending
Alli Rezza Khan's evidence, it is difficult to give credit to the whole; but in one view
of the ſubjećt, which will be ſtated hereafter, Ali Rezza Khan may be entitled to
credit, when he aſſerts that no ſpecific negociation took place between Tippoo Sultaun
and the Nabob, except a negociation for eſtabliſhing mutual cordiality and friendſhip.
It is conſiſtent with that aſſertion, that the Nabob might have deſired to form ſuch a
ſyſtem of cordiality and friendſhip between the Nabob and Tippoo Sultaub, as with-
out comprizing any ſpecific plan or ſettled ſcheme of condućt in its future operations,
would have been inimical to the Britiſh intereſts, and ſubverſive of the fundamental
principles of the Nabob's alliance with the Company, and of a complexion too warm
to be communicated to the Britiſh Government: In other words, Alli Rezza Khan
#
—ºr
* It is to be obſerved, that the word in the original is not confined to the meaning of the Engliſh
word “expreſſions;” but as far as idiom and grammar are concerned, might, with perfect p
be uſed in referring to the communication reſpecting the French.
+ Thoſe communicated in Nº 13, which he acknowledges. -
ropriety,
f The inconſiſtency might have been put in a ſtill ſtronger light, by aſking the witneſs, How the
Nabob could doubt of Tippoo Sultaun's diſpoſition to be on terms of fimple friendſhip, when the Nabob
had already in his poſſeſſion a declaration under Tippoo Sultaun’s ſeal
- (Wide the Letter from
Tippoo to the Nabob, N° 8.)
may
A FFA IRS OF THE CARN AT I C. 5 i
may have called a propoſition of ſimple friendſhip what was, in fact, a propoſal to eſtabliſh Vol. I.
a cloſe union of intereſts, of which the objects, though undeclared and proſpective, –
were inconſiſtent with the faith of the Nabob's alliance with the Company, and averſe (H), -
to their intereſts. - g &
Let it be ſuppoſed, that the Nabob hoped that in the revolution of time and changes
of affairs, an opportunity might offer to emancipate himſelf from the controul of the
Pritiſh Government, and that a conneétion with Tippoo Sultaun might enable him to
take advantage of any event or ſtate of things, favourable to the accompliſhment of
ſuch his known wiſh; it is conſiſtent with this view that the Nabob ſhould take
extraordinary means to manifeſt his ſolicitude to eſtabliſh an intimate connečtion with
Tippoo Sultaun ; and the terms in which the Nabob is deſcribed to have expreſſed that
ſolicitude, both in his conferences with the Vakeels before Alli Rezza Khan's depar-
ture from Madras, and in the meeting at the Moſque, are conſiſtent with that objećt,
and they certainly are ſuch as he could not have avowed to the Britiſh Government: it
is conſiſtent with this view that the Nabob ſhould have prepared and commu-
nicated the means of carrying on a clandeſtine correſpondence, by tranſmitting a
cypher to Tippoo Sultaun, which the Nabob might ſuppoſe would have the
effect of convincing Tippoo Sultaun of his ſincerity, and of the nature and
extent of the intercourſe he wiſhed to maintain with him ; it is conſiſtent with
this view that he ſhould flatter Tippoo Sultaun's known bigotry, by profeſſing a ſoli-
citude to ſupport the intereſt of the Muſſulman religion, and that he ſhould endeavour
to impreſs the Sultaun's mind with a convićtion of his good wiſhes, by communicat-
ing intelligence, and conveying advice in which the Sultaun's proſperity was intimately
concerned ; and it is conſiſtent alſo that the Nabob ſhould regain from Tippoo
Sultaun's indication of a diſpoſition to meet his wiſhes to the extent which he required,
ſince his objećt would not be attained by reſting' ſatisfied with thoſe indications of a
friendly diſpoſition which Tippoo Sultaun had already manifeſted towards him. In
this view of the ſubject, it may be ſuppoſed that the Nabob's immediate and declared
objećt was to eſtabliſh a cordial conneétion with Tippoo Sultaun; and Alli Rezza
Khan may therefore be thought to have kept within the Verge of truth in aſſerting,
that to his knowledge, the Nabob had no other view than to eſtabliſh cordiality with
Tippoo Sultaun. . . .
Such appears to be the moſt probable explanation of the condućt and views of the
Nabob ; it is perhaps the moſt favourable alſo, that, conſiſtently with eſtabliſhed fačts,
can be ſuppoſed. ^. y
The Commiſſioners have flated (paragraph 8, of their Letter to the Right
Honourable Lord Clive, dated . . ) that both the Vakeels have
aſcribed the ſecret meetings to the propoſed conneétion by marriage ; this would
appear to be erroneous; for Alli Rezza Khan aſcribes the meeting in the Moſque to
a deſire on the part of the Nabob to expreſs his regard towards Tippoo Sultaun. He
acknowledges that the formality of a clandeſtine meeting, and of the adjuration of
ſecrecy, warranted the expectation of ſomething more important, and attempts to anſwer
the inconſiſtency by ſuppoſing that the Nabob was apprehenſive of giving offence to
the Britiſh Government; the Commiſſioners themſelves, in the courſe of the examina-
tion (page 22) have put a queſtion founded on this very view of the ſubjećl. The
meeting at the garden was at the invitation of the Vakeels; it does not appear,
however, from Alli Rezza Khan’s evidence, that the diſcuſſion of the propoſed mar-
riage was the objećt at this meeting any more than at the other.
The Commiſſioners ſuppoſe, that the real object of the clandeſtine meeting was
declared by Omdut ul Omrah to Gholam Alli Khan excluſively; if ſo, it muſt have
been Omdut ul. Omrah's original deſign to communicate it to Gholam, Alli Khan
only ; but it appears, his meflage appointing the Meeting, his adjuration to ſecrecy,
and (at the ſecond meeting) his deſire that the particulars of which he had commu-
nicated might not be committed to paper, were addreſſed to both Vakeels. If he and
Gholam Alli Khan (as the Commiſſioners ſuggeſt) meant to deceive Alli Rezza Khan
with regard to the true objećt of their private conference, by making him believe it
was about the marriage, that pretence would have ſufficed equally well for a meeting
between Omdut ul Omrah, and Gholam Alli Khan, without the preſence of Alli
Rezza Khan ; as for holding a ſeparate meeting at a conference to which Alli Rezza
I 75. * & . . * s . . . . . . . . Khan
$2
P A P E R S R E LAT IN G T O THE
Vol. I. Khan was alſo invited, having invited both, having adjured both to ſecrecy, and
(H)
having deſired both not to communicate what he had ſaid until their return to Seringa-
patam, what other concluſion can be drawn than that he confided the ſecret to both ;
but the Commiſſioners formed the foregoing opinion, principally upon the evident
intention of Gholam Alli Khan on his examination to conceal the truth, and his con-
fuſion at the produćtion of the cypher on one hand, and upon the apparent candour
of Alii Rezza Khan on the other; but there are great difficulties in this ſelection.
Under the ſelečtion which has been hazarded in this memorandum, with reſpect to
the real objećt of the ſecret intercourſe, the inadequacy ſo apparent in Alli Rezza
Khan's evidence of the objećt to the means is in a great meaſure removed.
In the evidence of Alli Rezza Khan, there appears a mixture of ſolicitude to
ſcreen the Nabob, and an intention to adhere to facts; and he has reconciled theſe
objećts by denominating the cloſe and intimate connection which the Nabob was
anxious to eſtabliſh with Tippoo Sultaun for proſpečtive purpoſes, inconſiſtent with
his Highneſs's relation to the Company, and inimical to their intereſts, ſimple friend-
ſhip, cordiality, and harmony. Gholam Alli Khan, on the other hand, manifeſts a de-
termination criminating the Nabob, at the expence of truth and conſiſtency. His
evidence is ſuch a compound of inconſiſtency and falſhood, that no dependence can
be placed on any part of it not ſupported by known facts or collateral proof.
The letter of the Commiſſioners renders it unneceſſary to add any remarks re-
ſpecting the facts of Omdut ul Omrah's intercourſe with Tippoo Sultaun, after his
acceſſion to the Muſnud.
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
P" Tº to Gov".
(A true Copy.)
(Signed) j. Webbe,
• Sec’ to Gov".
*
N° 2, in (H.) (c.)
Draft of a T R E A T Y between the United Company of Merchants
trading to the Eaſt Indies, and his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah
Walajah Bahader, for vetting in the ſaid Company the Adminiſtration of
the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic and its Dependencies.
WHEREAS the ſeveral Treaties which have been concluded between the United
Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eaſt Indies, and their Highneſſes,
heretofore Nabobs of the Carnatie, have been intended to commit and identify the
intereſts of the Contraćting Parties; and whereas in conformity to the ſpirit of this
alliance, the ſaid Company did by the Treaty concluded on the 12th July 1792 with
the late Nabob Walajah, relinquiſh extenſive pecuniary advantage acquired by the
previous Treaty of 1787, with the view and on the condition of eſtabliſhing a more
adequate ſecurity for the intereſts of the Britiſh Government in the Carnatic; and
whereas ſubſequent experience has proved that the intention of the Contraćting Par-
ties has not been fulfilled by the proviſions of any of the Treaties heretofore concluded
or now exiſting between them; and whereas the ſaid Company and his ſaid Highneſs
the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah have now judged it expedient that a new Treaty ſhall at
this time be executed for the purpoſe of ſupplying the defects of all former engage-
ments, and of eſtabliſhing the coinedrion between the ſaid Contračting Parties on a
permanent baſis of ſecurity in all times to come ; wherefore the following Treaty is
now concluded by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Clive, Governor in Council of
Fort St. George, by and with the ſanétion and authority of his Excellency the Moſt
Noble Marquis Welleſley, K. P. Governor General in Council of all the Britiſh poſ.
feſſions in the Eaſt Indies, on behalf of the ſaid United Company on the one part, and
by his Highneſs the Nabob Omdutul Omrah Walajah Bahader on his own behalf, for
veſting in the ſaid Company, in all times to come, the Civil and Military Govern-
ment of the Carnatic Payinghaut. -
- - Article I. .
The Treaty concluded between the Honourable the Eaſt India Company and the
Nabob Mahomed Ally under date the 12th day of July 1792 ; and all former Treaties
- - - º, concluded
A FFA IRS OF T H E C A R N AT I C. 53
concluded heretofore between the Eaſt India Company and the Nabobs of the Car. Vol. I.
natic, are hereby declared to be null and void, and of no farther obligation or —
: g Article 2d. -
The ſaid Company charges itſelf with the protećtion of the rights, perſon, and pro-
..perty of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah againſt all Foreign enemies, in the ſame manner,
and to the ſame extent, as if the proviſions of the ſaid Treaties in this reſpect had been
hereby expreſsly confirmed and renewed. - sº
- Article 3d.
In conſideration of the preceding Article, the ſaid Nabob renews his obligation not
to enter into any alliance or correſpondence with any European or Native Power,
without the previous knowledge and concurrence of the Britiſh Government.
* - Article 4th.
The Nabob Omdut ul Omrah Walajah Bahader hereby veſts in the Ho nourabi
*Eaſt India Company, for ever, the ſole and excluſive Adminiſtration of the Civil and
Military Government of all the territorities and dependencies of the Carnatic Paying-
haut, together with the full and excluſive right to the revenues thereof (ſubjećt to the
payment of a certain ſum of money hereafter ſpecified, for the maintenance of the
ſaid Nabob, and for the ſupport of his dignity ;) and it is hereby ſtipulated and agreed,
that the Britiſh Government for the time being ſhall have full right to exerciſe all
the powers and authorities which the ſaid Government ſhall judge neceſſary to the
adminiſtration of the Civil and Military Government, and of the revenues of the
Carnatic. -
Article 5th. *
The ſaid Company ſhall poſſeſs the ſole power and authority of conſtituting and
appointing, without any interference on the part of the Nabob, all Officers for the col-
lečtion of the revenues, of eſtabliſhing Courts for the adminiſtration of Civil and
Criminal Juriſdićtion, and of carrying into effect the decrees and ſentences of the ſaid
Courts. - .
Article 6th.
Whereas it was ſtipulated by the 4th Article of the Treaty of 1792, that the ſum of
fix lacks twenty-one thouſand one hundred and five (6,21, Io;) ſtar pagodas ſhould
annually be applied to the diſcharge of certain regiſtered debts due by the late Nabob
Mahomed Ali to his private creditors, under agreements concluded between his High-
neſs and the Honourable Company, and guaranteed by the Parliament of Great
, Britain, until the ſaid regiſtered debt ſhould be liquidated, the Honourable Faſt India.
Company hereby charges itſelf with the payment of the ſaid ſum of ſix lacks twenty-
one thouſand one hundred and five (6,21, to 5) ſtar pagodas per annum, from the
revenues of the Carnatic, until the remainder of the ſaid regiſtered debt ſhall be liqui-
dated, according to the proviſions of the Treaty 1792.
- Article 7th.
It is hereby ſlipulated and agreed, that the ſum of three lacks (3,00,000) of ſtar
pagodas ſhall be annually allotted from the revenues of the Carnatic, and paid by the
, ſaid Company in monthly inſtalments of twenty-five thouſand (25,000) ſtar pagodas,
for the maintenance and ſupport of the ſaid Nabob and his Highneſs's own immediate
Family ; which ſum of three lacks of pagodas ſhall be at the full diſpoſal of the ſaid
Nabob, conſiſtently with the principles of this alliance. .
Article 8th.
It is ſtipulated and agreed, that the Britiſh Government ſhall take into conſideration
the aëtual ſituation of the Family of the late Nabob Mahoned Ally, and of his Highneſs
the late Amur ul Omrah Bahadar, as well as of the Public Officers of the Government
of the ſaid Nabob Omdur ul Omrah ; and the Britiſh Government ſhall charge itſelf
with the expence (chargeable on the revenues of the Carnatic) of making a ſuitable
proviſion for the maintenance of the ſaid Relations, Officers, and Dependants of the
ſaid Nabob Omdut ul Omrah. w
- . Article 9th. - -
The funds to be appropriated to this purpoſe ſhall be entirely excluſive of the ſum
of three lacks of pagodas mentioned in the 7th Article of this Treaty ; and ſhall be
, allotted in ſuch proportions as ſhall ſeem juſt and proper to the British Government.
I 7%. ; P >. Article
Sá.
P A P E R S R E L A TI N G T C T H E
*
Article I oth.
Vol. I. The Nabob Omdut ul. Omrah ſhall on all occaſions, in all places, and at all times,
(H,)
be treated with the reſpect and attention due to his Highneſs's rank and ſituation as
an Ally of the Britiſh Government, and a ſufficient guard of the Company's troops
ſhall be appointed for the protećtion of his Highneſs's perſon and palace.
• . - Article 1 1 th: w
The entire defence of the Carnatic againſt Foreign enemies, and the maintenance of
the internal tranquillity and police of the country, having been hereby transferred to
the Britiſh Government, his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah engages not to
entertain or employ in his ſervice any armed men without the conſent of the Britiſh
Government, who will fix, in concert with his Highneſs, the number of armed men
neceſſary to be retained for purpoſes of State ; ſuch armed men as his Highneſs may,
in conſequence of this Article engage in his ſervice, ſhall be paid at the excluſive coſt
and-charge of the ſaid Nabob. - - • *
Article 12th. -
It is hereby ſtipulated and agreed, that the Honourable Eaſt India Company ſhall
enter upon the excluſive adminiſtration of the Civil and Military Government of the
Carnatic, on the day of - correſponding to the day of
- and his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ſhall iſſue orders
to his Amils, and to all his Civil and Military Officers employed in the collečtion of
his revenues, to transfer the diſtrict, or difirićts under their reſpective charge to ſuch
perſons as ſhall be appointed by the Britiſh Government to manage the ſaid diſtrićts;
and alſo to deliver to the perſons ſo appointed all records, accounts, and official
papers belonging to their reſpective kutcherries or offices.
(True Copy.)
~!
(Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief Secº of Gov".
[Herefollows a Letter from the Governor General to the late Nabob of Arcot,
dated 28th May 1891, printed in folio 65 of the Papers already laid befºre
the Houſe; and which are before referred to.]
t
N° 3. in (H.) (d.)
iD E C L A R A T LON of the Right Honourable the Governor in
Council of Fort St. George, by and with the authority of his
Excellency the moſt Noble the Governor General in Council of all
the Britiſh Poſſeſſions in the Eaſt Indies. *
AN alliance of the moſt intimate union and friendſhip has long ſubſiſted between the
Honourable the Engliſh Eaſt India Company, and the family of his Highneſs the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, the preſent Nabob of the Carnatic Payenghauht by the
aid of that alliance his late Highneſs the Nabob Mahomed Ally was enabled, under
Providence, to ſupport his pretenſions to the poſſeſſion of the Carnatic at the death
of his illuſtrious Father, to defeat the power of his enemies in arms, and finally to
eſtabliſh his authority in the Government of Arcot, and of its dependencies: For
the defence and protećtion of the valuable poſſeſſions thus acquired by the united
armies of the Engliſh Company and of the Nabob of Arcot, various Treaties and
obligations have been eſtabliſhed, by which the intereſts, ſecurity, and power of both
parties in the Carnatic Payinghaut have been cemented and identified. – In confor-
mity to the faith and ſpirit of thoſe engagements, the Honourable Company has
invariably employed not only the reſources derived from that alliance, but the
whole power of the Britiſh Empire in India in maintaining the Government
of the Nabob of the Carnatic againſt all his enemies, and has cauſed him to be
acknowledged by Foreign States as the Ally of the Britiſh Nation. — By theſe means,
and by the unabated exertion of its whole power, the Engliſh Company was en-
abled during the war, which continued from the year 178o to the year 1783, to ſup-
R.) 5 f /. -
port the pretenſions of the Nabob Mahomed Ally, and to reſcue his dominions from
the
A FFA I R S OF THE C A R N AT I C. * 55
the violence of Hyder Ally Khan, and of his ſucceſſor Tippoo Sultan, who, by their Vol. I.
alliance with the French Nation, had been enabled to conquer a confiderable part
of the Carnatic, and to eſtabliſh their authority over the greateſt part of the territorial (*).
poſſeſſions of the ſaid Nabob. ſ .
To ſupport the authority of the Nabob Mahomed Ally, and to ſecure the Britiſh
intereſts in the Carnatic, it became expedient for the Contraćting Parties to enter
into ſpecific engagements for the maintenance of an adequate military eſtabliſhment.
The Engliſh Company accordingly bound itſelf by a Treaty, bearing date in the
month of July 1787, to ſupport the whole military force required for the protećtion
of the territories of the Allies, in conſideration of which engagement the Nabob
Mahomed Ally agreed, among other conditions, and under certain penalties therein
ſpecified, to pay an annual ſubſidy amounting to twenty-one lacs of ſtar pagodas.
According to the further ſtipulations of that engagement, rendered neceſſary by ex-
perience for the mutual ſafety of the contraćting Parties, the Engliſh Company in
the year 1790, charged itſelf with the adminiſtration of the civil affairs in addition
to the military defence of the Carnatic, in a critical junčture of affairs, when the
ambition and implacable enmity of the late Tippoo Sultan compelled the Britiſh ****
Government in India to reſort to arms for the ſupport of its rights, and for the pro-
tečtion of its Allies. }
At the concluſion of the war in the year 1792 (the ſucceſsful and glorious ter-
mination of which tended in the moſt direét manner to ſecure the ſafety and proſperity
of the poſſeſſions of his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic) the Britiſh Govern-
ment reſtored the Civil Goverment of the Carnatic to his fighneſs, thereby manifeſt-
ing the ſtrićteſt adherence to the ſtipulation of the exiſting engagement of 1787; .
but the Britiſh Government did not confine itſelf to the mere diſcharge of the ſtipula-
tions of its exiſting engagements; its views were extended to an enlarged and liberal
conſideration of the principles of the alliance ſubſiſting between the Company and
the Nabob of the Carnatic. - : -
At that period of time the Nabob Mahomed Ally, relying on the friendly diſpo-
iſition of the Britiſh Government, repreſented in the moſt urgent manner to the
Marquis Cornwallis, the inadequacy of his Highneſs's reſources to diſcharge the
pecuniary engagements of the Treaty of 1787; and the Governor General, ačting
in conformity to the ſpirit of the alliance and friendſhip ſo long ſubſiſting between
the Nabob of the Carnatic and the Engliſh Company, relieved his Highneſs from
the burthenſome terms of that engagement, thereby ſurrendering the pecuniary
rights required by the Company under the Treaty of 1787, for the purpoſe of
promoting the tranquillity, comfort, and intereſts of the Nabob of the Carnatic.
With this liberal view of the principles of the connection eſtabliſhed between
the Britiſh Government and the Nabob of Arcot, an indulgent modification of the
Treaty of 1787 was framed; and by a ſubſequent Treaty, bearing date in the month of
July 1792, the pecuniary contribution of his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic
towards the general defence and protećtion of the rights and poſſeſſions of the Allies,
was diminiſhed from twenty-one to fifteen lacs of tar pagodas. The ſpirit of
moderation by which the Britiſh Councils were guided in reſpešt to this alliance,
was unequivocally manifeſted by a farther ſtipulation, for the purpoſe of ſecuring to the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, the Son and preſumptive Heir of the Nabob Mahomed
Ally, the ſucceſſion to the territories of his Father on the terms and conditions of the
Treaty of 1792. - - -
In return, for this relinquiſhment of a confiderable portion of its pecuniary re-
ſources, the Engliſh Company obtained no other advantages that an extended
renewal of the territorial ſecurity already provided by the Treaty of 1787, for
the performance of the Nabob Mahomed Aliy's pecuniary engagements, and a
repetition of his Highneſs's previous obligation not to contraćt alliances, nor to
enter into correſpondence with any European or Native Power, without the previous
^knowledge and concurrence of the Britiſh Government; conformably, therefore to this
indulgent modification of the Treaty of 1787, the Government of the Carnatic was
reſtored to the Nabob Mahoned Ally ; on the death of his Highneſs the Nabob
1 7.5. Mahomed
56 P A P E R S R E L A T I N G T G T H E.
‘Vol. I. Mahorned Ally in the year 1795, the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ſucceeded to the
x- poſſeſſion of his father's territories, according to the proviſion of the Treaty of 1792.
The Nabob Mahomed Ally, as well as his Son and ſucceſſor, had repeatedly
granted tuncaws, or aſſignments of revenue, on the diſtrićts pledged to the Company,
in direét violation of the Treaty of 1792, and to the manifeſt injury of the territorial
ſecurity provided by the Company for its intereſts in the Carnatic. The Britiſh
Government, however, continued to extend to their Highneſſes the indulgent ope-
ration of the beneficial conditions of the Treaty of 1792, by abſtaining from the
-exerciſe of the juſt rights acquired againſt their Highneſſes under the expreſs ſtipu-,
lations of that engagement, and under the acknowledged interpretation of the Law
of Nations. - -
Under theſe circumſtances, the Britiſh Government might juſtly have acquired
from the houſe of Mahomed Ally, not merely the exact and rigid obſervation of the
Treaty of 1792, but a zealous and cordial attachment to the ſpirit of an engage-
ment under which the Nabob of the Carnatic had found the moſt ample protection,
accompanied by the moſt indulgent and liberal conſtrućtion of every ſtipulation
favourable to their ſeparate intereſts, and by the moſt lenient relaxation of thoſe
penal articles, the obligation of which their Highneſſes had reſpectively incurred, by
.violating the article of the Treaty of 1792, reſpecting the grant of tuncaws, or
aſſignments of revenue, on the diſtrićts pledged to the Company.
It is with the deepeſt concern that the Governor in Council is compelled to de-
clare, that thoſe ancient Allies of the Company have been found not only deficient
in every aćtive duty of the alliance, but unfaithful to its fundamental principles, and
Auntrue to its vital ſpirit. -
• In the full, enjoyment of the moſt abundant proofs of the moderation, indulgence,
and good faith of the Honourable Company, the Nabob Mahomed Ally and the
Nabob Omdut til Omrah ačtually commenced and maintained a ſecret intercourſe
with Tippoo Sultan, the determined enemy of the Britiſh Name, founded on prin-
ciples and dire&ted to objećts utterly ſubverſive of the alliance between the Nabob
of the Carnatic, and the Company, and equally incompatible with the ſecurity of the
Britiſh Power in India. . .
After the fall of Seringapatam, the Britiſh Government obtained poſſeſſion of the
original Records of Tippoo Sultan. The correſpondence of that Prince's Ambaſſa-
dors, during their reſidence at Fort St. George, in attendance on his ſons the Hoſtage
Princes in the years 1792 and 1793, eſtabliſhed ſufficient grounds of apprehenſion
that their Highneſſes the late Nabob Mahomed Ally and the preſent Nabob Omdut
sul Omrah had entered into a ſecret intercourſe with the late Tippoo Sultan, of a
nature hoſtile to the Britiſh ºnfereſts in India ; the enquiries of the Britiſh Govern-
ment have been ſince direéted to aſcertain a fačt ſo intimately conneéted with the
..ſecurity of its intereſts in the Carnatic. The reſult has eſtabliſhed the following
* propoſitions, by a ſeries of conneéted written and oral teſtimony: . -
Firſt;—At the very period of time when the Nabob Mahomed Ally appealed to
2- the generoſity of the Britiſh Government for an indulgent modification of the Treaty
of 1787, his Highneſs had already commenced a ſecret negociation for the eſtabliſh-
ment of an intimate intercourſe with the Nabob Tippoo Sultan, without the know-
ledge of the Britiſh Government, and for purpoſes evidently repugnant to its ſecurity
and honour. - - .
Second;—The Nabob Omdut ul. Omrah (who was empowered by the Nabob
Mahomed Ally to negociate the Treaty of 1792 with the Britiſh Government, and
who ačtually negociated that Treaty for himſelf and for his Father) was aétually
employed at the ſame period of time, under his Father's authority, in negociating for
himſelf and for his Father the terms of the ſaid ſeparate and ſecret intercourſe, with
Tippoo Sultan. t .”
Third;—The tendency of the ſaid intercourſe was direéted.to, the ſupport of
Tippoo Sultan in vićtory and triumph over his enemies.
Fourth 3–In the month of December 1792, the Nabob Mahomed Ally imparted
ſecret information to Tippoo Sultan, reſpešting the ſentiments and intentions of the
ºritiſh Government in India with relation, to the hoſtile views and negociations of
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~ Tippoo Sultan at the Courts of Poonah and Hyderabad ; and on the firſt intelli- Vol. I.
gence of the war between Great Britain and France, in the year 1793, the Nabob *
Mahomed Ally imparted ſecret information to Tippoo Sultan reſpecting the views (H.)
and power of France in India and in Europe, and reſpe&ting the intended operations
of the Britiſh Forces againſt the French poſſeſſions in the Carnatic; and the Nabob
Mahomed Ally conveyed to Tippoo Sultan ſecret admonitions and friendly advice
Teſpecting the moſt favourable ſeaſon, and the moſt propitious ſtate of circumſtances
for the violation of Tippoo Sultan's engagements with the Honourable Company.
Fifth 5–The Nabob Omdut ul Omrah was employed by his Father as one of the
Agents to convey ſecret intelligence, friendly admonition, and advice to Tippoo
Sultan, through the confidential Agents of Tippoo, who were furniſhed with in-
ſtrućtion from the ſaid Sultan of Myſore to receive ſuch communications from the
ſaid. Nabob of the Carnatic, and from the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah.
Sixth 5–A cypher was compoſed, and ačtually introduced into the ſeparate and
fecret correſpondence between the Nabobs Mahomed Ally, Omdut ul Omrah,
and Tippoo Sultan : the original key of the ſaid cypher, diſcovered among the
records of Seringapatam, is in the hand-writing of the confidential Moonſhee (or
Secretary) of the Nabob Mahomed Ally and of the Nabob Omdur ul Omrah ; and
the ſaid cypher was delivered by a confidential Agent of the Nabob Omdut ul
Omrah to the Ambaſſador of Tippoo Sultan, for the expreſs purpoſe of being
tranſmitted to Tippoo Sultan. : * - . . .
Seventh s—The terms employed in the ſaid cypher, particularly thoſe intended to
deſignate the Britiſh Government and its Allies to the Nizam and the Mahratta State,
united in a defenſive league againſt Tippoo Sultan, contain the moſt powerful internal
evidence, that the communications propoſed to be diſguiſed by the ſaid cypher were
of the moſt hoſtile tendency to the intereſts and objećts of the ſaid alliance, and
calculated to promote the cauſe of Tippoo Sultan in oppoſition to that of the ſaid
Allies. r - ... " $. :
Eighth;-The Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, under his own hand-writing, in the
month of Auguſt 1794, corroborates the evidence of his intention to complete the
purpoſes herein deſcribed of the ſecret intercourſe which he had negociated with
Tippoo Sultan; and the continuance of the ſame intention is manifeſted by letters
from the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and from his confidential Agent, addreſſed to
the ſuppoſed Agent of Tippoo Sultan in the year 1796, ſubſequently to the Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah's acceſſion to the Government of the Carnatic under the Treaty
of 1792. $
Ninth ;-At the commencement and during the progreſs of the late juſt, ne-
ceſſary, and glorious war with the late Tippoo Sultan, the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah,
to the utmoſt extent of his means and power, purſued the objećts of his ſecret inter-
courſe with Tippoo Sultan by a ſyſtematic courſe of deception with reſpect to the
proviſion of the funds neceſſary to enable the Britiſh Troops to march into Myſore,
as well as by a ſyſtematic and ačtive oppoſition to the ſupply and movement of the
Allied Army through different parts of the ſaid Nabob's dominions.
Tenth 5–The condućt of the Nabob Mahomed Ally and of the Nabob Omdut
ul Omrah, deſcribed in the preceding articles, was conformable to a ſyſtematic
deſign long entertained by the Nabob Mahomed Ally of gratifying his ambition,
and elevating the power of his Family, by the deſtruction of the Britiſh Intereſts and
influence in India. The records diſcovered at Seringapatam furniſh inconteſtible
evidence, that from the year 1771 to the cloſe of the year 1773, the Nabob Ma-
homed Ally, through the confidential Ambaſſador of Hyder Ally, endeavoured to
cuitivate an intimate intercourſe with Hyder Ally; and that through the ſame
channel, in the month of January 1773, the Nabob Mahomed Ally ačtually invited
Hyder Ally to forget the paſt, and to enter into a cloſe and perpetual union and
concern, in war and peace, with the Nabob of the Carnatic, and with his deſcendant;
and farther, that the Nabob Mahomed Ally at the ſame time offered, as the leaſt
advantage of ſuch an union, that Hyder Ally ſhould be ſupplied with arms from the
Carnatic, in direčt oppoſition to the meaſures of political ſafety then adopted by the
Britiſh Government in India, with the knowledge of the ſaid Nabob Mahomed Ally.
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Vol. H. Eleventh; –The ſtipulations contained in the 15th Article of the Treaty of 1787,
— and in the loth Article of the Treaty of 1792, by which the Nabob of the Carnatic
was bound not to enter into any political negociations or correſpondence with any
European or Native Power or State, without the conſent of the Government of Fort
St. George, or of the Company, formed a fundamental condition of the alliance be-
tween the ſaid Nabob and the Company; and the violation of the ſaid ſtipulations
neceſſarily involved the entire forfeiture, on the part of the ſaid Nabob, of all the
benefits of the ſaid alliance. --" -
Twelfth 5–The Nabob Mahomed Ally and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah have
violated the ſaid ſtipulations, and thereby have forfeited all the benefits of the ſaid
alliance; and the Nabob Mahomed Ally and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, having
violated the ſaid ſtipulation for the expreſs purpoſe of eſtabliſhing an union of intereſt
with Tippoo Sultan, thereby placed themſelves in the condition of public enemies to
the Britiſh Government in India. -
It is manifeſt, therefore, that the intention of the Nabobs Mahomed Ally and
‘Omdut ul Omrah have been uniformly, and without interruption, hoſtile to the
Britiſh Power in India; and that thoſe intentions have been carried into effect to the
full extent of the actual power poſſeſſed by their Highneſſes reſpectively, at the
ſeveral periods of time in which they have ačted in purſuance to that ſyſtem of co-
operation with the enemy. a.
By acting on theſe principles of condućt, the Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Omdut
all Omrah have not only violated the right of the Company, but by uniting their
intereſts with thoſe of the moſt implacable enemy of the Britiſh Empire, the Nabobs
Mahomed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah have ačtually placed themſelves in the relation
of public enemies to the Britiſh Government, dangerous to the extent of their re-
ſpective powers, and active according to the means and opportunities afforded them
by the circumſtances of the moment, and eſpecially by the moſt ſevere exigency and
preſſure of war. Every principle therefore of public Law releaſes the Britiſh Govern-
ment from the intended obligations of the Treaty of 1792 ; and every conſideration
of ſelf-defence and ſecurity authorizes and requires the Company to exerciſe its
power in the manner moſt expedient for the purpoſe of fruſtrating the hoſtile Councils
of the preſent Nabob of the Carnatic, modelled upon the artful example, ačtuated
by the faithleſs ſpirit, and ſančiioned by the teſtamentary voice of his Father. -
Wherefore the Right Honourable the Governor in Council of Fort St. George,
by and with the authority of his F xcellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General
in Council of all the Britiſh Poſſeſſions in the Eaſt Indies, having entered into a full
and deliberate conſideration of the condućt and policy of the Nabobs Mahoned
Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, and having maturely examined all the circumſtances of
their intercourſe with the late Tippoo Sultaun, has reſolved to exerciſe, on the part
of the Honourable the Eaſt India Company, the entire adminiſtration of the Civil
and Military Government of the Carnatic and its dependencies; and all perſons con-
cerned are hereby required to take notice of this declaration accordingly.
And for the more full explanation of the grounds and motives of this declaration,
the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, by and with the authority of his
Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General in Council, has cauſed atteſted
Copies and Extračts of ſeveral Documents diſcovered at Seringapatam to be annexed
heſeunto, together with an Extračt from the Treaty of 1792.
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(True Copy.) - -
(Signed) j. Webbe, --
Chief Secº to Gov".
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*Copy .."
AFFAIRs of THE CARN AT I c.
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Copy of an Official LETTER from the Governor General to Lord Clive;
dated 26th March 18Oo. - -
To the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c. .
My Lord, .. - -
HAVING at preſent under my conſideration the ſtate of our relation with the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and the whole tenor of his Highneſs's condućt towards
your Government, I ſhall ſoon be prepared to communicate to your Lordſhip the
final reſult of my determination on theſe important ſubjećts. In the mean while,
the poſſibility of the ſudden contingency of his Highneſs's death renders it expedient
that I ſhould ſtate to your Lordſhip, in an official form, the opinions and direétions
which I communicated to you verbally during my reſidence at Fort St. George, for
your Lordſhip's guidance in the event of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's death.
Although the Treaty of 1792 was concluded in the name and on the behalf of
the Nabob Wallajah and his ſucceſſors, no obligation of that Treaty binds the Com-
pany to place or to ſupport on the Muſnud any individual of the Family (if any
ſhould be nominated by the reigning Nabob) whoſe pretenſions to the ſucceſſion
may be ačtually diſputed, or may appear queſtionable.
Various rumours exiſt relative to the birth of the perſon of whom the Nabob Om-
dut ul Omrah declares himſelf to be the father; it is however certain, that the mother
of this young man is of low origin, and that ſhe was never married to the Nabob.
Ht is reaſonable to believe, that the ſucceſſion of this young man would be felt as an
injury to the rights of the late Ameer's ſon by all who might think favourably of
the latter's title ; and all ſuch perſons would undoubtedly uſe every pračticable effort
to defeat ſuch a ſucceſſion. * -
Under theſe circumſtances, neither party could claim our ſupport under exiſting
Treaties; and in determining to whom your ſupport ſhall be granted, we are at
liberty to conſider the ſecurity of Great Britain's intereſt in the Carnatic, and the
general proſperity of the country, and the happineſs of its people, as the primary
objećts both of our right and duty.
On this principle it is manifeſt, that from the Candidate whom we may reſolve to
raiſe to the Muſnud, we may juſtly require the moſt ample pledges for the effeótual
remedy of the evils which now afflićt the Carnatic. -
For this purpoſe, the ſucceſſor of Omdut ul Omrah muſt be required to ſurrender
to the Company, in the moſt abſolute manner, the Civil and Military Adminiſtra-
tion of the Carnatic, not retaining poſſeſſion of a ſingle fortreſs, nor maintaining
any armed force, under any pretext whatever: no other arrangement would be
adequate to the attainment of the indiſpenſable objećts which have been ſtated.
The general principles of the late Treaty with the Rajah of Tanjore may be made
the model of the agreement to be concluded with the ſucceſſor of Omdut ul Omrah ;
ſuch modifications of that Treaty as may be rendered neceſſary by a variation of
circumſtances, will readily ſuggeſt themſelves to your Lordſhip's mind. The
article relative to Forts and Military Eſtabliſhments, noticed in the preceding
paragraph, will admit of no modification. The amount of the proviſion to be
made for the ſupport of the ſucceeding Nabob, and of the other branches of the
Family of the late Wallajah, ſhould be regulated with reference to the numbers and
rank of the perſons to be maintained, and on a ſcale of reaſonable liberality.
Although the elevation of the ſuppoſed ſon of Omdut ul Omrah to the Muſnud
would probably be diſagreeable to the principal Muſſulmen in the Carnatic, I am of
opinion that he might be rendered a better inſtrument for the accompliſhment of the
ſalutary ends propoſed than the ſon of the late Ameer could be expected to prove.
Whenever therefore the death of the preſent Nabob may take place, your Lordſhip
will place the young man who paſſes for his ſon on the vacant Muſnud, previouſly
requiring his conſent to the conditions generally deſcribed in this diſpatch, unleſs
any objećtion to this diſpoſition ſhould occur to your Lordſhip's mind; in which
event, your Lordſhip will be ſo good as to ſtate your objećtions to me immediately after
the receipt of this letter.
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late Ameer the option of the ſucceſſion on the ſame terms.
Fort William, (Signed)
Omdut ul Omrah may derive from his ſuppoſed Father,
. If the Nabob's ſuppoſed ſon ſhould refuſe or delay to ſubſcribe to theſe conditions
within 24 hours from the preſent Nabob’s death, you will then give the ſon of the
If he alſo ſhould rejećt
the neceſſary conditions, your Lordſhip will immediately proceed to eſtabliſh the
Company's authority in the completeſt manner throughout the Carnatic; and you
will ſuſpend all further negociation on the ſubjećt of the ſucceſſion till the receipt of
inſtrućtions from the Governor General in Council.
I am not aware that the Ameer has left more than one ſon ; in the event of his
male offspring being more numerous, your Lordſhip will conſider theſe directions
as applicable only to his eldeſt fon; and you will not treat with any younger branch
of his Family. - -
Your Lordſhip will bear in mind the expediency of making a reaſonable proviſion,
in any of the caſes ſuppoſed, for the Nabob's Family, and for all Natives of diſtinc-
tion and charaćter, as well as for indigent families at preſent dependent on the ſource
or bounty of the Nabob of the Carnatic. Any arrangement which may be neceſſary
for this purpoſe ſhould take place, if poſſible, in the ſame inſtant with the eſtabliſh-
ment of the Company's authority throughout the country. . . .
I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c. -
- (Signed) - Mormington.
By the Right Honourable the Governor General, *
W. Kirkpatrick,
26th March 1800. Secº to Government.
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Copy of an Official LETTER from the Governor General to the
Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.; dated 4th June 1801.
My Lord, t -
Para. I. MY ſeparate inſtrućtions were delivered to Mr. Webbe for your Lord-
fhip's information and guidance, and provided for the contingency of the Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah's death, and for the arrangements which it would in that event
be adviſable to adopt for the future Government of the Carnatic ; but the tenor of
your Lordſhip's official Diſpatch, N° 1 1. dated 21ſt ultimo (May) having indicated
the probability of his Highneſs's immediate demiſe, I now judge it prudent to furniſh
your Lordſhip with my ſentiments on that ſubjećt, in the form of an Official
diſpatch. - -
2. Whatever right the reputed Son of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah may be ſuppoſed
to poſſeſs to the Company's ſupport of his pretenſions to the Government of the Car-
natic on the death of his Highneſs, is founded on the grounds of the rights of Omdut
ul Omrah himſelf; the right of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah to the affiſtance of the
Company, in ſecuring his ſucceſſion to the Nabob Mahomed Ally in the government
of Arcot, was founded on the expreſs ſtipulations of the Treaty of 1792; the reſult of
the written and oral evidence obtained from the papers diſcovered at Seringapatam, has
eſtabliſhed abundant proof that the fundamental principles of the alliance between the
Company and the Houſe of Mahomed Ally, as well as the expreſs letter of the Treaty
of 1787 (of which the Treaty of 1792 was an indulgent modification) had been ab-
ſolutely violated, and rendered of no effect by the Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Omdut
ul Omrah, previouſly to the oſtenſible concluſion of the Treaty of 1792. It is manifeſt
therefore, that the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah could derive no right from the formal
ratification of that inſtrument, the vital ſpirit of which had already been annihilated
by his Highneſs’s condućt, and that the Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Omdut ul
Omrah, by forming an intimate union of intereſts with Tippoo Sultan, had placed .
themſelves, and their whole Houſe, in the relation of public enemies to the Britiſh
Empire in India.
3. Whatever right to the Company’s protećtion and ſupport the reputed Son of
had been utterly deſtroyed by
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AFFAIRs of T H E cARNATIC. 6,
the hoſtile condućt of Omdutul Omrah ; and my inſtrućtions to your Lordſhip, in Vol. I.
conſequence of the diſcovery of the inimical condućt of Mahomed Ally and of ~ º T
Omdut ul Omrah, having provided for the immediate exerciſe of the Civil and Military (K.)
Government of the Carnatic on the part of the Company, as the only meaſure of
ſelf-defence and ſecurity, under all the circumſtances of the caſe. It follows, that the
reputed ſon of Omdut ul Omrah (in the event of his Highneſs's death previouſly to
your Lordſhip's execution of my orders) muſt ſucceed to the condition of his Father ;
and that the Britiſh Government in India will, in that event, remain at liberty to exer-
ciſe its rights, founded on the faithleſs policy of its Ally, in whatever manner may be
deemed moſt conducive to the immediate ſafety and to the general intereſts of the
Company in the Carnatic. - . -
4. Under this view of the queſtion, the Britiſh Government in India is at liberty to
proceed to exerciſe on the part of the Company the Civil and Military Government of
the Carnatic, if it ſhould judge that the moſt adviſable plan of arrangement. -
5. Many confiderations, however, of expediency and policy muſt be conneéted
with a meaſure of ſo much magnitude; the long eſtabliſhed connection between the
Company and the Houſe of Mahomed Ally, juſtifies us in ſacrificing to the ſentiments
of National magnanimity and generoſity the reſentment occaſioned by his Highneſs's
flagrant breach of the alliance; and in every event it would be incumbent on the
Britiſh Government to make a pecuniary proviſion for the Family ſuitable to its dig-
nity. The diſcharge of this duty is fully appreciated by the Natives of India ; but it is
by no means certain, that in the event of our proceeding to exerciſe a right founded
on a violation of treaty, and on the neceſſity of ſelf-defence, the Powers of Hindoſtan
would refrain from confounding the abſtraćt principles of the general Law of Nations
with ambitious views of aggrandizement and extenſion of dominion. If therefore it
ſhould be pračticable to obtain equal advantage and ſecurity for the Company by re-
laxing the exerciſe of its ačtual rights, and by ſubſtituting the more gracious mode of
conciliation and indulgence, I am diſpoſed to think, under all the circumſtances of
the caſe, that it will be more &onſiſtent with the principles of our policy and character
to adopt the moſt lenient method of arranging the future government of the
Carnatic. - - -
6. In this view of the queſtion, it appears to me, that, under the inſufficiency of
the pretenſions of the Nabob Omdut ul. Omrah's reputed ſon, as well as of all other
claimants to the government of the Carnatic, no obſtacles can be oppoſed to ſuch an
arrangement as the Britiſh Government may deem it expedient to adopt for the affairs
of the Carnatic; while the proofs of the violation of the alliance between the Company
and the Houſe of Mahomed Ally will furniſh your Lordſhip with abundant reaſon,
upon every principle of precautionary policy and of juſtice, for reducing the pecuniary
ſtipend of the propoſed ſucceſſor of Omdut ul Omrah to the loweſt ſcale, conſiſtent
Awith the dignity and honour of the Britiſh Government. -
7. If therefore, upon the receipt of this diſpatch, your Lordſhip ſhould be ſatisfied
of the diſpoſition of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's reputed ſon to conſent to an
adjuſtment of the affairs of the Carnatic by the Treaty, on the principles of the draft
which I have had the honour of tranſmitting to your Lordſhip, I authorize and direét
your Lordſhip in Council to acknowledge the reputed ſon of Omdut ul Omrah to be
the heir of his father, and to conclude a Treaty with him, as Nabob cf the Carnatic,
on the terms and conditions which I have ſpecified. -
-8. But if the reputed ſon of Omdut ul Qumrah ſhall oppoſe any reſiſtance to ſuch
an arrangement, it will be proper for your Lordſhip in Council to proceed to exerciſe
the government of the Carratic, by publiſhing the Declaration incloſed in my ſeparate
diſpatch of the 28th of May, with ſuch additions as the change of circumſtances ſhall
Have rendered neceſſary, adverting to the reaſoning contained in the ſecond and third
paragraphs of this diſpatch. - ſ * :
In either of theſe events, the ſtipend to be granted to the reputed ſon of Omdut ul
Omrah ſhould be diminiſhed below the ſtandard of that propoſed for his Highneſs;
and if the Government of Fort St. George ſhould be compelled to proceed by Decla-
ration, it will be proper that the ſtipend of Omdut ul Cârch's reputed ſon ſhould
I75. R - be
62 P A P E R S R.E L A T I N G T O T H E
Vol. I. be regulated by the general ſcale of allowance to be granted for the ſupport of the
other branches of Mahomed Ally’s Family. .
(K.) I have the honour to be, my Lord, with great eſteem and regard, your Lordſhip's
moſt faithful Servant, - -
. Fort William, (Signed) Welleſley.
4th June 1801. - -
P. S. Your Lordſhip will obſerve, that the reaſoning applied in this diſpatch to
the reputed ſon of Omdut ul Omrah, is equally applicable to any perſon whom his
Highneſs may nominate to the ſucceſſion. It does not appear probable that his
Highneſs will make any other nomination than of his reputed ſon; but if he ſhould
proceed to any ſuch ačt previouſly to his diſſolution, the perſon whom he ſhall name
his heir muſt be acknowledged, and a Treaty concluded with him on the conditions
already ſpecified. -
By order of his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General,
. - (Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone.
The following further Encloſures in the Secret Letter from Fort St. George, of
the 3d Auguſt 1801, have already been laid before the Houſe; and are to be
found in the printed Papers before referred to; Viz. 4
Phyſician's Affidavit of the 22d june 1801, as to the ſtate of the late Nabob's health,
-marked (L.) contained in folio 93. * & -
Infruitions to the Deputies appointed on the 15th july 1801, to negociate at Chepauk,
marked (M.) contained in folios 7 and 8. * .
Their Report, marked (N) contained in folios 8 to 25.
Letter from Lord Clive to the Governor General; dated 27 July 1801, marked (O.)
contained in folios 70 to 75. -
Declaration of the Governor in Council at Fort St. George, marked (P.) contained in
folios 37 to 44, . s
(P.) - - (P .)
. Memorandum :
AN Appendix is annexed to the foregoing Declaration, conſiſting of the twenty-one
numbers which compoſe the encloſure (b.) in the Governor General's ſeparate and
official diſpatch, dated the 7th April 1809; of the 15th Article of the Treaty of 1787,
and of the Ioth Article of the Treaty of 1792. •
The twenty-one numbers are arranged in the following order; the red lines and
explanatory notes of the Perſian Tranſlator being omitted, N° 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 1 1, 12, 14, 15, 16, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and the date of N* I 3. is altered
accordingly. - & . * *
The ſignature of the Perſian Tranſlator at Fort William is copied at the foot of each
of the tranſlations; and the whole is atteſted by the Chief Secretary to the Govern-
ment of Fort St. George. 3. -
- (Signed) j. Webbe,
- Chief Secº to Government.
Here follows the Treaty with the preſent Nabob, as it originally ſtood, marked
$ ty preſent IV g * f * * **
(Q.) contained in folios 33 to 36 of the printed Papers already laid before the
Houſe ; and which are before reſerred to.] -
SCHED ULE
AFFAIRS OF THE CARN AT I C. 63
$ - t w Vol. I.
SCHED ULE of the Account referred to in the 8th Article of this Treaty : –H–
Amount paid by the Company to his Highneſs the Nabob's .
creditors, on account of his conſolidated debt of 1777 - - 26,47,381
Dedućt,
Receipts of revenue from the Carnatic ſurplus to
the fixed military ſubſidy in the Fuſly year 1200
and 12C I - $º tº - - 8,29,481
Intereſt at 6 per Cent, for 44 years - - 2,23,960
r * — Io, 53,441
Balance due by the Nabob - - tº tº *s - 15.93,949
Add, - -
Intereſt for 4 years and 11 months, at 6 per cent. - - 4,7C, 2 II
Aćtual Balance - - - - s Pag’ 20,64,151
**
*--------~~~~s
(Signed) Clive.
j. Stuart.
J/7” Peºrge.
- A . F. W. Fallowfield.
By the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, W
. (Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief Secº of Gov".
[The following Letters, which ſhould be inſerted in this place, have alread, been
laid before the Houſe ; and printed in the Papers before referred to ; Viz.
Extraff of Letter from the Governor in Council at Fort St. George to the Secret
*Committee, dated 1ſt Ottober 1801 ; contained in folios 82 to 85 :
D" - D - from the Governor General to the Secret Committee, dated Monghyr,
28th September 1801 ; contained in folio 82 :
Letter from D’ to Dº, dated 21ſt Oāober 1801; contained in folios 86 to 88.] *-
(T R A N SLATION.)
From the Nabob Wallajah, Omeer ul Omrah, Madarul Mulk, Azum ud
Dowlah, Ameer ul Hind, Anwarud Deen Cawn Bahauder, Showkut
Jung, Sepah Salar, Soubahdar of the Carnatic, to the Honourable the
Chairman and Directors of Affairs for the United Company of Mer-
chants of England trading to the Eaſt Indies. *
\
Honourable Gentlemen,
By the bleſfing of the Almighty, and under the auſpicious protećtion of the Moſt
TNoble the Marquis Welleſley the Governor General, and the Governor and Council
of Madras, I have been placed on the Muſnud of the Carnatic, for which I have to
offer my beſt acknowledgments to you, Gentlemen. The Governor General having
ſent the ratified Treaty, by which my affairs are firmly arranged, and may be ſaid
to be fixed, like the wall of Alexander, the Government of Madras, on the 7th
Jernadelowell 1216 Hegury, correſponding with the 16th September 1801 of the
Chriſtian aera, delivered to me the ſaid ratified Treaty in public Durbar, with the
£75. * - & greateſt
64
'P A P E R S R E L A TI N G T C T H E
Vol. I. greateſt pomp and ſolemnity; and which having received with the moſt ſincere gra-
(P.)
't
tification, I placed it on my head and eyes in token of my veneration, and was thereby
highly honoured. On receiving the ſaid Treaty, the ſentiments of gratitude with
which my heart was impreſſed for theſe unbounded ačts of kindneſs of the Honourable
Company were ſuch, that volumes would not deſcribe them. ... I am, in every reſpect,
under your protection; and whilſt I live I ſhall make it my ſtudy to merit your ap-
probation, and the approbation of your Repreſentatives, upon which l confider my
welfare and proſperity to depend: and I firmly hope, that as you have taken ºne by
the hand, and raiſed me to the government of the Carnatic, ſo you will uniformly give
your ſupport to my affairs, and ſo far recommend me to His moſt gracious Majeſty,
as I may be conſidered worthy of his Royal clemency. -
.May the Almighty ſhower down his bleſfings upon you !
Chepauk Houſe,
Semade!owell 12 16-Hegury, " *
or 6th Oétober 1861.
*
E XT R A C T of Fort St. George Secret Conſultations; 25th July 1801.
His Lordſhip (Lord Clive) records the following Papers in explanation of the
circumſtances which led to the encampment of a Britiſh force in the gardens of
Chepauk, during the laſt illneſs of Omdut ul Omrah ; and containing his Lordſhip's
ſeparate correſpondence on that occaſion with the Governor General, and with the
Officer commanding the detachment. -
To his Excellency the Marquis Welleſley, K. P. &c. &c. &c.
$ (Official, N° 15.)
The reports which have been made to me, relative to the ſtate of his Highneſs the
y
Nabob's health, have prevented my carrying into exécution the orders contained in
your Lordſhip's diſpatch of the 28th of May. --
tº . ^. -
The malady which afflićts his Highneſs has now attained ſo great an aſcendency
as to leave no expectation of the continuance of his Highneſs's exiſtence for any
conſiderable period of time. -
Under this impreſſion, I am informed that means have been uſed by a part of his
Highneſs's Family to introduce armed men:into the palace of Chepauk. -
I have therefore judged it expedient to ſtation a party of the Company's troops at
the palace of Chepauk, for the purpoſe of preſerving order, until an arrangement of
the affairs of the Carnatic can be effected. - ºr - # .
Your Lordſhip is aware that a meaſure of this nature cannot be acceptable to any
part of the family of his Highneſs the Nabob ; and I am prepared to expect that’ob-
jećtions will continue to be oppoſed to it, founded on confiderations commeéted with
the preſent debility of his Highneſs's mind and body.
f
*
If any meaſure of leſs apparent deciſion and efficiency could have guarded againſt
the commotion which might be expe&ted at the demiſe of the Nabob, from the variety
of prevailing intereſts, and from the aëtual intention of an appeal to arms, your Lord-
ſhip will believe that I ſhould have ſtudiouſly avoided any ſtep likely to agitate the
feelings of the Nabob’s mind, or thoſe of any part of his Highneſs's Family, at this
criſis of his diſorder. But the meaſure was i.diſpenſably neceſſary to the immediate
ſecurity of the Nabob's Family, to the future arrangement of the affairs of the Car-
natic, and to the dignity of the Britiſh Government ; I have therefore rendered it
effectual. & - &
I have the ſatisfačtion of informing your Lordſhip, that the party of troops under .
the command of Lieutenant Cºlonel Mac Neil, has taken a poſition which com-
mands the entrance of his Highneſs’s palace, without producing any commotion on
the part of his Highneſs's Family, dependents, or troops; and your Lordſhip may rely
that every degree of conciliation and humafiity, conſiſtent with the ſecure attainment
of
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N AT I C.
65
of the ultimate objećt of this arrangement, will be obſerved in the farther commu-
nications with the Nabob, and with every part of his Highneſs's family. -
* I have the honour to be, with the greateſt reſpećt and eſteem,
My Lord, *. *
Your Lordſhip's moſt faithful Servant,
* (Signed) Clive.
Fort St. George,
5th July 1801.
By the Right Honourable Lord Clive,
(Signed) }. Webbe, *
Chief Secretary to Gov".
(A true Copy)
N. B. Edmonſtone,
Sec'y.
[The following Papers, which ſhould be inſerted in this place, have already been
laid before the Houſe; and printed in the Papers before referred to ; Wiz.
Inſtruſſions to Lt. Col. M. Neil, dated 5th july 180 l ; contained in folios 3 and 4.
Letter from Lt. Col. M'Neil to Mr. Sec. Webbe, dated 5th july 18or ; contained
in folio K. * -
ſ: 5 from Mr. Sec. Webbe to Lt. Col. M Neil, dated 5th july 1801 ; contained
in folio 5 and 6.
D’ – from Lt. Col. MNeil to Mr. Secretary Weble, dated 5th july 1801 ; con-
tained in folio 6. r $.
* D” - from Mr. Secretary Webbe to Lt. Col. MºWeil, dated 6th july 1801; con-
tained in folios 6 and 7.] - -
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Marquis welleſley, &c. &c. &c.
- (Official, N° 17.)
My Lord,
1. I have already had the honour of communicating to your Lordſhip the reaſons
which have rendered neceſſary, in my judgment, the precautionary meaſure of ſta-
tioning a party of the Company’s troops at the palace of Chepauk, during the
criſis of his Highneſs the Nabob’s illneſs. -
2. I now alſo myſelf have the honour of tranſmitting to your Lordſhip, copies
of the inſtrućtions with which Lieutenant-Colonel Mac Neil, the Officer command-
ing the troops, has been furniſhed. *
3. That part of the inſtrućtions which relates to the expulſion from the palace,
of all armed men not in the immediate ſervice of his Highneſs, I judged it my
duty to enforce, in conſequence of the arrival from Trichinnopoly of Huſſain ul
Mulk, the fourth ſon of the late Mahomed Alli, with a conſiderable body of armed
men in his train; and in conſequence of an attempt, ſubſequently to the arrival of
that Prince, to introduce a portion of thoſe armed men into the palace. This reaſon
was farther confirmed by the neceſſity of a military force to overawe an armed
rabble in the nominal pay of the Nabob, which is ſtationed in the vicinity of Che-
pauk, and which might be diſpoſed to join the party of any liberal Chief in the
event of his Highneſs's death. •.
4. In direéting Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neil to exert his vigilance in a particular
manner to prevent the removal of treaſure from the palace, I have ačted cn ſimilar
motives of caution; ſufficient grounds of belief exiſt, that a conſiderable treaſure
has been accumulated by their Highneſſes the late and preſent Nabob. The immediate
application of a large ſum of money to purpoſes of intrigue, during the uncertainty
of affairs incidental to the death of the Nabob, would be pregnant with miſchiefs of
the moſt ſerious nature, by furniſhing the means of giving ačtivity to any commotion
which may be excited by the exertions of the different Candidates for the ſucceſſion;
the immediate iſſue of that money into circulation would eſtabliſh a foundation on
which the factious and diſcontented partizans of every deſcription might increaſe
their numbers; and, in whatever mode the affairs of the Carnatic may be arranged.
after the death of the Nabob, it appeared to be incumbent on this Government to
175. : S • - prevent
Vol. I,
(P.)
N" 1, 2, 3,
4, & 5-
66 - P A P E R S R E L A TI N G T O THE
vol. 1. prevent dilapidation of the property ſuppoſed to have been accumulated in the palace .
— of Chepauk. : w
(P.) 5. I have felt it expedient to afford your Lordſhip this explanation of the moſt
important points of my inſtrućtions to Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neil; becauſe, with-
out that explanation, thoſe parts of the inſtrućtions might, at a future period, be
liable to a ſimilar interpretation. -
-*. I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, - &c. &c. &c.
7th July 1801. - (Signed) Clive.
(A true Copy.) -
- . N. B. Edmonſtone,
Secretary.
EXT R A CT of Fort St. George Secret Conſultations, the 25th July 1861.
Read the following Letter to Joſiah Webbe, Eſq. Chief Secretary to Government.
Sir,
Under an aſſurance, that it will be highly agreeable to the Right Honourable
Governor, I have the pleaſure of making a communication to you, which is indeed
extremely gratifying to myſelf:-I mean, the Nabob's approbation of the troops
under my command, unequivocally indicated by his having this day entertained them
in a moſt abundant manner. His intention ſo to do was communicated to me
yeſterday by Mr. Barrett in a letter, whereof I take the liberty of troubling you
with a copy, together with my reply. -
- \ 1. I have the honour to be,
Chepauk Gardens, * º &c. &c.
Ioth July, 1801. (Signed) D. M. Niel,
* t Lieu' Colonel.
Lieut. Col. M*Niel, &c:
: Dear Sir, - - . . s’
His Highneſs the Nabob wiſhes to know what number of Europeans and Sepoys
, is in the gardens, for he intends to give them a dinner with their grog,
- - I am, &c. &c. - -
(Signed) The Barrett.
w Colonel Barrett. *
Dear Sir, - - -- *
The troops ordered into theſe gardens by the Rignt. Honourable Governor, to
guard againſt thoſe diſorders and irregularities which certain appearances gave ſo
much reaſon to apprehend, conſiſt of 233 Europeans, and 505 Natives.
I am much gratified by the approbation of their condućt, indicated by the inten-
stion of his Highneſs, which you have been ſo good to communicate to me.
- I am, &c. &c.
Chepauk, - . (Signed) . D. M. Niél.
9th July 1801. -
EXT R A C T of Fort St. George Secret Conſultations, 31ſt July 1801.
The Report of the Deputies appointed to condućt the late Negociations at
Chepauk, having returned from circulation is ordered to be recorded.
[Contained in folios 8 to 25 ºf the printed Papers before referred to.]
The Preſident lays before the Board the following Declaration, explanatory of the
circumſtances which have led to the new arrangement of the affairs of the Carnatic;
and, from motives of delicacy towards the reigning Nabob the Grandſon of Ma-
homed Aly, his Lordſhip propoſes to confine its circulation, in India to the
- t . Supreme
AFFAIRs of THE CARN AT I c. 67
Supreme Government at Fort William, to the Governments of Columbo and Vol. I. '
Bombay, and to the Reſidents at Poonah and Hydrabad. * * P.)
. [Contained in folios 37 to 44 of the printed Papers before referred to.] (P.)
The Preſident ſubmits to the conſideration of the Board, the following draft of a
letter, which his Lordſhip propoſes to diſpatch to the Governor General in Coun-
cil, accompanied by a copy of the foregoing Declaration, atteſted by the Chief
Secretary; together with a copy, formally ſigned and ſealed, of the Treaty this day
executed with his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Omrah Behaudre, for the pur-
poſe of being ratified at Fort William.
[Here follows a Letter from the Government of Fort St. George to the Gover-
nor General in Council, dated 31ſt july 1801; contained in the Papers already
laid before the Houſe, and will be found in the printed Papers before
referred to ; folios 66 to 67.1—And the following was the Reſolution of the
Council therein : 3. w
Approved, and ordered to be diſpatched.
The Preſident records the following ſeparate Letters on the ſubjećt of the late
negociations, addreſſed by his Lordſhip to the Governor General.
[Here follows the following Papers, already laid before the Houſe, which will
he found in the printed Papers before referred to: Viz. *
Letters from Lord Clive to Marquis Welleſley, dated 15 july 1801; contained in
folios 68 to 70. - •
D° from D’ to Dº, dated 27 july 1801; contained in folios 70 to 75.
D° from Dº to Dº, dated the ſame day; contained in folios 75 to 76. k
Secret and ſeparate Articles to the Treaty with the preſent Nabob ; contained in folios.
36 to 37. h -
To Captain J. A. Kirkpatrick, Refident at Hydrabad.
Sir, •, - *
I am direéted by the Right Honourable the Governor in Council to inform you,
that his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, Nabob Soubahdar of the Carnatic,
died on the I ºth ult. at this place. - -
Previouſly to that event, it was the intention of his Lordſhip in Council, founded
on the inſtructions of the Governor General in Council, to have demanded from his
Highneſs a more adequate ſecurity for the Britiſh intereſts in the Carnatic, rendered
neceſſary by the diſcovery of a flagrant violation of the ties of amity and alliance on
the part of their late Highneſſes the Nabob Mahomed Ally and the Nabob Omdut:
ul Omrah ; this inſtitution was ſuſpended, at the time it became expedient for the
Governor in Council to make the demand, by the continued ſtate of debility of the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ; and at length fruſtrated by his Highneſs's demiſe.
This demand for ſatisfaction and ſecurity having been peremptorily refuſed by
Tadjul Omrah, the reputed ſon and heir appointed by will of the Nabob Omdut ul
Omrah, the Governor in Council has been compelled to exerciſe the rights acquired
by the Britiſh Government, under this diſcovery of his Highneſs's faithleſs condućt, for
the purpoſe of guarding the rights of the Company againſt the hoſtile Councils which
appear to have been tranſmitted, with teſtamentary care, to the appointed ſucceſſor of
that Prince. - -
In proceeding to exerciſe theſe rights, the Governor in Council would have felt
great concern at the neceſſity of publiſhing all the humiliatory proofs of the faithleſs
and hoſtile condućt of theſe ancient Allies; and although his Lordſhip in Council has
been compelled by the perſiſtance of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's reputed ſon in
the ſpirit of his Father's Councils, to rejećt his claims to the ſupport of the Britiſh
175. . Government,
68
P A P E Rs. R E L A T I N G TO T H E
Vol. I. Government, founded on the intended obligations of the Treaty of 1792, of which the
(P.)
vital ſpirit and expreſs ſtipulations have been annihilated, I have much ſatisfaction in
acquainting you, by command of the Governor in Council, that his Lordſhip has been
enabled by a Treaty concluded on the 31ſt ult. to revive the alliance between the
Company and this illuſtrious Family, and to eſtabliſh the Britiſh rights and intereſts in
the Carnatic, on the ſolid foundation of territorial ſecurity.
The courſe of theſe events is particularly deſcribed in a Declaration, of which I
have the honour of tranſmitting a copy for your information, and am direéted to refer
you to that paper for the grounds of the meaſure adopted by this Government, in the
event of any explanation on this ſubjećt being required from you by the Court of
Jºydrabad. , - .
I have the honour of adding, that his Highneſs the Nabob Walajah Amur ul Omrah,
Madar ul Mulk, Ameer ul Hind Azeem ul Dowlah, Showkeet Jung, Separ Salah,
Anweer or deen Khan Bahadar, was inſtalled on the 31ſt ult, as Nabob Soubahdar
of the Carnatic on the Muſnud of his anceſtors, with every pračticable degree of
ſplendour and of public reſpect from the Britiſh Government.
I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, . 'Sir,
31ſt July 1801. Your moſt obedient humble Servant,
- - - (Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief Secretary of Gov".
**
The ſame to the Refident at Poonah, (A true Copy.)
and to the Governments of j. Webbe,
Bombay and Ceylon. - Chief SecY of Gov".
Joſiah Webbe, Eſq. Chief Secretary to Government, Fort St. George.
Sir, *. -
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31ſt ult, ap-
prizing me of the deceaſe, on the 15th of that month, of his Highneſs the Nawaub
Omdut ool Omrah, and of the ſucceſſion of his Highneſs Ameer ool Omrah Azim
ool Dowlah, &c. &c. &c. to the vacant Muſnud. - *-
The news of the death of the late Soobahdaur of the Carnatic, excited, as might be
expečted, a certain degree of curioſity at this Court as to the line of ſucceſſion that might
eventually be adopted by the Company's Government; the enquiries reſpecting which
the cópious details given in the intereſting document encloſed in your letter enable
me to anſwer in the moſt ſatisfactory manner. t -
No explanation on this delicate and important ſubjećt has, or in all probability will
Abe directly required from me by this Government, while it nevertheleſs will thank-
fully receive whatever communications I may think proper to make on the occaſion.
The moſt eaſy and natural mode of introducing the ſubjećt, will I conceive pre-
ſent itſelf, whenever letters uſual on ſuch occaſions from the ſucceſſor to the Arcot
Muſnud to his Highneſs the Nizam ſhall be received here and delivered; a form,
which I conclude, will of courſe not be overlooked.
- I have the honour to be,
- - Sir,
Hyderabad, Your moſt obedient Servant, - r
- 21ſt Auguſt 18OI. (Signed) j. A. Kirkpatrick, Res'. º
(A true Copy.) -
j. Webbe,
Chief Sec' of Gov".
To Joſiah Webbe, Eſq. Chief Secretary to the Government, Fort St. George.
Sir, ** -
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31ſt ultimo, and,
in conformity to the commands of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council,
-- " will
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will not fail to communicate to this Court, if it ſhould make any enquiry on the ſub- Vol. I.
jećt, the motives which induced the arrangements adopted by Government in the
Soubabdary of the Carnatic in conſequence of the death of the Nabob Omdut ul (P.)
Omrah, together with ſuch circumſtances and explanations as may be requiſite ; and
which, the contents of your diſpatch enable me ſo fully and ſatisfačtory to give.
: I have the honour to be,
Poona, Sir, .
26th Auguſt 1801. Your moſt obedient humble Servant, *
- . . . " - (Signed) Wºm Palmer, Res'.
(A true Copy.) * * .
j. Webbe, , &
Chief Secy of Gov".
DIA R Y to Secret Conſ—8th Auguſt 18or.
Sent the following Letter to Mr. Alexander Falconar, Perſian Tranſlator.
Sir, s . *, - . .
I tranſmit to you, by command of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council,
the tranſlation which has been prepared in his Lordſhip's office, of the Declaration of,
the Britiſh Government, relative to the late arrangement of the affairs of the Carnatic.
It is a document of much importance, and his Lordſhip direéts you to preſerve it with
great care in the office of the Perſian Tranſlator.
It is the further deſire of the Governor in Council, that five official copies of this
paper may be immediately prepared, for the purpoſe of being tranſmitted to the
Foreign Courts, - -
2 ſ I am, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) j. Webbe,
8th Auguſt 1891. * . * . Chief SecY of Gow'.
Diary 19th.
sent a Letter to the Chief Secretary at Fort William, encloſing a general Return
- of Shipping from the 2d to the 9th inſtant, ".
Diary 12th, -
Sent the following Letter to N. B. Edmonſtone, Eſq. Secretary to the
- Government at Fort William.
Sir, - - * 3. - - * * .
I have the honour of tranſmitting to you a Perſian tranſlation of the Declaration of
the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, on the ſubjećt of ſecuring to the
Britiſh Government its rights and intereſts in the Carnatic. t
I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) j. Webbe, `..
12th Auguſt 1801. Chief Secº of Goy".
Diary 15th.
Sent the following Letter to Mr. Alexander Falconar, Perſian Tranſlator.
Sir,
Para. I. I tranſmit to you, by command of the Governor in Council, original Per-
ſian papers diſcovered at Seringapatam, which it is of great importance to preſerve
with care. - - y - -
You will therefore uſe the beſt precautions in your power for the ſafe cuſtody of
theſe papers, for which you will grant a particular receipt, to be lodged in the Secre-
tary’s office, and for which you will demand a particular receipt from your ſucceſſor.
2. I alſo tranſmit to you, by his Lordſhip's command, two original Perſian papers,
I75. . T connected
“ſo - P A P E R S R E LAT ING TO T H E
Vol. H. conneéted with the late negociations, for the arrangement of the affairs of the Carnatic,"
which papers are to be lodged in the Perſian Tranſlato's office. s
(P.) w - - - # I am, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) }. Webbe,
L5th Auguſt 1801. - Chief SecY to Govt.
a *: ..º. Received the following Letter: - f
To Joſiah Webbe, Eſq. Chief Secretary to Government.
Sir, - - J
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, with the
fealed packets which accompanied it, which I have depoſited in the Perſian office; and
I herein incloſe a receipt for the ſame.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, - (Signed) A. Falconar,
15th Auguſt 1801. - º P. T. to Gov.
…”
- Fort St. George, 15th Auguſt 1801. -
*I hereby acknowledge to have received from the Chief Secretary to the Govern-
ment, for the purpoſe of being depoſited and carefully preſerved in the Perſian
office of this Government, two ſealed packets; viz. - -
- Packet marked A. -
Said to contain original Perſian papers diſcovered at Seringapatam. - -
‘Packet ſealed with the ſeal of the Company, and ſaid to contain two original Perſian
papers, received by the Commiſſioners Mr. Webbe and Colonel Cloſe, from Mahomed
Najib Chan and Mahomed Tahi Ali Chan. - - * -
3
- (signed) A Falmar,
f - - - - - P" Tº to Govt.
Ex T R A CT of Fort St. George Secret Conſultations, 15th Sep-
tember 1891. - •
The Preſident records the following Diſpatch from the Governor General in Council.
To the Right Honourable Lord Clive, Governor in Council of.
Fort St. George.
My Lord, ,
Para. 1. The Governor General in Council has had the honour to receive the
diſpatch of your Lordſhip in Council, under date the 31ſt ultimo, together with the
Treaty concluded with his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem oo Dowlah, for the perpetual
transfer of the adminiſtration of the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic to
the Honourable Company. -- **
2. His Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General has communicated to us
the correſpondence which has paſſed between him and your Lordſhip, and the ſe-
veral documents conneéted with the riſe, progreſs, and termination of this important
tranſaction. - -
3. The Governor General in Council has the greateſt ſatisfačtion in expreſſing to
your Lordſhip in Council his ſincere approbation of the judgment, temper, and diſ-
cretion, which have diſtinguiſhed your Lordſhip's condućt during the progreſs.of the
various events which have terminated in an arrangement ſo highly advantageous to the
intereſts of the Honourable Company. -- -
4. The reputed ſon of his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ool Orara having met
your Lordſhip's juſt and moderate propoſitions for the ſecurity of the Britiſh intereſts
in the Carnatic, by a deliberate refuſal to enter into the engagements abſolutely ne-
ceſſary to that indiſpenſible objećt, the general ſpirit of the inſtrućtions conveyed to
your Lordſhip at different times, under the changes which have taken place in the
ſituation of affairs, entirely warranted your Lordſhip to offer to the ſon of the late
Ameer ool Omrah the ſame terms which had been propoſed to the reputed ſon. 3
Omdutool Omrah. •
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5. His Fxcellency in Council is of opinion, that the immediate aſſumption by the Vol. I.
Company or me entire adminiſtration of the Carnatic, in conſequence of Alii —
Huſſain's refuſal to accede to the propoſed Treaty (although juſtifiable in every (*)
point of view) was not neceſſary, under all the circumſtances of the caſe, to ſecure the
juſt rights of the Company in the Carnatic; and the eſtabliſhment of the acknow-
ledged heir of the Ameer ool Omrah in the rank of Nabob of the Carnatic was there-
fore a meaſure of moderation and wiſdom. . . . .
6. The reaſoning ſtated by the Right Honourable the Governor in his official
diſpatch to the Governor General of the 27th ultimo, is ſo full and concluſive, that
it appears to us unneceſſary to add any further obſervation. -
7. Under theſe circumſtances, his Excellency in Council has the ſatisfačtion to
declare his entire approbation of the general ſpirit and ſtipulations of the Treaty
concluded with the Nabob Azeem oo Dowlah. The obſervations which his Excellency
in Council now proceeds to ſtate with regard to the Treaty, and the eventual modifi-
cations of the Treaty which it is now his intention to propoſe, conſtitute no qualifica-
tion of the approbation due to the ability and prudence manifeſted by your Lordſhip
in Council, in concluding this important arrangement; the adoption or rejećtion of
the modifications which will be propoſed in this letter is intended to be ſubjećted,
without further reference, to the diſcretion of your Lordſhip in Council.
8. With this view his Excellency in Council has, in the firſt inſtance, ratified the
Treaty tranſmitted by the Government of Fort St. George; but at the ſame time has
executed another Treaty, framed in conformity to the modifications herein ſtated. This
inſtrument, having been ſigned and ſealed by his Excellency in Council, is tranſmitted,
together with that received from your Lordſhip in Council, in order that it may be
eventually ſubſtituted for the Treaty which has been executed at Fort St. George, unleſs
your Lordſhip in Council ſhould objećt to the propoſed alterations. t
9. We now proceed to ſtate to your Lordſhip the principles upon which thoſe a!-
terations are founded, and the inſtrućtions by which the adoption or rejećtion of the
modified Treaty is to be regulated. . . .
Io. Your Lordſhip is fully aware (and it is diſtinétly ſtated in the Declaration
accompanying your Lordſhip's diſpatch herein ackowledged) that the reſult of the
diſcovery which has been made of their late Highneſſes the Nabobs Walajah and
Omdut ool Omrah's treacherous correſpondence with the late Tippoo Sultaun, had
placed the Soobudar of the Carnatic in the ſituation of a public enemy to the Britiſh,
Government; had annihilated the exiſting Treaties between the Nabob of the Carnatic
and the Company; and had ſanétioned the enforcement of ſuch meaſures as the
Britiſh Government might deem neceſſary for the ſecurity of its rights and intereſts as
connected with the Soobadary of Arcot. . ~.
1 1. This is the fundamental principle upon which the late arrangements have been
founded, and conſequently the acknowledgment of an inherent right in any member
of the family of the late Nabobs Walajah and Omdul ool Omrah to ſucceed
to the Soobudary of the Carnatic, is incompatible with the maintenance of that
principle. . . . r
cy in Council is aware, that it is conformable both to reaſon and
I 2. His Excellen
pračtice to recognize, by treaty with a Foreign State, the exiſtence of rights originally
conveyed by the ſame Treaty of recognition. But in ſuch caſes, if the ſource from
which thoſe rights are derived be not diſtinétly expreſſed, the origin of ſuch rights
ſhould not be aſcribed to any unacknowledged principle. This obſervation appears
to apply to the preamble of the Treaty executed by your Lordſhip in Council, and to
the firſt Article of it, by both of which the right of the Nabob Azeem oo Dowlah.
to ſucceed to the Soobudary of the Carnatic ſeems to be attributed to a ſup-
poſed claim of inheritance, and not to the liberality and moderation of the Britiſh
:Government. * * ; • *
13. This acknowledgment, however objećtionable on the ſtated grounds, neither
affects the juſtice nor the principal advantages of the ſtipulations of the Treaty in
queſtion. His Excellency in Council therefore does not conſider the objećtion to be
of ſufficient force to preclude the ratification of the Treaty in its ačtual form, nor does
he deem the propoſed alterations to be of ſuch importance, as that they ſhould be
47%. , -- - - propoſed
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Vol. I. propoſed to his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem oo Dowlah at the hazard of forfeiting
(P.)
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any of the advantages already acquired, or even of exciting any degree of alarm or
jealouſy in the mind of his Highneſs Azeem oo Dowlah. -
14. His Excellency in Council, however, deeming it adviſable that the terms of
the Treaty ſhould be ſtrićtly conſiſtent with the fundamental principle of the arrange-
ment, in conformity to the foregoing obſervations, has introduced into the modified
Treaty a change of the terms of the preamble, and of the firſt Article, as executed by
your Lordſhip in Council; and his Excellency in Council, direéts, that ſhould your
Lordſhip be of opinion that the modified Treaty may be propoſed to his Highneſs’s
acceptance without the hazard of his diſſent or diſpleaſure, or without compromiſing
the dignity or the public faith of Government (which your Lordſhip in Council may
poſſibly have deemed it expedient to pledge to his Highneſs for the acknowledgment
of his hereditary title) your Lordſhip will propoſe the modified Treaty to his ac-
ceptance. But ſhould your Lordſhip in Council conſider it to be unadviſable to
make this propoſition to his Highneſs, either on any of the grounds herein ſpecified,
or on others, of which his Excellency in Council is not at preſent apprized, your
Lordſhip is at liberty to return the modified Treaty to Fort William, and to conſider
the former as concluſive and binding. : .
15. We now proceed to ſtate our obſervations on the 5th, 6th, and 7th Articles
of the Treaty tranſmitted by your Lordſhip in Council, which, in ſome points, appear
to his Excellency in Council to require further explanation.
16. With regard to the amount of the Jaggeers, to which the 8th Article of your
Lordſhip's Treaty refers, as an article of dedućtion from the amount of revenue
upon which his Highneſs the Nabob's ſhare of one-fifth is to be calculated, his
Excellency in Council is of opinion, that the lands included in the Jaggeers ſhould be
reſumed, and declared ſubjećt to the payment of revenue to Government; and that
payments in money, equal to the produce of theſe Jaggeers (to be eſtimated at the
ſum of 2, 13,421 pagodas, the amount ſtated in the Treaty of 1792) ſhould be made
from the Treaſury of the Company to the perſons now holding the Jaggeers, as long
as Government ſhall deem it to be proper to continue to thoſe perſons the benefit of
their reſpective Grants; his Excellency in Council accordingly deſires, that your
Lordſhip in Council will frame an explanatory Article, in conformity to the inſtrućtions
contained in this paragraph. . - -
17. His Excellency in Council is further of opinion, that although the juſt in-
ference from the terms of the 6th Article would be, that the ſum of pagodas 6,21, 1o;
is to form a permanent dedućtion from the total amount of revenue upon which the
Nabob's ſhare is to be calculated, yet it might be contended to be the intent of this
Article, that after the complete liquidation of the debts, for the diſcharge of which
that annual ſum is pledged, it ſhould form a portion of the total ſum on which the
Nabob's ſhare is to be calculated. Under this apprehenſion, his Excellency in
Council deſires that an explanatory Article be added to the Treaty, for the purpoſe
of precluding the poſſible operation of any reverſionary rights of the Nabob to ſhew
any part of this ſum, after it ſhall have been liberated from the incumbrances by
which it is now affected. : - -"
18. His Excellency in Council further remarks, that under the ačtual terms of
the Treaty, a queſtion might ariſe, whether his Highneſs the Nabob will be entitled
to a proportionate ſhare of any new branches of revenue which may be introduced
into the Carnatic under the management of the Britiſh Adminiſtration; and whe-
ther the ſame principle is to be applied to any augmentation of the exiſting ſources
of revenue in the territories of the Carnatic?—His Excellency in Council, anticipating
the improvements which will probably be made in the reſources of the Carnatic under
the beneficial influence of the Britiſh Power, is of opinion, that the income which
the Nabob would derive from the unlimited application of the principle ſuppoſed,
would hereafter amount to a larger ſum than it would be expedient to allow his
Highneſs to receive, conſiſtently with the dićtates of policy, and with conſiderations
inſeparable from the future ſecurity of the Company’s intereſts in the Carnatic. His
Excellency in Council therefore deems it an objećt of importance to guard againſt
the operation of this principle. His Highneſs, being ſecured in the receipt of a certain.
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income, under every poſſible contingency, it is reaſonable that the utmoſt extent of Vol. I.
that income ſhould likewiſe be limited. —
19. His Excellency in Council highly approves the conſideration which has been (*)
manifeſted for the prejudices and condition of his Highneſs, as the acknowledged
Soobadar of Arcot, in apportioning his income on the revenues of the Carnatic,
rather than by granting it in the form of a penſion; the propoſed reſtrićtion, there-
fore, ſhould be made in a manner the leaſt unacceptable to the feelings and injurious
to the rank of the Nabob: with this view, his Excellency propoſes, that in reſtrióting
the extreme amount of his Highneſs's income, it ſhould be expreſsly declared, that
the ſurplus of revenue beyond the amount which ſhall yield to his Highneſs the
full extent of his limited income, is to be appropriated to the purpoſe of eſtabliſhing
a fund for the contingency of war, or for any other public purpoſe which it may be
thought expedient to ſpecify. * -
20. His Excellency in Council accordingly direčts, that an explanatory Article be
framed in terms conformable to the foregoing obſervations, limiting the extent of
his Highneſs the Nabob’s income to ſuch a ſum as may appear proper to your Lord-
fhip in Council. •.
21. Whether your Lordſhip in Council ſhall adopt the modified Treaty herewith
tranſmitted, or ſhall adhere to the Treaty executed at Fort St. George, the Governor
General in Council is of opinion, that the propoſed explanations of the 5th, 6th,
and 7th Articles, will be equally neceſſary. -
22. His Excellency in Council, however, deems it expedient to ſtate, that he ſhall
be ready to receive, with due conſideration, whatever remarks your Lordſhip in
Council may think fit to make, affecting either the expediency or the neceſſity of the
propoſed additional Articles; and accordingly authorizes your Lordſhip in Council to
ſuſpend the execution of theſe inſtrućtions, as far as they relate to thoſe Articles,
ſhould your Lordſhip be deſirous of referring the ſubjećt to the further reviſion of
the Governor General in Council.
23. His Excellency in Council entirely approves the alterations which have been
made in the Declaration tranſmitted by his Excellency to Fort St. George.
24. The Governor General in Council likewiſe approves the tranſmiſſion of copies
of the Declaration to the Government of Bombay, and to the Reſidents at Poonah
and Hyderabad; under the circumſtances of the late arrangement, it is unneceſſary
to adopt any further meaſures for the purpoſe of publiſhing that Declaration. His
Excellency will accordingly intimate this opinion to the Governor and Council of
Bombay, and to the Reſidents at Poonah and Hyderabad. • *.
25. His Excellency deems it an act of juſtice to record his public thanks to your
Lordſhip in Council, for the zeal, ability, and diſcretion, which have ſo eminently
diſtinguiſhed your condućt in the progreſs and determination of this important
tranſačtion. - - ºf -
We have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordſhip's moſt obedient humble Servants,
(Signed) Welleſley. *
...On board of the Sonamookee Yacht P. Speke.
, off Barrackpore, Aug. 18th 180 I. Tho' Grahain.
(A true Copy.) - -
j. Webbe,
Chief Secº to, Gov".
: Encloſure in Marquis Welleſley's Letter to the Secret Committee; dated
21ſt Oét. 1801. *-
MEMORANDUM of propoſed Alterations in the Treaty between
the Honourable Company and the Nabob Azeem oo Dowlah.
*In the Preamble : -
And whereas the Muſnud of the Soobadarry of the territories of Arcot having
become vacant, the Prince Azeem oo Dowlah Bahauder has been eſtabliſhed by the
75. ...U Eaſt
P A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O THE
Vol. I. Eaſt India Company in the rank, property, and poſſeſſions of his anceſtors, here.
&P.)
tofore Nabobs of the Carnatic; and whereas the ſaid Company, and his Highneſs
the ſaid Prince Azeem oo Dowlah Behauder, have judged it expedient that addi-
tional proviſions ſhall at this time be ſecured, &c. &c. &c.
- z' Article 1 ſt. -
The Nabob Azeem oo Dowlah Behauder is hereby formally eſtabliſhed in the
ſtate and rank, with the dignities dependant thereon, of his anceſtors, heretofore
'Nabobs of the Carnatic, and the poſſeſſion thereof is hereby guaranteed, &c.
&c. &c. - - • *
(A true Copy.)
N. B. Edmonſtone.
The Treaty, as modified by the Governor General.
T R EATY for ſettling the ſucceſſion to the Soubahdary of the territories
of Arcot, and for veſting the Adminiſtration of the Civil and Military
Government of the Carnatic Payen Ghaut in the United Company of
Merchants of England trading to the Eaſt Indies. -
Whereas the ſeveral Treaties which have been concluded between the United
*Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eaſt Indies, and their Highneſſes
'heretofore Nabobs of the Carnatic, have been intended to cement and identify the
intereſts of the Contraćting Parties; and whereas in conformity to the ſpirit of this
alliance, the ſaid Company did by the Treaty concluded on the 12th July I 792
with the late Nabob Walajah, relinquiſh extenſive pecuniary advantages acquired
by the previous Treaty of 1737, with the view and on the confideration of eſtabliſh-
‘ing a more adequate ſecurity for the intereſts of the Britiſh Government in the
Carnatic ; and whereas ſubſequent experience has proved, that the intention of the
!Contraćting Parties has not been fulfilled by the proviſions of any of the Treaties
heretofore concluded between them ; and whereas the Muſnud of the Soobahdary of
Arcot having become vacant, the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder has been eſta-
bliſhed by the Engliſh Eaſt India Company in the rank, property, and poſſeſſions of
his anceſtors, heretofore Nabobs of the Carnatic; and whereas the ſaid Company
and his Highneſs the ſaid Prince Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder, have judged it expe-
dient that additional proviſions ſhould at this time be made for the purpoſe of ſup-
plying the defečts of all former engagements, and of eſtabliſhing the connection be-
"tween the ſaid Contraćting Parties on a permanent baſis of ſecurity, in all times to
come : Wherefore, the following Treaty is now eſtabliſhed and concluded by the
Right Honourable Edward Lord Clive, Governor in Council of Fort St. George, by
and with the ſančtion and authority of his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Marquis
Welleſley, K. P. Governor General in Council of all the Britiſh Poſſeſſions in the
Eaſt Indies, on behalf of the ſaid United Company on the one part, and by his
Highneſs the Nabob Walajah Ameer ul Dowlah, Madar ul Mulk, Ameer ul Hind,
Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder, Shawkut Jung, Sepah Salar, Nabob Soubahdar of the
Carnatic, on his own behalf on the other part, for ſettling the ſucceſſion to the
Soubahdarry of the territories of Arcot, and for veſting the adminiſtration of the
Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic in the United Company of Merchants
Aof England trading to the Eaſt Indies: - •
- - Article ºft.
The Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder is hereby formally eſtabliſhed in
the ſtate and rank, with the dignities dependent thereon, of his anceſtors, here-
tofore Nabobs of the Carnatic; and the poſſeſſion thereof is hereby guaranteed by
the Honourable Eaſt India Company to his ſaid Highneſs Azeem ul Dowlah
Bebauder, who has accordingly ſucceeded to the Soubahdarry of the territories of
Arcot. -
Article 2d. 2. : -
Such parts of the Treaties heretofore concluded between the ſaid Eaſt India
*Company and their Highneſſes, heretofore TNabobs of the Carnatic, as are cal-
- culated
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culated to ſtrengthen the alliance, to cement the friendſhip, and to identify the Vol. I.
intereſts of the Contračting Parties, are hereby renewed and confirmed, and, accord- -
ingly, the friends or enemies of both parties. - (P.)
- Article 3d. *
The Honourable Company hereby charges itſelf with the maintenance and ſupport
of the military force neceſſary for the defence of the Carnatic, and for the protećtion
of the rights, perſon, and property of the ſaid Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behaudar;
and, with the view of reviving the fundamental principles of the alliance between his
anceſtors and the Engliſh Nation, the ſaid Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah ſtipulates and
agrees, that he will not enter upon any negociation or correſpondence with any
European or Native Power, without the knowledge and conſent of the ſaid Engliſh
Company.
Article 4th.
It is hereby ſtipulated and agreed, that the ſole and excluſive adminiſtration of the
Civil and Military Governments of all the territories and dependencies of the Car-
natic Payen Ghaut, together with the full and excluſive right to the revenues thereof,
(with the exception of ſuch portion of the ſaid revenues as ſhall be appropriated for
the maintenance of the ſaid Nabob and for the ſupport of his dignity) ſhall be for
ever veſted in the ſaid Engliſh Company; and the ſaid Company ſhall accordingly
poſſeſs the ſole power and authority of conſtituting and appointing, without any in-
terference on the part of the ſaid Nabob, all Officers for the colle&tion of the revenues,
and of eſtabliſhing Courts for the adminiſtration of Civil and Criminal judicature.
4 Article 5th.
It is hereby ſtipulated and agreed, that offe-fifth part of the net revenues of the
Carnatic ſhall be annually allotted for the maintenance and ſupport of the ſaid Nabob
and of his own immediate family, including the Mahal of his late Highneſs the Ameer
ul Omrah ; the ſaid fifth part ſhall be paid by the Company in monthly inſtalments of
twelve thouſand ſtar pagodas; and whatever circumſtance may occur affecting the
net revenues of the Carnatic, the ſaid inſtalments ſhall not be leſs than twelve thouſand
ſtar pagodas; whatever-balance of the ſaid fifth part may remain due at the expiration
of each year ſhall be liquidated upon the ſettlement of the accounts ; and the ſaid
fifth part ſhall be at the free diſpoſal of the ſaid Nabob, conſiſtently with the principles
of the ſaid alliance. -
- Article 6th.
The fifth part of the revenues, as ſtated in the preceding Article, ſhall be calculated
and determined in the following manner; viz. all charges of every deſcription in-
curred in the collečtion of the revenues, the amount of the Jaghire lands ſtated in the
9th article in the Treaty of 1787 at ſtar pagodas 2, 13,42 I, and the ſum of pagodas
6,21, log appropriable to the liquidation of the debts of the late Mahommed Ally, ſhall
in the firſt inſtance be dedućted from the revenues of the Carnatic; and after the de-
dućtion of thoſe three items ſhall have been made, one-fifth part of the remaining net
revenue (including the Polygar Peiſhcuſh, which ſhall always be calculated at the
£um of ſtar pagodas 2,64,704. 20. 26. according to the Treaty of 1792) ſhall be allotted
for the maintenance of the ſaid Nabob, and for the ſupport of his Highneſs's dignity.
- - Article 7th.
Whereas it was ſtipulated by the 4th article of the Treaty of 1792, that the ſum of
ſix lacs twenty-one thouſand one hundred and five ſtar pagodas ſhould annually be
applied to the diſcharge of certain regiſtered debts due by the late Nabob Mahomed
Ally to his private creditors, under agreements concluded between his Highneſs and
the Honourable Company, and guaranteed by the Parliament of Great Britain, until
the ſaid regiſtered debt ſhould be liquidated; the Honourable Engliſh Company
accordingly hereby charges itſelf with the annual payment of 6,21.1 os pagodas from
the revenues of the Carnatic until the remainder of the ſaid regiſtered debt ſhall be
liquidated. -- - )
Z Article 8th. -
Whereas certain debts are due to the ſaid Company by the anceſtors of the ſaid
Nabob ; and whereas it is expedient, in order that the preſent Treaty may include a
175. -- - complete
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Vol. I. complete arrangement of all affairs depending between the ſaid Company and the ſaid
- Nabob, that an adjuſtment ſhould be made of the above-mentioned debts; wherefore
(P.)
the ſaid Nabob formally and explicitly acknowledges the debt commonly called the
Cavalry Loan, amounting, with its intereſt, to ſtar pagodas 13,24,342, 6, 47, and alſo
the portion of the regiſtered debt heretofore paid by the ſaid Company to the creditors
of the late Nabob Walajah (according to the annexed ſchedule) to be juſt debts; and
whereas, excluſively of the above-mentioned debts, other unadjuſted debts alſo remain,
which were referred to the adjuſtment and deciſion of the Governor General in
Council of Bengal ; and whereas the ſaid unadjuſted debts have not been determined
according to that intention, the ſaid Nabob hereby engages, that whenever the ſaid
determination ſhall be made, his Highneſs will acknowledge to be a juſt debt the
amount of the balance which ſhall be ſo declared to be due to the ſaid Company. It
is not, however, the intention of this Article to cauſe any diminution from the fifth
part payable to the ſaid Nabob ; but on the contrary, it is ſpecified, that no dedućtion
ſhall be made from the revenue on any account whatever, excepting the three items
ſtated in the 6th Article, previouſly to the determination of his Highneſs's pro-
portion. - -
Article 9th. .
The Engliſh Company engages to take into conſideration the aëtual ſituation of the
families of their Highneſſes the late Nabobs Walajah and Omdut ul Onrah Behaudur,
as well as the ſituation of the Principal Officers of his late Highneſs's Government;
and the Britiſh Government ſhall charge itſelf with the expence (chargeable on the
revenues of the Carnatic) of a ſuitable proviſion for their reſpe&tive maintenance.
The amount of the above-mentioned expences to be defrayed by the Company ſhall be
diſtributed, with the knowledge of the ſaid Nabob, in ſuch manner as ſhall be judged
proper.
Article Ictin. -
The ſaid Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behaudar ſhall in all places, on all occaſions,
and at all times, be treated with the reſpect and attention due to his Highneſs's rank
and fituation as an Ally of the Britiſh Government, and a ſuitable guard ſhall be ap-
pointed from the Company's troops for the protection of his ſaid Highneſs's perſon
and palace. . . . . • ‘ ‘ . -
Article I Ith. §
The entire defence of the Carnatic againſt Foreign enemies, and the maintenance of
, the internal tranquility and police of the country, having been hereby transferred to the
Britiſh Government, his ſaid Highneſs engages not to entertain or employ in his ſer–
vice any armed men without the conſent of the Britiſh Government, who will fix in
concert with his Highneſs, the number of armed men neceſſary to be retained for pur-
poſes of ſtate ; ſuch armed men as his Highneſs may in conſequence of this article
engage in his ſervice, ſhall be paid at the excluſive coſt and charge of the ſaid
Article 12th.
The Honourable Eaſt India Company ſhall, in conformity to the ſtipulations of
, this Treaty, enter upon the excluſive adminiſtration of the Civil and Military Govern-
ment of the Carnatic on the 31ſt day of July 1801 ; and his ſaid Highneſs the Nabob
ſhall iſſue orders to all his Civil and Military Officers to transfer the diſtrićt or diſtrićts
under their reſpective charge to ſuch perſons as ſhall be appointed by the ſaid Com-
pany to manage the ſaid diſtrićts, and alſo to deliver to the perſons appointed all
records, accounts, and official papers belonging to their reſpective cutcherries or
offices. r
This Treaty, bearing date the 31ſt day of July A. D. 1801, and conſiſting of twelve
Articles, having been executed by Edward Lord Clive, Governor in Council aforeſaid
on the one part, and his Highneſs Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder on the other part, is
hereby mutually interchanged, the ſaid Edward Lord Clive engaging that a copy of
the ſaid Treaty ſhall be tranſmitted to Fort William, for the purpoſe of being ratified
by his Excellency the moſt Noble the Marquis Welleſley, K. P. Governor General in
Council, and that as ſoon as the ratified Treaty ſhall be received from Bengal, it ſhall
be.
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be delivered to his ſaid Highneſs, who will then return to his Lordſhip the copy vol. I.
which he now receives. - * -
(Signed) Clive. . - (P.)
. . . - * . }. Stuart. - *
By the Right Honourable the • * - * ///* Petrže. .
Governor in Council. . - E. W. Fallowfield.
(Signed) }. Webbe, -
- -- Chief Secº of Gov".
SCHED ULE of the Account referred to in the 8th Article of this Treaty.
Amount paid by the Company to his Highneſs the Nabob's Creditors, :
on account of his conſolidated debt of 1777 - - tº - 26,47,381
Dedućt * § -. - . . - ;
Receipts of Revenue from the Carnatic ſurplus to the fixed
military ſubſidy, in the Fuſly years 1200 and 1201 - - 8,29,481
Intereſt at £. 6 per Cent, for 44 years - - - - 223,960
g . i _* . - 19,53,441
Balance due by the Nabob sº, - - - - - - 1593.9%
Add -
Intereſt for 4 years and 11 months, at 6 per Cent. sº - - she 4,7 O, 2 II
Aćtual Balance, S. Pº 2964, I s
By the Right Honourable the - - (Signed) Clive. -
Governor in Council. . j. Stuart.
(Signed) J. Webbe, Wºn Petrie.
- Chief Secº to Gov". E. W. Fallowfield.
(A true Copy.) .
}. Webbe, - -
- Chief SecY to Gov".
The Board having reſolved to ſubſtitute the Treaty propoſed by the Governor
General in Council for that already interchanged with the Nabob Azeem ul Omrah
on the 31ſt July laſt, the Preſident propoſes to reply on ſome early day to the fore-
going letter ; in the mean time his Lordſhip is happy to inform the Board, that the
modifications recommended by the Governor General in Council; have been cheer-
fully accepted by his Highneſs the Nabob ; and that his Highneſs has alſo agreed,
and with the ſame promptitude, to execute the following ſeparate Articles, which
have been framed in conformity to the inſtrućtions of the Governor General :
Separate Explanatory A R T I C L E S annexed to the Treaty for ſettling
the Succeſſion to the Soubadarry of the Territories of Arcot ; and for
veſting the Adminiſtration of the Civil and Military Government of the
Carnatic Payinghaut in the United Company of Merchants of England
trading to the Eaſt Indies.
- - • Article 1 ft. -
Whereas it is ſtipulated by the 5th Article of the Treaty, that the ſum to
be appropriated to the ſupport of the dignity of his Highneſs, the Nabob Azeem
ul Dowlah Bahader, ſhall be calculated at one-fifth part of the net revenues
of the Carnatic; and whereas the improvement of the ſaid revenues, which, under
Providence, may be expected to ariſe from the effečts of the preſent arrangement,
may render the ſaid fifth part greater than will be neceſſary to the purpoſes intended
by the Contraćting Parties, it is hegeby explained, for the better underſtanding of the
fifth Article of the Treaty, that whenever the whole net revenue of the Carnatic,
including the ſums to be dedućted according to the fixth Article of the Treaty,
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ſhall exceed the ſum of twenty-five lacks of ſtar pagodas, then and in that caſe the
fifth part of ſuch ſurplus ſhall be applied to the repair of fortifications, to the eſta-
bliſhment of a ſeparate fund for the eventual exigencies of war, or to the military
defence of the Carnatic, in ſuch manner as may be determined by the Governor in
Council of Fort St. George, after the previous communication to his Highneſs the
Nabob Azem ul Dowlah. - i
. Article 2d. *
Whereas it is ſtipulated in the 6th Article of the Treaty, that the ſum of
pagodas 2, 13,42 I, on account of Jagheers, and the ſum of pagodas 6,21, IoS,
on account of the private debts of the Nabob Mal. Smed Ally, ſhall be dedućted
from the amount of the net revenue, previouſly to the determination of the propor-
tion to be paid to his Highneſs the Nabob; it is nevertheleſs hereby explained, that
it ſhall not be incumbent on the Honourable Company to appropriate lands yielding
a revenue to the ſaid amount 2, 13,421 pagodas, but that the ſaid Company ſhall
be at liberty to exerciſe its diſcretion in the mode and on the extent of the pro-
viſion to be made according to the 9th Article of the Treaty, for the ſupport of the
Family and Principal Officers of the Nabob Mahomed Ally, and of the Nabob Om-
dul ul Omrah. And it is farther explained, that notwithſtanding the liquidation of
the private debt of the Nabob Mahomed Ally, or of the debt due to the Honourable
Company, the ſaid ſum of pagodas 6,2 I, Io; ſhall always be dedućted from the net
revenue, and ſhall in no caſe be included in the net revenue previouſly to the deter-
mination of the ſhare to be allotted to his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah
Bahadar, it being the intention of the Contračting Parties that the ſaid ſum of
pagodas 2, 13,421, and the ſaid ſum of pagodas 6,21, to 5, ſhall be confidered to be
permanent dedućtions in all times to come from the revenue of the Carnatic.
* (Signed) Clive.
By the Right Honourable the t - - }. Stuart,
Governor in Council. - - - - Wºm Petrie.
- E. W. Fallowfield.
(Signed) }. Webbe,
. . Chief SecY to Gov".
- (A true Copy.) -
. - }. Webbe,
& Chief Secº to Government.
To the Honourable Peter Speke, Vice Preſident in Council at Fort William.
Honourable Sir, -
1. We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the diſpatch, dated the
18th ultimo, from his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General in Council,
conveying to us his Excellency's approbation of the general ſpirit and ſtipulations
of the Treaty recently concluded by us with the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, together
with the modifications which his Excellency in Council judges to be neceſſary to the
completion of that inſtrument. a
2. Lord Clive has the honour of expreſſing to his Excellency the Governor
General his Lordſhip's ſincere acknowledgment of the peculiar delicacy obſerved by
his Excellency in propoſing theſe modifications, and of the confidence which the
Governor General in Council has repoſed in this Government, by confiding to the
exerciſe of its diſcretion the eventual adoption of the improvements conſidered by
his Excellency to be requiſite to the final arrangement of the affairs of the Carnatic.
3. In the mode adoptèd by the Governor General for conveying his Excellency’s
obſervations and inſtrućtions on this ſubjećt of the Treaty, Lord Clive has the ſatis-
faćtion of obſerving the moſt flattering teſtimony of the ſucceſs which has attended
his Lordſhip's anxious and conſtant endeavour to cultivate the confidence of the
Supreme Government by a zealous and cordial co-operation in the ſyſtem of
meaſures adopted by the Governor General with reſpect to this Preſidency; and
Lord Clive takes this opportunity to aſſure his Excellency of the unfeigned ſatis-
fačtion
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faćtion which he has felt on this occaſion, and which he will feel on all occaſions, in Vol. I.
(P.)
carrying into execution thoſe arrangements which his Excellency may judge moſt
conducive to the honour and proſperity of the Empire in India. #"
4, Lord Clive has the honour of explaining to the Governor General, that in
framing the late Treaty, his Lordſhip was aware that the fundamental principle of
the arrangement was the right acquired by the Britiſh Government to exerciſe its
diſcretion in the enforcement of ſuch meaſures as might be deemed neceſſary for the
ſecurity of its rights and intereſts as connected with the Soubadarry of Arcot It
was not therefore the intention of Lord Clive, by acknowledging the right of Azeem
ul Dowlah, to depart from the fundamental principle now ſtated; but it was his
Lordſhip's deſire, according to the pračtice of recognizing rights by Treaty not
exiſting antecedently to the Treaty of recognition, to inſert in the preſent Treaty
ſuch an acknowledgment on the part of the Britiſh Government as might give the
greateſt praćticable degree of force to the rights which it was about to beſtow on
the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah.
5. Lord Clive is, however, happy to inform the Governor General, that this
acknowledgment was entirely voluntary on the part of his Lordſhip, and that the
faith of the Britiſh Government has in no degree been pledged to recognize any in-
herent right in the Nabeb Azeem ul Dowlah throughout the late negociations. His
Highneſs ſtated his convićtion, that the rights of his Highneſs's family, founded on
its conneétion with the Company, had been annihilated by the violation of the alli-
ance, and that he conſidered the cauſes of his own elevation to have flowed from the
generoſity and moderation of the Britiſh Government. Lord Clive felt himſelf
therefore relieved from the ſuppoſed difficulties ſtated in the Governor General's
diſpatch in propoſing to the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah the modification recom-
mended by his Excellency with reſpect to the preamble, and to the firſt Article of
the Treaty at Fort St. George. . . -
6. In conformity to the principles repeatedly declared by his Highneſs, the Nabob
Azeem Dowlah received this propoſition with the utmoſt degree of cheerfulneſs, and
relinquiſhed all claims to the acknowledgment of his hereditary pretenſions, with-
out expreſſing any diffidence or alarm with reſpect to the intention of the propoſed
modification. •
7. We have therefore the honour to inform you, that the treaty framed by the
Governor General, according to the explanation contained in the diſpatch of the
18th ultimo from his Excellency in Council, has been executed by us; and the copy
of that inſirument, ratified by the Governor General in Council, has been delivered to
his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, from whom we have received a cor-
reſpondent copy of the Treaty. - -
8. In obedience to the farther inſtrućtions of the Governor General, for the pur-
poſe of obviating any doubt with reſpect to the intention of the 5th, 6th, and
7th articles of the Treaty, we have executed and interchanged with the Nabob Azeem
ul Dowlah ſeparate Explanatory Articles to be annexed to the Treaty; of thoſe Articles
we have the honour of tranſmitting a copy, for the purpoſe of being ratified by
the Governor General in Council, if they ſhould have embraced with ſufficient
preciſion the intention of his Excellency’s inſtrućtions. -
9. In fixing the ultimate amount of the Nabob's income, we have been governed
by his Excellency the Governor General's ſeparate diſpatches to Lord Clive ;
and his Excellency will obſerve, that the principle of calculation adopted by us
will limit his Highneſs's proportion to about three lacks of pagodas under the
moſt beneficial operation cf the preſent arrangements for the adminiſtration of the
revenues of the Carnatic.
10. We have the honour to inform the Governor General in Council, that the rati-
fied Treaty, with the ſeparate Explanatory Articles, was interchanged with his Highneſs
the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah on the 16th inſtant, under every circumſtance of
public reſpect ſuited to the importance of the occaſion.
1 1. We entertain a juſt ſenſe of the honour which the Governor General in
Council has conferred on us, by the expreſſion of his Excellency’s public thanks
on the occaſion of executing the Treaty: we beg to aſſure his Excellency, that we
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Vol. I, conſider the manner in which his ſentiments have been conveyed to us highly
honourable to the adminiſtration of the affairs of this Government; and we are
grateful for the confidence repoſed in us by the Governor General, by which we
have been enabled, in the condu°t of this important tranſačtion, to deſerve the ap-
probation of his Exceliency in Council. .”
12. Refle&ting on the progreſs and termination of this tranſačtion, Lord Clive
deems it to be his duty to beſtow that tribute of praiſe which is due to Mr. Webbe
and to Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe ; his Lordſhip confiders himſelf fortunate that
circumſtances permitted his employment of the ſervices of thoſe Gentlemen, accord-
ing to the wiſhes of the Governor General, in the oral examinations taken at Vellore
and Seringapatam ; and that he ſhould be enabled, at a ſubſequent period of time,
to avail himſelf of the ſame ſervices in the condućt of the late negociation.
13. Lord Clive has no doubt that the Governor General will concur in the im-
portance which his I ordſhip attaches to the conſiſtent form which has by theſe
means been preſerved in the progreſs of the tranſačtion, and to the peculiar advantage
derived from the excluſive employment of European Gentlemen of honour, emi-
rently qualified by their knowledge of Eaſtern manners and languages to condućt
a negociation of ſo much delicacy. - -
14. f. ord Clive knows, that it is unneceſſary for his Lórdſhip to direét the at-
tention of the Governor General in Council to the merits of Lieutenant Colonel
Cloſe and Mr. Webbe ; but his Lordſhip feels it to be no leſs an act of juſtice, than
of perſonal ſatisfaction, to expreſs to his Excellency in Council his Lordſhip's high
ſenſe and approbation of the temper, judgment, and ability manifeſted by theſe Gen-
tlemen, in the accompliſhment of an arrangement by which this Government, acting
under the authority of the Governor General in Council, has been enabled to adjuſt
the affairs of the Carnatic in a manner ſo honourabie and advantageous to the Com-
pany and to the Nation. - -
We have the honour to be,
- Honourable Sir,
Your moſt obedient humble Servants,
^-
Fort St. George, - - (Signed). Clive.
fº --
22d Sept. 1 86 I. - .* j. Steuart.
". . . y; - - W*. Petrie. -
E. W. Fallowfiela.
(A true Copy.)
• . }. Webbe,
Chief Secº to Gov".
[Here follºws Lord Clive's Minute in Council of the 29th September 1801,
relative to the pecuniary proviſion to be made for the Families of the late
Nabobs, with the ſtatements therein referred to ; contained in the printed
Papers before referred to ; folios 1 25 to 131 : —And the following is the
Reſolution of the Council thereon : ;
Approved, and ordered to be communicated to the Government at Fort William.
The neceſſary communications are direéted to be made to the Accountant General,
&c. &c. and the Preſident is requeſted to tranſmit to his Highneſs the Nabob a
Copy of the ſeveral ſtatements annexed to his Lordſhip’s Minute.
D I A R Y to Secret Conſultations, the 3d Oétober 1801. -
Sent the following Letter to the Honourable Peter Speke, Vice
Preſident in Council at Fort William. - •
Honourable Sir, - - . . -
1. Lord Clive has the honour of informing you, that, in conformity
to the 9th Article, recently concluded with the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, his
. . . .” - Lordſhip
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Lordſhip proceeded, in concert with his Highneſs, to determine the amount of the Vol. I.
pecuniary proviſion to be made for the Family, dependents, and Principal Officers ----—
of their Highneſſes the late Nabob Mahomed Ally and the, late Nabob Omdut ul
Onnrah. * v .
2. The principle on which the ſtipends have been fixed is deſcribed in a ſeparate
Minute, recorded by Lord Cive ; and we do ourſelves the honour of referring the
Vice Preſident in Council to the incloſed Copy of that Minute, for an explanation of
the principle of diſtribution, as well of the amount of money appropriated to the
different branches of the Families, to the dependants, and to the Principal Officers of
the late Nabobs. . - .
3. We have great pleaſure in pointing out to the notice of the Vice Preſident in
Council, that the total amount, which is entirely ſatisfactory to his Highneſs the
Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, is leſs than the eſtimated amount of the Jagheer lands in-
tended to have been appropriated to the ſupport of the family of the late Nabobs,
according to the proviſions of the Treaty of 1792. –
-*. - We have the honour to be, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive,
2d Oćtober 18O1. . . . . . . . . . . &c. Council.
E XT R A C T of Fort St. George Secret Conſultations, the 24th No-
vember 1801. - *
Read the following Letter:
To the Right Honourable Edward Lord Clive, Governor in Council at
. * Fort St. George. -
My Lord, -- . .” . . º
The Honourable the Vice Preſident in Council has had the honour to receive
the letter from your Lordſhip in Council, dated 22d September. 3.
The Vice Preſident in Council has now the ſatisfaction to return the two Explanatory
Articles which accompanied your Lordſhip's letter, ratified by his Excellency the
Moſt Noble the Governor General. -
- The Vice Preſident in Council wiil ſhortly again have the honour of addreſſing
your Lordſhip on the ſubject of that diſpatch. -
. . We have the honour to be, &c.
Fort William, - - G. H. Barlow.
the 3d November 1801. -- G. Udney.
The Preſident informs the Board, that he will take an early opportunity of ex-
changing the ratified Articles with the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah.
Ex T R A C T of Fort. St. George Secret Conſultations, the 12th
January 18O2. -
The Preſident lays before the Board the following Letter from his Excellency
the Governor General, and deſires that official copies of it may be tranſmitted to
Lieutenant Colonel Cloſe and Mr. Webbe. -
To the Right Honourable Lord Clive, Governor in Council, Fort St. George.
My Lord,
I Have the honour to tranſmit to your Lordſhip a copy of a diſpatch forwarded
by me to the Secret Committee of the Honourable the Court of Directors, under
date the 2 iſt of Côtober 18O I. *-
2. Your Lordſhip in Council, being already in poſſeſſion of the Papers enumerated
in the 5th paragraph of the diſpatch to the Secret Committee, it is unneceſſary at
preſent either to incloſe copies of them, or to trouble you with any further obſervations
175. * Y. . . . upon
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Vol. 1. upon their contents, than to direét that my diſpatch to the Secret Committee, which
accompanies this letter, be entered upon the Records of Fort St. George in the Secret
(*) Department. t - , ſº
Allahabad, I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
the 18th December 1801. - . (Signed) Welleſley.
By His Excellency the Moſt Noble
the Governor General.
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone.
Secº to Gov".
EXT R A CT of Fort St. George Political Conſultations, the 5th
March 18O2. $
The Preſident delivers in the following Minute:
Having lately received the permiſſion of his Excellency the Moſt Noble the
Governor General, to record ſuch parts of my ſeparate correſpondence with his
Excellency as I ſhould deem expedient, I take this opportunity of recording alſo
my correſpondence with other Public Officers conneéted or ariſing out of theſe com-
nnunications. *. -
I have direéted the whole of this correſpondence to be arranged in the order of the
ſubjećts to which it reſpe&tively relates, and ſhall annex to each head ſuch explanations
as it may appear to require ; premiſing that ſuch portions of my ſeparate correſpon-
dence, as terminated in any public ačt of the Government, have been already recorded
at the periods when thoſe public ačts received the ſančtion of the Board; it will there-
fore be moſt convenient that the correſpondence which I now record, ſhall be entered
in ſeparate books for eventual reference in the departments to which it reſpectively
belongs. • .
Nabob.
Sec' Dept.
Sect Depart. This head conſiſts of ſome letters, not hitherto recorded, to and from the Governor
Sonſ, 35% General, on the contingencies which might ariſe in the arrangement of the affairs of
Ju º: the Carnatic, and of ſome unimportant correſpondence with the late Nabob.
3 I o. - , , - .
$E PARATE
AFFAIRs of T H E CARN AT I C.
S E P A R A T E C o R R E S P O N D E N C E.
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To the Right Honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
My Lord, - -
1. I HAVE had the honour to receive your Lordſhip's diſpatch (Nº 11.) dated
the 21ſt ult, and I think it of importance to communicate to your Lordſhip, with
all pračticable expedition, my entire approbation of the arrangement which your
HLordſhip propoſes to adopt in the event of the death of his Highneſs the Nabob
Omdut ul. Omrah, for exerciſing proviſionally, on the part of the Honourable Com-
pany, the entire Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic.
2. Having recently conſidered the ſubjećt of the affairs of the Carnatic, conneéted
with the tranſačtions deſcribed in the correſpondence diſcovered at Seringapatam,
it is my intention to tranſmit to your Lordſhip, by Mr. Webbe, my detailed in-
ſtrućtions for your Lordſhip's guidance, which will embrace as well the contingency
of the Nabob's death, as the nature of the ſecurity to be provided for the future
intereſts of the Company in the Carnatic. Until your Lordſhip ſhall receive theſe
inſtrućtions, it is my wiſh that the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic
ſhould be exerciſed by the Government of Fort St. George, in the event of the death
of Omdut ul Omrah ; but it is my defire that your Lordſhip ſhould entirely refrain
from any negociation with the reputed Son of the Nabob, or with any other ſuppoſed
heir of his Highneſs, until my intentions with regard to the future government of
the Carnatic ſhall be fully communicated to your Lordſhip.
- - - - • . " I have the honour to be,
Fort William, - &c. &c.
2d June 180 t. h (Signed) Welleſley.
By his Excellency the Governor General. - - -
- (Signed) Henry Welleſley.
To the Right Honourable the Earl of Mornington, K. P. Governor General,
. &c. &c. &c. Fort William.
My Lord, . *
I have had the honour to receive your Lordſhip's official and ſecret diſpatch
(Nº 12.) dated the 26th March; and in conformity to the ſpirit of your Lordſhip's
requeſt contained in para. 3. I loſe no time in expreſſing to your Lordſhip my entire
concurrence in the expediency of every part of your Lordſhip's proviſional in-
ſtructions. - , - -
The event to which they have a reference ſeems, however, to be leſs within the
ſcope of immediate probability, than at any former period ſince my arrival in this
Country. - -
• I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, . . . . - &c. &c.
1 Ith April 1800. - (Signed) Clive.
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Marquis Welleſley, K. P. &c. &c. &c. r
My Lord,
The reports which I continue to receive of the declining health of his Highneſs the
Nabob of the Carnatic, afford the ſtrongeſt reaſon to expe&t his ſpeedy diſſolution.
The letter of your Lordſhip's official diſpatch (Nº 12.) dated 26th March
18, o, ſufficiently determines the meaſures which at that period your Lordſhip ex-
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to the receipt of your Lordſhip's final determination on the whole tenor of his
Highneſs's condućt, then under your Lordſhip's confideration.
But in the deciſion of this delicate and important queſtion, it is alſo material to
bear in mind, that the reſult of the inveſtigation which was directed in your Lord-
ſhip's ſubſequent diſpatch (Nº 13.) had not at that time been brought under your
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Lordſhip's obſervation; that in conſequence of the report of this inveſtigation, your
Lordſhip had made your arrangements for proceeding perſonally to Fort St. George
for the execution of the meaſures which your Lordſhip had reſolved to adopt, and
that being diſappointed in this expectation, your Lordſhip had required the preſence
at Fort William of the principal Executive Officer of this Government, for the
purpoſe of connečting, among other important objećts, the whole detail of the mea-
ſures to be adopted for the future Government of the Carnatic. . .” "
If therefore, in the event of his Highneſs's death, I ſhould proceed to the execu-
tion of a Treaty with his ſucceſſor, according to the diſcretionary powers which
have been veſted in me by your Lordſhip's diſpatch (Nº. 2.) it is manifeſt that I
ſhould anticipate thoſe details which are either at this time under your Lordſhip's
immediate conſideration, or have been concluded and determined by your Lord-
ſhip's authority; and that in either caſe, ſome new and important view, which a
reviſion of the whole caſe may have ſuggeſted to your Lordſhip's mind, might be
defeated by my premature interference. - x- - -
After the moſt mature, reflection on all the circumſtances which are conneéted with
theſe important conſiderations, I am ſatisfied that no material injury is likely to ariſe,
but that much future facility will probably enſue from holding the ſucceſſion itſelf,
as well as all its conſequent arrangements, open for your Lordſhip's future com-
mands. . • - -
I am accordingly prepared to limit my immediate views on the expected contin-
gency to the aſſumption of the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic,
according to the draft of a Proclamation which I have the honour to encloſe for your
Lordſhip's conſideration ; for the tranſmiſſion of which to all quarters of the Car-
natic, on tile moment of his Highneſs's deceaſe, I have made the requiſite arrange-
{{he ſitS. •. w - .
I have the honour to tranſmit, for your Lordſhip's confideration, the draft of a
Treaty which I had prepared, in conformity with your Lordſhip's orders in your
diſpatch (Nº. 1 2.) 1800, but which the conſiderations already, ſtated in this letter
have induced me to poſtpone for your Lordſhip's further commands. .
ithough this draft appears to me to be founded on the ſpirit of your Lordſhip's
inſtrućtions, as being modelled on the principles of the late Treaty of Tanjore, it
is proper for me to obſerve, that a full conſideration of its effect, compared with the
aćtual ſtate and encreaſed difficulties of the finances of the Company, will probably
juſtify, in your Lordſhip's opinion, an arrangement more favourable to the Intereſts
of the Company. .
• ? I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, - &c. &c. -
21ſt May 1801. , a (Signed) Clive.
P R O C L A M A T Lo N.
Whereas it has become expedient, in conſequence of the death of his Highneſs
the Nabob Walajah Omdut ul Omrah, &c. to make a temporary proviſion for the
adminiſtration of the Government and Revenues of the Carnatic, until the neceſſary
arrangements for its future government ſhall be fixed and eſtabliſhed: -
The Right Honourable Lord Clive, Governor in Council of Fort St. George,
hereby orders and direéts, that all Foujedars, Canongoes, Deſmookes, Deſpondeas,
Zemindars, Poligars, Aumils, Cumums, and Ryots, in the Soubahs of the Carnatic
Payen Ghaut, and its dependencies, do pay due obedience to the orders of the Engliſh
Sircar. ...” - -
All Aumils, Renters, Cumums, and Ryots, and the inhabitants at large, are accord-
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ingly hereby warned not to pay an anna of revenue after the publication of this
Proclamation to any perſon or perſons whomſoever but the Servants of the Com-
pany duly authorized, who will immediately proceed into and aſſume the manage-
ment of the country; and if, notwithſtanding this public warning it ſhall appear that
any ſum has been paid, on account of revenue, to any other perſons than the autho-
rized Servants of the Company, the perſons ſo paying will ſubjećt themſelves to pay
the like amount a ſecond time to the Honourable Company.
It is hereby further notified, that the juſt and reaſonable arrears due to the troops
and Sibundies now employed in the diſtrićts will be fairly adjuſted and diſcharged, ſo
ſoon as a regular Government ſhall be eſtabliſhed. - w
All perſons in charge of Religious eſtabliſhments, all Relations, Jaghiredars, Pen-
fioners, and others, dependant on the bounty of the deceaſed Nabob, may be ſatisfied
that their intereſts ſhall ſuſtain no injury from this temporary arrangement.
T REATY for cementing the Friendſhip and Alliance between the
Honourable Company and . . -
and for eſtabliſhing the Government of the Carnatic on a permanent
foundation. - -
Whereas the ſtipulations and conditions of the Treaty of 1792, concluded between
the Right Honourable Earl Cornwallis, Governor General, &c. &c. &c. and his
Highneſs Walajah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. Nabob of the Carnatic, have been found
inadequate to the intentions of the Contračting Parties: And -
Whereas on his elevation to the Muſnud of his Anceſtors, being fully aware of the
inefficacy of the exiſting engagements, is deſirous of entering into ſuch other arrange-
ments as may be deemed expedient for the better management of the revenues of
the Carnatic, and the due adminiſtration of juſtice; and alſo for ſecuring to the
Honourable Engliſh Eaſt India Company a regular diſcharge of their exiſting and
future demands on the Carnatic Payen Ghaut :
Wherefore the preſent Treaty is concluded between his Highneſs
on his own part, and the Right Honourable Lord Clive, Governor
in Council of Fort Saint George, on behalf of the Company, being inveſted with
full powers by his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Marquis Welleſley Behauder,
Captain General of His Majeſty’s and the Honourable Company's Forces, Governor
'General of all the Britiſh Poſſeſſions in India, according to the following Articles:
- Article iſt. - **
Such parts of all former Treaties with the former Nabobs of the Carnatic, as are
intended to eſtabliſh the friendſhip and alliance between the Honourable Company
and the Nabob of the Carnatic, are hereby ſtrengthened and confirmed; and the
Contraćting Parties mutually agree, that the friends and enemies of either ſhall be
confidered as the friends and enemies of both.
Article 2d.
The ſeveral proviſions heretofore eſtabliſhed, for enabling the Contračting Parties
to carry the ſpirit and intention of the preceding Article into execution, having proved
defe&tive, and the complicated evils which have hitherto ariſen from a divided and
‘flućtuating authority having eſtabliſhed the abſolute neceſſity of an effectual and
radical reform of the exiſting adminiſtration of the revenues of the ſaid country, it
is ſtipulated and agreed, that all former proviſions for ſecuring a partial or temporary
interference on the part of the Honourable Company in the government, or in the
adminiſtration of the revenues of the Carnatic, ſhall be entirely annulled, and that
in lieu thereof, a permanent ſyſtem for the colleótion of the revenue, and for the
adminiſtration of juſtice, ſhall be eſtabliſhed in the manner hereafter detailed.
- Article 3d.
The Honourable Company ſhall be at liberty, as ſoon as poſſible, to aſcertain,
determine, and eſtabliſh rights of property, and to fix a reaſonable aſſeſſment upon
the different ſoubahs, Zemindaries, talooks, pergunnahs, and villages of the Carnatic
Payen Ghaut, and to ſecure a fixed and permanent revenue; and the ſaid aſſeſſment,
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ſo aſcertained and fixed, ſhall not be liable to change, but ſtill be colleółed accord-
ing to fixed rent rolls, by ſuch Officers as ſhall be appointed for that purpoſe.
Article 4th.
Courts ſhall be eſtabliſhed for the due adminiſtration of civil and criminal juſtice,
under the ſole authority of the Engliſh Eaſt India Company. The ſaid Courts ſhall
be compoſed of ºfficers to be appointed by the Governor in Council of Fort St.
George for the time being, and ſhall in no inſtance whatever be ſubjećt to the controul,
authority, or interference cf the ſaid Nabob ; but ſhall be condućted according to
ſuch ordinances and regulations (framed with a due regard to the exiſting laws and
uſages of the country) as ſhall from time to time be enašted and publiſhed by the
Article 5th.
The revenues ſhall be collečted according to the rates of aſſeſſment to be eſtabliſhed
by the 3d Article, and by the Officers to be appointed by the ſaid Governor in
Council for that purpoſe ; and the ſaid Nabob ſhall exerciſe no controuſ whatever, nor
in any manner interfere in the adminiſtration of the ſaid revenues.
s c Article 6th. .
Whereas it was ſtipulated and agreed, by the 4th Article of the Treaty of 1792,
that the payments to the Honourable Company by his Highneſs the Nabob ſhall
amount to 15, 21, 105 pagodas, under the different denominations of Subſidy and
private Debts; it is now ſtipulated and agreed, that theſe diſtinétions ſhall for ever
ceaſe, and that the whole revenue ſhall be colle&ted and accounted for by the ſaid
Company in the manner hereinafter provided, the ſaid Company charging them-
ſelves with the payment of that part of the regiſtered private debt, on conſolidated
debt of 1777, which has not been already transferred to their account,
- Article 7th. -
In lieu of the ſaid ſtipulations in the 4th Article of the Treaty of 1792, it is
hereby ſtipulated and agreed, that his Highneſs the Nabob ſhall in all caſes receive
annually the ſum of 2,3,911 | pagodas, as an equivalent for the Jaghires reſerved by
the Treaty of 1792, which ſums ſhall be conſidered to be the firſt charge on the net
revenues of the Carnatic. In addition to the ſaid ſum of 2, 13,911 pagodas, his
Highneſs ſhall receive a proportion of one-fifth of the remaining net revenues of the
Carnatic, to be calculated after dedućting the amount of the ſaid Jaghires, and all
charges of collečtion of whatever deſcription ; the reſidue of the revenue, after the
foregoing dedućtions, ſhall be at the diſpoſal of the ſaid Company.
Article 8th.
It is however ſtipulated and agreed between the Contračting Parties, that a fixed
portion of the above ſpecified equivalent for the Jaghires reſerved by the Treaty of
1792, ſhall be appropriated according to a ſcale to be hereafter concerted between
the Contracting Parties, for the maintenance of certain branches of his Highneſ's
family, and of Jaghiredars, or other families, at preſent dependant on the ſervice or
bounty of the Nabob of the Carnatic. . X- ---
- Article 9th. -
It being the intention of the Honourable Company to ſecure, in the moſt ample
manner, to his Highneſs and to the branches of his family, and to the other perſons
deſcribed in the preceding Article, the proviſion intended to be made for them
I eſpectively, it is hereby ſtipulated and agreed, that the ſums which ſhall be ap-
propriated under the Preceding Article ſhali be paid from the Company’s Treaſury
to the perſons entitled to receive them ; and that whenever any of the ſaid families
ſhall become extinét, that the ſums allotted for their maintenance ſhall thenceforward
revert to his Highneſs the Nabob. -
Article I oth.
It is ſtipulated and agreed, that the Nabob ſhall be treated on all occaſions, in
his own territories as well as thoſe of the Company, with all the attention, reſpect,
and honour which is due to a Friend and Ally of the Britiſh Nation.
{ -- Article 11th. 3.
. It is agreed that the Honourable Engliſh Eaſt India Company ſhall charge them.
ſelves with the military defence of the Carnatic Payen Ghaut, and the cuſtody of
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all the forts and garriſons; and his Highneſs engages to maintain no troops what-
ever, excepting thoſe belonging to his Highneſs's honorary body guard,
Article 12th. -
His Highneſs the Nabob having by the above recited ſtipulations transferred to
the Honourable Company the exerciſe of the rights of Sovereignty over the Carnatic
Payen Ghaut, transfers alſo to the ſaid Company the rights of coinage, in order
that the evils now reſulting from the currency of various baſe coins may be re-
medied by a general coinage, to be eſtabliſhed by the ſaid Company.
- Article 13th. .
In order that his Highneſs the Nabob may have full ſatisfaction with regard to
the revenues of the territories hereby ſubjećted to the management of the Company,
his Highneſs ſhall be at liberty to inſpect the Accounts of the Board of Revenue from
time to time, or to ſtation a Vakeel or Accountant, at his own expence, for the purpoſe
of taking for his Highneſs's uſe copies of any or of all the accounts of the re-
venues of the Carnatic, which ſhall be recorded in the office of the Board of
Revenue. + -
-- Article 14th.
And whereas it is neceſſary to the convenience and comfort of his Highneſs the
Nabob, that certain ſupplies of rice grain and other grain, ſhould be ſupplied for
the uſe of his Highneſs, the Company bind themſelves to furniſh ſuch ſupplies as
often as the Nabob ſhall find it neceſſary to apply for this purpoſe, his Highneſs
binding himſelf to pay for the ſaid grain, with the charges of tranſportation, at the
rate of the current prices of the time being.
This Treaty, conſiſting of fourteen Articles being ſettled this day the
correſponding with ~~ by the Right Honourable Lord Clive on the part
of his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Marquis Welleſley, Governor-General aforelaid,
and by his Highneſs on his own part, the ſaid Right Honourable
Lord Clive has delivered to his Highneſs the Nabob one copy of the fame, ſigned
and ſealed by himſelf, and his Highneſs has delivered to the Right
Honourable Lord Clive another copy of the ſame, ſigned and ſealed by himſelf;
and the Right Honourable Lord Clive engages that the ſaid Treaty ſhall be
ratified by his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General, under his ſeal and
ſignature, within forty days from the date hereof.
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(Circular) To M. A. Scott, Collečtor at Guntoor.
Sir, - -
. Upon receipt of this letter you will proceed with the leaſt poſſible delay to Pulnaud,
to aſtume charge of the management of that diſtrićt, purſuant to the Proclamation
of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, of which a copy is herewith
encloſed.
The Commanding Officer has already been inſtrućted to place his ſeal, with that of
the late Nabob's Manager, on his late Highneſs's Cutcherry and the Public Trea-
ſure, and to deſire the Manager to prepare without delay the Jummah Waſil Baukee
of the revenue to the day of affixing the ſeals, to be delivered to you on your arrival.
Should he have declined to do ſo, you will take the moſt effectual meaſures for
aſcertaining the ſtate of the revenue, and collecting the balances, reporting to the
Right Honourable the Governor in Council, at as early a period as circumſtances
fhali admit, the ſettlement of the current year, the ačtual ſtate of the revenue and
country, and the amount of the arrears due to his Highneſs's Sibbendy immediately
employed therein.
Should any attempts be made to obſtrućt your aſſumption of the complete charge
of the country, you will without delay apply to the Officer commanding for military
aid, proclaiming your determination to make uſe of it if your authority ſhall not be
immediately acknowledged, and your orders promptly obeyed. S.
I am, Sir, &c. &c.
(Signed) 3. Webbe,
Secº to Gov".
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P. S. You will of courſe underſtand, that the Jaghires are to remain with the preſent
poſſeſſors until further orders. - - - -
The ſame to Mr. E. Greenway, to take charge of Pulicat and Setwadoor.
D° - - - to Mr George Stratton, collector in the Weſtern Pollams Vepeatag-
herry, to take charge of the northern diviſion of the Arcot province below the
Ghauts and north of the Palar. s -
D° -- Captain J. G. Graham, Kiſtnagherry, to take charge of Cudapunatum and
his Highneſs's diſtrićts above the Ghauts, and the villages within the Ba-
ramahal. -
D" - - - to Major Macleod, Salum, to take charge of the ſouthward and center
diviſion of the Arcot province ſouth of the Palar. . . .
D" - - - Mr. John Wallis, jun. Combacorium, to take charge of the province of
Trichinopoly Terriour Arrialour and Warriorpollam.
D° - - - Mr. T. B. Hurdis, to take charge of Madura.
D° - - - Mr. Luſhington, to take charge of the Tinnevelly province.
E)” - - - Mr. to take charge of Nellore and Ongole.
Circular (2d to each officer.)
To the Officer commanding, Arcot, Nellore, Ongole, Pulnaud, Chandergherry, .
Vellore, Amboor, Tiagar, Trichinipoly, Madura, Palamcota. -
Sir, - - -
... I am direéted by the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, to deſire, that
immediately on the receipt of this letter, you will proceed with a ſufficient guard to º
', the head Cutcherry of his late Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic, neareſt to your
poſt, where you will deliver to the principal Servant of the Cutcherry one of the ac-
companying Proclamations, and proceed to ſecure under your ſeal, and that of his
Highneſs's principal Servant on the ſpot, the caſh cheſt of the Cutcherry or the Sircar
treaſure, wherever lodged, together with all Sircar grain, and all the public records
and papers appertaining to his late Highneſs's Sircar. . . . . . . . . . .
You will require his late Highneſs's principal Servant to circulate a copy of the Pro-
clamation which you have delivered to him, to every. Cuſbah village within his ma-
ragement, with the leaſt poſſible delay, explaining to him, that prompt obedience will
recommend him both to his Highneſs and the Company’s Sircar; and you will re-
quire him to prepare for the uſe of the (enter the name) Civil Officer, who will imme-
diately proceed into the diſtrićt, a Jummah Waſil Baukee of the revenue, up to the
date on which you ſhall have affixed your ſeal on the public treaſure. -
In the event of a refuſal on the part of ſuch Servant to circulate the ſaid Proclama-
tion, you will, with all poſſible diſpatch, procure copies to be made, and take meaſures
for circulating them yourſelf to each Cuſbah village. - -
And you will cauſe the ſaid Proclamation to be promulgated by beat of Tom Tom,
in all the principal towns and villages within the management of the ſaid principal
£utcherry. I &c. &
2}]], C&C. C. C. :
(Signed) J. Webbe,
Chief SecY.
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Marquis Welleſley, &c. &c. &c.
My Lord, -
. Although in the meaſures which I have arranged for the event of the Nabob's
deceaſe, proviſion has been made for the poſtponing any interference with the exiſt-
ing Jaghires, I have conſidered it expedient, for the purpoſe of tranquilizing the minds
of the Muſſulman inhabitants at large, to add the following paragraph to the draft
of
A FF AIRS OF T H E C A R N AT I C. 89
of the intended Proclamation, which I had the honour to incloſe in my diſpatch to Vol. I.
your Lordſhip, N° 1 1. tº g . . ...
All perſons in charge of Religious eſtabliſhments, all Relations, Jaghiredars, Pen- cº.
fioners, and others, dependant on the bounty of the deceaſed Nabob, may be ſatis- "dence.
fied that their intereſts ſhall ſuſtain no injury from this temporary arrangement.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, . . . . (Signed) Clive.
22d May 18o I.
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Marquis welleſley, K. P. &c. &c.
My Lord,
The particular circumſtances which attach to his Highneſs the Nabob of the
Carnatic, and to the family of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, until the late ar-
rangement for the affairs of the Carnatic ſhall have received the confirmation of
the Court of Direétors, have induced me to record my ſentiments in a particular
manner. The expediency of ſuppreſſing the expectations which the family of Omdut
ul Omrah manifeſtly continues to cheriſh, appeared to me to require the explicit
declaration contained in my anſwer, addreſſed to the diſcontented Members of it ;
and I deem it to be my duty to tranſmit to your Excellency a copy of my Minute,
with the ſeveral Papers annexed to it, for the purpoſe of apprizing your Lordſhip of
the adherence of Omdut ul Omrah's family to the Councils of that Prince, and for
the purpoſe of enabling your Lordſhip, if you ſhould deem it to be expedient, to
aiſe your influence to check the hopes of change induſtriouſly encouraged by ſome
Members of the Family, to the manifeſt inconvenience of every branch of it.
- I have the honour to be,
&c.
f
Fort St. George, # &c. &c. .
26th Dec. 1801. . (Signed) Clive.
COPY of a Letter from the Regents appointed by the late Nabob of
the Carnatic Omdut ul Omrah, to act during the minority of the young
Man nominated by his will as his Succeſſor. # .
To the Honourable the Court of Direétors of the Eaſt India Company.
May it pleaſe your Honourable Court,
It is with infinite concern that we acquaint you with the death of his Highneſs
Omdut ul Omrah, &c. late Nabob of the Carnatic; and with ſeveral unfortunate
conſequences which have ſucceeded to that melancholy event. - .
His Highneſs departed this life on the 15th ultimo, having been afflićted for ſome
time previous with a dangerous diſorder, which abating at ſeveral intervals in its
ſeverer ſymptoms, allowed his Highneſs to appoint a Succeſſor, and to diſpoſe with
proper formality of his affairs.
We have to inform your Honourable Court that by his lºſt teſtament, his High-
neſs was pleaſed to name his only acknowledged Son Wallajah Ameer ul Hind,
Tajoob Omrah, Armeer ul Mulk, Moin ud Dowlah, Mahommed Ally Huſſein
Caum Bahauder, Jaffer, Zung, &c. &c. &c. to ſucceed to the Sovereignty of the
Carnatic ; and, conſidering the tender years of the Prince, was further pleaſed £()
appoint a Regency to ačt on his behalf until he ſhould have attained his nineteenth
year, which laſt important office was committed to our hands, by the confidence and
truſt with which his late Highneſs had ever condeſcended to honour us.
Entering on the funètions of our ſacred charge, we communicated to the Go-
vernment of Fort St. George the order of ſucceſſion which his Highneſs had
thought proper to appoint, the particular relation in which we ſtood with the high
Perſonage on whom the Sovereignty had devolved, and our willing diſpoſition to
conſult with them for the intereſts of the Company; and for ſeveral days the Officers
of that Government were deputed to us with offers, which they repreſented to us as
having been ſuggeſted by the Government General of Bengal, and as being inca.
;Pable of any modification or change. 3.2
175. A a The
90 P A P E R S R E L A TI N G T O T H E
Vol. I. The offers to which we have alluded embraced the entire ſurrender of the Carnatic,
- with all the privileges and immunities attached to its Sovereignty, without ſtipula-
dº. tion or condition whatſoever; though at the time when they were made, the Offi-
i..." cers of Government, we muſt do them the juſtice to ſtate, were pleaſed to ſay that
the Company were inclined, in the event of that ſurrender, to make an ample pro-
viſion for the Prince. .
Your Honourable Court will perceive the numerous difficulties which oppoſed
themſelves to our acceding to terms of ſo extraordinary and extenſive a nature, and of ſo
direét a tendency to the violation of the truſt which had been honourably confided to
us; and will not be ſurprized that from a ſenſe of duty, we heſitated to comply with
them.
We have, however, to apprize your Honourable Court, that we endeavoured by
revery means within our power, to ſatisfy the wiſhes of the Company, ſo as that obječt
might be attained without the ſacrifice of our honour, and the treacherous ſurrender
of the intereſts committed to us in charge. And with this inclination we framed
certain Articles in writing, and preſented them to the Officers of Government,
whereby we propoſed to cede to the entire management and controul of the Com-
pany, the diſtricts of Madura, Tinnevelly, Palnaud, and Angole, in lieu of the an-
nual Kiſts which the Princes of the Carnatic engaged themſelves to pay to the
Company by the Treaty of 1792, under the denomination of a ſubſidy, the rents
of which diſtrićts being equal to the ſum claimable on that account; and perceiving
afterwards, that the Government were ſtill defirous of a more extenſive territorial
acquiſition and controul, we ſcrupled not to offer, with a view to prevent any miſ-
underſtanding in the commencement of our office, to cede the whole of the countries
mentioned in the Schedule N° 2, annexed to the laſt mentioned Treaty, on the baſis
of our former propoſal, to be poſſeſſed by the Company in entire power, until his
Highneſs ſhould arrive at the age when he was appointed to take charge of his
own affairs. x * ,
As the laſt propoſal left nothing within our hands for the behalf and enjoyment of
this Highneſs but a ſmall part of the Province of Arcot, ſome family Jaghires and
certain regal Privileges, we entertained the moſt ſanguine hopes that it would have
ſufficed to gratify the deſires of the Company. But we had the misfortune to find,
after many conferences, that nothing could ſatiate their views but an abſolute and un-
qualified ſubmiſſion to their will; a ſubmiſſion which, in our ſituations, we could neither
juſtify to ourſelves nor to the world. -
It would be unneceſſary for us to ſtate to your Honourable Court the ſeveral
meetings and converſations which paſſed between us, and the avowed Officers of
Government; but it may be expe&ted that we make known to you the oſtenſible
grounds on which ſo extraordinary a preliminary was propoſed on the part of the
Government, and at all our conferences moſt peremptorily inſiſted on. And this was
no other than an alledged forfeiture by the Officers of Government of the Sovereignty
of the Carnatic, for a ſuppoſed breach of Treaty by his late Highneſs and his Royal
Predeceſſor, in holding Communication with Tippoo Sultaun, late Sovereign of
Myſore; a circumſtance of which we never heard the ſlighteſt infinuation until that
sunfortunate moment. . .
Knowing that his late Highneſs had lived in amity with the Company’s Govern-
ment, and had fulfilled all the relations which were incumbent on him to the lateſt
hour of his exiſtence; that the whole of the Aſiatic world flaw the mutual courteſies
which were daily paſſing between them ; we had a full impreſſion that the grounds
ſuggeſted to us were not the real and true reaſons on which the immediate offer was
founded. -
We ſhall not trouble your Honourable Court with the means and arguments which
we uſed to convince the Government, that no correſpondence of an unfriendly nature
had ever been entered into by the great and venerable Perſonages whom we have
before named. For you will conclude with us, both from the nature of the offer,
and the circumſtances which ſucceeded it, that the reaſon avowed by them was not
the plain reaſon which governed either their offer or their condućt; and if the alledged
circumſtance of complaint had exiſted, but which we moſt poſitively deny, until
- JBºster
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
9I
better and more ſolemnly aſſured, we do not ſee what poſſible right or pretext of
interference it could have afforded to the Company under the exiſting ſituation of
things.
Whatever ſuppoſed correſpondence his late Highneſs or his Predeceſſor had en-
tered into, it had not altered their condition with the Company, had not changed
their demeanour towards them, and had not effected any injury to their intereſts.
Their ſucceſſor therefore preſented himſelf to the Company, with a deſire torenew
his engagements, with no offence on his head, and with an offer of friendſhip and
fervice in his extended hand; and it is difficult to imagine any principle which could
have authorized the Company under this circumſtance, to refuſe his propoſed amity,
to deny his independency, to caſt him from his hereditary dominions, and to place
another, without pretenſions, on the Muſnud of his Fathers. But theſe things have
occurred to the wonder and aſtoniſhment of the Indian world !
We neither know, nor can we acknowledge any merit or right in the Perſonage
whom the government of Fort St. George have thought proper to clothe with the
Sovereignty of the Carnatic, except the merit of his conforming himſelf to another's
‘mandate, and his having ceded a mighty empire, which was not his own, to the am-
ibitious deſigns of the Company; of his having diſgraced the line of Princes who
preceded him, and of his having given, by the terms and manner of the ſurrender,
the ſevereſt blow to thoſe intereſts which he thought for his own advantage to ſerve.
For no one meaſure could have ſpread a more general alarm and jealouſy at the
different Courts of Hindoſtan than that which it is our buſineſs to repreſent, in the
hope of a ſpeedy and ſubſtantial redreſs. - .
We are not aware of the juſtifications which the Government may attempt of their
injurious and unmerited condućt to a Prince whom they have thought fit to depoſe.
But we know and feel that ſuch juſtification, whatever it may be, cannot ariſe out of
the condition of the Prince ; for we are bold to aſſert, that in perſon and quality he is
juſtly and lawfully entitled to receive, and by circumſtance and fact, has undoubtedly
and unequivocally received the Sovereignty of his Fathers; and in full confirmation of
this aſſertion, we have taken the liberty to incloſe a copy of the Will of his late Highneſs
the Nabob ; the opinion of the learned Mawlanahs ; and the ſentiments of every
branch of his late Highneſs's Family and connections.
With theſe documents before your Honourable Court, you will underſtand thoſe
fair and honourable pretenſions which his Highneſs the Prince, our undoubted
Sovereign, poſſeſſes to the throne of his anceſtors; and underſtanding them, we are
confidently aſſured that your Honourable Court will take immediate means to aſſert
the honour and dignity of the Britiſh charaćter, in rendering complete and ſatisfactory
juſtice, though it be at the expence of ſelf denial, and the exerciſe of ſeverer virtues.—
What need we ſay more
(L.S.)
(L. S.)
*
‘The Letter from the reputed Son of the late Nabob to Meſſrs. Hall and johnſtone,
has been already laid bºſore the Houſe; folios 132 tº 142 ºf the printed Papers
, before referred to.
Vol. I.
eparate
Correſpon-
dence.
[ 93 I
vo LUM E II.
^
ORD ERS of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 16th December 18oz.
Proceedings of the Government of Fort St. George, regarding
the Affairs of the Nabob of Arcot ; including their Re-
preſentations to the Court of Direétors on the Subjećt.
Ex T R A CT of Public Letter from Fort St. George; dated Vol II. w
15th Oétober 1801. ’’ ‘, - -
Para. I48. T our Conſultation of the 4th Auguſt laſt, Lord Clive acquainted Conſ. 4th
-- us, that previouſly to the inſtallation of the Nabob Azeem ul Aug"
Dowlah, his Lordſhip had found it neceſſary to advance to his Highneſs the ſum of
one lac of rupees, on account of his proportion of the revenues of the Carnatic,
to be accounted for on the ſettlement of accounts at the end of the current year;
and that his Lordſhip had alſo thought it expedient to make a preſent to that Prince
of five thouſand rupees, for the purpoſe of relieving his pecuniary diſtreſs, previouſly
to the acknowledgement of his title to the Subahderry of Arcot. The neceſſity of
this advance of money was founded on the extreme embarraſſment of Azeem ul
Dowlah's pecuniary affairs, ſince the death of his Highneſs's father Ameer ul
Omrah. •
149. Lord Clive alſo deemed it to be conſiſtent with the importance of the oc-
caſion to preſent to his Highneſs the Nabob, at the ceremony of his inſtallation,
jewels and preſents to the amount of 1,428 pagodas on the part of the Company,
which we have no doubt your Honourable Court will approve.
EXTRA CT of Political Letter from Fort St. George; dated 17th
February 1802. - - -
Par. 80. We are concerned to inform you, that the principal branches of the
Nabob's family have manifeſted in a manner highly diſreſpectful to the Britiſh Go-
vernment, and entirely regardleſs of thoſe motives of humanity and magnanimity
which prevented the entire degradation of the Family, a decided hoſtility to the Nabob
Azeem ul Dowlah. The endeavours of Lord Clive to conciliate a better diſpoſi-
tion, appear to have been fruſtrated by the hopes encouraged by the diſcontented
members of the Family of an ultimate change of the late arrangement. Theſe ex-
pećtations are obviouſly fomented by the arts of perſons intereſted in the diffenſion
of the family, and we regret ſincerely that thoſe Princes ſhould be ſo little diſpoſed
to conſult the dignity and comfort of the family. -
8 The ſubjećt of theſe diffenſions is fully diſcuſſed in our Minutes noticed in conſ. 22d
the margin, in which your Honourable Court will obſerve the grounds of diſſatisfac- December
175. - - 3 b - tion 1891.
&
§§4.
* . .
w
*PAP ERS RELATING TO THE
A
* Vol. II.
tion ſtated by the diſcontented members of the family, the explanation of the principles -
of his condućt by the Nabob, and the obſervations of the whole tenor of thoſe pro-
ceedings recorded by Lord Cive. - " . .
-82. Upder theſe circumſtances, which terminated in the Treaty of the Carnatic, it
2 is manifeſtly the duty of the Britiſh Government to ſupport, in the moſt unequivocal
tº manner, the rights conferred on the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, and to open any
's encouragement to an expectation of change would be equally inconſiſtent with the
... ſolemn pledge of public faith, and injurious to the comfort and happineſs of the
family; Lord Clive therefore aſſures your Honourable Court, that his Lordſhip's
conſtant care will be directed to the ſuppreſſion of theſe fruitleſs hopes, and to the
maintenance of the relations recently eſtabliſhed with the Nabob Azeem ul
: Dowlah. - y -
83. The rights of the family being obliterated by the ačt of treachery, it is no
leſs preſumptuous than ungrateful in thoſe Princes to oppoſe an arrangement executed
for the principal purpoſe of renewing its conneétion with the Company, and its rank
in Hindoſtan; and as your Honourable Court poſſeſs ample teſtimony of the aëts
tº recurred to by the late Omdut ul Omrah and his Highneſs’s adviſers, we have no
doubt that you will be ſufficiently prepared to meet the endeavours of intereſted
; perſons to calumniate the late arrangements. - . .
84. Lord Clive has the ſatisfaction of informing your Honourable Court, that
his Lordſhip has had occaſion to obſerve the greateſt degree of moderation on the
part of his Highneſs the Nabob, and abundant proof of his diſpoſition to regulate
*
his condućt upon principles conformable to his ačtual ſituation. The fačts indeed
ſtated in his Highneſs's letter of the 22d January laſt, afford the moſt ſatisfactory
: teſtimony of the diſpoſition and refrainment of his Highneſs to poſſeſs himſelf of the
property of his Father, under all the circumſtances of his elevation and power, leave
us no room to doubt the ſincerity of his profeſſed deſire to acquire the affeótions of
his family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
85. At the ſame time that we ſhall decidedly ſupport the rights of the Nabob
Azeem ul Dowlah, Lord Clive aſſures your Honourable Court, that the ſtrióteſt
degree of care and vigilance ſhall be applied to the ſecurity and happineſs of the
diſcontented branches of the family. This aſſurance his Lordſhip offers with the
more confidence from the ready diſpoſition of the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah to ac-
commodate his Highneſs's condućt to the views and wiſhes of the Britiſh Govern-
ment, and we take this opportunity of expreſſing to your Honourable Court our
ſatisfaction at this happy change in the temper of the Houſe of Arcot, which, ſince
• the Treaty of the Carnatic, has been converted from a ſpirit of acrimonious complaint
and embarraffing oppoſition, to a cordial deſire of cultivating the favourable opinion
of the Government of Fort St. George, by diſcharging the duties of gratitude, attach-
ment and reſpešt.
86. The moſt Noble the Governor General having addreſſed a Letter to the
Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, recapitulating the pºinciples of his Highneſs's elevation to the
Muſnud, congratulating his Highneſs on the event, and aſſuring him of the laſting
a ſupport of the Britiſh Government, both in England and in India; and having been
i plea ſed to direct this addreſs to be preſented to his Highneſs, accom panied by ſuitable
preſents on the part of his Excellency, we have the honour to inform your Honour-
able Court, that we in conſequence attended our Preſident to the palace of Chepauk,
i. for the purpoſe of delivering to the Nabob the letter and the preſents, as commanded
: by the Governor General; and that his Highneſs has received them with every mark
s-of reſpect and ſatisfaction. . . . .
87 The receipt of the moſt Noble the Governor General's Letter is calcu-
-lated to ſuppreſs every doubt of the permanency of the Treaty of the Carnatic,
and this public declaration of his Excellency's ſentiments has tended to compoſe to
- a confiderable extent, the anxiety of the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah’s mind. His
Highneſs anticipated from it the early arrival of your confirmation of that Treaty, and
as that event alone can ſuppreſs, the hopes excited and preſerved by the diſcontented
; part of the family, we truſt, that in compaſſion for them, as well as in conſideration for
the dignity of the Nabob, your Honourable Court will tranſmit to us your ſentiments
“on the Treaty of the Carnatic with every praćticable degree of expedition.
- . - - - 83. ‘We
§
AFFAIRs of THE CARNATI c.
95.
;
a"
f
88. We have the ſatisfaction of informing your Honourable Court, that his
Highneſs has received the congratulations of the Peſhwa, and of the Nizam, on the
occaſion of his elevation to the Muſnud, and the letters from thoſe Princes have
been entered on our Records. * -
89. Having received from the Preſident at Travancore an application on the part
of the Rajah, requeſting to be made acquainted with the channel through which his
{tipulated annual payments were in future to be made to his immediate ſuperior Lord,
Vol. II.
Conſ. 7
Nov. 1801,
D7 to Conſ.
24 dº and
C. C. No 68
for the Year
* - º r - - - • - - - - - - 18o I.
we direéted his Excellency to be informed, that the Peſhcuſh Nuzzeranahs and
Nuzzers payable by his Excellency were to be tranſmitted, according to the ancient
Auſage, to the Durbar of the Nabob of the Carnatic. -
90. We have judged it to be proper to compliment the Nabob by relinquiſhing
his Highneſs, as appendages of Sovereignty, the gardens of Sarelghur, the palace and
gardens of Trichinopoly, and ſundry villages and other Enautais appropriated, to
Religious purpoſes. - - -
91. For any further information on this ſubjećt, we have the honour to refer you
to the liſts of the religious appropriations delivered to us by the Nabob, and to our
inſtrućtions to the Board of Revenue noticed in the margin.
92. We have iſſued orders to the Officer commanding at Trichinopoly, to afford
protećtion to the family of Nuſſeer ul Mulk, the brother of the late Omdut ul Omrah.
They appear to have been expoſed to the inſults and menaces of the late ſervants of
...the Circar, who had grown clamorous for the diſcharge of their arrears of pay. Your
Honourable Court will be pleaſed to learn, that our protećtion has been extended to
this family at the expreſs deſire of his Highneſs the Nabob. . -
99. In conſequence of a repreſentation ſubmitted to us by our Preſident on the
2d inſtant from Sultan Mirza Mahomed Tajul Deon, a member of the Hºuſe of
Timur, we have, in concert with his Highneſs the Nabob, admitted that Prince to
be a penſioner on the Carnatic, under the arrangement communicated to the Secret
Committee in our diſpatch of the 1ſt Oétober laſt,
1oo. This perſon would have been included in the firſt arrangement of the ſtipen-
diary proviſion for the dependants of the late Governments, but the exiſtence of his
...claim on the Carnatic was unknown at that period of time. , - - -
.**
EXTRACT of Political 'Letter from Fort St. George ; dated
23d March 1802. - - ". -
Para.-5. Your Honourable Court will have learned from our Minutes noted in
: the margin, that the diſſatisfied members of his Highneſs's family had ſignified to the
sy
Nabob their reſolution to quit the precinóts of Chepauk, and they accordingly applied
J C* *- :-
* to the Right Honourable the Governor for a guard to eſcort them to the places where
... they reſpectively intended to fix their reſidence. His Highneſs the Nabob, having
...however intimated to thoſe Princes, that the females could not, confiſtently with the
dignity of the family, be permitted to ſeparate themſelves from his Highneſs, as the
sconſtituted head of that farcily ; and farther, that his Highneſs could nºt permit the
treaſure accumulated by his predeceſſors to be ſurreptitiouſly conveyed from the
palace for the purpoſe of individual branches of the family, his Lordſhip deemed it
to be his duty, on the principles already ſtated to your Honourable Court, to refrain
from any further correſpondence on that ſubjećt. * .
6. We have the honour however to inform your Honourable Court, that thoſe
perſons of the family whom we have mentioned continue in the undiſturbed poſſeſſion
of their apartments in the palace of Chepauk, and we have reaſon to be ſatisfied
Conſ.
24 Nov.
18oz.
g to
Conſ,
io Nov.
Y
conſ.
I 5 Dec.
Conſ. 9 Mar.
…that their perſons and reputations are entirely ſafe from any indignity, if it ſhould even
be the intentions of the preſent Nabob, which we are convinced it is not, to offer it.
EXT R A C Twof Political Letter from Fort St. George ; dated
3d May 1892. -> -
Para. 2. We are concerned to be under the neceſſity of reporting to your
Honourable Court the death of Ally Huſſain, the reputed ſon of the late Nabob of
the Carnatic, who departed his life on the 6th ultimo, - i
175. - - - - t 3. We
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Vol. If e
*
3. We have the honour to incloſe, for the information of your Honourable Court,
the copy of a diſpatch which the Right Honourable Lord Clive tranſmitted on the
occaſion to the Moſt Noble the Governor General ; and in addition to the circum-
ſtances mentioned in that diſpatch, we deem it proper to acquaint your Honourable
Court, that the illneſs of Ally Huſſain commenced in the interior apartments of
Sultana Niſſa Begum, his paternal aunt; that he was not removed from thoſe apart-
ments until the ſtate of his diſorder had become deſperate, and that the ſituation of
the young man appears to have been concealed, as well from his own mother, as from
the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah and from ourſelves. On his arrival at his mother's
palace, from which he had been abſent more than two months, he was in a ſtate of
inſenſibility; and on the 3d ultimo in the evening, it was underſtood, from rumour
alone, that Ally Huſſain's illneſs, was of a ſerious nature. On the morning of the
5th, Mr. Horſeman the Phyſician, who is appointed to attend the Nabob and High-
neſs's family, was direéted to endeavour to obtain admiſſion, with a view to aſcertain
his ačtual ſituation, to adminiſter ſuch affiſtance as might be requiſite, or to offer, on
the part of Lord Clive, ſuch medical aid as the young man himſelf might deſire;
i)r. Anderſon was named by ſome of his attendants, and the ſuppoſed letter of Ally
Huſſein, containing a requeſt to that effect, was received about the ſame time that
Mr. Horſeman was making his report to Lord Clive. -
4. On the receipt of that letter, immediate orders were iſſued to the Phyſician
General for the purpoſe of his waiting on Ally Huſſein. The circumſtances, ſubſe-
***
quent to Dr. Anderſon's viſit are ſufficiently deſcribed in Lord Clive's diſpatch to
the Governor General, to which we have the honour to refer you.
EXT R A CT Political Letter from Fort St. George; dated the 29th
May 1802. - * - .
Para. 2. The letter which we had the honour of diſpatching to your Honourable
Court overland on the 3d inſtant, will have apprized you of the deaths of Ally Huſſein,
the reputed ſon of the late Nabob of the Carnatic, and of Amer Sing the depoſed Rajah
of Tanjore. - - ... • r -
3. Mr. Dick having deemed it to be neceſſary for him to record a formal diffent
to the mode of that addreſs, we have the honour of referring you to our Minutes for
the grounds of that Gentleman's objećtion, and for our ſeparate Minutes produced
in conſequence of his diſſent.
EXTRA C T of Fort St. George Public Conſultations, the 4th
Auguſt #8o I. .*
The Preſident acquaints the Board, that previouſly to the inſtallation of the Nabob
Azeem ul Dowlah, his Lordſhip judged it expedient to advance to his Highneſs the
fum of one lack of rupees on account of his proportion of the revenues of the Carnatic,
to be accounted for in the ſtatement of accounts at the end of the current year.
*
, Lord Clive alſo informs the Board,' that he judged it to be expedient to make a
preſent of five thouſand rupees to the Prince Azeem ul. Dowlah, for the purpoſe of
Soubahdarry of Arcot.
Ordered accordingly, that the above-mentioned fems of money ſhall be adjuſted in
the books of this Preſidency. t . \ --
Ordered, that the proportion payable by monthly inſtalments on. account of his
Highneſs the Nabob's fifth part of the revenues of the Carnatic, being twelve thou-
fand (12,00c) ſtar pagodas, ſhall be paid in advance from the 1ſt inſtant, at the com-
mencement of each month, by the Sub-Treaſurer. ...A
The Chairman of the Honourable the Court of Direétors, &c. &c. &c.
Sir, - . - - * -
Having taken occaſion of ſtating to you in my letter of the 15th Oétober laſt, my
principles and ſentinents with reſpect to the recordation of diſſentient opinions at the
- A - * Board .
relieving his pecuniary diſtreſs, previouſly to the acknowledgment of his title to the
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Board of Council; and having obſerved the injunétions of the Honourable the Court Vol. II.
of Direétors on that ſubječt, contained in their recent diſpatches to this Preſidency, I
deem it to be proper for me to tranſmit to you the copy of a diſpatch which I have
addreſſed to his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General, in conſequence of a
formal diſſent recorded by a Member of the Council.
Under ordinary circumſtances, I ſhould have confidered it to be ſuperfluous for me
to requeſt your attention to ſuch a point ; but as the Court of Directors expect the
recordation of controverſial diſcuſſions, their orders on this ſubjećt appear to embrace
a general principle of the Indian Government: I am deſirous therefore of communi-
cating to them the motives which have governed and will continue to govern my
condućt under the operation of orders, the execution of which muſt in my judgment,
obſtrućt the proſperous and efficient adminiſtration of public Affairs.
I have the honour to be,
with the greateſt reſpe&t,
Sir,
Your moſt faithful and obedient Servant,
- Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive.
29th May 1802. ſ
Diary; 14th Auguſt 1801. -
Sent the following Letter to Major J. A. Kirkpatrick, Reſident at Hyderabad.
Sir, * A. - r r.
This letter will be delivered to you by the perſon entruſted by his Highneſs the
Nabob of the Carnatic, with letters" addreſſed to his Highneſs the Nizam, and to his
Miniſters, on the ſubjećt of the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah's ſucceſſion to the Suba-
dahry of Arcot; and I am direéted by the Right Honourable the Governor in
Council to deſire that you will endeavour to obtain an early and ſuitable anſwer to the
Nabob's letters. - w
I have the honour,
&c. &c.
JFort St. George, * * joſiah Webbe,
14th Auguſt 1801. SecY to Gov".
The ſame to the Reſident at Poonah.
EXT R A CT of Fort St. George Political Conſultations; the 2d O&tober 1 801:
T H E Preſident lays before the Board the following draft of a letter,
which his Lordſhip propoſes to addreſs to his Highneſs (entered alſo in
‘C. C. No. 48). --
To his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs. *
Para. H. I do myſelf the honour of tranſmitting to your Highneſs a ſtatement
of the pecuniary ſtipends which, in communication with your Highneſs, have been
fixed for the ſupport of the Families, dependants, and Principal Officers of their
Highneſſes the late Nabob Mahomed Ally and the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, in
conformity to the ſtipulations of the Treaty recently concluded with your Highneſs.
2. I requeſt the favour of your Highneſs to communicate to the different mem-
bers of the Family the amount of the ſtipend which has been appointed for their ex-
pences. I alſo requeſt your Highneſs will furniſh me with a ſtatement of the dif-
ferent receipts to be granted, which, after being counterſigned and ſealed by your
Highneſs, are to be conſidered ſufficient authority for the payment of the amount at
the Company’s Treaſury. -
* Entered hereafter.
i.75. C c 3. As
98.
P A P E R S R E LAT IN G T O T H E
Vol. II. 3. As ſoon as your Highneſ, ſhall have furniſhed me with this document, orders
will be iſſued to the Officers of the Company's Treaſury for the payment of the
ſtipends, from the firſt day of this month. -
-- I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
3d Oétober 1801. Your Highneſs’s
- Moſt obedient humble ſervant,
(Approved.) - (Signed) Clive.
Diary ; 13th Oétober 1801.
To Gholam Huſſain, Principal Moonſhee in the Office of the Perſian
Tranſlator to Government.
The Right Honourable the Governor in Council, firmly relying on your un-
derſtanding, fidelity, and diligence, for the able, faithful, and ſatisfactory diſcharge
..of ſo honourable a truſt, has been pleaſed to nominate you to attend (under the im-
mediate orders of the Governor) the Durbar of his Highneſs the Nabob of the
Carnatic, for the purpoſe of holding a conſtant perſonal communication with that
Prince on the part of the Britiſh Government, and of executing ſuch orders, con-
inečted with thoſe communications, as you may receive from the Governor for the
time being of Fort St. George. -
His Lordſhip in Council has been pleaſed to grant to you a ſalary of one hundred
pagodas per month, and a monthly allowance of fifty pagodas for your equipage and
fervants; and thoſe ſums will be regularly paid to you at the Treaſury on your re-
ceipt, counterfigned by one of his Lordſhip's private Secretaries. -
Dated in Fort St. George this 13th day of Oétober 1801.
By Order of the Right honourable the Governor in Council.
(Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief Secº to Gov".
To Mr. A. Falconar, Perſian Tranſlator.
Sir, t
1 am direéted to inform you, that the Right honourable the Governor in
Council has been pleaſed to nominate Gholam Huſſain, the Principal Moonſhee in
your office, to attend the Durbar of the Nabob of the Carnatic, under his Lordſhip's
immediate orders, for the purpoſe of holding a conſtant perſonal communication
with his Highneſs on the part of this Government; you will in conſequence permit
Gholam Huſſain to diſcontinue his attendance at the Perſian Office. -
- I am, &c. &c.
(Signed) j. Webbe,
Chief Secº to Gov".
To Robert Woolf, Eſq. Accountant General.
Sir, - -
The Right honourable the Governor in Council has been pleaſed to nominate
Gholam Huſſain to attend (under the immediate orders of his Lordſhip) the Durbar of
his Highneſs the Nabob, with a ſalary of one hundred pagodas per month, and with
a monthly allowance of fifty pagodas for equipage and ſervants, chargeable on that
portion of the revenues of the Carnatic which is appropriated to the ſupport of his
Highneſs's connexions, and of the dependants and Officers of the late Govern-
IIlêIlt. - -
The payment of theſe ſums at the Treaſury is to commence from the 1ſt inſtant
on the receipt of Gholam Huſſain, counterſigned by one of his Lordſhip's private
Secretaries.
- I am, &c. &c.
(Signed) . . . j. Webbe,
Chief Secº to Goy".
The
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99
The ſame to Mr. Cecil Smith, Civil Auditor.
D° to Mr. William Jones, Sub-Treaſurer.
Sent a letter to the Nabob (entered in C. C. Nº 51) communicating the appoint-
ment of Gholam Huſſain to attend at his Durbar, and its general obječl.
Diary; 18th 1801.
Read the following Letters from his Highneſs the Nabob (entered alſo in
C. C. N* 51, 52, 53). -
vol.II,
TRAN SLATION of a Letter from His Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul
Dowlah Bahadar.
To the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
Dated } 8th Jemadeñāmy 1216 Hegery.
and
Received l 17th October 1801.
Your Lordſhip's letter, dated 4th of Jemadeſſamy, anſwering to the 13th
Oćtober 1801, informing me of your having appointed Gholam Huſſain, the Com-
pany's principal Moonſhee, for the purpoſe of communicating to each other the
mutual wiſhes of your Lordſhip and myſelf, I have received and underſtand the con-
tents.--I am obedient to your Lordſhip's wiſhes, and the appointment of the ſaid
Moonſhee is highly proper and agreeable to me. -
What can I write more ? .
EXTRACT of Fort St. George Political Conſultations; 20th O&ober 1801.
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah
Bahaudar to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c.
Dated $ 8th Jemadeſſamy 1216 Hegery.
Rº: 17th Oétober 1801.
Your Lordſhip's letter of 24th Jemadilowell, anſwering to 3d Oétober 1801, in-
#orming me of your having tranſmitted me a ſtatement of the pecuniary ſtipends fixed
for the ſupport of the Families, dependants, and Principal Officers of their Highneſſes
the late Nabob Wallajah and the late Nabob Gmdut ul Omrah, I have received and
underſtand its contents. - -
Agreeably to your Lordſhip's deſire, I have communicated to the different m
of the Family the amount of the ſtipends which has been appointed for their expence,
and required their reſpective receipts, which under my counterſign and ſeal, I will
ſend to your Lordſhip, together with a ſtatement of the different receipts to be
granted. - - - -
*tº
What can I write more ?
• - (A true Tranſlation.) .'
(Signed) 4. Falconar,
P. F.
TRANSLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem
aul Dowlah Bahaudar to the Right honourable Lord Clive. -
T)ated } 1oth Jemadeſſamy 1216 Hegery.
and & .
Received 19th October 1801.
1 encloſe herein a ſtatement of the receipts for the monthly expence of the Family.
Your Lordſhip will be pleaſed to direét the Officers of the Company's Treaſury to
pay the reſpective amount to each perſon, agreeably to the receipts which will be pre-
£ented under my ſeal and ſignature,
175. - - Taj-
embers
#OO P A P E R S R E LAT IN G T O T H E
Vol. II. Taj-ul-Omra, Sultalk ul Niſſa Begum, and ſome others, have not given their re-
ceipts. On this ſubject Government will act as they ſhall deem proper.
What can I write more ?
(Signed) O. F.
LIST of Receipts, dated 6th Jemidefiary 1216 Hegery, under the ſeals and ſigna-
tures of the reſpective Perſons who have given them, for the month of O&tober
1.80ſ, as follows: Viz. –in all 46 Receipts. • . . * * >
Of the family of the late Nabob Wallajah, Ig, receipts. . -
Seyful Mulk, Bahaudar tºº •º * dº , - * * - 4166 ſo .
fluſſain ul Mulk, D* use as , ºn - - - - - 4 166 Io;
Nuffer ul Mulk, D* - - - * - - - 4.166 ſo .
º
*.
*
-
wº
tºº
gº
*
sº
Abdi Mabooſéawn - - - - - - - - - "833 ºf
“As follows: - * * . º .
For himſelf - - sº ºn ºn gº tº - 416 ſo .
His wife, &c. - - - - - * sº - 4 (6 Io;
Abdelgofar Cawn - - &º • - * * ** - - 833 5 + .
Padſhaw Begum, viz. . * -.
The Principal Mahal of the late Wallaujah - tº º alº gº - 2916 ro ;
As follows: S -
“For herſelf - - - - - - - - 416 ſo .
- Naſſer Allah Cawn - - - - 833 5 +
Her Sons & Golom Mahomed Do - - - - 833 5 + .
Iſlaum Cawn - - - º - 833 5 +
& Khuddujah Begum, &c. - - - - Uº 833. 5 +
As follows: - - , t
For herſelf - - - - - - - - - 416 Io;
Her daughter Nuzzeah Begum - - - - - 416 10+
Saul Mahaul - - - - - - - - - tº e. - - 2916 Io;
As follows: . . . . . . . ºf
Saul Mehaul - - , , - - - - - - - - 416 Io;
For the Sons -., - - - - - - - F666. Ho ;
As follows: t “s
Huſſain Mahomed Cawn - - - - - - 833 5 ;
Abboo Turaui Cawn - - - - - - 833 5 +
For the Daughters - - - - - 833 5 # .
As follows: - - - --
Raheen ui Neſſa Begum - sº * me - - 416 Io .
Fuzzeelalal - - D', - - - - - - 416 10 ;
Ranby Beehy; viz: Raby Begum sº - - - - - 416 Ho ;
Haffera Begum tº º gºs & . * * * * * * - - 416 Io.
Lutful Niſſa D* - - - - - - •. dº tº " &º - 416 ſo
Abdul Baſſil Cawn - º dº - - - tºº sº - 25o o
Peerſam Beedy - - sº tºº gº • - º - 250 O
Hajans Dº - - - - gº gºe - - - • I GO O.
Ammernat D* - - - - - - º – ' - -- I OO C,
Hanmillah D*, named in the Co’ Liſt Kaunillah B" º - - Loo o
Anſheh Bee, for the four Turkiſh women called in the Co’ Liſt Circaſfioms 35o o
As follows: - -> -
Anſheh Bee - - tº '- º sº jº * - 87 8.
Nuſſeah - - - - - - - - - 87 8
Kheedeejah - - - - - - - tºº 87 8
Hoolſum - - - - - - - , , - - 87 8. -
Peerſan Beeby, for the Harcams of the late Wallajah - - - 7oo o
Modarree Begum - gº ſº amº. " - - <= . sº - IOO O
6 Receipts


AFFAIRS OF THE CARNATIC.
I O I
6 Receipts of the Family of the late Omdut ul Omrah, as follows: -
1 D* of Dolauj Begum - sm . * sº º º tº-e -->
I Dº of Mohatab Begum – - - - - º sº- º
As follows: -
For herſelf - mºs . * º º --> º - 416 Io.
For her daughter Habil ul Niſſa - mº *. - - 41 6 1 or
I Dº under the ſignature of Momud Dowlah Bahaudar, alias Sheh Sawar
Jung, &c. * cº- º - - - - &ºme º
As follows : * ...,
For Sheh Sawar Jung - ºs - tº -> dº. – 833 5 #
For Coolſun Begum - - - - - º - 416 Io.
I Dº under the ſeal of Baukut ul Niſſa, alias Chattore Begum, with her ſon
As follows: ‘. . -
For Bauher Huſſein Cawn - - ºn º º º -
For Chattore Begum - * º • - º - asº º º
1 Dº under the ſeal of Golam Huſſein, and the ſignature of Saheb
Begum, called in the Company's liſt a Concubine, with her ſon -
I D" under the Nabob's ſeal, on account of the Haram of the late Omdut
ul Omrah, which receipt was afterwards authenticated by the
marks of Hurroſanjeddah, &c. - - - - - sº
4 Receipts of the F amily of the late Abdilvahad Cawn; as follows:
1 D" under the ſeal of Ameer ul Niſſa Begum, alias Lawulla Begum -
1 D* under the ſeal of Abdil Sanud Cawn Bahauder Naſnet Jung, alias
Dellier Jung - * º tº- * , ºº tº ºs
I Dº under the ſeal of Jun Jehan Cawn - º
1 Receipt under the ſeal of Sauleh Bee, called in the Company's liſt
Sooniah Beal - - * * -
4 Receipts of the F amily of the late Mahfovy Cawn, as follows:
1 D" under the ſeal of Golam Huſſein Cawn Bahauder, the ſon of the
date Mahomed Mahfovy Cawn – º wº
1 D" under the ſeal of Beeby Sahibbah, the grand-daughter of the de- .
ceaſed Cawn – - – - * - * º º tº
1 D" under the ſignature of Wullijan Bee, the wife of Mahomed Ally
Cawn - º *
a D'under the ſignature of Mahomeddy Bee, the wife of Mahomed Murad
6 Receipts of the ſeparate conneétions of the late Nabob Wallajah,
As follows: -
I Dº under the ſeal of Abdul Cawder Cawn - tºº gº - -
1 D" under the ſeal of Cawn Aulum Cawn, the ſon of the late Jan Jehan
Cawn, for the family * *
1 D" under the ſeal of Meer Majeef Ally Cawn, the ſon in law of the
late Mahommed Javaud Cawn, for the family -. sº *
D" under the ſeal of Hafiz Huſſein Ally Cawn, the ſon of Huſſein Ally
Cawn, deceaſed, for the family – tºº ** gº º dº
.1 D" under the ſeal of Fakkeral Iſlam Cawn, the grandſon of Budderul
iſlam Cawn, deceaſed, for the family - ſº sº * gº
1 D" under the ſeal of Fatamah Begum, the daughter of Najeeb Allah
Cawn, deceaſed, for the family - º - tºº º
4. Receipts of the Officers of the Government of the late Nabob Omdut
ul Omrah, as follows: -
1 D* under the ſeal of Mahommed Tucky Ally Cawn ſº * gºs
"I Dº under the ſeal of Meer Aſſud Allah Cawn, alias Meer Mahommed
Iſmaeel Cawn - sº - - tºº º º •
I Dº under the ſeal of Meer Certubeed Deer Cawn - gº tº-
1 D" under the ſeal of Omeenud Deen Ally Cawn - - *
175. . . D d
§ *y
2083 5 #
833 5 #
I 249 I 5 &
1249 I 5%
83.3 53.
416 Io;
2OO O
337 I 2
5OO O
2COO O .
I OOO O
41 Io:
5oo o
IOO O.
166 Io e
166 Io:
IOOO () '
416 Io:
416 o
416 19:
25o o
166 io?.
35o O
35o O
35o O
2OO O
3 Receipts
Vol. II.
# Cº. P A P E R S R E LAT IN G T O T H E
Vol. II. 3 Receipts of the Relations of the Emperor of Delhi, as follows: *
I Receipt under the ſeal of Hamawon Buckt - - - gº - 500 - O
As follows:
For himſelf gº gº sº - - - - tº - 350
For Feezul Niſſa Begum - sº º tºº gº º - I 5 O
I Dº under the ſeal of Mirza Ally Buckt - - - gº & º – 35o o
* Dº under the ſeal of Mirza Mahomed Ameen ud Deen, the younger
brother of Ally Bucket - tº tº e {º sº gº tºº - OO O
Ordered, That the Sub-Treaſurer, the Civil Auditor, and Accountant General, be
furniſhed with copies of the ſtatement annexed to the Preſident's Minute, recorded on
the 29th September in the Secret Department, and of the ſtatement this day received
from the Nabob. -
Diary to Political Con*:—the 26th Oétober 1801.
Sent the following Letter:
To Robert Woolf, Eſq. Accountant General.
Sir, - . -- -
Para. I. I am direéted by the Right honourable the Governor in Council to
encloſe, for your information, a ſtatement ſhewing the ſeparate pecuniary proviſion
which has been made for the Families, dependants, and Principal Officers of their
Highneſſes the late Nabob Mahomed Ally and the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah,
in conformity to the ſtipulations of the Treaty concluded with his Highneſs the Nabob
Azeem ul Dowlah. &
2. The payments of the reſpective ſtipends at the Treaſury is to commence from the
1ſt day of Oétober, upon receipts (of which I encloſe a memorandum) figned by
the reſpective parties, and counterſigned and ſealed by his Highneſs the Nabob.
I am, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) }. Webbe,
26th Oétober 1801. Chief Secretary to Government.
The ſame to the Civil Auditor and Sub-Treaſurer.
E XT R A CT of Fort St. George Political Conſultations;–the ioth
November 1801.
TRANSLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs Azim ul Dowlah Bahadar.
To the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
Dated {. Jemodeſſany 1216 Hegery,
and OT -
Received U 4th November 1801.
Heretofore, when I tranſmitted to your Lordſhip the receipts of ſeveral per-
ſons of my family, Hareem ul Deen Ahmed, a ſon of the late Abdulwahab Cawn,
was at Chittoor, wherefore his receipt was not ſent. He is now arrived here, and I
encloſe his receipt under my ſeal and ſignature, and requeſt your Lordſhip will direét
the Company’s Treaſurer to pay him. -
What can l, write more ?
\ , , (A true Tranſlation.) -
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P" Tº to Govt.
TRANSLATION
AFFAIRS OF THE C A R N AT I C.
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TRANS LATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azim
ul Dowlah Bahadar.
To the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor of Fort St. George.
Dated 27th Jemadeſſary 1215 Hegery
and O I’ - '•
Received 15th November 1801.
Three ſons of the late Nabob Walajah, adopted by the Badſhah Begum, have
agreed to receive their monthly allowance as ſet down in the receipt of the ſaid Begum,
Voj.
and have paſſed three receipts for the ſame, which receipts, together with one of
Mahomedan Ibraheen Commandant, I ſend herein under my ſeal and ſignature.—
I requeſt your Lordſhip will direét the Company's Treaſurer to pay them, and that
the receipt of Badſhah Begum, who has not agreed to receive her money, may be
returned. g ſ
What can I write more ? (A true Tranſlation.)
- (Signed) A. Falcomar,
P" Tº to Goyt.
EXT R A C T Fort St. George Political Conſultations;–the 10th
November 1801. . - º
Extraćt of Preſident’s Minute, dated as above.
Conſidering the Garden of Sautgur to be an honorary appendage to the rank
and ſtation of the Nabob, I propoſe that it ſhall be immediately relinquiſhed to
his Highneſs, ſubjećt to the payment of a monthly penſion of two hundred and fifty
rupees, which was granted to Hiraful Khan, a deſcendant of the original proprietor
of the Garden of Sautgur, during the time when the Carnatic was aſſigned to the
management of the Company by the Nabob Mahomed Ally.
EXTRACT of Letter from Lord Clive to the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah;
dated 10th November 1801. -
Para. 6. In conformity to the verbal communication made to your Highneſs,
I have now the honour of tranſmitting an order for putting your Highneſs's Officers
in poſſeſſion of the Garden of Sautgur, which I conſider to be an honorary appendage
to the rank and ſtation of the Nabob of the Carnatic, and requeſt that your Highneſs
will make an arrangement for paying to Hiraful Khan, diſcarded from the original
poſſeſſion of that garden, a monthly penſion of two hundred and fifty rupees.
Reſolved, That the neceſſary inſtrućtions for transferring the Garden of Sautgur
to the poſſeſſion of his Highneſs the Nabob, ſhall be iſſued from the Revenue
Department. --
EXTRA C T Fort St. George Political Conſultations;—the 17th
November 1801. - .
Read the following Letters:
To Joſiah Webbe, Eſquire, Chief Secretary to Government, Fort St. George.
Sir,
Upon the receipt of your letter of the 14th Auguſt laſt, I immediately announced
the Meſſengers who delivered it, as entruſted likewiſe with Letters from his Highneſs
the Nabob of the Carnatic to his Highneſs the Nizam and his Miniſter; but owing
partly to the Miniſter's indiſpoſition, and partly intervention of Holidays, it was
fome time before a day was fixed upon for their delivery; when they were opened and
read in preſence of my Moonſhy, who accompanied the Agent of the Arcot Family, to
the Durbar on this occaſion. - §
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I have now the pleaſure to acquaint you, that a perſon of reſpećtability, named
Goolaum Mohi oo dien Khan, is at length nominated for the purpoſe of proceeding
to Madras with anſwers to the above letters, and with the cuſtomary Kheliut, and is
only waiting the termination of the rains to commence his journey. *
Copies and Tranſlations of Azeem oo Dowlah's Letters, and of the Nizam's, and
the Miniſter's replies, are herewith encloſed for the Right honourable the Governor
in Council's information. - 3.
& - I have the honour to be,
Hydrabad, &c. &c.
31ſt Oét. 1801. (Signed) j. A. Kirkpatrick,
- ièeſident.
*
TRAN SLATION of an Arzee from Azeem oo Dowlah Bahauder to
his Highneſs the Nizam ; communicated to the Reſident Oét. 24th 1801.
After performing the duties of attachment, be it repreſented:—
At this time, ſubſequent to the deceaſe of the Uncle of this faithful Servant, the
Company's Government, who are the ſincere friends of the anceſtors of this well-
wiſher, from a due regard to the ancient alliance and claims of my Family, have fixed
and eſtabliſhed this ſincerely attached perſon in the Nizamut of the Carnatic.
A bounty ſo unexpected and great having thus been conferred on this humble
Servant, he makes bold to repreſent the ſame for the information of his Highneſs.
What more need be repreſented :
On a ſeparate Paper:
The ſum of ſeventy-one gold Mohurs has been tranſmitted, in the plenitude of
attachment, as an offering to your Highneſs ; I am hopeful it will be approved.
T R A N SLATIO N of a Letter from Azeem oo Dowlah Bahadur to
Azim ul Omrah Bahaudar; communicated to the Reſident Oét. 24th
I 8o I. < *
.* After the deceaſe of the hate Omdul ul Omrah, the Uncle of this devoted
friend, I was, through the confidence and ſupport of the Company's Government,
who are the ancient and ſincere friends of my anceſtors, eſtabliſhed in the Govern-
ment of the Carnatic. An Arzee to this effect, together with an humble offering,
have been ſent in the plenitude of attachment, and I truſt that, through the medium
of your kindneſs, they will be delivered to the reſplendant preſence of his Highneſs,
May his ſhade long be extended. - : - --
; - For the reſt be your favour upon me.
(A true Tranſlation.) .*
(Signed) Henry Ruſſell,
Aſs' Secretary.
T R A N S L AT I O N of an Enayul Namah from his Highneſs the
Nizam to Azeem oo Dowlah Bahaudar; Communicated to the Reſident
Oćtober 24th 180 I. * *
Your letter apprizing me of the Honourable Company having, in conformity
to their uſual good faith, ſelected and eſtabliſhed that perſon of exalted dignity in the
government of the Carnatic, ſubſequent to the deceaſe of Omdut ul. Omrah, has been
received, and the Nuzzer of twenty one gold Mohurs, which was ſent in the pleni-
tude of attachment and ſincerity of devotions has been moſt kindly and graciouſly
approved. A Kellut and jewels, according to the accompanying lift, have been con-
ferred - After returning due thanks for theſe works of favour, let them adorn your
perſon; and conſidering me as always well inclined towards you, let me hear from
time to time of your welfare. - - > .
LIST
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LIST of Preſents from his Highneſs the Nizam to Azeem oo Dowlah Vol. II.
Bahauder extraćted from the records of the Wardrobe and Treaſury:
A ſhort ſtring of pearls, with a jewel ſuſpended thereto.
One ſerpeiſh, and one jugput. *
One ſuit for a kellut.
T R A N S L A T I O N of a Letter from Azem ul Omrah Bahauder to
Azeem oo Dowlah Bahauder; communicated to the Reſident Oétober
24th 180 I.
Your friendly Letter, mentioning the Honourable Company’s having, after the ,
deceaſe of Omdut ul Omrah raiſed, with their uſual ſupport and good faith, that friend
to the government of the Carnatic, rejoiced me by its arrival.
The Arzee and the Nuzzar have been delivered to the reſplendant Preſence.
A kellut and jewels, according to the accompanying liſt, have in conſequence been
beſtowed by the bountiful Preſence, always intent on diſtinguiſhing faithful adherents:
returning therefore due thanks for ſuch diſtinguiſhed marks of favour, let the ſame
cloth adorn you.
Continue to render me happy by the tranſmiſſion of accounts of your welfare.
Diary to Political Con*:—18th November 1801.
Received the following Letter:
Joſiah Webbe, Eſq. Chief Secretary to the Government, Fort St. George.
Sir, ** * *.
I Had the honour to receive your Letter of the 14th Auguſt, by the meſſenger
who was charged with a letter to the Paiſhwa from his Highneſs the Nabob Azeemul
Dowlah, and who arrived at Poona on the 29th September. The Paiſhwa being at
that time abſent, I forwarded the Nabob's letter to him immediately, with a requeſt
that he would be pleaſed to give an early anſwer; and in terms ſuitable to the con-
ſideration which the Nabob had evinced towards him, in notifying his acceſſion to
the Muſnud.
In the uſual and ſyſtematical ſtyle of procraſtination at this Court, the anſwer has
been delayed, under daily promiſes of tranſmitting it to me, until laſt night, when it
was produced, on its being known at the Durbar that conformably to the notice
which I had given, I ſhould certainly diſpatch the Nabob's meſſenger this morning
without it; and of which, indeed, I had declared my determination, after a reaſonable
time for the anſwer had elapſed. --- -
I have perhaps had more patience on this occaſion than is entirely conſiſtent with
the Nabob's dignity, and the return to which he is entitled for his attention to the
Paiſhwa. But as the promiſes which I received of an early anſwer were always
attended with expreſſions of reſpect towards his Highneſs, I wiſhed to avoid taking a
ſtep which might have interrupted the harmony and good underſtanding which it may
be adviſable to maintain between an Ally of the Company and this Court, ſo long as
I had reaſon to believe that the delay was not intentionally diſreſpectful to the Nabob's
perſon or ſtation. . - *
Poonah I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
30th Oétober 1801. (Signed) Wm Palmer.
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*Vol. II. EXT R A C T of Fort St. George Political Conſultation;--the 24th
4 - November 1801.
‘Read the following Letter:
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah
Bahadur to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
13 Rajib 1216 Hegery.
- - - 20 November 1801.
I encloſe herein a Receipt of Ahmndu Begum, daughter of the late
Abdulwahab Khan, for the month of Oétober 1801. She has not received her
money. I requeſt your Lordſhip will direét the Company's Treaſurer to pay the
aſſ) OUnt.
What can I write more ? . (A true Tranſlation.)
N. B.-The receipt alluded . (Signed) 4. Falconar,
to did not accompany t; - - P" Tº to Goyt.
Perſian Letter.
Ordered accordingly.
Diary to Political Con;–the 2 5th November I $ot.
Sent the following Letter:
To Mr. W." Jones, Sub-Treaſurer.
Sir, - r - -
His Highneſs the Nabob having paſſed the receipt of Ahmndee Begum, a
daughter of Abdul Wahal Khan for the month of Oétober 1801, you are hereby au-
thorized and direéted to diſcharge the amount; viz. Rupees 166. Io .
- I am, -
Fort St. George, s - - (Signed) j. Chamier,
25th Nov. 1801. t } - Chief Secº to Govt.
- Diary to Political Con’;—the 3d December 1801.
Sent the following Letter; -- - -
- To Mr. Cecil Smith, Civil Auditor.
Sir, - -
I am direéted to furniſh you with the encloſed copy, a Pay Certificate, which has
been granted to Mahomed Ibrahim, one of the Penſioners under the late Treaty with
the Nabob of the Carnatic, and who has been permitted to ſettle at Veilore, and to
receive his ſtipend in that garriſon. t -
2. You are accordingly authorized and direéted to inſtrućt the Paymaſter at that
ſtation to pay, on the receipt of Mahomed Ibrahim, the ſum of one hundred (Ioo)
rupees a month, and to draw bills for the amount on the Treaſury.
3. The Paymaſter ſhould alſo be inſtructed to tranſmit the receipts of Mahomed
Ibrahim monthly to the Sub-Treaſurer, to whom you will communicate the whole of
the arrangement. - I am, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, - (Signed) j. Chamier, -
3d Dec. 1801. - Chief Secº to Gov.
* TRAN SLATION of a Letter (as entered in C. C. Nº 68.)
From his Highneſs the Nabob Azem ul Dowlah to the Right honourable Lord
- - Clive, Governor of Fort St. George.
2d Shabaun 1216 Hegery.
Dated and received; December 1801.
I have received a Letter from Savoyee Bajee Roo Pundet Purdhau from
Poonah, in anſwer to that which I wrote * him lately with your Lordſhip's approbation,
- -- and
* Not entered.
AFFAIRS OF THE CARNATIC.
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and in the warmth of friendſhip I ſend a copy incloſed herein, for your Lordſhip's Vol. II.
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What can I write more :
T R A N SLA. T E Copy of a Letter from Sawaye Bage Roo Pundet
Purdhau to the Nabob Azem ul Dawlah Bahadur.—(Without date.)
Your joyful and friendly Letter having arrived in the happieſt ſeaſon, afforded
me infinite ſatisfaction. You informed me, that in conſequence, of the will of the
Omnipotent; your uncle Omdut ul Omrah was removed from this tranſitory world
to that of eternal duration, that in conſequence ſucceeded to the Government (of the
country), and that in conſideration of the ancient friendſhip ſubſiſting (between the
Sircars) you had communicated the circumſtance for my information.
All this I have diſtinétly underſtood. -
To the diſpenſation of the Almighty, there was no other remedy applicable than
ſubmiſſion and reſignation ; and ſeeing that you have ſucceeded in the uſual manner
to the Government, I have derived therefrom a degree of pleaſure and happineſs
which it is impoſſible for me ſufficiently to expreſs.
Continue conſtantly to gratify me with accounts of your welfare.
What more need be written; 3. -
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
Pn. Tº to Gov".
#EXTRACT of Fort St. George Political Conſultations;– the 15th December 1801.
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azem ul Dowlah
to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c.
Dated and received }
. - (EXT RAC T.) *
It is my wiſh, in conformity with eſtabliſhed uſage, to ſend Arzdaſh with Nuzzars
to the King of Delhi, and the Shazada, upon the occaſion of my aſcending the Muſ-
nud, which has been entirely owing to your Lordſhip's kindneſs; and I therefore
incloſe two drafts of the Arzadaſhts for your Lordſhip's peruſal, which, if they meet
your Lordſhip's approbation, I will with your permiſſion have copied fair, and forward
them by Hircarrahs to Delhi. -
T R A N SLATION of an Arzdaſht to the Preſence of his Majeſty the
Emperor Shah Ahlur from the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah, &c. &c. &c.
- * (Without date.) -
This Worſhipper of the ſhrine of true Fidelity, and Pilgrim in the path of firm
Allegiance, at all times makes his prayers for the permanence of your Majeſty’s eternal
dorminion, the lefſon of his tongue, and his ſupplication for the prolongation of the
illuſtrious, angelic, and world-protećting ſhadow of your Royal Perſon, the Taliſman
of his ſoul. -- . . . - -
This duty he conſiders his ſupreme happineſs, nay the moſt important part of his
Religion. -
Influenced by the ardour of attachment, he ventures to repreſent, that on the de-
parture of his uncle Omdut ul. Omrah from this tranſitory world to that of perpetual
‘duration, he (the faithful repreſentator) by the ſupport and affiſtance of the Managers
of the Honourable Engliſh Company (who are ſtaunch in their allegiance to the
Miniſters of your Imperial Throne) in virtue of the rights of his Father and Grand-
father, was eſtabliſhed in the government of the territories of the Carnatic.
The tribute of gratitude he aſcribes to that Majeſty, like the tree of Paradiſe, re-
plete with bleſfings; and tranſmits a Nuzzar of one hundred and twenty-one Aſhulfies
to the reſplendent Preſence, by the acceptance of which he hopes to be honoured.
- -- —º (A true Tranſlation)
(Signed A. Falconar,
I 75. P" Tº to Gov".
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T R A N S LAT I O N of an Arzee to the Preſence of the Prince Akber
Shah, from the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah, &c. &c. &c. (Without date.)
Having made the ſalutations of fidelity the plume of the head of allegiance, it
is repreſented at the place of audience, where the ſervants of the Preſence kiſs the
verge of the carpet of munificence, that this attached dependant, who like his Father
and Grandfather, treads with firm and undeviating ſtep in the paths of obedience and
fidelity, has lately on the event of the death of his uncle Omdut ul Omrah, through
the ſupport and aſſiſtance of the Managers of the Honourable Engliſh Company, and
agreeably to the ancient line of inheritance, ſucceeded to the Government of the
territories of the Carnatic, and is grateful for the endleſs favours of his Majeſty, the
fhadow of God. *- - -- -
He has diſpatched an Arzdaſht with a Nuzzar to the reſplendant Preſence, and
truſts, that by means of the ſervants of the Preſence, his Highneſs will have the good-
neſs to cauſe it to be laid before his Majeſty. e & -
As a mark of his fidelity, he has tranſmitted to his Highneſs a Nuzzer of 21
Aſhnafies, which he hopes will be accepted. .. *-
His Vakeel Rajah Hazari Mull will preſent theſe Nuzzers and Arzees to his
Highneſs. - - *
(A true Tranſlation.) -
- (Signed) A. Falcomar,
P" Tº to Govt.
TRAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azini
ul Dowlah, &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord Clive,
&c. &c. &c. 3
...: gº … W 17th Rajeb f 216 Hegery.
Dated and received; Nºi; º y
I encloſe herewith a Liſt of Firelocks, &c. and which I want for my infantry body
guard; and requeſt your Lordſhip will be pleaſed to direct the Company’s Store keeper
to ſupply them. • 3 . - ~,
What can I write more? . (A true Tranſlation.)
& (Signed) A. Falconar, -
P" Tº to Govt.
Ordered, That the Military Board be furniſhed with the liſt of firelocks required by
the Nabob, and be direéted to ſupply them accordingly. -
The Preſident lays before the Board the following Liſts, ſent to him by his Highneſs
the Nabob, of Villages in the Carnatic appropriated to religious uſes, and of other
Enams; granted for the ſame purpoſe alſo of certain buildings, gardens, and grounds,
which his Lordſhip propoſes to transfer to the Nabob as appendages of Sovereignty.
(T R A N S LA TI O N.)
LIST of Villages appertaining to the Moſques of Mahomedy and Nabob
Begum Sahiba; and a particular Liſt of the Circar Gardens, Houſes,
and Kummuts, at Trichinopoly. * , |
villages belonging to the Mahomedy and Nabob Begum Sahibar Moſques.
6 villages as follows; viz.
Perry Naick Chuttas in the diſtrićt of Wurdackery - , º - - 1 Village.
Koomagooddy in the diſtrićt of Tayaman - tºº º - - I D°
Shumbacolum, in D" - - - D’ – º – tº ... ºº º - I Dº
Teuvapooram, in the diſtrićt of Totyam º º - - - I D°
Diedaman in the diſtrićt of Tayaman - gºe ses sm tº - I B.
I D"
Chey alum in the diſtrićt of Vurcheary - = tºº •jº sº º
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LIST of Gardens within the Fort of Trichinopoly.
Singar Garden and Houſe - " - - tºº * > wº tºº *
Huſſein Baugh and Huſſein Baugh, adjoining to the palace - -
A ſmall garden on the edge of the ditch near the Moſque of Shums-paran
Sahib, made by Najeeb Ally Khan - * - - tºº sº
Garden of the Sepulchre of Syed Ally Khan - - - gº *
D° adjoining to his houſe tºº * º - - - -
Garden and Bungalo made by Etabar Khan, on the edge of the ditch near
the Char Durwazar * * * sº gº * º * = º gº
Garden near the Goorwee Goontah (º sº gº tºº *º sº
D° near the Feimnga Goontah and near the houſe of Huzrat Sahib -
Garden near the powder magazine of Bhooloognant Pagodas - tº
Garden of Muſſaeed Shah - - * = gº ..º.º. wº tº º $ tº
I, IST of Gardens without the Fort of Trichinopoly.
Garden of Ameer ul Omrah, at Wallajahbad, otherwiſe called Wornoor,
and houſe - wº wº tºº - - sº - -
Gardens of Amwar Baugnear Nenungum, at Hytapore - sº wº
Garden of Manoveer, near Mealtoor - - - sº tºº
Gardens of Seyed Ally Cawn; one near Adiah Coondam, the other at
Warroor – tº s tºº * * gº tº tº * tºº gº
Garden made by Huſſam ul Mulk, near the Tappy Goontah of Ser-
rungum sº º * * wº gº tº tº - -
Gauver Garden on the bank of the Arzealva – * - sº - -
Garden near Bunghar Goondah - tº º ~ * * : * -
Garden in the road to the Durgah of Huzrat Fenud ul Deen Jahib -
Garden of Mr. Culmee, purchaſed by the late Ameer ul Omrah, at
Warroor dº * , sºme wº tºº tºº * tºº tºº gº
Garden and Choultry of Nabob Begum Sahiba, at Nuttroo Nelloor -
Garden of grapes, &c. near the Durgah of Huzzrat Futtah Allah Sahil,
on the edge of the ditch - gº sº tºº g- *º * =e sº
Garden on the Juntum plain, bought of Major Firth - eas -- tº tºº
Garden of Vencat Soubah, late Renter, ſituated at Sircungum - *
Garden and houſe made by Muſtaga Huſſein Cawn, and a Pettah in the
Jumkaſha road - gº wº * wº tº, º
Garden of Golinda Moodily, between Sirungam and Jumkaſha – tº
Garden and Choultry at Munſoor Pittah ** ſº
Garden of Pettah of Jirgamode, near Sumarſum Pittah and Ally Forah -
The gardens and Choultry of Eitabar Caun, on the village of Sirree
Davyrumgal and Vengamgſory, &c. - gº sº tºº º ſº
LIST of Houſes within the Fort of Trichinopoly.
The Palace. - . .
Ally Maheel and Welly Mahell, erected by Cootul ul Dowlah.
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The houſe formerly occupied by Shamed Jung and the two Syed Ally Khans
near the Palace. -
The houſe bought of Golam Mahordeen Commandant.
The houſe and ſmall garden bought of Colonel Wood, near the Palace.
The houſe and ſmall garden of Najub Allah Caun.
The houſe of Euſoph Cawn, Commandant. . . .
*
The houſe of Rumnap Naik, a dependant of the above-mentioned Commandant.
The houſe of Gunga Veſhon, near the Char Denovazah.
• The houſe formerly occupied by Zein ui Ambudden Cawn.
The hoſpital ground. - * ....” "
The ground appropriated to a Ghuady
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The ſtables. *
The houſe of the late Eitadar Khan.
One houſe without the fort at Serumgum, formerly belonging to the Raunee.
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LIST of the Kummuts.
Ground at Veteat, formerly in poſſeſſion of Senenawas.
Kummut ground on the banks of Arz. -
Calva for the cultivation of green Orlendor.
Kummut of Mahomed Jaffar Cawn, at the village of Mandpermall Coil of Good-
putty, in the diſtrićt of Pitchendargoody. -
ENAM for the Expences of the Moſques, &c. at Madras.
The village of Iſmall Coopam, depending on Keelvurree in the Pergunnah of
‘Cawderabad, otherwiſe called Mooſarwauk according to the Perwanah, under the
ſeal of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, dated 4th Jenadelowell 1212 Hegery, for
the expences of the Moſques Wallajahee and Anwavree, through Hajee Mahomed
Mugrabblee, from the beginning of the year 1207 Fuſee.
Amount Cawmil Pagodas * • ~~ - 4.5o
Amount in 1185 Fuſlee wº º - – 697
For the expences of the Moſque of Mamoor, ſituated in the town of Madras, an
allowance was granted to Sheik Zeiwull Dein, through Hajee Mahomed Mugrabbee,
according to a Perwannah dated I Shabarim 1202 Hegery, under the ſeal of the
Nawaub Wallajah, of 69 rupees per month, out of the cuſtoms at Pulicot.
A daily allowance of one rupee for the Durgah of Huzrat Muſtam Sahil, out of
the cuſtoms of Pulicot, was granted by a Perwannah under the ſeal of the Nabob
Wallajah, bearing date 10th Rajeb 1207 Hegery.
Reſolved, to furniſh the Board of Revenue with copies of the foregoing liſts, ac-
companied by the following inſtrućtions.
EXTRACT of Letter to the Board of Revenue; dated 15th De-
cember 1801.
Para. 1. The Right honourable the Governor General in Council having
reſolved, that the Palace at Trichinopoly, with the gardens and villages appropriated
to the ſupport of the Moſques at Trichinopoly and Madras, ſhall be reſtored to his
Highneſs the Nabob, I am direéted to deſire that the ſame may be carried into exe-
cution as ſoon as the liſt of villages and gardens ſhall have been examined and
reported upon by the Collečtor. -
2. I encloſe for your information a liſt of the Villages, &c. as delivered in by
his Highneſs, together with a ſtatement of the Enams for the expences of the
Moſques at Madras. . -
3. I am alſo directed to deſire the Colle&tors may be ordered to ſtate ſpecifically
Y the lands granted for the endowment of the Moſques, and the aëtual application of
the revenues to that purpoſe, during the life of the late Nabobs.
At the requeſt of the Nabob, communicated by the Preſident to the Board; Reſolved,
:to diſpatch the following order to the Officer commanding the Southern diviſion of
the Army: w sº.
To Major General Bridges, commanding the Troops South of the Coleroon.
Sir, -
Para. I. As there is reaſon to apprehend that the Family of Nuſſur ul Mulk
(Uncle to his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic) will require protećtion againſt
the ſervants of the Circars, who may be diſpoſed to be troubleſome to them, during
the abſence of Nuſſan ul Molk, the Right honourable the Governor in Council
deſires that you will afford them ſuch protećtion as may be neceſſary.
2. The Palace and Gardens at Trichinopoly are to be made over to his High-
neſs the Nabob, for which purpoſe particular inſtructions will be ſent to the Col-
lećtor, through the channel of the Board of Revenue.
I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, º &c. &c. * º
45th December 1801. (Signed) john Chamier, • ,
\ Chief Secº to Gov".
JEXTRACT
AFFAIRs of T H E CARN AT I C. 1 it
EXTRACT Fort St. George Political Conſultations;–15th December 1801. Vol. II.
Extract of Letter from the Nabob of the Carnatic.
I have to make my beſt acknowledgments to your Lordſhip for the delivery
of the Fort and Gardens of Sautgut ; I have appointed Ali Nawaz Chan, on my part,
to be the Nail of the forland Daraga of the ſaid Gardens, and tranſmitted to him the
letter addreſſed to the Company's Collečtor. *
It is with pleaſure that I comply with your Lordſhip's recommendation of making
an allowance of two hundred and fifty rupees a month to Keraſſel Chan, and I requeſt
he may receive that ſum out of my own fifth, that is, excluſive of my monthly
ſtipend. º,
Diary; 19th December 1801.
Sent the following Letters:
To R. Crommelin, Eſquire, ačting Chief Secº to the Government at
º Fort William.
Sir, -
I am direéted to tranſmit to you the encloſed Copy of a Minute recorded by the
Right honourable the Preſident on the 8th inſtant, and to requeſt that it may be
communicated through the medium of the Honourable the Vice Preſident in Council
to his Excellency the Governor General.
- - ~ I have the honour, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) j. Webbe, -
19th December 1801. Chief Secº to Gov".
To R. Woolf, Eſquire, Accº General.
Sir, z Z -
His Highneſs the Nabob having been pleaſed to grant to Hiraſut Khan, the late
proprietor of the gardens of Sautyhur, a penſion of two hundred and fifty (250)
rupees monthly, the Right honourable the Governor in Council has reſolved, that
the amount ſhall be paid by the Collečtor of the Northern Diviſion of Arcot, and
ſhall be charged on his Highneſs's fifth ſhare of the Revenues of the Carnatic.
Fort St. George, I have the honour, &c. &c.
19 December 1801. (Signed) j. Webbe,
- t Chief Secº to Gov".
The ſame to the Civil Auditor.
20. Received a letter from the Nabob, (entered in C. C. Nº 705) requeſts that
Ally Nawauz Khan may receive his ſtipend at Vellore.
Diary; 23d December 1801.
Sent the following Letters:
To Mr. Cecil Smith, Civil Auditor.
Sir,
I am direéted to furniſh you with the encloſed Copy of a pay certificate, which
has been granted to Ally Nawauz Khan, one of the Penſioners under the late Treaty
with the Nabob of the Carnatic, and to deſire that the ſame arrangement may be
made for his future payment at Vellore, as was authorized on the 3d inſtant in the
caſe of Mahomed Ibrahim.
I am, &c. &c.
(Signed) john Chamier,
Chief SecY to Govt.
24. Received a letter from the Nabob, (entered in C. C. Nº 84;) encloſes the
receipts of Badiall Niſſa for Oétober and November, and requeſts an order for their
payments. - 4. *
175. - Diary ;
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Vol. II. * Diary; 20th December 1801.
To Mr. William Jones, Sub-Treaſurer.
Sir, ^ ~.
You will be pleaſed to pay to Badia ul Niſſa, the Daughter of
of the late Abdul Waham Khan, the Sum of three hundred and
thirty-two rupees twenty-one fanams and one quarter rupees, 332. 21. #. On ac-
count of her penſion for the months of Ośtober and November laſt, and according
to the late receipts. * -
t I am, &c. &c.
a (Signed) john Chamier,
Chief Secº to Gov".
EXTRACT of Fort St. George Political Conſultations;—the 22d
December, 1801.
The Preſident lays the following Papers before the Board:
Right honourable the Preſident's Minute in Council; 22d December 1801.
The complaints lately preferred to rae by the diſcontented members of the family
of the late Nabob. Omdut ul Omrah's being of an extraordinary complexion, and
having been circulated with great induſtry by the emiſſaries of thoſe Princes, I deem
it to be neceſſary for me to ſtate my ſentiments on the ſubjećt at the time of my re-
cording them.
The principles on which the late arrangement of the affairs of the Carnatic is
founded, have been too recently and too fully diſcuſſed to require any repetition ;
but the condućt of the Family, in the preſent inſtance, being in my judgment inti-
mately conneéted with the grounds on which it was induced to rejećt the terms pro-
poſed by the authority of the Governor General, for the revival of the alliance and
(A.) (B.) for the ſecurity of the Britiſh intereſts in the Carnatic, I ſhall now record three
and (C.) letters addreſſed to me by Najeib Khan and Turky Ally Khan. *
- The firſt letter was written (as appears by the date) after the late negociation, as
far as it related to Ally Huſſein, had been terminated; and the ſecond was written
after the terms of the exiſting Treaty had been concluded with his Highneſs the .
Nabob Azim ul Dowlah—It is unneceſſary therefore to obſerve, that the further
diſcuſſion of the ſubjećts ſtated in thoſe letters had been concluſively anticipated ; but
it is worthy of remark, that, entirely evading the diſcuſſions and the written decla-
ration with reſpe&t to the forfeiture of the rights of the Family by the violation of the
alliance, the two Khans and the Family pertinaciouſly revert to the terms of the Treaty
of 1792 with a confidence becoming the faithful diſcharge of the obligations of that
Treaty, while the deſire expreſſed by the Khans to renew the negociations through
the channel of a written correſpondence was manifeſtly calculated to throw the diſ-
scuſſion into the hands of the mercenary Europeans, who have ſo long infeſted the
IDurbar. r r es
Having ſtated to Ally Huſſein my final determination upon the line of condućt
adopted by him, in cónformity to the advice of his Guardians (in the manner ſtated
by the Deputies in the report of the conferences) I deemed it to be totally unneceſ-
ſary to pay any further attention to the repreſentation of thoſe Khans with reſpect to
the ſtttlement of the affairs of the Carnatic. *
It was natural that the variety of intereſts dependant on that adjuſtment ſhould
indiſpoſe many of the principal branches of the Family to the elevation of Azeem ul
Dowjah ; but for the very ſame reaſons, the Family (if it had been neceſſary to conſult
its wiſhes) would have been equally indiſpoſed to the elevation of any other Member
of it; and it is conſiſtent with the fačt, that the pretenſions of many individual perſons
were direétly or indireétly propoſed to my conſideration.
I impute, therefore, the indiſpoſition of the principal branches of the Family towards
the exiſting arrangement, to the expectation of changes which they have been taught
by intereſted adviſers to be probable, and it is conſequently incumbent on the Britiſh
43 overnment, both with reſpect to the principles on which it has formerly ačted in the
\ - arrangement,
*
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arrangement of the ſucceſſion to the Soubahdarry of Arcot, and in regard to the Vol. II.
future comfort and honour of the Family, to diſcourage thoſe hopes of an alteration
of the exiſting ſettlement. It is alſo adviſable to uſe all practicable means for the
purpoſe of diſpoſing the Family to cultivate a cordial union and friendly intercourſe
with the Nabob Azim ul Omrah, the conſtituted and legitimate Head of the Houſe.
7. Having received from the Begum Sultaun Ulkiſſa a letter (which I now re- (P.)
cord) I deemed it to be proper to avail myſelf of that opportunity to inculcate the
principles ſtated in this Minute, and I now record my Anſwer, with the reply which I
had the honour of receiving from the Begum. f
8. The power and influence which this Princeſs poſſeſſed during the life of her Brother
Cmdut ul Omrah is ſufficiently notorious, and the Board will not be ſurprized that
at the death of the late Nabob, her Highneſs ſhould be in the poſſeſſion of money and
of elephants the property of the Government. The ſtyle of Sultan ul Kiſſa (better
known by the name of the Boody Begum) is conſiſtent with the ſame ſpirit of exag-
gerating which is obſervable in the more recent complaints, and her Highneſs has
manifeſtly miſtated ſeveral facts. The money mentioned by her Highneſs, was a
ſmall ſum due on a bill which remained undiſcharged at the death of the late Nabob:
the perſon in poſſeſſion of the bill abſconded in conſequence of that event; and the
Begum applied to the Nabob Azeemul Dowlah to recover the money for his own uſe.
The elephants were well known to be the property of the late Government ; but it
is due to the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah’s moderation to record, that in both caſes he
communicated his intention to the Deputies, for my information, previouſly to his
poſſeſſing himſelf of thoſe articles. -
9. The two Repreſentations which I now record are of ſuch a nature, that if the
contents of them could be ſuppoſed to be true, the condućt of the Nabob Azim ul
Dowlah, under the aëtual circumſtances in which he is placed, would refle&t the
greateſt diſhonour on this Government; but it is unneceſſary to aſſure the Board,
that the means adopted by me for preſerving a conſtant intercourſe with his
Highneſs, render the commiſſion of the violences imputed to him impračticable
without my knowledge: the ſame means enable me to ſtate, that the fačts de-
ſcribed by the Family are in ſome reſpects exaggerations of trivial circumſtances,
and in other reſpects abſolutely without foundation.
Io. The aſſertion reſpećting the ſmall ſum of money, and the elephants, has
-álready been explained; the fačt of Azim ul Dowlah’s violation of the private
apartmeiſts is this: The Muſrut Mihul is the place in which the Nabob Omdut
ºul Omrah died, and in which his Highneſs conſtantly gave audiences; it is a part
of the Palace of Chepauk. The Nabob Azim ul Dowlah ſtated, for my information,
his wiſh of having acceſs to the Muſrut Mhul, which had been denied to him.
His Highneſs ſent in conſequence to demand admiſſion into that part of the Palace,
which being denied, his Highneſs forced the gate. The ruffians deſcribed in the
repreſentation are the preſent Nabob and his attendants.
11. The repreſentation (H.) implies, that the troops of the Company, and of his
Majeſty, are employed to degrade the Family; but it is unneceſſary to ſtate far-
ther than for the purpoſe of record, that a party of European and Native Troops has,
in conformity to the Treaty concluded, been ſtationed in the gardens of Chepauk,
..under the command of a Britiſh Officer; and the Board is already acquainted with vide Conſ.
the circumſtances, which rendered it neceſſary to confine the duties of that party to the 1c Ult”.
purpoſes merely honorary.
12. The rigorous confinement of which the Family complains, is that to which
all the female and moſt of the male branches of the Family have been accuſtomed
for many years, without any interference of the Britiſh Governments; I mean their
.reſidence in the Palace of Chepauk, under the immediate authority of the reigning
Nabob. It is not known to me that his Highneſs has committed any aft of oppreſ-
ſion; and I have every reaſon (founded on the uniform defire expreſſed by his
Highneſs to avoid ſuch a calumniation, and on the manifeſt exaggeration of facts by
the Family) to diſbelieve the aſſertion contained in the repreſentation (H.)
13. Some of the neareſt relations of the Nabob, particularly their Highneſſes
Hiſſam al Moelk, Naſier ul Moolk, and Morteza Huſſain Khan, having been en-
.175. - G g truſted
(G.) & (H.)
* I 4.
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an
Vol. II. truſted with public duties by the late Governments, have, I underſtand, unadjuſted
- ~ accounts to a very large amount: The accounts of Hiſſain ul Mook were under
audit at the period of the death of Omdut ul Omrah ; and it is unneceſſary to
explain, that the uſual proceſs adopted by their late Highneſſes the Nabobs of
the Carnatic in ſimilar caſes was reſtraint, ſometimes of a rigorous and ſometimes
of an honourable nature. Moorteza Huſſain Khan and Hiſſain ul Mulk were re-
ſtrained to the Garden of Chepauk, under the forms uſually adopted with perſons of
their rank. - -
14. With reſpect to Moorteza Huſſain Khan, the Board knows, that upon the
firſt ſuggeſtion of the inconvenience created by the interference of the Supreme
Court, his Highneſs the Nabob releaſed him from this honourable reſtraint, and I
have no doubt that his Highneſs would as readily comply with a ſimilar ſuggeſtion,
in regard to Hiſſam ul Mulk; but it yet remains for this Government to enable the
Nabob to recover the unadjuſted balance of Moorteze Huſſain Khan’s accounts; and .
Hiſſain ul Mulk has no reaſonable objećtion to render an account of his admi-
niſtration of the revenues of Arcot and Trichinopoly.
15. I conclude, that no perſon diſtruſts the general ground of belief of their
Highneſſes the late Nabob Mahomed Ally and the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah.
having died poſſeſſed of great property; and I have poſitive reaſon to believe, on the
ground of circumſtances, which occurred during the late negociations, that a large
property is now in the poſſeſſion of ſome branches of the Family. - -
16. It is a known fact, that at the death of his Highneſs the late Ameer ul
Omrah, the reigning Nabob Mahomed Ally took poſſeſſion of the entire property
of the deceaſed Prince; the Father of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ſucceeded to
the poſſeſſion of that in common with the other property of his Father, as Sovereign
of the Carnatic. If, according to the principles of the Mahomedan law, the Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah Ally had a right to obtain poſſeſſion of the property of the
Prince Ameer ul Omrah, the preſent Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah had the ſame right
on his elevation to the rank of Nabob of the Carnatic. On the other hand, if
the deſcendants of Omdut ul Omrah have a right to hereditary property, without
reference to the principles of the Mahomedan law, and the uſage of the Carnatic
already ſtated, then the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah has an undiſputed claim to the
poſſeſſion of his Father's property, which is notoriouſly known to have been very
large.
17. If the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah had proceeded to exerciſe his power for
the recovery of rights ſo well founded, it might have been difficult to have oppoſed
a reaſonable objećtion to it, but it is conſiſtent with my knowledge, that his High-
neſs has abſolutely abſtained from the exerciſe of his power for that purpoſe ; and
ſuch moderation, under the circumſtances in which his Highneſs is placed, is in my
judgment, a very deficient anſwer to the general imputation of violence ſtated on
the part of the Family. - - -
18. Under the circumſtances which I have now deſcribed, I confider the
repreſentation ſigned by ſome members of the Family, to be calculated for the
purpoſe of defaming the Britiſh Government. The repreſentation (H,) contains a
manifeſt evidence of that ſpirit which dictated the Councils and direéted the corre-
ſpondence of the late Omdut ul Omrah; the ſtyle and matter of that Paper, with the
obſervation of the Perſian Tranſlator, leave no doubt on my mind that the Com-
poſition was originally Engliſh ; and the objećt of the preſent paper, like that of the
Letters written by the late Omdut ul Omrah, appears to be the excitement of an in-
tereſt by appealing to an exaggerated miſtatement of facts.
19. I have judged it to be expedient to record theſe obſervations previouſly to
my communicating to the Board the Anſwer which I propoſed to tranſmit to the
Family, and the Letter which I propoſe to addreſs to his Highneſs the Nabob on that
ſubjećt, becauſe they may perhaps be conſidered neceſſary to meet the objećtion of
an anticipated judgment of the caſe ; and becauſe they may enable the Court of Di-
rećtors to form a juſt eſtimation of the motives of the Family in forcing on their ob-
ſervation, through the channel of the Public records, an exaggeration of fačts calcu-
lated to calumniate not only his Highneſs the preſent Nabob, but the Britiſh Go-
Vernment, 20. I have
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20. I have already recorded my opinion of the neceſſity of ſupporting the juſt Vol. II.
rights and pretenſions of his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, with reſpect to
his Foreign relations; and the ſame ſentiments are in my judgment ſtrićtly applicable
to the internal ſtate of his Highneſs's affairs. This obligation is incumbent on the
Britiſh Government, in conformity to the terms of the Treaty concluded and formally
ratified; any relaxation of the rights conveyed to the Nabob by that inſtrument can
only tend to encourage thoſe hopes of change, which muſt protraćt, and probably
fruſtrate the domeſtic happineſs of the Family, while the indeciſion of the Britiſh
Government would.expoſe all the branches of the Family to the rapacity of thoſe
intereſted adventurers, who have hitherto fattened on its ſpoils.
- 21. Under the impreſſion of theſe ſentiments, I conſider it to be eſſentially neceſſary
to the happineſs of the Family, and to the conſiſtent charaćter of the Britiſh Govern-
ment, that the fallacious expectations of the one ſhould be ſuppreſſed by a candid
avowal and a ſtrict obſervance of the principles of the latter. .
In recording thoſe ſentiments, I judge it to be proper to repeat my opinion of the
diſpoſition, readily and invariably evinced by the preſent Nabob, to meet with cheer-
'falneſs ſuch ſuggeſtions as I conſidered to be advantageous to his Highneſs and to the
Company; and I have no doubt that his Highneſs's anſwer to my propoſed reference
will confirm on the minds of the Board this impreſſion of his charaćter.
22. Referring to a previous paſſage of this Minute, I deem it neceſſary to record
at this time three Letters, addreſſed to me by Seif-ul-Mulk, the eldeſt ſurviving ſon of (L) (M) &
the late Nabob Mahomed Ally. - - . (N.)
s - (Signed) Clive.
TRANSLATION of a Letter from Mahomed Najib Chan Bahader (A)
and Mahommed Ta Re Chan Behader to the Right honourable Lord
Clive, &c. &c. &c. Governor in Council of Madras; dated 23d July
H&OI. -
My Lord, w . .
We have been direéted to inform your Lordſhip, that, purſuant to the will of
his Highneſs the late Nabob, the Heir has adopted for himſelf the following Titles,
viz. “The Nabob Amir ul Hind Waſlajah, tajul Amrah, Amir ul Mumalic, Zulfikar
“ul:Bowlah, Mahomed Ali Huſſeen Chan Bahauder, Zuffer Jung, Sipar Salar.”
"We alſo avail ourſelves of this opportunity to inform your Lordſhip, by the
command of our Maſter, of his affectionate ſentiments and friendly intentions towards
the Honourable Eaſt India Company, and of his readineſs to fulfil all the Articles and
ſtipulations of the Treaty which was concluded between his illuſtrious Anceſtors and
the Honourable Eaſt India Company. We have likewiſe to aſſure your Lordſhip,
...that...our Maſter, from the time of the demiſe of his venerable Father xxxx, certainly
:became a party to the Treaty; and we are confident, that as long as our Maſter ſhall
cheerfully perform all the duties and obligations, which, by virtue of the ſaid Treaty,
are incumbent on him, ſo long ſhall the friendſhip and amity of the Honourable Com-
pany, and of their Repreſentatives here, be continued to him, in the ſame manner as it
was to his Father. - -
r - May your kindneſs remain.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
P" Trans' to Gov".
TRANS LATION of a Letter from Mahomed Najib Chan Behaudre (B.)
Salar Jung, and Mahomed Tuki Ali Chan Behaudre, to the Right
honourable Lord Clive, Governor in Council; dated 28th July 1801,
or 14 RabbioO ul Awul 1216. .
We who ſtand appointed to adminiſter the affairs of the Carnatic during the
minority of the Nawaub, deem it incumbent on us, in the preſent ſtate of the Nawab's
affairs, to addreſs your Lordſhip. * -- . -
1759 -- t His
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PAPERS RE LAT ING TO THE
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Vol. II. His Highneſs the Nawab, by virtue of the will and wiſh of his Father, being Heir
(B.)
to the dominion of the territories of the Carnatic, became the ſucceſſor to his Father,
and this circumſtance took place, notoriouſly and rightfully, according to the expec-
tation previouſly entertained concerning it by the world, although, from certain
communications which paſſed between the Nawab and the Public Officers of Go-
vernment, and between theſe Offcers and us, who are his Highneſs's Repreſentatives,
we had underſtood that the undermentioned circumſtance was not unknown to your
Lordſhip, who had, with the fulleſt confidence and certainty, agitated theſe ſaid com-
munications and negbciations; nevertheleſs, we did not omit to notify the ſaid cir-
cumſtance to your Lordſhip; on the contrary, we formerly addreſſed a Letter to
your Lordſhip on the ſubjećt, and we at the ſame time gave notification of the ſame
circumſtance to the Sirdars of Hindoſtan ; although in the above mentioned letter
we communicated, on the part of the Nawab, the ſtrongeſt profeſſions of his High-
neſs’s friendly intentions and ſentiments, and aſſured your Lordſhip, in the moſt im-
preſſive manner, of his Highneſs and of our own wiſh to fulfil all the exiſting engage-
ments between the Company and the Nawab of the Carnatic; and although we ma-
nifeſted our intention to liſten to any thing which your Lordſhip might propoſe,
provided it may conduce to ſtrengthen the mutual friendſhip and to increaſe the im-
portant intereſts ſtipulated in the Treaty, yet, until this hour, we have not been
favoured by your Lordſhip with a public reply to our addreſs; nay, latterly, your
Lordſhip ſuſpended even verbal diſcuſſion upon the ſubjećt of our addreſs, and omitted
thoſe obſervances due to his Highneſs's honour and dignity, as well as the credit
and attention owing to ourſelves. -
If this were not a predicament of extreme neceſſity, we ſhould with patience have
waited for your Lordſhip's reply. We ſhould have poſtponed until your Lordſhip's
leiſure our endeavours to obviate the many trying dilemmas in which the Nawab, on
his ſucceſſion, was involved, and with which, on our undertaking the important and
reſponſible truſt of Deputies, we were ourſelves encompaſſed. -
But being apprehenſive that eſſential injury to the honour and critical intereſts of
the Nawab might refult from delay, the neceſſity of the caſe, and the importance of
the buſineſs, compelled us to deviate from the forms of external ceremony.
Your Lordſhip is not unacquainted with the ſituation in which the Nawab is
placed on the demiſe of his revered Parent; and it were ſuperfluous for us to deſcribe
it. But the Government, from motives of precaution which we cannot mention,
ſent a body of armed troops, ſubjećt to your Lordſhip's commands, into the reſidence
of the late and preſent Nawaub, which troops ſtill remain there, as your Lordſhip
knows. -
The oſtenſible motive for ſending thither theſe troops was, that, in the probable
event of the death of the Nawaub, they ſhould protećt the rights and affairs of the
rightful Succeſſor, and prevent any detriment to either; and we are perſuaded that,
conſiſtently with the Treaty, no other intention than the above could have been en-
tertained—ſeeing then that the objećt of deputing thoſe troops, viz. procuring the
attendance and obedience to the preſent Nawaub of all the ſubjećts and ſervants of the
Sircar, has been readily and cheerfully accompliſhed, and that in future there is no
fear nor danger, we would therefore hope that your Lordſhip will, with all praćti-
cable celerity, remove an armed body, now no longer neceſſary; for the continuance
of a body of armed troops at the Palace of his Highneſs has an effect on the minds of
his Highneſs's people, and in the eyes of the Vakeels of other Sirdars, which it is un-
neceſſary for us to explain. With a view then to uphold the honour and reſpect of his
Highneſs in the eyes of the people of his own Durbar, as well as in the eyes of the
furrounding Powers, the withdrawing of thoſe troops is expedient: and ſince this mea-
ſure is very neceſſary and very evident, we doubt not your Lordſhip will acquieſce.
with pleaſure, and order it to be done accordingly.
We are extremely concerned that all the communications and perſonal diſcuſſions
which have taken place between us and the Officers of your lordſhip's Government,
relative to the demands of the Company, and the ſucceſſion of the Nawaub, have not
yet had any influence ; the failure of theſe negociatiºns is not aſcribable to any diſin-
clination on our part, or on the part of the Nawaub, but to the very heavy, nay in-
Jurious
AFFAIRS OF THE CARNATIC. -- 117
jurious demand, made of tis—demands which were not warranted either by the mode, Vol. II.
the time, or the circumſtance, in which they were made. - B
Adverting to the extraordinary truſt with which we have been inveſted, to the im- (B.)
portant obligations and high reſponſibility of that truſt, it behoved us, deliberately and
maturely, to weigh the propoſitions which had been made to us ; nor can your Lord-
fhip conſider this ſurprizing: but our difficulties were, conſiderably enhanced from
this circumſtance; that, although we requeſted the Officers of Government to give
in their demands in writing, yet they refuſed to do ſo, and this non-compliance has
been produćtive of doubts, uncertainty, and daily miſunderſtanding.
Charged as we are with a duty of great truſt and importance, it was ſufficient for us
to have been cautious ; moreover, our perfeót reliance on the good faith of the Eng-
liſh Nation, our confidence on your Lordſhip's veracity, and our undiminiſhed reſpect
for the Perſonage under whoſe orders apparently your Lordſhip ačts, induced us to
accede to a daily conference, unuſual indeed, and unreaſonable : we truſt that the
above circumſtances will be ſufficient to exculpate us in the eyes of his Highneſs, and
in the view of the world, from the imputation of blame for having deviated from the
eſtabliſhed pračtices of condućting ſuch negociations by written documents. Had we
not ſwerved from a line of condućt ſančtioned by the practice of ages, we conceive
we had better have conſulted the intereſis of the Nawaub, the views of the Company,
and the ſatisfaction of our own minds; if indeed, the purport of the perſonal confe-
rences had been committed to writing, the advantage of it would have appeared, and
the objećt of the one party or of the other might probably have been atchieved : in
the preſent ſtate of affairs, we are apprehenſive, that from our manner of expreſſing
our ſentiments and intentions, what we have communicated on the part of the Na-
waub may not have been perfeótly underſtood. - - . . .
With a view therefore to acquit ourſelves of any impropriety, as well in your
Lordſhip's apprehenſion as in that of the world, we now reiterate to your Lordſhip
in Council the profeſſions of our readineſs, on the part of the Nawaub, to fulfil every
ſtipulation or ſtipulations of the exiſting contraćt between the Nawaub and the
Company; likewiſe to receive and ſettle any propoſition not incompatible with our
duty, which may tend to increaſe and confirm the alliance between the Nawaub and
the Company, and may be calculated to promote their mutual intereſts and welfare,
whether ſuch propoſitions ſhall be founded on the purport of the paper formerly given
in by us, or on any other principle conſonant with your Lordſhip's indulgence and
wiſhes. n - . . .
We have reſtrained ourſelves from expreſſing our feelings and ſentiments to your
Ilordſhip on the diſtreſſing and heart-affecting tranſačtions which have taken place,
and are going on at this time, in the Palace of the Nawaub, all apparently with the
ſančtion and approbation of an Authority which we are always inclined to reſpešt—We
are unwilling, by writing on the ſubječt, to increaſe thoſe embarraſſments in which
we are at preſent involved ; nay, in order to obviate theſe embarraſſments, we are
ready to accede to any reaſonable meaſures ; our ſilence, then, reſpecting this buſineſs
cannot be conſtrued into a want of feeling, or attributed to hardneſs of heart; on the
contrary, it proceeds from a cauſe more cogent than any perſonal intereſts”: we are It is not
convinced in our own minds, that the mode of proceeding which we have adopted clear in the
will conduce to the real intereſts and welfare of our Maſter. . h;
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My Lord, theſe good intentions are not merely profeſſional ; we are ready to ſub-...”
{tantiate them by proofs; and we thus publicly and ſincerely aſſure your Lordſhip of perſºnajin-
the ſame, truſting that ſuch aſſurance may remove the difficulties which oppoſe a tereſts, or
happy adjuſtment of the propoſitions made to us by order of your Lordſhip, and tend i. de.
to manifeſt to the univerſe the upright intentions of the Company towards their an- Ciá ràſ i () ſlS,
*ient and approved Allies. ‘.
d May your generoſity endure.
(A true Tranſlation) .
(Signed) A. Falcomár,
P* Tranſlator to Government.
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PAPERS RELATING To T H E
Vol. H.
(c)
T R A N S L AT I O N of a Letter from Mahommed Najib Chan Bahat;.
der and Mahomed Taki Chan Bahadar, to the Right honourable Lord
Clive, &c. &c. &c. Governor of Madras; dated 30th July.
'We incloſe, for your Lordſhip's information, copies of two Papers written and
delivered (to us) by the people of the family of his Highneſs the late Naveb Wallajah,
and thoſe of the family of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah Bahadur, ſtating the rights
of ſucceſſion of the ſon and heir of the Navab Omdut ul Cºnrah, and the want of due
right, in any ſenſe, on the part of the ſon of the late Omir ul Omrah ; alſo, the
original of a Paper written by Moulana Aba ul Ali Melick ul Ulma, a perſon ſupe-
rior to any of his contemporaries throughout Hindoſtan for his extenſive knowledge
of Mahommedan Law, and by other learned Men, repreſenting the right of the above-
: mentioned Heir to the ſucceſſion.
The Heir abovementioned on loſing his honoured Father, conſidered your Lordſhip
to have become to him an indulgent Parent.
By that tenderneſs, then, which is due from an affectionate Father, and by that juſtice
and form which the Engliſh Nation, celebrated for juſtice, poſſeſs, we requeſt that
your Lordſhip, from motives of tenderneſs and indulgence, would peruſe with atten-
tion theſe Papers, and in juſtices beſtow a kind conſideration on this caſe.
TRANSLATION.—Copy of a Paper, authenticated to be a true Copy
by the Seal of Kaſi; ſigned Ghulam Huſſein Chan ul Alvi. -
We the People of the Families of the Nawabs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah
Bahadar:—(Declare) -
Apparently the Government intend to appoint Obdul Ali, commonly called Azimul
Dowlah as the ſucceſſor; now, by the Mahomedan Law, the abovenanied perſon, who
was left without inheritance, has not any kind of right to the ſucceſſion. The deceaſed
Omir ul Omrah made no will relative to the ſonſhip or inheritance of Azim ul
Dowlah ; nor did his Highneſs the Navab Wallajah (may the mercy of God be
upon him ) give Azim ul Dowlah any thing belonging to Amir ul Omrah, nor any
thing belonging to himſelf: and we ſhall never conſert to the ſucceſſion of the above.
named Perſon.
Dated the 26th of July 1801. - - - -
And ſigned by “Amir til Dowlah Bahadur.
“ Hiſam ul Mulk Bahadur,
“ Iflichar ul Dowlah Behgjar,
“ Naſir ul Mulk Bahadar,
“ Aatimad ul Mulk Bahadar,
“A Shrofful Mulk Behadur,
* Aatakadul Mulk Bahadur,
“ Huſſein Mahomed Chan,
“Sultan ul Niſſa Begum,
“ Melik ul Niſſa Begum,
“Amdut ul Niſſa Begum,
“ Navab Ranſal Niña Begum,
- - “ Rahim ul Niſſa Begum,
- “Obdul Kadir Chan Bahadur,
“ Chuday Jahs Begum, -
“ Navab Zeib ul Niſſa Begum,
“ Perfumbe.” r
TRANS LATION:—Copy of a Paper, certified as a true Copy by
the ſeal of Kaſi ; ſigned Ghulam Huſſein Chan ul Alvi.
"We the People of the Families of the Navab Wallajah (may God's mercy be upon
By
#im!) and of the Navab Omdutul Omrah Bahadur:-(Declare)
A F F A H R S OF T H E C A R N AT I C. 113
By the will of the Navab Omdut ul Omrah Bahadur, to whom devolved from the Vol. II:
Nawab Walajah all the rights of Government, and the Country of the Carnatic, as - -
well as the property of his father, theſe were given and bequeathed by the ſaid Nabob (9.)
Omdut ul Omrah to his heir and ſucceſſor the Navab Tajul Omrah, who is entitled
to the Government by the Muſſulman law. We, all the People of the family, &c.
take God and his Prophet to witneſs, that the ſaid Taj ul Omra ſhould ſucceed in
conformity to the above-mentioned will. *
Dated the 26th july 1801.
} Syful Mulk
I obey the Family
Hiſam ul Mulk,
Athroff ul Mulk,
Aaliked ul Mulk,
Mahommed Huſſein Chan Bahadar,
Naſir ul Mulk Bahadur,
Sultan ul Niſſa Begum,
Malikºul Niſſa Begum,
3Omdut ul Niſſa Begum,
TNavab Raufulul Niſſa Begum,
Abdul Kadir Chan Behadar,
Navab Zeib ul Niſſa. Begun,
‘Rahem ul Niſſa Begum,
"Chadayjah Begum.
Perſon Bi,
Amin ul Dowlah Bahaudar,
Ifticher ul Dowlah Bahauder.
(TRAN SLATION.)
"The ordinance of the Holy Law, as well as eſtabliſhed precedent, and the praćtice
zof Chalifs and Sultans, is this ; that a man’s ſon becomes his heir ; and when a father
ºmakes his ſon his heir, and gives the ſon all the property acquired by him the father,
*then ſuch ſon becomes heir and proprietor, without the participation of another; and
if the father be proprietor of ſeniority, and previouſly to his death names his ſon as
‘his heir, ſuch ſon then becomes heir accordingly, whether he be a legitimate * ſon From the
-or not. And if a perſon poſſeſſed of ſeniority, and having a ſon, ſhould make another, womb ºf his
whether an adopted or a mere ſtranger, his ſucceſſion as executor, then it behoves all ºw.
“to obey the perſon’ſo appointed. ** * *
Such is the rule of inheritance as obſerved by the orthodox Chalifs,
For the firſt Chalifº, the Leader of the Faithful, and the Chief of the Juſt, although Abanbehar.
he had a ſon, appointed the moſt diſtinguiſhed among the Juſt, and the Prince of the .*
*Faithful, i. e. Omn, Son of Chatab, as his executor and ſucceſſion; and the Prince of
: the Faithful, Omn, ſon of Chatab, as his executor and ſucceſſion, and the Prince of the Sc Orig.
*Faithful, Omn, followed the ſame rule.
The Sultans who ſucceeded:the Chaliffs obſerved the ſame law.
For from the Time of Abdul Malik, who was King of Arabia and Perſia, until the
: reign of Abu Manſur Davanike of the family of the Abaſſider and Kania Naſhia, and
his natural ſon Mamum ‘Raſtua and Mantaſin, and Muntaſin, the ſucceſſion to the
Sultanut proceeded in this manner; theſe were Kings of Arabia and Perſia, and of the
Sultans their ſucceſſors; until the preſent time, each Sultaun who, at the time of his
“death, made a will nominating a perſon to ſucceed him, was ſucceeded by the perſon
ſo named as Sultaun: and ſuch perſon as refuſed to accredit the perſon ſo appointed to
be Sultan, was doomed to impriſonment and death.
Thus then, conformably with theſe evidencies of law and of precedent, and with the
uſage of preſent and preceding Sultans, the inheritance and the right to all matters of
right and property belonging to the Nawaub Walajah Amin ul Hind devolved to
, the deceaſed Nawab Omdur ul Omrah, and from the ſaid deceaſed to the Nawab
Tajul Omia; becauſe, the deceaſed Nabob having appointed his Executor and Heir,
3.75. * and
t QC
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and ſucceſſion, then departed this life, wherefore the proprietor of all theſe rights is
the Newaub Tajul Omia Bahadur; and the intervention of another is contrary to.
law and precedent. .*
(Signed) “ Malick ul Uluma,
* “Ghulam Haſſain Chan Kanull Alki,
“ Imaun Bucket,
“ Scynd Olid Ullah,
* Matimud Savi ul Kadie,
“ Maulive Mahommed Ali,
* Maulavi Mahomed Sadik,
“ Maulavi Kenin Ullah,
“ Maulavi Ala ul Din Atamed,
“ Maulavi Abdul Rab, Son of the Malich ul Ullamad,
“ Mauliva Mahomed Bake.” & f
Sien Scamlitam, (Signed) 4. Falconar.
(D.)
TRAN SLATION of a Letter from Sultan ul Niña Begum to the
Right honotirable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c. * *...
wº
&
Dated and received 19th September 1801.
Laſt night, about eight o’Clock, Koorham Ali, a ſervant of Azim ul Dowlah
Bahadur, came, attended by a party of the Company’s Infantry and the Dubaſh of
Colonel Bowfu, entered the precinóts of my habitation, and having looſed five ele-
phants, my property, which ſtood there, ſaying that your Lordſhip had demanded
them, thereupon took them away.
Lately alſo there was a ſum of money, my property, amounting to 3,703 S. Pagº,
and 222 Company's Rupees, depoſited with Chuajah Kamui ul-Din Chan Azim
ul Dowlah Bahader, having impriſoned the Chim, poſſeſſed himſelf of the ſaid
money.
One of your Lordſhip's Chubadars was ſufficient to have conveyed to me your
Lordſhip's commands, when I ſhould not have failed to ſend the elephants to your
Preſence; but the terror and alarm excited in the minds of children and weak
women, by the formidable appearance of Korham Ali the Dubaſh of the Colonel, and w
a military force, I had better leave to your Lordſhip to conceive than attempt myſelf
to deſcribe. -
May your friendſhip and juſtice endure.
- (A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
P" Tº to Government.
(E.) .
To the Sultan ul Niſſa Bagum.
I have had the honour of receiving your Highneſs's Letter of yeſterday’s date;
and am ſincerely concerned, that any event ſhould have occurred of a nature unplea-
ſant to your Highneſs.
Your Highneſs knows, that during the exiſtence of their Highneſſes the Nabob
Walajah and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, deceaſed, the Britiſh Government carefully
abſtained from any interference in the internal government, or in the domeſtic affairs
of thoſe Princes.—The Treaty which has recently been concluded with his Highneſs
the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Bahadar (whom God preſerve 1) leaves no latitude for
the interference which your Highneſs deſires; but I ſhall have the honour of commu-
nicating at an early period of time, your Highneſs's Letter to the Nabob Azeem ul
Dowlah Bahadar; and as i am ſatisfied of his Highneſs's earneſt diſpoſition to cul-
tivate that harmóny with his Family which is neceſſary to its happineſs and to its
reputation,
A F F A I R S OF T H E C A R N AT I C. ** I2 iſ
reputation, ſo I truſt that your Highneſs, looking to him as the conſtituted Head of Vol. II.
that Family, will omit no means of conciliating his good diſpoſition towards the eſta .
bliſhment of union and cordiality with the ſubordinate branches of the Family. (E.)
(Signed) Clive.
TRAN SLATION of a Letter frosh Sultan ul Niſſa Begum to the
Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor, &c. &c. &c.; dated 23d
September.
I have been honoured by the receipt of your Lordſhip's Letter of the noth inſtant,
which has comforted my anxious mind. My Lord, although adverting to your
Lordſhip's rank and dignity, I ſhould ſcarcely have preſumed to addreſs your
Lordſhip, yet as her late Highneſs my revered Mother, when ſpeaking of the great
Lord Clive Bahauder, the very kind Friend of this Family, uſed to deſignate him by
the name of Brother, I venture to detail, with the pen of friendſhip, the protećtion
and patronage, and ſecurity, which this Family has experienced.
It is as evident as the ſun that the Navab Walajah, in the plenitude of his
power, as Ruler of the Country and Head of this Houſe, poſſeſſing ſupreme controul
over this Family, and who conferred on them all the benefits they enjoy, that the
ſaid Navob, nevertheleſs behaved to them with the utmoſt degree of indulgence and
generoſity ; notwithſtanding this, individuals of the Family, on being diffatisfied, uſed
to ſeek the protećtion of Government; for during the firſt adminiſtration of Lord
Pigot, the late Shahmut Jung Bahadur repairing to Madras, procured the order of
Lord Pigot to the Nabob Wallajah for ſending his Wife and Family, then at
Trichinopoly, to the Preſidency, which was done accordingly; and during the period
of Lord Pigot's ſecond Adminiſtration, four Nephews of the Navob Wallajah, viz.
Sumſam ul Dowlah Bahadar, Abdul Hakim Chan, the late Jane Jehun Chan, and
Amir ul Dowlah Abad ul Kader Chan Bahauder, reſorted to the protestion of the Go-
vernment during the Government of Lord Hobart: Hafez Howſon Ali Chan, one
of the Brothers of the Navab Omdut ul. Omra Bahdur, was received into the
protećtion of Government; and the more recent caſe of Abdul Samd Chan Ba-
hadur Deleir Jug, and his Brother, is within your Lordſhip's knowledge, how
that the Navab Omdut ul Omrah could not exerciſe his will over them, but was
obliged to ºſe conciliatory meaſures. But, my Lord, the umbrage taken by theſe
Refugees did not ariſe from any injury they had met with from their immediate
Chiefs, but merely becauſe certain wiſhes they had entertained had not been gratified;
hence they remonſtrated, and hence they found protećtion.
But how does it come to paſs that now, when the whole Family are in danger
of loſing their charaćter, their lives, &c., yet they find no protećtion in your
Lordſhip's Government too. Fifty years have elapſed, during which period we
have experienced your Lordſhip's friendſhip, and for a period of almoſt eighty
years have we experienced the protećtion of the Company we cannot doubt,
that the patronage of your Lordſhip, the protećtion of the Company’s Banner, and
the ſecurity and ſafety of the gracious King of Great Britain, is extended to us.
Your Lordſhip was pleaſed to write, that Azim ul Dowlah Bahauder was ex-
tremely deſirous to live on terms of harmony with the individuals of the Family,
and to conſult their honour and comfort. My Lord, the individuals of the Family
are influenced by the ſame wiſh ; but were the oppreſſions which they have ex-
perienced, and continue to experience, by the condućt of Azim ul Dowlah, to be
detailed, the circumſtances would convert the cheerfulneſs and ſerenity of your
Lordſhip's mind into uneaſineſs and chagrin.
Your Lordſhip was pleaſed to ſuggeſt, that with a view to eſtabliſh unanimity
and concord among the different individuals of the Family, I ſhould uſe my beſt
exertions to conciliate and ſatisfy Azim ul Dowlah. My Lord, myſelf, and the reſt
of the Family, are in reality the friends of Azim ul Dowlah, for he is to me,
and to moſt of the Family, in the relation either of a Son or a Grandſon; but the
late irregularities of his conduct towards the Family are oppreſſive, and repugnant
to ſuch a connection. Over and above his former violence and tyranny, I ſhall relate
175. I i the
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Vol. II, the tranſactions of yeſterday: If Tichar ul Dowlah Bahauder, my Brother-in-law,
who labours under an exceſſive palpitation of the heart, and to whoſe health
(*) ſome exerciſe in the cool of the evening is neceſſary, has nevertheleſs ſince yeſter-
day been confined to his houſe by Azim ul Dowlah's orders; moreover, the Family
Phyſician, who, having attended on us in adminiſtering medicine for upwards of
twenty years, is acquainted with the reſpective conſtitutions of the Family, he has
been impriſoned by the direction of Azim ul Dowlah; the ſick of the Family are
conſequently reduced to a ſtate of diſtreſs and danger. Azim ul Dowlah yeſterday
alſo ſent a meſſage by Korbam Ali, direéting Tajul Omrah to deliver up to him
the ſeal of the late Nawaub Omdut ul Omrah, otherwiſe he ſhould cauſe his food,
drink, fuel, and other means of ſubſiſtence to be withholden. &’
My Lord, I formerly repreſented to your Lordſhip, that our proſperity was de-
ſtroyed; now our lives are in danger. * º
My Lord, three things are to this Family indiſpenſable: 1ſt. The means of our
ſubſiſtence; 2d and 3d. The exerciſe of our ceremonies of condolence and con-
gratulation. Now your Lordſhip is entruſted with the former reſponſibility, and the
controul of the two latter reſts with the Head of our Family: that Head, at preſent,
is the Nawaub Syful Mulk Bahaudar. --- *
In ſhort, the objećt of this long detail is this; that, by your Lordſhip's favour,
the members of this Family may be ſuffered to live in peace and ſafety, unmo-
laſted, unoppreſſed, under the Flag of the Company, protećted by your Lordſhip's
patronage from the violence of all. -
* This was Your Lordſhip was ſo juſt and good as to write me, that you ſhould direét”
not the ex: Azim ul Dowlah to reſtore the elephants and money, of which he had poſſeſſed
ºf himſelf. I truſt, that through your Lordſhip's order, reſtitution ſhall be made ac-
#ipºinter, cordingly, and that the ill uſage of Azim ul Dowlah towards this Family ſhall be
(Signed) reſtrained.
4 * By the honour and dignity of the gracious King of Great Britain, by the faith
and generoſity of the Engliſh Nation, by the juſtice and equity of the Honourable
Company, this helpleſs and forlorn Family entreat to be forgiven, and implore
their miſerable ſituation may be enquired into, and relieved. t
For the reſt may your Lordſhip's friendſhip and juſtice for ever endure
& --- (A true Tranſlation,)
" " ' ' (Signed) A. Falcomar,
T. T. to Gov'.
;
T R A N S L A TI O N of a Letter from the Anward * and Wallajah
(G.) § sº ſº •, ge
- • ' Families to the Governor in Council.
*Patronymic * . . .
epithets from Gentlemen, f
. §. We have repeatedly repreſented our helpleſs ſituation to Azim ul Dowlah Ba-
...” hader, verbally and by letter, in the hopes that he would immediately attend to our
din and Wal-ſituation, and remove our difficulties; but neither "our repreſentations nor addreſſes
lajah. have been of any avail—We ſtill continue in ſtrićt reſtraint, and neither our relations,
egº) our friends, nor our ſervants can viſit us, without the greateſt apprehenſions. . .
Beſides experiencing theſe diſtreſſes, and this diſgrace, our propery and effects
have been forced from us; our elephants, horſes, and houſes ſeized ; nay, the money
of one of us, by the orders of Azim ul Dowlah, has been plundered.
Gentlemen, we ſtate theſe circumſtances for your information, but ſtate them not
by way of complaint. We are convinced that the Governor in Council, in conſide-
• This para- ration of the arrangement” they lately carried into effect ; we are convinced, we ſay,
graph is that adverting to that circumſtance, you will take ſpecial care, Gentlemen, that from
º, irregularities like theſe, the ſtigma of reproach ſhall not attach to the Engliſh name,
confined, but
*
...” famed as it is forgood faith; that its good name ſhall not be converted into a bad
1iterally ‘nafne. if r g tº
º On every conſideration we requeſt your Lordſhip to deliberate a little, let our
12.
Iot be what it may; but, being deſcended from Amérs, and accuſtomed to receive
* - ** * * * --- & from
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from the People homage, attendance, and Nazars—from you, Gentlemen, endued as Vol. II.
you are with juſtice, we expečt the preſervation of our honour. You will not for a
moment admit the idea even of our diſhonour and diſgrace. -
To you, Gentlemen, what more need we write :
Sealed with the ſeals of f
. . Navab Sultan ul Niſſa Begum,
Huſſam ul Mulk,
Melik ul Niſſa Begum,
Navab Zaib ul Niſſa Begum,
Mahommed Naſier Chan,
Rayisul Omra Mahommed abdul Heiſſain,
Omah ul Niſſa Begum Hafies,
Mahommed Naſir Chan,
Etenad ul Mulk Bahadur,
&c. &c.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) 4. Falconar,
P" Tº to Gov".
G.)
TRANSLATION of a Letter fom the Anweri and Walajahi (H,
Families to the Right honourable the Governor in Council.
Dated I I th December 8o I
Received I Ith D* I or.
On the 20th November we addreſſed your Lordſhip in Council upon the ſubjećt
of our helpleſs ſituation, but have not hitherto been favoured with a Reply; the neceſ-
ſity of attending to our perſonal ſafety ſuffers us not to remain inačtive, and if we
ſhould appear importunate, this neceſſity muſt be our excuſe; but we requeſt your
Lordſhip's immediate attention to our ſituation.
Having already publicly repreſented to your Lordſhip in Council the hardſhips of
our ſituation, it were ſuperfluous now to retrace them. We hope they are not for-
gotten, although we have not hitherto received the conſolation of a ſatisfactory
anſwer. We cannot however iénagine that this conſolation is attainable ; and the
eſtimation in which we hold your Lordſhip's virtues, and thoſe of the Gentle-
men of the Council, renders it impoſſible for us to harbour the idea that the tyranny,
the oppreſſion, the degradation exerciſed over us, and repreſented to your Lordſhip
in Council, that theſe injuries are to paſs uninveſtigated, unredreſſed.
Since we laſt repreſented our caſe, and our impatience of it, to your Lordſhip, it
has become ſtill more ſevere and alarming. ; : - . . . .
Our impriſonment is ſuch (alas ! that our lot ſhould be ſo altered?) that it muſt
excite compaſſion iniyour benevolent minds; we have been doaded with opprobriumi
and inſult-inſults which add bitterneſs to the cup, of adyerſity, and render the chains
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of our captivity, barbarous as they are, more afflićting ſtill 1* ... . !
Weak, helpleſs, and innocent as we are, the hand of tyranny and oppreſſion has
been extended over our perſons and property; the doors of ſome of our habitations
have been violently broken, and our private apartments invaded and diſturbed by a
terrifying body of hirelings, without a ſhadow of juſtice, and without the ſemblance
of a reaſon to authorize ſo unjuſt, ſo, unwarrantable a proceeding. *
*
... The reſidence of our Prince, the Heir of our deceaſed elder. Brother, hath been
* A * * *
injuſtly broken ; i. e. the doors have been forced open, his private apartment plun-
dered, his friends calumniated and reviled, his ſervants beaten, and himſelf obliged to
fly before an infamous ruffian rabble, (we cannot call them ſoldiers) to his interior
apartments, to protećt, what is dearer than his life, his honour and reputation.
. . It is unneceſſary that we ſhould appriſe, your, Lordſhip in Council whence all this
has originated; it is equally unneceſſary we ſhould point out to your Lordſhip in
Council to what conſequence this cruelty, and injuſtice quickly; tends; a conſequence
ſo evident and inevitable that a very idiotºgay-anticipate it. . . #.
... It is incumbent on this Prince, the rightful Heir, and on the Families, to repreſent
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vol. II. theſe circumſtances to your Lordſhip in Council, in the convićtion that juſtice,
(H.),
(I.)
equity, humanity, your own reputation, the fair fame of the Engliſh name, and the
Intereſts which your Lordſhip repreſents, will induce your Lordſhip to interpoſe your
power for the prevention of irregularities alike incompatible with juſtice, and repug-
nant to the beſt feelings of h man nature. e
We requeſt your Lordſhip in Council's attention to the ſubjećt of our preſent and
former addreſs, and if your Lordſhip in Council ſhould deem it expedient, from Public
motives, to detain our Prince in confinement, we hope that ſuch confinement may be
made as lenient as may be conſiſtent with the motives for ſuch confinement; and we
moſt earneſtly entreat, that if it be neceſſary we ſhould ourſelves remain in confine-
ment, we may not be ſubjećted to the power of that perſon who is deſirous of our
deſtručtion, whoſe daily condućt inſpires us with terrors, and whofe intereſt it is to
deſtroy us: but if we are to be confidered priſoners, we requeſt of your Lordſhip's
juſtice the common privilege of priſoners—the ſafety of our lives. Remove us, my
Lord, from the precinºts of Chepauk ; keep us in ſome place of ſafety in the cuſtody
of the Company; afford us a pittance for our neceſſary ſupport; but ſuffer us not to
remain within the graſp of an oppreſſive Power, which admits of no bounds, and
acknowledges no law, and whoſe ačts receive encouragement and ſupport from the
troops who ſurround him, wearing the uniform of the King of Great Britain and the
Company.
What more need we ſay? º
(Signed) “ Sultan ul Niſſa Begum,
“ Huſſan ul Mulk Behauder,
&Signed) “ Melik ul Niſſa Begum,
“Hafez Mahommed Naſir Chan,
“Abdul Kadir Chan, f }
“Rajas ul Omrah,
“Rajas ul Neſſa Begum,
“Omdut ul Niſſa Begum,
“Jatamed ul Mulk Bahauder,
“Jatazad ul Dowlah Bahauder.”
Tranſlated as nearly as can be from an original, written in a very imperfeół
ſtyle. - - - .
* & (Signed) 4. Falcomar. • -
* . P. T. to Government.
*—i–º-aa-ºe-a-t —º-
In the name of GOD ! . . .
I have had the honour of receiving two Papers, ſigned by ſome of the moſt
reſpectable perſons conneéted with their Highneſſes the late Nabob Mahomed Ally
and the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah,
It is known to thoſe reſpe&table Perſons, that the Britiſh Government, ačtuated by
motives of national magnanimity and moderation, relaxed the exerciſe of the poſitive
rights which it had acquired under the violation of the alliance by their Highneſſes
the late Nabob Mahomed Ally and the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ; that relax:
ation was referable to no tacit acknowledgment of any dormant right on the part of
the Family of thoſe deceaſed Nabobs, but it originated in the generous wiſh, founded
on a long intercourſe of friendſhip and union, to preſerve to that reſpectable Family
its ancient rank among the Princes of Hindoſtan. 4. .
Under that moderated exerciſe of the power acquired by the Britiſh Government,
it had a right to expect the cheerful acquieſcence of every branch of that reſpectable
Family in the arrangements finally adopted for the ſecurity of the Britiſh intereſts in
the Carnatic, and for the preſervation of the dignity of that reſpectable Family; but,
it is ſufficiently known, that a general and unreaſonable reſiſtance was oppoſed to
thoſe arrangements by the perſons who have ſigned the preſent repreſentation, while
many of thoſe individual perſons endeavoured to advance pretenſions of a diſtinét and
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perſonal intereſt, thereby manifeſting an indiſpoſition to any arrangement which could Vol. II.
have been ſuggeſted.
When the Britiſh Government finally determined to elevate his Highneſs the (*)
"Nabob Azim ul Dowlah Bahadur (whom Heaven preſerve!) to the rank of Nabob of
'the Carnatic, I encouraged a reaſonable ground of expectation that the ſuppreſſion of
thoſe diſcordant pretenſions would be followed by a cordial and grateful diſpoſition on
the part of the Family, to meet an arrangement calculated, in a particular manner, to
ſupport the ancient dignity and honour of that Houſe. In this hope I cauſed timely
ccommunication to be made by my authority, and in the name of the Britiſh Govern-
ment, to the principal Members of the Family, informing them of the intended eleva-
tion of the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah Bahadur (whoſe ſhadow be extended !) and in-
viting them to be preſent, and to partake the honours of his Highneſs's inſtallation.
It is known to the reſpe&table Perſons who have ſigned the preſent Repreſentation,
and it is notorious to the whole world, that not one of thoſe Perſons attended that
diſtinguiſhed ceremony, thereby manifeſting a determined hoſtility to the Nabob
Azim ul Dowlah (whom God preſerve!) an ungrateful diſreſpect to the Britiſh Govern-
ment, and a perverſe adherence to the ſpirit of thoſe Councils which had terminated
in the forfeiture of the rights of the Family.
This public denunciation on the part of the Family of its diſaffe&tion to the Nabob
Azeem ul Dowlah (whoſe life be prolonged 1) was conſiſtently followed by a ſyſtematic
reſiſtance oppoſed to the endeavours of that Prince, and to my exhortation, for the
purpoſe of eſtabliſhing union and affection among the different Members of that re-
'ſpectable Family.
The progreſs of theſe unhappy diffenſions I have continued to obſerve with the
utmoſt degree of concern; and I regretted that the advice reſpeštfully offered by me
to her Highneſs the Begum Sultan ul Naſſa in my Letter of the 20th September laſt,
ſhould have failed to produce that conciliatory diſpoſition on the part of the Family
which it was my deſire to eſtabliſh.
Under theſe circumſtances of public inſult and reſiſtance to the authority of the
Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah (whom God preſerve'') it is neither improbable nor un-
reaſonable that his Highneſs ſhould have felt ſentiments of reſentment towards thoſe
perſons who have not heſitated to avow, in the moſt public manner, their determined
enmity to his Highneſs. But I deem it neceſſary to ſtate in the moſt formal manner,
...that the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Bahadur (whom God preſerve 1) has repeatedly
afforded to me ſatisfactory evidence of his diſpoſition to revive the bonds of union and
of natural affection with the diffenſient Members of his Highneſs's Family.
Thoſe Members of the Family who have ſigned the repreſentations addreſſed to
me, have appealed through me to the Britiſh Government, againſt the violence im-
puted to his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah (whoſe ſhadow be extended !)
ſtating the confinement of their perſons, and the uſurpation of their property.
When the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah was raiſed to the rank of Nabob of the Car-
natic, his Highneſs ſucceeded to the rights of his illuſtrious Anceſtors heretofore
Nabobs of the Carnatic; during a long period of time thoſe rights have been exerciſed
within the juriſdićtion of the Britiſh Government, and every Member of the Family
knows that the Britiſh Government never interfered otherwiſe than by the interpo-
ſition of its friendly offices in the internal arrangement of their Highneſs's domeſtic
, economy. One of the moſt memorable events which could have required ſuch an
interference, was the death of his late Highneſs the Ameer ul Omrah (of bleſſed
memory); but it is intimately known to ſome of the moſt reſpectable perſons who have
ſigned the preſent repreſentation, that the Nabob Mahomed Ally (who is in
Heaven) exerciſed on that occaſion the full and undiſputed rights of an independant
Sovereign according to the Mahomedan Laws, unqualified by his Highneſs's exiſting
engagements with the Britiſh Government. t
The principles of the engagements exiſting at that period of time were finilar to
, thoſe of the Treaty by which the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah (whom God preſerve |}
has made himſelf the inſtrument of reſtoring the foundation of alliance with the Britiſh
Government, and of the rank and dignity of this new illuſtrious Family. It is there-
, fore incumbent on the Britiſh Government to reſpect the rights acquired to his
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(i.)
may be made to encroach on thoſe rights, or to violate the principles of the ailiance
now firmly and perpetually eſtabliſhed. *
At the ſame time, however, that I declare in this formal manner the reſolution of
the Britiſh Government to preſerve to the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah (whoſe ſhadow
e extended) the rights which his Highneſs has acquired by Treaty—I alſo declare
an equal determination to oppoſe an uniform reſiſtance to ſuch an exerciſe of power,
within the juriſdićtion of the Britiſh Government, as ſhall be incompatible in my
judgment with the honour and dignity of the Britiſh Nation. *
Upon theſe principles it is incumbent on me to declare, that if the Nabob Azeem
ul Dowlah (whom God preſerve () ſhould have actually exerciſed his Highneſs's
power in the manner and to the extent implied in the repreſentation, I ſhould have
felt it to be my duty to remonſtrate with his Highneſs, and ultimately to reſiſt ſuch an
exerciſe of power. But ſuch an exerciſe of power is imanifeſtly inconſiſtent with the
vigilance of the Britiſh Government, and with the conſtant intercourſe eſtabliſhed
with the palace of Chepauk, it is alſo conſiſtent with my poſitive knowledge, that
ſome of the facts ſtated in the repreſentation are highly inflamed, and maliciouſly ex-
aggerated. But notwithſtanding this impreſſion, I ſhall not heſitate to interpoſe my
good offices, and to require from his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah (whom
God preſerve :) an explanation of the circumſtances of enquiry ſtated in the re-
preſentation. º
As ſoon as I ſhall have received that explanation, I ſhall have again occaſion to
addleſs myſelf to thoſe reſpečiable Perſons who have ſigned the repreſentations, and to
afford them all the ſatisfaction which may be conſiſtent with the faith of the Britiſh
Government, and with a true ſtate of the facts. *r º
Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive.
18th Dec. 180 I.
To his Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah, &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have obſerved with much concern, that the endeavours of your Highneſs
and myſelf to conciliate the minds of ſome of the principal branches of your Highneſs's
Family have proved unſucceſsful. As long as the arrangements which have been
recently concluded for the affairs of the Carnatic were depending, it was natural to
ſuppose that ſome of thoſe perſons intereſted in the event ſhould feel a diſpoſition to
oppoſe your Highneſs's pretenſions; but I indulged a reaſonable expectation, that the
final concluſion and ratification of the ſate Treaty would have removed thoſe rival
grounds of animoſity; and would have eſtabliſhed a permanent foundation for re-
uniting thoſe branches of the Family in the bonds of affection and duty with your
Highneſs.
Theſe ſentiments, your Highneſs knows, I had the honour of communicating to her
Highneſs Sultaunul Niſſa Begum on a former occaſion ; but having ſince received
further repreſentations ſtated to be on the part of the Family, I conſider it to be proper
to furniſh your Highneſs with a copy of thoſe Papers, together with the copy of an
Anſwer which I have incloſed, and which I requeſt your Highneſs to tranſmit for the
information of the Perſons who have ſigned the repreſentations. It is not my intention,
by the tranſmiſſion of theſe Papers, to eſtabliſh the grounds of any improper or unuſual
interference in your Highneſs's domeſtic affairs: I am fully ſenſible of the delicacy
which it is incumbent on the Britiſh Government to obſerve towards every perſon,
and particularly towards the Female part of the Families of the late Nabob Mahomed
Ally, and of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah. I am aware that your Highneſs, as
the conſtituted Head of that Family, is the proper channel of regulating its domeſtic
Ceconomy, and of compoſing its internal diffenſions.
Your Highneſs, however, is ſo fully acquainted with the principles, and with the
motives of generoſity which ačtuated the Britiſh Government in the re-eſtabliſhment
of the Family in its rank, that your Highneſs will readily perceive the degree of
concern with which I muſt receive communications of the nature of thoſe incloſed; and
although
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although I have every reaſon to believe, from my conſtant intercourſe with your
Highneſs, that theſe repreſentations are extremely exaggerated, it is yet incumbent
upon me, both with reſpect to the Public Station which I have the honour to hold,
and with regard to the attention due from me to your Highneſs, and to your Highneſs’s
Family, to tranſmit thoſe Papers to you; and to recommend to your Highneſs to en-
deavour, by the conſtant obſervance of that moderation and forbearance which is
becoming your ſtation, to remove every ground of complaint, and to retrieve the
affections of Perſons ſo nearly related to your Highneſs. *.
*
I do myſelf the honour to recommend this ſubject to your Highneſs's early and
ſerious attention. -
Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive.
# 8th December 1801.
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TRAN SLATION of a Letter from the Navab Seyful Mulck, &c.
&c. &c. Bahaudar, to the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor of
Fort St. George.
f
God the High and the Gracious !
In the name of the merciful and gracious God.
This day, Wedneſday the 15th July * my eldeſt Brother, the late Navab Omdut
ul Omrah Bahaudur, was received into the mercy of the Almighty.
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• The third
Rabiau Caval
According to right and inheritance, through the Divine favour, my claim to the ſuc- 1216 Hajeri.
ceſſion, as ſecond Brother precedes that of any of the Family, my deceaſed Brother
having no legitimate *Son, as is known and evident to every body.
The Gentlemen of the Engliſh Nation and Company are juſt and equitable, and
have for two generations manifeſted every kind of friendſhip, aſſiſtance, ſupport, and
aid for this Family. Y
Now as all affairs, great and ſmall, affecting this Family, reſt with the Engliſh Com-
pany and Nation, I therefore make my ſtrong claim * the means of procuring for
myſelf the favour, the affection, and the equity of the Engliſh Nation, who are Gentle-
men endowed with juſtice.
Conſider me the friend and well-wiſher of the Engliſh Company and Nation.
May your friendſhip continue.
TRAN SLATION of a Letter from the Nawab Seyful Mulc Be-
haudar, &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c.
&c. Governor. *
(Without date.)
The aſſiſtance, aid, and exertion, rendered by your Lordſhip's Father for the
ſupport of my Father's dignity at the commencement of his Government, I am
hopeful your Lordſhip (in imitation of your Father's ſignal ſervices in aid of my
Father's Government) will now manifeſt in behalf of my Hereditary Right, as well
here as in Bengal and in Europe.
I heretofore addreſſed your Lordſhip a Letter on the ſubjećt of my right, to
which I have not received a Reply; favour me with an Anſwer, that my mind may
be at reſt. I have addreſſed a Letter to the Governor General Bahadur, aſſerting
my right; be ſo obliging as to forward it to Bengal, and make me happy by a
reply.
May your friendſhip endure.
e (True Tranſlations.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P. T. to Government.
I 75. - - TRANSLATION
* True Son.
• Right. .
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*Wol. II.
(M.)
TRANSLAT ON of a Letter from the Nawaub Syful Mulk Bahadur
to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c, &c. &c.; dated and received
November 1801.
Lord Clive, your Lordſhip's illuſtrious Father, having had a great affection
for me in my younger years, uſed to call me his Son, and intended to eſtabliſh me
as Soubahdar of Bengal; owing to my youth at the time, my Mother was un-
willing to part with me, otherwiſe I had been until this time Soubahdar of
Bengal; ſuch has been my deſtiny – Since that time, owing to the interference of
my Brothers, I have lived in a ſtate of difficulty and embarraſſment.
On your Lordſhip's arrival as Governor of Madras, I rejoiced exceedingly,
thinking that as my Brother became Governor my proſpects ſhould open, and
my wiſhes be accompliſhed.
Owing to the intervention of my Brother the Navob Omdut ul Omrah, I was
prevented from renewing and explaining to your Lordſhip my former friend-
ſhip. &
I did imagine, that when my Brother ſhould be no longer in my way, I ſhould
obtain what is my right ; but Government having for various reaſons deemed ſuch
a meaſure inexpedient, reſolved on the meaſures which have recently taken place:
and, as I have always ſtudied your Lordſhip's pleaſure, I acquieſced.
In this ſpirit, and in conformity with your Lordſhip's commands, I was the firſt
who went to viſit the Navab Azim ul Dowlah Bahadur: I hope therefore, that
your Lordſhip, whom I conſider as my Brother, will take me by the hand, and
ſupport me in all matters, ſmall and great. *
I now proceed (more particularly to my caſe.)
In the Family of my Father Wallajah, through the Divine favour, there were
many children, and a large expenditure, but none of my Brothers have ſuch a
family as I have : heretofore I had other means of aſſiſtance beſides my Jaghire,
notwithſtanding which I found it difficult to ſubſiſt myſelf; at preſent the trouble
and diſtreſs which I experience to ſupport myſelf it is not fit that I ſhould explain
to my Friend; ſuffice it to ſay, that I am in a ſtate of the utmoſt embarraſſment and
perplexity.
I beg therefore that your Lordſhip, out of a kind and generous regard to the
paternal affection which your Lordſhip's Father had for me, would be pleaſed to
render my circumſtances eaſy, by an encreaſe to my allowance of 800 pagodas,
making up my preſent allowance of 1200 pagodas, to 2000 pagodas per menſum;
alſo to pay me the ſame for the commencement of the Fuſli year, from which date
a balance would be due of three months.
If your Lordſhip ſhould direct me to be paid in this manner from the Company's
Treaſury, I ſhould eſteem it a high obligation, otherwiſe my exiſtence will be
-expoſed to much diſtreſs.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P. T. to Government.
The Board entirely approve the Letters which the Preſident propoſes to addreſs
to his Highneſs the Nabob, and to the diſcontented Members of his Highneſs's
JFamily. -
DIARY to Political Conſultations; 31ſt December 1801.
Received the following Letter:
To John Chamier, Eſq.-Chief Secretary to Government,
£ort Saint George. \
Sir, ~,
I am direéted by his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General to tranſmit
to you the accompanying Letter to his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, for
* ...the
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the purpoſe of being delivered to his Highneſs, under the orders of the Right Vol II.
honourable the Governor in Council. } ºf ºsmºs---º-º-º-º-º:
Copies in Engliſh and Perſian are encloſed for his Lordſhip's information. (M.)
I am further direéted to requeſt that you will ſignify to his Lordſhip in Council,
his Excellency’s deſire that his Lordſhip will be pleaſed to direct that ſuitable
preſents be prepared and preſented to his Highneſs the Nabob on the part of his
Excellency, on the delivery of his Excellency’s Letter.
Allahabad, I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
12th December 1801. (Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone.
- P" Secº to Government.
To his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah ; written I Ith Decem-
ber 1801. -
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's two Letters (recapitulating The Book
thoſe received 1ſt Sptember; and 26th Oétober, 1801.) ** of Cotre- .
Although your Highneſs has been fully apprized by the Right honourable Lord .."
Clive of the circumſtances which have led to your preſent elevation, and of the .
principles upon which the late arrangement in the Carnatic is founded, yet, with the probably en-
view to obviate all doubt or miſapprehenſion upon theſe points, I confider it ex-tered, is no:
pedient diſtinétly to ſtate the principal fačts and conſiderations which have regulated 7° received.
the meaſures of the Britiſh Government on this important occaſion.
It were an unneceſſary and a painful taſk to recapitulate all the exceptionable
circumſtances of the condućt of their late Highneſſes the Nabobs Wallajah and
Omdut ul Omrah towards the Britiſh Government. It is ſufficient to obſerve, that, by
a ſyſtematic courſe of clandeſtine correſpondence and intrigue with the implacable
enemy of the Britiſh Nation, direéted to the ſubverſion of the Britiſh Power in
India, their Highneſſes the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah, jointly and
individually, violated the engagements ſubſiſting between them and the Honourable
Company, and placed themſelves in the condition of public enemies to that Power
to which they were indebted for the original eſtabliſhment and ſubſequent preſerva-
tion of their reſpective rights and intereſts in the Carnatic: under theſe circumſtances,
all obligation on the part of the Britiſh Government to ſupport the Family of their late
Highneſſes in the poſſeſſion of the Carnatic was diſſolved, and the Britiſh Government
would have been juſtified, on the diſcovery of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's
correſpondence with Tippoo Sultaun, in proceeding to deprive the Nabob Omdut
til Omrah of thoſe reſources which he had manifeſted a diſpoſition to employ for
the ſubverſion of the Britiſh Power; but certain political conſiderations, and the
precarious ſtate of his late Highneſs's health, induced the Britiſh Government to
ſuſpend the aſſertion of the rights which it had acquired under his Highneſs's
violation of the Treaty of 1792.
Although the claim of his Highneſs's Family to hereditary ſucceſſion was thereby
entirely extinguiſhed, yet the Britiſh Government, deſirous of combining modera-
tion, with juſtice, and mindful of the connection which had ſubſiſted with their late
Highneſſes during a long courſe of years, and of the condition of his late Highneſs’s
Family, was content to limit the exerciſe of its rights to the extent indiſpenſably
neceſſary for the future ſecurity of the Public intereſts, and therefore determined, on
the deceaſe of his Highneſs, to admit the ſucceſſion of his reputed Son to the Muſnud,
according to the will of the Nabob, under ſuch modifications and reſtriótions as the
nature of the caſe required. .**
By the injudicious Councils of his adviſers, his Highneſs's reputed Son was in-
duced to rejećt the liberal offers of the Britiſh Government. + .
Solicitous, however, to manifeſt to the world a further proof of liberality and mode-
ration, the Britiſh Government ſtill reſolved to continue the ſucceſſion to the Muſnud
of the Carnatic in the Family of their late Highneſſes by transferring that ſucceſſion
to your Highneſs, under the ſame modifications and reſtrićtions which had been
propoſed to his late Highneſs Omdut ul Omrah's reputed Son. -
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I have great ſatisfaction in obſerving, from the tenor of your Highneſs's Letters
that your Highneſs entertains a grateful ſenſe of the liberality and moderation
of the Britiſh Government, in renewing in your perſon the relations which ſub-
ſiſted with your Highneſs's Family, and which the condućt of your Highneſs's Pre-
deceſſors had diſſolved. -
I take this opportunity to offer to your Highneſs my congratulations on the
concluſion of the late happy arrangement, and to aſſure your Highneſs of my ſincereſt
regard, and of my ardent wiſhes for your welfare and for the proſperity of your
affairs, as well as of my determination to maintain the ſettlement concluded with
you in full efficiency, and without any alteration. I have already tranſmitted to
His Majeſty's Miniſters, and to the Court of Direétors, a ſtatement of the late
tranſačtions in the Carnatic, and a copy of the Treaty concluded with your
Highneſs, by my authority; your Highneſs may be aſſured, that the information
of your acceſſion to the Muſnud of the Carnatic will be received by His Majeſty,
and by the Company, with ſentiments of the higheſt ſatisfaction; and that it will
ever be the objećt of the Britiſh Government, both at home and abroad, to ſupport
the dignity of your Highneſs’s ſituation, and to promote the ſucceſs and proſperity
of your affairs. 2. ' - .
+ (A true Copy.)
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone,
4. k Per. SecY.
DIARY to Political Conſultations ; 1ſt January 1802.
Received a Letter from the Nabob, entered in (CC. Nº 1): —Requeſts, that the
ſtipends of . Mooftoonah Khanum Abdehazack Cawn, Wajeub Neſſa, and of
Bauka Khan, may be diſcharged for Oétober and November laſt.
D I AR Y; 2d.
Sent the following Letter to Mr. William Jones, Sub-Treaſurer.
Sir, - : 3. . .
You will be pleaſed to pay to Muſtoorah Khanum the Wife, Abdehazack
Cawn the Son, and Wajeub Neſſa the Daughter of the late Abdelwaha, Cawn,
and to Bauker Cawn Goroher, the Killadar of Chitton, their ſtipends for the
months of Côtober and November laſt, according to their reſpective receipt,
which have been counterſigned by the Nabob, and will be preſented at the
Treaſury. 3. - -
- - - I am &c. &c.
Fort St. George, . . (Signed) jobn Chamier,
2d January 1802. Chief Secº to Goy'.
| . D I A R Y ; 20th January 1802.
Received the following Letter :
John Chamier, Eſq. Chief Secretary to Government.
Sir, - -
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 9th current,
addreſſed to Major-General Bridges, commanding the Southern Diviſion ; and to
acquaint you, that the orders of Government relative to the Palace and Gardens
at Trichinopoly ſhall be carried into effect as ſoon as perſons authorized by his
Highneſs the Nabob appear to take charge of them.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c. -
Trichinopoly, (Signed) A. Brown, Col' .
18th January 1802. in charge of the Southern Diviſion.
£) I A R Y;
A F F A 1 R S OF T H E C A R N A T C.
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D I A R Y ; 23d January 1862.
The Right honourable the Governor alſo preſented to his Highneſs the Nabob, a
packet, tranſmitted by the Earl of Elgin, His Majeſty's Ambaſſador at Conſtantinople,
containing a Letter from the Grand Signor to the late Nabob Wallajah, in anſwer to
one which his Highneſs addreſſed to the Grand Signot ſome time ago.
The following papers were encloſed in the Earl of Elgin's Letter: —Annotations upon
the contents of the Nabob of Arcot's Letter to the Grand Signor, as per annexed
Tranſlate, drawn up from obſervations made by his Excellency the Reis Effendi, at a
conference held with him this day, by order of the Right hooourable the Earl of
Elgin, &c.
1. ſhe Reis Effendi obſerved, that the Grand Signor’s Miniſters have not been
able to make out that Prince's name rightly, for his fetter bears no firm ; and it is
drawn up in a ſtyle and writing not perfeótly underſtood in Turkey. That in the
Anſwer now addreſſed to him by the Grand Vizier in the Sultan's name, they have
given him the title of Arcout Hakimy, or Nabob Arcout, named “ linver ud Din,”
by a mere conjećture on the impreſſion of his ſeal, which appears to convey that
name; but that in this impreſſion he calls himſelf, “Shah-i-Hind;” or the Sovereign of
Hindoſtan. *
2. That the office in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina that Prince alludes to,
in that of “Terraſh;” Spreader of the Carpets, &c. in the two above cities, for
which he demands the grant of a new Barat, or Sened: That reference has been made to
ancient records in the archives of the Imperial Chancery, where copies of Barats have
in fačt been found in favour of different names of Princes in India, whom the Grand
Signor wiſhes to aſcertain if they be related to the ſame Family, before the demanded
Barat is made out in the name of the above Prince, who is deſired to give an eclair-
ciſſement in conſequence. * y
3. That as to the good treatment of his Pilgrims, and the protećtion of their
properties in the two above cities, the three different Firmauns now itſued are
conceived ſufficient to ſecure the accompliſhment of thoſe points to his entire ſa-
tisfaction. r * * .
4. That in regard to the privilege of intermarriage, &c. they do not find any ſuch
demand in the original Letters; and at all events, this is a point of which the Grand
Signor can take no cognizance, either in his Spiritual capacity of Kelife, or as a Tem-
poral Sovereign over the Ottoman ſoil. -
5. That as to building, &c. the meaning whereof only comprehends ſome gilt
ornaments over the chapel where Mahonet's Tomb lies, that is a privilege ſolely and
excluſively belonging to the Grand Signor as Supreme Kalife, and conſequently not
to be transferred or ceded to any other Muſſulman Prince of any deſcription. His
Excellency the Reis Effendi added, that every thing is explained in their anſwer,
drawn up in the civileſt ſtyle, and in the Perſian language, for the Nabob's better in-
telligence; and that any further details which the Engliſh Government may furniſh
concerning this Prince would prove very acceptable at the Porte.
6th November 18Oo.
(Tranſlated from the Turkiſh Original.)
To the moſt profound in the knowledge of the Law, and moſt eminent among the
Caadies of the Mahomedan Faith--The Caady of the Holy City of Medina –(May
his doćtrine further increaſe!)—And to the moſt reverend and moſt eſteemed and truſt-
worthy by all Kings and Emperors, the Sheik or Guardian of the Tomb of the Prophet.
—May his dignity become more eminent !
On receipt of this Imperial Ediel, be it known to you, that his Highneſs the Nabob
of Arc out Enverudden Kån, an Indian Prince, has ſent to our Imperial Porte a re-
preſentation in Perſian, wherein he ſets forth and ſolicits, that all and every one of his
ſubjećts who are deſirous of performing pilgrimage by viſiting the Holy Tomb, and
going in proceſſion round that ſacred chapel, may be allowed to enjoy perfect freedom,
and not be ſuffered to receive any hurt or damage whatſoever; and that in the º
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Vol. II. of any of them dying, their effe&s and chartels may not be confiſcated on the part of
(M.)
the Public Officers there, or from any other perſons, but be delivered unto the com-
panion of the deceaſed, that the property may be conveyed to his heirs in India :
In purſuance thereof this Imperial Firman is iſſued and ſent, in order that you
the above-mentioned Caady and Sheik may employ your utmoſt care and attention,
and adopt every meaſure and means poſſible to ſecure the peace, tranquility, eaſe, and
ſafety of ſuch Pilgrims and devout Travellers as above, to prevent their being anyways
vexed or injured ; and in caſe of their death, not to permit their effects and property
to be ſeized upon in favour of the public cheſt, or otherwiſe, but to have them de-
livered to their companions, in order to their being conveyed to the deceaſed's heirs
in their own country.
This buſineſs has alſo been recommended and enforced to the Sheriff of the Holy
City of Mecca, to the Governor of Jedda, and to the Caady of that Holy place, to
whom ſeparate Firmans have been tranſmitted to the ſame effect. g
This being made known, you are hereby direéted and ordered to uſe all and
every exertion poſſible that all ſuch Pilgrims and devout Viſitors as appertain to the
Hum above mentioned, may be free from moleſtation and injury; they be allowed to
enjoy freedom and eaſe ; and, in the event of any of them dying during their pil-
grimage, that their property may not be confiſcated, but delivered to be ſent to the
deceaſed's heirs in India; and you ſhall be careful that nothing contrary to expecta-
tion be ſuffered to occur therein. . *-
This be it known to you upon arrival of this Imperial Edićt, to which you ſhall
ſhew every obedience, cautiouſly abſtaining from ačting anyways contrary to its
noble contents. Given at our Imperial reſidence of Conſtantinople, towards the
middle of Gemaziel Alier, in the year 1215 (6 November 1800).
N. B. A ſecond Firman, of the ſame tenor and form, for the Sheriffs and the
£aady of Mecca. -
A third for the Governor of Jedda, are hereunto annexed.
ExTRACT Fort St. George Public Conſultations; 22d January 1802.
The Preſident lays before the Board the following Letter, addreſſed to him by
his Highneſs the Nabob (entered alſo in C. C. Nº. 2.)
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah
Bahadur to the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor of Madras.
- 17th Rumzaum 1216 Hegery,
Bated and received { or
C 22d January 1802.
Your Lordſhip's Letter, dated Ith Shaban, or 18 December 1801, with copies
•of two Letters addreſſed to your Lordſhip, under the ſeals of certain members of
my Family, your Lordſhip's original Anſwer thereto, and its copy for my informa-
tion, I have received, and underſtand the contents. I am much obliged to your
Lordſhip's kindneſs for this full information of occurrences, and I forwarded imme-
diately your Lordſhip's letter to the Family. --- -
My Friend, the members of my Family have repreſented that violence has been
exerciſed over them, that their property has been plundered, that I treated them
with ſeverity; and they have ſlandered and calumniated me in language that is not
only highly derogatory to the dignity of the Prince of the Carnatic, but unbecoming
human nature. Although I was placed in the Government of the Carnatic by the
aid of the Engliſh Government, and all the Sirdars of high rank were preſent at
my inſtallation, the members of my Family did not attend, notwithſtanding your
Lordſhip's citation in writing, and my own invitation. In like manner, they not
only failed to attend themſelves at the delivery of the ratified Treaty that was ſent
from Bengal by the Moſt Noble the Governor General, but even prevented others.
In the kindneſs of my diſpoſition, I ſent Nazers to them, and made uſe of every
mild and conciliatory means to reconcile them to me, but they rejećted my Nazers,
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and publicly ſpoke of me in very harſh language; yet, notwithſtanding all this, I Vol. II.
went in perſon ſeveral times to each of their houſes, and uſed every exertion to
ſoften their hearts, and to conciliate their affections, but without ſucceſs. I expe- (M.)
rienced nothing from them but inveterate hatred and malice. As to their complaint
of their having been plundered by me, men of wiſdom and juſtice may form their
judgment from the following facts : – The money, jewels; and other property, to an
immenſe amount, of the late Ameer ul Omrah my Father (whoſe opulence was
well known to all mankind) and which, according to law, and according to the
uſages of the world, belong by right to me, are in poſſeſſion of Sultan ul Niña
Begum, and I have not taken an atom of them, even the ſeals and other inſignia of
ſtate which belonged to my Grandfather and Uncle, and which in every country
throughout the univerſe reverts to the reigning Prince ; of theſe I have not yet
obtained the poſſeſſion. Huſſam ul Mulk poſſeſſed himſelf of property to the
amount of lacs belonging to my Grandfather and Father at Triching poly, which, by
the rules of Government, ſhould come to me; and he is moreover indebted to the
Circar to the amount of ſome lacs, on account of his management of Trichino-
poly and Arcot, as appears by the Coutchery account; and the Mother of Ally
Huffien is in poſſeſſion of property that was in the Nuſeal Mahell, to the amount
..of thouſands; of all this I have not yet taken any thing. Whether this evinces my
lenity and forbearance, or is a proof of my ſeverity, I ſhall leave to the determina-
tion of men of juſtice. - - -
Sultan ul Niſſa Begum ſome time ſince complained to your Lordſhip, that I had
taken away five elephants, her property, and ſeized three thouſand ſeven hundred
and three pagodas and two hundred and twenty-two rupees, belonging to her.
My Friend, as the elephants alluded to belonged to the Circar, and the property of
the Circar can belong to no other than the Prince, I therefore cauſed them to be
fent to my own elephant ſtables; and with reſpečt to the money, the fast is this:—
The Begum's own Writer had got poſſeſſion of this ſum of money, and abſconded
with it, in conſequence of which ſhe ſent me a meſſage, deſiring I would appre-
hend the Writer, and take the money myſelf; I accordingly ſent people in ſearch of
'him, which coming to his knowledge, he came to me and delivered up the money.
My Friend, it is worthy of notice, that the ſaid Begum ſhould be in poſſeſſion of
property to the amount of lacs which belonged to my Grandfather, and yet com-
plain of my taking away a few pagodas, which, in compariſon with the immenſe
property ſhe has of mine, is like a ſingle drop of water in the ſea. With the
fupport of the Engliſh Government, I hope to obtain poſſeſſion of all the property
belonging to the Circar. The elephants and horſes of the Circar were kept at
different places in the diſtrićts, and when Huſſam ul Mulk became Renter of Arcot,
he ſent for theſe animals from every place, kept them at Arcot, and called them
his own ; as they all belonged to the Circar, I had them brought with others to my
own ſtables; , but their value is not a tenth part of the large ſum that Huſſam ul
Mulk ſtands indebted to me. In the Neſi'ut Mahall,"when I took it into my
poſſeſſion, there was no property whâtever; for the Mother of Ally Huffien had
taken it away; and in like manner ſeveral other perſons of the Family got forcible
poſſeſſion of property belonging to the Circar, and they are daily manifeſting their
enmity towards me. From this your Lordſhip will ſee their wicked intentions; and
the circumſtance of their refuſing (in their opulence and pride) to receive the
monthly allowance fixed by the Company, and ſome of them even after having
paſſed their receipts for it, is a deciſive proof that they have not only inſulted me,
but have treated the Engliſh Government with contempt. Another ſubjećt of their
complaint is, that they have been kept in ſtrićt confinement. My Friend, I have
not to the preſent moment put any one of them in durance; on the contrary, I re-
moved the ſtrong guards which had been placed over them in the time of my
Uncle, and gave permiſſion for the free egreſs and regreſs of their females, and of
their ſervants. However, in conſideration of your Lordſhip's recommendation,
and as a freſh inſtance of my moderation and forbearance, I have written to Huſſam
ui Mulk, to the Sons of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, to the Son of Sultan ul
Niſſa Begum, and likewiſe to Abdilcader Cawn, Maiomed Nauſar Cawn, and
M m other
g-r-, …”
*i. f 5 e
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vol. II.
(M.)
* A Portue
gueſe.
other males of the Family, who had addreſſed your Lordſhip, telling them they
were perfeótly at liberty to remain in Chepauk Garden, or to go out of it, without
let or impediment; but with reſpect to the Females, reſtriótion being neceſſary for
the preſervation of their character, I cannot allow them to quit the garden of
Chepauk. Copy of my Letters, and of the Anſwers which they individually wrote
me, but each in the ſame words, I encloſe for your Lordſhip's information; the
male part of them are at liberty to remain in the garden, or to quit it.
In ſhort, your Lordſhip, in your wiſdom and juſtice, will judge of my condućt,
who, by the bleſfing of the Almighty, and by the aid of the Engliſh Government,
have become the Prince of the Carnatic, and from the day I aſcended the Muſnud,
have treated the ſeveral members of my Family (who ought in every reſpećt to be
under obedience to me) with every attention. I have repeatedly recommended them
to your Lordſhip ; and their condućt, both before and ſince I have aſcended the
Muſnud, muſt be ſo fully impreſſed on the minds of the Gentlemen of Government,
as to render any comments unneceſſary. The promoters of all this miſchief are
Huſſam ul Mulk and Sultan ul Niſſa, by the advice and perſuaſion of Colonel
Barrett”. Theſe people are inveterate in their enmity towards me; but being,
as I am, by the bleſfing of God, under the protećtion of the Engliſh government,
I fear not their malice, and am fully perſuaded that, at length, they will be
entirely diſappointed. -
What can I write more ?
- (A true Tranſlation.) t
(Signed) A. Falconar,
Perſian Tranſlator to Government.
T R A N S LA T I O N of a Circular Letter from his Highneſs the
Nawab Azim ul Dowlah Bahadar to each of the Members of the
Family; as hereunder ſpecified. - -
From the commencement of the ſucceſſion of this Servant of the Court of the
Omnipotent to the Government of the Carnatic, the condućt, ſo repugnant to the
principles of all upright and good men, which you have obſerved towards me, muſt
be freſh in your recolle&tion; it is the more extraordinary, ſince not ſatisfied with
this condućt to myſelf, you have tranſmitted (to others) repreſentations replete with
memorials; nay, I imagine they will redound to my advantage.
accuſations falſe and unfounded. - -
It is perfeótly evident to the ſagacity of every perſon of diſcernment and im-
partiality, that beſides the indiſpenſable arrangements and regulation of my affairs,
an attention to which is incumbent on every Ruler, my condućt to you has not, even
although I witneſſed your refractory ſentiments, been influenced by a bias of ſeverity.
This is a fačt ſo notorious, that it were ſuperfluous to illuſtrate it by particular
inſtances. } \, . --
In conſequence of a linekof condućt adopted by my late Uncle the Nabob Omdut
ul Omra, incompatible with his engagements with the Britiſh Government (the ap-
proved Benefactors of the Rulers of the Carnatic) the terms of thoſe engagements were
infringed, and our whole Houſe conſequently involved in a ſituation dangerous and
alarming. w *
By the gracious and kind interpoſition of Providence, the Britiſh Government were
(nevertheleſs) pleaſed to confer on me the ſucceſſion to the Government, as mine
by right, thereby preſerving ſecure the honour of our entire Houſe.
The demeſnes and buildings of the Palace, the reſidence and memorial of our
progenitors, had been mortgaged, and were about to be ſold, an event which, had it.
aćtually taken place, would not have left us even the ſhadow of a wall.
Theſe have been redeemed, and the demands of the mortgage diſcharged ;
demands which, had they not been ſatisfied, God only knows what mght have
been the ſituation of the individuals of the Family. -
Thank Heaven, my intentions have been ſo void of guilt, and my diſpoſition ſo
averſe from injuring even an individual, that I entertain no apprehenſions from your
Now
A FFA IRS OF THE CARN AT I C. .* I 35
Now ſince it hath pleaſed the Almighty God to favour me with this Government, Vol. II.
and as I have redeemed from mortgage the Garden of Chepauk, you ſhould know that (M)
it is mine by virtue of a two-fold right.
Firſt, it is mine, as a Ruler of the Carnatic.
Secondly, it is mine, having purchaſed it with my own money:—thus I am the
paramount and abſolute Proprietor of the ſaid garden.
Therefore, if with a view to the upholding of your rank, you ſhould prefer to
reſide within the ſaid garden, it behoves you to ſubmit, on all occaſions, to my autho-
rity; otherwiſe, if contrary to the cuſtoms of the Walajahi Family you ſhould diſ-
claim my authority, then you muſt relinquiſh my property; and, in that event, I ſhall
be no longer reſponſible for the defence of your honour.
The ſame.—To Huſſain ul Mulk,
Tajul Amra,
Rayes ul Omra,
Ameral Dowlah,
- Iflachar ul Dowlah,
Iatamud ul Mulk
Majed ul Dowlah.
Jatazad ul Dowlah.
(A true Tranſlation.) *
(Signed) A. Falconar,
Pers" Tran" to Gov".
TRAN SLAT I O N of a Letter from the Individuals of the Family,
to the Nawab Azim ul Dowlah Bahadur. . . . . -
Your Letter, dated the *29th December laſt, we have received, and comprehended ...
the contents. -
You have informed us ſummarily, that the complaint which we were neceſſitated
to prefer to the Governor in Council of Madras is falſe and unfounded. The prayers
and the pains which you have excited in our breafts, by the impropriety of your ex-
preſſions, and the unkindneſs of your condućt remain concealed within theſe breaſts;
but the circumſtances which have lately occurred are ſo notorious, that no individual
can have any doubts reſpecting them, and your condućt of yeſterday, in impriſoning
the ſervants and individuals of this Family, is a proof in point; neither can there be
any doubts of the intentions of the perſons who authorized the meaſure : a world are
judges, that that Perſon inſtigated what has happened to us. w - -
But we wiſh not to diſcuſs this ſubjećt with you ; it will be cognizable in that Tri-
bunal, where your condućt, and that of the defendants of the Nawab Wallajah Omdut
ul Omrah Bahadar (the mercy of God be upon him 1) their reſpected brother and
father * * * * * * * That tribunal will not fail alſo to inveſtigate the charges, in Here the
which you have involved his late Highneſs; that he, though a Prince of ſuch high ſenſe is left
power, with all the honour and dignity attached to the Succeſſor to the Muſnud of **P*
the Carnatic, humbled himſelf to a condition that might excite ſhame and bluſhes, in
order that he might preſerve the engagements entered into ; and ſo ačted, merely
that by theſe means, the inheritance of his Father and Grandfather, that is, the entire
country, without the participation of another, ſhould remain and not go into other
hands. He gave up Chepach, that he might preſerve the more eſtimable objećt, the
country of the Carnatic;--a country, which had devolved in a ſeries, from Father to
Son; and by theſe happy means, conſign it to his children, without interruption ; —theſe
matters we do not diſcuſs with you ; but we cannot make public your ſhame.
You are happy in the meaſure you have adopted, of relinquiſhing the dominions of
the Carnatic, for the hope of retaining Chepach. Conceive the trouble and diſtreſs
you have given us, by direčting us to make choice of two things; viz. to remain
within the precinéts and protećtion of your authority, or if not, to abandon entirely
the garden of Chepauk. Our rank and honour ſuffer us not, juſtly, to chooſe either
alternative ; and although the moſt diſtreſſing of all worldly calamities is expulſion
from our natal foil, nevertheleſs we ſhall ſpeedily, according to your wiſhes and
I75. º ** V. writing,
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Vol. II. writing, forſake our habitations and proceed elſewhere. Here the recollečtion of our
(M.)
ancient rank and greatneſs (alas, how changed 1) perpetually recurs ; and our under-
ſtandings ſuggeſt to us nothing, ſave the mortification of quitting this our abode, and
reſigning it to you—Probably, you may have the heart to remain in it; we have no
choice :- we have not ſuch hearts.
(Signed) The Son of Omdut ul Omrah,
The Son of Sultan ul Niſſa Begam,
Huffain ul Mulk, -
Mahommed Naſſur Chan,
A ſtud U}lah Mian.
(A Letter, the ſame exačtly as the above, was written and ſent by each.)
The Perſian Letter from which this is tranſlated is written in a ſtyle ſo perplexed
and incoherent, that I found it difficult to render it into Engliſh. I may in ſome
places, probably, have miſtaken the meaning of the writer: it appears to have been
originally an Engliſh Letter, attempted to be tranſlated into the Perſian by a perſon
apparently not well verſed in the language. ---
(Signed) i 4. Falconar,
Perſian Tranſlator to Government.
The Preſident informs the Board, that he has provided ſuitable preſents to be de.
livered to the Nabob, with the Letter from his Excellency the Governor General, for-
warded in the Letter from the Perſian Interpreter to the Governor General, under date
the 12th ultimo ; and in conſequence requeſts the Members of Government will ac-
company him to Chepack to-morrow morning, for the purpoſe of delivering his
Excellency’s Letter in proper form to his Highneſs the Nabob.
DIA R Y ; 23d January 1802.
In conformity to the Reſolution of Council yeſterday, the Right honourable the
Governor, attended by the Council, viſited his Highneſs the Nabob this morning, and
delivered to him the Letter from the Governor General of Bengal, accompanied by
ſuitable preſents, all which were received with every mark of reſpect on the part of
his Highneſs. r 3
EXT R A C T of Political Conſultations at Fort St. George; the 2d February 1802.
The Preſident lays before the Board the following Letter:
Tranſlation of a Letter from Sultan Mirza Mahammied Tajul Din to the Right
honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c. &c.
Dated 22d November, 8O
Received the 26th D* {****
Bleſfings be aſcribed to the Supreme Being!—That this humble Servant of his Court,
yet retaining life, notwithſtanding the misfortunes which Fate hath allotted him, and a
jtate of extreme neceffity, hath arrived, with his wife and family, at the place of his
deſtination, which apparently is Madras—Six months have now elapſed ſince I have
experienced from any individual, the friendly attentions of hoſpitality, or the kind
offices of commiſeration.
At the commencement of his illneſs, the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ſent me
the ſum of 200 pagodas, being equal to the monthly ſubſiſtence fixed for my Brothers
(may the Almighty preſerve) and alſo promiſed to defray the expence of my journey;
but the miniſter of death having in the meantime ſummoned him, he removed his
abode from this tranſitory world. * ...,
Since that period, I have been waiting till ſome arrangement of matters ſhould take
place; and now that it hath pleaſed Providence to conſign the Adminiſtration of affairs
to the hands of the Chiefs of the two States, namely, the Miniſters of the Honour-
able Company, who are the ſincere Allies of our Houſe, I have made my mind eaſy,
and confidered it expedient thus to ſtate the circumſtances of my caſe ; for men of
underſtanding,
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C. 137
underſtanding deem it not indecorous to explain their ſituation, and to ſolicit the Vol. II.
aſſiſtance of their friends.
This humble ſervant of the Court of the Moſt High, in conſequence of the unfriendly (M.)
diſpoſition of Asful Dowlah, reſolved to remove from Lucknow ; Mr. Cherry having
aſſiſted me, condućted me to Benares, repeatedly wrote to Calcutta recommending
ſome arrangement to be made for me, and remained in expectation of a reply to theſe
letters; when invidious Fate exhibited the melancholy cataſtrophe of his deſtiny.
I then proceeded to Makſud Abad; there Mr. Pattle and Mr. Raig treated me
very civilly, gave me a houſe in his own garden in which to reſide, procured me the
friendly ſervices of Mutty Begum and Bubber Jung Bahadur, beſides aſſiſting me
himſelf, and writing to Calcutta in my favour. ~.
A Letter was received in reply to this effect; “That at preſent ſome arrangements
of the Company are in agitation; if it ſhould be agreeable to you, you can remain
for ſome months here ; otherwiſe, a monthly ſubſiſtence has been provided for your
brothers and uncles, viz. Mirza Chunum Sahib and Mirza Hahe Sahib, and Begums
of the deceaſed Mirza Jawan Bucht ; by the time you can arrive at Benares, an
arrangement for your monthly expences ſhall be made, and ſoon ſent after you.”
Now my mind being ill at eaſe in that country, confidering the Company's terri-
tories throughout as equal to me, and wiſhing to avoid the notice of my acquaint-
ance, by retiring to any other convenient abode, my deſtiny hath condućted me
hither. ~ -
- Your Lordſhip, thank God! is endowed with diſcrimination; let me beg of you
to add to your own good name and to my comfort, by contributing your benevolent
. and friendly relief to enable me to exiſt, and to extricate myſelf from debt; the dif-
ficulties under which I paſs my exiſtence your Lordſhip may aſcertain from report:
pray ſcruple me not ſome aſſiſtance. Conſidering that in this ſtrange world we are
all ſtrangers to each other, therefore, by way of attaching ſome honour and con-
ſequence and credit to my name, I have here ſubjoined to it the names of their
.Majeſties my immediate Progenitors. t
Sultan Merza Mahammed Tajel Din, Son of
Sultan Mahammed Yuſuff, Son of
Sultan Maig ul Dowlah, Son of
Sultan Bahadur Spah, Son of
Sultan Aurunz ul Arleem Geer.
• & C
& Cº.
(G
{ {
r & C
May your honour and friendſhip encreaſe.
(A true Tranſlation.)
t . (Signed) A. Falconar,
2. Perſian Tran' to Gov".
The Preſident explains to the Board, that having been doubtful of the truth of
the foregoing repreſentation of the name of the writer not having been mentioned
with thoſe of three other deſcendants from the Emperors of Delhi, at the time when
the pecuniary arrangement for the Family and dependants of the late Nabob was
concerted with his preſent Highneſs, his Lordſhip had direéted a Letter to be written
to the Perſian Secretary to Bengal, requeſting any information that could be procured
of the rank, ſituation, and claims of Sultan Mirza Mahommed Tajul Deen. §
In the mean time, the diſtreſs of Sultan Mirza becoming daily more urgent, he
addreſſed a Letter to his Lordſhip's Military Secretary, ſtating that he was in debt
2,500 rupees; that he had ſold the laſt of his cattie and furniture; and that he and
his family muſt die of hunger if not immediately relieved.
A confidential perſon having been ſent to enquire into the truth of theſe com-
‘plaints, and into the hiſtory of the perſon who had made them, found this Sultan
Mirza Mahommed Đeen (a deſcendant from the houſe cf Tinour) in a miſerable
hovel near Vipery, on a ſick bed, deſerted by his followers, and ſuffering, with a
wife and four children, the extremes of poverty and diſtreſs.
Immediate relief was ſent to them, and every enquiry in the mean time was
made which could tend to throw further light on their hiſtory and misfortunes.
J. 75. N n > The
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*Wol. H. The Preſident informs the Board, that the reſult of theſe enquiries has been a full
..(M.)
ºthe Enaam, and 1 ſhall thereby be much obliged to your Lordſhip's kindneſs.
confirmation of the circumſtances ſtated by the Sultan Mirza, under the ſeals of
Ameer ul Dowlah, Aufiz Mahommed Nazier Khan (both near relations of the late
Nabob Wallajah) and of Synd Zul-fiear Ally Khan, a Nobleman of the late Nabob's
Court ; and that theſe reſpectable witneſſes had alſo certified under their ſeals, that
the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah had engaged to allow him the ſum of 200 ſtar pagodas
monthly, and that the promiſe appears not to have been fulfilled only in conſequence
of his Highneſs's death.
The Preſident recommends, that the ſum of 400 rupees ſhall be allowed monthly
to Mirza Mahommed, from the fund appropriated to the payment of penſions to the
Family and dependants of the Nabobs of the Carnatic.
Reſolved accordingly.
The Preſident is requeſted to communicate the foregoing Reſolution of the Board
‘to his Highneſs the Nabob.
DIARY to Political Conſultations; 3d February 1802.
Sent the following Letter to Mr. William Jones, Sub-Treaſurer.
"Sir, - -
I am directed to inform you, that the Right honourable the Governor in Council
had been pleaſed, in concert with his Highneſs the Nabob, to ſettle on Sultan
Mirza Mahomed Tajul Dien, from the 1ſt inſtant, a monthly ſtipend of four hun-
dred (400) rupees, chargeable on the fund appropriated to the penſions of the
Family and dependants of the Nabobs of the Carnatic, and to be diſcharged at the
Treaſury in the manner preſcribed for the payment of thoſe Penſioners. ;
I am, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, - (Signed) john Chamier,
3d February 18O2. Chief Secº to Govt.
D I. A R Y ; 4th.
Received the following Letter, (entered in C. C. Nº 6, 7 :)
From Houſu Reza Chan Bahadar, requeſting to be admitted on the penſion fund
& of the Carnatic.
From Rahman Ali Chan, to the ſame purport.
EXTRA CT of Fort St. George Political Conſultations; 12th February 1802.
Read the following Letter (entered alſo C. C. Nº. 3.)
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah
Bahauder to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c. •
ºf)ated wr
and 20 Ramzaum 1206 Hegery,
:- 2 ºth January 1802.
received 5 J y :
By the bleſſing of God, and your Lordſhip's great kindneſs, I have been honoured
with a Letter of congratulation on my acceſſion to the Muſnud (accompanied by an
honorary dreſs and jewels) from the Court of the Nawab Nizam ul Dowla Bahauder;
and I am thankful for this inſtance of your Lordſhip's ſincere regard. ;
I have been informed, that the Allungho Enam of my Grandfather at Hydrabad,
which had been continued a great length of time, for ſupplying the expences of the
Sepulchre of my Great Grandfather, has in theſe days, after the demiſe of the late
Nawaub Omdut ul Omrah; been re-aſſumed by the Afeif jah Circar, in conſequence
whereof the neceſſary charges of the Sepulchre, &c. are unprovided for ; I therefore
trouble your Lordſhip to requeſt you will have the goodneſs to direčt the Com-
pany’s Reſident at Hydrabad to uſe his beſt exertions to obtain the reſtoration of
'Copies
AFFAIRs of THE C A R N AT I c. 139
Copies of my Addreſs to Nizam ul Dowlah and Muſsheers ul Mulk, are ſent for Vol. II.
your Lordſhip's information. . . . . . . . . . . ~~
What can I write more?
. . . . (M.)
(A true Tranſlation.) . . . . . . . .
• (Signed) A. Falconar,
. P. T. to Gov".
v • ,
e -
Jah Nizem ul Dowlah, - &c. &c. &c. &c. &C.
The humbleſt of ſlaves having been honoured by the receipt of your his High-,
TRAN SLATION of an Arzee to his Highneſs the Nawab Aſcef
r.
ºneſs's gracious Letter, accompanied by an honorary dreſs and jewels, felt himſelf
‘highly diſtinguiſhed thereby. - ‘. . . . . . . - -
Your Highneſs’s munificence, unbounded as the ocean, gratifies a whole world by
the accompliſhment of their higheſt hopes; as a trivial inſtance of which, among a
multitude of others, the revered Grandfather of this Petitioner was honoured by your
Highneſs with the gift of the village Aimen Gundilah, as an Attamgh'a Enaam.
It hath been lately, however, reported to your petitioner, that the Muttiesſudders
of the illuſtrious Circar require a freſh order for the continuance of the Enaam in
the uſual manner; and ſeeing that the expences of the anniverſary obſequies of this
Petitioner's Great Grandfather (who was a devoted vaſſal of the illuſtrious Circar) de-
pend on the revenue of the ſaid Enaam, therefore this humble Petitioner hopes,
from your Highneſs's ſpecial favour, that in like manner as his Grandfather, ſo
ſhall he alſo be diſtinguiſhed by the continuance of the ſaid Allumha Enaam ; and
that a poſitive order may be graciouſly iſſued to the Muttiſiddies of the illuſtrious
Circar to oppoſe no hindrance to the continuance of it. -
This will be an honour conferred on your Highneſs's Petitioner.
In a ſeparate Note, as a mark of his attachment, a couple of elephants are ſent to
... the ſplendid Preſence, as an humble offering; let them be accepted.
To the Nawab Aiſha Jah.
:* Having tranſmitted an Arzie to the preſence of his Highneſs, ſoliciting the con-
*tinuance of the Jaghir of Aenumgundelah, being a faithful vaſſal of the Court, and
a devoted well-wiſher of that benevolent Friend, I therefore requeſt of your kindneſs
to ſtate my requeſt in the ſplendid Preſence, and to procure an order to the Mutte-
*fiddies not to impede the enjoyment, as uſual, of the Jagir, becauſe a delay in this
matter will obſtrućt the uſual funeral rites at the tomb of my Great Grandfather ; in
truth, meed of this good ačtion will be your own ; and the more ſpeedily you accom-
spliſh this matter, the more indebted ſhall I feel to your goodneſs. . .
Accept an elephant, which I have ſent as a token of my friendſhip.
(A true Tranſlation.)
- (Signed) 4. Palconar.
Ordered, That the following Letter be diſpatched to the Reſident of Hydrabad,
“in compliance with his Highneſs's requeſt. - . . . . -
To Major J. A. Kirkpatrick, &c. &c, &c.
I have the honour to tranſmit to you, by the command of the Right honourable
“the Governor in Council, the incloſed copies and tranſlations of Letters addreſſed by
“the Nabob of the Carnatic to his Highneſs the Nizam, and to Muſher ul-Mulk ;
and I am direéted to requeſt, that you endeavour to effečt the ſeaſonable reſtora-
rtion of the Enaam, which his Highneſs has deſcribed. -
s . . . . - I have the honour, &c.
- (Signed) 7, Charlier,
- Chief Secº to Gov".
Fort St. George,
12th February 1892.
175. - r Received
º 40 . . . P A P E R S R E LAT IN G T O THE
vol. II. Received a Letter from the Sultan Muza Tazul Din (entered in C. C. Nº 9.) ex-
- preſſing his thankfulneſs for the late favourable conſideration of his caſe. -
(M.)
EX T R A C T of Fort St. George Political Conſultations; the 5th
IMarch 1802. ‘. - -
Read the following Letter (alſo entered in C. C. Nº 14.)
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem tº Dowlah
Bahadur to the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor of Fort St.
George, &c. &c. &c. - - 6th Showall 6 Higery
-- - 3 W 26t OWall I 2 I 1gery.
Dated and Rec }: March 1802. y.
Nuddeem Ullah (who bears the title of Surrapauz Huffum Chan) the ſon of the
late Abdulwahab Chan, has hitherto been at Chittoor; he is now arrived, and has
paſſed his receipts for five months allowance, as fixed by the Company, from the
month of O&tober 1801 to the end of February 1802.
I have therefore to requeſt that your Lordſhip will be pleaſed to direct the
Company's Treaſurer to take Nuddum Allah's receipts, and pay him the amount.
What can I write more ? - -
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) - A. Falcomar,
* JP" Tº to Govt.
*Ordered accordingly.
E X T R A C T Fort St. George Political Conſultations ; the 9th
March 18O2.
The Preſident records the following Letter (entered alſo in C. C. N* 15.
16. 17.) . - - - - -
Tranſlation :-from his Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah Bahadur, &c.
&c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c. t
• 28th Rumzan 1216, Hegery.
2d February 1802.
"I incloſe herein, for your Lordſhip's information, copy of the Letter from the King
of the Turks, which I received through your Lordſhip's kindneſs, and which will be
‘honoured with your peruſal. - §
His Majeſty's Letter covered three Phinnanns addreſſed to the Sheriff of Mecca,
the Governor of Judda, and the Sheik ul Hunum ; but being written in the Turkiſh
language, I have not ſent their copies to your Lordſhip. Theſe Phinnanns muſt be
forwarded to the holy city of Mecca. -
I have written this for your Lordſhip’s information.
What can I write more * -
(A true Tranſlation.) -
(Signed) A. Falcomar.
- |P. T. to Gov".
To his Highneſs the Nabob of Arcot, &c. &c. &c.
His Majeſty the King of Great Britain has been graciouſly pleaſed to dire&t me his
Ambaſſador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, to preſent to his Imperial Majeſty
-the Grand Signor, the letter and demand written in the year 1793, by his Highneſs
the Nabob Ameer ul Hind Walajah, for certain Firmans to be iſſued by his Imperial
Highneſs, in favour of your Highneſs's Family and ſubječts, when engaged in the per-
formance of religious duties at the holy ſhrine of Mecca. - - -
Unfºrtunately, the papers and the preſents attending them had fallen in the hands.
of the enemy, and when retaken were much injured ; in that ſtate I received thern :
but being aware of the impreſfien which would ariſe at the Porte, had they been ſo
preſented, and knowing how ſincerely anxious the Britiſh Government is to further
your
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your Highneſs's views on every occaſion, particularly in one ſo congenial to its in. Vol. II:
variable ſyſtem of ſupporting all eſtabliſhed Religious Governments, I have preſumed
to make ſuch additions to theſe preſents as I kilow to be acceptable; and bave deli.
vered the whole in your Highneſs’s name, recommending ſtrongly your Highneſs's
demands with all the weight of Britiſh influence. * -
I have now the honour of forwarding to your Highneſs, by my brother Mr. Bruce,
the replies which the Sublime Porte has charged him with conveying in perſon to
your Highneſs, and which, I truſt, your Highneſs will find as ſatisfactory as they
could be, conſiſtently with the privileges of the Sultan, and the imperfeót knowledge
the Porte has of your Highneſs's title and Family.
I beg leave to refer your Highneſs to Mr. Bruce for the further verbal explanations
with which the Ottoman Government have entruſted him ; and to add, that I ſhall
with the utmoſt alacrity proſecute any further demand your Highneſs may wiſh to
make to the Sultan, in conſequence of their communications. } .
- - I have the honour to be, &c. &c. .
(Signed)
f Elgin.
saveº,
T R A NSFL ATION: — Purport of a Letter from the Grand Vizier of
the Turks to the Nabob of the Carnatic.
After the uſual invocations and ſalutations— y -
In theſe happy days, an Addreſs from your Illuſtrious Anceſtor has been received
through the Britiſh Ambaſſador, and the profeſſions of friendſhip and attachment
therein expreſſed, and the requeſts therein made have been underſtood, and have
been explained and made known to his Majeſty, who was highly pleaſed at the
very friendly ſentiments it contained ; and the elegant preſents which were deli-
vered through the ſaid Ambaſſador met his Majeſty's moſt gracious appro-
:bation. * {
Be it not concealed, that on account of Iſlamiſm in general, and of an abſent
friend, this Illuſtrious Government deems it conſiſtent with its uſages to promote all
your views. In conſequence whereof, it has been requeſted that three illuſtrious
Royal Phermauns (according to the drafts which were encloſed) might be iſſued
from this exalted Court, that one of your dependants might come yearly to the pil-
grimage and proceſſion (at Mecca) on your part, or if he remained there, that the
Chiefs of the two holy places (Mecca and Medina) ſhould protećt his property;
and, in the event of his death, that his effects ſhould not be ſequeſtered. This
Pherman has, agreeably to your requeſt, been iſſued in the name of the Sherreef
of Mecca, the Governor of Judda, the Sheek ul Harram, and all the other
Officers employed there. The ſecond requeſt was, that the office of Furſh-
gooſtree–Carpet Spreader at the Holy Shrines—might be conferred anew upon you,
agreeably to the Sanud of former Sultans. The meaning of Furſh-gooſtree, as it
is underſtood in this Sublime Court, is the keeping clean the Sepulchre of the Holy
Prophet, viz. ſweeping the ground, lighting the lamps, and other buſineſs of the like
nature at the Tomb, by the agency of an inhabitant of the holy city of Medina; and
from the records of this Government it appears, that in the time of former Sultans,
two Phermans for this purpoſe were iſſued, the one in the name of Narwaub Wallajah
Mahomed Ally Cawn Bahauder, and the other in the name of Mahomed Nizam
ul Deen Vizeer ul Hind, whereby doubts have ariſen which of thoſe two Perſonages
was your illuſtrious Grandfather. It is therefore incumbent on you to ſtate and make
known your anceſtors, and to return the old Sanud of the former Sultans, that,
according to your requeſt, a new one may be made out and tranſmitted to you.
But the Furſh-gooſtree, that implies, the Spreading of the Carpet and other things
appertaining thereto, this office and that of ſuperintending the repairs of the two
holy cities, belong peculiarly to his Imperial Majeſty, who accordingly bears the title
of the Servant of the Holy Cities; and therefore it is impoſſible for a Pherman to be
granted for this Office in particular, - --
I 75. .O.o The
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vol. II. The letter concludes with expreſſions of friendſhip, and prayers for his Highneſs's
- proſperity. -
(M.) (Signed) Seyed Hary Abdillah.
Kazam Muckaum.
(A true Tranſlation.) &
- (Signed) A. Falcomar,
- P. T. to Gov".
EXTRA C T S Fort St. George Political Conſultations; the 9th
March 1802.
To John Chamier, Eſq. Chief Secretary to Government, Fort St. George.
Sir, k
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 12th ultimo,
with its Encloſure; and beg leave to aſſure you, for the information of the Right
honourable the Governor in Council, that I will do my utmoſt to effect the reſto-
ration of the Enaum therein deſcribed, which is (I beg leave, however, to obſerve) a
Jagheer of not leſs than half a lack of rupees annual value.
- I have the honour to be, &c. &c. , -
(Signed) j. A. Kirkpatrick,
Hydrabad, * Res’.
28th February 1802.
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Navab Azem ul Dowlah Bahadar
to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c, &c. &c.
Dated . }: Rumzaum 1216 Hegery,
º 4th February I8O2.
(Entered in C" Corr. Nº 16.)
I have addreſſed a Letter, in anſwer to that from the Moſt Noble the Governor Ge-
neral of Hindoſtan, which, together with jewels, a belt ſet with precious ſtones, a
¥illaut, and an elephant, I received through your Lordſhip; and I incloſe a copy
herein for your Lordſhip's information.
What can I write more
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar.
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azerm ul Dowlah
Bahadar to the Moſt Noble the Marquis Welleſley ; dated 29 Rawzaum
1216 Hegery, anſwering to 3d February 1802.
At the time when I was in anxious expectation, I received your Lordſhip's Letter of
the 11th September laſt, congratulating me on my acceſſion to the Muſnud, and
accompanied with a kelat, a jeigah, a furpeanch, a belt ſet with precious ſtones of
great value, and an elephant; I was thereby highly honoured, and rejoiced. On the
33d of January the Right honourable Lord Clive delivered your Lordſhip's letter
and preſents to me in Public. Durbar, in the greateſt ſtyle of pomp and ſplendour.
Theſe marks of extreme kindneſs, and your Lordſhip's diſpoſition to promote the
proſperity of my affairs, have filled my heart with gratitude; my acknowledgments
were unbounded, and I cauſed guns to be fired on the happy occaſion.
... What your Lordſhip was pleaſed to write with the pen of friendſhip, on your being
heartily inclined towards me, and to promote, advance and ſupport the arrangement
of my affairs; that your Lordſhip had made known to His Majeſty the King of
* *- -- England,
y
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England, the ſettlement that had been made in the Carnatic; that the accounts of my Vol. II.
acceſſion to the Muſnud would be highly pleaſing to His Majeſty and to the R
Company ; and that the Engliſh Government, both in Europe and in..this Country,
would always ſupport and protećt my honour and dignity, and promote my welfare,
I fully underſtand; and it conveyed to my heart additional ſatisfaction and ſtrength,
like unto the wall of Alexander. My thanks for theſe diſtinétions are ſuch as is not
in the power of the tongue to expreſs, or the pen to deſcribe; theſe inſtances of pro-
tećtion which have been extended to me will be recorded on the page of time, and
has pledged me to your Lordſhip for life. I entertain the ſtrongeſt hopes that, through
your Lordſhip's fincere kindneſs (which conveys comfort to my heart and ſoul, like
the miracles of Jeſus Chriſt) my affairs will be fixed on ſo firm a baſis at the Pre-
fence of His Moſt Illuſtrious Majeſty, and with the Honourable Company, as will
always remain unſhaken. In conſequence of all theſe ſincere ačts of kindneſs of your
Lordſhip, I fear not the malice of the members of my Family which has been excited
by my friendſhip and attachment to the Engliſh Company; and I am ſafe in your
Lordſhip's powerful protećtion. Not wiſhing to treſpaſs on your Lordſhip's time, I
have forborne to relate the condućt of the Family which they have obſerved towards
me, from the day of my acceſſion to the Muſnud to the moment of this writing:
your Lordſhip will know the particulars from the communications of the Right Ho-
nourable Lord Clive. - -
I truſt 1 ſhall always be the objećt of your Lordſhip's kindneſs, and be honoured
and rejoiced by the receipt of your friendly letters. -
(M.)
(A true copy of the Tranſlation.) . -
- (Signed) A. Falconar.
Tranſlation of a Letter from the Members of the Anweri and Walajah Families
to the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor in Council.
13th Ramzum 1216 Hepre,
Dated } 18th January 1802.
We do ourſelves the honour to inform your Lordſhip, that as Azem ul Dowlah
Bahadar has communicated to us his pleaſure that we ſhould quit the Palace ofthe
Garden of Chepak, if we were unwilling to accede to his wiſh of ſubmitting to his
authority, therefore we conſider it expedient that we ſhould provide ourſelves with
fuitable habitations in Madras, or its environs, in order that we may reſpectively pro-
ceed with our families, money, effects, and ſervants, as ſoon as poſſible, to ſuch proper
places of abode. - . .
But left at the time of our abandoning Chepak, any accident of diſſipation or loſs
ſhould occur to the property and equipage of individuals, who have never been ſe-
parated from the ſeat of their rank and dignity, and who have been accuſtomed to go
abroad with the pomp and ſtate, and ſecurity of a retinue ; we have, therefore, to re-
queſt of your Lordſhip's benevolence, generoſity, and indulgence, that you would
direét ſome of the Company's troops to attend us for our protećtion, from the time
of our leaving Chepak until we ſhall have arrived at our ſeveral habitations.
We are perſuaded that your Lordſhip, adverting to the delicacy of the predica-
ment in which we are involved, will cheerfully accede to our requeſt—May your
favour continue.
- (Signed) The Nabob Tagul Arma.
Rayaſal Niſſa Begum. … ( Mahomed Nafir Chan.
Rubul Neſſa Begum. : ) Rayes ul Omra.
Sultan ul Neſs Begum. Tº Huſſane ul Mulk.
(y)
. Melik ul Neſſa.
(A true Tranſlation.)
c. , ſ Amdut ul Neſſa.
* Abdut Kader Chan.
Eatazad ul Dowlah.
Eatamad ul Mulk.
j3)-
i
(Signed) 4. Falcomar.
375, - DIARY :
144.
P A P E R S R F LAT I N G To THE
vol. ii.
(M.)
D I A R Y ; 11th March 1802.
Received the undermentioned Letter, (entered in C. C. Nº 19.)
From the Nabob:—Requeſts a Letter of Introdućtion to the Reſident at Hyderabad,
for Mir Swadut Ally, whom he is about to diſpatch with Letters and preſents to that
Court. -
D I A R Y ; 16th March 1802. -
Sent the following Letter to Major J. A. Kirkpatrick, Reſident at Hyderabad.
Sir, - - - - §
I have the honour to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 28th ultimo;
and to inform you, that the Right honourable the Governor in Council is ſenſible
of your attention to his Lordſhip's wiſhes. -
I have now the honour to apprize you, that the Nabob of the Carnatic having
determined to ſend certain Preſents and Letters to his Highneſs the Nizam, and to the
Miniſter Azim oo Omrah, is anxious that the Meſſenger, to whoſe charge they have
been committed, may be honourably received at the Court of Hyderabad.
I am accordingly direéted to incloſe for your information, copies of the Letters in-
tended to be delivered on the part of his Highneſs the Nabob of Meer Saadut Ally
Khan; and to requeſt that you will endeavour to ſecure to that perſon an honourable
reception at the Durbar of the Nizam. - . - -
- I have the honour, &c. &c. .
Fort St. George, s’. > (Signed). john Chamier,
16th March 1802. - - SecY.
EXTRACT Fort St. George Political Conſultations; the 2d April 18oz.
The Preſident lays the following Letter before the Board (entered alſo in
C. C. Nº 21.)
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nawaub Azim ul Dowlah
Bahauder to the Right Honourable Lord Clive, Governor of Madras.
* fº Zelaud 1216 Higery,
- () r *.
- 2. - . U 30th March 1802. -
At Trichinopoly my Grandfather, Grandmother, my Father and Mother, my
Uncle, and others of my deceaſed anceſtors are interred; and the yearly expences of
the batha, or Amwerſany Sepulchral ceremonies heretofore amounted to the ſum of
fourteen thouſand ſix hundred and ſeventy-ſix rupees. - .
As it is highly neceſſary and incumbent on me to perform the religious rites of
my Anceſtors, I have, in confideration of my inability, reduced the aforeſaid expences,
and fixed them at ſix hundred rupees per month. I have to requeſt of your Lord-
ſhip, that the fum of ſix hundred rupees monthly may be paid to my Daragah
Suchinopoly from the revenue of that diſtrict, on account of my one-fifth, excluſive
of my monthly ſtipend; and that I may be favoured with an order for this purpoſe
to the Colleótor of that place, whereby I ſhall be much obliged. . . .
What can I write more ?
T}ated and received
(A true Tranſlation.) *
r (Signed) A. Falcomar,
P* SecY to Gov".
The following Inſtrućtions are in conſequence ordered to be furniſhed to the
3oard of Revenue:
To the Preſident and Members of the Board of Revenue.
Gentlemen, * - -
The Right Honourable the Governor in Council directs me to deſire that the
Colle&tor at Trichinopoly may be ordered to pay to the Darogah of the Nabob of
the
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the Carnatic at that place, the monthly ſum of 600 rupees for the expences of the Vol. II.
burial grounds of his Highneſs's Family. -
Theſe payments are to commence from the 1ſt inſtant, and the amount is to be (M.)
dedućted from his Highneſs's proportion of the revenues of the Carnatic, as ſettled
by the Treaty. - * - . : -
I have the honour to be, &c.
Fort St. George, - (Signed) J. Chamier,
3d April 1802. - Chief SecY to Govt.
EXT RACT Fort St. George Political Conſultations; 6th April 1802.
The Preſident is ſorry to communicate to the Board the death of Ally Huſſein,
the reputed Son of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ; and records, for their infor-
mation on the ſubjećt, the following copy of a Diſpatch which his Lordſhip has
prepared for tranſmiſſion to his Excellency the Governor General:
!
His Excellency the Moſt Noble Marquis Welleſley, &c. &c. &c.
My Lord, - * -
I have the honour to acquaint your Lordſhip, that Ali Huſſein, the reputed Son
of the late Nabob Omdat ul Omrah, died this morning. .
Having underſtood ſome months ago that this young man was indiſpoſed, I
direéted Mr. Fitzgerald, the confidential Phyſician of his reputed Father, to wait
upon him with the offer of his profeſſional aſſiſtance ; which Ali Huſſein rejećted in
terms of incivility. -
Within theſe few days I have received intelligence through the channel of his
Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, and of the perſon appointed to attend at
his Durbar on the part of the Company, that the health of Alli Huſſein was
again in a declining ſtate ; and I yeſterday direéted Mr. Horſeman, who attends his
Highneſs, to wait on Ali Huſſein with a ſuitable meſſage, and an offer of profeſſional
aſſiſtance. This Gentleman obtained admiſſion to his preſence with confiderable
difficulty, but was treated with incivility, and prohibited from adminiſtering any
relief. Mr Horſeman reported on his return that Ali Huſſein was inſenſible, and
that his life was in imminent danger; in a ſhort period afterwards I received a
Letter (of which a copy and tranſlation are encloſed) ſtated to be written by Ali
Huſſein's direétion, immediately previous to its diſpatch; but according to probable
information, the produćtion of Huſſam ul Mulk.
In compliance with the requeſt contained in that Letter, I direéted Dr. Anderſon
immediately to attend, and have the honour to tranſmit a copy of his Report.
Ali Huſſein expired before the period which the Dočtor had appointed for this
morning's viſit. .
It is known to your Lordſhip, that this young man was always conſidered of a
feeble and delicate habit; and he is ſaid to have been addićted to the uſe of medi-
cines which aggravated his debility, and probably accelerated his death.
With regard to the allegations contained in the forged Letter of yeſterday's date,
attributed to the deceaſed, it is ſcarcely neceſſary to add, that they are utterly deſti-
tute of all foundation of truth.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c. §
Fort St. George, . (Signed) Clive.
6th April 1802. (A true Copy.) -
(Signed) M. Wilks,
Private Secretary.
Tranſlation of a Letter from Ali Huſſein Sajul Omrah Bahadre to the
Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c. (Without date); received
5 April 1802. -
My Lord, *
Until the preſent time I entertained the expečtation that your Lordſhip would
have replied to the Letters which had been addreſſed to your Lordſhip, as well by
175. - i - P p - - myſelf
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Vol. II. myſelf as by the Members of this Family; but the omiſſion of your Lordſhip in this
(M.)
reſpect has involved me in a variety of diſtreſs, apprehenſion, and embarraſſment.
This ſolicitude of mind, ſuperadded to the unkind, condućt of Azim ul Dowlah
Bahauder, hath gone half way to deprive me of life. Hence I have been ſeized
with a ſevere illneſs (the effect of my protračted confinement) an illneſs of a nature
ſo alarming that I have no hope of ſurviving it.
The ſpells and incantations which Azim ul Dowlah Bahauder, with the appro-
bation of hundreds of people, praćtices with a view to do me miſchief, I value
not; but I am, however, deſirous to remove from this place; I know not indeed
whither I ſhould go, but I deem it to be expedient inſtantly to remove hence;
, i. e. from this dureſſe to ſome better place.
The reſtraint impoſed by Azim ul Dowlah Bahauder is ſuch as to prevent one of
my common ſervants, nay even a Dočtor, from having acceſs to me; and this is a
matter of extreme ſatisfačtion to him. I conjure you, my Lord, for the ſake of
God, by the honour of the Company, and by your own humanity, that you would
be pleaſed immediately to direčt Colonel Bowſer to ſuffer my ſervant, or any Dočtor
whom I may call for, to have acceſs to me. I entreat that your Lordſhip would
have the goodneſs inſtantly to requeſt of Dr. Anderſon to come to ſee me. I ſhall
remember the obligation as long as I live; delay not to do ſo, I pray you, for the
ſake of God . This is the time to manifeſt your Lordſhip's favour; the matter admits
not of delay. e
May your generoſity be extended.
** (A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
P" Tº to Govt.
To Major Orr, Private Military Secretary. f
Sir, .* -
In compliance with Lord Clive's deſire, I have been to viſit Ally Huſſein, ſon of
the late Nabob, and learned that he has been ill 25 days, Io of which bed-rid, and
3 inſenſible, ſo as to void ſtools and urine as he lies. The diſeaſe, as far as I have
been able to colle&t from a Muſſulman Dočtor in attendance, is a dyſentery. .
Not being able to procure a ſight of his tongue, and perceiving his mouth to be
parched, I have only been able to direét, with any proſpect of advantage, that they
ſhould frequently moiſten his mouth with a feather dipped in lemonade, and have
direéted an anodyne draught of 20 drops of laudanum, with a view to reſtrain the
frequency of evacuation by ſtool. - *
His pulſe being 125 in a minute, and profuſe perſpiration, indicates great de-
bility; however, I have ſaid that I would call again to-morrow, although you may
acquaint his Lordſhip that I have but little hopes of his recovery. *-
I am, &c. &c.
Chepauk, 5th April, (Signed) ja' Anderſon,
I 1 o’Clock P. M. - Phyſician General.
Lord Clive deems it proper to add, that although the deceaſed appears to have been
confined to his bed for ten days previous to Dočtor Anderſon’s viſit, the perſons about
him had thought fit ſo carefully to conceal his danger, that it was not till Friday laſt
that his Lordſhip even heard of his indiſpoſition. The Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah's en-
quiries regarding his health were repelled with rudeneſs; and on Saturday evening it
was underſtood from rumour alone, that Ally Huſſein's illneſs was of a ſerious nature.
On Monday morning, on Lord Clive's return from Ennore, where he had paſſed the
previous day, the ſame ſource of information ſtated the deceaſed to be in a dangerous
ſtate, and Mr. Horſeman was direéted to endeavour to obtain admiſſion, with a view
to aſcertain his ačtual ſituation, to adminiſter ſuch aſſiſtance as might be requiſite, or
to offer on the part of Lord Clive ſuch medical aid as he himſelf might deſire:
Dočtor Anderſon was named by ſome of his Attendants, and the pretended letter had
been diſpatched to Lord Clive; immediate inſtrućlions were diſpatched to the Phy-
fician General, for the purpoſe of his waiting on Aly Huſſein. The circumſtances
ſubſequent to Dočtor Anderſon's viſit are ſufficiently deſcribed in Lord Clive's diſ.
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patch to the Governor General ; and with regard to thoſe antecedent to Friday, it Vol. II.
has been aſcertained, ſince the death of Ally Huſſein, that he had reſided for more
than the laſt two months at the houſe of Sultan ul Niſſa, commonly called the
Boodee Begum, the Siſter of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and was ſent back
in a ſtate of inſenſibility to his Mother's houſe on Friday, when the fact of his ill-
neſs was immediately rumoured in the Garden, and firſt communicated with any
degree of certainty to the Nabob. - *-
The Reſident communicates to the Board a requeſt from the Nabob, that the
amount of Nuzzers and Peſchcuſh, recently remitted by the Rajah of Travancore
on his Highneſs's account, and placed to his credit in the courſe of the foregoing
month, may be now paid to his Highneſs.
Ordered accordingly, that the ſum of 21,000 Surat rupees, and the ſum of 4,533 .
Porto Novo pagodas, be paid to the Nabob of the Carnatic on his Highneſs's ap-
plication at the Treaſury.
The Preſident lays before the Board the draft of a Letter which his Lordſhip
propoſes to addreſs to the Nabob (alſo entered in C. C. Nº 26.)
To his Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah Bahauder, &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, - -
Para. I. I have had the honour to receive from your Highneſs many Letters,
dated as in the Liſt which I have the honour to encloſe, and have had the ſatisfac-
tion of complying with the requeſts which they ſeverally contain.
2. I tranſmit for your Highneſs's information, the copy of an Anſwer which I
have received from the Reſident at Hyderabad, on the ſubjećt of the Enam ap-
propriated to the expences of the Tomb of your Highneſs's Great Grandfather, of
illuſtrious memory; and your Highneſs may be aſſured that the Britiſh Reſident
will exert every endeavour to effect its ſeaſonable reſtoration.
3. The peruſal of the ſeveral Letters of Congratulation which your Highneſs has
received from the Princes of Hindoſtan, on the occaſion of your Highneſs's ele-
vation to the Muſnud of the Carnatic, has been highly gratifying to me; and I beg
leave to congratulate your Highneſs on the protećtion extended by the Emperor
of the Turks, at the particular requeſt of His Britannic Majeſty's Miniſter at
Conſtantinople, to the perſons and property of your Deſcendants proceeding as
Pilgrims to Mecca and Medina.
. - I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, &c. &c. - -
6th April 1802. (Signed) Clive.
LIST of Letters received from his Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah
- Bahauder, &c. &c. -
dated 31ſt December 1801.
25th Han. 1802.
25th
2d February.
4th
I Ith,
2d March.
I I th Ditto.
Fort St. George, (Signed)
6th April 1802. -- Clive.
Approved; and his Lordſhip is requeſted to diſpatch it.
From - - - -
s
s
EX T R A CT of Fort Saint George Political Conſultations; the 27th
April 1802. - * -
he Preſident communicates to the Board a Meſſage from his Highneſs the
Nabob of the Carnatic, requeſting, that orders may be ſent to Trichinopoly for the
I75. - *: inn mediate
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immediate delivery to his Darogah at that place of fundry gardens, furniture and
an elephant, which are the property of his Highneſs, but which have been detained,
with a poſitive refuſal to deliver them, by a ſervant of Huſſam ul Mulk, who Uiges
in excuſe for his diſobedience to the orders of Government, that he ought firſt to be
reimburſed for conſiderable expences which he had incurred in repairing the houſes
and gardens, and in feeding the elephants.
{
Reſolved immediately to comply with his Highneſs's requeſt.
The following Letter is ordered to be diſpatched to the Officer Commanding
at Trichinopoly. - 2. * -
Sir, \ . -
His Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic has repreſented to his Lordſhip in
Council, that Syed Wullee Ullah Khān, a ſervant of Huſſam ul Mulk, has reuſed
to deliver to his Highneſs's Darogah certain gardens at Trichinopoly, in conformity
to the orders of Government. l * . . -
His Lordſhip in Council is ſurprized that the Orders iſſued on the 5th of
December and 9th of January laſt to the Officer commanding the Southern
Diviſion of the Army, have not been completely executed, or that any obſtacle
oppoſed to the execution has not been regularly communicated to his Lordſhip in
Council.
It is therefore become neceſſary to deſire that you will, without further loſs of
time, place the Nabob's Darogah Ghous Mahomed Khān in poſſeſſion of the
gardens detained by the ſervant of Huſſam ul Mulk, obliging him at the ſame time
to reſtore to the Darogah certain furniture, and an elephant, which are alſo the pro-
perty of his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic.
The expences which Syed Wullee Ullah Khān ſtates that he has incurred in the
repairs of the gardens, and the maintenance of the elephants, ſhould be ſubmitted to
his Highneſs's conſideration. * X.
- I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, *. (Signed) j Chamier,
28th April 18O2. * * & Chief Secretary to Government.
D I A R Y ; 3d May 1802.
The draft of a Letter to the Honourable Court of Direétors, of this date, having
been ſent I [] circulation, IS returned, with the following Remarks on the 3d Paragraph,
inſerted in the margin by Mr. Dick: • . * -
“As the Members of the Council, by the rules of the ſervice, are entirely
“ precluded from all intercourſe with the idurbar, I conceive the Report of the
“ late events within the Palace of Chepauk ought uniformly to appear in the
“ name of Lord Chive.” -
(Signed) M. D.
EXT R A C T Fort Saint George Political Conſultations; the 4th
May 1802. - .
Read the Letter propoſed to be diſpatched overland to the Honourable the Court
of Direétors. t r * --
Mr. Dick repeats his objećtions to the 3d and 5th paragraphs.
The objećtions of Mr. Dick are over ruled by the Board; and the Letter is
ſigned, and ordered to be diſpatched. • -
. D I ARY; 5th May 1802.
Mr. Dick ſends the following Minute in circulation: , “’.
In the 3d paragraph of the Letter to the Court of Direétors by the laſt overland
diſpatch, I judged it neceſſary to notice in the foul draft, when it was ſent in cir-
- i - culation,
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culation, the following words; “That the ſituation of the young man (Ally Huſſein) Vol. I.
“ appears to have been concealed as well from his own Mother as from the Nabob
“ Azeem ul Dowlah, and from ourſelves:” and the reaſons which influenced my ob-
jećtions were, that I conceived it improper and unneceſſary for the Members of
Council to appear to the Court of Direétors as taking any part in what related to
the affairs of the Durbar, which, by the Conſtitution of this Government, are placed
entirely in the hands of the Right honourable the Governor, who has excluſive
right of correſpondence and of intercourſe, by ſuch means as he may judge expedient,
with the Nabob and his Family.
As the Right honourable the Governor condućts ſolely all meaſures at the
Durbar in which the Government is concerned, I have moſt ſtrićtly abſtained
from the ſlighteſt interference, and am therefore compelled to record my objećtion
to the words “from ourſelves,” as being wholly inapplicable to me, who knew
nothing more of Durbah concerns than it has pleaſed the Right honourable the
Preſident to communicate to the Board at different periods, ſince I have been honoured
with a ſeat at the Council. |
5th May 1802. - (Signed) M. Dick.
D AIRY, 6th.
The Right honourable Lord Clive ſends the following Minute in circulation.
When the Honourable the Court of Direétors required in their recent diſ-
patches, the Members of Council to record their diffents in ſeperate Minutes, it
was, I preſume, their intention to obtain ſuch information as could ariſe from the
colluſion of adverſe ſentiments; but I profeſs that I am unable to diſcover from the
Minute of Mr. Dick now recorded, any other than a ground of inference, that
the Honourable Court will have no further courſe to remark the extraordinary una-
nimity of the Council. w .
It is poſſible, however, that the Minute may be pregnant with conſequences which
is now difficult to anticipate; I think it therefore neceſſary to obſerve, that the fačts
ſlated in the laſt Diſpatch to the Honourable Court of Direétors are either true, or
falſe; if they are true, the Minute of Mr. Dick can afford no additional information;
if they are not true, I could wiſh that the points of error ſhould be ſtated: I there-
fore deem it to be neceſſary to record my belief ſeparately, that the facts are true
to the extent of my knowlege, founded on the gnquiries I have been able to make; and
that previouſly to the cloſe of the Diſpatch, I requeſted the aſſiſtance of Mr. Dick in
his place, to correót any error he might have known with reſpect to the matter of
faët. * r
With regard to the mode of addreſſing ourſelves to the Honourable Court of
Directors, to which Mr. Dick has thought it to be his duty to objećt, it appears
to me to be a queſtion of grammar, and I am therefore willing to leave to their
determination, without farther diſcuſſion, whether ſuch queſtions are included in
their recent inſtrućtions to the Members of Government, for the purpoſe of recording
their ſeparate diſſents.
6th May 18O2. (Signed) Clive,
EXTRACT Fort St. George Political Conſultations; the 11th May 1862.
Mr. Petrie delivers in the following Minute:
As I never ſaw the draft of the Letter to the Honourable the Court of Direétors,
with Mr. Dick's obſervation mentioned in his Minute, which I have juſt now peruſed,
and as I was abſent from Council in conſequence of indiſpoſition, while moſt of the
events referred to in the Minutes of the Right honourable the Preſident and Mr.
Dick took place, it is not ſtrićtly incumbent upon me to offer my obſervations upon
the ſubjećt ; but as thoſe circumſtances may be unknown or unattended to by others,
I 75. Q q - it.
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".
Vol. II. it is therefore neceſſary for me, to obviate miſconception, to record a few words upon
(M.)
this occaſion. When I was informed, that our addreſs to the Honourable the Court
of Direétors communicated the information relative to the late events at the Durbar
colleótively, it occurred to me that the form of our addreſs would have been more
córreót, if we had merely referred to the Report of the Right Honourable the Preſi-
dent, agreeable to the Minutes of Conſultations, and our communications to the
Governor General; and 1 delivered a Note, conformably to this opinion, to the Chief
Secretary, concluding, that if I was correót, an alteration in the form of our Letter
would have been adopted. I likewiſe mentioned this opinion to the Right honour-
able the Preſident, who exprefied his confidence that the form was agreeable to uſage,
and the letter was accordingly ſigned and diſpatched as it originally ſtood. The ſub-
jećt has, I confeſs, not ſince come into my thoughts, until I ſaw the Minutes of the
Right honourable the Preſident and Mr. Dick, becauſe I thought the ground of
difference was of no importance, as it aroſe merely upon a point of form, involving no
material conſequences; as the proceedings of Council, and the communication to the
Governor General, ſtated the information to be ſolely confined to the Report of the
Right honourable the Preſident; and becauſe the Honourable the Court of Jirečtors
muſt know, that the Members of Council could only derive their information of oc-
currences at the Ilurbar from the Reports of their Preſident.
None of the Members of Government could be leſs informed of the events alluded
to than myſelf; I was during moſt of the time at ſome diſtance from Madras, on ac-
count of my health, and I never heard of the illneſs of the Son of the late Omdut ul
Omrah until the firſt day of my return to Council, when the Right honourable the
Preſident did me the honour to inform me of his dangerous indiſpoſition, and of the
unſucceſsful attempts he had made to afford him medical aſſiſtance; and a few days
afterwards I was informed, from the ſame reſpectable authority, of the young Man's
death. Further than this I know not; but l very ſincerely concur with the Right
honourable the Preſident in believing that the fačts, as ſtated by his Lordſhip, are
true to the extent of his knowledge, founded upon the enquiries which he had made.
7th May 1802. *. (Signed) W. Petrie.
The Commander in Chief ſtates to the Board, That he did not think it neceſſary to
give in any Minute on the above ſubject ; but deſires it may be noticed, that he en-
tirely concurs in the ſentiments expreſſed in Mr. Petrie's Minute.
Mr. Dick requeſts leave to obſerve, that, if in conſequence of his objećtion inſerted
in the margin of the draft, and repeated in Council previouſly to the ſignature of the
Letter, the Governor had conſented to make the alteration which Mr. Dick propoſed,
and which his Lordſhip has declared that he conſidered merely a queſtion of grammar,
he conceives that the neceſſity of entering any Minutes on the occaſion would effec-
tually have been avoided. -
Lord Clive obſerves, that he does not conſider Mr. Dick’s objećtion to be a ſuffi-
cient ground for departing from the uſual form of addreſſing the Court of Direétors,
and that if the Minute of Mr. Dick was intended to convey more than it expreſſed,
3 ord Clive's Minute was calculated and intended to draw that forth ; if it was not in-
tended to convey more than it expreſſes, the objection is certainly narrowed to a queſtion
of grammar.
EXTRACT Fort St. George Political Conſultations; the 11th May 1802.
Read the following Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob (entered alſo in C. C. Nº 30.)
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nawaub Azim ul Dowlah
Bahaudar to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.; dated
7th Maharrum, 1207 and Hegery or—Received icth May 1802.
Mahtab Begum, a Nackah Lady of Omdut ul Omrah, and Huffub ul Niſſa the
Daughter of the ſaid Lady, have now begged to be indulged with permiſſion to draw
their monthly allowances, and have given a writing to that effect. -
- . ** - - I have
A F FA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C. I5 I
I have therefore to requeſt your Lordſhip will be pleaſed to order the Company’s Vol. II.
Treaſurer to take their receipts, and pay the monthly allowances. -
What can I write more ? . - (M.)
: (A true Tranſlation.) -
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P" Tº to Govt.
Reſolved accordingly.
N° 36.-T RAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azem
ul Dowlah Bahader to the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor
of Fort St. George. -
Dated and received } 22d Rubbelowud 1207 Hegery.
-- ; t 23d July 1802.
In theſe days I have been honoured with a Letter from the King Shah Adlum, and
one from his Majeſty's eldeſt Son the Prince Mirza Ackbar Shah, containing con-
gratulations on my acceſſion to the Muſnud of the Carnatic, conferring upon me the
title of “Ameer ul Hind Walajah,” and diſtinguiſhing me by the dignified rank
of his (Majeſty’s) Son, Dear as life. I incloſe a copy of both the Letters for your
Lordſhip's information. That I acquired theſe diſtinguiſhed honours, I attribute
folely to the auſpicious friendſhip of my benefactors the Company, and your Lord-
ſhip's hearty kindneſs, and I am truly thankful ; therefore I hope and truſt that I
ſhall ſhortly be highly honoured by the receipt of letters from His Majeſty the King
of Great Britain, and the Gentlemen of the Company. -
What can I write more ?
- (A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P. T. to Government.
In Nº. 36.-T RAN SLAT I O N of a Firman from his Majeſty the Emperor
Shah Aalum to his Highneſs the Navab Azim ul Dowlah Bahader.
Dated - - - -
- *. * Received July sº
After the uſual titles of the Family:— .
The Arizeh (repreſentation) which you addreſſed to our gracious Preſence, replete
with ſentiments of attachment and loyalty, having arrived, made a ſuitable impreſſion
on our Imperial mind. ** as “. -
Relative to your repreſentations concerning the demiſe of your late Uncle, and
your eſtabliſhment, with the approbation of the Company's Repreſentatives, in the
Government of the Carnatic Territories, theſe circumſtances were noticed by our
world-illumining mind. *
Your preſent of 121 Aſhrafies having been preſented in our Imperial Preſence, by
the zealous Rai Laghat Rai, we honoured you by the acceptance of them.
In conſequence of the allegiance and fidelity of that diſtinguiſhed vaſſal, qualities
which he inherits from his Anceſtors, we ſhall hereafter do him the honour to diſpatch
for him a chelat (an honorary dreſs), and other tokens of our Imperial favour; and
we deſire that that faithful Vaſſal, conſidering our Royal favour to be in an encreaſed
degree extended towards his ſituation, will from time to time continue to tranſmit
his repreſentations to our Imperial Court. For further particulars, we refer you to
your Vakeel, whoſe welfare, as an hereditary Servant of your Houſe, we recom-
mend to your conſideration. -*
In Nº. 36.—TRAN SLATION-Copy of a Neſhan from the Imperial Prince
and Heir Apparent Mirza Akber Shah, to his Highneſs the Navab
Azeem ul Dowlah Bahadur. x *
After the uſual titles:— º
The Arzdaſht tranſmitted by that Brother, having been preſented to us, the
matters therein repreſented were entirely underſtood by our world-illumining mind.
175. - * - What
*52 º, C A R N A T I C P A P E R S.
'Vol. II. What you wrote reſpecting the demiſe of your Uncle, and your own ſucceſſion to
him, with the approbation of the Honourable Company’s Repreſentatives, has met
with our high approbation. .
Although the demiſe of the ſaid deceaſed, who was an hereditary dependant and
a faithful Vaſſal of the Celeſtial Court, is a mean regret to our enlightened mind, yet
the intelligence of the ſucceſſion of that dearly beloved Brother, who is an hereditar
and faithful dependant of this Imperial Court, hath afforded the utmoſt ſatisfaction
to our ſacred mind. . .
We have honoured you by the acceptance of the 21 Aſhrafees, preſented in our
Preſence through the medium of our hereditary dependant Rai Laghat Rai.
We alſo preſented, in a fortunate hour, your Arizeh, accompanied with 121
Aſhrafees, at the foot of the Imperial and world-governing Throne, and procured
sfrom the Imperial Preſence an addreſs from that eſteemed Brother, which, having
been delivered to the charge of your Vakeel, will be by him ſafely conveyed to you.
You will hereafter be honoured with a chilat, and other tokens of the Royal
favour: be ſatisfied that we are ever attentive to your ſituation; continue, therefore,
to tranſmit your repreſentations to this illuſtrious Court. '. - ..?'
Your. Vakeel will apprize you of all other particulars; you have always a channel
of communication with the Imperial Preſence. -
You will remember to take care of the above-mentioned Rai, and to liſten to no
sintereſted repreſentations concerning him. -
sº
(M.)
(True Tranſlations.) *
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
P" Tº to Goy".
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* v O L U M E III.
O R D E R S of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 16th December 1802.
sº
Proceedings of the Government of Fort St. George, relating
to the Nabob and the Affairs of the Carnatic, from O&tober
1802; including thoſe recently received; and the Orders
from England, approving and confirming the Treaty con-
cluded with his Highneſs on the 16th September 1801.
\
N. 9.—To the Right honourable the Governor in Council, Fort St. George. Vol. III.
* } E ſhall poſtpone our decificn on the late very important arrangement of the
VW affairs of the Carnatic, in conſequence of the death of the Nabob Omdut ul
Omrah, as fully detailed in your Letter, and the papers which accompanied it, of the 3d
of Auguſt laſt, until after the receipt of the Governor General’s diſpatches on the ſub-
jećt, which may now be very ſoon expected. In the mean time, however, we think
it neceſſary to direét, that the reputed Son of the late Nabob be treated with all due
reſpect and attention, and that every poſſible precaution be taken to provide for the
ſafety of his Perſon. -
t We are,
Eaſt India Houſe, London, Your loving Friends.
January 1802. Signed by the Members of
the Secret Committee.
N° 10.—To the Right honourable the Governor in Council, Fort St. George.
In your Letter to the Court of Direétors in the Political Department, dated the
17th February laſt, you expreſs an earneſt deſire to receive, as early as poſſible, our final
ſentiments on the late important tranſačtions in the Carnatic; and in conſequence of
your repreſentation of the preſſing neceſſity of ſuch a communication, with a view of
relieving all anxiety on the part of the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, as well as for the
purpoſe of ſuppreſſing the hopes which have been excited and preſerved by the diſ-
contented part of the Family, that the Treaty would not ultimately be ſančtioned by
the Company. *
We now proceed to ſignify to you our approbation of that ſettlement, and our
confirmation of the Treaty concluded with the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah on the
16th September 1801. - *
We have been induced to poſtpone expreſſing our opinion on this ſubjećl, from a
defire to be previouſly furn ſhed with every information which could bear, in any ma-
terial degree, upon the queſtion, and we have accordingly waited with impatience for
a review of the circumſtances which led to the late arrangement in the Carnatic, which
the Governor General, in his Letter of the 28th September 1801 to the Secret Com-
175. R r mittee,

$4.4. & P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O THE
*Vol. III. mittee, acquainted us he was then preparing, and which he propoſed to forward by the
Mornington packet.
The Mornington having lately arrived, and not being charged with the expested
Tapers, we are led to believe from this, as well as from other circumſtances, that we
are already in poſſeſſion of all the material documents which bear upon this tranſačtion,
and that the ſtatement alluded to, was rather intended by our Governor General as a
connected review of the whole queſtion, than as furniſhing us with any new materials
to aſſiſt our judgment in taking it into our confideration. We are induced, therefore,
to ſtate our opinion upon the caſe as at preſent before us, rather than incur, by wait-
ing for the communication alluded to, the inconvenience and diſadvantage to our
affairs which might reſult from our deciſion being any longer protraćted.
We do not feel ourſelves called upon to enter into a detail of the circumſtances
connected with this caſe, or to ſtate at length the reaſoning upon thoſe circumſtances
which has led to the concluſion we have come to, after the fulleſt and moſt deliberate
conſideration. It is enough to ſtate to you, that we are fully prepared, upon the facts
as at preſent before us, to approve and confirm the Treaty in queſtion; and we are of
opinion, that, ačting under the inſtrućtions of the Governor General, you ſtand fully
juſtified (upon the evidence, written as well as oral, on which you proceeded) in deem-
ing the rights of the family of Mahomed Aly, as exiſting under former Treaties, to
have been wholly forfeited by the ſyſtematic perfidy and treachery of the late Nabobs
of the Carnatic Walajah and Omdut ol Omrah, in breach of their ſolemn Treaties
with the Company.
The claims of the Family having been thus forfeited, and a right having accrued to
the Company of making proviſion, at their diſcretion, for the future ſafety of the
Carnatic, we are further of opinion, that the nature of the ſecurity which has been
provided by the Treaty for the defence and preſervation of our intereſts in that
quarter, is of a ſatisfactory deſcription ; and we cannot too much applaud the diſpo-
ſition which has been manifeſted by our Servants, to make the arrangement in queſtion
as little injurious to the happineſs and dignity of the Family of Arcot, as conſiderations,
immediately conneéted with the ſafety of our poſſeſſions, would admit. 4.
We have only further to deſire, that you will offer, in the moſt reſpectful manner,
our congratulations to the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, on his elevation to the Muſnud;
and by ſome future conveyance, the Court of Direétors will addreſs his Highneſs on
the ſubjećt. s
Eaſt India Houſe, London, f Signed by the Members of the
29th Sept. 18O2. Secret Committee.
EXT R A C T of a Letter from Fort St. George, to the Secret Committe;
dated the 6th February 1803.
Para. 1. We have had the honour to receive the diſpatches from your Honourable
Committee, dated the 29th September laſt, by the overland conveyance, and loſt no
time in communicating to his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah the intelligence
of your having approved and confirmed the Treaty concluded with his Highneſs on
the 16th September 1801, by this Government.
2. We accompanied our Preſident in his viſit of ceremony upon this occaſion,
when his Lordſhip offered the congratulations of your Honourable Committee to his
Highneſs the Nabob, who expreſſed his ſatisfaction in terms of the higheſt gratitude.
3. In a few days afterwards, the Right honourable the Governor received a
Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob, containing his ſentiments upon an event ſo
intereſting to him, and expreſſing his ſatisfaction at the manner in which the intelli-
gence was communicated. t -
4. The Nabob has alſo addreſſed his Excellency the Governor General upon the
ſame ſubječt. *
Ex TRACT Political Letter from Fort Saint George ; dated 22d
February 1803. P
Para. 2. Our Letter to the Secret Committee of the 6th inſtant, will apprize
your Honourable Court of the ſatisfaction afforded to the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah,
by
*
AFF AIR's O F THE CARNATIC.
I 55
by your confirmation of the Treaty of the Carnatic: the Letters addreſſed by his
Highneſs on the occaſion to our Right honourable Preſident, and to the Moſt Noble,
the Governor General, are included in the proceedings which accompany this
Diſpatch. -- i
3. We beg leave to refer you to the Records, for the Letters addreſſed by the
Nabob to thoſe Noblemen, on the late adjuſtment of his account with the Ho-
nourable Company. His Highneſs avails him of every opportunity of declaring
his reſpe&t and attachment to the Britiſh Government. . -
4. The improved ſtate of the Carnatic under the management of the Company,
having rendered it improbable that the Nabob's proportion of the revenues will ever
fall ſhort of the largeſt amount ſtipulated to be paid to him, we have the honour to
inform you, that in order to prevent a draft from our Treaſury to an inconvenient
extent at the annual adjuſtment of accounts, we have reſolved, with his Highneſs's
conſent, that his monthly receipts under the 5th article of the Treaty ſhall be
increaſed from twelve to ſixteen thouſand pagodas, ſo long as the arrangement
may continue to ſuit the convenience of his Highneſs and of the Govern-
InCnt. + . º
5. The many applications from the Nabob for penſions to be paid from his
proportion of the revenues, to ſuch of the dependants of his Family for whom no
maintenance had been provided under the Treaty of the Carnatic, do not by any
means form the leaſt pleaſing part of his Highneſs's correſpondence with our
Preſident. -
6. Among other inſtances of his Princely diſpoſition in this reſpect, it is neceſſary
that we notice for your information, his reſolution to diſcharge the arrears of pay
due by the late Nabob to Mr. John Batley, a reſpectable European, employed by
his preſent Highneſs as a Private Secretary, and who has been employed for the
period of twenty-five years in the ſervice of the Family. . -
7. It is neceſſary for us to ſpecify this ačt of generoſity, in order that if the
‘debt in queſtion ſhall ever be acknowledged by your Honourable Court to be
included in the adjuſted debts of their late Highneſſes the Nabob Walajah and the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and conſequently to be charged on the revenues of the
Carnatic, you may at the ſame time take into your conſideration, whether the
amount ought not to be repaid to his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah
who has in fact redeemed, at his own expence, that part of the floating debt.
8. While we dwell with pleaſure on this feature of the Nabob's charaćter, we ſtate
to you with regret, that his Highneſs has experienced in ſome inſtances, from the
inferior branches of the Family, a conduct very different from that to which he was
entitled both as the Head of that Family, and as the Sovereign of the Mahomedans
in the Carnatic. We ſhall by all means inculcate this mode of conciliation and
forbearance on the part of his Highneſs; but the pertinacity with which ſome mem-
bers of the Family adhere to their oppoſition, and to the vain hopes encouraged by
their private Agents in Europe, appears to render it neceſſary, that the means pro-
vided by us for ſecuring the reſpećt of theſe Dependants ſhould be permitted to
operate for the purpoſe of checking inſolence and diſaffection to the Nabob.
A recent caſe of this kind having occurred, in which Shaw Souver Jung, one of the
ſuppoſed illegitimate Sons of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, avowedly threw off
obedience to his Highneſs Azeem ul Dowlah, his Highneſs ſignified to us his
intention of removing him from the Palace of Chepauk, and his wiſh that the
payment of the ſeparate ſtipend, granted with his Highneſs's concurrence to this
Prince, ſhould be ſuſpended. t
9. As this appears to be the only praćticable mode by which the reſiſtance of the
inferior members of the Family to the elevation of the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah,
and their perſonal diſreſpect to his Highneſs, can be diminiſhed, we have concurred
in his Highneſs’s wiſhes on this queſtion, and have accordingly ſuſpended the pay-
ment of the ſtipend until a better conſideration of the circumſtances, attached to
their reſpective relations, ſhall have induced Shah Souver Jung to reſtore himſelf to
the favour of the Nabob. • ! - -
16. In conſequence of our former repreſentations on the ſubjećt, we truſt, that
your Honourable Court will have taken into conſideration the ſerious inconveni-
Vol. III.
Diary to Conſultaticns,
11th February.
Conſultations,
2d November.
Conſultations,
7th December.
D9,21ſt.
Diary to Conſcitations,
# Ith February.
Vide Letter from the
Nabob, dated 24th Ja-
ruary ; and, Letter to
the Accountant General,
dated (oth February.
Conſultations,
4th January.
Diary to Conſultations,
I j th February.
Videſ,etter to the Nabob,
dated 1ſt February 1822.
175. f - w & ... • - encies
y 56 P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O THE
Wol. III. encies to which his Highneſs, the Nabob may be expoſed, from the difficulty of
defining his ſituation as a Sovereign Prince reſiding with the whole of his
Family, and the Officers of his State, within the juriſdićtion of a Britiſh Court
of Law. $ : -
17. This queſtion has been in ſome degree agitated by an inſtance which has
recently occurred, in the arreſt and impriſonment for debt of Abdul Mabud Khan,
an Uncle of his Highneſs, and a Son of the Nabob Mahomed Ally. The diſtreſs
occaſioned to the Nabob by this event is forcibly deſcribed in a Letter ſrom his
£onſult. Highneſs to our Preſident, complaining of the indignity; and in the Minute re-
º corded by his Lordſhip, on ſubmitting that Letter to our notice.
Do y. 18. We beg leave to refer you to the Minute of our Preſident, for the nature
--> * and reſult of his Lordſhip's communications on this occaſion with His Majeſty's
Chief Juſtice, who, having declined to deliver extra-judicially his opinion on the
ſubjećt, we have, in conformity to Lord Clive's ſuggeſtion, inſtrućted the Law Officers
of the Company to move the Court to diſcharge the proceedings in the aëtion
commenced againſt Abdul Mabud Khan, on the plea of his ſuppoſed privilege as
a Member of the Family of the Nabob. -
19. The Advocate General has obtained a Rule to ſhew cauſe in the preſent
caſe, and we ſhall apprize your Honourable Court of the iſſue. In the mean while,
it is obvious that the ſituation of the Nabob, and of his Highneſs's Family, is ſo
fingular, as not to be included in the uſual interpretations of Public Law; and, on
the other hand, the faith of the Executive Government is pledged by Treaty to ſecure
to the Nabob his rights and immunities, in the ſame full and ample manner as they
have herefoſore been enjoyed by his Highneſs’s Predeceſſors, Nabobs of the Carnatic.
But unleſs all doubt ſhall be removed from the interpretation of the Law of England
with reſpećt to theſe rights and immunities, it is manifeſt, from the extent of the
Nabob's Family and dependants, that it will be impoſſible to prevent ſimilar inſtances
of offence to his Highneſs's feelings, under the operation of the law as it now ſtands.
We therefore requeſt, in the moſt urgent manner, your attention to the ſubjećt, in
- . - order
Dr. His Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, in Account Current with the
, ſº gº One-fifth of the Net Revenues of the Carnatic, payable to
f$o I. - - *
July 31. To Caſh advanced at Madras, this Month, to his
Highneſs the Nabob, on Account of One-
fifth of the Net Revenues for the Carnatic,
Rupee 1,00,6co, at 35o p? Pag' - - - 28,571 18' o
~ * Auguſt 31. To D* - - - - - - - D* - - - - 12,Coo o o
- September 30. To D* - - - - - - D* - - - - 12,000 o o
** Oćtober 3 ſ. To D’ – - - - - - D* - - - - 12,000 o o
November 30. To D’ – – - - - D° - 12,000 *
To D* - paid Dočtor Maurice Fitzgerald
for his Quarterly Salary, as Attendant
Phyſician at the Durbar, from 1ſt
Auguſt to 31ſt Oétober laſt, at 35o
Pagodas per Month - - - - - 1,050
- • ‘y ^- I 3,05o o O |
HDecember 31. To D’ – advanced at Madras to his Highneſs r
the Nabob - - - - - - - - - - - I 2,OOO O O |
To D’ – paid at Arcot by the Colle&tor --- • A
of the Northern Diviſion of that Pro-
vince, to the Dauroga of the Garden
at Sautgur, R' 55o at 35o på Pagodas 1,576
- ^ - . I2, I 57 6 O
} Carried forward - - - - - 1,91,778 24 o
AFFAIRS OF THE CARN AT I c. I 57
order that means may be applied to the removal of the difficulty, if you ſhall judge Vol. III.
it expedient, by application for the interference of Parliament. w *sº
20. Our anxiety with reſpećt to the immediate event of this queſtion is confider-
ably relieved by our reliance on his Highneſs's uniform moderation, and on his
undiminiſhed confidence in the protećtion and honour of the Britiſh Government.
21. We have the honour to inform you, that, conformable to the principle already
explained to your Honourable Court, the Rajah of Travancore has paid to his Conſulta-
Highneſs the Nabob, as the Sovereign of the Carnatic, the ſum of 2,266 pagodas º:
and 15 anas, in full diſcharge of the Peiſhcuſh and Cape Comorin Nuzzeranah, “”
due to his Highneſs for the preceding Phuzely. -
E XT RAC T Fort St. George Political and Foreign Conſultations;
the 8th Oétober 1802. - \
Read the following Letter to the Chief Secretary to Government, Fort
,” t - St. George. *.
Sir, º • *k. -
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the Ioth ultimo,
and to encloſe an Account Current, ſhewing the amount due to his Highneſs the
Nabob Azeem ui Omrah, on account of his 1-5th of the Net Revenue of the Car-
natic for the laſt Phaſ.ely. ... • - -
Annexed to it is a Memorandum, ſhewing the ſeveral ſums due to the Claimants
on his Highneſs for “Mortgages redeemed,” as particularized in the Encloſures
which accompanied your Letter to me of the 11th of June laſt, and the amount due
to his Highneſs, after the proportion of their ſeveral claims ſhall have been ſatisfied.
Z I have the honour to be, &c, &c. :
Fort St. George, . (Signed) Cecil Smith,
Accº Gen” Office, A. G. & C. A.
4th Oét. 1802.
----
{{onourable Company, from 31ſt July 1801 to 12th July 1892; * — — Cº
his Highneſs, agreeable to the Treaty of 31ſt July 1801. f -
18O2.
July 12. By Amount of One-fifth of the Net Revenues of
the Carnatic, including Poligars Peiſhcuſh,
payable to his Highneſs the Nabob, from
1ſt Auguſt 1801 to 12th July 1802—Parti- -
culars as per accompanying Statement - - || 3,33,092 33 48
*_
Carried forward - - - - - - - 3.33.29. 33 48
175. - S 3.

153
P A PERS RELATING TO THE
Vol. III. Tº
I 8c 2.
February 28.
March 31.
April 3O.
May 31.
Brought forward - - - - -
To Caſh advanced at Madras, this .. -
Month, to his Highneſs the Nabob 12,000 o
To D* - paid at D* Dº to Dr. Maurice
Fitzgerald, his Quarterly Salary,
from 1 November 1801 to 31 Ja-
Northern Diviſion of Arcot, to the
Dauroga of the Garden at Sautgur,
R’ 550, at 35o p.; Pagodas - - 157 6
**t
To D’ – advanced at Madras, this Month,
to his Highneſs the Nabob - - - 12,Coo o
To D* - paid by the Colle&tor of the
Northern Diviſion of Arcot, as
follows:
| To the Daurogah of the Garden at
Sautgur, Rupees 557, at
350 per & Pagodas - - 157 6
To the late Renters of D",
D", Rupees 3,939 #, at
Ditto - - - - - 1,125 24
! - I,282 3o
To Caſh advanced at Madras, this Month,
to his Highneſs the Naboba - - 12,000 o
To D’ – paid by the Colle&tor of the
Northern Diviſion of Arcot to the
Daurogah of the Garden at Sautgur,
R* 550, at 350 p.; Pagodas - – I 57 6
To D’ – paid by the Colle&tor of
Trichinopoly to Mahomed Goaſe
Khan, Agent to the Nabob of the
Carnatic, for Expences of the Tombs
of the late Nabob Wallajah’s Family
at Trichinopoly - - - - - - 17 I 18
To D° - advanced at Madras, this Month,
to his Highneſs the Nabob - - - 12,000 o
To D" - paid at Dº Dº to Mr. W*
Horſeman, for Dr. Fitzgerald, his
Quarterly Salary, from 1 February
to 30 April 1802, at 35o Pagodas
per Month - - - - - - - 1,050 G
To D* - paid by the Collečtor of the
Northern Diviſion of Arcot to the
Daurogah of the Garden at Sautgur,
Rupº 550, at 350 p.; Pagodas - 157 6
To D’ – of Trichinopoly, to Mahomed
Goaſe Khan, Agent to the Nabob
of the Carnatic, for Expences of the
Tombs of the late Nabob Wallajah’s
Family at Trichinopoly - - - - 171 18
1
{ Carried forward - - - -
nuary 1802, at 35o Pag' per Month 1,050 o
| To D’ – paid by the Collector of the
|
I,CI,778 24 O
I 3,207 6 o
I32,82 3o o
I 2,328 24 O
I3,378 24 O
*53,975 24 o
*
A FFAIRS OF THE CARN AT I C. I59
= Vol. III.
3,33,992 33 48
18O2. Brought forward - - - - -
d r Carried forward - - - - - 3:33,992 33 48

16o P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O T H E
vol. In. = = - * . . . —e
n , ** * d - - - - a .
18O2. Brought forward - I, 53,975 24 O
June 1. To Caſh advanced at Madras, this Day, to his
Highneſs the Nabob - 12,00o o
21. To D* - - - this Day, 2
D°, 1,00,000 Rup”, at
350 p.3. Pag' - - - 28,571 18
40,571 18.
|To D’ – paid by the Colle&tor of the 3. -
Northern Diviſion of Arcot to the {
Daurogah of the Garden of Saufgur,
R* 55o, at 35o p.; Pag' - - - - 157 6.
go. To Dº Dº of Trichinopoly, to Ma- }.
homed Goaſe Khan, Agent to the
Nabob of the Carnatic, for Expence
of the Tombs of the late Nabob
Wallajah's Family at Trichinopoly 171 18
July 12. To D’ – advanced at Madras, this
Month, to his Highneſs the Nabob 12,000 o
To D* - paid by the Collečtor of the
Northern Diviſion of Arcot to
the Daurogah of the Garden of
Sautgur, Rupees 55o, at 35o p.;
Pagodas - - - - - - - - 157 6
40,900 O C
4
12,157 6 oi
To Balance due to his Highneſs the Nabob, 2,97,032 39 o'
on Account of the One-fifth of the Net
Revenues of the Carnatic, on 12th July
1802 - - - - - - - - - - -
1,26,060 3 48.
Pagodas - – 3:33,092 33 48
~gº- l
Fort St. George, • *
Acc' Gen" Office, (Errors excepted)
4th Oétober 18O2. + - . -
T)* gº Highneſs the Nabob, in Account Current with the ſeveral Claimants,
to him after their

18O2. |-
July 12, To Amount due to Meſſrs. Lautour & Co. for
3d Part of their Mortgage on the Palace of *
Chepauk, for the principal Sum of $9,861 19,953 28 O |
| To D" - to Mr. A. De Souga, for # Part of --
the Shady Mahal and Roſhum Baugh, for *
~' 5,259 o o
| Pagodas 21,000 - - - - - - - - -
| To D* - to Meſſrs. Lautour & Co. for ; of D"
on Mophaz Khan's Garden, Pag' 19,0co - 4,750 o O |&
| 29,953 28 ol
|To Balance due to his Highneſs - - - - - 96,106 17 48.
Total - - - Pag' 1,26,060 3 48
$ort St. George, - - - - .
Accº Gen" Office, - (Errors excepted.)
4 Oét, 1802. - . j
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N ATIC. 161
Vol. III.
1802. - Brought forward - - - - 3:33,292 33 48
- - - - - - - - - Pagodas 333,292 33 48
*-
- (signed) Cecil Smith,
A. G. and C. A.'.
ºr-----
for Mortgages redeemed; ſhewing the Balance of His Highneſs's wº - Cº
reſpective Claims are ſatisfied - - & º * ºre * ge
18O2. *
July 12. By Amount Balance of his Highneſs's 3, as Per
annexed Account Current - - - - - - 1,26,060 348
1,26,060 3 48
(Signed) Cecil Smith,
At G' and C. A’.
T t STATEMENT


162
P A P E R S R E L AT I N G T O THE
, Vol. I.
STATE MENT of Carnatic Revenues for Fuſly 1211; or from 1ſt Auguſt 1891
to 12th July 1802 ; taken from the Colleótor's Accounts.
Amount of Collečtions, from
1ſt Auguſt 1801 to 12th
July 1801 - - - - 26,44,649 21 63
Tuckavy Receipts - - - 35,43 I 28 32
Dedućt Charges to the ſame
Period, including Arrears to -
the late Nabob's Troops - 2,99,241 35 29
Advances for Tuckavy, re-
coverable - - - - - 50,592 Io 64
3,49,834 4 13
Net Collečtions - - 23,30,247 4 . -
Add Poligars Peſhcuſh, per Annum, agreeably
to the Treaty - - - - - - - - - 2,64,704 20 26
Net Pagodas - - - - - - -
Dedućt agreeable to the 1ſt Article of ſeparate Treaty - - -
Dedućt for Payments on Account of Jaghire
Lands, per Annum, agreeable to the Treaty
of 31ſt July 1801 - - - - - - - - 2, 13,431
D" for Payments on Account of the Creditors, -
per Annum, agreeable to the Treaty - - - 6,21,105 o o
O
C)
Net Revenue - - - - - -
Dedućt 4th of the above, agreeable to Treaty - - - - - -
Net Surplus - - - -
Add Surplus Revenue, before dedućting Nabob's Payments,
and 4th - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Total Surplus - - - - -
*_ 26,80,081 8 15
25,94395 I 24, 28
94,951 24 28
25,00,ooo o o
8,34,536 o o
16,65,464 o o
3,33,992 33 48
I3232,37 I 8 32
94.95 I 24 28
– -*
14,27,322 32 6o
Memorandum : }
Total Amount paid by the Collečtors on
Account of 4th - - - -
-w
e -, -, - - - 2,739 36
Paid by Mr. G. Stratton, Colle&tor in the
Northern Diviſion of Arcot - - - - 2,225 24
D° by Mr. John Wallace, Colleótor in
Trichinopoly - - - - - - - 514 12
*
Fort St. George,
Acc' Gen" Office,
Iſt Očt. 1802.
2,739 36
(Signed) Cecil Smith, -
A. G. & C. A.
(Nº. 43.)
A FFA IRS OF THE C A R N AT I C. 163
(Nº 43.)—To his Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. Yºº ":
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
Para. I. I have the honour to inform your Highneſs, that the proportion of the
Revenues of the Carnatic, as ſettled by Treaty on your Highneſs, amounted on the
12th July laſt to the Sum of Pag' 3,33,092. 33.48. ; and I ſincerely congratulate
your Highneſs on this ſubſtantial proof of the flouriſhing ſtate of the Carnatic, under
the management of the Honourabie Company.
2. I do myſelf the honour of incloſing, for your Highneſs's information, the Account
Current between your Highneſs and the Company, for the laſt Fuſly year, by which
a Balance of Pag' 96,106. 17. 48. appears to be due on account of your Highneſs’s
proportion of the Revenues; and orders have accordingly been iſſued to the Treaſury
for the payment of this ſum to your Highneſs.
3. I have further the honour to inform your Highneſs, that I have direéted the
ſums ſhewn in the ſtatement annexed to the Account Current to be due reſpectively
to Meſſrs. Lautour and Company, and to the Executors of Mr. Antonia De Souza,
to be paid in conformity to your engagements to thoſe Gentlemen.
Fort St. George, Ży I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
8th Očtober 18O2. (Signed)
r - - Clive.
D I A R Y to Political Conſultations; 23d Oétober 1862.
Sent the following Letter to the Sub-Treaſurer:
Sir, -
I am direéted to deſire that the ſum of ſtar pagodas 96,106. 17. 48. may be paid
to the Nabob of the Carnatic, being the amount due to his proportion of the Revenue
for the laſt Fuſley, º
I am, &c. &c. w
Fort St. George, - (Signed)
23d Oétober 1802. t john Chamier,
W Chief Secº to Government.
EXT R A CT of Fort St. George Political and Foreign Conſultations;
the 2d November 1802. r ,'
Read the following Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic
(entered in C. C. Nº 45.)
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Navab Azim ul Dowlah Bahadur,
to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
Dated y 5 Rajeb 1217 Hegery,
and Or
Received l 2d November 1802.
I have received your Lordſhip's Letter, dated Ioth Jemadiſſamy, anſwering to the
8th OStober 1802, ſtating that the proportion of the Revenues of the Carnatic, as
ſettled by Treaty on me, amounted on the 12th July laſt, to the ſum of pagodas
3,33,C82. 33. 48. and accompanied by an Account Current between the Honourable
Company and me, for the laſt Fuſly year, by which a balance of Pag' 96,106.17. 48.
appeared to be due on account of the ſaid proportion of the Revenues, and which
ſum I have received in ready caſh.
Your Lordſhip's congratulations on the flouriſhing ſtate of the Carnatic, I con-
ſider in the moſt friendly light; I truſt, with the bleſfing of God, that under the
management and by the ſtrenuous exertions of the Honourable Company, the
proſperity of the Carnatic will daily increaſe. I am much obliged by your Lordſhip's
kindneſs in having ſent me the Accounts, and the Balance aforeſaid.
My Friend, it is entirely owing to your Lordſhip's patronage, and that of my bene-
ficent Friend the Governor General (may his proſperity be perpetuall) that I have been
taken into the Royal favour of the King of Great Britain, and under the protestion of
the Honourable Company and the Engliſh Nation ; and I am (with heart and ſoul)
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‘Vol. III. firm and ſtedfaſt in my acknowledgements and attachment, and whilſt I live ſhall
conſider myſelf bound, by the obligations which have been conferred upon me.
I have alſo to acknowledge your Lordſhip's kindneſs, in having direéted the
ſums ſhewn in the Statement annexed to the Account Current, to be paid to Meſſrs.
Lautour and Company, and to the Executors of Mr. Antonis De Souza, in conformity
to my engagements. a - * - -
I incloſe, for your Lordſhip's information, Copy of a Letter I have addreſſed to -
the Moſt Noble the Governor General; and I ſend the original Letter herewith, and
requeſt your Lordſhip will have the goodneſs to forward it.
What can I ſay more..?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P" Tº to Gov".
Tranſlate Copy of a Letter from His Highneſs the Nawab Azim ul
Dowlah Bahadur to the Moſt Noble the Marquis Welleſley.
*
My indulgent and kind friend, Lord Clive, lately tranſmitted me a Statement
exhibiting the Account betwixt the Honourable Company and myſelf reſpecting the
Revenues of the Carnatic for the laſt Fuſly year, together with the amount, in ready
money, of the Balance due to me.
I tranſmit herewith a Copy of his Lordſhip's Addreſs to me on the ſubject, and a
Copy of my Reply for your Lordſhip's information. - *
I am indebted to your Lordſhip's goodneſs for this ſubſtantial benefit. It is entirely
owing to your Lordſhip’s patronage, that I have come under the protećtion and favour
of His Majeſty the King of Great Britain, and the countenance of the Honourable
Company’s Government; and I hope that, under the happy auſpices of your Lord-
ſhip's patronage and friendſhip, I ſhall always continue to experience the favours of
His Majeſty, and the kindneſs of the Engliſh Company and Nation.
I truſt that your Lordſhip will be pleaſed conſtantly to gratify me by the receipt of
your agreeable letter. -
- (A true Tranſlate.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
k P." Tº to Gov".
EX T R A C T of Fort St. George Political and Foreign Conſultations;
the 7th December 1802.
The Preſident propoſes to addreſs the following Letter to his Highneſs the Nabob
of the Carnatic (alſo entered in C. C. Nº 47.) ---
To his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
Your Highneſs will have had the ſatisfaction of obſerving, from the Accounts with
which I had the honour of furniſhing your Highneſs of the Revenue of the Carnatic
for the laſt year, that, by the bleſſing of God, the amount of theſe Revenues have
increaſed, and will encreaſe, under the proviſions of the Treaty concluded with your
Highneſs; as this proſperous ſtate of the Country promiſes to augment the amount
of your Highneſs's proportion of the Revenue confiderably above the amount ſti-
pulated to be paid monthly for your Highneſs's expences, it is my intention, which
I have the ſatisfaction to know is conformable to your Highneſs's wiſhes, to encreaſe
the amount of the Monthly Payment from 12 to 16,000 pagodas, and orders have
in conſequence been iſſued for the payment of the latter ſum in future to your
Highneſs's Officers at the Honourable Company’s Treaſury. -
Your Highneſs will doubtleſs underſtand, that this arrangement cannot interfere
with the ſtipulations of the Treaty of the Carnatic, and that the augmented Payments,
- therefore,
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to your Highneſs and to this Government. & re.
w I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, &c. &c. *
9th December 1802. (Signed) Clive.
Approved, and the Preſident is requeſted to diſpatch it.
Ordered, that the neceſſary communications be made to the Treaſury.
EXT R A C T Fort St. George Political and Foreign Conſultations,
the 21ſt December 1802. t
Read the following Letter:
To the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor, &c. &c. &c. Fort St. George.
My Lord, * g. *
I *. the honour to forward a Bill of Exchange on behalf of the Rajah of Tra-
vancore, drawn upon the Soucar Wiſwanat at Madras, for (2,266. 15) two thouſand
two hundred and ſixty-ſix pagodas fifteen anas, in diſcharge of Peſhcuſh and Cape
Comorin Nuzzeranah, due by his Highneſs at the cloſe of laſt Fuſee, accompanied
by a Memorandum of the ſame, under the ſeal of his Highneſs, who requeſts that a
receipt for the amount be returned to him.
2. The Rajah has paid into my hands the ſum of (2,352. 6) two, thouſand three
hundred and fifty-two chuckrums ſix fanams, being the balance due for the laſt year
on account of the quit-rent of Shencotta. This balance, added to a partial pay-
ment made on the account early in the year to the Collečtor of Tinnevelly, will com-
plete the ſum of 3,237 chuckrums and 2 fanams, due on the 11th July laſt.
3. The Rajah has promiſed a further payment in the courſe of this month.
- 4. I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
Travancore, (Signed) C. Macaulay,
6th December 1802. Reſident Travancore.
In conſequence of the foregoing Letter, the following communications are made
to his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic to the Treaſury, and to the Accountant
'Ceneral. - •. ; : -
- To the Sub-Treaſurer.
Sir, -
I am direéted to tranſmit to you the encloſed Bill of Exchange, drawn on the
'Soucar Wiſwanat at Madras, on the ſum of two thouſand two hundred and fixty-ſix
pagodas and fifteen anas (2,266. I 5) in diſcharge of Peſhcuſh and Cape Comorin
Nuzzeranah, due by the Rajah of Travancore at the cloſe of the laſt Fuſly, and
to defire that the amount, when realized, may be paid to the Nabob of the Carnatic
on his Highneſs's receipt, which you will deliver to me for the purpoſe of being
forwarded to his Excellency the Rajah.
- I am, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) john Chamier,
21ſt Dec. 1802. Chief Secretary to Government.
To his Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah Bahadur, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, -
The Rajah of Travancore has tranſmitted to me, through the Reſident at that:
Court, a Bill of Exchange for two thouſand two hundred and ſixty-ſix pagodas
and fifteen anas (2,266, 15) in diſcharge of Peſhcuſh and Cape Comorin Nuzze-
ranah, due by his Excellency to your Highneſs, as the Sovereign of the Carnatic,
at the cloſe of the laſt Phuzely. ~
As ſoon as this bill ſhall have been diſcharged by the Soucar, on whom it has
been drawn, the account will be paid to your Highneſs at the Treaſury, when I
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wºol. IłI. requeſt, an acknowledgment of its receipt may be given to the Sub-Treaſurer, under
, the ſignature of your Highneſs, for the purpoſe of being forwarded to the Rajah
..of Travancore.
• * J have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, &c. &c.
21ſt Dec. 18O2. (Signed) Clive.
To the Accountant General.
Sir,
I am direéted to inform you, that the Rajah of Travancore has paid into the
#hands of the Reficient at that Court, the ſum of two thouſand three.hundred and
fifty-two chuckrums ſix fanams (2,352. 6) being the balance due for the laſt year
for the quit-rent of Shencotah.
This balance, added to a partial payment, made on this account early in the year
to the Colle&tors of Tinnevelly, completes the ſum of three thouſand two hundred
and thirty-ſeven chuckrums and two fanams (3,237. 2) due on the 11th of July
..laſt.
; ! have the honour to be, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) john Chamier,
.2 1ſt Dec.,18oz. Chief SecY to Govt.
EXTRACT of Fort St. George Political and Foreign Conſultations;
the 21ſt December 1802.
Read the following Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob (alſo entered in
C. C. N° 49.)
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah
Bahauder to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
Dated and received #: Shaubaun 1217 Hegery.
12 December 1802.
Your Lordſhip's Letter, dated 7 December 1802, ſtating, that as the revenues of
the Carnatic had encreaſed, and as the proſperous ſtate of the country promiſes to
augment the amount of my proportion of the revenue conſiderably above the
amount ſtipulated to be paid monthly for my expences, your Lordſhip had, iſſued
corders for the monthly payment to me in future of ſixteen thouſand pagodas, inti-
mating at the ſame time, that the arrangement cannot interfere with the ſtipulations
of the Treaty I have received, and underſtand the contents; and am obliged to your
:Lordſhip's kindneſs.
By the judicious management and exertions of my friends the Company, the
territories of the Carnatic have become proſperous, and the revenues encreaſing;
and there is room to expect that.this proſperity will daily encreaſe.
‘I have to offer my ſincere acknowledgments for your Lordſhip's friendſhip in
ihaving augmented the monthly payments ſtipulated to be made to me, and am fully
perſuaded that, by the bleſfing of the Almighty, and with the ſupport of His
Majeſty the King of Great Britain, with the aſſiſtance alſo of my friends the Governor
*General and your Lordſhip, and of the whole Engliſh Nation, this arrangement
will never interfere with the ſtipulations of the Treaty of the Carnatic; and I truſt
«that, under the Divine favour, no inconvenience will ever be experienced by my
friends the Company from the augmentation of the payments to be monthly made
§§O II) e. -
What can I write more ?
S-. A (A true Tranſlation.) *.
- (Signed) A. Falconar, *
Perſian Tranſlator to Gov".
A FIFA I R S OF T H E C A R N A TI C.
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DIA R Y to Political Conſultations; 22d January 1863.
To the Sub-Treaſurer.
Sir,
Shah Sawar Jung having incurred the diſpleaſure of his Highneſs the Nabob of the
Carnatic, I am directed to defire that the payment 3f his penſion at the Treaſury may
ceaſe from the 1ſt inſtant. -
I am likewiſe dire&ted to convey to you ſimilar inſtrućtions with regard to Gholam
Huſſein, who has been diſmiſſed from his ſituation at his Highneſs's Durbar, and
from his employment as Principal Moonſhy in the Perſian Tranſlator's office.
The allowances of Gholam Huſſein are to ceaſe from the 18th inſtant.
I am, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) john Chamier, -
21ſt January 1803. A Chief Secº to Gov".
The ſame to the Civil Auditor.
\
EXT R A C T Fort St. George Political Conſultations; 4th January 1803.
Read the following Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic
(entered alſo in C. C. Nº 1.)
Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azim ul Dowlah Bahaudre,
to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
4. Ramzan 1217 Hegery,
Bated and received OT
3oth December 1802.
The machinations of an infatuated part of my own Family, who are adverſe to the
propitious arrangements eſtabliſhed for the adminiſtration of the affairs of the Car-
natic, and for the happineſs of its people, are intimately known to your Lordſhip ;
and you are alſo aware of the forbearance with which I have, in compliance with your
£ordſhip's advice, in the preſent ſituation of things, refrained from exerciſing the juſt
degree of authority neceſſary to relieve me from this inconvenience, in the hope of
evincing, by conciliation and forbearance, thoſe miſtaken people from the errors and
miſdoings of their evil Counſellors.
A recent inſtance however has occurred, in which I have found it to be indiſpen-
ſably neceſſary to aſſert my authority in a more direét manner, both as the Head of
the Mahommedan Government in the Carnatic, and particularly of the Wallajah’s
family.
Shah Sawar Jung, the reputed Son by a Courtezan of the late Nabob Omdut ul
Vol. III.
g tº sº e te | * *
Omra, having condućted himſelf in a manner diſreſpectful towards me, I adopted the
moſt lenient mode of ſignifying my diſpleaſure according to the long exiſting uſage of
the Nabobs of Arcot, by placing him in arreſt in his own apartments, with centinels
at his door; but with ſtrićt injunčtions not to interrupt the uſual ſupplies of his
table. * -
Having faſtened the doors of his apartments, he addreſſed a Petition to one of the
judges of the Supreme Court, accuſing me of withholding from him the neceſſaries of
life, and claiming the protećtion of the Court, thus endeavouring to remove himſelf
from the authority to which he was conſtitutionally ſubjećt as a member, though an
Runworthy member of the Wallajahi Family, and to ſeek protećtion for his inſolence
under an imputed intention on my part of cruelty and inhumanity. .*
With reſpect to the calumnious part of the Petition, if the communications which
your Lordſhip daily receives of the tranſačtions at Chepauk were not ſufficient to
remove every doubt, if any doubt exiſted in your Lordſhip's mind, I could furniſh
your Lordſhip with the moſt abundant proof of the entire diſregard of truth manifeſted
by Shaw Sawar Jung; but I am aſſured, that your Lordſhip's friendſhip and con-
ſideration for me would induce you to judge ſuch a procedure, in the preſent caſe, to
be an unneceſſary condeſcenſion, from the high rank and ſtation to which, under the
favour of Providence, I have been advanced by the Britiſh Government.
I75. *-*. With
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s arrangements of my Family.
*
with regard to the wiſh apparently expreſſed by Shah Sawar Jung in his Petition,
to withdraw himſelf from my authority, your Lordſhip will remember, that at an early
period after I aſcended the Muſnad of my anceſtors, I apprized the diſaffected mem-
bers of my Family by a circular letter, of which I furniſhed a copy for your Lordſhip’s
information, that if they continued to occupy apartments within the precinóts of my
Palace, I ſhould expect then to conform to thoſe internal regulations which I might
adopt ; but if they ſhould be deſirous of withdrawing themſelves from Chepauk, it
was my intention to grant them free permiſſion to do ſo; I did not trouble your Lord-
ſhip with the anſwers I received, becauſe they were more calculated to demonſtrate a
iſpirit of hoſtility than expreſſive of their gratitude for the obligations, which, through
my interceſſion, they have received from your Lordſhip's Government. -
The inſolence and diſreſpect manifeſted by Shah Sawar Jung, have now given a
‘pračtical example of their intentions, by an attempt to compel me to the alternative
of ſubmitting to a diſreſpectful condućt on their part, or of ſuffering the indignity of
a Foreign interference to ſuperſede my juſt authority. I am very certain, that it is not
in the terms of the Treaty of the Carnatic, nor in the ſpirit of the renewed alliance
3Jetween me and the Britiſh Nation, and ſtill leſs in the gracious intention of your
Lordſhip's mind, that I ſhould be reduced to ſuch a predicament, I have therefore
deemed it to be proper for me to order Shah Sawar Jung to remove himſelf from the
Palace of Chepauk ; and as I can have no doubt, that the arrangement adopted by
your Lordſhip to regulate the payment of the Family ſtipends, was calculated to main-
tain and ſupport the dignity and authority of the Head of it, it is my requeſt that your
Lordſhip will be pleaſed to diſcountenance a procedure ſubverſive of ſubordination,
and repugnant to the eſtabliſhed rules of this Family and of the Mahomedan Sečt, by
diſcontinuing the payment of the monthly ſtipend hitherto granted to Shah Sawar
Jung and to his dependants, amounting to 15,000 rupees a year in the expectation:
I ſhall refuſe to authenticate the receipts of Shah Sawar Jung in the uſual manner; but
your Lordſhip is aſſured, that although the change muſt be attended with inconve-
inience to that ill-judging Perſon and to his dependants, I ſhall prevent from expoſure
to diſtreſs any perſon, however unworthy, being a relation to the Wallajahi Family; .
.the example will be beneficial to others, by manifeſting, under the ſanction of your
Lordſhip's authority, that the rejećtion of my authority is not exempt from the for-
feiture of the benefits of my protećtion. . -
Although, by the bleſling of the Almighty, no poſſible indignity can affail me while
I enjoy your Lordſhip's protećtion, I will not conceal from your Lordſhip the pain-
ful feelings which have diſturbed my mind, on hearing that the Judges of the Supreme
Court have conſidered it proper and decorous for them to enquire into the domeſtic
By the ſpecial grace of Him the moſt Merciful, my friends the Engliſh Government
(who may truly be deſcribed as the Vicegerents of Juſtice upon earth) have provided
;by a ſacred law, that the cuſtomary authority of the Heads of Families, of whatever,
perſuaſion, ſhall be preſerved to the loweſt of their Indian people; a law, by which the
meaneſt of the ſubjećts whom I have transferred to your Lordſhip's mild and benefi-
cent authority, is exempted from the prying curioſity of ſtrangers, and ſecured in the
squiet exerciſe of thoſe cuſtoms and prejudices which he has been taught to reverence
with an order cxceeding the love of life: an exemption from this buſy intruſion is
accordingly my right as a man. - ; . .
But your Lordſhip, and I ſpeak it with a heart full of gratitude, has habitually
treated me, not only with the tenderneſs of a Father, but with the conſideration due to.
my rank as a Sovereign Prince, in conformity to the 1ſt Article of the Treaty of the
Carnatic, which ſecures to me the ſame rank, dignities, and immunities, which were
enjoyed by my venerable Grandfather, who repoſes in Paradiſe. By the favour of the
Almighty, this ſolemn compaśt of the whole Britiſh Nation is incapable of violence;
a local and ſubordinate juriſdićtion of one people cannot invade the privileges of the
:Sovereign of another. By the bleſfing of the Founder of all Order, the inquiſition of a
French Tribunal do not reach the ſacred perſon of my auguſt Ally, the King of Great
Britain ; and the intruſion of the Court of Madraspatam cannot touch the Sovereign
of the Carnatic.
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. To your Lordſhip as my Friend, and as the Repreſentative of my unalterable Allies Vol. III.
the Britiſh Nation, my doors and the ſecrets of my heart are equally open; but the
habits of your Lordſhip's illuſtrious rank, and your enlightened views of the cuſtoms
and inſtitutions of the Nations of the Earth, have inſtrućted your Lordſhip in the re-
ſpect which is due to what narrower and more vulgar minds may conſider as prejudices;
and your Lordſhip, if you ſhall ſee it neceſſary, will take farther and more powerful
meaſures to ſecure for ever my honour, and the dignity of my Houſe, from the pollution
of intruders, of whatever deſcription. -- * ,
What ſhould I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.) 2.
(Signed) A. Falconar,
* P" Tº to Gov".
Ordered to lie on the Table.
E XTRA C T of Fort St George Political and Foreign Conſultations;
the 18th January 1803.
The following Letter having returned from circulation, is ordered to be recorded:
TRAN SLAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Azim
ul Dowlah Behadur to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c.
&c. &c. *
Dated and received } 12th Rumzan 11 17 Hegery.
7th January 1803.
By the bleſfing of Almighty God, and the ſupport of my ſincere friends the
Governor General, and your Lordſhip, the affairs of my Government are eſtabliſhed
on a baſis as firm as the wall of Alexander; and under the protećtion of His auguſt
Majeſty the King of Great Britain, and of the Engliſh Nation, I am always in
perfeót ſafety and ſecurity. Thus ſituated, my honour and dignity is the ſame as
that of my revered Grandfather the Nabob Wallajah (who repoſes in Paradiſe) and
the preſervation thereof will ever be incumbent on the Engliſh Government.
On the 3d of the preſent month the Supreme Court at Madras, without any
communication with me, ſent their people into the houſe of Abdul Mabud Khan
Bahader Jumſheed Jung (one of the ſons of the late Nabob Walajah), ſeized his
perſon, and carried him away. This circumſtance has been a ſource of great un-
eaſineſs and ſurprize to me, that, notwithſtanding the intimate conneétion ſubſiſting
between me and the Engliſh Government, ſuch intemperate meaſures ſhould have
been adopted by the Court againſt my dependants. Your Lordſhip knows full well
that the pooreſt man is the maſter of his own houſe, and is ſecure in it, and that
none has the power of intruſion therein; ſuch being the caſe, it is a matter of great
aſtoniſhment to me that the people of the Court ſhould ſo far deviate from the
cuſtoms of their own Nation, as to go into the houſe of a Son of the late Nabob
Walajah, and there diſgrace him. Good God l is it conſiſtent with the juſtice and
equity of the Court, that men of rank and diſtinétion ſhould be dragged into durance
in this diſgraceful manner. This ačt of violence I conceive to be highly injurious
to my honour. By the Law of Nations, as well as by the ſančtions of Government,
my dependants (ſuch of them as are heartily well diſpoſed towards me) are equally
ſecure from the interference of the Court, as I am in my own perſon : I have there-
fore to requeſt, that during your Lordſhip's Government, ſuch an arrangement may
be made as ſhall preclude now and for ever all interference of the Court, or of
ſtrangers, with any of my dependants. -
This ačt of kindneſs in your Lordſhip towards me will add to my ſecurity and to
my honour.
What ſhould I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed.) 4. Falconar.
175. xx
17C
PA P E R S R E LAT IN G T o T H E
{
vol. III.
The Preſident records the following Minute :
The Board will doubtleſs have received with concern, the communication ſtated
in the Letter of his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic, dated 7th inſtant, of the
ſeizure and ſubſequent impriſonment for debt of Abdul Määbood Khan Bahader,
ſon of the Nabob Walajah, and uncle of the preſent Nabob. With regard to the
fačts of this caſe, it is proper for me to ſtate, that about noon on the day of the con-
finement of Abdul Maabood Khan, I had the honour to communicate the nature of
the tranſačtion and the rank of the Priſoner to His Majeſty's Chief Juſtice, ſug-
geſting his immediate interference ; that on the ſame evening received a Note from
Sir Thomas Strange, affording reaſon to believe that the Priſoner would be imme-
diately liberated; but that at noon on the following day, finding that the Khan was
ftill in the gaol, and his Highneſs the Nabob having exhibited, by repeated and
urgent remonſtrances, conſiderable agitation of mind, I direéted a Gentleman of my
family to make the requiſite arrangements for the releaſe on bail of Abdul Maabood
£hân. - e -:
. The relation of the preſent Nabob to the Britiſh Government, under the Treaty
of the Carnatic, was ſtated to the Honourable the Judges of the Supreme Court, in
a letter dated the 3d September 1801, and an arrangement was therein propoſed for
their conſideration, intended to ſecure to his Highneſs, and to his Farmily, the honours
and immunities enjoyed by his Predeceſſors, heretofore Nabobs of the Carnatic,
under proviſions of Public Treaties. - -
It is much to be deſired that the Honourable the Judges had felt themſelves at
liberty to comply with the requeſt contained in that letter; but the Chief Judge
having communicated to me, in a private letter, the reaſons which deterred him
from ſtating his opinion extra-judicially, I have been anxious to avert the ſerious
calamities which may enſue from the impoſſibility on one hand of heſitating to
executé, to the extent of our means, the ſpirit of the Treaty ; and, on the other, of
oppoſing the power of the King's Court, thus leaving to the Nabob the care of
defending his own rights: I have therefore been induced to repeat my attempts, by
perſonal communication with the Chief Judge, to obtain ſuch information of the in-
tentions of the Court, or ſuch an arrangement of the point at iſſue, as ſhould equally
ſecure to the Court its juriſdićtion, and to his Highneſs the Nabob and his Family
their Public rights. : -
It is with regret that I am to ſtate, that it has not been praćticable for me to accom-
pliſh, in a ſatisfactory manner, either of theſe important ends. The only point of
arrangement to which the Chief Juſtice confidered it competent for him to conſent
to, confifted in a notice of any intended perſonal arreſt, on the condition that the
Government ſhould in ſuch caſe guarantee that the perſon whom it was intended to
arreſt ſhould be forthcoming. - -
It is ſcarcely neceſſary to obſerve to the Board, that the effect of ſuch an arrange-
ment, with regard to the Government, would be to place it in the predicament of
agreeing to violate the perſonal immunities which it is bound by Treaty to defend;
and that the propoſal would either produce that effect, with reſpect to the members
of the Nabob's Family, or ſubjećt the Company to the expence of ſuſtaining the
numerous ačtions which may be, and which probably will be brought againſt them.
I have communicated with the Company’s Law Officers on the courſe moſt expe-
dient to purſue in the preſent caſe, and I have in conſequence the honour to propoſe,
that they ſhall be inſtrućted to move the Court, to diſcharge the proceedings in the
aćtion commenced againſt Abdul Maābood Khān, on the foundation of the requiſite
certificates from his Highneſs, and from the Government, of his ačtual place in the
Family of the Nabob. If this application ſhall ſucceed, it will become neceſſary to
furniſh the Court with a Liſt, certified in the ſame manner, of thoſe Perſons who are
conſidered to belong to his Highneſs's Family and retinue, under the Treaty of the
Carnatic; and ſhall accordingly requeſt his Highneſs to furniſh me with a Liſt, for
the purpoſe of being tranſmitted to the Supreme Court, according to the practice in
England, founded on the baſis of Public Law, and accommodated to the modes of
the National Courts.
Fort St. George,
18th January 1803. (Signed) Clive. .
AFFAIRs of T H E CARN AT I C. 17,
The Board concur in the ſentiments expreſſed by the Preſident: his Lordſhip is Vol. III.
accordingly requeſted to procure the propoſed certificate from his Highneſs the
Nabob, and the Chief Secretary is direéted to convey the neceſſary inſtrućtions to
the Law Officers of the Government. , . . . -
Reſolved, Hereafter to take into conſideration the nature of the Reply which it
will be proper for the Preſident to return to the foregoing Letter from the Nabob of
the Carnatic. . . - . . . - wº
(Nº. 5.) — TRANSLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Navab Co. Cor
...” Azim ul Dowlah Bahadur to the Right honourable Lord Clive,
Governor, &c. &c. &c. - *
Dated and received }º 1217 Hegery.
- 24th January 1803.
At a moment when I was looking with anxious expectation for news from England,
I had the pleaſure to receive and to underſtand your Lordſhip's Letter" the 22d “ Not ºn-
Rumgan, of 17th January 1803, ſtating that your Lordſhip had received advices tered.
from the Honourable the Court of Direétors, in anſwer to the diſpatches of the -
‘Government of Madras, wherein the Court of Directors had ſignified their ap-
probation of the ſettlement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, and their confirmation
of the Treaty concluded with me on the 16th of September 1801; their approbation /
and applauſe of the ſeveral parts of the arrangements, and their congratulations on
my elevation to the Muſnud of the Carnatic ; and to inform me, that by a future con-
veyance they would addreſs me on this ſubjećt: alſo conveying to me your Lord-
ſhip's own friendly congratulations on the occaſion. *
From the innate kindneſs of my true friend the Moſt Noble Marquis Welleſley,
Governor General, and the ſincere friendſhip and ſupport of your Lordſhip, I was
fully aſſured that my aſcenſion to , the Muſnud of the Carnatic ; ſhould meet the
approbation of the Honourable the Court of Direétors; and praiſe be to the Almighty
that the joyful tidings of their approval, comformably to the ſincere regard of my
friends the Governor General and your Lordſhip, and rmy own ardent wiſhes, having
been received, have conveyed to my mind inexpreſſible pleaſure. —My joy and
fatisfaction on this happy occaſion have been augmented in a more particular
manner, by your Lordſhip's perſonal attendance with the Gentlemen of Council
and others, to deliver the gratifying Letter, and to offer your congratulations in
Tºublic Durbar. - - * ſº
Theſe ſignal inſtances of friendſhip and kindneſs have bound me to the Company,
to the Governor General, and to your Lordſhip, by the ſtrongeſt ties of gratitude,
and have relieved my mind from all anxiety. The arrival of this pleaſing intelligence
muſt alſo have removed all the doubts of the weak-minded. Deeply impreſſed with
the unbounded generoſity of my Friends, I ſhall continue firm and ſtedfaſt, con-
formibly to the exiſting Treaty, in the ſincereſt friendſhip and attachment to the
Honourable Company to the laſt hour of my life ; nor ſhall I ever loſe ſight of
or forget the obligations which have been conferred upon me : and I pray the
Creator of Heaven and Earth to reward my Friends with a conſtant ſeries of vićtory.
and proſperity - -
I have addreſſed a Letter to the Moſt Noble the Governor General, which I ſend
herewith and encloſe a copy for your Lordſhip's information; I requeſt your Lord-
ſhip will be pleaſed to forward the letter to Bengal. -
What can I write more? .
(A true Tranſlation) *
(Signed) A. Falcomar, -
- P" Tº to Gov".
*
(In No 5.)—Tranſlātion of a Letter to the Marquis Welleſley, Governor ,
General Bahadur. § * - -
At this auſpicious time, the Right honourable Lord Clive delivered to me in my
Public Durbar, a Letter conveying the very exhilarating intelligence, that Replies to the
175. - - - - ſ]iſpatches
Aft
172 # P A P E R S R E L A T 1 N G T O THE
Vol. III. Diſpatches of the Government of Madras had been received from the Honourable Court
* * * * of Direétors, approving and confirming the ſettlement of the affairs of the Carnatic;
and his Lordſhip at the ſame time, in conformity with the deſire of the Honourable
Court of Directors, communicated to me congratulations from the Honourable Court,
as well as from himſelf, on the occaſion: hence I have derived inexpreſſible ſatis-
fačtion and comfort. Truly the ſucceſsful termination of this important arrangement
and happy adjuſtment of my affairs, is wholly owing to the beneficent aſſiſtance of
your Lordſhip, my true benefactor, and that of my Lord Clive.-If my whole life
were devoted to the expreſſion of my gratitude to your Lordſhip, it were not ſuffi-
cient; ard I do not exaggerate, when I ſay, that every minute I breathe gratitude for
your Lordſhip's goodneſs. - *
I tranſmit encloſed, for your Lordſhip's peruſal, a copy of my Reply to the
Addreſs of my Lord Clive ; and I pray the God of Glory to prolong your Lord-
ſhip's precious exiſtence in this world in health and proſperity.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P" Tº to Goy".
D I A R Y to Fort St. George Political Conſultations; 26th January 1803.
Sent a Letter to the Nabob (entered in C. C. Nº 6.)—
To his Highneſs Azim ul Dowlah Bahadar, Nabob Soubahdar of the Carnatic,
&c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, - .
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's Letters of the 30th December
and 7th ultimo ; and am greatly concerned that any circumſtance ſhould have oc-
curred to diſturb the compoſure of your Highneſs's mind. -
It will be ſatisfactory to your Highneſs to be informed, that I perfeótly coincide
in your opinion of the unworthineſs of Shah Sawar Jung to participate in your High-
neſs's bounty; and have directed the payment of his penſion to be diſcontinued at
the Treaſury. ‘.
I am willing to believe, that the late ſeaſonable effort of reſolution, manifeſted by
your Highneſs in the puniſhment of Shah Sawar Jung, will effectually ſecure the
Nabob of the Carnatic from the recurrence of fimilar effrontery. -
I have already received your Highneſs's acknowledgments for having effected the
temporary enlargement of Abdul Mabub Chan ; and I have it in contemplation to
make ſuch farther immediate arrangements as may be praćticable, for the purpoſe of
preventing the occurrence of a ſimilar event to any perſon under your Highneſs's
protećtion, who may be deemed to be exempt from the juriſdićtion of the Law of
England. With this view I requeſt your Highneſs to tranſmit to me a Certificate,
under the Seal of your Government, deſcribing the ſtation of Abdul Mahbood Khan
in the Walajahi Family, together with a Liſt of ſuch Perſons as may be confidered by
your Highneſs to be entitled to the privilege of exemption. *>
d I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
Fort St. George, - (Signed) Clive.
1ſt February 1803.
Sent the following Letter to the Solicitor of the Honourable Company:
Sir, *
You have already been made acquainted with the arreſt of Abdul Maobud Khan
for debt, under a writ iſſued by the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras, and
of his ſubſequent releaſe on bail, at the inſtance of the Right honourable the
Governor. . -
I am now direéted to convey to you the inſtrućtions of his Lordſhip; to take the
neceſſary meaſures for moving the Court to diſcharge the proceedings in the ačtion
commenced againſt Abdul Maobood Khan, in conſideration of his privilege as a
Member of the Family of his Highneſs the Nabob Soubahdar of the Carnatic.
- . I am
A FFA I R S OF THE C A R N AT I C. 173
I am further direéted to furniſh you with the two encloſed Certificates in ſupport Vol. III.
of this plea, reſpectively atteſted by his Highneſs the Nabob, and by the Right ho- -
nourable the Governor in Council. º
I am, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, f (Signed) john Chamier,
4th February 1803. - * * Chief Secretary to Gov".
I, the Nabob Wallajah Ameer ul Omrah, Madar ul Mulk, Ameer ul Kind, Azeem
ul Dowlah, Anwarud Deen Cawn Bahaudar, Show Keſt Jung, Sepah Salar Soubahdur
of the Carnatic, do hereby certify, to all whom it may concern, That Abdil Manboodee
Cawn Jamſhire Jung Bahadar is the brother of his late Highneſs the Nabob Omdat
ul Omrah Bahauder, and is now Reſident as one of my Family in Triplicane, near
the palace of Chepauk, there not being room in the ſaid palace to accommodate the
whole of my Family and Retinue.
Given at the Palace of Chepauk this 11th day of Shawall, in the year
1217 of the H. ; anſwering to the 4th day of February 1803 of
gº Chriſt.
. (The Signature of the Nabob.)
(Signed) and Sealed in my preſence, -
- - (Signed) john Batley.
We the underſigned, the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, do hereby
certify, That the Nabob Wallajah Ameer ul Omrah, Madar ul Mulk, Ameer ul Kind,
Azeem ul Dowlah, Anwer ul Deen Cawn Bahauder, Showhilt Jung, Sepah Solar
Soubdar of the Carnatic, is acknowledged and recognized by our ſaid Government
as an Independant Prince, the Soubahdar of the Carnatic Payen Ghaut, and an
Ally of our ſaid Government: And we do further certify, That from the year 1768
#itherto, his late Highneſs the Nabob Wallajah, his late Highneſs Omdut ul
Omrah, and his Highneſs the ſaid Azeem ul Dowlah, being ſucceſſively Soubahdars
of the Carnatic, and Allies of the Government of Fort St. George, have ſeverally,
with their reſpective Families, reſided, and his Highneſs the ſaid Azeem ul Dowlah
doth now reſide, with the approbation of the Government of Fort St. George, near
Madras, and within the Territories dependant upon the ſide of Government, for the
purpoſe of carrying on, in concert with the Government of Fort St. George, the
common and united intereſts of the ſaid Government, and of the ſaid ſeveral ſucceſ-
five Soubahdars of the Carnatic Payen Ghaut, as ſuch Allies.
(Signed) Clive.
Fort St. George, - W* Petrie.
1ſt February 1803. A4. Dick.
375. & Yy
V O L U M E HV.
ORDERS of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 16th December 1802:
A-
--sºus
Proceedings of the Government of Fort St. George, relative
to the Arrangement made for the Adminiſtration of the
Revenues of the Carnatic, in conſequence of the Treaty
with the Nabob (including their Repreſentations to the
Court of Direétors on the Subjećt), and the beneficial
Conſequences which have reſulted therefrom.
15. X T R A C T Revenue Letter from Fort St. George; dated 15th
Oćtober 18OI. *
Para. 7. N conſequence of the Treaty concluded between the Right honour-
able the Governor in Council and his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem
aul Dowlah, for the purpoſe of veſting the entire Civil and Military Government of
the Carnatic in the Honourable Company for ever, we made the following arrange-
ments and appointments for the Adminiſtration of the Civil Government, and of the
Revenues of the Carnatic. ; # 4.
8. We annexed the diſtrićt of Palnaud to the charge of the Colle&tor of Gun-
tCOr.
9. We appointed Mr. J. B. Travers to be Collečtor of the provinces of Ongole
and Nellour. r -
Io. The diſtrićts of Arcot lying North of the river Palar, were annexed to the
charge of the Collečtor of Weſtern Peiſhcuſh.
1 1. The diſtrićts of Setwaidoo, and the town of Pulicat, were placed under your
Colle&tor in the Jagheer.
12. Captain I. G. Graham was removed from the office of Collečtor of Kiſtnag-
herry in the Baramahal, and appointed to be Collečtor of the diſtrićts of Arcot,
lying South of the Palar to the river of Porto Novo.
13. We appointed Mr. J. Wallace, junior, to be Colle&tor of the province of
Trichinopoly, with the dependant Poliams. &
14. The province of Madura, with the dependant Poliams, was annexed to the
charge of the Collećtor of Dindigul.
15. The province of Tinnevelly was annexed to the charge of the Colle&or of
Southern Poligar Peiſhcuſh. &
16. Your Honourable Court will obſerve, that this arrangement and diviſion of
the ſeveral provinces has enabled us to provide for the Revenues of the entire Car-
natic with ſo much attention to oeconomy, as to prevent the neceſſity of adding more
than three Colle&tors to the eſtabliſhment of Revenue Officers exiſting previouſly to
the annexation of thoſe extenſive and valuable provinces to the Britiſh Poſſeſſions in
India. We are happy in being able to acquaint your Honourable Court, that the
authority of the Company has been introduced without difficulty, and is completely
eſtabliſhed throughout the Carnatic, according to this plan of arrangement.
175. Z z 17. We
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Vol. IV.
176
P A P E R S R E LAT IN G To T H E
Vol. IV.
Conſulta-
tions,
31ſt july.
Gen! Letter,
15th Oct.
1801.
*~
17. We refer your Honourable Court to our Proceedings for the particular in-
ſtruction tranſmitted to the Collectors, and for the Proclamation we deemed it to be
expedient to publiſh on this occaſion. *
EXT R A CT Revenue Letter from Fort St. George; dated 17th
February 1802. -
Para. 10. In the 7th and ſubſequent paragraphs of our laſt Diſpatch, we commu-
nicated to your Honourable Court the arrangement we had made for the admini-
ſtration of the Revenues of the entire Carnatic, in conſequence of the concluſion of.
a Treaty with his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, veſting the entire Civil and
Military Government of the Carnatic in the Honourable Company ; and that the
authority of the Company had been every where completely eſtabliſhed. The ſhort
period that has elapſed, ſince the date of our laſt Diſpatch, has not permitted your
Board of Revenue to ſubmit to our conſideration the Reports they have recently re-
ceived from the Collečtors of the Carnatic; but we refer your Honourable Court,
with very conſiderable ſatisfaction, to the 179th paragraph of their General Report,
in which the probable reſult of the Revenue of the Carnatic, and of the ſurplus at
the diſpoſal of the Company, is detailed with accuracy. The ſurpius, your Honour-
able Court will obſerve, is eſtimated (under ail the diſadvantages of the firſt year's
management) at Pagodas 1,96, 144, and we ſee no reaſon to expect that it will
fall ſhort of this ſum.
EXT RACT Revenue Letter from Fort St. George . dated 20th
Oćtober 1802.
Para. 131. In our diſpatch of the 15th Oétober laſt, we communicated to your
Honourable Court the arrangement we had made for the adminiſtration of the Reve-
nues of the Carnatic ; and in our ſubſequent diſpatch ef the 17th February, we had
the ſatisfaction to inform your Honourable Court, that the authority of the Company
had been every where completely eſtabliſhed; that the ſhort period that had elapſed
ſince the date of their laſt Report had not permitted the Board of Revenue to go into
a confideration of the Reports they had received at that period of time from the Col-
lećtors; but that they had ſtated, in abſtraćt, the probable reſult of the Revenues of the
Carnatic for the official year, and for the Fuſly year 12 r 1, and an expe&tation
of a ſurplus of ſtar pagodas 4, 13,068. at the latter period, and of ſtar pagodas
1,96,144, to the 30th April 1802. We ſhall therefore now proceed to detail to
your Honourable Court, ſuch information as we have received from the Board of
Revenue, on the ſubjećt of the Revenue affairs of the Carnatic.
132. At our Meeting of the 16th July, the Board of Revenue ſubmitted to our
confideration the Report of the Collector of the Northern diviſion of the province of
Arcot, on his ſettlement of the revenues of that Province, for the Fuſly year 121 1.
The difficulties which the Collečtor, Mr. Stratton, experienced in introducing a reform
.*
of management, and in concluding a ſettlement with the inhabitants to the excluſion
of ſeparate rents hitherto obtained by corrupt influence, and condućted through ſcenes
of peculation, are deſcribed by the Board of Revenue; and his perſeverance in over-
coming thoſe difficulties received their approbation. The deſcription which the Col-
lečtor has given of the ruinous and oppreſſive mode of adminiſtering the Revenues of
the Carnatic by the late Government, is only evidence of a fačt that has long been
known to us; for the particulars of theſe oppreſſions, we muſt requeſt the reference of
your Honourable Court to our Minutes, and to the General Report of the Board of
Revenue.
133. The ſettlement of the whole of the diſtrićts under Mr. Stratton's ſuperintend-
ance, amounted to ſtar pagodas 3,87,193, being an increaſe on the rents under the
Nabob's management of ſtar pagodas 29,171, with the addition of ſtar pagodas
Io,ooo, collečted from the pagoda of Trepetty, over and above the average receipts
of former years, making the total increaſe ſtar pagodas 39,171.
134. Viewing this ſettlement as concluded in the firſt year of the transfer of the
country, and under all the diſadvantages of an alteration in the mode of adminiſtering
the Revenues, we were well pleaſed with the reſult of the labours of Mr. Stratton ; and
We
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A F F A H R S O F T H E C A R N A T H C.
177
we look forward with confidence to the improvement of the revenue, by a change in Vol. IV.
the condition of the inhabitants from a Government of oppreſſion and exačtion to
one of juſtice and of moderation.
The Board of Revenue eſtimated the Groſs Revenue of this diviſion of the province
of Arcot, in their General Report of the 30th January 1802,
at ſtar pagodas - gº *
wº sº 7 * ** gº 3,50,987
The aëtual Groſs Collečtions by Mr. Stratton, for Fuſly 121 1, are - 3,97,369
The Charges were eſtimated by the Board of Revenue, at - 60,000 e
The actual Charges were sº - - - sºme - - 54,089
-- 5,91 I
Aćtual Exceſs above the Eſtimate - tºº ºrge 52,284
*ssºmsºs
135. On the Ioth of Auguſt we received a voluminous Report from the Board of
Revenue, on the Settlement formed by Captain Graham for the Southern diviſion of
Arcot. : -
136. It appearing to the late Board of Revenue, that the Collečtor was proceeding
to form a ſettlement on principles that were erroneous, and on terms that were inade-
quate, they required of him, at ſo early a period as the 21ſt September 1801, to
ſtate the principles on which he was about to form a ſettlement of his diviſion; to
this communication no reply having been received, a duplicate was tranſmitted to
him on the 26th Oétober 1801. The anſwer from Captain Graham, dated the 1ſt of
November 1801, announced the completion of his ſettlement, and conveyed an ab-
ſtraćt of its amount ; Captain Graham at the ſame time expreſſed his hope, that the
Board of Revenue would reſt ſatisfied with it, and with the general explanations ac-
companying it, until a ſecond circuit of the diſtrićts ſhould enable him to lay before
the Board his village Jummabundy.
137. The amount of this ſettlement was found to be ſtar pagodas 7,09,923, being
ſtar pagodas 2, 14, 18O, or 24 per Cent. below the Jumma of Fuſly I 2 Io, Under the
management of the late Government of the Carnatic.
138. The Board of Revenue expreſſed to Captain Graham, in reply, their appre-
henſion, that the ſhort period of his reſidence in the diſtrićts could have afforded him
but little opportunity of acquiring the information neceſſary to enable him to form a
village ſettlement of a country ſo extenſive, and ſo recently transferred to the authority
of the Company; and he was direéted to fürniſh ſeveral points of information, to
enable the Board of Revenue to go into a conſideration of the merits of the ſettlement
he had tranſmitted to them. *
139. On the 11th May 1802, Captain Graham tranſmitted to the preſent Board of
Revenue the promiſed village Jummabundy, and other documents, in ſupport of the
fettlement he had formed. In the month of Auguſt laſt, the preſent Board of Revenue,
at the deſire of Lord Clive, communicated through their Preſident, went into an in-
veſtigation of Captain Graham's ſettlement; in the progreſs of that inveſtigation,
ſeveral inconſiſtencies appearing in the ſtatements of rents, which the praćtical expe-
rience of the Board of Revenue did not enable them to account for, and aware that
explanations in writing would involve the loſs of much valuable time, they came to
the reſolution of calling Captain Graham to the Preſidency, that they might, by a per-
ſonal communication, ſatisfy their doubts as to the real nature of his ſettlement, and ob-
tain ample information on every point relative to the management of that Gentleman.
140. The reſult of the perſonal examination of Captain Graham is contained in an
able Report of the Board of Revenue on their proceedings, and in numerous Enclo-
ſures which the enquiry had rendered it neceſſary to refer to. It is impračticable to go
into the detail of this examination; it will be ſufficient to notice to your Honourable
Court, that the Board of Revenue concluded their Report on the Settlement of Captain
Graham, with declaring, that were they to notice all the inconſiſtencies and expecta-
tions that appeared in Captain Graham's management, they knew not what limits
they could preſcribe to themſelves, ſince, in ſubmitting to us the moſt prominent
features only, they had been led into conſiderable length, and yet were ſtill ignorant
what had been the ſyſtem of management; how condućted; who were the Renters ;
I 75. what
+78 *. P A P E R S RE LAT IN G T O THE
‘Vol. IV. what their engagements; and who have been the defaulters, deriving thoſe advantages
which ſhould have accrued to the Company. .
141. Whatever might have been the ſyſtem of management adopted by Captain
Graham, and although new lights might, the Board of Revenue obſerved, change
ſome of the opinions they had given, yet certain points were ſuſceptible but of one
conſtrućtion, and they thought it muſt be evident— -
That the principle of moderation profeſſed by Captain Graham towards the in-
habitants, on the ground of relieving them from the effečts of the oppreſſion they had
experienced under the Nabob's Government, had not only been loſt fight of, but had
been perverted by letting out the diviſion in large and ſmall rents, to the excluſion
of the inhabitants: -
That although the principle was thus abandoned, the propoſed ſacrifice to it of
one-fourth part of the former year's revenue had nevertheleſs been made, whereby
- perſons having no proprietary intereſt in the villages have alone benefited: *
} And, that the loſs to which Government has been expoſed, admitted of no allevi-
ation in a proſpect of its operating, even remotely, to improve the condition of the
inhabitants. . r
142. The Board of Revenue thought it their duty to lay before us the obſervations
that had occurred on each material part of the ſubject ; it was their opinion, however,
that correót knowledge could only be obtained by an enquiry on the ſpot; a meaſure
which they recommended to be adopted without loſs of time.
143. From the reſult of the inveſtigation of the Board of Revenue, from the whole
of the Correſpondence which came under our inveſtigation, and from the verbal
examination before that Board, impreſſions were made on our minds unfavourable to
Captain Graham's management of the revenues entruſted to him ; but we reſolved
to poſtpone our final judgment, until an opportunity had been offered to that Gen-
tleman to remove thoſe impreſſions by ſuch explanations as he might have to offer.
144. For this purpoſe, we ſtated to him ſeveral diſtinét points of his management
that were exceptionable, and on which explanations appeared materially requiſite.
145. We beg the reference of your Honourable Court to our Minutes, for the par-
ticular points on which thoſe explanations were required. . . . . . . .
146. In communicating our ſentiments to Captain Graham, we informed him, that
the importance which we attached to his explanations of the propoſitions ſtated to him,
involved the conſideration which would determine us in continuing to truſt to his
management the intereſts committed to his care, or, in providing the means of a
more efficient adminiſtration of the revenues of the Carnatic under his charge.
147. At our Meeting of the 24th September 1802, we took into conſideration the
explanations offered by Captain Graham on the above propoſitions.
148. The reſult which we were compelled to draw from thoſe propoſitions, eſta-
bliſhed in our minds a convićtion,-- - .
Firſt. That in determining to relinquiſh a conſiderable portion of the Public
Revenue, for the purpoſe of relieving the inhabitants of his diſtrićt, his reſolution was
not ſupported by ſufficient information of an authentic nature.
Secondly. That the amount of the revenue ſo relinquiſhed had not been applied,
and could not have been applied, to the propoſed objećt of benefiting the condition
of the reſident inhabitants ; but that it had been diverted to the advantage of private
individuals, holding, generally, no permanent intereſt in the Province.
Thirdly. That the explanation he had given rendered impračticable any definition
of the principle of his ſettlement; and diſcovered that, while his own attention had
been devoted to objećts of inferior importance, the principal objećt of ſecuring an
adequate revenue had been neglected, - * *
Fourthly. That under this heavy diminution of Public Revenue, the Statement
which he had given of the actual produce of the province went to ſhew, that his
Renters had actually loſt 33 per Cent. on an average of their engagements; that ſuch
an event, in itſelf abſolutely improbable, conneéted with the rate of the revenue
realized in every cther part of the Nabob's country comparatively with that of the
receding year, precluded all poſſibility of credit. .
Fifthly. That under the ſtrongeſt belief of the ſupineneſs and inefficiency of his ma-
nagement, we could have no confidence in his future adminiſtration of the revenues.
- J 149. Under
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N AT I C. 179
149. Under the impreſſion of theſe ſentiments, we informed him, that we were Vol. IV.
compelled to ſuperſede his authority in the Southern Diviſion of Arcot; and we had
accordingly removed him from the ſituation of Collečtor of the Southern Diviſion
of Arcot. : . * ‘. .
150. In juſtice to Captain Graham, we ſtate to your Honourable Court, that in
the examination of the management of that Gentleſman, we have obſerved nothing to
impeach that reputation of perſonal integrity, and of honourable principle, which
induced our ſelection of Captain Graham for ſo important a truſt; and that we regret
the miſapplication of his talents, and the conſequent neceſſity of diſplacing a Gen-
tleman who had ſo long ſerved the Public in an important branch of the Go-
X761 m ment, - .
The Amount of Groſs Revenue, eſtimated by the late Board of Re-
venue in their Report of the 31ſt January 1802, as receivable from .
this Province in Fuſly i 21 1, was gº º * , tº - Sº P. 7,26,581
The Amount collected by Captain-Graham, is - - 㺠* = 6,54,702
-- : - Decreaſe - - - 71,879
The eſtimated Amount of Charges by the Board of Re-
Veſ; the W2. S - - º º º - Sº Pº 65,564
Aétual Charges by Captain Graham - tº tº gº 63,232
- & .. - 2,332
Aétual Deficiency of Eſtimate - - - 69,547
****
151. It is neceſſary to remark to your Honourable Court, that an abſtraćt of the
diminiſhed ſettlement formed by Captain Graham, had been received at the period
of forming the foregoing Eſtimate, and that the amount of the deficiency is what it
was expected Captain Graham's reviſion of his ſettlement might produce ; the ex-
pećtation not having been realized, cauſes the deficiency above noted.
152. We have appointed Mr. George Garrow to be Collector in the Southern
Diviſion of Arcot, in the room of Captain Graham.
153. We have recently received from the Board of Revenue their obſervations
and remarks on the ſettlement concluded by Mr. Wallace for the Diſtrićt of Trichi-
nopoly, for the Fuſly year 12 II. -
154. This ſettlement having come under our conſideration during the preſſure of
buſineſs at the period of diſpatch, we have not been able to go into a detailed
examination of the ſettlement of Trichinopoly; we have been well pleaſed to ob-
ſerve, that it has been entirely ſatisfačtory to the Board of Revenue, and that the
condućt of Mr. Wallace has received their approbation. - ? * .
155. On reference to the Report of that Gentleman, your Honourable Court will
find, that the ſettlement has been concluded with the reſident inhabitants on juſt
principles, with reference to the actual reſources of the country, aſcertained by an
elaborate and patient inveſtigation. º -
156. The oppreſſion, injuſtice, and cruelty exerciſed by the Managers of his
Highneſs the Nabob, are deſcribed by Mr. Wallace in terms, that, while they de-
monſtrate the fatal effe&ts of ſuch a ſyſtem of Government, evince a diſpoſition highly
creditable to that Gentleman. ſº ,
157. The amount of the ſettlement is ſtar pagodas 5,31,797, being an increaſe
above the Jumma of Fuſly 12 Io, or the laſt year of the Nabob's management, of .
itar Pag' 14,099 ; and
The amount of Groſs Revenue eſtimated by the Board of Revenue,
in their General Report of the 3oth January, was - - St. Pag' 5,16,055
The Aétual Collečtions by Mr. Wallace, are - * wº 534.9, 5 O5
- Exdeſs - - - - - 33,45o
The Charges were eſtimated at - &e * wº I, 53,081
The Charges aétually amounted -, - as , ºn 16,696
•; - 1,36,385
Total Exceſs of Eſtimate - - - St. Pagº 169,842
sº
175. f 3 A - 158. The
I 3o
P A P E R S R E L A TI N G T O THE
Vol. IV. 158. The ſmall amount above ſtated of the charges in Trichinopoly, is appa-
rently owing to the want of ſančtion to diſburſements, and attributable to the delay
**. of the Board of Revenue in going into the conſideration of the Collečtor’s ſettlement
and eſtabliſhments. - -
I 59. The Board of Revenue have not yet ſubmitted to our confideration the ſet-
tlement of the Diſtrićts of Nellore and Ongole ; we muſt therefore confine our com-
munication to the actual reſult of the compariſon we have obtained of the Groſs
Collečtions with the Eſtimate. **,
The Board of Revenue eſtimated the Groſs Collečtions from theſe
Diſtrićts, in their Report of the 30th January 1802
The actual Groſs Collections amount to -
The Charges were eſtimated
N
r;
$, a
The aëtual Charges have been -
Total Deficiency - - -
}
St. Pagº
+ “à
5:33,O7I
4,64,484
*s
Deficiency - - - 68,387
cº 86,0co
87,062
. 1,060
- 69,647
16o. We have not the means before us of explaining the cauſe of this deficiency;
we ſhall therefore defer an
diſpatch.
y further obſervations on this Diſtričt till our next
161. The ſettlements of the Provinces of Tinnevelly, of Madura, of the ſmall
Diſtrićts of Setwaid, and of Palnaud, have not yet come under our conſideration;
nor have we received any communication on the ſubjećt of the Revenues of theſe
Diſtrićts from the Board of Revenue; we ſhall therefore conclude the ſubjećt of the
Carnatic with the following Abſtraćt Comparative :

Morthern Divi-
fion of Arcot
}
}
Trichinopoly - -
Southern Diyi-
fion of Arcot
Tinnevelly - -
Madura - - -
Nellore & Ongole
Setwaid & Pulicat
Palnaud - - , -
Star Pagºdas -
|
g Ki-4. cº *—, - * *- # *
O O & Q 3.2 Q o ºf) gº & &
: -e, "S 65 29- p 25 2 -e ºs º f : . – #6 - Q3 ſl} &2
‘; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; * = % = 3 | E * : - # => . & # o 3
:: * Sº 3: * . . ; : « $º º 3 : 3 ºr a .3 c. * & S S3 → cr; • QX º: GD
3 gº :*:: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 3 = 5 33° S # 5 iſ ; ; : 8 - # 5
* º: ºn ... - tº a yº-e *4 . * C * -
###3 ſº; ºf £3 || “...a " | *; # * | * * * * | * * * | * * *
9 lºs O -> * -> > 2 3– Q} (i) is:
0 -o -d * 3 Ö O 2, 2. Z!
St. Pagº | St Pagº | St Pagº | St Pagº | St Pagº | St Pagº | St Pagº | St Pagº
3,50,987 6oooo 2,90,987 3.97,369| 54,089 || 3,43,270 52,282 || –
7,26,581 65,564. | 6,61,017| 6,54,702 || 63,232 5,91,469 - - 69 548
5,16,0551,53.081 3,62,973, 5,49,505 | 16,696 || 5,32,868. 1,69,835 | –
5,21,124 86,59 i 4,35,533 486,532|1,03,788. 3,82,743 - - 5 1,789
73,529| 7,800 65,729. 83,713 13,066 70,647 4 917 —
5,33,071 86,ooo 4,47,071 4,64,484 || 87,262 3,77,421 - - 69,650
16, I 5 of 2,036 14, 120 14,044 4,660 9,384 - - 4,735
** * f. 2 * * * er
26,ooo; 8,373 || 17,627 29,738|| 7,236 22,50; 4,874 *
* **** 3,49,834 (23.39,247 2,34,916 1,95,723
Decreaſe - - - - 1,95,723 |
.Net Increaſe - - - 36,187
;
*-*------------,
'*-----
*...**
162. The
A F F A I R S OF T H E. C A R N AT I C.
181
162. The late Board of Revenue having ſtated in their General Report of the 30th
January 1802, the probable reſult of the transfer of the Carnatic to the authority of
the Honourable Company, compared with the Treaty of 1792, it may be ſatisfactory
to your Honourable Court to have the actual reſult brought under your obſervation;
the adjuſtment of the amount of the to be paid to his Highneſs the Nabob Azeem
Vol. IV.
tº sº
aul Dowlah affords us the means. We have already ſtated, that the Board of Revenue
eſtimated the Surplus at the end of Fuſly 1211, to be ſtar pagodas 4,13,068.
The aëtual Groſs Colle&tions for Fuſly 1211, as per St. Pags. St. Pags.
Abſtraćt above, amount to - tº sº - 26,80,081
The actual Charges, as above, are - sº - - 3,49,834
-- Net Colle&tions - - - 23339,247
Add - the aſſigned Poligar Peiſhcuſh, at the amount agreed
on per Treaty ſº wº gºs sº ſº - - 2,64,704
Total Net Revenue - - - 2, $999 5 i
Dedućt Surplus to 25 Lacks, as per Treaty - - - 94.951
t - 25,OO,OOO
Allowance to the Relations of his late Highneſs - - - 2, 13,431 | ‘.
Payments to be made annually to the Creditors, as per *
Treaty º - ( tº tº tºº &º º - 6,21, 1o 5 .
- — 8,34,536
Net Revenue on which I - 5th is taken - sº - - - 16,65,464
One-fifth dºg - - - - tºo - - - - || 33333 O92
2. Remain - - - - - 13,32,371
Add the Surplus above, 25 Lacks dedućted above - gº 94395 I
-- Total Surplus - - - - 1427,322
The aëtual Net Colle&ions from the portion of the
Carnatic under aſſignment, before the late Treaty, is
N. B. The ağtual
Amount of Penſions
paid within the Fuſ-
ly year does not ex-
ceed the ſum of -
St. Pagº 92,232
From Ramnad º dºe - - tº se - 67,515.
|From Southern aſſigned Peiſhcuſh tºº tºº - - 2,65,460
From Sequeſtered Pollams - * tºº ** sº º 8,676
From Weſtern aſſigned Peiſhcuſh - - tº 4 - - 68,605
- Total - - - - 4, Io,258
Dedućt the Amount taken for this aſſignment, as per
Treaty tº • * * T = sº tº tºº – 2,64,704
Difference between the actual Colle&tions, and Amount -
agreed on by Treaty - tºº gº tºº º º - - || 1345,553
Total Surplus - - - - - 15,72,876
Dedućt Amount of Subſidy paid by the late Nabobs of } -
the Carnatic *se . .-sº º wº- tºº - - - - - 9,00,000
Reſult in favour of the Company by the Transfer of the -
Carnatic to their Authority wºº gº ſº gº - - - - 6,72,876
z-E=
175.
I 82
P A P E R S R F : , A T H N G T O T H E
Vol. IV.
j
f
ExTRA C T of Letter from Lord Clive to the Court of Direétors;
dated 21ſt February 1803. r
Par. 24. The Treaty of the Carnatic affords to me a ſeparate ground of com-
pariſon between the adminiſtration of the Revenues of that kingdom in the years
1791/2 and 1801/2. In July 1791 the Carnatic had been ſubječted to the
authority of the Company during the period of a year; and although the war
with Tippoo Sultaun had not been terminated, the effects of it with reſpect to the
revenues of the Carnatic were external; for the enemy was fixed during the whole
period of that year, by the ſucceſsful campaign of the Marquis Cornwallis, to the
Balaghaut.—Conſiderable internal reſources had undoubtedly been drawn from the
Carnatic for the purpoſes of that war ; but reſources of equal extent had alſo been
drawn from the Carnatic for the war of 1800; and although this ačtual exigence
had ceaſed in the year 180 1/2, yet the abrupt change of authority, and the
formidable rebellion which raged in the Southern provinces of the Carnatic, at a
time when our means of military coercion had become extremely limited, may juſtly
be confidered to reduce the objećts of compariſon at leaſt to a ſtate of equality.
25. In the year 1791/2 the total groſs revenues of the Carnatic amounted to
ſtar pagodas 20, 14,954, or ſ. ſterling 805,981, including the Poligar Peiſhcuſh ;
the charges amounted to ſtar pagodas 4,27,ooq, or £. fterling I jo,801, and the
proportion of the latter to the former was 2.14% per Cent, leaving a net revenue
of ſtar pagodas I 5,87,9;o, or ſ. ſterling 635,180.— This reſult of the adminiſtra-
tion of the revenues of the Carratic, appears to have been extremely ſatisfactory
to the Government at that time: their ſentiments were adopted by your Honour-
able Court; and you were pleaſed to expreſs your concurrence in the opinion
entertained by the Governor in Council, “ with reſpect to the zeal, ability, and
“ ſucceſs, which had accompanied the exertions of the Board of aſſumed Revenue
“ in the execution of the truſt repoſed in them.”
26. In the year 1801)2, the modes of adminiſtering the revenue and of ſtating
the charges, differ materially from the modes obſerved when the Carnatic was be-
fore brought under the management of the Company’s Officers; it will be proper
therefore to explain to your Honourable Court, that in the year 179 1/2 the
principal provinces of the Carnatic were farmed to opulent renters; but that in
the year 180 1/2 the detailed adminiſtration of the revenue was condućted by the
immediate Agency of Britiſh Collectors. During the former period of time, the
amount of the apparent charges was comparatively ſmall, becauſe the detailed
expences were defrayed by the renter's ; but the Company ačtually defrayed thoſe
charges, together with the profits of the renters, and the net revenue was proportion-
ately curtailed. In the year 1801/2 the change in the mode of adminiſtering the
revenue produced the reverſe of this operation ; the expence of detailed manage-
ment produced an augmentation of charge, accompanied by the conſequent effect
of an augmentation of the net revenue. * &
27. In the year 180 1/2, the collečtion of groſs revenue from the Carnatic,
amounted to ſtar pagodas 32,45,747, or £. fterling 1,298,298, including the
Poligar Peiſhcuſh. The charges amounted to ſtar pagodas 4,90, I 19, or A. ſterling
1, 96,047, and the proportion of the latter to the former is I 5 ºr per Cent.
28. I requeſt the particular attention of your Honourable Court to the document
of the Accountant General, for the reſult of the adminiſtration of the revenues
of the Carnatic in the years 1791/2 and 180 1/2 you will obſerve, that the aug-
mentation of charge (produced under the circumſtances I have deſcribed) in the
year 1861/2, amounts, comparatively with the charges of 1791/2, to ſtar pago-
das 63, 15, or A. ſterling 25,246 ; but that the exceſs of the actual net revenue,
on the ſame compariſon, amounts to ſtar pagodas I 1,67,677, or A. fterling 467,070,
the proportion therefore which the exceſs of charge in 180 1/2, bears to the groſs
revenue, is leſs than 2 per Cent; but that the exceſs of net revenue in the ſame
years amounts to 73 ºr per Cent, relatively to the net revenue of 1791/2. This
Ó
propoſition
AFFAIRs of T H E CARNATIC. 183
propoſition will be made manifeſt to your Honourable Court by the following abſtraćt Vol. IV.
of the ſtatement. -
1791/2, 1801/2.
Star Pagodas. Star Pagodas.
Groſs Collections - - 20, 14,954 - - - 32,45,747
Charges - - - - 4,27,oo4 - - - 4,90, 19 A.
Net Revenue
**t
1587,950 - - 27,55,627
29. In purſuing this compariſon, I have much pleaſure in dwelling on the im-
provement of the revenue derived from the Southern Poligar countries, by the
-effectual ſubjugation of thoſe refraćtory Chieftains; and, by the effects of the zealous,
able, and honourable adminiſtration of the Collečtor, Mr. Luſhington, by the
Treaty of 1792, the Poligar Peiſhcuſh of the entire Carnatic was transferred to
the Company at the fixed ſum of ſtar pagodas 2,64, 182, or £, ſterling 1,05,672;
of this ſum the Southern Peiſhcuſh compoſed a part, amounting to ſtar pagodas
1,70,307, or ſ. ſterling 68,122, and conſiſts of the tribute due from the Poligars of
Tinnevelly, Shevegunga, and Ramnad. r
30. On my arrival in India, the rebellion of the Zemindar of Ramnad had been
ſuppreſſed, and the lands ſubmitted to the management of Mr. Jackſon, appointed .
Collector of Polygar Peiſhcuſh in a ſpecial manner, under the orders of your
: Honourable Court. I will avoid, therefore, to repeat the diſagreeable circum-
: ſtances which compelled this Government to remove Mr. Jackſon; but it is
intimately connected with the objećt of this Letter to trace the effects of the admini-
ſtration which I ſubſtituted, by the appointment of a Gentleman ſelečted by me
for the diſcharge of the duties of that ſtation, under the principles which have govern-
ed my nominations. & - &
1. In the year 1796/7, the revenues of Ramnad, under the management of Mr.
Jackſon, produced ſtar pagodas 94,882, or £. fterling 37,952 ; in the ſubſequent year
1797/8, they produced ſtar pagodas 65, I 27, or ſ. ſterling 926,050. The average
revenues of the two years of Mr. Jackſon's Adminiſtration amounted, therefore, to
ſtar pagodas 80,004}, or £. fterling 32,001.
32. The nomination of Mr. Luſhington to be Colleótor of Peiſhcuſh was im-
mediately followed by the uſual effects of withdrawing the troops from the Pro-
vinces for the war againſt Tippoo Sultaun, which terminated in a general conflagra-
ºtion of rebellion in the Southern Provinces. The vigour, purity, and ſucceſs of the
adminiſtration maintained under thoſe circumſtances, and manifeſted in their effects,
muſt prove to be highly acceptable to your Honourable Court.
33. In the firſt year of Mr. Luſhington's Adminiſtration, 1798/9, the revenues
of Ramnad were augmented to St Pagº 1,52,315, or £. fterl. 60,926; in the ſecond
year, 1799) 1800, they were again augmented to St Pag 1,55, 182, or £. ſterl. 62,072;
and in the third year, 1800/1, they were again augmented to St. Pag' 1,35,628, or
£. fterling 74,251. The average revenue received from Ramnad, under Mr.
Luſhington's Adminiſtration, during three years immediately ſubſequent to that of
Mr. Jackſon, amounts to St. Pagº 1,64,373}, or £. ſterl. 65,749; the change of
Adminiſtration was therefore attended with an average augmentation of the reſources
of that Province to the amount of St. Pag' 84,369, or A. ſterl, 33,747 per annum;
and the proportion in which that part of your territorial revenue was improved, in
the courſe of three years, exceeds £. Io 5 per cent, compared with the average revenue
produced under the management of Mr. Jackſon. .
34. In the year 1797/8, the revenue of the Southern Poligar Countries, excluſively
of Ramnad, amounted to St. Pag' 2,06, 166, or, A. fterl. 82,466; in the year 180 1/2
they amounted to St. Pag 2,93,750, or {.{terl. I 17,500; by which it appears, that
the augmentation of revenue from the Poligar Countries,incluſively of the Sequeſtered
Poliams (but excluſively of Ramnad) amounts to St Pagº 1,07,613, or A. fterl.
43,045, on compariſon of the years 1797/8 and 180 1/2. -
175. & - 3 B 35. Having
I84. PA Pººr S R E LAT IN G T o THE
Vol. IV. 35. Having traced, with minute care, the effeóts of the progreſſive meaſures
adopted for the improvement of the Revenues of the Carnatic, I proceed to ſtate the
general effe&ts of the Treaty concluded with the Nabob of Arcot; by which, ačting
under the inſtrućtions of his Excellency the Governor General, I added the perpe-
tual Sovereignty of that Kingdom to the Empire in India. -
36. It appears from the Statement furniſhed by the Accountant General, for the
purpoſe of adjuſting His Highneſs the Nabob’s proportion of the Revenue, from the
1ſt Auguſt 1801 to 12th July 1802, that - - -
The Net Revenue, including the Poligar Peiſh- Pag' f. c. Pags f. c.
cuſh at the ſum fixed by Treaty, amounted
to the ſum of - - - - - - - - - 25,94,951 4 28
T}edućt, in order to calculate his Highneſs's
proportion at the ſum fixed by Treaty - - 94,951 4 28
- 255CO,Odo o o
Dedućt, agreeably to the Treaty, the amount --
of the Stipends of the Family - - - - 2, 13,431 o O
And the amount applicable to the diſcharge of
the Conſolidated Debt - - - - - - 6,2 I, Io; o o
8,34,536 o o
- - 16,65,464 o o
PHis Highneſs the Nabob's proportion of the above Net Revenue - 3,33,092 33 48
Balance at the Public diſpoſal - - - 1332,371 s 32
To the above Balance, the following Sums are to be added:
The ſum above dedućted, previouſly to the
computation of the Nabob's proportion - 94,951 24, 28|
Difference between the Poligars Revenue, as
paid by Treaty and the ačtual produce - 1,45,553 25 8
HDifference between the ſum fixed by Treaty,
and that ačtually paid as Stipends to the r"
Nabob's Family - - - - - - - - 1,21, 199 o o *
3,61,703 7, 36
f | 16,94,074 15 68
Dedućt the amount of Subſidy, as fixed by the Treaty of 1792 - 9,oc,ooo o o
Amount of augmented Reſource, ačtually realized during the -
firſt year of the operation of the Treaty of the Carnatic | 7,94,074 15 68
rº
37. Your Honourable Court will have the ſatisfaction of obſerving, from the pre-
ceding detail, that the pecuniary reſources cf this Preſidency have been augmented
by the Treaty of the Carnatic, in the firſt year of its operation, to the amount of
St Pagº 7,94,074, or A. ſterl. 3, 17,629, independently of the improvement of the
territorial reſources, and of the tranquillity of the Empire, obtained by that Treaty.
It is impoſſible that the arrangements adopted by me for the attainment of thoſe im-
portant obječts, ſhould not partake the injurious conſequences which my authority
has ſuſtained from the effects of your late orders regarding my Government; but
having made every pračticable effort to mitigate the effects of thoſe cauſes, I encou-
rage a reaſonable expectation, that the beneficial operation of the Treaty of the
Carnatic will not be leſs extenſive during the ſecond than during the firſt year; in
that event, the arrangement already carried into effect for the purpoſe of commuting
the Military ſervice of the Weſtern Poligars for pecuniary tribute, will add the ſum
of
A FF AIRS OF THE CARN AT I C. 185
of ſtar pagodas 1,78,ooo, or ſ. ſterl. 71,2co per annum; and extend the augmenta- Vol. IV,
tion of pecuniary reſource under the Treaty of the Carnatic, in the moſt limited — -
point of view, to the annual ſum of St. Pagº 9,72,074, or £. ſterl. 3,88,829.
129. The Treaties of Tanjour and the Carnatic have for ever removed the cauſes
of internal ſolicitude, which have flowed from the diſtraćtions of a divided Govern-
ment. Thoſe Treaties have ſuperſeded the perpetual machinations and intriguing
fpirit of our faithleſs and improvident Allies; and have ſubſtituted that certain
gratitude and contentment of mind, which the Nabob of Arcot and the Rajah of
Tanjore muſt derive from the improvement of their perſonal comfort and opulence,
in the preſent ſtate of our alliance with thoſe Princes. The immediate exerciſe of
the Britiſh Authority over the Provinces of Tanjour and of the Carnatic, unites our
territorial intereſts in the Payen Ghaut, and removes every remaining obſtacle to the
3ettlement of the revenue on that foundation which experience has proved to be the
baſis of Public proſperity in Bengal. .* R
132. By the Treaty of the Carnatic, I have obtained from his Highneſs the Nabob
of Arcot, a formal acknowledgment of the Debts due by his Predeceſſors to the Ho-
.nourable Company. The unfunded Debts of their late Highneſſes the Nabob Walajah
and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, due to individual perſons, are ſo extenſive and
indefinite, that I can offer to your Honourable Court no probable grounds of con-
jećture with reſpect to their ačtual amount; but I anticipate from this very obſcurity,
the concurrence of your Honourable Court in the impreſſion made on my mind with
reſpect to the indiſpenſable neceſſity of a vigilant and extenſive ſcrutiny of this im-
portant ſubjećt, before you conſent to charge the Revenues of the Public with any
portion of theſe private demands. Whatever portion of thoſe debts may ultimately
be deemed to be free from exception (and unqueſtionably a great part of them will, on
examination, be found to be juſt and honourable debts) it is my earneſt recom-
'mendation to your Honourable Court, that the mode of funding them may be ad-
juſted on terms calculated to relieve the finances of this Government from ſo urgent
a preſs as that of the Dividends of the Conſolidated Debt. , a .
133. On the extinétion of that debt in the month of May 1804, the Treaty of the
Carnatic will place at your diſpoſal the ſum of St Pag' 6,21,000, or ſ. ſterl. 248,400
per annum, in addition to the revenues now derived from that arrangement; and
whatever portion of that ſum may be applied to the liquidation of the debts acknow-
Jedged by that inſtrument to be due to the Company, will prove to be an augmen-
station of the pecuniary reſources of this Government. t
; 186 P.A.P.E R S R E LAT I N G T O T H E
** - - - - • - - - - --------------~~~~. - - * - - - - - ------- ---------- - . . . . . . . -
com PARAT IV E STATE M. E. N. T of the Expence of Managing the Revenues of the
Percentages on the Groſs Colle&tions;
G R O S S Co L L E C T I O N S, |
including Tuckavy, &c. Exceſs of the Ex P E N c E. | Exceſs of
|→- —s Colle&tions ||r — `--— s' Expence
Colle&tions t Colle&icns - Expence Expence for Fuſly 12o 1, *
of Fuſly 12; 1,
for Fuſly Izoſ, for Fuſly 121 1, for Fuſly 1201, for Fuſly 121 1,
or 1791–2. or 18o 1–2, or ISCI—2. or 1791–2. or 1801–2. or 1791–2.
SPs f. c. sps f. c. || SP. f. c. SP. f. c. SP. f. c. SPs f. c.
zo, 14954 29 67 - - as “I * - - sº º - - ſº - || - - -
CoL I, EC Trons - J - - - *g * - 2,30,792 I 4 I l - gº - I - º ~ || - 4sº sº
- …” "Io, 17,361 I4 II | - - - || - - - || || - as º
U. - - - 32,45,747 1 78|| - - - || - - - - - - || - - -
- * 2, 13,43 I or of - = - - as - ** º * * : ºne º ºs
- . - *30,32,316 1 78
Charges Colle&tion - || - - - || - - - || - - . - 57,784 35 59 1999,153 20 c| - - -
Charges Extraordinary - - - || - - - || - - - 23,103 30 20 30,227 27 35|| - - -
Penſions and charitable * ." y
Allowances - - - - - - - H - - * * - º Fº tº 35,493 23 6c 60,822 26 42|| - * tº
*Revenue Battalion - - - - || - - - || - - - || 1,44,191 13 24, 45,688 I 31|| 98,413 11 73
Batta, and Extra Al- * - - -- - *
lowances to Sepoys - - - tº- sº * - || - • - H - -sº - 2,394 37 58|| - º sº
Advances for Cultiva- * - -
tion - - - - - - - - | - - - || - - - | 32,229 7 32 48,274 33 3| - - -
Advances for salt - - - . - - - - * • - - || - - - 4,317 19 6|| º tº *
Repairs of Tanks - - - - - | - - - || - - - 28,569 12 16 13,072 o 57| I5,497 I I 39
Salary and Commiſſion - - - - - - || - - - 96,877 4. 75 73,943 28 67| 22,933 is 8|
Depoſit - - - - - - - - - - || - - - 2,285 9 42 12,222 12 18 - - -
Batta; Loſs by Ex- - - - **
Achange - - - T -ºr - I - * - wº º tºº 6,560 14.33 2. 28 G 6,557 28 33
ToTAL - *Hoºs, 29 67,245.747 7812.3979. A *|4:27,294 as 4|499,119 25 salºo. 27.75
2--~~~-º-º-º:
- 7–
Deduct - Exceſs of Expence for Fuſly 1201, or 1791-2 - -
Net Exceſs of Expence for Fuſly 1211, or 1801–2 - - - -
g?N. B.-The Payment of Arrears to the Nabob’s Troops is not inſerted, having conſidered it as a charge
of Political nature, and wholly unconnected with Revenue. Of the Sum charged for Revenue
: Battalion in 1791–2, only Pagodas 4,863. 24. 62. appears in the Collector’s Accounts; the
remainder is paid in the Department of the Military Paymaſter General, and taken from an
Abſtraćt furniſhed by that Officer, which does not, however, ſeparate Arrears from Current
Payments; ſo that ſome proportion of this may be for Arrears.
.No Notice is taken in this Statement of the Family Jaghires of his Highneſs the Nabob, either in
1791–2 or in 1801–2, as their exact value is not, in either of thoſe periods, aſcertainable: if
taken at the Amount inſerted in the Treaty, viz. Pagº 2, 13,431, the reſult is ſhewn by the
figures which have this mark " prefixed to them. -
:Fort St. George,
#Accountant General’s Office,
22d January 1803. …A.
*-

A FFA IRS OF THE C A R N AT I C.
187
Carnatic, in 1791-2 (ending 12th July 1792) and i
and, diſtinguiſhing the Net Revenue.
—e
n 1801–2 (ending 12th July 1802); ſhewing the

Exceſs of
Expence
for Fuſly 12 II,
or 1801–2.
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;
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.
ii
i
a
Net Colle&tions
for Fuſly 1201,
or 1791-2.
NET co L L E c T 1 o N S. .
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Net Collečtions
for Fuſly 1211,
or 1801-2.
f
Exceſs
Net Colle&tions
of Fuſly 121 1,
or 1801–2.
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i
R E M A R K S.
t
1,41,358 26 2.1
7,123 39 I5
25,329 2 62
2,394 37 58
16,045 25 51
4,317 19 61
º pºsse
9,937 2 56
S
P
S
SPs f.
15,87,950 4 26
C.
*
SPs f.
º- * º
--> º º
27,55,627 1826
*25,42,196 1826
C -
SPS
1 1,67,677.
'954,246.
º
t
f. Cs
2,06,516 28 4
1,43,431 27 73
sº 4 26
27,55,627, 18 26
*
!
it.87,677 I 4
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l
63, I 15 O I 1.
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7
By this Statement it ap-
pears, that the Percentage of
Charges on collecting the
Revenue was, in 1791–2,
63% higher in proportion to
the Groſs Revenue, than in
1801-2, notwithſtanding the
mode of management in the
latter was more calculated,
apparently, to ſwell the
Charges; becauſe in 1791–2,
the Country being rented in
large farms, the duty of the
Colle&tor was confined to little
more than collecting the Kiſts
from theſe Farmers, and a ge-
neral ſuperintendance of the
country; whereas, in 1801-2,
the ſyſtem of Small Rents was
adopted, and the ſervants,
who were formerly kept un-
der the Farmers, became a
part of the Collečtor’s eſta-
bliſhment, and conſequently
included in his charges; but
then the proportion which the
Farmers allowed formerly in
their arrangements with Go.
vernment, came into the Com-
pany’s coffers, beſides the ad-
vantages which it is well
known they enjoyed. This
change of ſyſtem greatly en-
creaſed the Revenue, and
at the ſame time..., under
ſome heads, apparently the
Charges, for inſtance: Sup-
. .
poſe, out of the Charges of
the Carnatic in 1801 – 2, .
Pag” 9o, 19. 25. 52. for
Village Sibbendy, and other Servants, which are repaid to the Circar from the Crops, what
would have been the operation upon the two Syſtems calculated upon the Groſs Revenue of .
1801–2 *-Upon the old Syſtem, this Sum would haye been excluded both from the Charges
and Groſs Revenuc, which would then have ſtood thus:
Groſs Revenue. Charges. Per Cent,
Old Syſtem - - 3, 15,55,627. 18, 26. - - - 4,00,009. o. o. - - - 12:3.
New Syſtem º º - 32,45,747. z I • 78. - sº º 4,99, i 19. 25. 52. * * gº 15 +3.
Difference - - - - - - 2 #7.
Thus, although there is no ačtual difference, in the Net Revenue, upon theſe two methods
of charging, the Difference Percentage on Charges is 2.4% per Cent.
The Increaſe of Net Revenue, which is the grand criterion of management, is ſhewn by
the four laſt columns to be no leſs than 733 per Cent, upon the Amount in 1791–2.
3
C
E X T
P A P E R S R E LAT I N G To THE
$' ol. IV.
. . . . Conſulta-
tions,
5th Nov.
18oz.
Conſulta-
tions,
17th Dec.
1802.
E XTRA C T of Revenue Letter from Fort St. George; dated
22d February 1803. - w
Para. 46. The principles of Revenue ceconomy eſtabliſhed in the diſtrićts of the
Barramahl and Salem, being founded on a ſurvey of the lands, the Jumma on thoſe
diſtrićts is conſequently determinable by the extent of the aëtual cultivation, and the
ſmall decreaſe of the cultivation in Fuſly 121 1 below that of the preceding year,
being ſatisfactorily accounted for by the Colle&tor, we approved and confirmed the
ſettlement of the revenue for Fuſly 121 1 of the Barramahl and Salem, and of
the diſtrićts above the Ghauts, amounting, excluſively of village Sibbendy, to ſtar
pagodas 6,25, IoS, 21. 29. - -
47. We had much ſatisfaction in obſerving, that part of the foregoing decreaſe had
been occaſioned by the return of the inhabitants, who had fled from the oppreſſion of
the Nabob's Managers; the diſpoſition ſhewn by the inhabitants of the Carnatic to
return to the places of their former reſidence, afforded ſatisfactory evidence of their
confidence in the Britiſh Government. We hope, that the condućt of the Colle&tors,
and the ſecurity the inhabitants will derive from the change of adminiſtration, will
confirm that confidence, and fix on the foundation of their proſperity, the ſources
of permanent wealth to the State, and of comfort to themſelves.
Para. 56. In the 154th paragraph of our laſt Diſpatch, we informed your Ho-
nourable Court, that having received from the Board of Revenue, at the period of
the Diſpatch; their Report on the ſettlement of the diſtrićt of Trichinopoly, we had
not been able to go into a full confideration of the merits of that ſettlement.
57. The effeóts of the oppreſſive Government of his Highneſs the late Nabob,
and the ſufferings of the people under it, as deſcribed by Mr. Wallace, are worthy
the particular attention of your Honourable Court; and we requeſt your reference
to our Minutes for information on this head. * - --
58. The principles by which the revenues of the province of Trichinopoly ap-
peared to have been regulated, were perfeótly conſonant to the orders of the late
Board of Revenue, and being eſtabliſhed as beſt calculated, during the exiſtence of
an undefined land-tax, to accelerate the return of proſperity, we were well pleaſed
to obſerve that the Colle&tor had been able to ſurmount the obſtacles that oppoſed
the accompliſhment of ſo deſirable an objećt ; and the moderation with which the
Colle&tor appears to have calculated the commutation of the Circar ſhare of the
produce, and the enjoyment of their Warum to its fulleſt extent, which will thereby
be ſecured to the cultivators, will, we hope, augment the means, and excite the
deſire of the inhabitants to encreaſe their cultivation in the preſent year.
59. The amount of the ſettlement being ſtar pagodas 5,31,797. 7. was entirely
ſatisfactory to us, and received our confirmation. -
6o. Your Honourable Court will be happy to learn, that Mr. Wallace has found
it praćticable to diſpenſe with the ſervices of the Nauttawars, in the arrangement he
has made for the adminiſtration of the revenues of the diſtrićt of Trichinopoly; the
duties of thoſe Officers, and the abuſe to which the execution of thoſe duties are
liable, are fully diſcuſſed in the proceedings of the Board of Revenue of the
16th January 1797, and proceedings prior to that date : and although we at that
time ſančtioned the eſtabliſhment of the office in the Jagheer, for the reaſons which
appear on record, yet we were better pleaſed that the Collečtor of Trichinopoly did
not require the aid of ſuch influence as theſe men are ſuppoſed and are required to
poſſeſs; we accordingly greatly approved the abolition of this office in the diſtrićt
of Trichinopoly.
61. The ſettlement of this diſtrićt has been realized with punétuality, and the
ability, zeal, and knowledge of his duty diſplayed by Mr. Wallace, have been
highly ſatisfačtory to us, and have received our approbation.
62. At our Conſultation of the 17th of December laſt, we took into conſideration
the Report of the Board of Revenue on the ſettlement made by Mr. Luſhington, of
the revenues of the diſtrićts under his charge, for Fuſly 12 II.
63. On taking charge of the province of Tinnevelly from the ſervants of his
Highneſs the late Nabob of the Carnatic, the Collector conſidered it a primary duty
AFFAIRs of T H E C A R N AT I c. 189
to impreſs the Ryots with a ſenſe of the moderation and juſtice of the Company, Vol. IV.
and of the ſtability of your Government in Tinnevelly; to eſtabliſh a juſt confidence
in their minds, that an anxious deſire prevailed on the part of the Company to
fecure them in all their rights, and to maintain their Religious eſtabliſhments. '
64. Theſe aſſurances, which were authorized by our Proclamation, were received
with thankfulneſs by a people who had ſo long ſuffered from the neglečt and un-
equal extortions of a bad Adminiſtration ; and remembering the lenient treatment
they had received, when before under the Company’s management, they looked with
confidence to the performance of them. - -
65. Influenced by theſe motives, which are highly creditable to Mr. Luſhington,
the exertions of the Colle&tor were attended with conſiderable ſucceſs, and we de-
rived much ſatisfaction from an examination of the ſettlement which was the reſult
of thoſe exertions; becauſe we had every reaſon to conclude from that examination,
that the principle of moderation which had ačtuated the Colle&tor in the formation
of the ſettlement of the revenue, had preſerved, unimpaired, the means of the people,
and had laid the foundation of future improvement. -
66. The amount of the ſettlement contraſted with the Jummah of former years,
contains evidence of the attention paid by Mr. Luſhington to the intereſts of the
Honourable Company; and we had much pleaſure in confirming the ſettlement of
Tinnevelly for Fuſly 1211, and of recording our entire approbation of the zeal,
ability, and aſſiduity, with which Mr. Luſhington had diſcharged the duties of a
Colle&tor. - - ... - - - -
67. We have great ſatisfaction in ſtating to your Honourable Court, that the
Poligars of the province of Tinnevelley are perfeótly peaceable, and diſcharge, with
punétuality, the augmented Jummah ſettled in the year 182O. -
EXTRA C T of Report of the Board of Revenue at Fort St. George ;
3oth January 1802. • * - -
Par. 179. Having ſtated, for your Lordſhip's information, the eſtimated collečtions
for the different Diviſions of the Carnatic, in their reſpective order, for the current
Fuſly, we ſhall, for your Lordſhip's ſatisfačtion, take a general review of the eſtimated
Groſs Revenues of the whole, the eſtimated Charges, and the expećted Net Collections;
premifing that, though rough eſtimates, we have little doubt of their proving toler-
ably accurate. -- -> wº- /
- - Pagº F. C. Pagº F. C. Pagº F. C.
1. Palnaud - - -, -, - 26,ooo o o 8,373 o o 17,627 o o
2. Nellore and Ongle, in- \ - .
cluding Jaghire - - 5,33,O7I 22 53 86,ooo o o 4,47,071 22 53
3. Setwadoo and Pulicat - 16, 15o o o 2,030 o o 14,120 o o
4. Northern Diviſion of Ar- -
cot, including Jaghires 3,50,987 38 17 | 60,000 o o 2,90,987 38 17
5. Southern D’ – of Arcot, r * . - . w
including Jaghires - – 7,26,581 II 76 65,564 o o 6,61,or 7 1 76
6. Trichinopoly, including - - &
Jaghires - - - - 5, 16,055 o o 1,53,081 41 52 3,62,973 o 28
7. Madura - - - - - 73,529 O o 7,8oo o o 65,729 3.5 26
8. Tinnevelly - - - - 5,21,124 I 68 86,591, o O 4,34,533 68
*-
27,63,499 26 o 4,69,439 41 52 |22,94,059 26 28
-a-
The Net Colle&ions are above ſtated - - - - St. Pag' *942 59
Suppoſe the Jaghires reſtored, on their equivalent, amounting to ~ * 75,000
Remaining - - - 23,19,259
• N. B. This deduáion is made on no date; mercly ſuppoſitions,
175, - Brought
190
P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O THE
*Wol, IV.
- Deduá Nabob's former Payments on account of Subſidy, Creditors, .
, and Deſha Cawel º ſº - - - - – - I 5,75,00o
* - ºr - Brought forward - - - St. Pag' 22, 19,659 --
Dedućt Nabob's 1-5th - - - - St Pag. 2,74,991
Penſions to the Family – ...tº Aº - - - - 2,Oo,ooo |
D" - - to Nabob's Officers - - - - --- 24,Oro
498,991
- < * , - - - - 17,20,068 :
Add aſſigned Peiſhcuſh Colle&tions - - - - 2,64,oco
19,84,668
Eſtimated Surplus within Fuſly 1211 - - - 4,13,068
** ºr
*-- *s
18o. The following ſhews alſo the eſtimated Reſources from the Nabob's Coun-
tries, transferred to the Company within the official year:
- Deduá Nabob's 1-5th - - - - -
Penſion of the Family falling due from Oétober to April 1, 16,662 |
Probable Revenue to 30th Apr il 1802 - - - St. Pag I 435 I,975
Receipts from the Nabob, prior to the transfer of the Country, from
1ſt May to 31ſt July º º tºº * . . ºn º º • 3:63,993 -
. . . . . . . . . . . . - f - 18, 5,968
Add aſſigned Peiſhcuſh colle&ted by the Company - - - 2,64,600
. . . . . . . . . . . . . - - 2O,8o,568
Dedućt Nabob's uſual Payments: - -
Military Subſidy - - - - - St. Pag' 9,oo,ooo
Nabob's Creditors - - º - - - 6,2i,ood
Deſha Cawel - - - - - - 50,000 |
- - - * - — 15,71,600
Reſidue - - - sey;68
- I,84,762
Military Penſions, from July to April - - - - - - 12,000 || * *
Eſtimated Surplus to 30th April 1802 - - St. Pag' - 1596,144
181. The charges have been eſtimated high; they include the Arrears of Troops,
Tuccavy, and Tank repairs; but we have no doubt that the aëtual will fall ſhort of
the eſtimated charges, and we hope, in ſome Diſtrićts, the revenue will be above the
eſtimate; and that, with the ſyſtem of management that is obſerved by the Col-
lećtors, the encouragement afforded to the cultivation, and the ſecurity to individual
property, that the foundation of future improvement will at the ſame time be laid.
Ex T R A CT Report of the Board of Revenue at Fort St. George;
. "..." dated 9th Oétober 1802. *,
To Govt. Para. 286. On laying before your Lordſhip, under date the 28th June laſt, the
Diary Conſ.
28th June,
from Mr.
Jummabundy and Kiſtbundy of that portion of the Carnatic ſituated north of the
Palar, denominated the Northern Diviſion of Arcot, the delay that might appear
stratton; in to your Lordſhip as having occurred in ſubmitting this information, to which many
Sonſ. 28th cauſes had contributed, we hoped would be compenſated by having the ſettlements
January. of the Collector of the Carnatic brought progreſſively before your Lordſhip in
Council;
A. F. F. A. I R S OF T H E C A R N A T J C. I 91.
Council; we looked forward alſo to afford your Lordſhip further ſatisfaātion, in Vol. IV.
reporting the ſucceſs which very generally attended the realization of the Revenue.
287. The impediments to the introdućtion of a new mode of management in
theſe diſtricts were not eaſily removed; the prejudices of long habits, the new and
deterring reſponſibility as Renters, and the intrigues of thoſe who foreſaw that ſepa-
rate rents would cloſe to them the ſcene of peculation and corrupt influence, oppoſed
difficulties which yielded only to ſteady and perſevering diligence on the part of the
Collector; the Kiſts have hitherto been punétually paid, and your Lordſhip will
have had the ſatisfaction to contemplate the encreaſing ſtability of a ſyſtem which
unites the intereſts of the Circar and the inhabitants.
288. The ſettlement of the whole of the diſtrićts under Mr. Stratton's manage-
ment, including the Peiſhcuſh of the Chittore Poligars, Sayer, and Licenſes, amounted
to ſtar pagodas three lacs twenty-two thouſand one hundred and ninety-three
(3,22, 193) excluſive of Tripetty ; but excluſive of Peiſhcuſh and Sayer, &c. to
ſtar pagodas two lacs fifty thouſand ſeven hundred and ſeventy-ſix and ſeventeen
fanams (250,776. 17) being an increaſe of pagodas ſeven thouſand three hundred
and thirty-eight nineteen fanams, and thirty-ſix and a half caſh (7,338. 19. 364):
to this ſhould be added, the amount of anticipations by the Jaghiredars, to be here-
after ſet off againſt admitted claims, one thouſand three hundred and fifty-nine,
twenty-eight fanams, and ſeventy caſh (1,359. 28. 70) making a total increaſe of
pagodas eight thouſand ſix hundred and ninety-eight (8,698) or 3 per Cent. on the
Jumma of 1,2 Io Fuſly.
289. The encreaſe above noticed, Mr. Stratton informed us, had principally
derived from the different Jagheers, which had been better managed than the Circar
villages, ſome of which were during the laſt year deſerted, and wholly uncultivated.
298. Taking a view of this firſt ſettlement for the Northern Diviſion of Arcot
immediately following the transfer of Government itſelf, as well as alteration in the
ſyſtem of adminiſtering the revenue, we thought your Lordſhip would not conſider
it inadequate ; and if under that moderate aſſeſſment, which circumſtances rendered
prudent, the revenue exceeded the average of late years, that we might look forward
with confidence to its improvement in the proportion of encreaſed comfort and
benefit to the inhabitants, by a chapge from arbitrary power to the mild and juſt
Government which had ſucceeded.
2.99. Your Lordſhip was pleaſed to obſerve in reply, that you had conſidered
with attention the ſettlement which had been formed by the Collečtor in the Northern . From Govº,
Diviſion of Arcot, for that portion of the Carnatic lying north of the river Palar;" º
and although you are unable, from a want of ſufficient information, to form a judg- ugutt,
ment of the adequacy of this ſettlement, compared with the ačtual reſources of the
Country, you were yet ſatisfied that the exertions of the Collector had not been
wanting to ſecure to the Circar its juſt rights, and to the Ryots a juſt return for
their labour: it was alſo ſatisfactory to you to obſerve, that the ſettlement formed
by Mr. Stratton exceeded the amount eſtimated by the late Board of Revenue in
their Report of the 30th January 1802, as the Jumma of Fuſly I 2 I i ; and you
truſted that a ſucceſsful realization of the revenue, and a diminution of the eſtimated.
charges, would ſtill further encreaſe the net revenue of the Northern Diviſion of
Arcot.
EXT R A C T Report of the Board of Revenue at Fort St. George ;
dated 31ſt January 1803.
Para. 284. Under date the 6th November, we had the honour to receive your
Lordſhip's orders, in conſequence of our Letter, accompanying the Report of Mr.
Wallace on his ſettlement of the Trichinopoly diſtrićt for Fuſly I 2 1.
285. Mr. Wallace's explanation of the mode in which the adminiſtration of the
revenues was condućted under the late Government of the Carnatic, of the oppreſ-"
ſions to which its ſubjećts had been expoſed, of the cruelty with which thoſe op-
preſſions had been enforced, of the abandonment of all controul over the ſubordinate
Officers, and of the excluſion of the people from all hopes of redreſs for the injurious
I 75. 3 D aćts
192 P A P E R S R E LAT IN G T O T H E
Vol. IV. ačts of thoſe Officers, demonſtrated to your Lordſhip the extreme weakneſs of the
- late Government of the Carnatic.
286. The manner in which the effects of ſuch a ſyſtem of Government were
deſcribed, and the ſuffering of the people under it, deplored by Mr. Wallace, your
Lordſhip was pleaſed to confider creditable to the feelings and diſpoſition of that
Gentleman; and was ſanguine that the principles of adminiſtration introduced by
him would eſtabliſh, on a firm foundation, the happineſs of the people, and the
proſperity of the country. -
287. The principle by which the aſſeſſment of the revenue had been regulated
for Fuſly 121 1, being perfeótly conſonant with the orders of the late Board of
Revenue, and being eſtabliſhed by experience, as calculated, during the exiſtence
of our undefined land-tax, to accelerate the return of proſperity, your Lordſhip in
Council was well pleaſed that the exertion of the Coliečtor had been able to ſur-
mount the obſtacles that oppoſed the accompliſhment of ſo deſirable an objećt, and
truſted that the moderation with which the Collector had calculated the commuta-
tion of the Circar ſhare of the produce, and the enjoyment of their Warum to its
full extent, which had been ſecured to the cultivators by that moderation, would
have augmented their means, have excited their deſire to encreaſe the cultivation of
the current year, and have laid the foundation of an increaſed revenue from the
province of Trichinopoly. .
2.88. Your Lordſhip in Council was therefore entirely ſatisfied with the amount
of the ſettlement, being ſtar pagodas 5,31,797, 7, and the principles on which that
ſettlement had been concluded. •.
EXT R A CT of Proceedings of the Board of Revenue at Fort St. George; the
- 28th January 1802.
Extraćt of Letter from Mr. Stratton; dated 23d January 1862.
Para. 1. I have herewith the honour to ſubmit for your information and ſanótion,
my Jummabundy and Kiſtbundy of the diſtrićts of Arcot, north of the river Palar,
for the preſent Fuſly 12 1, (Nº. 1.) with the Accounts particulars therein referred to,
(from Nº 2 to 12.) incluſive.
2. As it may be expected I ſhould account for the delay which has ariſen in effect-
ing this ſettlement, I have accordingly to ſtate, for your information, that it is attri-
butable to the determination I had formed, of not receding from the deſirable objećt
of introducing generally the ſyſtem of village rents, conſtituting the head inhabitants
of each village its Renters, and making thern, jointly and ſeverally, ſecurity for the due
performance of each other's engagements.
3. This objećt, you will perceive, I have at laſt had the ſatisfaction to accompliſh,
but not without ſome difficulty and delays, owing not only to the ſtrong prejudices
and diffidence of ſome, againſt involving themſelves in the reſponſibility of Renters,
which were to be overcome, but alſo the obſtinacy and intrigues of others, in oppoſing
the terms of ſettlement which I deemed fair and adequate to the reſources of the
country. --
D I A R Y to Proceedings of the Board of Revenue; the 26th June 1802.
Extraćt of Letter to Government; dated 26th June 1802.
We have the honour to lay before your Lordſhip the Jummabundy and Kiſtbundy
of that portion of the Carnatic ſituated north of the Palar, denominated the Northern
Diviſion of Arcot. - -
The delay that may appear to your Lordſhip as having occurred in ſubmitting
this information, to which many cauſes have contributed, will, we truſt, be compenſated
by having the ſettlements of the Colle&tors of the Carnatic brought progreſſively
before your Lordſhip in Council; we look forward alſo to afford your Lordſhip further
fatisfaction in reporting the ſucceſs which very generally has attended the realization
of the revenue. -
- The
A F F A I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C. 193
The impediments to the introdućtion of a new mode of management in their diſ. Vol. IV.
trićts were not eaſily removed; the prejudices of long habits, the new and deterring
reſponſibility as Renters, and the intrigues of thoſe who foreſaw that ſeparate rents
would cloſe to them the ſcene of peculation and corrupt influence, oppoſed difficulties
which yielded only to ſteady and perſevering diligence on the part of the Collečtors;
the Kiſts have hitherto been punétually paid, and your Lordſhip will have the ſatis-
fačtion to contemplate the increaſing ſtability of a ſyſtem, which unites the intereſts of
the Circar and the inhabitants, ..* ’’.
EXT RAC T of Proceedings of the Board of Revenue at Fort St. George; -
16th Auguſt 1802.
Extraćt of Letter from Mr. Luſhington, Collečtor of Tinnevelly; dated
28th May 1802.
That I have not detailed to the Board, at an earlier period, the meaſures adopted
by me, for ſecuring to the Company an adequate revenue from the province of Tin-
nevelly, has been owing to the occupation of every moment of my time in realizing
the current ſettlement, and to an anxious ſolicitude not to bind the Ryots with en-
gagements which experience might prove that they could not perform. I have waited
therefore to this advanced period of the year, not without a full ſenſe of the confi-
dence and indulgence of your Board in allowing ſo long a ſilence, in order that in re-
porting to you upon the rent, I might be able to judge of its effečt upon the welfare
of the people ; have now the ſatisfaction of ſubmitting for your inſpection, a ſettlement
conſiderably above the Public colleótions of former years, under the confidence that
it has been concluded with due regard to the aëtual condition and reſources of the
inhabitants. - -
2. When I received charge of this Country, the ſeaſon for cultivating the Car
crop had nearly expired, without a proper advantage having been taken of it by the
Farmers, to whom the Country had been leaſed in the preceding year. For, uncertain
of their continuance in authority beyond the cloſe of the expired Fuſly, they had little
intereſt in extending the cultivation of the ſucceeding year; ſo that the inhabitants
were left to the tillage of their lands, not ſtimulated in their induſtry by the hand of
Authority, not encouraged by thoſe advances of money indiſpenſable to an extenſive
cultivation. - -
3. Under theſe circumſtances of diſcouragement, it became a primary duty to im-
preſs the Ryots with a ſenſe of the moderation and juſtice of the Company, and of
the ſtability of their Government in Tinnevelly; to eſtabliſh a juſt confidence in their
minds, that the indifference of the Muſſulman Government to their welfare would be
ſucceeded by an anxious watchfulneſs on the part of the Company, to ſecure them in
all their rights and privileges, to foſter and maintain their Religious eſtabliſhments and
charities, and that a wiſe and liberal diſpoſition in their Rulers would aid their induſtry,
as well by advances of money to the extent that they might be actually required, as by
the repairs of the tanks and watercourſes, which had been falling uninterruptedly to
decay, ſince the extinétion of the Hindoo Government. --
4. Theſe aſſurances, which your inſtrućtions authorized, could not but be received
with thankfulneſs by a people who had ſo long ſuffered from the neglect and unequal
extortions of a bad Adminiſtration ; and remembering the lenient treatment they had
received, when before under the Company's management, they looked with confi-
dence to the performance of them. - -
5. Having aſcertained the extent of advances aétually required for the Car crop,
no time was loſt in extending this neceſſary aid to the cultivation ; and when the
few days remaining of the ſeaſon of culture had expired, 1 had the ſatisfaction of ſeeing
that the Ryots, confiding in my aſſurances of receiving their due ſhare, had returned to
the tillage of their lands with a vigour and ſucceſs even beyond my own expectations;
for, during the few days that remained for cultivation, no leſs than 4,0so Cottahs of
land were additionally ſown. *
6. All the ſeed which was likely to come to maturity having thus been caſt into
175. the
$
I 94
P AP E R S R E LAT ING TO THE
Vol. IV. the ground, my attention was next given to the mode of ſecuring to the Company
(Nº. 1.)
! (N, 2.)
(N° 3.)
(Nº. 4.)
(N* 5.)
their due proportion of the crop ; in this conſideration, my wiſhes naturally pointed
to the immediate eſtabliſhment of a village rent: but the obſtacles to the completion
of it at that ſeaſon of the year were inſuperable.
7. Such of the records of the former Government as had then come under my
examination, did not afford me any information upon which I could rely of the re-
lative fertility of the ſands, and the ſyſtem of monopoly which had prevailed for ſo
many years in the ſale of grain, left me no correót means of judging what would be
its price when the markets ſhould be opened, and the cultivation encreaſed; to aſcer-
tain theſe effential points to every rent, it became indiſpenſable to reap the Car crop
by Aumanie, in order that the information thereby obtained of the quality of the
lands, and the value of their produce, might be applied, with juſt conſideration to
the condition of the Ryots, in forming a rent at a more advanced period of the
year. Independant of theſe reaſons for delaying the ſettlement, the diſturbed ſtate
of the Southern Countries would have been an unanſwerable reaſon with the Ryots
for declining to accept the reſponſibility of a money rent, and would of itſelf have
been a ſufficient motive for refraining from encreaſing the difficulty of introducing
this deſirable ſyſtem at a future period, by any immature attempt to accompliſh it
at that ſeaſon. .. - . . -
8. Influenced by theſe motives, which I truſt you will approve, no effort in my
power to make was thenceforth omitted to ſecure to the Company by Aumany
every Cottah of the produce to which the Circar was juſtly entitled ; to aſcertain
the fertility, peculiar cuſtoms, and value of the ſeveral Talooks; and, when the
cultivation of the whole year become accurately known, and I had obtained all the
information procurable of the revenues of former years, I proceeded into the Ta-
looks for the completion of the rent. . . . . - -
9. The ſtatements of cultivation in the preſent year, to which I ſhall in a ſubſe-
quent part of this Report requeſt your attention, will, I hope, ſatisfy you that my
time had been unremittingly given to this important object; and the accompanying
Accounts which I ſhall now briefly explain of the management of the laſt Fuſly, and
of the revenue of paſt years, will I truſt ſatisfactorily ſhew, that I ſpared no pains to
inform myſelf thoroughly as well of the actual ſituation of the people, as of the paſt
condition of the province. .
10. When I received your inſtrućtions relative to the transfer of this province to
the Company's authority, I found it divided into ſeven large farms, each Farmer
having entered into engagements at the Durbar of the Nabob, independant of the
Phouzdar of the province. The aggregate of their rent, payable to his Highneſs
at Madras, was 5,92,087. 3. 18. the amount of wages to be made good by them to
the Fouzdar and fiuzzoor Muifeddees 41,205. 9, 39, and the amount payable to
the troops and Sibbendies ſtationed in the Talooks 1,72,706. 6. 39. making their
total payments under theſe three heads 8,06,Coo. . -
I 1. The particular ſums due by each Renter are ſhewn in the accompanying
Statement, as well as the amount of remiſſion claimed under the ſeveral heads:
Copies and Tranſlates of their engagements with the Durbar are alſo encloſed, and
Petitions from themſelves, ſetting forth their claims to remiſſion, alſo accompany. It
remains, therefore, for the Board to conſider and determine upon them; and until their
deciſion is communicated to me, I ſhall continue the preſent reſtraint upon their per-
ſons and accounts. To aid the determination of the Board, I tranſmit in a ſeparate
paper my ſentiments upon their ſeveral caſes, and of the proſpečt of effecting a re-
covery of what is due from them. .”
12. Having thus explained the nature of the engagements entered into by his
Highneſs for obtaining a revenue fiom this province in Fuſly I 2 ro, I ſhall briefly
advert to the preceding year of the Muſſulman management of this province, that
you may be the better able to judge of the juſtice, or otherwiſe, of the preſent ſet-
tlement. * ; .
13. From the information of intelligent Natives in Tinnevelly, though chiefly
from the records of the Canongue’s Office, which has been upon a very different
footing in this province from other parts of the Carnatic, I am enabled to lay before
you
A FFA I R S OF THE C A R N AT I C. 195
you in abſtraćt, an account of the Jummabundy of Tinnevelly, from A. D. 1744, Vol. IV.
or Fuſly I 154, to A. D. 1771, or Fuſly 1181, and of collections in detail from T.
Fuſly I 131 to the preſent day. - - (Nº. 5.)
14. Theſe accounts commence with the adminiſtration of Anweer Cawn, ap-
pointed Fourſdar and Authil of Tinnevelly by Anwunuddeen Cawn, who had been
recently created Subedar of the Carnatic. To Anweer Cawn ſucceeded Meer
Gholam Huſſain Cawn, and Huſſein Mahomed Cawn, their joint managements
compriſing a period of ſix years, in which the Jummabundy flućtuated from
7 to 12 lacs of chuckrums, according to the following Statement :
ABSTRACT of Jummabundy, including Pagº, Charges, &c.
º r Names of - Jummabundy of the
Aumil in the year. the year. - Tinnevelly Province.
The year A. D. commencing with -
Anweer Cawn - commencing in July 1744 - the Fuſly I I 54 - 8,65,812 I 2 I
- - Ditto - - 1745 - - - I I 55 – 9,83,807 2 24
Meer Gholam ) — — — — — 1746 - - - I I 56 - 8,27,245 3 O
Huſſain Cawn - - - - - 1747 - - - I I 57 - 12,48,51O 9 O.
- - - - - - 1748 - - - I 158 - Io,83,735 5 43
Huſſain Mahomed Cawn — - - 1749 - - - I I 59 - 7,00,462. 6 13%
I 5. When Anwunuddeen Cawn was ſlain in battle, Chunda Saheb deputed an
Aumil named Aulum Cawn to take charge of Tinnevelly, who, eſtabliſhing the
power of his Maſter, continued to manage the Province in his behalf for two years,
in which the Jummabundy was as follows:
In the Year A. D. Fuſly. C. Chº. f. c.
Aulum Cawn 3 - - 1750 - - 1 160 - - - - 8,01,844. 2 27
- - - 1751 - - 1 161 - - - - 7,29,997 6 22#.
To him ſucceeded, for a ſhort time, Tetaruppa Moodely and Munde Meyah,
the Agent of Chunda Sahib, who was ſlain near Tinnevelly, diſputing the authority
of Mahomed Ally Cawn. w - *
The Jummabundy of Tetaruppa Moodely, for the year of his -
management, was - - - - - - - - - - - - 6,62,648 7 6
Of Munde Meyah - - - - - - - - - - - - 6,1 1,348 9 33
16. Upon Munde Meyah's death, the authority of Maufooz Cawn was eſtabliſhed
in the Country; he formed the deſign of becoming independant in the poſſeſſion of it,
and his Jummabundy, for the two years of his Adminiſtration, was for A. D. 1754, or
Fuſly I 164 - - - - - - 6,09,669 9 24
A. D. 1755-1 165 - - - - 7,25,68o o o
..But Iſoof Cawn, by the vigour of his mind, fruſtrated this ambitious deſign of
Mafooz Cawn, and re-eſtabliſhing the power of Mahomed Ally Cawn, delivered
the management, for a year, to Alagapah Moodely. The Moodely’s Jummabundy
•was for A. D. 1756, or Fuſly I 66. C. Ch 6,35,435. 9. 18 #. -
17. The diſtraćted ſtate of the Country, owing to the depredations of the Poli-
..gars, required a greater energy for their redućtion than Alagapah Moodely brought
to this arduous undertaking; and Iſoof Cawn was appointed to the ſole charge from
5the year 1757 to 1763; he accordingly continued to rule in the Country; and during
*
this period his annual Jummabundy was as follow:
Aumil in the Year. Names of the Year. - Tinnevelly Province.
A. D. Fuſly. C. Chs. f. c.
Iſeof Cawn - - July 1757–1167 $383,746 9 3
- - 1758–1168 6,63,544 5 2.5%.
1759–1 169 7,74,979 9 453
1760–117O I c.39,489 2 18
1761–1 | 7 || 12,44,539 4: 18
1762–1172 . I I,4 is 2 17 2 2.7
1763–1173 19,53,234 o 36 .
175. 3 E -- - 18. During
196 P.A. P E R S R E L A T I N G T O T H E
Vol. IV. 18. During the three firſt years of Iſoof Cawn's management, he was engaged
in conſtant ſtruggles with the Poligars with very various ſucceſs. The neceſſities of
the Company, during this anxious period in the Carnatic, demanded the employ–
ment of his force, and of his extraordinary military talents in more central parts of
it. Tinnevelly was therefore left in his abſence a prey to the depredations of the
Poligars, and the perfidious machinations of Maufooz Cawn, aided by the adherents
of Travencore. The latter indeed wholly aſſumed, during this period, the moſt
fertile Talook of the Province Calcaud; but when Iſoof Cawn could be ſpared from
the fiege of Madras to return to Tinnevelly, he had the addreſs not only to detach
the Rajah of Travencore from the League, but to acquire his affiſtance in puniſhing
the Poligars. Notwithſtanding the diſadvantages (under which he laboured) of an
uſurped authority, he accompliſhed, by the vigour of his mind and military talents,
the complete ſubjugation of the Province. In his time the tribute of the Poligars
was regularly collečted, private property was in no danger from their depredations,
and the revenue of the Circar lands was very largely encreaſed. The effe&t of the
ſubordination he eſtabliſhed may be ſeen in his Jummabundies from the year 1761
to 1764, when they never fell below 10,30,489, and were in one year ſo high as
I 23445.530. -- * * * .
19. To Iſoof Cawn ſucceeded one of the Family of the Moodely's ; his
management, however, continued but for eight months, when he was diſplaced by a
Hindoo, named Rajah Kukoom ul Ram. The jummabundy of his management fell
conſiderably ſhort of thoſe of Iſoof Cawn's ; and his immediate ſucceſſor, Shaik
Mahomed Ally, who was in charge of the country for 9 months, reduced it ſtill
more. Tempted by the imbecility of their ſuperintendance, the Poligars returned
- to their former licentiouſneſs, and continued in the indulgence of their inveterate
habits of encroachment and violence, with little intermiſſion, from that period until
their transfer to the Company's authority in 1792. Nor did even this arrangement
produce that improvement in the condućt and condition of theſe Feudatories which
had been hoped from it; the fluêtuating adminiſtration of the Nabob had given ſuch
confidence and ſucceſs to their rebellious charaćter, and the weak policy and cor-
ruption of his Aumils had encouraged and confirmed in the Poligars ſo ſtrong an in-
fluence over the minds of his Highneſs's ſubjećts, that, under the weakneſs of a
divided authority, a ſolid reform was impračticable. The vigour of Iſoof Cawn's
meaſures was indeed felt for ſome little time after he ſuffered the death of a rebel;
but the Poligars ſoon forgot the terror of his name, and relapſed into former habits.
The following Statements of Jummabundy, under Hukoom ul Ram and his ſucceſſor,
is annexed in elucidation: -
- - .." - ... A. D. Fuſly.
Dalaway Alagappa Moodely, . . . .
from 20th March to Ieth - 1764–1 174—13,72,262 I 15
November - - - -
1765–I 175—12,39,848 3 33
Rajah Hukoom ul Ram, up 1766–1176— 9,58,295 3 39
to Ioth Arpeſy, or Oét. § 1767–I 177— 8,66,458 9 30
of 1180 - - - - - 1768–1178— 8,19,764 8 15
l © k M h - : 1769–II 79— 8,96,483 5 9
Shaick Mahomed Allº! 1770–1 180— 7,39,035 6 30
3oth June -
20. Of the foregoing periods of the Muſſulmen Government of Tinnevélly, I
have not been able to obtain the particular accounts of collectioh, the Cutcherry of
Tinnevelly, with all the Duftars, having been burnt about this period; but from the
No. 6, & 7 date to which this account is now brought down, viz. the year A. D. 1771, I am
enabled to ſubmit to you the accounts of cultivation and colleótion in a detailed
ſhape. - -- -
21. In this year (1771) commenced the adminiſtration of Syed Mahomed
Cawn, and from thence to the year 1801, compriſes a period of thirty years;
the average collections during this time, including pagoda charges, have been
- 8,41, I kó.
*w-
A F F A I R S O. F. T H E C A R N A T I C. 197
8,41,116. 6. 39; and in the courſe of it has accrued a balance upon, the nominal Vol. IV.
ſettlements of no leſs than 2 1,29,220. 7. 24. f .
22. The average cultivation of this period, excluſive of Mauincom Cawlepau-
lum and Wagay Arapoo lands, has been yearly in Nunjeh 5,35, 13. 16. 33. During
Syed Mahomed Cawn's management of the Country, the colle&tions were unuſually
high ; a dreadful famine afflićted the province from a ſcarcity of grain, the effects of
which are ſtill to be traced in the ruins of villages then filled with a numerous popu-
lation. This calarnity happened in A. D. 1774, or Fuſly I 184: the average price
of grain was 30 fanams and 36 # caſh ; and although the cultivation amounted to no
more than 37,685. Io. 4 ; ; cottahs of Nunjeh, the revenue of the year came to
1 I,54,944 chucks. The following year of I 18.5 Fuſly, the average price of grain
remained ſo high as 19 fanams 6 caſh, and the Jummabundy was formed for
10,53,131 chucks; but Syed Mahomed Cawn being removed in the courſe of the
year, there accrued a balance of 2, 13,539 8 #. From the Fuſly year I 186 to 1 190,
the extent of cultivation and the price of grain were better regulated; but in the
Fuſly I-190, the Polygars, again tempted by the war which raged in the Carnatic,
threw off their allegiance, and nearly over-run the province. The collečtions for
1199 amounted only to 4,69,425 Ch', for the year I 19 to 3,69,404 Ch', and for
1 I 92 to 5.37,487. In 1193 commenced Mr. Irwin's, or the Company’s adminiſ-
tration; from that period until 1 198 Fuſly, the cultivation of Nunjeh fluétuated
from fifty to fixty thouſand cottahs, the average price from 15 to 17 fanams, and
the annual collečtions from 8 to 9 lacks of Ch". In the ſucceeding year of 1198, the
collečtions were enlarged; but this augmentation aroſe not ſo much from an increaſe
of cultivation as from the enhancement of the price, which was raiſed to 18 fanams
ºf 2 caſh, yielding a revenue in Nunjeh of 5,95,830. c. 16 #, and, in the aggregate, of
9,51,375. 4. 43 #. In the year 1 199, the cultivation was greatly increaſed, and the
produce nearly ſixty thouſand Ch’ more; but as the price of Nunjeh fell to 16 fanams
per cottah, the revenue amounted to only about 4,000 Ch’ more than the laſt year.
23. Three of the moſt favourable years for the cultivation, during the laſt thirty
years, were thoſe which ſucceed ; viz. Fuſly 1200, and 1201 and 1202, when the
cultivation and produce were as ſhewn in the margin *. In the two former, Mr.
Torin had the management of the Country; the Government's ſhare was (then
rated) moſt abundant, and the price of grain low. In 1293 it was at 14 F* I 5 C.
and in 201, I.5 F* 33 C. * . '. -
24. The Renters colle&tions of Mr. Torin's years, including pagoda charges;
were, for the firſt, 8,95,690, and for the ſecond 8,08,501. The rent for 1200 was
79,59,712 ; for 201, 8, 17,067 : the deficiency of colle&tions in this year was occa-
fioned by the reſtoration of the Country to the Nabob. In 1202 ſucceeded, for a
ſhort period, Jaffeir Cawn, and to him Etbaur Cawn, who continued in the manage-
ment for three years. The cultivation and produce were as ſhewn in the margin f,
and his collections for the firſt year were 10,51,999. I. 13; ; in 1203, I 1,82,287, 9, 16#;
in I2O4, Io,24,792. 7. 21. The average price of grain in 1202 was 19 fanams
33 caſh; in 1203, 26 fanams 33 caſh; and 1204, 21 fanams 19 ; caſh, making
an average of 22 fanams 18 #. With the knowledge of theſe facts, it will appear
very natural that the inhabitants ſhould look back to the Company's management as
an aera of comparative happineſs, and contraſt it, in a very feeling manner, with
the three ſucceeding years of extortion under Ettabar Cawn, when the ſyſtem of
smortgage and Gadayam prevailed in its worſt rigours. From theſe intolerable
4
Cottahs of Cultivation. Government Share.
* 1200 - - - 65,096. I4. 5 # - - - 4oo,31o. 3. 3 #
12o I - - - 68,317. 2, 6 # , - - - 360, 177. I 5. 5 #
I 202 - - - 59,300. 7, -í - - - 354,645. 12, 4 +
Cultigation ; Cottah of Seed. Government Share.
t 1293 - - - 52,123. 7. 2 # - - - 314,314. 2, 4,
1294 - - - 53,514. 3, 7, - - - 318,223. — 1 ;
1295 - - - 58,8o3. 6. 3 # - - - 324, 1 o'º. 6 7
#75, - - - oppreſſions
1 -
* LAT I N G T O THE
98 P A P E R S R E \ Vol. IV. oppreſſions the inhabitants fled in numbers to Travancore, and the ruin of the
Country was faſt approaching; but the fears of the Nabob were at length rouſed to
the calamities of the Country by the remonſtrances of the Right Honourable Lord
Hobart. The accuracy with which the evils of this ſyſtem were developed, the
determination ſubſequently ſhewn by the Company’s Government to put an end to
them, and eſpecially the eſtabliſhment of the commercial inveſtment about this
period, may be ſaid, with the ſtrićteſt truth, to have arreſted the deſtruction of Tin-
nevelly; for the alarm excited at his Highneſs's Durbar in the breaſts of all thoſe
who participated in theſe enormities, materially changed the nature of his Highneſs’s
management. The ſyſtem of uſurious mortgage grew from that period into diſuſe;
for thoſe pernicious tranſačtions, which had before covered the province, were of a
very different charaćter from the inferior advantages that a few adventurers ſubſe-
quently derived from a partial and fearful monopoly of grain. In conſequence of
this change, the average price of grain from Fuſly 1205 to 1209 did not riſe higher
than 17 fanams 18 caſh, and was ſometimes ſo low as I 5 ; nor can this redućtion be
accounted for upon the ground of an abundant produce, as the account in the
margin * will ſhew, in no year did riſe above $2,000 cottahs ; and in 1208 was
down ſo low as 4,913. In a former year (Sied Mahomed Cawn's) when the pro-
duce was nearly the ſame, the price per cottah was thirty fanams ; and in one of
Eteabar Cawn's years, when the cultivation amounted to 52,123 cottahs, the price
per cottah was 26 fanams 3 } caſh. - -
25. Having thus made ſuch general remarks upon each year of the detailed accounts
of cultivation and collečtion herewith ſubmitted, as appeared to me neceſſary to eluci-
late them, I ſhall add a ſummary view of the Nunjeh cultivation and produce, in
three different pericas of the laſt thirty years, for your more eaſy compariſon of them,
with the cultivation and produce of the preſent Fuſly. --
26. The average cultivation in the Car Crop for the laſt ten years, dedućting
Maunioms, Cowle, Pauttom, and Wagay Arapoo lands, amounted to 16,046 cottahs
18 mercauls and 2 meaſures; the cultivation of the ſame deſcription for the ten
preceding years, amounted to 16,976 cottahs 5 mercauis and 2 meaſures; and
the cultivation for the ten years preceding the laſt period, to 17,265 cottahs 6 mer-
cau's and 5 # meaſures, giving a total within 30 years of 50,288 cottahs 9 mer-
Cauls and 2 # meaſures, or an average of 16,762. 174 per year; the average Circar's
ſhare for the firſt period of ten years amounted to 1,04,925 cottahs 3 mercauls and
5 # meaſures; for the ſecond period often years, to 1, 16,301.4 #; and for the third
period, 1,34,551, 9.45, giving a total of 3,55,777 cottahs 17 mercauls and 2 #
meaſures, or an average during the thirty years, of 1, 18,592, 12 mercauls and
6 meaſures. The Car cultivation of the preſent year, has amounted to 18,567 cot-
tahs 19 mercauls and 5 # meaſures; and the produce thereof to 1,25,989 cottahs
zo mercauls and 24; meaſures, being 7,397. 7. 44 above the average produce of
the laſt 30 years, or per Cent. 6. 4. 7. 4. Y.
27. The average cultivation of Peſhanom for the firſt period often years above al-
luded to, was 37,269 cottahs, I 3 mercauls, and 3 ; meaſures; for the ſecond period,
34945 cottahs I O mercauls and 5 # meaſures ; and for the third, 38, 37 cottahs
14 mercauls and 5 meaſures, making the total average of 30 years, 36,784 cottahs
5 mercauls 7 # meaſures. The Peſhanom cultivation of the preſent year amounted
to 47,322 cottahs 16 mercauls and I meaſure, being an increaſe upon the average
of Io,538 cottahs, 3 mercaills and 2 meaſures ; making a total increaſe in Car and
Peſhanom ſeed of the Nunjeh cultivation of the preſent year, upon the average of the
laſt thirty years, of 12, 343 cottahs 2 mercauls and 6 meaſures ; giving an in-
creaſe in the Nunjeh cultivation of the preſent year of more than 23. 1 #3 per Cent.
The Peſhanom crop not being reaped, the exašt produce cannot at preſent be aſcer-
tained, and therefore the coin pariſon cannot be made. A ‘.
+
Fuſly. Cultivated Cottahs of Seed. Share to the Circar Produce.
* 1206 - - - 51,664 – 5 # - - - 2,80,960. I. 3 #
1207 - - - 45,317. 9. 6. - - - 2,49,071. Io. 6.
1208 - - - 41,913. A. 6. § - - - 2,46, 5oo. – 3 #
1.2cg - - - 46,973. 6.6. # - - - -2,57,798. 12. I #
* 28. The
A FFA IRS OF T H E C A R N AT I C. I 99
, 28. The meaſures adopted to eſtabliſh, by an increaſe of the cultivation, a juſt Vol. IV.
foundation for an increaſe of the reſources in the preſent year, having been explained,
I ſhall briefly call your attention to the terms of the ſettlement concluded with the
inhabitants of the villages. It would be a waite of time to detail the objećtions
which the Ryots urged to the reſponſibility of a money rent, or the arguments which
I uſed to reconcile them to it; it is ſufficient to obſerve, that I ačted up fully to your
initrućtions, expreſſive of your anxiety to introduce this ſyſtem of management; and
that it was eſtabliſhed by the means which had before enabled me to complete your
wiſhes in the province of Ramnad. My Jumma and Kiſtbundy I have the honour No. 8
to ſubmit for your information, and beg leave to requeſt your attention to the annexed
Comparative Statement of the Revenues of the preſent year compared with the collec- Nº 9.
tions of the laſt thirty. -
29. The whole of this ſettlement was at firſt concluded in money; but finding that
the hopes of thoſe Soucars and Conicopolys, who before dealt ſo largely in grain
(equally to the loſs of the Circar and of the Ryot) were revived by this arrangement,
and that they were contriving to depreciate the value of the produce, it became a
meaſure of indiſpenſable regard to the welfare of the people to receive ſome of the
ſettlement in grain at the Jummabundy price; by this arrangement, the market is at
the command of Government, no combination can be made to under-value the grain;
and a gain, rather than a loſs, will ariſe in the ſale of it; for in my Jummabundy I have
eſtimated its average price no higher than 13 ºr C. F. per cottah, if the wants of the
military and commercial departments of this province were likely to be beyond the
means of anſwering them, I ſhould have been very anxious to complete the collečtion
of the whole ſettlement in money within the Fuſly; but the means at preſent in my
hands, and the Kiſts falling due in caſh, will, independant of the gradual ſales of grain,
be far beyond what is likely to be required for thoſe advances.
ExTRA C T of Proceedings of the Board of Revenue at Fort St. George; the
13th September 1802. -
Extraćt of Letter from the Collečtor at Trichinopoly; dated 22d January 1802.
156. The late management, whether confidered in a ſpeculative or pračtical point
of view, preſents, generally ſpeaking, as its diſtinguiſhing features, a total want of
ſyſtem where ſyſtem would have been beneficial, a moſt baneful ſpirit of extortion
and oppreſſion, and an indifference to the happineſs and welfare of the people, as
ſenſeleſs and inhumane; the people never knew when the demands on them were to
ceaſe, nor do the managers ſeem to have known when their extortions were to ſtop.
The aſſeſſments called Fixed, ſeem only to have been calculated to point out where
extortion might be levied and increaſed, and to induce the inhabitants to cultivate in
the vain hope that no more than the fixed aſſeſſment, whether in grain or money,
would be taken from them; a hope which returned with every ſeaſon, but which re-
turned only, to blaſt the proſpects of thoſe who too.credulouſly indulged it, I will
venture to aſſert, that if the revenues were in any one year collečted according to the
eſtabliſhed rates of aſſeſſment, it was only to induce the inhabitants, by this apparent
moderation, to increaſe the cultivation of the ſucceeding year, and thus affords the
Managers or Renters an opportunity of doubling their plunder.
I 57. I know not how far the remark I am about to make, extends to other parts
of the Carnatic; but it would appear that the diſtrićts compoſing this diviſion
had been entirely abandoned by the Nabob to the plunder and rapacity of his Re-
lations and of Renters; and by them to the cruelty and extortions of Managers and
Amils; a twofold oppreſſion thus ſpread its deſolating effects over the country ; the
Nabob received from the renters as much probably, in ſome inſtances, as the diſtrićts
could afford to yield; the Renters nominated as Managers and Amils thoſe who
would undertake to drain the country of as much money as meaſures the moſt unjuſt and
oppreſſive could extort from it; and the latter failed not to execute their commiſſions
on an unprotećted and unreſiſting people, not leſs on the account of their employers,
than for their own benefit and profit: without the adoption of meaſures of this kind,
how could it have been poſſible for Arnachellumpillay, the late Manager for Huſſum
ul Mulk in Trichinopoly, not only to draw an exceſſive revenue from the country for
his Employer, but alſo to raiſe himſelf in the ſhort ſpace of ſix years from the petty
I75. - 3 F z ſituation
2OO PAPERS RE LAT IN G T O THE
Vol. IV. ſituation of a diſtrićt ſervant on 25 rupees a month, to be the firſt landholder of Tri-
chinopoly, and to the poſſeſſion of a very conſiderable property in ready money be-
ſides. This inſtance is not, I fear, a ſolitary one. . r -
158. The effeóts of the extortions of the late Managers will, as I have before re-
marked, be ſufficiently evident in their enormous amount. I ſhall only here remark,
that in the whole of the diviſion confided to my charge (with the exception of Vol-
conda) there are not five landholders of any property or conſideration. .
1 59. In a former part of this addreſs, I went confiderably into detail on the ſubjećt
of the monopoly of grain in their diviſion; I have therefore few remarks to offer on
that ſubjećt in this place. - -
160. With the exception of a very few years, the monopoly can be traced in the
Trichinopoly diſtrićt as far back as 30 years; but in no part of that period was it
carried to ſuch exceſs, or was it ſo complete and univerſal as during the laſt 5 years;
independant of the immediate effects of the monopoly, as it bore on the price of the
firſt neceſſary of life, it was produćtive of a reſult more pernicious, in as far as it was
more laſting; I mean the entire annihilation of all commercial enterprize among the
people of this diviſion.
161. The exorbitant price at which grain had of late years been ſold, drove from the
country a conſiderable number of uſeful and induſtrious manufačturers, who, as they
had not any certain occupation in the diſtrićt, could not afford to pay that price for an
article with them of the firſt neceſſity to which the monopoly had raiſed it, they there-
fore left this country for others, where they could be more continually employed,
and where they could live cheaper and happier; thus by their emigration involving
the double evil of leſſening the number of conſumers of the produce of the ſoil, and of
depriving the diſtrićt of a valuable claſs of ſubjećts: theſe emigrations have been
greatly encreaſed by the diſturbed ſtate in which, for ſeveral years tack, the Pollams of
this diviſion have been ; but at a future period I ſhall report on the former and
preſent ſtate of the manufačturers of this diviſion. . * , . -
162. There cannot be any doubt that if the free ſale of grain had been hitherto
allowed, the ſpirit of commerce would long ere this have opened to itſelf channels
whereby to carry off the ſurplus produce of Trichinopoly, and thereby have enriched
its inhabitants by the ſpecie or merchandize of other countries; but it has been the
peculiar misfortune of that province to have the abundance, with which a boun-
tiful Providence has favoured it, converted to purpoſes of monopoly and oppreſſion.
163. I can ſafely aſſert that in the whole province of Trichinopoly there is not
a ſingle individual who has acquired any property by trading in grain ; and, that with
the exception of thoſe who were employed in the granaries of the late Circars,
there are not any perſons who even earned a livelihood by the wholeſale or retail of it. .
164. To the diſadvantages juſt mentioned ariſing from the want of a free com-
merce in grain, and the monopoly of that article, is to be added another which I
ſhall here mention. The Trichinopoly diſtrićt depending for its fertility on the
Cavery, has been ſeldom known to fail in its produce, even in ſeaſons when the
favoured country of Tanjore has experienced a ſcarcity of water. Trichinopoly,
whether from the peculiar lowneſs of its Nunja lands, or the height of the bed of the
Cavery before the Caleroon ſeparates from it, ſeldom has known any great defi-
ciency in its crops; to this advantage is to be added that of its firſt receiving the
fertilizing effects of the periodical freſhes of the Cavery, and that of its retaining the
water of that river, ſo as to produce a conſiderable crop when other parts of the
Carnatic are parched with drought. The benefit which that crop generally re-
ceives, by being refreſhed and ſtrengthened in the months of February and March
by the partial filling of the Cavery from the Amravady and other channels, which
in theſe months are affected by the rains on the Ammallee mountains, is alſo to
be remarked. With all theſe advantages, which ſecure to Trichinopoly an abundance
- which has rarely failed to follow the labour of its inhabitants, and which might
extend its beneficial effects to a conſiderable diſtance, I cannot learn that during
periods of ſcarcity, whether in the diſtrićts of the Carnatic lying to the northward
of the Caleroon, or in thoſe countries ſituated to the ſouthward of Sandeman's Wood
and Shevagunga, and which have ſo often experienced the miſeries of famine, re-
courſe has been had to Trichinopoly, which, from its ſituation and abundant crops,
could moſt aſſuredly have extended relief in both directions. . .
* . r - 165. The
A F F A I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C. 2O I
163. The diſtance of the province from the ſea may occur as an objećtion to its Vol. IV.
being able to afford the required ſuccour, but I truſt I ſhall be able to eſtabliſh,
in a ſubſequent part of this addreſs, that it only requires the example, protećtion,
and liberality of our Government, to make Trichinopoly and the diſtrićts now de-
pendant on it, a produćtive reſource in times of ſcarcity in any of the diſtrićts
depending on the ſea coaſt between Madras and the Caleroon: the facility of land-
carriage for grain from Trichinopoly to the Southern countries is very great, and
although it may be too expenſive in times of abundance in the latter diſtricts, yet,
when ſcarcity prevails, then I make no doubt but that ſupplies might be ſent
thither at rates low indeed, when compared with the miſeries of famine. -
EXT R A C T of Report of the Board of Revenue at Fort Saint George ;
dated 9th of Oétober. . .
Par. 360. In adminiſtering the Revenues of Fuſly 1211, Mr. Wallace has
followed the wiſhes of the Board and of Government, by introducing a village
ſettlement, a mode of realizing the Revenue which being altogether new to the
inhabitants, it was natural that difficulties ſhould oppoſe themſelves to the efforts
of the Collečtor; theſe he overcame, and by the meaſures which a full knowledge
of the ſubjećt ſuggeſted, a ſettlement has been formed on the faireſt and beſt prin-
ciple, the ačtual reſources of the country aſcertained by elaborate and patient in-
veſtigation, granting to the inhabitants who were diſpoſed to become reſponſible to
Government for the revenue of their villages a juſt proportion of the produce,
generally computed at an equal diviſion between them and the Sirkar.
361. From the Colle&tor's Report on this ſettlement, it appeared, that further diffi- From Mr.
culty occurred by the innovation of requiring money payments to Government inſtead . º
of grain, which, as favouring the monopoly of it by the Circar, had invariably been º sº.
required by the late Government, which never permitted a free ſale of grain. No re-
corded information on the average rates being procurable, the Collečtor fixed the price
with reference to the ſtate of the markets in the neighbouring diſtrićts, and the facility
with which it could be diſpoſed of, averaging about 22 ſtar pagodas per garce. Con-
ſidering that this mode of rent has hitherto been unknown to the inhabitants of the di-
viſion, and the great abundance of grain produced in that and the neighbouring province
of Tanjore, we think with the Colle&tor, that the price was by no means inadequate.
363. It is with much ſatisfaction we obſerve, that in forming this ſettlement the
various heavy demands of the late Government upon the inhabitants, under the
head of Extra Revenue, have been aboliſhed, as likewiſe thoſe for Batta to Peons,
f{ircarrahs, and other Circar ſervants, unleſs when employed in the collečtion of
Kiſts which may fall in arrear; the exačtions under theſe headsin 12 Io are ſtated by
the late Manager at pagodas ninety-nine thouſand five hundred and nine (99,509),
as per Account tranſmitted by the Colle&tor ; and if this ſum be added to the other
ſources of revenue, the total receipts for that Fuzeley beyond the ſettlement of
121 1 are pagodas fifty-eight thouſand one hundred and twenty-three ($8,123),
calculated upon the monopoly price of grain, which exceeded by 25 per Cent, the
average price for 121 :. A compariſon between the two years will ſhew that the
cultivation has increaſed in 12 II, Nunjah, 2970 cavnies punjah, 3264 cawnies,
and that, notwithſtanding the great redućtion in the price of grain, the land re-
venue of 1211, under Mr. Wallace exceeds that of 1210 in the ſum of pagodas
fourteen thouſand and ninety-nine, twenty-nine fanams, and twenty-five caſh
(14,999. 29, 25.) $ •
366. This ſettlement has been lately ſubmitted to your Lordſhip, and is now under To Govern-
conſideration; the minute and perſpicuous information on all points given by Mr. ..".
Wallace reſpecting his ſettlement, rendered unneceſſary any explanatory details by. s:
us; we anticipated from the ſyſtem adopted in the whole Trichinopoly diviſion, the X-
moſt beneficial effeóts to the inhabitants by an equitable fixed Warum, by defining
the Circar demands upon them, and thus encouraging the induſtry by which their
own condition, and, as an inſeparable conſequence, the Public Revenue muſt be eſſen-
tially improved. .
175.
203
V.
F-am-
N° 2, 4, and 1 2.
KORDERS of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 16th December 1802.
EXTRACT from General Letter of the Court of Direétors to Fort St. George.
Political Department.
v.
Our Preſident in Council, at Fort St. George.
Fara. I. E have requeſted Lord Mornington to make a ſhort ſtay at Madras, Nº.
previous to his proceeding to take upon himſelf the Government and 12.
General of Bengal, for the purpoſe of endeavouring to prevail on the Nabob of .
Arcot to agree to a modification of the Treaty with his Highneſs in 1792. It were
to be wiſhed that the zealous endeavours of Lord Hobart for that purpoſe had
proved ſucceſsful; and as, in our opinion, nothing ſhort of the modification pro-
poſed is likely to anſwer sy beneficial purpoſe, Lord Mornington will render a
moſt eſſential ſervice to the Company, ſhould he be able to accompliſh that objećt,
or an arrangement ſimilar thereto; but feeling as we do the neceſſity of maintaining
our credit with the Country Powers by an exačt obſervance of Treaties, a principle
ſo honourably eſtabliſhed under Lord Cornwallis's adminiſtration, we cannot authorize
his Lordſhip to exert other powers than thoſe of perſuaſion to induce the Nabob
to form a new arrangement. To enter into a particular explanation of the relative
fituation of the Company and the Nabob would be ſuperfluous; to point out the ne-
ceſſity of that connection being clearly defined would be equally ſo: nor is it leſs
evident, that the regular payment of his ſubſidy ſhould be inſured, that in conſequence
of our being obliged to have recourſe to the ſecurity, in caſe of failure on his part,
we may find the value of ſuch ſecurity undiminiſhed, and the ſeveral diſtrićts forming
fuch ſecurity not impoveriſhed under the management of thoſe to whom Tuncaws
or aſſignments may have been granted. - º
r We are, your loving Friends, -
- Hugh Inglis.
London,
18th Oćtober 1797. r j. Manſhip.
'. 8 . - j. Roberts,
&c. &c.
EXTRACT Letter from Lord Mornington to the Secret Committee;
dated 23d June 1798. -
Para. 4. By the overland diſpatch, which will leave Calcutta on the 3d July, -
I intend to ſubmit to you the whole detail of my proceedings with the Nabob of
Arcot. - ; - i -
To the Secret Committee of the Honourable Court of Direétors.
~ * Honourable Sirs, {
We had the honour to addreſs you on the 3d inſtant. .
2. We avail ourſelves of this Diſpatch further to adviſe you, that the Right.
Honourable the Governor General has acquainted us, that immediately on his arrival
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at Fort St. George, he loſt no time in taking the neceſſary ſteps for opening a nego-
ciation with the Nabob of Arcot, with a view to the accompliſhment of your wiſhes
with regard to the modification of the Treaty of 1792. -
3. The Governor General, however, found his Highneſs ſo completely indiſpoſed
to that arrangement, as to preclude all hopes of obtaining his conſent to it at
preſent.
*Has never
been ſent.
* Has never
been re-
corded.
4. His Lordſhip truſted, that he ſhould have had it in his power to forward to
you the detail of his communications with the Nabob on this ſubjećt by the preſent
diſpatch. Other important matters, however, having preſſed more immediately on
his attention, he has been under the neceſſity of poſtponing the tranſmiſſion of thoſe
details “ to a future opportunity. The delay appeared to him of the leſs import-
ance, as his Highneſs's refuſal to conſent to the modification of the Treaty of
courſe precluded his Lordſhip from taking any further immediate ſteps in the
buſineſs. - -
We have the honour to be,
- - Honourable Sirs, -
Fort William, . Your moſt faithful humble Servants,
4th July 1798. - (Signed) Mornington.
- - * . - - Alured Clarke.
P. Speke.
W. Cowper.
E X T R A C T of Secret Letter from Fort St. George ; dated
13th Auguſt 1799. --
75. At our Conſultation of the 23d July, the Governor General recorded a Letter
from his Lordſhip to the Nabob, together with his Highneſs's Anſwer, upon the
ſubjećt of a modification of the exiſting engagements between the Company and
This Highneſs. - * -
76. It is the intention of the Governor General to record, at a future period, the
whole * of his Lordſhip's negociation with the Nabob ; but in the mean while,
we tranſmit, at his Lordſhip's requeſt, a Copy of theſe Papers for your infor-
mation. - • . . . * * * -
To his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic. -
- r (Written 24th April 1799.)
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, - w
1. Within a few days ſubſequent to my arrival at this Preſidency, I had the honour
to inform your Highneſs of the ſtate of the differences exiſting between the Honour-
able Company and Tippoo Sultan, and conformably to the 10th Article of the
Treaty of 1792, I explained to your Highneſs, in the fulleſt manner, the probability of
an approaching rupture with that Prince. - -
2. The condućt of Tippoo Sultan ſince that time, having rendered war abſolutely
neceſſary for the ſecurity of the Allied Powers, hoſtilities have actualiy commenced.
3. The third Article of the Treaty of 1792, ſtipulates, “That in the event of war
“ breaking out in the Carnatic and countries appertaining to either party, and de-
“ pendant on the Carnatic, or contiguous thereto, it is agreed for the better proſecution
“ of it, that as long as it ſhall laſt, the ſaid Company ſhall poſſeſs full authority over
“ the Carnatic (except the Jugheers belonging to the Family of the ſaid Nawaub,
“ and except alſo certain charities) and ſhall colle&t the Revenues thereof, the ſaid
* Company hereby engaging, that during ſuch war they will pay to the ſaid Nawaub,
* one-fifth ſhare of the net revenue ariſing therefrom.” • - #
4. Under this Article, it is now become the right of the Company to exerciſe that
full authority over the Carnatic, which is thus formally acknowledged to be neceſſary
for the better proſecution of the war. - .
5. Your Highneſs, I am perſuaded, is alſo ſatisfied, that it is now become my indiſ.
penſable duty, without delay, to aſſume the revenues of the Carnatic, conformably to
the third Article of the Treaty of 1792, unleſs ſome new arrangement can now be
f framed
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framed, with the conſent of both Parties, which ſhall afford equal ſecurity to the com-
mon intereſts of your Highneſs and of the Company, for the vigorous and effectual
proſecution of the war. *
6. I am aware, that both your Highneſs and your reſpected Father have ever been
-difinclined to the aſſumption of the Carnatic by the Company, in the manner ſpeci-
fied by the Article in queſtion, and entertaining an anxious and ſincere defire, not only ,
-to promote your Highneſs's intereſts and welfare, but to reſpect your inclinations and
fentiments to the utmoſt extent, compatible with the ſecurity of the Carnatic, I am
induced to ſubmit to your Highneſs's conſideration the plan of a new arrangement
between your Highneſs and the Company, which, if it ſhall prove acceptable to your
Highneſs, will preclude the neceſſity of reſorting to the ſtipulations of the third Article
of the Treaty of 1792, and of aſſuming the whole of the Carnatic, not only during the
preſent but during any future war.
7. In framing an arrangement on this foundation, I have endeavoured to extend
its proviſions with the view of comprehending the whole ſtate and condition of your
Highneſs's connection with the Company, as well as the equitable adjuſtment of the
various ſubjećts of complaint which your Highneſs has been pleaſed to repreſent te
me, ſince the period of my taking charge of the General Government of India.
8. Before I proceed to the details of this plan, I ſhall ſubmit to your Highneſs's
confideration ſome obſervations, which, as they proceed from my good wiſhes for your
proſperity and happineſs, I truſt you will receive with the cordiality of friendſhip.
9. Your Highneſs's ſituation for ſome years paſt has neither been ſatisfactory to
yourſelf, nor advantageous to the intereſts either of your own ſubjećts or of the
Company. -
Io. Your ſtipulated Monthly Payments, under the Treaty of 1792, are not only
moderate in their amount, but cannot be ſtated to bear a due proportion to the in-
creaſed Military charges now defrayed by the Company for the defence of the
Carnatic. .
1 1. Your Highneſs will never forget, that the amount of theſe payments was ſettled
by Lord Cornwallis under an indulgent modification of the Treaty of 1787, the be-
nefits of which the Company cheerfully relinquiſhed, for the purpoſe of relieving his
Highneſs the late Nabob of the Carnatic, and ultimately your Highneſs, from diſtreſs
of circumſtances, and from anxiety of mind. - • ‘’ *.
12. Moderate as theſe payments are in their amount, they have proved the ſource
of continual vexation to the late Nabob of the Carnatic and to your Highneſs; and
you have never been able to realize them in the Company's Treaſury without the ut-
moſt degree of difficulty and embarraſſment, ariſing from unfortunate defečts in the
adminiſtration of your affairs. .*
13. Theſe embarraſſments have occaſioned the adoption of temporary expedients,
for the purpoſe of removing the preſſure of the moment; and the conſequence of re-
forting to ſuch expedients have been injurious, not only to the peace of your Highneſs’s
mind, but to the permanent intereſts and happineſs of your ſubjećts, and to the
foundations of the opulence and proſperity of the Carnatic. §
14. The truth of this faithful and amicable repreſentation will, I am perſuaded,
produce a juſt impreſſion on your Highneſs's mind, when you reflečt on the large
amount of thoſe ſums of money, applied to defray the exorbitant rates of intereſts on
all the various loans occaſioned by the neceſſity of diſcharging your monthly
payments. - - -
15. Theſe loans have uſually been accompanied by aſſignments of territory to the
creditors, whoſe vexatious management of the revenues aſſigned has been the con-
tinual cauſe of the moſt aggravated calamities to the inhabitants of the Carnatic. In
theſe tranſačtions the loſs has fallen on your Highneſs, your ſubjećts, and your funds;
and the illicit profit has enriched thoſe who (to uſe the words of your reſpected Father,
addreſſed to Lord Cornwallis) never approach your Durbar for any other purpoſe
than to purſue their habitual views of plunder and rapine. * -
16. Upon the whole, the final reſult of this ſyſtem has been, that your Highneſs’s
mind has continued in a perpetual ſtate of ſolicitude and alarm, from the difficulty
of ſatisfying the Company’s claims, of which the moderation and juſtice cannot be
175. x conteſted :
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and 12.
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formance of this obligation, and if the neglect of this obligation threatens to defeat
conteſted; that the reſources of your country have fallen into a ſtate of progreſſive
decay; and that the Company regularly receiving your Highneſs's monthly payments
into the Treaſury, has viewed with unavailing regret the approach of that criſis in the
Carnatic, when every ſource of public revenue and credit, as well as of private opu-
lence, induſtry, and population, muſt be reduced to the loweſt condition.
17. Neither your Highneſs nor the Company can refle&t with ſatisfaction on the
regular diſcharge of your monthly payments, when thoſe payments are known and
acknowledged to be effected by means which aggravate your Highneſs's embarraſſ.
aments, and rapidly exhauſt the territorial ſecurity pledged to the Company for the
Military Subſidy. . * r
18. The collateral operation of this unhappy ſyſtem is not leſs injurious than its
direét tendency. The notoriety of thoſe embarraſſments, which compel your High-
neſs to reſort to the expedients of loans and aſſignments of territory, tends to a general
expectation of the approaching failure of your monthly payments, and conſequently
of a ſpeedy transfer of the pledged diſtrićts to the management of the Company.
I 9. A conſtant expe&tation of war for ſome years paſt has further countenanced the
notion, that the Company's management muſt ſoon be extended over a large part of
your Highneſs's territories, under the third Article of the Treaty of 1792.
20. Theſe expectations have precluded the poſſibility of introducing, for the relief
of your Highneſs's ſubjećts, any improvement founded on fixed and durable prin-
ciples. : -
21. The Carnatic, therefore, in addition to the calamitous miſrule of thoſe who
have governed it, under temporary aſſignments of territory, has been ſubjećted to all
the accumulated evils of a divided Government, and of a flučtuating and precarious
authority. -
22. Theſe ſentiments relating to your Highneſs's ſituation are not the reſult of my
judgment alone; I ſubmit them to you as the reſult of the deliberate judgment of the
Honourable Court of Direćtors, and of His Majeſty's Miniſters, formed upon a full,
diſpaſſionate, and impartial inveſtigation of the relation in which your Highneſs ſtands
towards the Company, and of the whole ſtate of your affairs. - t
23. The principles of ſound and comprehenſive policy, the duties of reſpect and
regard for your Highneſs, as well as of thoſe of humane confideration for the welfare of
your ſubjects, demand, that the Company and His Majeſty's Miniſters ſhould look be-
yond the mere convenience of the preſent hour, to the certain operation of evils me-
nacing the permanent reſources of your country. * * º
24. The apprehenſion of the approach of that period, when the neceſſary effeót of
theſe evils muſt break forth to the entire ruin of the intereſts of your Highneſs and
the Company in the Carnatic, has induced the Court of Direétors, and the Govern-
ment of Fort St. George, to urge with earneſtneſs the neceſſity of a new arrangement
with your Highneſs. They have however, refrained from inſiſting, to its full extent, in
that claim of juſtice and right which the Company derives from the letter as well as
from the general ſubſtance and ſpirit of the Treaty of 1792, according to the eſta-
bliſhed maxims of Public Law and National Faith.
25. Under that Treaty, your Highneſs's Faith is unequivocally pledged never to
grant Tuncaws, or aſſignments of revenue, on the diſtrićts compoſing the ſecurity for
your monthly payments to the Company. -
26. I am aware, that the ſame Article has alſo provided for the avoidance of all
fuch Tuncaws or aſſignments as ſhall be found to exiſt on any of the pledged diſtrićts
which ſhall paſs into the hands of the Company, under the operation of the preceding
Articles of the Treaty. But this proviſion cannot be viewed in any other light, than
that of an extraordinary precaution to eſtabliſh an additional ſecurity for the intereſts
of the Company it cannot be continued to abſolve your Highneſs from the poſitive
obligation which you have contraćted in ſpecific ſums, “ not to grant Tuncaws or
“ aſſignments, on any account, on the revenues of the diſtrićts reſponſible for any
“ arrears which may accrue in the payment of the ſtipulated Kiſts.”
27. If the Treaty of 1792 has not provided a ſufficient ſecurity for the due per-
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the primary objećt of the whole Treaty, and to deſtroy the fundamental principle of
your Highneſs's connection with the Company, the Contraćting Parties muſt reſort to
the general Law of Nations, to ſupply the defective proviſions of an engagement
which it is their mutual intereſt to preſerve inviolate, according to its true tenor and
original ſpirit. .
28. The permanent eſtabliſhment of an adequate territorial ſecurity for the pay-
ment of your Highneſs's ſhare of the expence of defending the Carnatic, is the prin-
scipal objećt of the Treaty of 1792. The Treaty therefore would become nugatory
and deluſive, if no remedy could be provided againſt the continuance of a ſyſtem,
whoſe unreſtrained progreſs muſt ultimately deprive your Highneſs of the power of
‘ſatisfying your engagements to the Company, and muſt leave the Company bereft of
all means of recovering the ruinous conſequences of ſuch a failure; your Highneſs’s
own diſcernment will at once enable you to judge, whether it was the intention of
:Lord Cornwallis, in ſigning the Treaty of 1792, to provide a real, ſubſtantial, and laſt-
sing ſecurity for the Company's Military Subſidy, or to ſančtion a ſyſtem of diſorder,
by which the whole value and efficiency of that ſecurity muſt be annihilated before
, the Company could derive any benefit from it. -
29. It is not neceſſary at preſent, to trouble your Highneſs with a more detailed
repreſentation on this ſubjećt.—The plan which I now have the honour to ſubmit to
you, is calculated to preclude all ſuch diſcuſſions; and I have revived the ſubjećt in
this place merely for the purpoſe of pointing your attention to one of the principal
cauſes which have rendered a new arrangement with your Highneſs indiſpenſable.
3o. Your Highneſs, I am perſuaded, cannot reaſonably view the propoſition for a
anew arrangement proceeding from the Company with any degree of jealouſy or alarm;
I muſt repeat the obſervation, and I recommend it with all the earneſtneſs of friend-
ſhip to your moſt ſerious conſideration, that a ſimilar jealouſy on the part of the
Company would have bound his Highneſs the late Nabob and your Highneſs to the
, ſtipulations of the Treaty of 1787. - .
31. If the Company had pertinaciouſly adhered to the letter of that Treaty, and
had inſiſted on a ſtrićt performance of the engagements contračted under it, I leave
it to your Highneſs's candour and juſtice to declare what would have been the ačtual
condition of your affairs ; But the Company then waved its undeniable rights under
a ſubſiſting Treaty, and conſented to a new arrangement at your ſolicitation, and for
your benefit. The Company has therefore a juſt claim to your Highneſs’s favourable
attention on the preſent occaſion, and I truſt that under this impreſſion your Highneſs
will not receive my earneſt propoſition for a modification of the Treaty of 1792
-with any other ſenſations than thoſe with which Lord Cornwallis received your re-
ſpected Father's application for a modification of the Treaty of 1787.
32. In proceeding to ſubmit to your Highneſs the details of my propoſed plan, I
ſhall, in the firſt inſtance, ſtate certain general principles, which appear to me neceſ-
ºſary to be obſerved for the common benefit of all Parties.
Firſt, That the new Treaty ſhall comprehend the adjuſtment of every branch of
your Highneſs's affairs, as connected with your relation to the Company, and ſhall
: leave no queſtion open to future diſcuſſion.
Second, That whatever adjuſtment ſhall now take place, ſhall be ſo framed as to
afford the utmoſt degree of praćticable ſecurity againſt the poſſibility of future change,
in order that the new Treaty may become a final and concluſive ſettlement between
your Highneſs and the Company. -
Thirdly, That with a view to ſecure the ſtability of the new Treaty, as well as to
provide an adequate remedy for the evils already enumerated in this letter, effectual
proviſion be made, that no part of the Carnatic ſhall remain or fall under a divided
Government, or a fluêtuating or precarious authority. -
33. Referring to theſe general principles, the firſt objećt of conſideration in the
ſtate of your Highneſs's affairs is your debt to the Company. This now conſiſts,
Firſt, of the Balance, as reported by Meſſrs. Woolf and Place, on the 1ſt July 1793,
St Pagodas 35,06,135. Second, Balance of the Kiſtbundy Account, as per
Account made up to 9th September 1791, St Pagodas 19,98,006. Third,
I75. *. 3 H - Balance
V.
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and 12.
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V. Balance of the New Cavalry Loan, with Intereſt at 8 per Cent, to the 12th
Oćtober 1798: - © *
St Pag' - - 1 1,62,770
Total Pag' - 66,66,911
34. The two firſt articles of this debt, at the earneſt defire of his Highneſs, the
late Nabob of the Carnatic, were referred to the arbitration of the Governor General
in Council in the year 1793; and a Committee was appointed in Bengal for the
purpoſe of aſſiſting the Governor General in deciding upon them.
This Committee has never yet delivered in any Report; but having myſelf
entered into a minute examination of the whole of theſe diſputed accounts, and having
confidered with impartiality the reſpective claims of your Highneſs and of the
Company, I have no doubt that, upon the balance of theſe accounts, you will be found
juſtly indebted to the Company to a very large amount. If, however, a new arrange-
ment ſhould be acceptable to your Highneſs, I am ready, on the part of the Company,
to conſider whether it may not be pračticable to compromiſe the whole of this claim
(amounting to 55,04,141 pagodas) as well as the amount of any claim ariſing out
of the payments made by the Company to your Highneſs's conſolidated Creditors
of 1787. The extreme ſolicitude manifeſted by the late Nabob of the Carnatic to in-
duce Lord Cornwallis to place theſe diſputed accounts in a way of adjuſtment, and the
engagement by which his Highneſs bound himſelf to ſubmit implicitly to the Award
of the Governor General in Council, with relation to themſelves, are ſufficient teſti-
monies of the importance and value of the conceſſion which the Company may be
diſpoſed to make to your Highneſs in this Article, during the courſe of the
negociation.
35. With regard to the advance made by the Company to the late Nabob for the
diſcharge of his Highneſs's debt denominated the New Cavalry Loan, I am ſatisfied
that this branch of your Highneſs's debt to the Company ſhould be liquidated, partly
by an arrangement ſtated from the 37th to the 41ſt paragraph of this letter, and partly
(in the manner already propoſed by your Highneſs to Sir John Shore) by the applica-
, tion of the ſum of 6,21, to 5 pagodas, after your Highneſs's preſent guaranteed debt
ſhall have been liquidated by the operation of that fund. .
36. The great branches of your debt to the Company would thus be entirely ex-
tinguiſhed by their indulgence, and the period of the diſcharge of your New Cavalry
Debt would be ſettled in ſuch a manner that it could never interfere with your conve-
nience. A ſtipulation may be inſerted in the Treaty, binding the Company never
to apply to your Highneſs for any advance of money on account of the New Cavalry
Debt, previous to the period when its liquidation ſhall commence by the operation of
the fund aſſigned for that purpoſe. * i. * ,
37. Your Highneſs has, at different times, preferred certain claims with reſpe&t
to the Ramnad Surplus, and to the Peiſhcuſh of Jadras, and to the Pearl Fiſhery
of Ceylon.
38. Your Highneſs has been informed, that the whole queſtions reſpecting Ramnad
has been referred to the Court of Direétors. If, however, I ſhould be enabled to
conclude a new Treaty with your Highneſs, I ſhall be ready to decide the queſtion of
Ramnad, without waiting for the reſult of the reference to the Honourable the Court
gºg of Directors. And being anxious to pay every attention to your Highneſs's juſt
claims, I ſhall direct the balance of the revenues of Ramnad remaining after the
dedućtion of all expences, according to the 9th Article of the Agreement of 1795,
concluded by Lord Hobart, to be carried to your Highneſs's credit in the account of
the New Cavalry Debt, immediately after your acceptance of the General Arrange-
ment which may be concluded between your Highneſ, and the Company, in conſe-
quence of this letter. -
39. I propoſe to direét, that the whole amount of the Peiſhcuſh due to your
Highneſs ſince Jadras has been in the hands of the Company, ſhall be carried to
your credit in the ſame account. - - -
40. Your Highneſs's ſhare of the Pearl Fiſhery has been calculated, on principles
which admit of no conteſt, to be one-fifth part of the number of boats employed i.
the
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the Fiſhery in each ſeaſon, and an equivalent ſum of money has been allowed to your
Highneſs in your general account. Immediately after the execution of the new
Treaty, I ſhall direct this ſum alſo to be carried to your credit on the ſame account,
and in the ſame manner as the two preceding ſums; the Governor of Ceylon being
now at this Preſidency, in conſequence of having received my orders to meet me here,
for the purpoſe of ſettling the affairs of his Government under my directions. If the
propoſals ſtated in this letter ſhould meet your Highneſs's approbation, I ſhall direét
the Governor of Ceylon to form a Treaty with your Highneſs, ſecuring to you the
regular payment of your ſhare of the Pearl Fiſhery. The payment to be made by
the Governor of Ceylon into your Highneſs's Treaſury.
41. The Governor of Ceylon will ſtate to your Highneſs the great injury which
would ariſe to the Fiſhery from ſuffering any perſons to interfere with thoſe to whom
it is farmed; and I therefore truſt that your Highneſs will not deſire to ſend any boats
to the Fiſhery. The punétual payment of your juſt ſhare appears to me to be the
moſt advantageous ſettlement which can be made for your intereſts, as well as for thoſe
of the Governor of Ceylon. * -
42. Having thus manifeſted my deſire to attend to the ſeveral objećts which I
know to be intereſting to your Highneſs, I am further to inform you, that I am
ready, by an Article of the new Treaty, to relinquiſh the right of the Company to
the aſſumption of the Carnatic during the preſent and during all future wars, on the
following conditions: . .
43. That your Highneſs ſhall place under the excluſive management, controul,
and authority of the Company, in perpetuity, a territory equal to ſecure the re-
ceipts of the whole of your monthly payments into the Company's Treaſury, which
payments are of courſe to ceaſe from that time. The territory to be placed under
the management of the Company is deſcribed in a Memorandum annexed to this
letter. Your Highneſs will obſerve, that I have included the Southern diviſion of
the Arcot Province, although not one of the mortgaged diſtrićts, with a view to
preſerve in your Highneſs’s management the countries ſurrounding your capital, and
that the revenues under each authority reſpectively may be as compačt as circum-
ſtances will admit. In place of the Northern diviſion of Arcot, I propoſe to hold a
diſtrićt in the Southern diviſion of that Province, to the amount ſpecified in the
annexed Memorandum. I ſhall alſo, for the convenience of both Parties, be ready to
exchange diſtrićts in the Southern diviſion of Arcot, adjoining to thoſe of the centre, in
place of the Jaghire lands which your Highneſs holds to the Southward of the
Coleware, for a ſimilar purpoſe of averting the evils of a divided authority.
44. If the territory placed under the management of the Company ſhould pro-
duce more than the ſtipulated amount of 12,56–4co. I 5. 54. the whole ſurplus
ſhall be paid into your Highneſs's Treaſury, upon an account to be ſettled every third
year, or more frequently, when a permanent ſettlement of the Revenue of the Carnatic
ſhall take place. * -
45. On the other hand, if from any accident of ſeaſon, or from any other caſualty,
any deficiency ſhould ariſe in the revenue of the countries managed by the Company,
the loſs ſhall fall excluſively on the Company, and your Highneſs ſhall not be reſpon-
ſible for any part of it. - -
46. With reſpect to the piſtriëls remaining in your Highneſs's hands, your
Highneſs ſhall not be accountable for any increaſe of their produce under your
management, nor ſhall the Company be reſponſible hereafter for any contingent
diminution of it. -
47. As the expence of maintaining and repairing the Fort contained in the
diſtrićts to be placed under the Company’s management, will neceſſarily be trans-
ferred to the Company, an annual ſum will be allotted for the purpoſe, chargeable
on the aſſigned revenue. The amount of this ſum will be ſettled, with your High-
neſs's approbation, during the negociation of the new Treaty.
48. I have already obſerved to your Highneſs, that the increaſe of Military charges
for the defence of the Carnatic has rendered the amount of your Subſidy diſpropor-
tioned to its original objećt; on every principle of juſtice, the Company would be
warranted in propoſing to your Highneſs an augmentation of your Military Subſidy;
£75. & but
Nos 2s 4,
and i 2.
P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O T H E
ſecurity.
but as I am anxious to preſerve to your Highneſs the full enjoyment of an ample
and unencumbered Revenue, I have endeavoured to provide a fund for the increaſe
of the Military Subſidy, without any diminution of your ačtual receipts.
49. I propoſe, therefore, that whatever claims on the part of your Highneſs or
of the Company, remain in doubt reſpecting the Poligars, under the Treaty of 1793,
ſhould be now fully adjuſted with the Company; and I am willing to accept that
adjuſtment in lieu of all claims for an increaſe of your Military Subſidy, proportioned
to the increaſed expence of defending the Carnatic. :
50. The principle which induced the Company to ſeek the transfer of the Polygar
Peiſhcuſh will not admit any conſiderable augmentation of the annual payments from
thoſe tributaries. If the Company ſhould hereafter deem it to be a wiſe policy, the
encreaſe muſt be very moderate, and muſt be conſidered as a commutation for the
military ſervices of the Poligars. i
51. Under a new Treaty, founded on the baſis deſcribed, I entertain no doubt that
..your Highneſs's clear revenue would be confiderably increaſed; and I am perſuaded
that you will concur with me in this opinion, when you refer to the former and pre-
ſent value of the Countries which will remain in your Highneſs's hands, and when
you recollect the extent of your charges for colle&tion, and other contingencies, and
the enormous ſums which you are compelled to waſte every year on account of in-
tereſt and charges attending loans of money. *
52. Under ſuch a Treaty, the evils of a divided Government, and of an unſettled
and ill-defined power, would ceaſe throughout the Carnatic. The authority of
the Company, and that of your Highneſs, could never interfere with each other;
and the new ſettlement would bear ſuch unequivocal marks of permanency, and
ſecurity as would inſpire general confidence, facilitate the introdućtion of an im-
proved ſyſtem of management, and revive the decaying principles of general in-
duſtry, produćtive labour, and individual affluence.
53. In order to render this ſettlement perfect in allits parts, and to ſecure your High-
neſs's future eaſe and comfort under all poſſible contingencies, it will be expedient to
eſtabliſh ſome certain fund for the ſatisfaction of thoſe private creditors of the late
Nabob of the Carnatic, and of your Highneſs, whoſe claims now ſtand without
*
54. The operation of the ſum of 6,21, Io; pagodas will have liquidated the
whole of the conſolidated private debt guaranteed by Parliament, in the year 1804.
55. After that period, by your Highneſs's agreement with Sir John Shore, the
whole of this fund would be applicable to the New Cavalry Debt; but I propoſe that
one-half the ſum, namely, 3, 10,552 pagodas 8 fanams, be appropriated to the pay-
ment of the intereſt and principal of the New Cavalry Debt, and the remaining half
to the diſcharge of ſuch juſt unconſolidated debt due by your Father and by your
Highneſs to individuals, as ſhall, after the moſt ſtrićt examination, receive the ſančtion
of your Highneſs and of the Court of Direétors. g
56. After the liquidation of the New Cavalry Debt, I propoſe that the whole fund
of 6,21, Io; pagodas ſhall be applied to the payment of the unconſolidated debt,
according to the principles ſtated in the foregoing paragraph; and when the whole
of the private debt (thus ſančtioned by your Highneſs, and by the Court of Direc-
tors) ſhall have been diſcharged, I propoſe that the full amount of the ſum of
6,21, to 5 pagodas ſhall be annually paid in caſh by the Company into your Highneſs's
Treaſury. * *
57. Thus, Sir, have I ſubmitted to your Highneſs the outline of the only plan
which appears to me to promiſe the hope of order to your affairs, of tranquillity to
your mind, and of ſecurity to the intereſts of the Company committed to my charge.
58. Under the new arrangement your Highneſs would be relieved from all urgent
demands, either of a public or private nature, and you would poſſeſs a much more
ample revenue than you now enjoy, with the additional ſatisfaction of reflećting, that
your poffeſſion was liable to no diſturbance, either from the contingencies of war,
or from any caſual failure of your reſources. You would be at liberty to direct
your undivided attention to the cultivation and improvement of thoſe reſources to
the utmoſt practicable extent; and you.never could feel the neceſſity of injuring the
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main ſprings of your revenues for the purpoſe of meeting the exigency of occaſional
difficulty. . - - -
59. Whatever increaſe of produce might ariſe in the diſtrićts managed by the
Company would be a new ſource of wealth to your Highneſs, and you would feel
a perſonal intereſt in every improvement which the Company might be enabled to
introduce into the ſyſtem of your revenue. -
60. With theſe obſervations I ſhall conclude, earneſtly entreating your Highneſs
to give your moſt ſerious attention to this Letter. The opportunity is now peculiarly
favourable to the final adjuſtment of your Highneſs's affairs; if you ſuffer it to paſs
away without improvement, events may intervene to aggravate your Highneſs's
embarraſſments, to poſtpone, or even to preclude all final arrangement of your
affairs, and ultimately to involve you in inextricable diſtreſs,
61. If the general principles which I have ſuggeſted with the freedom and fincerity
of friendſhip ſhould meet your Highneſs's approbation, they may ſpeedily be re-
duced to the form of a Treaty, and I may be enabled, before my return to Bengal,
to have the ſatisfaction of laying the foundation of perpetual eaſe to your Highneſs's
mind, and of progreſſive improvement to this fertile but declining country.
62. Your Highneſs will obſerve, that throughout the whole of this letter I have
avoided any reference to your late failure in your engagements to aſſiſt the Company
in the preſent exigency, by the immediate payment of a part of the New Cavalry
Debt. I truſt you will attribute my filence on this recent tranſačtion to my earneſt
deſire of abſtaining from any diſcuſſion which can be painful to your Highneſs.
I have the honour to be,
With great reſpect and attachment,
Fort St. George, Your Highneſs’s
24th April 1799. Moſt faithful humble Servant,
g - º - (Signed) Mornington.
(A true Copy.) G. Bucham,
. - 2. | Sub-Sec.
(No. 1.)—M E MOR AND U M of Sums, which, in the event of a General
- Arrangement taking place between his Highneſs and the Company,
it is propoſed to carry to his credit, in part payment of the Cavalry
JLoan Debt: - : *
Sadras Peſhcuſh, for 3 years - - - - - - - - - - 4,35o 27 O.
£amnaad Surplus - - - - - - - - - - - - - 57,820 o o
Share of the Pearl Fiſhery for 1797
Ditto - - ditto - - - - - for 1798
Ditto - - ditto, eſtimated for 1799
- - - 56,488 I 2 C
- 56,488 12 o
gº
dº
ſº
sº
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sº
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Total propoſed to be credited in part of the -
2,30,040 5 65
Cavalry Loan Debt - - - - - - - & - .
Unadjuſted Balances due by his Highneſs the Nabob to e’
the Company, which it is propoſed to compromiſe, in
the event of his Highneſs agreeing to the proffered final
Arrangement of his Affairs: - -
Balance as per Account Current, the reſult of an inveſtigation
of Meſſrs. Woolf and Place - - - - - 35,06, 13; 20 17
Balance of his Highneſs’s Kiſtbundy Ac- -
£ount, cloſed July 1790 - - - - 19,98,Co6 Io 22
Total Balance and Claims to be adjuſted - S. P. 57,34, 182 o 24
- 54,892 26 65
- 55,04, 141 3o 39
(A true Copy.) -
G. Buchan, w
Sub-Secº.
‘. 175. $ - - - 3 1.
N* 2, 4,
2 I 2
P A P E R S R E LAT I N G To T H E
V.
Nos 2, 4,
and 12.
ſ. 520,845. º -- - - and his Total clear Revenue will be - - Pº 13,02, I 14
at - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Star Pagodas 6,58,283
(No. 2.)—ME MOR AND U M of the Diſtrias, with the Eſtimated Amount
- of their Net Revenue, to be placed under the excluſive management,
controul, and orders of the Engliſh Eaſt India Company, by His
Highneſs the Nawaub, &c. &c. &c. of the Carnatic, by the propoſed
Treaty, in lieu of his Highneſs's Payment in money, º
of - - - - - - - - - Pagodas, 12,56,4Co. 15. 54. ,
Setwadoo, including Culicut, &c. - - - - - - - 9,8co
Palnaud - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 24,657
Ongole - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 93,334
Nellore - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3,31,783
Trichinopoly, excluſive of Jaghires - - - - - - - 2,51,139
Madura - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 64,945
Tinnevelly - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4,06,508
Southern Diviſion of Arcot, to the amount of - - - - 2,01,157
* Sadras Peſhcuſh - - - - - - - - - - - - 1,450
*g
~ Total, Star Pagodas - - 1384,773
*—
* Sadras being within the Company's Jaghire, is here inſerted on the principle of preſerving diſtinë
the authority of the Company and his Highneſs in their reſpective diſtricts. T .
(A true Copy.) *
- * * : - .G. Bucham,
Sub-Secy.
(No. 3.)—ME MoR ANDUM of the Diſtriás and Revenue, eſtimated to
- remain with his Highneſs and Family. -
Arcot Province, excluſive of the portion placed under the ma-
nagement of the Company - - - - - - - - - - 3,09,215
Jaghires - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2, 13,421.
Eſtimated Surplus payable to his Highneſs from the Diſtrićts
under the Company's management - - -, P 1,28,373
Dedućt ſuppoſed Amount required for the repairing
Forts - - - -. - - - - - 20,000
Surplus - - - 1,08,373
Eſtimated Revenue from the Pearl Fiſhery - - - - - - 50,000
. F-
Total, Star Pagodas - - 6,81,cog
To which add, the amount that will revert to his Highneſs when
his Public and Private Debts are liquidated - - - - - 6,21, Io;
*sº
per aſ Ill! II].
*-ºs
* -wrº
It is here proper to remark, that there is greater room for improvement in the
revenue of the Arcot province, where his fighneſs's diſtrićts are fituated, than in
any other in the Carnatic. Its former value was eſtimated at, S' Pagº 12,54,655
It is in theſe Memoranduras only eſtimated, including Jaghire,
*sºn
Decreaſe in the preſent Eſtimate, Star Pag $96,572
From whatever cauſes this extraordinary failure has ariſen, there can be no doubt
that the province of Arcot, now protećted by the Company’s extended boundary,
muſt progreſſively improve under good management, and conſequently his *::::::
sneſs's
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neſs's revenue muſt increaſe; it will alſo increaſe, from ſimilar effects, in thoſe diſtrićts V.
ander the management of the Company. - sº -- -
- * . * , h N° 2, 4,
(A true Copy.) * , r and 12.
(Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone, t
P. T. to the Government,
(A true Copy.)
- G. Buchan,
Sub-Secretary.
My Lord, - J -
Having read your Lordſhip's Letter of the 24th ultimo with great and ſerious at-
tention, ſuitable to the importance of the contents, I ſhall return to it a fair and
explicit anſwer. The candour and ſincerity of my charaćter, without a requeſt
from your Lordſhip, would have induced me on this, as well as on all other occaſions,
to ſpeak without diſguiſe. I have an additional inducement, however, for plain-
'neſs of language and ſentiment, in the earneſt deſire and manly example of your
Lordſhip. . . * - - - &
I acknowledge, my Lord, that under certain circumſtances, explained by the
third Article of the Treaty of 1792, the Company are veſted with authority to aſ-
fume the Carnatic, and, amongſt other things, empowered to colle&t the revenue
which it yields, and I confeſs (without regard to the conſequence of that confeſſion)
that the aſſumption of the controud over the affairs and revenues of my Country,
under the proviſion of the Treaty, would occaſion a ſevere and heartfelt afflićtion;
yet if the time ſhould arrive which ſhould render it neceſſary that the Company
avail themſelves of the objećts which that Article ſecures, I hope that Divine Provi-
dence will endue me with fortitude adapted to the neceſſity of the ſeaſon, and the
adverſity of fortune; that I may make the ſacrifice required of me, if not with
cheerfulneſs, at leaſt with dignity and reſignation, and in performing this extreme
aćt which the Treaty enjoins (if it ever be demanded of me.) I ſhall have a con-
ºftant conſolation in refle&ting on the letter of the Treary itſelf, which ſtipulates
that as ſoon as the exigency of the times which required the temporary ſacrifice ſhall
have been ſatisfied, I ſhall be re-inſtated in all my privileges and authority; and I
ºfhould wrong your Lordſhip’s honour, and ſlur the reputation of thoſe whom your
Lordſhip repreſents, if I could ſuſpect for an inſtant, that whilſt I was fulfilling
every relation to the Company with fidelity and exačtneſs, they ſhould heſitate on
, their parts to diſcharge their relative conneétive duties.
Poſſeſſing theſe avowed ſentiments within myſelf, and this declared ſenſe of the
honour and juſtice of nay Allies, I have no diffinclination of that ſtrong and rooted
kind which your Lordſhip would ſeem to indulge, ſo as to induce me to enter into
any new arrangernent, rather than conform myſelf to the proviſions of the exiſting
engagements. No, my Lord, the Treaty of 1792 was concluded under ſuch happy
auſpices, and is calculated, from its preciſion and clearneſs, to promote and main-
stain ſo good underſtanding between the Parties to it, and is moreover ſo recom-
mended to my affečtions by the loved and revered Perſonages who framed it, that
J.could not for any perſonal inconvenience, were it ten times greater, ſo it were
created by the Treaty, conſent that it ſhould be altered even in a letter.
But your Lordſhip has ſubmitted reaſons apparently more cogent why a new ar-
.rangement would be deſirable. And theſe ariſe out of the ſuppoſed defečt of the
Treaty itſelf, to inſure the objećts which it had in view, and the probable deficiency of
my means to fulfil hereafter the duties which it impoſes.
I cannot overlook a circumſtance, which, in affairs of this ſort, muſt naturally pre-
ſent itſelf to the mind of your Lordſhip ; that the Treaty which is now ſuggeſted to
be defective, has had a trial, my Lord, of more..than ſeven years, and without a ſingle
exception, has been found for that period not only ſufficient for all common purpoſes,
:but has ſecured the fulfilment of every engagement ſtipulated in it with an harmony
tuninterrupted; and perhaps, I might add, almoſt unprecedented in any country or
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age. And if experience be the true teſt of human inſtitutions, there can be nothing,
my Lord, to apprehend of the competency of the Treaty of 1792, to continue to the
Contraćting Parties, to an incalculable date, that happineſs, that ſecurity, and that uni-
verſal Good-will which it has hitherto produced. • * .
But, my Lord, you have direéted my obſervation beyond the preſent hour, and
have informed me, that your flordſhip, and the Miniſters of His Majeſty the King of
Great Britain, (whom ºthay the Almighty preſerve 1) have looked, and do ſtill look,
with a politic care and wiſe prudence, to future probabilities and events, as they re-
gard our mutual conditions, and that the proſpečt is terrifying.
I do not preſume to know the grounds on which your Lordſhip has formed your
opinion of the inſtability of my affairs, nor is it neceſſary that I ſhould be acquainted
with them; it is ſufficient for me to know, that they are abundant enough to enable
me to keep with punétuality my plighted faith. Your Lordſhip, however, has ſuppoſed,
that from a difficulty to raiſe the Kiſts periodically payable to the Company, that I
have been reduced to ſo great pecuniary diſtreſſes, that to provide a remedy for them,
I have had recourſe to meaſures which I cannot bring myſelf to name ; and that
theſe meaſures in their expečted conſequences may affeót the intereſts of the Company
as conneéted with the Treaty.
Your Lordſhip has a right undoubted, to expect an explanation of me as to any
Public matter, which may regard the affairs of the Company as interwoven with my
own; and I ſhall be happy on all occaſions, as I am at the preſent opportunity, of an-
ſwering that part of your Lordſhip's Letter which reſpects the alledged aſſignment of
certain diſtrićts, ſet apart by the Treaty of 1792 as a ſecurity for the Company, on the
poſſible occurrence of a deſcribed event. But as to any thing foreign to this, that
may relate either to the internal management of my countries, or the Government of
my people, I muſt, on principles as obvious as they are juſt, decline to enter into a
diſcuſſion. - -> -
The ſuppoſed aſſignment of the diſtrićts alluded to by your Lordſhip, is ſtated
as having been produćtive of the greater part of the miſchief which is lamented and
deplored in your Lordſhip's Letter, and as having laid the ſeeds of a more
deadly and extenſive ruin; and your Lordſhip, relying principally on this, and on
reaſons applicable to it, has ſuggeſted the neceſſity of a new arrangement. I am
happy, my Lord, to offer an unqualified explanation of this alledged tranſačtion, and
I have a double motive to rejoice at the opportunity afforded by your Lordſhip, ſince
it will ſerve to free my charaćter and honour from the imputations which at preſent
reſt upon it; and will convince you, my Lord, that there are no ſubſtantial reaſons,
which muſt give your Lordſhip infinite ſatisfaction, for any apprehenſions on this or
any other ground related with it. & *-
~ I do moſt unequivocally aſſure your Lordſhip, on the word and faith of a Sove-
reign, that no one foot of the diſtrićts ſet apart by the Treaty of 1792, have been,
or are in any manner or way, direétly or indireétly aſſigned by me, or with my
knowledge, to any individual whatſoever; and having made this ſolemn and unreſerved de-
claration, I would hope that I need not urge more.
But I have ſuffered, my Lord, ſo much from reports, founded on an erroneous
conception of my condućt in this particular, that I am unavoidably led to be more
explicit, perhaps, than might be expected by your Lordſhip: I have been repreſented,
my Lord, to the world, (and it were impoſſible to calculate how far I may yet be
injured by it, unleſs I put a limit to the repreſentation) to have notoriouſly mort-
gaged and aſſigned the diſtrićts pledged to the Company, and the manner of my
doing it has been publicly and confidently ſpoken of and proclaimed. That the
ill-will of thoſe who are inimical to my intereſts may have no further pretence for
their aſſertions, and that it may be unable further to operate to my prejudice on the
enlightened mind of your Lordſhip, I ſhall briefly ſtate the manner in which pay-
ments are made into my Treaſury from thoſe diſtrićts by the Officers of my Revenue
Departments, and which are ordinarily ſaid to give riſe to the aſſignments in queſtion;
and it is in this ſimple way:- - i . .
. As my monthly Kiſts require to be paid with regularity, and as the expence and
danger of the remittance of money in ſpecie from a diſtant country to the Preſidency
. - aſ C
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215
are great, my Aumils or Managers, for the amount of their reſpective payments,
procure bills from the Sircars for the particular ſums to be remitted, and theſe bills
are indifferently purchaſed of Native Bankers, who may have money unemployed at
Madras; they are taken without reference to me or to any conne&ted with my
Durbar; they are paid in ſpecie or grain, and never ſuper-induce an agreement
of any ſort to which I am made a party, direétly or collaterally. The tranſ-
aćtion ends, as it originates, with the Managers and the Sircars.
Having convinced your Lordſhip, as I would believe, that the evil anticipated by
your Lordſhip, of the expected failure of my reſources to anſwer the exigencies of
the Treaty, can never happen from any of the cauſes mentioned by your Lordſhip,
and that the Treaty in its operation is capable of inſuring all theſe advantages which
it was deſigned to ſecure, I will not enter, my Lord, into a detail of the new pro-
poſals founded on ſuppoſed circumſtances, which I have ſhewn to your Lordſhip to
have been without exiſtence. - - 2.
The wiſdom and juſtice which pervades many parts of the arrangement propoſed,
I cannot but admire, as I have hitherto admired all the Public Aéts and propoſitions
of your Lordſhip. They are the certain and avowed offsprings of a great and
comprehenſive mind ; and although I cannot ſo far accede to the meaſure, as to
give it, in as much as it regards myſelf, all the weight and authority of a Treaty,
yet I ſhall endeavour, as far as circumſtances allow, to obſerve the genuine maxims
which your Lordſhip has uſed to enforce your propoſals, and the condućt which they
would inculcate. --
You need not be told, my Lord, of the unconquerable and inſurmountable obſtacle
in the way of any new engagement, which could not be overſtepped without
outraging every principle that ſhould make engagements binding; for your Lordſhip is
not unacquainted that my revered and honoured Father, with his departing ſpirit, en-
treated and enjoined me that I would not conſent to the alteration of a Treaty which
he had painfully concluded; and I aſſured him, on the moſt ſacred obligation that
Religion impoſes, that I would obey his dying commands, Does it remain for me to
conjure your Lordſhip, by the nobleneſs of your own nature, by your filial piety, by
the reverence you owe to God, by each and all of theſe, not to renew an application
which I cannot accede to, without a breach of all moral and religious duties, and
cannot liſten to without reproach. -
My Lord, praiſe be to the Almighty God, that, in conſequence of your Lord-
4hip's wife and reſolute meaſures, the ſtrong fortreſs of Seringapatam, which is
equal to the wall of Alexander, and which has for a great length of time with-
ſtood all the attempts of other Princes, has been captured, and the extenſive country
of Myſore reſtored to tranquillity and ſafety, by the annihilation of the Diſturber of
that country. This has conveyed to my mind unſpeakable joy and gladneſs; it was
right that ſuch a glorious vićtory, and the acquiſition of ſuch honourable advantages,
ſhould be derived purely from your Lordſhip's good fortune, and it will remān for
sever on the records of time. Verſe: “It is a happy plan that has ſucceeded; this
“ affair has been effected by you, and is ſuch as is done by the Brave.” The
vićtories which my Friends have obtained, by Divine favour, has given the greateſt
joy to me, who am their ancient Ally; I conſider them as an auſpicious omen of
my own happineſs, and am perſuaded that your Lordſhip will manifeſt your kindneſs
towards me, eſpecially in the ſupport of my rights. The Talooks of Currore, the
two Sealans, and as far as Tungarpeatty, have always been dependencies on
Trichinopoly. The Father of 1 ippoo arrogantly uſurped theſe Talooks; ſ hope
they will now be reſtored to me by your Lordſhip's juſtice. Another requeſt I
have to. make, and with which I truſt your Lordſhip will not only be not offended,
but that you will grant my deſire, is this ; when Friends acquire an immenſity of
power, thoſe who are their ſincere and ancient friends are inſpired with certain
hopes of obtaining their wiſhes. The troops for which I pay nine lacs of pagodas
yearly, in the ſervice of the Company, were employed with thoſe of my friends in
the redućtion of the Myſore country; I truſt, therefore, that I ſhall be aliowed to
participate in the Conquered Countries, in proportion to the ſum 1 contribute for
thoſe troops, and that thereby, through your Lordſhip's juſtice and equity, I, who
175. * , * 3 K *
have
W.
Nos 2, #2
and 12.
2 16
P A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O T H E
'V.
Nos 2, 4,
and 12.
* Lord
Welleſley.
‘have always followed the fortunes of my Friends, and prayed for their acquirement of
ſuch ſucceſs, may obtain my wiſhes. f .
May your days be happy
What more?
Written the 7th Zulhige 1213 Hegere,
or 13th May 1799. *
(A true Copy.) (Signed) .N. B. Edmonſtone,
.P. T. to the Gov".
(A true Copy.)
;G. Buchan.
Sub-Sec'.
‘EXT R A C T Political Letter to Fort Saint George ; dated 5th
June 1799. -
Para. 16. Since the preceding paragraphs were written, we have received
ſeveral papers reſpecting Lord Mornington's negociation with the Nabob, in which we
obſerve his Highneſs has propoſed to relinquiſh his Sovereignty over the Poligar
Countries, on certain conditions. As Lord Mornington has not given an opinion
relative to this propoſition, it is not our intention either to expreſs our approbation
of, or to offer any objećtions to the terms propoſed by his Highneſs. The only
‘purpoſe which we have in view in adverting to theſe Papers, is, that the Governor
General in Council ſhould give you inſtructions as to the terms upon which the
negociation ſhould be carried on, and that you may be guided by their opinion and
direétions, before any arrangement ſhall be finally concluded. -
17. We have been adviſed by the Earl of Mornington, that the Nabob continues
to oppoſe a determined reſolution to the modification of the Treaty of 17 92, which
has been repeatedly propoſed to him. At the ſame time we obſerve, that his
Highneſs has diſtinétly acknowledged, that he is in the praćtice of raiſing money
annually by aſſignments of the revenues of thoſe Diſtrićts which form the ſecurity
for the payment of the Company's ſubſidy. As this pračtice is unqueſtionably con-
trary to the letter and ſubverſive of the ſpirit of that Treaty, we direét, that imme.
diately upon the receipt hereof, you adopt the neceſſary meaſures for taking poſſeſ-
ſion, in the name of the Company, of the whole or any part of the ſaid diſtrićts, the
revenues of which ſhall appear to be ſo aſſigned, and that you continue to hold the
ſame, and colle&t the rents thereof, in order that the Company may not in future
be deprived of the only ſecurity which they poſſeſs under the before-mentioned
Treaty, to anſwer any failure in the Nabob in the diſcharging his ſubſidy. You will
immediately communicate to the Nabob the determination we have come to, and
the orders you have received, relative to this point. &
F. X. T R A C T of Letter from Lord Clive to the Secret Committee;
dated I ith April 1800.
‘Your Letter to the Governor General, dated the 16th June 1799, is ſtill under
his Lordſhip’s “conſideration; but it is material for me to repeat, and with impreſſive
earneſtneſs, that no ſecurity ſufficiently extenſive and efficient for the Britiſh intereſt
in the Carnatic can be derived from the Treaty of 1792 ; and that no divided Power,
however modified, can poſſibly avert the utter ruin of that devoted country.
EXTRA C T Secret Letter from Fort St. George; dated 14th
April 18Oo. - -
Para. 7. In all our late Diſpatches we have been under the neceſſity of attraćting
tyour notice to the progreſſive decline in the proſperity of the Carnatic, and to the
ruinous effects of the Nabob's adminiſtration ; we have accordingly confirmed the
opinion already tranſmitted to the Court of Directors; an opinion which cannot be
too urgently repeated, that the Government of his Highneſs is rapidly approaching
Athat ſtate of weakneſs which cannot be relieved but by a radical reform.
A F F A H R S OF T H E C A R N A T J C.
217
N° 1.—E X T R A C T of Letter from the Governor General to Lord Clive;
- dated April 7th 1800.
Par. Io. Your Lordſhip will concur with me in opinion, that the diſcloſure made
by the annexed documents of the diſaffection of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, ſuper-
fedes the neceſſity of any further confideration of the ſtate of the Company's con-
Nos 2, 4,
and Iz.
nećtion with that Prince, under the orders lately conveyed by the Honourable Court
of Direétors to your Lordſhip in Council. While thoſe orders were under my
conſideration, a combination of fortunate circumſtances revealed that correſpondence,
which at once furniſhes an explanation of the perverſe ſpirits of His Highneſs's
Councils ſince his acceſſion to the Muſnud ; and demands the application of the ſole
effectual remedy for the evils which thoſe Councils have brought upon his People.
N° 3.—EXT R A C T Letter from the Secret Committee to Lord
Mornington; approved by the Board 13th June 1799.
In the event of a war with Tippoo Sultaun, the reſpective countries of the Nabob
of Arcot and the Rajah of Tanjore, will of courſe come under the Company's
management; and we direct that they be not relinquiſhed without ſpecial orders
from us, or from the Court of Directors, for that purpoſe, in order to afford ſufficient
time for the formation of arrangements for relieving thoſe reſpečtive Princes from
all incumbrances upon their revenues. -
N° 4.—EXTRA CT of Letter from Lord Mornington to the Secret
Committee; dated 25th January 1800.
‘Par. 14. The ſhort duration of the war rendered it inexpedient for me to aſſume
the management of the reſpective countries of the Nabob of the Carnatic and of
the Rajah of Tanjore, on behalf of the Company. The immediate effect of ſuch
an aſſumption would have been a conſiderable failure of ačtual reſource at a period
of the utmoſt exigency. I ſhall hereafter communicate my ſentiments at large
with reſpect to the ſtate of Tanjore and the Carnatic: the latter now occupies my
particular attention; and I fear that the perverſe Councils of the Nabob of Arcot
will prove a ſerious obſtacle to any effectual improvement of your affairs in that
: guarter. -
[ 219 1
WI.
N° 6, and 7.
O R D E R S of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 16th December 1802.
E X.T R A CT Political Letter from Fort St. George; dated 19th VI.
February 1798. - ',
J’ara. 27. AVING ſo fully entered in our laſt diſpatch from this Depart- Nº. 6, & 7.
Li ment into the ſtate of the Tanjore Country and the Carnatic, we
ſhall forbear to preſs upon your Honourable Court the ſubjećt of theſe Govern-
ments; farther than to aſſure you each day's experience tends to confirm our obſerva-
tion, and to point out the abſolute neceſſity of providing ſome means to reſcue
from ruin the ultimate ſecurity for our exiſtence on the Coaſt.
Ex T R A CT of Revenue Letter from Fort St. George; dated
15th Oétober 1798. -
T'ar. 236. On the 26th March we were informed by the Board of Revenue that
a perſon named Coopyengar, Agent of his Highneſs the Nabob's Renter at Tinne-
welly had, notwithſtanding the remonſtrances of your Colle&tor, made demands
from the Poligars of Woorcaud and Singumpetty, ſupporting thoſe demands by
an armed force.
237. We informed his Highneſs on this occaſion, that as he muſt be perfeótly
aware that he had no right whatever to interfere with the Poligars, we were con-
fident not only that the preſumption of Coopyengar was uncountenanced by any
fančtion from his Highneſs, but that he would immediately tranſmit orders for
the ſuppreſſion of thoſe irregularities; but that if his orders were not obeyed with pº to Conſ
that promptitude which was neceſſary, we ſhould be under the neceſſity of enforcing. Kºi. Ohi,
the Company’s authority. -
238. His Highneſs, in his reply, to which we beg leave to refer, aſſerts, in terms Diary to Conſ
rather unqualified, his paramount authority over the Poligars; denies that Coopyen- 20 April, wº
gar had brought forward any demand that was not equitable and founded; and
inſiſts, that the proſecution of ſuch demands was not inconſiſtent with the intereſt of
the Company in the collection of the Peiſhcuſh. . - . -
239. This Letter from his Highneſs was not replied to, for reaſons adduced
‘by our Preſident in a Minute entered on our Diary of 31ſt Auguſt; but as the
complaint has given riſe to much but unavailing correſpondence, we ſhall take the
liberty to refer you to it as noted in the margin. It is a remark which we have Conſ. 13 Ap. Do 1 June.
'frequently made, and a ſource of moſt unpleaſant refle&tion, that ſo long as theſe aſ- ºº::5 June.
ſigned Pollams ſhall continue the ſcene of two rival authorities, ſimilar complaints b. #&#., June.
will continue to ariſe; and, while they are productive of mutual diffitisfaction, there; łºjº, -
is no hope of remedying the evil. y \-onl, tº July.
I75. . . . 3 I.
Diary to Cenſ.
3 April.
22@ s, - P A P E R S R E L A T H N G T O T H E
VI. E X T R A C T Political Letter from Fort St. George ; dated 1 5th º
Oćtober 1798. -
N° 6, & 7 (12.) The Court admits the Para. 7. Upon reference to the Governor Gene-
Letter to, propriety of the Nabob's mak- I ral’s Letter, entered in the Proceedings of 16th
*49*797-ing his communications to the X Auguſt 1796, the Honourable Court will obſerve,
- Supreme Government through V that the Nabob has been required to adopt this rule
the channel of this Preſidency. J in his correſpondence with the Supreme Govern-
: ITC Int. ---. -
8. With our laſt diſpatches, however, we tranſmitted an Addreſs from his Highneſs
direét to the Honourable Court, without receiving any communication of its con-
tents. Our reaſons for doing ſo upon that particular occaſion are explained in a
Letter from our Secretary to Mr. Secretary Ramſay ; and we ſhall now beg leave to
add, that his Highneſs has taken no notice of our application to be furniſhed with
a copy of that Letter. -- -
13. With reſpect to your obſervation on the evil conſequence reſulting, as well
to the Nabob's peace of mind as to the Public intereſts, from the employment of
Europeans in his correſpondence with the Company's Government, it is only for
us to lament his Highneſs’s inattention to the advice repeatedly given him on this
fubjećt. - -
14. It is certainly an evil two long experienced; but while his Highneſs is un-
reſtrained by a ſenſe of his own dignity, or of his alliance with the Company, from
countenancing adventurers of this deſcription, there will always be found individuals
whoſe intereſts will lead them to hazard the conſequences of gratifying his Highneſs's
propenſities. - -
15. The Nabob's correſpondence, particularly his Letters of the 3d and 15th
April laſt, which we beg leave to point out to your notice, will continue to exhibit
unqueſtionable proofs of the force of this influence upon his Highneſs’s mind, and
of the indifference which he in conſequence manifeſts to his connection with the
Company under any changes or circumſtances.
16. Your Honourable Court will obſerve by our proceedings, that immediately
after the ſucceſſion of Lieutenant General Harris to the charge of this Government,
it became neceſſary to republiſh the Reſolutions ſo frequently denounced againſt the
viſits of Europeans at the Durbar. f :
(20.) The Court expect 17. We are not aware that Mr. Macleod has
that Mr. Macleod will have withheld the communication of any circumſtance
communicated all the circum- ) which may have come to his knowledge concerning
ſtances that came to his know- (loans of Money by Britiſh Subjećts in the Tanjore
ledge reſpe&ting loans in the country. The Liſt of Creditors tranſmitted by Mr.
Tanjore Country. Macleod, and entered on our proceedings of the
I ith Oétober 1796, will enable your Honourable
Court to form a judgment of the late Rajah’s embarraſſments at that period.
(21.) Copy of an Aćt of 18. We truſt, that whenever the Charter of
Parliament forwarded, eſta- |juſtice may arrive, we ſhall be furniſhed by your
bliſhing a new Court of Judi- WHonourable Court with particular inſtrućtions for
cature, and prohibiting Loans ſour guidance on this important ſubječt. The courſe
of Money to the Native of our communications ſhews, that this injurious
Princes. } pračtice ſtill continues to have effect, and that the
- difficulty of eſtabliſhing a minute, or what might be
deemed a legal dete&tion, amounts almoſt to an impoſſibility.
19. Without ſuch inſtrućtions from you, we can have no hope that the clauſe of
the late Aét will enable us to exterminate this dangerous evil; and for this reaſon,
we hope that our Diſpatches, particularly of 27th March 1797 and 19th Febru-
ary 1798, will have impreſſed the ſame idea upon the minds of your Honourable
Court. - -
67. In a preceding part of this Letter, we have attraćted the notice of your
Honourable Court to the peculiar ſtyle in which his Highneſs the Nabob has
continued to addreſs us, upon the completion of his Kift in the month of March
laſt. His Highneſs took occaſion to expatiate upon what he pleaſed to term, the
arbitrary

AFFAIR S o F THE CA R N AT I c. 221
arbitrary and tyrannical propoſal which had been made to him for a modification of Vi.
his Treaty of 1792: his Highneſs concluded this Letter by a requeſt for aſſiſtance tº . .
of Troops to ſuppreſs certain diſturbances in the Southern Provinces. - , & 7.
68. This opprobrious expreſſion was ſo inconſiſtent with the friendſhip and reſpećt
which his Highneſs in the ſame Letter profeſſed to entertain for the King, the Nation,
and the Company of England, that we felt it incumbent upon us to expoſtulate with
him upon the ſubjećt, and to explain, that the propoſal in queſtion had been made
in ſtrićt conformity with the wiſhes and inſtrućtions of the Court of Direétors, and
of His Majeſty's principal confidential Miniſters, founded upon a juſt and clear con-
ception of his Highneſs’s permanent welfare and happineſs, as well as upon princi-
ples of juſtice, humanity, and policy; and we expreſſed our concern that his in-
diſpoſition to meet thoſe wiſhes, and his determination againſt the introdućtion of
reform, had prevented a renewal of that propoſal according to the orders of your
Honourable Court. - .. º :
69. In regard to the aſſiſtance of our Troops, as his Highneſs had upon a late
occaſion declined the mediation of this Government, under the acknowledgment
that the diſturbances of his Country had been produced by the tyranny and unſup-
portable oppreſſion of his own Aumildar; and as his preſent application was as
little ſupported by any explanations of the fačt, as his demands during the pre-
ceeding year for aſſiſtance againſt the Polygars of Alianore and Waniorpollam, we
thought it expedient to aſcertain the true cauſe of this commotion, before we ſhould
involve our Troops a ſecond time in a diſreputable warfare againſt his Highneſs's
ſubjećts.
70. His Highneſs did not renew his application for the aſſiſtance of Troops; and
though he did not diſcontiuue his ſtyle of invečtive, we did not think it neceſſary to
revive the ſubjećt at a time when the Earl of Mornington was engaged in conference.
with his Highneſs. g .
71. Having received accounts of tumults among his Highneſs's Troops in the
diſtrićts of Palameatah and Nellore, which had rendered it neceſſary for the Com-
manding Officer to place Guards over his magazines of arms and military ſtores
for their ſafety, we requeſted our Prefident to point out the frequent recurrence
of theſe diſreputable tumults; and to recommend, that his Highneſs would guard
againſt the effects of the deſperation which appeared in his Military, either by the
payment or diſcharge of the numerous bodies engaged in his ſervice.
72. We received no immediate reply to this recommendation; but only a ſhort
period elapſed before we received a preſſing application from his Highneſs for two
-companies of Sepoys, for his perſonal protećtion at Chepauk Houſe, againſt the
cclamours of his troops.
73. In the beginning of March we received a Letter from his Highneſs the
Nabob, demanding that the Country of Ramnad, together with the accounts and
-balance of caſh, ſhould be reſtored to him, according to the terms of the agreement
concluded on the 4th March 1795, the particulars of which have already been com-
municated to your Honourable Court.
74. If there had been no change of circumſtances, we could have had no heſi-
tation in complying with this requeſt, in conformity with the terms of the agreement
and the ſentiments expreſſed to your Honourable Court in our Revenue Diſpatches
of 24th April and 2d Oétober 1795; but the baſis of this agreement was the So-
ºvereign right reſerved to the Nabob by the Treaty of 1792, by which the province
of Ramnad eſcheated to the Nabob upon the forfeiture of the rebellious Poligar,
With the whole ſubjećt however before you, the terms of the agreement itſelf, our
intentions declared in the Diſpatches above mentioned, and our Correſpondence
with the Supreme Government upon the extent of his Highneſs's Sovereign rights,
your Honourable Court have gone into a very full diſcuſſion of this queſtion in
your Political Diſpatch of the I oth June 1795. Having taken a very extenſive
view of the ſubject, and of the Nabob's relative ſituation to the Company, you
have narrowed his Hghneſs's rights of Sovereignty to the obſervance of cuſtomary
ceremonies, and have totally diſclaimed any right whatſoever on his part to inter-
fere in the Government of the Poligar Countries. Purſuing the ſame train of
175. - ; ideas,
& 3 º' PAP E R S R E LAT IN G To THE
VI. ideas, in your ſubſequent diſpatch of 6th of April 1796, you have gone into a very
T-- ample confideration of the Ramnad agreement; you have pronounced that agreement
* * * 7 to be entirely ſuperfluous, and the conſent of the Nabob to be altogether unneceſ-
ſary to our effectual interpoſition on the part of this Government, for the admini-
ſtration of affairs at Ramnad, upon the depoſition of the Poligar.
75. Upon theſe grounds, which in our opinion reduce the agreement to a nullity,
we have not thought ourſelves authorized to put the Nabob in poſſeſſion of Ram-
nad ; we have therefore informed him, that under your diſapproval of the agree-
ment, we were not at liberty to comply with his wiſhes; and, that as any further
diſcuſſion of the queſtion might be attended with conſequences injurious to the
province, we had no doubt his Highneſs would ſee the propriety of refraining from
a renewal of his application, - -
76. Having at the ſame time determined to continue the preſent ſyſtem of admini-
ſtration in the province of Ramnad in regard to the Succeſſor, until we ſhould receive the
inſtrućtions of your Honourable Court, we felt it our duty to explain to the Supreme
Government the motives of our condućt upon a caſe involving confiderable deli-
- cacy and importance. As this explanation embraces the whole ſubjećt according
Conſ. , to the beſt conſideration we have been able to give it, we beg leave to point it out to
#3 March. your particular notice. . , 4 -
77. His Highneſs's comments upon this Reſolution, your Honourable Court will
find in our Conſultation of the 17th April. - - . . .
78. At our Meeting of the 5th June, our Preſident laid before us ſeveral repre-
ſentations from the Sons of the late Abdul Wahab Khan, the paternal Uncle of his
Highneſs the preſent Nabob, complaining that the harſh treatment they had ex-
perienced from him ſince the death of their Father, had compelled them to aban-
don their houſe and Family, and to take refuge in the houſe of an Engliſh Gen-
itleman, where they claimed the protećtion of the Britiſh Government.
9. As the cauſe of this deſperate reſolution appeared to be the determination
of his Highneſs the Nabob to diſpoſe of the Family Jagheer, our Preſident en-
deavoured to effect a reconciliation by his private interpoſition with the Nabob ;
but having failed in this attempt, owing to the entire want of confidence of the two
parties in each other, and thinking it incumbent upon this Government to protećt
the perſons of thoſe Princes from violence or reſtraint, General Harris inſiſted that
the Nabob’s guard ſhould be withdrawn, and left a guard of the Company's troops
for the ſecurity and protećtion of this Family. -
80. It is ſome time ſince the Company's guard has been withdrawn, and hopes
were entertained that a reconciliation had been accompliſhed; but 'we are ſorry to
acquaint you, that the complaints of the Sons of Abdul Wahab Khan have been
renewed ; and we have requeſted our Preſident to endeavour to promote an accom-
injodation of theſe unfortunate diffenſions. Within theſe few days his Lordſhip has
in conſequence laid before us a Letter from his Highneſs, explaining the conditions
and terms on which the Jagheer of Chittore was granted, as well as his right to re-
ſame it. His Highneſs alſo profeſſes a diſpoſition to provide for the Family of
Abdul Wahab Khan, if they do not perſiſt to withdraw themſelves from his Dur-
bar; we are fearful, however, that from the want of confidence among theſe
Princes, there is little room to expect a reconciliation. - . &
81. Upon the expiration of the official year of accounts, we ordered the uſual Ba-
lance Account to be adjuſted, according to the ſtipulations of the Treaty of 1792.
86. We have frequently had occaſion to bring under your notice the money tranſ.
aćtions of Europeans in the provinces of Tanjore and the Carnatic; without making
therefore any farther comment upon the ſubjećt in this place, we ſhall proceed to
acquaint your Honourable Court, that at our Conſultation of the 3d April, we received
a Letter from Mr. Robert Powney, “ appointed (as he informs us) by his Highneſs
“ Walajah Nabob of Arcot, &c. &c. &c. his Agent in the Tinnevelly province, for
• the avowed purpoſe of procuring him móney to enable him to pay his Kiſts to the
* Company.” . . . *. Sº * ,
87. Mr. Powney proceeds to inform us, “ that his Highneſs Omdut ul Omrah, upon
* the death of his Father, confirmed the appointment, and agreeably to his requiſi-
, , § - .* “tion, -
*
*
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“ tion and inſtrućtions, Mr. Powney advanced all his own property, and protured
“ loans from others—As ſecurity for theſe loans, aſſignments were given in the
“ Country, and his Highneſs's Faith pledged, under his ſeal and ſignature, that they
“ ſhould remain in Mr. Powney's hands till all the debts were paid off.”
88. The objećt of Mr. Powney's addreſs was to ſtate, that his Highneſs the Nabob,
inſtead of adhering to his engagements, had deprived that Gentleman of all his ſecuri-
ties by force, and had appointed other Agents, Mr. Thomas Parry a Merchant of
Madras, and Paupiah Bramin, of notorious charaćter; and that in conſequence of an
agreement entered into by them to ſupply his Highneſs with certain ſums at ſtated
periods, the whole province of Tinnevelly (Punge Mahal excepted) had been mort-
granted to himſelf.
89. Though the objećt of this Letter was the hope of redreſſing a private injury,
yet it involved matter of weighty conſideration in regard to thoſe uſurious tranſačtions
which have been ſo frequently repreſented, and which are ſo fully explained and cor-
roborated by Mr. Powney. As we were ſanguine that our repreſentations would
have attracted the ſerious notice of your Honourable Court, and that in conſequence
your diſpatches by the Virginie, at that time expected, would contain ſpecific direc-
tions for the guidance of this Government upon caſes of this nature, we reſolved to
poſtpone the conſideration of Mr. Powney's Letter until after the arrival of that veſſel.
90. A ſhort time after Mr. Powney informed us, that his Highneſs the Nabob had
redreſſed all the grievances of which he complained; and that having ne longer any
charge to make againſt his Highneſs, or any other perſon, he requeſted, in juſtice to
all parties, permiſſion to withdraw his former Letter 5–a requeſt with which we deter-
mined not to comply.
EXT R A C T of Political Letter from Fort St. George ; dated
13th Auguſt 1799.
Para. 20. Our late extenſive military equipment having compelled us to call
forth every pecuniary reſource in our power, the Governor General deemed it expe-
dient to invite his Highneſs the Nabob, an Ally whoſe intereſts were ſo inſeparably
blended with our own, to contribute to the common cauſe againſt our formidable
enemy Tippoo Sultan ; and it was with much ſatisfaction that we learned from his
Lordſhip, that his Highneſs had promiſed to contribute the ſum of 3 lacks of pagodas;
a ſupply which would have been at that critical period, of the moſt eſſential im-
portance to your affairs. .
21. We ſhould have had much pleaſure in reporting to your Honourable Court,
that the deſcendant of your ancient Ally had contributed this eſſential aſſiſtance
towards theſe equipments and exertions, which have terminated in ſubverting the
power of the implacable enemy of his Highneſs's houſe, and of his Friends the
£ngliſh. We have to regret, however, that under the preſfing exigency of our pecu-
-niary reſources at that period, we received from his Highneſs the ſum of 16,000 pa-
godas only on account of the contribution ; the general tenor of the circumſtances
conneéted with this failure in his Highneſs's engagement will be communicated to
your Honourable Court in a particular manner by the Governor General.
22. We are concerned to inform you, that this is not the only inſtance in which
we have had occaſion to lament an indifference to the ſucceſs of our meaſures on the
‘part of his Highneſs; for, inſtead of calling forth the reſources of the Carnatic for
the ſupply of your army, his Highneſs's Managers, in every province of his domi-
ninions, not only withheld all aſſiſtance from their reſpective diſtrićts, but oppoſed
every poſſible obſtacle to the paſſage of ſupplies procured for the uſe of the army
beyond the limits of his Highneſs's territories. *
23. From the total want of efficiency in his Highneſs's Government, we believe,
than from any poſitive indiſpoſition on his own part, the repreſentations made to him
on theſe ſerious points were of little avail. In order, therefore, to guard effectually
againſt any diſappointment of the ſupplies required for the Nizam's Contingent in its
anarch through the Carnatic, and to prevent any impediment to the progreſs of the
475. 3 M ſluſſ & ſou S
VI.
No. 6, & 7.
gaged to them upon a bond ſimilar, as Mr. Powney ſtates, to that which had been
2-4 P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O T H E
VI. numerous Benjarries who accompanied it, we found it indiſpenſably neceſſary to autho-
rize the Commanding Cºfficer at Nellore to aſcertain the quantity of grain in the
* * * 7 diſtrićt, and to uſe Guards of the Company's Sepoys to prevent the removal of it
from places contiguous to the route of the detachment. -
Conſ. 24. We were careful to explain to his Highneſs the circumſtances under which we
16 January, were compelled to adopt this meaſure, and to aſſure him, that it did not proceed from
the leaſt deſire of interfering unneceſſarily with his authority, but from our great
anxiety to guard againſt any poſſible diſappointment, where the objećt was of ſuch
great magnitude. - - :
25. We had the ſatisfaātion of obſerving a very different diſpoſition in his Ex-
cellency the Rajah of Tanjore, for the deſire of his Excellency to contribute aſſiſtance
- to the common cauſe has been cordial and uniform to the extent of his means.
Diary to 26. His Excellency having propoſed to us tº raiſe a body of about 1,000 Poligars,
Qºſ., for the protećtion of his country againſt inctifions of horſe, we deſired the Reſident
19 March. . expreſs to the Rajah our ſenſe of his willingneſs to aſſiſt the Public ſervice; but
we did not conceive the riſk of an incurſion from the enemy ſo great as to counter-
balance the certain inconvenience of aſſembling ſo large a number of Poligars in
2 I IIlS. - -
E X T R A C T of Political Letter from Fort St. George;
22d January 1800.
Para. 30. Lord Clive communicated to us two Letters from his Highneſs the
C.C. No 74, Nabob, on the ſubjećt of the operations already deſcribed againſt the Poligars of
(A. & B.) Tinnevelly. In theſe Letters, his Highneſs takes occaſion to aſſert a right of nomi-
nating ſucceſſors to the expelled Poligars, and demands that no arrangement ſhall be
made without his previous approbation. - -
• * e 3 1. In his Reply, which his Lordſhip alſo laid before us, Lord Clive informed the
Nº 746. Nabob of the meaſures which had been adopted for the ſuppreſſion of the rebellion,
and the reſtoration of order; and his Lordſhip, without going into the queſtion of
his Highneſs's pretenſions, thought it ſufficient to inform him, that ſuch parts of the
arrangement for the future government of the Poligar Countries as might be ne-
ceſſary for his Highneſs's information, ſhould hereafter be communicated. -
conſ to 3. 35. The uſual adjuſtment of his Highneſs the Nabob's Kiſtbundy account has
24 Sept. been made, in conformity to the 6th Article of the Treaty of 1792. - - -
Diarytoconſ. 36. The direſpect ſhewn by certain individuals to the prohibitions which have
19 Novem. been occaſionally publiſhed againſt the reſort of Europeans to the Durbar of his
Highneſs the Nabob, has rendered it neceſſary for us to repeat that injunétion; and
it is-our ſerious reſolution to ſend to Europe, by the earlieſt opportunity, any perſon
who ſhall offend againſt this order. - -
EXT R A C T of Political Letter from Fort St. George; dated
- 9th Oétober 18Co.
* I etter to (Para. 5.*) Regrets the Nabob’s perſe- 3. We have already expreſſed to your
31 Oct. verance in the employment of Europeans | Honourable Court our convićtion of
*799. in his offenſive correſpondence; — Diſcre- the inutility of any application to his
tionary power with regard to his High- || Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic,
neſs's application for troops —Wiſh, that for the improvement of any part of his
thoſe of his Highneſs ſhould be diſbanded. J Highneſs’s Adminiſtration. -
4. Under this impreſſion, and the circumſtances which will be communicated to
the Secret Committee, Lord Clive propoſed, in conformity to the recommendation
of the Governor General, that the ſubjećt of theſe orders ſhould not at preſent be
agitated. - - -
(6.) Loans to Native Princes: ) 5. We ſhall pay particular attention to the orders
The Court can give no further contained in the concluding part of this paragraph,
direétions than thoſe contained being convinced that nothing can more effectually
in the Letter of 31 ſt ź reſtrain the ruinous practice of uſurious Loans to
1796. - the Native Princes, than a ſteady determination on
the part of the Court of Direétors, and of the Go-
: ~ VC III: Alèſ):S
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225
vernments in India, to reſiſt every arrangement, however ſpecious, which may be
propoſed for their liquidation. - .
6. It is neceſſary for us, however, to remark, that the orders of your Honourable
Court, dated 31ſt Auguſt 1796, contain reſtrićtions on the mode of proceeding to
be obſerved by us in theſe caſes which are adverſe to the intentions of thoſe orders.
The objećt of our application was to facilitate the diſcovery of theſe deſtrućtive
tranſačtions, which, being at all times difficult of proof, required that every ob-
ſtrućtion to the detection of them ſhould be removed ; but the orders of your
Honourable Court render neceſſary a declaration, on oath, previouſly to the com-
mencement of any inveſtigation; and that oath is of ſo ſpecific a nature, in regard to
the matter of faćt, as to ſuperſede the neceſſity of any farther inveſtigation. It
follows, therefore, that no uſeful examination can be taken until the matter of fačt
ſhall have been aſcertained, and we are conſequently reſtrićted from any direct
enquiry into the exiſtence of the faſt. - * ,
7. A modification of your orders of the 31ſt Auguſt 1796 is therefore neceſſary,
to enable us to execute the intention of them; and we recommend that the reſtraints
eſtabliſhed by thoſe orders on the conduct of the Governor in Council, in caſes of
ſuſpected uſury, may be removed. . - . . .
(20.) Ramnad: The Diſtrićt 15. At the recommendation of Lord Clive, we
not to be reſtored to the Nabob; have for the preſent poſtponed the conſideration of
but his Highneſs to have credit? your orders reſpe&ting the Ramnad Agreement;
for the increaſe of revenue. but have directed the amount of the Surplus Re-
venue to be carried to the account of his High-
neſs's debit to the Company. - .* ---
(37.) Remarks on the Nabob's refuſal 25. We ſhall expect, with much anxiety,
of an advance of money on account of the receipt of your Honourable Court’s de-
the Cavalry Loan —Determination to termination on this important ſubjećt, being
adopt ſome plan for the ſpeedy liquida-V of opinion, that nothing but a decifive inter-
tion of his Highneſs's debt. ference will prevail on his Highneſs to diſ-
. charge any part of his debts to the Company.
44. Your Honourable Court will have had the ſatisfaction of obſerving the ſucceſs
which attended the equipment of a detachment againſt the refraćtory Poligars of
Tinnevelly; and the meaſures which we have ſince introduced into the internal
Government of thoſe Provinces have effected the moſt beneficial change in the con-
dition of the Poligars,
45. A part of the revenue of thoſe Poligars was derived from fees allowed for
the protećtion of the villages within the territories of his Highneſs the Nabob, and
colleóted from thoſe villages by the Poligars themſelves. In aboliſhing the funétions
of the Poligars, this Government ſucceeded to the conditions of their tenure; and
the fees in queſtion were collečted in order to realize to the Company the full amount
of the Poligar Peiſhcuſh. The operation of this arrangement could not fail, however,
of producing much inconvenience to the Executive Government of the Company as
well as of the Nabob, in the province of Tinnevelly, by creating and preſerving a
conſtant interference among the inferior Officers.
46. This diviſion of authority having been attended with many vexatious conſe-
quences to the Government of his Highneſs, Lord Clive received many urgent com-
plaints from the Nabob againſt the interference, which, under the circumſtances of
the Poligar tenure, was unavoidable ; but the ſpirit of his Highneſs's Councils and
condućt deterred his Lordſhip from renewing any propoſitions for the improvement of
his Highneſs's affairs. In conſequence, however, of an urgent application from the
Nabob, with an offer of acceding to any arrangement which might be deemed
adviſable for remedying this inconvenience, Lord Clive has recently concluded an
agreement with his Highneſs, by which the colle&tion of the fees, and with them the
right of interference, has been relinquiſhed on the part of the Company; and on the
part of the Nabob the claim to the performance of the watching duties in the villages
ſituated within his territories has been relinquiſhed, his Highneſs engaging to mak
good, in ready money, the amount of ačtual loſs to which the Company will be
liable by this accommodation.
., 75. . 47. We
VI.
No. 6, & 7.
226 P A P E R S R E L A T 1 N G T O THE
VI. 47. We ſhall have the honour of reporting to your Honourable Court, at a fu-
- ture period, the completion of this arrangement: in the mean time we have acceded
*** 7 to his Highneſs's wiſhes, by withdrawing the Officers of the Company from his
diſtrićts, and by removing all cauſe of future interference. .
Conſ. 48. In the Letters of the Nabob on this ſubjećt, recorded by Lord Clive, your
** Honourable Court will obſerve much declamation on his Highneſs's right of So-
vereignty, and on the unjuſtifiable grounds of the Company's interference in the
internal Government of the Poligars. Theſe Papers are conſidered to have been
produced by the mercenary Europeans who infeft the Durbar; and as the caſe is
fully provided for by the inſtrućtions of your Honourable Court in your Letter of the
25th June 1798, lord Clive judged it ſuperfluous to provoke an angry correſpondence
with his Highneſs. The meaſures to be adopted were indiſpenſable to the Go-
vernment of the Poligar Countries; and your Honourable Court have ample expe-
rience of the obſtacles oppoſed by his Highneſs's adviſers to the advancement of the
intereſts both of the Company's and of the Nabob's Government.
49. In our laſt Diſpatches we had the honour of acquainting your Honourable
Court with the violent means uſed by his Highneſs the Nabob to expel Mr. Lau-
tour from the poſſeſſion of one of his Highneſs's houſes, legally aſſigned to that Gen-
conf theman, in payment of a debt: and we have now the ſatisfačtion of reporting to you,
22 April. that his Highneſs has been prudent enough to anticipate the neceſſity of our deciſive
- interference, by ſatisfying Mr. Lautour for the injury he had ſuſtained.
Conſ. 50. The whole of his Highneſs's property ſituated within the limits of the Re-
*** corder's Court (without excepting the Palace of Chepauk) having, however, been
pledged to individuals, we expect that ſome diſagreeable queſtions will ariſe in ſuch
caſes as may be brought by thoſe individuals before the Court of Recorder; and as
the deciſions cannot be enforced without the interference of the Government, we
ſhall unavoidably be called on to judge, and to ačt on our judgment, in points of
great delicacy between the juriſdićtion of the Civil Court and the Rights of the Na-
bob, as a Sovereign Prince. Y-
EXTRA C T of Political Letter from Fort Saint George ; dated
18th March 1801. p
* Letter to, (Par. 18.*) The Na- ) Par. 11. The ſubjećt of his Highneſs the Nabob's
*... *bob's Obſervations on his [Government, and of his condućt, will be ſtated to your
Highneſs's unfriendly con- (Honourable Court in a ſubſequent part of this diſ-
dućt. patch.
17. In our diſpatch of the 9th Oétober laſt, we apprized your Honourable Court of
the probable agitation, before the Court of Recorder, of queſtions relative to property
of his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic, ſituated within the limits of that Court.
An application had, indeed, already been ſubmitted to us by Mr. Lautour, but we
poſtponed any deciſion on the points ſtated by that Gentleman, from an earneſt deſire
that his Highneſs the Nabob ſhould be induced to anticipate, by an amicable ad-
juſtment of the accounts, the neceſſity of defining the nature of his Highneſs's
ſituation with reſpect to the juriſdićtion of the Recorder’s Court. -
18. All endeavours having, however failed to produce a conciliatory diſpoſition on
the part of his Highneſs the Nabob, we conſulted the opinion of the Attorney Gene-
ral on this caſe; and informed Mr. Lautour, that we conſidered the Nabob of the
“Carnatic to be an independant Prince, repreſenting himſelf in the Britiſh territories
now ſubjećt to the juriſdićtion of the Court of Recorder; and that his Highneſs was
therefore entitled to the rights and immunities ſecured to Foreign Ambaſſadors by the
Law of Nations, and the Statute of Queen Anne. But we did not limit the Nabob to
the privileges of an ordinary Ambaſſador; adverting to the nature of the connection
formed between his Highneſs's Family and the Britiſh Government in India, and to
the eſtabliſhment of the ſeat of his Highneſs's Political Government in the vicinity of
Madras, we deemed it incumbent on the National honour and juſtice, to extend to his
Highneſs and to his Family.the rights and immunities of a Foreign Ambaſſador in a
iſuperior degree.
19. We
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227
19. We ſuppoſed that the legal capacity of Mr. Lautour, to acquire the right of
poſſeſſing and of diſpoſing of his Highneſs's houſes, would be a proper ſubjećt for the
conſideration of the Court of Recorder, and deemed it therefore unneceſſary to an-
ticipate the general objećtions which might be derived from the law againſt the validity
of the demands, and of the perſonal qualifications of Mr. Lautour. We informed
him, therefore, that we could have no objećtion, under the ačtual circumſtances which
had occurred, to the regular proceſs of the law againſt any of the houſes of the
Nabob (except the Palace of Chepauk, and that occupied by the Female part of the
Family of the late Nabob Wallajah.) But as the Nabob and his Highneſs's Miniſters
could not probably be converſant with the modes of proceeding in the Britiſh Courts
of Law, and it being poſſible that, according to the ordinary proceſs in caſes of this
nature, his Highneſs's Family might be ſubjected to inſult, without any previous know-
ledge of the operation of the law on the houſes occupied by them, we informed
VI.
Nº. 6, & 7.
Mr. Lautour, that whatever might be the deciſion of the Court, we expected that his
perſonal condućt would be regulated by the ſtrióteſt obſervance of the external deli-
£acy and reſpect due to his Highneſs the Naboband to his Highneſs's Family.
20. With theſe injunčtions, we believe it was the wiſh and intention of Mr. Lau-
tour ſtrićtly to comply ; and having, in conformity to the ſpirit of them, received
from that Gentleman previous intimation of the iſſue of a writ of execution againſt
one of the Nabob's houſes, Lord Clive apprized the Nabob of the permiſſion which
had been granted to Mr. Lautour to inſtitute ſuits againſt him, and of the iſſue of the
writ of execution againſt his Highneſs's houſe. This communication was accompa-
nied by an aſſurance from Lord Clive, that in the progreſs of this diſagreeable affair,
his Lordſhip would be ready to guard the perſonal rights and dignity of his Highneſs
and of his Highneſs's Family from any encroachment; and his Highneſs was at the
ſame time informed, that it would be incumbent on this Government to reſpect the
rights of individuals under the protection of that Britiſh Law, and to ſecure to them
, the free operation of that law within the juriſdićtion of the Recorder's Court.
21. We are concerned at the neceſſity of informing your Honourable Court, that
our earneſt endeavours to preſerve the confiderations of delicacy and reſpect due to
the Nabob, have failed of conveying to his Highneſs’s mind a juſt impreſſion of the
motives which had regulated our deſire of guarding his Highneſs againſt the incon-
venience of a conteſt at law. . . . . - *.
22. At our ſubſequent Meeting of the 6th January, Lord Clive recorded his
Lordſhip's farther correſpondence with the Nabob relative to this diſagreeable ſubjećt.
In theſe Letters, your Honourable Court will obſerve, that his Highneſs the Nabob,
adhering to the ſpirit of the Councils by which he ſuffers his condućt to be regulated,
has endeavoured to pervert the grounds of our interference, to aſcribe the meaſures
adopted by us to a deficiency of reſpect and attention to himſelf, and to impute to Lord
Clive a direét intereſt in the event of his diſputed accounts. His Highneſs is pleaſed to
conclude his repreſentation by the deliberate aſſertion of his perſonal fear, left the
Company's troops ſhould carry conſternation and diſmay into the interior apartments
of his Highneſs's Palace. - , ,
23. In this deſcription, your Honourable Court will ſcarcely recognize the true
grounds of our interference. Lord Clive has therefore judged it expedient to reca-
pitulate, in his Lordſhip's Letter to the Nabob, the cauſe of the tranſačtion; and to
ſtate diſtinétly the principles of his Lordſhip's ſolicitude, to ſave the Nabob from the
degradation of enforcing againſt his Highneſs the deciſions of a Court of Public Law, .
and at the ſame time to protećt the property of individuals living within the juriſ. '
dićtion of the Court of Recorder from the violation of 'a military force. In all Lord
Clive's communications to the Nabob on the ſubjećt of the Ameer Baugh, until his
Highneſs's procraſtination had compelled his Lordſhip to fix a period for diſpoſſeſſing
his troops of that property, no diſpoſition was felt, and no intention was expreſſed or
implied, of employing coercive means for any other purpoſe than that of expelling
the armed force employed by the Nabob. It was with aftoniſhment, therefore, that
Lord Clive obſerved the fruitleſs aſſertion of his Highneſs's apprehenſion, left his
Lordſhip ſhould enter the inner apartments of the Nabob's Palace with an armed
force. It is an aſſertion unſupported by any overt act of this Government, unfounded
175. ' - 3 N in
228. - P A P E R S R E LAT IN G T O THE
VI. in any inference, preſumable from Lord Clive's correſpondence with the Nabob:
denied by the equal courſe of his Lordſhip's perſonal attentions to his Highneſs; and
N* * *7, abſolutely contradićted by the uniform moderation and forbearance of the Britiſh
Government towards its dependants. Lord Clive charged it therefore on the Nabob
as an aſſertion highly diſreſpečtful to himſelf, malignant in its general aim, and une-
quivocally falſe in its fačts. - - -
24. With reſpect to his Highneſs's perſonal infinuation, Lord Clive thought it ſuf.
ficient to repeat, in writing, a verbal meſſage communicated to his Highneſs on the
receipt of his Letters; that the peculiar ſtrain of indelicacy towards his Lordſhip
which pervades thoſe Letters, rendered it indiſpenſably requiſite for his Lordſhip to
limit his intercourſe and correſpondence with his Highneſs to the mere communi-
cation of official fačts. - --
Two letters 25, ſn confidering the Nabob's Letters (noted in the margin) your Honourable
from the . .” - - - . - - * e -> - , - ... • . , * - * +w
N.i.ated Court will trace abundant proof of their being the original produétion of European
6 Dec. 1800; writers; and as we were warranted in aſcribing the compoſition of thoſe Papers to
(entered in no other perſons than the Secretaries whom his Highneſs had engaged in his ſervice,
ºf: J" with the permiſſion of this Government, we deemed it expedient to prohibit from
& attendance at his Highneſs's Durbar thoſe perſons; viz. Mr. W. Abbott and Mr.
D º Richard Yeldham, who appeared to be equally inſenſible of his Highneſs's intereſt
'3. 9 Dec. sco, and honour, and of the reſpect due to the Government under whoſe protećtion they
lived. -
26. Your Honourable Court will obſerve, that in a ſubſequent Letter, his High-
neſs the Nabob diſavowed all intention of offering offence, and expreſſed his deſire of
From the retracting any, or all of his injurious aſſertions. The facility with which his High-
Nabob, neſs offered this retractation, is a ſufficient proof of the little value placed by his
tºº Highneſs on his own affertions; but it is alſo a ſufficient proof of the little reſerve
~6 Jan. 1801. with which his Highneſs advances affertions of the moſt injurious and offenſive nature,
without the previous caution of aſcertaining authenticity of the fačts. We concurred
therefore, with Lord Clive, in acquainting his Highneſs, that as his firſt Letters had
conveyed to our minds an impreſſion very different from that of reſentment, ſo his
laſt Letter was more calculated to confirm than to remove that impreſſion.
27. We have detained your Honourable Court longer on this ſubjećt than the
importance of it appears to deſerve; but we have been deſirous of attracting yout
notice to this correſpondence, which contains a very forcible example of the princi-
ples and ſentiments of the preſent Nabob of the Carnatic. -
28. In dur Diſpatch of the 14th April laſt, we had the honour of acquainting your
Hondurable Court, that his Highneſs had propoſed to ſubmit the deciſion of his
diſputed accounts with Mr. Lautour to the arbitration Cf Sir Thomas Strange ;
but that motives of delicacy towards Sir Thomas’s public ſituation had induced us
to diſcountenance à propoſal calculated to anticipáte the Recorder's judgment on
a caſe which would in all probability be ſubmitted to the deciſión of his Court.
29. Sir Thomas himſelf, does not however, appear to have conſidered the queſtion
in the point of view in which it had appeared to us, but on the contrary, has, at the
particular requeſt of his Highneſs the Nabob, conſented to arbitrate the diſputed
points; as therefore, the Recorder does not confider this to be a queſtion of delicacy,
our objećtions againſt that mode have ceaſed, and we have accordingly ſignified that
we no longer objećt to it. - ."
30. The evils ariſing from the total relaxation of the Nabob's Government have
been ſo repeatedly deſcribed to your Honourable Court, that we conſider it ſu-
:Conſ, perfluous to repeat the ſentiments already expreſſed by us on that ſubjećt. By our
31 Oct 1800. correſpondence, however, with the Officers commanding the provinces of Tinne-
sº. vely and Madura, your Honourable Court will obſerve the independant authority
exerciſed by his Highneſs's Amildars, the diſreſpect ſhewn to his orders, and the
intereſted combinations for enhancing the value of the articles of life. This un-
happy ſtate of the Nabob's authority in the Provinces has compelled us, at the
fame time that we have been ſtudious to obſerve the ſemblance of his Highneſs's
adminiſtration, to iſſue effectual orders for preventing monopolies of grain, no leſs
injurious to your own own troops than to the ſubjećts of the Nabob. f
3 1. The
Af
A FFA IRS OF THE CARN AT I c. ano
31. The temporary application of theſe remedies will probably remove the cauſes VI.
of local embarraſſment; but as your Honourable Court will obſerve that theſe evils —
have been ſyſtematized by the courſe of the Nabob's Government, you will anticipate N* * * 7.
the diſaſtrous effects which continue to be produced on the ultimate ſecurity pledged
to the Company in the Carnatic; and as your Honourable Court will alſo have too
frequent occaſion of remarking the inutility of any friendly admonition to the Nabob,
it will be obvious to you, that this complicated ſyſtem of error and obſtinacy, of
weakneſs and oppreſſion, can only be removed by a radical reformation of his
Highneſs's Government. . . . . . -
34. We have the honour of informing you, that the Kiſtbundy account of his
Highneſs the Nabob has been adjuſted for the year 1800, in conformity to the Sonſ. .
ſtipulations of the Treaty of 1792. - 14 Nov. 180c. .
[The ſubſequent Letters from the Government of Fort St. George, regarding
the Nabob and the Affairs of the Carnatic, down to the lateſ; period, are
contained in the accompanying Volumes, and in the printed Papers before
referred to.] \ -- - -
[ 231
VII.
Nº 8.
"ORDERS of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 16th December 1802.
P-O LI TI C A L D EP A R T M E N T.
E X T R A C T of the Company's Political Letter to Fort Saint George; VII,
dated 19th February 1794. - - -
- No 8.
(37° to 55) Southern Poligars: . º º: the Papers to which . Letter
º - eſe paragraphs refer, and we approve the from, in the
meaſures which you have taken towards an adjuſtment of the diſputes between the Political
Tinivelly Poligars, and towards the ſettlement of that country. º*
7. The judicious and humane condućt of Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell, who 30 Jan? 1793.
had the command of the troops ſent out into the Tinivelly Country, is a ſufficient
juſtification of the additional powers with which he was inveſted; and we entirely
concur with you, and the Governor General in Council, in the approbation which
has been expreſſed of his ſervices on that occaſion. -
8. The enquiry which was inſtituted, under your orders, into the charges againſt
the Shevagherry Poligar, was condućted in a manner highly honourable to the
impartiality and juſtice of the Britiſh charaćter in India; and the ſentence, in
conſequence of which the Shevagherry Pollam has been laid open, and the Poligar
reſtored to his poſſeſſion after a ſevere admonition, was founded upon thoſe united
principles of firmneſs and lenity which are beſt calculated to ſecure the obedience
and attachment of ſubjećts to a regular Government. With a view to the gradual
eſtabliſhment of a ſyſtem of order among a race of people, whoſe turbulent
fpirit has been much exaſperated by the vexations and exačtions of a corrupt and
capricious Adminiſtration, we have only to recommend an adherence to the ſame
general principles which have direéted the condućt of the trial of the Shevagherry
Poligar, and have dićtated the ſentence which you have executed under the orders of
the Government General. Although many difficulties muſt occur at all times to im-
pede the eſtabliſhment of any permanent regulation among the Tinivelly Poligars, the
preſent ſtate of our affairs in India, and the aſſignment of the Poligar tribute by
the Nabob to your Government, afford a favourable opportunity for the ad-
vancement of this objećt, ſo highly important to the future peace and proſperity of
the Southern Diſtrićts of the Carnatic; we therefore earneſtly recommend the
Swhole of this ſubjećl to your immediate and ſerious attention.
9. The abuſes praćtiſed under the Nabob's management in the collečtion of the tri-
:bute, and the uncertainty of the demands of his Government continually varying with
his own neceſſities, and with the avarice and extortion of his Officers, have naturally
rendered the Poligars ſuſpicious even of the juſt and reaſonable demands of Government.
We are therefore glad to find that you have commenced a ſettlement of the tribute upon
fixed and definite principles; and it is of the greateſt importance, that the Poligars
ſhould be convinced, that it is the determination of Government to exačt nothing
from them in future beyond the amount of the tribute ſtipulated in the reſpećtive
engagements, ſo long as they ſhall adhere faithfully on their part to the conditions of
the ſettlement which has been concluded with them.
175. 3 Q Io. We
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is
1o. We obſerve with ſatisfaction that you have already made forme progreſs in a
plan for adjuſting the diſputed boundaries, and for removing the Agents of
intrigue and corruption from among the Polygars. The correſpondence with
Colonel Maxwell and Mr. Torin, furniſhes abundant proof that eſſential ſervice
might be rendered both to the intereſts of the Company, and to thoſe of the
Polygars, by further meaſures of this nature, and that much ſtill remains to be
done for the purpoſe of correóting thoſe evils, to which the mutual animoſities
between the Polygars themſelves, as well as their frequent rebellions againſt the
Government, may in a great meaſure be attributed.
We highly approve, azid wiſh to enforce the recommendation contained in the
Lºtter from the Government General of the Icth january laſt, “that the meaſure of
“opening the Pollams ſhould be invaribly adopted, whenever the Poligars ſhall
“ be guilty of any -offence towards Government, or of any outrage or violence
“ towards each other.” Our objećt being by gradual meaſures, and without reſorting
unneceſſarily to ačts of rigour, to reduce their Military power, and to deprive them.
of the means of reſiſting the force of Government, and of defying the puniſh-
ment of the law, it may perhaps be neceſſary, if every other expedient ſhould
fail, to make an example of ſeverity, in order to convince the other Polygars of our
determination to ſupport the arrangements we may have occaſion to make; but this
ſhould be our laſt reſource, and done under ſuch obvious circumſtances of neceſſity
as to juſtify it even in the eyes of the Natives themſelves.
12. We obſerve with concern, by your Conſultations of 5th April 1793, that “the
“ Tinnevelly Poligars have already ſhewn a diſpoſition to ſwerve from the laſt
“ ſettlement made by Colonel Maxwell reſpecting their boundaries;”—but as it
appears by Colonel Maxwell’s correſpondence, that this circumſtance has probably
ariſen from their ſuppoſing that Mr. Laudon’s appointment might have been in-
tended to ſuperſede the arrangements eſtabliſhed by Colonel Maxwell, we truſt .
that as ſoon as they are made ſenſible of your determination to ſupport thoſe
arrangements in the moſt effectual manner, they will be found ready to fulfil their
reſpective agreements with Colonel Maxwell. In the future management of that
country, it ſhould be a principal objećt of your attention to let the Polygars
underſtand, that your ſyſtem will not vary with every new appointment of your Ex-
ecutive Officers. To whatever hands you may entruſt the authority of Government,
you ſhould be careful to give it ſuch an appearance of vigour, conſiſtency, and
itability, as may form the meſt advantageous contraſt with the weakneſs and indeci-
fion of the Nabob’s adminiſtration. - -
13. Before we quit this ſubjećt, it is neceſſary to obſerve, that we agree
with you in the opinion you have formed on the condućt of Mr. Torin, the late
Colle&tor of Poligar Peſhcuſh, as ſtated in the paragraphs to which we are now
replying. -
(1 18.) Noticing the Nabob's punétuality 26. The information contained
in the obſervance of his pecuniary engage- } in this paragraph cannot be other-
ments, under the Treaty of 12th July 1792. ) wiſe than highly pleaſing to us.
28. Your ſhort Letter, in the Political Department of the 5th February 1793,
needs no particular reply. It is neceſſary, however, we ſhould mention, that we have
inſpected the ſtatement referred to in the 2d paragraph of the Revenues of the Nabob's
Country under the aſſumption, a correóted Copy of which was tranſmitted by the
Roſe, and are ſenſible of the zeal and integrity which has been manifeſted by our
Servants in the Revenue line during that period. * - .
(48.*) Adviſing, that the Nabob has completed 44. The information con-
i
from, in the the payment of his monthly Kiſt to the date of the | tained in this paragraph is
Political
Department
dated 2 Mia
#393.
preſent Diſpatch. highly acceptable to us.
: 48. We cannot but obſerve, from the language of ſeveral of the Letters that have
been lately addreſſed to your Government by the Nabob of Arcot and the Rajah of
Tanjore, that they bear the evident marks of having been written with the aid, if
not by the advice of Europeans; and we have conſequently the greateſt reaſon to
apprehend, that the rules we have ſtrongly and repeatedly inculcated for the preven-
tion of ſuch interference have not been duly enforced, -
49. Tº
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49. To this ſubjećt, therefore, we again direét your particular attention, and poſi- VH.
tively enjoin, that ſuch meaſures may be adopted as ſhall effectually prevent the con-
tinuance of an intercourſe that is not leſs injurious to the real intereſts of the Nabºb Nº.
and of the Rajah, than it obviouſly is to our own. -
EXT R A CT of the Company's Political Letter to Fort St. George;
* - dated Ioth June 1795. * !
(Paras. 38. to 42.*) As to ) . 7. As the arrears of Poligar Peſhcuſh were col-" Letter,
the appropriation of the arrears le&ted by the means of the detachment under Lieu- º *
of Poligar Peſhcuſh, collečted U tenant-Colonel Maxwell ſince the ſurrender of the Bºnents
fince the ſurrender of the aſ ( aſſumption, and ſubſequent to the concluſion of the ătăzo Sep.
ſumption and claim of Veucatah late Treaty with the Nabob of the 30th July 1792, we 1793.
Soubiah. - conſent that the ſame ſhall be accounted for with his
- - Highneſs, without any dedućtion being made from the
groſs receipt, on account of the extraordinary expences of that detachment, although
we might reaſonably have contended, that a part of that expence thould be defrayed
by him:—We therefore direét, that, agreeably to the Nabob's requeſt of the 27th
May 1792 and 8th Auguſt 1793, and to the engagement of General Medows, his
Highneſs’s proportion, or 1-5th of the amount of the ſaid arrears of Poligar Peſhcuſh,
for the Fuſly years 1200 and 1201, be paid to Veucata Soobiah. -
(5o. to 55.) Referring to the 14. The Report referred to in theſe paragraphs
Book Packet for the Report of of the Gentlemen appointed to inveſtigate the Ac-
the Gentlemen appointed to in- count between the Company and the Nabob of
veſtigate the accounts between Arcot, having been loſt in the Scorpion Packet, we
the Company and the Nabob ( direct that another copy be tranſmitted to us by the
of Arcot ; together with copy firſt conveyance, and of the Papers which accona-
of the Opinions and Remarks of panied it. We have peruſed the Letter upon this
the Board on the whole ſubjećt. J ſubjećt from Meſſrs. Woolf and Place, of the 1ſt
July 1793, together with the ſeparate Account
Current prepared by them, between the Nabob and the Company, by which there
appears a balance due from his Highneſs of pagodas 35,06,135. 20. 17. together
with the Opinion and Remarks of your Board on the before-mentioned Report,
entered on your Conſultations of the 16th July 1793; but as we may ſhortly expect
a final Report of the Committee appointed by the Governor General and Council to
inveſtigate the Nabob's Accounts with the Company, with the deciſion or award of
the Supreme Government, to which the Nabob has declared his readineſs to conform,
any obſervations from us upon this ſubjećt would be premature. ;
(58.) Noticing the Nabob's punétuality { 21. The information in this para-
in the diſcharge of his sº gragh is peculiarly pleaſing to us. -
(8. and 9.") New Cavalry 40. It was the 94th Paragraph of our Diſpatch of Letter
Debt; and pointing out an errorſ the 8th April 1789, to which we meant to refer you ..., the
in reference to the Court's or- (on the ſubjećt of the Nabob's New Cavalry debt. We Dºment;
, ders in this reſpect. - are aware, however, that by the late Treaty with his dated 18 Feb.
- - Highneſs, the direétion therein contained is rendered 1794.
nugatory; nor can we give any orders on the ſubjećt of this debt, until we receive
...the determination or award of the Governor General and Council upon the Accounts
new before them (which have been alluded to in a preceding paragraph) reſpecting
the amount of his Highneſs's other debts. In addition to the amount which the
Nabob ſtands indebted to the Company on account of this New Cavalry Debt, we
direét, that you, add the ſums which have been paid ºn his account to Mr. Burrows,
Mr. Macaliſter, Mr. Stephenſon, the late Mr. Redhead, Major Davidſon, and Major
Martinz, agreeably to the orders contained in the before-mentioned 94th paragraph
of our Public Letter of the 8th April 1789.
(49.) Noticing, that the Nabob of Arcot and Rajah of 49. Information ſimilar
Tanjour have hitherto obſerved the greateſt punctuality to that contained in this
in the diſcharge of their reſpective Kiſts, j paragraph, will ever be
* : *. pleaſing to us. -
( ; 2. and
-.*.ſ
2: 34
P A P E R S R E. L. A T I N G T O T H E
Wii.
No 8.
* Letter
from, in the
Political
(12. and 13.”) Relative toº 5. The diſaſtrous conſequences of the hoſtic
5 Q
the improper condutt of the condućt of the Rajah of Ramnad againſt the Che-
Rajah of Ramnad, in exerciſing rokar or Miniſter of Shevagunga, as mentioned in
the moſt ſevere oppreſſion over your advices and proceedings, but more particu-
his people, and in taking up larly in the latter, have given us very great con-
Department; arms againſt the Cherokar of cern. And we obſerved what is ſtated in your
... *5]". Shevagunga, and calling to his ſubſequent Diſpatch of the 29th September laſt,
1794.
aſſiſtance ſome of the Tinne- that it is impoſſible to apply any effectual remedy to
veily Poligars. | the general evil, ſo long as a divided authority over
the Poligar Countries ſhall be permitted to exiſt.
56. Before, however, we proceed to diſcuſs the nature and extent of the authority
already veſted in the Company, under exiſting Treaties with the Nabob of Arcot
relative to the Carnatic, we ſhall briefly recite ſome remarkable inſtances of the effect
which an undefined, or rather a double authority, ſeems to have had upon your
Councils, and thoſe of the Supreme Government, during the exiſtence of the late
troubles. You deem it neceſſary that ſome deciſive ſteps ſhould be taken for the
maintenance of the Company's Authority over the Ramnad Rajah. The Bengal Go-
vernment are equally convinced of the neceſſity of taking decided ſteps for ſupporting
the Authority of the Nabok. The Board of Revenue feel the want of a controuling
authority ſomewhere. Upon the poſitive refuſal of the Rajah to comply with your
-
direétions for a ſuſpenſion of duties on grain, you procure an order from the Nabob
to that effect, as though you expected the Rajah would yield that obedience to the
nominal authority, without poſſeſſing the power of coercion, which he had refuſed to
an Authority armed with the means of compulſion. The contending parties are
deſired by you to refer their diſputes to the arbitration of the Company ; and almoſt
immediately after, the Governor General in Council direéts the Rajah of Ramnad to
ſubmit his claim to the Shevagunga Country, to the deciſion of the Nabob: From all
which we are thoroughly convinced, that nothing but one uniform ſyſtem of Govern-
ment, under one defined authority, can render the Poligars uſeful as tributaries, and
the inhabitants obedient as ſubjećts ; and that this muſt be brought about by diſ.
arming thoſe Tributaries, which (in the opinion of the late Colle&tor, Mr. Laudon,
whoſe death we lament, às having been a valuable Servant) will raiſe the Provinces
from a flate of wretchedneſs to a ſtate of proſperity, and naturally cauſe all parties to
look up to the Company’s Government alone for an adjuſtment of their differences.
57. It having been afferted, under the authority of the Governor General and
Council, that though the exiſting evils are to be lamented, “our right over this
“ deſcription of people (the Poligars) is too limited to admit of our applying the
“ means that would be effectual to correót them,” it becomes neceſſary to take a
curſory view of the relative ſituations of the Nabob and the Company; and whether
the latter have acquired a right, under exiſting agreements, to interfere in his internal
management, ſo far as reſpects the Poligar countries. - -
58. We are ready to admit that Mahomed Ally is the lawful Nabob of the
Carnatic ; at the ſame time we muſt obſerve, that he acquired that title by our
means, and has been, and is now, ſupported in it by our authority ; nor have we the
ſmalleſt intention of withdrawing that ſupport: but it muſt be remembered, that the
ſword, that moſt prominent and eſſential mark of Sovereignty, is excluſively in the
hands of the Company. The Nabob can form no alliance, either offenſive or de-
fenſive, with Foreign Powers. Even in the laſt Treaty with Tippoo Sultan, who had
invaded the Carnatic, he is merely recogniſed as the Friend and Ally of the Company,
and under their protećtion.
59. Before we ſpeak of the Treaty with the Nabob of the 12th July 1792, by
which he aſſigns over to the Company the Peſhcuſh or Tribute, payable by the
Poligars, we ſhall advert to the Treaty of the 24th February 1787, which ſtipulated,
That in caſe his Highneſs ſhould have occaſion for any number of troops for the
ſecurity and colle&tion of his Revenues, the ſupport of his authority, or the good
order and government of his dominions, the Company ſhould furniſh a ſufficient
anumber for that purpoſe, on public repreſentation being made by his Highneſs to
ahe Preſident in Council of Fort St. George, of the neceſſity of employing ſuch a
- force,
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force, and the objećts to be obtained thereby; and the additional expence attending the
march of ſuch troops, was to be diſcharged by the Nabob.
60. In our Political Diſpatch of the 19th May 1790, we took occaſion to remark
on the great ſtreſs which had been laid upon the right the Nabob had acquired under
that Treaty, of demanding Military aſſiſtance, whenever he ſhould ſee occaſion. The
Company, we obſerved, were certainly bound tò aſſiſt his Highneſs with troops for
the purpoſes ſet forth in the Treaty ; but if the Company, we further obſerved, were
not to be the ultimate judges of the propriety of complying with ſuch requiſition, the
Article would never have bound the Nabob to make public repreſentations to your
Board of the neceſſity of employing ſuch force, and the objećt to be obtained thereby;
ſo that, under the fair and natural conſtrućtion of this Treaty, no troops could march
againſt any of his ſubjećts or tributaries, without the Government being previouſly
convinced of the propriety and neceſſity of the meaſure. And this explanation of the
Treaty of 1787 was given on occaſion of his ſoliciting troops againſt one of thoſe very
Poligars, whoſe Peſhcuſh or Tribute he has ſince aſſigned over to the Company.
61. But what, in reality, was the nature and extent of the authority exerciſed by
the Nabob over theſe Poligars, both previous and ſubſequent to this Treaty It was
ſcarcely felt among them, and, with all the exertions he could make, it is a fačt re-
corded and incontrovertable, that the ſum he was able to collečt from them on
account of their ſtipulated Peſhcuſh, in the courſe of ſeven years, did not exceed
the amount collected by the Company, under the Aſſignment, in leſs than Two
Years.
62. Under this ſhadow of authority poſſeſſed by the Nabob over theſe Poligars,
receiving a ſmall and precarious Revenue, collečted at a heavy expence, the Nabob,
by the 5th Article of the Treaty of the 12th July 1792, moſt advantageouſly for
himſelf, aſſigned over to the Company the Tribute or Peſhcuſh payable by cer-
tain Poligars, which was taken at their full amount, as part of his ſubſidy, and which
Peſhcuſh or Tribute was to be collečted by the Company, at their own expence and
riſk, without charging the Nabob either with the expences attending the Collečion, or
with any deficiencies that might ariſe thereon.—The Nabob's Sovereignty over the ſaid
Poligars is recognized by the 6th Article, and the Company engage, to the utmoſt of
their power, and conſiſtently with the realization of the Tribute or Peſhcuſh from them, to
enforce the allegiance and ſubmiſſion of the ſaid Poligars to the ſaid Nabob,
in all cuſtomary ceremonies, and in furniſhing the Poligar Peons, according to
eſtabliſhed cuſtom, for the Colle&tion of the Revenues, &c.; and all ačts of Au-
thority are to be exerciſed in the Nabob's name.—It is difficult, however, to con-
ceive for what purpoſe the words, “ and in furniſhing the Poligar Peons, according
“ to eſtabliſhed cuſtom, for the Collection of the Revenues,” were introduced into
the Treaty, ſince the Colleótion of the Revenue is by the preceding Article entirely
aſſigned to the Company.
63. Diveſted of the ſword, and relinquiſhing the power of collečting a Revenue,
it is not eaſy to define what rights of Sovereignty, contended for by the Nabob with
ſo much zeal and jealouſy, remain behind – They cannot perhaps be more aptly de-
ſcribed than in the words of the Treaty, Cuſtomary Ceremonies. The nominal Sovereignty
of the Nabob over the Poligars we do not attempt to deny ; at the ſame time we
are only bound to preſerve it ſo far as may be conſiſtent with the realization of the
Tribute which he has thus aſſigned over to us; and, of the many circumſtances which
have a tendency materially to affect that objećt in the Diſtrićts under the Poligars may
be mentioned the following:—Their keeping up a Military Force, by which they are
enabled to make war, or commit depredations, as their local intereſts or their paſſions
may lead them, upon each other:—Their adoption of meaſures, whether of Finance
or internal regulation, which have a natural tendency to impoveriſh their treaſuries,
and prevent the regular payment of the Peſhcuſh made over to the Company :—
Their committing ačts of cruelty and oppreſſion on the inhabitants.-Theſe muſt
ever have a tendency to depopulate a country, and of courſe affect the Revenue;
and; if we have not the power of applying a remedy in theſe and ſimilar caſes, it is
evident that we ſhall ultimately loſe that Revenue, which we have acquired the right
of colle&ting; and thus the Treaty will become not only nugatory in as far as it
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reſpe&ts the proportion of the Nabob's ſubſidy to be received from the Poligars, but
a confiderable annual loſs will likewiſe accrue to the Company, ſo long as the before-
mentioned abuſes are ſuffered to exiſt.
64. We ſhall here collečt, into one point of view, ſuch parts of your Records as
have principally led to the preſent diſcuſſion, and which have convinced us of the
neceſſity ſo forcibly urged by the Bengal Government and by yourſelves, of adopting
ſome deciſive meaſures for the better government of the Diſtrićts under the ſeveral
Poligars.
LETTER from Mr. Landon; 29th July 1793.
However ſucceſsful I may have been in colle&ting the Peſhcuſh of the Poli-
“gars of this Province for the preſent year, and in preventing open ačts of hoſtility
“ among them, for punctuality in the payment of their tributes, or for refraining
“ from interrupting the public peace until they are again diſarmed, as they were for.
“ merly by Mahomed Iſhof, and alſo their obedience and punétuality further ſecured
“ by their being placed under the controul of one authority. 3 2
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R E PORT of the Revenue Board; 15th February 1794.
“ The irregularity and oppreſſions committed by the Poligars, as detailed in the
“ Collečtor's proceedings, and the want of a controuling authority to reſtrain them from
“ ſuch abuſe of power, and ačís of wanton cruelty and injuſtice, are too evident to need
“ any arguments from us. -
“ The endeavours uſed by Mr. Landon (the late Collečtor) for conciliating the
“ diſputes between the Rajah of Ramnad and the Miniſter of Shevagunga, appeared
“ to have been judicious, though we were ſorry they did not produce the deſired effº.
Beſides theſe groſs prevarications and neglečt of the Collečtor's requiſitions rela-
“tive to their differences, it would appear that they have, on every occaſion, ſhewn
“ great diſreſpeši to his ſituation and authority,
“ Adverting to theſe circumſtances, and to the preſent refrađory ſtate of the other
“ Poligars, and the variety of diſſentions which prevail among them, to the great
“ inconvenience of the inhabitants, and ruin of the Country, we were of opinion that
“ deciſive meaſures ſhould be adopted for checking the diſorders complained of.
“We have received from Mr. Landon much detailed information on the two
“ Marawa Provinces, and the circumſtances therein repreſented afford additional
“ proofs of the greateſ anarchy, and the total want of good government in the Diſtrić; ;
“ and the neceſſity for placing the Poligars under the controul of one uniform autho-
“ rity, without which the Country muſt be expoſed to the greateſt misfortunes.”
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LETTER from Mr. Landon; 10th December 1793.
“ The many diſputes which are recorded during the month of November will
“ ſhew the Board the irregularities that prevail, as well on the borders of the
“ Marrawa Provinces as among the Tinnevelly Pollams, attended by this lamentable
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circumſtance; that almoſt invariably the defenceleſs Inhabitants alone ſuffer by the
diffentions between their Maſters. The armed parties, who are employed on theſe
“ occaſions, appear cautiouſly to avoid meeting to ſettle their pretenſions by their
“ courage, but confine their exploits to cutting the banks of Tanks, driving off the
cattle, ſhutting up watercourſes, and deſtroying the crops ; a ſpecies of warfare that
“ entails ruin and famine upon the Cultivators of the land.
“ Nothing ſhort of diſarming the Tributaries will once more raiſe theſe Provinces
“ into proſperity. The meaſures now in agitation of diſarming the Tributaries, will
tend conſiderably towards the completion of this deſirable objećt, and will natu-
“ rally cauſe all parties to look up to Government alone for an adjuſtment of their
<< differences.
Mr. Landon then proceeds to ſhew the wretched ſtate of the Poligar Countries;
“ from which (ſays he) the inhabitants would doubtleſs ſpeedily emerge under the
“foſtering band of a mild and juſt Government.” M IN U T F.
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M IN U T E of the Board on the above; 23d December 1793.
* The Board remark, that the circumſtances detailed by Mr. Langdon afford an
“ additional proof of the neceſſity of an uniform Syſtem of Government being eſtabliſhed
“ in the Narrawa Provinces.” - *
L E. T. T ER from Mr. Landon; 20th January 1794.
“ On the 12th of December (referring to his Diary) is recorded a mode of
“ puniſhment but too common in the Marawa and Poligar Countries, as indeed I
“ believe in moſt Governments which are purely Hindoo: it is that of amputating
“ limbs for the atonement of crimes. Nature ſhudders at the fight of the muti-
“ lated and famiſhed objećts that ſometimes preſent themſelves, who have fallen
“ vićtims to this barbarous and impolitic pračtice. It is much to be wiſhed that it
* may not be conſidered beneath the dignity of Government, by timely interference, to put a
“ſtop to it in future.”
LETTER from Mr. Landon, 16th February 1794; wherein he mentions
three inſtances in which the Ramnad Rajah has declined a compliance with
the Orders of Government, communicated to him officially within
12 Months: --
“ Unmindful of the indulgence of Government, in making a conſiderable re-
<< dućtion in his Peſhcuſh, in order to conſult his eaſe, and to relieve him from the
“ pretence of neceſſity for oppreſſing the inhabitants of his country, the Rajah of
“ Ramnad has evinced no diſpoſition hitherto to merit ſuch an ači of beneficence, or even
“ to ſhew that he is ſenſible of the favour conferred upon him.”
Conſultation, 2d June 1794; contain an account of an action between the Ramnad
and Shevagunga people, wherein the former loſt ſix companies of Regular Sepoys,
and a ſix-pounder. r
Letter from Mr. Macleod, 22d June ; relating a dreadful ſlaughter made at
Paunagoody, where there were ſeen above 4oo heads and headleſs bodies. This maſſacre
was committed by one of the Murdas of Shevagunga. sº
Letter from Colonel Martinz, 26th June 1794; adviſing, that the Letter from
Government, ordering a ceſſation of hoſtilities, had produced no effeół on the Ramnad
Fajah.
LETTER fom Colonel Marinz ; 3oth June 1794.
“ The warfare and hoſtilities are for the preſent ſtopped, but the many points in
“ diſpute which have been and always will be the occaſion of wrangling between
“ theſe two Rebels, remain unſettled, and which never can be ſettled except by the in-
“ terference of Government through the Colleśfor.”
65. After the recital of ſuch ſtrong and uncontrovertible evidence of the miſerable
effects produced by a divided authority in the Poligar Diſtrićts, it is impoſſible for
us to heſitate a moment in coming to a decided opinion, that the authority of the
Company, ſole and undivided, ought to be ſtrenuouſly exerted in applying a remedy
to ſuch accumulated evils. Your Orders of the 3d May and 3d June 1793, re-
ferred to in the Report of the Revenue Board of the 20th September 1793, for
aſcertaining the preciſe diſtinétions between the power reſerved to the Nabob by
the Treaty of 12th July 1792, and that veſted in the Company, ſeem to have been
produćtive of nothing but complaint upon complaint “ of the inefficient authority,
“ and total want of ſubordination in the Diſtrićt;” and the Colle&tor and Mr.
Landon early appriſed you, that the obedience and punétuality of the Poligars coald
be no otherwiſe ſecured than by their being diſarmed, and placed under the controul
of one authority. If further evidence were wanting, in addition to what has already
been recited of the effects produced by the double ſyſtem of management, and by
your definition thereof, we need only refer to the following paſſage of a Letter,
dated the 21ſt June 1794, from Colonel Martinz, reſiding at Ramnaud : –“ The
“ Rajah diſregards the Nabob's authority, and the authority of the Company; he
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238 P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T o T H E
VII. “ only acknowledges as far as it relates to the Peiſhcuſh. Thus he conſiders himſelf
“ under no controul, and ačts accordingly.”
66. Upon the whole, therefore, after having given to this important ſubjećt every
degree of deliberation which it merits, as well with reſpect to the power veſted in us,
under expreſs ſtipulations, as with reſpećt to the degree of authority reſerved to the
Nabob over the Poligars; and reflečting alſo, that, by our determination, we neither
wreſt from his Highneſs one ſingle prerogative which it was in his power to exerciſe,
or which he did ačtually exerciſe over thoſe people, in virtue of his nominal So-
vereignty, either previous or ſubſequent to the late Treaty, nor add one inch of
territory to our poſſeſſion, or a ſingle pagoda to our Treaſury; we have reſolved
to empower you, upon the ſole authority of the Company, to take ſuch meaſures,
from time to time, with the approbation of the Governor General and Council, as
ſhall be deemed expedient, conſiſtent with the ſituation of affairs, on the receipt of this
diſpatch, for diſarming the Poligars ; for puniſhing the refračtory; for adjuſting their
diſputed claims ; and for the introdućtion of ſuch a ſyſtem of internal arrangement as
ſhall have a tendency to reſtore theſe diſtreſſed Provinees from their preſent ſtate of
anarchy and miſery to a ſtate of ſubordination and proſperity.
67. It were to be wiſhed, that, upon your repreſentation of the abſolute ne-
ceffity we are under of preſcribing this line of condućt for the Poligar Tributaries, his
Highneſs's acquieſcence could be obtained herein; but from the tenor of ſome of
his late letters upon record, this acquieſcence is more to be deſired than expected.
We can only, therefore, in caſe of his refuſal, direét you to take the moſt effectual
means to counteraćt his endeavours to thwart the execution of theſe orders, which
cannot but be confidered as diſintereſted on our part, as highly eſſential to the hap-
pineſs of thouſands, as contributing to the peace and proſperity of the country, and
therefore as ultimately beneficial to the real and permanent intereſts of the Nabob.
(15.) Adviſing of the Nabob and Rajah having 69. We have repeatedly ex-
completed their payments to the Company for the preſſed our ſatisfaction at this
preſent Revenue Year. kind of information.
E X T R A C T of the Court's Political Letter to Fort St. George;
dated 6 April 1796.
* Letter (* Para. 2.) Ramnad.—Para. 3. Every neceſſary degree of attention has been
from, in the given to your advices and proceedings in the Political and Revenue Departments, re-
$ºve to the condućt of the Rajah of Ramnaud. From what is ſtated in our Political
Jaj goš. Diſpatch of the 10th June laſt, you will be prepared to receive our approbation of
i 794. the meaſures that have been taken againſt this refračtory Chief, particularly of your
reſolution of the 27th January 1795, for his depoſition ; and we are pleaſed to find
that the ſame was effected in the moſt ſatisfactory manner, and to the credit of all the
parties concerned therein. With reſpect to the ſucceſſion to the Rajahſhip of Ramnad,
we have every reaſon to expect, from the previous examination you had direéted to
be made, that the ſame will be ſettled agreeably to the laws of inheritance in that
- country, or to ancient uſage. *. -
4. In our before-mentioned diſpatch of the 10th of June 1795, we entered ſo fully
into the diſcuſſion of the relative ſituation of the Company and the Nabob of Arcot,
under the Treaty of 1792, with reſpect to the Poligar countries, and ſo clearly
defined the nature of the authority thereby veſted in the Company, that we have
little to add thereto in conſequence of the late agreement entered into with his
Highneſs relative to the Ramnaud Country, except to obſerve, that though our right
to interfere effectually in ſuch caſes, was, in our opinion, ſufficiently apparent, and
therefore required not any ſuch formal ačt to enable us to exerciſe it, it ſerves as an
additional proof, if ſuch were wanted, of the neceſſity of eſtabliſhing an undivided
power in thoſe countries ; and that a thorough reform could not be made, or any
ſyſtem of regular Government introduced, but through the means of our own Ser-
vants. Seeing therefore no reaſon to depart from the opinion we have already ſo de-
liberately given upon this ſubječt, we have only to repeat and enforce the directions
contained in the 66th and 67th paragraphs of our before-mentioned diſpatch.
5. Although
A FFA 1R s of T H E CARN AT I c. 239
5. Although we do not ſee the neceſſity of the Nabob's conſent to the meaſures VII.
neceſſary to be adopted for the relief of the Ramnaud diſtrićt being ſignified by a --—
formal inſtrument, and therefore avoid, as unneceſſary, a diſcuſſion of the ſeveral N° 3.
articles it contains, we muſt remark, that the Nabob appears to be ſtill anxious for -
the preſervation of certain Sovereign rights, ſaid to be reſerved to him ander the
Treaty of 1792. We have already given a full and éxplicit opinion on this point in
our Letter before mentioned. . - -
6. Although it is not our intention, as before obſerved, to enter into a minute
diſcuſſion of every Article of the late Agreement, we muſt remark, that the 4th
Article, ſo far as it has in view an increaſe of Tribute, is totally repugnant to the
ſpirit of the Treaty of 1792, by which the Poligar's Tribute, in order to ſecure them
from future unjuſtifiable exačtions, was unalterably fixed, according to a Schedule
annexed thereto ; except it ſhould appear on future .enquiry that they ought, by
virtue of any exiſting lawful engagement, to pay a larger fum. The Governor General
and Council, in anſwer to the late appeal made to them by the Nabob on the ſuc-
ceſſion to the Rajahſhip of Calaſtry, following the ſame obvious conſtrućtion of the
Treaty, have explicitly declared to his Highneſs, that the demiſe of a Poligar or
.2emindar, of any deſcription, could not authorize an enhancement of the amount of
the Tribute fixed by the Treaty ; and that if any increaſe could be allowed, it muſt
be demanded upon the principles mentioned at the time the Treaty was ſettled.—
The 9th Article of the Agreement, which gives to the Nabob the reſidue of each
year's collections of the Ramnaud diſtrićt, after the payment of certain outgoings, is
equally repugnant to the letter and ſpirit of the Treaty of 1792.
(* 14 to 18.) Succeſſion 18. Under the doubts mentioned in theſe para- + Letter
to the Rajahſhip of Calaſtry. graphs, we approve of your having ſubmitted the fºin,”
J Nabob’s demand for the payment of a Nuzzer from 5. ſe
- -e- º –- . tº ſº • J - partment;
the ſucceſſor to the late Rajah of Caluſtry to the opinion of the Governor Generalia...i
and Council, who have written to us on the ſubjećt. It appears that his Highneſs’s 4 Mar. 1795.
claim was not confined to a Peſhcuſh or Nuzzer, but extended not only alſo to an
increaſe of Tribute, but likewiſe to a reſumption of certain Talooks held by the de-
ceaſed Rajah, with an intention of including them in his own Khalſa poſſeſſions; and
we approve of the anſwer which the Governor General returned to his Highneſs's
application, in which a decided negative is given to the two latter claims, as incom-
patible with the conditions of the Treaty of 1792. Although his Highneſs's right to
demand a Nuzzerannah from the new Rajah of Calaſtry on his acceſſion has been
admitted, on the ground of eſtabliſhed uſage in Hindoſtan, which preſcribes this ac-
knowledgment from a vaſſal to his Sovereign, yet we truſt, for the reaſons urged to
...the Nabob by Sir John Shore, it has been finally adjuſted by the payment of a very
trifling ſum. For his Highneſs's expe&tations in this reſpect, as inferred from his
Letter to the Governor General of the 3d of March 1795, of receiving two lacks and
an half of pagodas, being nearly four-and-twenty times the amount of the ſtated
Peſhcuſh under the before-mentioned Treaty, are not only highly unreaſonable, but
totally inadmiſſible. , - - -
(*7.) No proſpećt of reſtraining
the turbulent diſpoſition of the Tri-
butaries of the Carnatic, and inſpir-
sing them with a juſt ſenſe of their
duty and allegiance, but by a prompt
- and vigorous exertion of power, to
reduce thoſe who prove refraćtory.
31. You are already in poſſeſſion of our • Letter
ſentiments upon this ſubjećt ; and we truſt, from, in the
with you, that by přirſuing a ſtrićt line of Political
- • Kł * .* * *ir . . * - Department;
condućt in the exemplary puniſhment of the .
offenders, the miſchief complained of, will 23 April
be effectually eradicated, and the authority of 1795.
the Company’s Government become every
where reſpected throughout the Carnatic.
E X T R A C T of Political Letter from Fort St. George ; dated
31ſt Auguſt 1796. - - *-
* Paragraphs (13 to 18.) Nabob's 4. The general ſubjećt of the Nabob's . Letter in
ºclaims on the ſucceſſion of the new right to demand payment of a Nuzzer on the Political
£ajah of Calaſtry. ~ , , - ſucceſſion of any Tributary Rajah C iſ Poigar i).cpartment;
- - . ," * - . Sº" 2 dated z Oct.
J has been already diſcuſſed in our Political.’ \-
175. * 3 Q- - - Biſpatch


&46 PAP E R S R E LAT I.N.G T G T H E • r- -
- -— prov e of
VII. Diſpatch of the 6th April laſt; afid, for the reaſons that have been aſſigned, we ap-
* gº ºf - f the propoſition, that a ſum, not exceeding one lack of rupees, ſhould be paid
Nº. 8. by the Rajah of Calaſtry to the Nabob, as a Nuzzer upon his inveſtiture.--It Were
to be wiſhed, however, that the propoſal of the Government General, limiting the
Nuzzer to be paid in future to fifty gold Mohurs for every lack of rupees to the ex-
tent of the Jumma, could be adopted as a fixed principle; otherwiſe, as ſuggeſted
by Lord Hobart, the right may be exerciſed in a manner, incompatible with the
regular diſcharge of the Tribute payable to the Company. And we therefore
“recommend the mode ſuggeſted by the Governor General and Council, to your
f - .xº~)
adoption. . . . . * --- . . . . . .
* Political Paragraphs (2 to 13.”) Nabob of ) , 13. We were greatly concerned at the in-
ºften Arcot and the Rajah of Tanjore, telligence, that the Nabob of Arcot and the
George; J Rajah of Tanjore had deviated from their en-,
dated 24 O&gagements with the Company, by granting aſſignments upon the diſtrićts that were
-1795. aćtually mortgaged to the Company as a ſecurity for the payment of their annual
‘ſubſidy, for the protećtion afforded them. It appears by the papers which accompa-
nied your diſpatch of the 25th February laſt, that the Rajah has acknowledged this
infraćtion of the Treaty under his own hand. But you have not furniſhed us with
any proof of ſuch infraćtion on the part of the Nabob ; though, after the poſitive
-manner in which you have communicated the information, we have no reaſon to .
doubt of the fačt. It does not appear, however, even if the moſt undeniable proofs
had been ſaid before us, that we ſhould be ſtrićtly juſtified, under the 8th Article of
sthe Treaty of 1792, in aſſuming the colle&tion of the Revenues of the Diſtrićts men-
ºtioned in the Schedule, N° 2, annexed to the Treaty. From the baneful conſe. .
quences, however, which are likely to follow to the countries upon which theſe
affignments have been iſſued, and which muſt tend greatly to weaken, if not to anni-
hilate the Company’s ſecurity, we ſincerely lament that the Nabob could not be
prevailed upon to adopt the modification of the Treaty propoſed by you upon his
acceſſion, founded upon principles of ſound policy, humanity, and juſtice. We are
ſo thoroughly convinced of the neceſſity of this arrangement, that we authorize yoti
to renew the propoſition in our name; and you will render a moſt acceptable ſervice
to the Company, ſhould you by addreſs, conciliation, and perſuaſion, be ſucceſsful
in procuring his Highneſs's conſent thereto. And as at the concluſion of the Treaty
of 1792, the late Nabob agreed with Lord Cornwallis, that his debt to the Company -*.
at that time ſhould be examined into by proper perſons appointed for that purpoſé,
and that he would abide by his Lordſhip's ultimate award, or the award of the
Governor General and Council, we are willing to conſent, if his Highneſs's ac-
quieſcence in the propoſed arrangement cannot be otherwiſe obtained, to exonerate -
him from the whole of that demand, provided he will ſurrender to the Company's
management the Diſtrićts named in the Schedule before mentioned.
5. We were much ſurprized that any objećtion ſhould have been ſtarted on the
part of the Nabob to the validity of his debt to the Company, under the denomi-
nation of the New Cavalry Loan, or debt due by the Nabob to the Officers of
- that Corps, amounting, by an account you have tranſmitted to us, to the principal
‘ſum of pagodas (7,20,598) feven lacks twenty thouſand five hundred and ninety-
eight. On referring to former proceedings on this ſubjećt, we find that in 1785, the late
Nabob repreſented the hardſhip of the caſe of his Cavalry Officers to the Madras Govern-
ment, requeſting Company's Bonds might be granted them, and promiſing an affign-
ment of Country till the whole ſhould be diſcharged. The whole amount due on
this account was not at that time aſcertained; but as the Nabob iſſued his Bonds to
the amount before-mentioned, which are depoſited in your Treaſury, and which muſt
ºbe confidered as a moſt ſubſtantial evidence of the validity of the debt, it is moſt
unreaſonable to expect that the Company ſhould bear the burthen of a debt con-
traćted by his Highneſs, and liquidated by the Company purely for his accommo-
dation. It would be extremely deſirable therefore, and an act of juſtice on his part, .
. . if his Highneſs could be prevailed upon to diſcharge this debt out of the Funds.
which there is every reaſon to ſuppoſe he became poſſeſſed of upon the death of his
: Father, or to make ſºme arrangement for its gradual liquidation.
*
16. The }
A FFA IRS OF T H E CAR NAT I C. 24t
16. The next point for our conſideration is the preſent ſtate of the Carhatic and VII.
the Tanjore Country, occaſioned by uſurious loans for Tuncaws and aſſignments upon - º
the Revenue, and the mode to be adopted for putting an end to a praćtice which
our prohibitory and repeated orders have hitherto not been able to effeót. That they
who have amaſſed wealth in our ſervice, or under our protećtion, ſhould, to increaſe
that wealth, become parties in meaſures which aré not only contrary to our expreſs
direétions, but which have a natural tendency to reduce whole provinces to miſery
and wretchedneſs ; and finally, to ſacrifice the deareſt intereſts of thoſe under whoſe
auſpices their fortunes have been acquired, is a matter of moſt ſeriods concern. But
as the evil is great, the remedy muſt be ſtrong; we therefore authorize you to fol-
low the line preſcribed in Lord Hobart's Minute of the 24th November 1795, and
direct, that in every caſe where, according to your belief (which you ſhall ratify
upon oath) any ſervant of the Company, or perſon living under the Company’s
protećtion, ſhall, in defiance of our orders, be in future concerned direétly or in-
dire&tly in any loan or other money tranſačtion with any of the Native Powers,
(unleſs with the knowledge and expreſs permiſſion of Government) or ſhall in virtue
•of Tuncaws or aſſignments already iſſued for paſt loans, be engaged direétly or indireétiy
in the receipt or collection of any part of the revenues of the Carnatic or Tanjore,
in conſequence of money already lent to the Nabob and the Rajah, in defiance of
sour repeated orders and regulations, ſuch ſervant of the Company, or perſon living
under the Company's protećtion, ſhall be called before the Council Board, and ex-
amined upon oath touching ſuch ſuppoſed loan or money tranſačtion; and in the
event of ſuch ſervant of the Company, or other perſon living under the Company’s -
protećtion, being found guilty of a breach of our orders and regulations in this re-
ſpeſt, or refuſing to anſwer ſuch queſtions as may be put to him, or not anſwering
ſatisfactorily ſo as to exculpate himſelf from all concern direétly or indireétly, in
ſuch loan or money tranſačtion, or not producing his books, if called upon ſo to do,
for the purpoſe of their being inſpected by a Committee, who ſhall be ſworn not
to divulge the contents thereof, except ſuch parts as ſhall be evidence of ſuch ne-
*farious tranſačtions, he ſhall be ſent to Europe by the firſt opportunity. . .
17. The ſame method of proceeding muſt be obſerved with reſpect to ſuch of his
Majeſty's Officers as ſhall be ſuſpected of having been concerned directly or indirectly
sin fimilar tranſačtions, reporting the reſult thereof to the Commander in Chief of His
Majeſty’s Forces in India, who will receive inſtrućtions from His Majeſty's Miniſters
N," 8.
upon the ſubjećt. - - . . . - -
18. We are aware that endeavours may be uſed to defeat the purpoſe of theſe di-
ºrećtions; but as we are ſenſible of the abſolute neceſſity of them, we exhort you to
proceed with firmneſs in the execution of them, relying upon our approbation and
ºfupport. - -
19. We obſerve that the Nabob has declared his determination not to acquieſce in
the arrangement propoſed in our Political Diſpatch of the oth June 1795, for re-
moving the evils occaſioned by the preſent divided ſyſtem of Government in the
Poligar Countries. ; but as we are convinced of the neceſſity of that arrangement,
you will follow the direétions upon that ſubjećt contained in our before-mentioned
Diſpatch, and in our Letter of the 6th April 1796. -
- 20. We have upon this occaſion written Letters to the Nabob of Arcot and
Rajah of Tanjore, copies whereof are incloſed. You will cauſe theſe Letters to be
preſented in the uſual manner. - - - * -
f
To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, Omdut ul Mulk, Um-
meer ul Hind, Aſoph Dowlah, Anaverdeen. Cawn Behader, Zupher
jung, Seppa Salar, Soubardar of the Carnatic. " .
To the Nabob of Arcot.
1. We have received your Highneſs’s Letter, dated Chepauk Houſe, the 2^d
Cétober 1795, containing the melancholy tidings of the death of your venerabic
Father the Nabob Wałłajah Bahauder, and that in cenſequence, your Highneſs had
stucceeded to the Government of the Carnatic. We ſincerely condole with your
*A
*
º!? P A P E R S R F L A T H N G T O THE
VH. Highneſ, on the loſs you have ſuſtained : at the ſame time we offer your Highneſs
N. ºr unfeigned congratulations upon your acceſſion to the Muſhud, in virtue of the
* * Treaty of 1792, and aſſure you of our unalterable friendſhip and regard.
2. It was with great concern we received the intelligence, that your Highneſs had
made ſome objećtion to the modification of the Treaty of 1792, propoſed by Lord
Hobart, upon your Highneſs’s acceſſion. That your Highneſs had the option to
accede to, or rejećt the propoſal made to you by Lord Hobart, for a modification
of the Treaty of 1792, we readily admit ; but permit us to obſerve, that the leading
features of that Treaty, are, protećtion on the one ſide, and ſecurity for the payment
of a fixed ſubſidy on the other. i
The Company, by fulfilling this important condition of the Treaty on their part,
and in conſtantly maintaining a large army, the expences of which have conſiderably
increaſed ſince the Treaty was concluded, are peculiarly intereſted in whatever con-
cerns your Highneſs's proſperity, or the proſperity of your Country ; and cannot
poſſibly view with indifference any meaſures which have a tendency to depre-
ciate the revenues which have been ſpecifically aſſigned as a ſecurity for the ſub-
fidy, to the extent of their being rendered inadequate to the ſecurity for which they
have been pledged. It muſt be obvious to your Highneſs, that we allude to the
pračtice of negociating uſurious loans for Tuncaws on the revenues, and which, if
extended to the diſtrićts named in the Schedule annexed to the Treaty, muſt be con-
ºſidered by every impartial judge as a deviation from the Treaty, and of a tendency
to leſſen, if not to annihilate, the value of the Company's ſecurity. In this ob-
ſervation, it is far from our intention to produce any unpleaſant ſenſation in the breaſt
of your Highneſs:–at the ſame time, permit us to obſerve, that if the propoſed
modification of the Treaty of 1792 could be ſo arranged, as to be made unobjec-
ºtionable to your Highneſs, every poſſible cauſe of difference between your Highneſs
and the Company in future would be avoided. : }
We have, therefore, direéted Lord Hobart to enter upon another negociation
with your Highneſs for this purpoſe; and we in the moſt earneſt manner entreat
your Highneſs to lend a favourable ear to the propoſition, ſo evidently calculated
for the eaſe and advantage of both Parties. In the adoption of the arrangement,
- your Highneſs will afford an early and unequivocal manifeſtatton of your regard for
the Company and the Britiſh Nation. Should you unfortunately not be induced
to accede thereto, we ſhall not ceaſe to lament that your acceſſion ſhould be marked
by a diſinclination to attend to the firſt repreſentation which your Friends, the
Company, have had occaſion to make to your Highneſs ; nor, permit us to obſerve,
is it our wiſh alone that your Highneſs adopt the propoſed arrangement, but we
have reaſon to know it is alſo moſt cardently deſired by the confidential Miniſters
of our Illuſtrious Sovereign. -.
Given under our Great Seal, in the City of London, this thirty-firſt day of
Auguſt, in the year of our Lord, one thouſand ſeven hundred and ninety-
ſix. - º
(ºs)
‘E XT R A CT of the Company's Political Letter to Fort St. George 3
dated 4th October 1797. ..
** },etter (Paras. 60 to 7 *) Propoſed modification
ſºme of the Treaty with the Nabob of Arcot of
p.ent, 1792, and relative to the application to the
25 February Nabob for payment of the New Cavalry Debt.
1796. (73 and 74) Gbſervations 12. We truſt, that in conſequence of the repre-
* on the mode obſerved by the ſentations from the Supreme Government, the
Nabob in his Correſpondence ſº has been induced to make your Government
with the Governor General. J the medium of his correſpondence with that of
- - Bengal, affording you at the ſame time an oppor-
tunity of judging of the nature of his Highneſs's communications, by communi-
cating to you, as fºrmerly, copies of his Letters.
io. The ſubjećts noticed in theſe pa-
} ragraphs will be replied to in a ſepa-
rate Diſpatch.
(Para.
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N AT I C. '. 243
(Para. 2. to 16.") In vindicationn 16. We have already obſerved, that the VII.
of their condućt in the negociation ſubjećt of the negociation with the Nabob of —
with the Nabob for procuring a mo- (Arcot, for a modification of the Treaty of 1792, ***.
dification of the Treaty of 1792. J will be noticed in a ſeparate Diſpatch. * Letter
(17. to 26.) Further obſervations on the mode, • * . * from, in the
obſerved by the Nabob in his correſpondence with $ 17. Already replied to Political
* * Y. • * f . Department;
the Governor Generał. -
- . - dated the
(39. to 43.) Protećtion af. 19. The Papers to which you have referred us, 16 Auguſt
'forded a reſpectable Bramin relative to the ſufferings of the Family of Ram 1796.
Family, againſt the ſeverity, Ś Row, have been attentively peruſed. Your inter-
cruelty, and oppreſſion of the ference in behalf of thoſe miferable objećts, who
Nabob. . . y were not only reſident within the bounds of the
. Company's juriſdićtion, but who had alſo earneſtly
ſolicited your protećtion, redounds much to the credit of your Government. The
Britiſh influence in India can never be more honourably exerted than in the cauſe
of ſuffering Humanity ; we therefore approve of the meaſures that were taken for the
relief of theſe unhappy perſons. It were to be wiſhed, however, that your inter-
ference could have ſhewn itſelf at an earlier period, and that a repreſentation to the
Nabob on the ſubjećt had preceded the employment of coercive meaſures; though
with reſpect to the firſt, it probably might have proved fatal to the Nephews of the
Family; and with regard to the atter, little probably could be expected from his
Highneſs, ačtuated, as he appears to have been, by a ſpirit of uncommon rigour
towards the unfortunate objećts of his diſpleaſure. With reſpect to the Nabob's
Letter of the 23d July, referred to in the 103d paragraph, it is ſo evidently the
produćtion of an European pen, employed for the purpoſe of confounding the relative
ſituation between his Highneſs and the Company, that we can ſcarcely imagine he
could have any comprehenſion of the contents, much leſs that it was written in con-
ſequence of his direétions. We approve, however, of Lord Hobart's Anſwer there-
to; and muſt upon this occaſion refer you to our former orders on the ſubject o
European influence at the Nabob's Durbar, which appears to counteract every ſalu-
, tary meaſure propoſed for the mutual benefit of his Highneſs and the Company, and
daily to increaſe, inſtead of leſſelling, the inconveniencies attending a double ſyſtem
of Government in the Carnatic. - • .
(84. to 88.) Nabob's New 26. We have already obſerved, that this ſubjećt
Cavalry. Debt. ... < {zi be noticed in a ſeparate Diſpatch.
f
Political Department.
our P RE SID E N T in Council, at Fort St. George.
"Para. 1. We have requeſted Lord Mornington to make a ſhort ſtay at Madras,
sprevious to his proceeding to take upon himſelf the Government General of Bengal,
4for the purpoſe of endeavouring to prevail on the Nabob of Arcot to agree to a
- modification of the Treaty with his Highneſs in 1792. It were to be wiſhed, that
… the zealous endeavours of Lord Hobart for that purpoſe had proved ſucceſsful ; and
as, in our opinion, nothing ſhort of the modification propoſed is likely to anſwer any
-beneficial purpoſe, Lord Mornington will render a moſt eſſential ſervice to the Com-
pany, ſhould he be able to accompliſh that obječt, or an arrangement ſimilar thereto:
but feeling as we do the neceſſity of maintaining our credit with the Country Powers
by an exact obſervance of Treaties—a principle ſo honourably eſtabliſhed under Lord
:Cornwallis's Adminiſtration—we cannot authorize his Lordſhip to exert other powers
than thoſe of perſuaſion, to induce the Nabob to form a new arrangement. To
enter into a particular explanation of the relative ſituation of the Company and the
Nabob would be ſuperfluous; to point out the neceſſity of that conneétion being
clearly defined would be equally ſo : nor is it leſs evident, that the regular payment
of his ſubſidy ſhould be inſured, that, in conſequence of our being obliged to have
recourſe to the ſecurity in caſe of failure on his part, we may find the value of ſuch
ſecurity undiminiſhed, and the ſeveral Diſtrićts forming that ſecurity not impove.
175. - 3 R & riflhed
244. P A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O T H E
VII. riſhed under the management of thoſe to whom Tuncaws or Aſſignments may have
been granted. - *-
2. Being equally deſirous that ſome arrangement ſhould be formed for the gradual
liquidation of any debt that may be found due to the Company by the Nabob, we,
alſo recommend this objećt to Lord Mornington's attention. *-
London, We are - -
the 18th Oétober 1797. Your loving Friends,
- - - (Signed) Hugh Inglis.
john Manſhip.
* - john Roberts.
} r - Paul Le Meſurier.
joſeph Cotton.
Tho' T. Metcalf.
W. Benſley.
Edwº Parry.
W. Devaynes.
..R. Thornton.
Stephen Williams.
j. Hunter.
://. Elphinſtone.
N° 8.
ExTR Act Public Letter to Fort St. George; dated
18th Oétober 1797. -
‘Para. 3. Since the date of our Diſpatch of the 22d of March laſt, adviſing you of
the appointment of Marquis Cornwallis to be Governor General and Commander in
Chief, various circumſtances have induced his Lordſhip to reſign thoſe appointments;
we have therefore appointed the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Mornington, K.P.
to ſucceed Sir John Shore, Bart. as Governor General of Bengal, and he is to take
upon himſelf the Government General immediately upon his arrival at Calcutta.
4. Although we have been induced to make this arrangefinent under circumſtances,
and for reaſons of a peculiar nature, we nevertheleſs entertain a due ſenſe of the
ſervices rendered to the Company by Lord Hobart. To his zeal and promptitude
in the execution of the orders relative to the capture of the Dutch Settlements may
be attributed, in a great degree, the very advantageous ſituation in which the Britiſh
Empire is now placed. We are likewiſe perſuaded, that in his Lordſhip's endea-
vours to prevail with the Nabob of Arcot and the Rajah of Tanjore to conſent to a
modification of the Treaties with thoſe Princes, he was ačtuated by the moſt zealous
and difintereſted motives. Lord Hobart is alſo entitled to our higheſt commendation
for the manly ſentiments he avowed, both to the Nabob and the Rajah, on the
ſubjećt of uſurious loans for aſſignments on the revenues of their Country; and for
his ſtrenuous exertions, oppoſed to a very powerful counteraćtion, to put an end to a
pračtice which has been as ruinous to their affairs as it has been baneful to the in-
tereſts of the Company.
.EX T R A CT of the Company's Political Letter to Fort St. George;
- dated 5th June 1799. ^ -
• Letter (12. and 13.”) Diſpute be-Y . 4. We are extremely-concerned, that the Nabob
from, in the tween the Jaghiredar of Chit- ( did not ſee the neceſſity of communicating with you
£olitical ... toor, a ſervant of the Nabob, { on the beſt means of putting an end to the diſpute
º Iſlent : º & * g
* ’ and the Moogral Poligar. between the Jaghiredar of Chittoor and the Moo-
3 O&ober * gral Poligar. That a force, conſiſting of 3,000
sj96. armed Peons, ſhould be ordered to march without the knowledge and previous
ſanétion of your Government, is certainly incompatible with the preſent ſyſtem of
affairs in the Carnatic, and might be produćtive of alarming conſequences. You
aćted with great propriety, therefore, in countermanding thoſe orders, and in not
allowing a petty warfare to exiſt in the Carnatic, uncontrouled by our authority;
and we approve of the ſentiments expreſſed on this ſubjećt in your ſubſequent Diſ.
** patch.
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245
patch of the 20th January 1797. We are the more ſurprized that the Nabob ſhould
have adopted this line of condućt, becauſe he muſt have been well aware of the in-
: propriety of ſo doing, as appears from his Letter to Lord Hobart of the 19th June
*1796; wherein he obſerves, that ſince the ratification of the Treaty of 1792, he has
not iſſued any orders to the Poligars requiring the co-operation of their Peons, with-
"out your previous knowledge. .
5. We are here naturally led to expreſs our concern at finding, that, notwithſtand-
sing the ſtipulations in the Treaty between the Company and the Nabob of i792,
and our orders of the 10th of June 1795, founded thereon, the ſyſtem of govern-
‘ment, with reſpect to the Poligar Countries tributary to the Nabob, is ſo extremely
defeótive as to require a complete reviſion. ... " ^-
6. From the documents which accompanied that Treaty, we certainly conceived
that the preciſe amount of the ſum which it had been cuſtomary for the Nabob to
receive from the Poligars, had been clearly aſcertained ; and by an expreſs Article
‘in the Treaty, made over to and to be colle&ted by the Company, as part of the
Nabob's ſubſidy, in order thenceforward to obviate the miſchievous effects to the
quiet and proſperity of the country, which till then had attended the frequent alter-
cations and quarrels between the Nabob and thoſe Tributaries, on account of the
undeterminate nature and amount of the demands made upon them by the Nabob
and his Managers: it now however, appears, from the Report of the Revenue Board
•of the 14th March 1797, that the Peſhcuſh of the Poligars was fixed without in-
veſtigation, or attention to their means; and a conſiderable addition thereto is re-
-commended as a meaſure of indiſpenſable policy.
7. By an account inſerted in the before-mentioned Report of the Revenue
‘Board, the groſs revenues of the aſſigned Pollams are ſtated at (14,74,251) pagodas,
$fourteen lacks ſeventy-four thouſand two hundred and fifty one, whilſt the Peſhcuſh
:received by the Company, in virtue of the Treaty of 1792, is ſtated at only
s(2,64,706) pagodas, two lacks ſixty-four thouſand ſeven hundred and ſix. We adhere
to the principle which was meant to be eſtabliſhed by that Treaty, that the amount
•of the ſum to be paid by the Poligars, as their ſubſcription to the general defence,
‘whether under the denomination of Tribute, Peſhcuſh, or Nazir, ought to be in a
fair proportion to the amount of the revenues of their reſpective Pollams; but as the
Peſhcuſh has been ſettled upon defečtive information, it will be equally repugnant
to the ſpirit of the Treaty to ſay, that the Peſhcuſh thereby eſtabliſhed ought not to
ºbe ſubjećt to a reaſonable increaſe. * - -
,8. It is ſtated by Lord Hobart, in his Minute of the 24th March 1797, that it
is now become a matter of notoriety, that the Peſhcuſh which the Nabob transferred
*to the Company conſtituted but a ſmall portion of the payments which uſed to be
smade by the Poligars; that the Nabob's unceaſing exačtions, under the head of
Nazir, &c. were the principal ſource of Poligar revenue; that upon the pretence of
“ Cuſtomary Ceremonies,” (a term reſerved in the Treaty) the Nabob's receipts from
the Poligars would have greatly exceeded thoſe of the Company; and that it was the
payments under this head that bore hard upon the Poligars, and occaſioned their in-
ability, as well as diſinclination, to diſcharge the ſtipulated Peſhcuſh. -
9. We perfeótly agree with his Lordſhip, that the Treaty of 1792 muſt be
sdeemed the ſource of our interference in the Poligar countries, and the proviſions of
it, in ſome degree, the guide of our condućt. By the ſpirit of the Treaty, it was
unqueſtionably intended as well to inſure the payment of their due proportion to-
wards the general defence as to ſecure the Poligars againſt all arbitrary exačtions on
the part of the Nabob ; but we are ſorry to be informed by his Lordſhip, and of
which we had previouſly no conception, that an adherence to the letter of the Treaty
leaves the Nabob at liberty to make indefinite exačtions from them at pleaſure,
which would bring back all the evils it was intended to eradicate; whilſt, by limiting
the payments of the Poligars to the preſent amount of Peſhcuſh, they would be
placed in a ſituation as dangerous to the ſtate as oppreſſive to the country.
Io. Since, therefore, the objećts of our interference between the Nabob and his
Poligar Tributaries have not been attained, and as the ſtipulations in the Treaty of
1792 appear to be wholly inſufficient to the end propoſed, it remains to be con-
fidered in what other mode the ſame can be accompliſhed.
J 7.5. I I. It
VII.
Nº 8.
246 P A P E R S R E L A T 1 N G T O. T H E
VII. 1 1. It is a point in which all who have diſcuſſed the ſubjećt are agreed, and in
— which we have repeatedly declared our concurrence, that under a divided ſyſtem of
N° 3. government, it is impoſſible that any effectual reform can take place in the Poligar
Diſtrićts. We had therefore much ſatisfaction in the peruſal of that part of Lord
Hobart's Minute in Council of the 24th of March 1797, declaratory of his Lord-
ſhip's perfeót convićtion, that the Nabob would cheerfully relinquiſh his nominal
Sovereignty over the Poligars for an increaſe of Peſhcuſh, provided he ſhould have
credit for it in his Kiſts, or the amount be carried to the liquidation of his debt to
the Company. The principal, if not the only objećtion to an arrangement of this
nature being carried into immediate effeót, ariſes from a conſideration that the value
of the Poligar revenues is not accurately known, as to enable you to come to a per-
manent agreement with his Highneſs for transferring both the Peſhcuſh and the
Sovereignty to the Company. In order to aſcertain this material point as a founda-
tion for your future proceedings, we think it will be adviſable for you to appoint
a Special Committee to inveſtigate the ſubjećt, of which an experienced Member of
the Revenue Board ſhould be one. But ſhould you be of opinion that the amount
of the revenues of the reſpective Poligars is already aſcertained with tolerable pre-
ciſion, we feel no heſitation in authorizing you to negociate with the Nabob upon
the principle here laid down ; premifing, however, that the amount to be received
from the Poligars above the (2,64,706) pagodas, two lacks fixty-four thouſahd
ſeven hundred and ſix, mentioned in the Treaty of 1792, is to be carried to the
Nabob's credit (after defraying the expences of collečtion) firſt, in diſcharge of the
New Cavalry Debt, which we have already paid on his Highneſs's account; after-
wards in liquidation of ſuch other debts to the Company as may be juſtly due from
his Highneſs; and ultimately, in further part of his annual ſubſidy. .
12. With reſpect to the rights and privileges of the Poligars, we obſerve, by the
papers before us, that they are not to be defined by any Sunnud, or other written
document, but muſt be conſidered merely as preſcriptive. The privilege higherto
enjoyed by them of collečting the Cavally, or Watching Fees, in the Circar villages,
is repreſented as replete with miſchief, and the ſource of endleſs diſputes; but at
...the ſame time that it is ſtated as a meaſure indiſpenſably neceſſary for the peace
of the country, that the inhabitants ſhould be relieved from the claims of the Poli-
gars, and their vexatious exačtions; the extreme difficulty of effecting their abolition
has likewiſe been repreſented, and that, on account of that tenaciouſneſs of the
Poligars in this reſpect, it ought not to be attempted without the means of enforcing
it.—We cbſerve alſo, that they hold their lands under a feudal tenure; and it
has been repreſented, that in every point of view, it would be juſt and eligible to
commute their military ſervice by a payment in money. . . . . . . .
13. Theſe, and other points of a local' nature, will naturally come under your
; review in arranging a ſyſtem for the future government of the Poligars, that may be
better adapted than the preſent to exiſting circumſtances. It were to be wiſhed, that
the preſent ſtate of civilization in the Poligar countries would admit at once of the
introdućtion of the Company's authority in their internal management; but as this
appears to be impoſſible, it muſt be left with you to effect the ſame by degrees.
14. We have taken this view of the ſubjećt in conſequence of your repreſenta.
tion of the inadequacy of the preſent ſyſtem of Government for the Poligar coun-
tries. It is not our intention, nor indeed is it poſſible for us to lay down any ſpecific
rules for your guidance. You will exerciſe your own diſcretion herein, after the
moſt mature deliberation, on the information which may be obtained by the afore-
mentioned Committee. It will afford us great ſatisfaction to meet with the cordial
co-operation of his Highneſs the Nabob in any plan that you may offer to his con-
ſideration for the future Government of the Poligars.
I 5. Upon your ſubmitting to the Nabob's conſideration the propoſition to be
made to him in conſequence of theſe direétions, you will endeavour to impreſs upon
his mind the abſolute neceſſity of ſome fund being immediately formed for the pay-
ment of his debts, as well as of our determination no longer to delay enforcing
the gradual liquidation thereof. You will likewiſe acquaint him with our decided
reſolution for the adoption of meaſures for relieving the Poligars from vexatious and
. arbitrary
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arbitrary exačtions, agreeably to the ſpirit of the Treaty of 1792. The arrange- VII.
ment which we have propoſed, if acquieſced in by the Nabob, will, we conceive,
be effectual to the attainment of both theſe objećts; but ſhould his Highneſs ſhew a
difinclination to conclude an arrangement upon theſe juſt and equitable grounds, you
will take the earlieſt opportunity of reporting to us the reſult, with your ºpinion of
the meaſures that ſhould be adopted for the accompliſhment of the purpoſes before-
mentioned, that we may come to ſuch a final deciſion upon the ſubjećt as the neceſ-
ſity of the caſe may require. - - . . . . 3
16. Since the preceding paragraphs were written, we have received ſeveral papers,
reſpečting Lord Mornington's negociation with the Nabob, in which we obſerve his
Highneſs has propoſed to relinquiſh his Sovereignty over the Poligar countries, on.
certain conditions. As Lord Mornington has not given any opinion relative to this
propoſition, it is not our intention either to expreſs an approbation of, or to offer.
any objećtions to, the terms propoſed by his Highneſs. The only purpoſe which
we have in view in adverting to thoſe papers is, that the Governor General (in
Council) ſhould give you inſtrućtions as to the terms upon which the negociation.
ſhould be carried on, and that you may be guided by their opinion and direčtions:
before any arrangement ſhall be finally concluded. & ',
17. We have been adviſed by the Earl of Mornington, that the Nabob con-
tinues to oppoſe a determined reſolution to the modification of the Treaty of I792, .
which has been repeatedly propoſed to him. At the ſame time we obſerve, that
his Highneſs has diſtinétly acknowledged that he is in the pračtice of raiſing money
annually by aſfignments of the revenues of thoſe Diſtrićts which form the ſecurity.
for the payment of the Company's Subſidy. As this praćtice is unqueſtionably con-
trary to the letter, and ſubverſive of the ſpirit of that Treaty, we direét, that in-,
mediately upon the receipt hereof you adopt the neceſſary meaſures for taking poſ-
ſeſſion, in the name of the Company, of the whole, or any part of the ſaid Diſtrićts,
the revenue of which ſhall appear to be ſo aſſigned, and that you continue to hold.
the ſame, and colleót the rents thereof, in order that the Company may not in-
future be deprived of the only ſecurity which they poſſeſs under the before-mentioned
Treaty, to anſwer any failure in the Nabob in the diſcharge of his ſubſidy. You'
will immediately communicate to the Nabob the determination we have come to,
and the orders you have received relative to this point. You will obſerve, that
this ſubjećt is perfeótly diſtinét from the propoſed arrangement with reſpect to the
Poligars, by which a fund will be eſtabliſhed for the liquidation of the Company’s
debt, to accompliſh which the recent endeavours of Lord Mornington do not appear
to have been ſucceſsful. . :
' ' (Para. 24. *) Relative to the ordnance and 23. We very much approve of . Letter he'
fores belonging to the Fort of Chandernag- \ your having remonſtrated with the E."
Herry having been removed from thence, pre- (Nabob upon the ſubjećt mentioned Department;
vious to its being put into our poſſeſſion. in this paragraph. - dated .
(25. to 28.) New Cavalry Debt. 24. Already replied to. ; January
(29. to 30.) Nabob's claimson *} 25. We approve of the aſſurances given ‘’ 97. , , ,
Poligars. § to the Nabob, that upon his laying before
- . - you all ſuch Documents as he might have to
produce, tending to eſtabliſh his claims upon the Poligars, you would give to the ſub-
jećt every poſſible conſideration. But we are very apprehenſive that an attempt to
ſubſtantiate any claim upon them, of a pecuniary nature, will tend very much to
impede the concluſion of the before mentioned arrangement. Indeed, we do not ſee
with what propriety any claims for arrears of Peſhcuſh, previous to the execution of . . . .
the Treaty of 1792, can now be brought forward. * - . .
(31.) Interpoſition of the Company's authority - -
in behalf of a Bramin Family, againſt the ſup- - 26. Already replied to. . . .
poſed deſigns of the Nabob, - * , ;
(3. to 9.") Relative to Lord
Hobart's agreement with the
late Nabob, reſpecting the Ram-.
nad Country.
32. The recent diſcuſſions upon that part of the * Letter
Treaty of 1792 which reſpects the Poligars, have jºin the
occaſioned us to view Lord Hobart's agreement with łº, €11t:
\the late Nabob, relative to the Ramnad Country, dated 9.
- in a different light from that in which it at firſt ap- 27 March.
peared to us ; the term of the Agreement being expired, we have only to direct, that '797.
A 75. 3 S the

a45 PA P E R S R E LAT IN G To THE
VII. the Surplus Revenue of the Ramnaud Diſtriót remaining in depoſit, after making the
dedućtions provided for in the 9th article of the Agreement, be carried to the credit
** of the Nabob in part diſcharge of his debt to the Company. - -
3 (24. to 30.) Rebellion of º 42. The unhappy diſputes between the Nabob
Warriorpollam, &c. Poligars
againſt the Nabob's Government.
and his Tributary Poligars of Warriorpollam, Arri-
alone, and Terriore, furniſh freſh cauſe for lament-
ing the preſent divided ſyſtem of Government in
the Carnatic; at the ſame time, his Highneſs’s refuſal to accept the Company’s me-
diation for their adjuſtment, is a further lamentable proof of his diſinclination to
provide any remedy for the evil. But without renewing a diſcuſſion which has
occupied at various times our moſt anxious attention, we muſt, for the preſent, con-
tent ourſelves with direéting, that before you yield to any application from the Nabob
for the aſſiſtance of our troops in the ſuppreſſion of any apparent inſurreótion on the
part of his Tributaries, you thoroughly ſatisfy yourſelves that you will not thereby
become the inſtruments of tyranny and oppreſſion. Should any arrangement be
made with his Highneſs in reſpect to the Poligars in general, in conſequence of the
ſuggeſtions in a preceding paragraph, you will of courſe ſee the neceſſity of including:
in ſuch an arrangement the Poligars before mentioned. ; : . . . .
(3 I. to 38.) º 43. We were much concerned at the information
the w eſtern Frontier.
you have afforded us, that the people principally
engaged in diſturbing the tranquillity of the Coun-
try were in the ačtual ſervice, pay, and protećtion of the perſons charged with the
management of Chittoor, the Jaghire of his Highneſs the Nabob's paternal Uncles.
We concur entirely in opinion with you, that it was inconſiſtent with his Highneſs's
connection with the Company, to call upon their troops for the apprehenſion of ma=
rauders, who found ſhelter and protećtion in the heart of his own country, and under
the wing of his neareſt Relations. But as it ſubſequently appeared that theſe
violences and outrages originated with the inhabitants of the Nabob's Country them--
felves, who are ſtated to have been driven to theſe extremes by the oppreſſion of his
Highneſs's Anildars, and the faithleſſneſs of his Cowle, we approve of your reſo-
lution for recalling the troops from ſo diſreputable a ſervice. The concluſion of your
repreſentation upon this ſubjećt, with reſpect to the Government of the Nabob being
rapidly approaching to that ſtage of weakneſs, which, unleſs relieved by a radical
reformation, muſt end in its entire diſſolution, has made a deep impreſſion, upon our
minds, though we are not at preſent prepared to offer an opinion upon the nature
and extent of the meaſures which ought to be adopted, for preſerving the Carnatic
againſt the complicated evils ariſing out of the preſent divided ſyſtem. . . .
• Letter (27.*) Referring to their repreſenta--).
ſº the tions reſpecting the ſtate of the Carnatic
Political - -. -
-> and Tanjore, and aſſuring the Court, that
Department; - 5 a - -
dated each day’s experience tends to confirm
19 February their obſervation; and to point out the
il 798. abſolute neceſſity of providing ſome means
to reſcue from ruin the ultimate ſecurity
for our exiſtence on the Coaſt.
g
58. We are duly impreſſed with the
importance of the repreſentation contained
in this paragraph, which will be taken
Şinto our moſt ſerious conſideration, ſhould
a continuance of the evils complained of
afford you cauſe to make ſimilar repre-
ſentations to us. We ſhall of courſe be as
early as poſſible adviſed of your impar-
tial opinion upon this important ſubject.
EXT R A CT of Commercial Letter to Fort St. George; dated .
- 18th June 1799. .- * -
• Letter from, (29. to 33.”) The Officers"). Par. 16. We ſhall be much gratified at receiving
6 Auguſt of the Nabob, by their exacting the information, that your repreſentations to the
3796. on the Weavers, and enforcing Nabob have had the effect of prevailing on his
the pračtice of Guddayam, have Highneſs to adopt ſtrong and deciſive meaſures for
thrown impediments in the way the abolition of this truly oppreſſive ſyſtem; the
of this inveſtment ; but his exiſtence of which we concur with you in regarding
Highneſs has been furniſhed as particularly injurious, not only to our Inveſt-
with a full ſtatement of the ment concerns, but alſo to the welfare of the Inha-
ſubjećt, and will no doubt grant bitants in whatever Diſtrićt it may unfortunately
immediate redreſs, - º prevail;
and we deſire, in the event of a praćtice
ſo replete with injuſtice and cruelty not having
been
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been completely aboliſhed, you will, on receipt of theſe advices, forcibly impreſs on VII.
his Highneſs, in addition to your own repreſentations, that it is our particular wiſh
and requeſt he ſhould take immediate ſteps to that effect. Nº 8.
Ex TRACT of Political Letter to Fort St. George; dated
31ſt Oétober 1799. : -
(12. to 16.”) Relative to 5. We very much lament the want of ſucceſs in Letter from,
Europeans being employed in your endeavours to prevail upon the Nabob to 5%tober
the Nabob's Correſpondence. } diſcontinue the employment, of Europeans in his 1798.
t & Correſpondence with your Government, perſuaded
as we are, that from the ſpontaneous dićtates of his own mind would never proceed
thoſe exceptionable expreſſions in ſome of his Letters, of which you have ſo much
reaſon to complain. With reſpect to the Nabob's application for troops, you will
invariably exerciſe your own diſcretion as to a compliance therewith, left they ſhould
again become, as in ſome former inſtances, the inſtruments of oppreſſion. We are
concerned to notice the frequent inſurrečtions among the Nabob's troops, on account
of their arrears; and that to protećt him, even in his own houſe, againſt their clamours,
he ſhould have at length been under the neceſſity of applying for the Company's
Sepoys. Moſt earneſtly do we wiſh that his Highneſs could be prevailed upon to
diſcharge theſe uſeleſs hordes, and appropriate the expence to the liquidation of his
debts to the Company and to individuals.
(Para. 17. to 19.”) Loans of ) 6. Upon the ſubjećt of the Clauſe in the late A&’ Letter from,
money by Britiſh Subjećts on [of Parliament, prohibiting Britiſh Subjećts, except:5 º:
:the Tanjore Country; and de-funder the reſtriótions therein mentioned, from lend-'7”
firing particular inſtrućtions. Jing money to the Native Princes in India, you have
. - requeſted our particular inſtructions for your guid-
ance, declaring, without ſuch inſtrućtions you can have no hope that the Clauſe
‘before mentioned will enable you to exterminate this dangerous evil. It is impoſſible
for us to frame inſtructions upon this important ſubjećt of a more ſpecific and effectual
nature than thoſe contained in the 16th paragraph of our Letter in the Political
Department, dated the 31ſt Auguſt 1796, to which we enjoin the moſt explicit obe-
-dience. They were iſſued under an impreſſion of the difficulty ſo ſtrongly pointed
out by you, if not the utter impoſſibility of a minute, or what might be deemed a
legal detection in ſuch caſes. The prohibition contained in the Aćt, as well as the
direétions in the paragraph before mentioned, are to extend to every deſcription of
Natives who have pecuniary engagements, with the Company, under the ſeveral
denominations of Subſidy, Tribute, Rent, or Peſhcuſh. And for the more effectu-
ally preventing our Servants, and other Britiſh Subjećts, from being in future engaged
in money tranſaćtions with any of the Princes or Natives of India, under either of
the above deſcriptions, it is our poſitive direction that no countenance or aſſiſtance be
afforded by you towards the recovery of ſuch loans, nor any arrangement formed
under your authority for their liquidation. s’
Family of the late Abdul Wahab mane endeavours to produce a reconciliation 15 Q&tober
Khan, the paternal Uncle of the (, between his Highneſs the Nabob and the Sons'79*
preſent Nabob of Arcot, of harſh ( of the late Abdul Wahab Khan, have hitherto
treatment experienced from him proved ineffectual. From the contents of the
ſince the death of his Father. J. Nabob's Letter of the 22d September 1798,
- - we are not without hopes that this may ſtill be
accompliſhed. His Highneſs, we obſerve, has promiſed your Right honourable
Preſident to confirm the Jaghire which their Father left them, on their making proper
ſubmiſſion ; and we ſhall have great ſatisfaction in hearing, that in conſequence of
his Lordſhip's recommendation, the eldeſt Son, Delier Jung, has returned to the
Nabob's Durbar. .* * - -
(78 to 80.*) Complaint of the | Para. 21. We are concerned that your hu-Letter from,
175. s' - - (Para, 86
aşo
P A P E R S RE LAT IN G To T H E
VII.
No 8.
(Para. 86 to 90.*) Relative to the 24. After the repeated and peremptory
Province of Tinnevelly being mort- orders which we have from time to time
gaged, firſt to Mr. Robert Powney, iſſued againſt Britiſh ſubjećts being concerned
*Letter from, and afterwards to Mr. Thomas Parry in any loans or money tranſačtions with the
1 5 O&tober
*798.
and Paupiah, for the avowed purpoſe y Native Princes of India, or in obtaining
of procuring money to the Nabob, to | Tuncaws or Aſfignments of Lands, as a ſe-
enable him to pay his Kiſts to the curity for the payment thereof, we feel utterly
Company. at a loſs what further direétions to give you
- - that ſhall be more effe&tual in their operation,
to remedy the evil complained of. The Clauſe in the Aćt of the 37th of His preſent
Majeſty, cap. 142. ſec. 28. ſeems calculated to embrace every ſpecies of money
tranſa&ien with the Native Princes, and includes all Britiſh Subjećts whatſoever; .
and, by a preceding paragraph, we have extended the prohibition to every deſcrip-
tion of Natives having pecuniary engagements with the Company. The latitude
allowed you by our inſtrućtions of the 31ſt Auguſt 1796, extends even to caſes of
ſuſpicion; and we ſeriouſly call upon you to exerciſe, with firmneſs and impartiality,
the diſcretion therein veſted in you, for the ſuppreſſion of an evil of ſo ſerious a na-
ture, and ſo prejudicial to the Company’s affairs. The parties whom you have now
brought to our notice, as being inveſted with the power of collečting the Revenues of
a whole Province, muſt be confidered as ačting principally as the Agents of others;
and whilſt under the confidence of Agency, our Servants have the means of tranſ-
greſſing our orders with impunity, without the fear of detection, we may wiſh in vain
to ſee a period put to ſuch tranſačtions. As a warning, therefore, to others how they
aćt in a ſimilar capacity, we direét that the Company's protećtion be withdrawn from
Meſſrs. Robert Powney and Thomas Parry, and that they be required to repair to
Europe by one of the ſhips of the enſuing ſeaſon. From the notoriety of the cha-
raćter of Paupiah Braminy, who was the public Dubaſh during the corrupt admini-
itration of Mr. John Hollond, we are not ſurpriſed at his being employed as the
Native Agent upon ſuch occaſions. But we truſt to your zeal and ačtivity in endea-
vouring to diſcover the names of ſuch of our Servants, or other Britiſh Subjećts, as
ſhall avail themſelves of ſuch Agency, or of any other Native or European Agency,
in lending money to the Princes of India, or to that deſcription of Natives contained
in a preceding paragraph ; and all Europeans who may in future be engaged in ſuch
nefarious pračtices, whether in or out of the Company's ſervice, otherwiſe than with
your expreſs permiſſion, muſt be ordered to Europe. • ,
*Letterfron’ (Para. 140.*) Correſpondence ) 37. We are extremely concerned and fur-
4.5 O&ober
*798.
*Letter from, (Para. 23*.) A Syſtem of Village-
I 0 October
* 797.
with the Nabob reſpecting the li- ( prized, that the Nabob ſuffered a period of
quidation of the New Cavalry Debt. (near two months to elapſe, before he gave any
- • . : anſwer to the preſſing application of the Earl
of Mornington, made at a time of great public emergency, for an advance of caſh
on account of the New Cavalry Loan; and that his Highneſs ſhould at laſt deny the
validity of the debt. We are hopeful, however, that, in conſequence of our in-
ſtrućtions upon this ſubject of the 5th June laſt, the Nabob has been made ſenſible
of the error of his condućt, in ſetting ſo little value upon the friendſhip of the
Company, as even to withhold the payment of a part of their juſt demands, at a pe-
riod of peculiar exigency; and that we ſhall ſhortly be adviſed of your having con-
cluded an arrangement with him of the nature pointed out in thoſe inſtrućtions. Our
determination, reſpecting'the ſpeedy adoption of ſome plan for the gradual liquidation
of the Nabob's debts remains unalterable; of which, if neceſſary, you will take occa-
fion to acquaint his Highneſs. * - •y ... • - -
8. This mode of ſettlement for the Ram-
Rents introduced in the Ramnad ( nad Country comes very forcibly recom-
Diſtrićt. (mended to our approbation, as affording the
- -- J only means of gaining an accurate knowledge
of the value of the Diſtrićt, and enſuring the proſperity of the People, by ſecuring to
them the fruits of their own labour. We muſt here obſerve, that the more we con-
ſider the ſubjećt, the ſtronger is our convićtion of the policy and neceſſity of ſome
permanent arrangement being carried into execution for the better government of the
- Poligar

A FFA I R S OF THE C A R N A TI C. 25 t
Poligar Countries in general, agreeably to the ſuggeſtions contained in our Political VII,
Diſpatch of 5th June laſt. Indeed, it is expreſsly declared in the 22d paragraph of -
your Letter in the Revenue Department of the 24th April 1795, that the Agreement Nº 8.
with the Nabob reſpecting the Ramnad Diſtrićt, though limited both in extent and
duration, may be looked upon as a foundation upon which a more extenſive and
permanent ſyſtem may be formed for the better adminiſtration of affairs in the whole
of the Poligar Countries; of the adoption of which we ſhould have great ſatisfaction
in being adviſed. - g. §
(Para. 25.”) Relative to the 1 1. We are extremely concerned at the frequent • Letter from,
Colleries of Madura having repreſentations which you have occaſion to make 16 October
thrown off all reſtraint, and ) to us of the diſtreſsful ſituation to which the admi-'797.
carried devaſtation into the niſtration of the Nabob is reducing the Carnatic;
neighbouring Diſtrićts of Din- nor can we ceaſe to lament that no effectual remedy
digul. - has yet been deviſed for corresting the evils ariſing
* - out of the preſent divided Syſtem of Government;
the more eſpecially as you have been reduced to the neceſſity of incurring a
conſiderable expence for the protećtion of the Pollams under the management
of the Company, againſt the devaſtations committed by the Nabob's revolted
Colleries. & 2 --
*
E XT R A C T of Political Letter to Fort St. George; dated 16th
. June 1801.
(17. and 18.*) Settlement) Para. 61. We likewiſe approve of the meaſures* Letter from,
of a conteſted boundary be- that were taken for adjuſting the boundary diſputes : Jºy
tween the Poligars of Bomrauze 8 between the Poligars of Bomrauze and Magral.”
and Magral. \ As it appears that Captain Symons, whom you ap-
pointed, in conjunétion with an Officer on the part
of the Nabob, to inveſtigate the matter, executed his miſſion to your entire ſatisfac-
tion, we alſo approve of your having preſented him with the ſum of (1,000) one
ºthouſand pagodas, as a compenſation for his expences during the deputation, agree-
ably to the intimation in the 53d paragraph of your laſt-mentioned Diſpatch. It
would be unneceſſary at this time to ſpeculate on the motives which induced his
Highneſs the Nabob to withhold his concurrence and aſſiſtance in enforcing a com-
pliance on the part of the Magral Poligar with the propoſed adjuſtment, not-
withſtanding the commiſſion had been appointed at his Highneſs's ſuggeſtion, and
notwithſtanding his own declaration, that he had ačtually iſſued poſitive orders for that
purpoſe.
EXT R A CT of Revenue Letter to Fort St. George ; dated 31ſt
Auguſt 1801.
(236. to 239.") Interference Para. 49. As it was certainly the objećt of the “Letter from,
, of the Nabob of Arcot with | Treaty of 1792 to preclude the poſſibility of inter-5 °
the Poligars of Woorcund and? ference on the part of the Nabob with the Poligar”
Singumpetty. * \ Countries aſſigned over by that Treaty to the ex-
cluſive management of the Company, we approve
of the repreſentations which were made to his Highneſs, in conſequence of his
Agent having made certain demands upon the Poligars of Woorcund and Singum-
petty, which he endeavoured to ſupport by an armed force, and you will of courſe,
reſiſt every ſimilar attempt of that nature. At the ſame time, it is perfeótly confiſt-
ent with the ſpirit of the Treaty, and equally accordant with the ſentiments which
we have expreſſed upon that ſubjećt in our ſubſequent Diſpatch in the Political De-
partment of the 5th June 1799, that the amount which may be collected from
thoſe Poligars, beyond the amount ſtated in the Treaty, in conſequence of the ar-
rangements in contemplation for ſettling their tribute upon a permanent founda-
tion, ſhould, after dedućting the extra expence of collečtion, and the charges that
may be incurred in the adminiſtration of juſtice, be carried to the Nabob's credit
in liquidation of his debt to the Company. But as this ſubjećt is more properly
connected, with the Political Department, it will neceſſarily be reſumed in that De-
partment upon our receiving an anſwer to out before-mentioned Diſpatch of the
5th June 1799.
175. - - 3 T # E XT R A C T
25? * P A P E R S R E LAT IN G T O T H E
VII. E XT R A CT of Political Letter to Fort St. George ; dated 12th
March 1802. *. t -
.." (30, and 31*). Mal-admi- ) Par. 11. The death of the late Nabob Omdut
*. ...”niſtration of Omdut ul Om- $ ul Omrah has rendered any obſervations from us
48o I. rah. - t on the general ſubjećt of his Adminiſtration un-
neceſſary.
[The ſubſequent Orders relating to the Nabob are from the Secret Committee,
dated january and September 1802; and are contained in a ſeparate Volume
accompanying this.] h
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VIII.
N” 9, & 10.
O R D E R S of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 16th December 1802.
EXTRA C T of the Separate Military Letter from Fort Saint George; VIII.
dated 29th Oétober 1773.
* © Nos 9, & Io,
Pará. 7. Iº. courſe of the deliberations of the Sele&t Committee with the
Nabob on the ſubjećt of the Fxpedition, he ſeemed, as your Honours
will obſerve, not averſe to an alliance with Hyder Ally Cawn, urging, that he was
convinced the Mahrattas, after what had paſſed, would put no confidence in him.
Whether this aroſe from an apprehenſion that Hyder Ally might interrupt our
operations, or from any real deſire to be on friendly terms with the Myſore Govern-
ment, we cannot ſay. However, to whatever motive it was owing, it appears, by a Letter
he wrote the Preſident the 27th Auguſt, that he had empowered Hyder Ally’s Vacqueel to
propoſe to his Maſter the ſending a Perſon of conſequence to the Nabob's Court, in which caſe one
would be ſent in return from the Nabob to Hyder Ally Cawn. With the above-mentioned
Letter the Nabob tranſmitted copies of Letters from the Vacqueel, ſetting forth, that
Hyder Ally Cawn had conſented to ſend a Perſon of truſt to the Nabob, provided he
were aſſured one would be ſent from the Nabob in return. The Nabob deſired our opi-
nion what anſwer ſhould be ſent to theſe Letters. We acquainted him, that he muſt be
the beſt judge of his own ſituation with reſpect to the ſeveral Country Powers, and of
courſe of the conſtrućton that might be put on and the conſequences that might attend
the receiving a Vacqueel from Hyder Ally Cawn; obſerving only, that as the Peace and
tranquillity of the Carnatic were of the higheſt importance both to him and the
Company, we thought that every endeavour conſiſtent with honour, and the main- *
rtenance of harmony with other Powers, ſhould be employed for the keeping up a
good underſtanding with Hyder Ally Cawn. The Nabob accordingly ſent Anſwers to
ethe Letters, promiſing, in caſe of the arrival of a truſty Perſon from Hyder Ally Cawn,
to ſend one in return to him ; and we learn that a Perſon of Diſtinčion is now ačually on the
, road from Hyder Ally to the Nabob. -
*Ex T R A CT of the ſeparate Military Letter from Fort Saint George $
dated the 6th of February 1774.
Para. 48. By a review of our Conſultations and Country Correſpondence, from Nos 1,2,3,4,
the time, of our conference with the Nabob in Conſultation 24th December, your & 11.
Honours will have a full account of the progreſs of the Mahrattas, from their Peace 44 Bººm.
with the Soubah until their croſſing of the river Kiſtnah; the demands they have? ; January.
amade upon the Nabob ; our correſpondence, and ſecond conference with him 1; Do
thereon; his earneſt deſire, by every means in his power, to drag us into an alliance 16 D"
with the Mahrattas; and our firm determination to adhere to the ſtrićt line of
sneutrality between them and Hyder Ally, conformable to the order of your
175. : -- * 3 U Honours,
254
P A P E R S R E L A TI N G T O THE
VIII.
N” 9, & Io,
Dec. 24-
Honours and ſo conſonant to the intereſt of the Nabob and the Company.
The bent of the Nabob's Letters, and his Conferences, have evidently that
tendency; but we always recurred to our firſt determination, that we could
not form any alliance with the Mahrattas, and earneſtly wiſhed to be at peace
with both. It is however worthy of remark, that when the Nabob was eager for
the Expedition againſt Tanjore, in order to leſſen the apprehenſion of the Mah-
rattas, he ſeemed inclinable to an alliance with Hyder Ally; and went ſo far as to ſignify,
that if a Vacqueel were ſent to him from Hyder Ally, he would return a Letter of
friendſhip to Hyder Ally by a Perſon of conſequence. A Vacqueel from Seringa-
patam has been with the Nabob for about three months; and it was only in Con-
ſultation the 16th January, that we were informed by the Nabob, that he propoſed,
without loſs of time, to return the Vacqueel with a Letter to his Maſter. We do not
mean to infer from hence, that the Nabob's ſentiments are changed. No, We are
convinced that his favourite ſcheme has always been to join the Marattas, and totally
extirpate Hyder. We beg your Honours will pleaſe to pay particular attention to
the conference with the Nabob, recited in Conſultation the 16th January; and like-
wife to the Minutes of our Conſultation, wherein the ſubjećt is fully diſcuſſed.
Jan. 3. (Nº 1 1. We muſt alſo beg leave to refer your Honours to the Conſultations and Country
l e
2.I .
17 January.
3. ***) Correſpondence noted in the margin, where it will appear how ſtrenuouſly we have
urged the Nabob to aſcertain to us the ſupplies of money and proviſions, we may
expect to receive from him in caſe of a Mahratta war, uſing every argument to induce
him to ačt candidly and openly, that we may well know the grounds on which we are
to proceed; and your Honours will no doubt be aſtoniſhed to perceive the Nabob ſo
averſe to an explanation upon theſe points, on which the ſecurity of his country ſo
eſſentially depends. As Guardians of the Carnatic, we have aſſembled an army in a
central ſituation, and declare to the Nabob our firm determination to ſupport him
to the utmoſt of our power againſt any Invader of his country. But without money
and proviſions, how can we ačt?—and upon the Nabob muſt we depend for ſupplies.
But the inconveniencies and dangers reſulting from the preſent ſyſtem we have ſo.
often experienced, and have ſo often taken the liberty of repreſenting to your Honours,
that we need ſay nothing further thereon. However, that nothing might be wanting
on our part, we have ſet forth to the Gentlemen at Bengal our diſtreſs for Money,
and have requeſted they will ſend us a ſupply, either in Specie or Bills, in caſe of an
emergency; and if it is not abſolutely wanted, we ſhall remit it to Bombay, where
their diſtreſs for money calls for an immediate relief.
49. Such is our ſituation at preſent: — The Mahrattas on this ſide the Kiſtna,
making demands on the Nabob which he never can comply with :—Hyder Ally, as
we underſtand, negociating, and endeavouring by an accommodation to ſave his
country from their ravages:—A reſpectable force aſſembled at Vellore for the defence
of the Carnatic, but depending ſolely on the Nabob for money and proviſions. The
junéture is critical and alarming; but we beg your Honours will be aſſured, that every
effort of Government ſhall be uſed to ward off the impending blow, and to preſerve
the tranquillity of the Carnatic. Your Honours will no doubt obſerve in our late
Correſpondence, that the Nabob repeatedly declares, that if the country is invaded
by the Mahrattas, it will not be in his power to make any payments.
EXT R A C T of Fort St. George Military Conſultations; 30th
Auguſt 1773. . -
Read a Letter from the Nabob, as entered in Country Correſpondence, N° 95. en-
cloſing two Letters from Mahomed Uſman, Hyder Ally’s Vakeel at Seringapatam,
on the ſubjećt of ſending a Vakeel from the Nabob to Hyder Ally, with the uſual
tokens of amity and friendſhip. The Nabob deſires advice reſpecting the anſwer to
be returned to Mahomed Uſman. - -
In conſequence of which, an anſwer is returned as entered in Country Corre-
ſpondence, N° 96. -
From the Nabob;–Dated and received the 27th Auguſt 1773.
In ſhewing friendſhip to the Mahratta, my view therein was that my Country
might remain in tranquillity, and in my Letter of the 7th of June 1771 to your Pre-
deceſſor,
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deceſſor, I mentioned the kind treatment, he (the Mahratta) would ſhew us, on VIII.
our joining with him : his Vakeels alſo plainiy told me, that he had no objećtion to .
what I might do within my own Country for the ſettling the affairs thereof, the * 9. * *
meaning of which was, as to the taking of Tanjour; but a friendſhip with the Mah-
rattas, in the manner he wiſhed, did not take place. - .
More than two months ſince, when the Expedition againſt Tanjour was determined
son, it appeared to me that the Mahratta was at a diſtance, and would not have time
to ſend aſſiſtance; but that Hyder, who was near at hand, would ſend aſſiſtance, which
my Friends thought a matter of importance. Accordingly, agreeable to your advice,
and that of the General and my other Friends, I thought it proper to tell Mahomed Uſmaun,
the Vakeel of Hyder (who for a long time had been informing me of his Maſter's deſire to
be in friendſhip with me, and who, conformably with his Maſter's orders, was then upon
"the return) that if a Perſon of Truſt came from thence, I ſhould alſo ſend a Perſon of
Truſt there. Incloſed are Copies of two Letters ſent by the ſaid Vakeel to me, and
Abdul Ruſhud Cawn, after his arrival with his Maſter. I am very ſenſible that I
connot reap from any other perſon in the world ſuch advantage as I receive from
...the friendſhip of the Company. Be ſo kind as to acquaint me ſoon, what in your
wiſdom you ſhall judge it proper to be wrote in anſwer to Mahomed Uſmaun,
that conformable thereto it may be wrote. º
What can I ſay more ?
C O P Y of a Letter from Mahomed Uſmaun Cawn; dated at Seringa-
patam the 15th Auguſt 1773, and received the 26th D* D".
After having taken leave of your Highneſs, I came, and was admitted to an au-
dience here ; and having repreſented to the Nabob, in the beſt manner I was able,
the degrees of friendſhip ſubſiſting between your Highneſs and him, agreeable to
your commands, as well as what your Highneſs was pleaſed to ſay relative to your
intention of ſending a Perſon of conſequence hither, as ſoon as ſuch a one ſhould
‘have been ſent from hence to you ; the Nabob in anſwer ſaid, That the confirma-
tion and eſtabliſhment of a mutual friendſhip was on his part, alſo, the continual
objećt of his deſires and views; and that if your Highneſs had been deſirous of his
amity, you would certainly have executed that reſolution which you expreſſed to me
before my coming away (viz. that your Highneſs was willing to ſend ſome conſi-
derable Perſon, with the uſual tokens of unanimity) which, nevertheleſs, you again
deferred.—Whence, ſaid he, proceeds this condućt 2–Why were not thoſe manifeſ.
ºtations of friendſhip and unanimity put in praćtice —How are we to judge of ſuch
appearances : - - {
Setting aſide however, what is paſt, if your Highneſs will be pleaſed to honour
me with a Letter, ſetting forth your ſaid deſign, as expreſſed to me at my taking
leave, I am confident that the Nabob will be ready to ſend a Man of import-
ance to you ; in this matter the utmoſt expedition will be but ſlow. I am now in
the moſt ardent expectation of a Letter from your Highneſs, for I have ſent a for-
ºmer addreſs to you on the ſame ſubjećt, by the way of Rangree Cottah, to which I
have as yet been honoured with no reply.
I beg you will look upon this as written in the moſt preſſing terms, and not defer
still to-morrow that which may be done to-day.—For the reſt, I am with reſpect, &c.
COPY of a Letter from Mahomed Oſman at Seringapatam to Abdul
Ruſhud Cawn ; dated the 15th, and received 26th Auguſt 1773.
After having taken leave of your Highneſs, and obtained an audience at this place,
“I explained, agreeable to his Highneſs's commands, all the circumſtances relative to
the mutual friendſhip of both Parties, as well as the reſolution which his Highneſs,
before you, expreſſed to me by word of mouth, of ſending a Perſon of importance
hither, after ſuch a one ſhould have been ſent from hence ; and I was joined herein
joy Aly Zamān Cawn. On hearing this, the Nabob replied, “I am always de-
“ſirous of being upon a friendly footing; if his Highneſs had a view to my good
* : * . - . ſº *-- “ will
256 W P A P E R S R E L A TI N G T O THE
VIII. “ will, he would certainly have put in execution the deſign he imparted to you
“ before your coming away ; ” (the deſign here alluded to, was that which his
* 9. * * Highneſs was formerly pleaſed to expreſs to me, that he was inclined to ſend ſome
Man of weight among the ſervants of the Sircar, to this place, with ſome preſents
and rarities.) “For what reaſon (continued the Nabob) was this again put off?—
“Why were not thoſe tokens of friendſhip ſent with you ?” -
But ſetting all this aſide, if his Highneſs will even now be pleaſed to ſend me a
Letter, expreſſing his deſire to have ſuch a Perſon ſent, in theſe terms; “That if
“ ſome one comes from thence (that is to ſay, from the Nabob Hyder Alli Cawn
“Behauder) a perſon will alſo be ſent thither on the part of his Highneſs,” you
may undoubtedly conclude, that without one moment's delay, a Man of conſequence
will be ſent with the cuſtomary tokens of regard.
In this affair, let not his Highneſs procraſtinate a moment; but eſteeming the
utmoſt haſte but ſlow, ſpeedily fend a Letter to the above purport, to the care of
the Killidar of Ringree Cottah, who has been already charged upon that ſcore, and
will forward it to the Durbar the inſtant it comes to his hand.
If, on this occaſion, the ſending the ſaid Letter is delayed, you may certainly
conclude that to the day of judgment a Peace will not be brought about ; beſides
which, diſgrace will ſtick by me as long as I live, and my mediation in future will
have no weight. For the reſt, it is his Highneſs's pleaſure | The Nabob here is
aćtually culling out ſuch things as he thinks moſt worthy of being ſent—you may
credit it or not. By the favour of God, the Nabob, on hearing the expreſſions of
friendſhip (from the part of his Highneſs) ſhewed the moſt ardent deſires thereto,
is now in expectation of his Highneſs's Letter; immediately on its arrival, he will
diſpatch a Perſon of importance, with full and ſufficient powers to conclude a laſting
alliance with his Highneſs. Without entertaining the leaſt doubt or heſitation in
this reſpect, he muſt be pleaſed, with all expedition, to ſend the Letter for me to the
Killidar of Rengree Cottah, to forward to the Durbar, when on its arrival a
perſon will ſet out, and afterwards his Highneſs will be pleaſed to ſend another on
his part. In this matter he will pleaſe to admit of no inattention, and the more
ſpeed the better. - -
What ſhould I write more, but a wiſh for his Highneſs's Letter?
To the Nabob ; dated 30th Auguſt 1773.
Co. Corr. I have been honoured with the receipt of your Highneſs's favour of the 27th
N° 96. inſtant, incloſing copies of two Letters from Mahomed Uſman: – My ſentiments .
concerning the anſwers to which you are pleaſed to deſire : . - -
As your Highneſs, from a more intimate knowledge, muſt be much better ac-
quainted with the particular circumſtances of your ſituation with reſpect to the ſeve-
ral Country Powers than I can poſſibly pretend to be, and of courſe a much better
judge, not only of the conſtruction which may be put and conſequences which may
attend the receiving of a Vakeel from Hyder Alli Cawn, and the ſending of one
to him, but alſo of the particular turn and mode of expreſſion proper to be made
uſe of on fo nice an occaſion, in reply to theſe Letters, I muſt beg leave to refer
the ſame to your Highneſs's better judgment, taking the liberty only to give the fol-
lowing general opinion; to wit, that as the tranquillity of the Carnatic is of the laſt
and higheſt importance, both to your Highneſs and the Company, I think that
every endeavour conſiſtent with honour, and the maintenance of harmony with other
Powers, ſhould be employed towards the keeping up of a good underſtanding with
Hyder Alli Cawn. * * * *
E X T R A C T of Fort St. George Military Conſultations ; 25th
Oćtober 1773. -
N° 129. 'Read a Letter from the Nabob, as entered in Country Correſpondence, N° 1 29.
with a copy of a Letter from his Son Ameer ul Omrah, giving an account of the
march of the Army, and the taking poſſeſſion of Nagore and the other diſtrićts:
Alſo, a copy of a Letter from Mahomed Uſman, Hyder Ally's Wackeel. - -
- - zº E XT R A CT
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AFFAIRS OF THE C A R N AT I c. 257
E X T R A C T of a Letter from the Nabob ; dated and received 24th VIII.
Oćtober 1773. - - -
+ * e e . . Nº Q, & 10.
I ſome time ago ſent to you copies of the Letters received from Mahomed 9,
Uſmaun, the Vakeel of Hyder Alli Cawn, and the anſwers which were ſent; and IN 129.
now encloſe for your information, a copy of another Arruz-daſht from him, ad-
viſing of his ſetting out, with Ally Zunaun Cawn, and Mohedeer Alli Cawn, for
theſe parts. I have wrote to my Deputies at each place to furniſh them with pro-
viſions, and to pay every proper attention to them wherever they may ſtop.
A R R U Z - D A SH T from Mahomed Uſmaun ; received at the
Durbar the 24th Očtober 1773. -
I was honoured with the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter, as well as the other
favour you beſtowed upon me, juſt as I was leaving Seringapatam, and preſented
them to my Maſter's inſpe&tion on the night of the 9th Oétober, which proved to
be an happy hour. Aly Zemaun Cawn, Mahadu Ally Cawn, and myſelf, with the
cuſtomary tokens of friendſhip for the eſtabliſhment of an union between both
Powers, have on the 17th inſtant come over the paſs of Hooly Durg; and as, by
long ſtages, we ſhall in three or four days reach the bounds of the Sirkar Country,
I ſhall come firſt to your Highneſs and make you acquainted with the neceſſary
circumſtances, and ſhall be ready to follow your Highneis's directions. •.
EXT R A CT Fort St. George Selečt Conſultations; 23d December
- £773. ºv,
The Nabob, and his ſecond Son Omeer ul Omrah, being preſent, the Preſident
acquaints the Board that the 20th, at night, the Nabob delivered him two Letters
of Intelligence from Hydrabad, dated the 8th and I oth inſtant; the former con-
itaining a further account of the interview between Ragonaut Row and Ruccumud
Dowlah ; and the latter an account of an interview between the Subah and Rago-
naut Row, the 9th inſtant, at the diſtance of about two coſs from the Mahratta.
encampment. - - º
That as by theſe interviews, as well as by other advices, there was no rocm to
doubt of a Peace being ačtually concluded, he (the Preſident) thought it neceſſary to
wait upon the Nabob the ſucceeding morning, as well to know his ſentiments of
what future meaſures the Mahrattas were likely to purſue, as to conſult with him
the means of providing againſt their hoſtile attempts, ſhould they bend their courſe
this way.--The Nabob informed him, he had received no later intelligence than
what he had delivered to the Preſident the preceding night; that as to his opinion,
whether the Mahrattas would attack the Carnatic the enſuing ſeaſon, he then thought
£hey would not, but that ſuch opinion ought by no means to be the ground of our
meaſures; we ſhould conſider the Mahrattas at Conjeveram, and take our ſteps
accordingly: That the Mahrattas were a people reſtleſs, greedy of conqueſt over
every Power, and when their march was bent towards Hindoſtan, Sujah ud Doulah
and the Powers in theſe parts had every thing to apprehend from them ; and when
their motives tended this way, Hyder and we had reaſon to be alarmed, and there
was no ſaying with certainty againſt whom their views were directed, until ačtual
hoſtilities make them manifeſt,--That he (the Preſident) then ſaid, the diſpoſition of
the army was well known to the Nabob ; the greateſt part had moved towards Vel-
lore, and the remainder was at Trichiuopoly. But as the laying up of proviſions
of all kinds in the ſeveral forts was a matter of the higheſt importance, he would
be obliged to his Highneſs for a liſt of the proviſions in ſtore in the ſeveral garriſons,
which the Nabob promiſed ſhould be given him; and at the ſame time the Nabob
deſired to have an account of the number of troops at the ſeveral forts, with an
eſtimate of the quantity of proviſions requiſite for them for any given time; for in-
ſtance, for ſix months.—The Preſident then told the Nabob, that there was another
moſt neceſſary eſſential for the ſupport of war–Money. That beſides the extraor-
dinary charges, there was due from him to the Company for the Kiſt of the 1ſt of
175. - 3 X this
258
PAP E R S RE LAT 1 N G To T H E
VIII. this month, the ſum of one lack of pagodas, and that money for the purpoſes of
- war. He (the Preſident) had none, but had even been obliged to withhold for ſome
N”9, & Io time the payment of the Gratuity Money to the Company’s ſervants.-The Nabob
* in reply to this told him, that a reference to the Records would ſhew, that in caſe
of troubles (the produce of the country being his ſupport) he could pay nothing;
but if there were no troubles whatever, the Kifts ſhould be paid ; and that a former
Letter he had wrote would ſhew his intentions reſpecting the diſcharge of the extra-
ordinary charges. The Nabob further ſaid, that he had certain points upon which he
wanted to have the Preſident’s opinion reſpečing the negociation with Hyder Ally, that he
might reply to Hyder's Letters, and his propoſitions for an alliance.-In conſequence of
which the Preſident had deſired the Council to meet at his gardens.
The Nabob then acquainted the Board, that he had ſome Papers of great import
to lay before them, and certain matters to conſult with them upon, which nearly
concerned the intereſt of the Company, and the ſecurity of the Carnatic. He de-
clared in the ſtrongeſt terms, and offered to ſwear upon the Coran, that he had
always been, through every change of his fortune, and ſtill was, the firm and un-
ſhaken friend of the Company 5 that he had riſked his life in their cauſe, and would
at any time ſacrifice his life for their welfare.
The Nabob then delivered in the following Paper of Intelligence ..
I N T E L L I G E N C E.
Date on the Cover, 13th December 1773.
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the Nizam's Nuckarah was beat as a ſignal for marching, and about half paſt ten
his Highneſs was mounted; after a march of five or ſix miles he again entered
his tent. - .
“ News has been brought from the camp of Raganaut Row, and reported to
his Highneſs, that he (Ragonaut Row) had marched 15 coſs from the river
Bhalke, and had pitched his camp two coſs on this fide the ſuburbs of Hummu-
nabad, after which he marched to the Paſs of Vimafapoor, and he is now making
towards the river Bhamah ; hence one may conceive he means to go to the fide
of Gouloupoor, for that diſtrict is ſituated juſt beyond the Bhamaah ; and from
Shautopoor are two roads, one which ieads to the diſtrićts of Hyder Ally Cawn,
and another to the Province of Camoul and Cadapah. It is the talk of his
Highneſs’s Harkarahs, and thoſe of Zaubet Jung, &c. that he (Ragonaut Row)
does not intend going to Saul ajee Rhanſaſ's country, but that, by ſending Trimbec
Row, and Mahommed Huſſeen, Commandant, he means to have every thing
ſettled in that quarter, that he may be at liberty to carry on an expedition of
importance; and that his making Peace here, and departing ſo ſpeedily, was from
the ſame cauſe. -
“I have thus reported to your Highneſs what I hear after our arrival here at
evening:—Taig jung, Zoraver Jung, Halkeem Cauder Tar Cawn, Bhokan,
Ghunſhawm, &c. were at the Durbar; and there was muſic. * .
“ When Ruccum Ud Dowlah had entered his tent, Kiſhen Shaw Pattaul and
Dhoondoram Pundet went to him, and were in private with him till about half
paſt four in the afternoon, at which time they left him, and he went to ſleep till
* 9 o'clock at night, when he awoke and came out.
* Zan Dart Cawn, the Maſter of the Houſehold to the Nizam, with 4oo horſe,
having been appointed to bring the reſt of the Seraglio that had been left in
Hydrabad, ſet out to-day at three o'clock, and will pitch his camp at four coſs
diſtance. - _- $ -
“ They are preparing an horſe, an elephant, dreſſes, and jewels, for Ragonaut
Row, and dreſſes for the other Great Men that accompany him: it is probatle
they will be ſent away to-morrow. * -
“ Monday, 13th. December 1773.-Camp is pitched two coſs diſtance from Ma-
hommedabad-What ſhall I ſay more, &c.”
By
A FFA IRS OF THE C A R N AT I C. 259
By the mouth of a perſon of rank, who was with Ruccumud Dowlah at the time VIII.
of his taking leave of the Marattah Chief, I have learnt particulars relative to the N. &
Court of Ragonaut Row, which the perſon himſelf was preſent at. They are” ” * *
theſe: That Ragonaut Row introduced a converſation with Ruccumud Dowlah in a
free unreſerved manner, in relation to the neighbouring Powers, and obſerved that
ſome diſtrićts had fallen into the hands of the Governor Prince of the Carnatic,
and the Engliſh; and at the ſame time aſked, “Why have you too given up the
“ poſſeſſion of Maſulipatam, Chicacole, &c.”—Ruccumud Dowlah replied, “The
“ maintenance of ſea-ports in the poſſeſſion of the Circar is extremely difficult,
“ and theſe diſtrićts are cloſe to them, which puts us at a nonplus.”—Ragonaut
Row anſwered, “ It is not ſo great a matter as you ſeem to think.”—To this
Maudhoojee Bhonſalah ſaid, “And yet you ſee Hyder Naig too, with all his
“ courage and force, is upon peaceable terms with them.”—Ragonaut Row replied,
“ What hurt had he got, or what has poſſeſſed him, that he ſhould leave his ſea-
“ ports too in their poſſeſſion ?”—Upon the whole, it was clear from what Rogonaut
Row ſaid, that he has conceived a deſign upon that quarter (the Carnatic); if, in-
deed, any alarming intelligence ſhould arrive from the oppoſite ſide, he will, in that
caſe, turn thitherward, otherwiſe he appears to have a ſtrong bent that way. On
this account it is neceſſary your Highneſs, with the Servants of the Circar, ſhould be
in readineſs. . -
I find alſo that he has alſo been preſfing with Ruccumud Dowlah and the Nizam,
that they ſhould accompany him to that quarter. On their parts they have made
many excuſes; for appearance ſake, however, they will follow him in a few days
to Sholaupoor, and after levying the eſtabliſhed Peiſhcuſh of the Zamundars of
Sholaupoor Corcottah, &c. they will return to Hydrabad by the ſhorteſt way of
'Gudwall and Goodmangel. –What more, &c.
An old acquaintance of mine, who is a Jamadar of horſe in the ſervice of the
Fajah of Candahar, having been to viſit his relations in the camp of Ragonaut
Tow, is juſt now arrived from thence: he tells me, that it was reported in the
camp, that at all events they ſhould march as far as the river Rhamrah ; and if
within the time of their arrival at that ſtation the report of the Peace concluded
'here ſhould have influenced Saubaujee, ſo as that he ſhould have moved ſome other
way, after certain intelligence on this ſcore, their intended route was to the Carnatic.
The Vakeel of Hyder Naig too is, it ſeems, with the camp: there is, probably,
one year ſtill remaining of the years agreement between them. It is alſo talked of
...there, that your Highneſs has impriſoned Pertaub Sing the Rajah of Tanjore, and
taken poſſeſſion of his country: ſome one is with their camp in quality of the ſaid
Rajah's Vackeel, and begs aſſiſtance. Ragonaut Row has his eye now on the fide
of Saubaujee, in expectation of intelligence; and his ſecondary deſign is on the
'Carnatic, as ſoon as he is once aſſured of the tranquility of affairs at Poonah.
Such are the rumours that prevail there. I info: m your Highneſs, without heſita-
tion, of what I have heard.—What more, &c.
The Nabob, after relating the ſtate of parties in the Marattah Government, the
diſaffection of many of the Chiefs to Ragonaut Row, and the aëtual invaſion of his
dominions by Saubajee Bhoonſala, obſerved, that although he thought the hands of
the Mahratta would be tied up from invading the Carnatic this ſeaſon, nevertheleſs
prudence and good policy required that we ſhould take our meaſures as if the
Mahrattas were a&tually at Congeveram; that is, to make every preparation as if
the enemy were in the very heart of the country: “ That having received a Letter
from Hyder Ally Cawn, with certain propoſals for a Treaty of Alliance, it was neceſſary
he ſhould come to a ſpeedy determination either to accept of, or to reječf his propoſals;
that for this purpoſe he had deſired to conſult with his Friends on ſome very material
circumſtances, which ought to be well weighed before an Ainſwer is returned to Hyder
Ally : That Hyder Ally had many advantages to expeśń from an alliance with the Carnatic,
whereas we had none to expe? by uniting with him ; that his (Hyder's) ſtrength, was very
inadequate to a war with the Mahrattas, and ſhould we be engaged in hoſtilities with
that Power, all Hyder's force, joined to our army, would not ſave the country from being
ruined. Should the Mahraftas attack the Myſore country, and we determined to aſſift
175, * * Hyder
26o
P A P E R S R E LAT IN G To T H E
VII. Hyder with an European army, the Mahratas would infallibly invade the Carmatic, and
cut off all communication with the army on the other ſide of the Hills. That Hyder Ally
- &gs, 3. g & - & - -
*9 & 10, was unable to ſubſiſ our army for any length ºf time, and if the Carmatic was plundered,
it was not in his (the Nabob's) power, to raiſe money for that purpoſe. The Nabok
added many other objećions to an alliance with Hyder Ally; and, from the whole tenor of
his converſation, evidently ſhewed that an alliance with the Mahratta was the meaſure
he had moſt at heart ; and for which purpoſe he repreſented the ſtrength of Hyder Ally as
mothing when compared to the force of the Mahrattas.” -
The Nabob, after enlarging on the foregoing ſubjećt, propoſed the following
Queſtions to the Board, as, he ſaid, their Anſwers would direct him what Reply to
make to Hyder Ally : - s
Firſt. If Hyder is attacked by the Mahrattas, will we, or will we not, aſſiſt
him tº
Anſwer. By the Board. To this queſtion, a poſitive and preciſe anſwer cannot
be given, as our determination, either one way or the other, muſt depend entirely
upon circumſtances at the time. J.
2d Queſtion. In the Treaty of Peace concluded with Hyder Ally in 1769, it is
ſtipulated, that the pay of a Sepoy, when either party is aſſiſted by the other with
troops, ſhall be rupees 7 #, and that of a ſoldier and a horſeman 15 rupees each
monthly ; but ſhould the expence of our troops in Hyder's country, when we aſſiſt
him, exceed the ſtipulated pay, is the Company, or Hyder, to pay the overplus *
Anſwer. By the Board. We conceive the intention of the Board, reſpecting the
pay of the auxiliary troops mentioned in the Treaty with Hyder Ally, to have been
this; that ſeven rupees and a half was to be paid as an extraordinary allowance to a
Sepoy over and above the pay he received in his own ſervice, and all additional
expences exceeding the ſaid monthly allowance was to be defrayed by the Party
affiſted; and the reſt of the troops in the ſaid manner.
3d Queſtion. Should the Mahrattas invade the Carnatic, what plan is to be pur-
fued Shall we oppoſe them in the field, confine our troops in the forts, or endeavour
to obtain peace : If we oppoſe them in the field, with whoſe forces : The Com-
pany's and Nabob's : Or ſhall we call in the aid of Hyder Ally
Anſwer. If the Nabob- can make a Peace upon ſafe and conſiſtent terms, and
thereby prevent the invaſion of the Carnatic, it is certainly a meaſure moſt ardently
wiſhed for. But if ſuch a Peace cannot be obtained, and the Mahrattas aétually
commence hoſtilities, in that caſe we heſitate not to determine, that it will be beſt
to oppoſe them in the field with the forces of the Company and the Nabob.
The Nabob then retired. - *.
E X T R A C T Fort St. George Military Conſultations; the
- - 3 iſt December 1773. -,
Read a Letter from the Nabob, as entered in Country Correſpondence, Nº 161.
encloſing Tranſlates of a Letter from Hyder Ally, and his propoſition for an Alliance
with the Nabob :—(Wide Conſ. 24th inſtant.) The Nabob alſo encloſes a draft of an
Anſwer which he propoſes to ſend to Hyder Ally, and deſires the Preſident’s opinion
thereon.
The Nabob is well acquainted with the neceſſity this Government was under, of
concluding a Peace with Hyder Ally Khan in the year 1769, both on the part of
the Company and the Carnatic; and that it was alſo neceſſity which compelled this
Government to an acquieſcence with the Articles comprehending a Defenſive Al-
liance with Hyder Ally. The Nabob being the beſt judge of his own affairs, and
the political ſtate of the country, can beſt tell how far they can be affected by enter-
ing anew into ſuch an alliance. The Company are deſirous of remaining in friend-
ſhip, not only with the Mahrattas and Hyder Ally, but with all the Powers in India :
this ſyſtem they have repeatedly and ſtrongly inculcated; and it is the firm deter-
mination of this Board, to confine the Company's Forces ſolely to the defence of the
Company's Poſſeſſions and thoſe of the Nabob, ſo far as can be done conſiſtently,
without an abſolute breach of engagements. Nothing can be farther from the inten-
tion
A F FA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C. 26.
tion of this Board, than to diſcourage the Nabob from eſtabliſhing a friendſhip with VIII.
Hyder Ally; for they are convinced, that it is for the intereſt of the Carnatic that a
good underſtanding ſhould ſubſiſt between them. No° Q, & Io.
An Anſwer to be returned to the Nabob, conformable to the foregoing Minute.
JFrom the N A B O B : Af
Dated and received 29th December 1773.
With a view to the protećtion of my own and the Company's Country, in conſe-Co. corr.
duence of the large forces and power of the Mahratta, I ſome time ago, agreeable No 161.
sto his application, wrote to your Predeceſſor repeatedly on the ſubjećt of affording
him aſſiſtance, eſteeming the ſame as beneficial to affairs : I mentioned it likewiſe
in Council. As aſſiſtance, however, was not afforded him in this buſineſs, notwith-
‘ſtanding the arrival here of Mahratta Vakeels of conſequence with Saneds, under the
ſign and 'ſeal of Maudhooron; his giving in writing, likewiſe, favourable terms both
for me and the Company; and my repreſentation alſo, as is expreſſed in former
Letters of the Country, confifted in an union with the Mahratta; and that an alliance
with Hyder Alli Cawn, by diſpleaſing of the Moratta, rendered the laying waſte of
the country a matter of apprehenſion: the Moratta, after waiting a confiderable time
in expectation, at laſt obſerving the delays, became much diſpleaſed; and accord-
ingly the intelligence we have received ſhews his anger at you and me, and his in-
tention of coming againſt this country. The talk of the former Governor and
‘Council was for an alliance with Hyder Alli Cawn, and they conſidered the tranquillity
of the country as conſiſting herein ; Aili Zemaun Cawn, and alſo Mehedeer Alli.
Cawn, are now come on the part of Hyder Ally Cawn, with the view of an alliance
and mutual aſſiſtance: ſince then, on account of the reaſons afore-mentioned, and the
additional one that my Friends do not eſteem an alliance with the Moratta proper,
I am ready, conformable to the advice of the Governor and Council, and to the
preſent ſituation of affairs, to form an alliance with Hyder Alli Cawn; and accord-
ingly encloſed I ſend for your inſpection a Copy of the Letter from him, together
with a Copy of the Paper containing his Propoſals, brought me by his Vakeels; alſo
a Copy of the Propoſals I have conſidered of in reply to his Propoſals.-You are a
wiſe and provident Man, my Friend, moreover my Supporter; in the papers of
&my Propoſals, therefore, be ſo good as to rectify what you ſhall think require it; and
iſhould it appear to you proper to write in a different manner, oblige me by acquaint-
* &
iing me thereof ſoon.
What can I ſay more.”
COPY of a Letter, with the Seal of Hyder Alli Cawn; dated the
Ioth of December 1773. a-
..Received by the Hand of Ally Zeman Cawn and Mahdy Ally Cawn,
§ .6th November 1773.
After the compliments dueton addreſſing ſo illuſtrious a Perſon as your Highneſs,
*i-beg leave to repreſent, that as it has been ſignified to me by the mouth of Ma-
*horned Uſmaun, that after the arrival of a Man of Rank from hence, ſome Perſon
of importance would alſo be ſent hither from your Highneſs, in order to eſtabliſh and
*increaſe a friendly correſpondence and union between us—an agreement between
Princes being always of mutual advantage—I have therefore diſpatched the beneficent
Cawn Alyºzemaun Cawn Gee and Mohdy Aly Cawn Gee, with the uſual tokens of
“friendſhip, who will explain my ſentiments at large, I have only to add, that I
-expect your Highneſs will favour me with your correſpondence, and make me glad
with the news of your welfare, which cannot but conduce to the corroboration of
mutual regard.—For the reſt, may your greatneſs and happineſs prove perpetual ;
COPY of a Paper ſent by Hyder Alli Cawn.
As a perpetual agreement and alliance has been determined on between the
Nabob Waulaujah Behar and the Engliſh and myſelf, I have therefore executed and
delivered the under-written Covenant under my own ſeal ; viz,
175, 3 Y W. In
262 P A P E R S R E LAT IN G To T H E
viſi. . In caſe the Moguls" or Morattas ſhould proceed againſt the country of my Sirkar,
in order to remove and expel them therefrom, a ſufficient force, with a Commander
Nº. 9 & 10. of importance, ſhould be ſent to act in conjunétion and alliance with mc, and to make
- Meaning War Pon the enemy; and I alſo, in caſe the Moguls or Morattas ſhould attack the
in partijar country of the Nabob Waulaujah and the Engliſh, will ſend the forces of my Circar
the Nizam. to ačt againſt the enemy, in conjunétion and alliance with them, and drive them out.
Whether Peace or War be determined on towards the enemy, myſelf, the aforeſaid
Nabob, and the Engliſh, are to be of one mind, and to act entirely in concert, either
in continuing of the War or in concluding a Peace. The expences of the troops
to be paid in this manner:--To a European ſoldier 15 rupees, and to each Sepoy
7# rupees per month; and the Officers ſhall be paid as I may be adviſed from
thence at the time I require them. The pay of my troops to be:—To each horſe-
man 15 rupees, and to a Sepoy 73 rupees per month; and the Officers to be paid
as I ſhall write from hence at the time. *
Whatever articles, &c. out of friendſhip, may be wanted from the dominions of .
each other, ſhall be purchaſed by the ſubjećts of each without moleſtation on
either ſide. - - - …-
If the Mogul or Moratta Chiefs, with a deſign to create a miſunderſtanding be-
tween us, ſhould begin a correſpondence, they (the Nabob and the Engliſh) ſhall
not take any meaſure in compliance therewith, but ſhall communicate the papers to
me; and I alſo, if they write to me, will from hence give advice thereof, which
muſt tend to the increaſe of ſincerity, and the confirmation of union between us.
The ſecurity between us, for all theſe Articles of Agreement, ſhall be a ſolemn Oath
in the Name of God, and on the Glorious Coran.
From the N A B O B:
CO P Y of a Paper which I have thought of ſending in Anſwer to that
: of Hyder Alli Cawn.
In caſe of the Morattas, or any other enemy, ſhould come into this country, the
* Meaning above Perſon* muſt ſend a ſufficient force, with an Officer of Rank, who ſhall ačt
Hyder. in conjunčtion and concert with my forces and thoſe of the Engliſh Company, in
order to expel and drive out the enemy from my Dominions. In like manner, -
whatever foe ſhall enter the country of the ſaid Perſon, I will ſend a ſufficient force,
under a Leader of importance, who ſhall ačt in concert and unanimity with his army,
to effect their expulſion. The pay of the troops on both fides to be at the rate of
fifteen rupees per month for an horſeman, and ſeven and an half for a Sepoy; and
that of the Officers to be ſettled at the time they are required, advices thereon being
fent along with the auxiliary forces. , - -
With regard to the merchandize that may be wanted from each other's country, it
is neceſſary that the particulars thereof ſhould be firſt tranſmitted. - -
“If the Morattas and other Chiefs, in order to create a diſunion between us, ſhould
begin a correſpondence, neither ſide ſhall ačt in compliance therewith, but ſhall give
mutual notice of the writings that come to them. -
No protećtion ſhall be afforded to the ſubjećts or enemies of each other; and
thoſe that have fled away in diſguſt ſhall be mutually delivered up again. .
E X T R A C T Fort St. George Military Conſultation;
- 5th January 1774. - -
Read Draft of a Letter to the Nabob, as entered in Country Correſpondence,
N° 2, in reply to his of the 29th December, reſpecting Hyder Aily's Propoſitions
for an alliance with the Carnatic (vide Conſultation, 31ſt ultimo).-Approved, and
ordered to be ſent. . . - -
To the N A B O B : -
- , - - - Dated the 5th January 1774.
I have been honoured with the receipt of your Highneſs's favour of the 29th
Tecember 1773, incloſing a Copy of a Letter from Hyder Alli Cawn, together with
Copies of his Propoſals to your Highneſs, and of thoſe your Highneſs has thoughts.
of ſending to him in return. -
n - Although
AFFAIRs of T H E cARNATI c. 263
Although I cannot but feel very ſenſibly the manner in which your Highneſs is VIII.
pleaſed to ſtate what paſſed between your Highneſs and this Government on the
ſubjećt of the Mahrattas, yet as this matter has been already ſo fully diſcuſſed, and N* 9, & 19.
the condućt of this Government, in my opinion, in the diſcuſſion ſo clearly juſtified,
I ſhall content myſelf here with referring to the Correſpondence which then paſſed on
the ſubjećt. - º *
Reſpecting my opinion of the Propoſals your Highneſs has thoughts of ſending to,
Hyder Ally Cawn in reply to thoſe received from him, I beg leave to obſerve, that
your Highneſs is well acquainted with the neceſſity this Government was under of
concluding a Treaty with Hyder Ally Cawn in the year 1769, both on the part of
the Company and of the Carnatic; and that it was the ſame neceſſity alſo which ex-
trađled an acquieſcence to the Article comprehending a Defenſive Alliance with him,
Your Highneſs moſt undoubtedly is the beſt judge of your own affairs, and can beſt ,
tell how far they may be effected by the entering anew into ſuch an alliance ; for
my part, myrreſolution is fixed to confine the Company’s forces ſolely and entirely . .
to the defence of the Company’s Poſſeſſions and thoſe of your Highneſs, ſo far as
conſiſtently may be done without an abſolute breach of engagements. I beg your
Highneſs will on no account, however, conſider what I have here ſaid as in any mea-
‘ſurement to diſcourage your Highneſs from eſtabliſhing a friendſhip with Hyder Ally
Cawn; I think, on the contrary, it is for the intereſt of the Carnatic that a good
underſtanding ſhould ſubſiſt between your Highneſs and him, and that every con-
ſiſtent means of cultivating the ſame ſhould accordingly be made uſe of.
E X T R A C T Fort St. George Selećt Conſultations; the
* 16th January 1774. -
The Preſident acquaints the Board, that the Nabob having ſignified to him, that
he had certain matters of importance to communicate, he (the Preſident) has deſired
the Council to aſſemble at his Gardens this evening, in order to take the ſame into
conſideration. - - 4.
The Nabob, and his ſecond Son Ameer ul Omrah, preſent.
After the ſtrongeſt expreſſions of friendſhip and good will to the Company, the
Nabob proceeds to recapitulate his ſentiments on the preſent poſture of affairs, and
ithe ſituation of the province with reſpect to Hyder Aly and the Mahrattas; that ſince
the Board are determined not to join the Mahrattas, and to abide by their engage-
aments with Hyder, he acquieſces, but ſtrenuouſly recommends the moſt cautious
management, in order to conceal our real intentions, that the Mahrattas may not
deſpair of obtaining our friendſhip. That this line had been adopted by the late
Governor in almoſt ſimilar circumſtances, when the Mahrattas were hovering on the
frontiers of the Province. He wrote to Mohaderow, that he was his friend, and
even promiſed not to afford Hyder Ally any aſſiſtance; that he is far from deſiring
the Board to break their engagements with Hyder, but cannot help being apprehen-
'ſive that in preſerving his friendſhip, we forfeit that of the Mahrattas. That he (the
Nabob) has no other view but the peace and proſperity of the country, and will
:therefore readily adopt any meaſures conducive thereto which may be recommended
to him by the Board, That if the Board are of opinion he ought to write to the Mah-
rattas, or ſend a Vacqueel, or even to ſend him a ſum of money, he is ready to do it.
To which the Board replied, that he (the Nabob) muſt be the beſt judge of what
was proper to be done on the occaſion ; that he knew well their objećts were the
peace and tranquillity of the Carnatic; and that every meaſure which tended to ac-
compliſh theſe purpoſes, conſiſtent at the ſame time with the honour and dignity of
the Nabob and the Company, and in its conſequence would not oblige them to
afford aſſiſtance either to the Mahratta or Hyder Ally, would be heartily acquieſced
in by them. The Board then deſired to be informed by the Nabob, in what manner
he recommended they ſhould negociate with the Mahrattas, or what other meaſures
to purſue than thoſe they have already adopted. t -
The Nabob anſwered, that he had been all along for aſſiſting the Mahrattas,
becauſe he thought an alliance with them was moſt for the advantage of his country,
which would appear both from his letters, and many converſations that he had held
on the ſubjećt. But fince this Government was determined againſt that meaſure, he
now recommended that a footing of friendſhip may be preſerved both with them and
264 P A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O T H E
VIII. with Hyder Ally, and that we ſhould endeavour to prevent the Carnatic from being
plundered. -
N“9 & 19 The Nabob was then told, that it was fruitleſs to recapitulate what was paſt; that
their reaſons for refuſing to join the Mahrattas are well known to the Nabob; they are
upon record; that the point is now to provide for the ſecurity of the Carnatic; to
which end the Board will co-operate with him heart and hand, and join in every
conſiſtent meaſure for the intereſt and ſecurity of his Government.
The Nabob again repeated his deſire, that encouragement ſhould be given both to
the Mahratta and Hyder Ally; that the Vacqueel of the latter ſhould be fed with pro-
miſes, at the ſame time that we temporize with the former.
The Nabob deſired to have the opinion of the Board, which of the following ſteps
he ought to take ; whether to ſend a Vacqueel to the Mahrattas, or only a Letter; and
whether it would be adviſable to ſend a Vacqueel to Hyder Ally,
It would be too precipitate in the Board to give a preciſe and determinate opinion
upon the foregoing propoſals from the Nabob, from his more intimate knowledge of
the intereſt of his own country. The views and policy of the neighbouring Powers he
muſt be a more competent judge, whether it is more adviſable to ſend a Vacqueel to
the Mahrattas, or only to addreſs him by Letter. The Board have upon a former
occaſion given their ſentiments ſo clearly upon forming a new alliance with Hyder
Ally, that it is unneceſſary to add any thing further on that ſubjećt. If his (the
TNabob’s) writing to the Mahrattas, or ſending a Vacqueel to them, will tend to the
ſecurity of the Province, the Board do not heſitate to pronounce ſuch a meaſure
highly expedient. Upon which the Nabob acquainted the Board, that he had prepaied
a Letter to Ragonaut Row, which he would diſpatch to him provided they had no
objećtion to any part of it. The Nabob then read a Letter to Ragonaut Row, as
entered in Country Correſpondence, N° expreſſed in very friendly terms, and
deſiring that Mahade Row Sadaſhoe might be ſent to him; and he further acquainted
the Board, that he would ſend a letter to Hyder Ally as ſoon as it could be prepared.
The Nabob added, that the force of the Mahrattas at preſent is towards Gurram
*Conda and Tripety; and if he finds they continue advancing towards the Carnatic,
notwithſtanding the before-mentioned letter to them, he will, in that caſe, diſpatch a
Vacqueel to them; but if it appears that their route points to another quarter, he
will wait for an anſwer to his letter. , '
The Nabob informed the Board, that the reaſon of his declining to ſend a Vacquee!
-at preſent to the Mahrattas was this ; that Ragonaut Row might be able to draw
from the Vacqueel what were his real intentions, and that ſuch a diſcovery might
probably be produćtive of immediate hoſtilities: whereas by ſending a letter, and
deſiring a Vacqueel might be ſent to him, a very good purpoſe might be anſwered,
namely, that from the profeſſions of friendſhip made to the Mahrattas, he may be
induced to expe&t an alliance with the Carnatic, and accordingly ſend a Vacqueel to
the Nabob ; in which time the ſeaſon may be ſo far advanced, as to oblige them to
lay aſide all thoughts of attacking the province this year. That although this fineſſe
may perhaps ſucceed, yet we ought not to be lulled into ſecurity. He the (Nabob)
deſired to receive an eſtimated account of the ſtock of proviſions required to ſubſiſt
the troops in the field for ſix months, and he will take meaſures for procuring the
ſame, but that he can only provide for the fighting people ; and as for the other at-
endants on the army, they muſt ſupply themſelves the beſt way they can. The
Board then repreſented to the Nabob, in the ſtrongeſt manner, the abſolute neceſſity
of his advancing money for the payment of the army, and pointed out the fatal con-
ſequences which might reſult from a deficiency in this eſſential article. The Board
ºfurther repreſented to the Nabob, how lieceſſary it was to lay up ſufficient quantities
of proviſions in his ſeveral forts, and to loſe no time in colle&ting grain and cattle,
&c. in thoſe parts from whence the army can be moſt eaſily ſupplied.
The Nabob alſo read a Letter which he propoſed ſending to Mahaderow Sada-
‘ſhewa, if the Board perceived nothing amiſs in it.
The Board acquainted the Nabob, that they had no objećtion to this Letter, or to
the one he propoſed writing to Ragonaut Row. w
The Nabob, before he took his leave, acquainted the Board, that he intended to
write to Morari Row, and to ſend him a preſent of twenty thouſand rupees to gain
his good offices with Ragonaut Row.
EXTRACT
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N AT I C.
265
E X T R A C T of Fort St. George Military Conſultations; the 6th
December 1774.
VIII.
N* 9, & Io
Read Letters from the Nabob, dated 1ſt inſtant, as entered in Country Correſpon-No I IQ.
dence, N° 119—.A. Vacqueel, with a Letter and Preſents from Hyder Ally Cawn—
Copy of the ſaid Letter, and the Anſwer propoſed to be ſent by the Nabob.
From the Nabob:—Dated and received the 1ſt of December 1774.
I ſome time ago mentioned to you in converſation the arrival of Dowlut Chala
at Arcot, from Hyder Ally Cawn, with a view of coming to me; and I now encloſe
a copy of the Letter I received from the ſaid Cawn, by him. The above Chala in-
forms me, that as his coming was merely to deliver the preſent of cloaths, he deſires
that he may ſoon be diſpatched; I have therefore drawn out a draft of a Letter in
anſwer, a copy of which is incloſed for your information, and agreeably to which I
propoſe writing to the ſaid Cawn.
What can I ſay more ?
A Copy of a Letter from Hyder Ally Cawn, to the Nabob ; dated the 5th, and
received the 28th of November 1774.
After expreſfing my deſire to ſee you, which is the firſt of all my wiſhes, be it
known to your friendly mind, that it was with great pleaſure I received your Letter,
every ſyllable of which tended to increaſe the friendſhip and union ſubſiſting be-
tween us, by the hands of Alli Zemaun Cawn, Syed Phuttah Alli Cawn, and Alli
Newauz Cawn. By the information I received from the ſaid Cawns of your friend-
ſhip and ſincere regard, and by the preſent you ſent to me, the foundation of friend-
ſhip and regard, he acquired proper ſtrength. It is certain, that it is both proper
and neceſſary that between Princes of the Mahometan Faith, union and harmony
ſhould ſubſiſt; and the ſame is pleaſing to the Creator, and thereby fear and dread
are impreſſed on the minds of their foes and enemies. Reſpecting an alliance and
friendſhip, I am firm ; by God’s bleſfing, by the repreſentation of the above Cawns,
who are daily exerting themſelves in the increaſing and ſtrengthening of our mutual
friendſhip, the baſis thereof, and of our regard, is become ſtrong. In caſe di-Sic Orig.
rećtion of our friendſhip and union, I have ſent by Doulut Chala (who is one of
thoſe people I confide in) a ſword and a dagger ſet with precious ſtones, two
diamond rings, ſome cloaths, &c.; and for Umdut ul Omrah and Ummeer ul
Omrah, two daggers ſet with precious ſtones, ſome flowered gold cloaths, &c.
For other matters I refer you to the Letters from Syed Puttah Alli Cawn, and Alli
Newauz Cawn. The union and alliance ſubſiſting between us require that you
ſhould let me have the pleaſure and ſatisfaction of receiving letters from you.
A D R A F T of a Letter from the Nabob to Hyder Alli Cawn.
Great was the pleaſure my mind, impatient to hear from you, received on the
receipt of your Letter, every expreſſion in which tended to ſtrengthen the bonds of
union, the fight of which gave an inexpreſſible freſhneſs to the garden of friendſhip
and regard. The ſword and dagger ſet with precious ſtones, the two diamond rings,
and the cloaths which were ſent for me, alſo the two daggers ſet with precious
ſtones, and the cloaths for my children, were received by the hands of Doulut Chala,
and theſe ornamented the ſheave of friendſhip. The things for my children have been
delivered to them; and of the cloaths which came for me (every thread of which
was wove in friendſhip) a great part has been made uſe of for cloaths for my own
wear;-all which your friendly mind will be informed of by the repreſentation of
Doulut Chala.
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IX.
N° 13.
(ORD E R S of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 16th December 18oz.
-ºs
N° 15.—T R A N SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob IX.
Wallajah Bahaudre to Sir Charles Oakeley, Baronet, Governor of
Madras. Nº 13.
Co. Cor.
Dated - 21ſt Rajab 1208, of Hegyra, or
22d February 1794.
Received 22d
ºf Encloſe herein for your information, thecopy of a Letter I have written to the
1 Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, with an Engliſh Tranſlation. -
What ſhall I ſay more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) David Haliburton,
ſ Perſian Tranſlator.
(In Nº 1 s)—Tranſlation of Copy of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob
Wallajah Bahaudre to the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun; dated the 21ſt
of Rajib, in the year 1208 of the Hegera. f
The joyful fight of your illuſtrious and fortunate Sons at this place conveyed ſuch
pleaſure and ſatisfaction to my mind, as cannot be expreſſed in writing. Thanks
be to the Almighty, they are now on the eve of returning to your dominions; and,
under his gracious protećtion and providence, will arrive there.
I have ſent a few Preſents as a mark of friendſhip, your acceptance of which will
afford me great pleaſure. g
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) David Haliburton,
Perſian Tranſlator.
N°66.—T R A N SLAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nawaub
Wallajah Bahaudar, &c. &c. &c. to the Honourable Sir Charles
Oakeley, Bart. Governor of Fort Saint George.
Dated - - 13th 4
Received 13th } May 1794.
I herein encloſe for your information, a copy of the Letter which I received from
Tippoo Sultaun, by Captain Doveton.
What more ? &c. &c.
O. Cer,
T R A N S LA TE Copy of a Letter from the Nawaub Tippoo Sultaun
to his Highneſs the Nawaub Wallajah Bahadre, &c. &c.
(Without date)—Received May 1794.
I have received with much ſatisfaction your friendly Letter, informing me of
the departure of my Children, and of your having ſent ſome preſents along with them.
Thank God! they have arrived in health, and exhilarated the hearts of their friends,
who anxiouſly expected them. - -- -
ºf 75. 4. A I am
2368 * P A P E R S R E L A T J N G T O T H E
-?
IX. I am much indebted to your politeneſs for your very obliging attention to my
tº Sons, and to your munificence for the Preſents which accompanied them.
, N° 13. Seeing that the Princes of Iſlam are connected with each other by the ties of a
generous and zealous fellowſhip (according to the apophthegm, that “hearts in-
“fluenced by the ſame Religion are better calculated for mutual kindneſs,”—ſo my
friendly and orthodox heart, ſuſceptible of your goodneſs, reciprocates your friendſhip;
—a friendſhip which is no leſs gratifying and pleaſing to me, than it is agreeable and
ſatisfactory in the eyes of my people. & 49."
May your friendſhip endure
(A true Tranſlation.) d
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
Dy Pn T.
£Co. Cor. N° 119. —TRAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nawab
of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Honourable Sir Charles
Oakeley, Bart. Governor of Fort Saint George.
Dated 14 July 1794.—Received D’.
‘I encloſe for the information of my Friend, Copy of a Letter I have received from
the Nawab Tippoo Sultaun. The ſaid Nawab hath informed me of the approaching
nuptials of his Sons. I intend therefore to ſend you hereafter ſome dreſſes and
jewels for him, together with my reply, conformably to the etiquette of this country
on ſuch occaſions.
What more? &c. &c.
(A true Tranſlation.) t
(Signed) A. Falconar,
Perſian Tranſlator.
:(In Nº. 119.)—Tranſlation:—Copy of a Letter from the Nawab Tippoo Sultaun
- Bahaudur to his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic, &c.
Without date.—Received July 1794.
I have the happineſs to inform my eſteemed Friend, that the marriage ceremo-
nies of my Sons Abdal Khalik and Mueez ud Deen, are to be ſolemnized in the
month Rebbia ul Avel. May they, through the Divine Favour, have a propitious
: termination. ,"
On account of the unfeigned friendſhip and unequivocal cordiality which ſubſiſt
between us, I have judged it neceſſary to communicate this intelligence for the ſatis-
fačtion of my gracious and Noble Friend.
May your indulgent Friendſhip endure!
f (A true Tranſlation.) v -
- (Signed) A. Falcomar,
Perſian Tranſl'.
£o. cor. N° 143.- T R AN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob
– of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c, to the Honourable Sir Charles
Oakeley, Bart. Governor of Fort Saint George.
Dated – 6th *
Received 6th } Auguſt 1794.
‘I have ſent accompanying my Reply to the Letter of the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun,
with a copy for your information. t x.
As the nuptials of the ſaid Nabob's Sons are to be celebrated, and as I called them
my own Sons when they were here, I have, in lieu of dreſſes and jewels (which it is the
cuſtom of the world to preſent on ſuch occaſions) ſent fifty thouſand rupees, which.I
requeſt you will be pleaſed to forward. -
What can I write more ? -
(A true Tranſlation.)
..(Signed) 4. Falcomar,
P* T.
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AFFAIRs of T H E CARN AT I c. 269
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In Nº. 143. – TRAN SLATION: – Copy of a Letter from his Highneſs IX.
the Nabob of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Nabob Tippoo
Sultaun. Nº.13.
- * * (Without date.)
In an auſpicious ſeaſon I received your Letter, mentioning your having deter.
mined on the celebration of the nuptials of your Sons in the propitious month of
Rubbellawell, and it made me extremely happy.
In the greatneſs of my affection and regard, I could have wiſhed to be preſent
at the marriages, and to perform the ceremony of tying the Sehra, &c. with my
own hands; but, for certain reaſons, contenting myſelf with praying for the happy
concluſion of the nuptials, and that this commencement of the encreaſe of your Fa-
mily may prove propitious, I have, according to the rules of friendſhip, ſent fifty
thouſand rupees in lieu of jewels and dreſſes, to the Brides and Bridegrooms; and
I hope you will be pleaſed to perform yourſelf the ceremonial forms, on my part, on
; this occaſion. - * ,
May the Almighty render the Father of the two Bridegrooms happy!
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed A. Falconar,
Pa Tr.
Nº 196–T R A N S LAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of the Co. Cor.
Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord Hobart,
Governor of Fort St. George, &c. &c.
Dated - 11th
Received 12th } Oćtober 1794.
: A Camel Hircarrah is juſt now arrived from Seringapatam, with Replies from the
* Nawab Tippoo Sultaun to the Letters I have written him.
Copies of his Letters to myſelf, and my Son Omdut ul Omrah Bahaudur, as alſo
of thoſe I now propoſe writing him, I tranſmit you encloſed.
What can I ſay more ?
T R A N S LAT I ON :—Copy of a Letter from the Nawab Tippoo.
Sultan Bahaudur to his Highneſs the Nabob Wallajah Bahaudur, &c.
&c. &c. &c. *g
Dated 18th September 1794.
I received, in the happieſt ſeaſon, your friendly Letter, together with the fifty
; thouſand rupees which you were pleaſed to ſend me. * * * ~ *
You kindly inform me, that “in the effuſion of your affection and regard, you
could have wiſhed to be preſent at the nuptials of my Sons, to perform, with your
“ own hands; the ceremony of tying the Sehra; but that being prevented, you muſt
* “ content yourſelf with praying for the happy concluſion of the marriages, and that
“ this commencement of the increaſe of my Family may be auſpicious: That you
“ had, according to the rules of friendſhip, ſent 50,000 rupees in lieu of jewels and
“ dreſſes, to the Brides and Bridegrooms; and hoped I would myſelf pay the nuptial
- “ compliments due from you.”
It is not concealed from your enlightened mind, that the friendſhip and unanimity
ſubſiſting between us required not the interchange of jewels and dreſſes; whatever
I poſſeſs, and indeed the means wherewithal I carry on theſe ceremonies, are entirely
your's : from a regard, however, to the cuſtoms and manners of diſtinguiſhed and
Noble Perſonages, you have been pleaſed to honour me by theſe Preſents, and with
your prayers for a propitious termination to the nuptials of my Children. I conſider all
this as proceeding from the exceſs of your kindneſs, and the ſincerity of your regard.
Indeed, the expreſſions of congratulation and joy reſulting from a heart where true
friendſhip inhabits, have an intereſt more precious, and a grace more luſtrious, than
• the moſt brilliant jewels; and the gratulatory effuſions of affection (on occaſions like
the preſent) if that affection be ſincere, diffuſe through the ſoul a gleam of gladneſs
: ſurpaſſing the ſplendour of the Sun,
175. - *Y. Our
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IX.
1
N° 13.
Our mutual friendſhip being ſincere and ſtedfaſt, the profeſſions of it, therefore,
flave had this effect. - *
Under the bleſfing of Providence, and by your favour and prayers, theſe weddings
ſhall, I hope, terminate as happily as you deſire; and I ſhall not fail to perform for
you the Sehra ceremony with my own hands. -
Omit not to favour me with the tidings of your welfare ; and may your benevo-
lence continue towards me ! . -
TRAN SLATION:—Copy of a Letter fom the Nawab Tippoo
Sultatin Bahaudur to the Nawab Omdut ul Omrah Bahaudur.
* Dated 22d September 1794.
After rendering the profeſſions of a regard and eſteem inexpreſfible, I have to
repreſent to your friendly mind, that although, according to the text of the page of
Truth, “all the Faithful are Brothers, and it behoves them to make enquiries of
“ each other's welfare;” yet you have not for a long time made me happy with the
glad tidings of your health. x *-
Let what is paſt, however, be forgotten; and hereafter, confidering me defirous to
hear of your happineſs and well-being, be pleaſed to favour me with frequent intelli-
gence on the ſubjećt;—for the receipt of Letters afford a gratification inferior only to
a perſonal interview. . -
May the cup of your proſperity be repleniſhed to your deſire!
TRAN SLATION:—Copy of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob
Wallajah Bahadur, &c. &c. &c. to the Nawab Tippoo Sultaun
Bahaudur. \
r - (Without Date.)
I have had the happineſs to receive your Letter, acknowledging the receipt of
mine, congratulatory on the nuptials of your Sons, and containing ſentiments which
evince a good underſtanding and a friendly mind. May the Almighty, and his Pro-
phets, render theſe nuptials propitious to the increaſe of your Family
I truſt you will look upon me as anxious to hear of your own welfare, and that of
your Family; and that you will often afford me the pleaſure of accounts thereof.
TR AN SLA TI O N :—Copy of a Letter from the Nawaub Omdut
ul Omrah Bahadur to the Nawab Tippoo Sultan Bahadur.
(Without Date.)
In the hour of my ſolicitude to learn your welfare, I had the pleaſure to receive
your friendly favour, and was thereby made very happy. This kind remembrance
of me I conſider as a particular indication of your regard. ~
The correſpondence which ſubſiſts between his Highneſs the Nawab, my honoured
Father, and you, is to me a ſource of much pleaſure and ſatisfaction.
As a mark of my friendſhip, I beg leave to preſent you with a fuzee and
a piſtol, of European workmanſhip, which I requeſt may be depoſited in your
armoury.
TRAN SLATION:—Copy of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob
Walajah Bahadur, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Nawab Tippoo Sultan
Bahadur. * rº
(Without Date.)
Happy is that Mother, who having paſſed her days in good repute, when, in
obedience to the inevitable decree of the Almighty, at laſt, reſigning her life, ſhe
leaves behind her a Son who will long be an ornament to the world !
As you are a man of perfečt knowledge, there is no doubt that on this occaſion
you have, agreeably to the inſpired dićtate—“God is the Friend of thoſe who have
Patience,”-made Patience your companion.
May
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May the Omnipotent God prolong your exiſtence here to the utmoſt extent of IX.
the human life, for the Government and the benefit of your Subjećts
- (True Tranſlations.) N° 13.
(Signed) A. Falconar,
* Y, P. T.
To his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, *
I have the honour to inform your Highneſs, in reply to your Letter of the 11th Co. Cor.
inſtant, that I ſee no objećtion whatever to your forwarding the Letters which you Nº. 208.
propoſe writing to Tippoo Sultan, in reply to thoſe received by your Highneſs from
that Chief.
I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, - &c. &c.
24th Oétober 1794. . (Signed) Hobart.
N° 37.-T R A N S LAT I ON of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of co, Cor.
the Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Hobart, Governor of Fort
St. George.
Dated 14th April 1795.
Received D9 - - D*.
Two Letters have been lately received from Tippoo Sultan; the one addreſſed to
myſelf, and the other to my Son; copies of which, with the drafts of Anſwers
thereto, are ſent herewith for your Lordſhip's peruſal. If the drafts meet your
approbation, the Letters will be forwarded by Tippoo Sultan's Servant, Mahomed
Gore Khān.—Be pleaſed to inform me of your ſentiments on the ſubjećt.
What can I ſay more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
Pn Tº.
(In Nº 37.)—Tranſlation of a Letter from the Nabob Tippoo Sultan to his
Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic.
(Without Date.)
At this happy ſeaſon, under the Divine favour, and the auſpices of that Noble
Friend, the marriage ceremonies of my Sons, Abdul Khalik and Moeezeid Deen,
have been happily completed.
As the communication of an event ſo joyful among ſincere Friends occaſions a like
degree of happineſs, however near or remote ſuch Friends may be, I have ſent, in
confideration of our amity, a few articles of dreſs and jewels (as per Liſt), two horſes,
and 30,000 rupees for an entertainment, accompanied by Mahommed Ghoce Khān,
a diſtinguiſhed Nobleman and ancient Servant of the Chadadad Sirkar.
It would indeed have contributed to our complete ſatisfaction, had that Noble
Perſonage been preſent at the ceremonies; but as circumſtances could not conve-
niently admit of this, they have been completed in your abſence.
Although theſe preſents and ſum of money were not worthy of being ſent to ſuch
a Friend, yet I am hopeful you will be pleaſed to accept them favourably, and
render me happy by celebrating a Feaſt of Joy on this gladſome occaſion with the
money above mentioned. *
The Khān above alluded to will communicate verbally other particulars of ſincere
friendſhip and amity. -
I truſt you will look upon me as anxious for your welfare, and that you will do me
the favour to write me accounts of it. - t
May your favour be continued
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
Pi Tr.
. 1 75. * 4 B <- In
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IX.
N”.13.
(In Nº. 37.)—Tranſlation of a Letter from Tippoo Sultan to the Nabob Omdut ul
Ornra Bahadur.
(Without Date.)
At this joyful period, through the Divine favour, and your auſpices, the nuptials
of my Sons Abdul Khalik and Moeez ud Been, have been happily concluded.
Although the communication of an event ſo felicitous is of itſelf a ſource of reci-
procal ſatisfaction to our minds, yet with regard to the formalities obſerved on
ſimilar events, viz. the Interchange of Preſents, from which, as a good omen, an
idea of future happineſs is prognoſticated, I have diſpatched ſome articles of dreſs
and jewels, together with a couple of horſes (agreeably to a ſeparate Liſt), all under
charge of a diſtinguiſhed Nobleman, Mahommed Ghous Khān, who is a confidential
and ancient Friend of the Chedadad Sirkar. • -
Though theſe articles were too inſignificant to have been ſent on this occaſion,
nevertheleſs your friendſhip will on this ſeaſon of congratulation, by inducing an
acceptance of the preſent, contribute to the gratification of the Donor.
The above-mentioned Khān will communicate verbally other particulars of ſincere
friendſhip and amity.
Confidering me ſolicitous for your welfare, I hope you will gratify me with fre-
quent communications on the ſubjećt. - º
May the meaſure of your happineſs be equal to your wiſh
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
Pn Tr.
(In N° 37.)—Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob Wallajah Bahadur
to the Nawab Tippoo Sultan.
whilſt my mind was direéted, with a degree of anxious ſolicitude, to learn the
glad tidings of your health and happineſs, I had the ſatisfaction to receive your
agreeable Letter by Mahommed Ghous Khān, informing me of the happy termina-
tion of the nuptial ceremonies of your Sons, Abdul Khalik and Mahommed Mooez
ud Deen (may their lives be prolonged 1) together with a dreſs, jewels, and 30,000
rupees, as a Marriage Preſent: this pleaſing intelligence exhilirated my mind, and,
like a ſweet ſmelling odour, refreſhed my ſoul. May the All-gracious and Omni-
potent crown this event with every felicity and comfort —Amongſt fincere Friends,
it is incumbent on their amity to keep up an epiſtolary correſpondence. I regard
your Sons as Grandchildren, dear to me as my own. In the effuſion of my affection,
I ſent ſome preſents for the weddings of your Sons; a ſmall preſent, on the com-
pletion of the ceremonies, had been ſufficient in return; but you have ſent me ſuch
a quantity that it ſhould ſeem they were meant as an equivalent to mine : the rules
of friendſhip require not ſuch formalities. As you have ſent the preſents out of your
extreme regard, I receive them with the greateſt ſatisfaction. I hope you will make
me happy by conſtant accounts of your welfare.
T R A N S LA TI O N of a Letter from the Nawab Omdat ul Omrah
Bahadur to the Nawaub Tippoo Sultaun.
I have received your Letter, informing me of the celebration of the weddings of
Abdul Kalick and Mahommed Mooez ud Deen, together with a dreſs and jewels,
and am made happy beyond meaſure by this agreeable intelligence. May the Al-
mighty render this event happy and propitious to you!
(True Tranſlations.) -->
*y (Signed) A. Falconar,
P. T.
N° 39.
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N° 39.—To his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
IX.
N° 13.
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's Letter of the 14th inſtant, Co. Cor.
encloſing Copies of Tippoo Sultaun's Addreſs to yourſelf and Omdut ul Omrah
Bahadar, and forwarding at the ſame time the Replies, which, with my approbation,
you propoſe to write.
I have the honour to inform your Highneſs in return, that I ſee no objećtion
why the propoſed anſwers ſhould not be ſent.
Fort St. George, I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
19th April 1795. (Signed) Hobart.
N° 51.-T R A N S L A TI O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic to the Right Honourable Lord Hobart, Governor of
Fort St. George, &c. &c. &c.
* Dated 24th May 1795.
Received 26th D* D°
I have lately received two Letters in reply from the Nawaub Tippoo Sultaun;
alſo, a Letter addreſſed to my Son Omdat ul Omrah Bahadur; copies of which,
with drafts of Anſwers thereto, are encloſed herein, for your Lordſhip's information.
What can I ſay more ? w - -
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
Perſian Tranſlator.
(In Nº. 51.)—Tranſlation of a Letter from the Nawaub Tippoo Sultaun to the
Nawab Walajah Bahadur.
- - Dated 11th April.
I have been favoured with your Highneſs's kind Letter, acknowledging the receipt
of mine, and was made exceedingly happy thereby. -
Your Highneſs's remark is indeed juſt, that an epiſtolary correſpondence is next
to a perſonal interview. It is the intercourſe of heart and heart, the viſit of ſoul
and ſoul.—May the Almighty prolong the life of your Highneſs |
As a ſmall mark of my friendſhip, I have ſent a few pieces of cloth, which,
though unworthy of your Highneſs's choice, will, I truſt, be accepted in the meaning
they were ſent. May your Highneſs's kindneſs endure l -
What ſhall I ſay more ? -
T R A N S L A TION of a Letter from the Nawaub Tippoo Sultaun,
to the Nabob Omdat ul Omrah Bahadar.
- Dated 11th April 1795.
I received, in a happy hour, your Letter in anſwer to mine, and it afforded me
extreme pleaſure to obſerve your kind profeſſions of friendſhip. The interchange
of friendly ſentiments is ſurely a ſource of great ſatisfaction; and I am certain that
ſuch an intercourſe, as it muſt be approved, will be preſerved by you. I have uſed
the liberty of a Friend to ſend a preſent of a few pieces of cloth, which I hope you
will make me happy by accepting. 9 º *.
May your happineſs be perpetuall
T R A N S LAT I O N of a Letter from the Nawaub Tippoo Sultaun
to the Nabob Wallajah Bahadur.
Dated 13th May.
I have been favoured with your Letter of condolence on the death of my honoured
Mother. -
- 175. From
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IX.
N° 13.
From the confideration of the ſacred ſaying, “ That all Humanity muſt taſte of
“ Death, and that an acquieſcence in the Will of Providence is incumbent on all,”
my afflićted heart was ſomewhat comforted, and I ſubmitted to the Decrees of the
Almighty with patience and reſignation. I employed alſo the Readers of the Koran,
and others, to pray for her pure departed ſpirit, which is in Heaven
From the Nabob W allajah Bahadur, to the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun.
In the ſeaſon of my anxious ſolicitude to learn the glad tidings of your health,
I had the happineſs to receive your friendly favour, and was rejoiced to underſtand
that you are happy and well.
The pieces of cloth which you ſent me, and which excel in texture the Pernyan
and Kufſub ſilks (of China and Egypt) I have, with the greateſt pleaſure, appro-
priated to my own wearing.
May your proſperity increaſe !
From the Nabob Omdat ul Omrah Bahadur to the Nawaub Tippoo Sultaun.
Praiſe be to God! that at the moment when I expected to hear the glad tidings
of your health, I received your kind Letter, and was made happy thereby.
The pieces of cloth which you had the goodneſs to ſend me, and which are
of the moſt elegant and excellent manufacture, I have had the pleaſure to receive.
May the Almighty beſtow upon you conſtant proſperity and happineſs
- (True Tranſlations.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
Perſian Tranſlator.
Nº 136.—T R A N S L A TION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nawab
Omdat Úl Omra Bahadur to the Right Honourable Lord Hobart,
Governor of Fort St. George, &c. &c. &c.
Dated - 19th December 1995.
- Received 20th D* - -, D-
The Vakeels of the Navab Teepo Sultaun have delivered me two Letters from
the ſaid Navab, containing expreſſions of condolence on the death of my Father,
and of congratulation on my aſcending the Muſnud of my hereditary Government.
Copies are ſent herewith for your Lordſhip's information. According to the cuſtom
of this country, I ſhall tranſmit ſome preſents to the ſaid Navab, with my anſwer
to his Letter, of which I will alſo ſend your Lordſhip a copy.
What can I write more ?
- (A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) 4. Falconar,
Pº T.
(In Nº. 136.)—Tranſlation of a Letter from the Navab Teeppoo Sultaun Bahadur,
to the Navab Omdat ul Omra Bahadur.
(Without Date.) -
-- Received Bººk I 795. -
In theſe diſaſtrous days, when the intelligence of the melancholy yet inevitable
event was announced to me, that the ſpirit of the Navab Walajah Bahadur, diveſt-
ing itſelf of its elemental trammels, had taken its flight to the portals of Paradiſe,
my friendly heart was ſo oppreſſed with ten thouſand ſorrows, that to deſcribe them
is impoſſible; for were I to attempt an explanation of my glowing grief, the ardour
of my fervid language would conſume my combuſtible pen. Thus reſignation and
calm endurance is the readieſt mode to alleviate our anguiſh, and the moſt likely
means to extinguiſh the fire of grief. - -
It is well known to your enlightened mind, that among the holy and happy ſeót
of Iſlam, who all regard each other with a paternal and reciprocal affection, parti-
cularly with ſuch of them as are diſtinguiſhed by birth, or elevated by fortune, it is
• deemed
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deemed incumbent to congratulate each other on occurrences of happineſs; for IX.
it diffuſes ſatisfaction, and enhances pleaſure l—And, on occaſions like the melan-
choly one in alluſion, it is neceſſary to alleviate ſorrow for mutual condolence; for
it excites to a temper of patience and acquieſcence.—Now, although I am well
aware that to expatiate on this ſubjećt to a perſon of your underſtanding is, as it
were, to define the principles of philoſophy to * Lokman, nevertheleſs, I muſt * A cele- .
expreſs my aſſurance, that you will not encourage an unprofitable and gnawing º .
grief; nay, that you will eradicate it, and by the practice of good works acquire *
for yourſelf a future recompence, and afford to the departed and beatified ſpirit of º
your auguſt Father a ſource of preſent gratification. -
In order to pay my compliments of condolence, and with a view to inſpire
reſignation into your afflićted mind, I have deputed to your Preſence two diſtin-
guiſhed and confidential Servants of the Chudarlad Sirkar, Mahommed Ghias Khan
and Ghous Mahommed Khān; they will impart to you the ſentiments of ſincere
friendſhip and high conſideration which I entertain for you. -
May the meaſure of your happineſs be in proportion to your deſire
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
Phi Tr.
Memorandum.—Articles ſent as a Kelaat: 2 pieces jemawar, I turban piece,
1 ſaſh piece, 1 piece kenchco. ~
N° 13.
(Signed) A. F.
(In Nº. 136.)—Tranſlation of a Letter from the Navab Teepoo Sultaun Behadur,
+. to his Highneſs the Navab Omdut ul Omra Behadur.
Without Date. .
Received December } 1795.
At this auſpicious ſeaſon of your happy acceſſion to the Muſnud of Magnificence
and Grandeur, which took place with every fortunate and felicitous circumſtance,
after the tranſlation of the Navab Walajah Bahadur to the Manſions of eternal
Mercy, the mantle of my friendly heart is filled with pearls of pleaſure, and reple-
niſhed with gems of joy. - - *
May the All-merciful and Glorious God render this joyful event a ſource of
happineſs to yourſelf, and of felicity to your friends, through the bleſfing of the Moſt
Holy Prophet and his Poſterity -- &
In order to pay my compliments of congratulation, I have ſent by two diſtin-
guiſhed and confidential ſervants of the Chudadad Sirkar, Mahommed Ghias Khan
and Ghaus Mahommed Khan, ſome articles of dreſs and jewels, as a Khelaat, which
are particularized in the encloſed Memorandum; and I beg you to believe, that
your acceptance of them will afford me much ſatisfaction and pleaſure.
May the meaſure of your proſperity be in proportion to your deſire
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P. T.
Memorandum.–Khelaut: 2 pieces jamawar, 1 piece turban, 1 piece ſaſh, 1 piece
keenchob. Jewels: one kellegy, one firpeick. Horſes two. -
(In Nº. 136.)—Tranſlation of a Letter from his Highneſs the Navab omdat ul
Omra Bahadur, &c. &c. &c.
To Sir John Shore, Bart. Governor General of Bengal. -
- - Dated 19th December.
Embaſſadors from the Navab Teepoo Sultaun having arrived here with two
Letters, one of condolence on the deceaſe of my Father, and the other of congratu-
lation on my acceſſion to the hereditary Muſnud of my Family, they came to viſit
me, accompanied by Lord Hobart. - *
I 75. 4 C . Having
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IX.
N° 13.
Co. Cor.
Co. Cor.
Having ſent tranſcripts of the Sultaun's two Letters, with an addreſs from myſelf
to Lord Hobart, I tranſmit incloſed copies of the whole for your information.
May you be happy! . -
(A true Tranſlation.) *.
(Signed) A. Falconar,
º P. T.
N° 6o.—T R A N S LAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Hobart, Governor of
Fort St. George. - -
Dated 17th May : 106.
Received D° I790.
I tranſmit herewith copy of a Letter addreſſed to me by the Nawab Tippoo
Sultan, requeſting the ſurrender of Shenk Rayel and Chuck Rayel, Zemindars of
Pongnoor, and who had fled thence. -
I have ordered my Naib at Arcot (ſhould theſe men have come into the Sirkar
diſtrićts) to apprehend and confine them :—I hope your Lordſhip alſo will iſſue
orders to your Commanding Officers, and to your Collečtor, &c. in the Jagheer, to
apprehend, if they can, theſe people. - *
What more need be written ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) 4. Falconar,
- P. T.
N. B. The Letter written by Tippoo Sultaun to the Nabob, encloſed in the
above, is literally the ſame as that addreſſed by him to Government on the ſame
ſubjeći. - *.
(Signed) A. F.
P. T.
N° 59.—T R A N S L A TI O N of a Letter from the Nabob Tippoo Sultan
Bahadur to the Right honourable Lord Hobart, Governor of Fort
St George. - * - -
. (Without date.) 6
Received 16 May } I796.
The ſteady, ſincere, and daily increaſing friendſhip which has been eſtabliſhed on
a firm baſis between the two Sirkars, and which it is our mutual and moſt immedi-
ate wiſh to maintain and conſolidate, induces me to repreſent, that Shenk Rayel and
Chuck Rayel, Zemindars of Pongnoor, dependant on the Khudabad Sirkar, devi-
ating from the line of their allegiance and duty, have been guilty of rebellion and
revolt. In conſequence of this, a party has been detached by the Khudabad Sirkar
to puniſh them ; they have fled, and taken ſhelter in the territories of the Honourable
Company. - - -
Now, as among Friends, the puniſhment of atrocious Rebels, and the mutual ad-
juſtment of affairs of this nature, ſhould be regarded as a matter of reciprocal
intereſt, I requeſt that orders may be iſſued to the Officers of the Honourable
Company's Government, for apprehending and delivering up theſe Rebels to the
ſervants of the Khudabad Sirkar.
I requeſt that you will continue to afford me the ſatisfaction of frequent friendly
COIn ſhun 1CatlonS. * --
What further need be written ? -
(A true Tranſlation.) :
(Signed) 4. Falcomar
P. T.
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
277
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord
Hobart, Governor of Fort St. George.
Dated 3d June -
Received D* D° } 1796.
Having already furniſhed your Lordſhip with copy of a Letter which I received
from the Nawab Tippoo Sultan, relative to the fugitive Zemindars of Pongnore, I
now tranſmit encloſed, trafſcript of my Reply to the ſame.
What more need I write?
*
(EN CLO SURE.)
Tranſlation:—Copy of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Nabob Tippoo Sultan
Behauder. &
I have been favoured and made happy with the receipt of your friendly Letter,
informing me of the revolt and flight of Shank Rayel and Cheuk Rayel, Zemindarr
of Pongonore, and requeſting they might be apprehended and delivered up to the
Officers of your Sircar. w
Agreeably to the principles of the fincere friendſhip which ſubſiſts between us, I
have iſſued ſtrićt orders to the above effect to my Talookdars, in caſe theſe fugitives
ſhould have taken ſhelter in my territories; for I conſider your intereſt and my own
one and the ſame. - - -
I expect to be conſtantly favoured with your friendly communications.
(True Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P.
Nº 79–T RAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of IX.
No 13
Co. Cor.
N° 147-T RAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob ofco.cor.
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord
Hobart, Governor of Fort St. George. - r s
Dated 1ſt O&tober 1796.
Received D* - - D*
I incloſe for your Lordſhip's information, copy of a Letter addreſſed to me by
the Nawab Tippoo Sultan, and copies of my Letters to him in reply.
What need I write more ? :
(In Nº. 147.)—Tranſlation :-Copy of a Letter from the Nawab T ippoo Sultan
Bahauder, to his Highneſs the Nawab of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c.
&c. &c. wº. -
. - Received 29th September.
Bleſſings and praiſes be aſcribed to God and the Prophet, that, in theſe auſpicious
days the nuptial ceremony has been accompliſhed ..'
Agreeably to the ſacred ſaying, “ All Muſſelmen are Brothers; they derive a ſa-
tisfaction from the happineſs of each other, and they ſhould promulgate that
“ happineſs in order to excite that ſatisfaction :”— -
..I am convinced that the communication of this felicitous event will afford your
friendly mind much pleaſure.
Conformably to the forms peculiar among Friends, on occaſions ſuch as theſe, I
ſent an elephant, with dreſſes and jewels, according to the incloſed Liſt, by Mahom-
med Huffien Koraiſhy, and I hope you will be pleaſed to accept them.
I exped to be favoured with a continuation of your friendly communication.
What more need be added ?
175. .. - (In
278
P A P E R S R E L A T I N G T o T H E
Ix.
N° 13.
Co. Cor.
Co. Cor.
my Anſwer.
(In Nº. 147.)—Tranſlation:—Copy of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nawab of the
* Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Nawab Teepoo Sultan Bahadur.
(Without date.)
At this propitious period I have been favoured with your kind communication,
intimating to me the agreeable intelligence of the accompliſhment of your matri-
monial ceremonies, and it has conveyed to my friendly mindſatisfaction inexpreſſible.
I have received and accepted, as tokens of your regard, the elephant, jewels, and
cloths, which you were ſo good to ſend by Mahommed Huſſain Koraiſhy. May the
Moſt High and only God render this event a ſource of happineſs to that kind Friend,
and grant him in conſequence the fruit of his heart, that is, an excellent Son,
endowed with the good qualities of his Parent * --
I have ſent an elephant, jewels, and dreſs for yourſelf, and ſome pieces of cloths
for your Conſort, agreeably to a ſeparate Liſt.
T R A N S L A TI O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nawab of the
Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Nawaub Tippoo Sultan Bahadur.
& (Without date.)
In this felicitous ſeaſon, the nuptials of my nephew Surajul Mulk Bahadur (whoſe
life be prolonged 1) have been happily concluded.
As it is incumbent among Friends, on ſimilar occaſions, to interchange preſents, I
have ſent an elephant, jewels, and cloths, as nuptial preſents, agreeably to a ſeparate
Liſt, by Mahommed Huſſain Koraiſhy; and I hope they will meet with your ac-
ceptance.
What more ?
(True Tranſlations.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
P" Tº to Govern".
Nº 76.—T R AN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord Hobart,
&c. &c. &c.
Dated 25th Auguſt 7,.
-- Received D* - - } 1797.
I ſend herewith two caſkets, containing altar caſes, for the Nawab Tippoo Sultaun,
with a Letter addreſſed to him ; and I requeſt your Lordſhip will be pleaſed, after
peruſing and cloſing up the Letter to the ſaid Nawaub, to ſend it, with the caſkets,
to Mr. Read, in order to be forwarded.
What ſhall I write more
T R A N SLAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. to the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun Bahauder.
In the name of the Merciful and Gracious God!
I have ſent two ſmall altar caſes, which, in conſideration of your ſincere friendſhip,
I am hopeful you will keep about your Perſon.
May your happineſs endure! -
* (True Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar.
Nº 83. –T R A N S L A TI O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord Hobart,
Governor of Fort St. George.
Tlated 26th September
Rºº º p sº tº } I797.
I, incloſe for your Lordſhip's information, copy of a Letter which I have juſt received
by Camel Hircarrahs from the Nawaub Tippoo Sultaun, on the commencement of the
nuptial ceremony of his Sen, which Letter, was accompanied by the ceremonial
preſent of jewels and cloths; when I reply to it, I ſhall ſend your Lordſhip a copy of
¥
What ſhould I write more ? ;
(ENCLOSURE.)
A FFA IRS OF T H E C A R N AT I C.
279
i (E N CLOS U R E.)
From the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun Bahader to his Highneſs the Nabob
of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c.
At this auſpicious ſeaſon, the celebration of the nuptial ceremony of my Son
Mahomed Yaſſeen, has commenced, and, under the bleſſing of God, it will be con-
cluded happily. † -
As it is neceſſary, among unfeigned Friends, to obſerve the complimentary cere-
monies uſual on ſuch joyful occaſions, I have tranſmitted an embroidered Khelaat,
with a Killegy and Serpeach, together with a dreſs which has been prepared in a
cloth manufactory of the Khudadad Sirkar, by Moſlem workmen, who during the
whole proceſs of its preparation, were invoking the bleſſings of God and his Pro-
phet. This kind of cloth, though in itſelf of trifling value, yet, in confideration of the
Sacred auſpices under which is was manufactured, will be duly appreciated by
you, I tranſmit it out of ſincere regard ; and I requeſt, as a true Friend, that
you will wear it on your own Perſon. --
All the Moſlems of theſe dominions on every day of Public Worſhip, after the
celebration of the Divine Ordinances, ſupplicate for length of life to that accom-
pliſhed Friend, and for a continuation of his proſperity
Conſtantly favour me with the exhilarating accounts of your welfare.
What further ſhould I add:
(True Tranſlations.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar.
IX.
No # 34
Nº 99–TRAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs, the Nabob of the co, cor.
Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord Hobart,
Governor of Fort St. George. - --
Dated 23d November
Received 24th. - - } I797.
Some time ago I tranſmitted to your Lordſhip copy of a Letter which I re-
ceived from the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, and, agreeably to my promiſe, I incloſe, for
your Lordſhip's information, copy of my Anſwer.
What more need I write P
TRAN SLATION: – Copy of a Letter from his Highneſs the
Nabob of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. to the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun
Bahauder.
Your kind Letter, acknowledging the receipt of the Attr Dans, and forwarding
the complimentary dreſs and jewels, upon the nuptials of your fortunate Sons,
together with ſome cloth, conſecrated by the Invocation of the bleſſed Names of the
Moſt High, during the period of its manufacture, having arrived in a moſt ſeaſonable
moment, deſerves my moſt cordial thanks, and calls for my ſincere congratulations.
May the Almighty conſtantly favour you with the completion of your wiſhes
in coniegºence of the friendſhip which ſubſiſt between us, I have ſent cloths and
jewels for the Bridegroom and Bride, agreeably to the encloſed Liſt, which I hope
you will do me the honour to accept.
*/
Włay your happineſs increaſe
L I ST of CLOT H 3, &c.
For the Bridegroom : For the Bride :
One Jeighor One Pudnah
Sirpeach Dreſs
4) refs.
(True Tranſlation.) *
s (Signed) A. Falconar,
if
º
5
4. D #
}
[ 281
N° 14.
O R D E R S of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 16th December 1802.
COPY of the Treaty between the late Tippoo Sultaun and
the Engliſh; 6th March 1792.
EXT R A CT of Fort St. George Military and Political Conſultations
the 7th April 1792. X.
No 4.
YEFINITIVE Treaty of Perpetual Friendſhip for the adjuſtment of Affairs
R J between the Honourable Engliſh Eaſt India Company, the Nawaub Aſſoph
Jah Behauder, and Row Pundit Purdhaun Behauder, and Tippoo Sultaun, in
virtue of the authority of the Right honourable Charles Earl Cornwallis, Knight of
the Moſt noble Order of the Garter, Governor General &c. &c. inveſted with
full powers to direét and controul all the affairs of the ſaid Company in the Eaſt
Indies dependant on the ſeveral Preſidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, and
of the Nawaub Aziem ul Omrah Behauder, poſſeſſing full powers, on the part of
the Nawaub Aſſoph Jah Behauder, and Hurry Ram Pundit Tantea Behauder, poſſeſſ.
ing equal powers, on the part of Row Pundit Purdham Behauder, ſettled the ſeven-
teenth day of March one thouſand ſeven hundred and ninety-two of the Chriſtian
aºra, anſwering to the twenty-third day of the month Rejeb one thouſand two
hundred and fix of the Hejeree, by Sir John Kenaway, Baronet, on the part of the
Right honourable Charles Earl Cornwallis, Knight of the Moſt noble Order of the
‘Garter, &c. and Meer Aulum Behauder on the part of the Nawab Aziern ul Omrah
Behauder, and Buckajee Pundit on the part of Hurry Ram Pundit Yantia Behauder
son one part, and by Golaum Ally Khan Behauder and Ally Rezza Khan on behalf
of Tippoo Sultaun, according to the under-mentioned Articles, which, by the
ibleſfing of God, ſhall be binding on their Heirs and Succeſſors, as long as the Sun
and Moon endure, and the conditions of them be invariably obſerved by the Contraćt-
ing Parties.
Article 1 ſt. The friendſhip ſubſiſting between the Honourable Company and
:the Sircar of Tippoo Sultan, agreeably to former Treaties, the 1ſt with the late
Nawaub Hyder Ally Khan, bearing date 8th Auguſt 1770, and the other with
Tippoo Sultaun, of the 11th of March 1784, is hereby confirmed and increaſed, and
the Articles of the two former Treaties are to remain in full force, excepting ſuch
of them as, by the preſent engagement, are otherwiſe adjuſted ; and the 8th Article of
he ſecond above-mentioned Treaty dated the 11th of March 1784, correſponding
with the 18th of the month Rubbie ul Sadny 1 198 Hygeree, confirming all the
privileges and immunities of trade which the deceaſed Nawaub Hyder Ally Khan
granted to the ſaid Company by the Treaty entered into in the year 1770, is alſo,
by virtue of the preſent Treaty, renewed and confirmed.
, ſº 5. - 4 E. Article

23 1.
P A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O T H E.
X.
N° 14.
Article 2d. In the fourth Article of the Preliminary Treaty entered into between the
Allied Powers and the ſaid Tippoo Sultaun, dated the 22d February 1792, correſ.
ponding with the 28th of the month Jemandie ul Saany 1206 Higeree, it is written,
“Until the due performance of the three foregoing Articles, the firſt Article ſtipulating
“ the ceſſion of half the country; the ſecond, the immediate payment of half of the ſum
“ of money agreed to be paid, and the remainder in ſpecie only, at three inſtalments,
“ not exceeding four months each inſtalment; and the third, engaging for the releaſe of
“priſoners, two of the Sons of the ſaid Tippoo Sultaun ſhall be detained as hoſtages,”
which Articles are confirmed by the preſent inſtrument: Accordingly, the ſaid Tippoo
Sultaun ſhall divide the ſum agreed to be paid at three inſtalments above-mentioned
into three equal parts, and ſhall pay to the ſaid Three Powers their reſpective ſhares,
at the exchange affixed for the amount to be paid, immediately, at ſuch places on the
boundaries of the Allies as ſhall be determined on by them ; and after the perform-
ance of the remaining two Articles above-mentioned, that is to ſay, the ceſſion of one
half the country, and the releaſe of priſoners, in caſe the amount of the three inſtalments
be paid by Tippoo Sultaun to the Three Powers prior to the expiration of the period
ſtipulated for it, the ſaid Sons of Tippoo Sultaun ſhall be immediately diſmiſſed, and
all pecuniary demands between the Contračting Parties ſhall ceaſe and be at
an end. $.
Article 3. By the firſt Article of the Preliminary Treaty it is agreed, that one
half the dominions which were in the poſſeſſion of the ſaid Tippoo Sultaun at the
commencement of the war, ſhall be ceded to the Allies, adjacent to their reſpective
boundaries, and ſubjećt to their ſelection. Accordingly, the General Abſtraćt of
Countries compoſing half the dominions of Tippoo Sultaun to be ceded to the Allies,
agreeably to their reſpective ſhares, is hereunto ſubjoined, and the detail of them
is inſerted in a ſeparate Schedule, bearing the ſeal and ſignature of Tippoo
Sultaun, a
DISTRICT s
A F F A H R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
283
D IS T RI C T S ceded to
the Honourable ENGLISH CoMPANY :
Calicut, 63 Talooks - - - - - -
Pal-gautcherry - - º - * * * º
Dindigul and Pulnaveerpackſhy, 2 Tālooks - -
Salem • - * * º º º º
Hoork - * - - *s - º - &e
Nameul - iºn * ºne ſº- tº e º tºº
Sunkagurry - - * -> - -
Barrah Mohul, 9 Talooks; viz. \ */
Barrah Mohul - * • * ~ * *
Coveriputtun - - - º - tº- - tº
Verbuddurdroog • , ºe - - - *
Raycottah - - º tº sº see wº tº e
Xangoondie º sº wº sº sº º sº
Darampoory - - º - • , ~ tºº
Pennagur - - - ſº tºº e - -
Tingry Cottah - - - - - - -
Caverepoor - Aº sº gº - tºº & º
Ahtoor Anuntgurry - gº * * * -
Purmuttie - sº - * -: tº g- ©º
Shudmungul - - sº - º sº -
Vamloor - ſº * ~ * - * cº *º-y
Pagodas - - -
DISTRICTS ceded to the Naw Aug
"Talook Keerpah, 61 Talooks.
The Dâab, 15 Talooks - - - - - -
Dedućt as follows: & -
In the Peſhwa’s Share - - - - 1 3,06,666,6,10
Remains with Tippoo Sultaun,
Anagoondy - - - - - - - - 60, Ior - -
Remains to the Nawaube Aſſoph Jah - 4- -
3anyanpilly and Chinchinmulla, 2 Talooks - tº
Singputtum and Chilwara- - - • 4- gº
oak - - - - - - - - -
Hanwuntgoond - - & * * * *
Wimpilly Wemla - - tº * : * ~ * º
Moaka º sº º dºe . • * * *ºn tº
In Gooty 4 Talooks; viz.
Tarputry - - - - - - - -
Tannury - - - - - - - -
Velanoor ſº - - * * - - wº • sº
Singunmully - - - - -
--"
~
64,000 o
10,000
8, Ooo
8,000
6,ooo
8,000
IO,OOO
I 2,OOO
8,000
O
~
º º
* Aº sº
8,48,765
88,000
90,000
24,OOO .
8,000
16,ooo
40,000
18,000
I4,OOO
2O,OOO
16,ooo
sº a
O
O
O
(O
.
#
.
O
Assop H JAH BE HAU DER :
1643,099 3 *
13,6676, 6 to
19,055 o 4.
13,072 8 o
8,8oo o o
2,81,331 6
4,804 9
2O,OOO O
2O,OOO O
I5,Ooo o
12,565 o
8
8
O
O
O
O
12,162. 6 14
.*
13,16,765 5 4 #
-
tº
ºsmºsº ºwnsammºm-º.
Io,855 o o
51,782 8 4
Beſwapoo -
284.
Tº A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O T H E
Beſwapoor - - - tº º ſ
Bulkary, Hoorkoor, &c. 2 Talooks - - tº
Dedućt : -
Remains with Tippoo Sultaun, 2 Talooks,
Koor Koor and Drummoor - º º
Remains to the Nawaub Aſſoph Jah º sº tºº
In Koor Koor - • *
Pagodas - - -
* tº º
35,000 o o
‘I 2,OOO O O
DISTRICTs ceded to Row PUND IT Pu R D H AM BE HAU DER:
The Dāab 15 Talooks •º
Dedućt:
Remains with Tippoo Saltaun,
Anagoondy I Talook - - - - 60, Iol
In the Share of the Nawaub Aſſoph Jah,
Hoopul 8 Talooks - 1,06,137 3 9
£anecghurry I Talook 79,100 o o
- 96,094 2. 15
——2,81,331 6 8
;
In Gujunderghur -
Remains to Row Pundit Purdham; viz.
Darwar 8 Talooks - - - - - 1,38,536 8 5 #
Hawanoor 2 D* - - - - - 30,604 3 2
Dummoor - - - - - - - 15,394 6 63 |
Baukapoor 16 Talooks - - - 2,50,426 6 7 #
Sirhutty - 4 D9 - - - - - 64.843 7 IO
Ketore - 11 D" - - - - - 1,43,397 4 3
Judduck - 4 D'' - - - - - 45,297 9;
Jaliehal - 5 D* - - - - - 73,185 o 14
Dummul - 4 D9 - - - - - 49,196 5 12
Shanore - 26 D* - - - - - 3,40,946 7 13
Laugurry Soudunty - - - - 1,48,953 8 o
"ººh" '? .org/79 6;
Deduct: t -
In º: Share of
% iº { 96.94 2 º
Remains to Row Pundit Purdaun - 5,883 6 7#
From Gooty:
Sundoor - gºa - * sº ºw as sº
Pagodas - -
Grand Total - - -
tºº
s
º
5,Ooo o O
23,000 o o
370 2 57 .
16,48,099 3 2
34,432 6 8
º <º
-
13,06,666 6 10
I O,OOO O O
13,16,666 6 11
13,16,666 6 ro
|39.5oops 8 93
-º-
—w--
Article -
A FFAIR s of T H E CARN AT I c.
285
Article 4th.-Whatever part of Nameul Sunkagurry, Salem, Caveripoor, Altoor,
and Permutty, which, as above ſtated, are compriſed within the Diviſion ceded to
the aforeſaid Company, ſhall be ſituated to the Northward and Eaſtward of the River
Caveri; or if there ſhould be any other Talooks, or villages of Talooks, ſituated as
above deſcribed, they ſhall belong to the ſaid Company, and others of equal value
ſhall be relinquiſhed by the ſaid Company to Tippoo Sultaun in exchange for them ;
and if, of the above diſtrićts, there ſhall be any Talooks, or villages of Talooks,
ſituated to the Weſtward and Southward of the ſaid river, they ſhall be relinquiſhed
to Tippoo Sultaun in exchange for others of equal value to the ſaid Company.
Article 5th-On the ratification and mutual exchange of this Definitive Treaty,
ſuch Diſtrićts and Forts as are to be ceded by Tippoo Sultaun ſhall be delivered
up, without any cavil or demand for outſtanding balances; and ſuch Talooks and
Forts as are to be relinquiſhed by the Three Powers to Tippoo Sultaun, ſhall in the
ſame manner be delivered up, and orders to this effét, addreſſed to the Aumels
and Commanders of Forts, ſhall be immediately prepared and delivered to each
reſpectively of the Contraćting Parties; on the receipt of which orders, the diſcharge
of the money ſtipulated to be paid immediately, and the releaſe of priſoners on all
ſides, of which the Contraćting Parties, conſidering God as preſent and a witneſs,
ſhall releaſe without cavil all that are in exiſtence, and ſhall not detain a ſingle perſon.
The armies of the Allied Powers ſhall march from Seringapatam : ſuch forts and
places nevertheleſs as ſhall be in the poſſeſſion of the ſaid Company, and on the road
by which the ſaid armies are to march, ſhall not be given up until the ſaid armies
ſhall have removed the ſtores, grain, &c. and ſick which are in them, and ſhall have
paſſed them on their return. As far as poſſible, no delay ſhall be allowed to occur
in the ſaid ſtores, &c. being removed. - ; -
Article 6th.-Whatever guns and ſhot ſhall be left by Tippoo Sultaun in the Forts
which the ſaid Tippoo Sultaun has agreed to cede to the Allied Powers, an equal
number of guns and ſhot ſhall be left in the Forts which the Allied Powers have
agreed to reſtore to Tippoo Sultaun. - :
Article 7th.-The Contračting Parties agree, that Zemindars and Aumildars, being
in balance to either party, and repairing to the country of either party, protećtion
ſhall not be given them, and they ſhall be reſtored. If hereafter it ſhould happen
that any diſputes ariſe on the Boundaries of the Allies and the ſaid Tippoo Sultaun,
ſuch diſputes ſhall be adjuſted with the knowledge and approbation of all Parties.
Article 8th.-The Poligars and Zemindars of this country, who, in the courſe of
the preſent war, have attached themſelves and been ſerviceable to the Allies, ſhall not
on that account, in any ſhape or manner, be injured or moleſted by Tippoo Sultaun.
Whenever three Copies of this Treaty, conſiſting of eight Articles, ſhall be deli-
vered by Tippoo Sultaun, bearing his ſeal and ſignature, accompanied by three
Schedules, alſo under the ſeal and ſignature of the ſaid Tippoo Sultaun, ſpecifying the
detail of the countries ceded to the Three Powers—one to the ſaid Company, with
the Schedule; one to the ſaid Nawaub Aſſoph Jah Behauder, with the Schedule; and
one to the ſaid Row Pundit Purdhaun Behauder, with the Schedule—three Counter-
parts thereof, and of the Schedule, ſhall be delivered to the ſaid Tippoo Sultaun by
the Allies; that is to ſay, one Counterpart with the Schedule, on the part of the ſaid
Company, bearing the ſeal and ſignature of the ſaid Earl Cornwallis; one with the
Schedule, on the part of the ſaid Nawaub Aſioph Jah Behauder, bearing the ſeal and
ſignature of the ſaid Nawaub and of Azlern ul Omrah Behauder; and one with the
Schedule, on the part of the ſaid Row Pundit Purdhaun Behauder, bearing the ſeal
of the ſaid Row Pundit Purdhaun Behauder, and the ſignature of the ſaid Hurry
Ram Pundit Tantea Behauder. * -
Signed and ſealed in Camp near
Seringapatam, this Eighteenth
day of March One thouſand (ſº
Seven hundred and Ninety-two. (Signed) Cornwallis. (L. S.
(A true Copy.) Nºy
(Signed) G. F. Cherry,
Perſ. Tranſlator to the
; Governor General.
175. 4 F
X.
N° 14.
286 PAPERS RELAT ING TO THE
J U M M A B UN D Y of the Countries which are ceded to the Honourable
ENGLISH EAST INDIA CoMPANY by TIPPoo SULTAUN, according to the
following Detail; dated the 16th March 1792, correſponding to the 22d Rejeb
1206 Hegeree.
Talooks appertaining to Calicut, 63 Talooks; viz.
Talook Cuſba Calicut, 3 Talooks:
Cuſba º * ©e - gº - *º 38,236 8 o
Rumnayr - gº tº - - * º tº- 8,071 7 12
Purrupnayr • - - - - - 8,863 3 o
55, 171 8 12
Talook Goorunnayr, 7 Talocks:
Cuſba - º - - - -> wº I 2,725 O 14
Kołicaut - ere º * • --> sº I 2,957 3 5
Paynayr - º &- --- º A- º 17,630 5 14
Parmalia - - - • - º º I , ,O I 5 9 C.
Kulkumra - amº - - º * * 12,513 8 3
Wurkumra *gº - º tºº - - - Io,535 7 2
Poefuage - ºr gº º - - - I 1,564 8 8
Talook Petudnayr, Io Talooks:
Cuſba º sº tº - tºº * . *
Mylatoor - º * * - sº - * I 2, I 92 4. I 5
Angarypoor * , sº º ags º º 13,615 4 5
Kulkundela wº tº- º dº --> - 9,641 3 4;
Shurmayr - * , ºr - sº - sº Io,982 9 II
Poontaany • ºs º dº - - 14,073 7 5
Kootay - tº - - - - • 8, 159 4 5
Wunnayr gur - * ** º - - 6,386 2 14
Kaapul - ſº - tºº º -> * 5,48o I 4
Wykutty, cote - - - - - - º 16,7 or 8 o
14,736 t 14;
Talook Wurutnayr, 4 Talocks :
Howalparah tº * - - - - - *
Cuſba - - - - - - - 3,515 o 4}
Mullpoor - - - " - gº a- wº-> 6,608 7 6
Moreypoor - - * * gºs * sº I , ſ 17 3 2
Wullulary cote - *- * • - - io, t3O O O
- 41,371 o 12#
"Talook Shaadgur, 11 Taioeks : *
Cuſba * * - - - - - 12954 o 8}
Wunnury Kuikyparah * : * - •ºe | 2,466 2 9
Kulkynayr º * * * yº - º 12,445 6 6
Kolekuttynayr - - - - - - 10,549 9 2
Korungeloor º * -> gºe - 7. II 7 9 14;
Sutuge - - - - - - - 7,567 6 I4. i
Turrunganayr tº - - - º lº I 3,584 2 6
{udnaliekduſh - º - tºº * -º º tº 13 916 7 o
Kurrumpula - - *w Cº. * * - 6,700 o o
Turtala - º º - - ,- tºº º Io,394 5 15
8 328 8 9;
1, 16,02; 9 4:
1, 1969 7 14
AFFAIRS OF THE CARN AT I c.
287

wºr-
Talook Evraugnayr, 2 Talooks:
£uſba º * † gºe “º -em, tºº tºº. * I
Hullaye - -- *ſº * tº -º - - º
Talook Cherkul, 5 Talooks:
Cuſba • º sº gº dº * * * *º * I
Puttoon - ſº - - º º tº . * *
Rundetſera - - dº * - - • I'
Gouaye - wº tº "dº nº gº * gº tº
Murraye - - - --> we ‘es sº -
Talook colo Anyria, 3 Talooks:
Cuíba Kudroor - sº “º *º • - ſº
Pulchy * º wº * ºn dº * - - <& tº
Cootyary - - - - - - - - b
Talook Kurupnayr, 3 Talooks :
Cuſba Kootupoor - mº sº wº tº • f
Yergurah - - - gº gº * gº
Kawul - - * * * * ſº - - ||
Talook Canianoor, I Talook tº ‘º * *
#. Talook Cochy, - 14 D*:
Ivorſhmerou dº ſº - uſe . . ºn º «º.
Mukunlpeor - ſº wº wº - - -
Cotecherry - - - - - - -
Ainamayull tº tº º dº * º tº º
Tulpooly tº *ºne e - , - tº gº
Małoorkuna - º tº gº • gº * * ,
"Chaalkuna gº - - - - * … sº
Aeloornumaary - - • - * sº. º
‘Chittoortutmunyul - - - - sº gº sº
Alunggaar sº sº - - º sº -
‘Paroor
Koontutnays sº & * gº - - -
Shaadmungul - ... ſº wº gºs *º iºs * Gºº
Colecherry sº wºre - - , - tºº, - 1
II,430 3
4,470 4
2 I, I 73
I 9,499
I 3, 137
12, 176
14,486
.
6
2
:
I
14,518
12,654
12,828
O
:
18,777
I 3, 192
18, 139
I
º
5
I 5,903 7
8o,472 5 io:
40,00; 2 103
PROFITS on BLA cK PEPPER, MINT, and DUT IEs on
#
*-
‘I O,OOO
I O,OOO
7,OOO
6,oco
7,Oco
5,Ooo
5.oOo
I O,OOO
2O,OOO
4,OOO
4,OOO
4,OOO
4,OOO
4, OCO
50, io9 9 14
39;ooo o
I .CO,OOO o o
T 1 M B E R, &c.
Farm of the Timber Duties º º tºº º
3Duties on Tobacco - - - - - -
Mint - gº sº sº º tºp tº iº
black Pepper, Coconuts, &c. - * <se gºs
Talook Palgaetcherry - - - • , as
Dindigal and Talvaneerpuckſhy, 2 Talooks :
Dindigul - - - - - - - -
Pulmaveerpuckſhy - - - - - -
30,000 o o
2,8oo o o
3O,Ooo o o
50,000 o o 1, 12,8oo o o
tº tº *º. 88, coo o o
* tºº dºe 8o,ooo o o
º * * 3 O,OCO O O
8,48,765 5 4}
99, OQO O &
a. ****
288 P A P E R S R E LAT IN G T O THE CARN AT I c.
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Selem tº ºt
Hoork
Namkul
Sunkagury
Anuntgurry
Parmutty
Vamloor -
Shadmungul
Burrah Mohul, 9 Talooks:
Burrah Mohul
Caverepoor
Cavereputteen
wº
Verbudder droog
Raycotta
Kurgoondy
Darrampoory
Pennagur -
Tingrecottah
The villages of the above-mentioned Tal
an inveſtigation on the ſpot.
Dated in Camp, near Seringapatam,
this ſixteenth day of March, One
thouſand Seven hundred and
*
ninety-two.
64,000
8,Ooo
IO, OOO
8,000
8,Coo
6,ooo
8,óoo
I C, OOO
I 2, COO
Cunterac Pagodas º
24,OOO
8,000
I 6,ooo
4C, Ooo
18, ooo
I4, OOO
16,ooo
2O,OOO
I , 34, Oo O O
13, 16,765 5 4%
(A true Copy.)
ooks ſhall be relinquiſhed, and retained on
G. F. Cherry,
Perſian Tranſlator to the
Governor General.
[ 289 J
XI.
N* I 5, & 16.
G R D E R S of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 16th December 1802.
}
PRECIS of the Governor's Correſpondence with the Nabob, reſpecting
his Punétuality in the Payment of his Kiſts.
1798. *
14 January. Nabob adviſed having diſcharged his Kiſt for the month of January.
14 March. D." º , º dº D° - - sº $º March.
17 Dº - Dº wº sº tºº Do gº tº. gººse & . D°, and re-
gueſts that all the receipts due from the period mentioned in his former Letters may
she ſent to him.
3d April. Governor acknowledged the receipt of the Nabob's Letter of the 17th
March, reporting the payment of his March Kiſt.
14 D". Nabob adviſed having diſcharged his Kiſt for the month of April.
14 May. Dº - - tº D° se sº sº * May.
14 June. Dº * ... ºe - O tº ſº º wº June, and re-
queſts a receipt in full for his Kiſts of 1797–8.
12 September. D* - * * D° - - - º September.
18 D". Governor expreſſed his ſatisfačtion at the punétual diſcharge of his
Fighneſs's September Kiſt.
23 D". Nabob encloſed to the Governor General copy of his Highneſs's Letter
to Lord Clive, adviſing the payment of his September Kiſt.
12 Oétober. D" adviſed having diſcharged his Kiſt for Oétober.
24 D’. Governor acknowledged with ſatisfaction his Highneſs's punétuality in
the diſcharge of his O&tober Kiſt.
to November. Nabob adviſed having diſcharged his Kift for November.
22 Dº. Governor expreſſed ſatisfaction at his Highneſs's punétual diſcharge of
his November Kiſt.
11th December. Nabob adviſed having diſcharged his Kift for December.
19 Dº. The Governor, in acknowledging the receipt of his Highneſs's Letter
of the 11th, obſerved, that on that day a balance of 13,500 pagodas remained due,
and which was not diſcharged until the 15th.
I 799. *
14 January. Nabob adviſed having diſcharged his Kiſt for January/99.
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290 P A P E R S R E L A T | N G T O T H E
XI. 19 January. Governor acknowledged, with great ſatisfaction, the punétual diſ.
charge of his Highneſs’s Kiſt for January. -
14 February. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for February. .
zo D’. Governor expreſſed his ſatisfaction thereat.
15 March. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for March.
2 I Dº. Governor expreſſed his ſatisfaction thereat.
15 April. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for April.
20 D°. Governor acknowledged the puntual diſcharge of his Highneſs's Kiſt
for April. -
15 May. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for May.
22 D’. Governor expreſſed ſatisfaction at its punétual diſcharge.
14 June. Nabob adviſed his diſcharge of his Kiſt for June.
N° 15 & 16.
go D’. Governor expreſſed his ſatisfaction thereat.
14 September. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for September.
18 D. Governor expreſſed his ſatisfaction thereat. -
14 Oétober. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for Oétober.
- 3. D". Governor expreſſed his perfeót ſatisfaction thereat.
14 November. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for November.
22 D". Governor expreſſed his ſatisfaction thereat.
14 December. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for December.
28 D". Governor expreſſed his ſatisfaction at his Highneſs's punétuality.
18oo.
14 January. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for January.
30 D’. Governor acknowledged the receipt of the Nabob's Letter of the 14th
inſtant. Entirely ſatisfied with his punétuality in the diſcharge of his Kiſt.
14th February. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for February.
19th D*. Governor acknowledged the receipt of the Nabob's Letter of the 14th
inſtant. Expreſs ſatisfaction at his punctuality in the diſcharge of his Kiſt. S
15th March. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for March.
27 D". Governor acknowledged the receipt of the Nabob's Letter of the 15th
inſtant. Expreſs ſatisfaction at his punétuality in the diſcharge of his Kiſt.
15th May. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for May. -
2 3d D’. Governor acknowledged the receipt of the Nabob's Letter of the 15th
inſtant. Expreſs ſatisfaction at his punctuality in the diſcharge of his Kiſt.
14th June. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for June.
19 D’. Governor acknowledged the receipt of the Nabob's Letter of the 14th
inſtant. Expreſs ſatisfaction at his punctuality in the diſcharge of his Kiſt. -
9th July. Governor furniſhed the Nabob with account of the colle&tions of the
cuſtoms in the Pellah of Vellour for March, April, May, and June, with copies of
the receipts of the Renter for ſeveral ſums paid into his hands by the Commanding
Officer at that place. * --
3d Oétober, Governor acknowledged the receipt of the Nabob's Letter of the
* 5th ultimo. Expreſs ſatisfaction at his punétuality in the diſcharge of his Kiſt.
14th O&tº
AFFAIRS OF THE CARN AT I c. 29t
4th O&tober. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for Oétober. XI.
5th November. Governor acknowledged the receipt of the Nabob's Letter of Nº. 15 & a
the 14th ultimo. Expreſs ſatisfaction at his punctuality in the diſcharge of his Kiſt. &
12th November. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for November.
20th D. Governor acknowledged the Nabob's Letter of the 12th inſtant.
Expreſs ſatisfaction at his punctuality in the diſcharge of his Kiſt.
15th December. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for December.
I8or.
5th January. Governor acknowledged the receipt of the Nabob's Letter of the
à 5th ultimo. :
14 D". Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his January Kiſt.
28 D’. Governor expreſſed his ſatisfaction thereat.
15 February. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for February.
20 D’. Governor expreſſed bis ſatisfaction thereat. S
14 March. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kift for March.
4 April. Governor expreſſed his ſatisfaction thereat.
13 Dº. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for April.
23 D. Governor expreſſed his ſatisfaction thereat.
14 May. Nabob adviſed the diſcharge of his Kiſt for May.
28 D’. Governor expreſſed his ſatisfaction thereat.
I5 June. Nabob adviſed having diſcharged his Kiſt for June.
18 D". Governor expreſſed himſelf entirely ſatisfied with the punétual diſcharge
of his Highneſs's Kiſt for June.
EXT R A CT of the Political Letter from Fort St. George; dated commit.
ſº . . ... • 15th Oétober 1798. 14th Auguſt.
Para. 81. Upon the expiration of the official year of accounts, we ordered the
uſual balance account to be adjuſted, according to the ſtipulations of the Treaty
of 1792. *
EXT R A CT of the Political Letter from Fort St. George; dated conſult.
22 January 18Oo. Ioth & 24th
S ber.
Para. 35. The uſual adjuſtment of his Highneſs the Nabob's Kiſbundy Account eptember
has been made, in conformity to the Sixth Article of the Treaty of 1792.
EXT R A CT of the Political Letter from Fort St. George, dated
18th March 1861. -
Para. 34. We have the honour of informing you, that the Kiſbundy Account conſult.
of his Highneſs the Nabob has been adjuſted for the year 1800, in conformity to 14th Novem.
the ſtipulations of the Treaty of 1792. 18oo.
N° 8.—T R A N SLAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. to the Honourable Edward Saunders ačting
Governor of Fort St. George; dated 14th January 1798. . -
By the Bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack Star
Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of the Month of January 1793; and Mr. Secretary Webbe
175. has
292 P A P E R S R E LAT I N G TO THE
XI. has given me the Receipts for the ſame: I write this for my Friend's in-
} formation. * .
** 15 * *6. What need I write more?
(A true Tranſlation.) *
A Falconar, *
P" Tº to Gov'.
Nº 56—TRANS LAT I on of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob
of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. to the Honourable Lieutenant General
Harris, Governor of Fort St. George; dated 14th March 1798.
By the Bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack and
fifty thouſand Star Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of the Month of March 1798; and Mr.
Secretary Webbe has given me the Receipts for the ſame. I write this for my Friend's
information.
What need I ſay more ? .
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) 4. Falcomar,
- P" Tº to Govt.
Nº 63.-EXTRACT of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic,
&c. &c. &c. to the Honourable Lieutenant-General Harris, Governor
- of Fort St. George ; dated 17 March 1798. -
I have ſent you the ſum of one lack and fifty thouſand Pagodas, the amount of the
preſent Kiſt, and have received the Receipts of the Company's Treaſurer; I requeſt
the favour that you will ſend me all the Receipts due from the period mentioned in
my former Letters, and which the Governor in Council omitted to ſend.
N° 64.—E X T R A CT Letter to his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul
Omrah, &c. &c. &c.; dated Fort St. George, 3d April 1798.
I have the honour to acknowledge the Receipt of your Highneſs's Letter of the
17th ultimo, acquainting me with the payment of your Kift due on the firſt of that
month. . -
Nº 74.—T R A N S LAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Honourable Lieutenant-
General Harris, Governor of Fort St. George.
* Dated - 14th April 1798.
Received 15th D* - D".
By the bleſſing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack and -
fifty thouſand Star Pagodas, in full for the Kift of April 1798 ; and Mr. Secretary
Webbe has given me receipts for the ſame. I write this for my Friend's information.
What ſhould I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
- (Signed) A. Falconar, -
P" Tº to Government.
Nº 85–T R A N SLAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
$ - the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Honourable Lieutenant-
General Harris, Governor of Fort St. George.
Dated - 14th May 1798.
- - Received 15th D* - Dº.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of two lacks Star
Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of May 1798; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has given me
Receipts for the ſame. -
I have written this for your information.
What ſhould I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.) …”
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
P" Tº to Goyt.
A FFA 1 R S OF T H E C A R N AT I C.
293
Nº. 95.—T R A N S L A T I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of XI.
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Hon. Lieutenant General s
Harris, Governor of Fort St. George. N° 15 & 16.
º Dated and received 14th June 1798.
I have the pleaſure to acquaint you, that, through the bleſfing of God, I have paid
to the Company the ſum of One Lack Fifty-ſix thouſand and Four hundred Star Pa-
godas Fifteen Fanams and Fifty-four Caſh, in full of the Kift of June 1798; and
Mr. Secretary Webbe has given me the receipts for the ſame. By the Divine
favour, I have diſcharged the whole of this year's Kift. You will be pleaſed to
furniſh me with a letter acknowledging the receipt in full of the ſame.
What need I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) 4. Falconar,
P" Tº to Government.
Nº. 126.—T R A N S LAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right Hon. Lord Clive,
Governor of Fort St. George.
Dated - 12th September 1798.
rº- Received D* - - - D*.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of One Lack Star
Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of September 1798; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has given
me receipts for the ſame. I have written this for your Lordſhip's information.
What need I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
P. T. to Government.
TNº. 129.—EXT R A CT of a Letter from Lord Clive to his Highneſs the Nabob
• .* Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c.
Dated Fort St. George, 18th September 1798.
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's Letter of the 12th inſtant, and
beg leave to expreſs my ſatisfačtion at the punétual diſcharge of your Highneſs's
engagements to the Company for the preſent month.
Nº. 136.—TRAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah Walajah Bahadur to Lord Mornington ; dated
12th Rabbeſſanny 12 13 Hegery, anſwering to 23d September 1798.
I encloſe herein, for your Lordſhip's information, Copy of a Letter that I have
addreſſed to Lord Clive, notifying the payment of the Kiſt of September 1798.
I truſt your Lordſhip will make me happy by conſtant accounts of your good health,
What need I write more ? f .” *
(A true Tranſlation.)
* (Signed) A. Falconar,
P" T' to Government.
Nº 142–TRANS LATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right Honourable Lord
Clive, Governor of Fort St. George.
Dated - 12th Oétober 1798.
* Received D* - - - D*.
By the bleſſing of God, I have paid the Company the ſum of One ſlack Star Pa-
godas, in full of the Kiſt of Oétober 1798; and Mr Secretary Webbe has given me
receipts for the ſame. I have written this for your Lordſhip's information.
What can I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.) - -
(Signed). A. Falconar, - *
P" Tº to Government,
175. 4. H
2.94.
P A P E R S R E L A T I N G T G T H E.
XI.
N” 15 & 16.
Co. Cor.
No 12.
N° 144.—E XT R A C T Letter from Lord Clive to his Highneſs the Nabob
Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
Dated Fort St. George, 24th Oétober 1798.
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's Letter of the 12th inſtant, and
have obſerved, with great ſatisfaction, your Highneſs's punctuality in the diſcharge
of your laſt Kift.
N° 154.—TRAN SLA T I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob
of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right Hon. Lord
Clive, Governor of Fort St. George.
Dated - 10th November 1798.
Received D* - - - - D*.
By the bleſſing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of One Lack of Star
Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of November 1798; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has
given me the receipts for the ſame. I have written this for your Lordſhip's in-
formation.
What can I write more ? g
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) 4. Falconar,
P. T. to Government.
N° 157.-E XT RACT Letter to his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah,
&c. &c. &c.; dated Fort St. George, 22d November 1798.
I have much pleaſure in acknowledging your Highneſs's punétuality in the diſ.
charge of your Kiſt for November.
Nº 168.—T R A N S LAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. to the Right Honourable Lord Clive,
Governor of Madras; dated 11th December 1798.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of One Lack Star
Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of December 1798; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has given
me receipts for the ſame. I have written this for your Lordſhip's information.
What can I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P" Tº to Govt.
Nº 172.—EXT R A CT Letter to his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah,
&c. &c. &c.; dated Fort St. George, 19th December 1798.
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's Letter of the 11th inſtant, ac-
quainting me with the diſcharge of your Kiſt for the month of December.
I have always great pleaſure in acknowledging the punétuality of your Highneſs’s
payment; but in the preſent inſtance, regularity requires me to acquaint your High-
neſs, that on the above date 13,5co Pagodas of your Kift remained unpaid, and that
the whole of it was not diſcharged until the 15th inſtant, as your Highneſs will find
upon reference to the receipts granted to you at the Company's Treaſury.
T R A N S L A TI O N of a Letter from the Nabob of the Carnatic,
&c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right Honourable Lord Clive, Governor
of Fort St. George. -
Dated - 14th January 1799.
Received D* - - - D*.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of One Lack Star
Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of January 1799; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has given
me receipts for the ſame.
I have
A F F A I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C. 295
I have written this for your Lordſhip's information. - XI.
What ſhould I write more ? * -
(A true Tranſlation.) _ = ºr Sº I 5 & 16,
(Signed) A. Falconar, :
P" Tº to Government.
N° 13.—To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's Letter of the 14th inſtant, and
beg to aſſure you of my great ſatisfaction at the punétual diſcharge of your Highneſs's
Kiſt for the month of January. -
I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, &c. &c. &c.
19th January 1799. - (Signed) Clive.
Nº. 36.-T R A N S LAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right Hon. Lord Clive,
Governor of Fort St. George.
Dated - 14th February 1799.
Received D° - - - D".
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of One Lack of
Star Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of February 1799; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has
given me receipts for the ſame. -
I have written this for your Lordſhip's information.
What ſhould I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
t P" Tº to Government.
N° 37.--To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, -
. I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's Letter of the 14th inſtant, in-
forming me that your Highneſs had completed your Kiſt for this month, which has
given me great pleaſure. . -
I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, -, &c. &c. &c.
20th February 1799. • - (Signed) Clive.
TN°40.—T R A N S LATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord Clive,
Governor of Fort St. George.
Dated 15th March 1799.
Received - D* - D".
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack and fifty
thouſand Star Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of March 1799; and Mr.Secretary Webbe
has given me receipts for the ſame. I have written this for your Lordſhip's information.
What ſhould I write more ? $ :
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar, -
P" Tº to Goy".
N° 41.—To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, f
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's Letter of the 15th inſtant, in-
forming me that your Highneſs had completed your Kiſt for this month, which has
given me great pleaſure. 3
I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c. -
Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive.
21ſt March 1799. .
296 P A PERS RE LAT I N G T O THE
XI.
3 - N° 45-T R A N S LAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
Nº. 15 & 16. the Carnatic, &c. &c, &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord Clive,
Governor of Fort St. George.
* Dated 15th April 1799.
Received - D* – Dº
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack and fifty
thouſand Star Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of April 1799; and Mr. Secretary Webbe
has given me the receipts for the ſame. I have written this for your Lordſhip's in-
formation.
What ſhould I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.) .
(Signed) 4. Falconar,
P" Tº to Government.
; :
Nº 46. (A.)—To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, .*
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter of the
15th inſtant, and to expreſs my ſatisfaction at your Highneſs's punctuality in the diſ-
charge of your Kiſt due the 1ſt inſtant. *
*. . . . . . . . I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive.
20th April 1799.
N° 47.-T R A N S LAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
* . the Carnatic, to the Right honourable i.ord Clive, Governor of Fort
St. George. - * *
{ . ~~ : Dated 15th May 1799.
Received - Do - D° .
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid the ſum of two lacks of Star Pagodas to the
Company, in full of the Kift of the month of May 1799; and Mr. Secretary Webbe
has given me the receipts for the ſame. I have written this for your Lordſhip's in-
formation. * , . . . . *
What ſhould I write more ?'
** (A true Tranſlation.) • , * , ,
(Signed) : A. Falconar, *
- Pº T' to Goy".
(48.)—To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I, have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's Letter of the 15th inſtant, ac-
quainting me with the punétual payment of your Highneſs's Kiſt due on the 1ſt in-
itant, which has given me great pleaſure. *
} have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive.
22d May 1799.
A FF AIRS OF THE CARN AT I C. 297
*J
No. 5o.—T R A N SLAT I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of XI.
the Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor of Fort
St. George.
*. N** 15, & 16.
Dated 14th June 1799.
- Received 1 5th D* - D"
By the bleſting of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack fifty-ſix
thouſand and four hundred Star Pagodas fifteen fanams and fifty-four caſh, in full of the
Kiſt of June 1799; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has given me the receipts for the
fame. I have written this for my Friend’s information. *
What ſhould I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.) --
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
P" Tº to Government:
TNo. 51.--To his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's fletter, dated 14th
inſtant, and to expreſs my entire ſatisfaction at your Highneſs's punctuality in the
..diſcharge of your Kift due on the 1ſt June.
I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, &c. &c. &c.
3oth June 1799. (Signed) Clive.
N° 59–T R A N S L A TI O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord
Clive, Governor of Fort St. George.
Dated 14th September I 7.99.
Received D* - - D*
Ty the bleſfing of God, I have paid the Company the ſum of one lack Star
3Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of September 1799; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has
given me the receipts for the ſame. I have written this for my Friend's informa-
.#IOI).
What need I write more ?
* (A true Tranſlation.)
g ‘(Signed) A. Falconar,
P" Tº to Government.
‘Nº 60–To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, w
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs’s Letter of the 14th inſtant, art
to affire your Highneſs of my ſatisfaction at the diſcharge of the Kiſt due on the 1ſt
.inſtant. *
Fort St. George, I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
18th September 1799. (Signed) Clive.
Nº 7c.—TRAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic to the Right honourabie Lord Clive, Governor of Fort
St. George. Dated 14th Oétober 1799:
Received D* - - - I)”.
By the bleſſing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack Star Pa-
godas, in full of the Kiſt of Oétober 1799; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has given me
The Receipts for the ſame. I have written this for my Friend's information.
What can I write more ?
(A true Tranſlate.)
(Signed) aff, Falconar,
P" Tº to Government.
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298 - PAPERS RELATING TO THE
XI. -
• N" 7-1.-E XTRA C T Letter from Lord Clive to the Nabob Omdut tº
N* 15, & 16. Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.; dated 31ſt Oétober 1799.
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs’s Letter of the 14th inſtant; and
beg leave to aſſure your Highneſs of my perfeót ſatisfaction at the punétual diſcharge
of your Highneſs's Kift due on the 1ſt inſtant.
N° 76.—T R A N S LA T I O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
Dated - -ſ 15th Jemandeſſamy 1214. Hegery;
and Or
Received - # 14th November 1799.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack Star
Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of November 1799; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has
given me the Receipts for the ſame. I have written this for my Friend's infor-
; Iſlatl Off. •
What ſhould I write more 2
. (A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P" Tº to Government.
‘Nº 77.--To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, t
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter of the
14th inſtant, and to expreſs my ſatisfaction at your Highneſs's punétuality in the diſ-
charge of your Kift due the 1ſt inſtant. - -
- I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive.
22d November 1799.
#:
Nº 84–TRAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob,
- &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c.
&c. &c.; dated 14th December 1799. -
By the bleſſing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack Star
Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of December 1799; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has
given me the Receipts for the ſame. I have written this for my Friend's infor-
;Iſlation.
What need I write more ? -
(A true Tranſlation.)
- (Signed) A. Falcomar,
- P*T* to Government;
Nº 85–To his Highneſ, the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter of the
14th inſtant, and to expreſs my ſatisfaction at your Highneſs's punétuality in the
diſcharge of your Kiſt due the 1ſt inſtant. -
Fort St. George, I have the honour to be, i. º *...
28th December 1799. (Signed) virus.
A F F A I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C. 299
• XI.
Nº. 2.- T R A N SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of -
the Carnatic.to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c. Nos 15, & 16.
Co. Cor.
Dated 14th January 18Oo. t
Received Ditto Ditto.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack Star
Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of January 1800; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has given
sme the Receipts for the ſame. -
I have written this for your Lordſhip's information.
'What need I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) Alex Falcomar,
P" Tº to Gov".
N° 4.—To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
*I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's Letter of the 14th inſtant, and
zam entirely ſatisfied with the punétuality with which your Highneſs has diſcharged
the Kiſt due on the firſt day of this month. -
Fort St.George, I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
3oth January 1800. (Signed) Clive.
Nº 9. – T R A N SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſ, the
Nabob of the Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
JDated 14th February 1800, or
Received l 19th Rumzaun 1214. Hegery.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack Star
'Pagodas, in full of the Kift of February 1800 ; and Mr. Secretary Webbe has given
me the Receipts for the ſame. -
*I have written this for your Lordſhip's information.
What need I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
, (Signed) Alex" Falconar,
P" Tº to Governº.
N° 1 I.--To his Highneſs, the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter dated 14th
inſtant, and to expreſs my ſatisfaction at the punétuality in the diſcharge of your
Highneſs’s Kift due on the 1ſt inſtant.
Fort St. George, I have the honour:to be, &c. &c.
19th February 1800. (Signed) Clive.
N° 21.—T R A N S LA TI O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c.
| 18th Showall 1214. Hegery,
Dated OT
15th March 1800.
Received Ditto - - Ditto.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of One Lack and
Fifty thouſand Star Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of March 1800 ; and Mr. Secretary
Webbe has given me Receipts for the ſame. I have written this for your Lordſhip's
information.
What ſhould I write more ?
(A true Tranſlate.)
(Signed) Alex" Falconar,
175. P" Tº to Governº.
3oo P A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O T H E.
XI.
Nº TNº. 22.--To his Highneſs the Nabob Gmdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c.
* O3 I 5, I O.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter of the
1 5th inſtant, and to expreſs my entire ſatisfaction at the punétuality obſerved in the
diſcharge of your Highneſs's Kift due the 1ſt inſtant. -
* I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, &c. &c. - -
27th March 1800. * (Signed) Clive.
Nº 3 t.—EXT R A CT of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nawab of the Carnatic
- to the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor of Fort St. George.
20th Zelhige 12 14 Higery,
Dated and received } Or
- 1 5th May 1800.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid into the Company's Treaſury the ſum of Two
Tacks of Star Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of the month of May 1800; and Mr.
Sub-Treaſurer Jones has given me the Receipts for the ſame.
N° 32.--To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter of the
* 5th inſtant, and to expreſs to you my entire ſatisfaction at the punétuality with which
your Highneſs has diſcharged your Kiſt due on the 1ſt inſtant. -
I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive.
23d May 1800. ***
N° 35-T RAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of the
Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. to the Right Honourable Lord Clive, Governor
of Fort St. George.
Or
14th June 1800.
Received - Ditto – Ditto.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of One Lack Fifty-
fix thouſand and Four hundred Star Pagodas Fifteen Fanams and Fifty-four Caſh, in
full of the Kiſt of June 1800 ; and Mr. Sub-Treaſurer William Jones has given me
3&eceipts for the ſame. I have written this for my Friend's information.
What ſhould I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.) .*
(Signed) Alex" Falconar,
Ferſian Trans' to Govern".
20th Mohurum 1215 Higery,
Dated
N° 36.--To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter of the
44th inſtant, and to expreſs to your Highneſs my entire ſatisfaction at the punétual
diſcharge of your Highneſs’s Kift due on the 1ſt inſtant.
I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, &c. &c.
19th June 18Oo. {Signed) Clive.
AFFAIRs of THE CARN AT I c. $or
N” 2. —To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. Vol. XI.
** , , , tº g ° 1 ;, & 16. t
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, * No 15
1 have the honour to furniſh your Highneſs with an account of the Collečtions on
account of the Cuſtoms in the Pettah of Vellour, for the months of March, April,
May, and June, with Copies of the Receipts of your Highneſs's Renter, for the ſeveral
ſums paid into his hands by the Officer commanding at that place.
Fort St. George, I have the honour to be,
9th July 18Oo. &c. &c.
* (Signed) Clive.
. Nº 9.—EX T R A CT Letter from Lord Clive to his Highneſs the
Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. se
Dated Fort St. George, 3d Oétober 1890.
Fara. I. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter
of the 15th ultimo, and to expreſs my entire ſatisfaction at the punctual diſcharge of
your Highneſs's Kiſt due on the 1ſt of that month.
Nº 16. —TRAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the
Nabob of the Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor
of Fort St. George. *
Dated 24th Jemaudelawell, 1215 Hegery, or
I 4th Oétober 18Oo. sº
Received D" j}”
By the bleſſing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack. Star
gºagodas, in full of the Kift of October 3, 1800, and Mr. Sub-Treaſurer William
Jones has given me the Receipts for the ſame. I have written this for my Friend's
information.
What can I write more ?
(A true Tranſlate.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
P* T to Goy".
TNo. 18.—To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter, dated 14th
ultimo, and to expreſs my ſatisfaction at the punétuality in the payment of your
'Highneſs's Kiſt due on the 1ſt O&tober.
Fort St. George, I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
5th November 1800. 3. (Signed) Clive.
N” 19.-TRAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the
Nabob of the Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Clive, G9-
vernor, &c. &c. &c.
& 24th Jemadeſſany 1215 Hegery, or
Dated & 12th November 18Oo.
{ Received D* - D"
By the bleſſing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack Star
2agodas, in full of the Kiſt of November 18oo; and Mr. Sub-Treaſurer William
175. 4 K -* Jones
3O2 12 A P E R S R E L A T | N G T O T H E
XI. Jones has given me the Receipts for the ſame. I have written this for my Friend's
Nos s & 16 information. $º
** *5 ° 49. What ſhould write more ?
(A true Tranſlate.)
(Signed) A. Falcºnar,
P" Tº to Gov".
TN° 20.--To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, s
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter, dated
* 2th inſtant, and to expreſs my ſatisfaction at the punčtuality with which your
Highn, ſs's Kiſt due on the 1ſt inſtant has been diſcharged.
Fort St. George, I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
20th November 1800. (Signed) Clive.
N° 22.-T R A N S L A TI O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the
Nabob-of the Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor
ef Madras.
27th Rajeb 1215 Hegery:
Dated and received } 15th December 1800.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack Star
Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of December 1800 ; and Mr. William Jones, Sub-
Treaſurer, has given me the Receipts for the ſame. I have written this for my
friend’s information. *
What can I write more?
(A true Tranſlate.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
P" Tº to Gov".
* º E XTRACT of Letter to the Nabob ; dated 5th January 1801.
I have had the honour of receiving your Highneſs's Letter of the 15th ultimo, in-
forming me that your Highneſs had completed the payment of your Kiſt due on
the 1ſt ultimo.
(co UN T R Y cor RESPONDENCE)
Nº. 14.—T R A N S L A T J O N of a Łetter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c. &c. &c. -
28th Shaubaun 1215 Higery,
Dated and Received } * Of" ~.
( 14th January 1801.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lac of Star
Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of January 1801 ; and Mr. William Jones, Sub-Trea-
furer, has given me the Receipts for the ſame. I have written this for my Friend's
information.
What can I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) 4. Falconar,
P" Tº to Goy".
AFFAIRS OF THE C A R N A T I c. 3O3
Nº. 15.--To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c, &c. XI.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs, - - * , , , N° 15, & 16.
‘I have the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter, dated -
14th inſtant, and of expreſſing my ſatisfaction at the diſcharge of your Highneſs's
£iſt on the 1ſt inſtant. º | ---
‘I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
‘Fort St. George, - (Signed) Clive.
28th January 1801.
IN 17,-TRAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. to the Right honourable Lord Clive, &c.
&c. &c. -
and Or
Dated gº Rumzaun 1215 Hegerd,
Received ( 15th February 1801.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lac Star Pa-
godas, in full of the Kiſt of February 1801 ; and Mr. William Jones, Sub-Trea-
ſurer, has given me the Receipts for the ſame. I have written this for my Friend's
information.
What can I write more? w
- (A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) 4. Falcomar,
- P" Tº to Gov".
No 19–EXT R A CT Letter from Lord Clive to the Nabob Omdut ul
:Omrah ; dated 20th February 1801. - -
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter of the
13th inſtant, and to expreſs my ſatisfaction at the diſcharge of your Highneſs's Kiſt
due on the firſt day of this month. -
N° 24.—T R A N S L A TI O N of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor of Fort
St. George. -
28 Showall 1215 Higery,
Dated and Reciº . OF -
- 14th March 1801.
By the bleſſing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lac and
fifty thouſand Star Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of March 1891; and Mr. William
Jones, Sub-Treaſurer, has given me the Receipts for the ſame. I have written this
for your Lordſhip's information. -
What can I write more ?
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P T to Gov".
$75,
.334 #2 A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O T H E
XI. Nº 26–To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdur ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
ls” 15, & 16, May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highneſs's Letter of the
14th ultimo, and to expreſs my ſatisfačtion at the diſcharge of your Highneſs’s Kiſt
due on the firſt day of that month.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive.
4th April 1801.
N° 33. – T RAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob
of the Carnatic to the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor
of Fort Saint George. *
and OT
Feceived L 13th April 1801.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lac and fifty
thouſand Star Pagodas, in full of the Kiſt of April 1801; and Mr. William Jones,
Sub-Treaſurer, has given me the Receipts for the ſame. I have written this for
wour Lordſhip's information.
What can I write more?
T}ated - | 27th Zeleaud 1215 Hegery,
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
Pº T' to Gov".
N° 34 — To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs’s Letter of the 13th inſtant, and
am entirely ſatisfied at the punétual payment of your Highneſs's Kiſt due on the 1ſt
inſtant.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
Fort Saint George, (Signed) Clive.
23d April 1861.
N° 37. — TRAN SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob
of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
To the Right honourable Lord Clive, Governor of Fort St. George.
Dated and Received 3oth Zelhige 1215 Hegery, or
t-4 $ 14th May 1801.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of two lacs Star
£agodas, in full of the Kiſt of the month of May 1861; and Mr. William Jones, the
Sub-Treaſurer has given me the Receipts for the ſame.
I have written this for your Lordſhip's information.
What ſhould I write more ? e
(A true Tranſlate.)
(Signed) A. Falconar,
P* Tr to Goy".
305
A FFA I R S OF THE C A R N A T I C.
- * } Vol. XI.
N° 38.—To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c. N° 15, & 16.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs’s Letter of the 14th inſtant, and
am entirely ſatisfied with the punétual payment of your Highneſs’s Kift due on the
1ſt inſtant.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive.
28th May 1801.
N° 43.−T R A N SLATION of a Letter from his Highneſs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. to the Right Hon. Lord Clive.
3d Saphur 1216 Hegery,
Dated and Received } OI’
15th June 1801.
By the bleſfing of God, I have paid to the Company the ſum of one lack fifty-
ſix thouſand and four hundred Star Pagodas fifteen fanams and fifty-four caſh,
in full of the Kift of June 1801 ; and Mr. Sub-Treaſurer William Jones has given
me Receipts for the ſame. I have written this for my Friend’s information.
What ſhould I write more ? -
(A true Tranſlate.)
(Signed) A. Falcomar,
P" Tº to Govt.
N° 44,-To his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
I have had the honour to receive your Highneſs's Letter of the 15th inſtant, and
am entirely ſatisfied with the punétuality with which your Highneſs has diſcharged
your Kiſt due for the preſent month.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
Fort St. George, (Signed) Clive.
18th June 1801.
I75. * 4 L

2.
P A P E R s
PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMO NS,
.*
Purſuant to their Orders of the 9th of February 1803,
.#
F Ro M THE
Eaſt India Company,
REGARD IN G THE
A FFAIR S of the CARNATIC.
ordered to be printed 10th Auguſt 1803.
176. A
List of PAPERS.
| PRE's ENTED To THE Ho No URA B L E Ho USE OF CO M M on S.
Purſuant to their Orders of the 9th of February 1803.
Wo 1—Copy of a LETTER from Lord Macartney and the Council of Fort St.
- George, to the Supreme Council of Bengal, dated May 26th, 1783, rela-
tive to the Nabob of Arcot, and the Affairs of his Government.
2.-Extraćts of a LETTER from Lord Macartney to the Court of Directors of
the Eaſt India Company, dated December 1ſt, 1783, on the ſame Subjećt.
3. Extraćts of a LETTER from Lord Macartney to the Court of Directors of
the Eaſt India Company, dated January 24th, 1784, on the ſame Subjećt.
4—Extraćts of a LETTER from Lord Macartney to the Court of Direétors of
the Eaſt India Company, dated Calcutta, July 27th, 1785, on the ſame
Subjećt.
s—Copy of a LETTER from Lord Macartney to the Court of Direétors of the
Eaſt India Company, dated Deal, J anuary 8th, 1786, with its Encloſures.
*- - ... - & Č - -
6–Copy of a MINUTE of Lord Hobart and the Council of Fort St. George,
dated October 24th, 1795. -
7.—Copy of a MINUTE of Lord Hobart and the Council of Fort St. George,
dated November 24th, 1795. -
8.-Copies and Extraćts of LETTERS from Lord Macartney and the ſucceſſive
- Governors of Fort St. George, fince 1781, to the Court of Directors and
the Secret Committee, as have relation to the Nabob of Arcot, or to the
Affairs of his Government. -
N° 9.
[ iv I
N° 9.—Liſt of the CLAIMANTS, and the Amount of their Claims, on the 1ate
Nabobs of the Carnatic, Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah, in the Claſſes of
Debt generally ſtyled the Old Conſolidated, the Conſolidated Debt, the
Cavalry Loan, and the Floating or Unadjuſted Debt, as far as the ſame can
be aſcertained.
zo.—Copy of a LETTER from Mr. Charles Darke to the Government of
Madras, relative to the Injuſtice of the Claims in the New Conſolidated
Debt, and all the Proceedings had thereon.
EAST INDIA HOUSE,
Hoth Auguſt 1803.
This Claſs of Papers is in VII. ſeparate Diviſions ; and each Diviſion is reſpeſſively \
marked I. II. III. &c. on the Sides of the Pages. The following is a brief
Summary of their Contents : **
I. - - sº - (Nº. 1.) - ſº - - from page 1 to 46
Copy of a Letter from the Government of Fort St. George to that of Bengal;
dated 28th May 1803 :-This Paper
C O N T A INS
Extrad of Proceedings of the Select Committee at Fort St. George the 16th June 1803.
{{. tº * - (N* 2. 3. 4. and 8.) - - sºn from pp. 47 to 93
This Paper C O N TA INS
Extraćts of Letters from Lord Macartney to the Chairman–Private Note of Applications to the
Nabob of the Carnatic—Extraćt of Letters from the Bengal Government to the Sele&t Com-
mittee of Fort St. George; and - to Lord Macartney—from Lord Macartney to the Secret
Committee—from Sir Eyre Coote to the Sele&t Committee—Minutes of Lord Macartney for
Council; 28th May; Depoſition of Lord Macartney; 1ſt June 1785–Statement of the
Treaſury at Fort St. George—from Lord Macartney to the Governor and Council at Fort
William ; and from the Government at Bengal to Lord Macartney—from Proceedings of
the Governor General and Council in the Secret Department—from the Requeſt of the
Nabob Walajah to the Governor General of Bengal—from Alexander Davidſon, Eſq; to
the Secret Committee—from Sir Archibald Campbell to the Secret Committee—to the
Court of Directors—from General Meadows to the Court of Direétors—from Lord Cornwallis
to the Court of Directors—from Lord Hobart to the Court of Direčtors: Between
February 1791 and September 1796.
HII. º ſº lºs - (Nº. 5.) - êº tº gº from pp. 95 to 97
This Paper con TAINS
Letter from Lord Macartney, on his Arrival at Deal in 1786, to the Court of Directors; with
Encloſures.
F.W. ... , - - (N* 6. and 7.) - sº º from pp. 99 to Ioy
This Paper C O N T A INS
ſinutes of Lord Hobart in Council at Fort St. George, in Oétober and November 1795.
176, * * b V. This
I vi I
V. - - - - (Nº 9.) - - - - from pp. 109 to 148
This Paper C O N TA INS
Liſt and Statements of private Claimants of the late Nabobs of the Carnatic; under the reſpec-
tive Heads of Cavalry Debt—Old Conſolidated Debt—New Conſolidated Debt—Bond
Debts—Unconſolidated Debt, with an Alphabetical Liſt of Claimants : Between 1769 and
* -96.
* / w --
VI. as ºn 2 º' - (N* Io.) - - - - from 149 to 173
This Paper C O N TA INS
Correſpondence and Proceedings relative to the Claim of Mr. Charles Darke, in the Nabob's
New Conſolidated Debt ——Between June 1789 and June 1793.
º
VII. tº grºw sº sº (Nº 25.) tº º wº page 175.
* This Paper cont AINs
Reaſons why certain Orders have not been complied with.
H.
(No. 1.)
O R D ERS of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 9th February 1803.
Extract of Proceedings of the Seieót Committee at Fort
St. George, the 16th June 1783. * -
Copy of LETTER from the Government of Fort St. George to that of
Bengal ; dated 28th May 1803.
"HE following Letter (dated the 28th May, but of which, from the great
quantity of other buſineſs that has intervened, the copy was not finiſhed until
yeſterday) to the Governor General and Council, in anſwer to their Letter and En-
cloſures of the 13th January, direéting the Surrender of the Aſſignment, is now read,
and being approved, is ſigned and ordered to be diſpatched.
To the Honourable Warren Haſtings, Eſq; Governor General, and Council of
- - Fort William ; 28th May 1783. -
Gentlemen,
On the 28th of March laſt, we had the honour to receive your letter of the 1 3th
January preceding, together with extraćts from your conſultations ; copy of an en-
gement executed by Syed Ahſum Cawn, and twenty-three Appendixes.
When thoſe papers arrived, Mr. Davidſon, one of the Select Committee of this
Government was indiſpoſed, but was expečted to be ſoon able to attend buſineſs.
• Or
ga
Mr. Hollond, then of the Committee, being abſent, the Committee preſent, in that
ſituation, conſiſted only of two perſons, the Preſident and Mr. Sadleir, befides
Major General Stuart, who commands the army now in the field, and who has a
feat and voice only on particular occaſions. The deciſion of queſtions before the
Committee might thus, before the recovery of Mr. Davidſon, have depended on
the Preſident alone, by the preponderance of his caſting vote. From a precaution of
delicacy in him which cannot be condemned, he therefore poſtponed for ſome days,
and until the determination of the Committee could no longer be his determination,
only to offer to the conſideration of the Board ſuch meaſures as might be produćtive
of important conſequences, but of which a ſhort delay could not alter the nature
or effect. . - -
Among theſe was the ſurrender to the Nabob of the Aſſignment granted by his
Highneſs to our Prefident on behalf of the Company, and for which you have been
pleaſed to give direétions in the letter which we have now the honour to acknow-
ledge. The Aſſignment could not itſelf have been conſidered as an evil by the
P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O T H E
Nabob, who acknowledges in his letter to the Court of Direétors, that it was a vo-
luntary ačt of his own ; nor has it been condemned by you, who, on the contrary,
have expreſſed your entire ſatisfaction with it, and applauded the addreſs and ability
with which ſo conſiderable a point muſt have been gained. The ſubjećt of complaint,
into an inveſtigation of which, from the conſequence of it, you have ſince declared
yourſelves to have been forced to enter for the ſake of doing juſtice to the Nabob,
and to retrieve the injury ſuppoſed by you to have been caſt, in the minds of the
country powers, upon our national faith, by that infraćtion of our engagements,
which occaſioned the complaint, did not however appear to you of that kind of con-
ſequence, which required either immediate deciſion or even inveſtigation; for the
ſame complaint appears to have been laid before you in July laſt: and though the
ratification of the preliminary treaty with the Marattas was then in ſuſpenſe, which
was likely to be affeóted by any diſtruſt of our national faith; and though that treaty,
previous to the death of Hyder Ally, was an event from the accompliſhment of which
every real obſtrućtion required to be inſtantly removed, you was unwilling at that
time to be obliged to liſten to repreſentations of ſuch a kind, or to enter upon ſo diſ-
agreeable an inveſtigation as it required, when the ſituation of the enemy and the
circumſtances of our affairs threatened the very exiſtence of the Company's poſſeſſions,
and thoſe of the Nabob in the Carnatic; and being alſo in hopes that the diffitisfaction
of the Nabob might ſhortly be appeaſed by the diſpoſition which you mention to have
been expreſſed by us, to ſupport him in all the forms and oftenſible dignity of his
ſovereignty ; and truſting in our endeavours to reconcile his mind to the nec ſity of
any acts which the diſtreſs and urgency of public affairs might render indiſpenſable;
and you accordingly prevailed on Syed Aſſam Cawn to withdraw his Memorial.
The complaint in this Memorial, of which you have ſince taken notice, conſiſts in
the employment by us of perſons in the management of the aſſigned countries, who
had not been confirmed by the Nabob's ſeal and ſignature It was true, indeed, that
from the correſpondence and tranſačtions which had come at an early period before the
Committee of Aſſigned Revenue, they were led to ſuſpect an improper influence in
the affairs of the Revenue, which was likely to interfere with the application of it to
the uſe of the Company, while the Nabob's Aurnildars were continu’d in their offices ;
and the Committee obſerved the want of attertion in the Aumildars to the orders
iſſued by the Governor, and the uniform appearance of ſtudied delay in complying
with them. The ſame Committee obſerved likewiſe, that the Nabob continued to
give direétions to thoſe officers in matters relative to the Revenue, contrary to his
agreements, and that Committee ſaw with concern the oppoſition which was made
to the collection of the Revenue in every province of the Carnatic; and added, that to
repeat orders to the Nabob's Aumildars that would not be obeyed, and could not be
enforced, would only tend to confirm that diſobedience. Mr. John Sulivan, to.
whom the ſuperintendance of ſome of the provinces had been entruſted, had already
given information, that every letter he received from the Southward mentioned
ſome inſtances of counteračtion. The people were taught to look upon the intérfe-
rence of the Company as a temporary meaſure that muſt ſoon terminate, and ven-
geance was denounced againſt every man who ſhould dare to oppoſe the mandates.
of the Durbar. As in a former letter your Board, after expreſſing your regret that
we ſhould have ſuffered any conſideration even of delicacy towards the Nabob, to
reſtrain us from availing ourſelves effectually of the Aſſignment, reminds us that we
had given you before hopes of our adopting, as our own, the condućt which you then
recommended to us, by the reſolution expreſſed of placing perſons in the management
of the aſſigned countries, who were likely to be more under our authority and con-
trol; and of taking ſuch other meaſures, conſiſtently with the ſpirit and meaning of
the Nabob's agreement, as might give full effect to every ſtipulation in favour of the
Company ; and as you told us at the ſame time, that if we continued the Nabob’s
agents, or ſuffered them to remain, under whatever denomination, in the actual
charge or virtual control of the Revenue, they were, under the ſyſtem we had lately
eſtabliſhed, our ſervants, and alone ſhould be deemed reſponſible for all their acts,
which might be the effect of the influence of the former ſyſtem fºil ſubſiſting, by our
permiſſion of it; as in reply to that letter, after accounting for the delay on out part
A F F A H R S O F T H E C A R N A T I C.
on this occaſion, which you regretted, from our anxious deſire of making the Nabob
a principal and willing party to meaſures taken for his own immediate ſecurity; we
added, as a circumſtance that was to atone to you as much as poſſible for our former
delay, and that muſt put an end to ſuch regret on your part, that you muſt have
obſerved, that the moment we received from the Nabob ſo unequivocal a teſtimony
of his diſpoſition, as his refuſal to confirm the Rénters we had appointed in conformity
to his own engagements, we did not heſitate to take the line which our ſituation pre-
ſcribed : as the Nabob had thus refuſed to confirm the perſons thus appointed by us;
and as unleſs thoſe perſons were authorized by us, notwithſtanding the refuſal of ſuch
confirmation, to ačt in the room of the Nabob's agents, the latter muſt have neceſ.
ſarily remained, and, agreeably to the warning you had given us, would have been
our ſervants, and we alone ſhould have been deemed reſponſible for all their acts as
influenced by the former ſyſtem, ſubſiſting by our permiſſion of it : that line which,
for your ſatisfaction, we haſtered to declare to you, we did not heſitate to take, and
which not only our ſituation here, but our ſituation in reſpect to the effect of your
authority and recommendation, preſcribed to us, could conſequently be no other
than that of authorizing the perſons of our appointment to ačt in the offices to which
the expreſs words, as well as the ſpirit and meaning of the Aſſignment, authorized
ſuch appointment; and without doing which we ſhould not indeed have filled the
ſcope of your recommendation and deſire, which was not confined to the mere form of
appointing, but extended to the real fact of placing perſons in the management of
the aſſigned countries who were likely to be under our authority and control. The
particulars of this tranſa&ion were likewiſe tranſmitted to you among the minutes of
the Committee of Aſſigned Revenue ; where it is declared by us, that as it was ob-
vious from the Nabob's letter,’ that he had no intention to ſign the Torana Chits or
nominations of Aumildars, and that as much time had been already loſt, and the ſea-
ſon of the year ſo far advanced, and that any further delay in ſending the ſeveral
Renters to take charge of their farms would be attended with conſiderable loſs of
Revenue, it was agreed by the Selečt Committee, that the Torana Chits ſhould be
ſigned by the Preſident, and delivered to the Renters before the Selečt Committee ;
that they ſhould be immediately put in poſſeſſion of their reſpećtive farms; and that
all the power of government ſhould be exerted, if neceſſary, to eſtabliſh and ſupport
their authority. Your anſwer to the account you thus received of what we conſidered
as the line of our duty, and to which we aſſured you of our determination to adhere,
in the confidence of your effeótual ſupport, is of a date ſubſequent to that of the Me-
morial in which ſuch execution of our duty is arraigned by the Nabob's agent at
Calcutta; yet this anſwer from you conveys not the leaſt cenſure of our condućt or
opinions. Our opinions were, indeed, ſo much your own, that it was as to our
firmneſs and ſteadineſs only in the proſecution of them that you ſeemed to entertain a
doubt; but upon the receipt of our letter, you expreſs your ſatisfačtion with our
declaration, that we would perſevere in the moſt entire exccution of our duty, main-
taining at the ſame time all the reſpect and attention towards the Nabob himſelf, that
could be poſſibly reconciled with the faithful and upright diſcharge of the truſt re-
poſed in us; you add a wiſh that the plan for the final diſcharge of his debts might
obtain the Nabob’s ſaròtion, as neceſſary to its validity and efficacy ; you take the
precaution of looking forward to a future tranſačtion which may require the ſančtion
of the Nabob ; but in the tranſačtions ačtually carrying on, and upon which you
were to pronounce your opinion, which indeed was that of approbation, teſtified by
your ſenſe of ſatisfačtion, you obſerve no ſuch neceſſity of any ſančtion; you are
expreſsly told, in the proceedings of the Committee of Aſſigned Revenue then
aćtually before you, that on the refuſal of the Nabob to ſign the Torana Chits or
nominations of Aumildars or Renters, it was agreed that they ſhould be ſigned by
the Preſident, and delivered to the Renters before the Selečt Committee, and that
they ſhould be put in poſſeſſion of their reſpective farms, and ſupported therein.
This direét and full information drew from you no ſignal of your ſenſe of the impro-
priety, no doubt of the propriety, of the meaſure. It did not induce you to withhold
the expreſſions of your fatisfačtion at our declaration to perſevere in the entire execu-
tion of our duty, a declaration that accompanied our information to you of having
taken that line in reſpect to fuch Renters which our ſituation required, and was not a
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defending his own territories, by a readineſ
general aſſurance given in the abſtraćt, but in reply to your letter, and expreſsly
applicable to the regret you had expreſſed at our former forbearance in relation to the
Nabob and to the Renters, and in return for the certainty of your effe&tual ſupport of
meaſures recommended by you concerning them. If, on the refuſal ºf the Nabob’s
ſignature to the nominations he had, by the Aſſignment, authorized to be made of
Aumildars, we ought to have prevented them from exerciſing the functions of their
offices, and conſequently muſt have ſuffered the Nabob's former Renters to remain,
over whom we had no effectual control, but for whoſe acts you had forewarned us,
we ſhould by ſuch ſufferance have become reſponſible, you might have immediately
adviſed us of our miſtake in the execution of our duty : you might in this ačtual in-
ſtance have informed us of the neceſſity of the Nabob's previous ſančtion, as you did
in the inſtance of a future plan for the payment of his debts; you might perhaps have
urged him to have given that ſančtion ; you might have deſired us to withdraw, be-
fore it was too late, our Aumildars, until ſuch ſanétion was given ; you might at
leaſt have deſired us to forbear ſending any others without the aëtual confirmation of
the Nabob : you would have thus prevented the continuance of this ſuppoſed abuſe
of the Aſſignment; you would, by ſuch a timely correction of it, have prevented
the neceſſity to which you have, by ſuch continuance, ſince conſidered yourſelves
reduced, of directing the ſurrender of the Aſſignment of his Revenues, which you had
ſtrenuouſly recommended to be demanded from him ; for which, in a different form,
you had yourſelves ſtipulated ; and for which, when obtained by our Preſident, you
applauded the zeal and ability which dićtated and brought to effect that important
meaſure. If we had really erred in the manner of executing our duty in reſpect to
thoſe Renters, and to the Nabob, to perſevere in that manner would be to continue
in our error, if it had in fačt appeared to you to be an error: If you imagined it to
be an act of injuſtice to the Nabob ; if you imagined it could be capable of caſting
an injury upon our national faith in the minds of the country powers, at a moment
when we ſought for their reliance on our faith, you would not, by the expreſſion of
your ſatisfaction at our intentional perſeverance, encourage us to perſiſt in ſuch a
condućt ; Your encouragement to perſevere implied, on the contrary, that you ap-
proved our condućt. Neither the remonſtrance of the Nabob's agent, who had been
already ſoliciting you for a conſiderable time, nor the arguments contained in his
Memorial, nor your own reflećtions upon a ſubjećt fully then before you, were ſuffi-
cient at that time to induce you to ſuggeſt to us the neceſſity of deviating in any
point from the line we had taken, or to determine your Board upon any retribution
of juſtice, which, if now, was then already due to the Nabob. Of his Highneſs’s
intentions to obtain, if poſſible, the ſurrender of the Aſſignment, we could not indeed
be ignorant, after his formal propoſal to us for that purpoſe before we removed his
Aumiłdars, upon the ground, which could not be denied, that the Aſſignment had
not then hitherto been produćtive to us. It is true, he had known of our intention
to exerciſe our power of appointing new Aumildars, in order, by the removal of the
old, to remove the cauſe which defeated our endeavours, and to render, agreeably
to your recommendation, the preſent Aſſignment effectual for the purpoſes for which
it had been demanded. The failure of thoſe Aſſignments which preceded it, under
the continued management of the Nabob's Aumildars, and of this while they conti-
nued, pointed out the neceſſity of diſcontinuing them. His former Aſſignment of
the provinces of Trinnivelly and Trichinopoly to our predeceſſors in this govern-
ment, for the preſſing purpoſe of ſupporting the war, was not ſuffered under
the management of his ſervants, to ſerve for that purpoſe. To a ſimilar
management was left the execution of the Aſſignment ſtipulated with you by
Treaty, which ſubſiſted from the 2d of April to the 2d of iDecember 178 tº; with
a ſimilar unſucceſsful iſſue. It muſt be owned, that the experience which the Nabob
had, of being abie to lull the complaints of his failure to contribute to the expence of
- § to enter into engagements, announcing
ſome ſacrifice of power and of revenue for the relief of the public diſtreſs, without the
reality in event of any ſacrifice, diminiſhes the merit of obtaining from him any new
engagement, which he might expe&t to affect him as little as the former; but as ſoon
as it did become likely to affect him, and that ſuch a ſacrifice to the public welfare
would be realiſed in conſequence of a reſolution of taking ſuch effeótual meaſures as
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would produce it, we were not to be ſurpriſed at a deſign of putting an end to the
whole; and the inefficacy of the engagement was certainly the beſt argument for
the diſſolution of it. It muſt be confeſſed, that the motive preſſed upon us by his
Highneſs for ſurrendering the Aſſignment, if it continued to exiſt, muſt have ope-
rated its effeót. If the Aſſignment had continued to be unprodućtive, it would have
heen incumbent upon us to have reſtored it. From the 2d December 1781, when this
tranſačtion took place, till the removal of the Nabob's Aumildars ſeveral months
afterwards, no Revenue whatſoever was brought from it to the Public Treaſury. It
is obvious that if, with the power of the Company, the authority of the Nabob,
which is abſolute, had been really, as it was apparently, united, an implicit com-
‘pliance would have followed. It requires no alluſion to the fačts already related of
the miſcondućt of the Aumildars, from the Minutes of the Committee of Aſſigned
Revenue, or of the pračtices of the Nabob's Miniſters, from the information of Mr.
Sullivan; it requires no reference to the teſtimony of ſpecific counteraćtion, becauſe
the event itſelf is, under ſuch circumſtances, the ſtrongeſt, and an inſuperable teſti-
mony of a general counteraćtion to enforce the neceſſity of removing the means by
which it had been effected. The continuance of the means would be to continue the
effeót. The Nabob's Aumildars in the management of the aſſigned countries, en-
ſured the Nabob's objećt of a ſpeedy ſurrender of the Affignment. They muſt have
of courſe continued till others were admitted to ſucceed to them. To prevent the
ſucceſſion of others, or to maintain the former, was therefore the ſame in effect;
and to obſtrućt the effect of your recommendation to the Sele&t Committee, for
placing in the management of the affigned countries perſons who were likely to be
under their authority and controul, became thus an objećt with the Nabob, or with
his Miniſters in his name. To appoint however ſuch perſons to ſuch places, was
an authority expreſsly given to our Preſident by the Aſſignment. It was not a ſim-
ple recommendation, or merely a ſhare in the choice or nomination of ſuch Aumil.
dars or Renters, it was the effective appointment of ſuch Renters, which was transfer-
red entirely by the Nabob ; he reſerving only what you juſtly have obſerved to be a
mere form, the form of confirming them by a Cowle or Grant from him; but by
an expreſs covenant obliging himſelf to give ſuch Cowle or Confirmation to the per-
ſons appointed by the Preſident, a covenant expreſsly precluding the poſſibility of
miſtaking ſuch confirmation, as implying that a deliberative choice, or even a negative
power, remained with him in this particular. The want of what you declare to be
a mere form could not vitiate the ſubſtance, ſhould not retard the effeót of a power
on all ſides acknowledged to have been neceſſary and important; but that cere-
mony would have become indeed a moſt fatal obſtrućtion, if when offered to be
undergone, it was refuſed to be performed; and that the refuſal was to prevent the
operation of that ſubſtantial power. The grant of the Aſſignment implied the neceſ.
ſity of exerciſing it, and looked to the event of its being exerciſed. It required no
ſpecific juſtification, being the common courſe and expećted conſequence of the
Aſſignment ; but a juſtification, if neceſſary, was indeed at hand. The praćtices of
the Nabob’s Miniſters, the diſobedience of his Renters, the advice of the Committee
of Aſſigned Revenue, your recommendation, armed with your power, and, above all,
the irreſiſtible fact of the unprodućtiveneſs of the Aſſignment in the hands of the
cold Aumildars, denying all relief to the preſſing and impatient neceſſities of the
'State, haſtened the appointment of new Aumildars: but it was not of a nominal,
barren, or nugatory appointment, that ſuch motives were impulſive; they called for
a real and immediate exerciſe of office. It was requiſite that theſe perſons ſhould
aćtually be placed, to act up to the tenor of your letter, in their reſpe&tive manage-
ments. Though they were in fact poſſeſſed already of the ſubſtantial authority of
...the Nabob, through our Preſident, whom his Highneſs had empowered to confer
it, yet his Highneſs's perſonal confirmation of them individually, by the delivery to
them of the Cowle, would have been an oftenſible increaſe of dignity, that might
have graced their entrance into office, that might have conciliated the minds of his
immediate dependants in the reſpective diſtrićts, that might have engaged their co-
operation for the public ſervice. It muſt have been agreeable, and probably would
be uſeful. What was thus deſirable was inſtantly and earneſtly defined: what lay
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with this-Government to do was done accordingly: the appointment was ſigni-
fied, the application for the Cowle was regularly made to the Nabob. What lay
with the Nabob to do, was not done ; the Cowle or Confirmation was refuſed ; he
declined, and declining renounced the privilege he had reſerved of giving the Cowle
or Grant to the Aumildars. He dechned the honourable privilege of forwarding,
for the ſake of impeding the public ſervice. It was a violation of the expreſs words
of the Aſſignment, not to give his Cowle to the Aumiłdars appointed by the Gover-
nor. The confirmation conſiſted in giving ſuch Cowle, and it was not therefore op-
tional in his Highneſs to withhold it. . . The clauſe for this purpoſe is preciſe and ab-
ſolute, and admits of no condition. It was not a Cowle to be given if his Highneſs
pleaſed, or to thoſe he choſe ; the choice he had already left to the Governor, in em-
powering him to appoint, and in engaging to confirm by his Cowle. The delivery
of the Cowle was merely to be an external act ; involving the Nabob’s intention of
complying with his engagement, but not neceſſarily implying any approbation of
the choice. And this formal confirmation, as you juſtly declare it, was neceſſarily to
follow the appointment; which, of courſe, muſt have been , the ſubſtance. The
power which the Nabob indeed gave, was not ſimply to propoſe or recommend, but
determinately to appoint. The appointment was the ačt which was incumbent upon
the Governor. The confirmation or delivery of the Cowle was the aët which was
incumbent upon the Nabob. It was too much to expect, that his own breach of his
own covenant ſhould be ſucceſsfully ſet up by him as an objećtion to the operation
of his own deed. Had the Aumildars, which the Nabob empowered the Governor
to appoint, been appointed in vain ; had they not been placed according to your
recommendation in their reſpective managements, there was an end to the Aſſign-
ment, of which ſuch management was the effence. It would, indeed, have been a
cruel deluſion upon the Company and the Court of Direétors, to whom his High-
neſs declared that this engagement for a ſacrifice of his power and revenue to the
ublic welfare, for a limited period, was entered into voluntarily by him; if he could
at pleaſure, and before the expiration of that period, annihilate every purpoſe of
ſuch engagement. But an engagement to continue for a certain time, and execut-
ed by mutual conſent, cannot be made to ceaſe before that time but by the like con .
ſent. Though the Aſſignment ſhould not have been made perfeótly to attain, with-
out the Nabob's Cowle, which was not in our power to procure, all the purpoſes
we had in view, it became our duty to derive from it all the benefit which ſtill was
in our power; it would have been contrary to the original deſign of it, and con-
trary to our duty to ſuffer it to ceaſe entirely. Nothing in the Aſſignment forbid us
from allowing our appointment of Aumildars to operate its effect. We have ſhewn
that every motive of right, reaſon, and neceſſity, impelled us to it: when, in conſe-
quence of ſuch appointment, the Aſſignment could no longer be defeated by prac-
tices upon the ſpot, and Miniſters were ſent by the Nabob with a view to effectuate
its ſurrender at Calcutta, we owed to the charaćter of juſtice and conſiſtency of
vour Board, to ſuppoſe, that you would inſiſt upon the Nabob's repreſentations paſſ.
ing through the channel of our Board, that you might be furniſhed with our ſenti-
ments upon it at the ſame time: it was juſt to do ſo, as otherwiſe you muſt judge
by partial repreſentation. It was conſiſtent with your own declarations to do ſo; for
ſo early as in 1775, upon direét application to your Board from the Nabob, to be
included in the Definitive Treaty of Peace with the Marattas, “You requeſted him
“ to convey any further propoſals he might have to make through the channel of
“ our Board, that you might be furniſhed with our ſentiments at the ſame time,
“ reſpecting the advantages alſo to be obtained for the Company on that ſide of
“ India; and you added, that we might reſt aſſured that you ſhould obſerve that
“ condućt towards the Nabob on all ſimilar occaſions.” If any difference there be
between that occaſion and the preſent, it is that the latter required ſtill more ſtrong-
dy the ſame precaution on your part, as being an internal tranſaction of our Govern-
ment, which the immediate exigency of our affairs required ; concerning which
tranſačtions the Company’s expreſſions addreſſed to your Board, after diſapproving
of your interference in prohibiting this Preſidency from ſending troops to Bombay,
are, that although the Aét for regulating the Company's affairs expreſsly forbids any
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of the other Preſidencies to engage in political negociations with the Natives, with-
out the participation and concurrence of the Supreme Council ; yet it clearly leaves
each diſtinét Government power to take from time to time ſuch ſteps as the imme-
diate exigencies of their affairs require, for ſelf defence or protection. Though
you have a paramount juriſdićtion in political negociations, concerning which you
might perhaps be warranted to receive ſeparate communications from the Nabob,
yet an interference in thoſe matters where each Government has a diſtinét power to
take ſuch ſteps as the exigencies of their affairs required, required on your part par-
ticular precautions in the admiſſion and conſideration of repreſentations concerning
them. On a former occaſion of differences between the Nabob and ſome of our
predeceſſors in this Government, you declared that you offered your opinion as media-
tors voluntarily choſen by the parties themſelves; that by the Aćt of Parliament the
Preſident and Council of Fort St. George were enjoined to tranſfinit to the Governor
General and Council advice and intelligence of all tranſaćtions and matters whatſoever,
that came to their knowledge, relating to the government, revenues, or intereſts of
the Company; but that no power was given to the Governor General and Council
to exerciſe any controul or authority over the other Preſidencies in theſe matters;
their powers being ſolely confined by the Aćt to hoſtilities and treaties: theſe ſenti-
ments continued to be thoſe of your Board ſo lately as in February 1781, and ap-
plied to the very ſubjećt of an Aſſignment from the Nabob." After obſerving that
every part of the Carnatic, not immediately protected or wreſted from his enemy by
our troops, was in the hands of a foreign power, and all his hopes of recovering it
depended entirely on our arms, you declared that ſuch a caſe would certainly juſtify
us in demanding from the Nabob the immediate transfer of his whole country, in
excluſive aſſignment for the expences of the war ; you added, that in your opinion
ſuch a meafnre became, by the neceſſity of impoſing it, an indiſpenſable obligation;
you earneſtly adviſe it, and you expreſsly ſay, that had you the authority to com-
mand, you ſhould peremptorily command it. His refuſal, you obſerve, ought to be
conſtrued, as it would virtually prove, a declared ſeparation of his intereſts from thoſe
of the Company, and would require the adoption of a new ſyſtem, both for the pre-
fent ſecurity of the latter, and a future indemnification for the expences and hazards
entailed on the Company by their former conneétion with the Nabob. The earneſt-
neſs of your advice to us to demand the Aſſignment, and the declaration of your
readineſs, had you the authority to command it, with your omiſſion to give any ſuch
commands, amounted to a ſufficient declaration, that in relation to ſuch transfer of his
country, you conceived that your interference could not exceed advice. Theſe limits
to your interference were probably underſtood by you to relate to a ſurrender of coun-
tries aſſigned to us, as well as to a demand of it; for the preſent Governor General
declared, after a mature confideration of the Aét for regulating the Company's
affairs, that he was of opinion that it clearly limited the controlling powers of the
Government of Bengal over the other Preſidencies, to that of the commencing of hoſti-
lities, the declaring war, the negociating or concluding treaties of peace ; but did not
authorize them to order a ſurrender of exchange of any part of the Company’s poſ-
ſeſſions dependant on the other Preſidencies, nor thoſe Preſidencies to obey ſuch
orders; an opinion to which a caſe only was oppoſed of the neceſſity of obtaining
peace, which cannot be applied to the Nabob, with whom we are not at war.
This opinion of the Governor General ſeems to be conſonant with that of your pre-
ſent Board, even ſince you were acquainted with the intentions of the Court of Di-
rečtors, in their letter of the 11th April and 9th June 1781, that your Preſidency
ſhould take the lead in all military and political operations; for you ſtill candidly
adhere to "the diſtinétion with which you underſtood their former intentions, in
your declaration of not diſputing our legal power to decide on any internal meaſures
of our Government. But reverting to the original caſe of the Nabob's application
to you to be included in the Maratta peace, concerning which your authority of
aćting independently of us has not been queſtioned, and which yet you chuſe
to be made through the channel of this Preſidency ; though then, as now,
at variance with the Nabob ; it became us to ſuppoſe that in a caſe where that
authority was ſubject to ſome doubt, you would be ſtill more cautious in your
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proceeding to the exertion of it; and that at leaſt you would follow the rule
that had been preſcribed by your own Board, though, as we informed you, the
public began to feel the benefit of the meaſures we had adopted, that ſome Revenue
was already applied to the public ſervice ; that the obſtrućtions to the progreſs and
ſubſiſtence of the army from the different Aumildars, while dependant on the Nabob,
concerning which the General Sir Eyre Coote, a member of your Board, had ſo
often remonſtrated to the Committee, ſubſiſted no longer; that the Aumildars were
protećted againſt the interference or injuſtice of civil or military officers reſiding in
their reſpective diſtrićts; and that the people were leſs liable to oppreſſion from
Aumildars; who, no longer holding on a precarious tenure, had an intereſt in the
proſperity of the inhabitants. Theſe advantages, of which the Company and his
Highneſs the Nabob would alike ultimately partake, had not prevented the miniſters
and ſervants of the latter, who were affe&ted by this change, from working upon his
fondneſs for authority, and his jealouſy of the interference of the Company, to make
-every effort for revoking the agreement he had made ; we were therefore aware, and
aćtual information was given to us, that intrigue, artifice, and falſehood, had been
employed to give to our proceedings, and to thoſe of the Committee of Aſſigned
Revenue, ſuch a colouring as might be capable of inducing you to overturn a ſyſtem
you had ſo often and ſtrongly approved. A plan was ſaid to be regularly formed
for throwing upon us ſuch a multitude of aſperſions, that it might be taken for
granted there muſt have been ſome ground for accuſation againſt us. Out of a vaſt
number of falſe tales, fabricated letters, and diſtorted fačts, a hope was entertained
that a few at leaſt might make impreſſion, and that few would have fully anſwered
the purpoſe of impoſition; though by liſtening to repreſentations from the Nabob,
neither tranſmitted by us, nor offered by us to be tranſmitted to you, a regulation
of your own Board was directly infringed, yet it ſtill was poſſible that you might feel
reluétance in communicating to us the reſult of ſuch infringement. You might have
thought it due to us to give no credit, or pay no attention to ſuch accuſation againſt
as ; you might at leaſt have wiſhed to avoid the appearance of being forward,
after ſuch an infringement, in taking any ſteps conſequent upon it, of which the firſt
ſhould have been, no doubt, the communication to us of the complaint againſt us.
We wiſhed to free you from theſe embarraſſments, by rendering that communication
the conſequence of our own deſire, and therefore wrote to you immediately, “ that
“ we neither deſired to avail ourſelves of the ſuſpicious appearance of ſuch accuſa-
“ tions, nor of your reliance on our integrity, nor on your confidence in the capacity
“ and affiduity of the members of the Committee of Aſſigned Revenue, but wiſhed
“ to have a communication of every argument urged againſt the plan we had
“ adopted, and of every charge aſſerted againſt our condućt in the purſuit of it; thus
“ to give us an opportunity of juſtification, before any opinion ſhould be formed or
“ reſolution taken upon either by your Board.” This application, though repeated
in a ſubſequent letter, had however no ſucceſs. We obſerved to you, that the
colle&tions were attempted to be interrupted and embarraſſed by his Highneſs the
Nabob, as you would perceive in the inſtance of Vellore, from the extracts we en-
cloſed to you of letters from the perſons employed in that diſtrict, that his Highneſs
founded his declarations on the flattering expectations he aſſerted to have received
from his agents at Calcutta, that the A flignment would be ſoon ordered by your.
Board to be ſurrendered to him. That the members of this government were ſenſible
how little ground there could be for ſuch a rumour, knowing, as we did, the uni-
form opinion you had entertained 2nd communicated to us on this ſubjećt, your moſt
earneſt advice that we ſhould demand an excluſive Aſſignment. The treaty you made
with the Nabob in that view, the entire approbation you expreſſed of the Aſſignment
..obtained by our Preſident ; your direétions not to ſuffer it to be defeated ; your diſ-
:ſatisfaction at the delay which, from delicacy to his Highneſs, we ſuffered to intervene
in the effeótual execution of it ; and, laſtly, the intentions and conſtant aim of our
employers, that ſuch arrangements ſhould be made as would, like the preſent, free
the Preſidency of Fort St. George from a dependance on the Nabob in regard to
38evenue, which has been ſo often diſappointed : We truſted likewiſe, that in caſe of
a repreſentation of any abuſe of this Aſſignment, ſuch repreſentation would be com-
w ormunicated,
AFFAIRs of T H E CARNATI c.
municated to us form our anſwer, before any determination would be taken upon it
by your Board, but that his Highneſs the Nabob might have the weakneſs to flatter
himſelf with leſs regular proceedings on your part ; and every doubt ſuggeſted to
the people of the ſolidity and permanency of our authority might lead to the neceſ. W
fity of exerting not merely that authority, but the actual force of government, in
order to carry the public meaſures into execution ; that the miſrepreſentations of the
Nabob's agents were apt to gain ſome credit here from their ſuppoſed communica-
tion at Calcutta with the members of your Board, as they had thus the opportunity
of knowing immediately your ſentiments; that it was an inconvenience which we
confeſſed we had not foreſeen, and therefore had no objećtion to the Nabob's ſending
any of his miniſters or ſervants whom he pleaſed, but that the event had brought to
our minds the wiſdom of the Court of Directors, in expreſsly requeſting his Highneſs
to confine his communications with them to the channel of their Preſident and Coun-
cil of Fort St. George ; a rule which your Board might, from what has happened, be
inclined to adopt in future : That we were aſſured that the Nabob, having lately
appointed ambaſſadors to the Court of Great Britain, His Majeſty's miniſters declared
they would receive no repreſentations from his Highneſs but through the Eaſt India
Company; ſuch a reſolution not precluding his Highneſs from complaining even
againſt the Company: Nor on our parts, ſhould we be able, were we inclined, to
ſtifle any complaint lodged againſt our condućt, though our Board were to be
the only channel for its communication ; and that theſe precautions on the part of
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Adminiſtration and the Company ſeemed to ariſe from their convićtion that delegated
authority loſt the weight and influence neceſſary to the purpoſes for which it had been
intended, if recourſe could be had at pleaſure, and without its knowledge or inter-
vention, to the ſuperior or ſuperintending power. The anſwer to our letters did not
avow even the exiſtence of the Memorial to which theſe applications pointed. That
Memorial had been preſented the month before to the Governor General. It muſt
have been received, for otherwiſe it could not have been withdrawn. The know-
ledge of it was not confined to the Governor General, he muſt have communicated it
to you ; for it was, it ſeems, the colle&tive body of your Board that afterwards pre-
vailed upon Syed Aſſam Cawn to withdraw that Memorial ; it gave you, however,
no alarm ; you even chooſe at that time to ſuppreſs all mention of it, though the
mention of it might have put us upon our guard as to the continuance of the miſcon-
dućt charged in it; though ſuch mention might have Feceived or ſtrengthened the diſ-
poſition which you ſay we had expreſid of ſupporting the Nabob in all the forms and
oftenſible dignity, of his ſovereignty, and of which the effects might work forgiveneſs
for our paſt offences, and by which you ſtill hoped that his diſſatisfaštion might
ſhortly be appeaſed ; and though ſuch a mention would weli have warranted at leaſt
your exhortation to us to redouble thoſe endeavours in which you ſay you truſted for
our reconciling his Highneſs’s mind to the neceſſity of ańy ačts wilich the diſtreſs and
urgency of public affairs might render indiſpenſable.: But this hope, which thus you
entertained, even after the complaints of the Nabob were preſented to you, diſcovers
that you ſtill confidered him, notwithſtanding ſuch complaints, as adtually veſted in
all the forms and oſtenſible dignities to which he was entitled; for a ſupport of him
in them, in the conſtrućtion of an official and formal diſpatch, implies a poſſeſſion of
them immediately preceding. And the truſt you ſtill placed in us, manifeſted like-
wiſe, that you perceived it might be poſſible that the acts which we were repreſented
to have committed, might, by the diſtreſs and urgency of public affairs, have been
neceſſary and indiſpenſible, and conſequently ſo juſtifiable, that the Nabob's mind
might be reconciled to them. That hope therefore, and that truſt, could not have
exiſted in your mind, unleſs it had been evident at the ſame time to you, that either
the facts contained in ſuch Memorials were not true as thereifi ſtated, or if true, had
'not the effect of diveſting the Natiob of the forms and oftenſible dignities of his
ſtation ; and that ſo far from a propenſity to the commiſſion of thoſe ačts of power in
oppoſition to his H ighneſs which were not neceſſary, we were inclined to take pains
to reconcile him to thoſe that were ſo, neither ſuch a convićtion in your minis, or
ſuch expreſſions of it, can be conſtrued to have ariſen from any tentiments of par-
tiality towards us, or even from any reſolution to avoid eater:ng into animadverſions
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upon our condućt ; for the very day upon which you expreſſed your ſatisfaction to us
in relation to the Nabob, you wrote to us arother letter, expreſsly containing ani-
madverſions on our condućt in relation to other ſubjećts ; thinking yourſelves, in one
inſtance, ſufficiently wºrranted in accuſing us of falſehood, on the ground, as you ex-
preſſed it, of your thinking that you could trace in your own records ſtrong preſump-
tive proofs of ſuch falſehood, without waiting, or ſince having been able, to turn
that thought into certainty, or thoſe preſumptions into proofs. It is not unlikely
therefore, that if at the ſame time you could warrant alſo the ſame belief of being able
to trace any ſuch preſumption againſt us in relation to the Nabob, you would, on
:fuch ground, have condeſcended to comply with our earneſt deſire, and indeed our
well founded claim, of having this accuſation likewiſe brought forward without de-
lay. It is therefore probable you thought it ſo frivolous or ſo falſe, that any mention
or notice of it muſt have done diſcredit to the Nabob. At any rate, you did not
Think his complaints of a nature ſufficiently cogent or important to proceed imme-
ediately upon the inveſtigation of them ; on the contrary, you expreſſed your ſorrow
that we ſhould have allowed ſo much credit to the reports which appeared to have
taken up our attention when we wrote to you on the 29th June and 12th July. So
ºfar from hinting to us that facts were alledged to you, on which you ſince have
grounded your direétions for the ſurrender of the Aſſignment, which, if true, might
lead you to the neceſſity of ſuch deciſion ; ſo far from hinting to us that the Nabob's
..miniſter had made any repreſentation, or any ſuch as would even in him have war-
ranted the hope of obtaining that deciſion, you acquaint us that you are aſſured by
...that miniſter that he never wrote a letter to his maſter that conveyed the moſt diſtant
ſuggeſtion of an intention of your government to exact from ours the ſurrender of a
poſitive engagement, on which the firſt and natural means of maintaining the defence
of the Carnatic depended, and which you yourſelves had declaredly approved; and
you give us your promiſe that you would not countenance ſuch reports as we had
alluded to ; and you expreſs your wiſh that we ſhould give credit to your own
communications for the knowledge of your ſentiments and intentions. As there was
no change of ſentiments communicated by you as to the Affignment which you had
declaredly approved, nor as to the proceedings of the Committee of Aſſigned Reve-
nue to whoſe management the Aſſignment was committed by us, and whoſe condućt
you highly approved for the great attention and ability they ſhewed in ſuch manage-
ment; we were, by your own deſire, authorized to ſuppoſe that you had made no
alteration in thoſe ſentiments. Your continued approbation, implied by your own
rule, encouraged us to continue in the condućt we had followed. We were in ſome
ſort forbidden by you to ſuſpećt any diſapprobation which you did not declare. Had
you, indeed, begun to ſuſpect any abuſe of authority by us, you would not, proba-
bly, ſeveral months after the preſentation of this Memorial, have claimed ſome merit
from having requeſted us to aſſume every authority by which you could affift
us in collečting and applying the remaining reſources of the Carnatic. This merit
too you claim when, for the firſt time, you intimate that complaints of a very heavy
nature were preſſed upon you daily by the Nabob of the Carnatic, which you had,
you ſay, as yet avoided to take into conſideration, from a wiſh to ſupport our mea-
ſures; complaints which, you add, if founded in facts that were not juſtified by a
public neceſſity, of which you could not conceive the extremity, were ruinous
to our national charaćter, and might prove the cauſe of very extenſive miſchief to
your preſent negociations for a peace and alliance with othernative powers ; but you
add, that you would not lightly change that opinion which you declared to us, and
to our employers, of your particular confidence in the ability and integrity of our
Preſident. The force of treaties, the acknowledged rights of princes, and the degree
in which public neceſſity ſhould admit a deviation from the ſtrict and legal attention
due to both, were objećts which you thought the experience of our Preſident happily
calculated to determine upon ; and you ſtill hoped that the Nabob's complaints may
have been founded upon miſconception, and that they might find redreſs where it
could alone be effectually agreeable and uſeful to him. The complaints thus then
.daily in Oétober laſt preſſed upon you, muſt have been ſome other complaints, or
dreſſed upon you by ſome other means than thoſe of the Memorials, which, not till
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after you had decided upon them, you encloſe to us, or you muſt have anticipated
the intention of the Memorialiſts; for in your letter which we have the honour now
to anſwer, of the 13th January, after the account you are pleaſed to give us of your
motives and ſucceſs in prevailing upon Syed Aſſam Cawn to withdraw his firſt Memo-
rial in July laſt, you ſeem to have enjoyed, in this particular, a kind of reſpite until
the month of November. You mention that you were diſappointed in the wiſhes
and expectations you had formed that the Nabob's diſſatisfaction would be appeaſed,
and his mind reconciled ; for that, in the month of November, Syed Aſſam Cawn,
in conſequence of orders which he had received for that purpoſe, drew up a ſecond
Memorial, which he preſented with the former, and ſolicited your conſideration of
them. It was by the means of the Governor General that theſe repreſentations were
communicated to you. The month of November ſeems thus to have been the aera
of the renewal of thoſe ſolicitations. Neither theſe, nor thoſe you mention of the
preceding O&tober, though of a heavy nature, were however of ſuch a nature as
to preclude, though they ſhould prove to be true, the poſſibility of being juſtified by
a public neceſſity of which you could ſcarcely conceive the extremity, and therefore
required, that beſide ſuch an enquiry into the fačts as could be ſatisfactory or conclu-
five only by hearing the teſtimony of both parties, ſuch a reference to us of them, and
ſuch a demand for, and in conſideration of our motives, as might enable you to judge
whether they were motives of that public neceſſity of which you ſtill admitted the
poſſibility; and which, if ſuch exiſted, took from our condućt, even if the allegations
againſt us had been true, all the blame and all the danger of which only otherwiſe it
appeared to you to be ſuſceptible. Your reliance particularly on the ability, inte-
grity, and political experience of our Preſident, led you likewiſe to hope that the
.Nabob’s complaints were founded upon raiſconception, and your hope that he might
ſtill find redreſs here, furniſhes an idea of redreſs that you muſt then have thought
adequate, though ſhort indeed of what you have ſince meant to have given for the
ſame, in the ſurrender of the Aſſignment, which you would not ſuppoſe warrantable in
sus, after your earneſt advice to demand it; your repeated approbation of it when
obtained, and which grew out of your own treaty ; the reſponſibility of which you
warn us, if we ſhould ſuffer it to fail of its full effect; your requeſt that we ſhould
aſſume every authority by which you could affiſt us in the collection and application of
the remaining reſources of the Carnatic; and, above all, after the declaration which
was before you from our Preſident, as ačting for this Government, to the Nabob,
that this Affignment or Agreement was referred to the Court of Directors, and that
therefore it was totally out of his power to comply with his Highneſs's requeſt for
annulling it, were he even ſatisfied of the propriety of ſuch a meaſure. ... , '
The complaints therefore, which you ſay you imagine had been made in the firſt
inſtance to our own Board, muſt have been by you imagined to be complaints that
required a remedy more within our own power, and a leſſer ſacrifice of the public
cauſe. You could not indeed ſuppoſe that we ſhould relax in any part of the A ſign-
, ment after the expreſſions of your diſſatisfaction for our having once done ſo, and your
warnings againſt our doing ſo in future ; you did not even think it neceſſary that we
ſhould enter into controverſial explanations with the Nabob on matters in which he
had no preſent concern, but that we might refer him to that period at which he might
require from us a reſtitution of our truſt, and a faithful report of the manner in which
we had diſcharged it; and that all intermediate acts were independently our own, and
could only be made ſubſervient to his intereſts, being independently ours. There
- could, beſides, be no identity between complaints which you imagined had been made
to us, and complaints which you mention as exhibited againſt us. Even if the
original ſubjećt had been the ſame, the ground muſt change, in ſome degree, with
the tribunal ; and the laſt complaint muſt contain a charge of a denial of redreſs upon
preſentation of the former, which, before ſuch preſentation, could not have exiſted.
But no imagination on your part or ours, or even certainty that complaints againſt
us had been firſt made to us, could warrant us in ſuppoſing you ſo inattentive to all
juſtice, and to the public intereſt involved in the fate of the Aſſignment, as to con-
demn our condućt, or annul that Aſſignment, without affording us a ſpecific commu-
nication of the charges brought againſt us in relation to ſuch Aſſignment, as well as
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without giving us any notice of trial, without requiring our anſwer, hearing the
teſtimonies we might have to diſprove ſuch charges, or the juſtification we might
have to ſet up againſt them. But on the very firſt intimation which you gave us,
that heavy complaints had been made againſt us by the Nabob, we expreſſed our
ſurpriſe to you that you ſhould withhold a moment from us the communication of
ſuch complaints. We affured you, that we had adopted no meaſures in relation to
his Highneſs, but ſuch as you previouſly direéted and afterwards approved; that our
delicacy towards his Highneſs, and our forbearance in many inſtances, from that
delicacy, to take the meaſures which our ſituation equired, and your direétions
expreſſed, had been, if any thing had, the only cenſurable part of our condućt,
and you expreſſed your regret at it. We recolle&ted, that to our former application . . .
to you to be made acquainted with any objections reported to be made to our plan
or execution, you ſeemed in your anſwer, ſorry that we ſhould give credit to ſuch
reports, and kindly promiſed not to countenance them. But we obſerved to you,
that we ſhould hold it a countenance moſt injurious to us, to ſuffer the public notice
you then took of ſuch complaints to continue in their then ſtate of ſuſpenſe, as to the
grounds and motives of them, without giving us an opportunity, by an immediate
communication of them, as we already had deſired, to juſtify ourſelves againſt them
if ill-founded. We concurred, indeed, with you in the opinion you had given us
in your letter of the 5th April 1782, of the propriety of our declining any contro-
verſial explanations perſonally with the Nabob ; but that we were anxious to receive
his complaints through your Board, that you might, after you had heard our
defence, be the ſooner able to form a judgment of our own condućt; for that, as
we had already declared to you, we diſclaimed that tenderneſs which ſhould conceal
any information or materials that could elucidate our condućt.
For the ſurpriſe we then felt at your withholding for a moment a communication
of complaints againſt us, which you withheld for ſeveral months, our motives have
been ſtrengthened by your ſubſequent proceedings. For though the very exiſtence
of thoſe complaints is concealed from us from July to O&tober, at the ſame time
that our ſuſpicions are quelled by your deſire that we ſhould entirely credit your
own accounts; though, when the fact of complaint is mentioned in your letter
of October, not one is tranſmitted to us for our anſwer, nor even the
nature of them explained, except that they were heavy complaints; or any,
account given to what they pointed, though we were the parties accuſed:
But thus not heard, though in the regular courſe of buſineſs we might have
expected them to be tranſmitted to us, who could beſt explain them to
you, and to the Court of Direétors, yet thoſe complaints contained in two
Memorials, one preſented firſt in July, and again with the other in November,
were, as you relate, entered upon your records before the departure of the Lively
Packet. They were both in fact entered in December, not neceſſarily ſo at that
time; for the neceſſity, if any, muſt have related back to July or November,
when they were preſented; but they were entered before the departure of the
Lively Packet. In mentioning them in your letter to the Court of Direátors, you
ſimply refer to the Papers themſelves; you. ſtate no remarks upon them ; you had
not indeed then taken them into conſideration, you had not as yet even had the
accuſer's teſtimony; but you ſend the accuſation ; you did not chooſe to have to
ſend the anſwer of the accuſed. This partial tranſmiſſion is, however, to be .
conſidered as impartial juſtice, becauſe you added no remarks ; you did not there-
fore remark that you kept thoſe accuſations carefuliy from us ; by which means
you left them to their full operation againſt us, and ſecured for then the benefit of
a firſt and long impreſion, before any defence can follow on our part; depriving
sus (until it may prove too late) of the opportunity to deny, or refute, or explain, the
charges, or to offer what we had to offer in our juſtification ; it was a cauſe, it
feems, to be heard only on one ſide. Had the Lively Packet been ordered to call
at Fort St. George, as ſhe paſt the Coaſt, ſome intimation of this tranſmiſſion
..might have reached us, ſo as to follow it, within a reaſonable time, by a tranſ-
amilſon on our part; and then the whole would have come fairly before our
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maſters: but the Lively Packet was not ſuffered to call at Fort St. George. It was
however uſual, and agreeable to the intention of the Court of Direétors, for
packets from Bengal to call, when the ſeaſon would allow, at this Preſidency, for
its public diſpatches for the Company. It would be a needleſs multiplication of
expence to the Company to have ſeparate packets from neighbouring Preſidencies.
No ſeaſon more favourable for calling here than when the Lively ſailed. To call
here would then have lengthened her voyage but a very few days. No time at
which the lateſt accounts from this Preſidency, the ſeat of war, could more
anxiouſly be ſought, or be more requiſite to be known by our employers. She did
not carry from Bengal the ratification of the Mahratta Treaty, or of any ſignal
event, of which the importance, and a long anxious expectation, might account
for the laudable impatience of conveying it home, without enquiring for the events
upon this Coaſt. When ſhe ſailed, no account of hoſtile ſhips upon the Coaſt to
render dangerous its approach. The Lively Packet had been ſent merely for repair
to Bengal from this Preſidency. A note had been delivered on the part of our
Preſident to the Governor General on public affairs and for public uſe, in which,
among other things, it was mentioned, “ That Lord Macartney made a point of
“ not detaining even private ſhips, and took care to have his diſpatches ready, or
“ deferred ſending them to another opportunity. It gave him therefore much
“ pain, that the Swallow Packet ſhould ilave been kept at Madras ſeveral days,
“ which was entirely for Sir Fyre Coote. flord Macartney deſired to aſſure
“ Mr. Haſtings, that he would not detain any veſſel from Bengal beyond forty-
“ eight hours. As he had few opportunities of ſending immediately from hence by
“ any quick conveyance, he requeſted the packets from Bengal might be dire&ted
“ to touch at Fort St. George. As the Nancy Ketch did not do ſo, it would be a
“ diſappointment to him if the Lively ſhould not be ordered to call at Madras.”
This requeſt, and thoſe reaſons, motives of public duty or private civility, were not
ſufficient to allow the Lively to touch at Madras. The countenance already
injurious to us, in ſuffering the public notice you had taken of complaints againſt us
to continue in a ſtate of ſuſpenſe, without giving us an opportunity by an immediate
communication of them to juſtify ourſelves againſt them, became ſtili more injurious
by the advantage thus given to our accuſers without our knowledge.
At what period you determined to take theſe complaints into conſideration, we
cannot aſcertain ; were we to judge by the reaſon which you alledge had forced you
to do it, it would fix it to July : for the infraćtion of your treaty, and breach of the
condition of the Aſſignment, which you ſay appeared to you of ſuch conſequence, that,
for the ſake of juſtice to the Nabob, and to retrieve the injury which, in the minds of the
Country Powers, ſuch an infraćtion had caſt upon our national faith, you were forced
to enter into an inveſtigation of it, was fully ſet forth in the Memorial of July : and
our injuſtice in this inſtance to the Nabob, and the Company's injuſtice in depriving
him of Tanjore, are the chief ſubjećts of that Memorial. This infraćtion how.
ever did not, it ſeems, then ſtrike you in quite ſo formidable a light, as you have fince
deſcribed it. The expreſſion, indeed, in your letter of the 19th Oétober, of not
having yet confidered the Nabob's complaints, ſeems to point at an intention of
doing ſo in future; but ſuppoſing that you were not entirely fixed in that intention
till you received both Memorials in November, ſtill there was time to have tranſ-
mitted them, and to have an anſwer even by the common poſt; before the day on
which, without ſuch tranſmiſſion, and conſequently without ſuch anſwer, it appears
you undertoºk, thus only partially informed, and conſequently thus not perfectly
qualified to jodge upon an important public meaſure, and upon our condućt in
the ſupport of it; you thus proceed to judge upon complaints againſt the condućt
of our Preſident, which you ſay are the ſubject of Aſſam Cawn's Memorial, and in
which condućt we muſt add, that the whole of the Selečt Committee of this
Government equally partook. Of whatever information you might have been
poſſeſſed in relation to charges brought before you againſt any individual in a public
or private capacity, it would have been ſuitable to the wiſdom and dignity of the
moſt enlightened tribunal to announce ſuch charges ſpecifically to ſuch individual,
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3. to call upon him for his defence, to give him an opportunity to offer it before you
would proceed to pronounce upon his condućt. However evident might have
appeared our guilt, and whether it went to the loſs of fortune, fame, or office, cr
was in the firſt inſtance to conſiſt in the heavy misfortune of your cenſure, the
eſtabliſhed maxims of juſtice, the regularity and ſolemnity of judgment, the
tenderneſs and precaution of humanity, required, that before ſentence was paſſed,
we ſhould be put upon our trial and heard in our defence. If with our cauſe was
implicated the public cauſe, if, in conſequence of the convićtion of our miſcondućt,
the Company whom we repreſent were to be deprived of the benefit of an Aſſign-
ment which was deemed proper, juſt, and neceſſary, which you adviſed, authorized,
and applauded, ſuch a conſequence did not entitle you to proceed more lightly to
ſuch convićtion. But you did not think yourſelves ſufficiently informed to pronounce
upon your own knowledge. You obſerve, that the Nabob’s charge againſt Lord
Macartney for breach of the treaty concluded by your Government with the Nabob
the 2d April 1781, is founded principally, though not entirely, on Lord Macartney’s
(ſuppoſed), aſſumption of the authority ſpecially reſerved to the Nabob in the
Aſſignment, and in Lord Macartney's acceptance of it, of affixing his ſeal and
ſignature to ſuch appointment of Aumils as ſhould be made by Lord Macartney,
and that our proceedings tranſmitted to you contain no other materials which bear
a relation to this charge, except thoſe which are contained in our letter of the
1ſt of May 1782. That ºthere might be in your opinion, therefore, other
materials relative to this charge, may be inferred from this obſervation. And as in
fačt it led you to ſeek for other information, you think it neceſſary to enquire into
the circumſtance of the original tranſačtions ſaid to have paſſed on the 18th of
April, and into thoſe of the ſubſequent appointment of Aumildars; on ſuch an
occaſion, you could not indeed take too much precaution in ſeeking for accurate
information, and in endeavouring to acquire a perfeót knowledge of the circum-
ſtances attending the whole tranſačtion; you felt the propriety and neceſſity of
examining into evidence; you were to ſeek for truth from authentic documents, and
impartial witneſſes, and from the conſideration and compariſon of the teſtimonies
to be adduced, by the oppoſite parties ; you overlooked, however, the proceedings
of the Committee of Aſſigned Revenue, authentic documents on this point, which
you had received and obſerved with ſatisfaction. In theſe proceedings, you already
poſſeſſed particulars bearing a relation to the charge againſt us, which were not
contained in our letter of the 1ſt of May, which however, you ſay, contained all
the materials you had before you of the proceedings of the Selečt Committee.
That letter informed you, that, on the Nabob's refuſal to confirm our Renters, we
; had taken the line which our ſituation required; and it was obvious what that line
muſt be, even-without the Encloſures, which related the whole tranſačtion ; and the
proceedings of the Conamittee of Aſſigned Revenue, gave you alſo the circum-
-ſtantial and material motives for the immediate procedure of the Selečt Committee
already quoted, that it was obvious from the Nabob's letter that he had no intention
: to ſign the Terana Chits; and as much time had already been loſt, and the ſeaſon
of the year was ſo far advanced, that any further delay in fending the ſeveral Renters
, to take charge of their farms would be attended with confiderable loſs of Revenue.
Theſe proceedings, and theſe motives, might have been proper to have been brought
forward, by you, and were not unworthy of your conſideration. It might have
<been proper to conſider, whether this Government ought, in keeping back the
Renters, to have yielded to the views of the Nabob in his intention not to ſign, the
Torana Chits, and thus to ſee the Aſſignment defeated altogether; or, to uſe your
words applied to this Aſſignment, whether, after having contended for ſo great an
acquiſition with ſo fortunate an iſſue, we ſhould ſuffer any, confideration, even of
delicacy towards the Nabob, to reſtrain us from availing ourſelves of it. The
intentions of the Nabob, cbvious from the letter above alluded to, called for
particular attention. It might have been right to weigh the importance of the
time already loſt, of the advanced ſeaſon of the year, and the conſiderable loſs of
;Revenue to ariſe from any further delay in ſending the Renters to take charge of their
farms.
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farms. If any doubt ſubſiſted in your minds, or was affected to be thrown upon
thoſe intentions and thoſe facts, it became you to call upon us for the proofs
of our aſſertions. We ſhould have produced the Nobob's letter, ſhewn how
time had been conſumed, how little was to be ſpared, and how neceſſary
was our diſpatch, ſuch ſhould have been the line of your condućt; all this
was not done ;-no part of it was done;—no deliberation upon the cogency
of our motives, no mention of them ; though you declare that the breach of the
Aſſignment, for which we are, in the perſon of our Preſident, ſo ſeverely cenſured, and
for which you deprive the Company of what you termed a great acquiſition, was the
breach of a mere form, reſerved for the ſole purpoſe of preſerving what you call the Na-
, bob's oſtenſible ſovereignty ; and though you äcknowledge that your general recom-
mendations might avail us in thebreach of this mere form, if neceſſary for realizing the
colle&tions; yet of that neceſſity, of the circumſtances or motives that did or might lead
to it, you take no account: you are ſatisfied with ſaying, that you apprehended that
, the proof of ſuch neceſſity would be impoſſible. This apprehended impoſſibility goes
not to the fact, but to the proof; but every ſačt is ſuſceptible of ſufficient proof,
proportioned to its nature. The proof of the neceſſity of a future meaſure, on the
ground of ill conſequences to ariſe from the omiſſion of it, muſt be taken from ob-
ſervation of the paſt or preſent. We are minded to guard againſt future by the
recolle&tion of paſt, or the exiſtence of preſent evil: it is the certain proſpect of the
continuance of ſuch evil conſequent on particular meaſures, that conſtitutes the proof
of the neceſſity of taking oppoſite meaſures. The nature of the caſe ſhould
prevent exačting as a proof of ſuch neceſity, the aëtual exiſtence of the evil
after the meaſure to prevent it had taken place; yet in that light only.could the
proof you, mention have been impoſſible. . . If you had recommended to us, as you
did, to place perſons in the management of the aſſigned countries who were likely to
be under our own controui. If ſrcm experience it was known, that the colle&tions
could not be realized for the Company but under ſuch perſons: if the Nabob did
not chaſe to affix his ſeal to this appointment, and if ſuch refuſal on his part, not-
withſtanding ſuch refuſal and ſuch purſuit of your advice on our part, were to con-
ſtitute that breach of that mere form ; the neceſſity of ſuch a breach depends upon
the reality of theſe ſuppoſitions, and theſe are fačts which appear to have lain within
, the poſſibility of proof. But the caution with which you proceed to pronounce in
oppoſition to theſe facts, and in favour of the Nabob againſt the Company and the
Company’s repreſentative, conſiſts in reſting your faith...entirely upon the aſſertions
of him who was then, and him who had been the agent of the Nabob. They had
been jointly ſent before the Nabob, or in his name by his ſecond ſon, the Ameer
uł Omrah, to Calcutta, to form the Treaty with you of April 1731. The one
Awas and is the Nabob's Dewan, or principal ſervant. The other, to enter inte his
Highneſs's ſervice, for fook his important duty in the ſervice of the Company. Theſe
perſons jointly had propoſed, ſolicited, and concluded that Treaty; or, as it is
... called by the Committee, of Secrecy of the Houſe of Commons, that ſingular re-
preſentation and tranſation ; in which, among many other things, the Nabob de-
clares himſelf an hereditary Prince, and independant of every one ; in which, be-
& ſide the annexation of ſeveral Talooks or diſtrićts, in the Balaghat, he claims the
reſumption of the Talook or diſtrict of Tanjore, of which he had taken poſſeſſion
according to the rule and pračtice of Hindoſtan; but which, at the ſole inſtigation
of ſelf-intereſted people, was taken from him and given to a Ryot or peaſant of his;
and in which likewiſe he deſires that a 3’reaty be made bêtween the King of Great
a Britain and King of France, ſettling the peace and ſecurity of the Carnatic ; and
...that the rights of his Government, without the conneétion of any one, and his power
to appoint a ſucceſſor to the Carnatic, be included in ſuch Treaty; theſe perſons
had indeed entered deeply, zealouſly, and entirely into all his Highneſs's and his
, ſecond ſon's profound ſchemes. By Tanjore and the other territories dem unded in
... this Treaty, the delegated power of Aſſam Cawn, the manager of the Revenues,
-would be co-extenſive with his maſter's acquiſitions, and the ſettlement of the ſuc-
... ceſſion would have provided for the duration of his power. The importance of the
Treaty, required a Miniſter from your Board to be reſident here, to maintain its
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faith; and the Nabob's other agent, Mr. Richard Sulivan, was appointed by you
at his Highneſs's requeſt to be that Miniſter. Thus each had an ačtual or proſpec-
'tive recompence in the completion of the Nabob's ſyſtem. Their cauſe was com-
mon with their maſters. Of a Clauſe of this Treaty of April 1781, the agreement
of December 1781 was a modification; but that modification was a material
change to the manager Aſſam Cawn; it took from him the fºperintendance of the
;Revenue. That agreement annulled, reſtored to him that ſuperintendance of the
confidence to be placed in Mr. Richard Sulivan, in the relative matters of the
Nabob and the Company; it is not neceſſary to ſay more, than that at the very time
he was confidential Secretary to the Selečt Committee of this Preſidency, and con-
fequently poſſeſſed of all the views and ſecrets of the Company, as far as related to
this Government, he entered privately into the ſervice of the Nabob, with whom,
by the orders of the Court of Direétors, none of the Company's ſervants are allowed
to have any communication without the pertniſſion of the Preſident ; and that he
undertook the plan of independence and ambitious projećts of the Carnatic cabinet,
ſo reprobated by the Company, who fince have puniſhed this unfaithful condućt by
diſmiſfinig him from their ſervice. This Gentleman was expreſsly appointed by you
for the purpoſe of maintaining the faith of your Government in the Agreement con-
cluded with the Nabob, and for the repreſentation of ſuch matters as might at any
time require his interpoſition in that charaćter, and in your name, either with the
Nabob, or with the Preſident and Council, or Selečt Committee of Fort St. George;
yet, as he acknowledges he had no immediate communication with that Preſident
and Council, or that Select Committee, he adds, that he felt himſelf hurt in ſome
points; but whether hurt or not in any point, it was his duty, while he continued in
the enjoyment and emoluments of office, to endeavour, as much as in him lay, to
execute the duties you had preſcribed to him, whatever doubts this Government
might have entertained, either of the right or of the expediency of the appointment
..of a repreſentative here different from and independent of this Preſidency. Thoſe
doubts, which did not affect him in the poſſeſſion, ſhould not have affected him in
the exerciſe of the office: this Preſidency could not have preyented him from mak-
,ing to them at leaſt a written repreſentation upon the ſuppoſed invaſion by them of
the Nabob's rights, which, if any caſe could, muſt have been the caſe which required,
in the words of your credentials to him, his interpoſition with us as the Repreſen-
...tative and Miniſter of your Government. If he had really felt on this occaſion, the
enormity he has ſince deſcribed, he could not have reſiſted the fairneſs and uncom-
monneſs of the occaſion for demonſtrating, in oppoſition to our opinion, the expe-
-diency of his appointment; in the inſtance of his ſupporting the Nabob upon the
fpot, and on the firſt attempt of our encroachment, or at leaſt of remonſtrating
with us and warning us in your name, before it might be too late, of the injuſtice
and violence of our proceedings; ſuch remonſtrances (whatever might have been
the reception of them) made by the Repreſentative of your Government, would at
deaſt have rendered the reſponſibility cf our condućt heavier upon us. His duty
would have been performed, however our proceedings might be criminal in us or
unjuſt to the Nabob ; the incident, had it really happened, would have thus been for-
tunate to the Reſident, as affording him ſo conſpicuous an opportunity of diſplaying
on the moment his zeal and his abilities, as well as aſcertaining the doubled uſeful:
ineſs of his office, now aboliſhed. The Reſident's utter filence to us at the time is
therefore a plain argument, that when the tranſačtion took place, he did not preciſe-
ly feel ſuch an impreſſion of it as he has ſince endeavoured to convey to others; and
that whatever account he may have hazarded at a diſtance, he muſt have been con-
ſcious it could not have borne a diſcuſſion on the ſpot. Truth is frequently better
known from the ſudden feelings and expreſſions of riſen on the moment that events
ariſe before them, than from accounts that are afterwards deliberately combined;
calm ſenſation contradićts angry recollečtion, and original acquieſcence diſcredits
ſubſequent complaint. Mr. Richard Sulivan, who was ſent as Reſident here to
maintain the faith of Government towards the Nabob, made no effort here, and ut-
tered no complaint againſt any breach of that faith ; but afterwards, in conſequence
of the Nabob's repreſentation, goes round, as he calls it, to Bengal, to make a re-
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preſentation there, ceaſes to be actual Reſident here, he returns as the Nabob’s So-
jicitor at Bengal. His Highneſs's two Memorials, which are in the Engliſh lan-
guage, and not ſaid to be tranſlations, were probably framed by that Gentleman,
though preſented by Aſſam Cawn, a Mahomedan not converſant in our language.
Theſe two perſons, as if without bias in the cauſe or intereſt in the event, as if not
committed by the aſſertions advanced already by them in the Memorials, were the
perſons you ſelečted to ſtamp veracity on thoſe Memorials. Before you called on
them you had abundant time to obtain from hence, where the tranſačtion paſt, the
whole of the teſtimonies relating to it; perhaps it might have been no ſuperfluous
caution not to rely implicitly on thoſe willing and,intereſted witneſſes, furniſhed by
one ſide only ; and who, from temper and ſituation, might have obſerved with
prejudice, and might report with partiality. Of theſe witneſſes, one indeed,
Mr. Richard Sulivan, acknowledges that he was not preſent at the principal tranſ-
aćtion on the 18th of April 1782 ; concerning which you called for evidence, and
which related to the demand and refuſal of the Nabob's ſeal and fignature. He
reports what the Nabob repreſented to him, and this ſpecies of teſtimony he gives
you very circumſtantially. As to Aſſam Cawn, the ſingle witneſs, ſpeaking from
his own knowledge of the tranſačtion, whom you examined, not merely the poſſibi-
lity or perhaps the propenſity of ſuch a man, ſo circumſtanced and engaged as he
was, to miſtake or miſtate the cauſe of his maſter and his own, might hawe occur-
red to the wiſdom of your Board ; but the recoilećtion of his ačtual impoſition on
you upon a former occaſion, ſhould, as deſtrućtive of the credibility of his teſti-
mony, have precluded the admiſſion of it. This man, to forward the views of his
patron, the Nabob's ſecond ſon, the Aumeer ul Omrah, not only aſſerted on his
firſt embaſſy to you, that his maſter, the Nabob, was poſſeſſed of letters from
the Company and the King's Miniſter, and the King himſelf, all expreſſing a clear
acknowledgment of the Nabob’s right to appoint a ſucceſſor to the Government of
the Carnatic, but he had the audacity to impoſe upon your confidence in producing
pretended copies of thoſe letters from the King and the Company, thus adding the
crime of forgery to that of falſhodd; a falſnood ſo glaring from the peruſal of the King's
and Company’s letters to the Nabob upon record, from the Grant and Treaty ſettling
the ſucceſſion on the Nabob's eldeſt ſon, and the Company’s expreſs inſtrućtions,
that the ſucceſſion, ſo ſettled, ſhould be maintained ; from ſuch a man, in ſuch a
cauſe, no precaution could aſſure you that you would receive a genuine or perfeót
relation of the caſe; you gave him previous warning of the ſubjećt of your intended
enquiries, his anſwers were prepared ; the ſcope of the notice reached no farther. In
this cauſe he had been hitherto a ſolicitor, if not a party; he had been accuſtomed
to ſpeak the ſmooth but looſe language of ſolicitation ; his objećt was to perſuade ;
truth might not always have led him to that objećt; but juſtice, being the fit ob-
jećt of your enquiries, and truth the moſt direčt road to ſuch an objećt, if you ex-
pećted to extract it from Aſſam Cawn, and that he really might be brought to bear
teſtimony to truth on this occaſion, it muſt have been by impreſſing him with a
ſenſe of the new charaćter in which he was to appear, and before his examination
ſolemnly ſwearing him to declare the entire truth in the manner of his law; but
there was no ſuch preface to his examination—he was, as in every former confer-
ence, requeſted to inform the Board of the circumſtances of the tranſačtion to the
beſt of his recoilećtion ; he had notice to prepare his anſwers ; and there was there-
fore no more danger of his failing in recolle&tion, than in preſerving conſiſtence with
the repreſentations he had already made, either in his memorials or his conferences.
His examination over, he was then, and not before, by a ſingular reverſe of all regular
and juſt proceedings, aſked if he would ſwear to the truth of all he had declared:—He
neither wiſhed to ſwear to the truth, nor yet to loſe the benefit of his aſſertions. He
added a new aſſertion, that, by the cuſtom of India, it was reckoned diſhonourable
for a gentleman, or a man of a certain rank, to take an oath ; though he acknow-
ledged that, by the Mahommedan law, he might atteſt the whole of it upon oath,
and that the law does in ſome caſes preſcribe it ; but that all he had related his eyes
had ſeen, his ears had heard, his tongue had uttered, and he had heard from the
mouths of others. This declaration muſt not have been intended to imply what nature
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has rendered incompatible, that each of the fačts had ſtruck upon each of the ſenſes,
but that, rendering every ſenſe its proper objećt, he had heard what was ſpoken, and
ſeen what was ſhewn ; and if no more was neceſſary to conſtitute the truth of
what he had related, we believe he might have ſworn without any danger from
our laws. -
Upon what thus was uttered by this man's tongue, and heard by him from the
mouths of others, did you pronounce your final judgment : your reſolution was
taken the 8th of January for the immediate ſurrender of the Aſſignment ; but you did
not ačt under the convićtion of its abſolute neceſſity of being immediate, for before
you diſpatch it from Calcutta, it might have arrived at Madras by the uſual channel
of the poſt, to which the moſt important diſpatches had been entruſted. You ſent it
by a conveyance which could not be very quick, and happened to be tedious ; and
this delay has eventually produced another ; for before the arrival of your orders,
oppoſite orders from the Court of Direétors had arrived. To the Court of Direétors
both you and we had referred your Treaty with the Nabob of the 2d April 1781, and
we had referred ſikewiſe to them the ultimate judgment of the Aſſignment of Decem-
ber 1781. The Court of Direétors have thought proper to reject the former and to
accept the latter agreement : They have expreſsly deſired it to be rendered effe&tual;
you are direéted to aſſiſt in giving it that effect. That direétion to you for the main-
tenance of the Aſſignment, your knowledge of the like orders to us, reached you in
little more than a fortnight (the 17th of February) after the diſpatch (on the 28th of
January) of your reſolutions for the ſurrender of it, and long before thoſe reſolutions
arrived here (the 28th of March): We had already (the 18th February), indeed, ap-
plied to you to give us that aſſiſtance in effectuating the Aſſignment which you were
direéted to afford us. You received this application (the 18th of March) before we
did your orders (28th March). Thus ſituated, with your orders to ſurrender, with
the Company's order to maintain the Aſſignment, the preference of immediate and
implicit obedience to your commands might not have been entirely ſafe or proper.
The date of your orders, fom the proximity of your ſituation, was the lateſt; but
ſuch an excuſe, we fear, might not avail us ; for if it were ſo, the clauſe for obe-
dience to you as to treaties or hoſtilities in the aët of parliament you quoted to us,
contains an exception of the ſpecial orders of the Court of Direétors, as over-ruling
your’s, which, from their diſtance, and the conſequent priority of their orders, might
never be ſuffered to have any operation ; but in obeying the orders before us of your
Board, at the expence of our obedience to our employers, and which we conceived
to be the public good, we had not the conſolation of being certain that we ſhould
even have the ultimate approbation of your Board. The orders before us were iſſued
by you before you knew the ſuperior orders againſt them. The aët of parliament you
have quoted as in force, inforces your obedience to the orders of the Court of Di-
rectors, however cautiouſly, diſpaſionately, and diſintereſtedly you might have come
to the determination you had made. A new line as to the reſult was opened, and a
deviation from the former became your duty, as ſoon as you knew the late intention
of your employers, we did you the juſtice to conſider you inclined to ſet the example
of the obedience you exačted. We had applied to you in the confidence that you
would, towards enabling us to effectuate the Aſſignment, afford us the aſſiſtance the
Court of Direétors had, by the diſpatches juſt arrived, deſired you to afford us. You
knew our expectations; you knew we had a right to expect every aſſiſtance in your
power; you had a right to ſuppoſe we ſhould depend upon it: Your aſſiſtance, how-
ever, would have been thrown away, and your beſt intentions fruſtrated, if, before
they could arrive, we had rendered impoſſible the execution of them by removing
the ground on which they were to operate. It was a fair procedure towards your
Board, by deferring the execution of orders you gave when ignorant of the Company’s
inſtrućtions, to give you time to revoke your orders after you knew of thoſe inſtruc-
tions. It might, if you choſe, have ſaved you from the reſponſibility of a meaſure
ſubverſive of the Company’s views. We gave you an opportunity, at any rate, to
take your line. We had experienced, that a ſtrićt compliance with deſires that had
been expreſſed by you, became the very occaſion of ſubſequent reproaches from you:
Having obeyed, becauſe you deſired, and toid us you might have commanded, but
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did not command, becauſe you knew it was unneceſſary, you afterwards accuſed us
of miſconſtrućtion in confidering ſuch a defire as equivalent to a command. Such
a reproach might have indeed been founded on the preſent inſtance, if we had con-
formed to your defires, after we had reaſon, from the Company’s diſpatches, to ſup-
poſe you had altered, or at leaſt to doubt that you had continued them : we had every
reaſon therefore to poſtpone our meaſures till we ſhould know your final reſolutions
upon the ſubjećt of them, ſubſequent to your receipt of the Company's diſpatches.
If the fact ſhould prove, whatever might be the authority or the motive, that you
perſevered in a reſolution contradićtory to the Company's intentions, the alternative
to us, though ſtill cruel and embarraſſing, would however be that of a ſimple
choice between our duty to our employers, and the duty expečted by your Board.
We could not doubt but that you would haſten to communicate your reſolution to
us, whatever it might be. In the ſame proportion as your ſentiments were to in-
fluence our condućt, in the ſame proportion and for that purpoſe ſhould they
ſpeedily be announced to us. If you meant to obey the inſtructions you had received,
and to fulfil the intention of the Company in aſſiſting us towards enabling us to effec-
tuate the Aſſignment, you could not be too quick in removing the thing itſelf from
that brink of deſtrućtion to which your former order had approached it ; you could
not have taken too much pains, by an expeditious revocation of that order, to ſtop
the diſturbances and quiet the apprehenſions which the publication of it by the
TNabob’s adherents might have occaſioned throughout the country, to the diminution
of the collections. If, on the other hand, you were pleaſed to undertake to diſobey
the Company, and that by your controuling power over all the Preſidencies, that
ſyſtem was, through you, to be extended here, and that we were to be the inſtru-
ments of your meaſures, it behoved you to free us, as much as you were able, from
the reſponſibility of being ſo ; it behoved you at leaſt to have informed us, that
notwithſtanding the Company's inſtructions, you perſiſted in your own, ſo that we
might, as a reſource in our difficulties, have the ſatisfaction of being certain that,
when queſtioned by our employers, you would not diſavow us. . A ſimple declara-
tion from you, ſubſequent to your receipt of the Company's diſpatches, whether
conformable to them or differing from them, might have arrived here by the ſafe
and uſual channel of the poſt, even before thoſe embarraſſing orders, which, by a
flower conveyance, you had ſent off before the arrival of theſe diſpatches. We
then might have adopted a line of unambiguous conſequences: we ſhould have known
preciſely to what cenſure we expoſed ourſelves, and we ſhould have been ſure that we
could not expeſe ourſelves to cenſure on both ſides. Our letter to you of the 18th
of February, related to the late letters from the Court of Direétors, and particularly
to this ſubjećt. We requeſted a ſpeedy anſwer to that letter ; we reminded you of it
in our ſubſequent letters, and we repeated our ſolicitude for an anſwer ; but on this
ſubjećt we have had no anſwer. It was not a ſubjećt that you overlooked in the midſt
of your many avocations, and that no approaching ſubjećt brought to your recollec-
tion ; our letters brought it to your recollečtion; your own letters came quite cloſe
to it. You obſerve to us, in relation to the Nabob's complaints relative to the
Aſſignment for which we had loudly called, that you had tranſmitted them to us:
that very tranſmiſſion accompanied your order ; but as to that order, you had per-
ſiſted in the moſt perfect reſerve. The ſurrender of the Aſſignment, which was the
objećt of it, you reſolved on the 8th of January laſt to be, and you ſignified to us in
your letter of the 13th of the ſame month, that it was immediately and eſſentially
neceſſary; but the ſentiment of that immediate and eſſential neceſſity with which we
have not hitherto complied, was not however ſufficient to draw from you a ſingle
word of a ſubſequent date to warrant us againſt the Company's orders in obeying
your’s. Even the willing agent of thoſe commands, upon the hearing on the road of
the Company’s intentions juſt arrived, ſtopt to apprize you, and to wait for your
ultimate infirućtions, but he was direéted to proceed without further explanation.
Doing ſo much, and doing no more, was ačting with a myſtery that left us no clue
for the ſafety of our condućt. Your ſilence as to the Company’s orders keeping us
in ignorance of your ſentiments, under the preſſure of them, has indeed the perfeót
•ºf ſecuring an opportunity to form an accuſation againſt us ; for if we adhere to
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the Company’s direétions, and to what we conceive to be the Company’s welfare, we
muſt incur the imputation of diſobedience to your poſitive commands of the 13th of
January laſt, not yet countermanded ; and if v e yield to them, we are expoſed to
the riſk of your diſclaiming the propriety no longer ſeaſonable of our attention to
commands over-ruled by thoſe of our common ſuperiors, to whom a preferable obe-
..dience muſt neceſſarily be due by all their ſervants. If it ſhould be ſtill neceſſary or
right to ſurrender the Aſſignment to the Nabob, as a retribution of juſtice for which it
was direéted by you, that retribution, though ſomewhat poſtponed, may ſtill be com-
menſurate to the extent of the enquiry ſuppoſed to be ſuſtained. The ſentence from
your ſuperintending Board pronouncing ſuch a retribution, and ſuch a ſacrifice of
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the Company's welfare, in atonement for a breach of a mere form by a ſubordinate
Preſidency, and which form was reſerved for the ſole purpoſe of preſerving the Na-
bob's oftenſible dignity, is in itſelf, as relative to form, ſome atonement for ſuch a
breach ; and the terms of ſovereignty, which however incompatible with the name
and office of the Nabob, you apply, and ſuppoſe that we applied to his Highneſs,
+muſt be indeed a flattering compenſation to him, and a full acknowledgment of
any rights which the breach of a mere form might have caſt into doubt. At any rate,
in poſtponing the execution of your orders, we do not preclude a future compliance
with them: the failure of this inſtant does not operate upon the next, and the incon-
venience of this delay will ceaſe with the continuance of it ; but if we once had
taken the ſudden and irretrievable ſtep of ačtually ſurrendering the Aſſignment, nei-
ther any change in your opinion upon a further refle&tion on this tranſačtion, nor
vour new diſpoſition to co-operate with the intentions of the Company, nor their
determination in favour of the Aſſignment, could produce the reſtoration of it. This
Affignment had the ſolid advantage of having been the voluntary ačl of the Nabob,
as his letter to the Company has acknowledged. It was an ačt of his will that the
Company long ſought, that our predeceſſors had ſolicited in vain, and which, when
obtained, you deemed a great acquiſition ; and were pleaſed to applaud the zeal, abi-
lity, and addreſs which diliated and brought to effect ſo important a meaſure. This
important meaſure, which the practices of the Nabob's miniſters and ſervants have
ſince endeavoured to defeat, and their repreſentations to deſtroy, is not, during the
dominion of their influence, likely again to be obtained from his Highneſs. Whether
we and our Preſident have deſervedly loſt the confidence of the Nabob, or whether
he has found the proſecution of our duty to our employers incompatible with the
advancement of his views, and the gratification of his fondneſs for his ſecond ſon, in
prejudice to his eldeſt ſon's eſtabliſhed rights; or whether, in conſequence of the atten-
tion and ability which you have obſerved to have been ſhewn by the members of the
Committee of Aſſigned Revenue, in the management of the Aſſignment, and the
ſteadineſs with which the ſyſtem has been purſued, it appears to the Nabob, for the
firſt time, contrary to his former experience and confident expe&tations, that an Aſ-
ſignment from him might be rendered more than mere form, and might be made to
riſe ſuperior to counteraćtion, certain it is, that the ſucceſs of our efforts might
equally diſincline him from giving ſuch another opportunity to us or our ſuc-
ceſſors. . - - -
But beſide the Nabob, you obſerve in your letter, that the infraćtion of the
Affignment had caſt an injury in the minds of the country powers upon our na-
tional faith. This affertion preſuppoſes the fačt, the truth of which you thought
yourſelves bound to inveſtigate for retrieving the injury to our national faith. If you
meant that the accuſation of ſuch an infraćtion had produced ſuch effeót, the in-
jury would only be chargeable on us if the accuſation were true ; but the effect and
the cauſe are equally groundleſs. The apprehenſions you mention of the miſchievous
conſequences from the Nabob’s complaints, likely to ariſe to the negociations which
you then had depending, we ſuppoſe are ſubſided by the ratification of peace, not-
withſtanding thoſe complaints with the principal power and moſt formidable enemy
in this country ; whoſe confidence in our national faith, after a glaring breach of a
former treaty with it, had been revived by the joint aſſurances ſent from hence of
fome of His Majeſty's and the Company’s principal ſervants.
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It muſt however be acknowledged, that the Nabob is ſuppoſed to have taken
occaſion, at all periods, to caſt refle&tions in the minds of the country powers upon
our national faith. He had been formerly, for a conſiderable time, the chief channel
of our intercourſe with the country powers : his policy is underſtood to have led him
to miſrepreſent them to us, and us to them, for the purpoſe of more effectually keep-
ing us aſunder, and rendering his own interpoſition the more neceſiary, perm inent,
and produćtive of the eievation of his fortune. He knew how to turn to account
our confidence in him, and our ignorance of the real ſtate of the affairs of the coun-
try. In the treaty with the Nizam of 1768, to which that prince, by the influence
of our arms and our power alone, acceded, the Nabob, who was the principal agent
intruſted with this negociation, and who preferred to hold the government of the
Carnatic dependant upon us, rather than upon his former ſuperior, took care to con-
trive that the tribute to be paid to the latter, equally due by the conſtitution of the
Empire, from the Carnatic and the Circars, ſhould be entirely payable out of the
latter, with which he had no conneétion. The ambition foſtered in his Highne's's
breaſt, to be gratified ſolely by our means, and which ambition, in the expreſſion
ſubſcribed by the Governor General, would have extended to the poſſiſſion of all
‘Flindoſian, being however diſappointed, partly by our prudence, and partly by our
misfortunes, the Nabob became willing to ſeparate his fortunes from ours, as appears
by his propoſed treaty with the French Governor Mr. Law, and for his juſtification,
early laid a foundation of diſcontents againſt us. With ſuch views, and from ſuch
habits, has the Nabob been even led, among other things, to miſrepreſent as an ačt
of injuſtice towards him, the very ačt which the recovery of the territories he claimed
required, and the very ačt which he acknowledged, in his letter to the Company, to
have been a Voluntary act of his own. It is no real or pretended perverſion of that
aćt, or infraćtion of the agreement, which Mr. Holland, in your conſultations,
, mentions to have been charged by the confidential miniſter of the Nizam, at whoſe
court the Nabob has conſtantly an agent or Vakeel, as being a decided breach of
faith with an old ally. It is the treaty itſelf, which, in the moſt explicit terms, he
was taught to conſider in that light : it is the treaty perfeóted, not infringed, that is
repreſented as the grievance. The treaty itſelf, not the execution of it, is ſaid to be
a breach of faith. The ſame Treaty or Aſſignment, is to have, as a voluntary ačt on
the part of the Nabob, the full merit, towards the Company, of teſtifying his grateful
and boundleſs attachment to them, and his perfeót reliance on their principal repreſenta-
tives here; and is, at the ſame time, to ſhew to the country powers the breach of the
£ngliſh faith, in the moſt explicit terms, to an old ally, as well as the unfairneſs of
the diviſion of the public Revenues; as if thoſe intended to be received by the Com-
pany were not to be applied, and with a vaſt deal more, were, in fact, not expended
for the recovery and preſervation of the Carnatic. This old ally took thus, indeed,
uncommon pains to ſecure the excluſive privilege of our alliance; but it is full time
to guard againſt ſchemes projećted by one ally for poiſoning our credit with all other
aijies. It fortunately happens that the impreſſions conveyed from a man whom Mr.
Holland mentions to be abhorred by the Nizam, are not likely to have been deep or
durable; and that Mr. Holland, though not queſtioned by you how far he had been
able to remove ſuch impreſſions, was probably diſpoſed, as well as enabled, to do
ſo, may fairly be inferred from his official declaration, even after the change of
Aumildars, that we certainly had acted throughout a very honourable part by the
*Nabob of the Carnatic, and that he would have experienced a very different treatment
from any prince of Hindoſtan. This witneſs at leaſt is found, on examination, to
have already teſtified in our favour. You will not join with the Nabob's Vakeel, or
, the miniſter of the Nizam, in the cenſure of the treaty itſelf. That cenſure you will
, allow, muſt have been the offspring of miſrepreſentation : you muſt agree that it
confirms the declaration which the late commander of the army, a member of your
*Board, from his own experience, made to this Committee, of the duplicity and ini-
quity of the Nabob's government. And the miſchief to the Company from ſuch
duplicity and iniquity may become an additional motive for requiring, in the repeti-
tion of your words, the adoption of a new ſyſtem, both for the preſent ſecurity of the
ºcompany, and a future indemnification for the expences and hazards intailed on the
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Company by their former connections with the Nabob. Beſide thoſe expences and
thoſe hazards which thus you mention to have been entailed upon the Company by
their former connections with the Nabob, it cannot be diſſembled that ſuch connec-
tions may, as obſerved upon a former occaſion, have been likewiſe, on other grounds,
prejudicial to the honour and intereſt of the Company. The frequent ſupport given
by the Company's ſervants to the Nabob in ſubduing ; and in ſome inſtances, as is
aſſerted, in exterminating Hindoo princes from the Kriſtna to Cape Comorin, under
the odious claim of conqueſt ; or, as his Highneſs calls it, the rule and praćtice of Hin-
doſtan, is known to have early indiſpoſed againſt us the Mahratta ſtate, who Hindoos
themſelves, and in ſome meaſure conneéted with ſome of the unhappy vanquiſhed,
behold always with jealouſy the ſucceſsful ambition of Mahomedans. . The Nabob is
ſuppoſed to have been alſo countenanced by us in the infraćtion of his agreement for
ceding Trichinopoly to the Myſoreans; which infraćtion Hyder Ally, as Regent of
Myſore, declared to be among his principal Inotives for the invaſion of the Carnatic.
His Highneſs alienated alſo the diſpoſition of Nizam Ally, though a Muſſulman, by
endeavouring to avail himſelf of our power to graſp at the Soubahdary of the Decan.
An attempt againſt his conſtitutional ſuperior, which abundantly accounts for the
averſion, without which Mr. Holland mentions, that the Nizam can never hear the
name of the Nabob mentioned, and might have been ſufficient to render a prince of
his miſtruſtful and vindićtive temper indifferent, if not adverſe, to a nation which has
raiſed and protećted this intentional uſurper of his dominions. According to an
opinion ſubſcribed on a former occaſion by the Governor General, the weak and inor-
dinate ambition of the Nabob did not indeed look to leſs than the poſſeſſion, if he
were able, of all Hindoſtan, without the advantage of ancient hereditary right, or many
brilliant atchievements, which ſometimes reconcile to injuſtice; it is poſſible he may
have been conſidered only as a cover to our encroaching views; and which, by the
unuſual combination of Mahomedan and Hindoo princes, and the reonciliation of the
bittereſt enmities, it was thought eſſential by thoſe nations to repreſs, and to puniſh
at once our infidelity and our ambition. -
The examination of Mr. Holland as to the Nizam's opinion of the treaty,
without any ſuppoſition in his Highneſs of its being infringed, ſeems to have been
taken on the 31ſt December 1782, as a prelude to the examinations you took, and
meant as an apology for the ſteps which you purſued a few days afterwards, the 7th
and 8th of January 1783, on your ſuppoſition of the oppoſite fačt, that there had
been an infringement of the Treaty. It required, in fact, a ſtrong apology for
depending on the examination of Syed Aſſam Cawn; you therefore in addition
mention, that the proceedings tranſmitted to you contained no materials bearing a
relation to the charge of Lord Macartney's aſſumption of the authority reſerved to
the Nabob of affixing his ſeal and ſignature to the appointment of Aumildars,
except thoſe contained in the Committee’s letter of the 1ſt May 1782; but in fact
you were at that very time poſſeſſed of an official copy of the letter of the 13th
of April, from our Preſident to the Nabob ; informing him that, according to
the agreement between his Highneſs and the Governor en behalf of the Company,
he had appointed the perſors therein named to be Renters of the diſtrićts for the
periods and upon the terms ſpecified in the incloſed Tarana Chits or norminations;
and that Machulkees or Bonds had been taken from the Renters conformably
thereto; and that, as it was neceſſary that the Renters ſhould be diſpatched without
loſs of time into the Country, he begged leave to recommend that the Tarana
Chits might be immediately ſigned by his Highneſs, and returned to the Preſident.
You were likewiſe poſſeſſed of an official copy of the Nabob's anſwer of the 15th
of the ſame month, refuſing to ſign the Tarana Chirs, or to give his confirmation
to the Renters appointed by the Governor, alledging, among other things, that it
was thought neceſſary that there ſhould be a conjunétive, power in the appointment
of the Renters to the diſtrićts, becauſe his Lordſhip was newly arrived in the
country, had no knowledge of the diſpoſition of the inhabitants; and that
perhaps improper people might come to him through the recommendation
of thoſe who were his Highneſs's enemies at Madras, or of intereſted and deſigning
perſons, whereby his affairs and thoſe of his country might be ruined ; that the
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perſons propoſed by the Preſident were unfit and inſufficient; and that the Tarana
Chits and Machulkees were not in any way agreeable to the eſtabliſhed forms.
Theſe are the exačt words extraćted from the Nabob’s letter, of which a copy was
before you, and which is deciſive of the preſent diſpute. It might not, indeed,
have been very material whether the Tarana Chits were or were not in the uſual
ſorm, if in ſubſtance they empowered the Aumildars to ačt ; if the form had been
ſubſtantial, it might, on a ſlight ſuggeſtion of the particular defect, have been
correóted. The Nabob might have ſent one drawn under his own ſpecial direétion ;
it was merely to ſpare him time and trouble, and as the moſt reſpectful method,
that it was preſented to him ready for his ſeal and ſignature. It is not ſo ſlight a
difference that could have created an irreconcileable variance. The three appointed
Renters were not ſo eaſily to be altered. The ſelečtion of them did not partake of
the lateneſs of his Lordſhip's arrival in the country, nor of his ignorance of the
diſpoſition of the inhabitants. This late arrival and this ignorance had not,
indeed, prevented the Nabob from inſiſting to make the Aſſignment excluſively
to his Lordſhip, or from announcing, in his letters to his Aumildars of a prior
date of the 7th of December, when his Lordſhip was ſtill more new and ſtill more
ignorant, that they were to obey the Governor, to whom he had intruſted the
management of his country; but the Preſident was diffident of his own knowledge,
and aware of the reſponſibility to which the ſole condućt of this buſineſs would
have expoſed him, was deſirous of conforming to the ſyſtem of the Company,
which prefers colle&tive bodies to individuals for the management of their civil
affairs; and, laſtly, well knew that, excluſive of the many other objećts of his duty,
, no one perſon could be equal to the minute detail and varied attention which the
;ſucceſs of this new undertaking required; and he therefore not only ultimately
ſubmitted the whole to the Selečt Committee, but he appointed, with our conſent
and approbation, a Committee of Aſſigned Revenue, whoſe ſole occupation was
to improve that Revenue, and to ſupply thoſe defects, and to correót thoſe abuſes,
whatever they might be, which had, in the words of Sir Eyre Coote, reduced the
'Carnatic to a deplorable ſtate, even before the enemy entered it. This Committee
had been compoſed of perſons all perfectly agreeable to his Highneſs, and the
-majority is ſuppoſed to have continued ſo. Occaſion was taken, at his deſire, to
remove one of them, who, before and ſince, has been the principal guide of his
Highneſs's political meaſures, Mr. Paul Benfield, but who happened at that
moment to have incurred the Nabob's ſevereſt diſpleaſure. This Committee had
advertiſed for the higheſt offers of rent for the ſeveral diſtrićts; they had received
propoſals; they had taken the precaution of enquiring into the charaćters and
abilities of the candidates; they had examined their reſources; they had, after
mature deliberation, choſen thoſe they thought upon the whole moſt eligible.
There was a ſort of juſtice due to men who had thus been choſen, though they
ſhould not have been, in every inſtance, perfectly unexceptionable; and though,
from the dangers of the war, and the menaces of the Nabob, we had not flattered
ourſelves that perſons were found ſo fit or ſo punétual as thoſe very perſons have
proved, whom, on this occaſion, the Nabob rejected. Againſt two only of thoſe
Renters does even Syed Afiam Cawn pretend that the Nabob had framed objećtions;
one of thern, Ramchunderzah, was indeed one of thoſe unfortunate Rajahs, whoſe
country, by being near to the territories of the Nabob, forfeited its title to
independance, and became the prey of ambition and cupidity. This man, though
not able to reſiſt the Company’s arms employed in ſuch deeds at the Nabob’s
inveſtigation, had induſtry and ability; he acquired, by a ſeries of ſervices, even the
confidence of the Nabob, who ſuffered him to rent a part of the country of which
he had deprived him of the property. This man had afforded no motive for his
I eječtion by the Nabob, but that of his being ready to engage with the Company,
a motive moſt powerful indeed, but not to be avowed; of another of thoſe Renters,
that of Nellore, Syed Aſſam Cawn mentions the neglect of his former engagements;
and in the firſt Memorial preſented to your Board, it is, with a wantonneſs of
falſehood, and indifference to dete&tion, aſſerted to you, in proof of the validity
of the Nabob's obječtions, that this man's failures had already forced us to remove
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him; though, in fast, he was continued invariable in office, though our greateſt
ſupplies has been received from bim, and that in the diſappointment of your
remittances and of other reſources. The ſpecie ſent to us from Nellore alone
has ſometimes enabled us to carry on the public buſineſs, and that the preſent
expedition againſt the French muſt, without this aſſiſtance from the Aſſignment,
have been laid aſide, or delayed till it might have become too late. But however,
if the difficulty on the part of the Nabob had really been as to the men, if the
Nabob had any diſpoſition to accept of any men preſented by the Preſident, and
authorized by the Aſſignment, ſome method would certainly have been deviſed to
accommodate the matter, to have prevented a variance. But the difficulty ſtuck
iſtill deeper; it was not the man or men, or the manner of confirming them, but
the Preſident's appointment, that was really to be overthrown. In ſome letters
his Highneſs has ventured to aſſert, that the power he had given to the Preſident
conſiſted in giving him leave to recommend perſons to be appointed by the Nabob.
This leave would indeed imply in the latter conſideration and choice; and it muſt
be acknowledged, that he did actually propoſe that the Aſſignment ſhould be ſo
worded; but it was an effečtive Aſſignment, after many ineffectual trials, that was
alone acceptable. A negative power, a ſhare in the appointment, would have been
to provide for the poſſibility of that defeat and diſappointment againſt which the
Aſſignment was intended to provide. The propoſal of reſtrićting the Governor to
a recommendation, or any thing leſs than a ſole and excluſive appointment, was
abſolutely rejećted; and left the formality intended by the confirmation, which is a
‘mere external act conſiſting in ſigning and ſealing a Cowle or Grant, ſhould by any
poſſibility be miſtaken or miſtated for an approbation or choice, or any thing more
than what you juſtly have acknowledged it to be, a mere form reſerved for the ſole
purpoſe of preſerving the Nabob's oftenfible dignity, for which the ſuitable word of
confirmation was employed, a ſpecial clauſe was at the ſame time added in the
Aſſignment, that whomſoever the Governor ſhould appoint, to him the Nabob
would give the uſual Cowle, which is the whole act of confirmation. The obli-
gation of giving the Cowle is not conditional or dependant on the approbation of
the Nabob, or the conjunctive appointment of the Nabob and Governor, it
follows the preciſe ſeparate ſole appointment of the Governor. The Nabob, who
had wiſhed and propoſed that the Governor ſhould have the recommendation only,
and not the appointment, was fully aware of the extent of the power which at
length he cenſented to delegate. So ſoon as he had formed a plan of withdrawing
the whole, he conſiſtently ſtrove to withdraw every part. In his letter of the
7th of March 1782, he roundly aſſerts that the power he gave was leave to
recommend, and the power he kept the choice of appointing ; and in the ſame
letter he makes, as he afterwards repeats, a preſſing propoſal to the Preſident to
yield back ſuch a leave, which would not be indeed a great objećt to covet or
retain ; ſuch a mere ſemblance of power could not warrant the expreſſion of Syed
Aſſam Cawn, that the Nabob had given to Lord Macartney the powers which he
deſired, neither ieave to recommend or imperfeótly to appoint could be big with
ſo much importance, as that from the very apprehenſion of having truſted ſuch
powers to Lord Macartney, the Nabob ſhould, as Syed Aſſam Cawn relates, have
burſt into tears, left an ill uſe might be made of them. It was not an apprehenſion
...that more powers would be arrogated than in fačt had been delegated, but that an
ill uſe might be made of thoſe that had. The Nabob remarking that he had ſigned
a paper to his own hurt, and thus fearing that an ill uſe might be made of power
againſt him, acknowledged the poſſeſſion of it in the abuſer excluſive of the
abuſed. A power which could not be exerted but in conjunétion with him, was
not much to be apprehended by him; ſuch a conjunětion, as well as your late occa-
fional adoption of the idea, that the appointment which by the words of the
Aſſignment, and by, the nature of things, was to precede the confirmation, ſhould
not be made without ſuch confirmation, claſhes indeed ſtrongly with your acknow-
ledgment that the letter was a mere form preſerved only for oftenſible purpoſes;
and ſuch an idea falls greatly ſhort of your former deliberate opinion, and the
deciſive line you had drawn for the regulation of our condućt, when you ſignified
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to us that the Nabob's rights could not exiſt to his own prejudice and deſtrućtion,
and of the hope you entertained, that ſuch an act as the Aſſignment, which with
the Revenue and its Adminiſtration inplicated every right of ſovereignty, and
the temporary right of the Nabob's patrimony to the Company, for the preſervation
of their mutual alliance and common intereſts, had precluded every poſſibility of
future difference or competition: that it was not like a line of accommodation
drawn between contiguous authorities, which, even under the wifeſt and moſt
minutely cautious proviſions, mºiſt be liable to ſome encroachments; but that it was
the abſolute ſurrender of every portion of participated power and of independent
property on one part, to the ºire and unreſerved poſſeſſion of the other. Nothing
can be added to the force of theſe words, which exclude not only a joint, but even
a contiguous authority. The Nabob gave indeed away what he ſoon ſought back.
The propoſal for this purpoſe was made ſo early as the 7th of March 1782, and
preceded long the tranſa&tion which is charged upon the Preſident as an aſſumption
of authority. The demand of the ſurrender of the Aſſignment was not ſuggeſted
therefore by this ſuppoſed aſſumption, or any ſenſe of injury excited by it, but the
aſſumption was ſuppoſed as a means of procuring the ſurrender. The new inter-
pretation of the Aſſignment, the conjunétive appointment, was well underſtood to
be adopted on purpoſe for preventing appointments. The queſtion and conflićt was
really well known not to be about the nominal confirmation, but the real Aſſign-
ment: here was the ſtand at which, ſuch as it was, the Aſſignment was to be
oppoſed. It ceaſes of courſe, if the Aumildars appointed to manage it are to wait
'för a conſent which they will not obtain. Its ceſſation had earneſtly been demanded
by him who aſſerts his conjunétion is neceſſary to its continuance. The argument
therefore or the thing muſt fall to the ground, and after the principle advanced by
the Nabob, it would have been as uſeleſs in us, as it might be thought indecent
towards him, to affect demanding, for the ſubſequent Aumildars, his Highneſs’s
Cowle on terms different from thoſe to which he had confined it. But we have
ever been ready, and ſhall be rejoiced to receive any notice from his Highneſs of
his intention to execute the clauſe of the Aſſignment, of which the expreſs words
are, that he will give the uſual Cowle to the Aumildars, which will be appointed by
the Governor. Such Cowle ſhall be reſpectfully treated and publicly proclaimed,
as proceeding from his Highneſs, and expreſſive of his dignity and authority. -
#ut Syed Affam. Cawn has ſtated, it ſeems, the tranſaction ſomewhat differently
to your Board. To your enquiry about the circumſtances that paſſed the 18th of
April, he begins by an account of what happened the 16th of January. . He
mentions, and it happens to be fact, that the Preſident ſent in the beginning of that
month by his private ſecretary to the Ameer ul Omrah the names of three perſons
as propoſed for the Aumildary of Permacoil. At this time indeed a general change
of Renters was not intended; Lord Macartney's ignorance of the diſpoſition of
the inhabitants of the country, prevented him from ſuſpecting that a ſolemn deed
was executed merely becauſe it was to be defeated. His intention was to retain as
long as poſſible, and even at the riſk of ſome inconvenience, the Nabob's Renters:
ſuch inconvenience might, he hoped, be leſs conſiderable than thoſe which ſudden
changes in the country might produce. He aimed and hoped for the Nabob's
cordial aſſiſtance. The delays that had hitherto intervened he would not admit
as proofs of counteraćtion. No ſums of money had as yet been dete&ted in their
private conveyance from his Highneſs’s Aumildars, continued by the Preſident to
his Highneſs or his Miniſters; no prohibition was yet publicly made known to the
natives againſt giving to the Company, in matters of Revenue, information or
aſſiſtance. No man as yet had ačtually been arreſted within the walls of Madras by
his Highneſs's Sepoys for offering his ſervices in condućting the Aſſignment. It
as yet was not known, that the people were taught to look upon it as a temporary
meaſure that muſt ſoon terminate, nor that vengeance was denounced againſt thoſe
who ſhould dare to oppoſe the mandates of the Durbar : with the direct contrary of
ſuch events did at this time the Preſident flatter himſelf. The change of Permacoil
was an accidental circumſtance, propoſed or allowed by the Nabob to be proper.
To change for the beſt was to be the Preſident's care. The Committee of
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Aſſigned Revenue, to whom the buſineſs has ſince been entirely committed, was
as yet not aſ mbled. He juſtly miſt: uſted any other recommendation. Beſide the
Nabob's intereſt in the buſineſs, and his knowledge of the people, his Highneſs’s
fatisfaction was to the Preſident an objećt. He wiſhed not only to be juſt, but to
ye attentive towards him : and this inſtance ſhews what the Preſident was inclinci
o have continued, if ſubſequent events had left him a choice. This inter-
courſe of confidence and amity, thoſe ſubſequent events, and the mutual com—
plaints between the Preſident and the Nabob, on whichever ſide founded, muſt
have effeótually interrupted their further intercourſe, to tranſačtions of buſineſs,
to the fur;&tions of obligation was neceſſarily reſtrióted. After the choice of Per-
inacoil, the Preſident has in fačt had as little a part in the choice of Aumildars, to
whom he gave his appointment, as the Nabob, who ſhould have given them his con-
firmation. They were all uniformly propoſed, confidered, and ſucceſsfully recom-
mended by the Committee of Aſſigned Revenue to the Preſident and this Com-
mittee; he did not exerciſe the negative he had ; he could not give the Nabob the
negative which the Aſſignment diſavowed. But Syed Aſſam Cawn would argue
fiom the exception to the rule, and from the favour to the right ; he would ſee no
difference in times or circumſtances. The 16th of January muſt be ſuppoſed to
be the eve of the 18th of April. At this latter period we are obliged to obſerve
upon the falſhocq and fallacy of Syed Aſſam Cawn. A falſhood and fallacy of which
the facility of detection in ſeveral inſtances did not prevent, notwithſtanding his
former impoſition, the fulneſs of its effect on your eaſy credulity. Mr. Haliburton
did not, as Syed Aſſam Cawn aſſerts, produce to him or to the Ameer ul Omrah, the
Torana Chits or Sunnuds, being the grant or nomination. Our Preſident’s letter
to the Nabob might have ſhewn you, that the Torana Chits or Sunnuds were en-
cloſed to his Highneſs in that letter. Mr. Haliburton could not have deſired, as
Syed Aſſam relates, that the Machulkers or Bonds to be executed by the Renters,
for the due performance of their engagements, ſhould be executed by his Highneſs,
who was not even a party to them. The parties were bound to the Preſident, on
the part of the Company, as being reſponſible by the agreement to his Highneſs, for
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the full proportion of Revenue, as colle&ted at former periods under ſimilar circum-
b
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ſtances. This Mackulka were ſo prepared upon the matureſt deliberation by the
'Committee of Aſſigned Revenue, and this deliberation was among thoſe you had
obſerved with iatisfaction. The Mackułkers were ſent as a mark of attention to his
Highneſs, that he might ſee the obligations of the Renters; but above all the
Sanned did not expreſs, though Syed Aſſam Cawn thought it uſeful to ſay ſo, that
“I Lord Macartney have granted this Sunned,” or that Mr. Haliburton acknow-
ledged ſo. The Governor is mentioned in the third perſon, as he whoſe orders in
matters of Revenue were to be obeyed, and to whoſe order ſuch Revenue was to be
paid. The Nabob is diſtinguiſhed by the very dignified expreſſion of the Preſence ;
an expreſſion affected by the Nabob, though perhaps ſtrićtly applicable only to the
Mogul Sovereign of Hindoſtan. Its application in the Toiana Chits to the Nabob,
cannot be miſtaken, becauſe it ſays the Renter is to account conformably to an
Agreement between the Preſence and the Governor of Madras, on the part of the
Company. This inſtrument was exactly drawn as the like inſtruments uſu illy were
by his Highneſs's affairs, with the exception only, which is directed by an e preſs
clauſe in the Agr: ement, that the Revenue was to be unana ed and paid according
to orders from the Governor. Of this inſtrument, of which the form is deſcribed
as ſo effential, and as fixing indeed the ſovereignty in him in whoſe name it is
granted, the inſpection beca tie in the ſame proportion indiſpenſible. The inſp;&tion
would have detected at once the impoſition of Syed Aſſam Cawn. The whole fabric
of accuſation, the whole prºject of ſucceſs, muſt inſtantly have vaniſhed ; you were
not inſenſible of the neceſſity of this inſpection. He was aſked, wheteer he haſ a
copy of this paper, as well as the Mackulhas. The original, had it ſerved his purpoſe,
muſt have been in his poſſeſſion ; it was to found the grand proof of the accuſation
againſt Lord Macartney ; Syed Aſſam Cawn is not ſo apt to be negligent of his er-
rand ; had it ſerved his purpoſe, he muſt have ſhewn it with his Memorials; it
would have graced and warranted his ſolicitations; but Syed Aſſam Cawn does not
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even anſwer as to a copy. He is not put to the neceſſity of anſwering, as relating to
the Sunneds; he is not obliged to account by any accident for the loſs of the original ;
he is not obliged to have recourſe to a ſecond forgery; you do not inſiſt upon an an-
ſwer, you do not repeat your queſtion, you do not inſiſt upon the inſpećtion even of a
copy, nor upon his reaſons for not producing one. His ſuppreſſion of an eſſential par
per excites no ſuſpicion of his conſciouſneſs, that if produced it would make againſt
him. Inſtead of producing the Sunneds or Grants, which was the principal and deci-
five paper, as well as the Muckulkees or Renters Bonds, which in the preſent con-
teſt were at moſt leſs material, he calmly produces the latter only ; the latter was
accepted for the former, and the contents of one paper are proved by the produćtion
of another. You muſt now have perceived how much you were deceived, and how
much we have been wronged; but if we had even the misfortune to be chipable,
you ſtill might be blamable for accepting ſuch proofs of it 3 other aſſertions of Syed
Aſſam Cawn are equally though uſeleſsly untrue. It is not true that the Nabob
delivered, at the time of his granting the Aſſignment to Lord Macartney, copies of
the Sunnud and Mockulha, both drawn up according to eſtabliſhed form. Such a
precaution might indeed have prevented the amicable diſcuſſion, as to the Muckuſ-
ha for Permacoil. It is not true that the objećtions to the Aumildars were men-
tioned to Mr. Haliburton : It is not true that the propoſal of appointing Aumil-
dars on the part of the Company, in lieu of Taffildars or Collečtions, firſt proceeded
from Lord Macartney ; and it is on the contrary true, that to the laſt, and in the
very laſt conference on the ſubjećt of the Aſſigninent, the Preſident declared by his
private Secretary, to the Ameer ul Omrah his preference of Taffildars, as more li-
terally conformable to the Treaty made at Bengal. Syed Aſſam Cawn mentions, as
within his own obſervation, other circumſtances that paſſed when he was not preſent,
and in a language he did not underſtand. It coſt him nothing to confound what he
heard with what he knew, and what he wiſhed with either. He ſays that what he
related was known to every individual of any rank and condition at Madras: ſo
general a knowledge is an imperfect knowledge; he was not put however on his
guard, and the whole examination of Syed Aſſam Cawn, though before ſo reſpecia-
ble a tribunal, and leading to ſo important a deciſion, has the appearance of being
almoſt as looſe and as merely plauſible, as if it had been meant for nothing more
than an oſtenſible preamble to a purpoſe pre-determined. The principal teſtimony
of Mr. Richard Sulivan conſiſts in aſſerting, that the Nabob made a repreſentation
to him of the condućt of our Preſident, which in his full opinion was not an ex-
aggeration ; ſuch a teſtimony does not preciſely ſet forth upon what grounds he had
formed this full opinion of the ſeveral parts of ſuch a repreſentation; whether his opinion
was entirely founded on his reliance on the Nabob's ſtrićt veracity, moderation, and
diſintereſtedneſs, or whether that reliance was corroborated by his perſonal know-
ledge of any, and what parts of ſuch repreſentation. In a ſubſequent anſwer he ſays,
indeed, that he had acquainted the Board, in the courſe of his anſwers to their pre-
ceding queſtions, with the manner in which he acquired his information on the ſub-
jećt of them ; and as he only had mentioned, as to ſuch repreſentation, that he
heard it from the Nabob, it appears to amount in faſt to no more than hear. ſay evi-
dence from one of the parties. It is not therefore in that ſenſe furpriſing, that he
ſhould be inaccurate, that he ſhould ſuppoſe what the Nabob had told him, that
the Aſſignment gave to the Governor the power only of recommending, though it has
given him expreſsly that of appointing; and that therefore ſuppoſing that the Gover-
nor in appointing did more than he was empowered, he ſhould feel for an encroach-
ment that did not exiſt, and aid exaggeration without being conſcious of it, This
ignorance in your Miniſter with the Nabob, and who had been the Nabob's Miniſter
with you, though marking the extremeſtinattention to the duties of thoſe ſtations,
is however a fault leſs deep than a wilful perverſion of the facts he ſhould know ;
but whatever was the intention, it had the effect of miſleading your Board, in con-
veying to you affertions received from another, as if they were true, on matters with
which, in his ſtation, he ſhould be acquainted. He ſhould have known that Lord
Macartney, inſtead of having a deſire to have a complete interference in the internal
Government of that country, had obtained from the Select Committee the appoint-
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ment of a Committee of Aſſigned Revenue, compoſed of perſons agreeable to the
Nabob, and having then at its head Mr. Paul Benfield ; to which laſt Committee
the interference, as far as it was to go in the buſineſs of the country, was to be en-
tirely entruſted, and that every ſtep taken or propoſed for the execution of the Treaty
of Fort William, was ſuggeſted and recommended by that Committee, whoſe Chief
on that account ſuffered a temporary decline in his influence upon the Nabob ; and
that, inſtead of his Lordſhip having unifornily manifeſted a difinclination to the mode
agreed upon in the Treaty of Fort William, for the collećtion of the Revenues of
the Carnatic, the Nabob acknowledges in his letter of the 13th February 1783, that
he was influenced and impelled, as he calls it, to the Ceflion or Aſſignment of
December 1781, by a letter from Lord Macartney of the 23d of November 1781,
in which his Lordſhip requeſted the Nobob to obſerve, that it was then above ſeven
months ſince the date of the Engagement or Treaty of Fort William, and upwards
of three ſince his ratification of it, without any material benefit to the common
cauſe; that the immediate want of funds to pay the troops and defray the many other
expences of the war, would allow of no further procraſtination ; that the eſteem and
attachment of the Company, and his Lordſhip's perſonal reſpect and regard for his
Highneſs induced him in the midſt of the difficulties which called for an imme-.
diate compliance with his Highneſs's engagements, to leave to his Highneſs either the
mode of ſecuring the Revenue originally intended, or that of renting propoſed to
be ſubſtituted for it; but that it would be entirely out of his Lordſhip's power to
avoid carrying the one or the other into execution without loſs of time, accountable
as he was for the fatal Conſequences which muſt reſult from any delay in procuring
thoſe reſources which were to be derived only from one or other of thoſe plans.
This remonſtrance marking no preference of plan, and leaving the alternative to his
Highneſs, proves no diſinclination in our Preſident to the Treaty of Fort William,
nor any determination not to be ſatisfied until he ſhould acquire a degree of con-
troul ſuperior to it; and on the contrary it denotes, that it was from the eſteem and
attachment of the Company, and his own perſonal regard and reſpect for his High-
neſs, that he was induced to conſent to any deviation from or ſubſtitution for the
Treaty of Fort William as to the Revenue. The Reſident in like manner, in de-
ſcribing alterations ſaid to be made by Lord Macartney in the ſpirit and unvaried
mode of wording the Sunneds, and the effect of ſuch alteration, as making himſelf
the Sovereign, uſurping by one ſtroke of his pen the moſt ſacred and invaluable
ºrights of a Prince of Hindoſtan, as annihilating the Nabobſhip, and in the moſt ex-
preſs and poſitive manner declaring to the world that Lord Macartney was then
ſeated on the Muſhed of the Carnatic, muſt have been ſuppoſed to have ſeen and
examined thoſe alterations, from motives of duty in his ſtation, which was intended to
preſerve the rights ſo uſurped and annihilated by the ſame ſtroke of a pen; and for
the purpoſe of repreſenting to you, whoſe repreſentative he was, this uſurpation and
annihilation ; from motives even of curioſity to contemplate that ſingle ſtroke of a
pen, which had worked ſuch powerful and oppoſite effects, he muſt naturally have
been ſuppoſed to have ſpoken from his own perſonal and particular inſpection of
it; but neither the fact of the alteration, nor in caſe of an alteration, its power to
produce ſuch effects, were once the objects with him of doubt or of diſcuſſion; nor
did the accumulated epithets employed upon the occaſion by the Nabob, convey to
the Reſident the leaſt ſuſpicion or appearance of paſſion or exaggeration ; they were
to him the calm hiſtoric impartial relation of an event reduced to the ſtrićt mea-
ſure of ſolemn evidence, counterbalancing the ſuſpiciouſneſs of coming from a
party, and juſtly grounding a charge of many heavy crimes ſprouting from
a ſingle ſtroke of a pen, as the Nabob had aſſured it was ſo : that is abob,
whoſe want of faith and honour had been long fince recorded under the hands of
Governor Bourchie', Mr. Dupré, the preſent Governor General of Bengal, and
General Joſeph Smith. The redućtion of the time conſumed in this late traniaćtion,
as reported by the Reſident, from days to hours, āay be ſaid to be the direct
reverſe of exaggeration. The favour of forbearance, he relates, for a few hours,
would not be granted to the Nabob, though the notification of the Renters, and the
lequeſt of the Nabob's ſeal and fignature appears to have been of the 13th of April,
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and was delivered the next morning, and the ſubſequent tranſačtion is repreſented to
have beeſ; on or about the 18th of April. With equal preciſion he repeats, that our
Preſident did not deigº, a diſcuſſion, or even to hear the Nabob ; and this he ad-
vances to you, who poſſeſſed at the time, though you ſeem to have forgotten, the
letter to his Highneſs by order of the Committee, containing a regular demand of
the Cowie ; and the Nabob's anſwer two days afterwards, containing a formal re-
fuſal, upon principles which admitted of no further diſcuſſion. With equal diploma-
tic accuracy does your miniſter adopt the Nabob's pretenſions of having been veſted
in the ſovereignty of the Carnatic by the treaty of Paris, and of being the acknow-
łedged ally of our Sovereign : the treaty of Paris was underſtood, indeed, by the
framers of it, and the parties to it, to operate upon this occaſion merely in preventing
the continuation of diſputes between the Engliſh and the French nations in India, who
had taken oppoſite ſides in ſupporting claims to governments in Hindoſtan, founded
on real or pretended Commiſſions from the Great Mogul, for the Soubahdary or
ſuperior Government of the Decan or Southern Provinces of Hindoſtan, and the Na-
bobſhip or Deputy ſhip of the ſubordinate Government of the Carnatic, by ſtipulat-
ing that Mahoned Ally Khan (eſpouſed by the Engliſh) ſhould be acknowledged
for the lawful Nabob of the latter, and Salabat Jung (eſpouſed by the French) for
lawful Soubah of the former : but this accommodating ſtipulation confers no addi-
tional rank on thoſe perſons; what they had before they were frill to have, without
any danger from the European nations who had reſpectively diſturbed them, of fur-
ther diſturbance, while peace ſhould continue between thoſe nations. But the treaty
neither expreſſes of veſts a ſovereignty: this inveſtiture is no more to be found than
the treaty of aíliance of the Nabob with the Sovereign of Great Britain. The lan-
guage of the Nabob's agent ſlid into the witneſs's teſtimony : this teſtimony was,
indeed, not given under the awful impreſſion of the abſolute neceſſity of its veracity,
which the previous adminiſtration of a ſolemn and religious oath cannot fail to make
on a man of principle and honour. This friend, this confidant, this former agent
of the Nabob, after repreſenting his friend's caſe, and partly his own; after the inter-
rogatories were over, and he was committed by his anſwers to them, was then aſked,
as in the caſe of Syed Aſſam Cawn, whether he was ready to atteſt all he had ſaid on
oath; this gentleman could not alledge the exemption of gentlemen from oaths. He
was in an awkward predicament : he muſt unſay what he juſt had ſaid, or he muſt
acquieſce in a ſacred aſſertion of it. A retroſpečtive oath was tendered to him, and
he took it. The words, as far as they went, were guardedly legal and technical : he
had given, to the beſt of his belief and remembrance, the truth, and nothing but the
truth ; accidentally perhaps omitting that he had told the whole truth of the defeóts of
this teſtimony, the nature of the next cannot be accuſed by us: it is our own letter;
from our own letter we cannot eſcape : it is, indeed, of a date (4th of July) long
‘ſubſequent to that of the tranſačtion (18th of April), which is ſuppoſed to conſtitute
out crime. This letter aſſerts, that the particular ſteps we took in realizing the
collečtions of the Carnatic, we occaſioned by the neceſſity of the caſe, and by your
poſitive direétions to render the Aſſignment effectual : if no ſtich direétions had ex-
liſted, our letters, in attributing ſuch direétions to you, muſt conſtitute a new crime
on our part, diſtinét entirely from the former. It would be that of ſlander, of which
you would be the objects, not the Nabob : to you therefore, in this additional caſe,
and not to him, the retribution of juſtice might be due. The original act, of which
his Highneſs complains, is not altered in its nature whether it was our ačt or your’s:
its operation upon him would continue the ſame ; and we might, as to him, be ſtill
juſtifiable in doing it, though not in quoting your authority for it : it is a diſcuſſion,
therefore, foreign to that of the ſurrender of the Aſſignment to the Nabob, whether
we miſtook or miſtated, or juſtly interpreted at any time your ſentiments, not upon
which, but upon our condućt, the proper deciſion as to the Nabob of the principal
caſe muſt reſt. Your authority might juſtify or at leaſt excuſe us, though the Na-
bob might have reaſon to complain; and the Nabob might have no ſuch reaſon,
though we had not your authority for ačting. The principal queſtion as to the
Nabob, as to the ſurrender of the Aſſignment, muſt depend therefore on what we
did, not upon what we aſſerted, that you ſaid the part of our letter to Sir Eyre
*76. . . Coote,
I.
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I.
dºesaas-ºsmasº
Coote, which you charge as reprehenſible, is not operative but narrative : if we
narrated wrongly, the fačt we ſtated will not ſerve us : it will not ſerve the Nabob,
though it will argue on our part want of candour, which is a want that we diſclaim,
or want of exačt recollečtion, from which we do not pretend an exemption. In writ-
ing, indeed, to Sir Eyre Coote, we recollečted that in February 1781, you earneſtly
recommended to us to demand from the Nabob the Aſſignment of the Carnatic :
We recollečted that in your treaty of April 1781, you ſtipulated for an Aſſignment
of the Revenues of the Carnatic : We recollečted that in December 1781, before
you knew that we had acquired from the Nabob any additional authority in matters
of Aſſignment, you communicated your ſentiments relative to thoſe perplexities in
which, from ſome authoritative ačts of Government, we might find ourſelves in-
volved, when we came to the neceſſary work of appropriating for its defence any
fupplies that the Carnatic could yield. You wiſhed to inveſt us in that neceſſary
work, with every authority and confidence with which you could aid our operations:
you did ſo particularly from your perfect reliance upon the impartial, clear, and
diſcriminating judgment of our Preſident: You were convinced that he was diſcon-
neéted with any local or party views in the Carnatic ; and that, from his great expe-
rience in public affairs, no perſon could more diſtinétly or juſtly decide where the
claims of the ſubjećt interfered with thoſe of the Government, or where the rights of
ally princes were involved with both, under all the evils of a general war. You had
already juſt mentioned, that in a criſis of ſuch ačtual danger to the exiſtence of the
reſpective territorial rights of the Nabob Walajah and the Rajah of Tanjore, we
ſhould not permit the obſtrućtion of their little conteſts, or the unſeaſonable interpo-
|ſition of their local authority, to prevent us from taking care that the produce of the
country be colle&ted, and applied to its immediate defence. You deſired us to con-
fider, that to repel Hyder Ally you ventured ſo far as to endanger even the ſecurity of .
the provinces (under your immediate care) by the exertions you were making, and
determined to continue in ſupport of our Preſidency: that it was true it was not
only the wiſh, but the intereſt of Britain, to afford every protećtion to the Nabob
and the Rajah, and to indulge them in the fulleſt and happieſt enjoyment of their
rights ; but that thoſe rights could not exiſt to their own prejudice and deſtrućtion;
and that ſuch was your confidence in our integrity, prudence, moderation, and public
zeal, that you would not heſitate to give your ſančtion to any meaſure which we might
think the moſt effectual to realize the reſources of every diſtriót of the Carnatic that
could be wreſted from the enemy, or which he had not yet been able to lay waſte.
Theſe reſources, in being applied in the relief and ſupport of the Carnatic, were ap-
plied to their juſt purpoſe; nor could either the condition of alliances, nor in any
degree the ſpirit of them, contradićt the principle of ſuch obvious and neceſſary juſ-
tice. This letter appeared to us to have been written under the impreſſion of that
ſtrong convićtion which experience operates upon the mind, that the Revenues of
the Carnatic would not, without conſiderable exertion on our part, be applied to its
immediate defence; that in that application we ſhould meet with perplexities, and
might be deterred by the interpoſition of local authority, and that you therefore
iwiſhed to invigorate Our reſolutions and encourage our exertions, by convincing our
judgment of the juſtice and propriety, as well as of the neceſſity of them; and by
giving us your ſančtion, and inveſting us with your authority and confidence in aid of
our operations. No words could be ſtronger in our conception; and not only im-
plied a full power, but a ſtrong exhortation to ačt accordingly. We conceived that
your expreſſions, applying even to ſuch authoritative ačts as the neceſſary appropri-
ation of ſupplies might involve us in, applied with leſs doubt, and with greater effect,
to the detail of operations under any authorized and general arrangement: they
equally applied, we thought, to the Aſſignment you had adviſed us to demand, and
the Aſſignment you obtained ; the objećt of both being the ſame, and the one ſub-
ſtituted for the other; if, before you knew of our ſucceſs in ačtually obtaining an Aſ-
ſignment from the Nabob, you told us we ſhould not be deterred by the interpoſition
of his local authority, you muſt have fully meant that we ſhould take much greater
itrides, if neceſſary, for collečting and applying the public Revenue, than that of
fending Collectors appointed by our Preſident, but under the Nabob's authority, and
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by virtue of his Aſſignment; you muſt have ſuppoſed the poſſibility of the caſe of
fending Colle&tors under our own authority, without any ſort of delegation or autho-
rity from the Nabob. Any meaſures you ſay you would ſančtion that we ſhould
think moſt effectual to realize the public reſources. No right of the Nabob's was
allowed to ſtand in the way, upon the maxim that no right could exiſt to his own
prejudice and deſtrućtion, which muſt follow if means were not founded for defend-
ing the Carnatic ; you muſt therefore have meant, that we ſhould at leaſt not be de-
terred from ſending Aumildars, when appointed by expreſs authority from the Nabob,
though the Nabob ſhould afterwards refuſe them his Cowle, which he had no right to
do, being contrary to the expreſs covenant he had made to give it. Your objećt was to
realize the reſources; your means, any meaſures that we ſhould think effectual. You
deſired us to procure an Aſſignment ; –you procured one for us: you deſired that
our meaſures ſhould be effeótual, and therefore that the Affignment ſhould be effec-
tual ; we were therefore warranted, we humbly apprehend, in our declaration to Sir
Eyre Coote, that we were direéted by you not to be deterred by the interpoſition of
any local authority. We did not quote theſe expreſſions as from your letter, though
they were there : we did not quote the letter; it was the general reſult of your ad-
vice, and we adopted your words merely as the beſt words. But if we had quoted
them as yours, we ſurely might be warranted in thus applying your ſentiments on the
collection and application of the public Revenue, and of the mode of that colle&tion
under the Aſſignment; being a grant which, previous to the delivery of thoſe ſenti-
ments, you had recommended and procured. Whether it was the Aſſignment of
April, or the Aſſignment of December 1781, one or other was to be effeótuated :
and when you found that for ſome time the latter was not effe&tual, you recommended
us new meaſures : you regretted our forbearance, and you declared us reſponſible for
the continuance of it : your wiſhes, intentions, and direétions, were frequently re-
peated and variouſly expreſſed; and all this happened previouſly to our letter of the
4th of July 1782 to Sir Eyre Coote, in which, nevertheleſs, you alledge an Ana-
chroniſm, as quoting an authority from you for effectuating the Aſſignment of the
Revenues of the Carnatic, before you knew of the exiſtence of the laſt Aſſignment;
as if, when giving that authority, you could have had no Aſſignment in contempla-
tion; as if already you had not recommended and procured an Affignment; as if the
authority you gave did not apply to any Aſſignment of the Revenues ; as if that
authority had not been expreſsly conveyed in the moſt general and comprehenſive
terms, for the direét purpoſe of including every Aſſignment and every meaſure that
had for its objećt to realize the Revenues of the Carnatic. There could be no
Anachroniſm only in quoting, for a meaſure purſued, an authority given ſubſequent
to that meaſure. It was not therefore material how many days your authority was
given before we wrote to you of the laſt Affignment, or how many weeks before you
received it, but whether that authority was prior to the meaſures we declare to be
conſequent of it : nor is it neceſſary, for the application of a general authority, that
the particular caſes to which it may apply ſhould have happened before ſuch autho
rity was granted, or even that all ſuch caſes ſhould have been expreſsly foreſeen.
The purpoſe of a general authority is to comprehend caſes which may happen and
may not be foreſeen; it is therefore no objećtion to our application of your injunc-
tion for realizing by any meaſures the collečtions, that the particular obſtrućtions to
be overcome by ſuch meaſures ſhould not then have been known to you : it is ſuffi-
cient that it was within the proviſion of the authority you gave. But you obſerve,
that the letter was written upon a ſubjećt totally foreign from the Aſſignment, ſug-
geſted by the recent capture of Negapatam, and deſigned to preſs this Government
to avail ourſelves of the advantage by immediate application of the Revenues of the
Southern diſtricts. The letter touches indeed, by gradual tranſitions, upon ſeveral
ſubjećls: it begins by the mention of a delay in your negociations for the relief of the
Carnatic, and aſſurances of your efforts to afford us ſupplies and to counteraćt the
enemy. From Negapatam you proceed to the affairs of the Nabob of the Carnatic,
and of the Rajah of Tanjore ; the neceſſity of the application of the Revenues of
thoſe countries to their immediate defence ; the juſtice of any meaſures producing
that effect ; the declaration of our duty, and the full offer of your authority, con-
176. fidence,
P A P E R S RE LAT I N G T O THE
fidence, and ſanótion, in the proſecution of any ſuch meaſures, and the expreſs appli-
cation of them, not to the Southern diſtriºts only, as you ſuppoſe, but to every diſ-
trićt of the Carnatic that could be wreſted from the enemy, or which he had not vet
been able to lay waſte. After the letter above quoted of the 26th December 1781,
deſiring us and authorizing us to take every meaſure we might think neceſſary for
realizing the colle&tions independentiy of any Aſſignment, we ſtood in little need of
your letter of the 5th of April, to warrant us in taking the meaſure of placing Au-
mildars, under our own authority, in the management of the country; which words,
with many others on the ſame ſubjećt, are in that letter of the 5th of April, which
however you ſay does not authorize us ſo to place them. You allow, indeed, that your
words authorized us to adminiſter the Revenues, and not leave them partially in the
Nabob's hands and at his diſcretion ; which is to allow an adminiſtration without an
adminiſtrator –to allow us the end if we can attain it without means. You re-
commend and authorize us to place Aumildars; you now ſay, we ſhould not have
placed them without the Nabob's confirmation, ſignified by his ſignature. He would
not give that ſignature; we muſt therefore either have not atted agreeably to your
deſire at that time of placing the Aumildars, or we muſt have atted contrary to your
preſent defire of our not placing them ; we muſt have diſagreed with you then or
diſagreed with you now. The condućt we held was conformable to the ſentinents
you held : it does not appear to us to be as eaſy to change the one as you have done the
other. You inſiſt, indeed, that we had no authority from you to appoint Aumildars
without the formaljunction of the Nabob ; but you forget your words in that very
letter of the 5th of April, which, inſtead of ſuch formal or any junétion, are, that
“ we aſſert and exerciſe the entire and undivided Adminiſtration of the Revenues of
“ the Carnatic, and every power conneéted with it; in a word, the whole ſovereignty,
“ if it ſhall be neceſſary to the effectual exerciſe of ſuch a charge; not admitting the
“ interpoſition of any authority whatever which might poſſibly impede it, until the
“ neceſſity which has required the ſuſpenſion of the conſtitutional controul ſhall
“ ceaſe, and it ſhall revert of courſe to its original and regular channel.” Every
general authority to be exerciſed muſt apply to a ſpecial caſe : ſuppoſing in favour of
the Nabob’s caſe, that his ſeal and ſignature to the appointments were more than
what you allow them to be, mere form preſerved for oſtenſible purpoſes, and that
they were intended as a conſtitutional controul over the appointments of the Preſident,
yet your own words ſuggeſt, allow, adviſe, the ſuſpenſion of ſuch controul, if neceſſ.ry
for the effectual exerciſe of the entire and undivided Adminiſtration of the Revenue;
which, in another part of the ſame letter, you plainly, and indeed juſtly, think requires,
and you conſequently expreſsly recommend, that we ſhould place perſons likely to be
under our own controul in the management of the Aſſigned Countries. There is no
excluſive adminiſtration, and no excluſion of interpoſition, or ſuſpenſion of controul,
which might impede ſuch Adminiſtration, that thoſe expreſſive words did not authorize
us to deduce from your authority and direction. Whatever particular ačt we might
do to obtain an excluſive Adminiſtration ; whatever particular interpoſition we might
refuſe or controul, we might ſuſpend, if capable of impeding ſuch excluſive Admini-
-ſtration, we are juſtified in ranging them under your general inſtrućtions, which cannot
operate but as they are particularized and applied. A general approbation likewiſe in-
cludes every ačt that was known to the approver. The act of ſending Aumiidars was
known to you with all its circumſtances, by our Diſpatch of the firſt of May, and by
the Minutes of the Committee of Aſſigned Revenue tranſmitted at the ſame time; you
acknowledge both; you expreſs ſatisfaction upon occaſion of each of them : that ſa-
tisfaction implies approbation ; you could not be fatisfied if you did not approve.
-On occaſion of ſending ſuch Authildars, we declare to you our intention to perſevere
in the entire execution of our duty : you particularly expreſs your ſatisfaction at the
declaration of ſuch an intention; and we hold that ſuch a ſatisfaction is a clear ap-
probation of the meaſure to which a perſeverance in ſuch a duty alluded, and therefore
that we had the honour, though it be not neceſſary for dur juſtification, of your
approbation, particularly applicable to this very meaſure. But if it be true that the
parts are contained in the whole ; that every part of our condućt comes perfeótty
within the deſcription of your general inſtrućtions and ſubſequent ſatisfaction, as
...this
AFFAIRs o F THE CARN AT I c. 3,
this letter has demonſtrated already ; ſo true it is, what we aſſerted in our letter of I.
the 5th of December, without any ſuſpicion of its admitting a doubt, that we ——
adopted no meaſures in relation to the Nabob, but ſuch as you previouſly direéted
and afterwards approved. If nothing was to be underſtood to be authorized but
what was previouſly ſpecified; not only your Commiſſion muſt for your ſafety be as
long as your proceedings, but it muſt contain a predićtion of the particular events
to which ſuch ſpecific condućt is to be applied, upon the fačt of your approbation,
however flattering and advantageous, the propriety of our condućt is leſs dependant
than upon that of your authority, your words and your authorities have been
exačtly quoted by us. They change not their ſenſe with the change of your ſenti-
ments. If we have miſrepreſented in the inſtances diſcuſſed, if we have not repre-
ſented with the utmoſt exačtneſs your words and authorities, we ſhall ſubſcribe to
your charge, that a habit of ſuch miſrepreſentation ſeemed to conſtitute the leading
principle of all our correſpondence with your Government, in our explanation of
severy meaſure of which we might apprehend your diſapprobation, expecting
from the ſame rule, the credit of the habit of fairneſs, if in the preſent
inſtances we ſhall be found to be fair, and that we had really your ſanótion to
take every meaſure which we might think more effectual for realizing the reſources
of every Diſtrićt, and conſequently for the particular meaſure which we did think
effectual, and have found to be ſo. But it was with little precaution that you have
ſuppoſed that, in the deed appointing the Aumildars, the name of our Preſident
was ſubſtituted to that of the Nabob ; whereas the deed inſpected ſhews, at a
glance, that there was no ſuch, or any other ſubſtitution or ſuppreſſion of the
Nabob's name, but that it was expreſſed in the uſual manner of ſuch deeds. You
ſuppoſe that our Preſident had granted the Aumildars a ſecond, Cr, as you call it,
a final appointment; but the appointment, as the Papers demonſtrate, was a ſingle,
ſimple, and indeed an abſolute appointment, to which, whether the Nabob would
..or would not affix his ſeal or ſignature of confirmation, our Preſident was bound
to ſubſcribe, as a teſtimony of the appointment made by him under the Aſſign-
ment: and, laſtly, you ſuppoſe the validity of the objećtions to all the Aumildars,
though Syed Aſſam Cawn confines the objećtions to two of them, though he only
relates from the Nabob, without aſſerting from himſelf, thoſe objećtions, and that
conſequently you had not a ſhadow cf. teſtimony as to their validity; and that in
fačt experience had proved they were not valid; upon theſe gratuitous and ground-
ieſs ſuppoſitions have your hoſtile reſolutions been formed againſt us, and what is
much worſe, againſt the Company, in the direéted ſurrender of the Aſſignment. If,
in avoiding the perverſion of which you are pleaſed to accuſe us, of mutilated ex-
tracts of your letters, as authorities for our own proceedings, we proceeded diffe-
rently ; if we had thought ourſelves unauthorized to act ; if on the Nabob's refuſing
to confirm the Aumildars we appointed, we did not conceive ourſelves authorized b
you to direét, and had not directed them to proceed, and conſequently bad not
placed them in the management of the Aſſigned Countries; if, in conſequence of the
ſtoppage of our Aumildars, the Nabob's Aumildars had continued in the manage-
ment of thoſe countries; if under their management they remitted no more than
they had done during the time they were continued by our Preſident, from Decem-
ber to April, which was not a ſingle pagoda, but which was as much as they or the
Nabob had remitted, notwithſtanding his promiſes and engagements, ſince the firſt
entrance of Hyder Ali into the Carnatic in 1780; if in conſequence, beſides the
reſources loſt to our Southern troops, the main army would have been deprived of
ſeveral lacks of pagodas, which have in a few months been remitted by the Company’s
TNorthern Aumildars ; if the army, by the want of ſuch money, had become ſeveral
months more in arrears; if its preſent arrears occaſion great diſtreſs to the troops,
as well as great apprehenſion of their deſertion or mutiny ; if ſuch greater arrears
had been produćtive of the evils in that caſe ſo much more to be apprehended; if the
want of ſuch money and of the other reſources furniſhed by the Aſſignment had pre-
vented our attempts to defend the Carnatic, or ſupport the war againſt our different
enemies; if under the preſſure of all theſe misfortunes, and to avoid your reproaches,
and thoſe of our employers, we ſhould have endeavoured to plead a want of adequate
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authority from your Board for realizing the reſources that would have prevented
—— misfortune, we apprehend it is then alone, and for the firſt time, that the abſolute
neceſſity would take place, as the only chance for our defence, not only of muti-
lating your letters, and the extraćts of them, and of perverting thoſe mutilations,
but of ačtually ſuppreſſing many ſtrong, deciſive, and unpervertable authorities de-
livered to us by you, with other palpable motives of cogency, though we ſhould be
deterred from it, not only by the conſideration of the meanneſs of ſuch a condućt,
but by the convićlion of the folly to ſuppoſe that ſuch perverſion or ſuppreſſion
would not quickly be diſcovered, and become an aggravation of our guilt, you
would quickly have reminded us that ſo early in the war as in February 1781, you
warned us of the neceſſity of realizing reſources at home, and recommended an
excluſive transfer of the Carnatic, as the period might at ſome time exiſt when you
might ceaſe from ſending us ſupplies, or when the reſources from whence they were
drawn might fail you. That the queſtion was thereby reduced to a very ſhort
alternative, whether the ſafety of the Carnatic ſhould be wholly provided for by the
reſources of a remote and foreign ſtate, or in part by its own; whether the Nabob
and Rajah were to derive their exiſtence, and every advantage from the protećtion
of the Company, with the hazard of its deſtrućtion, and without any return even
of ſupport in ſo unequal a cauſe ; or whether we ſhould employ the power which we
poſſeſſed, with the means which naturally add of right appertain to us, for ſuch pur-
poſes ; you would lay before us the neceſſity of employing ſuch power from the
denial of all aſſiſtance from the Carnatic, and the violation of the Nabob's pro-
miſe to pay in that very month of February 178 ; , a lack of pagodas for the re-
lief of the troops; you would have dwelt upon the Nabob's engagement in the
Treaty of Fort William, of April 1781, for the aſſignment of his Revenues,
with the power of interception and ſeizure to our Officers; our own obſervation
might have been retorted on us, that it was obvious, that if a ſucceſsful collečtion
of the Revenue depended upon the exertion and authority of his Highneſs, and
he had been ſincerely diſpoſed to let the Company have them to defray the expences
of the war, thoſe Revenues might have been thrown into the Company's Treaſury,
immediately from his Highneſs's Officers, without the intervention of our Receivers.
Whether the total failure, which had happened in this reſpect, was owing to the want
of inclination, power, or ſkilful management on the part of his Highneſs, the faātequally
proved the neceſſity of uſing other meaſures than thoſe which had hitherto proved
to be ineffectual ; you would have mentioned the repeated remonſtrances to us of
the Commander in Chief of the Army, employed in the defence of the Carnatic,
that with the experience we had of the Nabob's total inačtivity and neglect of his
own affairs, of his having rendered us no one aid ſince the General's arrival, and
of either his inability or diſinclination even at that moment to give the leaſt affiſt-
ance towards the recovery of that country, at preſent in the hands of the enemy,
on which his all depended; that, upon the moſt mature conſideration of all thoſe
intereſting circumſtances, he was fully perſuaded in his own mind, that we ſhould
ſtand juſtified both to our King and Country in taking for a time the entire manage-
ment of the Carnatic; you would have contraſted our merit in procuring that ma-
nagement from the Nabob through the ability, zeal, and addreſs of our Preſident,
as you have declared, and it being a voluntary ačt of his own, as in his letters the
Nabob himſelf acknowledges, with our ſubſequent demerit in ſuffering, through a
dread of reſponſibility ill becoming our acceptance of reſponſible offices, or through
a pretended want of adequate authority ſpecifically aſ plied to the caſe, or from in-
aćtivity, or perhaps more obſcure and corrupt motives, which could not fail to
preſent themſelves, that Aſſignment to be defeated; and the Nabob's breach of
his own covenant to prevent the operation of his own deed, you would have
repeated what we need not repeat, the wiſh, the advice, the exhortation, the
folicitude you expreſſed ſo fully, and in ſo many of your Diſpatches, that we
ſhould take any and every meaſure that might be effečtual for realizing the collec-
tions. Your predićtion of the perplexities in which our authoritative act for that
purpoſe were likely to involve us, your deſire of inſpiring us with confidence in
meeting, reſiſting, and ſurmounting thoſe perpieśities, and your fill, general,
s - aunreferved,
A FFA I R S OF THE C A R N A T I C.
unreſerved, unqualified authority and ſančtion, in this neceſſary work, applicable
to every Aſſignment, and every caſe within or without an Aſſignment; and then taking
the converſe of your direétions and inſtrućtions to us, you would have been war-
ranted to tell us, that in oppoſition to them we had not employed the power which
we poſſeſſed, with the means which naturally and of right appertained to it; that we
had ſuffered ourſelves to be deterred by the interpoſition of local authority ; that we
had not taken the meaſures we thought moſt effeótual for realiſing the reſources
of every diſtrićt ; that we had not aſſerted or exerciſed the entire and undivided ad-
miniſtration of the Revenues of the Carnatic, and every power connected with
it; that we had not completely availed ourſelves of the Aſſignment, after having
contended for ſo great an acquiſition with ſo fortunate an iſſue ; that we had not
placed perſons in the management of the Aſſigned Countries, who would be likely
to be under our authority and controul; you would indeed have juſtly deemed us
reſponſible, not only for the aëts of the Nabob's Agents ſubſiſting by our permiſ-
ſion of them, but for all the failures and all the misfortunes conſequent upon
ſuch a permiſſion, and ſuch unprodućtiveneſs of the Aſſignment; and you might
in ſuch a caſe juſtly and unanimouſly have reſolved—
1ſt, That the Government of Fort St. George had been negligent of its duty,
as well as of your inſtrućtions. t
2nd, That no neceſſity exiſted of ſtopping the Aumildars appointed by their
Preſident, by virtue of the Aſſignment, from proceeding to the management of the
Aſſigned Countries, under pretence of their not having obtained the Nabob's
ſeal and ſignature to ſuch appointment, the ſame being allowed to be no more
than a mere form reſerved for oſtenſible purpoſes; and which would be allowing
the Nabob to avail himſelf of his own breach to gain his own purpoſe. -
3rd, That every neceſſity and every duty ſhould have impelled us to collečt and
apply the produce of the country to its immediate defence.
4th, That the employment of Aumildars expreſsly appointed by virtue of a
delegated authority from the Nabob, ſuch appointment particularly mentioning
ſuch delegation, is not a denial, but in fačt an acknowledgment of the Nabob's
authority. - -
5th, That the Nabob's refuſal, contrary to his covenant, to ſign the appoint-
ments was his own refuſal ; that we were not anſwerable for it, and ſhould not have
been reſtrained by it from executing the remaining covenants of the agreement, for
the management of the public Revenues. • .
6th, That by our wilful and fatal ina&tion, owing to our reſtraint of the Aumii-
dars from proceeding in the collečtion of the Revenues, we had broken our en-
gagements, forfeited our truſt, and ſacrificed at once the conncéted intereſt of the
INabob and the Company. . - .*
And, laſtly, That ſuch an abandonment of our principles and ſyſtem, a condućt
ſo contrary to our duty, our knowledge, and our former profeſſions, under pretence
that our profeſſions applied to different matters, and bore a different meaning, but
were miſrepreſented, perverted, and mutilated, could only proceed from the opera-
tion of ſome blind and implacable jealouſy, envy, or reſentment, or other abject or
corrupt paſſions, ſecretly governing ſome of us, taking advantage of the facility, civil-
lity, and confidence of others of us. - -
We ſhall however endeavour to avoid the ground of ſo ſerious a cenſure. In the
proſecution of our duty, we beſeech you to confider as an act of ſtrićt and neceſſary
juſtice, previouſly to the reiteration of your orders for the ſurrender of the Aſſignment,
how far it would be likely to affect third perſons who do not appear to have com-
mitted any breach of their engagements. You command us to compel our Aumils
to deliver over their reſpećtive charges to ſuch as ſhall be appointed by the Nabob, or
to retain their truſt under his ſole authority, if he ſhall chuſe to confirm them. Thoſe
Aumils are really Renters; they were appointed in the room of the Nabob’s Aumils,
and contrary to his wiſhes ; they have been already rejećted by him, and are there-
fore not likely to be confirmed by him. They applied to this Government in con-
ſequence of public advertiſements in our name, as poſſeſſing, in this inſtance, the
joint authority of the Nabob and the Company, and have entered into mutual and
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ſtrićt covenants with us, and we with them, relative to the renting of the ſeveral
diſtrićts not ačtually in poſſeſſion of the enemy 5 by which covenants, as they are
bound to the punétual payment of their rents, and due management of the country,
fo we, and our conſtituents, and the public faith, are in like manner bound to main-
tain them in the enjoyment of their leaſes during the continuance of the term. That
term was for five years, agreeably to the words of the Aſſignment; which declares,
that the time of renting ſhall be for three or five years, as the Governor ſhall ſettle
with the Renters. Their leaſes cannot be legally torn from them. Nothing but their
previous breach of a part, could juſtify our breach of the whole. Such a ſtretch and
abuſe of power would indeed not only favor of the aſſumption of ſovereignty, but of
arbitrary and oppreſſive deſpotiſm. In the preſent conteſt, whether the Nabob be
guilty, or we be guilty, the Renters are not guilty; whichever of the contending par-
ties has broken the condition of the Aſſignment, the Renters have not broken the con-
dition of their leaſes. Theſe men, in condućting the buſineſs of the Aſſignment, have
afted in oppoſition to the deſigns of the Nabob, in deſpite of the menaces denounced
againſt all who ſhould dare to oppoſe the mandates of the Durhar. Juſtice, gratitude,
and humanity, require that proviſion ſhould be made by you, before you ſet the Na-
bob's Miniſters looſe upon the country, for the protećtion of the vićtims devoted to
their vengeance. We have likewiſe to intercede in favour of the Company and the
Nation, upon whom, however innocent in this quarrel, your retribution of juſtice to
the Nabob may fall, and not upon us, with injuſtice and diſtreſſing weight. You
warned us early of the poſſibility of failure of thoſe reſources from whence your ſup-
plies to us aroſe. One of your own members, the Commander of the Army, declared
however, ſoon afterwards from hence, that the army and inhabitants of this coun-
try muſt chiefly depend on ſupplies from Bengal; upon which, he was ſorry to
obſerve, they muſt principally depend for their future ſupport. The expences at
that time were conſiderably inferior to the preſent expences. The detachment of
your army approaching in its demand to thoſe of the whole Carnatic army, was not
then arrived here to our defence, or to the increaſe of our diſburſements of the vaſt
ſums now obliged to be iſſued monthly from this Treaſury for His Majeſty's troops.
By Aćt of Parliament, and the Company’s commands, no ſums were then iſſued, as
that Aét or thoſe commands did not then exiſt, or at leaſt did not reach this Preſi-
dency. There were then no hoſtilities with the Dutch; our predeceſſors in office had
not then the expence of guarding againſt them or attacking them. The French
troops did not arrive, or the French fleet remain at that time to excite precautions
and multiply charges. There was only one army in the field: your remittances
were always conſiderable, but at no time equal to the diſcharge of the arrears or re-
lief of the diſtreſſes of the army. Since our acceſſion to this government in June
1781, to the ſixteen lacks you have remitted to us, we have added, in ſpecie, twen-
ty-one lacks from our other reſources; none of it was drawn from our bills on you,
which all were given on account to creditors; yet all together has not been found
fufficient, though we have huſbanded our receipts, where our economy was allowed to
operate, with almoſt penurious care : but we have been obliged to maintain three
armies againſt our many enemies. The expulſion of the Dutch from the Coaſt of
‘Coromandel; the carrying the war into our Indian enemy’s territories to the South-
ward and to the Northward; our expedition againſt Monſieur Buſſey, and the French
troops at Cuddalare, however all proper and neceſſary, have alſo been expenſive.
We have gone, in our efforts for terminating the war with ſucceſs, to the utmoſt ex-
tent of our reſources. From thoſe efforts, or a confiderable portion of them, we muſt
have abſtained; we might not perhaps have been able to have ſtood upon our de-
fence, if the reſources, which the Aſſignment furniſhed, of money, proviſions, cattle,
and that perſonal aſſiſtance from the Polygars, of which Sir Eyre Coote ſo often re-
gretted the want under the Nabob's immediate adminiſtration, had not, under the
delegated adminiſtration of the Company, come opportunely to our aid. It is the
caſe of imminent neceſſity, for we neither ſee the poſſibility of holding out without
ſuch aid, or how it could be ſupplied elſewhere. It would be unreaſonable in us to
£xpečt ſuch a ſupplemental aid fiom you; the wants ačtually ſubfitting are more
fhan you can ſupply: you have already declared to us the inſufficiency of your re-
. . . •. * - ſources
A FFAIRS OF THE CARN AT I c.
fources for anſwering the accumulated demands upon you. The Nabob's offers in-
deed amount to a promiſe of ſupplying even one-third more than the Aſſignment has
produced: of the performance of this promiſe you do not ſeem to be entirely certain.
You do not chuſe that the execution of your orders, for the ſurrender of the A flign-
ment, ſhould wait for the performance of any of his Highneſs's ſtipulations; you
wiſh the ſurrender to be immediate; you are aware that the performance of the Na-
bob's promiſes might not be immediate; juſtice to the Company, and juſtice to the
Nabob, were not to keep pace; the retribution to the Nabob was eſſentially neceſ.
ſary, but it was not neceſſary to ſecure the Company's welfare, by making it a con-
dition to accompany the former; the promiſed proviſion for his welfare was a ſub-
fequent agreement, not to be concerned with the prior retribution, and it would be
fubſequent at whatever diſtance; the Soucar ſecurity to the Company might be
poſtponed to any diſtance; the country might have been unexpe&tedly found to have
been oppreſſed by the Company's Aumildars; the Nabob might not have been abſo-
lutely adverſe to ſuch an accuſation; it might gratify his reſentment, and afford a
plauſible excuſe for not giving a third more than was ſupplied, or any proportion of
what was ſupplied in the time of ſuch Aumildars. The ſame cauſes which prevented
the Nabob from ſupplying either ſo large a ſum, or a ſmaller, or any ſum before the
Aſſignment, notwithſtanding his promiſes, and the remonſtrances made to him, might
prevent the performance of his late occaſional promiſes. If you could not have de-
pended upon his engagements, it would not become neceſſary for you to have ear-
neſtly recommended to us to demand the immediate transfer of his whole country
in excluſive Aſſignment ; it would not have been neceſſary for you to have en-
tered into a poſitive treaty for ſecuring thoſe engagements. You would not have
foreſeen the perplexities from the failure of the Nabob's engagements, which we
fhould not meet if the Nabob fulfilled his engagements ; but had he ačtually made
an arrangement, you might ſoon have occaſion to repeat what was ſaid on a former
occaſion of the Nabob, that at preſent we know that he pays no regard to that
arrangement further than, it ſuits his own intereſt ; or, in the language of Governor
Dupré, that the Nabob did not obſerve the injunétion upon other occaſions, or any
occaſions but thoſe that ſuit his own purpoſe. And you ſhould not forget what the
reſult of former experience had induced the preſent Governor General, then a mem-
ber of this Preſidency, together with the reſt of its executive members, to declare,
that, as the Nabob's condućt was ſuch as to deſtroy all confidence in his engagements,
the Committee placed no dependance on them. The records contain not fince any
remarkable inſtances of adherence to his engagements, for the retrieval of his cha-
raćter. There appears in this reſpect to have been a uniformity in his condućt; it
might not therefore have been ſuperfluous prudence in your Preſident, to have re-
colle&ted, and related to the reſt of your Board, his former experience and conſequent
miſtruſt; and upon an occaſion ſo critical, and perhaps irretrievable, your implicit
reliance on the Nabob might with propriety have yielded to the cautions which had
hitherto been found neceſſary towards him.
Theſe ſuggeſtions will be ſufficient, we hope, to excite your juſt attention to the
permanent ſafety and welfare of theſe territories, ſubjećt to your ſuperintending con-
trol; we call to the aid of our ſolicitations what even before the invaſion of the Car-
natic, you juſtly had obſerved of the duty of the Nabob, in providing for its defence:
you earneſtly recommended that matter to the attention of this Preſidency, declaring,
that it was the firſt duty which every Government owed to its ſubjećts, and which
they had a juſt right to expect, that the Revenues paid by them ſhould be appropri-
ated towards it. We recal to your remembrance, the correſponding ſentiments of
our employers ; they obſerve, that as the war in Europe was continued with unabat-
.ing vigour, and as the defence of the Carnatic muſt, in times of hoſtility, devolve
entirely upon the Company, they found themſelves obliged to attend very particularly
to thoſe defects in the ſyſtem then ſubſiſting on the Coaſt, which rendered the means
of ſupporting the army precarious, and the inconveniencies ariſing therefrom diſtreſſing
to the Company, and dangerous to the country. That from the correſpondence
with the Nabob, relative to the meeting of his troops, they were fully convinced
that nothing could with ſafety be truſted to troops under theſe circumſtances ;
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that they agreed that apparent ſtrength might be real weakneſs, and that it was ex-
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tremely dangerous to be conneéted with fuch troops; that they were alſo fully ſatis-
fied of the propriety of taking immediate ſteps to inſure ſuch aſſiſtance from the Car-
natic as they had a right to expe&t, and which the protećtion and defence of the
country rendered abſolutely neceſſary; that the neceſſity of adopting decifive mea-
ºfures 1 or the providing and enſuring certain funds for the regular payment of the
army, appeared very urgent, and was fully eſtabliſhed, and that the objećt was very
deſirable. Of obtaining this objećt, ſo juſt, ſo neceſſary, ſo deſirable, and which ob-
wiouſly conſiſted in an aſſignment of Revenue, the Court of Direétors ſeemed however
to entertain little hope; becauſe from many laudable and affectionate motives to the
Nabob, they could not adopt the idea of conſtraining him to it; and that they equally
deſpaired of his doing it as a voluntary ačt of his own. This embarraſſment has
been fortunately removed by thoſe efforts to which you have been pleaſed to give the
flattering appellations of zeal, ability, and addreſs; they have been, to uſe ſome ex-
“preſſions, as realizing the hopes of our employers, exerted in bringing his Highneſs
to attend to repreſentations which had for their objećt the common ſafety, and thereby
to eſtabliſh certain reſources for the payment of the troops, and all his ſtipulations
with the Company in a reaſonable time; nor was this regulation propoſed or re-
gueſted from a deſire to infringe his dignity, or abridge his conſequence, but as an
arrangement which equally involved his welfare and the ſafety of the Company in
one common cauſe ; and rendered our reſources for the maintenance of the army
ſubſtantial, and leſs precarious reſpe&ting the time of payment. We beſeech you
ſeriouſly to reflečt upon the conſequences of undoing at once ſo important a
meaſure, ſo difficult to have effected; for after we had contended for ſo great
an acquiſition, with ſo fortunate an iſſue, to prevent us from preſerving it
may not be perfeótly prudent or ſafe. It may be an objećt of moment, and give
room for repentance, to renew the defe&ts in the ſyſtem which had ſubſiſted on
the Coaſt, rendering the means of ſupporting the army precarious, and the incon-
veniencies ariſing therefrom diſtreſſing to the Company, and dangerous to the
country. It might be difficult to apologiſe for forcing us to revert from ſteps that
enſured to the Company ſuch aſſiſtance from the Carnatic, as they had a right to
*xpect, and which the protećtion and defence of the country rendered abſolutely ne-
ceſſary. No ſeaſon of peace, much leſs that of war, can be ſo perfeótly ſecure as to
remove the neceſſity of adopting deciſive meaſures for providing and enſuring cer-
tain funds for the regular payment of the army : that certainty of reſource in every
emergency, on the coaſt of Coromandel, that diſpoſition of the Nabob to yield
without conſtraint to meaſures for that purpoſe, were the objećts long coveted ; but
had been coveted in vain by the Company. Thoſe objećts, by his Highneſs's vo- .
Juntary Affignment, were completely attained. That adt is completely voluntary
to which the will, at the time of execution, conſents. The purpoſe of a voluntary
engagement is to bind even them to whom it might afterwards ceaſe te be pleaſing.
No act could be binding if repentance were ſufficient to unbind it. The conſtraint
which the Company wiſhed to avoid, was the conſtraint in originally acceding to it;
but the Nabob has declared it to be the voluntary ačt of his own, and that declara-
tion was voluntary alſo ; his ſubſequent repentance argues not violence or kindneſs
in them, but fickleneſs of judgment at leaſt, and inequality of temper in him. That
change and that repentance argue for a maintenance of the preſent Aſſignment, as
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another might not be obtained without conſtraint. The Aſſignment having thus
placed the Company in the fituation that they viſhed, in which they were not placed
before, and from whence, if removed, they may not be there placed again: a reſo-
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lution to overturn it, after a knowledge of its being approved at home, may be fol-
lowed by a diſcuſſion of the motives which could lead to ſuch an undertaking, and
may occaſion an enquiry into the foundation of the Nabob's pretenſions. It cannot
now be concealed by what a train of ſudden and unfortunate accidents to others, he
firſt had occaſion to riſe into notice: it may be remembered, that his father, from
being in a ſubordinate office under the Soubahdar of the Decan in the Circars, was
ſent to command at Arcot in the room of Abdulla, who, on the eve of his intended
Adeparture for that place, was found dead in his bed. This Government had been
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AFFAIR S of T H E CARN AT I c.
deſtined for Seid Mahamet, a youth not yet of an age fit to govern. This youth was
aſſaſſinated in the preſence of him to whoſe care he was entruſted, and who by this means
continued in the Government, until, in the courſe of the conteſts with oppoſite claimants
and avengers of Mahornet’s death, he fell bravely in battle at Ambour. His eldeſt
ſon, whilſt purſuing his father's courageous example, was taken priſoner in the field;
but his ſecond, the preſent Nabob, ſecured himſelf by flight. With a ſingular
and fortunate forefight of thoſe accidents, he had procured from the Soubah of the
Decan, in preference to his elder brother, a reverſion to the ſubordinate Govern-
ment of the Carnatic ; or, with a boldneſs and quickneſs of addreſs ſuited to the oc-
caſion, and countenanced by frequent examples in the confuſion of the Mogul em-
pire, he aſſerted at once that he had ſuch a reverſion to this title, real or pretended;
he had very little in addition ; his authority was not ſupported by reputation, troops,
or treaſure ; the people were attached to his opponents, the family of the former
governors: he applied for ſupport in vain to the French Eaſt India Company; they were
engaged in different views. Thoſe views extended to the excluſive poſſeſſion of the
country. Their Repreſentative claimed in his own perſon the office of Nabob. The
Engliſh Company muſt have abandoned the Coaſt, or diſputed the poſſeſſion of the
country with their rivals: their interference was a matter of neceſſity, not choice.
The conſtitutional authority of the Mogul was hid in the anarchy of the times: it
was for that period a vacated dominion, which converted occupancy into a right;
under ſuch circumſtances Mahomed Ali accompanied our troops, he gave the aſ-
ſiſtance of his advice, and the influence of his office: but ſo little at that time did
he or we think of conquering merely for him, that the Company’s colours were re-
gularly hoiſted in the forts that ſurrendered to our arms: he afterwards deſired, not
as a matter of right but to encreaſe his authority, and convince the people of the
Company's eſteem for him, that the flag of the Circar or Nabobſhip be hoiſted in the
country forts. The office of Nabob was uninterruptedly continued to Mahomed
Ali. The ſančtion of the Mogul’s name, and a genuine commiſſion for the Nabob-
ſhip, were obtained for him by the influence of the Company. But as well in the
ſignification of the name, as in the nature of the office, it implies deputation and
dependance. That dependance was transferred only from the Soubahdar of the
Decan in the firſt inſtance, and the throne of Delhi in the ſecond, to whom it ori-
ginaly belonged, to the Company, who had acquired it by their arms, and pre-
ſerved it by their protećtion. It is an office entirely confined to military command;
it is utterly diſtinét from the adminiſtration of the Revenues, which belong inde-
pendently to the office of Dewan. The Nabob and Dewan are like the Governor
and Intendant in a French Juriſdićtion. It was, as among theſe in the Mogul
conſtitution, a maxim of ſtate to keep thoſe offices diſtinét and independant. In
prevailing upon ſome of our predeceſſors to unite theºn for a time the Nabob met with
difficulty and oppoſition, and ſucceeded only upon a revertable condition, in the caſe
which ſo often has happened of a failure in his engagements. The friends he gained
to his ſupport on this trying occaſion, ſupported him only on the allegation of their
inexperience, at that early period of the Country Governments, which would render
them liable to loſſes, as well as their want of time to regulate ſo extenſive a con-
cern ; that the Renters were not ſo much to be depended upon as the Nabob, whoſe
future welfare would depend on his alliance with the Engliſh ; that the Nabob offer-
ed to make his payments in monthly proportions, in the ſame method the Renters
would, and with the ſame readineſs ; that the Preſidency would diſplace any of the
“Company’s ‘Renters, who, through bad management or ill deſigns, ſhould fail in the
payment of his rents, ſo would it be proper to remove all the Nabob's managers,
and take poſſeſſion again for the Company, if he ſhould be guilty of any ſecret
pračtices, or endeavour to alienate the Revenue, which he then ſolemnly promiſed
to the Company, as he did by the payment of his former Aſſignment; that he
ſeemed to be ſincere in his intentions then, it was much his intereſt to be ſo ; he
knew that it was always in the power of the Preſidency to take away from him again
the authority which he then deſired to be placed in him, and he could not, if he gave
ſo juſt an occaſion, complain; ſhould he fail in the performance of that agreement,
they ſhould be juſtified in throwing off all regard for hiºn; that they ought to give
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him reputation to colleót his rents as well as his tribute from the Polygars, of which
the Company were to have half, excluſive of the ſums already ſtipulated; that if he
ſhould give juſt occaſion, they ſhould break all conneétion with him, and taking poſ-
ſeſſion of the whole for the Company, only ſettling upon the Nabob and his family
ſuch an allowance as might be neceſſary for his ſubſiſtence, without leaving them in
any degree of authority; all theſe motives, promiſes, and reſervations, were not ſuff-
cient to prevent ſtrong diſſents from this indulgence, grounded upon the charaćter
and condućt of the Nabob, from the commencement of the Cotºpany's conneétion
with him. Whether his charaćter or conduit has ſince been improved, he certainly
ſucceeded in cloſing the eyes of the Company's Repreſentatives from the condition
of the leaſe which they had granted, and the power of reſumption which they had
reſerved. The conditions were broken, but the reſumption was forgotten ; what-
ever indeed were his Highneſs's defeóts, they were liable to be overlooked in the con-
ſideration of the engaging deportment and dazzling magnificence for which he ſo
long was diſtinguiſhed;—private attention might have been required by public in-
dulgence; his former obligations were loſt in the demand of freſh obligations. It
is the misfortune of men, who have no original claims, to know, when ſucceſsful, no
bounds to their views. The former boundaries of his Government were too narrow
to contain him, claims were laid to new diſtrićts on each ſide of the hills which na-
ture made a boundary, in the Payenghaut and the Balinghaut; every neighbouring
Rajah or Chief to the Southward, or Northward, or Weſtward, if inferior in force to
the Company’s forces, was to be reduced to the Nabob's ſubječtion, according to
the rule and praćtice of Hindoſtan, for which he compenſated his friends, the Com-
pany, by giving them his thanks. He conſidered his family as deſtined to be the
favourite objećts or oſtenſible inſtruments of the Company's increaſed power. When
the provinces of Bengal became ſubject to the Company, Mahomed Ali propoſed
that his eldeſt ſon ſhould be transferred to the Nabobſhip of that country, while his
ſecond was to ſucceed to that of the Carnatic. His views to the Decan, his earneſt
wiſhes even for all Hindoſtan, have been too well known not to have done us much
miſchief. He is no more reckoned, than the Nabob of Oude, among the native powers
of Hindoſtan. They are both Europeans in connections; dependance and the jea-
louſy entertained of them: it is not reaſonable to expe&t that a perfect reliance will
be placed by the real powers of the country, on the equity, moderation, or good
faith of the Company, while any of its chief ſervants or dependants are countenanced
in the commiſſion of ačts derogatory fom thoſe principles. Of the Nabob's condućt,
however, for ſome time paſt, though nothing can be ſaid in juſtification, ſomething
may be offered to mitigate the deteſtation that might be felt againſt him : his mind
is in the poſſeſſion of other men; of the influence over him of his ſecond ſon, the
Ameer ul Omrah; of the dangerous principles and reſtleſs ambition of that ſon
$ºyou are fully appriſed, from our records ſo far back as 1775, and indeed from
St. George,
1775.
Sir Eyre
Coote’s ſet-
ter.
one at leaſt of our own members, who has publicly declared and ſolemnly warned
us againſt this man's intrigues, and his diſaffeótion to the Company. His views to
eſtabliſh his ſucceſſion to the Carnatic, being thwarted by our reſolution of adhering
to the Company's orders for maintaining the ſucceſſion, as ſettled both by Grant
and by Treaty on the eldeſt ſon, and on which reſolution did really originate the
preſent diſpute, his Excellency, the Ameer, may be ſuppoſed to have turned na-
turally his thoughts towards effecting a ſecond revolution in this Government; than
the inſtruments of the former, none fitter could be found. Mr. Paul Benfield was
returned to the Settlement, as converſant in the affairs of the Carnatic, as intereſted
in its ſucceſs, from his demands upon the Nabob, and particularly from his being
agreeable to his Highneſs, whom it was our objećt to indulge, as far as was con-
fiſtent with our duty. Mr. Benfield was placed at the head of the firſt Committee
of Aſſigned Revenue, appointed for carrying into execution that part of your Treaty
of April 1781, which related to the Revenue; it was Mr. Benfield's intereſt, as it
was his duty, to contribute effectually to that buſineſs; but it was not the Nabob's
intention that it ſhould be effeóted. The Athgnment of December 1781, was
granted on the expreſs condition that Mr. Benfield ſhould not have the ſmalleſt con-
cern in it. The performance of this condition, on the part of the Preſidency, offend-
. ed
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4. I
ed Mr. Benfield: that offence did not prevent him from treating with us for a large
bullock contraćt for the army, at a price conſiderably advanced beyond the average coſt
of that or any preceding period; nor did it prevent us from agreeing to give him ſo ad-
vanced a price, in the hope, grounded upon the ſuppoſition and his profeſſion, of his ex-
traordinary reſources in ſuch an undertaking: it remained with us only to ſecure the
benefit which was to be ſo dearly purchaſed; it was neceſſary, in an objećt of ſuch magui-
tude, to remove every poſſibility of evaſion; but Mr. Benfield wiſhed to be a con-
tractor only as to profit, and to be merely an agent as to reſponſibility. We ap-
pointed him in both reſpects as agent ; being an office in which the exertion of thoſe
qualities, which would have enabled him to fulfil the contrači, would have enabled
him to ſupply the army without one ; whether the emoluments of this office were
below his conſideration, or that he expe&ted that a diſappointment in the agency would
lead to a renewal of the contraćt, he ſuffered many of the cattle committted to his care
to periſh for want of food, alledging he had none; but propoſing a new contraćt on
extravagant terms, for feeding them; we rejećted his contračt, and diſmiſſed him from
the agency. Cauſes leſs cogent upon his paſſions would have ſecured us his enmity:
men of unbridled paſſions are oftener connected by their enmities than regards. The
Ameer ul Omrah and Mr. Benfield were well known to each other, mutual eſteem did
not appear to attract them to each other; but as ſoon as the objećts of their antipathies
were the ſame, they united at once. In this partnerſhip Mr. Benfield has brought
his knowledge of Miniſters, his intereſt in Parliament, to the former experience of
his ſucceſsful intrigues upon the ſpot. Letters have fince been written to the
Crown, to Adminiſtration, to the Company, and againſt the Company, without
the permiſſion of the Company’s principal Repreſentatives here, and being without
his permiſſion, contrary to the Company’s orders. Mr. Benfield has conſtant commu-
nications with the Nabob and the Ameer. Though a ſervant of the Company, he
has publicly devoted himſelf to the ſervice, and is ſaid to be in the monthly pay of
the Nabob. In that ſervice, we have information to the full convićtion of our
underſtanding, that he miſinforms the mind, and miſleads the judgment, and
excites the paſſions, and foments the deſigns of the Nabob, contrary to the real and
ultimate intereſt, ſatisfaction, and tranquillity of the Nabob himſelf, and contrary,
as far as ſuch perverſion can effect the intereſt and reputation of the Nation, the
Company, and the Company's Repreſentatives here. We had once entertained a
hope that his Highneſs would in time recover from his deluſion, and when he had
found the inefficacy of his efforts to overturn the Agreement, that he would be
more inclined to do juſtice to the inſtruments and manner of its execution. We
had occaſion to obſerve ſuch rapid changes in the ſentiments he had expreſſed of
the ſame perſons, that we could ſcarcely confider his praiſes or cenſures to be
prompted by affection or reſentment, but were the weapods he ſucceſſively tried for
the attainment of his purpoſes; but Mr. Benfield has taken care to commit the
Nabob in a condućt ſo groſs, ſo indecent, ſo indefenſible, even on the ground of
having received provocation, and ſo different from his former more guarded attacks,
that the Nabob can hardly now think that there is room for retreat. After ſecuring
here ſo wide a breach, Mr. Benfield projećted to effect another againſt this
Preſidency in Bengal. He deſired leave to proceed to Calcutta for the benefit of his
health. The preferable welfare of the Company’s affairs on this Coaſt, which
materially influence the whole of its affairs, were however confidered to depend
very much on the maintenance and continuation of harmony and a good under-
4tanding between the Repreſentatives of the Company in the reſpective Preſidencies.
Diſtance, miſconception, accident, might ſometimes create a difference in the .
opinions of men, and miſunderſtandings amongſt them. This Preſidency had on
frequent occaſions ſacrificed its private opinions, and had otherwiſe taken every
precaution to prevent ſuch miſunderſtanding ; the refuſal of a permiſſion to Mr.
Benfield to go to Bengal was amongſt the moſt neceſſary precautions. His oppo-
ſition to this Government was not a matter merely of a conjećture, or of inference,
but was open, direct, and avowed by him. His character and his diſpoſition to
thwart, overturn, and miſrepreſent the public meaſures here, were too notorious to
of the Government, from the goodneſs of
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their cauſe, and the firmneſs of their condućt, had been able to reſiſt every counter-
aćtion attempted on the ſpot. The records indeed gave warning ſufficient of the
principles and praćtices of Mr. Benfield, who, ſo long ago as in the year 1769, was
repreſented by the Preſident and Council, in their general letter to the Court of
Direétors, as a champton in the cauſe of faāion, who, in the year 1770, was by the
Court of Direétors diſmiſſed from the Company's ſervice for his fatſious and inflam-
matory behaviour, who after he had, on the promiſe of future good behaviour, been
reflored to the ſervice, was, for diſobedience of orders in 1772, unanimouſly
ſuſpended from the ſervice, and was, in the year 1774, ordered by the Court of
Direétors to be reprimanded and muléted for his offence. His ſubſequent condućt
and principal ſhare in the public diſorders at this Preſidency, was freſh in all men's
minds conneéted with the Settlement. But however the members of the preſent
Government might hold themſelves able to reſiſt the effects of this fa&tious and
inflammatory diſpoſition of Mr. Benfield, while he was within their own bounds,
they did not think it prudent to depend upon being equally ſucceſsful at a diſtance,
where they forefaw the pračticability as well as the inclination of Mr. Benfield to
do miſchief by artifice, intrigue, and miſrepreſentation. But if his health really
required a change of air, as a ſurgeon had certified, he ſhould be allowed to go to
a more Northern or more Southern latitude, to the Eaſt or to the Weſt, or any where
but where he might do miſchief: but Mr. Benfield's health was to be improved
only by going to the ſalubrious climate of Calcutta, in the neighbourhood of the
Supreme Council. He has ſince continued at Madras, and has continued apparently
in health. Whatever might have been the charaćter formerly given of the inflexible
perverſeneſs and obſtinacy of the Nabob by the Governor General and others, Mr.
Benfield foreſaw that it might be poſſible that his Highneſs would return at length to a
ſenſe of his error and miſcondućt, from a continued conſideration of that
diſintereſtedneſs and forbearing ſpirit you have been pleaſed to remark in us, the
latter, of which Mr. Benfield’s whole condućt, and even indeed the Nabob's addreſſes
to us, furniſhed us ample opportunities to exerciſe, as our perſeverance in oppoſition
to his Highneſs's wiſhes have done of the former diſpoſition. Mr. Benfield, to
ſecure the permanency of his power and the perfeótion of his ſchemes, thought it
neceſſary to render the Nabob an abſolute ſtranger to the ſtate of his affairs. He
aſſured his Highneſs that full juſtice was not done to the ſtrength of his ſentiments
and the keenneſs of his attacks, in the tranſlations that were made by the Company’s
fervants from the original Perſian of his letters, he therefore propoſed to him,
that they ſhould for the future be tranſmitted in Engliſh. Of the Engliſh language
or writing, his Highneſs or the Ameer cannot read one word, though the latter can
converſe in it with ſufficient fluency. The Perſian language, as the language of
the Mahommedan Conquerors and of the Court of Delhi, as an appendage or
ſignal of authority, was at all times particularly affected by the Nabob. It is the
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language of all ačts of ſtate and all public tranſačtions among the Muſſulman,
Chiefs of Hindoſtan. The Nabob thought to have gained no inconſiderable point, in
procuring the correſpondence from our predeceſſors to the Rajah of Tanjore to be
changed from the Mahratta language, which that Hindoo prince underſtands, to
the Perſian, which he diſclairns underſtanding. To force the. Rajah to the Nabob's
language, was gratifying the latter with a new ſpecies of ſubſerviency. He had
formerly contended with conſiderable anxiety, and it was thought no inconſiderable
coſt, for particular forms of addreſs to be uſed towards him in that language. But
all of a ſudden, in favour of Mr. Benfield, he quits his forther affections, his habits,
his knowledge, his curioſity, the increaſing miſtruſt of age, to throw himſelf upon
the generous candour, the faithful interpretation, the grateful return, and eloquent
organ of Mr. Benfield. Mr. Benfield relates and reads what he pleaſes to his
Excellency the Ameer ul Omrah ; his Excellency communicates with the Nabob
his father in the language the latter underſtands. Through two channels ſo pure
the truth muſt arrive at the Nabob in perfeót refinement. Through this double
truſt his Highneſs receives whatever impreſſion it may be expedient to make on him.
He abandons his ſignature to whatever paper they tell him contains, in the Engliſh
language, the ſentiments with which they had inſpired him. He thus is ſurrounded
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AFFAIRs of THE CARN AT I c.
on every ſide. He is totally at their mercy, to believe what is not true, and to ſub-
ſcribe to what he does not mean. There is no ſyſtem ſo new, ſo foreign to his intentions,
ſo contrary to his inclinations, that they may not purſue in his name, without
poſſibility of detection: for they are cautious who approach him, and have thought
prudent to decline from him the viſits of the Governor, even upon the uſual ſolemn
and acceptable occaſion of delivering to his Highneſs the Company’s letters. Such
is the complete aſcendancy gained by Mr. Benfield. It may partly be explained by
the facts obſerved already, ſome years ago, by Mr. Benfield himſelf in regard to
the Nabob, of the infirmities natural to his advanced age, joined to the
decays of his conſtitution. To this aſcendancy, in proportion as it grew, muſt
chiefly be aſcribed, if not the origin, at leaſt the continuance and exerciſe of the
Nabob’s diſunion with this Preſidency, a diſunion which creates the importance and
ſubſerves the reſentments of Mr. Benfield; and an aſcendancy which, if you effect
the ſurrender of the Aſſignment, will entirely leave the exerciſe of power and
accumulation of fortune, at his boundleſs diſcretion. To him, and to the Ameer
ul Qmrah, and to Syed Aſſam Cawn, the Affignment would in fact be ſurrendered.
He will, if any, be the Soucar ſecurity; and ſecurity in this country is counter-
ſecurity by poſſeſſion. You would not chuſe to take the Affignment from the
Company to give it to individuals. Of the impropriety of its returning to the
TNabob, but remaining with Mr. Benfield, he would now again argue from his
former obſervations, that under his Highneſs's management his country declined,
his people emigrated, his Revenues decreaſed, and his country was rapidly
approaching to a ſtate of political inſolvency. * • *. , -
Of Syed Aſſam Cawn we judge only from the obſervations this letter already con- -
tains, but of the other two perſons we undertake to declare, not as parties in a cauſe,
or even as voluntary witneſſes, but as executive officers reporting to you in the diſ.
charge of our duty, and under the impreſſion of the ſacred obligation which binds us
to truth as well as to juſtice, that from every obſervation of their principles and diſ-
poſition, and every information of their character and condućt, they have proſecuted
projećts to the injury and danger of the Company and individuals; that it would be
improper to truſt, and dangerous to employ them in any public or important ſitu-
Ameer ; and that the Company, whoſe ſervice and protećtion Mr. Benfield has re-
peatedly and recently forfeited, would be more ſecure againſt miſchief and confuſion if
he were removed from their ſeveral Preſidencies.
What Mr. Benfield muſt have meant to effect at Calcutta you effected however
without him, though perhaps more ſlowly ; and you have done it upon the inveſtiga-
tion of one complaint only, of the many preferred againſt us or our Preſident by the
Nabob. The inveſtigation of theſe, condućted like the former, might have led to
concluſions affecting every quality becoming our ſtations : there is ſcarce a bad
ation; that the tranquility of the Carnatic requires a reſtraint to the power of the
principle that they might not employ. You have not informed us whether thoſe
complaints are to be ſubjećts of your future diſcuſſions and reſolutions, or whether, as
you firſt ſent them home without remarks, you have ſince followed them by any.
There are ſome complaints that have a better chance of making impreſſion before than
after they have been diſcuſſed: a tale of diſtreſs well told excites ſometimes a kind of
ſenſation that renders almoſt unwelcome the convićtion of its falſehood : this tale in-
tended to be told was not perhaps intended to be proved. Of the Nabob’s intentions
in this reſpect a ſpecimen has lately been offered, in relation to the heavieſt of all his
charges, and the lighteſt were probably made on lighter pretext. A. Jamedar or
Officer had been executed for mutiny at Nellore, under the orders of the Comman-
dant of that garriſon : the Nabob immediately loudly and repeatedly charged this fačt
as murder ; but when the Commandant was called upon to undergo his trial, and a
court-martial ready to be appointed as ſoon as his Highneſs ſhould be ready with his
witneſſes, as on former complaints, he declined the dangerous occaſion of proving
what he had not to prove. In arbitrary governments, in Eaſtein monarchies, the
ſubordinate inſtruments of power ſeldom fail to furniſh ample intances of the abuſe
of power : the difficulty is not to demonſtrate the abuſe, but to procure attention to
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the ſufferers by it. In the tumult and ſucceſſion of affairs, and the multitude of
176. º . complaints,
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PAPERS RELATING To THE
complaints, the indifference to diſtant and ordinary ſufferings operate with the
intereſt and influence of the power that is attached to prevent or retard the
correction of it. The mind muſt be rouſed, the attention be fixed, by accu-
mulated and animated deſcriptions of ſevere and extraordinary hardſhips: the
neceſſity of the caſe, the induſtry and ingenuity of oppoſition, the diſpoſition to
diſcontent, will eaſily diſcolour and pervert the moſt common incidents, aćtions
even of grace, of juſtice, into new ground of diſſatisfačtion. In the fulneſs of
ſuperintending authority, ſomething may be allowed to ſolid and well dire&ted
folicitation ; and after a reſolution once taken of protećting the oppreſſed, it may
be eaſier to condemn than maturely to examine. The Nabob's complaints, which
you have not examined, are already however anſwered, as far as we knew of
them, in a Minute of our Preſident of the 4th of September laſt, teſtified and
adopted by the Committee, and to which for the preſent we take the liberty to
refer. Of the propoſal (on the danger in this Settlement of a famine and a fiège)
whether it was intended as an act of kindneſs and attention, or ought to be con-
ſidered as negle&t and ill uſage, may in ſothe meaſure be judged by the meſſen-
to the Nabob, by the Governor, to remove to a place of ſecurity and plenty,
gers, Sir Hector Munro and Sir Edward Hughes, who were choſen to convey
it; from the difficulties and periis that it might have removed from his Highneſs;
from the example of his quitting Madras when formerly beſieged ; and is put be-
yond doubt by the Admirai's account of the tranſaction, who was called upon, has
publicly declared, that the propoſal was made merely in caſe it ſhould be equally
agreeable to his Highneſs; and that it would be turning things indeed to confider it
as any thing like a menace or threat, or to make it a charge againſt this Government.
Of the Preſident's withholding proviſions from the Nabob you will determine the
probability, not only from the injuſtice and barbarity of ſuch a procedure, its incom-
atibility with European diſpoſition or manners, but alſo from that very Preſident's
aćtual allowance from the public ſtock to that very Nabob for the daily ſubſiſtence
of 1400 people, as appears by the annexed certificate of the proper officers. If
any further accuſations in the name of the Nabob ſhould be tranſmitted to your
Board, or any attempts made to prove his former allegations, we requeſt you will
favour us with the communications of ſuch, and grant us a reaſonable time for tranſ-
mitting our defence, before you proceed to final reſolutions. It may prevent the
regret of erroneous deciſion, and the neceſſary length of ſubſequent diſcuſſion. For
that length we ſhall not follow your example of making an apology: the ſhorteſt
Jetter may require pardon to be aſked for it, if it be not pertinent to the matter, or the
matter itnproper; if it be inconſiſtent in argument and miſtaken in fact ; if it deals
in general charges, or epithets miſapplied, and condemning expreſſions that were not
employed. Our preſent anſwer is to your letter, conſultations, reſolutions, and
appendixes, amounting to 277 quarto pages; and to the whole of your treatment of
us in the matter of the Aſſignment, expreſſed and implied. We are not anxious about
whoſe number of pages is the fewer ; we are more anxious to avoid, by the regularity
and ſyſtem of our condućt and correſpondence, a reproach ſimilar to that of charging
our declaration of maintaining reſpect and attention to the Nabob, into that of ſup-
porting him in the forms and oftenſible dignity of his ſovereignty, of which we know
not the exiſtence ; or of one time declaring that an act was obtained by ability
and addreſs, which muſt have been granted from ſince ity and warmth of attach-
ment, and deſerved the credit of unexampled fidelity ; and immediately after-
wards declaring, that the neceſſity muſt have been deſperate which could have
warranted the exačtion of a conceflion to which the grantor was forced, or of
deciding in the ſame paper, that the ſame condition was a mere form for oſtenſible
purpoſes, and an eſſential requiſite to a ſubſtantial purpoſe. We ſhould certainly with
to have paid more attention in a diſcuſſion affecting the public and individuals, than
to have minuted the confideration of a letter upon record, and included it in our
Appendix, which in fact we had ſent you, and you had acknowledged, and yet after-
wards demand it as hitherto unknown to you. We mention theſe circumſtances as
denoting inattention, for which, no doubt, your multiplied avocations will ſuffi-
ciently account ; but a knowledge of which inattention may alſo counterbalance the
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weight in your favour againſt us of ability and knowledge. We endeavour to ſupply
our defeóts in thoſe reſpects by the affiduity of our efforts. The ſubjećt before us,
your preſent ſentiments being againſt us, required a cloſe, minute, and continued
inveſtigation, from the origin of the Aſſignment to the preſent hour : what we have
written may ſpare much further writing. We hold it our duty to communicate at
large, agreeably to inſtrućtions, the grounds and reaſon of our condućt and opinions.
We hold it liberal and manly, and a juſtice due to you, when we differ from you, not
to foreſtall the approbation of our employers : nor ſhall even your conſent to our re-
ſerving our arguments for the Court of Direétors, tempt us to take the advantage or
ſubmit to the appearance of partial repreſentations. We wiſh to give, as we wiſh to .
take, the opportunity of defence againſt general charges: indeed we ſhall not attempt
to make any defence, which, indeed, can only apply to ſpecial matter. General
charges are, indeed, the reſources of thoſe to whom ſpecial matter of accuſation is
not afforded : it is the unavailing ſupplement to faët, as invečtive is to argument :
the former are ſuppoſed to imply the want of the latter. If, as on a former occaſion,
you ſhould aſſert, without ſhewing, that our letters are diſengenuous or ſophiſtical,
we ſhall expećt that the omiſſion of proof will prevent a belief of the facts ; as
we moſt heartly wiſh, for the ſake of the public and our own ſakes, that this may be
the laſt difference between your Preſidency and ours. -
It is, indeed, aſſerted by the Durbar and its adherents, that they have aſſurances
from Calcutta of your inclination to remove the Select Committee of this Preſidency,
and to place the Government in other hands. We have not conſidered how far it
might be poſſible to deprecate ſuch an event by an immediate compliance with your
literal directions, and an indifference to our real duty, and the intereſt of thoſe we
are bound to ſerve. The event would free us, indeed, perfeótly from our perſonal
ſhare in the public embarraſſments; and our entire removal from authority would
not be a very abrupt tranſition from the ſtate to which your arrangements, delega-
tions, and appointments, have tended to reduce it. We ſhould be better pleaſed to ſee
a diſſolution of our Government effected by a vote of our ſuſpenſion from your Board,
than by the conſequences which might reſult from a ſurrender of the Aſſignment to
the Ameer ul Omrah, Seyed Aſſam Cawn, and Mr. Benfield; and in the firſt caſe it
would be a great conſolation to us to be aſſured that, ſatisfied of depriving us of our
ſtations, you left the diſpoſal of the Aſſignment to the ultimate deciſion of our em-
ployers; and that you would ſupport the authority of our ſucceſſors as much as you
have laboured to render ours ineffectual to the public ſervice. Beſide our difficulties
from abroad, we have here to encounter the principal inſtruments of the former ſub-
verſion of this Government; yet feeling ourſelves on the ſtrong ground of a juſt and
uniform condućt, we ſhall be prepared for every event which may happen to us in
contending for the welfare of the Company, and the due execution of its commands.
We have the honour to be,
- Gentlemen, -
Your moſt obedient humble Servants,
- . Gº r - (Signed) º, tº
25t ay 1783. - nth) Sadleir,
Alex" Davidſon.
M” Williams.
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ORDERS of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 9th February, 1863.
EXTRACT of Secret Letter from Lord Macartney to the Chairman; dated
- 31ſt July 1781.
IN order to defray the current expences of the war, I applied to the Nabob of Arcot,
according to the purport of the Encloſure; for being reſolved ſtrićtly to adhere
to my covenants, and to receive no obligation from any Prince of the country, I was
able to ſpeak to his Highneſs with a reſpectful firmneſs, to which he had been unac-
cuſtomed, and to preſs him with an earneſtneſs ſuitable to the exigency of the occa-
fion. But neither our neceſſities, nor the ſenſe of his own danger, could extraćt
any aſſiſtance from him; and it has been intimated, by his direétion, that he has
lately entered into a treaty with the Governor General of Bengal, precluding, as
he declares, the propriety of the Aſſignment demanded from him in purſuance
of the advice given from thence in the letter No. 4, of the 26th of February
laſt. -
PRIVATE NOTE of Applications to his Highneſs the Nabob of the
Carnatic, 4th July 1781. -
Fort St. George.
ALL, the intereſts of his Highneſs the Nabob, and thoſe of the Company, on the
Coaſt of Coromandel are now in the greateſt danger. The Company has a con-
ſiderable army in the field ; but money, proviſions, and cattle, all which muſt be
amply ſupplied in order to carry on war with ſucceſs, are almoſt entirely wanting,
Lord Macartney has a perfeót knowledge of the friendly ſentiments of the King
of Great Britain towards his Highneſs, and is inſtrućted by the Court of Direéborg
to cultivate and preſerve, by every inſtance of ſervice and attention, the cloſe
conneétion which has long ſubſiſted between his Highneſs and the Britiſh Nation.
His Lordſhip thinks it therefore the firſt and moſt preſſing objećt of his duty,
on finding his Highneſs's dominions, invaded, to make the moſt ſpeedy and
ſpirited efforts to repel the enemy. The firſt and immediate point to be accom-
pliſhed is to find a fund for defraying the charges of the army. His Lordſhip is
driven to the neceſſity of applying to his Highneſs to furniſh ſuch a fund, and
his Lordſhip flatters himſelf that his Highneſs will pleaſe to fignify to him, without
delay, what his intentions are in this reſpect. It has been recommended to this
Preſidency, in the ſtrongeſt terms, by the Governor General and Supreme
Council of Bengal, to require from his Highneſs the immediate transfer of his
country in excluſive Aſſignment during the war only, and for the ſole purpoſe of
defraying the expences it occaſions. His Lordſhip, however, would be ſtill better
pleaſed, that his Highneſs could procure on this important occaſion a ſum of money
of at leaſt five lacks of pagodas, to be ſolely applied to the recovery of his own domi-
176. -- . O nions,
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P A PERS RE LAT IN G T O THE
inions, than to take ſuch an Aſſignment, eſpecially if it was not perfeótly agreeable
to his Highneſs to grant it; but the alternative ſeems eſſential, as without caſh to
pay the troops, or ſuch an effective Aſſignment as will inſure a loan, the moſt fatal
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conſequences may await his Highneſs and the Company. His Lordſhip is deeply
concerned at being obliged to begin his Government with propoſals of this kind,
and has only the conſolation of hoping, that, on the reſtoration of peace, he will
be able, as he is deſirous, to promote the honour and proſperity of his Highneſs,
and of his illuſtrious houſe.
(Signed) Macartney.
EXTRACT of a Letter from the Governor General and Council of
Bengal to Charles Smith, Eſq. &c. Selečt Committee of Fort St.
George, dated Fort William, 26th February, 781.
THE Nabob can no longer be conſidered as the Proprietor of the Carnatic, while
every part of it, not immediately protected or wreſted from his enemy by our troops,
is in the hands of a foreign power, and all his hopes of recovering it depend en-
tirely on our arms. A caſe like this will certainly juſtify you in demanding
from the Nabob the immediate transfer of his whole country in excluſive Aſſign-
ment for the expences of the war. We venture to add, that in our opinion ſuch a
meaſure becomes, by the neceſſity impoſing it, an indiſpenſable obligation. We
earneſtly adviſe it, and had we the authority to command, we ſhould peremptorily
command it. His refuſal ought to be conſtrued, as it would virtually prove, a
declared ſeparation of his intereſts from thoſe of the Company, and require the
adoption of a new ſyſtem, both for the preſent ſecurity of the latter and a future
indemnification for the expences and hazards entailed on the Company by their
former Connection with the Nabob. f
EXTRACT of Secret Letter from Lord Macartney to the Chairman,
dated 28th September, 1781.
IN the Carnatic it may be with ſome reluétance that the preſent Nabob ſubmits
to your influence. His ſucceſſors may be diſpoſed to reſiſt it entirely; at all events
its extent muſt be ever flućtuating, and its exiſtence precarious. No double
Government, ſuch as ſubſiſts in the Carnatic, can be durable, uniform, or proſ-
perous. -- e -
Very ſoon afterwards I had occaſion alſo to conſult frequently with * him in conſe-
quence of another tranſačtion of the Bengal Government relative to the Nabob of
Arcot. His Highneſs had been for ſome time diſguſted with that dependance which
he had transferred to the Company from the Soubah of the Decan, and the throne
of Delhi, to whom it originally belonged. He had indulged the hope that the Agents
deputed by him from hence laſt year to the Court of England, would contribute not
a little towards freeing him from any interference of the Company; and a deputa-
tion to the Government of Bengal, which is eſtabliſhed by Parliament, promiſed
to add to the advantages, or ſupply the deficiencies of an European embaſſy. He
therefore ſent, in March 1781, two perſons as his Miniſters, with requeſts to the
Governor General; they indicate his Highneſs's aim at an encreaſe of poſſeſſions
and of power, which the Company has not thought juſt of wiſe to ſuffer. To
theſe demands he joined an offer to affign, during the continuance of the preſent
troubles, the Revenues of the countries yet remaining to him, towards defraying
the charges of the war, on conditions in favour of his creditors, who ſeem to have
been concerned in this embaſſy, of obtaining Company's bonds equal to the
Revenues of the diſtrićts which had been aſſigned to them, but to which conditions
the Government of Fort St. George had no authority from you to agree. This
Affignment, however, was preſſed forward by the Nabob's Miniſters as the firſt
objećt of their deputation; and as it appeared to Mr. Haſtings that it promiſed a
ſeaſonable relief to the Carnatic, it was readily accepted in April 1781, and the
replies of the Governor General and Council to the Nabob's ſeveral requeſts were
tranſmitted
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tranſmitted to this Preſidency, with an intimation that they ſhould be conſidered as II.
having all the ſanétion, force, and validity of a treaty, and one” of the Miniſters
from the Nabob returned with credentials as Miniſter of the Governor General and . Mr. R.J.
Council of Bengal at his Highneſs's Court, for the purpoſe of maintaining their Sulivan.
faith in the execution of that treaty, and alſo as their Repreſentative at this Preſi-
dency. Mr. Haſtings has been ſo obliging as to write to me, that if my appoint-
ment to this Government had been foreſeen, neither he or Mr. Wheeler would have
had recourſe to this unuſual intervention, but would have rather referred the
Nabob and his creditors to the Preſidency of Fort St. George, as being the regu-
lar inſtrument of the Company’s participation in the Government of the Carnatic.
£ie has fince, and I believe truly, been informed that if the treaty and embaſſy had
happened, as was expe&ted, to arrive during the late Adminiſtration, they would
have been treated with deriſion, and reſented as injurious.
From theſe dangers at leaſt the ſettlement was relieved by the change you made
in the adminiſtration of this Preſidency. The whole tranſačtion had now a fair
and candid examination; and from the application given to it, and the opportunities
of judging of it upon the ſpot, it is probable that the view taken of it has been a
juſt one. It appeared that the Aſſignment of the Nabob's Revenues to be colle&ted
by the conjunét management of his and the Company's ſervants, with the ſame
controul in favour of the former, had ačtually been already made by his Highneſs
to my predeceſſor, as to part of his country, and indeed carried into execution;
and to me, before he knew the contents of the treaty, he made the offer of the
remainder ; ſo that the effect of the intervention of the Supreme Council was, in
this inſtance, which paſſed for counterbalancing all the Nabob's political demands, to
obtain by their means, what he had given or was ready to give before ; but at the
ſame time, as far as the treaty bound, to bind this Preſidency from attempting to
improve the plan of finances if deficient, or if it ſhould fail from ſubſtituting ano-
ther in its room. The neceſſary participation of the Company in the Government
of the Carnatic, through its Repreſentatives upon the ſpot, is meant to be rather
the effect of influence than the exertion of force. The immediate interference of
another Government, and through another channel, deſtroys or diminiſhes that ne-
ceſſary influence. If it had been perverted to the purpoſes of corruption, it was
full time to change the hands by which it was to be direéted; but there is no
alternative between taking away the management from this Preſidency entirely, or
leaving to it under inſtructions from the ſuperintending power, the executive means
of managing with advantage and effect. Very ſoon after my acceſſion to this
Government, I had a ſtrong inſtance of the diſadvantage reſulting from this inter-
poſition of the authority of the Supreme Council, and the imbecility into which it
caſt this Preſidency. In the midſt of our diſtreſſes, without money or proviſions,
the army in arrears, and the garriſons ready to mutiny, I applied to the Nabob in
the moſt urgent manner for aſſiſtance. He never preciſely denied his ability to
give it. Many of his friends acknowledged he could have given it. The final anſwer,
however, which was ſent me, expreſſed that his Highneſs had concluded a treaty with the
Governor General of Bengal, which provided for all the ſupplies which he ſhould furniſh.
Notwithſtanding my experience of the ill conſequences of this immediate inter-
vention of that Government, I was reſolved, if I had been empowered ſo to inter-
vene, to abide ſtrićtly and ſcrupulouſly by every clauſe and article of its conven-
tions. The exerciſe of the power was with me at firſt a preſumption of the right;
your inſtructions indeed, after delivering. your opinion on the plans propoſed for
remedying the defeóts in the preſent ſyſtem on the Coaſt, direét the Preſidency of
Fort St. George to negociate the buſineſs with the Nabob, and expreſs the
continuance of your hope that his Highneſs may, in concert with us, forthwith
eſtabliſh certain reſources, and heartily join in the moſt powerful exertions, and
make ſuch ſpeedy and judicious arrangements as ſhall appear proper and ſatisfactory
to us; but if that Prince ſhould finally refuſe his conſent to arrangements which,
equally involve the welfare and the ſafety of your property in one common cauſe,
you then deſire us to apply to the Governor General and Council of Bengal, zºº
in ſuch caſe are empowered to furniſh us with inſ'ručians bow to proceed. Theſe
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II.
poſitive dire&tions appear to mark the preciſe boundaries of the authority confided
reſpectively in this Preſidency, and in the Supreme Council, as declared by a
Member of that board. The whole of this diſcuſſion leads to no certainty, that our
ſtrict conformity to the agreement made by that power with the Nabob of the
Carnatic, in the firſt inſtance, without any previous application from a concurrence
with the Preſidency of Madras, would free us from all reſponſibility in acknow-
ledging their validity or abiding by their contents; but I have, with a view to the
great good which united efforts operate, and from the reſpect which I bear to the
opinions of Mr. Haſtings, adapted my condućt to them, and ſhall place my ſatis-
faćtion in ſuch a faithful, zealous, and, I hope, judicious execution of his plans, as
to give them the beſt chance of ſucceſs. And left the appearance upon record of a
difference of opinion, either as to authority or to meaſures, ſhould be produćtive of
inconvenience or be diſagreeable to him, the letter from the Committee, on the
ſubjećt of the treaty and embaſſy became no formal reſolution of the Board ; and I
was authorized by my colleagues to acquaint him that he might confider it as pro-
ceeding from them merely as individuals, and addreſſed to him alone. As far,
indeed, as this tranſačtion relates to finances, it muſt be obſerved, that no arrange-
ment of them, while the preſent war continues, can be produćtive of much Revenue.
Part of the country has been ruined by the ravages of Hyder; part of it has been
deſerted by the dread of his inhumanity; and the remainder, with little more excep-
tion than what immediately ſurrounds our garriſons, or is covered by our camp, is
under the command of the numerous bodies of horſe belonging to the enemy, whoſe
rapid motions enable them to guard extenſive poſſeſſions.
EXTRACT of a Letter from Lord Macartney to the Secret Committee;
dated 29th Oétober 1781. - .
IN the mean time our efforts tend to give a good countenance to your affairs, and
to find reſources for the war, while there is a neceſſity for maintaining it. The Nabob
of the Carnatic has agreed with me to appropriate the Revenues of what he ſtill poſ-
ſeſſes of his territories towards recovering the remainder, with a reſerve of one-ſixth
part for the purpoſe of the private expences of his family and his houſehold. Aſ-
ſignments had been already made with regard to particular parts of his country; but,
by the infidelity of his Miniſters, and the contrivances of his Colle&tors, thoſe Aſ-
ſignments were evaded, and the Receivers for the Company fruſtrated of the Revenue.
A cordial concurrence of the Nabob, in regulations for counteraćting the cauſes of
former failures, is particularly neceſſary in the eſtabliſhment, of this ſyſtem. He
ſeems to truſt your preſent Repreſentatives: they were aware that ſucceſs as well de-
pends on the choice of inſtruments, as on the propriety of meaſures; they have been
careful in appointing perſons converſant in the finances of the Carnatic, and perfectly
agreeable to his Highneſs, to condućt a buſineſs ſo cloſely conneéted with his Go-
vernment. --- -
To the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Honourable Eaſt India
Company. 15th December 1781.
Gentlemen, . - -
TO the uncertainties neceſſarily incident to a ſtate.of warfare, have been added
here, the doubt and difficulty of providing means to carry on the conteſt. Arms in
the hands of ſoldiers not being more requiſite than money for their ſubſiſtence, it has
been the object of your former and your preſent ſervants in this Preſidency, to ſecure
a fund for that purpoſe, in addition to the ſupplies from Bengal; liberal in propor-
tion to their own reſources and wants, but inadequate either to the regular or con-
tingent expences of the army on this Coaſt, as they are gradually encreaſed without
a poſſibility of immediate reformation. -
Early in this war his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic, was induced to give
an Affignment to the Company of ſome part of his dominions not yet in poſſeſſion of
the enemy, with a view of applying ſuch of the Revenues of them as could be col-
lečted,
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ſected, towards repelling the invaders. For this purpoſe, two of the Company's ſer-
vants were appointed in the reſpective Provinces as Receivers of the net Revenues, to
be remitted to the Preſidency or to the army; but his Highneſs's officers, who are
ſtill employed in the management of the Revenues in thoſe diſtrićts, made out their
accounts of receipts and diſburſements in ſuch a manner that little balance was left
for the Company's Receiver. The ſubſequent incurſions of the enemy did certainly
occaſion ſome diminution in the receipts, and furniſhed a pretext for a much greater.
The diſburſements being entirely at the diſpoſition of his Highneſs the Nabob, and of
his principal ſervants, were ſuffered to continue, or were brought ſo near to the
amount of the receipts, that the want of check upon them, or of interference in the
colleótions on behalf of the Company, ſoon appeared to render the Aſſignment of
little effeót. The arrangement made by the agents of the Nabob ſome time after-
wards, with the Government of Bengal, extending the Aſſignment to all the countries
of the Nabob remaining in his poſſeſſion ; and giving to the Company's Collečtor the
powers of interception and ſeizure of monies ſecreted by the officers of the Nabob, was
a conſiderable ſtep towards remedying the defeóts of the firſt tranſačtion ; but it was
confined entirely to the continuation of the war, during which few of the expences it
occaſioned could be reimburſed from a country deſolated by the enemy. The
charges of each Province, which by exceſſive abuſe had contributed to the diſtreſſes
of the Nabób, were ſuffered to continue in their full extent. His Highneſs's officers,
employed in the colle&tion, who had uſually been choſen in conſideration of preſents
or advances made to him, did not often give ſatisfaction either to their capacity, in-
duſtry, or integrity; and it was not likely that the reins of government would be
held much more ſtrićtly over them, when the conſequences would not contribute to
the immediate ſupply of his private wants. However, it was determined to make
the moſt of what was thus obtained; and therefore a Committee was appointed of
perſons ſuppoſed to be converſant in the affairs of the country, and agreeable to his
Yi.
Highneſs, with inſtructions given them to carry into execution the powers thus .
granted to the Company. The authority which the Commitee found it neceſſary to
demand, in order to give any efficacy to the clauſes of interception and ſeizure
above-mentioned, created an alarm in his Highneſs's breaſt, conſidering the exertion
of powers by Europeans over his officers as ſubverſive of his dignity and govern-
ment. He, to my great ſurpriſe, expreſſed the higheſt diſſatisfaction and miſtruſt of
Mr. Benfield, the Preſident of the Committee entruſted with this buſineſs. He affected
to apprehend the fate of the Nabob of Bengal; and rather than ſuffer the interfe-
.rence of the Company's ſervants diſperſed throughout his territories, he preferred to
give to the Governor, on behalf of the Company, a power to nominate natives to thoſe
offices on which the celle&tions chiefly depended. He conſidered it as leſs deroga-
story to his ſtation to inveſt your Repreſentative here with a confiderable portion of
this authority, than to divide a leſſer with ſeveral perſons of inferior rank. His High-
neſs was in fact averſe to any delegation, notwithſtanding the perfeót confidence he
‘ſeemed to place in a perſon, whoſe uniform diſintereſtedneſs was as great a novelty to
him, as it was a ſecurity againſt concealed deſigns.
Some arrangement was however become eſſential, not only for the purpoſe of pe-
cuniary reſources, but alſo for ſecuring ſuch an influence throughout the country, as
would facilitate the Commander in Chief’s endeavours to find thoſe other ſupplies,
and that friendly aſſiſtance, the want of both which he has loudly complained of
..during the whole courſe of the campaign. It became therefore advantageous in
..every reſpect to have ſuch a ſhare in the appointment of his Highneſs's officers,
throughout the country, as would oblige them to conſult the welfare and intereſt of
the Company. - * * -
The entire management of the Finances, from the want of which former arrange-
ments had failed, appeared from experience to be as neceſſary as it was delicate to
demand, and difficult to obtain. All theſe points however were by perſeverance and
thy temper gradually accompliſhed, and a preciſe term of five years fixed for the ex-
Jerciſe of theſe powers. The deed, which eſtabliſhes an alteration in the Government
of this country, ſo deſirable for the Company and the people, bears date the ſecond
inſtant. The net reſources, after defraying the fixed charges of his Highneſs’s fa-
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mily and houſhold, being a ſixth of the whole, are dedicated not only to the ſupport
of the war, but alſo to the repayment of ſuch expences incurred by it, as ſhall be due
+t its termination; the ſurplus to be ſubjećt to any further arrangement which ſhall
1/e made between his Highneſs and the Company, for the payment of his public and
private debts. t # - : -
His Highneſs, once reconciled to this delegation of his authority, has ſeen the
good conſequences which neceſſarily ariſe from it, both to himſelf and to his ſubjećts.
it cannot be diffennbled, that ſome abuſes have frequently attended the command
entruſted to the Company’s Military Officers, Paymaſters, and other civil ſervants,
ſtationed in the Nabob's garriſons. The grievances of the people, communinated
to his Highneſs, were only known at ſecond-hand to the Preſidency; when the
failure of redreſs diſguſted his Highneſs ſufficiently to make him often ſuppreſs the
complaint, rather than to become a ſolicitor without a certainty of relief. It is the
nature of abuſes, unpuniſhed or undetected, to increaſe, and they were the vain ſub-
jećt of remonſtrance from the Nabob to the Government at Bengal; but now the
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immediate communication between the natives and the Preſidency, as it will render
abuſes liable to expoſure, it will contribute to prevent and to correót them.
The authority of the Company, hitherto totally diſtinét from, and ſometimes claſh-
ing with that of the Nabob, occaſioned a double and divided Government, which
will for the future be fimplified and efficient. It muſt however, for the moment, be
produćtive of the inconveniencies which accompany every change of ſyſtem; it is cal-
culated to operate effectually, but gradually. Violence, inſtead of perſuaſion, might
perhaps have operated a more ſudden change, though nothing could draw much ac-
tual Revenue from a country overrun, depopulated, and impoveriſhed by the enemy.
No momentary advantage could however compenſate for the diſcredit of uſing force towards
a Prince, in ſtrić friendſhip and alliance with the Company, ſince his acceſſion to his
dominions. • . -
. I have the honour to be,
Fort St. George, - &c. &c. &c.
15th Dec. 1781. (Signed) Macartney.
EXTRACT of a Letter from Sir Eyre Coote to the Selečt Committee;
dated 11th September 1781. * *
THE experience we have of the Nabob's total inačtivity and negle&t of his own
affairs; of his having rendered us no one aid ſince my arrival on the Coaſt in No-
vember laſt ; and of either his inability or diſinclination even now to give the leaſt
aſſiſtance towards the recovery of that country at preſent in the hands of the enemy,
on which his all depends: I ſay, upon the moſt mature conſideration of all theſe in-
tereſting circumſtances, I am fully perſuaded in my own mind, that we ſhould ſtand
juſtified, both to our King and Country, in taking, fºr a time, the entire management
of the Carnatic; and in guaranteeing, in their juſt rights and privileges, ſuch of the
Polygars as, either from neceſſity or ill-uſage, have been induced to become ſubſer-
vient to Hyder ; and would, upon ſuch protećtion, unite with us and againſt him :
not meaning thereby to rob the Nabob of either his honour or his rights; but upon
principles of the ſoundeſt friendſhip, and with all due reſpect and regard for his perſon
and authority, to give that real affiſtance towards his future intereſts, which, from a
miſtaken policy, he himſelf denies them. All reſources which might by ſuch a mea-
fure be obtained, would neceſſarily be employed in ſupport of a war, and be credited
the Nabob in our accounts; which will carry with it the appearance of having
given ſome aſſiſtance to the cauſe, whereas at preſent there is none. * . . .
EXTRACT of a Letter from Sir Eyre Coote to the Select Committee;
dated 19th September 1781. - - -- " . . . .
I had better give up the burthenſome taſk, and ſpare our arms the ſhame and diſ.
race, and our intereſts from the total ruin in which they may be involved, by theſe
idden and double tranſaćtions in the Nabob’s Government. - - .
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ExTRACT of a Letter from Sir Eyre Coote; dated 4th November 1781.
THE great end of alliance between all Powers whatever is mutually to ſupport and
to aſſiſt each other in the time of need. If either of the parties thus allied, follows a
ſyſtem of Government deſtrućtive of thoſe very means which renders alliance valuable,
better then had all conne&tion ceaſe, than that one or other, by a faithful obſervarce
of treaty, ſhould, in exerting itſelf to retrieve misfortunes brought on by intentional
miſmanagement, run an obvious riſk of involving itſelf in ruin; and from which, if it
fortunately does eſcape once, it ſhall have no ſecurity againſt being expoſed to a ſe-
cond time, by either not poſſeſſing or aſſerting that right which ſeems ſo naturally to
belong to it; and, if the conneétion is to be continued, ſo indiſpenſably neceſſary to
its future ſafety. I have, in former letters, pointed out to your Committee the appa-
rent neceſſity there was for taking a lead in the executive management of the affairs
of the country, until the war ſhould be brought to a concluſion. t
ExTRACT of a Letter from Sir Eyre Coote; dated 8th November 1781.
I have repeatedly, my Lord and Gentlemen, and in the moſt expreſſive terms,
warned you of the ruin which, in the midſt of all our exertions, may be brought upon
the national lntereſts by the duplicity and iniquity of the Nabob's Government.
. . . EXTRACT of a Letter from Sir Eyre Coote; dated 13th November 1781.
HAD the Nabob's Amuldar, at Tripetty, attended my ſummons, and the other
Polygars aſſembled their forces, as I required they ſhould, the accident we have met
with might, nay, I will venture to ſay would, never have happened. This is a proof
f
of the bad conſequences ariſing from the exerciſe of a ſeparate authority, and the ſup-
port of a divided intereſt in the country, at ſo very critical a period, which requires
that every inſtrument ſhould be obedient to the grand axis upon which every thing
turn.S. z . . . - .
EXTRACT of a Letter from Lord Macartney to the Chairman and
Deputy Chairman ; dated 27th March 1782,
ſpeak of our ancient friend the Nabob of Arcot. From England I brought with
me the ſtrongeſt diſpoſition and moſt ſincere wiſhes to conciliate him as much
. Having mentioned the Mahrattas and the Saubah, I am naturally led to
as poſſible, and to engage him to ſee and purſue his true intereſts. I confeſs I was
weak enough to think I had ſucceeded; but I have been fully undeceived. ,”
The inconvenience reſulting from the nature of the Company’s conneétion with
him, have been frequently explained to you by my predeceſſors. I ſhall not therefore
have occaſion here to enumerate them all; but the occurrences of the preſent war
have ſo fully exemplified the danger of taking upon yourſelves the defence of the
Carnatic, without poſſeſſing an entire controul over its Revenue and Reſources of
every kind, that I cannot avoid treating the ſubjećt at ſome length in this ſeparate
addreſs to you; and I truſt my ſentiments will be honoured with your approbation;
that you will loſe no time in giving your ſančtion to the meaſures which have been
taken, or in ſuggeſting ſuch other plans as ſhall in your wiſdom appear moſt expe- -
.dient for curing this radical defect in your ſyſtem. - * . . . . . .
It is a fact ſufficiently eſtabliſhed by experience, that the proviſion made by the
Nabob for reimburſing the ordinary charges of defending his country in time of
peace, is very inſecure; failures conſtantly happen in the Nabob's engagements,
and the Company have often found themſelves in the utmóſt diſtreſs to provide for
the current demands of their ſervice. Under ſuch circumſtances, how is it poſſible
for thern to bear the extraordinary preſſures of war : With an empty treaſury,
with large arrears due from the Nabob, and with a country expoſed to all the ravăges
of an enemy, how are they to put their troops in motion, or to maintain them when
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in the field? But the difficulty muſt appear, as we have experienced in the
preſent war, almoſt inſurmountable, when I add, that the country which their
troops are employed in defending, being totally under the controul of the Nabob,
does not yield for their ſervice even the reſources which the enemy cannot reach.
When the invaſion of Hyder Alie took place, the Government here was preciſely
in the ſituation above deſcribed, and was conſequently compelled, in the firſt
inſtance, to have recourſe to England and to the Bengal treaſury for ſupplies.
Upon my arrival here, the diſtreſs for money had riſen to a moſt alarming height.
The produce of the drafts on England had been expended. Bengal, though ſhe
exerted herſelf greatly for us, was too much preſſed by her immediate concerns
to give all the aid which we ſtood in need of The Nabob and the Rajah of
Tanjore had ſupplied nothing, or next to nothing; the army and every other
department had fallen into arrears; and there were no viſible means of ſupporting
the cauſe even for two months. w
Next to the exertions which were immediately required to raiſe money upon the
credit of the Company, I turned my attention towards realizing ſuch reſources as
might ſtill be drawn from the Carnatic, and after much difficulty at length obtained
the Agreement from the Nabob of the 2d December laſt, which I had the honour
of tranſmitting to you by the Swallow Packet. The ſtipulations contained in that
Agreement were ſufficient to have ſecured all the benefits propoſed by it, had the
Nabob ačted with that faith which he had ſo ſolemnly pledged on the occaſion, and
which every call of his own honour and of our diſtreſs required from him.
I am ſorry however to obſerve, that the expectations i had with ſo much reaſon
formed on this ſubjećt have been in a great meaſure diſappointed. Soon after the
Agreement took place, I found that attempts were ſecretly made to oppoſe the
effects of it. The Aumildars and Renters in the country had been inſtrućted by
the Nabob to obey my orders reſpecting the Revenues, but they were privately
given to underſtand at the ſame time, that the buſineſs of the collečtions was to be
condućted as formerly. That the Nabob's authority was to remain unimpaired in
any degree in the country, and that they were only to remit ſuch ſums to the
Company as he might firſt order and approve. Of all this we -have the moſt
aundoubted proof, which ſhall be tranſmitted to you ; and the proceedings of the
Committee of Aſſigned Revenue, which have been carried on with great impartiality
will amply teſtify the miſcondućt of the Renters, who were put under our orders, and
the ſtudied perplexity and confuſion which have been thrown into the affairs of the
country, with the view to deprive us of all juſt information. º,
The ſcrupulous exačtneſs with which we executed the Agreement on our part,
ſeemed early to have diſpleaſed the Nabob, becauſe it led to the deteótion of the
ſecret influence which had been ſo powerfully employed to counteraćt us. Our
determination to expoſe that influence heightened his diſpleaſure into reſentment:
The Nabob, finding it impoſſible to avoid the reproach of violating his ſolemn
engagement, had recourſe to the language of recrimination, and having taxed us
with ignorance and miſmanagement of his country, aſcribed to theſe cauſes that
want of ſucceſs which had in fact been owing entirely to the exertion of his own
ſecret influence againſt us. - •
We have upon our Records, as we humbly hope, fully vindicated our owa
condućt, and fixed the charges we brought againſt the Nabob. If you ſhall be of
the ſame opinion, you will approve the ſteps we have taken, and agree with me...in
thinking it highly neceſſary, that the Aſſignment which the Nabob has made ſhould
Boe continued not only during the war, but until all his debts be diſcharged: for I
wenture to aſſert, upon the little experience which I have had, that if the
management of the country be reſtored to the Nabob, after all it has ſuffered in
this war, and from former oppreſſions, there will not be a Revenue nearly ſufficient
to pay even the current charges of its defence. -
With the Aſſignment of the country we muſt have full authority to regulate the
internal Government and expences, which laſt are now ſo enormous, and for the
greateſt part ſo uſeleſs, that we ſhall immediately be obliged (if the Nabob will
.not conſent) to make large deductions ourſelves; for ſuch is the ſtate of the country
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at this moment, that the aëtual produce of any one diſtriót will not pay even half
of the expences which are attached to it. The uſeleſs military maintained by the
Nabob, and which are conſtantly in a ſtate of mutiny for want of pay, ſhould
likewiſe be ſtruck off. . “. g -
Upon all theſe ſubjećts I requeſt to be furniſhed with your inſtrućtions, by the
firſt conveyance after the receipt of this Diſpatch; for I think it utterly impoſſible
that your former influence on this Coaſt ſhould be re-eſtabliſhed, or preſerved in
any degree, unleſs ſuch a permanent and ſecure arrangement as that which I have
‘mentioned, be adopted without loſs of time. The Nabob is almoſt broken down
by age and infirmity. His ſecond ſon Ameer ul Omrah, has an entire aſcendancy,
and directs every thing without controul. To him I attribute much of the oppo-
ſition I have met with, in fulfilling the purpoſes of the late Agreement. His views
are openly pointed to the ſucceſſion of his father, in prejudice to his elder brother;
and the Nabob has, I believe, ſecured it for him as far as he can, by a declaration
in his will. The eldeſt ſon, Omdut ul Omrah, is a man of underſtanding, but
entirely given up to his pleaſures. Ameer ul Omrah is ačtive, ſhrewd, and
ambitious, and, I believe, ſo little attached to the Engliſh, that whoever expects
ſincerity, ſupport, good faith, or good diſpoſition to the Company, expects what he
will never find. This ſhort ſtate of the Nabob's family may be of uſe to you in
determining upon the propoſed Arrangement, and in that view I have thought it
my duty to inſert it. - . . . . ºr
The Ameer will write volumes upon volumes of complaint againſt our condućt;
feveral of his letters I have found means to ſee, which are ſo full of groſs miſrepre-
ſentation and falſehood, that a general denial is the only anſwer that can at preſent
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be given to them ; but I ſhall, by the firſt conveyance, tranſmit to you a number
of authentic papers which will afford ample information of the whole of this
buſineſs. -
When the Aſſignment of the Revenues was made to us, I foreſaw many
difficulties, and was aware of the artifices, &c. which might be pračtiſed to defeat
it. But I conceived that at all events it was a foundation ſtone, which a faithful
ſervant of the Company would find means to build a permanent ſyſtem upon, for
the ſalvation of the Company, the Creditors, and the Nabob himſelf. The ſolemn
oaths of Ameer ul Omrah gave me hopes that I ſhould have his aſſiſtance; but
they have long, ſince vaniſhed, and nothing remains but to perſevere ſteadily,
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unſhaken by menace and unſcduced by temptation. Every practice that can
allure or deter is now employed by the Durbar. But I believe they begin to be
convinced of the inefficacy of both ; and after the firſt ebullitions ariſing from
diſappointment are over, they will, I imagine, ſee their folly, and ſubſide in
acquieſcence. The concluſion of my laſt letter to the Nabob was as follows:
“In all events and at all times your Highneſs may perfectly rely on the reëtitude
“ of my intentions. I have no other view than to render your Highneſs's
“ ſituation honourable and happy, to reſtore peace and proſperity to your dominions,
and provide for the heavy debts due to the Company and your private Creditors.
“ Theſe are the objećts neareſt to my heart, and I have no doubt of their being
“ fully accompliſhed, if your Highneſs will follow the natural dićtates of your
“ own mind, and afford me that hearty ſupport and co-operation which, as a
“ ſincere friend to your Highneſs, and a faithful ſervant to the Company, I have
“ a right to expect.” -- *
To theſe declarations, which I am perſuaded are perfeótly agreeable to your
'ſentiments, I ſhall moſt ſtrićtly adhere; but whatever meaſures I may adopt, I am
fully ſenſible that I ſhall meet with many obſtructions from intereſted and diſap-
pointed men. A rigid, obſervance of covenants, a refuſal of all preſents, and a
moderate mode of living, are matters of ſuch example as we cannot expect will
at firſt be much followed or approved; but the recovery of your affairs in the
Carnatic from their preſent diſtraćted ſtate, and the hope of raiſing them even
beyond their former ſplendor, are in themſelves not inconſiderable rewards to
gratify the mind of an honeſt man, or ſtimulate the exerticns of an
.ambitious one. w
I 6. Q. - .” ExTRACT
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32 A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O T H E
II.
EXT R A CT of a Letter from Lord Macartney to t
he Secret Committee;
dated 14th May 1782. -
OUR late arrangements for taking under the management of the Compa-
ny the Revenues of the Nabob, have been fully approved by the Governor Gene-
ral and Council of Bengal. They rather cenſure us for having hitherto ſhewn too
much delicacy to his Highneſs, in that reſpect, than for any diſpoſition to infringe
upon his privileges. Every obſtrućtion is however thrown in our way by him, or
rather his ſecond ſon, Ameer ul Omrah, and his aſſociates. But I have the utmoſt
confidence that the uncommon attention, ability, and integrity of Mr. Oakley, who
preſides at the Aſſigned Revenue Board, ſeconded by the other members, will in the
end put the Nabob's Finances on ſuch a footing, as ultimately to prove the ſalvation
of the Britiſh intereſts on this Coaſt.
EXT R A C T of a Letter from Lord Macartney to the Secret Committee;
dated 16th July 1782.
AS the Rodney will be diſpatched to you very ſoon, and will convey to you the
fulleſt and moſt authentic account of your affairs here, I muſt principally refer you
to the information which you will receive by her ; but as it is poſſible that this let-
ter may reach you ſooner than her arrival in England, I ſhall now ſhortly touch
upon a few points, to prevent your being ſuddenly impreſſed with any falſe repreſen-
tations, which may perhaps be tranſmitted in private letters from hence. You will
obſerve by the encloſed Paper, N° 1. the opinion of the Government of Bengal re-
lative to the Aſſignment of the Nabob's Revenues to the Company. I truſt it will
continue the ſame, although every nerve is ſtrained by the Durbar to induce them
to alter it, and to deſtroy that fabric which has coſt me ſo much pains to build. We
have now eſtabliſhed the ſyſtem which you have been ſo long ſolicitous to introduce.
The defence of the country is ſolely in the Company’s troops ; and Revenues are
ſecured to pay them beyond the Nabob's power to embezzle. If after all they
who have the power ſhould exerciſe it, and demoliſh what has been done, the reſpon-
fibility muſt entirely reſt with them.
(Nº. 1.)—EXT R A CT of a Letter from Bengal to Lord Macartney, &c.;
dated 5th April 1782. i
WE are very ſorry, at a ſeaſon of ſuch accumulated difficulty and danger, you ſhould
have ſeen any thing in the Nabob's condućt of a tendency to have impreſſed you
with ſuch ſerious apprehenſions, or extorted from you ſuch ſevere reflections upon
it. - -
You are already in poſſeſſion of our ſentiments upon the late arrangement con-
eluded with him for the Aſſignment of his Revenues, and entire management of them
to the Company, in the name of your Preſident. We have applauded the zeal and
ability which dićtated and brought to effeót ſo important a meaſure, and we have given
the Nabob the credit of unexampled fidelity and attachment in ſo great a ſacrifice.
We had entertained the hopes that ſuch an ačt, which with the Revenue and its ad-
miniſtration implicated every right of ſovereignty, and the temporary delegation of
his whole patrimony to the Company, for the preſervation of their mutual alliance
and common intereſts, had precluded every poſſibility of future difference or com-
petition. 2. - 's tº º . . .
It was not a line of accommodation drawn between contiguous authorities, which
even under the wiſeſt and moſt minutely cautious proviſions muſt be liable to ſome
encroachments, it was the abſolute ſurrender of every portion of participated power,
and of independant property on one part, to the entire and unreſerved poſſeſſion
of the other; when you had contended for ſo great an acquiſition with ſo fortunate an
iſſue, you muſt allow us to expreſs our regret that you ſhould have ſuffered any con-
ſideration even of delicacy towards the Nabob, or attention for thoſe feelings which
it might be natural for him to retain for the intereſt of the Carnatic, which *:::
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y
ſtill eventually his, to reſtrain you from availing yourſelves of it, with an effect as
complete as the deſperate neceſſity, which alone could warrant your having exačted
fuch a conceſſion, inevitably demanded. *
If the Revenues of the Carnatic could have been adminiſtered by one hand, while
the condućt of the war, which was neceſſary to its ſalvation, and which could not be
ſupported without the entire appropriation of its Revenue to it, was dire&ted by ano-
ther, there was no neceſſity to combine them under one excluſive authority. If this
combination was neceſſary, it would unavoidably defeat its purpoſe; if, after it had
been effected in form, its ſubſtance was deſtroyed by a participation of authority per-
mitted to exiſt under any mode of connivances. We beg that your Lordſhip, &c.
will not underſtand theſe obſervations as intended to convey any kind of cenſure :
happy would it be for the national inſtereſts and reputation, if the ſame diſintereſted
and forbearing ſpirit ſhould invariably dićtate the condućt of their affairs. In this
free diſcuſſion of a point upon which your explicit references of it ſeem to call upon
us for our decided opinion, and you expreſs your aſſurances of receiving our ample
ſupport, we mean not to convey cenſure, but to impreſs confidence. To perſons
whoſe integrity we did not hold in the higheſt eſtimation, we ſhould not offer the advice
which we now give to you ; which is, that you do aſſume and exerciſe the entire and
undivided adminiſtration of the Revenues of the Carnatic, and every power conneét-
ed with it: in a word, the whole Sovereignty, if it ſhall be neceſſary to the effectual
exerciſe of ſuch a charge, not admitting the interpoſition of any authority whatever,
which may poſſibly impede it, until the neceſſity which has required the ſuſpenſion
of the conſtitutional controul ſhall ceaſe, and it ſhall revert of courſe to its original and
regular channel. - - -
In the concluſion of your letter upon this ſubjećt, you gave us hopes that you
would adopt, as your own, the condućt which we now recomrnend, by the reſo-
Pution expreſſed of placing perſons in the management of the Aſſigned Coun-
tries, who were likely to be more under your authority and controul, and to take
ſuch other meaſures conſiſtently with the ſpirit and meaning of the Nahob's Agree-
ment, as may give full effect to every ſtipulation in favour of the Company. If you
continue the Nabob's agents or ſuffer them to remain, under whatever denomination,
in the aëtual charge or virtual controul of the Revenue, they are under the ſyſtem
which you have lately eſtabliſhed ; your ſervants and you alone will be deemed reſpon-
ſible for all their acts, which ſhall be the effect of the influence of the former ſyſtem ſtill
ſubſiſting by your permiſſion of it: while you purſue this plan your intercourſe with
the Nabob may and ought to be reſtrićted to ſimple ačts and expreſſions of kindneſs;
you may with propriety decline to enter into controverſial explanations on marters
with which he has no preſent concern, referring him to that period at which he may
require from you a reſtitution of your truſt, and a faithful report of the manner in
which you have diſcharged it; all intermediate acts are independantly your own, and
can only be made ſubſervient to his intereſts, being independantly your’s. -
Fort William, - - (Signed) - Warren Haftings,
5th April 1782. f Edward M. heeler,
. • jm" Macpherſon,
(N" c.)—E XT R A CT Letter from Lord Macartney to the Secret Committee;
dated 1ſt December 1783.
Para. o.—H IS Highneſs the Nabob, or rather his ſecond ſon and Miniſter, the
Ameer ul Omrah, ſtill perſeveres in the ſame unfortunate ſyſtem towards this Go-
vernment, nor is it to be wondered that he ſhould, whilſt encouraged by the repeat-
ed mandates to us from Bengal to ſurrender to him the Aſſignment of his Revenues
of the 2d December 1781, that rock of ſtrength upon which you ſtand in the Car-
natic. It is almoſt unaccountable to us, how the Governor General and Council
ſhould dream of ſuch a meaſure, till at leaſt all the purpoſes were completed for
which you know the Aſſignment was granted ; and the miſchiefs of the former
ſyſtem, and of the looſe undeterminate conneétion with the Nabob, were extinguiſhed
beyond a poſſibility of revival. Happily a ſenſe of our ſituation, a knowledge of our
176. - t - -- duty,
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duty, and an obedience to your inſtrućtions, have reſiſted the ruinous requiſitions of
Bengal. r * \ - -
1 1. From the moment you ſurrender the Aſſignment, you ceaſe to be a nation on
the Coaſt. And, as a faithful ſervant and truſtee for the Company, I hope not to
be made a witneſs or an acceſſary to the period of your power. You are ſo fully
poſſeſſed of this whole ſubjećt from the Papers tranſmitted to you, that I ſhall ſay
nothing further upon it. - - -
(Nº. 3.)—E XTR A C T Letter from Lord Macartney to the Secret Committee;
dated 24th January 1784. 3.
Para. 3. THOUGH we had the moſt preſſing ſolicitations from the Governor
General and Council of Bengal, from the late Sir Eyre Coote, when at the head of
the army in the field, and above all from the extreme urgency of the occaſion, to
obtain the full management and application of the Reſources of the Carnatic, with
the moſt flattering compliments upon our ſucceſs in this buſineſs, and the ſtrongeſt in-
junétions to perſeverein making the Nabob's Aſſignment effectual, notwithſtanding
the oppoſition we ſhould meet with ; yet on a ſudden, and in the midſt of the ſtrug-
gle, carried on by the force of theſe injunétions, and repeated promiſes of ſupport,
the complaints of the Nabob, privately tranſmitted to Bengal, found admittance upon
the Records, were credited without any reference to us for proofs or anſwer of any
kind, and made the foundation of a reſolution to force us to relinquiſh the Aſſign-
ment, and abandon the Revenues again to the Nabob's miſmanagement, in the very
height of the war, and when the Company had expended every Pagoda they could
raiſe from their own funds or credit to defray the charges of it.
4. If I ačted right in maintaining the Aſſignment againſt ſuch a haſty and
inconſiſtent reſolution, I truſt that all the enmity it has produced will fall before
your approbation, and the approbation of my Sovereign and Country. I certainly
ſtand in need of every ſupport to protećt me againſt the diſpleaſure which the Go-
vernment General has levelled at this meaſure, and againſt the intrigues of the Na-
bob, which have been active and reſentful in the higheſt degree.
5. Much of the trouble I have experienced in matters that have apparently no
conneétion with the Nabob's Aſſignment, has however ſprung from that ſource; and
if you will be pleaſed to examine the views and charaćters of the principal ačtors in
the ſcene of India, and compare thern with the nature of the events that have hap-
pened, I doubt not you will be convinced of what I ſo ſenſibly feel, that when the
Nabob is in oppoſition to Government he finds no want of zealous champions to
ſupport his views (however repugnant to your intereſts), and to promote fačtion and
diſturbance in every quarter. - . . .
6. The purpoſes of ſuch men are moſt effectually anſwered by ſowing the ſeeds
of jealouſy and miſunderſtanding; by embroiling the Government in diſputes with
every perſon of conſequence that can be oppoſed to it; and by filling private letters
to England with complaints. The ſoil, it muſt be confeſſed, has been of late un-
commonly favourable for men of ſuch principles to work in. A long, dangerous,
and complicated war, with various ſucceſs and innumerable diſtreſſes, offered daily
ſubjects of uneaſineſs, jealouſy, and diſappointment; which, when direéted by the
ſpirit of the Durbar and its agents, aſſumed a thouſand ſhapes to oppoſe, diſtreſs, and
endanger your Government. -
Io. Having, on my arrival in this country, found your affairs moſt critically
ſituated in all reſpects, I endeavoured, by an early and laborious attention, to
acquire exačt information of the ſtate of every department, and have commu-
nicated to you from time to time the reſult of my enquiries and obſervations.
11, The firſt thing that ſtruck me as defective in your ſyſtem, was the nature of
the Company’s connection with the Nabob, by which the reſources of a province,
garriſoned and defended by your forces in peace and war, were altogether in the
controul of his Highneſs, under a fimple and inſecure engagement of reimburſing by
inſtalments the current charges of a certain proportion of thoſe forces. This ſtipula-
tion even in peace, was, from conſtant failure and backwardneſs in the Nabob, a
ſource
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ſource of perpetual alarm to Government, which often found itſelf abſolutely unable
to provide for the payment of the troops when it became due. But if ſuch are the
inconveniencies of this ſyſtem in time of peace, how totally unprovided, weak, and
defenceleſs muſt be your ſituation under it in time of war, and particularly of an in-
vaſion of the country from whence this ſcanty reſource is to come 3 When Hyder
Alli entered the Carnatic in July 1780, there was an inſtant ſtop to all payments
from the Nabob, upon a plea of abſolute inability. Your army, at the very moment
that its expences were doubled, loſt even its uſual ſupply, and the whole charges of
the war, ordinary and extraordinary, and even the daily ſuſtenance of the troops
were thrown upon you : in this dreadful exigency was obtained that Aſſignment,
without which all your Revenues and Credit muſt have been inevitably ſunk to no
purpoſe.
12. In my letter of the 1ſt December, I declared my opinion, that from the
moment you ſhould ſurrender that Aſſignment you would ceaſe to be a nation
on the Coaſt : I now repeat to you the ſame opinion. Whatever reliance you
may formerly have had upon the gratitude, friendſhip, or fidelity of the neigh-
bouring Princes, has been long fince at an end;—from the time of Hyder's
entering the Carnatic in July 1780, to the Aſſignment of December 1781. The
inability or unwillingneſs of the Nabob to aſſiſt you, appear fully detailed on your
Records before my arrival in this country; and the Aſſignment itſelf, from the date
of it till the Company had the full management of the Revenue, was mere moon-
ſhine, and did not furniſh you with a ſhilling. By the eſtabliſhment ſecured under
the late peace to the French on this Coaſt, and by the force they poſſeſs, and ſeem
determined to maintain here, it is paſt a doubt that your firſt and principal ſtand
againſt that nation, in caſe of a rupture, muſt be made in the Carnatic. What
then have you to truſt to 2–To nothing but yourſelves having the adminiſtration
and direétion of the Revenues of the country which is to be defended.
EXTRACT of a Letter from Lord Macartney to the Secret Committee;
dated September 19th, 1784. -
1. THE Admiral having ſignified his intention of ſending a frigate to England,
I take the liberty, as uſual, of adding to the general Diſpatch a ſhort Letter from
myſelf. -
2. The re-eſtabliſhment of peace in the Carnatic has already given a ſenſible relief
to your affairs; and as ſoon as the temporary difficulty of providing for the diſcharge
of the army extraordinaries is removed, your eſtabliſhment will be brought back, as
nearly as it can be, to the former ſtandard, and the utmoſt economy in my power
- employed in every branch of your ſervice. w
Such however has been the ſeverity with which the late war has preſſed upon your
Finances, that although means may ſtill be found to extricate you in time from the
heavy burthens incurred by it; thoſe means depend ſo much upon the ſyſtem you
may adopt in conſequence of the change your ſituation has undergone, that I cannot,
while. I remain in your Government, omit any opportunity of giving you the beſt
information and affiſtance I am able towards forming your reſolutions on this impor-
tant objećt. -
4. The continuance of peace in India being the ſole foundation on which you can
reſt the hope of retrieving your affairs, God forbid that any thing ſhould happen to
diſturb it in any quarter. It appears, indeed, by the different calculations we have
ſent you, that, with all the advantages of peace, and all the Revenue of the Carnatic,
under the moſt produćtive management, you will ſcarcely be able to provide for the
relief of your own burthens, and the heavy debts of the Nabob.
5. To revert, under ſuch circumſtances, to the ſyſtem which exiſted in the Car-
natic before the war, would, in my humble opinion, be to expoſe your poſſeſſions to
the moſt dangerous riſk. The cleareſt demonſtrations have been adduced to prove
the abſolute inefficacy of that ſyſtem, and the Nabob's intereſt and ſafety are equally
concerned with your own in its ſpeedy amendment. The Aſſignment of the country
has placed in your hands the means of correóting it for a time ; but there is no pro-
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in general, in my former letters, that I ſhould think it ſuperfluous to add more, were
“viſion yet formed beyond the period of that Aſſignment; and I feel the moſt painfi!
anxiety for the conſequences of ſurrendering the Revenues again to that miſmanage-
ment and confuſion from whence they have been ſo happily reſcued.
6. A ſtatement of Colle&tions, delivered by the Committee of Revenue and ſept
you by this ſhip, is the moſt ſatisfactory evidence I can afford you of the advantages
already derived from the Aſſignment: A clear Revenue of about 28 lacks of pagodas
have been drawn from a country which, before the Aſſignment, yielded no relief to
the preſſing exigencies of the war. 1 humbly preſume upon this ſtatement to aſk,
what would have been the conſequence had we ſurrendered the Colle&tions to the
Nabob at the time we were required to do ſo from Bengal : A totai failure on his
part muſt inevitably have followed; and the war, if it could have been at all ſup-
ported after ſuch failure (which I conceive ſcarcely poſſible), would have carried your
diſtreſſes to the laſt extremity. - * ..
7. "I truſt your Honourable Court will do me the juſtice to believe, that in theſe
repreſentations I am ačtuated by no other motive than the pureſt regard for the proſ-
perity of the country. The treatment I have perſonally received in the adminiſtra-
tion of your affairs with the Nabob, can have no effect upon my public condućt and
opinions. The ſame impartiality and regard to truth which lead me to propoſe a
different ſyſtem of conneétion with the Nabob, would have equal influence in reſpešt
to the Rajah of Tanjore, were his affairs in the ſame ſituation; but the Rajah's agree-
ment with the Company to keep up no troops, and to depend entirely on them for
protećtion, averted an evil which ſtill exiſts in the claims of the Nabob.; and having
alſo an income much leſs encumbered than the Revenue of the Carnatic, the neceſ:
ſity is not ſo apparent in his caſe as in that of the Nabob, yet I think the Rajah ſhould
contribute more largely than he does to the defence of the country, and be obliged t()
bear his proportions of the burthens of the war. ‘. .
8. The zealous and diſintereſted exertions of the Committee of Aſſigned Revenue,
-by which ſuch extenſive reſources have been derived from the country in the height of
an invaſion, cannot eſcape your notice. Had thoſe gentlemen ačted upon the prin-
ciples which, I fear, have often governed your ſervants in the collečtion of your
Revenues, I am confident that a third, perhaps half, the ſum now brought to ac-
count would have been funk, and excuſes plauſible enough might have been drawn,
from the fituation of the country, to juſtify the want of ſucceſs : but the preſent
inſtance affords an example, that no difficulties in this branch are too great to be
ſurmounted by an honeſt and perſevering attention to your intereſts.
*EX'FRACT of Letter from Lord Macartney to the Secret Committee ;
dated 14th Oétober 1784. : -
Bara, 7.-FROM the ſtatements now encloſed you muſt perceive at once how impoſ.
fible it will be for you to exiſtin the Carnatic if you ſurrender the Aſſignment. With
every attention to the management of the Revenue on its preſent advantageous foot-
ing, your relief from this reſource will not be very material for the next three years;
afterwards indeed, if the peace of the country be not diſturbed, a rapid progreſs may
be made in the diſcharge of the Company’s and the Nabob's incumbrances ; but
without the Affignment, I ſee not a ray of hope for the preſervation of the Company
or the ſecurity of the Nabob on this Coaſt. As my voucher for this affertion, I muſt
call to your remembrance the diſordered and ruinous ſtate of the country, and the
extreme inſufficiency of the Nabob's payments while he colle&ted the Revenues him-
ſelf. During the firſt eighteen months of the late invaſion, the Company obtained
fearcely any aſfiſtance from him.: the Aſſignment was then procured; and in the next
eighteen months, notwithſtanding the devaſtations of the enemy, and the greateſt
oppoſition and intrigue on the part of the Nabob himſelf, you will obſerve, from the .
books of this Preſidency, what conſiderable reſources have been drawn from the coun-
try, reſources without which all our other aids muſt have totally failed in carrying us
through the multiplied embarraſſments of the war. f
8. I have already ſaid ſo much upon this ſubjećt, and upon the Nabob's condućt
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it not for the effeóts which I fear the Nabob's miſrepreſentations may have pro-
‘duced in the minds of ſome perſons in whoſe judgment and knowledge of this ſcene
I had reſted my ſtrongeſt hopes of approbation. Could I have thought for a moment
that a variety of random accuſations, totally unſupported, and void of all probability ;
ſuch as, that I had openly violated all my engagements; received bribes ; cut off peo-
ple's ears and noſes ; deprived the Nabob of his neceſſary ſuſtenance; taken from him
his coach and horſes, &c.; I ſay, were it poſſible for me to have imagined that ſuch
abſurd aſperſions as theſe would have met with the ſmalleſt belief, I ſhould certainly
‘have oppoſed them here with a much more ſerious vindication than they appeared at
the time to deſerve. The truth is, and I flatter myſelf it is manifeſt to every one
both here and at home, that all theſe ſtories were fabricated merely to excite com-
paſſion for feigned diſtreſs, and reſentment againſt the ſuppoſed author of it, with the
view of obtaining the wiſhed-for ſurrender of the Aſſignment. -
9. The ſeed fell on a ſoil thoroughly prepared to receive it, and bring it to maturity.
The Governor-General and Council of Bengal, without waiting for the neceſſary proofs,
or even hearing the party accuſed in his defence, haſtily reſolved to gratify the Nabob
to the utmoſt extent of his deſire, and ordered that Aſſignment which had been ob-
tained with ſo much difficulty, and had produced ſuch eſſential relief, to be re-
*ſtored in the midſt of the war, when our wants were at the higheſt, and our means,
reven with the Aſſignment, altogether inadequate to ſupply them. g
1c. It is fortunate for me, that my honourable Employers have taken up this
: matter with a more deliberate attention to the principles of juſtice. On them I rely
with confidenee for the public vindication of my charaćter, which has been ſo wan-
tonly attacked: this becomes neceſſary not merely for the ſupport of innocence, but
to encourage thoſe who may ſucceed me in the faithful diſcharge of their duty ; and
to remove an impreſſion but too prevalent here, that no one can venture, with
impunity, to aſſert your ºrights and intereſts in oppoſition to the ſchemes of the
Nabob.
EXTRACT Letter from Lord Macartney to the Secret Committee ;
dated 3oth January 1785. -
Para. 4.—THE letter I wrote to you of 26th January 1784, by the Burbridge, con-
veyed my own particular ſentiments upon the ſtate of your affairs here; as theſe ſen-
timents are fully confirmed by ſubſequent experience, I fincerely hope they have had
ſome weight in direčting the arrangements that were in contemplation at the time that
letter was received. Much indeed will depend upon the reſolutions you may have
adopted for the future condućt of this Preſidency. If they tend to ſecure you in the
reſources of the Nabob's Aſſignment; if they provide for a firm, United, and diſinte-
reſted Adminiſtration, and remove the inconveniencies and doubts which hang upon
your preſent ſyſtem, the affairs of the Company may yet recover, and perhaps exceed
their former proſperity. But as all this ſeems neceſſary to your ſucceſs, ſo I dread
the failure in any one eſſential article as an evil of the moſt ſerious conſequence.
6. I am happy to obſerve to you, that the tranquillity reſtored by the peace ſtill
continues, and with a more ſettled appearance than it bore at the date of our laſt
advices; yet the returns of plenty are but ſlowly felt, and thoſe provinces which have
been fully oppreſſed by the hand of the enemy, will require a conſiderable time to
emerge from their preſent low and exhauſted ſtate. Some of the diſtrićts are much
depopulated ; all of them more or leſs ravaged ; and the bonds of mutual intereſt,
which united the induſtry of the moſt diſtant parts, torn aſunder. Theſe calamities
cannot be healed but by a permanent ſyſtem of mild and indulgent meaſures.
By eaſing the Carnatic of an immenſe load of expence, you have acquired the
means of adopting ſuch a ſyſtem, and purſuing it with ſucceſs; but it never will, nor
can be effected under any other management. & -
176. - 3 EXTRACT
II.
PAPERS RELATING TO THE
EXTRACT of a Letter from Lord Macartney to the Secret Committee ;
dated Calcutta, the 27th July 1785.
* Para. 6.--THE Diſpatch of the 9th of December confirmed the intelligence of his
(Mr. Holland's) appointment, and at the ſame time brought your commands to de-
liver up the Nabob's Aſſignment. -
7. Your reſolution was taken, and your orders iſſued, after the fulleſt delibera-
tion, with our letter to Bengal of the 26th May, 1783, my letters to you of the 1ſt
December 1783, and of the 24th January 1784, and every other material paper
before you. I own nevertheleſs, with great deference, that my ſentiments re-
mained unaltered. sº -
8. I confidered the Aſſignment as the rock of your ſtrength, in the Carnatic, and
therefore had guarded it with equal vigilance againſt the aſſaults of the Durbar and
the menaces of Bengal. It had contributed largely to your ſupport through the
war, and might have ſecured the ſtability of your commerce and 'dominion on the
C oaſt :- -
“ DIES ALITER v ISIUM EST.”
I had long ſince expreſſed my hope of not being made a witneſs or an acceſſary to a
premature ſurrender of it; and indeed no man could be leſs properly employed on
ſuch an occaſion than myſelf, being perſonally diſagreeable to the Durbar, and from
my knowledge of their duplicity, diſaffection, and politics, totally unqualified for
any negociation that required the ſlighteſt degree of confidence to be repoſed
in them. -
9. If, then, it had been my intention to wait for the arrival of Mr. Holland, it
now became impoſſible to adhere to it. The only part left me was, to do what I
conceived you meant I ſhould—to reſign my Government, and retire from the
icene. - • .
io. But however unfit or unable I might be to remain upon it, I was ſtill ready
and ſolicitous to employ every means in my power for your ſervice, to the laſt mo-
ment of my ſtay in any part of India. º . -
11. For this purpoſe I offered myſelf, notwithſtanding the unhealthy ſeaſon of the
year, to take Bengal in my way to England, and endeavour, by a perſonal repre-
ſentation, to impreſs the Governor General and Council with ſuch a ſenſe of the
embarraſſments and dangers ariſing from the late inſtrućtions, as might be likely to
obtain their immediate advice and aſſiſtance. My offer was eagerly embraced; and
in leſs than a week I embarked on the Greyhound Packet for Calcutta. I was
haſtened and animated by an idea, that I ſhould have the rare felicity of ſaving the
Company twice from deſtrućtion. Having reſcued it once before by obtaining the
Aſſignment, I hoped it was now reſerved for me to avert the fatal conſequences ap-
prehended from its ſudden abolition. e-
12. Give me leave now to requeſt for a moment your attention to the encloſed
Papers, N° 1, N° 2, N° 3, which were entered on the Records of Fort St. George
previous to my departure, and are proper for your information.
N°. I. is a Copy of my Minute of the 28th May 1785, expreſſing my reſolution to
quit the Government, and affigning my reaſons, &c. &c. +
N° 2, is the Copy of a Minute, dated the 1ſt of June 1785, accompanied by two
Papers ; one containing an affidavit on the ſubject of my covenants with the Ho-
nourable Company. ; the other, a declaration or ſtatement of the net amount of my
acquiſitions in your ſervice ; which, during the ſpace of four years, from my arrival at
Madras on the 22d Day of June 1781 to the 1ſt June 1785, do not exceed eighty-
one thouſand ſeven hundred and ninety-ſix ſtar pagodas, or thirty-two thouſand
ſeven hundred and ninety pounds eight ſhillings ſterling, at the exchange of eight.
ſhilings per pagoda. ... And when the whole of that ſum is applied to the arrange-
ment of my private affairs, I can venture td aſſure you, as a gentleman and a man
of honour, that then, after having-paſt upwards of one and twenty years in ſeveral
public employments of rank, truſt, and emolument, I ſhall poſſeſ; a very ſmall, if any,
-addition to my family inheritance. -- -
N° 3.
AFFAIRs of THE CARN AT Ic.
Nº. 3, is a Schedule of the Funds left by me in the Caſh and Treaſury on the
2d of June laſt, amounting to above three hundred and twenty-one thouſand Star
*agodas, being, as I am informed, a larger ſum than was ever delivered
over at the time of departure by any former Governor of Fort St. George, to his
ſucceſſor. ." -
13. I had indeed for ſome time before been providing againſt this emergency; for,
well apprized of the Nabob's extenſive influence, and of the ability, induſtry, and
vigilance of his agents, and obſerving a concurrence of many other circumſtances, I
was not without apprehenſions, that before the Government of Madras could have
timely notice of the train, the Aſſignment might be blown up at home, the ſudden
ſhock of which I knew muſt almoſt inſtantly overthrow the Company in the Carnatic;
I therefore employed myſelf moſt aſſiduouſly in making preparations to mitigate the
miſchief, and, by degrees, collected and ſtored up all the money that it was poſſible
to reſerve with ſafety from other ſervices and demands, ſo that when the exploſion
burſt upon us, I had provided an unexpected maſs of little leſs than thirteen Lacs of
Rupees to reſiſt its firſt violence. . *-
14. This precautionary treaſure has proved the immediate ſalvation of Fort St.
George, and, with careful management, may be rendered ſufficient to bear up againſt
the preſſure of three months.; but beyond that period the moſt dangerous embar-
•raffments are to be dreaded, unleſs a much more effeótual aid be furniſhed from the
JDurbar, or ſome other quarter than at preſent there appears any proſpect of.
2 I. I now reſume the narrative of my expedition to this Capital.
22. I took my paſſage, as I before mentioned, on board the Greyhound Packer,
propoſing to make a ſhort viſit to the Northern Settlements in my way; but, owing
to unfavourable weather, I was diſappointed in my deſire to ſee Maſulipatam. I
was more fortunate with reſpect to Vizagapatam, at which Factory I went on ſhore
for a day or two; and from thence, proceeding direétly hither, I arrived in the mid-
.dle of June, and took the earlieſt opportunity of delivering to the Governor General
and Council, the Diſpatches from Madras, which had been entruſted to my care.
23. It would be great ingratitude to theſe Gentlemen, were i to be filent on the
ſubjećt of their preſent attention and civilities to me, which, on more than one occa-
iſion, have been particularly pointed and obliging. -
24. With regard to public buſineſs, and the objećts and iſſue of my voyage here,
they are fully exhibited in the correſpondence now tranſmitted to you, in N° 4, N° 5,
.N° 6, and Nº. 7, of which I entreat your ſerious peruſal ; as from thence a much more
accurate idea may be formed, than the ſlight ſketch of a common general letter can
convey. - . ---
25. I had long before been ſo much enlivened (and your Honourable Court was,
no doubt, enlivened alſo) by the happy proſpects held out in the late Governor Ge-
ºneral’s letter to you, of the 16th December 1783, publiſhed in ſeveral newſpapers,
both foreign and domeſtic, that I flattered myſelf with hopes of finding ſuch reſources
in Bengal alone as might relieve any exigency or diſtreſs in the reſt of lndia, reſult-
-ing from a loſs of the Aſſignment, or from other misfortunes; but, in the range of
my enquiries, no diſtinét traces were to be diſcovered of theſe prognoſticated Funds.
I had it ſeems formed a viſionary eſtimate; the reality diſappeared like a phantom on
the approach of experiment, and I looked here for it in vain. The Government de-
clared, themſelves, ſtrangers to Mr. Haſtings’ letter, and indicated not a few ſymp-
toms of their own neceſſities. .
26. They had been obliged not only to reºrićt the Drafts from Madras within a
wery narrow compaſs, but to poſtpone to a diſtance the diſcharge of many which had
been long running upon them ; and the difficulty of complying with yºur orders re-
lative to China, they had not been able to obviate of ſurmount. Could they, by any
means, have commanded, either in the produćtions or the revenues of this country,
the reſources you required to complete an inveſtment for the ſhips appointed to
.return to Europe next year from Canton, they would ſcarcely have failed to provide
..and ſupply every poſſible remittance for that purpoſe at ſo critical a junéture, when
they knew your expectations muſt be high, the Tea trade almoſt entirely your own,
and the demand for that article ſo large, that a timely and abundant importation of it
176. - $ from
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P A PERS RE LAT IN G T O T H E
from abroad, would prove of powerful efficacy to revive your credit, and repleniſh
your Treaſury at home. - *. - - •
27. Thus, then, from a failure of the relief of Fort St. George, which was looked
for and ſolicited in this quarter, and from the Governor General and Council not
chooſing to hazard any delay in the execution of your inſtruštions of the 9th of
Becember laſt, you will not be ſurpriſed at the receipt of ſuch unpleaſant accounts
as will probably be tranſmitted to you in a few months hence from the Coaſt. I
confeſs my own apprehenſions to be ſo ſtrong, that I cannot avoid allowing much
clear, unqualified opinion, and to write as follows: :
28. “ The new arrangements from England with the Nabob, however ſpecious
“ and plauſible on paper, will be found fallacious and impračticable in execution,
“ and terminate at laſt in unſpeakable confuſion and diſtreſs. Mr. —, and
“; a few artful, or overbearing, unprincipled men, about the Durbar, may help them-
“ ſelves in the ſcramble, but the fair creditor, to whom the Nabob is juſtly indebted,
credit to a very intelligent correſpondent at Madras, who does not ſcruple to give a
“ will, in all likelihood, be baffled, and have little chance of receiving a ſingle
Pondicherry.
* Fanam, till the Company itſelf reſume the receipt and management of the Re-
“ venues, and diſtribute as well as aſcertain the proportions.” --
29. That the neceſſity of your affairs will oblige you to have recourſe to that mea-
ſure I have little doubt you will therefore naturally endeavour to provide againſt
the hazards and difficulties which it may be likely to involve, for many new and
ſerious ones are to be reaſonably apprehended, eſpecially if you recolle&t the fixth
article of the Nabob's propoſed treaty with Bengal in the beginning of the year
1801, (through the channel of his Dewan and Miniſter Aſſem Cawn, and Mr.
Richard Joſeph Sulivan) now encloſed to you in Nº. 8, and which includes an idea
‘ſtill in bud at the Durbar, and ready to expand with the firſt promiſing weather at
30. Neither can I ſoon forget the ſtrong ſolicitude ſo lately manifeſted by the $
Nabob for negociating direétly with the French, under pretence of the ceſſion of
‘Villenour and Bahoor, and thus immediately coming into cloſe contraćt with that
intriguing and dangerous nation, inſtead of tranſačting with them, as formerly, throu gh
•our intervention. . .
31. All theſe conſiderations operating upon my mind, I loſt no opportunity of
surging the Governor General and Council with all the arguments which the impor-
tance of the ſubjećt ſupplied. If I have failed of making the deſired impreſſion, no
zeal or exertion has been wanting on my part ; and if, from the want of ſucceſs in
my miſſion here, the evils which menace your officers in the Carnatic ſhould be
realized, let it not be forgotten that I had exhauſted every endeavour to avert
them. . . . . . . - - -
32. Having now nothing further to detain me here, I prepared without delay for
my departure, but as the Greyhound Packet, in which I had come from Madras,
was extremely finall, inconvenient, and ill calculated for a voyage to Europe at this
ſeaſon, I made application to Government to grant me a paſſage in the Swallow
Packet, then lying in this river, and to all appearance unemployed on any public
ſervice; they have been ſo good as to comply with my requeſt, and I propoſe to em-
bark in her for England in the courſe of next week. * .
80. It is with pleaſure that I now turn to the Icgth paragraph of your Diſpatch of
the 9th December laſt, communicating to me the unanimous thanks of your
Honourable Court for my zeal and affivity in your ſervice, and for my aſſiſtance in
procuring the late peace in India ; and i beg leave to expreſs the high ſenſe I muſt
sever entertain of this mark of your favour.
81. That I have ſerved you with zeal and ačtivity, and, let me add, with a diſin-
tereſtedneſs unexampled in my ſtation, I have the unequivocal teſtimony of my own
'heart, without which no other applauſe could miniſter any fincere ſatisfaātion.
32. That I gave my beſt aſſiſtance in procuring the late peace with Tippoo is no
leſs true than I was tardily, ſcantily, and ungraciouſly aſſiſted by this Government;
the Records before you will ſhew how early I applied for powers and inſtrućtions, how
late they were obtained, and the contents of thoſe which are afforded at laſt, ſo long .
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A F F A I R S OF T H E C A R N A T H C.
65
had they been withheld that our Commiſſioners to Tippoo had ſet forward on their
journey without them. '.
83. Whatever praiſes therefore may be due to thoſe who made the Peace, the late -
Governor General and his Council had no pretenſions to participate.
84. However honoured and confirmed by your ſanétion and applauſe, they con-
demned it without reſerve, and would have riſqued its diſruption. y
85. Happily indeed before they ventured on the ſecond ſtep they began to ſee the
danger of the firſt, and retired from the precipice although with reluétance ; and yet
what could have been the objećt that drew them to approach it 2–It was not ſurely
to mortify the Government of Madras; it was not ſurely to gratify the vanity of
Mahomed Ali. Miſerable indeed muſt be the condition of the Company in the
Carnatic, if a new conflagration may be lighted up there by a little ſpark from
Chepauk ; if intereſts of ſuch magnitude as yours are to be hazarded ſo lightly, and
your tranquillity and ſafety made to oſcillate and traverſe with the paſſions and in-
trigues of the Nabob's Durbar. - - -
86. To ſecure the Company againſt ſuch a wretched contingent ſtate, and to rivet
their predominance on the ſpot, it was neceſſary that the Company alone ſhould make
Peace for the Carmatic, and that the Company ſhould, as Protectors of the Country,
take upon themſelves to anſwer for the conditions of the Treaty, which they could
not have done if the Nabob had been a contraćting party.
87. If then this Peace of ours, ſo criminated by the late Governor General and
his Council, has been made with ſuch precautions for your dignity and ſafety; if at
the time when almoſt every other Peace with our enemies, with the French, the
Spaniards, the United States, and the Mahrattas, had admitted of the loſs of entire
Provinces, this Peace of ours was concluded without the abſciſſion of a ſingle inch
of territory ; and, let me add, without the diſgrace of purchaſing with money the
neutrality or forbearance of any Indian Power. If theſe diſtinguiſhing circumſtances
be conſidered, I flatter myſelf I ſhall be pardoned for any little animation ºf may
feel in defending it from the attacks or reproaches of this Preſidency. You will in-
dulge me too, I hope, if i value your approbation ſo highly 3. if I am ſo proud of it
that I wiſh to enjoy it pure and unalloyed, and that the tranſačtions of my Admini-
ſtration, which are the objećt of it, may ſtand ſeparate and diſtinčt from thoſe of this
Government, which, by the rode of expreſſing your thanks to the late Governor Ge-
meral for his endeavours, and to his Council for their aſſiſtance, in procuring Peace with
the ſeveral Powers in India, would not ſeem to be the caſe. *
88. If the phraſe ſeveral Powers in Jndia, mean more than the Powers of India,
and include our European antagoniſts in India, thoſe thanks, ſo worded, might, when
they paſſed, have appeared to ſome obſervers as of rather too great a latitude, if not
prematurely applied. The Peace with France, and the Peace with Holland, were
procured at lºome.: as to the latter, enough has been ſaid of it in another part of this
letter; but, with regard to the former, I venture to call to your recollečtion, that,
before the news of it could reach Calcutta, before any official communication arrived
in the Carnatic, the moment I received the intelligence which aſcertained the fačt,
the Government of Madras took the prompt and decifive ſtep of notifying it to
Monſieur de Buffy witheut delay, and of concluding with him an immediate ceſſa-
...tion of arms, by means of which your affairs on the Coaſt were reſcued from the
deſperate ſtate which they had been thrown into by the various misfortunes of the
month of June in the neighbourhood of Cuddalore. -- -
89. Such being the exact ſtate of the caſe, and the Peace with Tippoo being, as
you have ſeen, reprobated, and almoſt diſclaimed by the late Governor General and
his Council, the only Peace then, either with a native or a foreign Power in India,
which they have a juſt claim upon, is the Peace with the Mahrattas; that certainly,
but that alone properly belongs to them, and no others pretend to a ſhare in it. If
therefore, too delicate as well as too juſt to encroach upon their ground, I am de-
ſirous of ſtanding only upon my own, (being reſigned to fall, if it will not ſupport
me) I truſt you will excuſe this digreſſion which aroſe ſo naturally from the feelings
..of a grateful mind, anxious to diſcriminate thanks from compliments, and to evince
176. . - -- * - - that
* .
II.
‘P AP E R S R E LAT I N G T O T H E
II.
that the thanks which you had been pleaſed to honour me with were not entirely
unmerited. -
go. At the ſame time that I expreſs my ſenſibility of your approbation, in this
‘inſtance, I feel no leſs affected by the delicate terms in which your opinion is con-
veyed of ſome parts of my condućt towards the Nabob, relative to the Torana Chits,
the communication of the Peace, and the Minute of the 9th September 1783.
9x. Not having my papers here, which would enable me to be as accurate as I
wiſh to be, in the elucidation of any matters that come before you, I muſt defer en-
tering upon the ſubječt at preſent ; but from my immediate recolleºtion of fačts and
circumſtances I can venture to promiſe, that I ſhall find no difficulty in vindicating
myſelf upon all the points to your perfeót ſatisfačtion. *
92. Nor will it be leſs eaſy to ſhew from the Records of the Company, how fre-
quently the Durbar has attempted to impoſe upon you before by the faiſeſt repre-
fentations, and with what complete ſucceſs they have hitherto been able for ſuch a
ſeries of years to carry on the moſt extraordinary ſyſtem of political deception that
has ever occurred in the hiſtory of mankind. -
93. It is indeed ſome conſolation to me to find, that of the various complaints
againſt me from the Nabob, with which I have been attacked, moſt of them are ſo
‘fooliſh and improbable as in a great meaſure to counteraćt their own venom and au-
dacity.; but there is one ſo extremely malignant in 1s intention, and pernicious in
its conſequences, that you will require to be particularly informed of it.
94. Merely to inſult or calumniate me as an individual, he might perhaps at-
tempt to palliate by a plea of precipitate paſſion and reſentment, but to ačt the part
of a public as well as a private incendiary, and to endeavour by a moſt deliberate and
atrocious falſehood, boldly affirmed in a letter to a man in the higheſt ſtation of your
- e * º * 5
ſervice, to excite ſuch perſonal jealouſy and animoſity in his mind, as were thought
moſt ikely to embroil the Governments of Bengal and Fort St. George, to diſtraćt
your ſervice, and thoſt eſſentially injure, if not ruin, your affairs in India, is a degree
of wickedneſs and ingratitude to the Company that admits of no extenuation or
apology. -
95. I will ſtate the matter in a few words. Happening not long fince to look
over ſome old London news-papers, and among them the Public Advertiſer of the
3d June 1784, I caſt my eyes upon a letter inſerted in it, dated from Calcutta,
December the 3d, 1783, and ſigned W. M. You will eaſily imagine that I ſhould
have paſſed it over without much attention, if I had not obſerved my own name in
one of the paragraphs, which is as follows:
96. “At the moment I am writing, we are informed that Lord Macartney is ap-
“ pointed Governor General of Bengal, and that General Smith and Mr. Edward
, g {
Monéton are arrived at Buſſorah in their way here, as Members of the Supreme
“ Council. This is farther.corroborated by a letter from the Nabob of Arcot to
“ Mr. Haſtings, entered on the conſultations the 25th November, in which the
“ Nabob ſays, that Lord Macartney had told his Highneſs he had received letters
“ from Mr. Fox and Mr. Burke, aſſuring him that Mr. Haſtings was to be diſ-
{{ {
miſſed, and he, Lord Macartney, appointed Governor General of Bengal.”
97. Well acquainted as I was with the forgeries and inventions of the Durbar, I
could ſcarcely bring myſelf to believe that the Nabob had ſent a letter to Mr. Haſt-
ings of ſuch a nature; but the reſpect due to your Honourable Court, and the diſtin-
guiſhed names which have been mentioned with ſuch freedom, and the juſtice I owed
to myſelf, rendering it neceſſary to know the truth, I applied to this Government
for information, and found that he certainly had, and that his letter was upon
record.
;
98. The whole ſtory is not only abſolutely falſe and improbable in every particu-
lar, but it is impoſſible. , &
99. From the month of March 1782 to this hour, I have never had any converſa-
tion whatſoever with the Nabob or any of his family, nor have I ſeen either him
or them, except when accidentally paſſing in a carriage, the Nabob having broken
off all perſonal intercourſe with me, even ſo far as to refuſe receiving from me in
the uſual ceremony your Honourable Court's letters to him. # .
;I Qo. For
A FF AIRS OF T H E C A R N AT I C.
too. For a conſiderable time paſt, indeed almoſt ever ſince the Reſolution of the
Houſe of Commons for the diſmiſſion of Mr. Haſtings, there have been various re-
ports fabricated and induſtriouſly ſpread through ſeveral parts of India, relative to the
ſucceſſion to that Gentleman's Government, and the names of Lord Cornwallis,
Lord Chatham, Mr. Leyceſter, Mr. Vanſittart, Lord Macartney, and others, have
been mentioned for it at different times and in different modes; in whiſpers, private
letters, and in public news-papers; , but with regard to myſelf, I never held but one
uniform language upon the ſubjećt, and I appeal for the truth of it to the Gentle-
men of my Council at Madras, and to every other perſon there with whom I have
had occaſion to converſe. I always deciated, that were I to conſider a removal from
Fort St. George to Bengal merely in a pecuniary light, it was not an objećt to me,
as the difference of emolument between A. (7,000 and A. 26,ooo per annum, bein
the reſpective allowances of the two Governments, would be abſorbed by the differ-
ence and encreaſe of expence, but that my views did not at all point towards it, and
that they were bounded entirely by the faithful diſcharge of my duty where I was,
and by the hope of being able to complete the plan I had begun ; and thus to leave
the Company's affairs at my departure for Europe on ſuch a footing in the Carnatic,
as would enſure their ſtability and permanence againſt every accident that might have
been apprehended from without or within. - -
IoI. Such were my declared ſentiments ; and I can appeal to Mr. Haſtings him-
ſelf, whether he was not more than once informed by my direétion, that I enter-
tained no thoughts or deſire of his office; and I could appeal if neceſſary to much
higher authority at home. -
1oz. Your Honourable Court, in whom reſts the nomination to it, and to whom
I ſhould therefore naturally look up, well knows that I never have ſolicited or ap-
plied for it in any addreſs to you, either collečtively or individually; and I do ſo-
lemnly aſſure you, that I never ſolicited or applied for it through any other channel,
whether private friends or public miniſters. -
103. Having ſaid thus much, I muſt alſo expreſs my regret that this Government
did not, by informing me of the Nabob's letter, afford me an opportunity of doing
myſelf juſtice to them, inſtead of ſuffering ſuch a falſhood to contaminate their Re-
cords, uncontradićted and unremarked on ; and thus finiſhing, in the tranſmiſſion
home, a ſure vehicle for the poiſon to work its purpoſe againſt me in the minds of
my honourable employers. -- e
104. How different a language would his Highneſs have held of me, if I had ob-
ſerved a different condućt from that which I did obſerve -
Io;. Had I endeavoured to delude him by flattering his paſſions, by giving him
hopes of repoſſeſſing Tanjore, of extirpating or expelling every Zemindar or Poly-
gar of the Carnatic, whoſe riches or territory excited his avarice or ambition, and
of aiding him to elevate his ſecond ſon to the diſheriſon of his eldeſt; or had I en-
deavoured to delude the Company by repreſenting that he truly was, what he affe&ts
to ſtyle himſelf, the hereditary independant Sovereign of the Carnatic, and a man of
ſtrićt honour and integrity; that he had the pureſt intentions and wiſhes for your in-
tereſts and proſperity ; and that you might rely on his generoſity and liberality of
ſentiment for the performance of all his engagements with you, I ſhould have been
extolled by him as the beſt Governor you ever ſent to Fort St. George, and I might
poſſibly have been one of the richeſt.—But ever attentive to the various orders and
inſtrućtions with which you had thought neceſſary to guard your Preſidency of Madras,
your apprehenſions of the Nabob's aſpiring views, the jealouſies you had expreſs-
red of his deſigns at different periods and on different occaſions, your wiſe policy in
endeavouring to hold in your own hands the whole military power of the country,
and that the Nabob ſhould depend entirely on the Company for protećtion and ſup-
port, I regulated my condućt accordingly, and never for a moment loſt fight of theſe
great lines of direétion for my Government, -
106. To conciliate the Nabob's mind to his real ſituation, which he ſeemed will-
ing to forget, to revive in his memory without wounding his delicacy or his pride, the
ſteps by which he had riſen to elevation, to lead him to feel his obligations to the
Company, that whatever rank or territory he had ever poſſeſſed, either by his paper
titles or by ačtual occupancy, he derived from their arms, their influence, their ge-
176. T - - neroſity;
H.
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neroſity; and that his intereſts and ſecurity were ſo involved in theirs, that to at-
tempt or pretend to a diſtinét, ſeparate, independant Sovereignty, as he talked of, or
to imagine that he could exiſt without the Company, or to expect that the Company
would go on defending the country at their own expence, without an adequate ſhare
of the Revenues of it, were abſurdities that, though in ſome meaſure warranted by
former friendſhip or connivance, he ought no longer to indulge in, as they would
prove a fatal deceit upon himſelf, and muſt ſoon end in his total deſtrućtion, and
in that of his beſt friends on the Coaſt. To engage the Nabob's mind to a calm
conſideration of all theſe points, was not an eaſy taſk, but it was a neceſſary one,
and was performed with ſucceſs.-The reſult was, his Aſſignment of the Revenue.
107. In the general letter by the Swallow of January 1782, full juſtice was done
to the Ameer for his ſhare in the accompliſhment of this meaſure ; and ſurely his
aid and concurrence are no ſlender proofs of the gentleneſs and conciliation of my
language and deportment in my part of the buſineſs, and that I did not employ
thoſe airs of arrogance and imperious dićtation which the Durbar, but the Durbar
alone and their partizans, have ſince imputed to me. . -
103. It is true, indeed, that having obtained the Aſſignment, I held it faſt with a
{teadineſs and perſeverance which the Durbar, I believe, did not expect; that, whether
from pride, prudence, or principle, I held myſelf above temptation ; that from my
growing experience in your affairs, I became proof againſt impoſition, and againſt
thoſe ačts which having been pračtiſed perhaps ſucceſsfully upon others, it was
provoking to ſee loſt upon me; and that through every tranſačtion with them I endea—
voured to diſcharge the duty of an honeſt man and a faithful ſervant to the Company
and State. -- -
109. Theſe were offences that I know the Durbar will never forgive me; and I
have therefore little doubt, that wherever I am, I ſhall meet in my way with frequent
fraces of their malignity as long as I live.
1 Io. I ſhall now draw this letter to a cloſe, which, from the various matter that
has unavoidably crouded upon me, is ſwelled far beyond the ſize I expected when
I firſt took up my pen. *- : -- ...'
1 II. As it is probably the laſt letter I may have occaſion to trouble you with, I
will venture to plead that circumſtance as its apology. There is another which may
not be ſo eaſily excuſed, and which I wiſh it had been poſſible to avoid, but hav-
ing from my ſituation been ſo interwoven into the texture of your affairs, that the
tranſačtions could not be ſeparated from the perſon without injury to both, I have
ſometimes been forced into a ſtrain of egotiſm and controverſy very unpleaſant to
my feelings and oppoſite to my charaćter; but it is better that I ſhould ſuffer incon-
yenience or uneaſineſs, than that you ſhould be darkly or imperfeótly informed.
I 12. It is not without pain that I recollečt ſome paſſages of this letter which ex-
preſs or imply a complaint or diſſatisfačtion of the proceedings of others, but I could
not eraſe them without being guilty of diſingenuity to you, or of injuſtice to thoſe
Gentlemen, who had concurred with me in meaſures which differing ſo widely from
the ſentiments of this Government, might be miſconceived or miſconſtrued, if they
were not fairly repreſented and explained. w *
113. Reſerving myſelf for ſuch farther communications as you may think proper
to require, when i ſhall have the honour of waiting upon your Honourable Court in
perſon, I ſhall only add, that, as in the exerciſe of your authority I have been ſolely
guided by an attention to your honour and advantage, ſo if in the purſuit of them I
have ever fallen into any ſeeming irregularity or error, I rely with confidence on your
ſupport (ſhould I want it) againſt any ſhafts of enmity or perſecution that may be
aimed at me from certain quarters, having, in the diſcharge of my duty through every
branch of your ſervice, always preferred public utility to private regards, reputation
ito emolument, and your intereſt to my own. * - * - -
I have the honour to be,
With great reſpect,
- Gentlemen, - -
Your moſt obedient and moſt faithful humble Servant,
..M. acqrtney.
AFFAIRS OF THE C A R N A TI C. -
P. S. Having ſince writing the above ſeen a printed letter from Mr. Richard
Joſeph Sulivan, addreſſed to the Honourable Court of Direétors, in which, pages 58
and 59, I obſerved the following Note: -
“ Extraćt of a letter from the Governor General and Council of Bengal to the
… Honourable the Court of Direétots of the Eaſt India Company, Oétober 20th
“ 1783.” * }
“And here we beg leave to obſerve, that we have undoubted evidence from the
“ letters of the Nabob Wallajah, as well as from the repreſentations of Lord Macart-
“ ney to one of our Members, that it was chiefly owing to Mr. Sulivan's zeal and in-
“ fluence that the Nabob granted to ILord Macartney the Sunnud of Aſſignment
for the Revenues of the Carnatic.”
I beg leave to trouble you with a word upon the ſubjećt. •º 3.
The Ameer, in converſation with me, always aſſumed entirely to himſelf the merit
of bringing his father to reliſh my ſentiments, and make the Aſſignment. -
What influence Mr. Sulivan may have had over ſuch a man as the Ameer, I do
not now enquire, nor do I know, otherwiſe than as I learned by what has come from
Mr. Sulivan himſelf. -
I ſhould be glad to ſee the repreſentations ſaid to be made by me to a Member of
the Council of Bengal, which ſhew that it was chiefly owing to Mr. Sulivan's zeal and
influence that the Nabob granted to me the Sunnud of Aſſignment for the Revenues
Ç
of the Carnatic; and I do requeſt that your Honourable Court will call for theſe
repreſentations, and for every other in which I ever have mentioned Mr. Sulivan's
Iläill C.
Calcutta,
July the 28th, 1785. -- f - M.
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(Nº. 1)–Fort St. George.
* ... - M IN U T E for Council, May 28th, 1785.
HAVING frequently expreſſed to the Board my intention of proceeding to Europe,
as ſoon as I received authentic information of the appointment of a ſucceſſor; and
the Honourable Court of Directors having now apprized us of the nomination of
Mr. Holland to ſucceed me in the Government, I propoſe, in conſequence, to
avail myſelf of the earlieſt opportunity of putting that intention into execution.
My health is much broken by ſevere and repeated attacks of the gout, and I
feel myſelf unable to continue thoſe exertions of labour and application, by which
I have, during theſe laſt four years, ſuſtained the heavy and encreaſing weight of the
charge entruſted to me. But, were my ſtrength and abilities much ſuperior to
what I feel them, I candidly confeſs, it would be utterly impôffible for me to carry
on the Company's adminiſtration under the orders juſt received for ſurrendering the
Nabob's Aſſignment. Theſe orders are founded in ſentiments dire&tly oppoſite to
the opinions which I have invariably entertained, and communicated to my em-
ployers of the actual ſituation of their affairs; and I cannot help ſuppoſing from
them, that the Honourable Court of Directors have withdrawn their confidence
from my adminiſtration ; and, by eſtabliſhing a ſyſtem which tends to throw an
abſolute diſcredit upon all that I have done, and repreſented upon this important
ſubjećt, it would appear as if they meant, though they have not expreſſed it, that
my reſignation ſhould immediately follow the receipt of theſe orders.
After all that has paſſed relative to this Aſſignment, after the ſtruggles that have
been made to keep it, againſt the whole power of Bengal, and againſt the moſt
determined oppoſition of the Nabob, I certainly expected that the Honourable
Court of Directors would have allowed greater credit to the motives which induced
me, contrary to my own perſonal intereſt and ſafety, to hold faſt to the Aſſign-
ment, as the great reſource for the common preſervation of the Company and
their friends; and, at any rate, that they would not have ſurrendered this pledge of
ſecurity, without pointing out and obtaining ſome equivalent for it. The ſtate-
ments and calculations before the Honourabic Court at the time they came to the
reſolution of reſtoring the Affignment, led to concluſions directly the reverſe of
thoſe
P A P E R S R E L A T IN G TO THE
thoſe which have been taken in the general letter. They ſhewed the rapid decline
of Revenue, and encreaſe of expence, while the country was under the Nabob's
management. They proved, that the whole amount of his receipts were inſuf-
ficient to diſcharge one half of the annual demands upon him from the Company
and his Creditors; and they demonſtrated that, by the Company's management,
the Revenue was nearly doubled, and promiſed a Fund amply ſufficient to have eaſed
the Nabob in a few years of moſt of his incumbrances. I conceive therefore,
(and am pretty confident I ſhall never have cauſe to change my opinion) that
the Nabob’s real intereſt and happineſs, as well as the general ſecurity, would have
been beſt conſulted by retaining the Aſſignment, and that the Company, upon the ſame
principle that they aſſert their right to wield the the ſword for the common good
in the time of war, might have adminiſtered the Revenue for the common good in
time of peace. When danger threatens, the principle muſt hold equally good in
both fituations. The embarraſſments which the late war has thrown upon the
Company, render their circumſtances almoſt as critical at this junéture, as they
were during the invaſion; and until the army arrears are reduced, and ſecure Funds
eſtabliſhed for the preſent and future payment of the troops, our internal danger
is as great as any that can threaten us from without. -
The differences that have ſubſiſted between the Nabob and this Govern-
ment, and which no accommodating ſpirit on my part can now reconcile, preſent
inſurmountable objećtions to my bearing any concern in the new arrangements. Their
ſucceſs muſt chiefly depend, in the firſt inſtance, upon their being brought forward by
Gentlemen, againſt whom the Nabob entertains none of theſe violent prejudices
which he has manifeſted in all his ačtions and correſpondence with me, ever ſince
the Aſſignment was firſt obtained from him. I am ſtill ſenſible of the great
difficulties and perplexities which are likely to involve this Government, however
fucceſsful it may be in its firſt operations: theſe can only be alleviated by the power-
ful aid and interpoſition of the Governor General and Council of Bengal ; and, if
the Board ſhould think it eligible, I freely offer my ſervice to proceed thither in my
way to England, and endeavour, by a perſonal repreſentation of the ſtate of this
Government, to draw ſuch a decided and effectual ſupport from them, as may be
adequate to the relief of its embarraſſments. - - -
This offer proceeds ſolely from a wiſh to employ my ſervice in any way that may
be acceptable or uſeful, to the very laſt moment of my ſtay in India. I have no
other concern which could induce me to viſit Bengal, and particularly at this un-
healthy ſeaſon of the year; but ſhould the Board be of opinion, that my preſence
there will not tend to ſtrengthen their written repreſentations, or to give the Gen-
tlemen a better inſight into the ačtual ſtate of your affairs than they have at preſent,
J ſhall requeſt permiſſion in that caſe to proceed to England on the Glatton, .
now under diſpatch. -- -
- (Signed) Macartney.
(Nº. 2.)—Fort St. George.
M IN U T E for Council, June 1ſt, 1785. - -
+HAVING in my Minute, read at the Board the 28th May, ſignified my intention
of ſoon proceeding to Europe, I now beg leave to record, that I propoſe embark-
ing on the Greyhound to-morrow for Bengal, from whence I mean to take my
paſſage to England by the ſpeedieſt ſafe conveyance.
At the ſame time that I mention this, I cannot omit to expreſs my particular
thanks to the Members of the Board, for the unremitting ſupport which I have
received from them in the execution of the laborious duties of my office: without
this ſupport I muſt have ſunk under the peculiar embarraſſments of my ſituation:
with it, I have been enabled thus far to reſtore peace and tranquillity to the country,
and to make ſome proviſion for the numerous and preſſing demands of the ſervice.
The late orders from England, however they may have affected thoſe plans, by
which alone I conceive the Company’s intereſts and eſtabliſhments on this Coaſt are
likely to be ſupported, can make no alteration in my wiſhes for the proſperity of
- - their
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their affairs, or my firm determination to promote that proſperity as far as I can,
both in Bengal and in England, by the aid of ſuch informatious as I may have
acquired during my reſidence in the country. - \ -
The laſt duty I am to perſorm, before I take my final leave of the Coaſt, will be
my formal reſignation of the Government. I ſhall ſend it in writing from the laſt
Northern port of the Circars at which I ſhall touch in my way to Bengal. I now
deliver up to the Board my key of the Treaſury, and ſhall deliver up the keys of
the Fort St. George to Mr. Davidſon at the moment of my embarkation, both
under the neceſſary reſervation of my right to reſume them--" in the event of my
“ being obliged, which God forbid, (by any accident befalling the ſhip in her
“ paſſage to Bengal) to return to this Preſidency; or any other contingency com-
“ pelling my return.” . . . ~
The pair:ful moment is now arrived when I muſt bid you farewel. My feelings
on the occaſion are too ſtrong for my expreſſion. May your adminiſtration, Gen-
tlemen, be happy; I am fully perſuaded it will be juſt, prudent, and honour-
able. :
Before I conclude, I beg leave to enter upon your Records two Papers: I requeſt
they may go together with my preſent addreſs as numbers in the Packet to England.
One is an Affidavit, and the other a Declaration, both which it is proper to have
tranſmitted for the information of my honourable employers.
(Signed) Macartney.
I George Lord MACARTNEy, Governor and Preſident of Fort St. George, in
the Eaſt Indies, do ſolemnly ſwear and declare, to the beſt of my knowledge and
belief, that from the day of my arrival here on the 22d June 1781, to this hour,
I have never by myſelf, or by any other perſon for me, directly or indireétly,
accepted or received for my own benefit, from any perſon or perſons whom-
ſoever, a preſent or preſents of any kind, except two pipes of Madeira wine from
two particular friends, (one of whom never was in India, the other is at Bengal,)
a few bottles of Champaign and Burgundy, and fruit and proviſions of very trifling
value. And I farther ſwear ahd declare, that I have confined myſelf ſolely to the
Honourable Company's allowances, which are forty thouſand pagodas per annum,
and the commiſſion and conſulage on coral, which during my Government have
produced on an average one thouſand pagodas per annum; that I have never em-
bezzled, or miſappropriated to my own uſe, any part of the Company's monies or
effects; and that I have not been engaged in any trade, traffic or dealing of any
kind, but ſtrićtly and bona fide obſerved all my covenants with the Honourable Eaſt
India Company, and acted in all things for their honour and intereſt to the beſt of
my judgment and ability. -
So help me God.
(Signed) Macartney.
Fort St. George,
Sworn before me, this 1ſt day of June, 1785.
(Signed). Philip Stowey,
* , ; , *
!\ } & yo, e
Fort St. George.
MI N U T E for Council, June 1ſt, 1785.
HAVING in January 1784, made up my account of the clear benefit, (after
paying my expences,) of the Government of Fort St. George to me, from m
arrival to that time; I tranſmitted it to the Honourable Court of Direétors by the
Buſbridge, which ſailed from hence for England early in the February following.
The balance in my favour was then 52,224 pagodas; fince that period to this day,
1ſt June 1785, the net benefit, according to the moſt accurate ſettlement that I
-can draw out, amounts to 29,572 pagodas; ſo that upon the whole, during my
four year's reſidence in India, my fortune has been increaſed by the ſum of 81,796
176. U , -- pagodas,
II.
72 g P A P E R S RELAT IN G TO T H E.
II. pagodas, from which ought to be dedućted my expences, and the price of my
paſſage to Europe, which I conceive can ſcarcely be eſtimated at leſs than 50oo
pagodas. {
Although the proviſion of 58 Sečt. of the Aćt of the 23d of His Majeſty de-
clares, that no perſon returning from India before the 1ſt January 1787, ſhall
be compelled to deliver any inventory, or account of his property, I have thought
it neceſſary ſo far to anticipate the wiſh of the Legiſlature in this reſpect, as to
record the foregoing account on the books of this Preſidency where I have been
ſerving, and I deſire it may ſtand there as a public Record open to the inſpection
of every perſon who may be inclined to peruſe it. -
(Signed) Macartney.
Fort St. George, 2d June, 1785.
STATEMENT of the Sums in the Treaſury and Caſh of Fort St.
George, with the expected Sums due to them the 2d June 1785.
Balance in the caſh in fanams and current
pagodas gº tºº tºº 23,564 8 54 .
Balance in the Treaſury in Art M. pa-
'godas and current pagodas sº I 74,500 I I 2
Balance in the Europe Bills wº 9,726 16 3
3. *—- P. 207,790 25 69
Balance in the Aſſigned Revenue * wº 33,920 O O
Bills running on different perſons - . wº º I 4,375 o O
Depoſits are as follow, viz.
The amount of Nuzzurs depoſited by the
Governor tºº 2,009 29 43
Boat people depoſited - * 5OO O O
Colonel Home’s money depoſited tº 5,694 4 I
Mr. Hoiffard paid on account of quit-rent -
of ground *sº &º - 83o 35 2.5
The rent of Toddy trees of Mr. Caſſa-
major's garden tº * sº 972 O O ... * w
- * -— 9,916 32 69
Money expe&ted from Tanjore *E* I 20,000 o o
Received sº tº º — 85,000 o o
y * 35,000 o o
Jagapah's pro, note to lend on a bond * sº wº 2O,OOO O O
Pagodas 321,002 22 58
(Errors excepted)
(Signed) Macartney.
Fort St. George, June the 1ſt, 1785.
To the Honourable John Macpherſon, Eſquire, Governor General, and Council,
* , at Fort William. - -
Gentlemen, -
THE Company's ſhip Houghton arrived from England the 26th inſtant, and
brought us letters from the Court of Directors, dated the 9th and I oth December,
of which we have now the honour to incloſe copies for your information. -
You will perceive by thoſe Diſpatches, that the Honourable Court of Direétors
have ordered the ſurrender of the Aſſignment, and referred us to certain Treaties
- * and
A F FA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
and Arrangements to be made with the Nabob and the Rajah of Tanjore, for
defraying the expences of protećting the Carnatic both in peace and war.
We have in conſequence written a letter to the Nabob, copy of which we encloſe,
informing him of our intention to comply with the Company’s orders, with as
much expedition as the nature of ſuch a change will permit.'
Our Preſident finding his health much impaired by frequent attacks of the gout,
has determined to return to England immediately, in which reſolution he is not
only ſtrengthened by the appointment of Mr. Holland, who is nominated to
ſucceed him on his reſignation, but alſo by the purport of the orders received from
the Court of Direétors, in the execution of which he cannot be a party confiſt-
ently with his known ſentiments, with the line he has taken, and under the ſtrong
prejudices which have invariably operated againſt him in the mind of the Nabob.
To take away, therefore, every pretence to impute to him the embarraſſments
and difficulties which muſt neceſſarily attend the new arrangements, he now with-
draws himſelf from the ſcene, and he truſts that his motive for doing to will be
received as the beſt evidence he can give of his fincere diſpoſition to obey the orders
of the Company, by removing, as far as depends upon himſelf, what might
perhaps be conſidered as an obſtacle to their accompliſhment. We beg leave to
encloſe a copy of the Minute delivered in by the Right Honourable the Preſident
on this occaſion.
We have made it our particular requeſt to Lord Macartney, that he will proceed
to Bengal before he takes his final departure for Europe; and this we have done
with a view of availing ourſelves of his perſonal repreſentations to you upon the
ſtate of this Preſidency, in order that you may be fully appriſed of our preſent
embarraſſments, and prepared to give us the moſt effectual relief in your power.
Strongly impreſſed as we are with the higheſt ſenſe of duty and obedience to the
orders of our conſtituents, it may yet be permitted us to expreſs our apprehenſions
of the fatal conſequences that may reſult from the ſudden abolition of the Aſſign-
ment ſecurity without any equivalent, or chance of an equivalenſ, to anſwer the
various preſſing and momentous exigencies of the ſervice.
Soucar ſecurity, on which the Court of Direétors ſeem to lay ſo great a ſtreſs,
never can be obtained from the Nabob for the heavy payments he will have to
make to the Company. Nor, if obtained for any part of them, can it be depended
upon ; ſince we know for a certainty, that the principal Soucars here are abſolutely
ruined by former tranſactions with the Nabob, and that there is not one in the place
whoſe ſecurity can be ſafely taken, even for ſo ſmall a ſum as twenty thouſand
pagodas. - -
We fear, therefore, that this expected reſource of Soucar ſecurity, which has
been held out to the Company in ſuch ſhewing colours, will fail altogether of its
purpoſe, and leave us to depend entirely upon the faith and honour of the Nabob,
even for our daily ſupport.
However favourably we might be inclined to think of the Nabob's future
intentions, we certainly cannot draw any hope from the paſt experience of
our own or of any former Government. The Records, for many years paſt,
are full of eſſential failures on the part of the Nabob in his money engage-
ments, and of conſtant complaints on the part of Government of the critical
and dangerous ſituations to which they were frequently expoſed, by being reduced
to our abſolute dependance on the Nabob in this particular.
The breaking out of the late war afforded the moſt ſtriking example of the
Nabob's inſufficiency or diſinclination to affiſt us; for, from the time of Hyder's
invaſion in July 1780, until the acquiſition of the Aſſignment in December 1782,
we ſcarcely received any aſſiſtance whatſoever from him, though at this period he
had not only the obligations of faith and honour, but the more powerful ſtimulative
of ſelf-preſervation to dire& him to his true intereſts.
But, admitting that he has now profited by the leſſons he has had, and that he is
further impreſſed with the moſt lively attachment and gratitude to the Company for
the immenſe obligation which he has received from them; and allowing him to act
in conſequence with the pureſt deſign of fulfilling his engagements, nothing is more
176. 's eaſy
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II.
and that they will be happy to receive from your Lordſhip any repreſentation which
af *
eaſy than to prove from the materials before you, and which were before the Court
of Direétors at the time their late orders were framed, that it is impračticable for
the Nabob, in the management of his own Revenues, to perform what is now
required from him. - - sº k
It appears by the Nabob's own accounts entered in the proceedings of the Committee
of Aſſigned Revenue, that his net receipts from the whole Carnatic, on an average
for the three years immediately before the war, were 13,81,218 pagodas per annum.
Suppoſing him to receive the ſame ſum now, without any dedućtion for the
impoveriſhed and ruined ſtate of many of the diſtrićts in conſequence of the war,
how will this account then ſtand? *
His proportion of the current charges for the defence of the Carnatic, excluſive
of the pay of the King's troops, will be, according to the former arrangements,
about ºs tºº *s gº dº 5 lacks
Annual payment on amount of his public and private debts H 2.
Expences of his houſhold, guards, and all other charges, &c. &c. 5
* - 22 lacks.
This is a moderate computation, and yet it ſhews at once a deficiency of about
eight lacks of pagodas. It is poſſible indeed, and barely poſſible, that the Nabob
may, by anticipations of the Revenue, and other forced and unnatural methods,
diſcharge his payments in full for the firſt year; but this, we think, is the utmoſt
that can be expected; and if it be done at all, it muſt be at a heavy expence to the
Revenue, and to the welfare of the inhabitants, which will be raiſerably felt in the
ſecond and third years by all the parties concerned.
Under the impreſſion of circumſtances ſo ſtrong and convincing, we have invariably
oppoſed the Nabob's views of obtaining the immediate ſurrender of the Aſſign-
ment; and we are ſure it will appear hereafter, that in this oppoſition we have
conſulted his true and permanent intereſts, as well as thoſe of the Company, by
retaining the Aſſignment in our hands; the current charges of defence might have
been ſecurely provided for, a conſiderable part of the Nabob's public and private
debts extinguiſhed, and his mind eaſed of a heavy load of care and vexation.
This muſt appear evident from the paſt ſucceſs of the Committee of Aſſigned
Revenue in the management of the Collečtions, of which you have authentic
accounts before you. - -
We truſt you will excuſe ſo minute a diſcuſſion of a ſubjećt which, by reaſon of
its importance, well merits the Enoſt ſerious attention that can be given to it.
You are fully acquainted with our debts and embarraſſments occaſioned by the late
ruinous and complicated war in the Carnatic ; and we flatter ourſelves that, in
conſequence of the new arrangements by which we are direéted to part with the
chief ſecurity we had for our preſent relief, you will conſider of the moſt early and
effectual means to ſupport us againſt the heavy and urgent demands for arrears, and
for the current pay of his Majetty’s and the Company’s forces on this eſtabliſhment.
We beg leave to refer you to Lord Macartney for any particulars concerning the
ſtate of this Preſidency, which may have eſcaped us in the correſpondence with
your Board. -
We have the honour to be,
Gentlemen, - •
Your moſt,obedient humble Servants,
- - : - (Signed) Macartney, &c. Council.
P. S. We encloſe a copy of the Company's letter to the Nabob of Arcot.
. Fort William, 15th June 1785.
To the Right Honourable Lord Macartney, K. B. &c. &c. .
My Lord, -
I am requeſted by the Board to inform you, that they have taken into their
confideration the laſt Diſpatches from Fort St. George under date the 1ſt June,
you
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
75.
you may be pleaſed to communicate to them, on the affairs of the Preſidency of
Fort St. George in general, or more particularly relative to the orders recently
received from the Company, on the ſubjećt of the Aſſignment of the Revenues of
the Carnatic. . *
The conſequences which may reſult from the ſurrender of the Aſſignment, as
well as the difficulties which may immediately occur in realizing a ſufficient
Revenue for the ſecurity of the Carnatic, are ſubjećts of deep concern and critical
embarraſſment. No perſon can afford this Government better lights for their
guidance than your Lordſhip can, ſhould their interference be required by the
Adminiſtration of Fort St. George. - -
Permit me to add, my Lord, that I ſhall be, for my own part, extremely ready
to avail myſelf, for the general good, of the honour of your Lordſhip's communi-
cations upon theſe intereſting ſubjećts; and if my ſenſe of the obligations which
the Company owe to your Lordſhip, in your viſit to this Settlement, for the
purpoſes ſtated in the public Diſpatch from Fort St. George, could increaſe the
ſatisfaction which the breaſt of every zealous Governor feels in the ſteady purſuit of
the good of his employers, I would with chearfulneſs tender my thanks to your
ºf ordſhip upon the preſent occaſion; and I can anſwer for every member of this
Government, that their ſentiments coincide with thoſe which I have now the
honour to expreſs to your Lordſhip. .
I have the honour to be, &c.
f (Signed) john Macpherſon.
Calcutta, June 20th, 1785.
To the Honourable John Macpherſon, Governor General, &c. &c. at
- - Fort William. -
Sir, +
“I HAVE received the honour of your letter of the 15th inſtant, informing me
that the Board had taken into conſideration the laſt Diſpatches from Fort St George,
ºunder date the 1ſt June, and that they ſhould be happy to receive any repreſentation
which I might-wiſh to communicate to them on the affairs of the Preſidency of Fort
St. George in general, or more particularly relative to the orders recently received
from, the Company on the ſubjećt of the Aſſignment of the Revenues of the
- Carnatic. * - -
With reſpe&t to the general ſtate of Port St. George, it has been ſo amply de-
: tailed in the letters from that Preſidency, that little remains for me to add : if how-
ever any thing contained in them ſhould appear to require either explanations or
opinions from me, I ſhall give them with the utmoſt readineſs to the beſt of my
judgment and ability. - -
As to the orders recently received from England, my ſentiments are unequivocally
expreſſed in the Minute delivered by me in my place at Fort St. George, and in the
letter from thence of the 1ſt June, ſigned by me, and now before you. They conti-
nue unaltered ; and I repeat to you, with equal concern and convićtion to myſelf,
that the ſurrender of the Aſſignment up to the Nabob, whether confidered as a mea-
ſure of ſtate or of finance, muſt infallibly draw with it the ruin of the Company's affairs
on the coaſt of Coromandel. -
. Let me requeſt you, Sir, for a moment to recur to the ſtatements which I had the
honour of tranſmitting to your Government in Oétober laſt, and you will perceive
at a glance the impoſſibility of the Company's exiſting in the Carnatic without the
Aſſignment. Even with it, and with every attention to the management of the Re-
venue on its preſent advantageous footing, by Mr. Oakeley and his Committee, the
Company’s relief from that reſource will not be very ſenſibly felt for the next two
or three years. Afterwards indeed, if the peace of the Carnatic be not diſturbed, a
rapid progreſs may be made in the diſcharge of the Company’s and the Nabob's in-
cumbrances; but, without the Aſſignment, I ſee not a ray of hope for the preſerva-
tion of the Company, or the ſecurity of the Nabob. If, then, there be ſo much
17 6. X. - difficulty
II.
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L AT IN G T O T H E
f
II, difficulty at preſent in ſupporting the Company in the Carnatic, even whilſt we hold
...— the receipt and management of all the Revenues of the Coaſt, what will be our ſitu-
. ation if we loſe any part of them : The Preſidency of Fort St. George will be
plunged into the utmoſt diſtreſs and confuſion, and will ſoon be compelled, from
neceſſity, to reſume by force that Revenue which they now peaceably poſſeſs by ano-
ther title: but, in the mean time, the loſs will be heavy and immediate; the good
faith of the Company, pledged to the Renters under the confidence of the Aſſign-
ment, will be irretrievabiy forfeited, and every difficulty with regard to our neigh-
abours on the Coaſt be ſharpened and redoubird.
Formally to ſurrender the Aſſignment, as direéted from home, and yet attempt to
preſerve the collečtion and receipt of the Revenues without it, as may poſſibly be
ſuggeſted, would introduce a ſcene of anarchy ſtill worſe than even a total derelic-
tion of the Company’s interference; for, in ſuch caſe, there would be double Au-
mildars, and double Revenue Officers of all kinds over the whole country ; the Col-
lećtions themſelves would either fail, or be irrecoverably embezzled, and neither the
Nabob nor the Company receive a ſhilling from them. • f
Under the preſent circumſtances I confeſs myſelf at a loſs to deviſe any middle
mode or conciliatory expedient, to extricate the Honourable Company’s Repreſenta-
tives from the dilemma into which they have been thrown by the late orders on this
ſubjećt ; for the plain ſtate of the queſtion is now reduced to this:–In order to ſave
the Company’s intereſts on the Carnatic from the ruin impending over them, either
the Affignment ſhould, by the declared interpoſition and order of the Governor Ge-
neral and Council, be preſerved inviolate as it now ſtands, till further direétions be
received here upon a reference of the matter, I may ſay, from the Company itſelf, ill
informed as it has been, to the Company well informed as it may be ; or effectual
means ſhould inſtantly be provided and received by the Governor General and, Coun-
cil, to anſwer the deficiencies and remedy the miſchiefs which muſt inevitably follow
a ſurrender of the Aſſignment. - -
The latter meaſure muſt depend upon the preſent ſituation and reſources of
Bengal ; the former upon the ſenſe your Honourable Board may entertain of the
Company's danger, and of the neceſſity of deviating from their orders upon ſuch an
2 emergency as now offers.
Permit me to obſerve, before I conclude, that the expreſſions of the general
Letter from the Court of Direétors of the 9th December laſt, declaring their
perſonal attachment to the Nabob of Arcot, and their reliance upon his
generoſity and liberality of ſentiment, &c. &c. can only be applied to the
Nabob himſelf, and by no means to his ſecond ſon and Miniſter Ameer ul
Omrah : Now as the Nabob himſelf has long been, and now is, a mere cypher,
and totally out of the queſtion with regard to the management or judgment of his
own affairs, and his Miniſter's indiſpoſition and charašter perfeótly unlike what the
Directors ſuppoſe the Nabob's to be, it may be worth confidering how far an in-
ſtrućtion, conveying a complimentary confidence to the Nabob individually, ſhould
operate or extend to his Miniſter, in whom it is well known that no confidence ought
to be repoſed of any kind whatſoever.
I beg you will be pleaſed to communicate the contents of this Letter to
the Gentlemen of your Council, and to believe me, with great reſpect, &c. &c.
(Signed) § Matartney.
f
*
EXTRACT from the Proceedings of the Honourable the Governor
General and Council in the Secret Department, 28th June. 1785,
THE Governor General lays before the Board a Letter which he has received from
the Right Honourable Lord Macartney, dated the 20th inſtant.
Reſumed the confideration of the Diſpatches from Fort St. George, dated the 1ſt,
and entered in conſultation 14th June. - - w
Read again the Letter from the Nabob of Arcot to the Governor General, dated
the 2d inſtant, and recorded on the 14th, complaining of the non-compliance of the
Preſidency of Fort St. George with the orders of the Company.
T he
AFFAIRS OF THE CARN AT I c. 77
The Board, after the matureſt conſideration of the reference made to them by Il.
the Adminiſtration of Fort St. George, and notwithſtanding the great force of the -
arguments advanced by the Right Honourable Lord Macartney, are of opinion that
they cannot authorize the Preſidency of Fort St. George either to ſuſpend or delay
the execution of the Company’s commands for the ſurrender of the Aſſignment of
the Revenues of the Carnatic to the Nabob of Arcot: but the Board are fully
aware of the inconveniencies and loſs of Revenue which rnay immediately reſult
from a transfer of the Collečtions from the charge and controul of the Com-
pany's ſervants to the management of the Nabob and his Miniſters. |
They are further of opinion, that the exhauſted ſtate of the Finances of this Go-
vernment will not admit of any extraordinary and continued aid to Fort St. George,
ſhould any great loſs of reſource from the reſtoration of the Aſſignment produce the
diſtreſs that is apprehended from the meaſure; and upon this ground the Board
admit, that there are arguments of increaſed weight in ſupport of thoſe reaſons
which have given cauſe to the appeal of the 1ſt of June from the Preſidency of Fort
St. George. - - - - .
It appears at the ſame time to the Board, that the orders of the Company for ſtir-
rendering the Aſſignment were given after much confideration, and with a full view
of the conſequences which were likely to ariſe from them. The meaſure muſt have
been approved by his Majeſty’s Miniſters, as well as by the Court of Directors, and
ſeems to have been founded on a liberal principle of national juſtice, a principle in-
yariably conneéted with found political wiſdom.
. It appears further to the Board, that the Company have taken extraordinary pains
in their letter to the Nabob of Arcot to explain to his Highneſs the conditions upon
& which the Sunnud of Aſſignment is reſtored to him. The inference which the
Nabob muſt draw from the letter is, that the forfeiture of his country will be a cer- ; ,
tain conſequence of the non-performance of thoſe conditions. The final arrangement
which the Company propoſe as the great baſis of the ſecurity of the Carnatic, is ſo
diſintereſted on their part, and ſo favourable to the real rights of the Nabob, and of
º the Rajah of Tanjore, that it would be difficult even for a foreign ſtate (if ſuch ſtate
a were umpire in the queſtion), to deviſe a more equal or a more liberal adjuſtment.
The adjuſtment gives a new and properly defined conſtitution to the Government of
the Carnatic, and provides the moſt equitable regulations for the full application of
s: the Revenues of the Circars, the Carnatic, and Tanjore, to the ſecurity of our poſ-
ſeſſions upon the Coaſt of Coromandel, and with the utmoſt regard that can be ſhewn
to the rights of our native allies, as well in peace as war. The Board are of opi-
, nion, that this important arrangement is ſo connected with the orders relative to the
. Aſſignment, that the execution of them could not be ſuſpended without injury to
that arrangement. Should the great and generous purpoſes of it be defeated by any
failure on the part of the Nabob, or of the Rajah of Tanjore, the juſtice of the
Company and the liberal policy of the ſtate will not be the leis conſpicuous, nor will
the creditors of the Nabob have a juſt cauſe of diſſatisfaction or complaint.
The Governor General and Council ſee the juſtice and feel the policy of leaving to
orders ſo evidently founded on principles of national juſtice, and direéted to the public
good, their full ſcope and proper effeót; and they truſt that the Nabob will find
greater reſources than the Preſidency of Fort St. George, expe&t from his beſt
... exertions. …~~ -
Reſolved, That theſe opinions. be communicated to the Right Honourable Lord
. Macartney.
Reſolved further, and Reſolved unanimouſly, That it be recommended to the
Adminiſtration of Fort St. George, to carry the Company’s orders relative to the
ſurrender of the Aſſignment into execution without deiay; and that the ſaid
Adminiſtration be aſſured, that every aid of reſource, and every co-operation
within the power of this. Government, will be chearfully granted to relieve any
diſtreſs, or remove any inconvenience that may ariſe in the Carnatic from the
immediate execution of the Company's commands. *
Reſolved, That the Governor General be requeſted to write an anſwer to the letter
of the Nabob of Arºoſ, dated the ºd inſtant, itating to his Highneſs in the moſt
176. : - - forcible
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forcible and decided terms, the conſequences which muſt immediately and neceſſarily
reſult from any failure on the part of his Highneſs, his Miniſters or Agents, in the
punctual performance of the ſtipulations under which his country is ordered to be
reſtored to him ; and that the Nabob be further informed, that his Highneſs is to
confider the declaration contained in the late Letter from the Court of Direétors to
him, as a final determination and arrangement relative to his conneétion with the
* Company and with the Engliſh Nation. -
The ſecurity of the Renters, who have fully and faithfully fulfilled their engage-
ments with the Company, muſt be likewiſe ſo particularly attended to, that it will be
proper for the Governor General to acquaint the Nabob, that any injury or oppreſ:
£ion towards thoſe Renters from his Highneſs's Government will be confidered as an
aćt of hoſtility towards the Company.
(A true Copy.)
- . (Signed) E”. Hay,
- Secºy.
. - "Fort William, 1ſt July 1785.
To the Right Honourable Lord Macartney, K. B. &c. &c.
My Lord, - ' -
I HAVE the honour to communicate to your Lordſhip the encloſed proceedings
of the Board, on the ſubjećt of the reference from the Preſidency of Fort St. George,
of the 1ſt of June. - - ; : -
‘I have the honour to be,
º With profound reſpećt, &c. &c.
- (S igned) john Macpherſon.
EXTRACT from the Requeſt of the Nabob Wallajah to the Governor
General of Bengal, &c. entruſted to the care of Aſſam Khan and
Richard Joſeph Sulivan, Eſquire; February 1781. --
Article 6th.—AFTER peace and alliance is made between me and the Engliſh
Company, the enemies, the ſecurity, and the dangers, will be the ſame ; that is to
ſay, whoever ſuffers an injury, it will be felt by both of us: I therefore wiſh that the
Engliſh in India, or the King of Great Britain, would make a treaty of peace with
the King of France, and let the peace and ſecurity of the Carnatic, and the Rights of .
my Government, without the connection. of any one, and my power to appoint
a ſucceſſor in the Carnatic, be ſettled in a ſolid manner, and included in the
treaty.
EXTRACT of Letter from Alexander Davidſon, Eſq; to the Secret
Committee; dated Ioth January 1786. -
IN the beginning of laſt November, his Highneſs the Nabob addreſſed a Letter
to the Board, repreſenting that the Poligars in the Tinnevilly Country, from the
earlieſt times, had been refračtory in withholding the Peiſhcuſh from the Circar, until
compelled to pay it ; and that, for the purpoſe of colle&ing it, a ſtrong force had
always been kept up by his anceſtors, and, until of fate years, in that Province:
That theſe Poligars had behaved in a diſobedient manner fince he was put in poſſeſ-
ſion of his country, delaying to pay the balance due under the arrangement Con-
cluded with them by Mr. Irwin, after their being ſubdued and brought to reaſon by
Colonel Fullarton's detachment: That they refuſed to comply with his demands for
the future ſettlement of Peiſhcuſh : That they had committed diſturbances, and
killed ſeveral of the inhabitants :—His Highneſs therefore applied for the aſſiſtance
of two complete battalion, of Sepoys and four guns, which would be joined by the
Peons of thoſe Poligars who continued in obedience, as well as thoſe of the Tondi-
sman and Shevagunda Poligars, and one battalion belonging to the Rajah of Travan-
COré,
AFFAIRS OF THE CARNATIC.
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core to chaſtize and bring back to their duty the Poligars of Tinnevelly. His firſt
objećt was, he ſaid, to pay punétually his Kiſts to the Company, and that any delay
in affording this affiſtance would unavoidably throw back the payments of the ſecond
Kiſt : he concluded by requeſting that Colonel Sir Henry Coſby might command
the detachment. -
In conſequence of the foregoing application, I propoſed that his Highneſs the
Nabob Ummeer ul Omrah Behaudur ſhould attend the Board, which he did accord-
ingly, and repeated the ſubjećt of the before-mentioned letter from his Highneſs the
Nabob of the Carnatic. After expatiating on the bad conſequences and expence
that would probably attend the colle&ting Peiſhcuſh by military force, I deſired to
1<now if every lenient mode had been tried to obtain it; inſiſting on the advantages
the Nabob would derive from adopting the ſyſtem eſtabliſhed during the Company's
adminiſtration of the Revenues, and that it was the beſt policy to fix a moderate
tribute, which would be cheerfully paid, rather than exačt what might be collected
with difficulty, and tend to alienate his tributaries from their allegiance.
The Ummeer aſſured the Board, that his Highneſs the Nabob, guided by the
ſame ideas, had not applied for military force until he found it impračlicable to
colle&t the Peiſhcuſh without it; and that he had pointed out an officer on whoſe
experience and prudent condućt every dependance could be placed. He repeated
that his father was apprehenſive he ſhould not be able to pay his Kiſts, unleſs aſſiſted
with the force he had applied for, the appearance of which, he conceived, would an-
fwer every deſired purpoſe. -
On theſe grounds it was reſolved, that a detachment of troops ſhould be ordered
on this ſervice; and, conformably to his Highneſs's wiſhes, placed under the com.'
mand of Colonel Sir Henry Coſby, who, from his charaćter and local knowledge,
was perfećthy qualified to condućt it, and in whom the Board could place the fulleſt
confidence : we were wiljing to hope therefore, that the objećt of putting this de-
tachment in the field might be accompliſhed without diſaffection of the Poligars to
the Nabob’s Government, which, in the event of war, might be attended with ſerious
conſequences. It was agreed, that in the inſtrućtions to Colonel Coſby he ſhould be
particularly direéted to refrain, if poſſible, from proceeding to extremities, and en-
joined to give the ſupport of the detachment under his command to the enforcing
fuch demands only as were moderate and equitable. It was pointed out to him of
how great importance it might be to the ſafety of the Carnatic, that theſe Poligars
#hould be firm in the intereſt of the Nabob and the Company, their Pollams form-
ing a ſtrong barrier to the Southward. And in order that every light which could be
thrown on the Nabob's demands might be obtained from the Poligars in writing or
in perſon, by which an equitable ſettlement might be amicably fixed on, we dire&ted
Colonel Coſby to communicate our intentions, and iſſue his Cowle jointly with the
Nabob's manager, to induce them to wait on him : we therefore direéted him to
make known to the Poligars, that in caſe of their coming to terms with the Nabob's
Manager, we ſhould be diſpoſed, on application from theim through him, to preſerve
fuch agreement inviolate, and guarantee them againſt any innovations. -
A detachment of troops under the command of Colonel Sir Henry Coſby aſſem-
bled at Trichinopoly, and moved from thence to Cilpettah. On the 29th ultimo
his Highneſs the Nabob informed me, that the Poligars were returning to their
obedience. A letter has within theſe few days been received from Colonel Coſby
confirming that information, and mentioning in particular, that Eitiaporam, a Polis
gar, who, in reſpect to family and extent of country, is conſidered as the ſecond in
the Province, and who had been aſſiſted with troops by other Poligars, has readily
conſented that his fort ſhould be razed, for which purpoſe a working party is now
employed. The acquieſcence of £itiaporam in the requiſitions of his Highneſs may
be looked upon as breaking, in an eſſential degree, the confederacy that had been
entered into, and promiſes a favourable arrangement with the other Poligars;
and I am ſanguine in my hopes they will follow his example, and that the detachment
may be ſpeedily recalled. a -
Your Honourable Committee are now informed upon every material ſubjećt :
the army arrears you will perceive are in the fairettrain of liquidation;-conſiderable
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redućtions of expence have been made 3–the moſt perfeót harmony ſubſiſts between
his Highneſs the Nabob and this Government;-the entire charge of his affairs is
entruſted to his ſon Ummeer ul Omrah, whoſe ability is unqueſtionable : he is now
exerting himſelf to complete the payments of the ſecond Kiſt, which I have no doubt
he will accompliſh according to agreement. His profeſſions of an earneſt defire to
merit the confidence of the Company are unbounded ; and no inſtance has occurred
to weaken the credit of thoſe aſſurances. If his ſyſtem of management is not founded
on thoſe principles of juſtice and prudence which marked the condućt of our own
Adminiſtration, it may be aſcribed to the tyranny of cuſtom, and eſtabliſhed modes
inherent in the nature of the Mooriſh Government ; but while we have no power to
interfere in the internal management, we are confined almoſt to the ſimple right of
requiring that the Company’s orders in regard to payments be complied with ; and
I think myſelf authorized to ſay, there is no preſent cauſe to doubt a punétual obe-
dience to them. Purſuant to the expreſs orders of the Governor General in Council,
materials are preparing to form, without delay, the treaty directed to be entered into
between his Highneſs the Nabob and the Company.
EXTRACT Letter from Sir Archibald Campbell to the Secret Com-
mittee; dated Fort St. George, 18th April 1786. * *
Par. Io.—I CANNOT at preſent enter upon a diſcuſſion of the agreement
ſettled between his Highneſs the Nabob and the Council at this Preſidency on the
furrender of the Aſſignment: but I am much afraid that the ſum of four lacks of
pagodas agreed to be taken on account of the Nabob's proportion of the charges
for the defence of the Carnatic, will be found greatly ſhort of what his Highneſs
{hould contribute on that account, according to the ſyſtem laid down in your
letter of the 9th December, 1784. g
1 1.—I dread that the fixing of that ſum at ſo low a proportion witl occaſion
much trouble and difficulty in getting it increaſed to its proper level. I ſhall,
however, enter upon the buſineſs of the intended treaty with the Nabob without
delay; and though I may fail in accompliſhing all you wiſh, be aſſured that I
will leave nothing untried to make the arrangement with his Highneſs and the
Rajah of Tanjore as conſonant as poſſible to your inſtructions, and that no devia-
tion from them ſhall ever meet with my approbation, except where the caſe may
render it indiſpenſably neceſſary. At the ſame time I wiſh you to be aware, that
from the Nabob being affeſſed 12 lacks for the payment of his debts, and 4 lacks
towards military charges, his country under its preſent management may not
perhaps be found able to bear any great additional burthen; although in ſtrićt
juſtice, and in compliance with your orders, a much greater demand will be fully
warranted. •.
12.-While I call in queſtion any part of the agreement lately entered into
with the Nabob of Arcot, I muſt do him the juſtice to ſay, that, ſo far as it has
gone, his Highneſs has aéted up to the terms agreed upon, by paying his Kiſts
punétually as they became due, which, joined to the great reſpect I have for his
Highneſs, cannot fail to ſecure to him every degree of kindneſs and attention on
the part of this Government.
~ EXTRACT Letter from Sir Archibald Campbell to the Secret Com-
mittee; dated 24th February 1787. . *
Para. Io.—UPON my return from this tour, I reſumed the ſubjećt of the
treaty with his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic, and I ſoon found myſelf in-
volved in a complicated negociation, in which every new day preſented freſh diffi-
culties. His Highneſs was pleaſed to furniſh me with a ſtate of his Revenues,
for the purpoſe of ſettling his proportion of the military charges in time of peace
and war. This ſtate made his Revenues for laſt year amount to 22 lacks of
pagodas, excluſive of jaghires, eſtimated at 2 lacks of pagodas.
1 I.- I
A FF AIR'S OF THE CARN AT I C.
81.
1 1.-I had previouſly taken much pains to inveſtigate and inform myſelf of the
real ſtate of the Nabob's Revenues, and brought the whole of my reſearches be-
fore the Board the 16th of laſt January, in the form of a Minute; copy of which I
have now the honour to encloſe (marked N° 1.) -
2.—To enable you to judge of the difficulties which have attended this intricate
arrangement, and previous to your forming an opinion upon the treaty now happily
concluded, I muſt beſpeak your attentive peruſal of this Minute, in which I have
conſidered the queſtion extenſively; and, as far as the grounds of information could
£e depended upon, I truſt that my dedućtions will be found to have been accurately
and fairly drawn. Indeed the Nabob himſelf and his ſon Ameer ul Omrah, with
whom I generally negociated the ſeveral articles of the treaty, admitted, that the
whole of this buſineſs was inveſtigated in a fair and honourable manner, and that
the arguments uſed were in every reſpe&t juſt and concluſive. They objećted, how-
ever, to the rate at which I had ſtated the Revenues of his Highneſs, and pleaded
ſtrongly and anxiouſly their total inability to contribute the ſum of Io, 50,000
pagodas annually, as the Nabob’s proportion, for ſupporting the military peace
eſtabliſhment of the Carnatic. ~.
13.—For a long time I thought it my duty to remain obſtinate in my demand of
-ten lacks and fifty thouſand pagodas; and to induce the Nabob to accede to it, I
propoſed that the 220,000 pagodas, being the Peiſhcuſh and arrears of Peiſhcuſh
due from the Rajah of Tanjore to his Highneſs, agreeable to the arrangement I
had made for paying off the public and private debts of the Rajah, ſhould ſtand in
part of the annual contribution of his Highneſs' to the Company. The Nabob
appeared ſatisfied with his arrangement for his benefit; but as it was not to an
extent that could effectually relieve his ſituation, he declared that it was not poſſible
for him to pay 12 lacks to his public and private creditors, even if the Company
ſhould undertake to receive the Tanjore Peiſhcuſh as part of his contribution to
.the general defence. Under the Nabob's preſent expenſive ſyſtem of managing his
*Revenues, I think it almoſt certain that his Highneſs could not afford to pay the
Jož lacks of pagodas annually, and I 2 lacks more to his creditors, without in-
volving himſelf and family in very great difficulties; and I think it my duty to ſay
‘ſo candidly, rather than miſlead the Company into expe&tations which can only tend
to deceive them. Viewing matters in this light, I propoſed to his Highneſs, that-
in caſe the Court of Directors did not comply with his requeſt for an abatement of
two lacks of pagodas from the annual ſum paid to the creditors, and in caſe the
Revenues of his Highneſs ſhould not be found adequate to the diſcharge of the
ſame, I ſhould have great pleaſure in aſſenting to thoſe two lacks of pagodas being
carried to the account current of his Highneſs with the Company.
14.—On a ſubſequent meeting with the old Nabob, his Highneſs, in a very
affecting manner, ſtated his diſtreſſes, and warmly repreſented his diſpoſition to do
whatever I ſhould, in the name of the Company, ſay he in juſtice ought to pay ;
at the ſame time throwing himſelf upon the generoſity and friendſhip of the Com-
pany, from a convićtion that they would never aſk him to engage for more than he
was able ačtually to perform. The old Prince was conſiderably agitated at this.
period, and retired, leaving bis ſon, the Ameer, to communicate his ſentiments as
to the extent of his powers to comply with the requiſitions propoſed.
15.-Pleaſed with the moderation and propriety of the Nabob's condućt, I de-
ſired the Ameer to inform me what ſum his Highneſs could pay with eaſe to him-
ſelf and comfort to his family. The Ameer replied, that he was inſtructed by his
father to ſay, that he could pay nine lacks of pagodas annually to the army peace
eſtabliſhment, and have a ſufficient ſurplus to make himſelf and his family happy
and comfortable. * s t t
16.-An offer of ſuch magnitude, accompanied with the certain proſpest of
giving ſatisfaction to a venerable Prince, and happineſs to his whole family,
could not fail to be acceded to, eſpecially as it produced an additional Revenue
of five lacks of pagodas, or two hundred thouſand pounds ſterling annually
to the Company; and was unanimouſly approved of by the Council on my laying
the offer before them.
176. 17.--Excluſive
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II.
17—Excluſive of the pleaſure I enjoyed in diffuſing happineſs to all the branches
of a family who look up to this Government for protećtion and ſupport, the con-
fideration of the Nabob’s invariable attachment to the Britiſh nation, and the ſtrong
aſſurances which his Highneſs had uniformly received of the fiendſhip and liberality
of the India Company, rendered it, in my opinion, a matter of wiſdom and good
policy to deviate, in a ſmall degree, from the rigid principles ſet forth in my
Minute, eſpecially as ſuch a deviation was moſt likely to obtain much greater ob-
jećts in the treaty. If to theſe confiderations I am permitted to add the im-
preſſions I had received from your letter of the 22d of September 1785,
which direéts every degree of attention to the convenience and happinels of the
Nabob in forming this treaty ; I truſt you will think I did not make any un-
warranted or improper ſacrifice of the Honourable Company's intereſt in acceding
to the Nabob's propoſai. -
18.-Having thus fixed the ſum to be paid by the Nabob towards the military
charges in time of peace, I proceeded earneſtly to adjuſt all the other points
neceſſary to be attended to in war ; and I have the pleaſure to inform you that it
was alſo agreed, that, in caſe of war, the Nabob of the Carnatic, after dedućting
certain jaghires and charities, amounting to 2,34,787 pagodas, ſhould contribute
four-ff.hs of his groſs Revenues to the purpoſes of the war, leaving the other fifth
to anſwer for the current charges of his family.and civil Government. It was alſo
ftipulated and agreed that the Nabob ſhould pay twenty-five fifty-one parts of all
expences incurred in time of war; and that you may be thoroughly informed of
the principles which have direéted me in this proportion, it is only neceſſary to
obſerve, that the Nabob's annual groſs Revenues, after the dedućtions already
mentioned, are eſtimated at an average of - - 25 lacks
The Company's - - - 16
Tanjore ea as sº as ºn I.Q
Total - - - 51
19.-Hence twenty-five fifty-one parts becomes the contribution of his High-
neſs, proportioned to his groſs Revenues, and that of the contracting parties: and
this proportion appeared to the to be ſo reaſonable, that I recommend it might
alſo i. adopted as a rule for adjuſting the proportion which his Highneſs ought
to pay towards the expence of the laſt war in the Carnatic, I am now happy to
inform you, that I have hopes of its being ſo accommodated ; and that as the
Nabob has engaged to pay a little more than one half of the whole war expence,
I propoſe that the Company and Tanjore muſt make good the reſt. -*
20–The care I have taken in ſecuring to the Company the punétual payment of the
ſeveral ſums agreed upon, will be ſufficiently illuſtrated by the treaty itſelf, which H
have the honour to encloſe, marked (No. 2.) It is therefore neceſſary only to obſerve,
that this, as well as all the other objećts recommended to me by the Court of Direc-
tors, have been minutely attended to in this treaty.
21.—The power of the purſe and ſword is now completely ſecured to the Com-
pany without leffening the conſequence of the Nabob ; and I pledge myſelf that
theſe powers, ſo long as I have the honour to preſide in this Government, will be
exerted with diſcretion, and to the utmoſt of my abilities, to ſecure the intereſts,
and promote the honour and proſperity of the India Company.
22,-If the articles of this treaty appear ſatisfactory to you; if they produce, as
I truſt they will, ſolid and laſting advantages to the India Company, by the very
reſpectable addition of five lacks of pagodas to their annual receipts, while the
Nabob of the Carnatic is happy, and pleaſed with the arrangement, I ſhall
think my labours well beſtowed, and feei that I am fully rewarded for all the
fatigue and anxiety of mind I have undergone preparatory to, and during the whole
of this negociation, which I can with truth ſay has greatly exceeded any deſcription
that I can poſſibly convey.
29.-I have now the ſatisfaction to inform you that this treaty, of which a copy
is herewith encloſed, was this day ſigned, ſealed, and mutually exchanged at
Chepauk Houſe, with every demonſtration of joy. I congratulate the Company
- - moſt
AFFAIRs of THE CARNATIC.
moſt ſincerely on this fortunate addition of 200,oool. fterling annually to their
Revenues, and it will be my ſtudy and pride to convince them that this addition
will be foſtered with care, and applied ſolely to their advantage. -
EXTRACT of Letter from Sir Archibald Campbell to the Court of
Direétors; dated 29th March 1788.
para, 7.-ANOTHER confideration which renders what I have taken the liberty
to ſuggeſt, deſerving of your attention, is, the large portion of our receipts de-
pending on the Nabob of Arcot, and the Rajah of Tanjore, which muſt always
be ſomewhat precarious, both as to the extent of the receipts, and the periods of
payment. At this moment there is reaſon to apprehend a diſappointment in both
theſe quarters, before the Kiſts of the year are completed. But no pains or affiduity
fball be wanting on my part to keep up theſe payments with the utmoſt punctuality.
The taſk is, and always will be difficult, but we muſt not ſhrink from it; and as
the countries recover by the fortunate continuation of peace, I truſt your burthens
will every year become lighter. \
EXTRACT of Letter from Sir Archibald Campbell to the Court
of Directors, dated 5th Auguſt 1788.
Para. 17.-HIS Highneſs the Nabob's ſon and Miniſter, Ameer ul Omrah, has been
for a long time dangerouſly ill of a dropſy, which had nearly proved fatal to him.
He is now likely to have a temporary recovery. The Nabob, who has long been
in uſe of to leave the entire management of his affairs to his ſon, found great
difficulty in making good his payments to the Company, and I have had many
diſagreeable altercations with his Highneſs upon that ſubjećt. -
13.- The Kiſt of 7 lacks of pagodas, due the IOth of laſt month, is not yet
completed ; but he has engaged to pay as much as will amount to 5 lacks out of the
7, by the 25th of this month. The remaining two lacks he preſſed hard to have
abated, under the ſtipulation contained in the public letter written to him the 22d
February 1787, previous to the execution of the treaty. The Nabob ſtated, that
the failure in the colle&tions in the country would entitle him to this abatement,
and that he was ready to admit an inſpection of his accounts to aſcertain the fact. -
19.—I combated the application by every argument. I could think of, and pointed
out the difficulty I laboured under from our not having received any inſtrućtions
from your Honourable Court relative to the requeſt made by his Highneſs for an
abatement of 2 lacks of pagodas from his annual payments. After much altercation,
his Highneſs has at laſt agreed to pay the two lacks in queſtion; one lack in Sep-
tember next, the other in Côtober, to which Government will probably accede, as
appearing on every ground preferable to any other meaſure that could be adopted.
EXTRACT of Letter from General Medows to the Court of Directors;
dated 31ſt March 1790.
Para. 1–I ARRIVED here in the Veſtal Frigate the 20th of February, and
found things in that ſtate of confuſion that is generally attendant on a change of
ſyſtem. Whether a Civil or a Military Governor is beſt I ſhall not take upon me to
determine, but either is certainly better I conceive than neither or both. We have
a long arrear both from and to us. His Highneſs the Nabob is ſo backward in his
payments, ſo oppreſſive to his Polygars, that at this time it is ſo neceſſary to have on
our fide, that I conceive it will be abſolutely neceſſary upon his firſt material delay
of payment to take the management of his Country into your own hands; a meaſure,
in ſpite of the oppoſition to it, ſo advantageous to you, the Country, and even to his
Highneſs himſelf, when ſo wiſely projećted and ably executed by Lord Macartney.
EXTRACT of Letter from Lord Cornwallis to the Honourable court
of Directors; dated 31ſt December 1790. ..
Para. 11.-I HAVE ſeen his Highneſs the Nabob twice, and I have had frequent
* r * {. º • *. - • . © . -
latercourſe with him by letters and meſſages, through the medium of his eldeſt ſon
Jmdut ul Omrah. Although he continues to expreſs an earneſt deſire that his
176. Country
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If.
Country ſhould be reſtored again to his own management, he appears in all other
reſpects to be in a favourable temper and diſpoſition towards myſelf perſonally, and
your preſent Government at this Preſidency. . -
12. —Whatever may be my opinion regarding the moſt advantageous ſyſtem for the
Nabob's real Intereſts, as well as thoſe of the Company, I have uniformly aſſured his
Highneſs that I will certainly fulfil the promiſe that I made in my letter to him,
dated the 11th of September laſt; that provided he will immediately diſcharge a
conſiderable part of the balance due to the Company, give his countenance and aſ-
ſiſtance in the meantime to our Colleótors, and agree to ſuch arrangements as will
fºcure the regular payment at ſhort periods of the ſtipulated proportions of his
Revenues to the Company’s Treaſury, the management of his Country ſhall be re-
ftored to him at the expiration of the current Revenue year. • ‘,
13.—He has accordingly informed me that he will ſoon make propoſitions to the
above effect, but I am not ſanguine in my hopes that they will be of a nature that
would juſtify my aſſent to them. In the meantime, however, he has ſhewn a ſtrong
inclination to do every thing in his power, except in the material article of money,
to promote the ſucceſs of our operations ; for he voluntarily offered a body of his
troops, a few elephants, and a number of camels and horſes, for the public ſervice.
14.— I readily accepted the elephants, camels, and horſes, which will be uſeful for
feveral purpoſes; but as it would have been impoſſible to have introduced diſcipline
amongſt the troops whilſt they conſidered themſelves to be in his Highneſs's ſervice,
I deciined to receive any of them, unleſs, with the Nabob's conſent, they could be
prevailed upon to enliſt to ſerve the Company during the war, and to be incorpo-
rated into any of the regiments of cavalry or infantry that I might think proper: a
few I have engaged on thoſe terms ; but as this plan by no means meets with his
Highneſs's hearty concurrence, I do not expect that any material benefit will be
derived from it. :
To the Honourable Court of Direétors for Affairs of the Honourable
the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eaſt
Indies. 4. f - -
Honourable Sirs, - - -
Para. 1.-I HAVE long ſeen with very great concern the various defećts of the
ſyſtem of the Government of the Carnatic, and being extremely anxious that ſome plan
ſhould be introduced and eſtabliſhed there that ſhould be better adapted than any that
-has yet been tried, for ſecuring the Country againſt external enemies, and for promot-
ing its general proſperity, I have been hitherto prevented from making propoſitions to
the Nabob to that effect, more by my diſtance from the ſcene or my other occu-
pations, than by the conſideration of the obſtacles that might occur in the negociation
with his Highneſs, or of the diſapprobation that intereſted and diſappointed men
might afterwards expreſs of my condućt. -
2. The diſadvantage and danger ariſing from the ſeparation of the internal Go-
ºvernment and management of the Revenue of the Country, from the reſponſibility
for its defence, is ſo obvious, that if there had appeared to be the leaſt chance of ob-
taining the Nabob's voluntary acquieſcence, I ſhould, without heſitation, have been
ready to propoſe to him, as the plan beſt calculated for promoting his own intereſt
and comfort, and the happineſs of the inhabitants of the Carnatic, that he ſhould
entruſt the Company with the entire management of the Country, in addition to the
reſponſibility for its defence, under an engagement on their part, after allotting cer-
tain ſums for public purpoſes, and for the gradual liquidation of his private debts,
to pay to him regularly a liberal portion of its Revenues for the maintenance of his
family, and the ſupport of his dignity. But the Nabob’s own diſpoſition, and the
influence of a number of intereſted people, of a variety of deſcriptions, with whom
he has intercourſe, left me no ground to hope that he could be brought to give his
free conſent to an arrangement of that nature; and a regard to juſtice and libe-
•rality towards an old Ally, as well as to our own reputation in India, equally pre-
-cluded the moſt diſtant idea of making uſe of any other means than thoſe of perſua-
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3. His Highneſs had frequently, in the courſe of the laſt three years, requeſted
that I would interpoſe and relieve him from the diſtreſſes which he ſaid he ſuffered,
either from the condućt of the Government of Fort St. George, or from the terms
of the treaty that he had concluded with the late Sir Archibald Campbell ; and
upon my return to this place from the field, he renewed thoſe applications in a very
earneſt manner, both by letter and by meſſages, through his eldeſt ſon Omdut ul
Omrah. - - -
4, Inclination, no leſs than a ſenſe of public duty, concurred to induce me to
avail myſelf of the opening furniſhed by the Nabob to take the whole ſubjećt under
confideration, and to endeavour to make a new arrangement between the Company
and his Highneſs, which ſhould confine the demand upon him for his ſhare of the
expence of the Military Eſtabliſhments, and for the liquidation of his private debts,
within reaſonable bounds; and at the ſame time ſecure, as far as might be pračti-
cable, the regular payment of that ſum in future into the Company's Treaſury.
5. A negociation was accordingly opened, and the Nabob and his eldeſt ſon bay.
ding, after a very full and amicable diſcuſſion of the general principles, and the dif:
ferent articles of the plan that I laid before them, acquieſced in all the material
parts of my propoſitions, I had the ſatisfaction to conclude an agreement with them,
which I truſt will be found to be as well calculated as the ſituation of affairs upon
the Coaſt would admit of, for promoting the comfort of the Nabob, and the quiet of
the Carnatic, and for ſecuring as large a portion of his Revenues for the ſupport of
public eſtabliſhments, and for the diſcharge of his private debts, as the real reſources
f his country can afford. - *
6. I have now the honour to encloſe a copy of the new treaty, and alſo, for
your further information, copies of all the letters and written meſſages that have
paſſed between his Highneſs and myſelf in the courſe of the negociation; but it is
likewiſe proper to give ſome additional explanation of the reaſons on which ſeveral
of my propoſitions were founded.
7. It would have been equally imprudent to have decided upon the extent of the
...demand on the Nabob, from his own ſtatement of his finances, as from the ſanguine
opinions of people who, from imperfeót ſources of knowledge, have formed extrava-
gant eſtimates of the Revenues of the Carnatic; and therefore, in order to act with
moderation and juſtice towards the Nabob, as well as with fairneſs towards the Com-
pany and his Highneſs's private creditors, I thought I could not be guided by a more
certain rule in making the demand upon his Highneſs, than by the ſtatement with
which I was furniſhed by the Government of Fort St. George, of the aëtual amount
, of the ſettlements and collečtions that have been made by the Company’s OWſ;
ſervants during the period that the Carnatic has been recently under their manage-
.
8. I do not think myſelf called upon to endeavour to account for the Nabob's
; having been prevailed upon to agree, by the Treaty which he concluded with Sir
Archibald Campbell, to pay a ſum into the Company’s Treaſury, which ſo far ex-
ceeded the real reſources of his country; but ſhall only obſerve, that it was full
time that this deluſion, ſo flattering, but in the end ſo injurious to the Company,
and to his private creditors, ſhould ceaſe; and I am perſuaded that you will feel as
: I did, that, excluſive of the Jaghires, not leſs than a fifth part of the Revenues of the
Carnatic ſhould, under any circumſtances whatever, be left for the ſupport of his
Highneſs’s family. - -
9. By obſerving this rule on the preſent agreement, it has certainly been rendered
. poſſible for the Nabob to be regular in his future payments; but, from the general
improvidence of his management, and in particular from his having unluckily fallen
into inveterate habits of allowing himſelf to be preyed upon by artful and intereſted
men, I cannot help apprehending that his Kiſts will before long fall again, as for-
merly, into arrear; and although the aſſumption of the different diſtrićts at the period
of each failure will protećt the Company againſt future diſappointments, yet, as his
ſhare of one-fifth of his Revenues is never to be diminiſhed, the amount of thoſe
arrears, and the accruing intereſt upon them, muſt ſtand over in account as a debt
to the Company until all his conſolidated debts ſhall be diſcharged. -
Io. This could only have been avoided by an article in the Treaty, to entitle the
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Company, tºpon the failure of the payment of a Kiſt, to take the immediate ma-
nagement of the whole of the diſtrićtº mentioned in the Schedule: but I ſhould have
been reſtrained from making ſuch a propoſition, from the harſhneſs of its nature,
even if I had thought it poſſible that his Highneſs could havé been induced to con-
ſent to it. . - -
11. I conceive it to be the indiſputable right of the Company to expect that,
prior to the admiſfion of any other claim upon the Nabob, a juſt proportion of the
Revenues of the Carnatic ſhall be appropriated for defraying the charges of its
defence; and I muſt confeſs, that notwithſtanding the acquiſition of territory by the
laſt peace, yet on account of the encreaſe of the public debts, the declining ſtate of
the Revenues of the Circars, and the reſponſibility that falls upon the Company by
the treaty with the Nabob for the arrears in his payments, I did not think that,
conſiſtent with juſtice to the Company, and a due conſideration for the ſafety of the
State, any dedućtion could be made from the nine lacks of pagodas which were al-
lotted for the general defence of the Country by the treaty that the Nabob con-
cluded with Sir Archibald Campbeli; to which I ſhall not heſitate to add, that:
although the ſum to be applied by the preſent treaty, to the payment of private
debts, may fall ſhort of the expectations of ſome of the creditors, yet that the circum-
ſtances above-mentioned, and the improvement that has been made in the ſecurity
for the ultimate payment of thoſe debts, remove in my opinion every ſhadow of juſt
ground of complaint, - --
12. Your own Records contain ſufficient information of the miſchievous effects to
the quiet and proſperity of the Country, that have attended the frequent altercations
and quarrels between the Nabob and the tributary Polygars, both in the Northern
and Southern parts of his dominions; and as, in ſuch diſputes, it is not eaſy to aſ-
certain whether the complaints of the Nabob, that the Polygars refuſe to pay his
juſt demands, or their repreſentations of his Highneſs's endeavours to enforce unjuſ-
tifiable exactions, are well founded, the beſt-intentioned Government of Fort St.
George might be embarraſſed in deciding upon the Nabob's application for the
aſſiſtance of the Company's troops to ſupport his intereſts and authority; whilſt, on
the other hand, I am ſorry to ſay, that I have good reaſon, to expećt that on ſeveral
occaſions of that nature, an advantage has been taken both by the Company’s civil
and military ſervants of the Nabob's anxiety to execute his views, whether juſt or
unjuſt, upon that deſcription of his ſubjects; and that he has only obtained the ſup-
port that he required by the means of the moſt ſcandalous corruption.
13. I conſidered it therefore of the utmoſt importance for the future good Go-
vernment of this country, that the tribute of the Polygars ſhould be fixed and paid
direétly to the Company, to which the Nabob, though with ſome reluctance, at laſt
conſented ; and as I hope that we ſhall be equally incapable of attempting to commit
extortions, as ready and able to enforce our juſt demands upon them, I truſt that in
the courſe of a few years, habits of good order and ſubordination will be introduced
among that irregular and turbulent claſs of people.
14. The Nabob's failure in making good his ſtipulated payments alone compelled
us, at the commencement of the war, to take the management of his Revenues into
our own hands; but experience having convinced me, ſince my arrival upon this
Coaſt, that it would have been impoſſible to carry on the war, without having like-
wiſe the means in our power to command, without delay or interruption, the re-
ſources that the Carnatic could afford, of grain and cattle for the uſe of the army, I
thought it my duty to propoſe that the Nabob ſhould agree, that in caſe of a future
war with any of the neighbouring powers, the Company ſhould, during the period.
of the war, aſſume the entire management of his country; and it gave me great
pleaſure to find that neither his Highneſs or his ſon made the leaſt objećlion to that
article. - -
15. Although I have heard the moſt unfavourable accounts of the charašter and
condućt of the Rajah of Tanjore, I have thought it moſt ſuitable to the moderate
ſpirit of our Government, upon the reſtoration of public tranquility, to recommend
to the Government of Fort St. George to make another trial of the Rajah, and to
reſtore the management of his country to him; but as the failure laſt ſeaſon
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have ſeen no good reaſon for propoſing that a remiſſion ſhould be made to the Ra-
jah, either of any part of his debt to the Company, or of the Peiſhcuſh which is
due from his country, and I have pointed out to this Government the neceſſity of
<eeping a watchful eye upon the Rajah, and of applying to him the principle of the
agreement, which has been concluded with the Nabob, by reſuming the manage-
ment of his Country, in caſe he ſhall fail in the regular diſcharge of the Company’s
juſt demand upon him. ł
16. I feel a perfect confidence that I ſhall meet with the moſt cordial concurrence
from the Members of the Supreme Board, of the different articles of the new agree-
ment that I have concluded with the Nabob ; and as no kind of inconvenience can
ariſe from a ſhort delay in the final execution of the Treaty, it is my intention to
defer it on my part, until I can ſign it in Council at Fort William. .
17. I ſhall carry with me from hence two Copies ſigned and ſealed by the Nabob,
one of which, when executed by me, will be returned to his Highneſs, and the other
will be depoſited at Fort William ; and as the Treaty is to take effect from the 12th
inſtant, I have furniſhed the Government of Fort St. George with a Copy of it,
and of my correſpondence with the Nabob on the ſubjećt, and requeſted that his
Highneſs may, according to the terms of it, be reinſtated without loſs of time in the
management of his Country. 3. -
I have the honour,
Fort St. George, &c. &c.
9th July 1792. - - (Signed) Cornwallis.
To the Honourable the Court of Directors, &c. &c. &c.
Honourable Sirs,
Para. 1.--THE Supreme Government having been pleaſed to tranſmit a Copy of
their Addreſs to you of the 11th July, for the purpoſe of communicating their ſentiments,
principally upon my condućt and minute reſpecting the negociation with the Nabob,
and having ſtated, “ that their principles are fairly at iſſue with mine, and that it
** will remain with your Honourable Court to determine which you deem beſt adapt-
“ed to promote the permanent intereſts of the Company;” I feel much ſatisfac-
tion at the appeal, and ſhall ſubmit to your deciſion with deference and reſpeći.
2.—Your Honourable Court muſt excuſe my prefacing this ſubjećt by intruding
a few words upon the following obſervations of the Governor General in Council.
“ On the language of declamation or intemperance we ſhall never animadvert, un-
“ leſs it becomes neceſſary to the ſupport of the authority of the Supreme Govern-
*** ment, leaving it on this, as on former occaſions, to the obſervation and notice of
“ your Honourable Court.” ~.
3.—I truſt that the zealous obedience to the orders of the Supreme Board, which
I have manifeſted on every occaſion, will afford ample teſtimony of the reſpect I
entertain for their authority; but if I am not to defend my condućt when attacked,
in terms not indeed of intemperance and declamation, but of cool deliberate cen-
vſure and ſeverity, impeaching my charaćter as a public ſervant, in a manner not
poſſible to be miſunderſtood, I am placed in a ſituation wholly incompatible with
a due regard to my own reputation. -
4.—The Bengal Government having declared, that “they ſhall never regret the
* time given to diſcuſſions which tend to bring under your review and judgment
“ the principles by which it appears to them the Governments of India ſhould be
“ regulated, in the convićtion, that the ſtability and proſperity of the Britiſh power
“ in lndia materially depend on the clear aſcertainment and definition of theſe prin-
“ ciples, and on a ſteady adherence to them:” coupled by the obſervation, “ that
“ their principles are fairly at iſſue with mine;” it would ſeem their intention to
imply that there was a fundamental difference between us, and conſequently that if
ou acquieſce in the principles laid down by them, you muſt of courſe diſapprove
of thoſe by which my condućt has been affluated.
5.—An expoſition, therefore, of our principles becomes the more neceſſary, for the
purpºſe of aſcertaining upon what points we really are at iſſue. Whether and how
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II. .far cur maxims of Government are contradićtory, or whether the difference between
— us conſiſts ſolely in the application of thoſe maxims.
6.—The Governor General in Council ſtates it his firſt poſition, that the Nabob
has ſucceeded to the rights and ſtation of his father, under the ſolemn obligation of a
Treaty, and that theſe rights may be conceded, but cannot be extorted without a
violation of public faith. 2ndly, That the inviolability of public faith is incul-
catcd by the orders of our ſuperiors, the preſcriptions of the legiſlature, by juſtice,
' policy, and law; that its infringement would be a departure from moral reëtitude,
and conſequently can never be politically right; and that the admiſſion of arguments
in deviation from this principle, would be the certain prelude to the ſubverſion of
the Britiſh power in India. 3dly, That this principle admits of deviation, for “ he
“ cannot go ſo far as to aſſert that no circumſtances could exiſt to juſtify the depriva-
• tion of thoſe rights which the Nabob holds by Treaty, but before he aſſented to
“ ſuch a meaſure he ſhould require the cleareſt proofs of their exiſtence, and that
“ they were of a nature to juſtify to the world the violation of theſe ſančtions which
“ he is bound to obſerve.” - . . . . . . ¥ . . . . . . . . . .
7.—Theſe being the rules of policy propoſed by the Bengal Government, as a clear
aſcertainment and definition of the regulating principles of Britiſh power in its rela-
tion to the Nabob of the Carnatic, the diſcuſſion can only be uſeful, in as much as
it may lead to diſcover whether theſe rules be ſufficiently definite to refer to, when
exigencies may require ſpecific inſtrućtions to determine the meaſures of your Go-
vernments in India; but as principles profeſſedly admitting of deviation, fluêtuating
with circumſtances neither alluded to nor enumerated, but to be eſtimated as they
ariſe by the exiſting Government, the propriety or impropriety of that eſtimation
to depend not upon precedent analogy or any written law, but upon the ſubſequent
opinion of the world, can never be produćtive of thoſe beneficial effects avowedly
ſought for by the Supreme Board ; it would be deſirable that you ſhould be induced
... to convey your inſtructions for a more preciſe application of the foregoing princi-
ples, if they be ſuch as are honoured by your approbation.
8.—Having eſtabliſhed it as a maxim of Britiſh Government, that circumſtances
may juſtify the deprivation of the Nabob's guaranteed rights, the Governor Gene-
ral in Council proceeds to enumerate ſome of the evils which have reſulted to him-
ſelf, his people, and the Company, from the undue exerciſe of thoſe rights. The
mal-adminiſtration under which his Country has ſo Hong ſuffered the evils of a divided
Government, the pernicious effects of Durbar influence and intrigue, the embar-
raſſment of the Nabob and the Company from the uſurious ſyſtem of loans and
aſſignments, and the ruinous conſequences attending it to his Highneſs's ſubjećts, are
all acknowledged and lamented by the Supreme Board; and it appears from the
tenor of the Governor General’s correſpondence to be a defideration of national im–
portance, implicating the moſt ſerious intereſts of humanity, that theſe cauſes of
decay ſhould be removed, and ſuch an arrangement introduced for the Adminiſtra-
tion of the Carnatic as might avert impending ruin, and lay the foundation of future
9.—in aggravation of theſe abuſes it has alſo been admitted, that moſt of them have
originated from the Nabob's violation of a ſolemn engagement; yet under the full
convićtion of the exiſtence of all theſe evils, and of the opinion that circumſtances
might juſtify the deprivation of thoſe rights which the Nabob holds by Treaty, the
Governor General in Council has charged the Preſident of Fort St. George with
having been guilty of a condućt calculated to ſubvert the Britiſh power in India, be-
cauſe he has propoſed, and at a time of pecuniary emergency, that the Nabob ſhould
be urged to liquidate an unqueſtionable debt, in the hope that it might induce his
acquieſcence in the modification of a compačt which he has ſo groſsly and openly
violated, ſuch modification having for its ſole objećt the prevention of violations of a
fimilar nature in future, and offering as an additional inducernent to obtain his
Highneſs’s acquieſcence, that the diſcharge of the debt in queſtion ſhould be poſt-
poned to a limited period, and that another demand upon him from the Company,
: cannot amount to leſs than thirty lacks of pagodas, ſhould be relinquiſhed
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Io.—I muſt however obſerve, that at that time I was not aware that the Nabob
debts, minich leſs that he could have been prevailed upon by any circumſtances to
hazard a declaration ſo profligate and unprincipied.
1 r.—It cannot eſcape the diſcernment of your Honourable Court, that if the aſ-
certainment of principles for guidance of your Governments in India be expe-
dient, and if the poſition of the Governor General in Council be corréét, “ that
“, circumſtances may exiſt to juſtify the deprivation of thoſe rights which the Nabob
“ holds by Treaty,” it would be difficult to appreciate ſuch circumſtances if thoſe
which have been ſtated be not of that deſcription; and more eſpecially when you refle&t
that this power, the calamitous exerciſe of which is annihilating the reſources on
which your Empire may depend, has been nouriſhed and upheid, by Britiſh arms, and
that it is now perverted from the legitimate end of all authority into an oppreſſive,
perfidious, and depopulating tyranny. . . . . : . . . . . .
12-i ſhall cloſe this part of the ſubjećt with a remark, that if experience has not,
I am convinced it will completely ſubſtantiate, that no point will at any time be
carried with the Nabob or the Rajah of Tanjore, which does not hold out to them
ſome immediate advantage from their acquieſcence, or his diſadvantage from their
refuſal; and that the means of perſuaſion alone, however pleaſing a ſound, will at all
times be found nugatory and inoperative. . . . . . .
13.- I ſhall now take the liberty of drawing your attention to the repetition of the
charge, of the negociation with the Nabob, having been unadviſedly precipitate.
14.—To this accuſation, after what I have already ſaid, I can have but little to
add ; I have expreſsly ſtated, that I had prevailed upon the Nabob to recall his firſt
refuſal; that he requeſted it might not be forwarded to England; that he affirmed
it to be an act, not of his own convićtion, but extorted from him by the meaſures
of his Miniſters; that he had not maturely weighed the ſubjećt, and that he deſired
the Packet might not be diſpatched until the time of his mourning (a period of forty
days) had elapſed ; I am therefore to lament that the Supreme Board ſhould have
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brought forward their conjećtures and partial quotations upon this ſubjećt, in oppoſi-
tion to my poſitive and public declaration to the contrary, and upon a point in
which it is not poſſible for me to have been miſtaken; nor can I well conceive how an
event, the beginning, continuance, and termination of which were circumſtances of
public notoriety, marked by the fears, intrigues, and exultation of every corrupt
Member of the Durbar combination, and by the hopes, anxiety, and diſappointment
of every mind that felt for the injured rights of humanity, and the intereſts of the
Eaſt India Company, ſhould have been unknown to the Governor General in Coun-
cil. Public report, I ſhould have thought, would have ſpoken in Bengal, and corro-
borated my declaration, that the negociation was protracted to the period I have
15.--The force of the reaſons I have aſſigned for the early introdućtion of the ſub-
jećt, having been admitted by the Governor General in Council, I do not think it
neceſſary to advert to them further than to obſerve, that if, with the Supreme Board,
you admit the force of the reaſons for the early introdućtion of the ſubject, and if you
believe, what upon my honour I aſſert as a fačt, that the negociation did not termi-
ºnate for at leaſt forty-five days, you cannot agree in the cenſure of unadviſed preci-
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pitation which has been paſſed upon my condućt.
16. The Supreme Government having reſumed the ſubjećt of the 5th Seótion
of the 8th Article of the Treaty of 1792, I muſt refer your Honourable Court to
my Minute of the 7th of Auguſt reſpecting the 'i'anjore Treaty, in which I have
•º
given the beſt conſideration in my power to that point ; upon the
preſent occaſion,
he is liable to ſuch penalties as generally attach upon a breach of engagement. If
the latter advances his money upon ſecurities on the diſtricts in queſtion, he hazards
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the loſs of it on their falling into our hands. How a clauſe diſtinétly affecting two
ſeparate objects can juſtiy be conſtrued to exonerate the one from all penalty,
becauſe its final operation is ſpecifically provided for, is beyond my capacity to
#76. . . diſcover,
I ſhall briefly remark, that the Article is made to affect two parties, the Nabob and
the money-lender. If the former grants Aſſignments on the mortgaged diſtrićts,
• II.
confidered it “a derelićtion of his honour, as well as his intereſt,” to pay his
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II. diſcover. The Governor General in Council has explicitly ſtated his conſtrućtion
— of the terms of the Treaty of 1792. You are in poſſeſſion of mine. To whom the
charge of an attempt “ to explain away the obligations of a Treaty” is moſt
applicable, your Honourable Court will determine. -
17.—The principle I maintain is, that ſo long as the party with whom a Treaty
has been made, ſhall adhere to his engagements, a ſimilar obſervance from us is
indiſpenſible; but that, from the hour it is violated by him, our obligation ceaſes.
Were it neceſſary to go beyond an appeal to common ſenſe upon the ſubject, I
might refer you to Watel. He ſays, “If a power, which has ſought the protećtion
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of another, does not fulfil his engagements with fidelity, the protećting party is
diſcharged from his ; he may refuſe his protestion, and declare the Treaty
annulled, if he ſhall think it expedient ſo to do.”
18.—It being the opinion of the Supreme Board that it will not be difficult to
ſhew, that arguments founded on the views of the Company at the original
formation of the Treaty of 1787, or at the ſubſequent modification of the
pecuniary ſtipulations of it in 1792, are either inapplicable or overſtrained,”—
my own juſtification demands that I ſhould aſſign my reaſons for having reſorted to
ſuch arguments. I have the beſt authority for aſſerting, that the Nabob had been
in the habits of complaining, that his engagements under the Treaty of 1787
involved him in the greateſt diſtreſſes, alledging that the reſources of the Carnatic
were not competent to enable him to perform his pecuniary ſtipulations. I am
confident, that one of the principal objećts of the Treaty of 1792 was to relieve
thoſe reſources, by leſſening the Nabob’s payments (ſix lacks of pagodas annually);
and that, in conſequence of ſo conſiderable a dedućtion from the receipts of the
Company, the Nabob was obliged to enter into certain new ſtipulations, having for
their objećt the preſervation of thoſe reſources which he had repreſented to be
endangered by the exiſting Treaty. Now if the ſubjećt of the modification of the
Treaty of 1787 really was the preſervation of thoſe reſources, and he has violated
the conditions agreed upon for that purpoſe, a reference to that Treaty, with a view
to prove not only that the letter, but the ſpirit of that which was a modification of
"it had been infringed by his Highneſs, does not appear to me to warrant the term
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inapplicable.” f
19–Whether the ſentiments of the Governor General in Council, and particularly
thoſe conveyed in his letter to the Nabob reſpecting your orders on the ſubjećt of
the Polygars, be calculated to affect the ſalutary objećt you had in view, or to
impede its attainment, is a point to which your early attention is certainly required.
The queſtion at iſſue between the Governor General in Council and me ariſes from
the following paragraph in his letter to the Nabob.-Your Highneſs cannot but
“recollečt, “ That on the death of the late Rajah of Calaſtry, your honoured father
, & K.
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conferred the ſucceſſion on the preſent Rajah, and received the Nuzzernah on the
occaſion. This was an ačt of ſovereignty coming clearly within the reſervation
of the Treaty, and the exerciſe of it conſequently readily admitted.” To which
I have obſerved, in reference to the manner in which the Nabob was allowed to
exerciſe his right of ſovereignty, upon the occaſion alluded to, that “if the Nabob
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be at liberty to make pecuniary demands upon the Polygars upon all occaſions,
whenever, the cuſtoms of his Durbar may furniſh claims for Nuzzernah, under
the idea of ſuch demands coming clearly within the reſervations of the Treaty,
as ačts of ſovereignty, I was under the neceſſity of declaring, that the right
which has been countenanced and aſſerted by the Governor General, is abſolutely
incompatible with the realization of the Polygars tribute.”
2O.—If I had the arguments of the Governor General to combat upon this point,
I ſhould certainly meet them, but with a deference I cannot now feel, ſince he has
reſted the caſe upon my inconſiſtency, and requeſted your deciſion upon that ground.
A reference to the whole of the correſpondence on the ſubjećt of the Calaſtry
Nuzzer is all I deſire in proof of my conſiſtency; but I muſt beg not to be judged
by the partial abſtraćt which the Governor General in Council has thought proper
to annex to their letter. Upon the candour of ſuch a proceeding it would be
aſ becoming in me to make any remark. ; I conſider it, however, my duty to ſay,
that
AFF A I R S of T H E CA R N AT I C.
that had I entertained at that early, or indeed at any other period of my reſidence
in India, an opinion which further experience had taught me to alter, and more
eſpecially after the comprehenſive communication of your ſentiments upon the
ſubjećt, I ſhould have been more proud to have acknowledged my error than to
have preſerved my conſiſtency, and thus have ačted in oppoſition to my own judg-
ment and your inſtrućtions. But I am not reduced to ſuch an alternative. A
detail of the tranſačtion, and a more enlarged reference to the Records, will demon-
ſtrate that the ſentiments ſubſcribed by me throughout are both reconcileable and
conſiſtent. - t - *
21.—Upon the death of the late Rajah of Calaſtry, the Nabob intimated his
intention of demanding a Nuzzer on the inveſtiture of his ſon, which underſtanding
to be the cuſtom of the Carnatic, and looking upon it as a complimentary acknow-
ledgment of the Nabob's right of ſovereignty, I was diſpoſed to admit; but at all
events judged it prudent to ſolicit the opinion of the Supreme Government upon
the ſubjećt. In reply, the Governor General in Council conceiving that the
Nabob “was rather tenacious as to the principle, than anxious as to the amount,”
ſuggeſted that he ſhould be allowed to receive a ſum, which might fairly be deemed
a complimentary acknowledgment of his ſovereign right, but alſo direéted, “ That
“ it ſhould be ſettled with his Highneſs’s acquieſcence.” -
22.—A communication of the Nabob's ſentiments ſoon diſcovered that he looked
upon the Nuzzers as a ſource of Revenue, and not as mere compliment, upon
which I immediately ſaw the neceſſity of urging the terms of the Treaty as a bar
to that underſtanding of the ſubjećt. His Highneſs adhered to his original idea;
a ſecond reference was made to the Supreme Government, and the diſcuſſion termi-
nated if the Nabob's receiving a lack of rupees. The Governor General has ſtated
the precedent to the Nabob, as the rule by which he is at liberty to exerciſe his
ſovereign rights. I reſiſt it, as incompatible with the realization of the tribute.
23.—An appeal to the whole of the proceedings upon this tranſačtion would be
the moſt ample teſtimony of my conſiſtency; but I ſhall merely trouble your
Honourable Court, in addition to the extracts furniſhed by the Governor General
in Council, with copies of my Letter to the Nabob of the 26th April, of my
Minute of the 21ſt May 1795, and of the concluding paragraph of the Letter from
this Government of the ſame date. - . -
24.—I cannot forego this opportunity of expreſſing to your Honourable Court,
the deep regret I have felt at the frequent animadverſions the Supreme Govern-
ment have made upon my condućt. I will not preſume to aſſert it is free from
errors; but whatever thoſe errors may be, I can confidently declare they have been
the reſult of the moſt zealous anxiety to promote the intereſts of the Eaſt India
Company.
25.-The ſatisfaction to be derived from diſintereſtedneſs and generoſity, is too
grateful to a well-diſpoſed mind to be checked by any conſiderations except thoſe of
duty; but to publiſh to all the Indian world, that our allies may violate the faith of
Treaties, undermine the reſources of the Britiſh Government, and withhold the
liquidation of their debts to the Company, without incurring any poſſible incon-
venience, appears to be a ſacrifice deſperately alarming to the public welfare.
26.--For my part, I muſt for ever diſclaim that ſpecies of reputation, which is to
be raiſed upon the ruin of thoſe intereſts which it is my duty to preſerve, or to be
acquired by reſorting to popular arguments in ſupport of a depopulating ſyſtem.
An adherence to the faith of treaties is a great principle of the firſt public utility,
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but if it be not uniform it cannot be juſt. It muſt be binding on both, or concluſive
againſt neither party. Vatel tells us, “ If the engagements of a Treaty impoſe
“ on one ſide a perfeót obligation, they give to the other a perfect right. To
“ violate a treaty, is to violate the perfeót right of him with whom it has been
“ contračted; it is to do him an injury.”
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27.-The relative ſituation of the Nabob and the Company, renders our protećtion
to his Country an act of indiſpenſable neceſſity; he is indebted to our arms for the
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poſſeſſion of it, and his intereſt is ſo interwoven with ours, as to have become
176. - B. b ‘. & abſolutely
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II.
abſolutely inſeparable from it. Various engagements have been entered into
between the Company and his father for the purpoſe of realizing his proportion of
the military expences, and for ſecuring the liquidation of his private debts ; but it
is notorious that the Nabob has never fulfilled his engagements; and that his
arrears, at the opening of the laſt war, were ſo enormous as to oblige Lord
Cornwallis to take his Country into the immediate management of the Company’s
ſervants. The Treaty of 1792, had it been adhered to, was admirably calculated
to correót the evils of the prevailing ſyſtem ; ſince, by making the forfeiture of a
arge proportion of the Country, the inevitable conſequence of a defalcation in his
Kiſts, it ſecured the payments to the Government and the Creditors from falling
into arrear; and, if the expreſs ſtipulation againſt granting Aſſignments upon the
mortgaged diſtrićts had not been violated, the effect of the meaſure would have
been as beneficial as its deſign was ſagacious. The fulleſt conſideration of this
important ſubjećt, with the contemplation of that ruin in which the Nabob's breach
of engagement is involving the Carnatic ; the daily accounts I receive of the
oppreſſion and miſeries of the unfortunate inhabitants, and the convićtion I have of
the progreſſive annihilation of the reſources of the Company, have ſo ſtrongly
impreſſed my mind with the neceſſity of a change of ſyſtem, that I have no
heſitation in ſaying, if there be no doubt (and it is not poſſible that any man in
India can doubt it) of the Treaty of 1792 having been violated by the Nabob,
there can be no queſtion of our fight to avail ourſelves of every means in our
power to enforce ſuch a modification of the Treaty as will guard againſt the fatal
conſequences of future violation ; and I am not afraid to hazard my charaćter upon
this opinion, reſting it upon the policy, the juſtice, or the humanity of the
meaſures.
28–I ſhall conclude this Addreſs with the recital of two paragraphs from
Lord Cornwallis's letter to the Court of Directors, dated the oth of Auguſt
1792. -
º—The change of circumſtances ſince that period, ſeems to have leſſened the
weight of thoſe arguments which his Lordſhip was apprehenſive might be urged
againſt an alteration in the ſyſtem. The preſent Nabob, though heir to the
poſſeſſions, cannot have the ſame claim to your conſideration to which his father
was entitled. The expe&tations juſtly entertained from the operation of the
Treaty of 1792, have been diſappointed; and the evils of the Adminiſtration of
the Carnatic have, if poſſible, been increaſed tenfold, ſince the deceaſe of Ma-
homed Ally. --
EXTRACTS of a Letter from Lord Cornwallis to the Court of
Direétors ; dated ioth Auguſt 1790. .
Par, 22.-‘‘I MUST freely own, that I could not venture to propoſe any plan,
on the ſucceſs of which I could have any firm reliance, unleſs the Nabob
could be induced, by a large annual Revenue regularly paid, and properly ſecured
to him, to ſurrender the management of his Country for a long term of years
to the Company.” -*. - -
Par. 24.—“The Nabob's age, his long conneétion with us, his rights to the
poſſeſſion of the Country, which, however, without our aſſiſtance would have been
but of little value to him, and exaggerated accounts of his former ſervices, may
furniſh topics for popular declamation, and may poſſibly engage the nation upon
miſtaken ideas of humanity to ſupport, a ſyſtem of cruelty and oppreſſion. But
whilſt I feel conſcious that I am endeavouring to promote the happineſs of
mankind, and the good of my country, I ſhall give very little weight to ſuch
confiderations, and ſhould conceive that I had not performed the duty of the high
and reſponſible office in which you did me the honour to place me, if I did
not declare, that the preſent mixed Government cannot proſper even in the
beſt hands in which your part of it can be placed; and that unleſs ſome ſuch
plan as that which I have propoſed ſhould be adopted, the inhabitants of the
Carnatic
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
Carnatic muſt continue to be wretched; the Nabob muſt remain an indigent
bankrupt; and his Country an uſeleſs and expenſive burthen to the Company and to
the Nation.”
I have the honour to be
With great reſpečt,
Honourable Sirs, f
Fort St. George, Your moſt obedient humble Servant,
15th September, 1796. Hobart.
Poſtſcript.—The Governor General in Council having direéted this Govern-
ment to procure information on certain points concerning the relative rights of
Sherfogee, and the preſent Rajah to the Muſnud of Tanjore, I have the honour to
tranſmit herewith, for the information of your Honourable Court, copies of the
correſpondence that has paſſed on the occaſion.
Hobart.
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III.
N° 5.
OR D ERS of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 9th February 1803.
*gºr-
To the Honourable the Committee of Secrecy of the Court of Direétors for Affairs
of the Honourable the Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eaſt
Indies, London. ". - r
Deal, January 8th 1786.
Gentlemen,
H HAVE the honour to acquaint you, that I arrived here this morning on board
the Swallow Packet, after a paſſage of four months and twenty-two days from
the time we left the Pilot at the mouth of the Ganges.
2. A few days after the date of my laſt"Letter to you from Calcutta, of the 27th
July 1785, with a Poſtſcript of the 28th, your overland Diſpatches of the 10th of
March, and thoſe alſo by the Rodney Indiaman, were received at Fort William,
ſignifying your pleaſure that the Government General of India ſhould devolve upon
me at the departure of Mr. Warren Haſtings. That Gentleman, you will have been
.informed, had long before reſigned it into the hands of Mr. Macpherſon. -
Had I ſuffered myſelf to be influenced by the common views of the generality of
mankind, I ſhould probably have entertained few ſcruples in accepting of that high
office,; but in declining, at the time I did, to take it upon me, H was governed by
ſuperior motives, and ſet aſide every conſideration of my own private intereſt or per-
ſonal advantage. . .* -
No man can value, more highly than I do the honour conferred upon me by your
appointment, and there are many circumſtances which ought to render it particularly
flattering ; but it is only from a very ſerious conſideration of the ſtate of your affairs,
as they now ſtand in India, that you can judge how far any exertions of mine can be
made.effectual to retrieve them. You may be aſſured that I ſhall never ſhrink from
reſponſibility, where a foundation is given for it to reſt upon; and that, whenever I
am empowered to act with honour to myſelf, and with that energy which can alone
enſure the ſucceſs which your intereſts require, my zeal for your ſervice will ſurmount
every obſtacle that might ariſe from difficulty, from ill health, or former diſappoint-
ments.
I incloſe in Nº 1. a copy of Mr. Secretary Brueré's Letter to me, dated Council.
«Chamber, Fort William, Auguſt 3d, 1785, communicating to me your letter of
the I oth March 1785 ; and I alſo tranſmit a copy of my anſwer in Nº. 2.
I flatter myſelf with hopes of having the honour of paying my reſpe&ts to your
Honourable Court in a very few days, and of aſſuring you in perſon how much
..I am, Gentlemen,
Your moſt obedient and *
Moſt faithful humble Servant, •.
(Signed) Macartney.
III.
36 P A PERS RET, ATING TO THE
_* (copy) . ~~
The Right Honourable George Lord Macartney, K. B. &c. &c.
"My Lord, ... :
I am commanded by the Honourable the Governor General and Council, to com-
municate to your Lordſhip an authenticated copy of an original Diſpatch from the
Honourable Court of Direčtors, under date 1 oth March laſt, and received here
this day. -
I have the honour to be,
My Lord, -
- - - With the higheſt reſpect, -
Council Chamber, Your Lordſhip's moſt obedient and
3d Auguſt 1785. r Moſt humble Servant,
- (Signed) W. Bruere,
* - Secº Y.
(Copy.)
Our Governor General and Council at Fort William in Bengal.
OUR Governor General having in his Letter, dated 20th March 1783, ſignified
his earneſt deſire that we would nominate a ſucceſſor to the Government of Bengal,
we have appointed the Right Honourable George Lord Macartney to ſucceed to
the Government General of Bengal, upon the death, removal, or reſignation of
Warren Haſtings, Eſquire. -
Our Governor General having, in his Letter of the 20th March 1783, ſignified his
earneſt deſire that we would nominate a ſucceſſor to the Government of Bengal, we
have accordingly appointed Lord Macartney as ſucceſſor to the Government Gene-
ral ; and having taken into conſideration the long, faithful, and able ſervices of
Warren Haſtings, Eſquire, we have unanimouſly reſolved that he be permitted to reſign
the Government of Bengal, agreeably to his requeſt contained in the above Letter.
We have not fixed any particular day for his quitting the Government, but direét
that he take the firſt convenient opportunity in the enſuing ſeaſon, commencing in
Oćtober next, to return to Europe; and as we have inſtrućted Lord Macartney to
hold himſelf in readineſs to proceed to Bengal immediately after the departure of
Mr. Haſtings, we order that the Senior in the Supreme Council, on whom the
Government is in the interim to devolve, ſhall loſe no time in conveying to Lord
Macartney the earlieſt information of that event.
. r We are your affectionate Friends,
(Signed) JNath' Smith,
W. JDevaynes,
S. Sulivan,
-Geo. Tatem,
ja: Moffat,
john Matteax,
Hugh Inglis,
jos” Sparkes.
..R. Hall,
j. Baring,
j. Smith,
...}. Woodhouſe,
j. Michele,
London, • . john Manſhip,
19th March 1785. - ſº Benſley,
& - - Tho'. Barry.
{A true Copy.) . • * * - * ~ * .
(Signed) Wº. Bruce,
Secºy.
A FFAIRS OF THE CARNATIC.
97
To the Honourable John Macpherſon, Governor General, &c. Council.
? Council, Fort William.
Gentlemen, -
I HAVE received the favour of Mr. Secretary Bruere's Letter of the 3d inſtant,
written by your order, incloſing a copy, atteſted by him, of a Letter from the Ho-
nourable Court of Direétors, dated 1 oth March 1785, informing you,
1ſt. “ That the Governor General having, in his Letter of the 20th March 1783,
“ ſignified his earneſt deſire that they would nominate a ſucceſſor to the Govern-
“ ment of Bengal, they had appointed the Right Honourable George Lord Macart-
“ ney to ſucceed to the Government General of Bengal, upon the death, removal,
“ or reſignation of Warren Haſtings, Eſquire.
2d. “And that the Governor General having, in his Letter of the 20th March
“ 1783, ſignified his earneſt deſire that they would nominate a ſucceſſor to the
“ Government General, and having taken into conſideration the long, faithful,
“ and able ſervices of Warren Haſtings, Eſquire, they had unanimouſly reſolved that
“ he be permitted to reſign the Government of Bengal, agreeably to his requeſt con-
“ tained in the above Letter. …
5:
3d. “And that they had not fixed any particular day for his quitting the Go-
“ vernment, but direéted that he take the firſt convenient opportunity in the enfüing
“ ſeaſon, commencing in Oétober next, to return to Europe ; and as they had in-
“ ſtrućted Lord Macartney to hold himſelf in readineſs to proceed to Bengal imme-
“ diately after the departure of Mr. Haſtings, they ordered that the Senior in the
“Supreme Council, on whom the Government was in the interim to devolve, ſhould
“ loſe no time in conveying to Lord Macartney the earlieſt information of that
** event.” ". • *,
So diſtinguiſhed a mark of honour conferred on me by the Court of Directors being
entirely ſpontaneous, without any ſolicitation from me or my friends, I muſt ever
ſet a high value upon ; but I have many reaſons which, I flatter myſelf, will be fa-
tisfactory to the Court of Direétors, why I wiſh at preſent to decline taking upon me
this Government. .
Very early after my arrival here in the middle of June laſt, long before the arrival
of the late Letters from England of the Ioth March, long before the arrival of Lieu-
tenant General Sloper in Bengal, I expreſſed my ſentiments to Mr. Macpherſon and
to Mr. Stables, and informed them, that even in caſe an appointment of me to the
Government General ſhould be ſent out, and received here before my departure, (an
event, however, notwithſtanding the public rumour, I thought very improbable,
conſidering the recent orders from home to the Government of Fort St. George),
my intention was not to remain in India:—my reaſons were then ſtrong; they are now
eſtronger. 2 .
Expecting to have heard from you again before my departure, I delayed till now
the acknowledgment of your Letter of 3d inſtant. *
- - I have the honour, &c.
(Signed) Macartney.
On board the Swallow,
Auguſt 13th 1785.
III.
99.
IV.
Nº. 6. & 7.
o R D E R S of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 9th February 1803.
(Copy.) - - -
MINUTES of Lord Hobart in Council at Fort St. George; dated the 24th O&ober
- and 24th November 1795.
Lord Hobart's Minute in Council, the 24th Oétober 1795.
T H E propoſed arrangements which have been brought into diſcuſſion ſince the
death of his Highneſs the Nabob Walajah, make it neceſſary for me to advert
with more minuteneſs than has been uſual upon the Public Records, to the ſyſtem
on which the Adminiſtration of his Revenue has been condućted, becauſe it mani-
feſtly ſhews the neceſſity of that change which it, is my objećt to accompliſh, both
in reſpect to the Country itſelf, which, though under the immediate controul of his
Highneſs, it is the duty of this Government, in a general point of view, to cheriſh
and protećt; and in reſpect to the ſecurity which has been pledged to the Company
for the ſupport of their Military Eſtabliſhment, and for the diſcharge of the Conſo-
lidated Debts guaranteed by Parliament to the private creditors of his Highneſs the
Nabob. I ſhall, therefore, in this Minute lay before the Board the information
which I have collečted, and the conſequent obſervations which have occurred to me,
upon the uſurious loans which it has long been the praćtice (principally among the
European Gentlemen of the Preſidency) to make to the Durbar, for mortgages
upon the different provinces of the Carnatic; and here I may be allowed to expreſs
my belief, that though the Honourable Court of Direétors have been extremely
pointed in their orders and obſervations againſt this pračtice, the continuance of it
has been owing in ſome meaſure to the want of that candid expoſition of the fačt,
which it is my intention to make. - -
The Southern Diſtrićts of the Nabob's country, and Tinnevelly in particular, as
being the moſt diſtant from the Preſidency, have been the theatre in which theſe
ſcenes have been chiefly exhibited; but it is notorious that ſimilar praćtices have
been introduced, and are now ačtually in uſe, in Nellore, Arcot, and Trichino-
poly. - *
The tranſačtion commences at Madras, where the Kiſts of his Highneſs are pay-
able, and is opened by an agreement between the Nabob and ſome one of the prin-
cipal houſes of buſineſs, or even ſome of the Company's ſervants, for the payment
of a certain ſum into the Treaſury on account of his Highneſs's public engagements.
The advancers of this money, knowing from experience that a ſimple mortgage
would be inſufficient ſecurity, unleſs the means of reimburſing themſelves ſhould be
placed in their own hands, find it neceſſary not only that a perſon of their own nomi-
nation ſhould be appointed to the management of the mortgaged province, but that
there ſhould be a vigilant ſuperintendance and a powerful ſupport of the concern
upon the ſpot; hence the expediency of a conneétion between them and the military
commanding officer in the Diſtrićt; he alſo finds it advantageous to embark in the
ipeculation; becauſe he thereby adds conſiderable weight to his own intereſt, and
176. D d * becauſe
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becauſe it facilitates the means of raiſing money to carry on his part of the concern.
From this connection both parties derive ample ſecurity for their money by the abſo-
ºlute power of the one in command upon the ſpot, and by the weighty influence of
the other in command of monied intereſt at Madras. This outline is filled up by a
further conneétion with the perſon who appears to receive the appointment of Au-
mildar or Manager from the Nabob ; hence it is either ſtipulated that a perſon choſen
by the money lenders at Madras ſhall be nominated to manage the Diſtrićt, or where
men of rank may have already been appointed as Foujdars by his Highneſs, the
ſame effect is produced by a communication between him, the commanding officer,
and the money lenders, previous to the agreement for a loan at the Durbar. The
, combination is in this latter caſe completed by the appointment of a Tehſaldar on
the part of the money lenders, and thenceforward produces an uniform, conſiſtent,
and conneéted operation. His Highneſs having by this arrangement obtained his
principal objećt, proviſion for the payment of his Kiſt, without any immediate diſ-
burſement from himſelf, delivers his people and his province up to the controul and
power of the Manager, evidently without regard to their fituation ; becauſe, as his
terms with the money lenders neceſſarily provide for the removal of all reſtraint from
the governing power, ſo he muſt expect that the Manager, who can have no intereſt
in the future proſperity of the Country, will have recourſe to every means by which
he may hope to bear himſelf and his connections harmleſs, and that within the ſhorteſt
time poſſible. - - g -
The intereſt allowed by the Sirkar varies in different places, and depends not a
little upon the influence which the lender may happen to have at the Durbar: at a
medium however it may be ſtated at 4 per cent. per month, beſides the pay of all the
fervants employed by the junto in receiving the Revenue. This laſt charge is always
a fixed ſum at the expence of the Nabob, conſiderably above the ačtual expence in-
curred by the Tehſaldar, and the difference is conſidered amongſt the cuſtomary
advantages of the concern. The Manager arrived within his Diſtriët immediately
aſſembles his under Managers, Aumildars, and Renters, and then enfues the ſecond
part of this oppreſſive ſyſtem :—The Tehſuldar is importunate, and the Manager
muſt find means of ſatisfying his demánds:—ſubordinate Soukars, native as well as
European, are called upon for aſſiſtance.—The Soukar makes his advance; and in
the firſt inſtance, the Aumildar or Renter of the Diſtrićts, aſſigned over as ſecurity
for ſuch advance, grants his bond until other ſecurities ſhall be forthcoming : theſe
are either the bonds of the inhabitants or grain. In time about three-fourths of the
ſum are ſecured to the Soukar by grain made over to him, and placed under charge
of his ſervants; and for the other one-fourth the bonds of the inhabitants are made
over for that part of the Revenue payable by them to the Sirkar in ready money upon
the cultivation of doy grain, &c. Thoſe are frequently forced from them at the
commencement of the ſeaſon, which conſequently compels them to anticipate the
crops, and pay intereſt upon money before it be due from them.
At this period of the tranſačtion the Soukar ſends his ſervants and Peons into the
Country, with an order from the Nabob’s Manager to the guards placed therein to
afford every aſfiſtance (as it is generally called), but in fact to obey them implicitly
in coliećting the amount of the bonds from the inhabitants. Anxiety to ſecure ſo
precarious a property, naturally leads the Soukar to adopt ſuch meaſures as power
P property, y
enables him, and the cuſtom of the country authorizes. Then follows this pro-
ceſs: if the Ryot is dilatory in the diſcharge of his bond he is confined without
vićtuals, beaten with rods, and compelled to pay Batta to thoſe very Peons and
guards who are the means of his confinement and puniſhment. . In this manner, I
am credibly informed, that an inhabitant who grants his bond for Ioo chuckrums
(nearly 40 pagodas) is compelled, before he is releaſed from the conſequences, to pay
from 110 to 1 i 5 chuckrums, according to circumſtances. If his credit or his other
xneans is exhauſted, which is too often the caſe, he muſt neceſſarily diſpoſe of ſome
part of his ſtock, which conſiſts of cattle and feed grain.
The firſt part of the ſyſtem which I have ſtated, deſcribes the original cauſe at the
fountain head: the ſecond comprizes the detail, which ſprings out of it; in both the
conſiderations of the means which are immediately employed, and of the effect.
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which it may produce upon the future Revenue, is abandoned; and, while the grand
mover of theſe effeóts is at a diſtance from the ſcene, and the ſubordinate inſtrument
is hardened by pračtice, conſcience is lulled to reſt by the deluſive opiate of intereſt
upon intereſt. . . 3 ‘. . . .
Thus far I have traced the progreſs of a loan ſecured upon the bonds of the
inhabitants : it will not be leſs principal for me to purſue it to the diſpoſal of the
Paddy. - . - * : - -
The firſt endeavour of thoſe who are engaged in a concern of this nature is, to
enhance the price of grain by artificial means, left the ordinary price of that article,
the ſole ſubſiſtence of the natives, ſhould fail to anſwer the large advance of money,
and the exorbitant advantage expected upon it by the Soukar. The means of effect-
*
ing this purpoſe is eaſy ; for the neceſſitous condition of the Ryots compels them to
diſpoſe of their grain as ſoon as it comes into their poſſeſſion, in order to ſatisfy the
urgent demands upon them which I have already deſcribed: the purchaſers of this
grain monopolize it until the demand, which increaſes with the conſumption, ad-
vances the price: if, towards the expiration of the ſeaſon, any part of the grain ſhould
yet remain on hand, the expedient is, to divide the whole quantity, in whatever con-
dition it may be, among the inhabitants, and to force it upon them by Guddyum.
This Guddyum, it appears, compels the people (in general the manufacturers) to
receive grain at a valuation conſiderably above the market price; and it would ſeem
to be of ancient eſtabliſhment and current pračtice ; for in the agreement which I was
ſucceſsful in negociating with his late Highneſs the Nabob Walajah, for placing a
portion of the T inneyelly weavers under the immediate ſuperintendance of the Com-
pany's Refident, his Highneſs has expreſsly reſerved, nor could be prevailed upon to
relinquiſh, the right of his Sirkar to exerciſe this Guddyum. •.
*
*
The inferior ſervants of the Sirkar, whoſe duty ſhould be to watch of the public
intereſts, are placed under the arbitrary controul of the money lenders, without whoſe
permiſſion not an anna can be expended nor a meaſure of grain iſſued, except by
#ealth: indeed I underſtand, that upon the arrival of a Soukar or his Repreſentative
in a mortgaged Diſtrićt, the uſual cuſtom is, to notify his authority throughout the
villages, and to prohibit the expenditure of grain or money but by his order: this
prohibition extends to the ordinary charges of pagodas, maniums, and ſibbeendy;
and when an order is granted from the Sudder Cutcherry for any of theſe purpoſes,
the perſons receiving the Sunnud muſt wait at the Cutcherry of the money lender for
a confirmation of his right. - º
Inſtead of receiving relief by Tukavy (or advances for cultivation) at the proper
ſeaſon, by which to replace their cattle, and to provide feed for extending their culti-
vation, the inhabitants are often obliged to ſacrifice both to their own immediate
wants and the rapacity of the Soukar; of courſe no ſyſtem of regulation can prevail,
and every hope of improvement muſt be relinquiſhed. Some of the means for en-
hancing the price of grain I have already related, but the ſubjećt is exhauſtleſs. The
Poligars have been prevented by the Manager of Tinnevelly from ſelling within the
Sirkar lands the grain which is allowed them for Daſh Cavellry (or watching fees);
and I ſhould heſitate to advance, if I was not ſupported by the authority of public
record, that during a late ſcarcity of grain in the Southern provinces, Extabar Khan,
the Nabob's Manager, had the hardineſs to write a public complaint to the Com-
pany’s Collečtor againſt the Poligars for ſelling grain to the inhabitants; nor was the
evil removed without the interpoſition of this Government, who, by ſending veſſels
loaded with grain, induced the monopolizers, from regard to their own intereſts,
to reſtore their uſual ſupplies to the market : yet did the Company not eſcape the
effečts of this monopoly, for they were reduced to the neceſſity of purchaſing grain at
the price to which the monopolizers had raiſed it, for the ſubſiſtence of thoſe troops
who were ſtationed there for the protećtion of his Highneſs's territories.
After this expoſition no comment can be required to ſhew that this ſpecies of
Government, if it deſerves the name of Government, contains the moſt grievous
oppreſſion of the people, the certain impoveriſhment of the Country, and conſe-
quently the inevitable decay of Revenue; but it will be uſeful to ſhew the parti-
cular manner in which it affects the reſources of his Highneſs the Nawaub.
176. º . it
IV.
102.
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IV.
It is eſtimated, and I believe not with exaggeration, that the Province of Tin-
nevelly alone is annually mortgaged upon the terms I have deſcribed, to the
amount of 3,00,000 pagodas; and calculating the period for which intereſt is paid
upon the whole ſum, at ſix months, the amount of intereſt, at 4 per cent. per
month, is tºº &º gº tºº *g tº º • * 72,OOO
The charges paid by the Sirkar for the Sibbundy of the money lenders, .
during that period, cannot amount to leſs than tº- gº dº 3,OOO
The amount of loſs therefore to the Sirkar, on this tranſačtion, is, -—
pagodas . . ‘ºl tº ~ : tºº sm 75,COO
****g
That an individual gentleman ſhould, in leſs than three years, amaſs a fortune
of more than ſ. 50,000, would be a matter of wonder, if this ſtatement did not at
the ſame time afford a ſolution of the difficulty, and a proof of its own cor-
rečtneſs. -- * -
But the ſcene is not cloſed here: Beſides the dealings of the principal Soukars
with the Head Manager, there are ſubordinate tranſačtions of a ſimilar nature
among the inferior officers, and thoſe who poſſeſs but ſmaller means for uſurious
pračtices, amounting in all perhaps from fifty thouſand to a lack of pagodas; this
brings an additional expence upon the Sirkar, becauſe intereſt is allowed on all
advances made by the Renters on preſſing occaſions, before the Kiſts are due ;
and on the other hand, the inhabitants are not exempt from a part of this expence,
which is impoſed upon them by fine, forfeiture, or guddyum, in order that he may
be enabled to make the advance, upon which he receives intereſt.
As the Manager is under engagements to pay the fulleſt computed value of the
diſtrićt, he is juſtified, according to the Cuſtom of the country, in availing him-
ſelf of every poſſible reſource. A proportion of the church allowances is with-
held; the pay of all deſcriptions of ſervants is kept in long arrear, and in particular
the Sibbendy Sepoys : a ſmall advance indeed, is ſometimes made for ſubſiſtence ;
but their principal reſource (and it is not unprodućtive) is in the Batta, which they
receive by acknowledged praćtice while doing the duty of Sezawuls, and in the dex-
terous management of the power which that ſervice gives them, to extort preſents
for their forbearance. The Manager knows from experience, that in the event of
aſſuming the Country, the Engliſh Government will be induced, either from motives
of humanity to attend to the calls of theſe unhappy people, or from motives of po-
licy to ſatisfy the clamours of a mutinous and undiſciplined rabble. Thus, at the
very time when the exigencies of Government became moſt preſſing, a part of
their reſources, which ought to be immediate, is appropriated to the liquidation
of arrears. -
If this is a true hiſtory of the preſent management, it may be aſked, why an imme-
diate and large defalcation of the Revenue does not follow ; for the operation of ſuch
ſyſtem as I have deſcribed tends direétly to the point of ruin 2 Nothing leſs than
the hand of arbitrary power could avert it, even for a time. In proportion as the
means of cultivation decreaſe, the price of grain is enhanced; and it is a notorious
but inhumaa maxim of Eaſtern finances, that a year of ſcarcity is more produćtive
than a year of plenty to the Sirkar ; becauſe, as a given number of months can only
conſume a proportionable quantity of grain, the immediate advantage or diſadvan-
tage of Government ariſes from the price at which that given quantity is fold.—In
years of plenty the ſuperfluous grain is in a great meaſure uſeleſs, owing to the partial
and difficult means of exportation 5—in years of ſcarcity the ſame given quantity is
required for the ſubſiſtence of the people; and as the demand is greater than the
ſupply, an increaſe of the price is produced by the uſual effects of a competition
in the market. . '',
Though the dealings of Soukars in the colle&tion of the Revenue are not of recent
eſtabliſhment, yet the terms of loans have never been carried to ſo uſurious an extent
as ſince the practice has been introduced among Europeans ; and though the inevi-
table effects of it may be protraćted by the harſh expedients of an arbitrary Govern-
ment, yet no man who reflects upon ſuch a ſyſtem can doubt that the reſources of the
* Country
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Country have been undermined; that the wealth of the people is exhauſted; and that IV.
a principle of decline has been eſtabliſhed which is now precipitating the Carnatic, -—
with accumulated weight and rapidity, to deſtrućtion. Impreſſed as I am with a
ferious convićtion of this truth, I cannot but look with extreme anxiety to the nature
of the ſecurity provided by the Treaty of 1792, for thoſe reſources on which the Bri-
tiſh intereſt on the Coaſt of Coromandel materially depend; I cannot but ſee that the
preſent ſyſtem of colleóting the Revenues of the Carnatic manifeſtly invalidates that
ſecurity ; and that, whenever a failure may happen in the payment of his Highneſs’s
Kiſts, we ſhall in vain have recourſe to it for the recovery of the defalcation. As thoſe
payments, though avowedly moderate in their extent, are now kept up by the extra-
ordinary means which I have deſcribed, ſo it is reaſonable to ſuppoſe that a failure,
whenever it may happen, will ariſe from the total impoveriſhment of the people. In
taking poſſeſſion of a Diſtrićt under ſuch circumſtances, for the amount of a Kiſt
which will then have fallen in arrear, we ſhall, inſtead of finding the immediate means
of reimburſement, become charged with an exhauſted Country, requiring ail the libe-
ral aſſiſtance and foſtering attention of a lenient and indulgent Government. It is
not only that our means will be curtailed at our greateſt need, but that humanity and
policy will call upon us for advances of money, at a time when our expences will be
moſt burthenſome. This is an embarraſſment from which the known reſources of this
Government are unequal to extricate us ; and it is a dilemma unprovided for by the
Treaty of 1792 ; for the objećts of that Treaty are, the payment of a debt guaran-
teed by Parliament, which we are not at liberty to poſtpone; and the diſcharge of
military pay, which cannot be interrupted without danger to the State. - -
To avert the conſequences of an evil big with ſuch eminent danger, is an objećt that
merits the moſt ſerious as well as the moſt unwearied attention of this Government:
and it is a matter of very great mortification to me, that ſeeing the progreſs of this
scalamity, and anticipating as I do its peſtiferous effects, I am compelled to acknow-
ledge, that the means of arreſting its courſe is extremely difficult. -
The prohibitory orders hitherto publiſhed have all failed of their objeºt, becauſe
the evaſion of them is eaſy to Europeans, through the agency of their native ſervants,
and becauſe the enormous profits, which ariſe from thoſe uſurious loans, hold out an
irreſiſtible temptation to adventurers. To prohibit the intercourſe of Europeans at
the Durbar is ineffectual 3–other channels of communication are open ; and the ſu-
perintendant of an uſurious loan at Palamcotah, conveys his demands to the ears of the
Nabob with no leſs certainty than he who lives in the precinóts of Chepauk ; as long
therefore as his Highneſs ſhall be ſo regardleſs of his true intereſts, as to deliver up his
provinces and his people to public depredation, ſo long will there be found men who,
in the purſuit of extravagant advantages, will overleap the bounds of diſcretion and
-of moral obligation. - - -
So deſperate a malady requires a remedy that ſhall reach its ſource; and I have no
heſitation in ſtating my opinion, that there is no mode of eradicating the diſeaſe but
by removing the original cauſe, and placing thoſe Diſtrićts which are pledged for the
ſecurity of his Kiſts beyond the reach of his Highneſs’s management. The diſpoſi-
tion which his Highneſs has already evinced to ſuppoſe ſuch an arrangement, leaves
me in no doubt of the real cauſe. It is not poſſible to calculate the extent and va-
riety of intereſts which are involved in this one purſuit; and though they are ſubdi-
-vided in every direétion of the Carnatic, yet at the call of danger they all rally
round a common center. The great houſes of buſineſs, who are the principal money
lenders at the Durbar, borrow from individuals, who, though not abſolutely engaged
in the loan itſelf, are partakers of the ſpeculation in a remote degree, and feel with
no leſs ſenſibility than their principals the approach of danger : ſimilarity of intereſt
makes it a common cauſe ; and the great body of influence which is condenſed upon
this principle, is uniformly exerted to ſupport his Highneſs the Nabob in an inflexible
reſiſtance againſt a melioration of ſyſtem, and to oppoſe a reformation which I con-
ſider eſſential to the national welfare. - . - - -
In the propoſition which I have made to his Highneſs the Nabob, I am aware
...that I have offered great conceſſions on the part of the Company but, with the im-
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IO4. P A P E R S R E LAT IN G T O THE
1V. preſſion of the evils I have ſtated ſtrongly on my mind, I could not but conſider the
objećt I had in view above every idea of a pecuniary nature, even if the ſyſtem of
the Nabob’s Government was not in itſelf calculated completely to annihilate every
fource of Revenue. - ~
(Signed) Hobari.
EXTRACT of Fort St. George Military and Political Conſultations, the
24th November 1795. - r * -
Preſident's Minute in Council, 24th November 1795.
4. / > 5
ENTRUSTED with the Government of the Company's affairs upon the Coaſt,
it is my duty not merely to look to that temporary proſperity which an increaſe in.
their Revenues, and the manifeſt improvement of their commercial concerns is cal-
culated to afford; but, conſidering their permanent intereſts as the ſubſtantial objećt
of every adminiſtration, to point out all defečts in their ſyſtem, and more particu-
larly if they are of a nature tending to undermine their reſources, and contribute, in
an alarming degree, to the inſecurity of their poſſeſſions.
Under this convićtion the Minute, to which the opinions I am now offering may
be deemed ſupplementary, has been ſubmitted. - *
The Treaty of : 792, entered into by Lord Cornwallis on the part of the Company,
and the Nabob Walajah, appears to have embraced three objećts ; viz. the diſcharge
of the Nabob's private conſolidated debts; proviſion for a military eſtabliſhment
in time of peace ; and an arrangement to ſupply reſources for a period of hoſ-
tility. $ '.
The Company binding themſelves for a ſtipulated ſum (nine lacks of pagodas) to
furniſh a ſufficient military force for the defence of the Carnatic, and the Nabob
engaging to pay a certain ſubſidy under a guarantee of landed ſecurity, whereby a
proportion of the Revenues of the Carnatic were mortgaged for the execution of the
proviſions of the Treaty ; and therefore, ſo long as the Company fulfil the conditions
on their part, they have acquired an intereſt, and eventually a right of interference,
to prevent the declenſion of thoſe Revenues to the extent of their being rendered ina-
dequate to the ſecurity for which they have been pledged.
As they can have no claim, and notwithſtanding the increaſe of their military ex-
pences, have made none, urder any circumſtances, for calling upon the Nabob to
augment his ſtipulated payments ; ſo, on the other hand, under a liberal and equal
conſtruction of the Treaty, they would be juſtified in interpoſing their authority to
guard againſt a poſitive deficiency in the appropriated reſources. -
Was the ſecurity in bullion or moveables of any kind, an attempt to tranſport it
out of the reach of the Company, even during a period that no defalcation had
ariſen in the payment of the Kiſts, would probably be reſiſted, if neceſſary by force.
The difference in the caſe now under diſcuſſion is, that whatever diminution (and it
is confiderable) in value, the ſecurity is gradually though rapidly ſuſtaining, car-
ries along with it the deſtruction of the human race, and the deſolation of the
Country. . $ --
The Treaty is formed upon a well-founded preſumption, that the Diſtrićts ſpecified
therein are capable, either in the hands of the Company or of the Nabob, of pro-
ducing Revenues competent to the purpoſes for which they are given as ſecurity :
but that ſecurity becomes nugatory, if the exceſſive deterioration of it ſhall not be
deemed a virtual violation of the Treaty, and warrant, the adoption of meaſures
with a view to avert the injurious effects of ſuch deterioration. -
If we look back to the origin of the Treaty of 1792, we ſhall find that it aroſe
from the repreſentations of the Nabob Walajah, that, without impoſing burthens
upon his people which they were not able to bear, he could not make the payments
to the Company ſtipulated for in the Treaty of 1787; but he had no ſooner
prevailed
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prevailed-upon the Government to acquieſce in a redućtion of thoſe payments, IV.
which he effeóted by the Treaty of 1792, than, by the manner in which he '-
carried the proviſions of it into execution, he increaſed the miſeries of his peo-
ple tenfold, and defeated every humane and ſalutary objećt it was intended to
attain.
Should the principle I have laid down be deemed inſufficient to warrant a reviſion
of the Treaty, the open and notorious violation of it on the part of the Nabob, by
granting, without the authority of Government, Juncas or Aſſignments upon the
mortgaged Diſtriºts, contrary to an expreſs article of it, would indiſputably juſtify
fuch meaſures as might be thought adviſeable for the ſecurity of the Company; and,
in my opinion, calls upon the Court of Directors to iſſue ſuch orders as may be beſt
calculated to guard the intereſts of their conſtituents from ſo alarming and extenſive
an evil. •, -
Under ſuch an impreſſion I have ventured to make a propoſition to the Nabob,
offering great, but, in my mind, neceſſary ſacrifices on the part of the Company, for
the accompliſhment of an objećt connecting their ſubſtantial intereſts with the welfare
of the people of the Carnatic. - . .
To thoſe who may think the ſacrifice too great I would obſerve, that the realiza-
tion of the ſums propoſed to be relinquiſhed (probably above thirty lacks of pa-
godas) under the preſent ſyſtem, is a phantom that may be held up to their view,
but muſt for ever diſappoint their expe&tations.
. . . The advantages to the Nabob, as well as to the Company, in the plan I have
fuggeſted, are extremely obvious : during the period of hoſtility, an increaſe of
Revenue ariſing from an improved management, would be an eſſential reſource to
Government, in which his Highneſs would participate, from the receipt of a propor-
tional addition to his fifth of the whole produce whilſt in peace, the benefit would be
excluſively his. - -
Under exiſting circumſtances, the Company ſuſtain no loſs except in extinétion of
the inhabitants of the Carnatic ; but in the arduous ſeaſon of war they muſt experience
the moſt fatal defalcations. - A . 4 - *
It has been with the deepeſt regret that I have found the Nabob unmoved by 'my
-entreaties and remonſtrances upon this ſubjećt; not that he has been inſenſible to the
juſtice and expediency of what I have propoſed, but, as he has candidly confeſſed at
ſeveral interviews with me, that he has not the reſolution to comply 3–informing
me, that his native Miniſters and European adviſers ſo perplexed, plagued, and inti-
midated him, that he could not venture upon the meaſure, notwithſtanding his con-
wićtion that he ought to do ſo. . -
In my Minute of the 24th ultimo I went into a full explanation of the miſchiefs
reſulting from the pernicious pračtice of uſurious loans: 1 traced the iniquitous ſyſtem
through all its intricacies, and expoſed a detail of oppreſſion and rapine not leſs
offenſive to humanity than deſtrućtive of public property, and ruinous to the perma-
nent intereſts of the Carnatic. - . -
The operation, however, of this ſyſtem is not confined to the ſubjećts of his
Highneſs; it takes a wide range, and affeóts in a ſenſible degree the public credit of
the Company; for a very large proportion of the ſpecie in circulation being applied
to the uſes of the Nabob at an exorbitant intereſt, Government are forced into the
meaſure of depreciating their own paper, in order to raiſe funds adequate to the exi-
gencies of the State. - - AT
The perſons concerned with the Durbar, from the immenſe profit they reap, are
well able to afford to raiſe money at 12 per cent. the legal intereſt of the Country,
and to lodge ample ſecurity for the debt; and hence it is that the Company are driven
Ito the neceſſity of increaſing the rate of intereſt upon their own paper, in order to ſup-
ply their immediate wants. ~ -
The effects of theſe uſurious loans upon the commercial intereſts of the Country,
as well as every national improvement which would require a capital, are moſt la-
mentable : no trade can ſtand a competition with fuch exorbitant profits; and when
the praćtice which ſo generally prevails with the Eaſtern Princes, of hoarding up
176. - every
106
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Iv.
*
every pagoda they can lay hold of, is ſuperadded to the various corroding evils that
have been ſtated, it would ſeem that ſuch a complicated ſyſtem of ruin and devaſta-
tion was without a precedent in the annals of the world. -
Had the Treaty of 1792 been adhered to with that good faith which the
Britiſh nation had a right to expečt from his Highneſs the Nabob, the Country
would have found in it a ſource of increaſing proſperity; ſince, by its wife pro-
viſions, a confiderable portion of the Carnatic was exonerated from thoſe private
Aſſignments which have ever been produćtive of ſuch oppreſſion and diſtreſs to the
inhabitants. - * . !
To the violation therefore of the Treaty may be attributed thoſe evils which have
been ſo fully ſet forth, and which loudly demand inſtant eradication.
The ſituation of the Tanjore Country, from preciſely the ſame cauſes, is ſtill more
deſperate. It has recently been developed with an accuracy not to be queſtioned; by
which it appears, that notwithſtanding the Company conſented, with a view to the
3&ajah’s accommodation, to remit, for the term of three years, more than one-fifth of
his annual payments, his Excellency is at this moment embarraſſed with a debt of
at leaſt twelve lacks of pagodas; and when we conſider there is an intereſt chargeable
upon it of two and three per cent. per menſem, and that the whole Country is mort-
gaged for the payment, where are the means by which the Rajah will be enabled to
fulfil his engagements to the Company without ruin to his people :
Were I to attempt to deſcribe the preſent ſtate of the Tanjore Country, it would be
little more than a repetition of what I have ſaid reſpećting the Carnatic, ſince the
ſame ſyſtem prevails throughout ; but, if poſſible, has been produćtive of a quicker
progreſs to decay and impoveriſhment in the Rajah's dominions.
I have it therefore in contemplation to authorize Mr. Macleod to propoſe to the
Rajah, to aſſign over to the Company the Diſtrićts mortgaged for his ſtipulated pay-
ments, upon a footing ſimilar to that, as far as circumſtances will permit, which I
have ſuggeſted in the arrangement relative to the Carnatic. -
I muſt candidly acknowledge, that I am not ſufficiently ſanguine to expe&t
that the influence which has operated to prevent the Nabob's concurrence, will,
not have equal effect with the Rajah ; as preciſely the ſame arguments and the
fame urgency apply to the one caſe as the other. I truſt an early remedy for
both will be provided by the Court of Direétors, and before the Countries are
irretrievably ruined. - * * 3.
The acts of the legiſlature with reſpect to uſurious bargains –the reiterated or-
ders of the Company on the ſubjećt, and the iniquity of ſuch tranſačtions abſtraćtedly
conſidered, have had ſo little eff:ét, that I ſcarcely know what to ſuggeſt as a means
of future prevention. Poſſibly it might be attended with good conſequences, if the
Court of Direétors were to order the Governor and Council of Fort St. George to
take an oath, that in every caſe where, according to his or their belief, there ſhall be
reaſon to ſuppoſe that any ſervant of the Company, or perſon living under the Com-
pany’s protećtion, ſhall, ſubſequently to the publication of the orders in queſtion,
have been concerned, direétly or indireétly, in any loan or other money tranſation
with any of the native powers, unlºſs with the knowledge and expreſs permiſſion of
Government, ſuch ſervant of the Company, or perſon living under the Company's
protećtion, ſhall be called before the Council Board, and examined upon oath
touching ſuch ſuppoſed loan or money tranſačtion: and in the event of ſuch ſervant
of the Company, or other perſon living under the Company’s protećtion, refuſing to
anſwer to ſuch queſtions as may be put to him, or not anſwering ſatisfactorily, ſo as
to exculpate himſelf from all concern, direétly or indireétly, in ſuch loan or money
tranſačtion, he ſhall be ſent to Europe by the firſt opportunity, for having been guilty
of a diſobedience of the orders of the Company, and puniſhed accordingly. And
with a view more effectually to check this miſchief, I would recommend that a pro-
*clamation ſhould be iſſued inviting to the diſcovery of theſe nefarious tranſactions,
and offering a reward to any one that ſhould bring forward ſubſtantial proof that ſuch
prohibited loans had been negotiated.
ºf he
A F FA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
107.
... The pains, the trouble, the anxiety, and, above all, the preſſure upon my perſonal
feelings, ariſing from the inveſtigation and expoſure of this ſubjećt in its true colours,
muſt be a teſt to the Court of Direétors how important I conſider it to their intereſt,
as well as to the welfare of Britiſh India.
I am aware of the numerous enemies who will ſtart up againſt me for the part I
have taken; but I have a ſhield in the conſciouſneſs of an honeſt execution of my duty
which blunts their arrows, and which will ultimately render all their efforts impotent
and unavailable. --
I have forborne to bring forward the names of individuals, not becauſe I am not
able to do ſo, but becauſe the ſubjećt is above perſonal conſiderations. g
Let thoſe who have amaſſed wealth by ſuch means enjoy it as well as they can 3–
let it be my pride to have paid this tribute to ſuffering humanity, by deterring others
from the commiſſion of ſimilar enormities, s
(Signed) Hobart.
IV.
I os
‘Liſt of New B O N D S in the CAwal Ry LoAN, executed by His Highneſs the NABob, in Lieu of
N° 9.
‘O R D E R of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 9th February 1803.
Private Claimants on the late Nabobs of the Carnatic.
C A VA L R Y DE B T.
the Four original Bonds which were ſurrendered up and cancelled on 21ſt Auguſt 1786, dated
1ſt January 1785; with Intereſt at 12 per Cent per Annum; with the Perſons to whom payable,
and the Sums. * -
N° 1 a' 24. 24 Bonds payable to Paul Benfield for Pagodas Io, ooo each
25 a’ 46. 22 Ditto to Ditto, for Pagodas 5,000 each
S3 a bo.
61 a”
47, I Ditto to Ditto - - - - -
48. I Ditto to Robert Storey - -
49. 1 Ditto to Charles Binny - -
5o. I Ditto to Job Bulman - -
51. I Ditto to Francis Rolleſton -
1. Ditto to William Cooke - -
*
ſº
**
8 Ditto to James Taylor, George Savage,
James Call, or either of them, for Pago-
das, Io,ooo each - - - - - - - -
69. 9 Ditto to Ditto, for Pagodas, 5ooo each -
79. I Ditto, for - - - - - - - - -
76. 6 Ditto, payable to William Wynch, for
Pagodas, Io, ooo each - - - - -
79. 3. Ditto to Ditto, 5,ooo each - - - -
80. I Ditto to Ditto, for - - - - - -
86. 6 Ditto, payable to James Taylor, George
Savage, James Call, or either of them,
for Pagodas, 5,000 each - - - -
9t. 5 Ditto to Ditto, for 2,000 Pagodas each
92. I Ditto to Ditto, for - - - - - -
*
tº e {º hº
sº
* lº
gº gº
* te
Pagodas
Pagodas
Pagodas
25,502.
25,502
I O,OOO
IO
IO
54
54
- Io,373 34 -
- 17,ooz 6 19
{ 8o,ooo - -
- 45,000 - -
- 2,324 2 61
} 60,000 — —
sº 15,000 ..— —
- 15,000 — —
} 30,000 – —
- I O,OOO - -
- 3,173 13 62
G g
6. 2004
1,54,700
76,500
43,173
21 28
I 3 62
Pagodas
2,40,000
I, I.O,OGO
5,246
H
-*
3,55,246
28
=
3,35,377 35 to
—r - ºr
6,90,624 21 to
It iſ O'
PA PERS RELAT ING TO THE
...-ees -º- ****
OLD CONSOLIDATED DEBT.
Liſt of B O N D S outſtanding in the OLD Consolid ATED DEBT of his Highneſs the NABOB of
1767; with the Numbers, the Names of the Perſons to whom new Bonds were granted on the
1ſt January 1769; the preſent Holders of the Bonds; the original Principal ditto the 1ſt January
1778; and ditto made up at Simple Intereſt to 31ſt December 1784.
No of To Whom the Bonds The preſent Holders of Principal, Principal, Principal,
the were granted. ...the Bonds. Iſt January 1ſt January 1ſt January
Bonds. … 1769 1778. 1785.
1. Samuel Hardley - - - - Meſſrs. Savage, Taylor, and Call 19,950 3,051 12 60 5,187 Io 7o
D" - - - Nº 3 - - -|Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co. - 5,O2O 3,718 23 20 6,321 25 Io
2. William Alderſey - - - - -|Ditto - - - - - - - - - 9,600 3,500 — — S,257 - —
3. James Anderſon - - - - James Anderſon - - - - - 5, IOO 3, I Ig 18 – 5,303 5 32
4. Reynold Adams - - - -|The Eſtate of R. Adams, Jai Tay- *
lor, Eſq. - - - - - - - 5, IOO 1,835 – — 3, 1 #9 I8 —
5. Captain George Airey - - - Meſſrs. Pellling & Defries, & Co. I,950 6oo — — 901 7 16
6. Captain Philip Afleck - -|Ditto - - - - - - - - - I j,95o 4,400 – — 6,608 28 64
7. James Alexander - - - - Jofias Dupre Porcher - - - - 37,200 13,991 31 40 23,786 6 60
Io. Henry Brooke - - - -|Meſſrs. Savage, Taylor, and Call - 37,750 1990o zo 56 33,830 3 5 I4.
20. Stephen Briggs -- - - -|Thomas Oglevie - - - - - 45,800 7,900 — — . 11,865 28 64
25. Charles Boddam - - - -]Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co. 17oo 55o — — 826 3 48
... 26. Mary Boddam - - - -|Ditto - - - - - - - - - 4,850 I,7OO — — *553 I4 32
27. Duncan Buckanan - - -|John Turing- - - - - - - 61,450 2,339 22:40 3,977 13 4
"29." Francis Barnewall - - -|Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co. # 2,900 1,004 22 49 || 1,508 3: 6
30. John Bellingham - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2,200 | 734 — — . .247 8s 64
31. Captain. George Baker - - John Turing - - - - - - 8,450 4,587 18 - || 7,798 27 —
32. Captain Thomas Backhouſe |Ditto - - - - - - - - - 7,359 2,660 27 — * -- 4,523 9 72
33. Richard Brickenden, Eſq. -|Mr. Torians - - - - - - , , 4,850 1,743. 9 - || 2,963 18 72
34. Simon Corcher - - - - - - • * > * ~ * ~ * - . 93o 229 I 3 4o 389 33 6o
36. Quintin Craufurd - - -|Mr. George Moubrey - - - - 3,700 1,250 – — 1,877 18 –
37. Rebecca Caſamayer - - - Joſias Dupre Porcher - - - - 5,059 1,789 . 4 49 | 3,041 18 36
38. |Churchwardens of St. Mary Mr. Craig - - - - - - - -] 5,400 1,926 27 — . 3,275 17 8
:4O. Edward Cotsford - - - - Edward John Holland - - - - 9,280 3,350 — — 5,031 25 16
42. Captain John Cooper - - - Mr. Mackay, jun. - - - - - 1,740 55o 18 — 935 30 48
43. John Call, Eſq. - - - -] Meſſrs. Pelling & Défries, & Co. 5,000 4,587 18 – 7,798 27 —
44. |Ditto - - - - - - -|Ditto - - - - - - - - - - 5,ooo 4,580 — — 6,879 5 60
46. Ditto - - - - - - - Ditto - - - - - - - I- - 30,850 6, Ioo — — || 9,162 I 5
48. Charles Campbell - - - - John Turing - - - - - - 43,450 3,624 4 40 6,161 — 36
|Ditto Aſſignment to General - º - -
Sir Robert Fletcher - -] Ditto - - - - - - - - - - - 4,750 – — 7, 134. I 8 —
49 ||John Calland - - - - - Ditto - - - - - - - - -] 20,440 || 14,358 31 40 24,41 O 3 *
52 | Captain William Cook - - Avannighiddala Vancatadrellum 1,790 55o 18 – 935 30 48
53. Captain Coſley - - - -|Joſias Dupre Porcher - - - - 4,OOO 1,376 9 – 2,339 22 4o .
54. Roger Carter - - - - - Edward John Holland - - - - 6,950 225CO — — 3,755 - -
56, Captain George Dunnen -|Meſſrs. Savage, Taylor, and Call I,7oo 596 3o 2 I,o 14 2.2 19
57. | Captain Auguſtus Demogº John Turing - - - - - - - 2.860 963 13 40
—r-
1,637 26 44
A. F.
Y i I
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FAIR S OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
Nº of To Whom the Bonds The preſent Holders of Pºiº Principal, Principal,
- the were granted. the Bonds. | 1ſt Ja...uary Iſt January 1ſt January
Bonds. 1769. 1778. 1785.
58. Francis and Jane de Lametrie Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co. 2.95o 1,041 13 – 1,564. 4 38
60. Joſias Dupre, Eſq. - - - ||oſias Dupre Porcher - - - - I 5,350 5,688 18 — 9,670 16 : 6
61. George Dawſon, Eſq. - -|Thomas Cockburn - - * ºn 9:45 O 3,486 18 — 5,927 I 64.
63. Captain James Dewar - -|Meſſrs. Savage, Taylor, and Cail I , 550 r 477 3 48 8 II 2 42
64. | Captain Philip Delafield - - James Cali - - - - - - - 62o # 37 22 4o 233 34 52.
65. |Dawſanne Drake - - - - Mr. Wooley - - - - - 48,400 18,304 4 4o 31, 117 — 36
66. Col. John Francis Debrake - Antonio de Souza - - - - - 3,940 1,376 9 – 2,339 22 4O
*68. Major John Eley - - - -] Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co. 9,400 3,490 — — 5,24; 35 23
69. Henry Fletcher, Eſq. - - -|Ditto - - - - - - - - -] 423 OO I, 5 OG — — 2,253 — —
70. John Philip Fabricious - - Mr. Antonio de Souza, Executor to -
the Eſtate of Colonel Dutton - 3,800 H233o I 3 40 2,261 22 76
74. Charles Floyer - - - - General Sir R. Barker's Concern, - -
. . - by his Attorney to C Floyer 23,950 5,505 - — 9,358 18 —
Eſtate of Francis Cavartho, -
Transfer by Charles Floyer,
ditto - - - - - - -|Charles Floyer, Eſq. - - - sº ºt 3,486 18 — 5,927 64
72. Jºhn Lewin Smith, in Truſt w -
for Richard Fairfield, Eſq. Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co. 6,650 2,44O - – 3,664 3.1 55
73. John Defries - - - - - Ditto - - - - - - - - - 4,860 I,7oo — — . 2,553 I4, 32
74- }Thomas Fitzgerald - - -|Meſſrs. Savage, Taylor, and Call I 7,2OO 6,101 13 4o lo,372 12 12
5. Col. Daniel Trieſchman - -|Antonio de Souza - - - - -] 5,200 I,835 – — 3, I 19 18 —
76. Richard Fairfield - - - - Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co 37,650 14, 170 — — 21,283 12 19
77. |William Martin Goodlad - Antonio de Souza - - - - - 7,800 4,082 31 40 6,940 31 76
78. William Gray - - - - Meſſrs. Savage, Taylor, and Call 4, 550 1,633 5 32 2,776 12 62
79. |Robert Gambier, Eſq. - -|Mr. Charles Binny - - - - - 7,400 2,7c6 22 4o 4,601 9 36
80. John Hunter, Eſq. - - - Ditto - - - - - - - - - 6,950 2,523 4 40 4,289 i i 20
81. Captain Norton Hutchinſon | Captain Edward Jourdan - - - 6.5% 2,350 — — 33529 25 16
32. Rev. William Hirſt - - -]Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co. 3, IOO 1 too — — 1652 7 16
85. Simon Hart - - - - - John Turing, as Security - - - 12,650 4,688 15 24 7,970 II 49
86. Joſeph Hinchley - - - -|Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co, 8,400 3,082 27 40 || 4,630 11 17
88. James Haldane - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7,800 2,800 — - 4,205 21 48
92. Phillis Hopkins - - - - |Mr. Charles Binny - - - - -| 3.7% I,33O 13 4o 2,261 22 76.
91. Thomas Hodges, Eſq. - -|Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co. 2,600 926 22 4o 1,391 28 38
93. |Major Edward James mºs & tºw as “ sº * * * * * * I , 450 4 2 3 I 4O 7or 3 I 76
95. Jourdan and Company - - - - - - - - - - - - 13,060 9so smee “ 1,426 32 32
97. James Kirkpatrick - - - Andrew Roſs, Eſq. - - - - - 25,150 9,358 18 – 15,909 16 16
98. James King - - - - -|Meſſrs. Savage, Taylor, and Call . . . 1,650 - 55o 18 — | 935 3o 48
99. David Kellican - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * 82; 27 — 1,403 27 72.
rol. John Little - - - - - Meſſrs. Savage, Taylor, and Call r soo sos 24 52 346 9 43
102. Colley Lucas - - - - - Colley Lucas - - - - - -l - goo 183 18 — 3 II 34 16
194. General Lawrence - - -]Meſſrs. Pelling & Deities & Co. - losso 3,550 — – 5,782 25 10
105. George Mackay, Eſq. - -|Ditto - - - - - - - - - - soco - scoo — — 7.5io — —
196. Ditto - - - - - - -Ditto - - - - - - - - - 5,000 3,844 22 40 4,272 23 40
to 7. |Ditto - - - - - - - Ditto - - - - - - - - - Io.coo 7,500 — — . 12,750 — —
108. Ditto - - - - - - - Ditto - - - - - - - - - 17 oco 344 22 - O 585 3 I 4.
io9. Mary Munro - - - - -|Thomas Oglevie - - - - - 4,600 1,651 18 — 2,807 19 64
I Io, Andrew Majendie - - - Mr. Wooley * , ſº - - - - 2,900 1832 * * 1,751 - --
~ 6.
I70.
# Iº P A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O T H E
No of To Whom the Bonds, The preſent Holders of Principal, Principal, Principal,
the " were granted. the Bonds. 1ſt January 1ſt January 1ſt January
Bonds. 1769. 1778. 1785,
111. Nicholas Morſe, Eſq. - - Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co. I4,750 5,450 - - 8, 185 32 32
112. Jane Morſe - - - - -Ditto - - - - - - - - - 9,700 3,550 – — 5,332 3 48
1 I 3. Robert Duncan Munro - - - - - - - - - - - - - ‘I,3Oo 367 — — 623 32 32
* 16. Peter Mariette - - - - Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co. 9,850 5,500 — — 8,261 — —
I 17. Samuel Moſes - - - - - Ditto - - - - - - - - - 9, 15o 3,300 - — 4,956 21 48
119. Andrew Newton - - - -|Joſias Dupre Porcher - - - - 9,750 3,550 — - 5,332 3 48
122. Thomas Powney - - - - Ditto - - - - - - - - - 5,OOO 4,587 18 – 7,798 27 —
124. |Ditto - - - - - - -|Ditto - - - - - - - - - 5,OOO 4,587 18 – 7,798 27 —
125. Ditto - - - - - - -|Ditto - - - - - - - - - - 5,OOO 3,21 1 9 - 5,459 4 43
128. Captain Edward Paſcal - -|Paul Benfield - - - - - - I,470 367 — — 623 32 32
129. Gilbert Paſley - - - - 4Thomas oglevie - - - - - 8, too 2,900 - — 4,355 28 64
132. Mary Powney - - - - - George Savage - - - - - - 5,750 2,064 1340 i 3509 15 60
133. John Pybus, Eſq. - - - - Mr. Chamier - - - - - - - 63,350 23,900 31 4o # 40,631 17 44
134. Andrew Roſs - - - - - Security from Taylor and Co. to
I ditto - - - - - - - - 5,ooo 4,587 18 — 7,798 27 —
135. Ditto - - - - - - -|Ditto - - - Ditto - - - - 5,000 4,587 18 — 7,798 27 —
137. Titto - - - - - - - Meſſrs. Savage. Taylor, and Call 5, ooo 3.394 27 – 5,771 2 56
140. Claud Ruſſel, Eſq. - - - -|Joſias Dupre Porcher - - - - 17,900 6,650 – — | 9,988 io 64
142. James Reid - - - - -|Robert Storey, Eſq. - - - - I, I OO 367 — — \ 623 32 32
143. George Richardſon - - - Edward-Garrow - - - - - - 4,4OO I, 559 27 - 2,651 20 56
144. George Stratton, Eſq. - -] Meſſrs. Pelling & Defries, & Co. 5,ooo sooo gº tºº 7,5IO - —
I 45. Ditto - - - - - - -Ditto - - - - - - - - - 5, Ooo 2,400 – — 3,604 28 64
146. Ditto - - - - - - - Antonio de Souza - - - - - 16,000 sooo * ºt 8,500 — —
ºf 47. Ditto - - - - - - -Ditto - - - - - - - - - 14,600 628 18 — 1,068 16 16
148. Colonel Richard Smith - -|Major Sydenham - - - - - I, Ig,OSo 44,957 18 — 76,427 27 —
149. Ofley Smyth - - - - - Captain Edward Jourdan - - - 5,020 I,750 – — 2,628 18 —
450. John Lewin Smith - - -Antonio de Souza - - - - - 28,850 10,8oo — — 16,221 21 48
152. Anthony Sadleir - - - -|Mr. Wooley - - - - - - - 8,850 3,257 4 4o 5.2537 4 4.
153. William Stratton - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A., 35o I, 5oo — º 2,253 — —
154. |Executors of John Smith,jun. Antonio de Souza - - - - - 6,650 2,43 I I 3 4o 4,133 I 2 I 2
156, Robert Storey - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4,850 1,700 — — . 2,553 14 32
159. Rev. Padie Stanton - - - Mr. John Snow - - - - - - 3,900 1,376 9 — 2,339 22 4o
161. Alexander Tod - - - - Security from Taylor and Co. - - 7,750 2,073 19 64 3,525 I 2 I
162. Colonel Charles Tod - - -] Meſſrs. Savage, Taylor, and Call 3,350 Lazo 9 72 2,074 16 66
163. John Turing - - - - -|John Turing - - - - - - - $393d 3,348 3 I 4o 5,693 3 12
ró4. Charles Turner Eſq. - - - George Moubrey - - - - - i 25,100 9,358 18 – | 15,909 16 16
#65. Mary Turing - - - - -|John Turing - - - - - - - 13,830 4,092 4 4o 8,656 zz 4.
166. Agar Weſtman - - - - -|Meſſrs. Savage, Taylor, and Call .. I, oSO 330 io 64 561 18 29
167. William Webber - - - -|Ditto - - - - - - - - - 9,559 3,532 1349 # 6,oo; I 28
168. Colonel John Wood - - -|Mr. John Balfour - - - - - 64,550 18,625 9 - || 31,662 33 24
170. James Wilſon - - - - -|Robert Storey, Eſq. - - - - 7, 5oo 2,750 — – 4,130 18 —
171. John Whitehill, Eſq. - - -|Thomas Lewin - - - - - - 7, I So 2,569 -— — . 4,367 Io 64.
172. Executors of Robert Dixon - - - - - - - - - - - - 95o - 229 13 4o 389 33 6o
174: | Ditto of Charles Griffiths - - - - - - - - - - - - 7,35o 2,660 27 — 4,523 9 72
*75. Captain John Griffin - - - Thomas Oglevie - - - - - 1,650 55e - — 826 3 48
gººd -
A F FA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
II 3
No of To Whom the Bonds The preſent Holders of Principal, . Principal, Princip.1,
the were granted. the Bonds. 1ſt January Iſt January Iſt January
Bonds. 1769. 1778. - I 785.
176. Executors of Mitchelbourne -
Knox - - - - - - - James Taylor, Executor 902 229 I 3 4o 389 33 6o
177. Ditto of Achilles Preſton - - John Turing - - - - 4,2CO 1,486 12 48 2,526 28 50
178. John Call, George Straton, & - -
James Bourchier, for Thea-
trical Society - - - - Mr. Vaughan - - - - 4,750 1,697 13 40 2,885 19 28
179. Executors of John Adams, -
Captain, deceaſed - - - James Call - - - - 62o I 37 22, 40 233 34 52.
Total Pagodas. I 2.92,960 4,85,592 35 62 7,96,445 23 29
Chepauck, Errors Excepted.
23d December 1785.
H #1
(Signed.)
Robert Storey,
Charles Binny.
I 1.4.
P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O T H E
NEW CONSOLIDATED DEBT.
A Liſt of BONDS granted in the Fund conſolidated by his Highneſs the NABOB, on the
26th November 1777; with the Intereſt calculated thereon, agreeabl
Honourable the Court of Direétors; dated 9th December 1734.
e to the Orders of the
No of
the
Bonds.
Names of the Perſons to whom
the Bonds were granted.
I
e
f
O.
I
I
* 2.
an
I 3.
# 4.
i 5.
16.
37.
18.
19.
2 O.
George Moubray - - -
George Mackay - - - -
Richard Parks - - - - -
Richard Joſeph Sullivan - -
John Sprat - - - - -
Antonio de Souza - - - -
- Ditto Aºse .* * tºº gº º sº
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Titto - - , - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - -
Ditto - * * * * *
Ditto - - - r - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - -
|
\,
Body
Principal Sums
ſpecific d in the
of each Bond.
Intereſt calculated
on the priccipal
Suths at the Rate o
I 2 per Cent. per An
num, from the 25t
November 1777, to
the 25th Novembe,
1781 incluſive,
being 4 Years;
from which is
deducted
9; per Cent. Inte-
reſt,
paid at different
Times
by His Highneſs
the Nabob.
-*-*T*
58,833
38,2Oo
Ditto - - - - - - - -
9,700
I 3, Ooo
I 7, Ooo
I O,OOO
Io,000
8 goo
5,02O
5,000
5,000
5, Ood
5,000
5,OOO
5,OOO
5, oxo
5, COO
5 OOO
5, oco
5,Ooo
5,Ooo
5.oco
5,OGO
5,000
5,oop
28,500
I 7,500
22,650 25 30
14,707 – —
6,737 18 —
3,734. I 8 —
5,035 *º ºsº
6,545 — —
3,850 — —
3,426 I 8 —
1,925 - –
1,925 — —
I,925 — —
1,925 — —
intereſt calculated
on the principal
um's at the Rate of
per Cent. per An-
um, from the 25th
November 1781, to
he 31ſt December
1784 incluſive;
being
; Years I Month,
and 6 Days.
Amount of each
Bond,
with the Intereſt
due ther con on the
31ſt Dec. 1784.
92,426 23 II
60,012 7 16
27,492
I 5,238 25 16
2O,423
26,707 *s º
I 5,71 o – —
I5,7 Io — --
1398; 3. 32
7,855 – —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 – —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 – —
44,773
I6,495 18 —
2 I.
Ditto 4-g iº. - * * sº tº Gº ,
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Quintin Craufurd - - -
Ditto gº *= sº & $º tº Jºmº gº
George Moubray * * * *
- Ditto - * , sº tºº & •ºs wº gºe
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Dilto - - - - - - - -
Io,5oo
3,925 – —
I 925 – —
I,925 - --.
1,925 – --
1.925 – —
I 925 — —
I,925 — —
I,925 — —
I,925
I,925 — —
1,925 — —
1,925 — —
I,925 – —
I 925 – —
Io 972 18 —
20,000 —
2C, COO -
4,042 H 8 —
7,700 — —
7,700 — —
7,700 — — .
930 — —
930 — —
930 — —
939 – —
5,301 * *
I,953 – –
3,720 — —
3,720 — —
3,72O tº imm
18 —
3 I,420 – -
31,420 — —
31,420 - -
A FFA IRS OF THE C A R N AT I C.
II 5
N. of Names of Perſons to whom the
the Bonds were granted.
Bonds. •
32. George Moubray * * * *
33. Ditto - - - - - - - -
34. Ditto - - - - - - - -
35. Ditto - - - - - - - -
36. Ditto - - - - - - - -
37. Ditto - - - - - - - -
38. Ditto - - - - - - - -
39. Lieut. Col. Henry Auguſtus
Montagu Coſby - - - -
40, Alexander Boſwall - - - -
41. Lieut. Col. Humphrey Harper -
42. Hon. Edward Monckton - -
43, Henry Moore, of Bombay - -
44. Lieut. Col. Abraham Bunjour º
45. Antonio de Souza - - - -
46. Eſtate of Reynold Adams - -
47. George Savage - - - - -
48. Ditto - - - - - - - -
49. Ditto - - - - - - - -
59. Ditto - - - - - - - -
5 Ditto - - - - - - - -
52. Ditto - - - - - - - -
53. | Ditto - - - - - - - -
54. . . Ditto - - - - - - - -
55. Ditto - - - - - - - -
56. James Call - - - - - -
57. Ditto - - - - - - - -
58, Ditto - - - - - - - -
59. Ditto - - - - - - - -
60. Ditto - - - - - - - -
61, Ditto - - - - - - - -
62. Ditto - - - - - - - -
63, Ditto - - - - - - - -
54. Ditto - - - - - - - -
'65. James Taylor - - - - -
66. Ditto - - - - - - - -
67. Ditto - - - - - - - -
176.
Principal Gums
ſpecified in the
- Body
of each Bond.
| Intereſt calculated |
on the principal
4 Sums at the Rate of
12 per Cent. per An-
|hum, from the 25th.
November 1777, to
the 25th November
I 781 incluſive,
being 4 Years;
- from which is
ded ućted
9% per Cent. Inte-
reſt,
paid at different
Times
by His Highneſs
the Nabob.
the 31ſt December
Intereſt calculated
on the principal
Sums at the Rate of
6 per Cent. per An
num, from the 25th
November 1781, to
1784 incluſive;
being
3 Years 1 Month,
and 6 Days.
20,000
2O, OOO
2C, COO
2O, COO
2O,OOO
2O,OOO
20, OCO
2O, COO
42,450
9,050
24,570
I 4,850
1 1,650
34,285
23,319, 5
50, Ooo
18, ooo
18,000
9,000
9,coo
9,000
9,Coo
6,ooo
6, ooo
5o, ooo
18, coo
18, coo
9,Ooo
9, oco
9. Ooo
9,oco
6,oco
6,ooo
5 O,Ooo
18, ooo
18, coo
7,700
77oo
7,700
7,7 CO
7,7co
7,7co
7,7Co
7,7oo
36,343
3,484 9
9 459
5,7 I 7 9
4,485
I 3, 197
8,977
I 9,259
28
31
6,930
6,939 º:
3,465
3.465
3,465
3,465
2,3 IC
2,3 IQ
I 9, 2 So
6,930
6,930
3,465
3.465
3,465
3.465
2,31 O
2,31 O
19,250
6,930
6,930
, Amount of each
Bond,
with the Intereſt
due thereon on the
31ſt Dec. 1784.
25
; Io
-i-
31 420 — —
3 I, 42O — —
3 I,420 — —
31 420 – —
3 1,420 — —
3 i,42O — —
3 I, 42O — —
31,420 — —
66,688 34 16
I 4,217 19
38,599 1673
23,329 I 2 48
18,302 5 32
53,853 31 54
36,634 13 49
78,552 – —
28 278 – —
28,278 — —
14,439 – —
14, I 39 — —
14, 139 - -
14,139 – —
9,436 — —
9,436 — —
78,550 — —
28,278 — —
28,278. — —
14, I 39 — —
14, 139 – -
14, 139 - -
14, 139 – —
9 426 - -
9,426 — —
78,550 — —-
28,278 — —
28,278 — -
1 16
P A P E R S R E L A TI N G T O THE
N” of Names of Perſons to whom the
the Bonds were granted.
Bonds.
68. James Taylor - - - - -
69. Ditto - - - - - - - -
7o. Ditto - - - - - - - -
71. Ditto - - - - - - - -
72. Ditto - - - - - - - -
73. Ditto - - - - - - - -
74. George Savage, James Call, and
James Taylor - - - - -
75. James Taylor, Andrew Majendie,
. . Jas Call, and George Savage -
76. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
77. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
78. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
79. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
8o. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
81. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
8z. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
83. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
84. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
85. Ditto - - - TXitto - - -
86. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
87. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
88. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
89. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
90. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
91. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
92. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
93. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
94. | Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
95. | Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
96. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
97. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
98. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
99 || Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
1oo. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
1 ot. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
1oz. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
193. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
Principal Sums
ſpecified in the
J
Body
of each Bond.
inter, it calculated
on the principal
Sums at the Rate of
12 per Cent, per An-
nam, from the 25-n
November 1777, to
the 25th November
1, 8 incluſive,
being 4 Years;
from which is
d: dućted
9% per Cent. inte-
reſt,
paid at different
Times
by His Highneſs
the Nabob.
Intereſt calculated
on the principal
Surns at the Rate of
6 per Cent. per An-
num, from the 25th
November 1781, to
the 31 it December
I78+ incluſive;
being
3 Years 1 Month,
and 6 Days.
9,oco
9,000
9, Coo
9,000
6,oco
6,ooo
13,662 7
3.465
3.465
3,465
3 465
2 3 IO
2, 3 Io
5,259
I,674 ſºmeºs
1,674. —
I.674. —
1,674. —
I, I 16
*sºng
I, II 6
2,541 6
2/
Amount of each
Bond,
with the intereſt
due thercon on the
3 Iſt Dec. 1784.
14, 139 — —
14, 139 — —
14,139 – —
I4, I 39 - —
9,426 – —
9,426 — —
21,463 12 20
47, I 3o - –
47, I 3O - —
47, I 3o - —
47, I 3o – —
47, I 3o — —
47, I 3o — —
47, I 30 - -
47, 130 – –
3 I,42 o - —
3 I,420 – —
31,420 — —
3 I 42O — —
31,420 — —
23,565 — —
23,565 - —
23,565 — —
23,565 – —
23,565 – —
I 5,7 IO – —
I 5,7 IO – —
I 5,7 ſo — —
15,7 ſo — —
I 5, 7 Io — —
I 5, 7 Io — —
I 5, 7 Io — —
15,710 – —
15,71 O - —
15,710 – —
- 20, OCO
30, oco
30, oco
3O,Ooo
3O,Ooo
3o, Coo
3o, Ooo
30, Odo
3O,CCO
2O,OOO
2O,OOC
2 O, COO
zooso
I 5,oco
15,000
I 5, Coo
I 5, COO
I 5, Coo
I O COO
J. O, O.O.Q
I O, COO
I C, COC
I O,OCO
Io, coo
I O, OOO
I O, COO
IO,OOO
I O,OOo
5,00c
I i , 55o
II, 55o
II, 55o
II, 55 o
11,550
- II, 5 So
11,550
II, 550
7,7 oo
77°o
7 700
7 700
7,7co
5,775
5 775
5,775
5,775
5,775 -
3,850
3,850
3,850
3850
3850
3 85 o
385 o
3,850
3.850
3,850
12925
5,580
5,580 –
5,58o
5,580
5 58o
5,580
5 58o
5,58c
3 72O
3,72O
3,72O
3.720
3,720
2,790
2,790
2 790
2,790 --
2 790
I,860
1,860
1,860
1,860
1,860
I 860
1,860
1,860
1,860
1,860
93O
7,855 —
AFFAIRS OF THE CARN AT I C.
I 17
Intereſt calculated
on the principal
|Sums at the Rate of
12 per Cent. per An-
|num, from the 25th
November 1777, to
the 25th November
1781 incluſive,
being 4 Years;
from which is
Intereſt calculated
on the principal
Sums at the Rate of
6 per Cent. per An-
num, from the 25th
November 1781, to
the 31ſt December
dedućted º
9% per º Inte- 3 Years º,
paid at different and 6 Days.
Times
by His Highneſs
the Nabob. *-
1,925 – — 930 — —
1,925 - — 930 — —
I,925 – — 930 - —
1,925 – — 930 – —
I,925 – — 930 — —
I,925 — — 93o — —
5,925 – – 930 - —
I,925 - - 930 – —
1,925 – — 930 - -
1,925 — — 930 — —
1,925 - — 930 – —
1,925 * * - 930 – —
2.548 i 12 1,230 35 72
-
15,400 - — ; 7,440 — ‘-
15,400 - - 7,44c - -
15,400 - - 7,440 – –
15,4oo sº eassume 7,440 - --
I 5,409 - - 7,440 - —
9,625 — i. 4,650 -- " —
9,625 – — 4,650 - —
9,625 — — 4,650 - -
9,625 — — 4,650 - - -
9,625 - — 4,650 ---
6, 160 — — 2,976 — —
6, 160 — — 2,976 — —
6, 160 tº sºme 2,976 — —
6, 160 — — 2,976 — —
6, ióo — — 2,976 — —-
3,08o -- — 1,488 – ' --
3, c8o — — 1,488 — —
3,680 – — 1,488 — —
3, c8o — — I,488 — —
3,08o — — 1,488 — —
3,08o — e- 1,488 — —
3,080 — — 1,488 — --
3,080 — — 1,488 — —
I
* of Names of Perſons to whom the
the Bonds were granted.
Bonds.
*-** wºr- —º---
I O4. JamesTaylor, Andrew M ajendie,
Jaº Call, and George Savage
IoS. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
Io9. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
107. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
I c.8 Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
109. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
i I O Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
III. Ditto - - Ditto - - -
I 12. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
113. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
114. | Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
115. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
a 16. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
117. George Savage, ja Caſi, Andrew
Majendie, and James Taylor
118. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
a 19. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
120. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
121 Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
122. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
#23. Ditto - - - , Ditto - - -
3.24. | Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
J 25. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
a 26. | Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
127. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
128. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
129. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
#39. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
a 3 1. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
132. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
3.33. Ditto - - - Dito - - -
134. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
135. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
a 36. Ditto * * * Ditto - - -
137. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
# 38. | Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
*39. | Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
176.
Principal Sums
ſpecified in the
Body
of each Bond.
5,000
5,ooo.
5,Ooo
5,ooo
5,Ooo
5,OOO
5,000
5,Ooo
5,ooo,
5,000
5,000
5,OOO
6,618 9
40,000 -
4O,OCO
4O,OOO
4O,OOO
4o, OOO
25,000
25, coo
25, CCO
25, Ooo
25,000
16,ooo
16,oco
16, Ooo
16,000
16,Coo
8, ooo
8,000
8, ooo
8, ooo
8, ooo
8, ooo
8, Ooo
8, ooo
Amount of each
Bond,
with the Intereſt
due thereon on the
31ſt Dec. 1784.
7#855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 &º gºes
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
7,855 — — .
7,855 — —
7,855 — —
10,397 Io 44
2 62,840 —
62,840 —
62,840 —
62,840 $º
62,840 —
39,275 -
39,275 -
39,275 —
39.275 —
39.275 -
25, 136 -
25, 136 —
25, 136 —-
25, 136 –
25, 136 —
12,568 —
12,568 -
12,568
12,568
12,568
1 2 568
12,568 —
118. P A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O T H E
Intereſt calculated
| on the principal
|Sums at the Rate of
| 12 per Cent. per An- Intereſt calculated
|num, from the 25th S on the º: f
No of Names of Perſons to whom the Principal Surns . #: º: &. Amount of each
* the 2 [th NO & tºº
B the Bonds were granted. ſpecified in the º iii. er º º the 25th | Bond,
onds. Body being 4 Years; November 1781 to with the Intereſt
* of each Bond from which is the 31ſt December -
Oh C. dedućted 1784 incluſive; due thereon Oſ) the
9% per Cent. Inte- being * 31ſt Dec. 1784.
reſt, 3 Years I Month,
paid at different and Ó Days.
Times
by His Highneſs
the Nabob,
14o. George Savage, Jaº Call, Andrew . *
. Majendie, and James Taylor 8,oco — — 3,080 — — 1,488 — — . 12,568 — —
141. Ditto - - - Ditto - - - 8, obo — — 3,08o — — 1,488 — — 12,568 — —
442. Duo - - - Ditto - - - 4, CoO 22 4o 1,540 — — . 744 — -- 6,284 — —
I 43. - pie. • gº º sº Duo- gº tº 4 Coo — — 1,540 — — 744 – — 6,284 — —
144. Duo dº tº gº Diº - - - 4,Ooo — — I,540 — — 744 — — 5,284 — —
145. Duo tº s sº Diao - - - 4,ooo — — 1,540 - - - 744 — - 6,284 — —
146. Diº sºs ame 4- Diº - - - 4,000 — — I,540 - - 744 – — 6,284 — —
147. Ditto - - - Ditto - - - 4,coo — — 1,540 – — 744 – — 6,284 — —
148. Duo gº ºne tº Diao tº º ºs 4.coo tº º I,540 - — ; 744 – – 6,284 — ––
149. Ditto - - - Ditto - - - 9,ooo 35 - 3,465 13 38 1,674. 6 4o I 4, 14o 18 78
150. James Taylor and James Call - 6,60I 25 — 2,541 23 39 I,227 32 - Io,371 9 35
151. James Taylor - - - - - I 1,601 2 4o 4,466 14 66 2,157 28 62 18,225 io 8
a 52. James Call & Andrew Majendie 12,276 25 6o 4,726 19 22 2,233 16 71 19,286 2.5 73
153. James Taylor - - - - - Io,ooo — — 3,850 – — 1,860 — — I 5,7 Io — -
154. Ditto - - - - - - - - io.coo — — 3,850 - — 1,860 — — 15,7 Io — —
155. Ditto - - - - - - - - io,oco — — 3,850 – — 1,860 — — I 5,71 o - —
1 56. Ditto - - - - - - - - 11,329 30 60 4,361 35 62 - 2,107 12 58 I7,799 7 29
157. Andrew Majendie - - - - 4,o 16 3 18 1,546 7 — 71.6 35 6o 6,309 78
158. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,986 3o 62 2,304 33 65 I, II 3 2d I 9,465 12 48
159. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,000 — — . 1,925 — — 930 — — 7,855 — —
160. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,ooo — — . I,925 – — 930 * ºsmº 7,855 — —
16.1. Duo * * ~ * * ~ * * 5 obo — — . 1,925 – — . 930 — — 7,855 — —
162 Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,oco — — . 1,925 — — 930 – — 7,855 — —
163. James Taylor - - - - - 12,500 — — . 4,812 18 — 2,325 — — 19,637 18 —
164. captain Peter Bonevaux tº º 5,Ooo — — . 1,925 — — . 930 — — 7,855 — —
165. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,Ooo - — - 1,925 — — 930 - — 7,855 &º º
166. Ditto - - - - - - - - 2,661 — — I,024 17 36 494 34 4. 4, 18o 15 4.
167. Major Grove Gilles - - - 5,ooo — — 1,925 – — 930 — — 7,855 — —
168. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5, Coo — — I,925 — -- 930 - – 7,855 - —
I 69. TXitto tº º gº ºsºs ºss - - - 5,Ooo tº gº I 2925 gº º 1, 930 *º sºme 7,855 * *
170. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,oco — — 1,925 — — 930 — — 7,855 – —
171, Ditto - - - - - - - - 5, Ooo — — I,925 – —- 930 – — 7,855 — —
172. Ditto - - - - - - - - 3,195 — — 1,230 2 56 594 9 58 solo is 34
I 73. Geºrge Mºny * An sº ens 29,770 — — 11,461 16 16 5,537 774 46,768 24 Io
174. Benjamin Solomon - - - - 6,000 — — 2,310 — — 1,116 — — 9,426 – -
175. Captain Robert Long - - - 2, OCO - - 77o — — 372 -— — 3, 142 — —
176 Charles Edward Jones - - - 2O, COO - - 3,726 — - gº
7,7CO * *
3 I ,42O. dº
A FFAIRS OF THE CARN ATIC.
II 9
N° of | Names of Perſons to whom the
the Bonds were granted.
Bonds. f
177. Job Bulman and Robert Smith
Bird - - - - - - -
178. Robert Storey - - - - -
179. Ditto - - - - - - - -
180. Antonio de Souza - - - -
18i. Ditto - - - - - - - -
182. Colonel James Capper - - -
183. Major George Brown - - -
184. | Antonio de Souza - - - -
185. Robert Smith Bird - - - -
186. Thomas Pelling and John de Fries
187. | Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
188. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
189. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
190. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
191. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
192. Ditto - - - - Ditto - - -
193. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
194. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
195. Diato - - - Ditto - - -
196. | Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
197. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
198. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
199. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
2Oo. | Henry Brooke - - - - - -
201. William Petrie, Charles Drake,
and Andrew Majendie - -
202. Captain Peter Pigou - - -
2O3. Captain Thomas Dib in - -
2O4. Thomas Pelling and John de Fries
205. Ditto - - - Ditto - - -
296. William Gordon - - - - -
zoz. Ditto - - - - - - - -
208. Robert Storey - - - - -
209. Capt. Michael Bruce - - -
zio. Mrs. Marian Douglaſs - - - º
2 : 1. Lieut. Col. Patrick Roſs - -
212. Francis Balfour - - - - -
Principal Sums
ſpecified in the
Body -
of each Bond.
Intereſt calculated
on the principal
Sums at the Rate of
12 per Cent. per An-
num, from the 25th
November 1777, to
the 25th November
1781 incluſive
being 4 Years;
from which is
dedućted
94 per Cent. Inte-
reſt,
paid at different
Times
by His Highneſs
the Nabob.
6,547
II,950
II,950
37,317
2,447
I 3,9CO
7,646
28,300
4,349
I 2,OOO
IO, COO
Io,Ooo
8,0co
8,000
8, ooo
8,Oco
8,000
5,ooo
5,Coo
5,Ooo —
5,Oco
5.oOo
2,52O 2 I
27
27
14,367 1
942 3
S: 35 I
2,943 25
Io,895 18
1,674 13 11
3,850
3,850
3,850
3,080
3,080
3,680
33
4,600
4,600
49
34
45
176. -
5 oco
9,698
I 5,OCO
I O,OOO
7,ooo
2 I, I 52
2 J, OOO
5,oco
5,OOo
2 OCO
6,224
1,500
5,OOC
3,000
3,08o
3,080
1,925
I 925
I,925
I,925
I 3925
1925
3,733
5,775
3,850
2,695
8, I 43 18
7,700
1,925
1,925
770
2,396 8 5
577 18
1,925
1,155
Intereſt calculated
on the principal
Sums at the Rate of
6 per Cent. per An- A mount of each
num, from the 25th Bond,
- iº with the Istereſt
1784 incluſive; due thereon on the
being 31ſt Dec. 1784.
3 Years I Month
and 6 Days.
1,217 26 57 Io,285 12 Io
2.222 25 16 18,773 1.6 16
2,222 25 16, 18,773 16 16
6,940 34 51 58,625 – 20
455 5 Io 3,844 844
2,585 I # 32 21,836 32 32.
I,422 5 50 12,OI I 3 i I $
5,263. 28 64. 44,459 Io 64
808 32 72 6,832 Io 3
1,860 — — I 5,7 IO – —
I,860 — — I 5,7 Io — —
1,860 — — 15,7 Io — —
1,488 — — 12,568 — —
1,488 - — I 2,568 — —
1,488 — — 12,568 — —
I,488 — — 12 568 — —
1,488 — — 12,568 — —
930 — - 7,855 – —
930 — — 7,855 — —
930 — — 7,855 -- —
930 — — 7,855 – —
930 — — 7,855 – –
930 — — 7,855 — —
1,803 29 66 I 5,235 2.0 9.
2 790 – — 25,565 — —
1,860 — — 15,7 Io — —
1,302 — — 19,997 - —
3,934 9 63 33,229 28 40
3,720 – — 31,420 – —
930 — — 7,855 — —
930 — — 7,855 — —
372 — — * 3, 142 - -
1,157 23 71 9,777 32 42
279 — — 2,356 18 —
930 — - 7 855 — —
558 — — 4,713 - —
# 2.6) P A P E R S R E L A T I N G T o T H E
| - Intereſt calculated
on the principal
Sums at the Rate of I
12 per Cent. per An- ntereſt calculated
num, from the 25th s on the principal
N° of Names of Perſons to whom the Principal Sums November 1777, to º, Č the Rate of Amount of each
the Bonds were granted tº gº tº º the 25th November per Cent. per An-
§ wº ſpecified in the 1781 incluſive num, from the 25th Bond,
Bonds. Bod be ... November 1781, to * *
y eing 4 Years ’ the 31ſt Deccinber with the Intereſt
of each Bond. Fº 1S 1784 incluſive; due thereon on the
1. ^ * being 31ſt Dec. 1784.
9% per º Inte 3 Years 1 Month, s . 4
> d 6
paid at different and 6 Days,
Times
by His Highneſs
- the Nabob.
2 I 3 Lieut. Col. James Kirkpatrick 2O,Ooo - 7,700 — —- 3,72O - - 3 I,42O
14. * . --º 2 or X → 3. sº
214 Mocoomal and Dakermnaul 23,298 8,969 26 23 4, 333 IS 32 36,601 5 55
2 5. Vencatta Rangapille - - - - 5,682 – 2, 187 20 42 IsoS6 30 54 8,926. I 5 16
216. Caſſyram and Vencateſha Deva 4,734 - 1,822 2 tº 20 88o 18 69 º, 4. 9
2 i 7. Meer Seyed Mah 6-6 — w !. 3.
| Meer Seyed Mahomed Mogul 30,676 - II,81o 9 29 , 5,705 26 40 48,191 35 69
218. Aga Huffem Mahomed - - - 15,925 - 6,131 4 40 2,962 I 64 25,018 6 24
219. Wallaboo Sunderdoſs Soukar - 48,424 - 18,643 8 52 9.Co6 3 t 8 76,074 3 60
22O, ! Ragoonadados Shamdoſs - - 5,954 - 2,292 Io 35 I, Icy 16 — 9,353 26 35
22 1. Colonel Roſs Lang - - - - 14,060 — 5,390 – — 2 604 sº tºº 2 I-9
222. Thomas Pelling & John Defries t 5,786 — 2,227 21 77 1,076 7 5 º 29 2
223. Wallaboo Sunderdoſs Soukar - sºme . . y
3. 3.113 tº OO C U ºl er oſs Soukar 16,097 6, 197 12 34 2,994 I 4o 25,288 I 3 74
224. Dowſonne Drake - - - - - 5,000 – 1,925 – — 93o — — 7,855
22 K. Ditto - - - - - - - - . gº * ſº sºme ºf 3. ––
* . º - 5, Ooo I,925 93o * ºr 7,855 tº º cºº
226. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,000 - I,925 – — 930 — — 7,855 — —
227. * Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,oco — 1,925 – —- 93o — — º: tº gº
228. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,Oco — I,925 – — 93o s:
229. | Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,ooo -- 1,925 — — 930 – — : Jºº-ºº:
23o. Ditto - - - - - - - 5,Ooo — I,925 – — 93o º:
231. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,600 — I,925 - -- 93o — — º: wº –
232. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,000 — I,925 - — 936 — — -- ſº
233. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5-ooo — I,925 – — - 930 — — º — —
234. Moſes de Caſtra Pelling Defries 5,0co — 1,925 – — 93o * *mºnº º, *
235. Ditto - - - - - - - - - 5,oco — 1,925 – — 93o — – º tº ºut
236, Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,Ooo — 1,925 – — 930 — — º:
237. Ditto - - - - - - - - - 5,oco — I,925 – — 930 — — º — -
238. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,Ozo – 1,925 — — 930 — — . : –
239. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,oco — 1,925 — — - - 295
240 | Ditto - .. 93o — — 7,855 — —
* - M. * * * * * * * = 5, Ooo -- I,925 * tº 93o — — 7 85 &
ºr " "> . * 55 - -
241. Đitto - - - - - - - - 8,326 — 3,205 I S, 29 }
s - > - ? / * 48 22 71 I 3,08
242. George Moubray - - - - 5.oOo — I,925 -- ~~ º tºº * 3 ... 5 20
243. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5, ooo — 1,925 – — 936 * ºr º •-
244. Ditto - - - - - - - - 4,557 -- 1,754 16 2 847 2 54 yº, 1 s6
245, • * Gilbert Paſley - - - - - - 9,705 — 3,736 I5 24 1,805 4 sº º I C .
246. James Call - - - - - - 8,665 — 3,336 – 72 1,611 24 69 º 61.2 º
\ } 3,0 I 2 2.
247. Andrew Majendie - - - - 8,665 — 3,336 – 72 1,611 24 69 J 6. 5 .
•, . rº. J. 2-4 Y 2,O I 2 2.
248. Robert Storey - - - - - 1,733 – 667 7 31 || 322 I 12 3 2 5 of
ſº . . . . * & - 2 12 2,722 1943
249. | Captain Thomas Giels - - - 7,ooo — 2,695 – — 1,302 — -- 10,997 — — .*
| w-
A FFAIRS OF THE CARNATIC.
I 2 I
Names of Perſons to whom the
Bonds were granted.
Principal Sums
ſpecified in the
Body
of each Bond.
the 25th November
Intereſt calculated
on the principal
Sums at the Rate of
12 per Cent, per An-
num, from the 25th
November 1777, to
1781 incluſive,
being 4 Years;
from which is
deducted
9% per Cent, inte-
reſt,
paid at different
Times
by His Highneſs
the Nabob.
Kiſtnadoſs Veereedoſs - - -
Capt. Alexander Jameſon - - |
John Holland - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto cº * º- tº * - º º -
TXitto wº _º .*- - - sº º sº -
Ditto º - º º º wº º º
Edward John Hollond - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto * * * .* gºs * sº -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Pitto ... g's & * as tº .* º -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
Di tto ſº * Jº tº º * º *
- Bitto º º- * wº º * º *
Kiſtnadoſs Veergeedoſs - - -
Mayauram Kinderdoſs - - -
Gungadud Ranganād and Go-
cut Vittal - - - -
Soorah Cuadapah Chitty - -
Coomury Dava - - - - -
Tanker Nulacanda Severam -
Piłłing and de Fries - - - -
Ditto see - ºr * tºº - - -
Ditto - - - - - - - -
William Petrie - - - - -
Lady Clerke i- & ^º º * º
I76.
I, 50+ 34 59
5, I 59 -
12925
I,925
I,925
I,925
1,925
I,925
I,925
I,925
I,925
1,925
I,925
1,043
1,925
1,925
I,925
I,925
# ,925
1,925
I,925
I,925
I,925
I,925
I,925
1,043
1,649
954
26
26 8
28
299 8
39 |
234 ió
6,646
3,850
3,850
2,847
7,700
5,775
No of
the
Bonds.
25o.
25 i ,
252.
2.53.
254.
255.
256.
257.
258.
259.
260.
261.
262.
263.
- 264.
.265.
266.
267.
268.
269.
227O.
271.
272.
273.
.274.
.275.
276.
277.
279,
.28o.
281.
282.
283.
284.
285.
… 286.
ſt
3,999
I 3,400
5,000
5,000
5,Ooo
5,ooo
5,Ooo
5,ooo
5,OOO
5,000
5, ooo
5,OOO
5.oOo
2,711
5,ooo
5,oco
5, Ooo
5 sooo
5,ooo
5,OOO
5,Ooo
5,000
5,000
5,Ooo
5.oOo
2,71 I
4,285
2,480
777 9
1,016 13 4o
609
17,263 31
tº-ºr
4O.
10,000
IO, OOO
7,397
zo,obo
I 5,000
Intereſt calculated
on the principal
Sums at the Rate of
6 per Cent. per An-
num, from the 25th
November 1781, to
the 31 it £ecember
1784 incluſive;
being
3 Years, I Month,
and 6 Days.
727 z 53
2,492 14 32
930 – —
930 — —
930 – —
930 — —
930 – —
930 – —
930 – —
930 — —
930 — —
93O -- —
930 – —
5C4 8 7o
930 — —
93.0 — —
930 — —
930 — —
930 — —
930 — —
930 – —
930 — —
93o — —
930 — —
930 – —
504 8 70
797 – 29
461 Io 6
144 20 35
189 1 51
I 3 9 68
3,21 1 2 68
3,863 — —
1,860 — —
1,375 33 23
3,720 - -
2,790 - —
K k
A mount of each
Bond,
with the Intereſt
due thereon on the
31ſt Dec. 1784.
6, 141
2 I,05
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
4,258
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
7,855
4,258
6,731
3,896
I , 22 I
I,596
956
27, 12 I
15,7 ſo
15,710
11,622
3 ſ 242O
23,565
35
26
26
26
19
ºgº.
24.
Y 22 2. P A P E R S R E L A T | N G T O T H E
* Intereſt calculated -ºr
on the principal
Sums at the Rate of Intereſt calculated
12 per Cent, per An- on the principa
num, from the 25th |Sums at thc Rate of
TS0 of Names of Perſons to whom the Principal Sums November 1777, to 6 per Cent. per An- Amount of each
d •4 tº * > (' ºr. the 25th November num, from the 25th Bond
the Bonds were granted. ſpecified in the 1781 incluſive, November 1781, to ... …”
Bonds. Body • being 4 Years; the 31ſt December with the Intereſt
of each Bond from which is 1784 incluſive; due thereon on the
4 *l e dedućted being ſt Dec. 17.84
9; per Cent. Inte- || 3 Years 1 Month 3 lit • * / o 4-
reſt, and 6 Days.
paid at different
Times
by His Highneſs
the Nabob.
237. Charles Darke - - - - - I 5,000 — — 5,775 - – 2,790 — — 23,565 — —
283. Charles Edward Jones - - - 2O, OCO - - 7,700 — — 3,720 – – 31,420 – –
289. George Moubray - - - - 58,833 – — 22,650 25 30 Io,942 33 61 92,426 23 II
290. Ditto - - - - - - - - I O,OOO - - 3850 — — 1,860 — — I 5,7 Io — -
291. John Sykes - - - - - - I 1,300 — — 4,35o 18 - 2, 101 28 64. 17,752 Io 64.
- 292. Gokool Doſs Muckeendoſs - - 2O,744, 22 4-O 7,986 24 40 3.858 18 — 32,589 29 --
293. George Moubray - - - - Io, OOO - — 3,850 – — 1,860 — — I 5,7 Io - —
294. Ditto - - - - - - - - Io, COO - — 3,850 — - 1,869 — — 15,7 ſo - —
295. Ditto - - - - - - - - I O,OOO – - 3,850 — — 1,860 — — # 5,7 ſo — —
296. Ditto - - - - - - - - I O,OOO - - 3,850 - - 1,860 — — 15,7 io — —
297. Ditto - - - - - - - - 5,000 - — 1,925 — - 939 – — 7,855 - –
298. Ditto - - - - - - - - 3,834 - — 1,476 3 18 7 I 3 4 37 6,023 7 55
Pagodas. 35,00,000 — — - 13,47,500 — — 6,51,000 — — 54,98, 5oo — —
tº iſ co-rºo; ; D . . . )
A F FA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C. 123
- W.
UNCONSOLIDATED DEBT.
Tranſmitted by the Right Honourable Henry Dundas to the Court of Directors,
with his Letter, dated 30th June 1891.
Statement of DEBTS due by his late Highneſs the NABOB of ARcot :
contračted prior to the Proceedings which took place at Madras, reſpecting
Claims on his Highneſs, conformably to the Aćt of Parliament paſſed in
1784; proved by the Affidavits of the Creditors in the Manner required in
the letter from the Directors of the Eaſt India Company to Mr. Fordyce,
dated the Ioth June 1796. -
No I • -
Heirs of the
Samuel Elliot, Eſq. as Heir in Right of his Wife to the Eſtate of the late º
General Horne. -
Bond for Pagodas 16,oco, with Intereſt at 12 per Cent, from 1ſt July
1777. *
This Bond was granted to the General Horne, as the price of a garden, houſe,
and grounds, purchaſed from him by the late Nabob of Arcot ; and as a proof
that the price was moderate, the widow of General Horne and Mr. Eiliot have
ſtated, upon oath, that the Nabob ſoon afterwards ſold that houſe and grounds for
the ſame ſum which he agreed to pay to General Horne for it.
Many applications were made to his Highneſs for payment of this Bond, but
without effeót; and ſo ſatisfied were the Government of Madras and the Court of
Pireétors in England, of the juſtneſs of the claim, that the moſt earneſt requeſts
were, in 1787, made by them to the Nabob for having it put in a train of
payment; but the ſtate of affairs in India prevented that from taking place, and
no part, either of principal or intereſt, has been paid. - -
This Bond was, in the year 1786, referred for examination to the Committee
appointed at Madras for inveſtigating the claims on his Highneſs the late Nabob ;
and was reported by them to be juſt. -
N° 2.
Heirs of the
- º º /i n
The Heirs of the late Major Arthur Lyſaught. ...
Four Bonds, amounting to Pag' 21,442. Io. 4o. with Intereſt at 12
per Cent. from 22d February 1779.
Sir Charles Oakeley, one of the Truſtees named in the marriage ſettlement
betwixt the late Major Lyſaught and Miſs Pybus, has made affidavit upon this
Claim, dated 28th May 1799; in which he declares it to be his belief, that theſe
Bonds were granted to the late Major Lyſaught for taoney lent to the Nabob ; and
that no part, either of principal or intereſt, has been paid. They were referred for
examination to the Committee at Madras in 1786, and reported by them to
be juſt.
N° 3.
Colonel Alex' Wynch, late of Madras. sº
, - Yy ncil,
Bond for Pag' 6,oco, with Intereſt from 2d May 1785
/ > 3 °
Colonel Wynch, in his affidavit dated 28th February 1798, depoſited with
Mr. Fordyce, ſtates, that he was in the Nabob's ſervice from February 1780 to
176. January
P A P E R S R E L A T IN G TO THE
Heirs of the
late Major
Gillis.
The Execu-
tors of the
late Colonel
- Buck.
January 1783, at which time a balance of 6,000 pag' was due to him for arrears of
pay, for which the Nabob granted him, on the 2d May 1783, his Bond payable in
two years, without intereſt; which Bond was certified to be juſt by the Committee at
Madras. -
Although no rate of intereſt is ſpecified in the Bond, Colonel Wynch ſtates,
that he expects to be allowed 12 per cent, from the 2d May 1785, when the Bond
became payable, that being the rate allowed to Bond-holders in ſituations ſimilar
to his own. - -
N° 4.
Robert Storey, Eſq. as Heir (in Right of his Wife) to the Eſtate of the late
Major Grove Gillis.
Bond for Pag' 18,022. 26. 20. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent, from 1ſt July
1782. * ,
This Bond was granted to the late Major Grove Gillis by the late Nabob, for
pay, batta, off-reckonings, &c. due to the ſaid Major Gillis in 1782, when this
Bond was granted; and to which Mr. Storey has acquired a right by his marriage
with the only daughter of the late Major Gillis.
The Bond was reported to be juſt by the Committee at Madras in 1786; but no
payment has been made upon it, as is proved by Mr. Storey’s affidavit, dated
11th January 1798, depoſited with Mr. Fordyce.
N° 5.
The Executors of the late Colonel George Buck.
Bond for Pagº 20,210; with Intereſt at 6 per Cent. from 1ſt November
1782. - - -
This Bond was granted by the late Nabob to the late Colonel George Buck,
then in the ſervice of the Nabob, for arrears of pay, batta, and off-reckonings;
and was afterwards referred to the Committee for inveſtigating the claims on the
Nabob, and reported to be juſt.
Colonel Buck died in 1794, leaving his widow Ann Buck, Major Cooke, and
Jeremiah Batley, his executrix and executors ; and Major Cooke, one of theſe
executors, has made affidavit upon this claim, dated 2d December 1797, and
Lieutenant
Jourdan.
lodged with Mr. Fordyce; by which it appears that no part, either of principal or
intereſt, has been paid, and that the whole ſtill remains to be claimed for by the
heirs and executors of Colonel Buck.
Nº. 6.
Lieutenant John Jourdan, of Madras.
1. Bond for Pagodas 107.2. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent. from 31ſt December
1786.
2. Bond for Pagodas 66. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent. from 1ſt September
1781. -
The firſt part of this Claim ariſes from arrears of pay due to Lieutenant
Jourdan; for which, upºn a ſettlement of accounts, the Nairob granted him his
Bond, dated 3: it D, cenºber 1 - 86, for 1,072 pagodas, bearing intereſt at 6 per
cent. as is certified by Lieutenant jourdan’s affidavit, made at Madras the 6 h cf
Oćtober 1798, and tranſmitted to Mr. Fordyce by Meſſrs. Tulloh, Brodie,
and Co.
This
. A FFAIRS OF THE C A R N A T c.
125
This Bond was referred in 1787 for examination to the Committee of Madras,
and reported to be juſt. -
The ſecond part of this Claim conſiſts of a ſmall Bond to Henry Price for
pagodas 66. granted by the Nabob for arrears of pay due to Mr. Price, bearing
intereſt at 6 per cent. from 1ſt September 1781. This Bond was transferred by
Mr. Price to Lieutenant Jourdan for a valuable conſideration, as appears by
Lieutenant Jourdan's affidavit, dated 6th Oétober 1798, and the notarial copy of
the Bond and Afligrºment from Mr. Price to Lieutenant Jourdan, tranſmitted
therewith from Madras. $ r
~ g No 7.
Heirs of the late Captain Graham Campbell.
Bond for Pagodas 14,322. 2. 4o. with Intereſt at 12 per Cent, ſom
1ſt January 1786.
compoſed partly of money advanced by him for the uſe of his Highneſs, and
Heirs of
the
late Captain
Graham
partly of arrears of pay due to him as Captain in his Highneſs's ſervice. Captain
Graham Campbell died in 1780; but it was not till the end of the year 1785, that
the ſettlement took place betwixt his heirs and the Durbar, when the balance due
to the heirs of Captain Graham Campbell, with intereſt at 8 per cent. was found
to amount to pagodas 27,322. 2, 40. for which the Nabob granted three Bonds for
14,322. 2.40. A ‘. .
*} lo,000. O. C. § bearing intereſt at 12 per cent. This Debt was examined
3,OOO. O. O. . - -
by the Committee at Madras, and reported to be juſt. -
Captain James Graham (heir of Captain Graham Campbell) in his affidavit
ſtates, that the late Captain Graham Campbell was obliged to borrow, on his own
credit, a very confiderable part of the money advanced to the Nabob, and that ſo
great a part of the ſums thus borrowed by Captain Campbell remained unpaid at
the time that theſe Bonds were granted by the Nabob, that Captain Graham was
obliged to transfer, in payment of them, the two Bonds for pagodas Io,0co. and
3,Ooo. at diſcount of 20 per cent. ; the Bond therefore for pagodas 14,322. 2. 40.
is the only one now in Captain Graham's poſſeſſion, and for which he clairns to be
allowed, with intereſt at I 2 per cent, from 1ſt January 1786.
- N° 8.
David Simpſon, Eſq. of Jedburgh.
Bond for Pagodas 3,000. with Intereſt at 12 per Cent, from 1ſt January
1786. - --
This is one of the Bonds before mentioned, granted by the late Nabob for
arrears of pay due to the late Captain Graham Campbell ; and it was transferred by
his heir, Captain James Graham, in payment of money advanced by Mr.
Simpſon to the late Captain Graham Campbell ; and Mr. Simpſon has made
affidavit upon it, dated 8th April 1799, depoſited with Mr. Fordyce.
It is alſo atteſted by the affidavit of Mr. John Defries, of Madras, Attorney to
Mr. Simpſon, dated 2d Oétober 1800, ſtating that no part of it has been paid.
David
Simpſon,
Eſq.
.# § . Campbell.
The Debt due by the late Nabob to the late Captain Graham Campbell, was
Memorandum.—The Bond for pagodas Io,000. before mentioned granted to Executors of
Captain Graham Campbell, was aſſigned to the late James Woolley, Eſq. of the late James
Mād; as, for money advanced by him to the late Captain Campbell; but the
executors of Mr. Woolley cannot make affidavit upon the whole of his claim
upon the Nabob (of which this Bond forms only a part) until they ſhall receive the
accounts thereof from their Agents at Madras, -
176. - - L 1
Wooley.
r 26
P A P E R S R E LAT I N G T O T H E
Lieutenant
Charles
Spyers.
#Heirs of the
fate Major
Galway.
Captain
Wm Dewar.
Captain
John Moſs.
N° 9.
Lieutenant Charles Spyers, of Madras.
Bond for Pagodas 2,212. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent. from 31ſt December
1786. &
This Bond was granted by the late Nabob to Lieutenant Charles Spyers, for
arrears of pay due to him; and it was referred for examination to the Committee
at Madras, 2nd reported by them, 1787, to be juſt.
Mr. Spyers has made affidavit upon it, dated 11th Oétober 1798, which has been
tranſmitted to Mr. Fordyce by Tulloh, Brodie, and Co. of Madras.
N* “IO,
Heirs of the late Major Galway, of Madras.
Bond for Pagodas 14,972%. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent, from the
1ſt Oétober 1783.
This Claim is conſtituted by a Bond granted by the Nabob in 1783, to the
late Major Galway for arrears of pay then due to him; of which no part has ſince
been paid. It was referred for examination to the Committee at Madras, and
reported to be juſt. &
Mr. Cooke married the ſiſter and heireſs of Major Galway; and therefore
claims payment of this Debt, with intereſt at 6 per cent. from 1ſt Oétober 1783,
as is ſtated in his affidavit, dated 8th Auguſt 1800, depoſited with Mr. Fordyce.
/
N° II.
Captain W* Dewar, of Berwick.
Bond for Pag' 8,450. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent, from 31ſt December
1786. •
This Bond was granted to Captain Dewar for arrears of pay due to him while in
the Nabob's ſervice, from 1777 to 1786; and for which the Nabob granted him
the Bond above mentioned ; which was referred for examination to the Committee
at Madras, and reported by them to be juſt. .*
N° I 2.
Captain John Moſs, of Madras.
Bond for Pag' 5,277. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent. from 31ſt December
1786.
This Bond, which was granted to Captain Moſs for arrears of pay due to him,
was referred for examination to the Committee at Madras, and reported by them to
be juſt; as is certified by Captain Moſs's affidavit, dated 24th September 1800,
tranſmitted to Mr. Fordyce from Madras.
AFFAIR s of THE CARN AT I c. 127
N° 13.
Colonel Eidington, late of Madras. Colonel
Bond for Pag' 15,350, with Intereſt at 12 per Cent, from 31ſt December Eidington.
1786.
This Bond was granted to Colonel Eidington for arrears of pay due to him, and
for money advanced to the troops when in a ſtate of mutiny; and was, upon
examination, acknowledged to be juſt by the Committee at Madras; as is proved
by Colonel Eidington's affidavit, dated 23d Auguſt 1797, depoſited with Mr.
Fordyce.
N° 14.
Heirs of the late Captain J. Lowden. Heirs of the
º Pag' 1,899. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent. from 3 1ſt December łºwie
I ©
This Bond was granted to the late Captain John Lowden, for arrears of pay due
to him. It was referred for examination to the Committee at Madras, and reported
by them, in 1788, to be juſt; but no payment has ſince been made upon it; and
Captain Lowden's heirs claim to be allowed the amount of the Bond, with intereſt
from 31ſt December 1786; as is certified by their affidavit, dated 9th September
18oo, depoſited with Mr. Fordyce.
*
N° 15.
Sir Hečtor Munro, London. Sir Hećtor
Bond for Pag' 40,000. with Intereſt at 8 per Cent. from 1782. Munro, •
This Bond was granted to Mr. Alexander Brodie, as agent for Sir Hećtor
Monro, being for arrears of table-money due to Sir Hečtor, as Commander in
Chief of the army on the Coaſt. And Sir Hečtor, in his affidavit dated 30th
May 1800, depoſited with Mr. Fordyce, ſtates, that though he had advanced
ſeveral ſums of money to the Nabob and his family, when in diſtreſs ; yet in
confideration of his receiving this Bond from the Nabob, he had made no charge
upon his Highneſs for the money he thus advanced to him and his family; although
he received by this Bond no more than was juſtly due to him for arrears of
table-money as before mentioned.
This Claim was referred for examination to the Committee at Madras, and
reported by them to be juſt.
N° 16,
Heirs of the late Captain H. B. Sullivan. tº
, Heirs of the
Bond for Pag' 4,835. 39. Io, with Intereſt at 12 per Cent, from 1ſt late Saptain
Auguſt 1781. * i .* Sulii-
This Debt aroſe from arreas of pay and Batta due by the Nabob to the late
Captain Henry Boyle Sullivan, and for money advanced by him for the troops,
and for feeding and otherwiſe providing the horſes; and for which the Nabob
intended to give him an order on the Revenues of Tinnevelly; but theſe being
ſhortlv after taken poſſeſſion of by the Company, the Nabob granted the preſent
176. , $ Bond,
1 23 P A PERS RELAT ING TO T H E
V. Bond, bearing intereſt at 12 per cent, ; aud which has been examined, and
reported to be juſt by the Committee at Madras. º
Mr. Benjamin Sullivan, adminiſtrator to the eſtate of the late Captain Sullivan,
has made affidavit upon this Claim, dated 3d Oétober 1800, tranſmitted from
Madras to Mr. Fordyce.
N° 17. f
Miſs Catha- Miſs Catharine Paſcal, of Madras.
rine Paſcal. zº &
1. Bond for Pagº 1,185. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent, from 1ſt September
1781. #
2. Bond for Pag' 1,206. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent, from 31ſt December
1786.
The firſt part of this Claim conſiſts of a Bond granted to Mr. Henry Price, for
arrears of pay due to him, and which was, on the 29th March 1788, transferred to
Miſs Paſcal for a valuable confideration.
The ſecond part conſiſts of a Bond granted to Miſs Paſcal, as heireſs to the
eſtate of the late Lieutenant J. Mills, for arrears of pay due to the ſaid Lieutenant;
and it has been referred for examination to the Committee at Madras, and reported
to be juſt. -- |
Miſs Paſcal has made affidavit upon theſe two Bonds, dated 3d Oétober 1800 :
ſtating her belief of the juſtneſs of them, and that no part of them has been paid.
N° 13.
Heirs of the Heirs of the late Lieutenant James Stockwell.
late Lieu- - S º zł
tenant Stock- Bond for Pagº 2,425. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent. from 31ſt December
well. 1786. d &
This Bond was granted to the late Lieutenant Stockwell for arrears of pay due to
him; and an affidavit thereupon by Mr. C. N. Goricke, his executor, has been
tranſmitted by Tulloh, Brodie, and Co. to Mr. Fordyce from Madras, dated 30th
September 1860. - -- . z -
This Claim was referred to the Committee at Madras, and reported by them to
be juſt.
N° 19.
Heirs of the & Heirs of the late Captain Joſhua Smith.
late Captain
Joſhua Smith. Bond for Pagº 32,37. 9;... with Intereſt at 6 per Cent. from the
4th June 1784.
This Bond was granted for arrears of pay due to Captain Smith, and was
reported to be juſt by the Committee at Madras.-Mr. Zach. Pollack, adminiſtrator
to the late Captain Smith's eſtate, has made affidavit upon this Claim, dated 27th
September 1800.
N° 20.
M Mrs. Ignacia Halmayer, of Madras.
i’S, $
Halmayer. 1. Bond for Pag' 4,065. 12# Ann”, with Intereſt at 6 per cent. from
2d May 1782.
2. Balance of Account Current per Pagº 21, 178. 22. 7.2. with Intereſt at
6 per Cent. from 31ſt December 1786.
The firſt part of this Claim ariſes from arrears of pay due to the late Captain
Halmayer, for which the Nabob granted his Bond, bearing intereſt at 6 per cent.
of
A F FA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C. 129
of which no part has been paid; as appears by Mrs. Halmayer's affidavit, dated W.
3oth September 1800, tranſmitted from Madras. This Bond was referred for —
examination to the Committee at Madras, and reported to be juſt.
The ſecond part of this Claim conſiſts of arrears of pay due to the late Captain
Hoddle, part of which was contraćted prior to 1778; for which the Nabob granted
his Bond, dated 1ſt July 1778, for pagodas 4,754. bearing intereſt at 6 per cent.
and the remainder ariſes from arrears of pay due from the date of the above-
mentioned Bond to the 30th April 1784, the whole amounting (including the Bond)
to pagodas 2 1,178, 22. 7.2. of which Captain Hoddle tranſmitted an account to
the Committee at Madras, ſigned by himſelf, on the 26th December 1786; and an
atteſted copy thereof has been tranſmitted from Madras by Mrs. Halmayer, who has
made affidavit on this claim, as adminiſtratrix to the late Mrs. Hoddle, widow of
the late Captain Hoddle, by which it appears that no part of the above ſum
has been paid.
*
N° 2 I.
Truſtees of the late John Maxwell Stone. Truſtees of
Bond for Pag' 6,119, with Intereſt at 1o per cent. from 26th July 1775. º
This Claim ariſes from a Bond granted by the Nabob to Captain Bromfield for *
European articles, purchaſed from him, dated 26th July 1775, for pagodas 6,119.
payable on the 20th December"1775, with intereſt at to per cent. per annum; and
was, in 1787, referred for examination to the Committee at Madras, and reported
to be juſt.
It was aſſigned over by Captain Bromfield to the late John Maxwell Stone,
for whoſe truſtees Meſſrs. A. and D. Defries of Madras are attornies. And Mr. .
J. Defries has made affidavit thereon, dated 2d October 1800, which has been
tranſmitted to Mr. Fordyce by Meſſrs. Tulloh, Brodie, and Co.
N° 22.
Henry Duprey, Eſq. of Madras. Henry Du-
1. Bond for Pag' 3,226. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent. from 31ſt December Pº Eſq.
1786.
2. Two Bonds for Pagº with Intereſt at 6 per Cent. from 1ſt
September 1781.
The firſt part of this Claim conſiſts of a Bond granted to Mr. Joſeph Nevil,
for arrears of pay due to him, and was favourably reported upon by the Committee at
Madras. And Mr. John Defries, in whoſe poſſeſſion the Bond now is, as attorney
to Mr. Duprey, to whom it was aſſigned by Mr. Neville, has made affidavit upon it,
dated 2d Oétober 1800, ſtating that no part of it has been paid.
The ſecond part of this Claim is made up of two Bonds, granted by his late High-
neſs to Mr. Henry Price for arrears of pay, and which were aſſigned by Mr. Price
to Mr. Duprey in 1778 for a valuable confideration. Of theſe no part has been
paid, as is certified by the affidavit of Mr. John Defries, attorney to Mr. Duprey,
dated 2d Oétober 1800, tranſmitted from Madras to Mr. Fordyce, by Meſſrs.
Tulloh, Brodie, and Co. together with the before-mentioned affidavit on the firſt
part of Mr. Duprey’s Claim.
;I 30 P A P E R S R E L A TI N G T O T H E
V.
N° 23.
..}, rſkine Erſkine Nimmo, Eſq. of Madras.
Nimmo, Eſq. Bond for Pagodas 2,200. with Intereſt from 2d May 1782, at 6 per Cent.
This Bond was granted to Mr. Titus Briggs, for arrears of ſalary due to him as
an Engliſh writer in the ſervice of the Nabob, prior to May 1782 ; and was upon
examination certified to be juſt by the Committee at Madras.
Mr. Briggs transferred it for a valuable conſideration to Mr. Nimmo, in whoſe
poſſeſſion it now is, and who has made affidavit upon it, dated the 26th of
;September 1800; depoſited with Mr. Fordyce.
N° 24.
*Lieutenant Lieutenant Thomas Davidſon, of Madras.
Thomas * * tº , • * .
Davidſon. Bond for 2,502 Pagodas, with Intereſt at 6 per Cent, from 31ſt December
© 1786. - -
This Bond was alſo granted for arrears of pay, and was reported to be juſt by the
Committee at Madras. Mr. Davidſon has made affidavit upon it, dated 1 I th July
18oo, tranſmitted to Mr. Fordyce, in which he ſtates, that no part of it has been
paid.
N° 25.
‘Heirs of the Heirs of the late Captain Klawman. -
º: Captain Bond for Pagodas 3,371, with Intereſt at 6 per Cent, from 31ſt December
3.S.13 WIſla Il. 1786. -
This Bond was granted to the late Captain Klawman for arrears of pay due to
him, and was alſo reported to be juſt by the Committee at Madras. Mr. Baſil
Cockrane of Madras, the adminiſtrator to the late Captain Klawman’s eſtate, has
made affidavit upon this Claim, dated 7th Oétober 1800, ſtating, that no paſt of
it has been paid.
N° 26.
f"...-- ta: ‘Captain Alexander Tod, of Dunbar.
Captain
Alexand 1 - ia e r r *
* Two Bonds for Pagodas 5,520, and 500.
Captain Tod, in his affidavit dated 1ſt Auguſt 1797, ſtates, that the late Nabob
was indebted to him in the ſum of pagodas 5,520. for articles ſold by him to the
Nabob, to which his Highneſs added as a preſent a Bond for pagodas 5oo ; Captain
Tod having brought him from England a State Palanquin and ſome other articles,
for which he did not charge any freight.
Theſe Bonds, which are now in the hands of Mr. Thomas Cockburn at Madras,
were in 1786 referred to the Committee at Madras for examination, and reported
by them to be juſt.
Nº. 27.
*Collingwood Collingwood Roddam, of Alnwick, Eſq. **
*Roddam, Pagodas 14,460, with Intereſt at 12 per Cent, from September 1786.
JEſq. & *
Mr. Roddam, in his affidavit dated 21ſt April 1800, ſtates, that in the year
1775 he lent to the Nabob above 20,000 rupees, to bear intereſt at 12 pet cent. for
AFF AIR S OF THE CARN AT I C. 13 I.
which his Highneſs granted him two Bonds for pagodas º and that upon V.
a ſettlement of accounts betwixt him and the Nabob in September 1786, there was
found due to him a ſum of pagodas 14,460. as was certified by the ſignature of
his Highneſs to the account thereof; but of which no part, either of principal or
intereſt, has been paid. --
Mr. Tulloh, of Madras, has alſo made affidavit upon this Claim, dated 29th
September 1800, in which he ſtates, that he is in poſſeſſion of the two original
Bonds granted for the above ſum of 20,000 rupees lent to the Nabob, dated 6th
º pagodas, bearing intereſt at 12 per cent. which
were examined and reported to be correót by the Committee at Madras, and in lieu
of which the Nabob afterwards ſigned an account current to Mr. Roddam, amount-
ing to 14,460 pagodas, as before ſtated, being the amount of theſe two Bonds, with
intereſt upon them to September 1786, to which period the account current was
made up.
September 1775, for }
N° 28.
Stephen Sullivan, Eſq. of Madras. Stephen
Bond for Pagodas 37,500. with Intereſt from 3d February 1785. Sullivan.
This Bond was granted by the late Nabob, on the 3d February 1785, to John
Stuart, Eſq. on truſt for Laurence Sullivan, Eſq. and of which the preſent Claimant
is now poſſeſſed as heir to his father the late Laurence Sullivan, as is ſtated in his
affidavit, dated 6th June 1800, depoſited with Mr. Fordyce.
This Claim was referred for examination to the Committee at Madras; and in 1788
was reported by them to be juſt.
N° 29.
Aſſignees of the late George Williſon, Eſq. Aſſignees of
the
1. Bond for Pagodas 2,709. with Intereſt from 31ſt December 1786. *. Wil-
2. Pagodas 7oo. with Intereſt from 31ſt December 1780. liſon, Eſq.
3. —— Pagodas 500. with Intereſt from 31ſt December 178o.
The firſt part of this Claim conſiſts of a Bond granted by the late Nabob to Mr.
Williſon for the balance then ſtated to be due to him ; and which was examined by
the Committee at Madras, and certified to be juſt ; but in this balance was not in-
cluded a ſum of 7oo pagodas, being the price of a portrait of his Highneſs, which
was ordered by Governor Haſtings, but which the Nabob inſiſted upon ſending to
the Governor as a preſent; and as Mr. Haſtings refuſed to pay Mr. Williſon for it,
it forms a fair Claim againſt the Nabob. -
The laſt article is for 500 pagodas, being the Nabob's ſubſcription for an altar.
piece painted by Mr. Williſon, and which was not included in the before-mentioned
Bond; and for theſe two ſums the Aſſignees claim intereſt from 31ſt December 1780,
about which time Mr. Williſon left India. 2
Mr. Williſon, ſome time previous to his death, aſſigned his effects in truſt to
Horatius Cannon, George Dempſter, Eſq. and others; and Mr. Cannon has made
affidavit to the truth of the foregoing particulars, dated 30th Oétober 1799, which is
depoſited with Mr. Fordyce. -
176.
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V.
N° 30.
Sir John Day. Sir John Day.
Bond for Pagº Io,Coo. with Intereſt from 1ſt November 1779.
This Debt is conſtituted by a Bond of the late Nabob to Sir John Day, dated 1ſt
July 1779, for Io,000 pagodas, payable in two and four months; and was granted
to Sir John by the Nabob, in conſequence of his conſulting Sir John upon a point
of law at that time of great importance to his Highneſs, viz, whether the Nabob
could be ſued for his debts in the Mayor's Court at Madras; which it was the inten-
tion of ſome of his creditors to do at that time, had not Sir John given it as his opi-
nion, that it was not competent for any Engliſh creditor to cite his Highneſs before
any one of the Engliſh Courts in India ; and this Bond was granted to Sir John Day
as a recompence for his trouble in the buſineſs, and for the important ſervice he
rendered to the Nabob at that time. *
This Claim was referred for examination to the Committee at Madras, and was re-
ported by them to be juſt; and Sir John has made affidavit upon it, which is lodged
with Mr. Fordyce.
N° 31.
Heirs of late Heirs of the late Antonio De Souza, Eſq.
Antonio de § * WD ~ rºs tº 4.
Souza, Eſq. Five Bonds, amounting to Pag. 58,019. with Intereſt at 12 per Cent. from
31ſt December 1786.
Theſe Bonds were granted to Mr. DeSouza, upon a ſettlement of accounts betwixt
him and the Nabob ; and they were afterwards referred to the Committee at Madras,
and reported to be juſt, as is certified by the affidavit of John Tulloh and Thomas
Demello, executors of Mr. De Souza ; dated 6th Oétober 1800; depoſited with
Mr. Fordyce.
N° 32.
‘Charles Charles Binny, Eſq. London.
3inny, Eſq.
1nny, Eriq Bond for Pag' 15,573. 6. 40. with Intereſt at 12 per Cent. from 30th
June 1790,
This Bond was granted to Mr. Binny, for arrears of ſalary due to him as Engliſh
ſecretary to the late Nabob. Mr. Binny made affidavit upon this Claim in December
1791 ; and he has ſince depoſited with Mr. Fordyce extraćts of letters from the
Government of Madras, and from the Court of Directors, which inconteſtibly prove
that the Claim is ſtrićtly juſt.
The above Bond was dated 30th November 1785, but the intereſt was paid upon
it to 30th June 1790, as appears by Mr. Binny’s account current with the Nabob of
that date, annexed to his affidavit.
N° 33.
Colonel James Capper, late of Madras.
Col. Capper. -
Bond for Pagº 12,000. with Intereſt at 12 per Cent. from January
1792.
Colonel Capper in 1774 lent the Nabob a ſum of pagodas 4,000. for which his
#Highneſs granted a Bond, bearing 12 per cent, intereſt, and which was reported to
be
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be juſt by the Committee at Madras; but this Bond being afterwards loſt, his High- V.
neſ; in January 1792 gave Colonel Capper an order on Francis Latour for 12,000
pagodas in lieu ofit, of which no part has been paid, as is teſtified by Colonel Cap-
per's affidavit, dated 14th January 1801, depoſited with Mr. Fordyce. -
Nº. 34.
The Honourable Baſil Cockrane, of Madras. 4 Baſil º
* ſo.
Bond for Pagodas 1,226. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent, from 1ſt September rane, Eriq
178 I.
This Bond was granted to Mr. Henry Price for arrears of pay, and was by him
aſſigned to the Honourable Bafil Cockrane for a valuable conſideration ; as is certified
by Mr. Cockrane's affidavit, dated 7th Qétober 1809. *
Mem.—The ſeveral Bonds granted to Mr. Price for arrears of pay, and
which were aſſigned by him to fundry perſons, were examined by the
Committee at Madras, and certified to be juſt. v.
N° 35. ~
- John Pybus, Eſq. London. John Pybus,
Bond for Pag' 1,888. with Intereſt from 1ſt February 1774, Eſq.
This Bond was granted by the late Nabob to the late Miſs Pybus, in part of arrears
of intereſt due by his Highneſs on a ſum of 36,000 Arcot rupees, lent in 1766 by
the late John Pybus, her father, to the Nabob. It was dated 1ſt February 1770,
payable without intereſt 1ſt February 1774, and was given to the late Miſs Pybus as
part of her marriage portion, on her marriage with the late Sir Robert Fletcher in
1773; but no part of it being paid, the late Mr. Pybus paid Sir Robert the value of
it; and his ſon Mr. John Pybus, as heir to his father, now claims the amount of it,
with intereſt from 1ſt February 1774.
It was referred for examination in 1786 to the Committee at Madras, and reported
to be juſt.
Nº. 36.
Quintin Crauford, Eſq. of Frankfort.
* e Quintin
Bond for Pagodas 83,442. with Intereſt at 12 per Cent, from 15th March Crauford,
1780; but from the amount of this, Intereſt is to be deducted Pagodas
46,200. for jewels, ſold as after ſtated. \
This Bond was granted to Mr. Crauford for money lent to the late Nabob, and
paid by his order, and on his account, to the Eaſt India Company and others; in
ſecurity for part of which fundry jewels and pearls were depoſited in Mr. Crauford's
hands, which he was at liberty to diſpoſe of, provided the Bond was not paid within
one year from the date of it: but as the Nabob, notwithſtanding many ſolicitations
from Mr. Crauford’s attornies, did not pay any part either of the principal or intereſt
of the Bond, theſe jewels, after due notice was given to the Nabob, and after public
advertiſement of the intended ſale for two months in the Madras papers, were ſold on
11th December 1788; and the price of them, pagodas 46,2co, was carried to the
Nabob’s credit in an account current betwixt the Nabob and Mr. Crauford, made
out by Mr. Crauford's attornies at Madras; upon which date, after giving the
Nabob credit for the above ſum of 46,200 pagodas, the balance due to Mr. Crau-
ford, including intereſt, amounted to pagodas 1,24,745.
176. N n SIt
Eſq.
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P A P E R S RE LAT IN G T O THE
V.
Sir John Menzies, as attorney for Mr. Crauford, gave information of the ſale,
and of all the particulars, in a letter to Governor Sir Archibald Campbell, dated the
31ſt of the ſubſequent month ; and the above balance, with intereſt at 12 per cent.
Alexander
Brodie, Eſq.
from 1 I th December 1788 to 17th September 1792, when Mr. Crauford's attor-
nies tranſmitted a ſtatement of his Claim on the Nabob, amounts to the ſum of pa-
godas 181, 29, 31. for which ſum, with intereſt at 12 per cent. Mr. Crauford claims
to be allowed ; and he has accordingly made affidavit upon his Claim, dated 19th
Oćtober 1797, which is depoſited with Mr. Fordyce.
In the accounts made out by the Agents of Mr. Crauford at Madras, the balance
is ſtruck in the uſual way on the day on which the jewels were ſold; and intereſt is
charged on that balance, compoſed partly of intereſt and partly of principal. But
Mr. Fordyce, ſuppoſing that the general rule adopted in 1784, of allowing only
fimple intereſt to be ſtated, will now be followed, has, in conſequence of the power
granted to him by the creditors, altered the account ; and intereſt is, in this ſtate-
ment of the Claim, now laid before the Court of Direétors, charged only on the
principal ſum of the Debt, which in this inſtance makes a very great redućtion in the
amount of the Claim. cs
N° 37.
Alexander Brodie, Eſq. London.
Balance of Bond for Pagodas 35,551. 16. 44, with Intereſt at 12 per Cent.
from 31ſt December 1786.
Mr. Brodie having, in the year 1780, advanced to the late Nabob a ſum of pa-
godas 95,000. received from his Highneſs his Bond, bearing intereſt at 12 per cent.
dated 1ſt June 1780, for that ſum ; and as a ſecurity for the payment thereof, there
were depoſited with Mr. Brodie three cheſts and a box of jewels, which he underſtood
were valued at conſiderable more than the amount of the Bond for which they were
granted in ſecurity; and he was, as ſpecified in the Bond, at liberty to ſell theſe
jewels, provided the Bond was not paid in fix months from its date ; but Mr. Brodie
not receiving any payments either of principal or intereſt, he, with the ſpecial per-
miſſion of the Nabob, communicated to him by the Ameer ul Omrah, at different
times in the years 1781, 1782, 1784, 1785, and 1786, ſold the whole of theſe
jewels, which produced only the ſum of pagodas 92,173. 30.49 as ſtated in an
account current, made out on the 31ſt December 1786, in which the Bond, with
intereſt upon it to that date, is placed to the debit of the account, amounting to the
fum of pagodas 1,79,050. r w -
Pagodas - 4- - - - tº – - I,7O,O5O.
And the produce of the ſale of the jewels, with intereſt from
the reſpective times at which they were ſold, is placed to
the credit of the account, amounting to - sº * I,34,498. 25. 36.
Leaving a balance of Pagodas tº - - 35, 55 I. 16. 44.
For which Mr. Brodie makes his Claim upon the Nabob, with intereſt at 12 per
-cent. from 31ſt December 1786.
All the circumſtances here ſtated are confirmed by Mr. Brodie, in his affidavit
before a Maſter in Chancery, dated 6th March 1798, depoſited with Mr. Fordyce.
. Nº 38.
A FFAIR S OF T H E C A R N AT I C.
135
N° 38. -
Sir John Macpherſon, Bar".
1. Pag' 85,264. 3. 66, with Intereſt at 12 per cent, from 1ſt January
1796. • *
2. Pagodas 83,966. 37. Io. with Intereſt at 8 per cent, from 1ſt January
1796.
Sir John Macpherſon's Claim upon the Nabob conſiſts of two parts:
The firſt, containing different ſums advanced by Sir John's Agent, Sir Charles
Oakeley, in 1777, upon Bills for pagodas 23,217. 23. 67. drawn by Colonel
Lauchlane Macleane upon Sir John Macpherſon, who had then left India ; which
Bills, as Sir John was not indebted to Colonel Macleane, were accepted by Sir
Charles Oakeley, as Sir John Macpherſon's attorney, at the earneſt requeſt of the
late Nabob, who promiſed to pay them when due ; but having neglected to do ſo,
Sir Charles Oakeley was accordingly obliged to pay them ; and he afterwards ad-
vanced ſeveral ſmall ſums to Colonel Macleane, upon the account and by the deſire
of the Nabob, amounting in all, with the ſum above mentioned, to pagodas
27,409. 27. 47, and he received in part payment of theſe advances, at different
times, ſums to the amount of pagodas 9,250. 17. 4o. which are placed to the Na-
bob’s credit in an account current, made out and ſworn to by Sir Charles Oakeley
on the 15th Auguſt 1799; the balance of which account current is ſtated in that affi-
davit to amount to pagodas 46,344, 2. 3.2. on the 1ſt of January 1789, including
intereſt on both fides of the account, at 12 per cent, to that date.
Sir John Macpherſon having, previous to his leaving Madras, given explicit di-
rećtions to his attorney Sir Charles Oakeley, not to accept any Bills on his account,
did not conſider himſelf as bound in law to take this debt upon himſelf; but being
ſenſible that Sir Charles Oakeley had advanced this money from friendly motives to
him, and being unwilling that Sir Charles Oakeley, in the ſituation in which he was
at that time, ſhould ſuffer ſo heavy a loſs, he was on theſe accounts induced to take
the debt upon himſelf; for payment of which he now makes his Claim upon the pre-
ſent Nabob. . . . . . w -
By letters lately tranſmitted by Harrington, Watts, and Co. of Madras, dated 9th
Oćtober 1800, it appears, that a ſettlement of this account took place at that time
betwixt the Nabob and Meſſrs. Harrington, Watts, and Co. as attornies to Sir
John Macpherſon, by which the balance due to Sir John, made up to the 1ſt Ja-
nuary 1796, amounted to the ſum of pagodas 85,264. 3. 66. and which account
was accordingly ſettled and ſigned by the Nabob, and by Meſſrs. Harrington, Watts,
and Co. as attornies for Sir John Macpherſon. - * ,
The ſecond part of Sir John’s Claim conſiſts of a Bill drawn by him when in Eng-
land in 1799, to Meſſrs. Drummonds, Bankers, upon the Nabob, for pagodas
55,000. and accepted by his Highneſs ; upon which a partial payment of 20,000
pagodas was made oif the 25th June 1785 ; but the balance, with intereſt, ſtill
remains unpaid. -
A ſtatement of Sir John's account with the Nabob for this Bill was made out in
Oćtober 1800, by Meſſrs. Harrington, Watts, and Co. as attornies for Sir John, by
which it appears that the balance brought up, with intereſt at 8 per cent. to 1ſt Ja-
nuary 1796, amounted to pagodas 83,966. 37. Io. and this balance has been ac-
knowledged by the Nabob to be juſt, in a memorandum annexed to the account
V.
Sir John
Macpherſon,
Bart. w
current, ſigned by his Highneſs, remaining in the hands of Meſſrs. Harrington,
Watts, and Co. t -
Sir John Macpherſon has made affidavit upon this part of his Claim, dated 17th
April 18OI ; in which, after ſtating the above particulars, he adds, that he received
in 1796, from the executors of the late James Macpherſon, Eſq. the late Nabob's
Agent in this country, a ſum of £4,688. being a balance due by the late James Mac-
pherſon, Eſq. to the late Nabob ; and which Sir John deſires may be placed to the
credit of this account on a ſettlement with the preſent Nabob.
176. - By
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P A PERS RELAT ING TO THE
V.
James Dott,
Eſq.
Executors of |
the late
Robert Smith
Bird.
By the foregoing ſtatement it appears, that Sir John Macpherſon’s Claims have
the ſančtion of the late and the preſent Nabob, beſides the teſtimony of Sir Charles
Oakeley. - r
N° 39.
James Dott, Eſq. of Bittern Grove.
1. Pagodas 32,511. 12, with Intereſt from 1783.
2. Dº 95QCO. with d” from January 1785.
3. Dº 1,350. with d” from 30th September 1787.
4. Dº 7, 1 Oj. 2. with d” from 1ſt January 1785.
5. D° 6, 15o. with d” from 30th September 1787.
Mr. Dott was, in 1799, by a deed of his Highneſs the late Nabob, appointed
Paymaſter of the three regiments of cavalry, and ordered to provide for the feeding
of the horſes, &c.; and for theſe purpoſes a Temka was granted on the Tinnevelly
Diſtrićt, by which he was authorized to draw a certain portion of the Revenues, and
apply them to the payment of the troops. This he did in the year 1780 to a very
conſiderable amount ; but upon a ſettlement of accounts in 1783, it appeared that
there remained due to him a balance of chucrams 56,901. 2. 57, or pagodas
32,511. I 2. for which he now makes his Claim upon the preſent Nabob, as heir to
his father. •
Independent of this balance, Mr. Dott advanced a ſum of chucrams 54,835. 6.
on account of the cavalry ; which, as the Company took poſſeſſion of the Tinnevelly
Country, they were pleaſed to pay to Mr. Dott on account of the peculiar hardſhip
of his ſituation, and granted him a Cavalry Bond for it accordingly.
The ſecond and third parts of Mr. Dott's Claim conſiſt of pay due to him as Sur-
geon to his late Highneſs the Nabob, at the rate of 150 pagodas a month; and
the fourth and fifth parts conſiſt of pay due to him on account of the appointment
of Paymaſter and Collector of part of the Revenues of Tinnevelly for the payment of
the troops, granted to him in 1799, as above ſtated ; and for which he was to be
allowed 150 pagodas per month alſo, ſo as to make the total amount of his pay from
the Nabob 3oo pagodas per month. $
To theſe ſtatements Mr. Dott has made oath, and has annexed to his affidavit a
paper explanatory of the origin of each of the debts, which is depoſited with Mr.
Fordyce, together with copies of letters from the late Nabob, requeſting him to
make the advances now claimed ; and alſo a copy of the Tanka granted for his re-
payment ; but the effect of which was prevented by the Company's taking poſſeſſion
of the Country from which his payment was to be drawn.
V.
*-
N° 40.
Executors of the late Robert Smith Bird.
Bond for Rupees 50,000. with Intereſt from 15th April 1780.
This Claim originated in a Debt due by the late.Nabob to Admiral Sir Edward
Vernon, for which a Bond was granted by his Highneſs to Mr. Bird, as Agent for
Admiral Vernon, dated 15th Oétober 1779, payable in ſix months, for 50,000
rupees; and this Bond was in February 1780 ſold by Admiral Vernon, per aſſign-
ment bearing that date, to Mr. Bird, for pagodas 5,479, being the value of the ſaid
Bond according to the exchange at that time. a
Mr. Bird made many applications to the Nabob, both perſonally and by his at-
torney the late Dr. Paiſley, for payment of this Bond, but without effect ; and his
executors, who have made oath as to the juſtneſs of this Debt, claim to be paid the
above ſum of 50,000 rupees, with intereſt from 15th April 1780.
The
A FFAIR S OF THE CARN AT I C. 137
The late Mr. Willis, in a note to Mr. Fordyce accompanying the ſtatement of this V.
claim, mentions that Mr. Binny will confirm the truth of it, if neceſſary ; and which —---
Mr. Binny has accordingly done.
Mr. John Defries of Madras has alſo made affidavit upon this Claim, ſtating that
no part of it has been paid.
N° 41.
James Hay, of Nunrow, Eſq. ſº
1. Bond for Pag' 27,558. with Intereſt at 12 per Cent. from 4th March
I'77 & .
2. Bond for Pag' 6,295. 19, with Intereſt at 12 per Cent. from 4th
March 1777. - -
The firſt part of Mr. Hay’s Claim on the Nabob conſiſts of advances made by him
for the Nabob's troops, ſupplying them with rice, cattle, &c. for which the preſent
Nabob, on account of his father, granted his Bond to Mr. Hay’s attorney (the Ho-
nourable Mr. Monckton) in March 1775, for the balance then due to Mr. Hay, per
pagodas 27,558. bearing intereſt at 12 per cent.
This Debt is confirmed by letters from General Joſeph Smith ; notarial copies of
which Mr. Hay has annexed to his affidavit, depoſited with Mr. Fordyce, dated 28th
April 1798. - *
The ſecond part of Mr. Hay's Claim is for pagodas 6,295. 19. being the price of
a garden houſe ſold to the late Ameer ul Cºmrah, the Nabob's ſecond ſon ; and for
which he granted his Bond, dated 4th March 1777, to the Honourable Mr. Monck-
ton, Mr. Hay's attorney, bearing intereſt at 12 per cent. : -
Upon the death of the Ameer ul Omrah, the late Nabob took poſſeſſion of the
garden houſe, notwithſtanding the ſolicitations of Mr. Hay’s attorney, that he ſhould
either give up the houſe, or pay the price of it to Mr. Hay, neither of which he would
do, although the Court of Direétors at laſt interfered, and in June 1795 deſired that
Mr. Hay's requeſt might be complied with ; but as that has not as yet been done,
Mr. Hay claims payment of this ſum from the preſent Nabob as heir to his father,
with intereſt at 12 per cent, from the 4th March 1777. -
Mr. Hay has made affidavit upon this part of his Claim alſo, dated 28th April
1798, which is depoſited with Mr. Fordyce. - -
N° 42.
Mr. John Mills, Coachmaker, London. - John Mills.
Pagodas 3,427. 8. with Intereſt from 8th September 1792. 4 *
This Debt originated in an order received by Mr. Mills in the year 1776, to ſend
to the late Nabob an elegant chariot with plated harneſs, for which Mr. Mills was to
receive A, 5oo. ſterling ; but, after many applications, he received in 1792, inſtead of
payment, an order upon Governor Oakeley for pagodas 3,427. 8. being the amount
of the above-mentioned ſum of ſ.5Co. with intereſt at 12 per cent. to the date of that
order, and which the Nabob requeſted might be paid out of the balance of his one-
fifth part of the Revenues: this however it was not found poſſible at that time to do,
and no part of it has ſince been paid, as appears by Mr. Mills's affidavit, dated
38th June 18OO, and depoſited with Mr. Fordyce; in which Mr. Mills claims to be
allowed the above ſum of pagodas 3,427, 8, with intereſt from 8th September 1793,
at the ſame rate of 12 per cent. * -
176. - O o Nº. 43.
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N° 43.
General -General Sydenham.
Sydenham. & e
Bond for Pag' 6,ooo, with Intereſt at 12 per Cent. from 1ſt November
178o.
This Bond was granted to General Sydenham for money ačtually advanced to the
Nabob, and for the payment of which the ſtrongeſt repreſentations were made on the
part of the Government of Madras, by inſtrućtion of the Court of Direétors here,
both to the late and to the preſent Nabob ; the laſt of which was made in January 1797
to the preſent Nabob, when his Highneſs in anſwer declared, he would pay 1,063
pagodas per month till the whole ſhould be diſcharged; but no part whatever of it
has yet been paid. -
General Sydenham is at preſent in India, and will make affidavit of the truth of
this ſtatement. -
N° 44.
Charles Charles Darke, Eſq. Madras.
Barke, Eſq. Bond for Pagodas 18,Odo, with intereſt at 12 per Cent, from 12th Auguſt
1777. •
Mr. Darke, in his Memorial, accompanying a ſtatement of his Claims upon oath,
dated 5th December 1799, upon the Nabob and his family, mentions, that in the year
1773 he was appointed ſole European merchant to that Prince and his family: that
for ſome time he was regularly paid ; but that afterwards he ſupplied them to a great
amount upon credit ; and that upon a ſettlement of accounts in 1777, the Nabob
was indebted to him in this ſum, for which he granted him his bond as above ſlated.
Mr. Darke, in his ſtatement, makes the amount of this bond and intereſt, on the
31ſt July 1799, to be pagodas 94,964. I. 6o.: but as he firſt charges intereſt upon
the original Bond from 1777 to 1785, when it was preſented to the Committee for
examination, and confirmed by them, and then charges intereſt upon the accumulated
ſum from 1785 to 1799, it is doubtful whether ſuch mode of making up the account
will be ſuſtained ; and therefore the amount of the Bond is here confidered to be his
only claim on the late Nabob, with intereſt at 12 per cent. from the 12th of Auguſt
..I 777.
Nº 45.
Executors of Executors of the late Lieutenant W* Leech.
º --- Pagodas 6,556. 15. 17. with Intereſt from 1ſt June 1781. -
-Leech. This Claim is for arrears of pay due by the late Nabob to the late Lieutenant
Leech on the 1ſt June 1781, per account made out and ſigned by the late Lieute-
nant Leech on that date; and it is further atteſted by the oath of Major Francis
Johnſon his executor, dated 20th of July 1798, and depoſited with Mr. Fordyce.
N° 46.
William William Duffin, Eſq. of York.
Puffin, Eſq. Bond for pagodas 4,000, with Intereſt at 12 per Cent. from July 1778,
- dedućting therefrom payments made in part thereof, to the amount of .
pagodas 1,28 I. I.4, 50. -
Mr. Duffin, in his affidavit dated 21ſt Auguſt 1797, ſtates, that in July 1778 he
advanced to the Renter of Trichinopoly, on a Circar Bond, bearing 12 per cent.
intereſt, 4.oco pagodas; and that he has at various times, as ſtated in the ſame affi-
's - # davit,
A F F AIR S OF THE C A R N AT I C. ! 139
davit, in the years 1778 and 1794, received in part payment of it, pagodas 1,281. V.
14, 5o. which remain to be dedućted when the Bcnd ſhall be made up with inte-
reſt, previous to its being put in train of payment.
- N” 47.
Captain Charles Freeman, of Madras. $º
- 'harles
Pagodas 2,162. 4o. 48. with Intereſt from the 4th of June 1774. Freeman.
This Claim conſiſts of a demand for arrears of pay due to Captain Freeman, while
in the Nabob's ſervice from 1771 to 1774; and which, on the 4th of June 1774,
amounted to the ſum above ſtated, as is certified by his affidavit upon it, dated 5th
Oćtober 1798, which has been tranſmitted by Tulloh, Brodie, and Co. to Mr.
Fordyce,
N° 48.
Heirs of the late Richard Legge Willis, Eſq. Heirs of the
Bond for Pagodas 30,000. with Intereſt from 3d November 1785. `s hº
This Bond was granted by the late Nabob to Mr. Willis, on the 3d of May 1784,” Eſq.
payable without intereſt eighteen months after date, being for ſalary and allowances
due to him while in the Nabob's ſervice; and it was confirmed by Mr. Binny, by
order of the Nabob, upon an application being made to him for that purpoſe, as
appears from Mr. Binny's letter to the late Mr. Willis, dated 16th May 1796. ... "
Mr. James Willis, as heir to his brother, has made affidavit upon this debt, dated
9th March 1798, which is depoſited with Mr. Fordyce.
N° 49.
Heirs of the late Sir Edward Hughes. Hi, of the
Bond for Pagodas 29,681. 21. with intereſt at 6 per Cent, from 1ſt Ianuary late Sir Ed-
1785. So 9, - p January ward Hughes
This Bond was granted to Sir Edward Hughes as one of the Admirals on the Eaſt
‘India flation, in which command he continued from 1780 to 1785, being the amount
due to him for allowances uſually made by the Nabob to Admirals on that ſtation.
No payment was ever made on account of this Bond, as is certified by the late Mr.
De Souza's letters and Lady Hughes's affidavit, dated 13th April 1793, depoſited
with. Mr. Fordyce.
N° 50.
Colonel Arthur Owen. - Colonel Ar-
ºr w . . . . • * * - - thur Owen.
Bond for Pagodas 13,000, with Intereſt at to per Cent. from 15th March “ ”
1779. -
Colonel Owen was in the Nabob's ſervice from 1773 to 1776; and at the time of
his leaving it, a ſettlement of accounts took place betwixt him and the late Nabob
for arrears of pay, for which his Highneſs granted him a Tanaka; and as a mark
of the eftimation in which the Nabob held his ſervices, he added to the ſum due to
Colonel Owen for arrears, a further ſum of 3,000 pagodas, which was alſo included
in the above mentioned Tanaka. No part of this Tanaka however being paid, a
fettlement of accounts again took place in 1779, when the intereſt on the amount of
the Tanaka being calculated at I o per cent, there was found due to Colonel Owen a
176. R ſum
J40
PAPERS RELAT ING TO THE
V.
James Lucy
Dighton,
Eſq.
A. Hepburn
Mitchelſon,
Eſq.
Richard
Joſeph
ſum of 13,000 pagodas, for which the Nabob granted his Bond payable in twelve
months, with intereſt at 1o per cent. ; of which Bond no part, either of principal or
intereſt, has been paid, as is certified by the affidavit of Colonel Owen, dated 19th
Auguſt 1800, which has been depoſited by him with Mr. Fordyce.
N° 51.
James Lucy Dighton, Eſq. late of Madras.
Four Bonds for Pagodas 30,000. with Intereſt at 6 per Cent, from 21ſt
July 1791. - *
This Claim ariſes from arrears of pay, and ſervices performed for the late Nabob
ſince the year 1775, for which his Highneſs granted him a Bond for pagodas 30,000.
bearing intereſt at 6 per cent. : but in order to accommodate Mr. Dighton, he af.
terwards cancelled that Bond, and gave him four others of ſame tenor and date for
17,ooo
3,OOO
5,OOO
5,OOO
affidavit, dated 31ſt December 1800. This debt was acknowledged to be juſt in a
public letter, written to Sir Charles Oakeley in 1791.
pagodas, of which no part has been paid, as is certified by Mr. Dighton's
Mem—Mr. Hepburn Mitchelſon holds an aſſignment of 5,000 pagodas on this
Claim, as appears by his affidavit, dated 20th June 1800, depoſited
with Mr. Fordyce, together with ſeveral papers explanatory of his
Claim. - -
Nº 52.
Richard Joſeph Sulivan, Eſq. London.
Sulivan, Eſq. , Bonds for Rupees {:} with Intereſt from 22d February 1783.
John Way,
Eſq.
5O,OOO
Theſe two Bonds for one lack of rupees were granted to Mr. Sulivan in Novem-
ber 1782, payable in three months, to defray the very heavy expences he had in-
curred in ſeveral miſſions to Bengal and Madras, upon buſineſs of very great im-
portance, both to the Nabob and to the Eaſt India Company, by which the ceſſion
of the Southern Provinces of the Carnatic to the Dutch Eaſt India Company was in
a great meaſure prevented, as is fully explained in Mr. 3 ulivan's affidavit, dated 7th
May 1800, and depoſited with Mr. Fordyce. - - -
N. 53.
John Way, Eſq. London.
I. Pagodas 27,500. with Intereſt from 1ſt Oétober 1795.
2. Pagodas 15,250, with Intereſt from 1ſt Oétober 1795.
Mr. Way was, in 1778, appointed the Nabob's ſtanding counſel in England, with
a ſalary of 2,000 pagodas per annum, and an allowance of 1,000 pagodas per an-
num, to pay for expences, retaining of counſel, &c. In this office Mr. Way con-
tinued till the Nabob's death, when there was due to him for ſalary from 1ſt Janu-
ary 1780, per his account, and affidavit annexed thereto, a ſum of 27,500 pagodas;
after dedućting his ſalary from 1ſt January 1778, to ſt January 178c, per 4,000
pagodas, and the yearly allowance due to him for law expences, &c. for the ſame
period, per 2,000 pagodas, which was paid to him by James Taylor, Eſq. and alſo
a ſum of 4,0co pagodas received by him from Sir Archibald Campbell in June 1789,
• - further
A FF AIR S OF T H E C A R N A T I C. A.
further to account of ſalary due to him; but in the before-mentioned ſum of pago- V.
das 27,500. is not included the yearly allowance of 1,000 pagodas for defraying —
law expences, and which Mr. Way leaves to the honour of the preſent Nabob to al-
low or not; although it was underſtood at the time of his appointment, that it ſhould
be continued, and was ſo expreſſed in a letter from the Nabob to Sir John Lindſay,
to which Mr. Way begs to refer : –If it be allowed, it will add to the claim pago-
das I 5,250. making it in all pagodas 42,750, with intereſt from the 1ſt Oétober #.
1795, when the late Nabob died. /
N° 54.
James Taylor, Eſq. London. - James Tay-
Pagodas 6,ooo. with Intereſt from July 1796. - lor, Eſq.
The Claim ariſes from an order given by the late Nabob in favour of John Way,
Eſq. his counſel in England, for 6,ooo pagodas, being for two years ſalary and al-
lowances due to him from 1ſt January 1778 to Iſt January 1789, and which was to
be paid by Mr. Taylor and his partners, out of the Revenues of Warriorpollam,
but which could not at that time be done; and it was not till after Mr. Taylor's re-
turn to England, that he ſettled, in July 1796, the buſineſs with Mr. Way, grant-
ing him his own Bond, and that of the late Sir John Call for £2,250. fterling, for
which, with intereſt from July 1796, Mr. Taylor makes his Claim on the preſent
Nabob, as heir to his Highneſs the late Nabob, as is certified by Mr. Taylor's affi-
davit, dated 3oth April 1801, depoſited with Mr. Fordyce; and to which is annexed
Mr. Way's receipt for the ſum of £2,250. before-mentioned.
N° 55.
Dr. James Anderſon, of Madras. Dr. James
Pagodas 5,407. 15. 16, with Intereſt from 20th January 1800. Anderſon.
Dr. Anderſon, in his affidavit dated the 29th September 1800, ſtates, that in the
year 1773 he lent the Nabob 20,000 pagodas, which his Highneſs afterwards repaid,
but inſtead of paying him the intereſt upon it, made up at the rate of Io per cent. he
granted him his note of hand for pagodas 1,690. 5. of which 1,000 pagodas was
paid on the 17th March 1795, and the balance, with intereſt at 12 per cent. made
up to the 20th January 1800, amounted to the ſum of pagodas 5,407. 15. 16. as
is certified by Dr. Anderſon's affidavit before-mentioned. -
Nº. 56.
Captain James Weſt, of Madras.
Captain
1. Tunka Bond for 1,625 Pagodas, with Intereſt from 1774. James Weſt.
2. Tunka Bond for 558 Pagodas, with Intereſt from 1776. **
The firſt of theſe Bonds was granted by the Nabob to Captain George Burrowes
Clarke for arrears of pay due to him, and which was to be paid out of the Revenues
of 1189 year of the Hegyra, but no part of it having been paid, it remains due to
Captain Weſt, who is poſſeſſed of it by regular aſſignment, as is ſtated in his affida-
vit, dated the 29th September 18Co, tranſmitted from Madras.
The ſecond Bond was granted to Sapany Pillah for timber ſold to the Nabob,
which was agreed to be paid for in the 1191 year of the Hegyra, but no part of it
has yet been paid, as appears by Captain Weſt’s affidavit, dated the 29th Septem-
ber 18qo, which certifies that he acquired right to this Bond by regular affignment.
176. P p N° 57.
P A P E R S R E L A T J N G T O T H E.
V.
Peter Gardi-
ner, Eſq.
*
£xecutors of
the late John
Stuart, Eſq.
Nº 57.
Peter Gardiner, Eſq. of Madras. -
Pagodas 2,52O. o. 24. with Intereſt from 1ſt January 1779.
The Nabob being in arrear to Peter Gardiner, Eſq. then a Quarter Maſter in his
Highneſs's ſervice, for Pay, Batta, &c. to the amount of pagodas 2,52O. o. 24.
granted him in 1779 a Parrana on one of the provinces for that ſum, but no part
of it has been paid, as appears by Mr. Gardiner's affidavit, dated 1ſt Oétober 1800,
tranſmitted from Madras.
N° 58.
Executors of the late John Stuart, Eſq.
Bond for Pagodas 14,933. 30. 16. with Intereſt at 6 per cent. from 18rh
September 1797.
This Debt originated in a Bond granted by the late Nabob to the late John Stuart,
for arrears of pay due to him, as ſecretary to his Highneſs's Wackeels in London,
dated 2d March 1785, for pagodas 30,000. and an order was tranſmitted along
Heirs of the
late Daw.
fonne Drake,
Eſq.
with it to England, upon the Nabob's agents there, for the payment of it, but
they having refuſed to do ſo, application was made to the Nabob for that purpoſe,
and ſeveral payments were accordingly made upon it, as is ſtated in an account cur-
rent annexed to the aſidavit, dated the 6th Oétober 1800, of Mr. Benjamin Suli-
van, executor to Mr. Stuart's eſtate, by which the above balance appears to be due
on 18th September 1797.
N° 59.
Heirs of the late Dawſonne Drake, Eſq.
1. Bond for Pagodas 12,000. with Intereſt at 12 per Cent, from the
* 9th November 1774.
2. Balance of Bond Pagodas 18,000, with Intereſt at 12 per Cent. from
25th November 1777. 7. - -
3. Bond for Pagº Io,Coo with Intereſt from 12th September 1777, at
12 per Cent.
The firſt Bond beforementioned for 12,000 pagodas, was granted by the late
Nabob to Mr. Charles Darke of Madras, and was affigned by Mr. Darke to Mr.
T}rake, for the ſum of pagodas Io,000. advanced by Mr. Drake on his account.
The ſecond Bond upon which a balance of 18,000 pagodas ariſes, was granted
by the late Nabob to Mr. Drake, in lieu of two Bonds of his Highneſs purchaſed
by him and Mr. Darke (but wholly paid for by Mr. Drake) at 25 per cent.
diſcount. This Bond was dated 25th November 1777, for 24,000 pagodas; and
it was propoſed that it ſhould be conſolidated: but Mr. Drake refuſed to do ſo,
conceiving that it would be paid by the Nabob ſooner than the time propoſed for
diſcharging the conſolidated Bonds. No payment, however, has taken place upon
it, excepting one of 6,000 pagodas on the 21ſt May 1778. The balance, there-
fore, of 18,000 pagodas, with intereſt at 12 per cent, ſtill remains unpaid and due
to the heirs of Mr. Drake. -
The third Bond was granted by the late Nabob to Archdale Palmer, Eſq, dated
12th September 1777, for pag Ho,000. payable in twenty-five months, with
intereſt at 12 per cent. and was aſſigned by Mr. Palmer to Mr. Drake, for
pag' 6,666. 28. advanced by him to Mr. Palmer on the 19th September 1777.
N. E. Kinderſley, late of Madras, adminiſtrator to the eſtate of the late
Mr. Drake, has made affidavit upon this Claim, of which the foregoing ſtatement
is an abſtract.
N° 6O.
A FFA IRS OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
£43
No 6o.
Henry Crawfurd, Eſq. London.
Pagodas 3,500. with Intereſt at 12 per Cent. from 22d Auguſt 1777.
This Claim ariſes from the ſale of ſeveral jewels belonging to the late Elizabeth
Grant of Vizagapatam, widow, (Mr. Crawfurd’s ſiſter) to his Highneſs the late
Nabob, in Auguſt 1777, by Mrs. Grant's agent, Mr. Eyles Irwin, for the ſum of
3,500 pag”, for which the late Nabob’s ſon and miniſter, Ameer ul Omrah,
granted him a Tunka; but no part of it has been paid; and Mr. Crawfurd (as
heir to his ſiſter) claims to be allowed the amount of it, with intereſt at
12 per cent. from 22d Auguſt 1777, as is certified by his affidavit, dated 4th
April 1801, depoſited with Mr. Fordyce. }
N° 6 I.
Edward John Hollond, Eſq. of London.
. Pagodas 1,49,549. with Intereſt from 31ſt December 1786.
Pagodas I 1,808. 15. 4o. with Intereſt from 31ſt December 1786.
. Bond for Pagodas 50,000. with Intereſt at 12 per cent. from 1ſt
Auguſt 1786; but from the intereſt is to be dedućted 42,750 pag”
for jewels ſold, as after ſtated. - -
.
Mr. Hollond, in his affidavit dated 1ſt May 1801, ſtates, that in the year 1786
he made a ſettlement of his accounts with the late Nabob, and delivered up Bonds
and Securities of his Highneſs to the amount of pagodas 1,61,357. 15. 4o. for
which his Highneſs granted him two orders, one upon his agents Charles Binny
and Rob' Storey, Eſqrs. for pag” 1,49,549, and another upon Mr. Binny for
pagº 1 1,808. 5.40. (both of which orders were accepted by them) direéting them
to deliver certain conſolidated Bonds, bearing intereſt at 6 per cent. to that amount
to Mr. Hollond. Theſe Bonds, however, never were delivered to Mr. Hollond,
who now makes his Claim for the whole amount, with intereſt from 31ſt December
1786. But as he agreed to reduce the rate of intereſt on this Claim from 12 to
6 per cent, only, upon condition of receiving conſolidated Bonds for the amount,
and as theſe Bonds never were delivered to him, he conſiders himſelf as entitled to
charge 12 per cent. upon the above ſums, from the 31ſt December 1786, when
the above order was dated. * - ^-
The third part of this Claim conſiſts of a Bond for 50,000 pagodas, dated 1ſt
Auguſt 1786, for money lent upon a mortgage of jewels, which, after repeated
applications to his Highneſs for payment of the Bond, were ſold on the 21ſt March
1798, for the ſum of 42,750 pagodas, which, on making up an account of this Bond,
will be dedućted from the intereſt accordingly, *
#76. - - {JNCONSOLIDATED
V.
Henry Craw-
furd, Eſq.
Edward John
Hollond, Eſq.
144.
P A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O T H E
U N C O N S O L I D A T E £) L E B T.
Alphabetical Liſt of C LA IM. A N T S, with the Amount of their Claims; as nearly as
the ſame can be aſcertained. -
*
Anderſon, Mr. J. -
Abbot, Mr. - - - -
Andrews, Mr. J. .
.*
Buck, Colonel
Brodie, Mr. - - -
Ditto - -
Binny, Mr. C.
Bird, late Mr.
Bromfield, Captain - - -
º
---
*-
tº-
Ditto wºe tº º cº- tº sº.
Briggs, Mr. - - - - -
Bellew, Enſign, William -
Ditto, Ditto, Francis -
Binny, Captain - - - -
Battey, Mr. - - -
Bowles, Captain - - -
Barrett, late Mr. – - -
Bainbrigge, late Mr. - -
Brown, late Colonel - -
Benfield, Mr. - - - -
Bedford, late Captain - -
Barker, Sir R. - - - -
Bromley, Mr. - - - -
Burrington, Colonel - -
Briggin, Captain - - -
Brodie and Petrie, vide Petrie
Binny, Captain Alexander -
Ditto - - - - - -
cºpper, Colonel - - -
Campbell, late Captain G. (page 1 2 5)
(page 141)
(page 124)
(page 134)
( ibid. )
(page I.32)
(page 136)
(page 132)
*-_
Ditto - -
12 p. Cent.
Ditto - -
Ditto –
Io p. Cent.
6 p. Cent.
Ditto - -
Ditto - -
º - *
tººd tº- tº-
I N T E R E S T.
6 p. Cent, from
I 2 p. Cent, from 1ſt Jan. 1774.
1ſt Nov. 1782.
coth Feb. 1782.
31ſt Dec. 1786.
3cth June 1790.
I 5th April 1780. R*
26th July 1775. Pº
2d May
31ſt Dec. 1786.
Ditto - - - -
1782.
* ºs * - sº * ~ * sº
12 p. Cent, from 2d Aug. 1776.
I 2 p. Cent, from 1ſt May 1800.
I 2 p. Cent, from 16th Feb. 1781.
Ditto - -
1ſt Jan. 1786.
PR IN c 1 p A L.
Pagodas.
1,690
37, 58
IO,OOO
2O,2 Io
4.O,OOO
35, 55 I
15,573
5o,Coo
6,119
I,52O
2,2OO
I,854
I,288
46,488
I, I 72
3,657
IO,995
3,757
I, 59,836
3,657
5,OOO
23,253
I33C, OOO
5,O74
28,968
I 33.33G
5,OCO
I 4:322
27
I6
23
! 4.
IO
I4.
2. I
44.
4O
4C
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
I 45
Caldeira, Mr. - - - - - - -
Cauffman, Lieutenant - - - - -
Caſimere, Mr. - - - - - - -
Cockrane, Honourable B. (page 133)
Crauford, Quintin, Eſq. - (page 133)
Crauford, Henry, Eſq. (page 143)
Crucifix, Lieutenant - - - - -
Conolly, Mr. - - - - - - -
Callender, Cornet - - - - - -
(page 130)
(page 126)
Davidſon, Lieutenant - -
Dewar, Captain W. - -
Duprey, Mr. H. - - - (Page 129)
Day, Sir John - - - - (page 132)
Dibdin, Captain - - - - - -
De Souza, Mr. - - - - (page 132)
Dott, Mr. - - (page 136)
* gºe *
Ditto - - - - - - (- ibid. )
Duffin, Mr. (page 138)
Ditto - - - - - - - - - -
Drake, late D. Eſq. - - (page 142)|
Drake & Johnſon, vide Johnſon * ºne
Dean, Lieutenant - - - * º
Darke, Mr. - - - - - (page 138)
Ditto * ºne ºn º ºs ºº tº assºs ºs
Dupré, Major - - - - - - -
Douglas and Powney, vide Powney - -
(page 149)
(page 14o)
Dighton, Mr. - - -
Dent, late Major - -
I N T E R E S T.
Eidington, Colonel -
(page 127)
}
12 p. Cent. from 15th Dec. / 86.
6 p. Cent.
12 p. Cent.
Ditto -
, Cent.
1ſt Sep. / 81.
15th Mar. / 8o. :
22d Aug. / 77.
31ſt Dec. / 86.
Ditto - - -
Ditto - - -
1ſt Sep. / 81.
1ſt Nov. / 79.
- - - - 83.
º Jan. / 85.
3oth Sep. / 87.
1ſt Jan. / 85.
30th Sep. / 87.
- - July / 78.
19th Nov. / 74.
25th ditto / 77.
12th Sep, / 77.
21ſt July / 9 I.
31ſt Dec. / 86.
Q.
*s,
PR IN c 1 P A L.
Pagodas.
I,23 I
I 347 O
6,707
1,226
83,442
3,590
7,419
6,000
3H 3
2,502
8,450
3,226
515
Io,000
3,OOO
58,019
5,839
3235 II
9,000
I,35o
7, IoI
6,150
2,700
43 OOO
I 2,OOO
18,'. oo
16,ooo
262
I 8,Ooo
6,07,401
4,066
3O,OCO
8,978
176. |
I 5,35O
* *
*
4. I
146
P A P E R S R E L A T IN G
T O T H E

Leech, Lieutenant William (page 138).
I N T E R E S T. PR IN c 1 P A L.
Pagodas, -w-smºgº
Fenwick, Lieutenant - - - - - 12 p. Cent. from 31ſt Dec. / 86. 223 25 16
Freeman Lieutenant - - - - ~ : *- : - - - - - - - - - I,786 4o 48
Freeman, Captain C. - - (page 139) - - - - 4th june / 74. 2,162 4o 48
Fitzgerald, Dočtor - - - - - - - - " - - - - - - - - 2 I, I 50 — —
Gillis, Major - - - - (page 124)| 12 p. Cent. - 1ſt June / 82. 18,022 23 5
Gourd, Captain - - - - - - - 6 p. Cent. – 2d May / 82. I,02 I I 5 60
Galway, late Major - - - (page 126). Ditto - - - 1ſt O&t, / 83. 14,972; — —
Galway, late Major - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 14,961 — —
Guinet, Dočtor - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A. R.' 16,8oo — —
3 -i > --- &º ſº 3 CI | [ 7 Years Pay and Allowance, - *
Gardiner, Lieutenant - (page 43)|{ 1ſt Jan. / 79. - - - - Pº 2,526 – 24
Gibbings, Colonel - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 56,186 29 24
Grant, Mr. - - - - - - - - 12 p. Cent. from 1ſt Jan. 1778. 3,500 - —
Graham, Lieutenant - - - - - * * * = &º = , sº sº am ºve 1 O,OOO – —
Horne, General - - - - (page 123)| 12 p. Cent. - 1ſt July / 77. 16,000 tº ºmnºs
Halmayer, late Captain - (page 128) 6 p. Cent. – 2d May / 82. 4,065 27 —
Hammond, Captain - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2,503 3 18
Hoddle, Captain - - - - - - 6 p. Cent. – 31ſt Dec. / 86. 21, 178 22 72
, , . . 12 p. Cent. - 4th March/76. 27,558 — —
Hay, James, Eſq. - - - (page 137)|}." ** 75 7, 55
- -- -> UDitto - - - 4th ditto / 77. 6,295 19 —
Hughes, late Sir Edward - (page 139)|| 6 p. Cent. - 1ſt Jan. / 85. 29,681 2 I —
* * - - - - 31ſt Dec. / 86. I,49,549 – —
Holland, Edward John, Eſq. (page 143) - - - - Ditto - - - - II,808 . I 5 4o
- * & I 2 p. Cent. - 1ſt Aug. / 86. 5O,OOO — —
Hamilton, Captain - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6,933 I 64
Jourdan, Lieutenant - - (page 124), 6 p. Cent. - 31ſt Dec. / 86. I,072 — —
Ditto - - - - - - - - - - Ditto - - - 1ſt Sep, / 81. 166 — —
Johnſon, Mrs. - - - - - - - 8 p. Cent. - 5th Feb. / 75. 2,500 — —
Johnſon and Drake - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I,5O,OCO — —
Jarvis, Lieutenant - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 593 5 48
Johnſton, late Samuel - - - - - - - - - - - - - — — 2,81, 5 Io — —
Joddrel, Sir Paul - - - - - - 12 p. Cent. - from July / 97. 86,000 — —
Klawman, Capt. - - - (page 136)|| 6 p. Cent. - 31ſt Dec. / 86. 3,371 — —
Lyſaught, late Major - - (page 123)| 12 p. Cent. - 1ſt Jan. / 79. 2 I,442 IO 4C
- - - - 1ſt June / 81. 6,316 32 1.
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I c.
I 47
Lowden, Captain
Lindſay, Lieutenant Colonel
‘La Tulippe, Lieutenant -
Ditto - - - -
Mills, Lieutenant
Moſs, Captain John
Murray, Captain
/
wº tº
gº ºn
* *
Menzies, Sir I. - - - -
Macdonald, Lieutenant
Macpherſon, Sir John - -
Mills, Mr. John
Moniſſe, late Major
Munro, Sir H. –
Nevill, Lieutenant
Owen, Colonel A. -
Pybus, Miſs A. -
Paris, Lieutenant
Petrie and Brodie
Pater, Captain -
Price, Lieutenant
*-
Powney and Douglas
Polack, Mr. — –
Roddam, Captain C.
Ditto - - - -
Redhead, late Mr.
Smith, late Captain Joſhua
Stockwell, Lieutenant - -
Spyers, Lieutenant -
Stewart, Mr. John -
Sulivan, late Captain
Stone, late Mr. –
Stuart, Mr. - -
Stewart, late Captain
Sydenham, General
176. '
- - (page 138)
(page 127)
tº A. tº sº
(page 135)
(page 137)
(page I 27)
(page 129)
(page 139)
(page 133)
(page I 28)
(page I 28)
(page 126)
(page I31)
(page 127)
(page 129)
IN T E R EST.
6 p. Cent. from 31ſt Dec. / 86.
|
I 2 p. Cent.
6 p. Cent.
Ditto - -
Ditto - -
Ditto - -
I 2 p. Cent.
8 Ditto –
8 p. Cent.
6 p. Cent. *
Io p. Cent.
6 p. Cent.
I 2 p. Cent.
6 p. Cent.
Ditto - -
12 p. Cent.
- 15th Aug. / 98.
*º- º •º sº
– 31ſt Dec. / 86.
– Ditto - - -
- Ditto - - -
tº 1ſt April / 84.
- 1ſt Jan. / 96.
- – Ditto - -
tºº sº tº tº
31ſt Dec. / 86.
8th Sep. / 92.
dºe
- - - / 82.
15th Mar. / 79.
- 1ſt Sep. / 83.
16th Dec. / 86.
- 1ſt June / 84.
gº
Bearing no Intereſt. -
6 p. Cent.
6 p. Cent.
Ditto - -
Ditto - -
12 p. Cent.
I 20th Oét.
- 1ſt Sep. / 81.
6th Sep. / 75.
/ 81.
1ſt June / 84.
- 31ſt Dec. / 86.
- Ditto
3d Feb. / 85.
£º 1ſt Aug. / 81.
tºº ift Nov. ſ 8o,
{
PR IN c 1 P A L.
Pagodas.
1,899
97.35CO
2,592
I 3990
1,2O6
5,277
I, I I I
89,566
594
85,264 3
83,966
3,427 8
3,547
4.O,OOO
3,226
I 3, COO
7,O2O
I sooz
I 3,285
952
6,932
24,660
4,632
6,Coo
24.O
2O,OOO
148
A FFA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T : c.
Sulivan, Richard J. Eſq. - (page 140)
Stuart, late John, Eſq. - -
Smart, late Lieutenant Colonel
Smart, vide Woolf -
wº-
Simpſon, David, Eſq. - -
Tod, Captain Alexander
Thompſon and Tudor
Taylor, James, Eſq.
Wynch, Captain A.
Wilſon, Lieutenant -
Williſon, George –
Ditto - - - - -
Ditto - - - - -
Woolley, Mr. - -
Willis, late R. L. Eſq.
Way, John, Eſq. -
weſt, captain James
weſt, Mr. James –
Woolf, Mr. (L. Col. Smart)
Yeldham, Mr. - -
(page 142)
ſº “gº º-
(page 125)
(page 139)|
(page 141)
(page 123)
(page 131)
(page 139)
(page 140)
(page 141)
I N T E R E S T.
Aº
PR IN c 1 Pa L.
22d Feb. / 83, Rº
6 p. Cent. from 18th Sep. f 9/. P.
12 p. Cent. - 1ſt Jan. / 86.
1ſt Sep. / 77.
- - July
expects 12 p. Cent, 2d May / 85.
31ſt Dec. / 86.
Ditto - - - -
Io p. Cent. -
6 p. Cent. - / 96.
6 p. Cent. -
Ditto - - -
Ditto - - - -
* *º wº-> * --> cº-º. º sº * tº-> sº
3d Nov. / 85.
} 6 p. Cent. - 1ſt Cét. / 95.
- - - - - Ditto - - -
- - - - - - - 1774.
- - - - - - - 1776.
31ſt Dec. / 80.
Pagodas.
I,OO,OOO
I 4,933
46,838
3,OOO
6,020
7,466
6,ooo
6,ooo
835
2,709
7oo
5OO .
25, 165
3O,OOO
27,500
I 5,250
1,625
558
1,850
* . 2O,813
8,907
3o
22.
I49
VI.
N° Io,
ORDERS of the Honourable Houſe of Commons, 9th February, 1803.
(Copy.)
(Correſpondence and Proceedings relative to the Claim of Mr. Charles Darke, in
the Nabob’s New Conſolidated Debt.
To the Honourable John Hollond, Eſq. Preſident and Governor, &c. &c. of
Fort St. George, in Council.
Honourable Sir,
W.TH the greateſt deference and ſubmiſſion to the opinion of your Honourable
Board, contained in your Military Secretary’s Letter to me, that I received the
18th ultimo, encloſing my Letter to his Highneſs the Nabob back to me, as
follows, direéted to Mr. Charles Darke, at the Red Hills. -
Sir, Military Department.
I am direéted by the Honourable Prefident in Council to acknowledge the receipt
of your Letter, dated the 15th inſtant: and to inform you, that, as the Board are of
opinion you have abuſed the indulgence they were diſpoſed to grant you of a written
application to the Nabob reſpecting your ſituation, by indecent animadverſions on
the condućt of the Durbar, they do not think proper to comply with your requeſt
of tranſmitting it to his Highneſs the Nabob. The Letter is therefore returned
to you.
I am, Sir, -
Fort St. George, - Your moſt obedient Servant,
June 1789. (Signed) j. Charmier, Secº.
The diſtreſſes that I have ſo long and do at this time ſo cruelly labour under,
Honourable Sir, through his Highneſs the Nabob and his family, muſt and will
juſtify my Letter. As I am ſo unfortunate, and ſo greatly concerned in the
miſdoings and injuſtice that has kept me ſo many years out of my property, to the
great injury of my numerous creditors, as well as to myſelf; as from all the
humble and deplorable repreſentations of my very unequalled diſtreſs and ſuppli-
cations for relief, through your Honourable Government, from his Highneſs the
Nabob, for the payment of the ſmalleſt part of what is due to me, even to provide
the neceſſaries of life for my family, until the pleaſure of the Honourable the
Court of Direétors is known reſpecting my cruel cafe. And to this time I have not
received the imalieſt relief.
176, R r * And
VI.
M. B.
N* Ioë.
--, P A PERS RE LAT IN G T o T H E
-ſs-
Ç,
** {x :
• ** }
VI.
And as the informations I have given, and that I am ready to prove, which ſo
very materially concerns the Honourable Eaſt India Company and the Engliſh
Nation; and as I reſide under the protećtion of the Honourable Company as an
indentured free merchant, humbly conceive that I have done no more than my
duty to the Honourable Company, and to the Engliſh Nation as a Britiſh ſubjećt,
by the informations contained in my Letter to his Highneſs the Nabob, dated the
+3th June, ſubmitted to the inſpection of your Honourable Board, and alſo by any
further information I may give for the intereſt of the Honourable Company : and
that my duty to my creditors and to my family, and juſtice to myſelf, bound me to
ſubmit the facts therein ſtated to the Nabob, of my legal and juſt claims, together
with the information from the inſpection and notice of your Honour in Council, as
guardians of the Honourable Company’s intereſt, and protećtors of the Britiſh
ſubjećts, and their property, reſiding under your Honourable Preſidency.
I cannot, to my great ſorrow, and preſent great diſtreſs, acknowledge any
indulgence from your Honourable Board. I have moſt humbly requeſted per-
miſſion for my perſonal application to his Highneſs the Nabob and family on my
own buſineſs. That being refuſed me, I have implored the payment of a part of
one year's intereſt on the money ſo many years due to me from the Nabob and his
family, through your Honourable Government being ſtrićtly forbid all other mode
of application, to enable me even to pay the debts I have for a long time paſt
unavoidably contraćted for neceſſaries, and the arrears due to my old ſervants, and
to enable me to ſupport my family, as in my many Memorials to your
Honourable Board. This reaſonable requeſt not being granted me, I have in vain
moſt humbly implored, as though I was aſking charity inſtead of ſo ſmall a part of
my own, for a monthly ſum to be paid to me, even ſufficient to provide the
neceſſaries of life, until the pleaſure of the Honourable Court of Direétors was
known reſpecting my cruel buſineſs.
His Highneſs the Nabob, in his Card to the late Honourable Governor, was
pleaſed to ſay, that my diſtreſſed ſituation has given pain to his Highneſs, and that
he is willing to ſhew me ſuch favour as he ſhall think proper. \ -
... I have moſt humbly implored your Honour in Council to name what you might
deem proper, as that Card was addreſſed to Sir Archibald Campbell, was entered
upon the Minutes of the laſt Conſultation that he preſided at ; and to all my
humble ſolicitations, I received an official refuſal by your Military Secretary,
dated the 24th March laſt, ſaying, the Governor and Council do not intend to make
any further application to the Nabob on the ſubjećt of my Letters. - -
I was then forced by the utmoſt diſtreſs, not having the means to provide the
common neceſſaries of life, humbly to pray your Honour in Council to alter your
intention, and to name what you might think proper, or leave to addreſs the
Nabob by Letter. Your Honour in Council was pleaſed to grant me permiſſion,
provided ſuch Letters were ſent open, to be tranſmitted through the channel of your
Honourable Government. In obedience to your orders I encloſed my Letter to your
JHonour in Council, and my Letter is returned to me. --
This my caſe, Honourable Sir, is ſo very hard, becauſe ſeveral European
Gentlemen have for ſome time paſt conſtantly attended the Nabob's Durbar, making
new and very large loans to the Nabob, and including old buſineſs therein, upon
Aſſignments of his Highneſs's Country for ſecurity, at a very exorbitant intereſt,
much greater than any I ever knew or heard of before; and this is publicly
known to the Settlement. - t *
... And I have not been allowed by Government to aſk even for the ſupport of my
family, although I have no other means to do ſo. As I am not in any ſervice, ſo
I have no ſalary; and I have been diſtreſſed ſince the year 1777, by greatly more
than my own fortune being in the hands of the Nabob and his family, and thereby
my credit totally deſtroyed, and deprived of all manner of means and dealings as a
merchant; all which I do now moſt ſolemnly proteſt againſt; and all loſſes and
“dangerous conſequences that may happen and befal myſelf and family, as we are
in the dread even of being ſtarved to death, from being thus illegally kept from
my property, and from ever aſking it. - *
l ;I have
AFFAIRs of THE CARNATI c.
- R 53.
I have now moſt humbly to requeſt, Honourable Sir, that you will be pleaſed to
order my Letter to his Highneſs the Nabob to be entered upon the Records of the
Honourable Company, and that it may with this Letter go numbers in your next
packet to the Honourable the Court of Directors, and your Military Secretary's
illetter to me, dated the 24th March laſt, and my Letters to your Honour in
Council, dated the 24th of April and 4th June, with your Military Secretary's
Letter to me the 6th June, and my Letter to your Honour in Council dated the
.# 5th June; all which I have now the honour to encloſe copies of for that purpoſe.
As I am firmly of opinion that my information at this juncture is matter of much
moment to the Honourable Company, as his Highneſs the Nabob, by the laſt
Diſpatches to London, has made all the intereſt in his power to get himſelf freed as
much as poſſible from the immenſe expences of the late war with Hyder Ally;
alledging and proteſting that the war was not brought on by any means of his ; and
my information proves that the war was cauſed by his Highneſs the Nabob Wallajah.
I have the honour to be,
With all due reſpečt,
Honourable Sir, -
Red Hills, Your moſt obedient and moſt humble Servant,
:27th July 1789. (Signed) Charles Darke.
In Nº. 106.
(Copy.)
To his Highneſs the Nabob Wallajah, Ameer ul Ind, Omdut ul Mulk,
Anſaff u1 Dowlah, Ameer Uddie Cawn, Behauder Zuffer, Jung Sepoy
Salar, and Subadar of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs
TO conſider the very great diſtreſs of me and my family, being abſolutely in want
•of the common neceſſaries of life ; which has been made known to your Highneſs a
Slong time paſt by the Honourable the Government of Madras, from my public repre-
ſentations to them of my cruel ſituation, owing to the large ſums of money ſo long
due to me on Bonds from your Highneſs and your Highneſs's family.
And that your Highneſs will be pleaſed to confider how many years I faithfully,
“diligently, and honourably ſerved your Highneſs and your family as your only Eu-
ropean merchant, by your Highneſs's expreſs order; and that the great diſtreſs that
myſelf and family now ſuffer, and have long ſuffered for many years paſt, are
entirely owing thereto, and cauſed by your Highneſs and family, from the large
ſums of money ſo long due to me. . w
And particularly that your Highneſs will be pleaſed to remember, that I never
did in any way whatever interfere or meddle at your Highneſs's Durbar in politics,
, or do any thing out of my line and profeſſion as your Highneſs's and family's
merchant; and that I never did directly or indirectly aſk for or receive more than
the legal intereſt of 12 per cent, per annum for money lent and for goods ſold to
your Highneſs and to your family. -
In the year 1773 I was ſent for by his Highneſs Ameer ul Omrah Bahauder, and
introduced by him to your Highneſs, and to his Highneſs Omdut ul Omrah Bahauder,
Sum Sum Dowla Kyroodeen Cawn Bahauder; and I was requeſted to be the merchant
to ſupply your Highneſs and family, and to attend the Durbar daily. The honour
and proſpect was very flattering; and I was careſſed and conſtantly ſent for by your
Highneſs and family, and loaded with great promiſes of friendſhip and ſervices, and
almoſt daily honoured with a viſit from one or other of your Highneſs’s ſons.
. From this time I conſtantly daily attended, morning and afternoon, your High-
meſs’s. Durbar, and your ſon's ſeparately; and if I once omitted attendance, I had
- meſſenger after meſſenger to call me. Thus have I been ruined ; and I continued
...my reſpectful attendance until June 1786, when Mr. Binney, your Highneſs’s
-Secretary, went with a meſſage from your Highneſs to Governor Sir Archibald
*Campbell, to requeſt of him as Governor to ſtop me from going any more to your
176. - - Highneſs's
VI.
* A PERS RE LAT ING TO THE
VI.
of pagodas for that Debt,
THighneſs's Durbar; and Colonel Roſs, in conſequence of the meſſage, came to me
from Sir Archibald Campbell, to tell me, that by deſire of your Highneſs, the
Governor requeſted I would not go any more to your Durbar. After the year 1777,
on account of my unfortunate concerns with your Highneſs's Circar and your
family, I was ruined as a merchant, not being able to purchaſe one Europe or
China inveſtment, to ſupply your Highneſs and family with the goods you wanted;
as before this time I purchaſed nearly ałł the cargoes that came to Madras, to the
amount of many lacks of pagodas a year; but the large ſums kept from me, due
by your Highneſs and family, deſtroyed my credit; and from that time I found my
reception daily grow cooler, and I was no longer ſo careſſed ; but ſtill I perſevered
in my reſpectful attendance to your Highneſs and all your family, in the hope that
juſtice would at length be done me, at leaſt ſo far as the payment of the money due
to me, though nothing could make me amends for what I ſuffered by being ruined
‘as a merchant; ſince that period my loſs has been great indeed. And my loſs
then, by the ſale of a large and valuable ſtock of goods that was ſold by my creditors,
was ſeventy-nine thouſand pagodas, which all my late truſtees and creditors know;
and that it was owing to the want of my money, that your Highneſs and family
owed me, which made me unable to pay my creditors; and the ſums of money that
law ſuits coſt me thereby have been very great ; but alſo from all my reſpectful
perſeverance in attendance and humble ſolicitations, I have not, ſince the beginning
of the year 1777, received one ſingle pagoda from your Highneſs and family (ſave
only one hundred and fifty rupees ſent me by his Highneſs Omdut ul Omrah the
12th March laſt); and to prevent my further humble and reſpećtful ſolicitations for
my juſt right, I was thus prevented, by your Highneſs's meſſage to the Honourable
the Governor in June 1786, ſo contrary to what yonr Highneſs expreſſed to me in
the year 1775. In Mr. Wynch's Government, when all Europeans for a ſhort time
were forbid to go to your Highneſs's Durbar by the Governor, when I wrote to
him, praying leave to attend your Highneſs and family on my own buſineſs as your
merchant, the Governor gave me leave in writing to do ſo, ſaying, the prohibition
was not meant to me, as he knew that I never interfered in politics at your
Durbar. When I waited upon your Highneſs, you complained to me greatly that
you was very ill uſed by the Governor, by his preventing your friends from coming
to you, which made you priſoner in your own palace ; and your Highneſs was
pleaſed to ſay that you would complain to the King of England of it. The
prohibition was meant to prevent the ſecret conſultations of Government being
carried to your Highneſs's Durbar; but the prohibition did not do ſo; for one of
the members of Government met his Highneſs Ameer ul Omrah in the roads on.
Choultry Plain, as ſoon as the conſultations were over, who went into his Highneſs's
carriage, and told him all that was done in conſultation as long as the prohibition
laſted, which was a very ſhort time ; and I have frequently heard his Highneſs
mention what was done by the Governor and Selečt Committee on the day; and
your Highneſs, for this ſervice, gave the member of Government your Bond for
pagodas twenty-nine thouſand fix hundred, which he immediately ſold for 25
per cent, diſcount, payable in England ; and Sir George Pocock, K. B. paid the
money for a gentleman then here ; and I believe that Sir George to this hour is not
repaid the money : and the Gentleman that held the Bond received from your
Highneſs a premium of 50 per cent., added to the principal and intereſt of the
Bond, to conſolidate it. .
At the ſame time that I attended your Highneſs's Durbar on my own buſineſs for
thirteen years, although I did not meddle or interfere in the politics of it, your
Highneſs knows, and all your Durbar know, that I knew them all; and of the im-
menſe bribes that were made in them, and of the ruinous loans to raiſe money to pay
them that were made in ready money; and that the new Conſolidated Debt, amount-
ing to fifty-four lacks ninety-eight thouſand and five hundred pagodas, chiefly aroſe
thereby, and bribes made in Bonds: for, as your Highneſs and your Highneſs's mi-
miſters have often told me, that you never did receive in value more than ſeven lacks
I will
A FFA I R S OF THE C A R N A TI C.
I53.
I will here mention that moſt impolitic and ruinous buſineſs of your Highneſs’s
bribing the Members of the Engliſh Government of Madras in the year 1779, as it
was a moſt fatal buſineſs to the Engliſh nation and to the Honourable Eaſt India
Company, as well as to your Highneſs, becauſe it was the ſole cauſe of the late ex-
enſive, dreadful, and bloody war in the Carnatic; and as I took the particulars down
in writing by your Highneſs's order, to prevent your Dubaſh Kiſtnaſamy Braminy
from being proſecuted, I can ſpeak to it with firmneſs ; which was for the votes in
Council of the following Gentlemen, for the detachment of the Honourable Com-
pany’s troops that were ſent to take poſſeſſion of the Guntoor Circar, and for your
Highneſs to be put into the poſſeſſion of that Circar; for which your Highneſs paid
for this vote to Sir Thomas Rumbold, in ready money, one hundred thouſand pago-
das ; and to General Sir Hector Munro thirty thouſand pagodas in ready money; and
to Charles Smith, Eſquire, your Highneſs gave your Bond for ſixty thouſand pagodas:
—he ſoon after was Governor, and obliged your Highneſs to pay the money: and to
Samuel Johnſon, Eſquire, your Highneſs gave your Bond for ſixty thouſand pagodas,
dated 1ſt November 1779, made payable to Mr. John Douglas. The money not being
paid by your Highneſs for the Bond on the 1ſt May 1780, Kiſtnaſwamy Braminy and
Covabidinaders Bonds were given to ſecure the payment of your Bond and the ſeven
months intereſt, together fixty-four thouſand two hundred pagodas; Kiſhnaſwamy's
Bond for fourteen thouſand two hundred pagodas, and Cavadinada's Bond for fifty
thouſand pagodas, both Bonds payable to Mr. John Douglas ; thirty thouſand of
which Coved inadar paid, and Mr. Bromley was ordered to ſue them for the remain-
der; which was prevented by your Highneſs ordering me to write down the whole
particulars of the unhappy buſineſs, in order to employ a lawyer to ſave Kiſtna-
ſaumy. And as your Highneſs and Kiſtnaſaurmy, and your Miniſters know, that
my telling Mr. Bromley of the conſequences that would follow, by your Highneſs's
orders the ſuits were ſtopt. The rulers in England of India affairs well know, as
does every one here, that the Guntoor Circar expedition was the ſole cauſe of bring-
ing on the war with Hyder Ally, but they do not know that your Highneſs was the
cauſe of it, by thus bribing the Governor and thoſe Members of Council. ,
I ſpeak becauſe I feel and have long felt, and do now ſeverely feel, the preſent want
of my money; and I am thereby concerned, and therefore I have a right to ſpeak of
all I know. -
I will not for the preſent mention the bribes given by your Highneſs on account
of the unhappy buſineſs of the arreſt of Lord Pigot ; but the amount of them make a
great part of your Highneſs's New Conſolidated Debt. -
It is my very great misfortune, as well as the preſent want of my money, that has
been kept from me ſo many years by your Highneſs and family, and thereby ruined
as a merchant for theſe thirteen years paſt, which has made my loſs great indeed, and
reduced me from being one of the firſt merchants in Madras, to the greateſt miſery.
and even want, that I have loſt your Highneſs's favour and friendſhip ; but by what
means I know not, as I never have done any thing to forfeit it, although I have long
ſeverely felt the loſs of it ; now twelve years paſt ſince I have received any part of
the money ſo long due to me : And I hold your Highneſs anſwerable for aſ your
family's debt to me: And it is now upwards of four years fince my family arrived in
this country, as they came in the ſhip that brought your Highneſs the welcome tid-
ings of the reſtoration of your country. The loſs of your Highneſs’s friendſhip to
me has ſuffered you, ſo contrary to your wonted princely goodneſs, to ſuffer them,
as reſpectable a family as ever came into your Highneſs's country, to remain ſo long
in ſuch a diſtreſſing ſituation, in want of every convenience and ſometimes even the
common neceſſaries of life, and baniſhed to this diſtant deſart place from all ſociety,
by being turned out of our houſe on Coultry Plain by an execution, all owing to your
Highneſs and family. Although I am now, and have been ſo long thus cruelly
uſed, I never have heard named any one thing that your Highneſs has to accuſe me
of during my long ſervices to your Highneſs and family; therefore I reſpectfully pray
you do me the juſtice, if your Highneſs has any thing to alledge againſt me, to name
it, that I may have the opportunity to vindicate myſelf. - -
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154 P A P E R S R E L A T IN G T O. T H E
VI. The Card that your Highneſs was pleaſed to ſend to Sir Arch. Campbell the 24th
January laſt, in anſwer to my humble repreſentations of the very great and compli-
cated diſtreſſes of myſelf and family, and humbly imploring relief from your High-
neſs through the Honourable Government of Madras; I have fully replied to that
Card in my Letter to the Honourable the Governor in Council, the 28th Fe-
bruary laſt. • - *
It is a diſhonour to your Highneſs, to ſuffer my family and myſelf to remain in the
very unequalled diſtreſs we have ſo long endured on account of your Highneſs and
family. . -
%. Highneſs has long known my very diſtreſſed ſituation:—It is now ſo very
deplorable, that I moſt reſpectfully and humbly pray immediate relief from your
Highneſs, by the payment of the ſmalleſt part of the large ſums that are ſo juſtly due
to me from your Highneſs and your family, all on Bonds, the amount of which
were, the 1ſt January 1786, ſtar pagodas 3,34,802. with intereſt at 12 per cent. per
annum from the day. - - .
I have patiently waited more than thirteen years, ſuffering the greateſt diſtreſs
and very great loſſes, humbly repreſenting them, and imploring relief and juſtice
from your Highneſs; and I have not to this time received the ſmalleſt. If your
Highneſs ſhould not be pleaſed to grant me my humble and reaſonable requeſt now,
which your Highneſs is bound to do by the laws of all nations upon earth, my duty
to my creditors and to my family, and juſtice to myſelf, will compel me, as a Britiſh
ſubjećt, to prefer an humble petition to the Honourable the Houſe of Commons of
Great Britain, to obtain juſtice on the recovery of my property; and a copy of this
Letter ſhall make a part of my Memorial by the firſt convenience, to be laid before
that grand aſſembly of the Engliſh nation. -
- I am, with all due reſpect, #
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
Your Highneſs’s moſt dutiful and
Red Hills, x, Moſt humble Servant,
15th June 1789. (Signed) Chaº Darke.
EXTRACT of Court's Political Letter to Fort St. George, dated 6th May
I79 I.
Para. 57.-OBSERVING upon your Miſcellany Book for July 1789, a Letter of
a very remarkable nature from Mr. Charles Darke to the Nabob of Arcot, dated
15th June 1789, containing an account of very large ſums of money given by his
Highneſs to ſeveral perſons formerly in the Company’s ſervice, and likewiſe ſome
extraordinary aſſertions reſpecting the Nabob's Conſolidated Debt of 1777; we de-
fire that you make a very particular enquiry into the ſeveral circumſtances mentioned
in the ſaid Letter; and that you report the reſult of your examination to us, with
fuch evidence or proofs thereof as you ſhall be able to procure.
EXTRACT of Political Letter from Fort St. George; dated the 16th
January 1792. . , c
57th of Po- Para. 31.-IN conſequence of your orders contained in this paragraph *, we ap-
i. * *pointed three of your civil ſervants, Meſſrs. John Kenworthy, William Hawkins,
May 1. and Benjamin Branfill, to be a Committee to inveſtigate into and report on the
grounds of the aſſertions contained in Mr. Darke's Letter to his Highneſs the Nabob
of the 15th June 1789 ; and we deſired that Gentleman to attend on the Committee
with ſuch evidence and proofs as he could adduce in ſupport thereof: Mr. Darke,
however, has not as yet come forward to ſubſtantiate the charges, though he has
been repeatedly called upon, and promiſed every aſſiſtance we could afford, to enable
him to fulfil the objećt of the enquiry. *
32.—Mr. Darke has lately addreſſed us a Letter, enumerating the inſtance wherein
(according to his opinion) his Highneſs applied his Revenues to an injurious and
unjuſt uſe, inſtead of appropriating them to the diſcharge of his debts, from the year
1776
A F FA I R S OF T H E C A R N A T I C.
r; §
1776 to the preſent time. He has expreſſed his acknowledgments for the ſupport we
had promiſed him, but declared that the Committee whom we had appointed to re-
ceive any proofs, or examine any witneſſes he might have to offer in ſupport of the
faćts alledged in his Letter to the Nabob of the 15th June 1789, were incompetent to
effe&t the objećts of their appointment: he ſubmitted to us therefore, whether a ſubjećt
of ſuch importance might not be taken cognizance of, and proved before us as a Bench
of Juſtices, and whether the witneſſes he ſhould have to call upon ought not to be
{worn at the Triplicane Pagoda to depoſe the truth. He then proceeded to a rela-
tion of his own diſtreſſes; ſtating, that ſeveral ſuits were now againſt him for money
aćtually borrowed for the purpoſe of procuring the common neceſſaries of life, and
that he was deſtitute of every reſource whatſoever; and finally, he requeſted we would
either intercede with his Highneſs for the payment of one year’s intereſt on the money
ſo long due to him, or that we would give ſančtion to his commencing ſuits againſt
the Nabob and his family for the recovery of his lawful debts; and which he was
taught to believe his Highneſs had ſubjećted himſelf to, in conſequence of his having
commenced a ſuit againſt the Company in the Court of Chancery.
33.—We informed Mr. Darke, that we were ſincerely deſirous of aiding his endea-
vours by every juſt means; but having already appointed a Committee of Gentlemen
to make the enquiry direéted by your Honourable Court, agreeably to the uſual and
approved praćtice; and being of opinion that no alteration could with propriety be
allowed, unleſs this mode upon trial ſhould appear defective, we expreſſed our hope
that he would not have any further objećtion to lay before them the documents on
which his complaint was founded, and point out to them the means by which he
propoſed to eſtabliſh his proofs. That with regard to the witneſſes whoſe evidence he
wiſhed to adduce, the ſame mode was open to him that had been uſually praćtiſed:—
A Member of Government would be ready to receive their depoſitions on oath, but
that it was not in our power to compel them to give evidence in the manner he
propoſed. .
34.—Weintimated at the ſame time our concern to learn that his diſtreſſes were
ſo great, and informed him that we would certainly mention this circumſtance to the
Nabob (which we have ſince done), in the hope that his Highneſs would be diſpoſed
to grant him ſome preſent relief; but that we could not in any reſpect give our
ſančtion to the propoſition he had made of taking legal meaſures to compel payment
of his claims. . w
35.-For the more eaſy reference to your Honourable Court to the Papers that
have paſſed on this ſubjećt, we have ordered them to be copied into ſeparate ſections,
which make a number in the Packet.
IXTRACT of Political Letter from Fort St. George ; dated 15th March
I 792. -
Para. 41.-Mr. Charles Darke having, in a late Letter which he has ad-
dreſſed to us, perfifted in declining to communicate with the Gentlemen whom we
had appointed for the purpoſe of affording him the means of ſubſtantiating the aſſer-
tions contained in his Letter to the Nabob of 15th June 1789, we came to the reſolu-
tion of diſſolving the Committee: and upon this occaſion it may be neceſſary 10
obſerve, that Mr. Darke's reaſon for declining to come forward in the manner ºve
wiſhed him, do not, to our minds, carry that convićtion to which he ſeems to think
they are entitled. We humbly conceive, that affertions ſimilar to thoſe contained in
his Letter to the Nabob, and which involved, at leaſt by inſinuation, the honour and
charaćter of ſo many perſons, ought to have been ſupported by proof the moſt un-
queſtionable, and that he ſhould not have hazarded them, unleſs he had the means at
hand to evince their truth. Thoſe means, it would now appear, were never within
his reach; and if they exiſt at all, are moſt certainly not within the reach of our
authority to procure in the way he has pointed out. i
42.—Mr. Darke having requeſted, that copies in his own hand writing of all his
correſpondence with us and with the Committee may be tranſmitted to your Honour-
able Court, they are accordingly ſent a number in the Packet,
176. EXTRACT
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EXTRAC r from the Minutes of Conſultation; dated 27th September -
I 79 I. -
“THE Board now proceed to paſs the neceſſary orders and reſolutions upon the
“Political Letter from the Honourable Court of Directors; dated the 6th May laſt,
“ and received by the Airly Caſtle.
Para. 57.-Mr. Charles “Agreed, that the aſſertions of Mr. Charles Darke,
Darke's aſſertions to be in- }: contained in his Letter of the 27th July 1789, be re-
veſtigated. “ ferred to the inveſtigation of a Committee of three
** “Civil Servants; and that Meſſrs. John Kenworthy,
* William Hawkins, and Benjamin Branfill, be the Committee for that pur.
“ poſe.” - * • ?
Oćtober 3.—Sent the following Letters to Meſſrs. John Kenworthy, William
Hawkins, and Benjamin Branfill, and to Mr. Charles Darke. -
To Meſſrs. John Kenworthy, William Hawkins, and Benjamin Branfill.
. Gentlemen, - -
I AM directed by the Honourable the Preſident in Council, to tranſmit to you the
accompanying Para. of the General Letter from the Honouroble Court of Di-
rećtors, under date the 6th, of May laſt ; and to inform you, that Government
have appointed you as the Committee to enquire into the ſeveral circumſtances men-
tioned in Mr. Darke's Letter, which is ſent herewith, and to report to them the reſult
of your examination.
I am,
Gentlemen,
- : Your moſt obedient Servant,
Fort St. George, , (Signed) W. C. jackſon,
3d Oétober 1791. . Sec.
To Mr. Charles Darke.
Sir, :
THE Honourable Court of Direétors having ordered an enquiry to be made into
the aſſertions ſtated in your Letter to his Highneſs the Nabob of Arcot, of the 1 5th of
June laſt, I am dire&ted by the Honourable the Governor in Council to inform you,
that Government have appointed Meſſrs. John Kenworthy, William Hawkins, and
Benjamin Branfill, as a Committee to inveſtigate into, and report on the grounds of
thoſe aſſertions ; on whom you will attend with ſuch evidence and proofs as you can
adduce in ſupport thereof. -
- ,” I am,
Sir,
Your moſt obedient Servant,
(Signed) W. C. jackſon,
Fort St. George, ,4
SecY.
3d Oétober 1791.
EXTRACT from the Minutes of Conſultation ; dated 11th Odober 1791.
Read the following Letter from Mr. Charles Darke.
To the Honourable Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart. Preſident and Governor, &c. &c.
- * of Fort St. George, in Council. -
Honourable Sir, - . .
YESTERDAY I received an official Letter from your Military Secretary, dated
the 3d Inſtant, ſaying:— A - i -
“ The Honourable the Court of Direétors, having ordered an enquiry to be
“ made into the aſſertions ſtated in your Letter to his Highneſs the Nabob of Arcot,
3. - gº of
A † F A I R S G) F T H E C A R N A T I C.
* 57
“ of the 15th June laſt, I am direéted by the Honourable the Governor in Coun-
“cil to inform you, that Government have appointed Meſſrs. John Kenworthy,
“ William Hawkins, and Benjamin Branfill, as a Committee to inveſtigate into,
“ and report on the grounds of thoſe aſſertions, on whom you will attend with
“ ſuch evidence and proofs as you can adduce in ſupport thereof.” -
It plainly appears by my letter of the 15th June 1789, to his Highneſs the
Nabob, that very great injuſtice has been done me, and that the very great diſ-
treſs I have ſo long laboured under forced me to ſtate the facts therein contained:
VI.
very ſerious matter to the Engliſh nation, and particularly to the Honourable
Company, and very much ſo to myſelf, reſpecting my juſt claims on his Highneſs
the Nabob and family, for the whole of which his Highneſs is anſwerable to me,
having given me ſecurity for the payment of all that is due to me; yet notwith-
ſtanding my demands (all on Bonds, for money lent and goods ſold) remain
totally unprovided for, while ſuch immenſe ſums were ſo injuriouſly ſquandered
away. .
All the matters, Honourable Sir, contained in my letter, to his Highneſs the
Nabob, and to Governor Hollond, I am ready to prove, if I am ſupported by your
Honourable Government in doing ſo, which I now moſt humbly crave for the intereſt
of the Honourable Company and myſelf; therefore I moſt reſpectfully pray that,
your Honour, &c. will firſt be pleaſed to direét, that the extraćts of the general
letter from the Honourable the Court of Direétors by the Airly. Caſtle, concern-
ing the matters, charges of miſdoings, and my claims contained in my letters, be
ſent to me, as your Secretary's detter affords me, for my guidance, very little in-
formation indeed, of the orders and intentions of the Honourable the Court of
JDirectors.
I have the honour to be,
With all due reſpect,
'Honourable Sir,
Your moſt obedient and
Fort St. George, Moſt humble Servant,
5th Oétober 1791. (Signed) Chaº Darke.
“ AGREED, That a copy of the paragraph of the Honourable Court's letter
“ be ſent to Mr. Darke, and that he be informed, every ſupport he can wiſh for
* from Government will be readily afforded, to enable him to prove the aſſertions
“...contained in his letter to the Nabob, dated the 15th June 1789.”
:Oétober 12th.
Sent the following Letter to Mr. Charles Darke.
To Mr. Charles Darke.
'Sir, 1
‘I AM direéted by the Honourable the Preſident in Council, to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter, dated the 5th Inſtant, and to encloſe, agreeably to
your requeſt, a copy of the paragraph of the letter from the Honourable the
Court of Direétors on the ſubjećt of your addreſs to his Highneſs the Nabob,
under date the 15th June 1789. - * - -
I am further dire&ted to aſſure you, that every ſupport you can wiſh for from
Government, will be readily afforded, to enable you to prove the aſſertions con-
tained in your letter to his Highneſs the Nabob.
- I am,
Sir,
Fort St. George, - Your moſt obedient Servant,
12th Oétober, 1791. (Signed) W. C. jackſon,
- - Secº.
gº - ** :*
f º t s 4 's
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Oćtober 29th.
Received the following Letter from Meſſrs. Kenworthy, Hawkins, and Branfill.
To the Honourable Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart. Preſident, &c. Council, of
Fort St. George.
Honourable Sir and Sirs, * .#
WE have received Mr. Secretary Jackſon's letter of the 3d Inſtant, encloſing
copy of the 57th paragraph of the general letter from the Honourable the Court
of iDirečtors, of the 6th May laſt; alſo copy of an addreſs from Mr. Charles
Darke to his Highneſs the Nabob, under date the 15th June 1789, and inform-
ing us that you have been pleaſed to appoint us as a Committee to enquire into
the ſeveral circumſtances ſtated therein, and to report to you the reſult of our
examination. -
We have now the honour to lay before you copy of our correſpondence with
Mr. Darke. We have hitherto been unable to make any progreſs in the enquiry
ordered, he having evaded bringing forward any evidence or proofs in ſupport
of the ſeveral informations ſtated in his letter to the Nabob, as above-men-
tioned. - *
We have the honour to be,
With the greateſt reſpect,
Honourable Sir and Sirs,
Your moſt obedient,
Humble Servants,
(Signed) 3. Kenworthy,
fort St. George, * Wm. Hawkins,
28th Oétober 1791. - * Benj. Bramfill.
To Mr. Charles Darke.
Sir, s
HAVING been appointed by Government as a Committee to enquire into the
circumſtances ſtated in a letter addreſſed by you to his Highneſs the Nabob of
Arcot, under date the 15th June 1789, of very large ſums of money having
been given by his Highneſs at different periods, and on various occaſions, to ſeve-
ral perſons formerly in the Company's ſervice ; we have to requeſt that you will
furniſh us with ſuch evidence and proofs as you may be in poſſeſſion of, in ſup-
port of the informations contained in your letter as above-mentioned.
We are, Sir,
Your moſt obedient,
Humble Servarts,
(Signed) j. Kenworthy,
Fort St. George, W. Hawkins,
Hoth Oétober 1791. 4 B. Branfill.
.*
To Meſſrs. John Kenworthy, William Hawkins, and Benjamin Branfill.
Gentlemen,
I HAVE juſt received your letter of yeſterday's date, acquainting me, that
, ou are appointed by Government as a Committee of Enquiry, &c. &c.
On the 5th Inftant I had the honour to addreſs a letter to the Honourable
the Governor in Council, in reply to one that I received by order of Govern-
iment on the ſame ſubject, and I am obediently waiting the pleaſure and determi-
nation of the Honourable the Governor and Council thereon.
I am,
Gentlemen, s
Your moſt obedient, and
Fort St. George, Moſt humble Servant,
# Ith Oétober 1791, {Signed) Chaº Darkº,
A FFA I R S of THE C A R N AT I c.
I 59
To Mr. Charles Darke.
'Sir,
AS we are deſirous of carrying into effect the orders we have received from
our ſuperiors, with all convenient diſpatch, and, as your reply to the requiſition
made in our letter to you of the 10th Inſtant is vague and unſatisfactory; we
beg to know, whether you will, or will not, furniſh us with the evidence and
proofs neceſſary to ſupport the informations contained in your addreſs to his High-
neſs the Nabob of Arcot, under date the 15th June 1789.
We are, Sir,
Your moſt obedient, -
ſ Humble Servants, -
(Signed) j. Kenworthy,
Fort St. George, - - W. Hawkins,
14th Oétober 1791. B. Branfill.
To John Kenworthy, William Hawkins, and Benjamin Branfill, Eſties. . .
Gentlemen, - - - -
I RECEIVED your letter, dated the 14th Inſtant, with every poſſible reſpect
from yourſelves, and particularly ſo, as from a Committee appointed by Govern-
ment to enquire into the fačís contained in my letter to his Highneſs the
Nabob of Arcot, dated the 15th June 1789.
On the ſubjećt of your letter to me, I have the honour to acquaint you,
that I am humbly addreſſing the Honourable the Governor and Council. -
I am,
- Gentlemen,
‘Fort St. George, Your moſt humble Servant,
20th Oétober 1791. (Signed) . Chaº Darke.
November 6th.
Sent the following Letter to Mr. Charles Darke.
To Mr. Charles Darke.
'Sir, -
THE Committee appointed to enquire into the ſeveral circumſtances con-
rtained in your letter to his Highneſs the Nabob, under date the 15th June
1789, having reported to the Board that they are unable to make any pro-
greſs in the enquiry, as you have not yet come forward with any evidence or
proofs in ſupport thereof; I am directed by the Honourable the Preſident in
Council to deſire that you will, with all convenient diſpatch, lay before the
Committee ſuch informations as you have to produce, that the orders of the
Honourable Court of Direétors may be carried into full effect.
I am,
| Sir, -
. - Your moſt obedient ſervant,
Fort St. George, (Signed) W. C. jackſon.
6th November 1791. - w * , Secº. .
- 176.
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EXTRACT from the Minutes of Conſultation; dated 23d December 1791.
Read the following Letter from Mr. Charles Darke.
To the Honourable Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart. Preſident and Governor,
&c. &c. &c. in Council, of Fort St. George.
Honourable Sir, \ - . * : * .
I HUMBLY and thankfully acknowledge the receipt of your Military Secre-
tary’s letter of the 12th Oétober, by order of your Honour in Council, with the
extraćt of the general le:ter from the Honourable the Court of Direétors, para-
graph 57, under date the 6th May 1791, as humbly prayed for in my letter to
your Honour in Council, the 5th ; and 1 moſt humbly thank your Honours for the
aſſurances, that every ſupport I can wiſh for from Government will be readily
afforded me, to enable me to prove the affertions contained in my letter to his
Highneſs the Nabob, dated the 15th June 1789. -
That ſupport, Honourable Sir, “every ſupport I can wiſh for from your
Honourable Government,” will enable me fully to prove every iota contained in
my letter to his Highneſs the Nabob, and much more than I have therein alledged
of the injurious and unjuſt uſe of his Highneſs's Revenues, inſtead of applying
them to the diſcharge of his juſt debts, and the payment of his troops. For in the
latter end of the year 1776, I ſaw his Highneſs's regiment of cavalry, commanded
by the late Captain Macaliſter, come down from Arcot, and paſs my garden houſe
on Choultry Plain, in the moſt orderly manner, without their horſes and arms,
going to Chepauck, humbly to aſk their pay from the Nabob, as themſelves and
families were in the utmoſt diſtreſs, and ſtarving for want, as upwards of 20 months pay
was due to them ; and at the time they ſo paſſed my houſe Governor Stratton, Sir
Edward Hughes, and Mr. Macpherſon, now Sir John, and ſeveral other gentlemen
were dining with me, and ſaw them ſo paſs towards the Nabob's ; they were met near
my gardens by his Highneſs Omurel Omrah Bahauder, their Captain General,
attended by a body of horſe and foot, and told by him to return to their duty, and
their pay ſhould be ſent them ; they anſwered that they had not rice to eat, nor
money to buy it, and that themſelves and families muſt ſtarve without their pay, or
+hey would readily obey his Highneſs. He then told them to go and ſtay quietly
at Nungumbacum, about a mile back, and they ſhould be ſatisfied on the next
morning; the whole regiment, native officers, and troopers immediately obeyed,
and early on the next morning his Highneſs went to them, and took with him
Mr. Norris, Governor Stratton's private ſecretary, and ſent the regiment three
months pay, and faithfully promiſed them, if they returned immediately to their
duty, that the whole of their arrears ſhould be paid to them within a month.
All the regiment obeyed his orders. His Highneſs honoured me with a viſit on
his return, and told me that he had ſatisfied the regiment; and as they were going
back to Arcot, ſaid, they had done very wrong in coming to Madras without leave;
but as they behaved very peaceably he had forgiven them, and would not puniſh
any one of them. But his Highneſs, unfortunately, did not keep his faithful
promiſe of paying their arrears, nor any further part of it.
The other regiments of cavalry were in the ſame deplorable ſituation for want of
their pay ; and ſhortly after, I believe in the beginning of the year 1777, the regi-
ment then commanded by Captain Rawlinſton, and before by the brave but unfor-
tunate Captain Rumley, came down alſo for their pay, but they came with their
horſes and arms. On my going to the Durbar as uſual, I paſſed the regiment
near to Chepauk, and going down the gardens, I met his Highneſs the Nabob walk-
ing, attended by his ſon Ameer ul Omrah Behauder, and his Dewan Cojee Auſum
Cawn Behauder, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Benfield, Dočtor Storey, and Captain Rumley,
to meet the regiment at the gates of Chepauck; but juſt as I joined them his Highneſs
ordered his ſon and his Dewan, and all the European gentlemen, to go and meet the
regiment, to prevent their coming into the gardens, as he ſaid their doing ſo would
alarm his ladies; Mr. Crawford and Mr. Benfield excuſed themſelves from going,
£aying, they would ſtay and attend his Highneſs's perſon. Cojee Auſum Cawn and
Počtor Storey attended his Highneſs Ameer ul Omrah in his carriage, and Captain
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Rumley went with me in my carriage; we met the regiment between Chepauck
gates and the Government garden houſe; they inſtantly ſurrounded the two car-
riages, and aſked his Highneſs and the Dewan for their arrears of pay; but in the
moſt humble manner repreſented to his Highneſs their great diſtreſs for the want of
ſo many months pay; ſaid they came humbly to make known their diſtreſſes to Wau-
laujaw their maſter, as they had not further credit in the Buzars for a meaſure of
rice, which they had long repreſented to his Highneſs through their commanding
officer, but having had no relief they deſired leave to go on to Waulaujaw, to make
their miſerable ſituation and their families known to him, and then they ſaid they
ſhould be relieved by receiving their pay which they had ſerved for, and ordered
back to their ſtation and duty. Every thing was ſaid that could be by the young
Nabob to induce them to return, and not to alarm and make angry his father Wau-
laujaw, promiſing they ſhould have their arrears paid to them as ſoon as they re-
turned back to their duty, with which they were not ſatisfied: they were then deſired
to go to any place near, and remain together quietly, and told that pay ſhould be
ſent to them the next morning They wanted the Dewan or a European gentleman
to go with them for their ſecurity. After about two hours Captain Rawlinſton
joined us, and the regiment conſented to take him with them for their ſecurity for
their arrears being paid the next morning; the young Nabob deſired him to go with
them, and faithfully promiſed they ſhould be ſatisfied on the next morning. They went
near to St. Thomé, and after keeping Captain Rawlinſton, their commanding officer,
a few hours, they let him go to his dinner, although themſelves had none. On my
going the next morning early to the Durbar, I was greatly ſurpriſed, and very ſorry
to hear, that, inſtead of the faithful promiſe of their Captain General, that they ſhould
be ſatisfied that morning with their arrears of pay due to them, that Colonel Eiding-
ton had been ordered out from the Fort of Madras, in the dead of night, with a
party of the Honourable Company's Europeans and Sepoys, and had ſurrounded
them, and taken them all priſoners; and that morning, inſtead of being ſatisfied,
as faithfully promiſed, their horſes and arms were taken from them, and they were
turned adrift without a fanam to help them, or to carry to their families, or to pay the
debts they had contraćted in the Buzars for many months back for the neceſſaries of
life. This news reaching the other regiments, ſome confined their European officers,
and this regiment of Rawlinſton’s went, native officers and men, into Hyder's ſer-
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vice. Macaliſter’s regiment confined ſome of their European officers ; meaſures
were planning to ſurpriſe them, and take them priſoners, when I heard Captain
Macaliſter beg and pray the Nabob not to do ſo, but to be pleaſed to order them
ſix-months pay of their arrears, and that he would go with it and ſatisfy them, or
otherwiſe he was certain they would all go into Hyder's ſervice; but no pay was
ſent them, and that regiment, with their arms, went alſo into Hyder's ſervice. Two
of the beſt diſciplined regiments of cavalry that ever had been at that time in India,
went into Hyder Ally’s ſervice; and they were the very men that led that fatal
charge againſt Colonel Baillie's detachment returning from the Guntoor expe-
dition. - º -
And at this very time, Honourable Sir, that theſe regiments were thus ſhamefully
turned adrift without the pay due to them, his Highneſs was making immenſe bribes
and preſents in ready money and in bonds, as the conſolidated debt of his Highneſs's
of that year will prove, if a proper inveſtigation of that debt takes place; and which
I pledge myſelf to your Honour to prove, with that ſupport your Honourable Board
has been pleaſed to promiſe me, as well alſo of the very large ſums, bribes, that were
remitted by his Highneſs the Nabob to Bengal, as partly mentioned in my letter to
your Honourable Board the 28th February 1789. -
Theſe very ſerious ſačts, as well as thoſe ſtated in my letter of the 15th June
1789, to his Highneſs the Nabob, as well alſo many others that I know of, are very
ſerious matters to the Engliſh nation, and particularly to the Honourable Eaſt India
Company, and very cruelly ſo to myſelf, as I mentioned in my laſt letter to your
Honour, and as I ſhall be obliged herein more fully to lay before you. The dreadful
conſequences alſo of theſe miſdoings were woefully felt by all the inhabitants of this
country during the laſt war, which theſe miſdoings altogether were the cauſe of:
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therefore I moſt humbly ſubmit to your Honour, whether theſe fačts ought not to
be eſtabliſhed, as I certainly can by means the moſt authentic and ſolemn.
The perfećt reſpect and veneration I feel for all your commands, have thrown me
on this occaſion (to attend your Committee with my proofs and witneſſes to ſupport
my allegations) into the greateſt embarraſſment, becauſe it will be impoſſible for me
to eſtabliſh the charges through the means of the Committee that you have been
pleaſed to appoint, in that moſt authentic and ſolemn manner that the import of
them requires, for reaſons that I crave leave to ſtate, and which are noways per-
fonal to the Gentlemen who compoſe it, whom I reſpect and eſteem as I ought.
To add to the proofs that I am in full poſſeſſion of, I humbly conceive, Honour-
able Sir, that the witneſſes I ſhall have occaſion to call upon, ought to be examined
upon oath, in the moſt ſolemn manner, according to their ſeveral laws and cuſtoms.
Malabars, not fimply upon mint and water, but at Triplicane Pagoda, in the ſame
manner as they are ſworn in cauſes of conſequence which concern themſelves. This
Committee, as neither of them are Juſtices of the Peace, ſo neither of them are
legally authoriſed to adminiſter an oath; and I am confident in opinion, that many
of the witneſſes that I ſhall have occaſion to call upon, would not attend a ſummons
from the Committee, as they are under the influence and authority of his Highneſs
the Nabob; and if any did attend, unleſs they were firſt ſworn in the moſt ſolemn
manner, the queſtions put to them, the anſwers they ſhould give, ſhould be the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, they would not anſwer truly.
The Committee that was appointed by your Honourable Government to inveſti-
gate and take cognizance of the matters and charges againſt Mr. Holland, of the
money forced and extorted from the Nabob during his Government, by himſelf and
his brorher, were, I know, compoſed of Gentlemen that neither of them were Juſtices
of the Peace, and conſequently could not adminiſter an oath to thoſe ſummoned, or
that appeared voluntarily before them to prove the charges. That I humbly con-
ceive ought not to be a precedent for the taking cognizance of the very ſerious mat-
ters, charges of miſdoings, alledged by me; becauſe his Highneſs the Nabob him-
ſelf made the charges againſt the late Governor Holland, and ordered his own ſer-
vants and others dependant upon his Highneſs, to appear before the Committee to
prove the charges; and his Highneſs employed a profeſſional Gentleman to attend
his Durbar, to affiſt and prepare the evidences; and when the witneſſes had appear-
ed before your Committee and given evidence, they afterwards went before a Ma-
giſtrate and depoſed to their evidence they had before given. There is all the differ-
ence that can be in the bringing forward the charges; his Highneſs the Nabob,
from whom all the money came, made the one, and forced his ſervants and de-
pendants to freely go forth to prove his charges : and theſe preſent charges, thoſe in
my letter to his Highneſs of 15th June 1789, and theſe now laid before your Ho-
nour, are made by me, a merchant, and injured creditor of his Highneſs and family,
ſetting forth the unjuſt and injurious uſe of his money, and of not paying me the
finalleſt part of my juſt demands; therefore cruel neceſſity forced me to make my
complaint to his Highneſs, and now to continue it by theſe charges, which with that
ſupport you have been ſo good to promiſe “every ſupport I can wiſh for from your
Honourable Government to enable me to prove them,” I can and will moſt cer-
tainly do ſo, otherwiſe I well know without that ſupport the witneſſes I ſhall have
occaſion to call upon, will, as much as can, be prevented from coming forward to
ſupport the proofs 1 already have got, unleſs they are compelled to do ſo by the full
and high authority of your Honourable Government, and firſt ſworn in the manner
I have deſcribed to anſwer the queſtions that may be put to them. -
Therefore, for my reaſons given, I beg leave to ſuggeſt, with the moſt humble
deference to your authority, whether a ſubječt of ſuch importance might not be
taken cognizance of, and proved before your Honour and Council, as a Bench of
Juſtices. º
If you are pleaſed to grant this, I have not the ſhadow of a doubt but that my
charges will end in the fulleſt convićtion of them. By any other means I fear they
will tail of that ample ſatisfaction the caſe demands, for the reaſons I have ſtated.
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It was diſtreſſing to me, Honourable Sir, to be forced, and the utmoſt diſtreſs did force
me, to write my letter to the Nabob, to be ſent open through Government for their no-
tice; for it was diſtreſſing to me as a merchant to interfere and bring forward theſe
matters, although they had been ſo long the cauſe of my great diſtreſs; for upwards
of thirteen years did I ſuffer, although knowing of theſe bad doings, in filence, as
I knew they would involve many ſome that I have lived in terms of intimacy
with, and others that prevented my getting my juſt right ; for I have ſeen many
princely fortunes, as well as many that have been called ſmall fortunes, obtained from
the Nabob in bribes and corruption, while I was daily attending his Durbar, and I
could not obtain of what is due to me, ſufficient even to buy bread for my family.
I am well aware that my charges, as they are juſt and true, will cauſe me many
enemies; and being loaded with debts, great and ſmall ones that I owe, will add
greatly to my diſtreſs. Had my juſt claims been put even into the ſame train of pay-
ment, as ſo many bonds granted bribes are, ſo that I could have ſatisfied my cre-
ditors and ſupported my family, I would have been ſilent, as my letters to your Ho-
nourable Government do plainly ſhew, wrote before my letter to his Highneſs the
Nabob. I did, in the moſt humble manner, ſolicit a part of my own, to relieve my
diſtreſſes, in vain, when I was forbid my perſonal application to the Durbar for my
own by Government, I moſt humbly implore from time to time relief to my diſ-
treſſes, through Government. As I was forbid all other mode of application to the
Durbar, I humbly aſked the payment through them of one year's intereſt, or a
part of one year's intereſt, on the ſums ſo long and ſo juſtly due to me, and receiv-
ing no manner of relief to my cruel diſtreſs, I again and again humbly implored,
as though I was aſking charity, inſtead of ſo ſmall a part of my own, for a monthly
ſum to be paid to me to procure the neceſſaries of life, even what your then Go-
vernment ſhould deem ſo, until the pleaſure of the Honourable the Court of Direc-
tors was known reſpecting my cruel caſe. To this humble and reaſonable prayer, F
received an official letter, dated the 24th March 1789, ſaying—“The Governor
“ and Council did not intend to make any further application to the Nabob on the
“ ſubjećt of my letters.” - -
Not knowing what to do, I further perſevered, and went perſonally to repreſent
my deplorable ſituation to the Governor, in the hope of obtaining his permiſſion for
my perſonal application to the Durbar to aſk for my own, or that he would name to
his Highneſs what he might deem proper; his Aid-de-Camp, Mr. Wilks, told me,
that the Governor was then engaged, but deſired that I would come the next morn-
ing at nine o'clock, and that he would then ſee me. I went at the appointed hour, and
was met in the hall by the Governor’s brother, Mr. Edward John Holland, who
told me in the rudeſt manner, that I could not ſee the Governor, and that it would
be of no uſe my ſeeing him, as neither the Governor nor the Board would allow the
Nabob or his family to be plagued ; and that I ſhould not go to the Durbar, nor
write, if I did ſ ſhould be ſent to England agreeable to the notice of Government;
and ſaid that Government would not apply to his Highneſs on rºy behalf, and that it
was uſeleſs my talking any more. ...”
Thus after ſo many years painful attendance at the Durbar, humbly ſoliciting my
own, and after every humble and reſpe&tful application to Government for relief, I
was forbid and prevented from even aſking my own, under pain of being ſeized
and ſent away from my family, and from where all my property is, to England.
The utmoſt diſtreſs forced me again humbly to pray Government to alter their
intention, and to have the humanity to name to the Nabob what they might deem
proper for my immediate relief, or leave to addreſs his Highneſs by letter, as from
my letters to your Honourable Board, dated the 24th April and 4th June 1789. In
reply to my laſt letter, I received official leave to write to the Nabob, provided I ſent
my letter open, to be tranſmitted to his Highneſs through the channel of Govern-
1The Int. -
This continued and unprecedented, and unlawful cruelty and injuſtice to me, and
knowing at the very time, from authority that I could depend upon, that Governor
Holland and his brother were extorting very large ſums from the Nabob. The
moſt ſevere diſtreſs and ill uſage forced me to write the fačts ſtated in my letter to
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his Highneſs the Nabob, for the information and notice of Government. I did not
give the information as an informer, but as my duty to my numerous creditors
(whoſe money the Nabob withholds and prevents my paying) and as my duty to
myſelf and family, as I knew the ſame corruption was going on then as before; and
I ſaw no proſpečt for my relief, or of even getting my juſt right any otherwiſe.
Government was pleaſed, after conſulting with the young Nabob upon the contents
of my letter, to return it to me, ſaying, that I had abuſed the indulgence they
were diſpoſed to grant me, by indecent animadverſions on the condućt of the Durbar;
and did not call on me to prove the very ſerious matters contained in my letter.
As I well knew the origin of the Mr. Holland's money tranſačtions with the Nabob,
I had wrote a paragraph ſtating them in my letter to the Nabob ; but as Mr. Hol-
land was Governor, and veſted with power and authority, I judged it prudent in
my then very diſtreſſed ſituation to leave it out of the letter, for fear that under ſome
pretence he might have ſent me to Europe out of the way, and I had not money ;
in ſuch caſe my family would have been left in diſtreſs, unprotected and unprovided
for. But now, I thank God, by my daughter's marriage in January laſt with Colonel
Floyd, ſhe is very reſpe&tably and honourably protećted.
The Mr. Holland’s money tranſačtions with the Nabob concerns very materially
the juſt and legal creditors of his Highneſs, as well as the Public, therefore I will now
ſtate them to your Honour in their true light. The origin was in the beginning of
the year 1775, when his Highneſs the Nabob ſent for me, and told me that he had
immediate occaſion for a lack of pagodas to pay the Company on account of their
Jaghire, and deſired of me to procure it for him : I anſwered his Highneſs, that I had
not the money, and all the money I could raiſe his Highneſs and family had got.
He ſaid young Mr. Holland had money, and deſired me to go to him, and aſk him
to lend it. I anſwered, that I was always ready to obey his Highneſs, but I was cer-
tain Mr. Holland would not lend him money, as it was the general complaint of all
the monied people, that his Highneſs had their money, and they could not receive
any of it from his Circar. His Highneſs then ſaid, that he had Buckunjee Doſs's Teep
for one lack of pagodas, payable in two months, and deſired that I would aſk him
to advance the money, dedućting the intereſt. I obeyed his Highneſs's orders, and
Mr. Holland did diſcount the Teep, dedućting two per cent. per ſmonth, and deli-
vered to the Nabob's ſervants 96,000 pagodas for the Teep, which was punétually paid
fo Mr. Holland by Buckunjee Doſs when due. After which his Highneſs told me that
he was in want of money again, and that he had another Teep of Buckenjee Doſs's
for a lack of pagodas, and deſired me to go again to Mr. Hollond, and get the mo-
ney for him on the Teep as before. I anſwered, that his Highneſs's people, who
before went to receive the money from Mr. Hollond, their going to him would be
the ſame as my going; for if he advanced the money it would be for the ſake of
the intereſt. His Highneſs ſent his people to Mr. Hollond with the Teep, and he
advanced the money on the ſecond Teep, in like manner as on the firſt ; but when
this Teep became due, Mr. Hollond ſent it for payment, and Buckunjee Doſs re-
fuſed payment, ſaying, his Teep was payable to the Nabob only, and that his High-
'neſs had received more money from him than the amount of the Teep, and he
would not pay the money. Mr. Hollond was much enraged, and threatened pro-
ſecution, &c. for a long time in vain, and ſent a caſe home for the opinion of Mr.
Dunning, to know if the Nabob was or was not amenable to the Mayor’s Court
of Madras for debt; which caſe and opinion I was. At length Mr Holland went
to the Durbar, and was induced to take conſolidated bonds for the Teep and in-
tereſt; and a Perſian bond of the Nabcb's for one lack of pagodas, bearing intereſt
at twelve per cent. per annum, as a premium for taking conſolidated bonds. I ſaw
Mr. Edward John Hollafid at the Durbar ſettling the buſineſs, and I was preſent
when it was ſettled. The Nabob inſiſted upon his ſigning a paper of thanks, and
promiſes of ſervices for the Perſian bond, promiſing that his brother and him-
ſelf would ever be friends to his Highneſs, and ſerve him upon all occaſions. Mr.
Holland for ſome time refuſed to ſign the paper, and I heard him give his reaſons,
that his brother was high in the ſervice and might ſoon be in power, and ſo he might
be himſelf, and that they might have occaſion to differ in opinion with his High-
neſs
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neſs; but at length, he ſigned the paper, and received the conſolidated bonds for
;the amount, Teep and intereſt ; and the Perſian bond for a lack of pagodas pre-
mium. Mr. Holland, upon his arrival ſecond in Council at Madras in 1787, en-
deavoured in vain to obtain payment of the Perſian bond from the Nabob ; but as
foon as he was Governor, and his brother was taken into Council, they prevail upon
the Nabob to pay the Perſian bond and the intereſt thereon, from the year 1777.
His Highneſs the Nabob ſtates on the credit ſide of his account with the Honourable
Company—“To caſh paid for the public ſervice in Mr. John Hollond's Govern-
“ ment, through his Dubaſh Paupia Bramine, as proved before the Committee of
“ Inveſtigation, ſtar pagodas 4,69,817.” -
I well know that his Highneſs will not pay any money for the public ſervice with-
out a receipt given for it by the public ſecretary of your Honourable Government.
The truth of the matter is, that the above large ſum was extorted from the Nabob
by Governor Hollond and his brother, and their Dubaſh. The firſt part of it was
obtained for the Perſian bond and intereſt. A further ſum, part of it, was one lack
of pagodas given as a bribe to Governor Hellond, for the detachment that was order-
ed into the Marawar Country againſt the Shevegunga, two Murdoos under the
command of Lieutenant Colonel Stewart, and the remainder of the ſum was ex-
torted from time to time by threats from Governor Hollond, through his brother
and Dubaſh, threatening to take away his Highneſs’s Countries from time to time,
unleſs a certain ſum was paid on this day and on that day that Collečtors would be
appointed in Council, and ſent to take charge of his Countries. The Nabob, by
his ſon Omdut ul Omrah Behauder, and by his Dewan, conſtantly deſired the ac-
count between him and the Honourable Company; but Mr. Edward John Hol.
lond's anſwer always was, what ſignifies accounts; roaring out in the Durbar, mo-
ney, money we want, and will have, or ſequeſter your Countries. Thus this large
ſum was obtained, and this I well knew at the time, Honourable Sir, that I was for-
bid by that Government to aſk for my own, even for ſufficient to procure the neceſ.
ſaries of life for my family. Beſides the before-mentioned ſums ačtually received,
they obtained in the ſame manner by threats, obligations for the payment of the fol-
lowing ſums, the amount of which laſt, but for the happy arrival of General Me-
dows, they would have enforced the payment of Ram Row, the Nabob's Dewan's
note of hand payable to Tyapah Moodalur, for 36,000 pagodas; a bond from his
Highneſs Omdut ul Omrah Behauder, for 1,00,000 pagodas; a note of hand of
Ram Row's Dewan, payable to Mr. Edward John Hollond, for 50,000 pagodas; a
bill of exchange and Carnama of Kevel Row, the agent of Soucar Bhoodinjee for
50,000 pagodas ; and a Carnama or bond from the Shevegunga Wackeel, for
1,00,000 rupees. This laſt was a bribe to let the Murdoos remain undiſturbed by
any more detachments of the Honourable Company’s troops. But his Highneſs
the Nabob, hearing for certain that General Medows was coming Governor of Ma-
dras, he delayed and prevented the payment of the ſums. All this I can and will
prove alſo, Honourable Sir, before you, with your ſupport to do ſo. * 2
Being a large creditor and the moſt injured creditor of the Nabob's, as my claims are
totally unprovided for in payment, on which account I am now, and have been theſe
fifteen years paſt, ſuffering the greateſt diſtreſſes; I have a juſt right, therefore, to lay
open and to prove all theſe iniquities; and as the Meſſrs. Hollonds received the amount
of the Perſian bond for a lack of pagodas, and the intereſt thereon, which was the ori-
ginal amount of the Teep of Buckunjee Doſs's, for which the conſolidated bond of 1777,
was alſo granted to Mr. Hollond, payment of the conſolidated bonds ought to ceaſe,
in juſtice to the Nabob's legal creditors; the bonds ſlanding in his name are twenty-
three bonds, N° 252 to N° 275. amounting, as certified the 3 iſt December 1784, to
pagodas 1,73,472. 34, 52. For the Right Honourable the Board of Controul only
admitted the juſtneſs of the conſolidated debt of 1777 preſumptively, open to every
kind of challenge; for they were pleaſed thus to determine—That it is only a preſumptive
admiſſion, ſubjeć to every kind of complaint againſt it, either from the Nabob, the other
glaſſes of creditors, or from any perſons having a proper intereſt on reaſonable grounds of
obječion, and to this admiſſion the Honourable Court of Direétors gave their ſtrongeſt
.diſſent, -
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All the grounds of objećtion that an injured creditor poſſibly can have, to my
ſorrow and unequalled diſtreſs, I have ; for, Honourable Sir, I have no income what-
ever to ſupport myſelf and family: as 'I am not in any ſervice, ſo I have no ſalary ;
and every caſh that I have received from the Nabob or his family ſince the year 1777,
was the 150 rupees ſent me by his Highneſs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, the 12th
March 1789, as mentioned in my letter, deſiring that I would not be angry nor
ſorry; and promiſed to ſend me a little money every two or three days till he could
ſettle all my buſineſs. Cruelly bad as my ſituation is ſtated in my letter to the Na-
bob, and alſo in my many humble and deplorable repreſentations to your Honourable
Board, ſupplicating relief, there is not a tythe part therein ſtated of the difficulties
and diſtreſſes I have ſo long and do at this moment labour under; and my cruel ſitu-
ation every day grows worſe. I have not known for many years, from day to day,
how I ſhould be able to manage for the next day; with conſtant ſuits againſt me, as
the Records of the Honourable the Mayor's Court will ſhow, for years paſt: And I
have been obliged to beg, and pray, and borrow how I could for years paſt, to pro-
cure unavoidable neceſſaries, and to obtain on credit the common neceſſaries of life:
and my ſervants are unpaid their wages, as from time to time I had juſt reaſon to
hope relief, by receiving at leaſt a ſmall part of my own. Some that did long ago
‘ſupply me with neceſſaries are tired out in waiting for their money; and I have at this
hour ſeven ſuits againſt me for the neceſſaries of life ſupplied me, and for money
borrowed to procure them; and many more ſuits I am threatened with. One ſuit
now againſt me is brought by the executors of Meſſrs. Leatham and Mackintoſh, for
neceſſaries had from them long ago:—this is an execution; and there is another exe-
cution by Mr. Thomas Barter; another execution by Chowreapah, a poulterer, for
'fowls long ago ſupplied me with: theſe two laſt executions are returned, and war-
rants of commitment prayed againſt my perſon, and taken out, ſo that I am obliged to
ſhut myſelf up for fear of a priſon. There is another execution in the Sheriff's hands
againſt me by Mr. Duprey; and there are two other executions againſt me, one by
Mr. David Young, and the other by Mr. Charles Lloyd;—both of theſe for the bread
that my family have been ſupplied with by them for years paſt.—And there is a decree
of the Honourable the Mayor's Court againſt me by Moota Kiſtna Naik, for money
lent me to provide abſolute neceſſaries; all of which I am totally unable to pay or ſa-
tisfy ; as well as a great many more that have not ſued me for ſmall ſums, at which I
am greatly diſtreſſed that I cannot pay them, my indulgent creditors, that I owe large
ſums to ſo many; —they know that I cannot pay them until I am pań what has been ſo
long owing to me by the Durbar. The Nabob and his ſon have lately made me
many repeated daily ſolemn promiſes, until within theſe two months, that they would
ſettle with me, and that the firſt money that came in I ſhould receive a part; but
conſtantly complained, that he had no money, as his countries were taken from him;
but ſince they made me theſe late ſolemn promiſes, they have purchaſed many houſes
in town, and many in the country; and one in particular from Mr. Moubray, that
the Nabob paid 40,000 pagodas for ; ſo that it has not been for the want of money,
that he has not even paid me to relieve my diſtreſſes and wants: for I well know,
that he had an immenſe large private treaſure before the death of his ſon Ameer ul
‘Omrah Bahauder, by which it was very greatly enlarged indeed.
I did humbly hope, and with great juſtice and reaſon, that the juſtice and huma-
inity of the Honourable the Court of Direétors would have relieved me, by ordering
my juſt claims into a train of payment ; therefore my diſappointment and ſorrow is
great; that in the paragraph you have been pleaſed to furniſh me with of their letters,
no notice is taken of my claims and my great diſtreſſes; ſo I can only hope, and do
humbly pray, for preſent relief from the power and authority of your Honourable
Government, by your humane interference, to obtain for me one year's intereſt on
the money ſo long due to me from the Nabob and his family, for my preſent preſſing
wants, until my juſt bonds are put into train of payment.
If I am not ſo fortunate as to obtain this relief through your Honours juſtice and
humanity, I know not what to do to obtain juſtice and relief; but that, as the Nabob
of Arcot has commenced a fuit at law in the High Court of England, againſt the
Honourable
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Honourabic Company; and by his having done ſo, I have been adviſed by all the
"Gentlemen here moſt learned in the law, that his Highneſs has thereby made him-
ſelf and family amenable to the Honourable the Mayor’s Court of Madras.
If I am ſo unfortunate, Honourable Sir, as to fail of immediate relief, as humbly
sprayed, through your authority, I then moſt humbly beg to know from your Ho-
nour, if my commencing ſuits againſt the Nabob and family for the recovery of my
legal debts, will give offence to your Honourable Government, either from myſelf
or from the lawyer I may employ in the ſuits. . . -
The very great embarraſſment I have been under from your commands, from the
moſt perfeót deference I feel for them all, added to the very great difficulties and diſ.
treſſes I am labouring under, ſolely from the very great injuſtice done me by his
Highneſs the Nabob and family, will, I humbly hope and pray it may, cauſe your
pardon for the delay of this my humble addreſs. . . .
I have the honour to be,
With all due reſpect,
Honourable Sir,
-- Your moſt obedient and
‘Fort St. George, Moſt humble Servant,
19th December 1791. (Signed) Charles Darke.
“ Reſolved, That the following anſwer be returned to Mr. Darke.”
! to Mr. Charles Darke.
Sir, § * ,
I AM direéted by the Honourable the Preſident in Council, to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 19th inſtant. -
A Committee was appointed on the 27th September laſt, to receive any proofs or
examine any witneſſes you might have to offer in ſupport of the facts alleged in your .
letter to the Nabob of the 15th June 1789; but though repeated applications have
ibeen made to you for this purpoſe, and Government have promiſed you every aſfiſt-
ance in their power to enable you to ſubſtantiate your accuſations, no progreſs
whatever has yet been made ; and you now come before them with a propoſition for
changing the mode of enquiry. - ... ºr
The Board are ſincerely deſirous of aiding your endeavours by every juſt means;
but having already appointed a Committee of Gentlemen to make this enquiry,
agreeably to the uſual and approved praćtice, and being of opinion that no alteration
ſhould take place, unleſs upon the ground of ſome trial this mode appears defeótive,
they truſt you will not have any further objećtion to lay before them the documents
on which your complaint is founded, and point out to them the means by which you
propoſe to eſtabliſh the proofs. zº - ..
With regard to the witneſſes whoſe evidences you may wiſh to adduce, the ſame mode
is open to you that has been uſually practiſed —A Member of Government will be
ready to receive their depoſitions on oath; but it is not in the power of Government
to compel them to give evidence, much leſs to force them to atteſt their depoſitions
at the Triplicane Pagoda.
The Board are concerned to learn your diſtreſſes are ſo great, and will certainly
mention this circumſtance to the Nabob, in the hope that he may be diſpoſed to
grant you ſome preſent relief; but they cannot in any reſpect give their ſančtion to
the propoſition you make of taking legal meaſures to compel payment of your
claims. - - t
I am,
Sir, •
- * Your moſt obedient Servant,
Fort St. George, (Signed) - W. C. jackſon,
23d December 1791. Secº.
#76. # r * Agreed,
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VI.
“ Agreed, That the circumſtance of Mr. Darke's extreme diſtreſs be mentioned
“ in a letter to the Nabob, in the hope that he will be diſpoſed to grant him ſome
“ preſent relief.”
December 23d.—Sent the following letter to the Nabob.
To his Highneſs the Nabob of the Carnatic, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
Mr. Charles Darke, who has large demands upon your Highneſs, having
repreſented to me that he is in extreme diſtreſs owing to his pecuniary embarraſſ-
ments; and that there are many ſuits now againſt him for money ačtually borrowed
for the purpoſe of procuring the common neceſſaries of fife; I beg leave to mention
this circumſtance to your Highneſs, in the hope that you will be diſpoſed to grant
him ſome preſent-relief, which will be an act of great humanity in your Highneſs.
.." I have the honour to be, -
May it pleaſe your Highneſs,
Your Highneſs's moſt obedient
Fort St. George, - Humble Servant,
23d December 1791, (Signed) Chaº Oakeley.
EXTRACT from the Minutes of Conſpitation, 6th January 1792. --
Read the following letter from Mr. Charles Darke.
To the Honourable Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart. Preſident and Governor,
&c. &c. &c. of Fort St. George in Council.
Honourable Sir and Sirs,
I MOST humbly thank you for your humane promiſe to me in your public
Letter of the 24th ultimo; that your Honourable Board will certainly mention my
great diſtreſſes to the Nabob, in the hope that he may be diſpoſed to grant me ſome
preſent relief. * - - :
As nothing can equal my preſent diſtreſſes, his Highneſs's delay in relieving them,
as humbly prayed through your Honourable Government, leaves me in the moſt
dreadful ſituation, with warrants of commitment againſt my perſon, and warrants of
execution againſt my effects in the Sheriff's hands, ſo that I cannot ſtir out of my
houſe, but am obliged to ſhut myſelf up from his officers, and am living in hourly
dread of a priſon; beſides the pain to me of many poor people aſking from me all
day long what I owe them, whom I cannot in juſtice and humanity ſhut my
doors and ears againſt, but give them the beſt anſwers and hopes of payment I am
able, as I am not able to pay them what I know they are in diſtreſs for: And all
my ſervants are in the greateſt want and diſtreſs for their pay due to them; which al-
together makes my exiſtence miſerable indeed, and which I have too long borne from
the great injuſtice done me by his Highneſs the Nabob and his family; as they juſtly
and truely do owe me the large principal ſum of 3,34,802 pagodas on the 1ſt January
1786, all on bonds not accumulated and made up of bribes or uſury, nor even
compound intereſt, but all for money lent and goods ſold, with legal intereſt, as his
Highneſs’s and family’s ſole European merchant for many years, by his Highneſs’s
own particular deſire, as you all, Honourable Sir and Sirs, muſt well know that I
was ; therefore it will be impoſſible that his Highneſs can refuſe my very humble
prayer for immediate relief, as it is now made to him for me through the humanity
of your Honourable Board; more eſpecially as your Honours were pleaſed to tell me,
that you cannot in any reſpect give your ſančtion to my propoſition of taking legal
meaſures to compel payment of my claims, although the Nabob has himſelf appealed
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to our Engliſh Courts of law, and actually commenced a ſuit againſt the Honourable
Company. - . -
I am, with gratitude for your humane promiſe, and with the utmoſt reſpect,
- Honourable Sir and Sirs,
} - Your moſt dutiful and
Fort St. George, - - Moſt humble Servant,
5th January 1792. (Signed) . Charles Darke.
“ Ordered, That a copy of the foregoing Letter do accompany the other Papers
“ intended for a number in the Packet of the preſent Diſpatch.”
(True Copies and Extraćts from the Minutes of Conſultation.)
*. - - - - George Parry,
Aété Dep’ Secº.
(Copy.)
To the Honourable Sir Charles Oakeley, Baronet, Preſident, &c. &c. &c.
of Fort St. George, in Council.
Honourable Sir, - -
I SHOULD ſooner have replied to the Letter which your Secretary Mr. Jackſon
did me the honour of writing to me on the 24th of laſt month, and of which I before
acknowledged the receipt, had I not conceived that the ſolicitude you there expreſs
for my ſupporting the aſſertions in my letter to his Highneſs the Nabob before the
*Committee you had appointed, required, if poſſible, my ready compliance with your
wiſhes : or if, after mature deliberation, and the advice and diſcuſſion of others, it
‘ſhould appear moſt prudent, and beſt fitted to anſwer the intentions of the Honour-
able the Court of Direétors, as well as of your Honourable Board, to poſtpone the
enquiry until it could be brought before a more competent tribunal, I thought it at
‘leaſt a duty incumbent on me, from the reſpect I owe to you, Honourable Sir, as well
as to the other Honourable Members of the Board, not haſtily to adopt this reſolu-
rtion; and if at length I adopted it, to ſtate to you, in as full and ſatisfactory a man-
ºner as I could, the reaſons that have induced me to do it.
To that purpoſe it appears to me neceſſary to make ſome remarks upon the diffe-
tent paragraphs of the letter which I am now replying to. -
It begins with ſtating that, “A Committee was appointed on the 27th of September
“ laſt, to receive ſuch proofs, and to examine any witneſſes as I might have to offer;
“ but that, though repeated applications have been made to me for that purpoſe, and
“ although Government had promiſed me every aſſiſtance in their power, that no
“ progreſs had yet been made; and that I now come before you with a propoſition
“ for changing the mode of enquiry.” :
As I am convinced, from the uſual indulgence and liberality of your Honourable
Board, that thoſe expreſſions are not intended to throw a cenſure upon my condućt,
but merely to urge me to an expeditious performance of the mode of enquiry you
have recommended, I ſhould not, in reply to your Honourable Board, think it neceſ-
ſary to make any remark upon them; but as, no doubt this letter of the 24th Decem-
ber will form a part of the correſpondence that will be tranſmitted to the Honourable
the Court of Direétors, and may impreſs them with ideas that I have uniieceſſarily
procraſtinated the giving in my proofs, although, as you ſtate it, you had promiſed
me every aſſiſtance in your power; and may imply ſome degree of inconſiſtency, or
at leaſt of levity in my conduct, in now propoſing a new mode of enquiry, as you are
pleaſed to ſtate it ; I am ſure you will forgive me if I beg leave to recai to your recol-
lečtion, that, during the whole courſe of my correſpondence, both with your Honour-
able Board, and the Gentlemen you have appointed a Committee, I have never
hitherto intimated the ſmalleſt idea of communicating what proofs I had before the
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Commirtee you have appointed; or, indeed, before any Board leſs competent to re-
ceive, or veſted with leſs authority, than either your Honourable Board or ſome regu-
lar Court of Juſtice: * • -->
And when you informed me, as you did, on the 12th Oétober laſt, through your
Secretary. Mr. Jackſon, that I might be aſſured that every ſupport I could wiſh for
from Government would be afforded me, to enable me to prove my aſſertions;
I did not conceive it to be an unreaſonable wiſh, that you, Honourable Sir, and
the Honourable Members of Council, would be pleaſed to ſit as a Bench of Juſtice
or otherwiſe, as you might be beſt adviſed, and that you would in this manner aſſiſt
me, agreeably to the words of the paragraph you have ſent me, in making a very
particular enquiry into the circumſtances contained in my letter to his Highneſs the
Nabob, of the 15th June 1789. - . . .
Impreſſed with this idea you will obſerve, that in the three letters which form the
whole correſpondence I have ever had with the Committee, and which are dated the
1 oth, 12th, and 20th of Oétober laſt, I have conſtantly informed them that I am
addreſfing your Honour in Council, upon the ſubjećt of enquiry, and accordingly I
invariably avoided entering upon the ſubjećt with them; and as a further proof that
this was conſtantly my intention, when your Secretary Mr. Jackſon, upon a Report
of the Committee, urged by your direétion my bringing my proofs before them, my
only reply to this letter was an addreſs to your Honourable Board, which contains
the propoſal which you now mention; ſo that I humbly ſubmit, I never have in the
leaſt changed my original idea, but that I have conſtantly ſaid what...I now continue
to ſay, that it is your Honourable Board, or ſome other Board of equal reſponſibility
and authority, that can be alone competent to inveſtigate the high, important, and
extenſive charges that the Honourable the Court of Directors have direéted may be
enquired into. -
Your Secretary proceeds to inform me, “ that the Board are ſincerely deſirous
“ of aiding my endeavours, but having already appointed a Committee, according
“. to the uſual and approved practice, and being of opinion that no alteration ſhould
“... take place, they truſt I ſhall not have any further obječtion to lay before them the
“ documents on which my complaint is founded, and point out to them the means
“ by which I propoſe to eſtabliſh my proofs.”
Far be it from me, Honourable Sir, in the ſmalleſt degree to doubt the ſincere
deſires of your Honour, and the other Honourable Members of your Board, to aid
my endeavours to bring to light theſe tranſačtions; I certainly do not doubt it, and
I hope and truſt that your Honourable Board will believe that I am equally deſirous
of rendering any ſervice in my powers to the Honourable Company in the enquiry
they have direéted : but I muſt ſtill ſay, that the appointing of a Committee, however
uſual and approved the pračtice may be, and how well ſoever I imagined as a mode
of enquiry into any improper behaviour of the Honourable Company’s own ſervants,
or other individuals under their immediate control, it cannot be expected to be
equally efficacious in the preſent caſe. The difference of the preſent objećt of en-
quiry from all former ones, both as to the magnitude of the charges, the number
that will be involved in it, and the elevated rank of the principal, is by far too ob-
vious for my pointing out. To common caſes common remedies are ſufficient; but on
great occaſions, as the preſent is, it cannot be expected that any thing can be effec-
tually done without one much more powerful ſupport than any Committee can
afford. Between my ſituation and that of thoſe I ſhall have to oppoſe, the contraſt
is peculiarly ſtriking; myſelf a ſingle, money leſs, unprotećted individual, involved
in diſtreſs, ſurrounded by enemies, perſecuted by clamorous creditors, purſued by law-
ſuits, and in daily dread of a jail; an individual too not in the habits of egal inveſtiga-
tions unaſſiſted, incapable from indigence of obtaining the aſſiſtance of thoſe who may
be better informed; how can ſuch a one, without the ſtrongeſt ſupport to bring to light
tranſačtions that might eventually annihilate the greateſt part of a debt of upwards of
two millions. ſterling, fix a charge of no very honourable nature upon ſo powerful
an opponent as his Highneſs the Nabob, and prove, that while he was openly pro-
feſſing the ſincereſt friendſhip to the Honourable Company, and to the Engliſh Na-
, --, tions
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tion, he was ſecretly their enemy, by corrupting their ſervants to deſert their duty,
and getting them to employ the power they were veſted with to ſerve the ſecret pur-
poſes of his own ambition, and thereby involving them in the late war with Hyder
Ally, which was attended with the loſs of ſo many lives and fo, much treaſure, and
which had nearly ended in their total extirpation from the Coaſt of Coromandel.
When theſe circumſtances are conſidered, I will not allow myſelf to ſuppoſe, but your
Honour, and other Honourable Members of the Board, will readily ſee the inſuff-
ciency and inadequateneſs of any Committee to make the enquiry direéted; and I
am convinced, cannot continue of opinion that a trial is neceſſary to make it appear
defeótive: ſuch a trial, Honourable Sir, I humbly preſume would be not only inef-
ficacious, but in the higheſt degree impolitic and imprudent, as it would diſcover to
thoſe, whoſe intereſt it is to oppoſe ſuch an enquiry, the proofs intended to be pro-
duced, and by that ineans furniſh them with an eaſy means of preventing their ever
being produced. In the purſuit of every obječt, every unſuceſsful attempt increaſes
the difficulty of future ſucceſs; and in the preſent purſuit, I humbly conceive that
every feeble effort to diſcover the truth, inſtead of aiding the enquiry, will but ſerve
further to obliterate the ſtill remaining veſtiges of the facts charged. That ſuch
charges are well grounded I do moſt certainly inſiſt; that if properly ſupported I can
bring ſufficient proofs of them I do alſo inſiſt ; but to attempt to prove it in the
manner your Honourable Board has propoſed to me I moſt certainly decline, and I
humbly preſume I have already ſtated ſufficient reaſons for doing ſo; but if I have
not, with the utmoſt humility I beg leave to ſubmit to you, whether the next para-
graph of the letter which I have now the honour of anſwering, does not itſelf con-
tain a ſufficient reaſon for my declining it; for there your Secretary, by your Ho-
nour's direétion, informs me, “that with regard to the witneſſes, whoſe evidence I
“ may wiſh to adduce, it is not in the power of Government to compel them to give
“ evidence, much leſs to force them to atteſt their depoſitions at the Pagoda.”
And another reaſon is, becauſe that about ten years ago, the Honourable the
Court of Direétors ordered an enquiry to be made at Madras of a ſimilar nature, to
no effect, although they direéted that a Gentleman of the law ſhould be ſent from
Bengal for the purpoſe of affiſting and ſupporting the enquiry; and although during
the time, Honourable Sir, that this enquiry was on the carpet, his Highneſs the Na-
bob of Arcot addreſſed a letter to his creditors, of which notice was ſent round to
them, and many aſſembled at the Court Houſe to hear the letter read, as I did,
wherein his Highneſs told his creditors, that he had been prevented paying them
agreeable to his engagements, by reaſon and becauſe that very large ſums of money
had been extorted from him by perſons high in power in the Company’s ſervice.
Mr. Wooley, who had late before been the Nabob's Secretary, and one of his
Truſtees, declared, that he knew of upwards of twelve lacks of pagodas that had
been in a ſhort ſpace of time received by one perſon from the Nabob ; and he pro-
poſed a letter of thanks to his Highneſs for the information, &c. and to deſire that
this Highneſs would name who the perſons were, and the amount ſo received from
him, and that he would give a power to the creditors to recover the money from
them. Mr. Pelling and myſelf joined Mr. Wooley in the propoſal, which was ob-
jećted to by a great majority, and there was no reply made to the Nabob's letter,
and nothing done by the meeting; nor was there any thing eſtabliſhed by the en-
quiry ordered by the Honourable the Court of Dire&ors, as the mode of enquiry
was inſufficient and incompetent.
I have in this manner, Honourable Sir, fully ſtated to you my reaſons why I decline
adducing my proofs before the Committee you have appointed; and having taken
the liberty of pointing out the inſufficiency of the mode of enquiry propoſed, it may
naturally be expected, and it becomes my duty, from the reſpešt I owe to the Ho-
nourable Company, under whoſe protećtion I have ſo long lived, to point out ſome
other means of inveſtigation that appears to me likely to prove effectual.
The firſt which has occurred to me is what I mentioned in my Letter of the 19th
December laſt : I was then given to underſtand, but it is poſſible I may have been
mºme, that His Majeſty's charter had veſted your Honour and the other Mem-
470. bers
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PAPERS RELATING TO THE
VI.
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look up for protećtion.
bers of your Honourable Board, with a power to fit as a Bench of Juſtices, and to
examine into any complaint that was brought before you, and for that purpoſe to
compel the appearance of ſuch witneſſes as might be neceſſary, and ſwear them in
any manner you thought proper, and examine them perſonally before you, and re-
cord their examinations, and do every other ačt incident to a Court of Juſtice, in the
ſame manner, and with the ſame authority, as you pračtiſe at the Quarter Seſſions.
But ſhould this not be praćticable, I ſubmit to your Honour, &c. whether it would
not be moſt expedient to ſtate to the Honourable the Court of Direétors the diffi-
culties that are likely to ariſe in the enquiry they have directed, unleſs ſome method
is adopted ſufficiently competent to carry it into full effect. From the Letters which
I have already written, their law officers in England will be able I preſume to col-
jećt a ſufficient knowledge of the facts, to draw up the charges in ſuch legal form as
they may think moſt adviſable, and upon theſe charges I ſuppoſe their counſel in
England may file informations, and thereon pray a Mandamus to the Mayor’s Court
here, to take the examinations of witneſſes, and make full enquiry into the truth of
the fačts, in the manner the Aćt of Parliament direéts : or if it be true, as it is re-
ported, that a new Court of judicature is ſoon to be eſtabliſhed here, and Judges
appointed in the ſame manner as they have been at Bengal, it is poſſible the Ho-
nourable the Court of Direétors may think it proper to procure them a ſpecial com-
diffion for that purpoſe ; or if neither of theſe ſhould meet with their approbation,
they may ſtill think proper, as the Nabob has inſtituted a ſuit againſt them in the
Court of Chancery, to bring theſe charges againſt him in the ſaid Court, by filing'
a croſs bill; they may thereupon obtain a commiſſion to be ſent out to this country,
to examine into the truth of the facts. This is, after much conſideration of the ſub-
jećt, what has occured to me as beſt fitted to attain the end propoſed, which I humbly
beg leave to lay before your Honourable Board, and pray that it may be tranſmitted,
with the other parts of my correſpondence, to the Honourable the Court of Directors
by the firſt Diſpatch : a copy of the whole, in my own hand writing, I have the ho-
nour to encloſe herewith for that purpoſe, a ſeparate number in your packet.
And I humbly beg leave to aſſure the Honourable the Court of Directors, through ?
your Honours, &c. that I ſhall be at all times ready to forward their wiſhes to the
beſt of my abilities, in any manner that it is at all likely to produce them any effec-
tual advantage. - - .
At the ſame time Honourable Sir and Sirs, I hope you will urge to the Honour-
able the Court of Direétors the cruel ſituation I am placed in by my own diſtreſſes. For
my preſent relief to them, I have the fulleſt reliance from the humane promiſe of your
Honourable Board to me of the 24th December laſt; but the Nabob's delay in doing
ſo I ſeverely and cruelly feel every hour, and the more ſo as I have ſo juſt a right to
expe&t-it. And I humbly pray you, Honourable Sir and Sirs, to be pleaſed to uſe .
your endeavours to prevail on the Honourable the Court of Direétors to grant me
relief, by ordering juſtice to be done me by the Nabob, for to them alſo I muſt now
*
. I have the honour to be,
With the utmoſt reſpect,
Honourable Sirs,
Your moſt obedient
Fort St. George, * and moſt humble Servant, .
3oth january 1, 92. Ch' Darke.
Agreed that the papers received from Mr. Darke, (being copies of his correſpon-
dence with the Board, and with the Committee) be tranſmitted at his requeſt a num-
ber in the packet of the next Diſpatch. -
Mr. Darke having deciined to come forward in the manner pointed out to him,
with any proofs or evidence in ſupport of the affertions contained in his Letter to the
Nabob of the 15th June 1789, it is reſolved that the Committee be diſſolved.
£XTRACT
A FFA I R S OF T H E CAR N ATIC. I73
EXTRACT of Political Letter to Fort St. George; dated 25th June 793. VI.
Par. 24.—WE have read the correſpondence referred to in this, and in your ſub-
ſequent Diſpatch of the 15th March 1792, between your Board and Mr. Charles Letter to
Darke, on the ſubjećt of the orders iſſued by us in conſequence of his Letter to the 16th Jºlary
Nabob of Arcot of the 15th June 1789, containing an account of very large ſums of º, º;
money given by his Highneſs to ſeveral perſons, formerly in the Company’s ſervice, Mir, ch.
and likewiſe ſome extraordinary aſſertions reſpecting the Nabob's conſolidated debt Darke.
of 1777. As Mr. Darke's objećtions to bring forward his evidence in ſupport of the
charges, appear to us to be pointed more to the mode of proceeding than to any wiſh
to ſhrink from the enquiry; and as, in his laſt Letter of the 30th January 1792, he
has ſuggeſted various modes by which the objećt may be obtained, we have deemed
it neceſſary to refer all the Papers for the peruſal and opinion of the Company’s
law officers, and by a future Diſpatch we ſhall give you our further direétions
herein. -
les
No further direétions have been given on the ſubjećt.
176. Z z #
I75
VII.
N° 25.
INFORMATION ſubmitted to the Honourable Houſe of Commons, in obe-
dience to their Orders of 16th December 1802; ſtating Reaſons why they have
not been fully complied with. §
20th Crder.
THE Secret Article propoſed by Lord Clive, relative to the public treaſure of
the late Nabob, formed no part of the Treaty concluded with his ſucceſſor; nor
was any treaſure obtained in conſequence, either from the Nabob or from any
part of the family.
25th Order.
THERE are no other Inſtrućtions to the Officer commanding the troops ſtationed
at the Nabob's palace, than thoſe to Colonel M'Neile, contained in folio 3 a’
7 of the Papers already printed by the Houſe of Commons.
26th Order.
THE Papers required by the 6th, 8th, and 13th Orders of the laſt ſeſſions
are contained in Vol. I. of the accompanying Papers regarding the affairs of the
Carnatic. No copy of the will of the late Nabob Omdut ul. Omrah, required
by the 20th Order of laſt ſeſſions, has yet been ſent home.
5th Order.
THE Orders from the Governor General, dated 7th April 1800, were to Lord
Clive, and not to Meſſrs. Webb and Cloſe. - -
, ſº -
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P A P E R S,
PRESENTED TO T H E H O U S E O F COMMON s,
F. R O M T H &
EAST-INDIA COMPANY.
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Ordered to be printed 26th April 18 o4.
69. A.
f
Hiſ of PAPERS preſented to the Honourable the Houſe of Commons,
purſuant to their Orders of the 20th and 24th April 1804.
- *
*
(Nº. 1.)—An Account of the Dates of all Diſpatches. tranſmitted by the Secret Committee
of the Court of Direétors of the Eaſ-India Company, to the ſeveral Pre-
fidencies in India, relative to His Majeſty’s Meſſage to Parliament of the
8th March 18o3, and to the Rupture with Fame; together with an
Account of the Receipt of thoſe Diſpatches in India - - - - - p. 3.
(Nº 2)—An Account of the Dates of Diſpatches ſent by the Court of Directors
of the Eaſi-India Company, or the Secret Committee of the ſame, to the
Iſland of St. Helena, with Reference to His Majeſty’s Meſſage to Parliament
of the 8th Day of March 1803, and alſo to the Rupture with France; together
with the Dates at which the ſame were reſpectively received - - - p. 4,
EAST - INDIA HOUSE, - A
the 26th April 1804. *.
*
r * . - $
R E T U R N to the Aét of the 33d of His preſent Majeſty; relating to the Annual
Accounts of the Eaft-luºia Company - - - - - - - - - - - - - P. 5.
*
- [ s ]
(No. 1.)
An ACCOUNT of the Dates of all Diſpatches tranſmitted
by the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the Eaſt-
India Company, to the ſeveral Preſidencies in India; relative to
His Mäjeſty's Meſſage to Parliament of the 8th March 1803, and
to the Rupture with France: Together with an Account of the
Receipt of thoſe Diſpatches in India.
* IRCULAR Letter from the Secret Committee to the ſeveral
* 2 Preſidencies in India, dated the 17th March 1803; forwarded by
ea and Land,—Received, in Bengal the 5th July; at Fort St. George
the 3d Auguſt; and at Bombay the 24th Auguſt, 1803.
Circular Letter from the Secret Committee to the ſeveral Preſidencies
in India, dated the 17th May 1803; forwarded by Sea and Land.—
Received, in Bengal the 13th September; at Fort St. George the 3d
September; and at Bombay the 21ſt Auguſt, 1803. !
EAST - INDIA HO US E,
the 26th April 1804.
4. Ramſay,
Secº.
- (No. 2.)
An A C CO UNT of the Dates of Diſpatches ſent by the Court
of Dire&tors of the Eaft-India Company, or the Secret Com-
mittee of the ſame, to the Iſland of St. Helena ; with Reference
to His Majeſty's Meſſage to Parliament of the 8th Day of
March 1803, and alſo to the Rupture with France: Together
with the Dates at which the ſame were reſpectively received.
**
*
- COPY of His Majeſty's Meſſage to the Houſe of Commons, of
* * the 8th March 1803, was tranſmitted to the Governor of St.
Helena, with a Letter from the Secret Committee, dated the 17th of
that Month; which Diſpatch arrived at that Iſland the 6th June.
In a Diſpatch dated the 2d June 1803, the Governor of St. Helena
was informed that Hoſtilities had commenced between Great Britain
and the French Republic, which was forwarded by the Ships Comet and
Georgiana. The Comet was captured by the French the 1ſt July; the
Georgiana ſailed from Portſmouth the 25th Auguſt, and arrived at
St. Helena the 23d November. -
EAST - IND I A HOUSE, *
26th April 1804. sº
A. Ramſay,
Secºy.
*
;RETURN to the Aét of the 33d of His preſent Majeſty,
Cap. 52, Sec. 126; requiring certain Accounts of the Revenues,
Charges, &c. of the Eaſt-India Company to be laid before both
Houſes of Parliament. *
HE Non-Arrival of the Accounts from Bengal, for the Years
* 1802-3 and 1803-4, has rendered it impoſſible to prepare the
:Statements required by the Aćt above-mentioned within the Period.
*
limited.
- E A S T - J N D I A H O U S E,
26th April 1894.
JW. Ramſay,
Secºy.
gº
Copies or Extracts of all Diſpatches or Correſpondence
received from INDIA, fince the laſt Seſſion of
Parliament, relative to Hoſtilities between the BRITISH
GoverNMENTs and a Marhatta Chief, called JEswunt
Rao HolkAR, and the Cauſes thereof; as far as is
conſiſtent with the Public Service, and the good Faith
due to Perſons from whom Secret Intelligence may
$*
have been received.
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Ordered to be printed 11th February 1805,
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L I S. T.
E XTRA C T B E N G AL SECRET CONSULTATIONS,
T H E 2D M.A R C H I 8o 4:
Received per Tigris, 13th December 1804.
letter from General Lake to the Marquis of Welleſley; dated Head Quarters, Camp
Nehmeda, Dec. 19th, 1803; incloſing Tranſlate of a Letter from Jeſwunt Rao Holkar to
the General - iº. wº tº gº — , - & º - - p. I to 2.
Tranſlate of a Letter from the Marquis of Welleſley to Jeſwunt Rao Holkar - - ibid.
From Jeſwunt Rao Holkar to General Lake - - wº tºº - - - ibid.
From the Governor General in Council to the Commander in Chief ; I3th Jan. 1804, p. 3.
From General Lake to the Marquis Welleſley; dated Bruna, 28th Dec. 1803 - p. 4.
From Jeſwunt Rao Holkar to his Excellency the Commander in Chief; dated 1ſt Ramzan,
or 15th Dec. 1803 – gº gº - - tº tººl gº * * * - ibid.
From Marquis Welleſley to Jeſwunt Rao Holkar - - assº º tº º - p. 5.
From General Lake to Marquis Welleſley; dated Head Quarters, Camp near Bruna, 29th
Dec. 1803; incloſing one from the General to Jeſwunt Rao Holkar - - - ibid.
From Marquis Welleſley to Géneral Lake; dated 17th January 1804 - - - p. 6.
ſº
From General Lake to the Marquis Welleſley; dated Head Quarters, Camp near Beaná,
30th January 1804; incloſing a Letter from the General to Holkar - pp. IO-II.
From General Eake to Marquis Welleſley; 3d February 1804; incloſing two Letters
of traiterous Correſpondence between Ramedgah, Holkar, and Gholaum Mahomed
pp. II-I2.
Extract of Letter from General Lake to the Governor General; Ioth February 1804 p. 13.
From General Lake to the Marquis welleſley, dated Head Quarters, Camp near Sorrat,
IIth February 1804; incloſing Extract of a Diſpatch from Captain Baillie (in
Bundlecund) - - * sº gº dº ſº gº ſº tºº - ibid.
From the Honourable Major General Welleſley to the Governor General; incloſing Letters
to and from Caſhee Rao Holkar gºe gº º tº as º º - p. I4.
/
Extraćt of Letter from Marquis Welleſley to the Honourable Major General Welleſley;
dated 17th January 1804; incloſing, Inſtructions to the Commander in Chief, and to the
Major General, in regard to the courſe of Policy to be obſerved with Holkar - p. I5.
F. XT R A CT
Ex TRACT OF BEN GAL SECRET CONSULTATIONS,
T H E L 2 TH APRIL 1894 :
Received per Tigris, 13th December 1804.
Letter from General Lake to the Marquis of Welleſley; dated Head Quarters, Camp
Hendown, Feb. 27th 1804, with Incloſures from Jeſwunt Rao Holkar - pp. 15–16.
From General Lake to Marquis Welleſley; 28th Feb. 1804; incloſing the General's Reply
to Holkar, and other Letters and Correſpondence - • ' se º - pp. 16–17.
From the Commander in Chief to the Governor General; March Iſt, 1804; incloſing a
Letter from the Begum Sumroos to Lieut. Colonel Ochterlony - gº. * p. 18.
From General Lake to Marquis Welleſley; dated Head Quarters, Camp Ramghur, 19th
March 1804; incloſing, Letters preſented by Holkar's Vakeels; Minutes of the Conver-
ſation which paſſed at their Interview -–and Letter from the Commander in Chief to
Holkar º Aºs sº gº cº º sº gº tºº tº- tºº - pp. 19–22.
From General Lake to Marquis Welleſley; dated Head Quarters, Camp near Ballahiera,
26th March 1804 - - - - - - - - - - - - sº tº - p. 23.
From the Same, to the Same ; 29th March 1804. Fº sº tº ſº tº p. 24.
Encloſure in a Letter from the Gover Nor GENERAL to the SECR ET COMMITTEE ; dated
22d March, 1804 –Received overland 26th Auguſt 1804 ; (Major Malcolm, Reſident
*~~ $.
at Scindia's Durbar, to the Governor General), - - - - - - p. 25.
Letter from the Chief Secretary of the Governor General in Council of Bengal, to the
Secretary of the Court of Directors; dated 24th March 1804:—Received per Ship
Lady Caſtlereagh, 31ſt Oétober 1804 - - - gº º ge - - ibid.
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sº
Extract Letter from the Governor in Council of Bombay to the Secret Committee; dated
17th May 1804; with Encloſures:—Received overland, the 9th September 1804, p. 26.
Copies and Extraas of all Diſpatches or Correſpondence
received from 1 ND I A, fince the laſt Seſſion of
Parliament, relative to Hoſtilities between the
B R IT IS H . GOVE R N M EN T S and a MARHATTA
CHief, called J E SW UNT - RAO HOL KAR,
and the Cauſes thereof; as far as is conſiſtent with the
Public Service, and the good Faith due to Perſons from
whom Secret Intelligence may have been received.
E XTRA C T B E N G A L S E C R. ET C O N S U L T AT I O N S,
THE 2d MARCH 18 o 4:
Received per Tigris 13th December 1804.
N° 90. *
99 To his Excellency the moſt Noble MARQUIs WEI, LESLEY,
Governor General, &c. &c. &c. 3.
My Lord, ~
†N OR your Lordſhip's information, I have the honour to encloſe Copy of a Letter
£" addreſſed to me by Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, with my Reply thereto.
I have endeavoured to reply to this Chief, whoſe ſtyle appears arrogant and
improper, with firmneſs and dignity, avoiding at the ſame time any expreſſions
in the ſmalleſt degree hoſtile. - w
I am inclined to think, that in addreſfing this Letter to me, he has been
aćtuated by a wiſh to impreſs me with a high idea of his power, and to draw from
me an anſwer, the poſſeſſion of which might tend to encreaſe his conſequence
among the Native Powers. *
The Rao Rajah, with whom we have entered into alliance, has tranſmitted to
me a Letter which he has received from Holkar, and which I encloſe for your
Lordſhip's information ; fimilar Letters have, I underſtand, been addreſſed to the
ſeveral Rajpoot Chieftains.
Notwithſtanding the hoſtile intentions which theſe expreſs, I cannot imagine
that they are intended for any other purpoſe than to enable him, with greater eaſe,
to enforce his exačtions.
Should he, however, have been otherwiſe diſpoſed, the Alliances which have
been recently formed, the mutinous ſtate of his Army, and the precautions I have
taken to prevent his advances into his country, muſt have effected an alteration
in his deſigns. -- *
* t I have the honour to be, &c.
:- Head Quarters, 4. G. L. A K E.
Camp, Nehmeda, Dec. 19, 1803. * * A.
19. - B
N° 204.
\
2. D IS PAT CHES, &c. FROM INDIA.
N° 225. Tranſlate of a Letter from JEsw UNT RAo HolkAR to his
Excellency GENERAL LAKE, &c. &c. &c.
juſt now a Letter from the Moſt Noble of the Nobles Marquis Welleſley,
reſpe&ting the ſtrengthening the foundations of amity and friendſhip between me
and the Engliſh Government (Company) together with copy of a Treaty, and other
documents of a friendly kind, have been received. An appropriate anſwer, dićtated
by me, has been ſent, and all matters ſhall be adjuſted at a proper time. Let the
copy of the Letter which I encloſe relieve your mind from uneaſineſs; do you
ſtrive to cement the bonds of friendſhip and good underſtanding with us.
When I was encamped in the Meevah, after ſettling the contribution, I moved
{ to Sark and Nampoore, and you have marched to the neighbourhood of Machery,
where Iny whole intention is to conform to the inſtrućtions of Lord Welleſley. I
have not the moſt diſtant deſign to ſay any thing improper; but as your near
approach to my vićtorious Army appears to me likely to produce unpleaſant circum-
ſtances, I have therefore written to you, that agreeably to the rules of friendſhip
and true amity, you will move towards. Agra, and employ yourſelf in ſettling the
affairs of Delhi, the ſeat of Government ; and hereafter, whatever engagements and
arrangements ſhall be ſettled with Lord Welleſley ſhall be communicated. In reſpect
to your retiring to Agra, and other points, poſitive orders will be ſent to you by
Lord Welleſley.
; It is conformable to friendſhip, that you do not make any delay in this buſineſs,
but immediately go back, and make me happy by writing to me.
(A true Tranſlate.)
*g.
(Signed) . j. Gerard,
- P. T.
No 206 Tranſlate of a Letter from the Marquis WELLESLEY, &c. &c.
N9 2 Oö,
to JEswunt Rao Ho LKAR.
A long time had elapſed ſince I received the glad tidings of your welfare, and
was made happy. -
It is your Well-wiſher's earneſt, deſire to raiſe the friendſhip and good under-
ſtanding which exiſt between the Engliſh Company and you, to the higheſt pitch; and,
with this view, I ſend to you copy of the Treaty concluded between the Engliſh
Government at Pautewah at Baſſein, by which it will appear to your enlightened
underſtanding, the ſafety and future Peace of Hindoſtan are provided for; and the
12th Article, which ſecures the independency of the Marhatta Chiefs and Jaghire-
dars, and Relatives of the Holkar family, are included therein. This will be cauſe
of joy to your mind; my exertion ſhall be uſed to relieve your mind from all cauſe
of fear or apprehenſion. The welfare and proſperity of your Houſe reſt in this
Treaty, and it is certain nothing contrary to this can happen. Let others ačt as
they chooſe; it is relied upon, with the utmoſt confidence, that whatever can
draw cloſe the ties of friendſhip between the Company and you will be per-
formed. *.
This will be delivered to you by Cader Nawaz Khan, a man of reſpectability,
and in my confidence, who will explain to you all my wiſhes and views.
*- (A true Tranſlate.)
(Signed) j. Gerard,
P. T.
T R A N S L A T E.
Nº. 207, YourLetter, incloſing one to your Addreſs from the high-titled Nawaub, the Moſt
Noble of the Nobles the Governor General, has arrived. *}
Its contents are underſtood.—To learn that the wife counſel contained in the
Governor General's letter has made a due impreſſion on your mind, and that all
your
RESPECTING JESW UN T R A O HOL K.A. R. 3.
your future Aétions will be directed towards the ſtrengthening the ties of friendſhip
and amity, will afford me great ſatisfaction.
When the firm adherence of the Engliſh Government to its engagement is
known to the whole world, on this account our ſtedfaſt and conſtant attention is
direéted to the preſervation of the power and dignity of our Allies, and to guard
their intereſts; and it is alſo the firm reſolution of our minds to cruſh the pride
and evil deſigns of our Enemies.
When our vićtorious Army moved towards your quarter, it was cauſed by the
devaſtation and ravages committed by the Troops of Scindia; by the aid of the
Almighty, thoſe Troops were ſpeedily ſubdued and deſtroyed, and Vićtory attended
-*IS.
All the Princes of the Country, ſuch as the Rajahs of Jeypore, joudpoore, the
Rao Rajah, and others, conſulting their true intereſts and welfare, have concluded
Treaties of Alliance and Friendſhip with the Engliſh Government; and as the ſafety,
maintenance of the dignity, and ſecurity of our Allies, is the conſtant objećt of our
attention, our future movements and marches muſt be governed by the terms of the
Treaties exiſting between us and our Allies, and by a due attention to the main-
tenance of the juſt rights of the Engliſh Government.
In adherence to our engagements, we will guard and maintain the intereſts of our
Allies in oppoſition to all Enemies.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) j. Gerard,
." P. T.
'Extraćt Letter from the Governor General in Council to the
Commander in Chief.
Dated 13th January 1894.
Para. 8. The Honourabie Major General Welleſley has not yet been apprized
of the ſentiments of the Governor General in Council with regard to the ſpecific
terms of any engagements to be concluded with Jeſwunt Rao Holkar.
9. Under theſe circumſtances, there is no cauſe to apprehend that the engage-
ments which your Excellency may contračt with the States of Oudepore and Kotah
will interfere with any arrangements which Major General Welleſley may conclude
either with Dowlut Rao Scindia or Jeſwunt Rao Holkar. - w
lo. In negociating the terms of ſuch engagements, however, it may be adviſable
that your Excellency ſhould aſcertain whether Scindia or Holkar poſſeſs any claims
on the Ranah of Oudepore or the Kotah Rajah, and what is the nature of thoſe
claims: at the ſame time, the Governor General in Council is of opinion, that
“Dowlut Rao Scindia being in a ſtate of war with the Britiſh Government, and
Jeſwunt Rao Holkar exerciſing an uſurped authority over the dominions of the
Holkar family, neither of thoſe Chieftains can poſſeſs any claims on Oudepore and
- Kotah, which may not juſtly be ſuſpended by convention between the Britiſh Go-
vernment and the two latter States.
11. Jeſwunt Rao Holkar can advance no claims on thoſe States which are not
ºfounded on thoſe of Caſhee Rao Holkar, the legitimate Heir and Succeſſor of Tuck-
agee Holkar. --
12. If Caſhee Rao Holkar ſhould appear to poſſeſs any juſt claims on Oudepore or
Kotah, a reſervation may be included in our engagements with thoſe States, for the
future ſatisfaction of ſuch claims,
13. It is however probable that any claims, either of Scindia or of the Holkar
family, for annual tribute from the Rajpoot Chiefs, muſt be founded in the pre-
…tenſions of the Mogul Emperor, or of the Peſhwa, and in either caſe the adjuſtment
of ſuch claims will be a proper ſubjećt of conſideration in the general ſettlement
which muſt follow the concluſion of Peace in Hindoſtan and the Deccan.
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4. D IS PATC HES, &c. FROM IND I A,
N° 222.
'No 223.
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MARQUIs WELLESLEY, Governor General, &c. &c. &c.
No. 1 off. s
My Lord,
I have the honour to tranſmit for your Lordſhip's information, Copy of a
Letter this moment received from Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, covering a Letter, from the
heading of which it appears to have been received from your Lordſhip ; but from
its contents I am inclined to think it is from the Honourable Major General
Welleſley, or that it muſt be a forgery of his own for ſome hidden purpoſe.
A reply will immediately be diſpatched, couched in the moſt friendly terms, and
aſſuring him that the Britiſh Government has no intention of a&ting hoſtilely to-
wards him, but at the ſame time hint the neceſſity of his avoiding to commit de-
predations on the territories of our Allies, as a deſirable proof of his friendly
diſpoſition.
From the general tenor of this Letter, it would appear that he wiſhes to be on
friendly terms with the Britiſh Government ; but at this moment his condućt is ſo
extraordinary, that I am at a loſs to gueſs what meaſures he may ultimately adopt:
he is at preſent levying contributions, and otherwiſe diſtreſſing the country in the
neighbourhood of Kotah, and I have certain intelligence of his having lately put
to death the Engliſh Officers in his ſervice, Captains Vickers, Todd, and Ryan.
I hope to have the honour, in the courſe of a few days, to ſend your Lordſhip
more ſatisfactory intelligence on this head; in the mean time, I beg your Lordſhip
will be aſſured that no exertions on my part ſhall be wanting to confirm this friendly
diſpoſition, and enſure an amicable arrangement between this Chief and the Britiſh
:Government. i
Allow me to expreſs a wiſh to be honoured with your Lordſhip's ſentiments on
this ſubjećt as ſoon as poſſible.
Head Quarters, Camp near Bruna, I have the honour to be, &c.
28th Dec. 18o3. * *G. L. A. K.E.
1 o’Clock, P. M.
A Copy of my Reply to Holkar ſhall be immediately forwarded to your
Lordſhip. -
G. L. A. K. F. .
Tranſlation of a Letter from JEswunt Rao Holk AR to his Excellency
the Commander in Chief; dated Ift Ramzan, or 15th December 1893.
Previous to this I tranſmitted a copy of a Letter from the Moſt noble Marquis
Welleſley, and wrote to you on other points; theſe will have reached you.
Juſt now another Letter has been received from Marquis Welleſley, a copy of
which is incloſed. * - • -- ~ * -
After learning the contents thereof, agreeably thereto, you will ſtrive to ſtrengthen
the foundation of friendſhip between me and the Engliſh Government.
Letters of a ſimilar purport will be ſent from Marquis Welleſley to that benefačtor
of the world. A. t . * • * -
From me you ſhall never hear any other language than that of friendſhip, but if
any thing contrary to friendſhip ſhall appear from you, I am helpleſs. tº
As you are wiſe, and poſſeſſed of forefight, it is moſt certain that always keeping
your eye fixed on the preſervation of friendſhip between the two States, and on the
maintenance of the true intereſts of your own Government, you will continually
labour to increaſe the ties of amity between the two ſides. *
Make me happy by frequent and friendly Letters.
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) j. Gerard,
P. T.
P RESPECTING JES WUNT R A O Ho LKA R. 3
Tranſlation of a Letter from MARQUIs WELLESLEY to JEsw UNT
RAO Hol K.A.R. !
After expreſſions of attachment and amity, which is the rule of friendſhip, be it
known to you, your kind Letter teeming with friendſhip, and cloathed with expreſ-
ſions of encreaſing attachment, has arrived, and conveyed to me great pleaſure and
fatisfaction; upon learning the ſtrengthened foundations of ſincerity and friendſhip
between the two States, my mind was filled with confidence.
Your exalted friendſhip, which is clear from the contents of your friendly Letter,
has been detailed to Government ; and when an anſwer ſhall be received, it will be
forwarded to you. ; *
By the bleſfing of God, to the full extent of that friendſhip which has of old
exiſted between you and the Engliſh Government, I have taken upon myſelf to
obtain from Government the adjuſtment of every point. º
From whatever was agreed upon the firſt day, no deviation ſhall be made
therefrom. $
Let your noble heart be at eaſe; and keep me in remembrance by friendly Letters,
and by calling upon me to do what is proper and becoming,
(A true Tranſlation.)
(Signed) j. Gerard,
P. T.
/
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble MARQUIs WELLEsley,
3. Governor General, &c. &c. &c. Af
My Lord,
I have now the honour, for your Lordſhip's information, to tranſmit copy of my
Reply to Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, copy of whoſe Letter addreſſed to me accompanied
my diſpatch of yeſterday's date.
I have the honour, &c. •
Head Quarters, G. L. A. K. E.
Camp near Bruna, 29th Dec. 1803.
Copy of a Letter addreſſed to Jeswunt Rao Hol. KAR.
Your friendly Letter, encloſing copy of one from the Nawaub the moſt Noble of
the Nobles the Governor General Marquis Welleſley, arrived in a happy moment; to
learn of your welfare, and of the ſincerity of attachment expreſſed by your friendly
pen, was the cauſe of great ſatisfaction to me.
The contents of the Governor General's Letters relating to the bonds of amity -
between the two States, are clearly underſtood.
I conſider it incumbent on me to uſe my beſt endeavours to increaſe the ties of
amity, and to ſtrengthen the foundations of friendſhip between you and the Engliſh
Government. It is conformable to the rules of friendſhip that you alſo make the
increaſe of the regulations of amity the conſtant objećt of your attention. *
By the favour of God, I ſhall do no one ačt which is contrary to the rules of
friendſhip ; and it is proper that you always perſevere in a fimilar amicable line of
condućt, and make me happy by frequently letting me hear of your welfare,
(A true Tranſlation.)
f
(Signed) j. Gerard,
** P. T.
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No 224,
N° 225,
No 225.
6 D IS PATCHES, &c. FROM IN DIA,
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Nº 227. To his Excellency General LAKE, Commander in Chief.
Official, N° 22.
(Secret.)
Sir, . . . - ;
Para. I.--I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's
diſpatches, under date the 19th, 28th, and 29th December 1803, and I entirely
approve your Excellency's condućt towards Jefwunt Rao Holkar, and the Letters
which you have addreſſed to that Chieftain. -
2. The Letters of which Jeſwunt Rao Holkar has tranſmitted copies to your
Excellency, muſt have been forwarded to Holkar by Major General Welleſley in his
own Name. I have not addreſſed any Letter to Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, but Major
General Welleſley was authorized by my inſtructions of the 28th of June to open an
amicable negociation with that Chieftain. - ... •
3. It is now expedient to decide the courſe to be purſued with reſpect to Jeſwunt
Tao Holkar. w
4. The great diſtance of the Honourable.Major General Welleſley's poſition from
the Camp of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, muſt render the intercourſe difficult from that
quarter; and as your Excellency’s ſituation is more likely to be convenient for that
purpoſe, it is my intention that your Excellency ſhould immediately open a
negociation with Jeſwunt Rao Holkar.
A copy of this diſpatch will be immediately tranſmitted to the Honourable
Major General Welleſley, with a view to enable that Officer to promote the objećts
of theſe inſtrućtions, if circumſtances ſhould bring the Army of Major General
Welleſley within a convenient diſtance of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar's camp.
6. The authority exerciſed by Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, in the name of Kundee
Rao, over the poſſeſſions of the Holkar family, is manifeſtly an uſurpation of the
rights of Caſhee Rao Holkar, the legitimate heir and ſucceſſor of Serkojee Holkar.
Conſiſtently therefore with the principles of juſtice, no arrangement can be propoſed
between the Britiſh Government and Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, involving a ſañétion of
Caſhee Rao Holkar from his hereditary dominions. - --
7. Under the ſančtion of his Highneſs the Peſhwa's authority, the Britiſh
Government would be juſtified in adopting meaſures for the limitation of Jeſwunt
Rao Holkar's power, and for the reſtoration of Caſhee Rao Holkar's rights, either
by force or compromiſe; and the ſpirit of our engagement with his Highneſs the
Peſhwa, might be conſidered to impoſe on the Britiſh Government an obligation
to comply with a requiſition on the part of his Highneſs for that purpoſe. Under
the public protećtion of the Britiſh Government, the Peſhwa may not now be
anxious for the redućtion of Holkar's power, or for the reſtoration of Caſhee Rao
Holkar to his hereditary rights; but it may be expected that his Highneſs would
readily concur in a propoſition for the reſtoration of Caſhee Rao, and for the puniſh-
ment of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar.
8. Although the Britiſh Government is precluded, by conſiderations of juſtice,
from the adoption of any arrangement with Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, involving a
formal confirmation of his uſurped authority, or that of Kundee Rao, over the poſ.
feſſion of the Holkar family, we are not required swith the expreſs ſolicitation of
the Peſhwa to employ our influence or arms for the reſtoration of Caſhee Rao
Holkar to his hereditary dominions. \ , , * * * - F - *z as
9. The Britiſh Government, therefore, may be conſidered to be at liberty to
adopt either of the alternatives ſtated in the following Propoſitions: -
1ſt. To reſtore to Caſhee Rao Holkar the poſſeſſion of his hereditary rights;
ſecuring at the ſame time a proviſion for Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, and for
Kundee Rao; this propoſition would neceſſarily involve the reduction of
Jeſwunt Rao Holkar's power either by force or by compromiſe.
3d. To confider jeſwunt Rao Holkar as a power abſolutely neutral, and to limit
our proceedings with reſpe&t to him, to the protection of our territories,
and of our Allies, againſt his encroachments and exačtions.
I c. The enterprizing ſpirit, military charaćter, and ambitious views of Jeſwunt
Rao Holkar, render the redućtion of his power a deſirable objećt with reference to
the complete eſtabliſhment of tranquility in India. The reſtoration of Caſhee Rao
• *, ! Holkar
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RESPECTING JES w UNT RAO HOLKAR. 7
Holkar to his hereditary rights, by the aid and under the protećtion of the Britiſh
Power, would be highly creditable to the juſtice and honour of the Britiſh Govern-
ment, and advantageous to its intereſts; it might be expected that Caſhee Rao
would readily acquieſce in any arrangement which might be deemed adviſable, for
the ſecurity of our intereſts, as the condition of his reſtoration. Indebted to out
power for the recovery of his rights, and depending on our ſupport for their pre-
ſervation, his intereſts would be permanently conſolidated with that of the Britiſh
Government, his reſtoration would obtain the concurrence and applauſe of every
State in India, and would afford, to the Peſhwa an additional proof of our ſincere
diſpoſition to reſpect the rights of the Marhatta Feudatories, and to fulfil the obli-
gations of our public faith.
13. I ſhould not heſitate therefore, in determining to effect the reſtoration of
Caſhee Rao Holkar to his hereditary dominions, if the meaſures neceſſary for the
accompliſhment of that objećt had not involved difficulties and embarraſſments which
could not be compenſated by the probable benefits of the propoſed arrangements.
12. Adverting to the perſonal charaćter, and to the ačtual power and reſources
of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, it cannot be expe&ted that he would acquieſce in ſuch an
arrangement without a conteſt. - -* * •
13. Admitting, however, that the terror of our arms might induce Jeſwunt
Rao Holkar to acquieſce in the reſtoration of Caſhee Rao Holkar to his hereditary
rights, the adjuſtment of the details of ſuch an arrangement would probably occa-
-ſion a protracted and embarraſſing inveſtigation of the rights and pretenſions of the
ſeveral branches of the Holkar family, and we could not prudently withdraw our
Armies until that arrangement ſhould have been accompliſhed, ſince Holkar might
not ultimately conſent to the terms preſcribed to him, and it would then be ne-
ceſſary to enforce our determination by arms; if Peace ſhould not have been pre-
viouſly concluded with Dowlut Rao Scindia, he might acquire in the power and
revenues of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, additional means of protračting the war.
14. On the other hand, it is proper to conſider the degree of danger to be ap-
prehended from leaving Jeſwunt Rao Holkar in the poſſeſſion of his preſent mili-
tary power and territorial reſources. . . .
15. The vicinity of the territory ačtually under Holkar's authority, to the pro-
vince of Guzerat, would afford him an opportunity of fomenting and ſupporting the
turbulence and diſaffection of the Enemies of our intereſts in that quarter of India.
The contiguity of his poſſeſſions to thoſe which Scindia will probably retain at the
concluſion of Peace, and to the territory guaranteed to Rajah Ambajee, might fa-
cilitate an union of intereſts between Holkar and thoſe Chieftains; an additional
danger may alſo be apprehended in the exiſtence of a military independent power,
in the hands of an enterpriſing and ambitious Chieftain, who muſt be ſuppoſed to be
intereſted in the redućtion of our influence and aſcendancy in India, and who may
therefore be expected to avail himſelf of any favourable opportunity to combine
the employment of his power and reſources with any eventual attempts on the part
of France to diſturb the tranquillity of the Britiſh Empire. ... t -
16. To theſe ſpeculative dangers are to be oppoſed the acceſſion of political,
territorial, and military ſtrength, which we muſt acquire at the concluſion of the
preſent War, and the effect of that augmented ſtrength, and of our recent alliances,
in precluding the ſucceſsful application of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar's power and re-
fources to purpoſes injurious to the intereſts and ſecurity of the Britiſh Empire.
17. If a ſubſidiary Britiſh Force be eſtabliſhed in the dominions retained by
Dowlut Rao Scindia, any dangerous connection between that Chieftain and Jeſ-
wunt Rao Holkar will be effectually prevented, and the exiſtence of a Britiſh Force
in the vicinity-of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar's poſſeſſions will eſſentially tend to check
any hoſtile proječts on the part of that Chieftain. The vigilance of our Reſident at
Scindia's court may alſo be expected to impoſe a reſtraint on the deſigns of
Holkar, - r -> . .
18. No ſtate of circumſtances can be reaſonably ſuppoſed which could induce
Ambajee to conneét himſelf with Jefwunt Rao Holkar for purpoſes hoſtile to the
Britiſh Government. f - - -
19. , Any intrigues between Holkar and this diſaffe&ted Chieftain, in Guzerat,
would probably be effectually checked by the vicinity of our Troops, or by the
wigilance of the public Officers of Government; but hoſtile combinations, of º
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limited a nature cannot be conſidered dangerous to the ſtability of the Britiſh power.
Our recent conqueſts and alliances afford us the means of advancing our Troops
to the frontiers of Holkar's poſſeſſions, without difficulty or interruption, from the
South-weſt and from the North-eaſt, and will enable us to employ the military
power of the Rajpoots, and of Ambajee, in offenſive operations againſt the dominions
of that Chieftain. The territory of the Holkar family will be ſurrounded by States
either in alliance with us, and intereſted in maintaining that alliance, or not ſuffi-
ciently powerful to contribute any important aid to his deſigns. His proceedings
will be ſubjećt to the vigilant obſervation of Britiſh authorities, and his country
acceſſible on all ſides to Britiſh Armies and Britiſh Allies. - .*
20. It may be further obſerved, that in proportion to the defect of Holkar's
title, it would be his intereſt to abſtain from any meaſures Calculated to excite the
reſentment of the Britiſh Government. * * *, -
21. Theſe circumſtances would tend in an equal degree to preclude any com-
bination between Jeſwunt Rao Holkar and the emiſſaries or the forces of France.
With a circumſcribed territory, and with a confined field of ačtion, Jeſwunt Rao
Holkar’s military power would probably decay. He has been enabled to maintain
his preſent extenſive Armies, almoſt excluſively, by exačtions from Foreign States,
and by the acquiſition and the hope of plunder. An Army, maintained excluſively
by the reſources of the territory which Jeſwunt Rao Holkar occupies, would neither
be numerous nor effective. i . . . . . . .
22. An immediate attempt therefore to reſtore Caſhee Rao Holkar to his here-
ditary rights, would involve more poſitive and certain difficulty and danger than
could be juſtly apprehended from the continuance of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar in the
poſſeſſion of the territories aétually under his authority. A pacific condućt towards
Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, in the preſent moment, will not preclude the future reſtoration
of Caſhee Rao Holkar to the poſſeſſion of his hereditary rights. The previous adjuſt-
ment of our differences with Dowlut Rao Scindia, and the final ſettlement of our new
political relations, together with the reſtoration of general tranquillity in India,
may be expected to afford additional facilities to a ſettlement of our relations
with the Holkar family, if ſuch a ſettlement ſhould ultimately be deemed ad-
viſable. - ..
23. It will be neceſſary however to regulate our proceedings with reſpect to
Jeſwunt Rao Holkar in ſuch a manner, as to avoid any acknowledgement or
confirmation of the legitimacy of his dominion, or of that of Kundee Rao
Holkar. *, § --
24. The confiderations, detailed in the preceding part of this diſpatch, have
determined me not to make any immediate attempt to reſtore Caſhee Rao Holkar
to the poſſeſſion of his hereditary dominions, and I am alſo diſpoſed to leave Jeſwunt
Rao Holkar in the exerciſe of his preſent authority, without any further inter-
poſition of the Britiſh Power than that which may be required for the ſecurity
of the Chiefs and States in Hindoſtan with whom we have contraćted defenſive
alliances; thoſe Chiefs and States muſt be protećted by arms againſt any exačtions
on the part of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, founded in the pretended claims of the
Holkar family: we are pledged by the ſpirit of our engagements to ſecure thoſe
Allies againſt ſuch exačtions. * A 4
25. My ſentiments on the ſubjećt of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar's ſuppoſed claims
upon thoſe Chiefs and States, "are detailed in the diſpatch from the Governor
General in Council to your Excellency, under date the 13th inſtant : a copy of
that diſpatch has been tranſmitted to the Honourable Major General Welleſley.
, 26. It may be expected that Jeſwunt Rao Holkar will acquieſce in this
moderate propoſition on the part of the Britiſh Government. His refuſal will pre-
clude all expectation of his concurrence in any other arrangement, conſiſtent with
the obligations of Juſtice and of Public Faith, and will require a redućtion of his
power by force. f g
27. For the accompliſhment of the propoſed arrangement, it will merely be
neceſſary that your Excellency ſhould ſignify to Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, either by letter
or through the channel of Vakeels, whom he may be invited to diſpatch either to
your Excellency's Camp, or to that of the Honourable Major General Welleſley,
as may be moſt convenient for the purpoſe of negociation, that the Britiſh Govern-
ment entertains the moſt amicable diſpoſition towards him, and harbours no inten
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tion of proſecuting hoſtilities againſt him, unleſs compelled to that extremity by
aćts of aggreſſion on his part againſt the Britiſh Government or any of its Ailies.
That the Britiſh Government is pledged, by the obligation of its engagements with
various Chiefs and States in Hindoſtan, to guarantee them againſt all exačtions and
demands unfounded in juſtice ; that we do not admit his claim to tribute, of any
denomination, upon thoſe Chiefs and States, founded upon the pretenſions of the
Holkar family, and that we ſhall therefore be compelled to reſiſt any ſuch demands
on the part of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar ; that, with the conſent of his Highneſs the
Peſhwa, the Britiſh Government will be diſpoſed to arbitrate the differences ſubfiſting
between Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, and to adjuſt the claims of the ſeveral branches of
the Family, on the principles of equity and juſtice; that we are defirous of preſerving
Peace with Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, and that we will abſtain from any unſolicited inter-
ference in his concerns beyond the limits required for the protećtion and ſecurity
of the rights and territories of our Allies, and that we merely require that he ſhould
manifeſt a ſimilar condućt, by abſtaining from all meaſures and operations of a
contrary tendency, by withdrawing his Troops from any poſition which they may at
preſent occupy of a menacing aſpećt to the Britiſh Government or to our Allies,
and by withholding all demands on the States or Chieftains with which the Britiſh
Government is in alliance. If Jeſwunt Rao Holkar ſhould advance any claims on
thoſe States in his individual capacity, the Britiſh Government will be diſpoſed to
arbitrate all ſuch claims on principles of equity and juſtice, and generally to
arbitrate all claims on any of our Allies, by firmilar rules of moderation and good
faith. * *
28. On the baſis of the propoſed arrangement, your Excellency is authorized to
enter into a negociation with Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, exerciſing your diſcretion with
regard to the degree of ſecurity which we may poſſeſs under jeſwunt Rao Holkar's
acquieſcence in the terms of any ſuch arrangement. --
29. If Holkar's views ſhould appear to be evidently hoſtile, your Excellency will
judge how far it might be expedient to move againſt his forces; my wiſh is to avoid
ſuch an extremity: and, if Peace with Scindia ſhould be obtained on terms of adequate
ſecurity, I ſhould deſire that the Army under your Excellency’s command ſhould
ſpeedily be formed in ſuch a manner as might effectually expedite the ſecurity and
ſettlement of our valuable conqueſts and powerful alliances.
3o. The ſolidity and ſtrength of our dominions in Hindoſtan, under the ſyſtem
of Treaties and Alliances already happily accompliſhed by your Excellency, will be
confirmed by a Peace with Scindia, under circumſtances of glory and power which
muſt oppoſe an impregnable barrier to the aſſaults of any Native State. The Britiſh
Empire in India, at the cloſe of the war with the Confederate Chiefs, will aſſume an
aſpect of ſuch ſplendour as muſt daunt the moſt adventurous ſpirit of any Chief or
State excluded from the benefits of our protećtion ; I am therefore ſatisfied, that
after the concluſion of Peace with Scindia, Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, inſtead of atternpt-
ing to encounter the Britiſh arms, will anxiouſly ſolicit the countenance and favour
of our Government. The alternative of Peace or War with Scindia is probably
decided, as I am convinced that Major General Welleſley has not renewed the
Armiſtice with Scindia after the 21ſt ultimo. If the war with Scindia ſhould be
pfotraćted, the motions of Holkar muſt be checked without delay, and in ſuch an
event, your Excellency will be pleaſed to confider the expediency of advancing
that part of your force which (previouſly to the peace of Deogaum) was deſtined
for Berar, in ſuch a direction as to operate againſt Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, and ulti-
mately to ſecond Major General Welleſley's movements againſt Scindia. In ſuch
an extremity Major General Welleſley would probably move towards Ougein.
31. My wiſh and expectation are, however, that a Peace has ačtually been figned
-with Scindia, and if my hopes ſhould be confirmed, I truſt that the fame of the
Britiſh power will deter Holkar, and every adventurer in Aſia, for many years, from
encountering the perils of a raſh conteſt with the Britiſh arms. g
32. The intelligence which your Excellency has received of the cruelty exerciſed
by Jeſwunt Rao Holkar towards his Engliſh Officers; in the murder of Meſſrs.
Vickars, Todd, and Ryan, has occaſioned great concern in my mind. The particulars
20f this atrocious tranſačtion, however, muſt be fully aſcertained, before it can become
the ſubject of diſcuſſion with Jeſwunt Rao Holkar. I therefore am anxious to learn
I9. }} furthex
to D IS PAT CHES, &c. FROM IN DIA,
N° 233. (A.)
further details on the ſubjećt, previouſly to the diſpatch of any inſtrućtions to youe
Excellency, founded on the perpetration of ſuch a crime.
* i have the honour to be, &c.
Fort William, _ " W E L L E S L.E. Y.
17th January 1804.
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble MARQUIs W E L LEs LEY,
<ºr & Governor General, &c. &c.
(No. 1 12.)
My Lord,
Para. 1. I had the honour to receive your Lordſhip's Secret Official Diſpatch.
(No. 22.) under date 17th January 1804. *
2. It afforded me infinite ſatisfaction to receive your Fordſhip's apprebation of
the Letters I have addreſſed to Jeſwunt Rao Holkar; my future condućt towards
that Chieftain ſhall be ſtrićtly conformable to the views and wiſhes of your
flordſhip. -.
3. In obedience to the Inſtrućtions contained in the 27th paragraph of your
Lordſhip's diſpatch, I have this day addreſſed a Letter to Jeſwunt Rao Holkar,
(a copy of which is annexed) which, I hope, will diſcover how far it may be
praćticable to carry into effect the pacific arrangements propoſed by your
Lordſhip. - h º: - -
4. Your Lordſhip may be aſſured, that no exertions on my part ſhall be wanting
to accompliſh this defirable end, which, from the circumſtances of Peace being ac-
tually concluded with the Rajah of Berar, and the general idea entertained by the
Natives, that this event has alſo taken place with Dowlut Rao Scindia (and which
I am inclined to credit) appears now more likely than formerly to be acceded to on
his part. - ".
5. I think it however neceſſary to remark, that the ačtual poſition of Jeſwunt
Rao Holkar's forces at the preſent moment, and his apparent hoſtile intentions to
the Britiſh Government, render it doubtful whether he will conform to the terms
propoſed by your Lordſhip, however advantageous to his own intereſts.
6. His refuſal to withdraw his Forces from their preſent menacing poſition, and to
refrain from future exačtions on thoſe States, with which we have entered into alli-
ances, muſt determine the nature of the meaſures to be adopted reſpecting him.
7. It is my intention to move towards Hindown, and occupy a poſition in that
neighbourhood, which will completely cover the principal roads leading into our
Territories, and enable me to move either way, ſhould the movements of Jeſwunt
Rao Holkar render the precaution neceſſary; in the mean time, it will be my earneſt
endeavour to prevent hoſtilities between the Britiſh Government and this
Chieftain.
8. The circumſtance of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar having put to death Meſſrs. Vickars,
Todd, and Ryan, is ſo minutely detailed by every perſon from whom we are enabled
to receive information, that no doubt remains on my mind that this atrocious ačt
of barbarous policy has been committed. -- . .
9. Thoſe unfortunate Gentlemen were confined on declaring their intention of
availing themſelves of your Excellency's Proclamation. They were afterwards brought
out, and their heads ſevered from their bodies and expoſed on pikes, and the bodies
forbid to be buried, on ſuſpicion of Captain Todd's carrying on a traiterous corre-
ſpondence with me, which never was the caſe. Under the head of the laſt men-
tioned Officer was affixed a paper as a proof of his guilt, ſaid to be a Letter
from me. *
I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
Head Quarters, Camp near Beaná, - G. L.A.K.E.
3oth January 1804. R *
R ESPECT ING JES W UNT RAO HOLKAR, is
(No. 234.)
Copy of a Letter to Jeswunt RAO Hol. KAR ; dated 29th January 1804.
{After compliments) - -
It is the deſire of the Britiſh Government to maintain the relations of friend-
ſhip and amity with you, nor is it diſpoſed to act hoſtilely towards you, ſo long as
you ſhall continue to obſerve faithfully the ties of friendſhip which exiſt between us,
and refrain from moleſting our Allies, to wi.om we are bound by Treaty.
For it is incumbent on the Britiſh Government to provide for the ſafety and fe-
curity of its Allies, and not to allow any one to oppreſs or levy exačtions on them,
which were not founded on juſtice. Whatever claims to tribute from the Princes
of this country may be urged by the Holkar family, ſuch claims cannot be confi-
dered to reſt in you; and ſhould you attempt to exačt tribute from any Chief in
alliance with the Engliſh Government, the ſo doing will be conſidered an infringe-
ment of the friendſhip which ſubſiſts between us, and a violation of good faith.
But adverting to the differences which exiſt between you and Caſhee Rao Holkar,
the Britiſh Government, with the conſent of the Peſhwa, will undertake to mediate
all ſuch differences on principles of equity and juſtice. - , ,
The Britiſh Government, deſirous to preſerve friendſhip with you, will not inter-
fere in your private concerns farther than is neceſſary to their own ſecurity, or to
that of their Allies. To prove the ſincerity of the attachment which you have pro-
feſſed, it is incumbent on you to abſtain from all ačts injurious to the intereſts of
the Britiſh Government or its Allies; and as the preſence of your Army on the
confines of the Dominions of the Britiſh Allies excites great fear and alarms in the
minds of the inhabitants, it is neceſſary to the maintenance of friendſhip, that you
withdraw your Army to your own country, and relinquiſh the intention of levying
tribute from the Aumeer of Oudepore, the Rajah of Jeypore, Oudepore; Kotah, Burt-
pore, Machevey, and Ambajee, ſo that the bonds of friendſhip be not broken aſun-
der; for the levying of any kind of tribute from either of thoſe Princes cannot be
permitted. * * *
It alſo behoves you not to enter the territories of any of the above-mentioned
Chiefs, or any countries which have been conquered or ceded to the Engliſh by
Scindia or the Bhomſlah. In the event of your having perſonal claims on any of
thoſe Chiefs, the Engliſh Government will ſettle them agreeably to juſtice and
moderation. * , …”
The knowledge of the wiſdom and forefight which you poſſeſs, leads to a well
founded confidence that you will find your own intereſt and advantage beſt calcu-
lated by adhering to the friendſhip which now exiſts between you and the Britiſh
Government; and, in order to confirm and forward ſo deſirable an objećt, it is ne-
ceſſary you ſend Ambaſſadors to me or to Major Genèral Welleſley, as a mea-
ſure of propriety. I am hopeful you will frequently favour me with friendly
Letters. -* -
(A true Tranſlation.) -
* , (Signed) j. Gerard,
P. T.
& (No. 236.)
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble MARquis WELLESLEy, K. P. &c. &c.
(No. 1 12.) ~ * f
My Lord, k • -
. . For your Lordſhip's information, I have the honour to encloſe two Letters, con-
taining a traiterous correſpondence between Ramedgah, Holkar, and Gholaum
Mahomed. - t ºr
As a meaſure of precaution, I have informed Mr. Leyceſter of the circumſtance,
directing that Gentleman to take every meaſure in his power to counteraćt the de-
figns of the perſons implicated; but at the ſame time without letting it be known
* N that
Y 2’ D IS PATC HES, &c. FROM IN D.I.A.,
that we are acquainted with their condućt, as at the preſent moment, it would not
be poſſible to detach a force to puniſh them for the treachery, and a temporary
concealment will enable us, when more at leiſure, to make a ſevere example
of them. *
I have no apprehenſion of their proceeding to put their threats into execution;.
ſhould they, however, continue to correſpond with Holkar, I ſhall take every pre-
caution to gain intelligence of it. -
The Fort of Canoun, being in our poſſeſſion, preſents a ſerious obſtacle to an in-
curſion in that quarter, and the ſituation of Naggoo Pundit's force prevents the
poſſibility of his ſpeedily aſfifting them ; and I have reaſon to think that Jeſwunt
Rao Holkar will find much difficulty in prevailing on any of his Troops to
advance. -
have the honour, &c. &c.
Head Quarters, Camp near Bruna, G. L. A K F.
3d February 1804. -
(No. 237.) -
\ º
Tranſlation of a Letter from BUND GALL SING to JEswu NT RAo Holk AR,
dated 15th Ramjam.
Bundgall Sing acknowledges the receipt of Holkar's letter, intimating his in-
tention to ſend Io,000 Horſe under Rao Pundit, and aſſures Holkar of his
and Meer Sing's attachment.
Gholaum Mahomed and the Seik Chiefs, Rao Sing, Sheer Sing, Joude Sing;
Goorpul Sing, and Bhandga Sing are to join, with 5 or 6,ooo Horſe.
There is not a Sepate from the Hurduar to Allahabad and Benares.
Meer Sing and ſelf were always upon the firſt bent on this meaſure, and as the
corps are ready, there is no reaſon for longer delay; you may alſo depend on Mahomed
Khaun : Mudely will write you all particulars.
The reaſon of Meer Sing's not writing, is the preſence of Mr. Leyceſter in the
diſtrićt, with 200 Horſe, which makes it neceſſary to temporize. r
To ſave appearances, Meer Sing and I have ſent my ſon Sewah Sing to procure
the friendſhip of Mr. Leyceſter’s Dewan by every means in his power, and to
obtain Io or 15 Diſtrićts, which will enable us to keep our Troops together. Quickly
decide on this meaſure, as, if not determined on within a month, we muſt purſue
another courſe : delay is ruinous. Let your Meſſengers go by the Malwady Ghaut;
and your Letters to Rampoora.-Kurreem Rao Khan will communicate ſeveral
particulars. º ;’
(A true Tranſlate.)
(Signed) j. Gerard,
- P. T.
(Copy.) -
Tranſlate of a Letter from Rundgall Sing to Gholaum Mohammud; dated
15 Ramgar.
we have called on Holkar to ſend Io, ooo Horſe here; not an Engliſh ſoldier from
this to Allahabad and Benares; you will order Thanteat's troops to move from
Canooim to the neighbourhood of Thamper, where they will be joined by the Seik
Chiefs in union with us. . -
You will alſo march from Mandee, and croſs at Chelhrnoos or Berar
‘Ghauts. -
Meer Sing and myſelf will croſs the Ganges at the Chundy Ghaut, where the
water is ſhallow. - r . . . * * * * . . J
(A true Tranſlate.) -
w JSigned) j. Gerard,
4. * P. T
*
RESPECTING JES wu NT R Ao Ho LKAR, is
-
/
Extract Letter from General LAKE to the Governor General ;
dated Ioth February 1804. * x,
In my Diſpatch of the 3oth ultimo, I had the honour to apprize your Lordſhip
of my intention of occupying a poſition in the neighbourhood of Hindoſtan, in
order to prevent any predatory incurſions, into our newly acquired territories, as
well as to watch the motions of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, from whom I have as yet
received no reply to my Letter, copy of which was forwarded in the diſpatches
above alluded to. - - - -
His Excellency the Moſt Noble MARQUIs WELLEs Ley,
Governor General, &c. &c.
My Lord, . -
I. For your Lordſhip's information, I have the honour to tranſmit copy of
Diſpatch received from Captain Baillie, in Bundlekund, r - -
2. The terms of the Agreement entered into with Sheobad Bhar and the
Soubahdar of Jhariſee, which appears to have been made agreeable to the general tenor
of your Lordſhips inſtructions, will I truſt meet your Excellency's approbation.
3. As Ameer. Khan has ever been a favourite General of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar's,
I am endeavouring to detach him from the ſervice of that Chief, and have ſome
hopes of ſucceſs. e * -- * * -
4. Though it appears by Captain Baillie's letter, that Colonel Powell was ap-
prehenſive of his force not being ſufficient to check Ameer Khan's, I beg to aſſure
your Lordſhip, that the force at preſent in Bundlekund is fully equal to any
that Ameer Khan can poſſibly oppoſe to him, and of which I have reaſon to believe
Colonel Powell is by this time convinced.
5th. Should Captain Baillie ſucceed in detaching Ameer Khan from Jeſwunt
Rao Holkar's ſervice, it will be a ſevere blow on that Chieftain, who has always
looked upon him as his beſt Officer, and places the greateſt confidence in him.
I have the honour to be,
... My Lord, `.
i. i * ~ * Af Your Lordſhip's, &c. &c.
Head Quarters, G. L. A. K. E.
Camp near Soorat, I I th February 1804. * r
.*
* ...
5
. . . . Extraćt Letter from Captain Baillie to Mr. Graeme Mercer. -
2. In ſeveral private Letters which have been written and diſpatched to you ſince
the 20th ultimo, I ſtated for the information of his Excellency, the idea which I had
formed of the number, condition, and equipment of the troops commanded by
Ameer Khan, and my opinion, that although he be deſirous of withdrawing himſelf
from the ſervice of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, under whom he only enjoys the diſtrict
of Seroje, yielding 2 lacks of Rupees yearly, he would not eaſily be induced to re-
linquiſh the predatory warfare by which his Troops have been ſupported for a
number of years, in confideration of a ſmall penſion from the Britiſh Government
for himſelf, or a limited Jaedad in his neighbourhood for the maintenance of a
thouſand or fifteen hundred Horſe in our ſervice.
3. Under the influence of this opinion, and of Colonel Powell's apprehenſion
that his preſent reduced force would be inadequate to the protećtion of the frontier
againſt the predatory inroads of the army of Ameer Khan, I conſidered it to be expedi-
ent to temporize with this Chieftain, till the redućtion of Gwalior ſhould give Colonel
Powell the means of oppoſing him with complete effect, and to prevent, if poſſible,
his advancing in the direction of Murreir and Kotah, with the view of joining Am-
bajee or Holkar, both of whom have ſummoned him to their aid.
t
I Q. - F.
N° 24′4.
N° 245.
N° 246.
14 D IS PATCHES, &c. FROM INDIA,
N° 360.
No 361.
No 362.
To his Excellency the Gov ERNOR GENERAL.
My Lord, ar x
I have the honour to incloſe Tranſlations of Letters, which I have received from
Caſhee Rao Holkar, and the Tranſlation of my Anſwer. 4. •
One of Caſhee Rao's Agents, Kooſh Naub the Arab, did not come on farther
than Colonel Stevenſon’s camp, and Dokeel Sing, the other Agent, had but little
to ſay, excepting that Caſhee Rao Holkar was in great diſtreſs at Jehanabad near
Berhampore, and was apprehenſive that Dowlut Rao Scindia intended to ſhut him
up in the fort of Aſſeer Ghur. -
This man had ſo little to urge in favour of Caſhee Rao Holkar, that I am in-
duced to ſuſpećt he is not his Agent, but one employed by ſome other perſon, poſ-
ſibly Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, to diſcover whether the Britiſh Government had any
intention to interfere in the concerns of the Holkar family.
As Jeſwunt Rao Holkar has hitherto kept aloof from the other Confederated
Marhatta Chiefs, and at all events I doubt whether we ſhould derive any ad-
vantage from the aſſiſtance of Caſhee Rao Holkar, which I imagine that we can
command at any time, I have thought it beſt to decline to have any thing to do
with him at preſent.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c. -
A R T H U R W E L L E S L E Y.
Tranſlation of a Letter from Caſhee Rao Hoikar to Colonel Collins.
(After compliments.) -
As my Anceſtors were, from ancient times, dependant on the will of the reign-
ing Peſhwa, ſo I have (to the extent of my power) continued in obedience. When
jeſwunt Rao became an exciter of diſturbance, I quitted him, and withdrew from
his concerns. I have now ſent Kooſh Naub (an Arab) and Dokeel Sing, to learn
your inclinations, and report, them to me accordingly ; they will have reached you,
You will learn the reſt of my affairs from Dakeel Sing, who is in my confidence.
(A true Tranſlation.)
*: (Signed) M. Elphinſtone.
\ Aſſiſt Secº Poona,
!
Tranſlation of a Letter from Caſhee Holkar to Mr.
(After compliments.) -
... My Anceſtors have, from ancient times, been dependant on the will of the
Peſhwas, and I have (to the extent of my ability) alſo remained obedient.
Jefwunt Rao became an exciter of diſturbance, and did not attend to what I ſaid
to him, for which I left him, and withdrew from his concerns. I am extremely
rejoiced that the ſettlement and arrangement of this country has now been
eſtabliſhed to you ; I have therefore ſent Kooſh Naub (an Arab) and Dakeel Sing,
to learn your pleaſures; grant them a favourable anſwer: they will have reached
Yºu Cºnfider as certain any verbal communication which may be made by
Dakeel Sing. - -
( A true Tranſlation.) *
(Signed) M. Elphinſtone.
- Affift' Secº Poona.
To Caſhee Rao Holkar.
As Colonel Collins is gone to Hydrabad, and as I am charged by his Excel-
lency the Governor General with the direction of the affairs of the Britiſh Govern-
ment in this quarter, I have opened your Letters, and have liſtened to the verbal
communications of Dakeel Sing. r
t The
RESPECTING JES w UNT RA o Ho LKAR. ºf 5
The Britiſh Government is not at war with the branches of your Family, with
whom you are at variance; and that being the caſe, it is inconſiſtent with the prin-
sciples by which its condućt is always guided, to interfere in the concerns of your
Family. *. * t’
, When attacked, the Britiſh Government adopts every method allowed by the
Jaws of Nations, to defend itſelf, and annoying its enemies; but till it is attacked,
.it does not interfere in the concerns of others. . . .
t (A true Copy.) |
Camp, 30 miles north from Aurungabad, * ,
Oćtober 10, 1803. -
Extraćt Letter from Marquis WELLESLEY to the Honourable
Major General WELLESLEx ; dated the 17th Jan. 1804.
I have direéted the Secretary in the Secret Department to forward to you a
copy of my ſnſtrućtions of this date to the Commander in Chief, relative to Jeſ-
wunt Rao Holkar, together with my Inſtrućtions to you, with regard to the
courſe of policy which I wiſh to be obſerved towards that Chieftain. &
{}
The Honourable Major General WELLESLEY, &c. &c. &c.
Sir, rº. *
By command of his Excellency the Moſt noble the Governor General, I have
the honour to tranſmit to you for your information, and for the eventual regula-
tion of your condućt, the encloſed copy of the Governor General's Inſtrućtions to
his Excellency the Commander in Chief, on the ſubjećt of an arrangement with
Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, and to ſignify to you the Governor General's defire, that, if
previouſly to the concluſion of ſuch arrangement by the Commander in Chief,
your poſition ſhould eventually be approximated to that of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar
in a degree that would render your communication with that Chieftain more prac-
sticable and convenient than the Commander in Chief’s, you will enter upon a nego-
ciation with Jeſwunt Rao Holkar on the baſis of the Governor General’s Inſtruc-
tions, confirming the Commander in Chief's previous ačt, and apprizing his Ex-
cellency of your intention to proceed with the negotiation if his Excellency ſhould
have commenced it.
* I have, &c. &c. r --
s (Signed) N. B. Edmonſtone.
17th January 1804. Secº to Gov".
No. 406.
six TRA C T OF B E N G A L S E C R ET C O N S U L T A TI O N S,
THE 12th APRIL 1804:
Received per Tigris, 13th December 1804:
To his Excellency the Moſt noble MARquis WELLESLEY,
- Governor General, &c. &c. &c.
(Nº 125.) **
My Lord,
I HAve the honour to tranſmit for your Lordſhip's information, Tranſlate of a
Letter from Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, with ſome copies of Papers which have been ſent
to that Chieftain by the Honourable Major General Welleſley and Major Malcolm,
and which he has forwarded to me.
A. 2 ” I intend
N° 397,
N° 398.
16 D IS PATC HES, &c. FR O M IND I A,
Nº 58.
N° 59.
Tranſlate of my Letter in reply to Jeſºunt Rao Holkar. . .
I intend to reply to Jeſwunt Rao Holkar to-morrow, and ſhall have the honour
of ſending to your Lordſhip a copy of my Letter on this occaſion. 4.
I hope this Chief is fincere in the pacific diſpoſition which he profeſſes, and that
he intends to withdraw himſelf within the limits of his own territories; but I have
hitherto received no authentic accounts of his having commenced his march in
that direčtion. * * . 3. - - sº-
- 4. I have the honour to be, . .
Head ‘Quarters, * G. L. A. K. E.
Camp, Hendown, Feb. 27th 1804.
{
Tranſlation of a Perſian Letter from Jeswunt RAo Hol. KAR to his
Excellency General LAKE ; dated 7th Jugars, 19th February 1804.
I have received, and underſtand the contents of your friendly Letter, informing
me of your friendly ſentiments, and that it was your objećt to encreaſe the friend-
ſhip, and ſtrengthen the bonds of amity between me and the Engliſh ; that on.
your fide you entertained no kind of enmity or hatred to me, and that it was
therefore proper I ſhould return to the limits of my own country, and acquaint-
ing me with the circumſtances of which you have written. Praiſe be to God, that
a ſincere peace and friendſhip has been ratified between Dowlut Rao Scindia,
Ragojee Bhomſlah, and the Engliſh; this circumſtance has been the ſource of much
pleaſure to me: while the flame of contention can be extinguiſhed by water of
reconciliation, it is unfit to bring matters to the extremity of War; on this account
the Peace which has been concluded is much to be approved of, and is the cauſe
of tranquillity to all their ſubjećts. As I alſo entertain no improper ill-will in
my friendly heart againſt you, which might riſe to hoſtility, how ſhould I do any
thing contrary to friendſhip Before you wrote to me, I had reſolved to march,
and have done ſo now in conſequence of your having written to me, and will in
no manner hold any improper language to your Friends. . .
What is contained in your Letter relative to my ſending a Vakeel to ſtrengthen
the bonds of friendſhip, is extremely proper and becoming. I encloſe copies of
fletters which I have received at this period, addreſſed to me by Major General
Welleſley and Major Malcolm, which are filled with ſentiments ſtrengthening the
foundation of mutual friendſhip. It is proper that having become well acquainted
with their friendly contents, in the ſame manner as thoſe Gentlemen on that ſide
mean to preſerve friendſhip with me, you alſo, having an eye to theſe circumſtances,
employ yourſelf in preſerving the bonds of amity. In the event, notwithſtanding
the firm friendſhip ſubſiſting, any ačt contrary to that friendſhip ſhould be mani-
feſted on your ſide, I ſhall be helpleſs. I ſhall ſend my Vakeel hereafter to you,
, to communicate my friendly ſentiments.--Pleaſe God, he will quickly arrive with
you, and fully communicate to you in your preſence the ſentiments of friendſhip
with which my heart is impreſſed towards the Engliſh, and the verbal relation of
which I have entruſted to him. It is certain, from your forefight and prudence,
that nothing on your part alſo ſhall be exhibited contrary to the rules of friendſhip,
having confidered me deſirous of an interview with you : keep me conſtantly happy
by ſending me your pleaſing Letters.--What more ſhould I write? *
$
(A true Tranſlation.) ..
3. " (Signed) W. Stumock,
(Nº 126.) -
To his Excellency the Moſt noble MARQUIs. WELLEs LEy, &c. &c. &c.
My Lord, . . •
For your Lordſhip's information, I have the honour to tranſmit Copy and
*
Since my diſpatch of yeſterday, I have received another Letter from Holkar to
the ſame purport as the former; in this Letter he writes, that prior to his receipt of
my Letter, he had intended to march towards the frontier of his own country, and
* -* - that
RESPECTING JEswu NT RAo ‘Holk AR, ºr,
that on receipt of it he actually did ſo; he requeſts I will correſpond direétly with
him, and not through the medium of the Rajah of Jeypore; or any other perſon.
. The remainder of the Letter is merely a repetition of the former one.
Your Lordſhip will perceive, that in the latter part of my reply to Jefwunt Rao
Holkar, I allude to a Correſpondence between him and ſome, of the Chiefs in the
Doab, who are diſaffected to the Britiſh Government. While writing to that Chief,
a correſpondence was intercepted (copies of which are annexed) from the Begum
Sumroos; this Letter, though her ſeal is affixed to it, may poſſibly be a forgery, but
her late condućt has been ſuch as to warrant a belief that ſhe will do every thing in
her power to annoy us. - -
My diſpatch under date the 4th inſtant, will have informed your Lordſhip of a
* Correſpondence of a fimilar nature having been intercepted. Nyn Sing, one of the
perſons at preſent implicated, is in the conſtant habit of correſpondence with Mr.
Leyceſter, who will, I have no doubt, be able to aſſiſt in aſcertaining the extent of
: this treachery. * - -
In the mean time, your Lordſhip may reſt aſſured, that I ſhall, keep a vigilant.
s eye on thoſe perſons, until I am enabled to puniſh them effectually for their
miſcondućt. º
Head Quarters; Camp, Hendown, ... I have the honour, &c. -
- . 28th February 18C4. - - - . “G. L.A. K.R.,
;
}
s
*
Anſwer of his Excellency the Commander in Chief toºjeswunt Rao Nege.
Holka R, dated Hendown, 28th February 1804.
The arrival of your friendly Letter in a happy moment rejoiced my heart, arid
ſtrengthened the bonds of amity. The knowledge of Peace between the Britiſh
-Government and Scindia and the Bhoſtiſlah, the increaſe of pleaſuré which this de-
ſirable event imparted to your friendly mind; the propriety —and juſtneſs of your
ſentiments, that while amity and a deſire to preſerve friendſhip exiſts, and in the
: minds of thoſe who poſſeſs power, and are guided by a ſenſe of juſtice (upon whoſe
condućt the welfare and happineſs of the People of God depend) it is highly im-
proper, and contrary to good policy, to harbour any hoſtile or unfriendly ſentiments;
and alſo, that the purity of your mind is unfullied by the duſt of enmity or revenge,
and your earneſt deſire is to increaſe the bonds of amity, and your ready acqui-
eſcence in my requeſt, and a deſire to return to your own country; all of which, as
detailed by your friendly pen, have been made fully known to me.
'To learn the ſincerity of your friendſhip, and firmneſs of your attachment, gave
me the greateſt ſatisfaction. . . . . .
When the Almighty means to diſpenſe Peace to the world and happineſs to man-
# kind, he inſtils into the minds of great and powerful ſentiments of friendſhip
and concord; and, as I am ſolely ačtuated by theſe ſentiments, the peruſal of the
sºletters which have paſſed between you; General Welleſley, and Major Malcolm,
have removed all ſuſpicion of your being ill-diſpoſed towards the Britiſh Govern-
ºment; and have determined me to remain in friendſhip. It is incumbent on all,
and conformable to the tenor of what has already paſſed in correſpondence, that no-
&thing contrary to our mutual profeſſions ſhall take place, as ſuch would be a viola-
ºtion of good faith. - “” . . . . . . . .
But ſhould you injure or attack any of the Allies of the Britiſh Government, what-
...ever meaſures I ſhall be forced to purſue in preſervation of the engagements I have
entered into, and for the protećtion of the Britiſh Allies, will not be a voluntary ačt
on my part, but will be impoſed by the neceſſity i ſhall, feel to aſſiſt and preſerve
; from injury the Friends of the Britiſh Government. -
What you mention reſpecting the ſending of a Vakeel is highly proper.
* The reſolution which you have made to return to your own country is founded
$ in good ſenſe, and very right; for, as: Peace has been concluded with the different,
powers, God forbid that any one, taking advantage of your abſence, ſhould excite
diſturbances in your dominions. It therefore behoves you, agreeably to the re-
ſolution you have made, to return with all ſpeed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
w It muſt not be concealed from you, that the contents of all the Letters which
2-have paſſed between you and certain ſhort-fighted perſons in the Doab and this
19, - ? , F -quarter,
13 D IS PATC HES, &c. FR O M IN D I A,
No 61.
*No 62.
quarter, are perfeótly known to me. Should you, therefore, ačt upon the ſuggeſtions
of theſe evil-diſpoſed perſons, it will not only be a breach of friendſhip, but a fruit-
leſs undertaking. I am now about to extirpate theſe ſhort-fighted wretches, and,
by favour of God, ſhall ſpeedily inflićt on them the moſt condign puniſhment.
I have communicated this in the ſincerity of friendſhip, to prevent your being
miſled or deceived by theſe abandoned wretches.
(A true Tranſlate.) (Signed) G. Gerard,
P. T.
Tranſlation of a Perſian Letter (without date) from Rajah Nyn Sing to
jcſwunt Rao Holkar.
I received youp Letter, in which you mention that you had formerly ſent me an-
other Letter by Abdroo Sunneed Khan, and that I ſhall become acquainted with
certain circumſtances from the Letters of Shah Qoodrut Oottah.
86. The letter you ſent by Abdroo Sunneed Khan did not reach me ; but I have
been honoured with the Letter forwarded through Shah Qoodrut Oottah, and from
his writing to me, have become acquainted with all your orders to me. I, your faith-
ful ſervant, am ready to obey you in every thing, which will be manifeſt to you from
- the repreſentation of Shah Qoodrut Oottah.
Uſual complimentary concluſion.
(A true Tranſlation.)
.Camp, at Hendoun, - (Signed) JW. Stuttock,
28th Feb. 1804. Aſſiſt".
Tranſlation of a Perſian Letter (without date) frem Zebbonneſſa Begum to
Jeſwunt Rao Holkar.
-(After compliments)
I was gratified by the receipt of your Letter, the object of which became manifeſt
-to me from the writings of Shek Qoodrut Ooitah. It is fit that you conſider me
your Siſter, abſorbed in a deſire to gratify your inclinations; for the bonds of friend-
:ſhip have long acquired ſtrength between us. I rejoice at your intention of march-
ing to this quarter; but as they have military and artillery ſtores along with them in
abundance, it is not proper for you to come to action with them ; but you ſhould
encamp ten or eleven coſs from them, haraſs them with a predatory war, deſtroy the
country, and prevent ſupplies. &c. reaching them, that it may be difficult for them
to provide for their ſafety. I am every way ready, and your Ally from my heart and
ſoul. Conſider all the Seiks and Jauts, who are united with me, ready to join you.
Make me conſtantly happy by acquainting me with the ſtate of your friendſhip,
your deſigns, and the place where your Army is encamped, that I may follow the
ſame path. You will receive many Letters from me (encloſed) in amulets.
Uſual complimentary, concluſion.
*. (A true Tranſlate.) ..(Signed) J%" Stuhock.
Camp at Hendoun, .*
28 Feb. 1804.
Y
(Nº. 27.)
Extraćt of Letter from the Commander in Chief to the Governor
*General; dated Camp, at Hendoun, March 1ſt 1804. ,
My Lord,
I have the honour to encloſe, for your Lordſhip's information, the original of a
£etter from the Begum Sumroos, to Lieutenant Colonel Ochterlony, which has been
forwarded to me by that Officer.
RESPECTING JEswu NT RAO HOLKAR. I9
Extraćt Letter from Johanna, the Widow Begum of the late Sombroo, to Colonel Nº 64,
e Ochterlony; dated Camp, near Surdamah, the 23d February 1804.
I am very ſorry to hear that it is reported that I do keep a correſpondence with
jeſwunt Rao Holkar; I aſſure you, and you may inform yourſelf, that ſince the
formation of my party, which is for theſe forty years paſt, no perſon yet can charge
me of treachery; therefore, as I confider you to be a particular Friend of mine, I
hope you will make enquiries, and to inform yourſelf from whom this falſe report is
given, and to perſuade every perſon of the contrary that does believe it.
[The remainder of the Letter does not relate to the ſubjeći of the Order.]
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble MARQUIs WELL ESLEy, Nº 66.
(Nº. 129.) $ Governor General, &c. &c. &c.
My Lord,
£ara. I. My diſpatch of the 12th inſtant will have informed your Lordſhip of the
approach of two Vakeels from Jeſwunt Rao Holkar.
2. I have now the honour to inform your Excellency, that theſe perſons had their
firſt audience yeſterday ; the Letters they produced are tranſmitted for your Lord-
'ſhip's information, together with Minutes of the Converſation which paſſed.
3. It is neceſſary to ſay, that the exorbitancy of their demands was ſo immediately
apparent as to call from me an anſwer expreſſive of my ſurprize at their Maſter's
having made requeſts ſo contrary to the profeſſions contained in his Letters. I then
proceeded to ſay, that as their powers appeared ſo very limited, it was no longer
neceſſary that they ſhould remain in my Camp, and after promiſing them a Letter for
their Maſter, they withdrew. & f
4. In the courſe of an hour or two after they left my Tent, I received a Meſſage,
importing, that the demands they had made were in purſuance of inſtructions received
from their Maſter; but that in the event of failure, they were authorized to expreſs
his wiſh to receive any thing from the Britiſh Government, either in Lands or a
JPenſion, of a nature to make it appear to the world that his fortunes were not at
ſo low an ebb as they really are. - , - '
5. I referred to my former Letter to him, and ſaid, that the firſt ſtep expe&ted from
him to prove his friendly diſpoſition, was, his immediate departure from his preſent
poſition, and return to his own country. &
6. The Vakeels, though they yeſterday in my preſence boaſted of their Maſter's
power and extenſive Alliances, in a private converſation with Captain Gardner
afterwards, were very humble, and ſeemed readily to acknowledge the want of power.
in their Maſter to attempt hoſtilities. º - -
7. Theſe men will however leave my Camp to-morrow, entruſted with the Letters,
copies of which accompany this diſpatch; and as they talk of proceeding rapidly to
join their Maſter, for the avowed purpoſe of ſpeedily adjuſting all differences, I am
ſtill inclined to imagine that matters may finally be amicably arranged.
8. The Vakeels were particularly anxious that only one ſhould return, and the
other remain in my Camp 3 to this I objected, on the grounds that as they appeared
anxious to prevent hoſtilities, and had the intereſt of their Maſter at heart, joint per-
ſuaſions might have weight with him. * *
9. My real reaſons for infifting on both quitting the Camp, was, my knowledge of
the improper ſtyle in which they had converſed with ſeveral perſons in our fºice
and to which f allude in my conference of yeſterday; and that the perſons employed
on this miſſion are not of the deſcription, or do they appear to have been ſufficient
in the confidence of Holkar, or his principal Chiefs, to warrant a belief that their
repreſentations from hence would be much attended to, or that their longer reſidence
in camp could lead to any final arrangement with Holkar; and their being allowed
immediately to depart will convince Holkar of our firmneſs and determination to
reſent any inſult he might venture to offer, did he ſuppoſe us ačtuated by a dread of
his power in ſeeking a reconciliation with him. - . -
Io. I have the pleaſure to aſſure your £ordſhip, that the Vakcels appear perfeótly
ſatisfied with the attention that has been ſhewn to them, and acquieſce in the pro-
spriety of their being allowed to return. - &
t
3.
I have
, , ; 20 : D IS P A T G H E S, &c. FR O M INDIA,
• Nº. 67.
*†Jo 68.
perfectly ſtrengthened and maintained between me and the Company,
to theſe circumſtances, I have nothing in any way improper in view towards the
Company; accordingly I have ſent the two perſons before named to communicate
particularly to you what I have hereby written, who will quickly arrive there, and
I have cauſed it to be hinted, that the perſons, who may be hereafter ſent in the
...capacity of Vakeels will be expected to bring full powers to conclude a final arrange-
, -1}}ei?t. * * º 3 * * * r
Every thing that paſſed yeſterday was immediately communicated to Major Mal-
colm, to whom a copy of this diſpatch, with its encloſures, will be ſent, requeſting
that Officer to inform the Honourable Major General Welleſley of the ſtate of mat-
ters with jeſwunt Rao Holkar. - &
..!
... I have the honour to be, &c.
~Head Quarters, G. L. A. K. E.
Camp, Ramghur, 19th March 1894.
*
-T R.A.N.S LATION of a Perſian Letter from Jesw UNT RAo Hol KAR
to his Excellency General LA KE; dated 21ſt of Zeegoad, (correſponding
to the 4th of March 1894.) t * *
“Previous to this I wrote an anſwer to the Letters I received from you through the
Agents of the Rajah of Jeypore, which you have probably received. At preſent, that
, I have received an Arzee from Mr. Gardinef; your friendly intentions, from his com-
munication of thern, have become evident to me. Morow Ulee Khan and Shekh
. Sooltanbukhih have alſo acquainted me with your friendly habits; from hearing of
which I have been exceedingly gratified. The bonds of friendſhip have long been
From a regard
explain all circumſtances in your preſence. Friendſhip requires, that, keeping in
your view the long exiſting unanimity between me, and the Engliſh Company, you
aćt according to what they may repreſent to you ; and your doing ſo will be fruitful
of benefit and advantage; if not, my country and property are upon the ſaddle of
my horſe, and pleaſe God, to whatever ſide the reins of the horſes of my brave
Warriors ſhall be turned, the whole of the country (in that direction) ſhall come into
my poſſeſſion. As you are wiſe and provident, you will conſider the conſequences
of this affair, and employ yourſelf in ſettling the important matters (which will be ex-
plained by the perſons before alluded to). Keep your mind at eaſe, and make me
ſoon happy by writing me an anſwer, and acquainting me with your intentions, that,
in conformity to them, a ſettlement of affairs may be effected.
..What more ſhould I write
(True Tranſlation)
Camp, near Ramghur, s (Signed). …/W. Stumock,
18th March 1804. - * ~ * * * Aſſiſt".
*
Minutes of a Converſation, held on the 18th of March by his Excellency the
Commander in Chief with the Vakeels of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, Nowroz
Ali Khan and Sheekh Sultan, Bakhs. t t
- *
The Vakeels attended at his Excellency's tent at to o'clock A. M...and delivered
, the Letters addreſſed to his Excellency and to Mr. Mercer. On peruſing the con-
tents of thoſe. Letters, his Excellency deſired to know if they had any other written
inſtructions or powers to conclude an agreement with the Government on the part
of Holkar. They anſwered, that they had not, but that they were ſent to declare
Holkar's intentions and wiſhes, and that they would write to Holkar whatever his
Excellency's anſwers, might be, when further inſtrućtions or powers, if neceſſary,
would be ſent. His Excellency deſired that they would communicate what they were
charged with by Holkar. Nowroz Khan commenced by enlarging on the power and
numerous forces of Holkar; and ſaid, that as the Government had granted favours
to the Jauts and other Chiefs, Holkar expected, from the difference of his power
and rank, that his demands would be readily granted:—I ſt. That he ſhould be allowed
to collect the Choute agreeably to the cuſtom of his Anceſtors: 2d. That the an-
cient
*RESTECTING JES.W. UNT RAO HOLKAR. 2x
*cient poſſeſſions formerly held by the Family, ſuch as at Etawa, 12 Purgunnahs in
i the Doab, and a Purgunnah in Bundlekund, would be granted to him —33. That
& the country of Hureeam, which was formerly in the poſſeſſion of the Family, ſhould
} be given to him:—4th. That the country now in bis poſſeſſion ſhould be guaranteed
: to him, and a Treaty ſhould be entered into on the ſame terms as that with Scindia.--
: His Excellency anſwered to the firſt demand, That, as his former Letter to Holkar
* clearly and decidedly expreſſed the total impoſſibility of its being complied with, he
was aftoniſhed at its being again brought forward: That his Excellency was well
aware that Holkar had no claim whatever to the countries demanded by the 2d
and '3d Propoſitions, part of which had long been in the poſſeſſion of the Wareer
and part of Dowlut Rao Scindia: That the foundation on which Holkar had built
his hope of theſe countries, namely, that diſtrićts had been granted to the Jauts
and other Chiefs, was totally groundleſs, as thoſe favours had been granted to thoſe
Chiefs after they had entered into alliance and friendſhip with the Britiſh Govern-
ment, and evinced their diſpoſition cordially to unite with it: That it was not the
pračtice of the Britiſh Government to purchaſe the friendſhip of any State by con-
ceſſions of this nature; and that Holkar's condućt had not been of that friendly na-
ture as to entitle him to aſk ſuch favours, were they otherwiſe admiſſible.
The Vakeels anſwered, That it would be policy in the Government to grant his
demands; that beſides his own power and forces, he was in cloſe correſpondence with
—the Rohillas, and all the Rajahs in this quarter except the jeypore Rajah ; that the
Bhurtpore Rajah had lately repeatedly written to him to come on, and that he cer-
“tainly had it in his power completely to deſtroy the country. Nowaz Ali Khan
added, that he was a friend of the Engliſh Government, from having been formerly
under its protećtion (he was Darogah of the elephants at Lucknow) and that it was
his earneſt wiſh that terms could be come to; that Holkar had a moſt numerous
Army, which was daily augmented; that he had 40,000 Rohillas, I 50,000 horſe; that
the Rohillas had offered to ſerve three years without pay, for the ſake of plundering
the country; that Holkar's own charaćter was that of a robber and plunderer, and
that even in the event of a defeat, he could continue the ſame praćtices to our great
injury.—His Excellency replied, that it was not our cuſtom to boaſt of our power;
but that Holkar would probably find, in the event of a rupture, that he had much
covervalued his own. His Excellency at the ſame time informed them, that from the
friendſhip that had taken place between Scindia and the Britiſh Government, Hol-
ckar, inſtead of meeting with any aſſiſtance from him, would find him ready to unite
with the Britiſh Government againſt him in the event of hoſtilities.—They anſwered,
that twenty days ago Scindia had written to Holkar that French had landed with a .
powerful force in India, and that he (Scindia) had ſent his Father-in-law # º ...”
, £O bring them on to his affiſtance, and that Holkar ſhould be prepared to ačt with -legible.
him. . In regard to the fourth demand, the Vakeels were informed, that his Excel-
lency had repeatedly intimated to Holkar, that no interference was intended by Go-
vernment in the concerns of his country; but that, previous to any arrangement for
a Treaty, it was neceſſary that Holkar ſhould ſhew his friendly intentions, and his wiſh
to retain the friendſhip of the Government, by an immediate return to his own Coun-
, try, which he had decidedly promiſed in the Letter written to his Excelleney after their
, departure. His Excellency then aſked the Vakeels, whether any dependance might
be placed on the promiſe thus made by Holkar. They anſwered, certainly not, un-
leſs the propoſitions they had made ſhould be agreed to, and deſired to ſee Holkar's
Letters on the ſubjećt. The Letter was accordingly ſhewn to them, and they were
informed, that the contents of this Letter were ſo much at variance with the language
they had held, that his Excellency could not judge of Holkar's real wiſhes or inten-
tions; and that as they had declared, that they had no power to conclude an arrange-
ment upon any other baſis than the Propoſitions they had made, no good could ariſe
from their remaining in Camp, and that they ſhould be furniſhed with Anſwers to the
Hetters they had brought, and might return the following day to take Heave of his \
Excellency. His Excellency at the ſame time informed them, that their holding
very improper converſations with the people in Camp, and attempting to ſeduce from
...their duty ſome in the ſervice of Government, had been reported to his Excellency 3
-that ſuch condućt was inconſiſtent with a pacific miſſion; and that although his Ex-
cellency attached no conſequence to the reſult of ſuch an attempt, it would have
the effect of making it believed that this miſfion had more in view an objcót of this
19. -- G in 3 ty... e.
.2.2 ºpºs P. A + C-H E S, &c. FR O M IN DIA,
nature than an amicable adjuſtment of differences. They denied having had any
ſuch converſation; but ſaid, they could not prevent any people who choſe from
coming to them. They then took leave.
19th March.--The Vakeels waited upon his Excellency at the ſame hour as yeſter-
day. They were aſked whether they had any thing further to ſay on the ſubjećt of
their miſſion previouſly to taking their leave of his Excellency. They replied, that
they had nothing to add to what they had mentioned to Mr. Gardner after the con-
verſation of yeſterday, which was, that although the propoſitions they had made yeſ-
terday could not be agreed to, they hoped that Holkar might be favoured with a
grant of ſome country, and if this could not be conceded, that he ſhould be allowed
an annual ſum in lieu of an increaſe of country.; that Holkar wiſhed to maintain
Peace conſiſtently with his own credit and name in India, which a grant of this kind
would preſerve, from its giving appearance of an amicable accommodation between
the States; and that they had been obliged to leave his camp ſecretly, as the Patans,
who bear great influence, were ſo averſe to any pacification, that Holkar had ſtrićtly
enjoined to keep their miſſion perfectly ſecret until their arrival in the Britiſh Camp.
His Excellency anſwered, that a diſcuſſion of any point of this nature could not
properly be entered upon whilſt Holkar remained in a menacing poſture towards our
- -4. 4. 4- &
made to Government. The Vakeels then aſked, whether Holkar was to be allowed
to colled the cuſtomary tribute from the States of Kotah and Oudepore. His Excel-
.iency replied, that he believed that the claim to this tribute had been made by Holkar
on the part of Dowlut Rao Scindia. The Vakeels ſaid, that theſe claims were per-
fećtly diſtinči : that Scindia had diſtinét claims for cuſtomary tribute on thoſe States,
and that the Britiſh Government, as managers on the part of the Emperor of Hin-
doſtan, had alſo a claim. His Excellency ſaid, that Holkar had been formerly aſ-
ºfured, that the Government was well inclined to pay attention to his juſt claims,
and that this with other matters would be adjuſted when Holkar, by his return to
his own country, enabled the Government to enter into a diſcuſſion of them upon a
friendly footing. The Vakeels had frequently during the converſation expreſſed a
deſire that one of them ſhould be allowed to remain in Camp, whilſt the other
ſhould return to Holkar with his Excellency's letter, and endeavour to conciliate
the mind of Holkar to an amicable arrangement with the Government. His Excel-
lency anſwered, that if this effect could be produced by their interpoſition, it would
be much more ſatisfactorily accompliſhed by the return of both ; and that as they
had expreſſed their ſincere deſire for the welfare of this Government, as well as that
of Holkar, their ſervices would be moſt uſefully employed in convincing him of the
advantages to be derived from purſuing that line of condućt which his Excellency
had pointed out. His Excellency then deſired that the Vakeels would repreſent to
Holkar his wiſh to continue on friendly terms, with his Excellency hopes that Holkar
would be aware of the moderation and juſtice which had influenced the condućt of
the Britiſh Government towards him. “s y
(Signed) G. Mercer.
'Nº 69. Tranſlation of a Letter from his Excellency the Commander in Chief to
^ J. R. Hol. KAR ; dated the 19th March 1804. -
(After compliments.)
I have received your Letter of the 21ſt of Geeaad, and underſtood its contents,
with the repreſentations made by your Vakeels Nowaz Ali Khan and Sheikh Sultan
Bakhs. In my former Letter I clearly ſtated, that it was the wiſh of the Britiſh
*Government to continue and increaſe the friendſhip which has hitherto exiſted with
you, and I had hope that the reſolution you had taken of ſending Vakeels to me
would have been the means of ſtrengthening that friendſhip, by the conciliatory pro-
poſitions they would have to make on your part. By the converſation, however,
which I have had with the Vakeels, I was aſtoniſhed to find, that whilſt they have
no authority from you to enter into any ſpecific agreement on your part.on matters
of ſuch importance, the demands which they had been inſtructed to make, were
only ſuch as my former Letters muſt have convinced you were inadmiſfible from the
terms of friendſhip which the Britiſh Government has contraćted with other States,
and
RESPECTING JES W.U N T R A O HOLKA R. 23.
*
and from a compliance with them, being otherwiſe incompatible with a due regard
to the dignity and honour of the Government. On a confideration of theſe cir-
•cumſtances, I have thought it adviſable to give Nowaz Ali Khan and Sheikh Suf-
tan Bakhs leave to return to your Army immediately, and need only repeat, that it
is not the intention of the Britiſh Government to interfere in the concerns of your
country, nor wantonly to enter into hoſtilities with you ; and that any departure
from that line of friendſhip, which it is the wiſh of the Britiſh Government to pre-
ſerve towards you, can reſult only from your own unprovoked aggreſſions againſt
the Britiſh Government and its Allies. In your Letter of the 23d Geeaad, you fully
expreſs your intention of returning immediately to your country, and thus pre-
ſerving the ties of friendſhip with the Britiſh Government; but no meaſures ap-
pear to have been taken for this purpoſe, and, on the contrary, from the reports re-
•ceived from all quarters, from the converſation of your Vakeels, and from the
Letters which you have written to ſeveral of the Friends of the Britiſh Government,
inciting thern to a breach of their engagements and friendſhip, it is evident that you
have not ſufficiently confidered the neceſſity of your giving this proof of your
friendly intentions, but have deemed it adviſable to remain with your army in a me-
nacing poſition towards the Allies of the Britiſh Government, with the view of en-
£orcing demands which, if otherwiſe admiſfible, could be obtained only from the
friendſhip and never from the fears of the Government. I ſtill hope that your fore-
fight and prudence will induce you to weigh the above circumſtances with due deli-
-beration, and that the bonds of friendſhip may be preſerved by your ſpeedily with-
drawing your Army from the confines of our Allies into your own country, and by
syour ſubſequently ſending Vakeels, who may be properly authorized to enter into
agreements ſuited to the intereſts and circumſtances of both parties.
(A true Tranſlate.) *
.* (Signed) Grame Mercer,
Aćting G. G.
‘To his Excellency the Moſt Noble MARQUIs WELLESLEx,
r 'Governor-General, &c. &c. &c. -
{{No. 131.) m g
My Lord, t p * . ~
I have the honour to tranſmit a diſpatch juſt received from Major Malcolm
under date 16th inſtant;" it came to me under a flying ſeal, and I have peruſed it.
As this diſpatch is principally on the ſubjećt of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar's intentions,
‘I think it neceſſary to inform your Lordſhip, that my information from his Camp
does not ſtate his having made any thing like a foward movement. . . .
Your Lordſhip will have been informed, that this Chief had proceeded to Adj-
mere, to pay a viſit to the ſhrine of the Saint there, whence it does not appear that
he has as yet returned. *
His army continues to occupy a menacing poſition on the immediate borders
of the Jeypore territory, but has hitherto refrained from any ačt of hoſtility.
I have as yet received no Anſwer to my laſt Letter ſent by his Vakeels, but expečt
to hear from him in a few days, which muſt prove his intentions. §
By our lateſt accounts, it appears that he has divided his forces (who are very,
clamorous for the payment of their Arrears); the preſent poſition of his Brigades
would certainly, was it any other perſon than Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, favour the idea,
that he meant poſitively to fall back. & *
A Letter has this day been delivered to me by the Vakeel of Zalem Sing, the
Rajah of Kotah, informing me that he had, in conſequence of this diſpoſition of
Holkar's force, ordered all his ſubjéčts to ſecrete their grains in or near the Forts,
in order to preſerve it from his Army, and intended to do his utmoſt to reſiſt his
depredations. g
ſt
f
* Not ſent home.
$44. D IS P A T CHES, &c. F. R O M IN: DIA,
*Nº. 73. -
\
It appears probable, that a very few days: muſt enable us to decide what ſteps
; he means to purſue at the preſent advanced period of the ſeaſon; the grain being
almoſt entirely houſed, it is impoſſible he can advance, unleſs he determines on it
within theſe five or ſix days. - -
All accounts agree that his Army is nearly in a ſtate of mutiny, and all ranks are
daily becoming more diſſatisfied at not receiving their pay : his laſt promiſe to them
on the ſubjećt, declares his intention of paying them on his return from Adjmere,
and they had agreed to be guided by him for a few days longer. . -
- 3' • I have, &c. &c.
Head Quarters, g . G. L. A K F.
Camp, near Ballahiera,
26th March 1804.
To His Excellency the moſt Nóble MARQUIs WELLESLEY,
* . Governor-General, &c. &c. &c.
TNo. 133. ..
My Lord, - -
I have the honour to tranſmit a duplicate diſpatch (No. 22.*) to your Excel-
lency from Major Malcolm, which I have peruſed. s &
As this diſpatch, entirely relates to the ſtate of matters with Jeſwunt Rao H oikar,
I think it neceſſary.to ſubmit to your Lordſhip the remarks which have occurred to
me, on the arguments made uſe of by the aëting Reſident to diſſuade the Government
of Dowlut Rao Scindia from immediately reſenting the inſults offered to their State
by Jeſwunt Rao Holkar. - •
* *
In the converſation which Major Malcolm details as having paſſed between
Jeſwunt Rao Holkar and the Vakeel of Scindia, at his Camp, your Lordſhip will
obſerve, that Holkar has ſaid that he has ſeized the fort and province of Adjmere;
this however is not the caſe, as Balla Rao has at preſent poſſeſſion of it under my
inſtructions to retain it for Dowlut Rao Scindia, and has ačtually refuſed to deliver
it up to Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, who demanded it of him ſome few days ago. -
I am inclined materially to differ with Major Malcolm, in his idea of the prolon-
gation of the preſent meaſures being politic, for the purpoſe of allowing the Army of
Jeſwunt Rao Holkar to diſperſe from the want of means in that Chief to pay them ;
my former diſpatches will have informed your Lordſhip of the ſtate of his Army, and
it entirely ſubſiſts by plunder, by which means it has hitherto been kept together,
and could Jeſwunt Rao advance into a more fertile country, it appears by no means
improbable, that his Army may ſtill hold together for a confiderable period; and as
long as he can maintain his preſent poſition, it holds out an encouragement exceſſively
injurious to our intereſts, to the diſaffected Chiefs in the upper part of the Doab,
to carry on intrigues with Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, in the hopes of benefiting by the
diſturbances they might occaſion, and at the ſame time the enormous expence to
Government of maintaining this Army in the Field becomes a ſerious evil; and as I
:am by no means ſanguine in the hope that forbearance on our part can immediately
affect Jeſwunt Rao Holkar's power, it appears obvious that the moſt fortunate
meaſure, if Jeſwunt Rao perfiſts in maintaining his preſent poſition, would be imme-
diately a co-operation with the Government of Dowlut Rao Scindia to attack him
at all points, which muſt at once put an end to the preſent expenſive delay, and
enſure the tranquillity of India to an unlimited period. .
It does not appear to me, that without annihilating the power of this Chief,
our own poſſeſſions or thoſe of our Allies can ever be ſecure from his depredations. .
It will be my objećt to occupy a poſition in this neighbourhood until I receive.
further inſtrućtions from your Lordſhip, unleſs Holkar's condućt ſhould render it
neceſſary to take decided meaſures to check him. *.
On this ſubjećt I feel particularly anxious, as I think it neceſſary to inform your
Excellency, that from the period of the ſeaſon, I already labour under ſerious diffi-
culty in procuring forage, and,am inclined to apprehend that it will not be poſſible
* : * > - - té.
*Nat ſent home,
RESPECTING JES W UNT RAO HOLKA R. %5
to keep the field much longer; for though my Camp is amply provided with provi-
{ions of all ſorts for the Men, in this dry ſeaſon, the horſes and every deſcription of
cattle muſt inevitably ſuffer ſeverely from the want of green forage.
f * & I have, &c.
... , Head Quarters, * * G. L. A. Kł.
Camp, Ballaheira, ! w
29th March 1804.
mº-sº
ENCLosure in a Letter from the Gover Nor GENERAL to the
SECRET COMMITTEE 3 dated 22d March 1804:
Received overland, 26th Auguſt 1804.
Extraćt of Letter from Major Malcolm, Reſident at Scindia's Durbar, to
the Governor General ; dated Berhampore, 28th. Feb. 1804.
Par. 6. THE arrival in camp of a Vakeel from Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, (of which
circumſtance I before informed your Lordſhip) was alſo unfavourable to the ſuc-
ºceſs of my negociation,” and the ground I had to ſuſpect that he was inſtrućted to
uſe his ºutmoſt endeavours to withdraw the Maharaja from the relations of Peace
into which he had entered with the Britiſh Government, made me more anxious
than ever to make thoſe relations ſtill more intimate; not that I ſuppoſe it poſ.
fible, after what had paſſed, that Scindia could ever place ſufficient confidence in
Jeſwunt Rao to unite with him in another confederacy againſt the Honourable
Company; but I concluded, that the latter Chief entertained hoſtile deſigns againſt
the Britiſh Government, which it was the policy of that nation to guard againſt
by every poſſible precaution, and no meaſure ſeemed to me more calculated to
check his deſigns (if they really exiſted) than the conchuſion of a defenſive Alliance
with this State. - s -
*
&
7. The information H received of the objećt of the negociations of Holkar's
“Wakeels, was not of a nature on which I could place entire dependance, but the
probability of its correótneſs was ſtrongly corroborated by the accounts I received
of the equivocal condućt of that Chief from Hindoſtan and other quarters.
dº
£etter from the Chief Secretary of the Governor General in Council
of Bengal to the Secretary of the Court of Direátors; dated 24th
March 1804:—Received per Ship Lady Caſtlereagh, 31ſt October
1804. . . . . . .
To William Ramſay, Eſquire, Secretary to the Honourable the
k Secret Committee.
Sir, ^*. *e
I am commanded by his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General in
Council to acquaint you, for the informatſon of the Honourable Committee, that
fince the cloſe of the diſpatch, dated the 23d inſtant, from his Excellency and
‘Council, advices have been received from his Excellency the Commander in Chief,
ſtating, that two confidential perſons had been appointed by Jeſwunt Rao Holkar
to attend the Commander in Chief as his Vakeels, and that the Vakeels were
expected in a few days in his Excellency's Camp. *
2. The Commander in Chief further ſtates, that his Excellency had every
reaſon to expect an early and amicable termination of the negociations with Jeſ-
wunt Rao Holkar, # *
I 9, H 3. The
* Ofa Treaty
of defenſive
ſubſidy with
Dowlut Rao
Scindia.
26 D.I S P A T C H E S, &c. F. R O M I N Dº I A,
2. I.etter from
the private
Secretary of
the Governor
General to
General Wel-
leſley; dated
16th April,
incloſing one
to the Com-
mander in
Chief.
3. D9 from Do
to Dº, of ſame
date, incloſing
one to the Re-
ſident with
Dowlut Rao
Scindia.
4. Do from Do
to the Reſident
at Hydrabad,
dated 18th
April.
3. The condition of the army of Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, is deſcribed to be ſuch as
muſt neceſſarily enſure the ſpeedy and ſucceſsful termination of hoſtilities with that
Chieftain, if he ſhould ultimately determine to engage in a conteſt with the Bri-
tiſh Government. It is however confidently expe&ted that Jeſwunt Rao Holkar
will acquieſce in the juſt and moderate propoſitions which his Excellency the Com.
mander in Chief is inſtructed to make to him. ... - *
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your moſt obedient humble Servant,
(Signed) }. Lumſden,
Chief Secº to Goy".
Fort William,
24th March 1804."
*.
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E XT R A CT LETTER FR O M T H E G O V E R N OR IN CO UN CHI,
o F BoM.BAY TO THE SECRET COMMITTEE:
Dated the 17th May 1804. With Encloſures:
Received overland the 9th September 1804.
3. BY the preſent opportunity we have the honour to ſubmit to your Honourabic
Committee ſome intereſting information communicated to our Preſident by the
Honourable Major General Welleſley, in reference to ſome recent diſcuſſions that
have taken place with Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, whoſe predatory courſe of proceeding
would ſeem to have impoſed on the Britiſh Government in India the neceſſity of
uſing force for the redućtion of his power. The Papers to which we have alluded .
are enumerated in the margin ; but the particulars of the previous diſcuſſion with
Holkar have not been communicated to us.
. . 4. In conſequence of the orders iſſued by his Excellency the Governor General
to the Commander in Chief to attack Jefwunt Rao Holkar, and to the Commanding
Officer in the Deccan to co-operate with and ſupport the operations of his Excel-
lency, the Honourable General Welleſley has forwarded inſtrućtions to the Officer
commanding the Troops in the province of Guzerat, of which a copy will be found
to ſtand annexed to the accompanying tranſcript of his Letter to our Preſident of the
7th inſtant, by which he is required to enter the province of Malwa for the purpoſe
of proſecuting hoſtilities againſt Jeſwunt Rao Holkar.
5. The Honourable General Welleſley having reſided at this place for theſe laſt two
months, in the intention of bringing to a cloſe the tranſačtions incident to the con-
cluſion of the late war with Scindia and the Berar Rajah, and of then returning to
Seringapatam, is, in conſequence of the War being thus declared with Holkar, about
to return to the immediate exerciſe of his late command above the Ghauts.
[The other paragraphs of this Letter do not relate to the ſubječi of the order.
Nor does Encloſure N° 1.]
F. N C L O S U R E, N° 2. in a Letter from the Governor in Council of
Bombay to the Secret Committee; dated 17th May 1804:—Received
overland, 9th September 1804. *>
To the Honourable Major General WEL LEs LEY,
&c. &c. &c. . .
Sir, * *
Para. I. I have the honour to tranſmit, for your information, the copy of a
diſpatch which I have this day addreſſed to his Excellency the Commander in
Chief. - 3 ºf - W
2. My Letter to the Commander in Chief will apprize you of my determination
to commence hoſtilities againſt Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, from Hindoſtan and the
Deccan,
**
RESPECTING JES W UNT RAO HOLKA R. 27
Deccan, at the earlieſt praćticable period of time, and I hereby authorize and direct
you to co-operate with his Excellency the Commander in Chief in the manner
which may appear to you to be beſt calculated to make an early impreſſion upon
the power and reſources of Holkar, and to afford the moſt effectual aid in facilitating
the operations which the Commander in Chief may purſue, under my orders, againſt
jeſwunt Rao Holkar, from Hindoſtan; you will not however wait for the receipt of
orders from the Commander in Chief, or for the notification of the commencement
of hoſtilities by his Excellency or Dowlut Rao Scindia; but you will, without
delay, proceed to act againſt the reſources and power of Holkar in the Deccan, and
you will direét ſuch operations from Guzerat againſt Indore, and the poſſeſſions
and intereſt of Holkar in that quarter, as may appear to you to be adviſable. ſ
3. You will hereafter receive my detailed inſtructions with regard to the plan for
the redućtion of Holkar's predatory power. In the mean while I think it neceſſary
to apprize you, that I have fully conſidered the ſuggeſtions contained in your diſpatch
of the 18th of March, (received the 6th of April) and that I entirely approve the
diſpoſition of the Troops under your command which you have detailed in that diſ.
patch, as well as the plan of military operations which you have ſuggeſted in the
ſevent of hoſtilities with Jeſwunt Rao Holkar.
4. This Letter will be left open for the peruſal of the Reſident at Hydrabad, in
order that he may be apprized of the probability of your taking the field againſt
Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, and may be prepared to afford you ſuch aid as you may require
from the Subſidiary Force, or in furniſhing ſupplies for your Army.
Barrackpore, J have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
April 16th 1804. 4 W E L L E S L E. Y.
To his Excellency the Commander in-Chief, &c. &c. &c.
'Sir,
Para. I. Having fully conſidered your Excellency's diſpatches as late as that of
your Excellency’s Letter, N° 134, of the 4th inſtant, which reached me yeſterday,
I think it neceſſary to apprize your Excellency without delay, of my intention to
commence hoſtilities againſt Jeſwunt Rao Holkar at the earlieſt practicable period
of time.
2. Your Excellency will hereafter receive my detailed inſtrućtions on this ſubjećt
and in the mean while I deem it to be expedient to authorize and direct you
‘Excellency, to adopt ſuch meaſures as may be neceſſary to enable your Excelº
‘lency to undertake active operations againſt Jeſwunt Rao Holkar, in the manne"
which may appear to your Excellency to be moſt adviſable, and without waiting
for further orders from me for that purpoſe.
3. A copy of this Letter is tranſmitted to the Honourable Major General
Welleſley on this day, together with my orders, directing him to co-operate with
your Excellency from the Deccan againſt the reſources and power of Jeſwunt Rao
Holkar. -
4. I alſo forwarded on this day ſimilar orders to the Reſident with Dowlut
Rao Scindia, directing him to prepare Scindia to ačt in concert with the Britiſh
forces in Hindoſtan and the Deccan. - ^,
5. My diſpatch to the Honourable Major General Welleſley is incloſed, and
my orders to Major Malcolm are left open for your Excellency's peruſal ; I re-
queſt your Excellency will iſſue, as ſoon as may be practicable, your inſtrućtions
to Major Malcolm, conformably to the 5th and 9th. Paras, of my orders to that
Officer; and that you will direct Mr. Mercer to correſpond with Major Malcolm
on the ſubjećt of thoſe paragraphs. J. "
6. I requeſt your Excellency to communicate with the Honourable Major
General Welleſley and with Colonel Murray in Guzerat, through Hindoſtan, as
frequently as poſſible, and that you will alſo make ſuch communications to the
Reſidents with Dowlut Rao Scindia and at Hydrabad and Nagpore, as may
appear to your Excellency to be neceſſary for the public ſervice.
- I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
Barrackpore, - - W E L L ES LEY.
36th April 1804. -- * * r lº
º:8 B I S P A T C H E S, &c. F. R O M I ND I A,
|Encloſure, N° 3. relates to the Governor General's Views for the proſecution
of the War againſt Holkar, and the Meaſures conſequent thereto, in the
event of Succeſs.] t w
ENCLOSURE, No. 4. in Letter from the Governor in Council of Bombay
to the Secret Committee; dated 17th May 1804:-Received overland,
9th September 1804. -
Extračt Letter from the Governor General's private Secretary to the
Reſident at Hydrabad; dated Barrackpore, 18th April 1864.
} AM commanded by his Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General to
tranſmit to you the incloſed Letter from his Excellency to the Honourable Major
General Welleſley, and to deſire that you will be pleaſed to forward it to Major Ge-
ineral Welleſley with all pračticable expedition, as ſoon as you ſhall have peruſed it.
The Governor General's Letter to the Honourable Major General Welleſley is left
open for your peruſal, for the purpoſe of giving you the earlieſt information of the
probability that the Army under Major General Welleſley will again take the field,
and to enable you to be prepared to afford him, without delay, ſuch aid as he may
require from you, in completing the ſupplies and equipment of the Army under his
command. º
Major General Welleſley will apprize you of the time when he may deem it
adviſable to make any communication on this ſubjećt to the Court of Hydrabad. t
I am further direéted to defire you will tranſmit a copy of this Letter to the
Honourable Major General Welleſley.
[Encloſure, N° 3. relates to the propoſed Plan of Military Operations for the
Army under Colonel Murray in Guzerat, and the movement of Troops.]
Extračt Letter from the Governor in Council of Bombay to the Secret
Committee; dated 6th July 1804:—Received overland, 6th November
1894.
Fara. 1. We avail ourſelves of the opportunity of the preſent overland diſpatch
to ſubmit to your Honourable Committee a continuation of the correſpondence
which has occurred on the ſubječt of the War in which the Britiſh Government in
India is now engaged with jeſwunt Rao Holkar; the grounds of which, as far as
known to us, were communicated in our addreſs of the 17th May.
. The war with Holkar has not hitherto been produćtive of any very material event.
That Chief appears to have retired before the diviſion of the Army of the Commander
in Chief ſent in advance under the command of Colonel Monſon. The latter has,
however, taken poſſeſſion of Rampore, a ſtrong hold belonging to the Enemy in that
quarter. On the other hand, the Britiſh Troops employed on the weſtern frontier
of Bundlecund have ſuffered a partial loſs. A detachment which had been made
from the diviſion of the Army ſtationed on that frontier has been cut off by Meer
Khan, a Pattan Chief in the ſervice of Holkar, who commands a confiderable body
of horſe in that vicinity. The number of which that detachment conſiſted did not
exceed two companies of Sepoys, a party of 50 Artillery-men, two Officers, and a
Surgeon; of whom, from the accounts that have reached us, it is to be apprehended
that hardly any have eſcaped. - *
8. Colonel Murray, with the diviſion of the Army under his command, is now
advancing from Guzerat towards Ougein, whilſt the Troops above the Ghauts, placed
under the orders of the Reſident at Poona on the departure of the Honourable
General Welleſley, will ſhortly be employed (as your Committee will obſerve from
the details of information to which we have already referred) in depriving Jeſwunt
Rao Holkar of his poſſeſſions in the Deccan, the only place of ſtrength on which
. 1S
RESPECTING JES w UNT RAO HOLKAR. 29
is Chāndore, whither the operations of the troops will probably be in the firſt in.
ſtance direéted. . . . . - *
... 9. Since writing the above, information has been received from Poona, ſaid to be
founded on the authority of a Letter from his Excellency the Commander in Chief,
that Mr. Lucan (the ſame Officer who condućted our Troops into the ſtrong fort of
Aligur on the commencement of the late war with Scindia) has ſucceeded in cutting
up three battalions of infantry, and taking 18 guns belonging to the Army of
Holkar.
[Paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, with the Encloſures N* I. a. 5, relate to
propºſed Military operations, and the diſtribution of the Troops.]
19. I

:Copies of al Treaties, Engagements, Of Correſpondence,
between the BRITISH Goverswest in INDIA and
the KING or Mosul at DELHI, or with his Miniſters,
ſubſequent to the Concluſion of the Treaty of Baffein;
ſo far as the ſame may be diſcloſed without Prejudice to
the Public Service.
rørdered to be printed 12th March 18 ozº.
:-ºr--r-,-
+8. A.

LIST OF PAPERs.
Extraćt of Tetter from the Governor General in Council to the Secret Committee; dated
12th April 1804 - tº tº º cº gº -, - * sº $º use . * p. I •
Letter from the Reſident at Lucknow to Mr. Secretary Edmonſtone; dated 10th September
1803. tº • e gº , º §º - s & tºº ſº ...tº Gº wº P. 5.
Tranſlation of a Shokah from his Majeſty Shah Allum to his Excellency the Nawaub Vizier;
without Date - tºº ºne nº ſº tº • ‘º gº •º º º tº p. 6
Extraćt Letter from the Marquis Welleſley to General Lake; dated 27th July 1803 - ibid.
Letter from the Marquis Welleſley to his Majeſty Shah Allum; dated 27th July 1803 p. 7.
Extračt Letter from General Lake to the Marquis Welleſley; dated 8th Auguſt 1803 - p. 8.
x,
Tranſlation of a Letter from General Lake to his Majeſty Shah Allum; dated 8th Auguſt
:1803 ** * * usº - - - - -- tº - - gº • tº sº a ſº P. 9°
ibid.
Jºe
4 º'
Letter from General Lake to Marquis Welleſley; dated 29th Auguſt 1803
Extract of a Letter from Syed Rezza Khan - - - - - - - - ibid.
…sº
Subſtance of his Majeſty Shah Allum's Letter to the Governor General - - º .p. I6.
D° - - - of Letter from General Lake to his Majeſty - - - - - - libid.
Letter from General Lake to the Marquis Welleſley; dated 1ſt September 1803 - ibid.
;I,etter from Shah Allum to Dº - - - - - - - - - ibid.
Tranſlate of a Letter from Syed Rezza Khan - - - - - - - p. II.
Letter from General Lake to the Marquis Welleſley; dated 6th September 1803 - p. 12.
IExtraćt of Letter from General Lake to the Marquis Welleſley; dated 12th September 1863 ibid.
D - - - D - - - - - - - 14th September 1863 bid.
D° - - - D* - - - - - - - 15th September 1803 ibid.
Letter from Dº to D* - - - - - - - 17th September 1803 p. 13.
Extra - Dº to D* - - - - - - - D" • ... sº ibid.
#letter from D° to D* - - - - - - - - 20th September 1893 ibid.
D. - - to D* - - - - - - - aid September 1803 p. 14.
Letter from his Majeſty Shah Allum to the Marquis Welleſley; received 5th Oétober 1803 ibid.
Letter from the Marquis welleſley to General Lake; dated 8th O&tober 1803 - - p. 15.
Letter from Dºto his Majeſty Shah Allum; written 8th October 1803 - - - I6.
:1,etter from General Lake to the Marquis Welleſley; dated 21ſt September 1803 - p. I'7.
D° - - - D° to Dº ; dated 23d September 1803 - - - - - - p. 18.
-stº
...Extract - - D* to D95 - 20th December 1893 - , ſº ..º. … * ibid.
Copies of all Treaties, Engagements, or Correſpondence,
between the British Gover NMENT in INDIA and the
KING or Mogul at DELHI, or with his Miniſters, ſubſe-
quent to the Concluſion of the Treaty of Baſſein ; ſo
far as the ſame may be diſcloſed without Prejudice to
the Public Service.
EXTRACT of Letter from the Governor General in Council, to the
Secret Committee; dated 12th April 1894.
T HE Governor General in Council, now proceeds to ſtate to your Honourable
* Committee the ſubſtance of his Excellency’s ſeparate inſtrućtions to the Com-
mander in Chief on diſtinct branches of the general plan of operations, and political
arrangements communicated to the Commander in Chief, in the Governor-General’s
Diſpatch to his Excellency of 27th July. 4. *
By a ſeparate Letter of that date, the Commander in-Chief was furniſhed with a .
detail of the meaſures to be purſued with reſpe&t to his Majeſty Shah Aulum and
the Royal Family, in the event of his Majeſty and the Royal Family coming
under the protećtion of the Britiſh Government. * * *
Deeming it to be deſirable that his Majeſty Shah Aulum ſhould be ſpeedily ap-
prized of the Governor General’s intention in his Majeſty’s favour, the Governor
* General addreſſed a Letter to his Majeſty, intimating, that in the actual criſis of
affairs, his Majeſty would probably have an early opportunity of placing himſelf
under the protećtion of the Britiſh Government, and aſſuring his Majeſty, that if
he ſhould be diſpoſed to accept the Aſylum which the Commander in Chief had
been dire&ted to offer to him, every demonſtration of reſpect and attention would be
manifeſted towards his Majeſty on the part of the Britiſh Government, and that an
adequate proviſion would be made for the ſupport of his Majeſty, and of his Family
and Houſehold, and referring his Majeſty for further details to the communications
, , of the Commander in Chief. -
This Letter was tranſmitted to his Excellency the Commander in Chief, with
inſtructions reſpecting the mode of forwarding it to his Majeſty. --- w
With a view to provide againſt the probable attempt of the French Officer in
charge of the Mogul’s perſon, to place his Majeſty beyond the reach of our power,
in the event of any movement of the Britiſh Troops againſt Delhi, the Commander.
-in-Chief was particularly-inſtrućted to regulate the operations of the Army in ſuch
a manner as to fruſtrate the ſucceſs of ſuch a plan. r
The Governor General obſerved to the Commander in-Chief, that the arrange-
ment to be finally concluded with reſpect to his Majeſty Shah Aulum, involved
queſtions of great political and national importance, which would form the ſubječt
of future deliberation. That for the preſent it was the intention of the Governor
..General, merely to ſecure for his Majeſty the protećtion of the Britiſh Government,
and to aſſign to his Majeſty and to the Royal Family of Delhi a proviſion for their
immediate ſupport, the extent of which muſt be regulated by future events. The
Governor-General, however, expreſſed his opinion, that the Emperor would not heſi-
tate to place himſelf under Britiſh Protećtion without any previous ſtipulation. The
apparent impoſſibility of his Majeſty effecting his eſcape from Delhi, for the purpoſe
-48. .B. O
*…
2 TREATIES, &c. between the BRITISH Gover NMENT in INDIA
of claiming the proffered protećtion of the Britiſh Government, rendered it un-
neceſſary to contemplate that event.
The occupation of Delhi appeared to the Governor General to afford the only
proſpect of affording to his Majeſty the protećtion of the Britiſh Power. The Go-
vernor General expreſſed to the Commander in Chief an anxious deſire, that when
that event ſhould take place, his Majeſty and the Royal Family ſhould immediately
experience the benefit of the change, by receiving from the Commander in Chief,
and from all perſons atting under the Britiſh authority, every demonſtration of re-
werence and reſpećtful care, and that every regard ſhould be paid to the comfort and
convenience of his Majeſty and the Royal Family, conſiſtent with the due ſecurity
of their perſons. The Governor General directed, that if his Majeſty Shah Aulum
ſhould come under the protećtion of the Britiſh Government, the Commander in
...Chief ſhould immediately appoint a Civil or Military Officer, properly qualified,
to attend his Majeſty in the capacity of Repreſentative of the Britiſh Government,
with inſtrućtions to ſuch Officer for the regulation of his condućt towards his Majeſty
and the Royal Family, founded on the actual circumſtances of their ſituation. *
Under the Governor General's reſolution to poſtpone any final arrangement with
reſpećt to his Majeſty and the Royal Family, the Commander in Chief was in-
ſtrućted to decline entering into any negociation with his Majeſty for that purpoſe.
The Commander in Chief was alſo direéted to refer to the Governor General any
propoſitions which might be received from his Majeſty, of a nature to admit the
delay of a reference. * - \ -
The Governor General in Council now proceeds to ſtate to your Honourable
*Committee, the circumſtances attending the deliverance of the Emperor Shah
Aulum, from his grievous ſubjećtion to the power and authority of the Marhattas
and the French, and of the reſtoration of that aged and venerable Monarch, under the
protećtion of the Britiſh Gövernment, to a ſtate of dignity, competency, and
comfort. l
The Letter addreſſed by the Governor General to his Majeſty Shah Aulum, of
which the ſubſtance was ſtated in the 356th paragraph of this Letter, was ſecretly
tranſmitted by the Commander in Chief to Syed Rezzee Khan, the Agent of the
Reſident with Dowlut Row Scindia at Delhi, for the purpoſe of being delivered to
his Majeſty. It was accompanied by a Letter from the Commander in Chief, ex-
preſſive of his anxiety to afford every demonſtration of reſpect and attachment to his
Majeſty. The ſtrićteſt fecrecy was enjoined to Syud Rezzee Khan in the delivery
of theſe Letters, r
On the 29th Auguſt, the Commander in Chief received through Syud Rezza
Kban, the anſwer of Shah Aulum to the Governor General's Letter, expreſſing the
anxious wiſh of his Majeſty to avail himſelf of the protećtion of the Britiſh Go-
Vernment. * * . . . . -
On the 1ſt September, the Commander in Chief received from Syud Rezze Khan
a Letter, under the ſeal of his Majeſty, to the Governor General, declaring, that his
Majeſty had entruſted the management of ºil his affairs to Dowlut Row Scindia, and
to Monſieur. Perron, as the deputy of Scindia ; and encouraging his Majeſty's inten-
tion of taking the field in perſon, and requiring the Governor General to prohibit
the further proſecution of military operations. t *
It is proper to apprize your Honourable Committee, that the tranſmiſſion of Let-
sters, on the part of his Majeſty, was at all times ſubjećt to the control of the officers
who were ſtationed at Delhi on the part of Dowlut Row Scindia, and who ačted
under the immediate authority of Mr. Perron. His Majeſty was never permitted
to diſpatch any Letters which had not been dićtated or approved by thoſe officers.
The reply which the Governor General received to his Letter to the King, was
clandeſtinely prepared and forwarded; added to which, the aëlual ſtate of miſery
and diſtreſs in which that unfortunate Monarch has long been involved, and the
known ſolicitude of his Majeſty to be relieved from the oppreſſive control and inhu-
manity of the Marhatta Power, precluded any ſuppoſition that the Letter deſcribed
in the preceding paragraph was prepared and tranſmitted by his Majeſty's voluntary
Command, or that the declarations and injunétions contained in it accorded with the
real wiſhes and deſigns of his Majeſty. Theſe conſiderations, added to information
,which the Commander in Chief received from Syud Rezzee Khaun, that the Letter
# l Iſl
and the KING or MO G U L at D E L H I; &c. 3,
in queſtion was aétually dićtated by the French Officers at Delhi, afford unqueſtion-
able proof of that fačt. - . . .
A Letter in the ſame ſpirit, addreſſed by his Majeſty to the Nawaub Vizier, had
been delivered by the Vizier to the Refident at Lucknow, and Syed Rezza Khaun
reported to the Commander in Chief, that his Majeſty had publicly declared his
intention to addreſs ſimilar Letters to ſeveral of the Chiefs of Hindoſtan. The
whole of theſe proceedings evidently originated with the French Officers at Delhi,
and ſubſequent events have proved the correótneſs of the opinion which was formed
of his Majeſty's anxious ſolicitude to place himſelf under the protećtion of the Britiſh
: Power. . . . -
Syud Rezza Khan having been compelled to quit Delhi by the violence of the
French Officers, proceeded to the Camp of the Commander in Chief, and rendered a
favourable account of the diſpoſition of his Majeſty and his Court towards the Britiſh
Government. t - -
All the attempts of the French and others in the intereſts of Dowlut Rao Scindia,
to deter his Majeſty from accepting the protećtion of the Britiſh Government, were
however fruſtrated by the ſignal and deciſive ſucceſs of our arms in the memorable
battle of Delhi, on the 11th of September 1803. Immediately after that event, the
Commander in Chief was apprized of the Emperor's earneſt defire to place himſelf
under the immediate protećtion of the Britiſh Army.
On the 16th September the Commander in Chief, attended by the principal Officers
of the Army, waited on the Emperor Shaha Alum, at the Royal Palace in the Fort
of Delhi. On that occaſion his Majeſty’s eldeſt ſon Mirza Akber Shah, the heir
apparent, proceeded to the Britiſh Camp, and condućted his Excellency the Com-
mander in Chief to the preſence of his Majeſty, who received his Excellency ſeated
on his throne. His Majeſty and the whole Court teſtified the utmoſt joy at the
events which had placed his Majeſty, and the Royal Family under the protećtion of
the Britiſh Government.
Soon after the arrival of the Commander in Chief at Delhi, his Excellency re-
ceived information that a ſum of money, amounting to ſix lacks of Rupees, the
property of Dowlut Rao Sindia, had been lodged in the hands of M. Drugeon, the
Commandant of Delhi, for the payment of the Troops. Of that ſum M. Drugeon
had diſburſed 60,000 R. for the payment of his Troops, and on the approach of the
Britiſh Army, he had depoſited the remainder with Shah Newaz Khan, the treaſurer
of his Majeſty, with a view to prevent it from falling into the poſſeſſion of the Com-
mander in Chief. *
His Excellency being ſatisfied that the money in queſtion was the public property
of the enemy, and that the transfer of it to the hands of an Officer of his Majeſty's
treaſury, had no other objećt than to deprive the Britiſh Government of the benefit
of the capture, deemed it to be his duty to claim the property as belonging to the
Britiſh Power, this application was made in the moſt reſpectful manner, and with
every degree of attention to his Majeſty's dignity. After ſome conſideration, the
Fmperor ſent the money to the camp of the Commander in Chief, accompanied by
a meſſage to his Excellency, requeſting his acceptance of the money as a donation to
the brave Army, whoſe gallant condućt had releaſed his Majeſty from a miſerable ſub-
jićtion to the Mahratta and French Power, and placed him under the long deſired
protećtion and liberality of the Britiſh Government. k t
The Commander in Chief received the money, and referred the queſtion of its
diſpoſal to the conſideration and orders of the Governor General.
The Emperor addreſſed a Letter to the Governor General at the ſame time, ſtat-
ing the circumſtance of his having beſtowed this donation on the Britiſh Army.
The Governor General communicated to the Commander in Chief, without delay,
his ſentiments and inſtrućtions relative to the tranſačtions above deſcribed.
In thoſe inſtructions the Governor General ſtated his decided opinion to be, that
the original ſum of ſix lacks of rupees, as well as the reſidue of that ſum, after de-
dućtion of the diſburſement made to the Troops of the enemy, was certainly the pub-
lic property of the enemy, and that any part of that property captured in the hands
of M. Drugeon, or of any officer, ſoldier, or ſubjećt of the enemy, would un-
queſtionably have been adjudged lawful prize to the Britiſh Government.
48. ** - .* The
4. TREATIES, &c. between the British Government in INDIA - -
The Governor General obſerved, that the fraudulent transfer of the enemy's pro-
perty to the hands of the Officers of his Majeſty Shah Aulum, at the time of the ap-
proach of the Britiſh Army, could not change the nature of that property, or ex-
empt it from the right of the captors who had defeated the enemy's Troops in the
battle of Delhi; and in conſequence of that glorious vićtory had captured the city
and fortreſs of Delhi, occupied at that time by a diviſion of the enemy's Army.
That no circumſtance appeared to warrant a ſuggeſtion, that this depoſite could have
been intended for the ſervice of his Majeſty, although placed in the hands of the
Chief Officer of his Majeſty's treaſury. That the ſtate of indigence and miſery to
which his Majeſty, his Royal Family and Houſehold, had long been reduced by the
Mahratta Power, the degraded and deſtitute condition to which the Imperial Houſe
of Timor, had been ſubjećted under the Officers of Scindia, and the deplorable
ſituation in which the Commander in Chief found the Emperor upon his entrance
into Delhi, excluded the poſſibility of a ſuppoſition that M. Drugeon intended to
contribute ſo large a ſum to relieve the ſufferings of Shah Aulum and his impoveriſh-
ed court: That the objećt of the depoſits was evidently to elude the rights of the
conquerors, and to cover the property of the enemy in the hands of his Majeſty's
Officers, and under the Royal Name, without the authority or knowledge of the
Emperor, and without any intention of relieving his Majeſty’s urgent diſtreſs: That
under the concluſion, therefore, that the reſidue of the original ſum of ſix lacks of
rupees, depoſited by M. Drugeon in the hands of Shah Newaz Khan, continued to
be really the public property of the enemy, the right of that property appeared to
the Governor General to have been veſted in the Britiſh Government by the con-
queſt of Delhi. - -
Under theſe circumſtances the Governor General expreſſed his entire approbation
of the Commander in Chief’s condućt, in having claimed the ſum of money in queſ-
tion, and in having obſerved in his mode of preferring a claim to it, the reſpect and
attention which the Commander in Chief had uniformly manifeſted towards the
unfortunate Emperor. - - º
The Governor General proceeded to obſerve, that his Majeſty Shāh Aulum, hav-
ing been pleaſed to offer to the Army as a donation, the ſum of money claimed by his
Excellency in right of conqueſt, the Commander in Chief could not have declined
to accept that offer without injury to his Majeſty's dignity, unleſs at the ſame time the
Commander in Chief could have relinquiſhed altogether the claim on the part of the
Britiſh Government to that part of the property of the enemy, and that in the judg-
ment of the Governor General, the Commander in Chief would not have been juſti-
fied in relinquiſhing that claim, without the expreſs authority of the Governor
General in Council. * * --
The Governor General further ſtated to the Commander in Chieſ, that the trea-
ſure in queſtion being lawful prize, the Governor General could not have deemed
himſelf warranted in any ſtage of the tranſačtion (under the circumſtances ſtated by
the Commander in Chief) to have authorized his Excellency to withhold the aſſer-
tion of the claim of the Britiſh Government to obtain the enemy's property from the
hand in which it had been concealed; adding, that the limited annount of the ſum,
combined with the memorable events which attended the conqueſt, would have ren-
dered the Governor General peculiarly anxious to ſecure, for the purpoſe of granting
to the Army, a reward earned by a degree of exertion and merit which had never
been ſurpaſſed. -
The Governor General, therefore, by thoſe inſtrućtions authorized and direéted
the Commander in Chief to conſider the treaſures, amounting to five lacks and
forty thouſand rupees, received as a donation from his Viajeſty, but being really
the property of the enemy, to be prize money granted by the authority of the
Governor General in Council to the Army, in teſtimony of the high ſenſe entertain-
ed by the Governor General in Council of the diſcipline, perſeverance, fortitude,
and zeal diſplayed by that gallant Army. … -
The Governor General, however, thought it adviſable to take an early oppor-
tunity of paying an equal ſum to the uſe of the Emperor, in ſuch a manner as
ſhould be moſt acceptable to his Majeſty, and as ſhould ſecure its due application to
his Majeſty's ſervice.
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and the KING or M O G U L at D E L H I; &c. 5
Accordingly the Governor General addreſſed a Letter to the Emperor, in which
his Lordſhip ſtated to his Majeſty the circumſtances which appeared to render the
money claimed by the Commander in Chief, the undoubted right of the Britiſh
Government, acquired by the conqueſt of Delhi from the Mahrattas and French.
After eſtabliſhing this fačt, the Governor General proceeded to ſtate, that, agreeably
to the pleaſure of his Majeſty, he had iſſued orders to the Commander in Chief for
the diſtribution of the property among the Troops. The Governor General then in-,
timated to his Majeſty that his Excellency’s attention was direéted to the formation
of a permanent arrangement, calculated to provide ſecurity for the happineſs, dig-
nity, and tranquillity of his Majeſty and of the Royal Family, and that his Excel-,
lency had iſſued inſtrućtions to the Commander in Chief, to pay into the Royal
Treaſury the ſum of ſix lacks of rupees, with a view to provide for the immediate
exigencies of his Majeſty's houſehold; and the Governor General iſſued orders ac-
cordingly, which have ſince been carried into execution, and the money applied to
his Majeſty's uſe. - º --- - & 3.
Previouſly to the march of the army from Delhi, the Commander in Chief ap-
pointed Lieutenant Colonel Achterlony, the Deputy Adjutant General, to reſide
with his Majeſty on the part of the Britiſh Government. Every poſſible degree of
attention and reſpe&t has been manifeſted towards the unfortunate Emperor, and his
Family and Houſehold ; and his Majeſty appears to be fully impreſſed with a ſenſe
of the benefit which he has already derived from the protećtion of the Britiſh Go-
Vēſ. In Iſlent. * ;
After the battle of Laſwaree, his Majeſty deputed a ſpecial miſſion for the purpoſe
of congratulating the Commander in Chief on that brilliant vićtory, and conferring
on his Excellency an honorary dreſs, agreeably to the cuſtoms of India. *
4. *
The ārrangements which the Governor General in Council propoſes, ultimately
to adopt for the ſupport of his Majeſty and of the Royal Family, will hereafter be
ſtated to your Honourable Committee. The Governor General in Council, how-
ever, deems it to be adviſable to apprize your Honourable Committee in this place,
that it is not his Excellency’s intention to require any conceſſion whatever from his
Majeſty, nor to proceed in any immediate arrangement beyond the limits of eſta-
bliſhing a liberal allowance for his Majeſty's ſupport, and for the comfort of his
Royal Family'and Nobility, under the protećtion of the Britiſh power, with ſuch
arrangements at Delhi as may render his Majeſty’s reſidence in that city tranquil,
ſecure, and dignified; may improve the condition of the inhabitants of the city,
and of the contiguous provinces; and may combine with theſe deſirable objećts,
additional augmentation and ſtrength to the military reſources and defences of the
Company's poſſeſſions in that quarter, . . . . . . sº -
g e. .* * * *
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Ex T R A C T B E N G A L SECRET CONSU LTATION S.
I oth Novembe R 18O3.
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RESIDENT at Lucknow to N. B. EDMonston E, Eſq. Secretary
* - to Government. . . . . . " . . . . .
Sir, z' . . s, . . -
I have the honour to tranſmit to you copy and tranſlate of a Letter from his
Majeſty Shah Allum to his Excellency the Vizier. -*4. A.
I have to requeſt that you will be pleaſed to inform his Excellency the Moſt noble
the Governor General, that the Letter was brought to the Vizier laſt night by two
Coffids, and that his Excellency this morning delivered to me the original, from
which the encloſed copy has been taken. There can, I ſhould imagine, be no doubt
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but that the Letter was written under cornpulſion, and dićtated by Mr. Louis; at
the ſame time I have thought it neceſſary to tranſmit copy and tranſlation of it to
his Excellency the Commander in Chief. t
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) W”. Scott.
Res'. Lucknow.
Hlucknow, Y,
12th September 1803. -
Tranſlation of a Shokah from his Majeſty SH AH ALLUM to his Excellenc
the Nawaub Vizier ; without Date. *
(After the uſual forms.) . * 3.
We have been graciouſly pleaſed to beſtow on the Britiſh Government many
aćts of our royal munificence and favour, and the Chiefs of that nation, who were
accuſtomed to teſtify their obedience, have for ſome time paſt relaxed in their wonted
duty; thus they have aſſumed a complete interference in thoſe provinces confided by
us to the management of you our beloved ſon. This was a circumſtance which did
not eſcape our obſervation, though we have not hitherto noticed it ; they have now
arrived at that height, that outſtepping the bounds of allegiance, they are at this
moment about to ſeize upon thoſe diſtrićts particularly appropriated to our royal uſe
and ſupport. The Engliſh, by their condućt on this occaſion, have incurred our
ſevereſt diſpleaſure ; we have therefore reſolved to unfurl the royal ſtandard, and
bring the affair to an immediate concluſion. * *
Confidering you, our well-beloved ſon, as the ſupport of the empire, we have
deemed it expedient to iſſue this our royal mandate (which it will be wiſe to obey)
commanding you to repair immediately on receipt of it to our royal preſence.
True tranſlation.
(Signed) W* Scott,
Res'. Lucknow.
EXT R A C T B EN GAL SEC RET CON SULTAT I O N S.
- 2d MARCH 1804. - -
Extraćt Letter from the MARQUIs WELLESLEY to his Excellency
Lieutenant General GERARD LAKE, Commander in Chief,
&c. &c. &c.; dated 27th July 1803.
Sir,
In my diſpatch of this date I ſignified my intention of communicating to your
Excellency, in a ſeparate addreſs, the detail of the meaſures to be purſued with
reſpect to his Majeſty Shah Allum, and my general ſentiments with regard to the
condućt to be obſerved by the Britiſh Government towards his Majeſty and the
Royal Family of Delhi, if their perſons ſhould be brought under our protećtion.
Deeming it to be expedient that his Majeſty ſhould be ſpeedily apprized of my
intentions in his favour, I have addreſſed the Letter to his Majeſty which accompanies
the Diſpatch, together with a copy of it for your Excellency's information.
It will be proper that my Letter to his Majeſty ſhould be diſpatched with every
pračticable degree of ſecrecy and caution; I have reaſon to believe that Syed Rezza
Khan, who has long reſided at Delhi, in the capacity of agent on the part of the
Reſident,
and the K I N G or MOG UIL at D := i , [] I ; , &c, --. 7
Reſident, with Dowlut Row Scindia, at the court of his Majeſty, may ſafely be
truſted on this occaſion. If upon enquiry your Excellency ſhould find no cauſe to
diſſent from this opinion, your Excellency will be pleaſed to render Syed Rezza
Khan the channel for the tranſmiſſion of the Letter, under ſuch inſtrućtions as may
appear to your Excellency to be applicable to the occaſion. In this event your Excel-
lency will deem it expedient, to direét that agent to tranſmit to your Excellency
accurate and regular information of every tranſaction at Delhi which may come to
his knowledge. "
It may be expected that every movement of the Britiſh Troops which menaces the
ſecurity of Delhi, will be followed by an attempt on the part of the French Officer,
who is in charge of the Mogul’s perſon, to place his Majeſty beyond the reach of our
power; your Excellency will therefore deem it proper, as far as may be practicable,
to regulate the operations.of the Britiſh Troops, with reſpečt to that city, in ſuch a
manner as to preclude the ſucceſs of any attempt of that nature.
The arrangement to be finally concluded with reſpect to his Majeſty, involves a
queſtion of great political and national importance, which will form the ſubjećt of
future deliberation. For the preſent, it is my intention merely to ſecure to his
Majeſty the protećtion of the Britiſh Government, and to aſſign to him and to his
family a proviſion for their immediate ſupport; the extent of that proviſion muſt be
regulated by future events and circumſtances. I entertain no doubt that his Ma-
jeſty will be cordially diſpoſed to place himſelf under the Britiſh Protećtion without
any previous ſtipulations.
The apparent impoſſibility of his Majeſty's effecting his eſcape from Delhi, for
the purpoſe of claiming the offered protećtion of the Britiſh Government, renders it
unneceſſary to contemplate that event. It cannot be expected that his Majeſty's
perſon ſhould come under our protećtion, until we ſhall have ſucceeded in occupying
...Delhi. º w
When that event ſhall have taken place, it is my anxious deſire that his Majeſty
and the Royal Family ſhould immediately experience the benefit of the change, by
receiving from your Excellency, and from all perſons ačting under your authority,
every demonſtration of reverence, reſpect, and attention, and every degree of regard
to the comfort and convenience of his Majeſty and the Royal Family, conſiſtent
with the ſecurity of their perſons. It will be proper that your Excellency ſhould
immediately appoint a Civil or Military Officer, who may be duly qualified to attend
his Majeſty in the capacity of Agent or Repreſentative of the Britiſh Government,
furniſhing ſuch Officer with ſuch proper inſtrućtions for the regulation of his condućt
towards his Majeſty and Royal Family, founded on the aëtual circumſtances of their
ſituation, and in the ſpirit of theſe ſuggeſtions. ***
Your Excellency will be pleaſed to tranſmit to me, as ſoon as may be pračticable,
a ſtatement of the names and degrees of the perſons for whom it may be neceſſary to
aſſign a proviſion, together with ſuch ſuggeſtions as your Excellency may deem
adviſable, to enable me to determine the extent of ſuch proviſion.
Under the reſolution which I have ſtated to your Excellency, of poſtponing a final
arrangement with reſpect to his Majeſty and the Royal Family, your Excellency will
decline to enter into any negociation with his Majeſty for that purpoſe, and your
Excellency will be pleaſed to refer to me any propoſitions which you may receive
from his Majeſty of a nature to admit the delay of a reference to my authority.
Letter from the MARQy is WELLESLEY to his Majeſty SHAH ALLUM ;
written 27th July 1803. W
Your Majeſty is fully apprized of the ſentiments of reſpešt and attachment which
, the Britiſh Government has invariably entertained towards your Royal Perſon and
Family. Y - +
The injuries and indignities to which your Majeſty and your illuſtrious Family
have been expoſed ſince the time when your Majeſty unhappily transferred the pro-
tećtion of your Perſon to the power of the Mahratta State, have been a ſubjećt of
unceaſing concern to the Honourable Company and to the Britiſh Adminiſtration in
India; and I have deeply regretted that the circumſtances of the times have hitherto
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precluded the interpoſition of the Britiſh Power, for the purpoſe of affording to your
Majeſty effectual relief from the oppreſſive controul of injuſtice, rapacity, and inhu-,
manity. - f
In the preſent criſis of affairs, it is probable that your Majeſty may have the oppor-
tunity of again placing yourſelf under the protećtion of the Britiſh Government, and
I ſhall avail myſelf with cordial ſatisfaction of any event which may enable me to
obey the dićtates of my ſincere reſpect and attachment to your Royal Houſe.
If your Majeſty ſhould be diſpoſed to accept the Aſylum which, in the contem-
plation of ſuch an event, I have directed his Excellency the Commander in Chief of
the Britiſh Forces in Oude to offer to your Majeſty, in the name of the Britiſh
Government, your Majeſty may be aſſured that every demonſtration of reſpe&t, and
every degree of attention which can contribute to the eaſe and comfort of your
Majeſty and the Royal Family, will be manifeſted on the part of the Britiſh Govern-
ment, and that adequate proviſion will be made for the ſupport of your Majeſty, and
of your Family and Houſehold.
At a proper ſeaſon, his Excellency the Commander in Chief will have the honour
of communicating to your Majeſty my further ſentiments on the ſubječt of the pro-
poſed arrangement. -- i. -
(Signed) j. Monkton,
Aſs' Pº SecY to Gov"
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Extraćt Letter from General LAKE to his Excellency the Moſt Noble
MARQUIS W E L LESLEY, Governor General, &c. &c. &c.; dated Head
Quarters, Camp near Imlai, the 8th Auguſt 1803.
My Lord, . . " a- f
Your Lordſhip's Secret Official Diſpatch, N° 4. was only received yeſterday.
This Diſpatch contains a detail of the meaſures to be purſued with reſpe&t to his
Majeſty Shah Allum and the Royal Family at Delhi, if their perſons ſhould be
brought under the protećtion of the Britiſh Government. - - -
A Letter from your Excellency to his Majeſty accompanies this Diſpatch.
From every information I have been able to procure reſpećting the degree of con-
fidence to be placed in Syed Rezee Khan, the Agent on the part of the Reſident with
Dowlut Rao Scindia at the Court of Delhi, as well as from the information I have
hitherto received from him by direétion of Colonel Collins, I have every reaſon to
think that this man is to be truſted. * - &.
I have therefore diſpatched your Lordſhip's Letter through this channel to his
Majeſty, accompanied by one from myſelf, a copy of which I have the honour to
encloſe for your Lordſhip's information. *
I have given ſtrićt caution to the Reſident's Agent at Delhi, to preſerve the
utmoſt ſecrecy with reſpe&t to the receipt of this Letter from your Lordſhip, and I
hope every precaution will be obſerved to enſure the ſecrecy neceſſary on this
occaſion. - -
In making my arrangements, I ſhall take every precaution to preclude the ſucceſs
of any attempt that may be made to place his Majeſty beyond the reach of the power
of the Britiſh Government. . . . . . . - w
Whenever his Majeſty ſhall have placed himſelf under our protećtion, every poſ-
fible mark of honour and reſpect ſhall be paid to his Mäjeſty and the Royal Family,
conſiſtent with the ſecurity of his perſon. * *-
The earlieſt poſſible information ſhall be forwarded to your Lordſhip, of the
meaſures I may adopt to further your Lordſhip's views on the points ſtated in your
Excellency's Diſpatch. * -
Agreeable to your Lordſhip's inſtrućtions, I ſhall avoid making any final arrange-
ment with his Majeſty; and any propoſitions that may be made, connected with this
ſubjećt, ſhall be immediately ſubmitted to your Lordſhip.
- . . ** Encloſure
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and the K I N G or MO G U L at D E L H I ; &c, 9
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Encloſure in a Diſpatch from his Excellency the Commander, in Chief to his
Excellency the Moſt Noble the Governor General; dated 8th Auguſt 1803.
Received 19th Auguſt 1803.
T ranſlation of a Letter from his Excellency Lieutenant-General LAKE to his
Majeſty the King SHAH ALLUM ; dated 8th Auguſt 1803, or 9th of
Rubbeeooſſannie.
(After the uſual form of addreſs to Royalty.)
I am cordially diſpoſed to render your Majeſty every demonſtration of my loyalty
and attachment, and I conſider it to be a diſtinguiſhed honour, as it is a peculiar
happineſs, to execute your Majeſty's commands.
I now do myſelf the honour to forward to your Majeſty a Letter which I have
received to your Majeſty’s Addreſs from his Excellency the moſt noble the Governor
General Marquis Welleſley, whoſe ſincere reſpect and attachment to your royal
Perſon will be ſufficiently apparent from the contents of that Letter,
I hope that your Majeſty will always be graciouſly pleaſed to regard your faithful .
adherents with favour.
(A true tranſlation.)
(Signed) j. Monckton,
Aſs' Pers. Secº to Gov".
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His Excellency the Moſt Noble MARQUIs WELLEs LEy, K. P.
Governor General, &c. &c. &c.
My Lord, * 2
I have the honour to encloſe a Letter addreſſed to your Lordſhip from his
Majeſty Shah Allum, with an Extract of one to ine, and the reply I have made
£O 1 to
Theſe Letters leave no doubt of his Majeſty's favourable Diſpoſitions towards the
Britiſh Government, and I have received information that he has poſitively refuſed
to join the enemy's camp.
I have the honour to be, •y
Head Quarters, Camp before Ally My Lord, yours, &c.
Ghur, Aug” 29th 18O3. . (Signed) G. LAKE.
Extraćt of a Letter from SYED REzza KHAN.
His Majeſty Shah Allum ſent me the following Meſſage by a confidential
perſon. , ſº *
“ Write to General Lake from me :” I have remarked the obedience and attach-
ment of the Engliſh, who in the beginning adhered to their engagements until I
went to Allahabad; and Lord Clive and Gentlemen of the Council, in every affair
ſtudied to give ſatisfaction to my mind, and I now confide and repoſe reliance in
you: But the Engliſh have for ſome years paſt been unmindful of me, inaſmuch as
Ico rupees per day which was ſent by the Nabob Vizier for the expences of my
table, has been ſtopped for theſe three or four years paſt, and the Engliſh took no
means to remedy this: conceiving, therefore, leaſt when the Engliſh gain poſſeſsion
of the country, they may prove forgetful of me, it becomes neceſſary for the
General to ſettle this point with the Governor General, that hereafter there be no
want of obedience or cauſe of diſſatisfaction to me. Secondly, he who has now
the power (Perron) is deſirous to carry my intended ſucceſſor to his camp. As yet
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this has not been required of me; but if it is aſked, I ſhall reſiſt it to the utmoſt of
my power, but as I am, in their power I am helpleſs.
\ (A true Tranſlate.)
(Signed) j. Gerard.
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t Subſtance of his Majeſty SHAH ALLUM's Letter to the
Governor General.
Acknowledging receipt of his Excellency's Addreſs, and recapitulating its con-
tents. His Majeſty therefore expreſſes his ſenſe of the attachment and duty mani-
feſted towards him by the Company, and particularly by his Excellency the Governor
General, and his confidence that the Governor General’s profeſſions contained in his
Letter will be realized ; and that with regard to the reference made to the Com-
mander in Chief, hi * ing confident that whatever the Commander in
łer in Chief, his Majeſty being confident that what the C d
Chief may have been direéted to do, is for his Majeſty's benefit, all the Commander
in Chief's repreſentatives will be accepted. His Majeſty concludes with expreſſing
his wiſh to be perſonally acquainted with his Excellency.
Subſtance of the Letter to his Majeſty, from the Commander in Chief.
The Commander in Chief, after profeſſions of attachment, ſtates, That he has re-
ceived from Syed Rezza Khan his Majeſty's communication, which his Excel-
lency recapitulates, and aſſures his Majeſty that it is not poſſible any neglečt ſhould
ever be manifeſted on the part of the Britiſh Government. His Excellency con-
cludes by ſtating, that he will communicate all particulars to the Governor
General. f
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble MARoy Is WELLEsley, K. P.
Governor General.
My Lord, *. * *
The accompanying Letter, addreſſed to your Lordſhip from his Majeſty Shah
Allum, has juſt been received, and I loſe no time in forwarding it to your
Lordſhip. i.
A copy of this Letter was encloſed to me by Colonel Collins's Agent at Delhi,
but from the inſtructions I have received from your Lordſhip, I do not conceive
that his Majeſty's apparent unwillingneſs to accept the aſſiſtance of the Britiſh Go-
vernment, ought to prevent my proceeding, eſpecially as your Lordſhip will per-
ceive, by the concluding paragraph of the Agent's Letter, that he conceives his
Majeſty in writing this, has been accelerated by the apprehenſions he is under of
Mr. Perron's power.
I ſhall proceed in a day or two towards Delhi, and I entertain no doubt that on
my arrival in the vicinity of that capital, his Majeſty will come forward in the
favourable manner his condućt hitherto has given us reaſon to believe he would
aćt towards us. *. * *
I have the honour to be,
Head Quarters, Camp before My Lord, yours, &c.
Ally Ghur, Sept. 1, 1803. (Signed) G. LAKE.
From his Majeſty SHAH ALLUM.
The duty which of old hath been manifeſted towards our illuſtrious Houſe by the
Engliſh Chiefs is well known, as is alſo the oppoſite courſe of condućt which has of
late been purſued by them, in as much as that they have poſſeſſed themſelves of the
whole of that country, and have not manifeſted the leaſt attention, nor rendered
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and the KING or MO GUL at DELHI, &c. I I
the ſlighteſt ſervice to us. It has now come to this paſs, that they are now
intent upon taking poſſeſſion alſo of this country, which was in our hands.
As this meaſure is entirely contrary to our pleaſure, we have conferred the entire
adminiſtration of our affairs, great and ſmall, with full powers to ačt, on Mabe Raja
Dowlut Row Scindia, and the full and efficient powers of the Deputyſhip on
General Perron. &
We have erected the conquering ſtandard. for the purpoſe of terminating this
weighty affair”, and have pitched our tents. It is required that your Lordſhip ſhould
deſiſt from taking poſſeſſion of the country of the Sirkar. Confider this to be
peremptory and poſitive.
A true Tranſlation.
Tranſlate of a Letter from SYED REzzA KHAN.
General Perron requeſted the King to permit Mirze Acber Khan to join him,
but his Majeſty could not be brought to conſent to this, ſaying, he never would be
ſeparated from the heir of his throne, but was ready to go himſelf. Lewis Drugeon
and Herfing-rai, Perron's Dewan, were ſatisfied with this. The King upon this, in
preſence of the whole, Court addreſſed himſelf to me in the following terms: “ The
“ Engliſh have ſeized the whole country, and laid aſide their allegiance to the
“ Vizier, they have alſo ſtopped. I have now determined to take the field, and
to wreſt from the Engliſh the royal dominion in their poſſeſſion; I have pre-
pared twenty-five Letters to the different Chiefs and Rajahs to the following pur-
“ port:” The Engliſh formerly were ſteady in obedience and attachment to the
throne, but have lately relaxed greatly in both, and it is their invariable cuſtom,
in whatever country they are allowed to reſide under fixed ſtipulations, ſpeedily to
feize upon that country. How did they behave to Coſfim Ally Khan, and Jaffier
Ally Khan, and to the Nawaub Aſſuff ul Dowlah, from whom they wreſted his
country under the plea of a treaty. The manner in which they treated Vizier
Ally is clear to the world. They raiſed the Nawaub Saadit Ally to the throne,
gave him poſſeſſion of the country, and immediately afterwards deprived him of the
greateſt part of it.—They hold the Nawaub Vizier in a manner in chains, and he
dare not write a Letter to any perſon without their permiſſion. The Engliſh now
intend to ſeize upon theſe few diſtrićts, which have been allotted to the ſupport of
the royal kitchen : I have therefore determined to march againſt them. When
his Majeſty had finiſhed, I replied, “ The Engliſh have never failed in obedience,
and have ever been attentive to the throne, and are always ready to do whatever your
Majeſty ſhall command.”
The Letter which the King had written to the Governor General, and ſent to
Monſieur Perron, was returned, and delivered to me by his Majeſty, to ſend with
ſtrict injunctions to obtain a ſpeedy anſwer. The Letter goes encloſed. .
The Officers of General Perron continue to urge his Majeſty to allow Mirza
Akber Khan to join the Camp, but his Majeſty will not conſent. The march of
his Majeſty is fixed for the 14th of this month.
Lewis and Drugeon, in a private conference with his Majeſty, urged the neceſſity
of turning the Engliſh Vakeel out of the city, but the King refuſed to do this,
obſerving he had many demands and anſwers to make which rendered the pre-
fence of the Vakeel neceſſary. 40
The Letter which the King has written, and his taking the field, are not volun-
:tary acts ; but ariſe from compulſion, and are direétly contrary to his own wiſhes.
(A true Tranſlate.)
'K 6
a
(Signed) j. Gerard.
P. S.
48. * His
* Meaning
for the pro-
ſecution of
Wºlſ.
throne. One hundred rupees a day, which I formerly received from the Nawaub
* { 2. TREATIES, &c. between the BRITISH Gover NMENT in INDIA
His Excellency the Moſt Noble Marogis Willisley, Governor
General, &c. &c. &c.
My Lord, - -
I have the honour to encloſe, for your Lordſhip's information, a paper of intelli- .
gence communicated to me by Syed Rezza Khan, who has juſt arrived in my camp
from Delhi, which place he left in conſequence of Mr. Lewis's behaviour towards
him. - 3.
The information this man gives me of the favourable diſpoſition of his Majeſty, and
of the other Chiefs towards the Engliſh, is of the moſt ſatisfactory nature.
Runjeet Sing has already been written to, but in conſequence of the intelligence
brought by Syed Rezza Khan, I have again addreſſed him. I conceive the terms
propoſed by this Chief aré of the moſt advantageous nature, and I truſt will prove
ſatisfačtory to your Lordſhip ; but ſhould your Lordſhip be defirous of making any
alteration in them, there will be ſufficient time for me to receive your Lordſhip’s
commands prior to the actual concluſion of the negotiation.
- . I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
(Signed) G. LAKE.
*
Camp, Ally Ghur,
Sept' 6th 1803.
P. S. Syed Rezza Khan, on, the evening of the 1ſt inſtant received an order from
Colonel Lewis to quit Delhi before 12 o'clock of the enſuing day, with his family
and dependants; in the night he learned that Colonel Lewis had ſeized Syed Ma-
homed Ali, Colonel Collins's news-writer, and Shaick Ameen Ullah, and that
he had endeavoured to apprehend Feat Chund, the Government news-writer, and
Muckhund Chund, Colonel Scott's news-writer ; but theſe two found means to
eſcape.
Syed Rezza immediately prepared for his departure, leaving his family and pro-
perty behind, and when he reached the river fide he was informed a party of armed'
men had taken poſſeſſion of his houſe.
Extraćt of Letter from General LARE to the Governor General; dated
Camp, 4 Coſs, on the Delhi Side of Secundra. -
Ioth September 1803.
His Majeſty Shah Aulum has avowed, it would appear by our intelligence, his
decided intention of receiving the protećtion of the Britiſh Government, and from
the information I received from Syed Rezza Khan of the King's ſentiments, I have
no doubt of the correctneſs of that information. *
Extraćt of a Letter from General LAKE to the Governor General;
dated Camp, Delhi, 14th September 1803.
In conſequence of the delay occaſioned in preparing the neceſſary preſents, I ſhall
not viſit his Majeſty until the Ioth Inſtant. - * *
Extraćt of a Letter from General Lake to the Governor General;
dated Camp, Delhi, 15th September 1803.
I have the honour to inform your Lordſhip, that I intend paying my firſt viſit to his
Majeſty to-morrow morning. * .
. • To
and the KING or M O GUL at DELHI, &c. 1.3%
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble Marog is WELLEsley, K. P.
Governor General, &c. &c. &c.
My Lord, *
I have the honour to inform your Lordſhip, that in conſequence of the hour fixed
upon by his Majeſty, I yeſterday, attended by the chief officers of the army, waited
on his Majeſty at his Palace in the Fort. . .
Akber Shah, his Majeſty's eldeſt ſon, came to my camp to condućt me.
His Majeſty received me ſeated on his throne, when the preſents were delivered,
and the forms uſual on thoſe occaſions were obſerved. -
His Majeſty and his whole Court were unanimous in teſtifying their joy at the
change that has taken place in their fortunes. * ºr * f :
I returned too late from the ceremony to make any report to your Lordſhip yeſ-
terday evening. ... - * --
I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
- (Signed) G. LAKE.
Head Quarters, Camp, Delhi, * $
17th September 1803.
,”
Extraćt Letter from General LAKE to the Governor General ; dated.
Camp, Delhi, 17th September 1803.
In conſequence of the few boats, I find that, notwithſtanding every exertion, it
will be impoſſible for the army to move from hence for ſome days ; in the mean
time I ſhall make ſuch arrangements with his Majeſty, as may tend to the accom-
pliſhment of your Lordſhip's plans with regard to the future diſpoſal of the Royal
Perſon: * **
His Excellency the Moſt Noble MARQg is WELLESLEY, K. P.
Governor General, &c. &c. &c. -
My Lord, $º .*
I have the honour to inform your Lordſhip, that ſoon after my arrival here I re-
ceived information that ſix lacks of rupees, the property of Dowlut Rao Scindia, had
been lodged in the hands of M. Drugeon, the Commandant of the Garriſon, for the
purpoſe of paying the Army; that in conſequence of diſputes amongſt the French
Officers, M. Drugeon had been compelled to give ſixty thouſand rupees of this ſurn
to his Troops, to prevent their becoming mutinous; and that he had on my approach
depoſited the remainder in the hands of Shah Nawauze Khan, the Treaſurer to his
Majeſty, to prevent its falling into my poſſeſſion. -* **.
Being able to perceive no right on the part of his Majeſty to this ſum, I thought it
my duty to ſignify to him, that I could conſider it in no other light than as the pro-
perty of the Army, and that therefore I deemed it neceſſary that it ſhould be reſtored
to them. , * sº +
. His Majeſty, after ſome conſideration, has at length ſent into my camp, through
the agent Syed Rezza Khan, the ſum in queſtion, and has accompanied it with the
following meſſage—“That he requeſted my acceptance of this ſum, to be diſtributed
“ at my pleaſure to the brave Army, whoſe gallant condućt has releaſed him from a
“ miſerable ſubjećtion to the Mahratta Power, and placed him under the long de-
“ fired protećtion and liberality of the Engliſh Government.”
The circumſtances under which this depoſit was made, and the manner in which
his Majeſty has been pleaſed to make it a donation to the Ar:y, might perhaps have
made an immediate diſtribution of it proper; but being anxious that this meaſure
ſhould previouſly be honoured with the ſanétion of your Lordſhip, I have thought it
proper for the preſent to retain it in my poſſeſſion.
The very high ſenſe I entertain of the meritorious exertions of the Army, and the
additional value the diſtribution of this ſum will acquire from your Excellency’s
48. ſº * approbation,
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approbation, make me extremely deſirous that your Lordſhip in Council may be
pleaſed to direét its being conſidered as prize money. . .
I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
(Signed) G. L.A.K.E.
*
Head Quarters, Camp, Delhi,
September 20th, 1893.
His Excellency the Moſt Noble MARQU is WELLESLEy,
Governor General, &c, &c. &c. k
. My 1.0rd, w -
I have the honour to tranſmit a Letter from his Majeſty addreſſed to your
T.ordſhip, which has been entruſted to my charge. w
The contents of this Letter was read to me, in preſence of his Majeſty, for my
approval, and correótion of any part that might to me appear objećtionable,
I did not heſitate entirely to approve of its contents; and though I by no means
conceive the ſum received to be his Majeſty's gift, but as ſtrićtly belonging to the
Government or the Army, I did not however think it proper to objećt to the mode of
expreſſion his Majeſty has been pleaſed to make uſe of on this occaſion, which im-
plies the ſum alluded to, to be a Royal donation to this Army for their gallant
ſervices, though the ſum itſelf never could have been conſidered as his Majeſty's
property.
It muſt be unneceſſary to obſerve to your Lordſhip, that the application for this
fum was made in the moſt mild manner poſſible; indeed I have reaſon to believe,
that the detention of this money was not known to his Majeſty till my requeſt on
the ſubjećt was made, and that the delay was occaſioned by ſome of the Miniſters
and perſons of rank about his Majeſty’s perſon. y
* I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
Head Quarters, Camp, Delhi, - ..(Signed) G. L. A. K. E.
September 21ſt, 1803. • t
From his Majeſty SHAH ALLUM.
Received 5th Oétober 1803.
We ſome time ſince received your Lordſhip's Letter (recapitulating that written
27th July); after the receipt of that Letter, the troubles and ſeverities which we
experienced from the Troops of the people of the ſouth (Mahrattas) are too manifeſt
to require deſcription. Praiſe to God, that by the aid and the grace of an all-
bountiful and omnipotent Providence, and through the able and zealous exertions of
the Commander in Chief (titles inſerted) agreeable to our hearts deſire, a moſt ſignal,
wićtory has been atchieved by the conquering Trcops. - }
This great and diſtinguiſhed ſucceſs has afforded us the utmoſt degree of joy and ,
ſatisfačtion. In return for theſe exemplary ſervices, we have granted a donation to
the vićtorious Troops of the ſum of 5,38,000 R” 8 Annas.
Be this great vićtory and ſplendid ſucceſs happy and proſperous to us, and to all
the ſervants of our illuſtrious Court, eſpecially to your Lordſhip. |
As the deſigns of our faithful ſervants have now happily ſucceeded, the time is now
arrived for your Lordſhip, in conformity to the diſtinét and obligatory engagement
deſcribed to us by your Lordſhip yourſelf in the Letter which you lately trantmitted,
to ſecure to yourſelf happineſs, temporal and eternal, and permanent reputation, by
fulfilling that engagement, and to carry into effect that which may provide for the
intereſt and welfare of the Servants of this Imperial Court (meaning his Majeſty and
Family) and for the happineſs of the people of God, through the aid and ſervices of
the Officers of the Company’s Government.
For the reſt, conſider our boundleſs favour to be extended to your Lordſhip in a
daily increaſing degree.
- (A true tranſlation.)
(Signed) W* B. Bayley,
º Aſs' Pers, Secº.
and the K iN G or MO GUL at DELHI; &c. $ 5
To his Excellency General LAKE, the Commander in Chief.
‘Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's Diſpatch,
N° 51, under date the 26th September 1803, and N° 52, under date the 21ſt Sep-
tember, together with his Majeſty Shah Allum's Letter to my Addreſs, encloſed in
the latter Diſpatch. * .
By your Excellency’s Diſpatch Nº 51, I am informed, that a ſum of ſix lacks of
rupees, the property of Dowlut Row Scindia, had been lodged in the hands of
Mr. Drugeon, commanding Scindia's troops at Delhi, for the payment of the Army
of that chieftain ; but of this ſum 60,000 rupees had been ačtually diſburſed by
Mr. Drugeon to the Troops of the enemy, and that the reſidue was depoſited by Mr.
Drugeon on the approach of the Britiſh army in the hands of Shah Navazee Khan,
Treaſurer to his Majeſty. -
The original ſum of ſix lacks of rupees, as well as on the reſidue of that ſum after
dedućtion of the diſburſements made by the troops of the enemy, was certainly the
public property of the enemy; and any part of that property captured in the hands of
Mr. Durgeon, or of any officer, ſoldier, or ſubjećt of the enemy, would unqueſtion-
ably have been adjudged lawful prize to the Britiſh Government. -
The fraudulent transfer of the enemy’s property to the hands of the officers of his
Majeſty Shah Allum, at the time of the approach of the Britiſh Army, could not
change the nature of that property, or exempt it from the right of the captors, who
‘had defeated the enemy's Troops in the battle of Delhi; and in conſequence of that
glorious vićtory had captured the city and fortreſs of Delhi, occupied at that time
‘by a diviſion of the enemy's Army. g -
No circumſtances appear to warrant a ſuggeſtion that the depoſit could have been
intended for the ſervice of his Majeſty, although placed in the hands of the chief
officer of his Majeſty’s treaſury” for his Majeſty's ſervice. The ſtate of indigence
and miſery to which his Majeſty, his Royal Family and Houſehold, had long been
reduced by the Marhatta Power; the degraded and deſtitute condition to which the
imperial Houſe of Timur had been ſubječted under the officers of Scindia, and the
deplorable ſituation in which your Excellency found the Emperor on your entrance
into Delhi, excluded the ſuppoſition that Mr. Drugeon intended to contribute ſo
large a ſum to relieve the ſufferings of Shah Aulum, and of his impoveriſhed Court.
The objećt of the depoſit was evidently to elude the rights of the conquerors, and to
lower the property of the enemy in the hands of his Majeſty's officers, and under the
royal name, without the authority or knowledge of the Emperor, and without any
intention of alleviating his Majeſty’s urgent diſtreſs.
Concluding therefore that the reſidue of the original ſum of ſix lacks of rupees,
depoſited by Mr. Drugeon in the hands of Shah Newaz Khan, continued to be really
the public property of the enemy, the right of that property appears to me to have
been veſted in the Britiſh Government by the conqueſt of Delhi.
Under theſe circumſtances it was your Excellency’s duty to claim the ſum of
money in queſtion ; and I entirely approve your Excellency's condućt in having
claimed it, and in having obſerved, in the mode of preferring your claim, the re-
ſpect and attention which you have uniforniy manifeſted towards the unfortunate
Emperor. - -
His Majeſty Shah Aulum having been pleaſed to offer to the Army, as a donation,
the ſum of money claimed by your Excellency in right of conqueſt, your Excellency
could not have declined to accept that offer without injury to his Majeſty's dignity,
unleſs at the ſame time you could have relinquiſhed altogether the claim on the
part of the Britiſh Government to that part of the property of the enemy.
Your Excellency, in my judgment, would not have been juſtified in relinquiſhing
that claim without the expreſs authority of the Governor General in Council; and
as it is probable that the form of donation adopted by his Majeſty was more agree-
able to him than any other mode of reſtitution which could have been propoſed by
the Britiſh Government, I entirely approve your Excellency's condućt in having
accepted the reſtitution of the property of the enemy to the lawful captors, in the
form propoſed by his Majeſty.
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ſtated to have
been depo-
ſited in his
Majeſty's
treaſury.
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I entirley approve your Excellency's diſcretion and judgment manifeſted in de-
taining the treaſure delivered into your charge, for the ultimate determination and
inſtrućtions of the Governor General in Council. ... ",
The treaſure being unqueſtionably lawful prize, I ſhould not have deemed myſelf
warranted in any ſtage of the tranſačtion (under the circumſtances ſtated by your
Fxcellency, and enumerated in this Diſpatch) to have authorized you to withhold
the affertion of the claim of the Britiſh Government, to obtain the enemy's property
from the hands in which it had been concealed. &
The limited amount of the ſum, combined with the memorable events which at-
tended the conqueſt, would have rendered me peculiarly anxious to ſecure for the
purpoſe of granting to the Army, a reward earned by a degree of exertion and merit
which has never been ſurpaſſed. f ---
Having therefore confidered in Council, the circumſtances ſtated by your Excel-
lency, I have paſſed the encloſed Order, and I hereby authorize and direct your
Excellency to conſider the treaſure, amounting to five lacks and forty thouſand rupees,
received as a donation from his Majeſty, but being really the property of the enemy,
to be prize-money granted by the authority of the Governor General in Council to the
Army under your Excellency's command, in teſtimony of the high ſenſe entertained
by the Governor General in Council of the diſcipline, perſeverance, fortitude, and
zeal, diſplayed by that gallant Army during the preſent glorious Campaign.
- I have the honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
(Signed) WELLESLEY.
Barackpore. * * *
8th Oétober 18O3.
To his Majeſty SHAH ALLUM ; written 8th Oétober 1803.
I have had the honour to receive your Majeſty's gracious Letter (recapitulating that
received 5th Oétober.) 2-
I am highly honoured by your Majeſty's moſt gracious congratulations on the
ſignal ſucceſs which (under the bleſfing of Providence, and the propitious auſpices
of your Majeſty and the Britiſh Government) has attended the Britiſh arms, con-
dućted by the unexampled alacrity, eminent judgment, and indefatigable courage of
his Excellency General Lake, the Commander in Chief.
Among the ineſtimable benefits reſulting from the brilliant vićtories obtained by
the Britiſh Troops over the Armies of Dowlut Row Scindia and of Mr. Perron, I
have derived the moſt cordial ſatisfačtion in accompliſhing the deliverance of your
Majeſty and of the Royal Family, from the indignities to which your Majeſty and
your Houſehold have ſo long been ſubjećted by the violence, injuſtice, and rapacity
of thoſe who have forgotten the reverence due to your Royal Perſon and illuſtrious
Houſe. • ‘
The ſucceſs of our arms has acquired augmented luſtre, ſince it it has proved the
happy inſtrument of your Majeſty's reſtoration to a ſtate of dignity and tranquillity,
under the protećtion of the Britiſh Power.
I requeſt your Majeſty to accept the expreſſion of my moſt cordial congratula-
...tions on this auſpicious occaſion. & *
After the defeat of the Troops of Dowlut Row Scindia, under the command of
Mr. Louis Bourgam, the French Officer ſtationed at Delhi attempted to evade our
juſt rights of conqueſt, by endeavouring, without your Majeſty's knowledge, to
ſecure a part of the treaſure belonging to the defeated enemy, in the hands of your
Majeſty's ſervants. . . *
This attempt was contrary to the acknowledged law of nations, applicable to a
ſtate of war, and his Excellency the Commander in Chief therefore ſubmitted to your
Majeſty’s conſideration, the incontrovertible claim of the Britiſh Government to that
part of the property of the enemy which had been concealed in your Majeſty's
treaſury, at the time of the flight of the French officers from Delhi. The treaſure
having been originally deſigned for the payment of Dowlut Row Scindia's troops,
and having been depoſited in your Majeſty’s treaſury, not for your Majeſty's ſer-
Vice,
and the KING or MO GUL at DELHI, &c. 17
vice, but for the purpoſe of evading the rights of the conquerors, General Lake
confidered it to be his duty to requeſt that your Majeſty would iſſue orders to the
Treaſurer to place that money under his Excellency's charge, as a part of the pro-
perty acquired by the defeat of the enemy. -
The Commander in Chief has apprized me of the deſire which your Majeſty was
graciouſly pleaſed to expreſs, that this Prize ſhould be diſtributed among the brave
Troops by whoſe laborious ſervice and irreſiſtible valourit was obtained ; and your
Majeſty has been pleaſed to expreſs the ſame deſire in the Letter to which I have
now the honour to reply. I entertain a high ſenſe of your Majeſty's juſt conſideration
for the merits and ſervices of the Troops compoſing the Britiſh Army, and confor-
mably to your Majeſty’s gracious intention I have directed the Commander in Chief
to diſtribute the whole of that Prize in due proportions among the brave Troops,
whoſe glorious condućt equally deſerves the applauſe of your Majeſty and the Britiſh
(Government.
My attention is now direéted with great ſolicitude to the formation of a permanent
arrangement, calculated to provide durable ſecurity for the happineſs, dignity, and
tranquillity of your Majeſty and the Royal Family, conformable to the intimation
contained in my former Addreſs to your Majeſty.
In the mean time I have direéted his Excellency the Commander in Chief, to pay
into your Majeſty's treaſury the ſum of ſix lacks of rupees, with a view to provide
for the immediate exigencies of your Majeſty’s houſehold. :
I truſt that the teſtimony of my early attention to your Majeſty's ſervice may be
acceptable to your Majeſty, until his Excellency General Lake, under my orders,
can be-enabled to offer to your Majeſty’s conſideration the plan of a permanent ſet-
itlement of your affairs, ſecured by the power of the Britiſh Government.
I requeſt your Majeſty to conſider his Excellency General Lake, to be fully
authorized by me to condućt all affairs in Hindoſtan, and to poſſeſs my entire con-
ifidence and higheſt reſpect. *
Your Majeſty will therefore be pleaſed to fignify.your command on all occaſions
to General Lake, with the ſame confidence by which you have honoured me, and
your Majeſty will alſo be pleaſed to accept all communications from General Lake
as proceeding immediately from my authority.
A true Copy.
(Signed) W. B. Bayley,
Aſs' Perſian Trans.
To his Excellency the Moſt Noble MARoy Is WEL LESLEy,
* Governor General, &c. &c. &c.
My Lord,
P In conſequence of a requeſt from his Majeſty, I yeſterday attended at the
Palace. f
After the uſual forms, his Majeſty was pleaſed to confer on me the title of
“Sumſam ud-Dowlat Oſtyah ul Mulk, Kahn Douraw, Khan Bhadur, Sepoh Solar
“ Futteh Jung,” which I am informed is the ſecond title in the Empire, the higheſt
at preſent in his Majeſty's power to beſtow, the firſt having been given to Dowlut
Pow Scindia. -- - - *
The papers were read and ſtamped with the Royal Seal in my preſence, but
owing to ſome forms neceſſary to be obſerved, I have not yet received them.
Whenever they may arrive, I ſhall have the honour to forward Copies of them to
your Lordſhip.
s * I have the honour to be,
Head Quarters, Camp, Delhi, k * &c. &c. &c.
21ſt Sept. 1803. (Signed) G. L. A K E.
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To his Excellency the Moſt Noble MARquis Wellesley,
º * - Governor General, &c. &c. &c. , +
My Lord, . *.
I have the honour to inform your Lordſhip, that I ſhall move from hence to:
morrow morning with the Army under my command, direéting my march to Mul-
lura and Agra. sº f
I have the honour to acquaint your Lordſhip, that I have appointed Lieutenant
Colonel Ochterlony, the Deputy Adjutant General, to remain with his Majeſty
Shah Allum, and take the command of the Troops that remain for the protećtion
of Delhi. ,3
I have ſele&ted Lieutenant Colonel Ochterlony for this duty, from the knowledge
I have of his ability as well as of his 'zeal for the public ſervice, in which I place a
firm confidence. } = r *
Though I can ill ſpare the ſervices &f Colonel Ochterlony at this moment, from
the impoſſibility there exiſts of finding throughout that Army any perſon calculated
for this particular duty, which your Lordſhip will readily perceive requires an Officer
of no mean abilities, I have been induced to leave this Officer, whatever private
inconvenience may reſult to myſelf by his abſence. I have entruſted to this Officer
the temporary management of the newly acquired territories, which I truſt will
meet with your Lordſhip's approbation : I ſhali have the honour, in the courſe of a
day or two, to report to your Lordſhip the meaſures that have already been adopted
to enſure the realization of ſuch Revenue as exiſting circumſtances will ad-
mit of. - $
For the protećtion of Delhi, I ſhall leave the 2d Battalion of the 4th and 5th
Companies of the 11th Native Infantry, which, together with a body of matchlock
men, which are raiſing under the ſuperintendence of two enterpriſing young men,
who quitted Scindia's ſervice on the firſt appearance of hoſtilities, I truſt will be
fully adequate for the protećtion of the city and forts of Delhi, and its environs,
and enſure the ſafety of his Majeſty's perſon from any attack.
++ I have the honour,
Head Quarters, Camp, Delhi, &c. &c.
23d Sept. 1803. (Signed) G. L. A K E.
Extrad Letter from General Lake to his Excellency the Moſt Noble
MARQUIs WELLESLEY, &c. &c. &c.
Dated Head Quarters, Camp, Nehmida,
20th December 1803.
I have the honour to forward two Letters from his Majeſty Shah Allum to your
Lordſhip's Addreſs, which have been tranſmitted to me by Lieutenant Colonel
Ochterlony at Delhi.
A copy of one of thoſe Letters has been ſent for my information, and conveys his
TMajeſty's acknowledgments for a donation of ſix lacks of rupees, which your Lordſhip
formerly direéted he ſhould receive. , -
The long delay which has occurred in regard to this ſubjećt, has ariſen from the
difficulty of obtaining at Delhi a ſum of money of ſufficient amount to make the
donation in queſtion; and though I have not hitherto been able to overcome this
difficulty, I thought myſelf at liberty no longer to withhold from his Majeſty a
knowledge of your Lordſhip's liberal intentions, #.
The other Letter of his Majeſty to your Lordſhip, has been written without the
knowledge of any perſon, except of Seid Rezza Khan, who was formerly the medium
through which your Lordſhip's communications with his Majeſty were conveyed.
Colonel Ochterlony has been informed, that the ſubjećt of this Letter is to ſtate
to your Lordſhip, the high regard of his Majeſty for Shaw Nawauz Khan, his Trea-
ſurer, and to requeſt that, on account of his great fidelity and length of ſervice, a
proviſion
and the KING or MO G U L at D E L H I; &c. J 9
provićion ſhould be made for him under the ſurety and protećtion of the Britiſh
‘Government.
Colonel Ochterlony adds, that he has been deſired by his Majeſty to requeſt, that I
would ſecond in the ſtrongeſt manner the wiſhes in behalf of Shaw Nawaz Khaun,
which his Majeſty has expreſſed to your Lordſhip; and ſays, that he is perſuaded any
mark of attention beſtowed on this perſon, would be more acceptable than if beſtowed
on any one of his Majeſty's ſons, except Akber Shaw. y -
I think it neceſſary, however, to add, that his Majeſty's age and infirmities are ſo
great, that they muſt in the courſe of things ſoon terminate his exiſtence; and under
theſe circumſtances, it can neither accord with your Lordſhip's inclination to adopt,
nor with mine to recommend, any meaſures which can be, in a great degree, contrary
to his Majeſty's wiſhes.
I am, however, of opinion, that ſome temporary mark of attention and indulgence
may be proper to Shaw Nawaz Khaun, on the grounds of its gratifying his Majeſty;
and from the ſentiments entertained towards this perſon by the heir apparent, there
is no probability that he will hereafter have the power to render himſelf in any degree
£roubleſome to Government.
The CELLAR BOOKSHOP
Box 6, College Park sta.
Detroit 21, Mich. - U. S. A.
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