SP ^ PAPERS PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS FROM THE Eaft India Company. CONCERNING THE LATE NABOB of the CARNATIC. Ordered to be printed lift and 23d June 1802. LIST of PAPERS Prefented to the Honourable the House of Commons, purfuant to their Orders dated the nth, 21 It, and 23d June 1802. No. I. Copy of INSTRUCTIONS to Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neil, dated 5thand 6th July l8 3i Page j No. 2. Copy of INSTRUCTIONS to Lieutenant Colonel Bowser, dated nth July 1 80 1 - - -------------- . ...... j No. 3. Copy of INSTRUCTIONS to MefTrs. Webbe and Close, dated 15th July 1801, when they proceeded to the Palace of the late Nabob OmdutulOmrah - ibid. No. 4. Copy of a REPORT of MefTrs. Webbe and Close, explanatory of their Proceedings at the Palace of his late Highnefs the Nabob, in their Interviews or Negociations with the Regents and Taje ul Omrah ....... .....g [N. B. In this Document are contained the Proportions from Taje ul Omrah, and from NajebKhan and Juke Ali Khan, required by the 4th and 5th Orders of the Honourable Kouie. — Vide Pages 15 and 17. No. 5. Copy of the TREATY between the Company and his Highnefs the Nabob Mahomed Ali, dated in 1792, commonly called Lord Cornwall's Treaty ----- 2c No. 6. Copy of a TREATY between the Company and Azeem ul Dowlah, dated 31H J"'y ' 8 °> 33 No. 7. Copy of a DECLARATION of the Governor of Fort St. George, dated the 31ft July 180.I- With an Appendix thereto- ----.-.--..--.37 No. 8. Copy of a LETTER from the Governor General to his late Highnefs the Nabob, writ- ten 28th May 1801 -----..--...---.---65 Memorandum : This Letter is prefented on a Suppofition that it is the fame which is required by the 11th Order of the Honourable Houfe, and therein defciibed as having been fhewn by TVlefTrs. Webbe and Close to the Regents, on the 15th July 1801. No. 0. Copy of PROCEEDINGS of the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, on figning; the Treaty between the Company and Azeem ul Dowi.ah ----.-.66 No. IO. Copy of CORRESPONDENCE between the Governor General and the Governor of Fort St. George, on the Subject of the Carnatic, from the Period of the Death of his late Hghntfs Omdut ul Omrah, to the Elevation of Azeem ul Dowlah to the Mufnud - 68 No. II. Copies and Extracts cf LETTERS from the Governor General and the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, to the Secret Committee of the C»urt of Directors, rela- tive to the Revolution in the Carnatic, and the AfTump^on of its Government by the Company -.-------------------.77 No. I 2. Copy of ORDERS publifhcd to the Settlement of Fort St. George, dated 31 July 1801, relative, to the Tre: ty between the Company and Azeem ul Dowi.ah - - - 89 No. 1 3. INFORM \ 1 ION, explanatory -of the Reafons why leveral Orders have not been fully complied with .-...------.--- - - - - - 91 No. 14. Copy of the AFFIDAVIT 1 f the Ph; fician of the Lite Nabob of A'cot, on the State of his Highnefs'- Health, dated Z2d June 1801 ----93 No. 1 C. Copy of the EXAMINATION of ceitain Peribns, taken before Mclfrs. Webbe and Close, at Vcl.cre and Sciingapatam, in the Month of May 1800, by Order of Mar- quis We 1. lesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 94 No. 16. Copyoffuch n of the CORRESPONDENCE difcovered in the Palace at Seringa- m, and alluded to in the Letter from the Right Honourable the Govctrorin Coun. cil of Fort St. George, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, dated the 3d Augult 1 So 1, as arc not included in the Appendix to the Declaration of the Go- vernor of Fort St. George, dated 31ft July j8oi --------- 122 No. 17. Copy of MINUTE of Lord Cute, dated ?9'h September 1801, relative to the Pe- cuniary Provjfion to be made for the Families of the late Nabobs Mahomed Ali and Omdut ui, Omrah, &C. Sec. ------------- 125 ■ 18. Copy of. a PAPER, purporting to be a Letter from Husseih Ally, therepurd Son of the late Nab;;b ol Arcot, to James Stuart Hall andSAMUBL Johnston e, rs. >3 2 V?Q. India I! ■■$i.J 5th July 1801. ) (A true Copy.) (Signed) N. B. Edmonjlone, Sec'. To Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neil, commanding a Detachment at Chepauk. Sir, IN reply to your Letter of laft Night I am directed to acquaint you, that until his Highnefs the Nabob fhall expire, the Right Honourable the Gover- nor in Council does not confider it expedient to impofe any Reftraint on the Egrefs of covered Palankeens from the Palace of Chepauk; but after that Event fhall ■have happened, you will prevent the Ifiue of covered Palankeens from the Palace, until you fhall have received further Orders from the Governor in Council In ifluing thefe Inftructions, the Governor in Council confines the Operation of them to the Period of Time during which Order mail prevail in the Interior of the Palace ; but if any Commotion fhould arife previoufly to the Death of the Nabob you will take effectual Meafures for retraining the I Hue of Treafure, by any Mode of Conveyance whatever, until you fhall receive the farther Directions of the Go- vernor in Council. If, previoufly to the Death of the Nabob, you fhall have Reafon to fufpect an Attempt to carry Treafure from the Palace, without his Highnefs's Confent, you vill A V NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. v will alfo in that Event reftrain the I flue of it, until the Nabob's Confent Ihall be No. i, obtained for the Paflage from the Palace. tontinued. I am Sir, Your obedient Servant, Fort St. George,? (Signed) J. Webbe, 6th July 1801. \ Chief Sec ry to Gov*. (A true Copy.) (Signed) N. B Edmonjtone, Sec r . No. 2. Copy of INSTRUCTIONS to Lieutenant Colonel Bowser, dated nth July 1801. Diary to Mil'' Con' 1 ith July 1801. Sent the following Letter to Lieut. Col. Bowfer. Sir, THE Right Honourable the Governor in Council having judged if expedient to afiemble a fmall Force, confiding of Five Companies of the ad 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 directed to inform you, that the Right Honourable the Governor in Council has felc&ed 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 maj- be neceflary for keeping it ready to move at a fliort Notice. I am, &c. Fort St. George, 7 nth July 1 801. \ (Signed) 7. Webbe, ChiefSec'' to Gov' No. 3. .Copy of INSTRUCTIONS to Meffrs. Webbe and Close, dated 15th July 1801 ; when they proceeded to the Palace of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah. To Jofiah Webbe, Efq. and Lieutenant Col. Clofe. Gentlemen, IN confequence of the Death of his Highnefs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, it is my earned Defire, founded on the Inftruftions of his Excellency the Governor General, that a complete Adjuftment of the Affairs of the Carnatic fliould be made with the lead: practicable Delay. The Nature of the Evidence which has been obtained of the Violation of the Alliance by the Nabobs Mahomed AH and Omdut ul Omrah, and the Courfe of Reafoning * PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 3. Reafonir.g upon the Condition in which the Family of their Highrsefies has, by that {Miniied. Difcovery, been placed in relation to the British Government, are Subjects fo familiar to you, that any particular Instructions from me with regard to the Principles, or to the detailed Considerations cf the Queftion, appear to be fuperfluous. — It will ■ be fufficient for me therefore to Mate, that the Death of the Nabob has produced no Change in the Principles by which it will be proper to regulate the Conduct of the Britifli Government towards the Family offiis Highnefs : But in the Appli- cation of *hofe Principles to the actual State of Affairs, I judge it to be of the greateft Importance to the National Character, as well as to the critical State of our Affairs, that the Arrangement of the Affairs of the Carnatic fhould be adjufted by- an amicable Negociation. I accordingly depute you to conduct this Negociation, and hereby authorize and empower you to exercife your own Discretion for die Purpofe of carrying into Effect my Intentions, and the Instructions of his Excellency the Goven or General. The Officer commanding the Forces at Chepauk, will obey fuch Orders as he may receive from you. I am, &c. &c. F^ort St. George, 7 15th July i8< (Signed) dive. Report, July iy>:, tSOl, No. .4. Copy of a REPORT of Meffrs. Webbe and Close, explana- tory of their Proceedings at the Palace of his late High- nefs the Nabob, in their Interviews or Negotiations with, the Regents and Taje ul Gmrah. [A r B. In this Document are contained the Propofitions r rom Taje ul Omrah, and from Nfcjeeb Khan and Juke &Ii Khan, required by the 4th and 5th Orders of the Honourable Houle; vide Pages 15 and 17.] July 15th, 1801. IN conformity to your Lordfhip's Instructions, we proceeded to the Palace of Chepauk, having previoufly caufed a Meffage 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 Barret:, who -introduced themfelves as the principal Officers of the Government of his Highnefs Omdut ul Omrah. Nejeeb Khan appeared to hold no diftinct Office, but to have been a Companion of the Family lince the Time of Anwar ud deen Khan, and to have been confulted generally on all Occafions of Intereft to the Nabob of the Carnatic. Tuckia Ally Khan was entrufted with the Military Affairs of the late Nabob. Kidir Nawas Khan fuperintended the general and internal Departments of his- 1 [ighrjefs*^ Government; But the moil important Department of his Highnefs's Government, the Admi- niftration of the Revenues, of ..the Carnatic, had been entrufted to the Charge of Mr. Barrett. As that Branch of the Nabob's Government affected more particu- larly than any oilier the Rights and Interests of the Company, we judge it to be pro- per to explain to vour.Lordihip, that Mr. Barrett is of the Jowcft Tribe of Native Portuguoze, equally destitute of Education, Manners, and Knowledge. We 'VW tA^tX* H NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 9 We enquired whether any particular Arrangement had been made by the No. 4. Nabob for the Adminiltration of the Affairs of his Government, in the Event continued. which had recently occurred ; and having been informed that an authentic Will, under his Seal and Signature, had been left by Omdut ul Omrah, wedcfired that it might be produced. Nejeeb Khan, who directed the Converfation, made the ufual Objections, founded on the Recency of the Nabob's Death, on the Neceflity of allowing a fufficient Interval of Time for the Ceremonies of the Occafion, and on the Decorum of poltponing to open the Will until the Heir appointed fliould be at Liberty, in conformity to the ufual Practice, to attend to the Tranfadtion of public Bufinefs. We replied, that the Britifh Government was aware of the prevailing Ufages obferved by the Profeflbrs ef the Mahomedan Religion on all ordinary Occafions of this Nature ; that your Lordfliip could have no Willi that thofe Ufages fliould be unneceffarily tranfgreffed ; but that the Affairs of a great Government, on which our Requeft was founded, could not be regulated by the ordinary Practice of individual Families. Having in confequence been informed that the Nabob had appointed his reputed Son (Fadjul Omrah, commonly called Ally Huffain) to be his fole Heir, we again urged the Neceflity of producing the Will, and requefted that the young Man fliould be introduced to us. The Khans having retired to confider this Demand, we learnt, during a defultory Converfa- tion with Mr. Barrett, that the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah had become acquainted with the Intention of Huffam ul.Mulk to employ an armed Force at the Palace of Chepauk for the Accomplifnment of his Views, at the expected Termination of his Highnefs 's Life ; that the Meafure of ftationing a Body of the Company's Troops for the Protection of the Family, had in confequence been entirely ac- ceptable 'to his Highnefs, and (to life his own figurative Expreflion) that the Security, derived from chat Arrangement, had been the Means of prolonging his Highnefs's Life. The Khans having been joined by Mr. Barrett, returned, affenting to our Requefr. ; and, after a fliort 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 Initrument, exprefling in clear, diftinct, and explicit Terms, the Will of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, that his reputed Son (Ally Huffain) fliould fucceed him in the Poffeflion of allium Rights, Poffeflions, Property, and in the Sovereignty* *TheE» g lifh of the Carnatic. The Will alio appointed Mahomed Nejeeb Khan, Salar Jung, Word "So- tted Tuckia Ally Khan, to aflift the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah in the Ad- is InThl will. miniftration of his Affairs. The Will having been read, we excufed ourfelves to Ally Huffain for an Intru- fion, which, although unfeafonable, was indiipenfably neceffary j and he immediately retired, returning Expreffions of Civility. On the Departure of Ally Huffain, we requefted a private Conference with the Two Khans only, who had been appointed by the Will of Omdut ul Omrah to af- fift the Counfels of his Son. After fonie preparatory Obfervations on the Im- portance of the Subject, which we were defirous of difcufling, and on the confe- quent Neceflity of fuperceding the ordinary Forms obferved in private Families on fimilar Occafions of Misfortune, we proceeded, with the Concurrence of the Khans, to ftatethe Nature of the written Documents difcovered at Seriiigapatam. Nejeeb Khan expreffed the greateft Degree of Surprize at this Communication, profefled his entire Ignorance of the Subject, and protefted that it was impoflible for the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah to -cherifli the Intentions imputed to his Highnefs. Some C ef IO PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 4. of the principal Documents having beer produced, Nejeeb Khan afferted, that they continued, contained none but Expreffions of Civility and Compliment; that the Marquis Cornwallis had repeatedly enjoined the Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, to cultivate a friendly Intercourfe wich 'i'ippoo Suhaunj that the whole rendency of the Correfponcience produced was directed to that Object in conformity to the Injunctions oi'Loid Cornwallis, and that the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah had recent- ly acidrefied himfelfto Lo:d Cornwallis on the Subject of thefe Communications: The particular Warmth of the Expreffions ufed by Omdut ul Omrah; in his Letter re tied to olam Ally Khan on the 14th Mohurrum 1209, having been pointed out to Nejeeb Khan, he obferved that it was nothing more than an Expreffion of Civility whic it have been ufed on any ordinary Occalion. The Copy of the Cypher having been produced, Nejeeb Khan took the Opportunity of faying that the Moonfhy of the Nabob was ; relent, and could be examined wich refpect to the Authenticity of the Hand-writing; that although the. Cypher appeared, as was ftatedby us, to be a Paper of a very fecret Nature, calculated to provide for the Tranfaclion 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 furnifhed v\ ith the Proofs of the fuppofed treacherous Intercourfe between Tippoo Sultaun and the Family of the Nabob Mohamed Ally, fuch Explanations fhouid be afforded, and fuch Anfwers given, as the different Cafes might require, and that, the Proots being compared, the Company might form a complete Judg- ment. This Difcourfe being apparently intended to confound the Object of our De- putation, we ftated to the Two Khans that in Cafes of difputed Points between in- dependent Powers, neither Party could erect itfelf into a Judge of the Conduct of the other Party ; that en thole Queftions an Appeal could be made only to the o-eneral Practice of the Nations of the World ; and that fuch Differences could only be decided by the Means poiTeffed by each Party rcfpectively to provide for its own Security ; that with refpect to the prefent Cafe, the moft abundant Proofs v. tie in the Poffcfiion of the Britifh Government of the Violation of the Alliance between the Company and the late Nabob, and particularly of the exprefs Stipula- tions of the Treaty of 1792 ; that the Britifh Government, being fatisfied of the Suffic iency of thofc Proofs, had no Intention ofconftituting itfelf a Judge of the Con- I? it, ,'uly : But that being prepared to appeal, if neceffary, to the eftablifhed Maxims of the public Law of Nations, it had refolved to demand from the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, Satisfaction for his Violation of the Alliance, and Secu- rity for its Rights and Intcrefts againft the future Operation of his Highnefs's hof- Councils; that the Indifpofition, which had terminated in the Death of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, had prevented the Execution of the Governor General's Orders for this Purpofe ; that although his Highnefs's Right to the Support and Friendfhip of the Company had been entirely cut off by his Violation of the Alli- ance, the Britifh Government being (till defirous of preferving the Connexion fo long fubfifting, would be difpofed to extend thole Sentiments to the reputed Sen of Omdut ul Omrah, if an adequate Security could be eftablifhed for the Rights of the Company in the Carnatic through the Channel of an amicable Adjuftment. The Two Khans repeated, that they were ignorant of the Exiftenca of the fuppofed fecret Intercourfe between the Nabobs Walajah Omdut ul Omrah and Tippoo Sultaun ; and Nejeeb Khan in particular ftated, that from the Tenor of his Intercourfe with the Family of the Nabob, as well as from the Expreffions of the Will, he did not confider himfelf at Liberty, or in any way authorized to give Anfvvcr upon fo momentous a Queltion, with- out /W Y\/V v v i .NABOB OF THE CARNA TIC. " out confulting and obtaining the Confent of the Family and Miniders of the late No. 4. Nabob.— We proceeded to explain (lowly and diftinctly to the Two Khans the continued. Courf: of Reafoning and the Propofitions contained in the Declaration tranfmitted from Bengal, which the Khans having heard with great Attention, they dated that they diftinctly comprehended the Object of the Declaration and the Force of the Reafoning; they admitted the Conclufions drawn from the Fads, provided the Facfcs ir.oulu be true; but at the lame Time ftrenuoufly aiferted their Difbelief of the hoftile Intercourfe with Tippoo Sultaun, imputed to the Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah. — After a defultory Converfation on this Subject, in which the Two Khans infilled on the Reafonablenefs of their entering into the De- fence of Omdut ul Omrah's Conduct in regard to the feveral Points dated in the Declaration, and in which we repeated the Arguments founded on the Practice of Nations, and on the Right of the Britifh Government to provide for the Safety of its (ntereds, we endeavoured to reduce this very long Conference into the Refult of a fingle Propofition, by demanding to know whether the Khans, on the Part of Ally HufTain, were difpofed to an Adjuftment of the Claims of the Britifh Go- vernment through the Channel of an amicable Negociation. — They profefied the greateft Degree of Refpeft and Attachment to the Britifh Government; dated that they confidered themfelves and the whole Family to be under its immediate Pro- tection; dwelt on the general Impoffibility of their proceeding by any other than amicable Means in the Settlement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, or oftheexifting Differences with the Britifli Government; but carefully avoided a direct Anfv.er to the Propofition we had dated on that Subject. — The Day being far advanced, the Khans took an Opportunity of urging the Necefllty cf their Attention to the Funeral of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and to the Preparations of removing the Corpfe to Trichinopoly. — This Plea was urged in fo forcible a Manner, upon the Grounds of public Decorum, and of Confideration for the Feelings of the Family, that we yielded without further Difcuffion to the evident Defireofthe Khans to conclude the Conference, without giving a pofitive Anfwcr to our Propofition. — It was agreed, however, that an Interview fhould take place on the Evening of the next Day, at which the Khans afflired us that they would be prepared to give a fpe- cific Aniwer to our Propofitions, after confulting the Family and Miniders of the late Nabob upon the Subject of this Conference. In proceeding to take Leave of the Khans, we aflured them in the mod unequi- vocal Terms, that on the Anfwer which they intended to give to our Propofition would depend, whether the Britifh 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 Britifh Government fhould proceed to take fuch Meafures as it might deem to be expedient for the Security of its Rights and Intcreds in the Carnatic. July 1 6th. — 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 direct Object of" the Conference, we communicated to Najeeb Khan and Tuckia Ally Khan, a Perfian Tranflation of the Declaration. After perilling a conffderable Part of the Paper, Nejeeb Khan cbferved, that it contained the fame Matter as was explained to him on the preceding Day; that he entirely comprehended the Courfe of the Reafoning, and that he did not require any farther Explanation on the Sub- ject. — He repeated his Conviction, that it was impoffiblc for Oindut ul Omrah to •engage in a Correfpondence injurious to the Britifh Interefts ; and dated, as a Con- firmation CO. ia PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 4. firmafion of his Belief, the inherence of the Nabob to the pecuniary Stipulations intituled, of his Engagements, and the Probability chat thefe Means had been adopted by his. Highnefs's Enemies to injure his Reputation. In order, however, that the Conclufion drawn from the Propofitions Rated in the Declaration, and the confequent Determination of the Britifh Government, might be fully underftood, that Pafiage of the Paper was read, and diftiactly explained by us to the Two Khans. We proceeded to enquire whether the Khans were prepared (according to the Refiilt of the Conference of Yefterday) to enter into a friendly Negotiation, for the Eftablifhment of an adequate Security for the Right and Intereft of the Britifh. Government. The Khans replied, that the whole Family of Omdut ul Omrah was under the Protection of the Britiih Government, and that it could feel none but friendly Difpofitions towards the Company} at the fame Time, however, they peril ft ed in denying the Proofs of the Violation of the Alliance by Omdut ul Omrah, on the Foundation of which the Demand of the Britifh Government refted, and, by a ftran«e Inconiiftency, proceeded to enquire the Conditions on which we propofed to eftablifh an amicable Adjuftment of our Claims on the Family of the late Nabob. We proceeded accordingly to ftate to the Khans the Inconveniences which had been experienced from the Effects of a divided Government ; the Difficulty of applying, under fuch a Syftem, the Rxfources of the Carnatic to the Exigencies of the Public Service; and the Impoflibility of introducing a regular Form of internal Government, until the Defects of the exifting Syftem fhould be connected. We then informed the Khans, that the only Remedy applicable to the Errors of the prefent Government of the Carnatic was, the Subftilution of one permanent Autho- rity, in lieu of the fluctuating Authority which had hitherto lubfifted ; that the Ap- propriation of the Refources of the Carnatic, during the Government of the Nabob, and under the PrefTure of actual War, had been found from Experience to be in- compatible with the Objects of the Alliance; and therefore the only adequate Security for the Rights and Intereft of the Britifh Government in the Carnatic, a^ainft the Dangers with which they had been menaced, was the entire and exclu- five Adminiftration of the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic. We accordingly informed the Khans, that this Condition would form the Bafisofthe Arrangement which it was our Intention to propofe to them. Nejeeb Khan ob- ferved, that fuch a Propofition wa.-> calculated to fruftrate the profefTed Object of the Arrangement; for if the entire Government of the Carnatic fhould 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 propofed actually exifted 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 excluuve Adminiftration 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 preferred; 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 Object of propofing an amicable Adjuftment, inftead of proceeding to excrcife the Rights acquired by the Britifh Government, was mamfcftly founded in the Defire of preferving to the Family the Rank, Dignities, and Splendour of the Nabobs of the Carnatic. — The Khans NABOB OF THE CAR NAT I C. »3 Khans admitted this Argument to be conclufive, but without coming to any De- No. 4. termination on the fundamental Propofition ftated by us, appeared to be defirous of continued. knowing the general Outline of the Arrangement, which it was in the Contempla- tion of the Britiih Government to eftablifh. — We thought it expedient to fatisfy, by defcribing the principal Parts of the Plan intended by your Lord (hip and by the Governor General, in the Event of an amicable Adjuttment of Affairs : But v/e ap- prized the Khans at the fame Time, that the intended Arrangements, with refpect to the Family Affairs and Dependants of Omdut ul Omrah, would be regulated by the Acceptance or Rejection of the fundamental Propofition ; for in the one Cafe: the Britiih Government would be at Liberty to confult the Dictates of Moderation, Liberality, and Friendfhip, but in the other Cafe it would be compelled to adopt fuch Meafures of Precaution, for the Security of its Rights and Interefts, as the hoftiie Conduct of Omdut ul Omrah had juftified, and as would be rendered ne- ceffary by the Perfeverance of his reputed Son in the Spirit of thofe Councils. The Khans entered into a defultoryConverfation on the long fubfifting Connection between the Company and the Family of the late Nabob; in which they were more defirous of referring the Pretenfions of Ally Hufiainto the Stipulations oftheTreaty of 179^) than to the actual Circurnftances which had occurred. We thought it therefore not unneceffary to ftate again, that the Right of Omdut ul Omrah to the Support of the Company, was founded en the exprefs Letter of the Treaty of 1 792 ; that the whole Spirit of the Alliance having been vitiated previously to the oftenfible Conclufion of the Treaty of 1792, the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah had, by his own Conduct, annihilated the Rights intended to be conveyed to him by that Inftrument ; that consequently he left his reputed Son in his own Condition; that having placed himfelf in the Relation of a public Enemy, his reputed Son had fucreeded to that Condition ; that although the Britiih Government had fufpended the Exercife of its Rights, it acknowledged no other Claim on the Part of Huffiin, and that there- fore, in admitting him to negociate upon any Terms, it was actuated by Motives of Generofuy, unconnected with any Right in the Family of Mahomed Ally to rcfifb its Demand for Security. The Khans made a civil Anfwer to the Subftanceof this Communication, but at the fame Time indicated, in the ftrongeft Manner, that they were by no Means difpofed to accede to the fundamental Propofition of the intend- ed Arrangement ; they ftated that it was a Subject of fo much Importance, as to preclude them from giving an Anfwer without a full Confultation with all the Branches of the Family; they therefore requefted that they might be permitted to poftpone until the next Day their final Anfwer upon the Subject; of the Two Con- ferences. In the actual Situation of the Family of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, we confidered ourfelves at Liberty to accede to the Requeft, 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 Tranquillity of the Country, we fhould expect to receive an Anfwer fo determinate as to enable the Britiih Govern- ment to proceed to adopt the Meafures fufpended by the prefent Negotiation. We accordingly took Leave of the Khans, with an Alfurance that they would be prepared to deliver a final Anfwer 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. D Nejecb No. 4. cvtinued. * All the Au- thority con- veyed by the Will to thefe Khans is con- tained in the Perfian Word Imdad, which literally figni- fies Affijiance. + This con- tradicts, in the molt direct Terms, Nejeeb Khan's Ex- prelfions of Surprize on this Subject, in the firft Con- ference. PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE Nejeeb Khan and Tuckia Ally Khan proceeded to inform us that the whole Family, and the Minifters of the late Nabob, had been afiembled for the Purpofe of deliberating on the Proportion Mated by us on the preceding Day ; and that the Re- sult of their Deliberation was a Conviction in their own Minds, that, notwithstand- ing the decided Terms in which our Propofition was communicated to them, the Britifn Government would ft ill be difpofed to accept a Modification of the Terms required for its Security in the Carnatic. They accordingly produced a contra Projet, which they defired might be fubmitted to your Lord (hip's Confederation. A Tranflation of that Paper is annexed to the Report of this Day's Conference. We informed the Khans that we poflefTed full Authority from your Lordfhip and from the Governor General for rejecting, on the Part of the Britilh Government, any Propofal inconfiitent with the Extent of the Security already required, and that our Propofition for veiling exclufively in the Hands of the Company the entire Ad- miniftration of the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic, contained the Bafis on which alone the propofed 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 Propofition, and of their confidering their Authority infufficient to decide fo momentous a Queftion. We warned them that the Inter- pretation they were about to give to the Will of Omdut ul Onirah, involved them in a heavy Refponfibility to his reputed Son, which the Terms of the Will itfelfdid not justify;* and we ftated for their Conlideration, that whatever might be the Re- fult of thefe Conferences, the Effect to be produced on their own Interefts could bear no Companion to the Effe6t to be produced on thole of Ally Hufiain. The Khans replied, that the Subjed of the Evidence difcovered at Seringapatam, had been agitated in the Durbar for more than Twelve \ Months ; that Meafures had been taken for justifying the Conduct of Omdut ul Omrah, which theyafierted to be innocent of any treacherous Intention towards the Britilh Government ; that our Propositions, containing the fundamental Bafis of an amicable Arrangement, had been fully difcufTed and debated ; that they (the Khans) had fully confidered the Nature of the Authority and of the Refponfibility which the Will of Omdut ul Omrah devolved on them ; that they were prepared to give a decided Anfwer on the Propofition, 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 Rejection of your Lordfhip's fundamental Propositions, we fnould have felt ourfelves juftified in bringing the Negociation to an immediate Conclufion ; but knowing the earnest Defire of your Lordfhip and of the Governor General, to obtain the Security required for the Rights and Interefts of the Britifh Government in the Carnatic by an amicable Negociation, and confidering the Pro- pofal of the Khans to be fo extravagant as to be undeferving of fcrious Attention, we judged it to be our Duty not to exclude the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah from an Opportunity ofdedaring his genuine Sentiments upon a Point of fo much Interest to himfelf, and of relieving himfelf from the Effects of the infatuated or treacherous Councils of his appointed Advifers. We therefore informed the Khans, that in a Question which appeared to relate exclufively to the Interests of the Na- bob Omdut ulOmrah's reputed Son, we were desirous of receiving from himfelf a Declaration, NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. *5 Declaration, which would determine his future Situation, either as the acknow- No. 4. ledged Nabob of the Carnatic, or as a mere Dependant on the Bounty of the Com- continued. pany. The extreme Anxiety which the Khans difcovcred in attempting to evade this Demand, confirmed in our Judgment the Expediency and Neceflity of per- illing in it. It would be tedious to detain your Lordfhip with a Repetition of the various Sub- terfuges urged by the Khans to avoid a Compliance with this Requell; all founded on his Youth,* his Infufficiency to conduct a Conference, the Fears of his Mother, and the Recency of his Father's Death. It was not without a very long and tedious Converfation, 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 Propofition communicated to the Two Khans. The Interview was at length fixed for the next Day. * He is nearly Eighteen APPENDIX to the Third Day's Conference. Tranflation of a PAPER delivered by Nejeeb Khan Behauder, Salar Jung, and Mahomed Fukia Aly Khan Behauder, to Mr. Webbe and Lieutenant Colonel Clofe, on the 5th Day of Rubeeoolaul 1216 of the Heygra. IN as much as we are jointly employed in a Bufinefs of Truft, and are defirous of adhering to the Will of our late Lord and Mailer, we have accordingly con- fidered with great Attention the Matters which have been ftated on each Side during our Converfations ; and although we do not remember, Word by Word, what has been urged by each Party, we yet recoiled the Subftance of what pafied. You explained to us that Marquis Wellefley Behauder, had fhewn himfelf dif- pleafed with the Intention of the Conducl of -.the late Nabob, in maintaining a Correfpondence with Tippoo Sultaun, the late Ruler of Myfore; and that in confe- quence the Son of the late Nabob, we mean our prefent benevolent and gracious Matter, had forfeited his Right to the Protection of the Company. We cannot, Gentlemen, fpeak pofitively as to the Writings alluded to, but from our Knowledge of the Temper, Difpofition, and Sentiments of the late Nabob, we are imprefied with a full Afiurance that he was incapable of acting contrary to his own Dignity, and the Engagements of his Alliance, which he ever refpedted ; and indeed we our- felves know that he never correfponded with any Power inHindoftan, unlefs by means of the Company ; and the Company were well acquainted with the Correfpondence which did take place, and which confided only of Letters couched in warm Expref- fions of Congratulation or Condolance. If, befides the Correfpondence of this Defcription, any Writings have come to light, containing the Matters of which you have read to us a fhort Abffract, we apprehend that they have originated with evil Perfons, for the Purpofe of fhakingthe Friendfhip and Union fo long eftablifhed between the late Nabob and the Company. Nor do we believe that the Company, on mature Confideration, can hold it to be true, that the late Nabob engaged in a Correfpondence contrary to their Interefts; and, adverting to the amicable and friendly Behaviour obferved by the Company till the laft Moments of the Nabob, the whole World will be imprefled that they entertained no fuch Sufpicions ; and with us it is Matter of Regret, that at a Juncture when the Nabob is deprived of the Means of Juftification, his Reputation ihould be publicly injured. But, Gentlemen, without dwelling on thefe Matters, we confider ourfelves as being honoured with the i6 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 4. the Office of Agent on the Part of the prefent Heir, according to the Will of his tontinued. illuftrious Father ; and we have to obferve that you, Gentlemen, have feen that Will, and been made acquainted with the Power which it has vefted in Sahib Zahah, the prefent Heir. The faid Heir, according to the Law and Rules which hold amongft us regarding Succeffion, is found to inherit the Whole of the Rights and State of his Father, and is in every Refpect the true hereditary Suc- ceffor of his Father. In this Cafe he has fpecially derived Protection from the Treaty of 1792 A. D. and we have held ourfelves bound on his Part by the faid Treaty from the Moment we entered on this great Charge, namely, the Care of the Perfon and Government of the faid 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 faid Heir, either to deliver the Heir aforefaid and his Kingdom, entirely into the Hands of the Governor General, or to communicate our Inclinations reflecting fuch an Arrange- ment as would be aflfented to by the Governor General. We were happy, Gentlemen, that you did not infill on an immediate Anfwer to your Demand ; as in the Interval that has taken place, we have minutely confidered your Demands, as well as the Truft that has been confided in us; and we apprehend, that when you made the laid Demand, the Treaty of 179a A. D. was not in your Contem- plation, for the faid Heir, Succefibr of the late Nabob, is clearly included in the Treaty aforefaid. In this Cafe the faid Heir has become the Protector of the Agreements and Stipulations of his illuftrious Father, and has fucceeded to the Right, to benefit by the Stipulations of the Company contained in the faid Treaty; and we are ready to abide in the fulleft Manner to every Point that he has agreed to therein. We have not faid that we were unwilling to agree to any Treaty be fides that above-mentioned ; on the contrary, we are prepared to hear any Demands that may be propofed, and to exert ourfelves to the Extent of our Ability for the Purpofe of adjufting them. We do not perceive much Defect in the Means long eftabiifhed by the Treaty, for promoting the Security and Union of both Sides. In every Event, if it can be modified for the Intereftofthe Company, the aforefaid Heir will be happy at all Times to attend to any Wifh that you may communicate; nor would we fay that we fhould confider ourfelves fortunate in being the Means of adjufting fo delirable an Arrangement. We mult infer, that you could fcarcely hope that the Demand, at which you hinted at the firft Meeting, and (o clearly explained at the fecond, that it could not be mifunderftood, 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 fuch Dif- affection and Faithlefihefs, as to deliver up unconditionally the whole Rights and Property of our Mafter, and commit him and his Family, in a State of Want and Subjection, to the Company. We cannot therefore comprehend the Subftance and Meaning of your Demand, more than that it occurs to us that you have pro- pofed a heavy Demand to us, in the fir ft Inftance, under the Idea, that it might be dimimfhed at future Conferences; and that you might afcertain our Sentiments touching a frefh Agreement for renewing the Friendfhip and Union that has fo long fubfifted between the Company and the Nabob of the Carnatic. Gentlemen, with the View to meet the juft Wifhes of the Company, we have confidered the Objects and Advantages which were often mentioned to the late Nabob, and we have relblvcd to act in conformity to them to the Extent of our Ability; and regarding them as the beft Foundations for an Arrangement, we now prefent NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 17 prefent a feparate Paper, containing a few correfpondent Propofitions; and in the No. 4: Event of their being approved, they may be eafiiy inferted in the Treaty of 1792, continued* A. D. The happy Effects of whtch have been witneffed by the Company and by us. We hope that in thefe Propofitions we have ftrongly demonftrated the Will of the Heir, as well as ours, to promote the true Intereft of the Company, without entirely facrifkang the Rights of the Heir, which are committed to our Care; and we trull that, conlidering what we have ftatcd above, our Motive for bringing forward the Propofitions alluded to, muftbe clear beyond the PoOibility of Doubt. Adverting to the Refponfibility we fuflain, from the great Affairs and Interefts in which we are engaged, we have to requeft that you will deliver to us in Writing, any Demands you may wifh to ftate in reply, in order that we may be free from any Imputations hereafter. We are confident that you will confider the delicate Circumftances which have led us to this Requeft, and allow them to plead our Excufe. (Signed) Mahomed Nejf.eb Khan, Salar Jung, Mahomed Tuckia Alt Khan Behauder. TRANSLATION of Propositions from the Heir. Article I. — He cedes to the Company fovereign Authority over the Poll- g3rs; but the Company fhali give Credit for Two Lacks Sixty Thoufand Seven Hundred and Four Star Pagodas, on account of the Poiigar Peifhcufh, in the Kids of the'Nine Lacks payable each Year. Article II. — The Heir grants full Authority ta the Company to collect the Revenues, &c. of the following Diftriifcs : — The Revenues of thefe Diilri&s are •detailed below, but they amount to more ; viz. Tinnivelly - - - - 4,06,508 S. Pagodas. Madura ----- 64,945 Ongole ----- 13,534 Palnad ----- 24,657. The Amount of thefe Two Articles, including the Poiigar Peifhcufh, is 8,54,348 S. Pagodas; and this Sum being deducted from the 9 Lacks payable each Year,, leaves a Balance of45,i52 Star Pagodas. Article II L — The Sum of 45,1 52 Star Pagodas, which is the Balance of the Nine Lacks allotted to defray the Expence for the Defence of the Carnatic, and the Sum -of 6,21,105 Star Pagodas, which is allotted to difcharge the Debts of the Nabob Walajah, according to the Treaty, will be paid to the Company Yearly by the LTeir ; and fhall be difcharged in Ten equal Kids, from the id to the 15th of each Month, from the Beginning of September to the Month of June ; and on the Debts ■of the Nabob Wahjah being difcharged, the Payment of the Sum of 6,21,105 Star Pagodas fhall ceafe, and the Sum of 45,152 Star Pagodas only, (hall conti- nue to be paid Yearly, agreeably to the Stipulations of 1792 ; and the Whole of the Contents of this Paper fhall be confidered as referring to the faid Treaty. Article IV. — After the Difcharge of the above Debts, the Heir fhall liquidate the new Cavalry Loan, and he will no: only acknowledge that Debt, but alio -the Intereft due on it, S Article V, i? PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 4. Article V. — In the Event of Failure, in the Payment of the Kids ilipulated m tsntimed. -the 3d Article, then thofe Parts of the Treaty of 1792 fhall be carried into Ef- fect, which relates to the Diftrifts detailed in Schedule No. 2 of the faid 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 fhall continue in full Force. The Heir, out of his Regard and Friendfhip for the Company, will make over to the Company, as an Aft of Favour, the Whole of his Rights touching the Pearl Filhery. July iSth — Having personally communicated to your Lordfnip our Sufpicion, founded on the Anxiety of the Two Khans to prevent our Interview with the reputed Son ofOmdut ulOmrah, that their Conduct might not be conformable to the Wifhes and Intentions of that Perfon, your Lordfnip authorized and inftrufted us to com- municate to Mr. Fitzgerald (the confidential Phyfician of the late Nabob) who had perfonal Accefs to his Highnefs's reputed Son, the aftu.il Exiftence of the Gover- nor General's Orders, and your Lordfhip's pofitive Determination to execute thofe Orders, for the Purpofe of obtaining an adequate Security for the Rights and In- terests of the Britiih Government in the Carnatic. Such Parts of the Governor General's Orders as were fufficient to remove ail Doubt on this Subjeft, were accordingly communicated to Mr. Fitzgerald, from his Excellency's original Dif- patches. It being neceflary, in conformity to this Intention, that farther Time ihould be allowed for the Operation of this indirect Communication, the Interview appointed for to Day was poftponed ; and Reafon exilts for believing that (as far as the Opinion of Mr. Fitzgerald was allowed to have EfFeft) the reputed Son of Omdut ui Omrah, as well as his Two Advifers, Nejeeb Khan and Tuckia Ally Khan, were, in the Courfe of this Day, apprized of the aftual Circumftances in which they ftccd, through the Channel of a confidential Perfon, who could have no Intereft in augmenting the Appearance of the Danger, which actually menaced the immediate Interefts of Ally Huffain. Although this Tranfaftion forms no Part of our. public Negotiation, we have judged it to be proper to include it in the official Report of this Day. It will de- fnonftrate that no Care was omitted, which could conciliate the Mind of Ally Huffain, and of his appointed Adviil: . July 19th. — We proceeded about Noon to the Palace. We enquired whether a further Confideration of the Subjeft of our Conferences had created in the Minds of the Two Khans any Alteration of their Sentiments delivered at the lafl Interview ? They replied, without Hcfitation, that it was not the Intention of Ally Huffain to recede from the Terms communicated to us in a written Paper at the lafl Inter- view : We then dated our Belief, that under that Declaration they were prepared for the ferious Confequences of the alternative, frequently defcribed to them. The Khans replied, with much apparent Compofure and Rcfolution, that ) were prepared to meet thofe Confequences, on their Refponfibility, under a perfeft Reliance on the Protection of the Company, and on its Adherence to the exifting Engagements. We reminded the Khans, that it was ufelefs 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 conftituted the ! :t of the Company to demand the Security now required. The NABOB GF THE CARNATIC. 19 The reputed Sen of Omdut u! Omrah being, at our Defire, introduced accord- ]^ , ing to the former Appointment, we excufed our Intrufion on his Grief, by explain- continued. ing cur Unwillingnefs to receive from any Perfon but himfelf the final Rejection of ■x Propofition, made with great indulgence to him, on the Part of the Britifh Go- vernment, and involving Confequences of the greateft Importance to his immediate intercils. We then dated, in a fuccinct Manner, the Nature of that Propofition, with the conclusive Rejection of it by his appointed Advifers ; and expreffcd our Defire of knowing whether the Motives of the Khans for thus rejecting, at fuch apparent Hazard to his Welfare, the Frte.ndmip of the Company, were conform- uble to his own Sentiments and Refokition. He replied (the Khans being prefent) that he confidercd them to have been appointed by his Father for the Purpofe of afiifting him ; and that the Object of his own Councils was not feparatc from that of the Khans. According to the Plan previously arranged by your Lordfnip for this probable Event, we made known, without farther Delay, your Lordfhip's Intention of hold- ing a perfonal Conference with Ally Huflain (previously to the final Adoption of the Meafures then in your Lordfhip's Contemplation.) — This Communication was unexpected, and the Khans endeavoured to evade it by repeating the Excufcs they had ufed at the former Interview; but, being affured that your Lordfhip's Orders in this Refpect admitted of no Excufe, the Khans retired at the fame Time (or the Purpofe of preparing the Equipage of Ally Hufiain. During this fhort Inter- val, the young Man, with much apparent Anxiety in his Manner, whifpered in a low Tone of Voice, that he had been deceived by the Two Khans. — Ally Huffain 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 PJonour of a perfonal Interview with your Lordfnip. After the firft Ceremonies of the Meeting had fubfided, the Attendants of Ally Hullain, including Nt-ieeb Khan and Tuckia Ally Khan, were directed to with- draw, and the Tent was rendered entirely private. Before your Lordfhin's Inten- tion in this Interview could be entirely explained, Ally HufTain interrupted the Converfation by expreffing his Senfc of your Lordfhip's Coniideration. He then proceeded to ftate, of his own Accord, that the Conferences had been conducted by the Two Khans without his Participation in their Councils; and that he difap- proved the Termination which had in confequence been given to the Nego- tiation. In confequence of this Avowal, the entire SubStance of the Conferences was re- capitulated to Ally Hullain, the Nature of the Proofs of the Violation of the Alli- ance was diftin&ly defcribed, and the Extent of the Security required by the Britifli Government concifcly explained.— Ally Hullain, after ftating that he compre- hended the Whole of this important Queftion, declared himfelf ready to conclude an Arrangement with the Britifh Government on die Bafis of the Propofition com- municated by us to the Two Khans. He then proceeded to make Enquiry into the lecondary Branches of the Arrangement in your Lordfhip's Contemplation, par- ticularly with refpeft to the Proviiion for his perfonal Expences, and to the Ex- tent of his Power over the public Treaiure of his Father, which he cenfidered ta be large. After a defultory Converfation of fowie Length, interrupted by the Importunity of Nejeeb Khan, Ally Hullain propofed that a Treaty fhould be pre- pared by us, upon the Bafis of vetting the entire Civil and Military Government of .the Carnatic in the Hands of the Company; and ftated } that he would be ready- to ao PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 4. to execute the Inftrument, with or without the Confent of the Khans, at another continued, feparate Conference, which was appointed for the next Day, withio the Lines of the Britifh Troops. July 20th. — According to the Appointment of Yefterday, we proceeded to the Palace of Chepauk j and Ally Huflkjn having been introduced to us, laid, in a refolute Tone of Voice, and with more apparent Firmnefs in his Manner than we had before obferved, that the Two Khans had been appointed by his Father's V-'ill to affift his Councils; that he could not adopt a Line of Conduct inconfiftent with their Advice ; and that therefore any farther Interview with your Lordfhip was unneceffary. Thefe ExprefHons we attributed to Ally Huflain's Defire of concealing his real Sentiments in the Prefence of the Khans ; and proceeded to ftate, that the Confer- ence of Yefterday having been interrupted by the Importunity of Nejeeb Khan, your Lordfhip was refolved to bring it to a Termination at the Interview ap- pointed for this Day. We accordingly attended Ally Huftain to the Tent, which having been again rendered entirely private, the young Man ftated, in the fame Tone of Confidence, that this Interview was unneceffary, as it was impoffible for him to deviate from the Sentiments already exprefTed by the Two Khans. This unexpected Change of Sentiments in the Mind of Ally Hufi'ain having excited fome Surprize, your Lordfhip defired that he fhould explain himfelf mere diftinctly. In reply he ftated, that he was aware the Sentiments now exprefTed by him differed entirely from thofe exprefTed on the preceding Day ; that the Truth was, he had ferioufly reflected on the Subject of Yefterday's Conference; that the whole Fa- mily had been affembled to deliberate on the State of his Affairs; that he had in confequence given a better Confideration to the actual Circumftances in which he was placed ; that he letracted the Opinion communicated to your Lordfhip Yef- terday ; and that he confidered it to be totally incompatible with his Interefts and Honour to accede to the Propofition, on the Bafis of which he had agreed to con- •clude the Treaty. We reminded him, by your Lordfhip's Direction, of the Deception ftated by himfelf to have been ufed by the Khans, and exprefTed our Confidence that, not- withftanding this unaccountable Change of his oftenfible Manner, the genuine Sentiments of his Mind were exprefTed at the Conference of Yellerday. — He (aid, that this was not the Cafe; that he had fpoken at that Time from an hafty hn- prefiion ; but that the Sentiments, which he now declared, were the Refult of Jerious Reflection, and of a Conviction on his Mind, that by purfuing this Line of Conduct, he fhould adhere to the Intention of his Father and to the real In- tereffs of his Family. We ftated in reply, that he deceived himfelf, if he en-' co'-raged any Expectation of fecuring the Interefts of his Family on any other Bafis than that of an amicable Adjuftment, for the alternative Choice was either to become the acknowledged Nabob of the Carnatic, or one of many Penfioners dependent on the Bounty of the Company ; that the Choice, which he now ap- peared to have made, was fo inconfiftent with Prudence, as to juftify our con-' fidering him to act under fome improper Reliraint. — We proceeded therefore to explain, that he was now actually within the Britifh Encampment; and that if he apprehended any Confequences of perfonal Danger or Inconvenience from the Purfuit of the genuine Wifhcs of his Heart, your Lordfhip would immediately fecuce NABOB OF THE CAR NAT I C. 21 fecure him again it any In Cults he might apprehend, by keeping him under the No. 4. Protection of" the Company's Forces. He replied, that he acted from no Im- continued, prcfiion of that Defcription ; but that the Sentiments, which he now cxprcfi'ed, contained the genuine Feelings of his Heart. We expreffed your Lordihip's and our own Sufpicion, that he had been en- couraged by interested Perfons to diibelieve the Existence ot the Orders from the Governor General, under the Authority of which the fundamental Proportion of the Negociations had been hated to him, and we enquired whether he had receive d, iiom Mr. Fitzgerald, any Communication on thatSubject. Ally Huffain anfwered, that Mr. Fitzgerald had Spoken to him on the Subject ; and that his Determination was not governed by any DiStruft of our Communications relative to the Orders of the Governor General. We explained our Ailufion to the Advice of interested Perfons, by dating, that thofe who held Tuncaws or other Claims on the Carnau'c, were deeply interested in perfuading him to refill: an amicable Negociation ; bccaule in the Event of an amicable Adjultment for vefting the Civil Government in the Hands of the Company, they could have no Hope of recovering thofe Claims ; whereas thofe Hopes would Mill be cheriShed as long as he lhould be perfuided to keep the Affairs of the Carnatic in an unfettled State. We further ftated, that the Principles of Perfons of that Defcription encouraged every Expectation that they would be defirous of Sacrificing the permanent IntereSts and Honour of his Family to the Attainment of their immediate Advantage : We added, that fuch Perfons, as well as the general Body of his Father's Creditors, would feel an In- tere'l in perfuading him to reject the Propofition now offered to him, and to cherifh a Belief that the Measures of this Government would be difapproved by the Court of Directors, and that the Arrangement, which he might compel your Lordfhip to adopt, would be reverfed. We warned Ally Hufiain of the Effects of fuch a Fallacy, by alluring him that the Orders of the Governor General were founded on a previous Communication with the Court of Directors, ar.d with His Majeily's Ministers; and on a Knowledge that the Sentiments of the Government at Home concurred entirely with thofe entertained by his Excellency and by your Lordfhip, relative to the Violation of the Alliance. We were the more earned in urging this Point, with your Lordfhip's Permission, on the Attention of Ally Hufiain ; becaufe the Frojet, delivered to us at the Third Conference by the Two Khans, contains manifclt Proof of having been tranflated from an European Language ; and becaufe it is equally manifeSt, from the Tenor of that Paper, that the Author of it was interefted 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 Hufiain denied that he acted from any Motives derived from the Per- fuafion 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 a fiiit him, and finally to reject the Arrangement which had been propofed to him. We enquired whether he clearly understood the Confluences of that Determi- nation with rtfpect to himfelf ; he Said, that it had been clearly explained to him ; but that, notwithstanding the Explanation, he affureJ himfelf of the Favour and Protection of the Company, as well as of your Lordfhips's paternal Care. In proceeding to conclude the Conference, your Lordfhip defired Ally Hufiain to F prepare 22 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 4. prepare himfelf to receive your Lordfhip's final and mod ferious Refokition. It continued, was then explained to him, that no Pains had been omitted, which could warn •him of the Confcquences he was about to incur; that the Duties of Humanity to- wards him, and the Duties of Attention to the National Character of the Britifh Government had been fatisfied.j that he had himfelf determined the Situation in which he would hereafter be placed, and that your Lordfhip, with Concern for himfelf individually, now apprized him, that his future Situation would be that of a private Perfon, hoilile to the Britifh Interefts, and dependent on the Bounty of the Company. This Declaration Ally Huffain received with a Degree of Compofure and Con- fidence, which denoted that he acted from no Impreffion of Fear ; and a Smile of Complacency, which appeared on his Countenance throughout this Difcuffion, de- noted an internal Satisfaction at the Line of Conduct he was purfuing. Being .afked if he wiihed to make any further Obfervation, he faid that he did not ; and being alfo afked whether he had any Objection to the Introduction of the Khans into the Tent, he laid that he had none ; which being accordingly done, he was directed by your Lordfhip to leave the Tent. July 2 1 ft. — Your Lordfhip having communicated to us your Intention to open, jfpoffible, a Negotiation with the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah.; Endeavours were accordingly iifed to eftablifh a Communication with him, but it was found that fo itricta Watch had been eftablifhed over him by the Adherents of Omdut ul Omrah, that no Means appeared to be practicable for opening a private Communication with him ; while any Attempt to effect it by open Means, appeared liable to the Jerious Objection of precipitating the Fate of the young Prince. July 2id. — In this Situation of Things it was reported to your Lordfhip, by the Officer commanding the Troops at Chepauk, that Nejeeb Khan and Tucky Ally Khan had already performed the Ceremony of inftalling Ally Huffain in a private Manner 'on the Mufnud of Arcot ; and that they had refolved to inftal him in a public Manner on the following Day. Your Lordfhip refolved to prevent a Mealure calculated to produce immediate Commotion in the Provinces of the Carnatic ; for that Purpofe Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neil was directed to take entire Poffeffion of the Palace of Chepauk with the Britifh Troops ; and to remove entirely all the Guards of the late Omdut ul Omrah, who had been permitted to remain at their Pofts during the late Nego- tiations. This Meafure eftablifhed the immediate Means of relieving Azeem ul Dowlah; and a Party of the Company's Troops was fubftituted at the Hovd in which that Prince was confined, in lieu of the Guards ftationed over it by the Adherents of Omdut ul Omrah. ■\j loon as the firft Surprize of the Prince Azeem u! Dowlah permitted him to receive an Explanation, that the Guard was intended for his greater Security and Protection, he exprcfild his Satisfaction at the Change, together with the Defire of being permitted to explain his Situation. July 23d. — On the Morning of this Day Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neil waited jupon the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah, for the oftenfible Purpofe of excufing and ex- plaining to him the Caufe of ftationing a Party of the Company's Troops over the r ° Place J.J NABOB OF THE CARN A TIC. 23 Place in which he refided. Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neil took this Opportunity No. 4. of informing the Prince, that if he (houkl have any Defire of reprefenting the State continued. of his Affairs to the Britifh Government, the Means of doing fo without Danger had now been opened to him. In confequence 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 enfued, the Converfation on the Part of the Prince was confined to a State- ment of the Injuries which he had fuftained, and of the Hardfhips he continued to fuftain, from the Deprefiion of his Fortune and from the Poverty of his Circum- flances. Pie requefted, with much Earneflnefs, that his Cafe might be confidered in the general Arrangement of the Affairs ot ihe Carnatic, and appeared to limit his Expectation to a more -comfortable demeftic Arrangement for his Family. Suffi- cient Grounds however appeared in the courfe of the Converfation, to fatisfy our Judgment, that the Prince was capable of fuftaining a more important Character, and that his Senie of his own immediate Interefts would difpofe him to meet with Cordiality any Overture on the Part of the Britifh Government for reviving, in his Perfon, the Alliance fo long fubfifting between the Company and his Family. The Converfation ended with an Affurance on our Part of your Lordfhip's im- mediate Attention to Azeem ul Dowlah's Difficukirs, and to the Provifion of a more fuitable Accommodation for his Family. July 24. — An Interview having been appointed for communicating to the Prince this Day the Refult of your Lordfhip's Consideration of his Cafe, we met him at an early Hour in the Tent of Lieutenant Colonel Mac Neil. — The Converfation was opened by lbmediftant Obfervations 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- preffion we had received of his Understanding and Difpofition, we proceeded to explain to him the actual Situation in which the whole Houfe of Mahomed Ally had been placed, in confequence of the Violation of the Alliance by that Prince, and by his SuccefTor Omdut ul Omrah. The Curiofity of the Prince beinp na- turally excited by this Converfation, connected with his previous Knowledge of the Manner in which the Conferences with Ally Huffain had terminated, we proceeded .to difclofe to the Prince the Nature of the Rights acquired by the Company; the indifpenfable Neceffity of exercifing thole Rights for the Eftablifhment of an ade- quate Security for our Interefts in the Carnatic; and the great Reluctance with which the Britifh Government would feel itfelf compelled to ufe its Power for the Attainment of that Object, which could not fail of producing the entire Humilia- tion of the Houfe of Mahomed Ally. A long defultory Converfation enfued on the different Points of this Qiieffion, the Subftance of which has been ftated in an earlier Pailage of this R.eport, and it ended in a Declaration of the Prince Azeem ul Dcwhh of his Acknowledgment ©f the Right acquired by the Company under the Difcovery made at Seringapatam; and of his Readinefs to afford, in the Event of his Elevation to the Muihud, that :Satisfadtion and Security which your Lordfhip and the Governor General had ■.deemed to be neceflary to the Prefervation of our Interefts in the Carnatic. Having 24 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 4. Having accordingly defcribed to the Prince the entire Outline of the Arrange- (cniinued. ment propofed for the Settlement of the Aflairs of the Carnatic, on the Bafis of this Proportion, it was agreed that the Arrangement fhould be prepared in the Form of a Treaty, to be difcufled at an Interview appointed fur the next Day. J uly 25. — Having accordingly prepared the Draft of the Treaty, we proceeded to the Tent, for the Purpofe of dilcufiing with the Prince Azeeni ul Dowlah the general Principles, and the particular Articles of the Agreement propofed by your Lordlhip. The Prince having acceded to the fundamental Articles, in conformity to his Acknowledgment of the preceding Day, directed his Attention to that Article which ftipulates, that a Fund (hail be appropriated for the Expence of maintaining the Family of the Nabobs Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah : he ftated, that although it couid not be incumbent on him to interrupt on this Account an Arrangement lb beneficial to the different Branches of the Family, and to himfelf in particular; he yet felt it to be intimately connected, with his Reputation and Honour to urge their Situation upon your Lordfhip's mofi indulgent Confideration. We explained* in confequence, to Azeem ul Dowlah, that the Motives of the Britilh Government for entering into any Difcuflion for the Purpofe of efhblifhing an amicable Adjust- ment, could be founded on no other Wifh than thac of preferving tiie Family from that State of Degradation, into which it was about to have been precipitated, by the faithlefs Conduct and by the perveife Spirit of the Councils of its principal Members; and we renrnded the Prince, that in making him the In ft ru ment of re-eftablifhing the Alliance, it was neceffary to furnifh him with the moll powerful Means of fecuring the Attachment of the Family, by rendering the Amount of the Stipends or Jaghires to be allotted for its Support dependant on the Pleafure of the Britilh Government; which Communication with his Highnefs would proceed to apportion the Amount to be appropriated for this Purpofe, according to the Merits of the Individuals concerned. In difcufling that Part of the Treaty which ftipulates the Acknowledgment of the Debts due by his £&£eftors to the Company, the Prince exprefTed his Senfe of the Reaibnairlen'efs of that Stipulation; but ftated dift.incf.ly and repeatedly that he did not COhfider himfelf involved by that Article in any perfonal Refponfibility for the Amount of thefe or of any other Debts. We expreiled our entire Concur- rence in his Hiahnefs's Interpretation of the Article; and a Claufe was added to the Article, for the exprefs Purpofe of obviating any Doubt on this Point. The remaining Claufes of the propofed Treaty having been difcufled and afi'ented to the Prince affixed his Signature to a Perfian Draft of the propofed Treaty,, bindin" himfelf to execute a more formal Inllrument at the Period of his intended Installation. In concluding our Report of this Conference, we cannot omit to Hate to your Lordlhip, the Impreflion made on our Minds by the decorous Deportment, Mode- ration, and good Senfe, by which Azeem ul Dowlah diftinguiihed himfelf upon this fudden Elevation from a State of Penury and Wretchednefs to the Pofleflion of princely Magnificence, Honours, and Rank. July 26th.— This Morning we had the Satisfaction of prefenting his Highnefs the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah in a formal Manner to your Lordlhip, and of fubfe- qucntly I i NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 25 qiicntly conducing him, as the oftenfiblc future Nabob of the CarnatiCj to the Ameer No. 4. Baugh, the Refidence of his Highnefs's Father the late Ameer ul Omrah. continued. (Signed) J. IVebbe, By Clofe. (A true Copy.) J. IFebbe, Chief Sec y of Gov'. No. 5. Copy of the TREATY between the Company and his Highnefs the Nabob Mahomed Ali, dated in 1792 j commonly called Lord Cornwallis's Treaty. TREATY between the Honourable Eaft India Company and the Nabob of Arcot. WHEREAS a certain Engagement was entered into between the Honour- able Englifh Eaft India Company, and his Highnefs the Nawaub of the Carnatic, bearing Date 24th February 1787, for the Purpofe of cementing an everlafting Friendfhip with each other,and of contributing mutually towards the Defence of the Carnatic, and Countries dependent thereon ; whereby it was ftipulated that the faid Company fhould maintain a Military Force, and that the faid Nawaub fhould pay Annually a certain Sum of Money arifing from the Revenues of the Carnatic, and fhould furnifh fufficient and fatisfafbory Security, under certain Conditions expreffed in the faid Engagement, for the regular Payment of the Sum ftipulated to the faid Company: And whereas it appears by the Reprefentations of the laid Nawaub, con- tained in a certain Letter addrefled by him to the Governor General, &c. &c. dated the 18th of the Month Shawal 1 206 Hejeree, (correfponding with the 9th June 1792,) that the Refources of the Carnatic are not competent to enable him to perform the Stipulations in the faid Engagement : And whereas it further appears, that the Security which the faid Nawaub agreed in the above-mentioned Engage- ment to furnifh for the due Payment of the ftipulated Sum to the faid Company, is in its Nature inadequate to the End intended : And whereas certain Agreements have alfo been entered into between the faid Company and the faid Nawaub, for the Difcharge of certain Debts due by the faid Nawaub to private Perfons, it has been mutually agreed, in confequence of the above written Circumftances, that the Engagement afcrefaid (hall henceforth be confidered by the Contracting Parties as annulled, and no longer of Effect or in Force: And in lieu thereof, the Right Ho- nourable Charles Earl Comwallis, Knight of the Moft Noble Order of the Garter, Governor Genera!, &c. &c. &c. &c. inverted with full Powers on the Part of the faid Honourable Englifh Eaft India Company to direct and controul the Affairs of the faid Company in the Eaft Indies, in the Name of and for the faid Company, their Heirs and Succeilbrs, on one Part ; and the Nabob Wallah Jah, Ameer ul Hind, Omdut ul Moulk, Afoph ul Dowlah, Unevar ul Deen Khan Behauder, Zuf- fer Jung, Sepah Salar, Nabob of the Carnatic, in his own Name, and for himfelf and his Succefibr his eldeft Son Nawaub Omdut ul Omrah, Meyun ul Moulk, Affud --d Dowla Haffcin, Ally Khan Behauder, Zool Sicar Zung, and his Heirs and Suc- C ceifors, 26 PAPERS CONCERNING T PIE LATE No. 5. ceffors, on the other Part, agree to the following ArticleSj which {hall be binding on continued, the refpective Contracting Parties for the Purpofes contained therein, notwithftand- ing all or any of the Conditions (tipulated in the Engagement dated 24th February 1787, to the contrary. Article ift. — The Friends and Enemies of either of the Contracting Parties (hall be considered the Friends and Enemies of both. Article 2d. — In order to execute the foregoing Article in its full Extent, the Honourable Englifh Eaft 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 faid Military Force; the faid Nawaub further agreeing that the Difpofal of the faid Sum, toge- • ther with the Arrangement and Employment of the Troops fupported by it, fhall be left entirely to the laid Company. Article 3d. — It is hereby alfo agreed, that for the further Security and Defence of the Countries belonging and fubjecb to the Contracting Parties in the Carnatic, &c. that all Forts fhall begarrifoned by the Troops of the faid Company ; and in the Event of War breaking out in the Carnat;c and Countries appertaining to either Party, and dependant en the Carnatic, or contiguous thereto, it i g ted, for the better Profecution of it, that as long as it (hail laft, the fajd^Cj nripany (hall pohefs full Authority over the Carnatic, except the Jaghires belonging t;> the Family of the faid Nawaub, amounting to Star Pagodas 2,13,91 l which, on Condition of the good Behaviour of the Jaghiredars of the laid Jaghire-, and of their Fidelity to the faid Nawaub and to the faid Company, fhall be continued to them, fibjefl to t : e Pleafure of the faid Nawaub only, and except alfo certain Charities amounting to Star Pagodas 21,366, fubject to the fame Conditions as are mentioned with reipcel to the Jaghires, and lhall collect the Revtnues thereof, the faid Company hereby engaging that, during fuch War, they will pay to the faid Nawaub One-fifth Share of the Net Revenue arifing therefrom ; and that at the Conclufio'n of the War, the Carnatic fhall be reftored to the faid Nawaub, except in certain Cafes, which are hereinafter mentioned. Article 4th. — The Nabob Wallah Jah agrees to pay to the faid Company, for the Purpofe of mutual Defence, the Sum of Nine Lacs of Star Pagodas Annually, as his Share of the Expence for the Military Force, and alfo in confequence of certain Agreements entered into by him with the faid Company, and guaranteed by the Parliament of Great Britain, for the Purpofe of liquidating certain Debts due by the faid Nawaub, a further Sum of 6,21,105 Star Pagodas Annually, which further Sum of 6,2!, 105 Star Pagodas lhall ceafe on the full Liquidation of the Debts above mentioned, and the Sum of 9,00,000 of Star Pagodas only lhall continue to be paid by the faid Nawaub to the faid Company. Article 5th.— The faid Nawaub having agreed to pay the aggregate Sum of 15,21,105 Star Pagodas, as mentioned in the 4th Article, determines that the Tri- butes or Pefhcufh, payable by the Poligars, as more particularly mentioned in the Schedule No. 1, hereunto annexed, (hall be collected by the faid Company, who agree to make the Collection thereof at their own Expence and Rifk, and that they will not encreale the Demand on the faid Poligars beyond the Sum mentioned in the faid Sche- dule, except in the Cafe hereinafter mentioned, nor charge to the faid Nawaub, either the V 1 H NABOB OF THE CAR N ATI C. 27 the Expence attending the Collection, or any Deficiencies that may aiifc thereon, No. 5. but will give Credit to the faid Nawaub Annually for the aforefaid Tributes or continued. Pellicufn, in Part Payment of the Sum of Nine Lacs of Star Pagodas above- mentioned, without any Deduction whatever ; although the Contracting Parties have, in the prefent Inftrument, agreed that the Sum of 2,64,704 Pagodas 20 F. 26 C. be deducted from the Sum of Nine Lacs of Pagodas, as the Amount of the Tributes or Peihcufh from the Poligars ; yet, mould it on future Enquiry appear that the faid Poligars ought, by virtue of any exifting and lawful Engage- ments, to pay a larger Sum, it mall be demanded of them, and any Addition that (hall thus be made to the Sums mentioned in the faid Schedule, fhall be deducted from the Sum of Nine Lacs, in like Mannerwith the Sum of 2,64,704. 20. 26 ; and a fimilar Deduction fhall in confequence be made in the Kiflbundy hereinafter men- tioned. It is however mutually agreed, that the Diminution of this aggregate Sum, which fhall take place on the full Liquidation of the Debts as ipecified in the 4th Article, fhall make no Change in this Article, which fhall, notwith- standing fuch Diminution, remain in full Force. Article 6th. — The faid Company, defirous of preferving the Rights of Sovereignty over the faid Poligars to the faid Nawaub, engage, to the utmoft of their Power, and confident with the Realization of the Tributes or Peihcufh from them, to enforce the Allegiance and Submiffion of the faid Poligars to the faid Nawaub in all cultomary Ceremonies, and in furnifhing the Poligar Peons according to eftablilhed Cuftom for the Collection of the Revenues, the Support of Govern- ment, and for the Protection of the Property of the Inhabitants of the faid Nawaub's Country, promifing that all Acts of Authority fhall be exercifed in, and all Accounts of Revenue (of which Accounts the faid Nawaub, if he lb wifhes, fhall be Annually furnifhed with Copies) fhall bear his the faid Nawaub's Name. For the better Execution of this and the 5 th Article, the faid Nawaub promifes to furnifh to the faid Company, that is to fay to their Reprefentatives the Prefident and Council of Fort St. George, the neceflary Orders, under his Sea! and Sig- nature, addreffed to each Poligar, and to the Purport hereof, without Delay. Article 7th. — After deducting from the above mentioned Sum of Nine Lacs of Star Pagodas, which forms a Part of the aggregate Sum of 15,21,105 Star Pagodas, mentioned in the 5th Article, the Amount of the Tributes or Pefhcufh from the Poligars, as fpecified in the Schedule No. 1, the faid Nawaub agrees to pay Annually the remaining Sum, being 6,35,295 : 15 : 54, together with the further Sum of 6,21,105 *" or tne Purpofe mentioned in the 4th Article, making the Sum of Star Pagodas 12,56,400 115: 54, — at the following Periods. On the 1 ft September - i,co,oco 1 ft October - ... _ 1,00,000 1 ft November - 1,00,000 j ft December - 1,00,000 1 ft January - x ,00,000 1 ft February - 1,00,000 ift March ----__ 1,50,000 1 ft April 1,50,000 1 ft May ----.. 2,00,000 iftjune ----.. 1,56,400:15:54 Star Pagodas ■• 12,56,400:15:54. And c g PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 5. And it is mutually agreed, that on the full Liquidation of the Debts before men- cmtmued. tioned, when the Payment of the Sum of Star Pagodas 6,21,105, ma ^ cea ^ e by virtue of the 4th Article, a Reduction in equal Proportion (hall take place in the above Inftalments. Article 8th. — The faid Nawaub engages to make good to the laid Company the Payments of the Sums, according to the Inftalments or Kiftbundy contained in the 7th Article; and if, contrary to his fincere Intentions and Exertions, any of the laid Sums fhall net be fully paid at the Expiration of Fifteen Days from the Time limited, in that Cafe the faid Nawaub agrees, that the faid Company fhall affume the Management of and make the Collection of the Revenues from the Diftrifts mentioned in the Schedule No. 2. hereunto annexed, according to the following Conditions ; and for this the prefent Engagement fhall be confidered iufficient Authority, the faid Company, through their Prefident and Council at Fort St. George, giving immediate and explicit Information, according to the Tenor thereof, to the faid Nawaub, who fhall, on the Arrival of the Company's Officers in the faid Diftrict, recall all his Officers, except one in each Diftrict; which Of- ficer fhall remain at the Sudder Cutcherry, and fhall be furniihed Annually, by the Officer of the faid Company, with Copies of the Sudder Cutcherry Accounts, of the Grofs Collections, and of the Net Receipts, under the Atteftation of the Officer of the faid Company, and of the Sudder Omlah of the Diftrict. Firft.— The faid Company fhall affume the Management of fuch Diftrict or Diftricts, the Revenue of which, after deducting the Charges of Collections, fhall equal the Amount of the Kift which fhall have fallen in Arrear. Second. — The faid Company agree, that a Deduction fhall take place proportionabiy from the Amount of each of the Ten Kids above mentioned, equal to the Amounc of the Net Revenue of the Diftricl: or Diftricts which fhall have Deen affumed as above, fuch Deduction commencing from the Day that the Affumption fhall take place. It is alfo mutually agreed, that an Account, called Balance Account, fhall be imme- diately opened for this and other Purpofes hereinafter mentioned, bearing an Inte- rest of 8 per Cent, per Annum, between the faid Nawaub and the faid Company; in which the faid Nawaub fhall be debited for the Balance accrued in his above ftipulated Payments, and alfo for the Amount deducted as above from the Ten Kilts, and fhall be credited for the Net Revenue collected from the laid Diftrict or Diftricts, the faid Company continuing to exercife Authority in, and to make the Collections from the fame, until, in confequence of the full Liquidation of the Debts and Diminution of the Annual Sum, to be for that Purpofe paid by the Nawaub to the faid Company, according to the 4th Article, the faid Balance Ac- count fhall be equal on the Debit and Credit Side, and nothingdhall remain due to the faid Company, then the laid Diftrict or Diftricts fhail revert to the Manage- ment of the faid Nawaub. Third. — Whenever the faid Diftrict or Diftricts thus affumed fhall be reftored, according to the above Condition, it is agreed, that in cafe of any of the Kifts for the Sum remaining (after the Deduction of the Sum of 6,21,105 Star Pagodas; that is to fay, for the Sum of 6,35,295: 15 : 54, be not paid Fifteen Days after the Expiration of the Tiiiu limited, the laid Company (hall poflefs equal Power to affume the Diftricts mentioned in the faid Schedule No. 2. as in the firft Inftance, and fhall accordingly affume fuch Diftrict or Diftricts, the Revenue of which, after deducting die Charges ot Collection, fhall equal the Amount of the Kift which w NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. a 9 which fhall have fallen in Arrear, from which they fhall realize the Balance that No c. fhall have arifen in the Payment of the Kids, and fhall give Credit to the faid Na- continued. waub for the Surplus and fiibfequent Net Revenues, in part Payment of the Sum of Star Pagodas 6,35,295 : 15 : 54. And in this Cafe the Management of the Diftrict or Diflxicts thus aflumed fhall for ever continue in the Poffeffion of the faid Company, any Thing contained in the 3d Article of the prefent Engagement to the contrary notwithstanding : And the faid Company agree to give the Na- waub Credit for the Revenue arifing therefrom. Fourth.— In order to prevent any Lofs arifing to either Party from this Mea- fure, it is mutually agreed, that the Dillrict or Diftricts which fhall thus be af- fumed by the faid Company, fhall be entire, as mentioned in the laid Schedule, and not Parts of Diftridrs. Fifth. — In confequence of this Meafure, whereby the Diftricts mentioned in the. Schedule No. 2, become refponfible for any Arrears that may accrue in the Pay- ment of the above ftipulated Kills, the faid Nawaub agrees that he will not grant Tunkaws or Affignments on any Account on the Revenues thereof; and if, con- trary to this Condition, any Tunkaws or Affignments fhould exiil, where the faid Diltricls or any of them {hall be affumed by the faid Company, fuch Tunkaws or Affignments fhall be declared by the laid Company and the faid Nawaub to be of no Value, nor fhall they remain in Effect. Sixth. — It is agreed between the Contracting Parties, that the above defcribed Balance Account fhall be Annually adjulted, and a Committee, confifcing of Four refpe&able and capable Perfons, of which Two fhall be nominated by the faid Qnmpany, and Two by the laid Nawaub, fhall affemb'eon the ift Day of Auguffc of every Year, commencing with 1793, for the Purpofe of adjufting and draw- ing out a fair and equitable Statement thereof. Article 9th. — In cafe the faid Nawaub fhall at any Time have Occafion 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 faid Com- pany agree to furnifh a fufficient Number of Troops for that Purpofe, on public Reprefentation being made by the faid Nawaub to the Prefident and Council of Fort St;. George, of the Neceffity of employing fuch Troops, and of the Objects to be obtained thereby. And the faid Nawaub agrees to defray the additional Ex- pence of fuch Troops, fo long as they may be employed at his Requeft. This additional Expence being the Sum over and above the Expence of fuch Troops while in Garrifon or at fixed Quarters; and it fhall be at the Option of the faid Na- waub to reirnburfe the faid furplus Expence, either on the Conclufion of the Ser- vice on which fuch 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 10th. — The faid Nawaub fh all receive regular Information of all Ne»o- ciations which fhall relate to declaring War or making Peace, wherein the faid Company may engage, and the Interefh of the Carnatic and its Dependencies may be concerned j and the faid Nawaub fhall be con fide red as an Ally of the faid Company in all Treaties which fhall in any Refpecl affect the Carnatic, and Coun- tries depending thereon, or belonging to either of the Contracting Parties contiguous thereto ; and the faid Nawaub agrees that he will not enter into any Negotiation or political Correfpondence with any European or Native Power, wi;hout the Confenc of the faid Company. H This 3° PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 5. This Treaty, confiding of Ten Articles, and having Two Schedules annexed continued, thereto, marked No. i and No. 2, fhall be in Force and have Effect from 1 2th Day of July 1792, (correfponding with the 22d Day of the Month Zekaida 1206 I lejeree); and the Contracting Parties having affixed their reflective Seals and Sig- natures to Two Counterparts on the Dates undermentioned j that is to fay, The Right Honourable Charies Earl Cornwallis, K. G. Governor General, &c. &c. &c. fhall affix his Seal and Signature to one Counterpart, on the Part of the Honour- able Englifh Eafl: India Company; and the Nawaub Walla Jah Behauder, Nawaub of the Carnatic, fhall affix his Seal and Signature to another Counterpart, fhall be exchanged. Signed and Sealed at Chepank ~\ Home, this 22d Day of ( Zekaida 1206, and 12th Day July 1792. i (A true Copy.) (Signed) G. F. Cherry, Perfian Translator to the Gov r General. SCHEDULE, No. 1. LIST of Polygars, with the Amount of their refpective Tributes or Pelhcufh, as mentioned and referred to in the 5th Article of the accompanying Treaty, in force from 12th Day July 1792, correfponding with 22d Day of Zekaida, 1206 Hegira. ,» — _ S.P. F. C. Camar Yackum Nair - - - 21,673 10 64 Vencataput Nair - - - - 10,775 Juppaty Rammanaud - - - Sydapoor - - M. P. 6,oco 6,600 32,586 9 — Princewafs Row - - - - Arnee - - - R. IC,OCO 2,857 5 " Butehey Naih - - - - - Marangapoory - - 12,093 12 — Lingarna Naike - - - - Nallum - - - - 8,598 12 — Zon"ama Naigh - - - - Comavandy - - - 10,483 12 — Saumy Naik - - - - - Ramgunny - - - i'>73i 4 — Petta Molingy - - 9>55 6 4 — Combia Naik - - - - - Venamatapotam - - 6,400 — — Bofamopa Naik - - - - Youmula - - - Rupees - - - 642 2 — Maduram Sing Pettaputty 60,505 14 — 16,154 26 20 62,857 5 II WarriarTarver, Mapilla in the Room of the Ranee and in- fant He irefs of - - - - 50,000 Pul; gars of the Diftrict - - 3-75 ! Varayoo Narama Vunnyan - - Shcvigeruy - - -' 11,176 Yefrapa \ v NABOB OF THE CAR NAT I C. SCHEDULE, No. r.— continued. Ycfrapa Naik - - - Madurapah Taven - - Cootala Taven - - - Indera Talwen - - - Saule Talevven - - - Tady Taleven - - - Nulla Cooty - - - Chaturoyen - - - - Choca Tulevan - - Cutaboon Naik - - Androoconda Vunnyan Numja Naik - - - Erapa Naik - - - Sevemaul Naik - - Pedenna Naik - - - Chinnum Naik' - - Avalapa Naik - - - Reddy Coody Vunnyan Geokillapa Naik - - Co!in»ada Gundon Chinnamunga Tavers - Comur Naik - - - Golapa Naik - - - Ena- Chinnama Naick - Totca pa Naick - - Annechy Naick - - Tomichy Naick - - TriiTennada Tawen Pauie Taleren - - - Vanda Tawcn - - - Chuckrums S.P. F. C. Ellaporam - - - 11,176 Wootamalcy - - 8,123 Nadoorvarcoocky - 1,574 8 — Talwencotta - - 609 6 — Soumden - - - 5 o8 Cadombar - - - 1,016 Lingumputty - - 3H Woorcad - - - 304 8 — Maucuhy - - - 1,016 Pandllem Country - 11,176 Ellyarumpuny - - 6,096 Malemondy - - - 1,016 Negataporam - - 6,604 Caudelloody - - 1,320 8 — Attingherry - - - 1,727 2 — Munnarcotta - - 2,540 Pawaly - - - - 1,168 4 — Aligoopoory - - 108 7 — Gettaputty - - - 1,168 5 — Callarputty - - - 6,604 — — Chocumputta - - 6,604 Saupetoor - - - 5>79 r 2 — Laudioor - - - 1,930 4 — Zelmurry - - - 1,016 Chinmilgoody - 1,696 5 — Colatoor - - - 1,016 Parvor - - - - 3.332 5 — Shacoor - - - 5,080 Ovideahporam - - Gollingundon - - Total Sta 365 8 - 1,03,409 5 — r Pagodas - - 57,450 2,64,704 20 26 — — — rr^ 3* No. £. continued. Signed and Sealed at Chepauk Houfe, this A true Copy. (Signed) Signed and Sealed at Fort William in Bengal, this C. F. Cherry, Perfian Trans' to Gov' General. S 2 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 5. (onlinusd. SCHEDULE, No. 2. LIST of the Diftri&s, with the Amount of the Net Revenues from each, at which 'they (hall be eftimated and afiumed, 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 - - - - _ 4,06,508 Madura ------__-_ 64,945 Trichinopoly including Warriore, Pollom, and Arrialore - - 2,51,139 Nellore ... 3,31,783 ° n g° lr " - 93.334 Pulnaud ---_-_-_.,_ 24,657 Northern Divifion of the Arcot Province - 1,69,404 Star Pagodas - - - 13,41,770 By the Firfl Condition of the 8th Article of the faid Treaty, it is agreed, that the faid Company (hall aflume the Management of fuch Diftrid or Districts, the Revenue of which, after deducting the Charges of Collection, (hall equal the Amount of the Kift which (hall have fallen in Arrear. The (aid Company there- fore, by virtue of this Condition, (hall aiiume a DiliricT: or Diftricts from among the above named, the Net Revenue of which (hall be as near as poilible equal to die Amount of the Kid which (hall have fallen in Arrear. Signed and Sealed at Checaiik Houfe, this Signed and Sealed at Fort William m Bengal, this (A true Copy.) (Signed) G. F. Cherry, Pers" Trans' to Governor Gen 1 . NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. No. 6. Copy of a TREATY between the Company and Azeem ul Dowlah; dated 31ft July i8ci. TREATY for fettling the Succeflion of the Soubahdarry of the Territories of Arcot, and for vefting the Adminiftration of the Civil and Military Govern- ment of the Carnatic Payen Ghaut in the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eaft Indies. WHEREAS the feveral Treaties, which have been concluded between the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eaft Indies, and their Highneffes, heretofore Nabobs of the Carnatic, have been intended to cement and identify the Interefts of the Contracting Parties: And whereas in conformity to the Spirit of this Alliance, the laid Company did, by the Treaty concluded on the 1 2th of July 1792, with the late Nabob Walajah, relinquifh extenfive pecuniary Advantages acquired by the previous Treaty of 1787, with the View and on the Condition of eftablifhing a more adequate Security for the Interefts of the Britifh Government in the Carnatic : And whereas fubfequent Experience has proved that the Intention of the Contracting Parties has not been fulfilled by the Provifions of any of the Treaties heretofore concluded between them : And whereas the Munfub 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 fucceed to the Rank, Property, and PoffefTions of his Anceftors, heretofore Nabobs of the Car- natic, has been acknowledged by the Englifh Eaft India Company : And whereas the faid Company, and his faid Highnefs the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder, have judged it expedient that a new Treaty fhall at this Time be executed, for the Purpofe of fupplying the Defects of all former Engagements, and of eftablifhing the Connection between the faid Contracting Parties on a permanent Bafis of Security in all Times to come: Wherefore the followingTreaty is now eftablifhed and concluded by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Clive, Governor in Council of Fore St. George, by and with the Sanction and Authority of his Excellency the Mod Noble the Marquis Wellefley, K. P. Governor General in Council of all the Britifh Pof- fefTions in the Eaft Indies, on Behalf of the faid United Company, on the one Part; and by his Highnefs 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 fettling the Succeflion to the Soubahdarry of the Territories of Arcot, and for vefting the Adminiftration of the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic in the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eaft Indies. Article ift. — The Right of the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder to fucceed to the State and Rank, and the Dignities dependent thereon, of his Anceftors, here- tofore Nabobs of the Carnatic, is hereby formally acknowledged and guaranteed by the Honourable Eaft India Company to his laid Highnefs Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder, who has accordingly fucceeded to the Soubahdarry of the Territoiies of Arcot. I Article 33 34 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 6. Article 2d. — 'Such Parts of the Treaties heretofore concluded between the faid continued. Eaft India Company and their Highneffes, heretofore Nabobs of the Carnadc, as are calculated to ftrengthen the Alliance, to cement the Friendfhip, and to identify the Interests of the Contracting Parties, are hereby renewed and confirmed; and ac- cordingly the Friends or Enemies of the one Party ihall be considered to be the Friends or Enemies of both Parties. Article 3d. — The Honourable Company hereby charges itfelfwith the Main- tenance and Support of the Military Force necefTary for the Defence of the Carna- tic, and for the Protection of the Rights, Perfon, and Property of the faid Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder ; and with the View of reviving the fundamental Principles of the Alliance between his Ancestors and the Englifh Nation, the faid Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder stipulates and agrees, that he will not enter upon any Negociation or Correfpondence with any European or Native Power, vwthout the Knowledge and Confent of the faid Englifh Company. Article 4th. — It is hereby stipulated and agreed, that thefole 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 exclufive Right to the Revenues thereof (with the Exception of fuch Portion of the faid Revenues as fhall be appropriated for the Maintenance of the faid Nabob, and for the Support of his Dignity) fhall be for ever veiled in the laid Englifh Company; and the faid Company fhall accordingly poflefs the fole Power and Authority of conflicting and appointing (without any Interference on the Part of the faid Nabob) all Officers for the Collection of the Revenues, and of eftablifhing Courts for the Adminiftration of Civil and Criminal Judicature. Article 5th. — It is hereby ftipulated and agreed, that One-fifth Part of the Net Revenues of the Carnatic fhall be Annually allotted for the Maintenance and Sup- port ofrhe faid Nabob and of his own immediate Family, including the Mahel of his late Highnefs the Ameer ul Omrah, the faid Fifth Part fhall be paid by the Company in Monthly Instalments of Twelve Thoufand Star Pagodas ; and, what- ever Circumstance mav occur affecting the Net Revenues of the Carnatic, the faid Instalments fhall not be lefs than Twelve Thoufand Star Pagodas. Whatever Balance of the faid Fifth Part may remain due at the Expiracion of each Year, fhall be liquidated upon a Settlement of the Accounts ; and the faid Fifth Part fhall be at the free Difpofal of the faid Nabob, confidently with the Principles of the faid Alliance. Article 6th. — The Fifth Part of the Revenues, as stated in the preceding Article, fhall be calculated and determined in the following Manner; viz. all Charges, of every Defcription, incurred in the Collection of the Revenue, the Amount of the Jaghire Lands, ftated 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, fhall, in the firft Pittance, be deducted from the Revenues of the Carnatic, and after the Deduction of thofe Three Items fhall have been made, One-fifth Part of the remaining Net Revenue (including the Polio-ar Pefhcufh, which fhall always be calculated at the Sum of Star Pagodas 2,64,704:10: 26, according to the Treaty of 1792) fhall be allotted for the Main- tenance of the faid Nabob, and for the Support of his Ilighnefs's Dignity. Article \ ■ NABOB OF THE CAR N ATI C. 35 Article 7th— Whereas it was ftipulated by the 4th Article of the Treaty of No. 6. 1792, that the Sum of Six Lacks, Twenty-one Thoufand One Hundred and Five continued. Star Pagodas, fhould Annually be applied to the Difcharge of certain regiftercd Debts due by the late Nabob Mohammed Ally to his private Creditors, under Agreements concluded between his Highnefs and the Honourable Company, and guaranteed by the Parliament of Great Britain, until the faid regiftered Debt Should be liquidated; the Honourable Fnglifh Company accordingly hereby charges itfelf with the Annual Payment of 6,21,105 Pagodas from the Revenues of the Carnatic, until the Remainder of the laid ngiftered Debt fnall be liqui- dated. Article 8th. — Whereas certain Debts are due to the faid Company by the Anceftors of the faid Nabob : And whereas it is expedient, in order that the prefent Treaty may include a complete Arrangement of all Affairs de- pending between the faid Company and the laid Nabob, that an Acquitment Ihould be made of the abovementioned Debts ; wherefore the faid Nabob for- mally and explicitly acknowledges the Debt, commonly called the Cavalry Loan, amounting with its Intereft to Star Pagodas 13,24,342:6:47, and aifo the Portion of the regiftered Debt, heretofore paid by the faid Company to the Creditors of the late Nabob Walajah (according to the annexed Schedule) to be juft Debts : And whereas, exclufively of the abovementioned Debts, other unadjufted Debts aifo remain, which were referred to the Adjuftment and Decifion of the Governor General in Council of Bengal : And whereas the faid unadjufted Debts have not been determined according to that Intention, the faid Nabob hereby engages, that whenever the faid Determination fhall be made, his Highnefs will acknowledge to be a juft Debt the Amount of the Balance which fhall be fo declared to be due to the faid Company. It is not, however, the Intention of this Article, to caufe any Diminution from the Fifth Part payable to the faid Nabob, but, on the contrary, it is fpecified that no Deduction fhall be made from the Revenue on any Account whatever, excepting the Three Items ftated in the 6th Article, previouffy to the Determination of his Highnefs's Proportion. Article 9th. — The Englifh Company engages to take into Confideraticn the actual Situation of the Families of their Highneffes the late Nabobs Walajah and Omdut ulOmrah Behauder, as well as the Situation of the principal Officers of his Highnefs's Government; and the Britifh Government fhall charge itfelf with the Ex- pence chargeable on the Revenues of the Carnatic, of a fui table Provifion for their refpective Maintenance. The Amount of the above mentioned Expences, to be defrayed by the Company, fhall be diftributed with the Knowledge of the faid Nabob, in fuch Manner as fhall be judged proper. Article icth. — The faid Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder (hall, in all Places, on all Occafions, and at all Times, be treated with the Refpect and Attention due to his Highnefs's Rank and Situation as an Ally of the Britifh Government, and a fuitable Guard fhall be appointed from the Company's Troops for the Protection of his faid Highnefs's Perlbn and Palace. Article 11th. — The entire Defence of the Carnatic againft Foreign Enemies, and the Maintenance of the internal Tranquillity and Police of the Country, having been hereby transferred to the Britifh Government, his faid Highnefs engages not to 36 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE . T f to entertain or employ in his Service any armed Men without the Confent of the ■ ' ', BritiffiGovernment; who will fix, in concert with his Highnefs, the Number of armed Men necefiary to be retained for the Purpofes of State. Such armed Men as his Highnefs may, in confequence of this Article, engage in his Service,fhall be paid at the exclufive Coft and Charge ofthefaid Nabob. o Article 12th. — The Hon. Eaft India Company mail, in conformity to the Sti- pulations of this Treaty, enter upon the exclufive Adminiftration of the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic, on the Day of and his faid Highnefs the Nabob fhall ifiue Orders to all his Civil and Military Officers, to transfer the Diftrict or Districts under their refpecliive Charge to fuch Perfons as (hall be appointed by the faid Company to manage the laid Diftricls ; and alfo to deliver to the Perfons appointed all Records, Accounts, and official Papers, be- longing to their refpeftive Cutcherries or Officers. This Treaty, confiding of Twelve Articles, having been executed by Edward Lord Clive, Governor in Council aforefaid, on the one Part, and his Highnefs Azeem ul Dowlah on the other Part, is hereby mutually interchanged; the faid Ed- ward Lord Clive engaging that a Copy of the faid Treaty fhall be tranfmitted to Fort William, for the Purpofe of being ratified by his Excellency the Mod Noble the Marquis Wellefley, Governor General in Council ; and that as foon as the rati- fied Treaty fhall be received from Bengal, it fhall be delivered to his faid Highnefs, who will then return to his Lordfhip the Copy which he now receives. In the Hand-Writing of Azeem ul Dowlah. (God is Gracious.) I Azeem ul Dowlah having perufed and fully comprehended the feve- ral Articles of the above Treaty, have approved and confented to the Whole of the faid Articles. In witnefs whereof I affix my proper Signature ; the Beiz of Azeem id Dowlah (A true Copy.) (Signed) J. Webbe, Chief See'' to Gov'. Separate and Secret Article. Whereas his Highnefs 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 Highnefs's Family to the faid Company, amounting to Pagodas And whereas no Account has been yet taken of the Public Trealure of the late Go- vernment ; It is fiipulated and agreed, that his Highnefs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah fhall immediately enter upon an Inveftigation of the State of the Public Accounts and Treafure, and that if, in Communication with the Britifh Govern- ment, the faid Treafure fhall be found adequate to the Purpofe, a Portion of it fhall be NABOB OF THE CARN ATI C. 37 be immediately applied to the entire Liquidation of the faid 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 confent to this feparate and fecret Article. In witnefs whereof I affix my proper Signature ; the Beiz of Azeem ul Dowlab. (A true Copy.) (Signed) J. Webbe, Chief Sec 1 ' to Gov 1 . No. 7. Copy of a DECLARATION of the Governor of Fort St. George; dated 31ft July 1801. DECLARATION of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, by and with the Authority of his Excellency the Mod Noble the Governor General in Council of all the Britifh Poffeffions in the Eaft Indies. AN Alliance of the moft intimate .Union and Friendmip has long fubfifted between the Honourable the Englifh Eaft India Company, and the Family of their Highnefies Mahommed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, late Nabob of the Cirnatic Payen Ghaut : By the Aid of that Alliance his late Highnefs Mahommed Ally was enabled, under Providence, to fupport his Pretenfions to the Poffeffion of the Carnatic at the Death of his illuftrious Father, to defeat the Power of his Enemies in Arms, and finally to eftabliih his Authority in the Government of Arcot and its Dependencies, on the Foundations of the Britifh. Power. For the Defence and Protection of the valuable PofTefTions thus acquired by the united Arms of the Englifh Company and of the Nabob of Arcot, various Treaties and Obligations have been eftablimed, by which it was intended that the Interefts, Security, and Power of both Parties in the Carnatic Payen Ghaut fhould be cemented and identified. In conformity to the Faith and Spirit of thtfe Engagements, the Honourable Company has invariably applied, not oniy the Refources derived from that Alliance, but the whole Power of the Britifh Empire in India, to maintain the Government of the late Nabobs of the Carnatic againft all their Enemies, and has caufed them to be acknowledged by Foreign States as the Allies of the Britifii Nation. By thefe Means, and by the unabated Exertion of its whole Power, the Englifh Nation was enabled, during the War which continued from the Year 1780 to the Year 1783, to fupport the Pretenfions of the Nabob Mahomed Ally, and to refcue his Dominions from the Violence of Hyder Ally Khan, and of his Succefibr Tippoo Sultaun, who, by the Afliftancc of the French K Nation, 38 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 7. Nation, had been enabled to conquer a confiderable Part of the Carnatic, and to (ontittued. eftablith their Authority over the greatclt Portion of the territorial PofTtflions of" the faid Nabob. To fupport the Authority of the Nabob Mahommed Ally, and to fecure the Britifh Interefts in the Carnatic, it became expedient for the Contra6tin<> Parties to enter into fpecific Engagements for the Maintenance of an adequate Military Eitablifhment. The Englifh Company accordingly bound itfelf by a Treaty, bearing Date in the Month of February 1787,10 maintain the whole Military Force required for the Protection of the Territories of the Allies ; in confideration of which Engagement the Nabob Mahomed Ally agreed, among other Conditions, and under certain Penalties therein fpecified, to pay an Annual Subfidy, amount- ing to Fifteen Lacs of Star Pagodas. According to the farther Stipulations of that Engagement, rendered neceffary by Experience for the mutual Safety of the Contracting Parties, the Enafifh Company, in the Year 1790, charged itfelf with the Adminiftration of the Civil Government, in addition to the Military Defence of the Carnatic, in a critical Juncture of Affairs, when the Ambition and implacable Enmity of the late Tippoo Sultaun compelled the Britifh Government in India to refort to Arms for the Support of its Rights, and for the Protection of its Allies. At the Conclufion of the War in the Year 1792 (the fuccefsful and glorious Termination of which tended in the moft direct Manner to fecure the Safety and Profperity of the Poffeffions of his Highnefs the Nabob of the Carnatic) the Britifh Government reftored the Civil Government of the Carnatic to his High- nefs, thereby manifesting the firicteft Adherence to the Stipulations of the exifting Engagements of 1787 ; but the Britifh Government did not confine itfelf to the mere Difcharge of the Stipulations of its exifting Engagements ; its Views were extended to an enlarged and liberal Confideration of the Principles of the Alliance fubfifting between the Company and the Nabobs of the Carnatic. At that Period of Time, the Nabob Mahommed Ally, relying on the friendly Difpofition of the Britifh Government, reprefented, in the moft urgent Manner to the Marqiis Cornwallis, the Inadequacy of his Highnefs's Refources to difcharge the pecuniary Engagements of the Treaty of 1787 ; and the Governor General, acting in conformity to the Spirit of the Alliance and Friendfhip fo long fubfifting between the Nabobs of the Carnatic and the Englifh Company, relieved his Highnefs from the burthenfome Terms of that Engagement, thereby furrendering the pecuniary Rights acquired by the Company under the Treaty of 1787, for the '-'urpofe of promoting the Tranquillity, Comfort, and Interefts of the Nabob Mahommed Ally. With this liberal View of the Principles of the Connexion eftablifhed between the Britifh Government and the Nabob of Arcot, an indulgent Modification of the Treaty of 187 was framed; and by a fubfequent Treaty, bearing Date in the Month of July '792, the pecuniary Contribution of his Highnefs the Nabob o! the Carnatic, towards the gaieral Defence and Protection of the Rights and P. fleffions of the Allies, was diminifhed from Fifteen to Nine Lacs of Star Pagodas. The Spirit of Moderation by which the Britifh Councils were guided fpect to this Alliance, was unequivocally manifested by a farther Stipulation for NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 39 for the Purpofe of fecuring to the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, the Son and Pre- No- 7. fumptive Heir of the Nabob Mahommed Ally, the SuccefTion to the Territories continued. 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 Reiburces, the Englifh 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 HighneiVs previous Obligation not to contract Alliances, nor to enter into Correfpondence with any European or Native Power, without the Knowledge and Concurrence of the Britifh Government ; conformably there- fore to this indulgent Modification of the Treaty of 1787, the Government of the Carnatic was reftored to the Nabob Mahommed Ally : On the Death of his Highnefs the Nabob Mahommed Ally, in the Year 1795, the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah fucceeded to the Poffeflion of his Father's Territories, according to the Provifions of the Treaty of 1792. The Nabob Mahommed Ally, as well as his Son and SuccefTor, had repeatedly granted Tuncaws or Alignments of Revenue on the Diftrlcts pledged to the Company, in direct Violation of the Treaty of 1792, and to the manifeft Injury of the territorial Security provided by the Company for its Intereflr in the Carnatic. The Britifh Government however continued to extend to their Highneffes the in- dulgent Operation of the beneficial Conditions of the Treaty of 1792, by abitain- ing from the Exercife of the juft Rights acquired againft their Highneffes under the cxprefs Stipulations of that Engagement, and under the acknowledged Inter- pretation of the Law of Nations. Under thefe Circumftances the Britifh Government might juftly have required from the Houfe of Mahommed Ally, not merely the exact and rigid Obfervation of the Treaty of 1792, but a zealous and cordial Attachment to the Spirit cf an Engagement, under which the Nabobs of the Carnatic had found the molt ample Protection, accompanied by the moft indulgent and liberal Conftruction of every Stipulation favourable to their feparate Interefts, and by the moft lenient Relaxation of thofe penal Articles, the Obligation of which their Plighneffes had reflectively incurred by violating the Article of the Treaty of 1792, relative to the Grants of Tuncaws or Affignments of Revenue on the Diftricts pledged to the Company. It is with the deepeft Concern that the Governor in Council is compelled to declare, that thofe ancient Allies of the Company, the Nabobs Mahommed Ally and Omdut ul 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. In the full Enjoyment of the moft abundant Proofs of the Moderation, Indul- gence, and good Faith of the Honourable Company, the Nabob Mahommed Ally and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, actually commenced and maintained a fecret Intercourfe with Tippoo Sultaun, the determined Enemy of the Britifh Name, founded on Principles and directed to Objects utterly fubverfive of the Alliance between the Nabob of the Carnatic and the Company, and equally incompatible with the Security of the Britifh Power in the Peninfula of India. After 43 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 7. After the Fall of Seringapatam, the Britifli Government obtained Pofieflion of the continued, original Records of Tippoo Sultaun ; the Correfpondence of that Prince's Am- baffadors, during their Residence at Fort St. George in Attendance on his Sons the hoftage Princes, in the Years 1792 and 1793, eftabliflied fufEcient Ground of Ap- prehenficn, that their Highnelfes the late Nabob Mahommed Ally and the late Na- bob Omdut u! Omrah, had entered into a fecret Intercourfe with the late Tippoo Su'.taun of a Nature hoftile to the Britifli Interefls in India. The Enquiries of the Britilh Government have been fince directed to afcertain a Fact fo intimately con- nected with the Security of its Rights in the Carnatic. The Refult has eftabliflied the following Propofitions by a Series of connected written and oral Teftimony. Firft. — At the very Period of Time when the Nabob Mahommed Ally ap- pealed to the Generofity of the Britifli Government for an indulgent Modification of the Treaty of 1787, his Highnefs had already commenced a fecret Negocia- tion for the Eftablifhment of an intimate Intercourfe with the Nabob Tippoo Sul- taun, without the Knowledge of the Britifli Government, and for Purpofes 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 Britifli Government, and who actually negociated that Treaty for himfelf and for his Father) was actually employed at the fame Period of Time, under his Father's Authority, in negocia- ting for himfelf and for his Father the Terms of the faid feparate and fecret Inter- courfe with Tippoo Sultaun. Third. — The Tendency of the faid Intercourfe was directed to the Support of Tippoo Sultaun in Victory and Triumph over all his Enemies. Fourth. — In the Month of December 1792, the Nabob Mahommed Ally im- parted fecret Information to Tippoo Sultaun, regarding the Sentiments and Inten- tions of the Britifli Government in India, with relation to the hoftile Views and Ne- oociation of Tippoo Sultaun at the Courts of Poonah and Flyderabad ; and on the firft Intelligence of the War between Great Britain and France in the Year 1793, the Nabob Mahommed Ally imparted fecret Information to Tippoo Sultaun, re- fpecting the Views and Power of France in India and in Europe, and reflecting the intended Operations of the Britifli Forces againft the French Pofleflions in the Car- natic. And the Nabob Mahommed Ally conveyed to Tippoo Sultaun fecret Admonitions and friendly Advice respecting the moil favourable Seafon, and the moft propitious State of Circumftances, 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 ofthe^ Agents to convey fecret Intelligence, friendly Admonition, and feafonable Advice to Tippoo Sultaun, through the confidential Agents of Tippoo Sultaun, who were furniflied with Inftructions from the faid Sultaun of Myfore, to receive iuch Com- munications from the faid Nabob of the Carnatic, and from the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah. Sixth.— A Cypher was compofed and actually introduced into the feparate and fecret Correfpondence between the Nabobs Mohammed Ally and Tippoo Sultaun ; the original Key of the faid Cypher, difcovered among the Records of Seringapa- tam, is in the Hand-writing of the confidential Moonlhee (or Secretary) of the Nabob Mohammed Ally and of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah; and the faid Cy- pher was delivered by a confidential Agent of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah to the Ambaflador of Tippoo Sultaun, for the exprefs Purpofe of being tranfmitted to Tippoo Sultaun. Seventh.— The Terms employed in the faid Cypher, particularly thofe intended to defignate the Britifli Government and its Allies, the Nizam and the Maharatta State, 1 I NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 41 State, united in a defenfive League againft Tippoo Sultaun, contain the mod No 7. powerful internal Evidence that the Communications propofed to be difguifed by continued. the faid Cypher, were of the molt hoftile Tendency to the Intereft and Objects of the faid Alliance, and calculated to promote the Caufe of Tippoo Sultaun in oppofition to that of the faid Allies. Eighth. — The Nabob Omdut ul Omrah under his own Hand-writing, in the Month of Auguft 1794, corroborated the Evidence ef his Intention to complete the Purpofes herein defcribed,of the fecret Intercourfe which he had negociated with Tippoo Sultaun j and the Continuance of the fame Intention is manifefted by Letter from the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and from his confidential Agent, aJ- d re fled to the fuppofed Agent of Tippoo Sultaun in the Year 1796, fubfequently to the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's Acceflion to the Government of the Carnatic under the Treaty of 1792. Ninth. — At the Commencement and during the Progrefs of the late juft, necef- fary, and glorious War with the late Tippoo Sultaun, the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, to the titmoft Extent of his Means and Power, purfued the Objects of his fecret Intercourfe with Tippoo Sultaun, by a fyftematic Courfe of Deception, with refpe6t to the Provifion of the Funds neceflary to enable the Britifh Troops to march into My fore, as well as by a fyftematic and active Oppofition to the Supply and Movement of the allied Army through different Parts of the faid Nabob's Do- minions. Tenth. — The Stipulations contained in the 15th Article of the Treaty of 1787, and the 10th Article of the Treaty of 1792, by which the Nabobs of the Carnatic were bound not to enter into any political Negociations or Correfpondence with any European'or Native Power or State, without the Confcntof the Government of Fort St. George, or of the Company, formed a fundamental Condition of the Alliance between the faid Nabob and the Company ; and the Violation of the faid Stipulations neceflarily involved the entire Forfeiture, on the Part of the Nabob, of all the Benefits of the faid Alliance. Eleventh. — The Nabob Mohammed Ally and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah have violated the faid Stipulations, and have thereby forfeited all the Benefits of the faid Alliance; and the Nabob Mohammed Ally and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, having violated the faid Stipulations for the exprefs Purpofe of eftabliibino- an Union of Interefts with Tippoo Sultaun, thereby placed themfelves in the Condition of public Enemies to the Britifh Government in India. It is manifeft, therefore, that the Intentions of the Nabobs Mohammed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, have been uniformly and without Interruption hoftile to the Britifh Power in India, and that thofe Intentions have been carried into Effect to the full Extent of the actual Power poflefled by their Highnefles refpeftively, at the feveral Periods of Time in which they have acled in purfuance of their Syftem of Co-operation with the Enemy. By afting on thefe Principles of Conduct, the Nabobs Mohammed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah not only violated the Rights of the Companv, but by uniting their Interefts with thofe of the moft implacable Enemy of the Britifh Empire, the Nabobs Mohammed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah actually placed themfelves in the Relation of public Enemies to the Britifh Government, dangerous to the Extent of their refpective Power, and active according to the Means and Opportunities L afforded 42 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 7. afforded to them by the Circumftances of the Moment, and efpecially by the moft continued, fevere Exigency and Preffure of Warj every Principle therefore of public Lav/ r :afe the Britifh Government from the intended Obligations cf the Treaty of 1792; and every Confideration of Self-defence and Security authorized the Com- ply to exercife its Power in the Manner mot expedient for the Purpofe of frus- trating thehoftile Councils of the late Nabob of die Carnatic, modelled upon the nple actuated by the faithlefs Spirit, and fanctioned by the teftamentary ce of his Father. In proceeding to exerci ^ig nt > lt was painful to the Britifh Government to be compelled to expofe to the World all thefe humiliating Proofs of the Ingra- titude and Treachery of the Nabobs Mol :dAllyai lut ul Omrah, to- wards th 1 uniformly proved their Guardian and Protector; and in acting from the I Sentiment, the Britifh Government was more defirous of confulting its own Dignity, than oi admitting any Claims on the Part of thofe infatuated Princes to its Gencrofuy and Forbearance. In conformi ; s Spirit of Temperance and Moderation, it was the Intention of the Britifh Government to have made a formal Communication to the N Omdut ul Omrah, of the Proofs which had been obtained of his Highnefs's Breach of the Alliance, with the View of obtaining, by the mot leniei ins, Satis- tion for the I. led by the Britifh Government, and Security ag. the future Operation of the ho'tile Councils of the Nabob Omdut ul Ornfah. Circumftances of Expediency, connected with the general Interefts and Policy of the Britifh Government, inter; upted the Communication of this Document to the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ; the intermediate Ilinefs of his Highnefs pn tracted the Execution of that intention, and his fuhfequent Death fruftrated the With of the Britifh Governme; t to obtain from that Prince fatisfadtory Security for the Rights pledged to the Com.pany in the Carnatic. The Death of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah has not affected the Rights acquired by the Britifh Government under the 1 ifcovery of his Breach of the Alliance. .r Claim the reputed Son of the Omdut ul Omrah may be fup- pofed to poftlfs to the Company's Support of his Pretentions to the Government of Carnatic, is founded on the Grounds of the Right of Omdut ul Omrah to the ftance of the Company in ft curing his Succeifion to die Nabob Mohammed in the Government of the Carnatic, was founded on the exprefs Stipulations of the Treaty of 1792. The Refill: of che Propofitions ftated in this Declaration has eftabiifhed abundant Proof, that the fundamental Principles cf the Alliance be- tween the Company and the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, as well as the exprefs Let- ter of the Treaty of 1792, had been abfolut ly violated and n ' of no Effect by the Nabobs Mohammed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, previously to the ofter.fible Conclufion of that I nil rumen:. It is manifeft, therefore, that the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah coi e no Rights from the formal Ratification of that Treaty, the vital ich had already been a 1 by the hoflile and faithlefs Con- duct of his High hat thi bs Mohammed Ally and Omdut ill Omrah, by forming an intii efts with Tippoo Sultaun, ha 1 actually p!. cherrifelves in th< . ■ 1 public . icmies to the Britifh Empire in Indi . Whatever NABOB OF THE CAR N ATI C. 43 hatever Claim to the Company's Protection and Support the reputed Son of No. 7. sOmdut ul Qmrah may derive her, had been utterly d 1 continued, by the hoftile Conduct of Omdut ul Omrah j it follows, therefore, that the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah has fucceeded to the Condition of his Father, which Con- dition v. as that (,-f a public Enemy; and, confequei Omdut ul Omrah, the Britifli Government remained at Liberty to exercife its Rights, founded on the faithlefs Policy of its Ally, in whatever Mam: ■ migl med moil conducive to the imi 1 ty and to the general Interefts of the Company in the Carnatic. Eefore the Britifli Government proceed to exercife this Right, founded on the Violation of the Alliance, and on the Neceflity of Self-defence, it was defirous of manifeftino 1 its Attention to the long eftabiiflied Connexion between the Company and the Houfe of Omdut ul Omrah, by facrificing to the Sentiments of national nanimity and Generofity the Rcfentment created by ghnefs's flagrant Breach of the Alliance. In the Spirit of thofe Councils therefore, with which it had been the Intention of the Britifli Government to demand and Se- curity from the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and to avoid the Publication of Fads fo humiliating to the Family of that Prince, the Britifli Government communicated to the reputed Sen of Omdut ul Omrah, Knowledge of the Proofs now exifting in the Pofiefiion of the Government at Fort St. George of t! : Violati Al- liance, at the fame Time the Britifli Government : . onfiftent 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 Adjuftment, that Satisfaction and Security which the hoftile and faithlefs Conduct of his fup- pofed Father had entitled the Britifli 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 Perfons appointed by his Father's Will to affift his Councils, has perfifted in oppofincr a determined Refinance to this Demand, thereby 1 king an unequivocal Proof that the Spirit which actuated the hoftile Councils of the Nabobs Mahommed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, has been tranfmitted with unabated Vigour to the fuppofed Son of Omdut ul Omrah, fecured in its Operation under the fanctimonious Forms of their tcftamentary Injunctions, and preferved with religious Attachment by the oftcnfible Defcendant of that Prince. Fruftrated 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 Britifh Government is now reluctantly compelled to publifli to the World the Proofs of this flagrant Violation ot the mod iacrcd Ties of Amity and Alliance, by the Nabobs Mahommed Ally and Orridut ul Omrah, and the hereditary Spirit of Enmity manifested by the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah to the Interefts of the Britifli Government. The Duty and Neceflity of ! ' nee require the Britifli Government, under the Circumftances of this Cafe, to exercife it -in the Attainment of an adequate Security for its Rights; Juflice and warrant, that the Family of Omdut ul Omrah fhall be deprived of the Means of completing its fyftematic Courie of Hoftility; Wildom and Prudence dem that the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah fhall no: be permitted to ret ion of Refources dangerous to the Tranquillity of the Britifh Government in Peninfuia of India. ' ereforc 44 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 7. Wherefore the Britifh Government, (till adhering to the Principles of Mode- continued. ration, and actuated by its uniform Defire of obtaining Security for its Rights and Intereits in theCarnatic, by an Arrangement founded on the Principles of the loro- fubfifting Alliance between the Company and the Family of the Nab.b Mahommed Ally, judged it expedient to enter into a Negotiation for that Purpofe 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 Grandfon by both his Parents of the Nabob Anwer ud Deen Khan of blefted Memory. And his Highnefs the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah Behaudr r having entered into Engagements for the exprefs Purpofe of reviving the Alliance between the Company and his illuftrious Anceftors, and of eftablifhing an adequate Security for the Britifh Intereits in the Carnatic, the Britifh Government has now re- folved to exercife its Rights and its Power, under Providence, in fupporting and eftablifhing the hereditary Pretenfions 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 Moft Noble the Governor General in Council, has caufed attefted Copies and Extracts of feveral Documents difcovered at Seringapatam to be annexed hereunto, together with an Extract from the Treaties of 1787 and 1792. By Order of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, (Signed) J. Webbe, -. „ „ , Chief Sec' 7 to Gov'. Fort St. George, 7 3 ill July 1801. \ (A true Copy) (Signed) N. B. Edmonftone, Sec' r . APPENDIX to the Declaration of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council of tort St. George, bearing Date the 31ft July 1801. No. I. Extracts from a Letter from Gholaum Alii Khaun and Alii Rezza Khaun, to Tippoo Sultaun ; dated the26thTuck.ee 1220, (anfwering to about the 15th June 1792.) THE following Converfation took place at a Vifn made by the Princes to the Nabob Wallajah on the 21ft Tuckee 1220, (anfwering to about the icth of June 1792.) We presented Nuzzurs of Eleven Gold Mohurs to the Nabob Wallajah, of which his Highnefs took one, and rifing embraced us and faid, " May God long prefcrvc Tippoo Sultaun, who is the Pillar of the Religion of Mahomed. Night and Day I ufed to be abfolved in this Contemplation, and to pray for his High- nefs's Profperity ; I call God to witnefs this Fact, becaufe the Confederacy of Three Allies was for the Subverfton of the Mahomedan Religion. It is folely to / NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 45 to be attributed to the Divine Goodnefs, that the Prayers of us Sinners have been Appendix to accepted. Believe it true, thai 1 from my Heart defire the Welfare of iN °- 7- Sultaun." continued. When the Princes and we took leave of the Nabob Waltajah, and were going away, he came up to us, and with a great deal of Warmth defired us to flay, as he had ibmething to fay to us. We replied we were ready. He then told us, that his Life was now drawing to a Clofe; that for what had hitherto taken place between his Highnefs and yovir Majefty there was no Remedy j but now, merely out of a Regard to the Faith (of which your Majefly was a Pillar) he was defirous of eftablifhing a cordial Harmony with your Majefty ; and if we, having in view the Claims of both Parties (upon our Endeavours) would in the Prefence of God exert ourfelves for this Pur pole, the Almighty would reward us, and both Parties would reap the Benefits of this Event, which were great and numberlefs; that although his Highnefs wanted to prevent the War between your Majefty and the Three Allied States, yet that Nizam Alii Khaun, at the latter Period of his Life, was thus preparing for Futurity, by exerting himfelf for the Deftrudtion of Reli- gion. It was folely from a Regard to the Faith, that his Highnefs did not encourage the Meafure, and that he now declared that, in a thoufand Points of View, it was advifeable that perfect Harmony fhould reign between your Majefty and his Highnefs. We replied, that we would undoubtedly report all this to your Majefty. Farther Extract. 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 vifit the Princes. They fat Two Hours (about Three Quarters of an Hour Englifh) and talked a great deal with them. His Highnefs took Occafion to obferve, that we confidered him to have been an Enemy, whereas he declared in the Prefence of God, that he was not, and is not; that, on the contrary, he was a Friend and Well-wifher ; and that he had oppoled the Breach between your Majefty and the Three Allied States to fuch a Degree, that every one decided in his own Mind, that inwardly your Majefty and his Highnefs were one; and he defired us to afk Lord Cornwallis and General Meadows, who were prefent, whether he laid true or not. (A true Tranflation.) (Signed) N. B. Edmonftcne, Perlian Tran r to the S. G. No. II. Extract of a Letter from Gholaum Alii Khan and Alii Rezza, to Tippoo Sultaun; dated 3d of Sumree of the Year Schir 1220, A.N. Mahomed (anfweringto about the 21ft June 1792.) WE had the Honour to receive your Majefty's moft 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 from the firft underftood the Writing, your Majefty knows of, as your Majefty has explained ir, M 2fK j 46 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE continued. Append'x to and when Occafion requires, will ad in conformity to your Majefty's Commands. No. 7- Your Majefty hasdefired that we will not difclofe this Subject to any Perfon. God is our Witnefs that we have, from the Commencement of our Service to the prefent Time, inviolably kept your Majefty's Commands, which we confider as a religious Obligation ; and we declare to your Majefty that we have not divulged, neither will we divulge them to any one: We are the Servants of God, the Difciples of Ma- homed, and the Dependents of your Majefty, during our Lives, and never will. An Obfervance of the Secrets of our Mailers is enjoined by the Khoran. By the Grace of God, and through rhe Bieffing of the Salt of your Majefty, the King of Kings, we have never infringed and never will infringe this Injunction in the flighted Degree upon any Occafion. (A true Translation.) (Signed) JV. B. Edmonjlone, &c. &c. No. III. Translation of an Arzee from Alii Rezza Khan and Gholaum Alii Khan, to Tippoo Sulraun j dated the 4th of Sumree of the Year Schir 1220 A. N. Mahomed (anfvvering to about the 2id June 1792.) •There is evi- ON the 14th JafFree* (about 23d July 1792) we had the Honour to re- winthefc 1 " cerve by Two MeSTengers your Majefty's Letter, dated 8th Sumree * (about the Dates. 26th June 1792) enclofing a Slip of Paper containing a Couplet. We were before acquainted with the Meaning of the Coupler, as explained by your Majefty, and accordingly have before this written to your Majefty in conformity thereto, and and will ftill continue, as Occafion may require, to write to your Majefty. Your Majefty defires that we will not divulge the Circumftance to any one. Refuge of the World! we confider 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 impofed upon all Servants by the Word of God. Who would be fo forgetful of his God, and regardlefs of Religion, as to iacrifice, by a Difclofure of Secrets committed to his Charge, his prefent and future Happinefs ? In the Prefence of Almighty God, we declare to your Majefty, that from rhe Time we entered your Majefty's Service to the prefent Moment, a Term of Eleven Years, none but Almighty God is or or Shall be privy to the Commands with which you have entrufted us. Such is our Fidelity, that Divine Providence may perhaps, through its BleSlings, profper us in this and a future State, and keep us Supported in Refpecrability and Credit near your Majefty. All farther Particulars will be fully made known to your Majefty from the Arzees which we have fuccef- fivelydifpatched to you. The Princes, who are in Health, beg to offer their moil humble Refpefts to your Majefty. (A true Translation.) (Signed) JV. B. Edmonjlont. >/*/ NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 47 Appendix to No. 7. No. IV. continued. Extract from a Letter from Gholaum Alii Khan and Alii Rezza Khan, to Tippoo Sultaun; dated the 1 6th of Jaafree of the Year Schir 1220 A. N. Mahomed, (anfwering to about 4th Auguft 1792.) ON the 8th Tehejeh (29th July 1792) the Nabob Wallajah fent a Mef- fape to us by Mahomed Abdoolla Khan, that the following Day, being that pre- ceding the Eed, he would, if we defired it, pay a Vifit to the Princes, as he was very anxious to fee his Sons (as he called them.) In reply, we begged he would give our Refpefts, and reprefent to his Highnefs, that the Houfes of the Princes, and they themfelves, were his own, and that the Princes were his Guefls, that he was their Superior, and his Company there would afford them much Happinefs; but that, if he wifhed it, we ourfelves would mod readily attend him. Accord- ingly at One Pans of the following Day (about 9 o'Clock) Walajah, accompanied by Omdut ul Omrah and Haffein Newauz Khan, paid a Vifit to the Princes, and taking them upon his Knees for about Two Hours, bleffed them, and faid, May God long and permanently preferve the Shadow of Tippoo Sultaun extended over you and me, fir.ce in this Age the Prefervation of Religion depends upon him alone. I have paffed my Eightieth Year, and in that Time many are the Things I have feen and done, and experienced. What is paffed is paffed, and God only knows what Futurity may bring to light. Atprefentthe Maintenance of Religion refts with Tippoo Sultaun, and may God preferve and keep him viitorious and triumphant. I do not fay this merely in your Prefence ; but I fay it, taking to witnefs 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 alfo to do the fame. His Highnefs fpoke to us alfo in Terms of great Warmth and Friendfhip, and after fitting Two Hours went away. As Walajah had paid a Vifit to the Princes, it became ne- ceffary that they fhould return it, and confequently they waited upon him the next Day, which was the Eedoo Zoha (or Feaff. of the Camel) ; the Nawaub, ac- companied by Omdut ul Omrah and the other Sirdars, came out to meet them as on the Feaft Day, and having affifted the Piinces in alighting from their Palanquins, took them within the Houfe, where he repeatedly careffed then: both, and faid — " God preferve the Sultaun in Safety, for through him alone thefe " Rituals and Obfervances of the Faith (alluding probably to the Eed) yet re- main." — He then obferved to us—" In my firft Converfation with you, I fpoke to you upon the Subject, of eftablifhing a Friendfhip and Harmony between me and Tippoo Sultaun. Have you intimated it to him, and have you received a favourable Anfwer ? — We replied, that we had fet forth to your Majefty, Word for Woid, the friendly Sentiments his Highnefs had expreffed, and that your Majefty had written in reply, that Friendfhip, Union, and brotherly Regard had from the Beginning been eftablifhed among the Profeflbrs of Ifiamifm, as was evinced by the Teftimony of the Holy Book, agreeably to the Prefcriptions of which your Majefty wifhed, that cordir.l Friendfhip and Attachment fhould, without Prejudice or Partiality, be eftablifhed between the Followers of the Faith, as the Means of fupporting the Religion of Mahomed :" And that your Majefty added,—" God preferve the Nawaub Walajah, 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 4 8 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE Appendix to the Faith,' the Nawaub could not fupprefs his Tears, and faid, " I am what 1 No. 7. k now myfelf to be." — Tell the Sultaun, that he is the Pillar of the Faith ; and continued. may q q j p re f erve | i;m anc j g rant him a long Life, fince I and all Muflblmen derive Support from him ; for oiherwife the State of Affairs here is evident. — Tliat which is evident does not require Explanation." — We alio, in conformity to your Majefly's Commands, mentioned to his Highnefs in a becoming and fuitahle Manner, whatever there was to (late upon the SubjecT: of Friendship Attachment. Mis Highnefs replied, " In confideration of the Complexion of the Times, the State of which is manifeft, and that the Support of the Religion or" Mahomed in this Country entirely depends upon the Sultaiifi, my nightly and daily Prayer is offered up for his Good." Pie then faid to the Princes — " Oh ! my Sons ! if my Life and Property can be of any Service to you, God is Wil that I will not refufe them to you " — He then g?.ve Orders to the Superintendent of the Gardens, to carry every Day Fruits and Flowers to the Prince, before his (the Nabob's) own Children; and faid to us — " You are not acquainted with the State and Order of Affairs here. Confider me from my Heart your Well-wifher and fin- cere Friend ; and at all Times be allured, that in whatever I may be able to effect your Beaefit, either by Word or Deed, I will not decline my Exertions. V. I faid and wrote to his Lordfhip upon the Subject of making Peace, God well knows who was then or is now defirous of it. His Lordfhip, however, pof- feffed uncontrolled Authority, was a Man of Wifdom, and liftened to the Advice cf others, and my Obfervations made an Iropreffio'n upon me. God preferve vou and me from the wicked Defigns of others." Major Doveton and another Officer, being of the Party, his Highnefs appealed to them, obferving, that they had been prefent at the Time, and ; tk to the Truth or Falfity of what he faid. jor Doveton cej lied, that it wa.s very true ; and that fcveral E'nglifh Gentlemen were confequently much difple'afed with his Highnefs. That one Day, when his Highnefs had alTembled ail the Gentlemen, under Pretence of giving them an En- tertainment, but really for the above Purpofe, and had accordingly fuggefted par ci'fic Meafures, the Expediency of which he urged in a thouiand Ways, they were fo difpieafed that they went away without partaking of the Entertainment ; nay, that to their Animofuy might be attributed the Affumption of his Highnefs's Coun- try : That when the Orders were received from the King of England to reflore the Country, they framed the Pretence among themielves that his Highnefs was too much attached to Tippoo Sultaun ; and that the Rdlitution of his Country would confequently be an impolitic Meafure': But his Lordfhip maintained his Opinion fingiy, and, difre< 11 1 the Animofiry of all the others againft his Highnefs, de- livered to him (his Highnefs) the Country, agreeably to the Directions of his Ma- ■'. The Story is very long. We have only written to your Majefty a very fmall Part of it. At prefent the Commanding Officer of the Fort, and the other Erielifh Gentlemen who are here, behave towards the Nawaub Wal: jah as if they were his Servants. The Princes ftaid Two Hours with his Highnefs, and at the Time of Departure v.; re prefented by him with Two Khellauts of Embroidery for the Tenanch, Two Kuigus, and Two Surpaifhes of the fineft Jewels. We rrude endlefs Apologies, and fequcfted that he would excule our Acceptance of them. He faid, " This is a Feftival, and 'I have given to my Sons and my whole Family new Garments. Thefe are alfo my Children, and I entertain for them even a gr< Degree of Regard, audi mull not neglect them ; thefe Things p Is little Value, and it is not your Province to interpofe between me and my Children." In li] 1 Manner his Highnefs preferred Gholaum Alii Khaun with a Khellaut, confifting of a Khulgu andSurpailh, me with a Surpaifh and Khellaut, and Shirkh Soliman Khan v/ NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 49 Khan with another. He then took a Hand of each of the Princes, and defcending x to from tie upper Part of his Hou'e, accompanied them to the outer Door of the No: 7. Tofhuk Honnah, where he took Leave of them. Omdut ul Omrah, and his other continued. Sons, attended them to the Koad, where they left them, after feeing them into their Palanquins, and the Nabob at parting embraced them with the greateft Warmth. We have thus communicated to your Majefty the Particulars of the friendly Conduct of the Nabob Walajah and the other Sirdars j in fact, the Difpofition of all Ranks of People is equally favourable, for whenever the Princes go out any where, Thousands of them ftand in the Street, and offer up Prayers for your Ma- jefty's Profperity. On Feftivals and on Fridays in Congregation, all the MufTul- mans firft offer up their Prayers for your Majefly's Prefervation. May God fulfil them ! Upon our Return dancing Girls and Muficians, &c. were fent with the Prince's Retinue, and after our Arrival at the Prince's Houfe, and fitting there for Two Hours, danced, and were then difmifTed. (A true Tranflation.) (Signed) N. B. Edmoajlom., Sec. &c. &c. No. V Extract from a Letter from Tippoo Sultaun to Alii Rezza Khan and Gholaum Alii Khan; dated at Seringapatam, the 16th of Hejree, of the Year Schir 1220 from the Birth of Mahomed. I FIAVE received and underftood the Contents of your Arzee, intimating the diftinguifhed Kindnefs and Regard with which the Nawaub Walajah treats my Sons, and the fincere Friendfhip which he entertains towards me. It is evident that the Nawaub is a Pillar of the Mahomedan Religion, the Elect of the Almighty, a Man of Dignity and worldly Experience; whatever Favour and Attention he may fhew towards my Sons, who are his Guefls, and you, I fhall affuredly confider as a Kindnefs conferred upon myfelf. This Circurnftance has afforded me much Pleafure. My Hopes from Almighty God and his Divine Mefferger are, that the Nawaub will do whatever may tend to the Support of the Religion of Mahomed, and that he will give the necefiary Attention to this Point. You will mention to him that he muft confider my Sons as his own ; that, in conformity to the Command of God and the Prophet, the Improvement of Friendfhip among the Profeflbrs of Iflamifm will be beneficial to various Concerns both Spiritual and Temporal, and that, deeming me attached to our common Religion and to his H ghneiVs Perfon, he will direct his Attention accordingly ; you will alfo ftate to the Nawaub the either Points of I'riendfhip, which you have repeatedly heard from my Mouth. (A true Tranflation.) (Signed) N. B. EdmonJImc, &c. &e. &c. N 50 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE Appendix to No. 7. continued. No. VI. KEY to a CYPHER found among the Records at Seringapatam, and received at Calcutta on the 2d of March 1800. O H God, glorious and exalted ! Oh Prophet of God ! May the Blefiing of the Lord be upon him. Religion. Bifhteh. Thefe Words are written by one ofTippoo Sultaun's Moonfliees. The Nabob Walajah, the Friend of Mankind. Alii Rezzr., the Di/Iinguifbed in Friend/hip. The Power of God, A Saddle. Hearts, Sons. The Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, the Defender or Froteclor of the Faith. Nothing or Nonentity, Nizam ill Dowlah. The Victorious, A Scymeter. A State or Dominion, A Ring. The Faith Religion, Gholaum Alii Khan. Nawaub Laheb, 'the Spring, a Flower Garden. A Letter, an Interview. Benevolent, the Hand. A Heart, A Seal. (A true Tranflation.) (Signed) The Englifh, Newcomers. The Mean or Defpi- cable, The Mahrattas. A Flower, A Prejent. -e- The Reftorer of the Faith, Omdut id Omrah. N. B. Edmonflone. &c. &c. + The DenV- nation of the > We- ll the Cypher. No. VII. Tranflation of a Letter from Gholaum Alii Khan to Tippoo Sultaun. THE Departure of Alii Rezza Khan at this Time, in conformity to the Orders of the Prefence, is very expedient, efpecially for the Purpofe of bring- ing to a favourable IfTue the Propofitions of Lord Cornwallis., and the -\lVell-wifher of Mankind, which is moft ardently to be wifhed. There are many Points which cannot be committed to Paper, and can only be communicated in Perfon ; at this Time the Friendfhip and Goodwill of both Sirdars is from God, and the royal Aufpices : The Particulars of this Summarv, which is an unlooked for Good, will be made known to your Mdjefty by the verbal Reprefentations of Alii Rezza, who attends the Prefence efpecially for that Purpofe; although it is contrary to the Rules of Refpect to prefume to give an Opinion upon this Subject, yet I am emboldened by my long Attachment and my Senfe of the Duty I owe your Majefty ; when your Majefty fhall have maturely deliberated NABOB OF THE CARNAT1C. 5 t deliberated upon and fully brought home to your Mind the Reprefentation of Appendix to both the Sirdars, from a Confider.ition of the Changeablenefs of the Times, your 7. Majefty's agreeing to this Affair— (upon the Principle recommended in tl itte *' of Hafiz, ofShiraz; the Mercy of God be upon him! With Friends, Cordiality; with Enemies, Diffimuiation)— fcems highly expedient and advantagecau to your Majefty's Interefts. (A true Transition.) (Signed) N. B. Edmonftone, &c. &c. No. VIII. Tranflation of a Copy of a Letter from Tippoo Sultaun to the Nawaub Walajah. IN the Name of the mod merciful God! After reicerated Praifes and un- bounded Adoration to the Almighty, who affembled the Body of MufTulmans under the Banners of Mahomed, and lighted the Torch of mutual Attachment among them, and Praife to the chofen of Prophets, who promulged the faying, " All MufTulmans are Brothers," and took upon himfelf the Tafk of Interceflion for all Believers ; and after intimating my Defire of being perfonally known to your High- nefs, and which, as it exceeds the Power of the Pen to defciibe, muft be left to the Heart to conceive, I have the Honour to reprefent that the Receipt of your High- nefs's kind I etter after fo longaLapfeof Time— (according to the faying, " all Things depend upon the appointed Seafcn") — rejoiced me extremely, and your Highnefs's obliging Recollection of me excited my Acknowledgments, and I re- turn Thanks to Almighty Providence for the joyful News of the Welfare of the Well-wifher of Mankind (meaning the Nawaub himfelf) ; my delaying to addrefs your Highnefs has been owing to my not having been favoured with any Letters from your Highnefs. By the Grace of God ! your Highnefs is pre-eminent, cha- racterized for all praife-worthy Qualities, and acquainted with all Affairs. It is probable that your Highnefs's Delay in writing to me may have been occalioned by the particular Circumftanccs of the limes, and in confequence I alfo have delayed to write, elfe I fhould have written to you an hundred Times. Now by the Re- ceipt of your Highnefs's Letter, and the Account of your Highnefs's Friendfhip and Attachment, which 1 have had from the verbal Communication of the Hi^h vi v in Rank, *theDifttnguijhedin Friendfoip, the Trudy. I am certain that (according the GyphcrNo. to the Words of the Prophet, the Union of the MufTulmans is as that of the Soul with the Body) that Warmth of Attachment, original Affection, implanted amoti" MufTulmans, exifts 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 MufTulmans, all the Faithful will exert them- felves with Heart and Soul in maintaining and rendering permanent the Religion of Mahomed upon your Highnefs, who is one of the Heads of the Faith; this is an abfolute Duty, and I am confident that your Highnefs will by all Means con- ftantly employ your Time in performing what is obligatory on you; and lam perfect- ly fatisfied that you will inew thatKindnefs which is becoming your exalted Station, towards my Two Sons, your Guefts, and who are as your own. I hope that re- garding me inwardly and as your Well-wifher, and that of all MufTulmans, you will VI. 52 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE 4 No dl V° VVl11 COntmUe to r ^ uice me b >' Lett ?« ; you will learn my Father's Sentiments continued. from the Re P refenta "ons of the High in Rank, the Diftinguijhed in Friend/hip. Dated nth ofTakree of the Year Sikir 1220, from the Tenth of Mahomed, (corresponding with the 29th of November 1792.) (A true Tranflation.) (Signed) N. B. Edmonflone, &c. &c. No. IX. Tranflation of a Copy of a Letter from Tippoo Sultaun to Omdut ul Omrah, the Nabob of the Carnatic. AFTER reiterating Praifes and unbounded Adoration to the Almighty, who hath adorned the Multitude of the Profefibrs of Iflamifm with the Gem of Religion ; and lighted the Torch of Friendship for each other in the Region of the Heart, andendlefs Thanks worthy of the lalt of the Meffengers of God (Mahomed) •who with his prophetic Tongue fpoke this divine Saying, " That all MufiTulmans are Brothers;" and who was pleafed to take upon himfelf the Tafk of Intercef- fion for all Believers ; and after intimating my Defi.e of perfonal Communication, and which, as it exceeds the Power of the Pen to defcribe, muft be left to the Heart to conceive, 1 let forth my Object : By the Grace of God the mod fincere Attachment and perfect Unanimity have from the Beginning been eftablifhed among the Believers of the enlightened Doctrine of Mahomed, but every Event has its proper Seafon, and hence no Opportunity has ytt 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 imprefied, has doubly added to my finrere Attachmei t and cordial Uegird; when I learnt alfo from the Intimation of the High in Rank, the DW'wguifaed in Friendjhip, the Trulty, of your great and noble Qualities, and t e fi icere Friendship and Cordiality you en- tertain towards me, my Happincfs was greater than Language can adequately ex- prefs ; may God realize this Source of Hapuincf>; th.it is to fay, that perfect At- tachment and Uni'-n among the Followers of Iflaum, which is the greatelt Gift of the Almighty, and than whirh nothing is more effential to the temporal and eternal Interefts of Mankind. May God render it attainable, and may he preferve us firm in the Faith of Mahomed, the boundlefs Benefits refulting from which will by the divine Grace be manifefted. T am confident that you will direct your Attention to the Adjustment of Affairs between me and the Well-wither cf Mankind, who is the chief and principal of the Profeffors of Iflamifm; and that deeming me from my Heart your Well-wifher, you will always keep me in your Recollection by your friendly Letter.^ : AH other Particulars may be made known to you from the Representations of the High in Rank. May Profperky and Happinefs attend you ! Dated the 15th of Zakru of the Year Schir 17ZC, (anfwering to the 29th of November 1792-) (A true Tranflation) (Signed) JV. B. Edmonflone, &c. kc. / i NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 53 No. X. Appendix ta No. 7. Tranflation of a Letter from Gholaum Alii Khan to Tippoo Sultaun. continued. (Without Date.) ON the Second of Rehmany of the Year Schir 1200, Mohummudec fanfwering to about the 14th January 1793) the Nabob Walajah fenr a Mcflkgc by Khadir Nawaz Khan to this Effeft, — Whatever Animofuy and LO.ange- ment formally emitted between us (meaning himfelf and Tippoo Smtaun) are now, thank God, completely removed. If the flighted Trace of them remain in my Heart, I am no Muffulman, nay of another Seel; and on the Part of the Hyderee Sircar alio, I am confident the fame friendly Sentiments are entertained : God knows/and the Prophet is witnefs, on the molt deliberate Reflection and deep Confideration, I fee no one Sirdar who has at Heart the Interefts of the true Faith except Tippoo Sultaun, and after him this Sinner (of whom the fame may be faid in fome Degree). In the fecond Place, the Sight of the Princes gives new Force to the Attachment and Regard that my Heart feels ; indeed it is fuperfluous to ex- prefs this; hence I offer up my mod earned Prayers to God for the Welfare of the Sultaun, and the Profpcrity of the affairs of the Hydree Circar. From the Impulfeof thefe Sentiments it is requifite that I fhould communicate fome Articles of Intelligence, which are as follows : I have always kept ftationed in Bengal fe- veral Perfons of the higher Clafs, for the Purpofe of collecting and tranfmitting fecret Intelligence daily. In the Paper of Intelligence which came on the 25th of Rubuoffaunce 1207 (10th of December 1793) it is ftated, that Sir Charles Muler, the Englifh Refident at Poonah, has written to Lord Cornwallis, that numerous Meflengers from the Khodadad Sircar daily pafs to and fro between Seringapa- tam and Poonah ; whence it would feem that Tippoo Sultaun was endeavouring to form a clofe Connection and Affiance with the Poonah Government, and through that Government with the Mogul (Nizam Alii Khan) ; and that deeming this Inclination of Importance, he had written it to his Lordfliip. The Members of Council in Bengal on hearing this, are faid to have ftated their Opinion to his Lordfliip, that Tippoo Sultaun was infringing the Settlement which had taken place between him and his Lordfhip, and was entertaining Views of a finifter Na- ture ; Mat, for Example, the Sultaun withheld Payment of the Kifts, as pre- scribed in the Treaty, and refofed to releafe the European and other Prifoners, Subjects of the Company; that this Sort of Difcourfe had excited fome Degree of Sufpicion, nay even of Alarm in his Lordihip's Mind. Such is the prefent State of Affairs : What, in the Judgment of this Well-wiffier, now appears expedient is this, in a fhort Time his Lordfliip will goto Europe; the Princes, pleafe God, will ibon return, and the Kifls are in a Courfe of Payment j after his Lordihip's •Departure the Liquidation of the Kifts and other Points, whatever may be his Highfiefs's (Tippoo's) Pleaiure, will be right and proper; at prefent it is better •to be filent upon every Thing, becaufe at this Time his HighnelVs Honour would at all Events be called in queflion. When another fhall arrive from Europe, ;■ yoiir Ma- jefty's Keahh, and we replied in fuitable Terms; after complimenting us with the Paun and Flowers an, 1 Rofe Water, he told us that he would 1 ce us early the next Morning ro the Nabob. We then took Leave and r< turned 1 lone, and fent Notice to Khader Newaz Khan, that the Governor had poftponed the intended Vifit of that Day. but that we were defirous only of confulting his 1 lighnefs's NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. Highnefs 's Pleafure, and fhould aft as his Highnefs might direct; he returned for Anfwer, 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 Highnefs was very much pleafld, and converf. d about your Majefty'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 obferved to us with a great deal of Anger, that we were his Guefts, and it was not proper for us to decline receiving Pro- vifions, conjuring us for God's Sake not to fend back the Provifions which fhould be fent us while we remained here. We refilted as much as poffible by Argu- ment, but his Highnefs would not liften to our Refufal, and again conjured us by Oath not to return the Provifions which fhould be fent to us while we remained ; we could fay no more and returned Home. The next Day his Highnefs, having fent for NuiTur ul Dowlah, appointed the next Day for our again attending him, and we then delivered the Khelaut and Letters which were for him (NufTur ul Dowlah.) He alfo made Enquiries after your Majefty's Health, to which we made a fui table Reply. His Highnefs then gave us the Ottur and Paun, and luffered 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 Horfes. We delivered the Letter and Khelaut, prefented Nuzzers of Five Rupees each, and fat down. His Highnefs, with the greateft Degree of Kindnefs, placed us clofe to himfelf, and launched out into great Praifes of your Majefty, and appeared de- lighted with the Subject, telling us that it was his Intention to fend for us, and fa.y what he had to fay in private ; adding, that our Arrival at this Time was ex- tremely proper. His Highnefs 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 Mylapoie, to be removed in Four Months. May the Sun of Profperity always continue to fhine. (A true Translation.) (Signed) JV. B. Edmonftone, &c. &c. 61 Appendix to No. 7. continued. No. XIX. Tranflaticn of a L e t t e r from Mahomed Ghyafs and Mahomed Ghofe Khan, deputed by Tippoo Sultaun to the Nabob of the Carnatic, to the former (without Date.) AFTER difpatching our Arzee, the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah fent for us and fpoke a good deal upon the Subject of Friendfhip between the Two States; and then faid to us, :\- Difpatches on die Subjeft, which is now fubmiitcd to the Governor General in Council. We have the Honour to be, My Lord, with great Reipect, Your Excellency's, Moft obedient and humble Servants, (Signed) Clivc, Fort St. George, J. Stuart, 3 1 ft July 1 80 1. IVm. Petrie, E. IV. FallofisU. 6 g PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 10. Copy of the Correfpondence between the Governor General and the Governor of Fort St. George, on the Subjeft of the Carnatic ; from the Period of the Death of his late Highnefs Omdut ul Omrah, to the Elevation of Azeem ul Dowlah to the Mufnud. (Official, N° 1 8.) To His Excellency the Moft Noble the Marquis Wellesley, K. P. &c. &c. &c. My Lord, I HAVE the Honour of informing your Lordfhip, that his Highnefs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah departed this Life about Nine o'Clock this Morning. The Arrangement which I informed your Lordihip had been made for the Pre- fervation of Order at the Palace of Chepauk, upon the Occurrence of his Highnefs's Death, hath completely anfwered the Purpofes intended by that Meafure; and I have the Satisfaction of acquainting your Lordihip that entire Tranquillity prevails throughout the Neighbourhood of Chepauk and of Madras. This Meafure of Precaution proved to be entirely fatisfactory to the Mind of the late Nabob, from the Time his Highnefs became acquainted with the Intention of it. Tippoo Padfha (or HifTum ul Mulk ■ the F urth 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 prefent under the Protection of the Troops ftationed at Chepauk. Previoufly to the Receipt of your Lordfhip's Difpatches committed to the Charge of Mr. Webbe, I had determined to take immediate Meafures, on the Demife of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, for exercifing the Government of the Carnatic on the Part of the Company ; but fince the Receipt of thofe Difpatches, which define more diftinctly your Lordfhip's Wifhes in regard to the Mode of executing that Intention, I have judged it advifable to fufpend the Declaration of the Right of the Britifh Government to afiume the Adminiftration of the Affairs of the Carnatic, and to preferve the gracious Appearance of National Forbearance and Moderation as long as it might be confifient with the actual Security of the Britifh Inf.erefts. With •"tilf iV M *]/ NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 6 9 With this View I deputed Mr. Webbe and Lieutenant Colonel Clofe to the No. 10. Palace of Chepauk, for the Purpofe of conferring with the principal Officers of continued. the late Nabob upon the Subject of any Arrangement which it might have been the Intention of his Highnefs Omdut ul Omrah to provide, for adminiftering 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 Alii Huffain Khan (Tadjh ul Omrah) to be Heir and Succeffor to all his Highnefs's Poffeffions of every Defcription, and nominating Nejecb Khan and Tuckia Ally Khan to be the Guardians and Supporters of his Highnefs's reputed Son. In conformity to my conditional Inftruclions, the Deputies proceeded to difclofe to the Guardians, Tuckia Ally Khan and Nejeeb Khan, the Nature of the Difcoveries which had been made refpecling the Breach of the Alliance between the Company and the late Nabobs Mahommed Ally and Omdut ul Omrah, by the hoftile Condu6l of their Highneffes. Having explained, during this Con- ference, the entire Grounds on which the Right of the Company to ufe its Discretion in fecuring the Interefis pledged to it in the Carnatic is founded, the Deputies preffed Tuckia Ally Khan and Nejeeb Khan, to concur in a Negocia:ion for an amicable Adjuftment of the Affairs of the Carnatic, rather than to compel the Britifh Government to proceed to the Exercife of its own Rights and Power. The Plea of Delay, founded on the Decency and Necefilty of providing for the immediate Funeral of the late Nabob, was urged in a Manner fo confiftent with public Decorum, and with the Feelings natural to the Family of his Highnefs on this Occafion, that Colonel Clofe and Mr. Webbe judged it expedient to allow a Latitude until Seven o'Clock To-morrow Evening for the Declaration of a final Anfwer to the Propofition of an Adjuftment by Negociation. In granting this Latitude, the Deputies were careful to refufe all Validity to the Will of the late Nabob, and concluded the Conference by an Affurance to the Guardians, that upon their Anfwer to be given at the next Conference, would abfolutely depend cither the Acknowledgment of the Will of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah by the Company, or the Neceffity of afferting the Rights of the Company, by proceeding to exercife the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic. The Guardians having declared their Intention to give a categorical Anfwer at the Time propofed, I {hall be prepared, at the Expiration of it, to aft according to the Termination of the Conference, either by acknowledging the Succeffor of Omdut ul Omrah, and receiving Poffefiion of the Carnatic through the Channel of Negociation, or by afferting the Right of the Company, and immediately pro- ceeding to exercife the Government of the Carnatic. o I mould have availed myfelf of the earlieft Opportunity of opening a Negocia- tion with his late Highnefs the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, upon the Grounds of your Lordlhip's Difpatches, but having fatisfied myfelf, upon the folemn Declara- tion of his Highnefs's Phyfician, taken on Oath, that the Communication of important Bufinefs at the Time of my receiving your Lordfhips's Inftruciions might have been attended with fatal Confequences to the Life of the Nabob, I re- frained informing his Highnefs of the Arrival of thofe Difpatches; the gradual S Decay 70 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. io. Decay of the Nabob has fince continued to render it impracticable for me, on the continued, fame Motives of Humanity, to make any Communication to his Highnefs founded on your Lordfhip's Inftructions. I have the Honour to be, Fort St. George, &c. &c. &rc. 15th July 1801. (Signed) dive. (A true Copy.) N. B. Edmonjlone, Sec'. (Official, N" 19, Secret.) To His Excellency the Mod Noble the Marquis Wel Lesley, K. P. &c. &c. &c. My Lord, 1. IN my Difpatch of the 15th Inftant, I had the Honour of communi- cating to your Lordfhip my Intention of endeavouring to effect an Arrangement of the Affairs of the Carnatic through the Channel of Negociation. a. I have confidered that to be a Mode of Adjuftment fo preferable to the Exer- cife of the Rights of the Britifh Government, by the AfTertion of its Power, that I judged it to be advifeable, in my verbal Inftructions to the Deputies, to provide, that their unceafing Attention fnould be directed to the Accomplifhment of that Object. The Conferences opened in confequence, were conducted 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 Clofe of the pofitive Grounds of Right, on which it was the Determination of the Britifh Government to obtain Security for its In- terefts in the Carnatic; at the fame Time every Argument of Conciliation and Perfuafion was urged by the Deputies, founded on the long eftablifhed Connection between the Company and the Family of the Nabob Walajah ; on the humiliating Confequences of publifhing to the World the Evidence of the hoftile Conduct of Omdut ul Omrah difcovered at Seringapatam ; and on the different Degrees of Dignity, Splendour, and Comfort, which would attach to the reputed Son of that Prince under Circumftances of friendly Accommodation, or of hoftile Rcfiftance to the Demand of Security on the Part of the Britifh Government. 3. The Negociation was interrupted at its earlieft Stage by a Refufal on the Part of the Khans, appointed to afiift the Son of Omdut ul Omrah, to acquiefce in the Demand contained in the fundamental Proportion of the Deputies for terri- torial Security, to the Extent of vcfling the Civil and Military Government of the Carnatic exclufively in the Hands of the Britifh Government. To this Demand the Khans oppofed an uniform Refiftance; and the Deputies would have been juftified in bringing the Negociation to a Conclufion on this Point of Difference. Reafon however exifled for believing, that their Conduct was not conformable to the Sentiments of the young Man; it was confident with the Motive for proceed- ing by Negociation, that every practicable Degree of Facility fhould be given to that Plan of Arrangement. An Opportunity was therefore offered to Ally Iluflain, of NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 7* of declaring his genuine Sentiments; and accordingly, in a feparate Converfation No. IO _ with myfelf, he diftindly Hated that he had not participated the Councils of his continued, Affiftants. 4. In confequence 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 Conduct of his Father's confidential Minifters. A fecond Meeting was accordingly appointed for the Purpofe of completing the Arrange- ment neceftary to the Acknowledgment of Ally Huffain's Title, and for the Eftablifhment of territorial Security for the Rights of the Company. At this fubfequent Conference, which was alfo conducted without the Prefcnce of his Affiftants, Ally HufTain retracted his Declaration of the preceding Day ; he ex- prefted his unequivocal Concurrence in the Sentiments of the Khans, together with his Refolution not to depart from the Refult of their Councils; and declared his Refolution to meet, at whatever Hazard, the Confequences of refufing this reafonable Demand of Security on the Part of the Britifh Government. 5. Having exhaufted all the Means in my Power of impreffing on the Mind of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah's Son a jufl Senfe of the Right acquired by the Company under the Violation of the Alliance, or of the Determination of the Britifh Government to exercife that Right for the Attainment of an adequate Se- curity, I was reluctantly compelled to difcontinue all farther Communication with the immediate Family of Omdut ul Omrah. 6. The Detail of thofe Conferences, which it is my Intention to tranfmit 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 prefcribed for the Conduct of the Negociation ; for although the Negocia- tion was formerly fufpended by the Rejection of the firft Propofition, a full Com- munication was made both to Ally HufTain feparately, and to his Advifers jointly, of the Plan of Arrangement intended by your Excellency for the Prefervation of his Father's Family from entire Humiliation: Your Excellency will alfo obferve that Omdut ul Omrah's reputed Son (who is of an Age to appreciate the Con- fequences of his own Conduct) and his Advifers, have fignified their final Rejection of this fundamental Propofition, under the Expreffion of their entire Belief of the Exiftence of your Lordfhip's Orders, and under the Impreffion of the fulleft Know- ledge of the Confequences of that Rejection. 7. The Failure of my Endeavour to accomplifh an Arrangement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, by a conciliatory Negociation with the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah, was as little expected by myfelf as by your Excellency. The Delay which has in confequence occurred, was infeparable from this Mode of Procedure ; but whatever temporary Inconvenience may attach to it, I have no Doubt that your Lordfhip will confider me to have adhered, in the Purfuit of an amicable Adjuft- ment, to the Spirit of your Councils, Inftructions, and Wifhes. 8. The Intention of obtaining an adequate Security for the Rights and Interefts of the Britifh Government in the Carnatic, through the Channel of an amicable Negociation, having been fruftrated by the unexpected Refiftance oppofed to my Demands by the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah, it remained for me to apply the Principles ?2 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 10. Principles of your Lordfhip's Policy and Orders to the Change of Circumftances, (ontinued. and the actual Condition of the Cafe. 9. The Refult of the Propositions, founded on the Proofs of the Violation of the Aliiance, by the Conduct of Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Onidut ul Omrah, efta- blifhes the Right of the Britifh Government to exercife its Power in fuch a Man- ner, and to fuch an Extent, as fhall be judged advifeable for the Attainment of an "adequate Security for its Rights and Interefts in the Carnatic. The Mode of ex- ercifing that Right is therefore limited to Confiderations of Expediency: The Dii- patches which I have had the Honour of receiving from your Lordfhip by Mr. "Webbe, leave no Doubt in my Mind, that your Excellency confiders that to be the moil expedient Mode ofexercifing our Right and Power, which fhall be moft con- fident with the Magnanimity of Moderation and Forbearance, under the Injuries v/e have fuftalned, and moft conformable to the Nature of the Connection fo long fubfifting between the Company and Mahomed Ally. 10. 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 Lordfhip's laft Instructions, by Ally Huffain's Rejection of the fundamental Propofition for that Purpofe; but the Spirit of your Lordfhip's provifional Orders, under Date the 26th of March 1800, is ftiil applicable to the actual Circumftances in which the Affairs of the Carnatic have now been placed. Confiderations, independent of thole connected with our external Relations, are fuggefted by the State of cur domeftic Affairs : The Rebellion in the Southern Provinces has aflumed a more formidable Afpect than could have been expected ; and although the Force afiembled is, I truft, Sufficient for the Suppreffion of it, the Movement of Troops required for that Purpofe has unavoidably fo reduced the appointed Force of die Provinces, as to render extremely inconvenient any Mea- fure calculated to augment the Number of difafftcted Perfons. During the re- cent Negociations, Circumftances have occurred which eftablifh my Belief of the Exiftence of a very confiderable Treafure in the PofTeffion of the Family of the late Nabob, and it is of great Importance that fo pregnant a Source of Miichief ihould not now be thrown into a Scale adverfe to our Interefts. 11. The Object of the Orders which I am inftructed by your Excellency to carry into Effect, is the Attainment of an adequate Security founded on the Pof- feffion of Territory; if that Object fhouid be attainable with the Confent of the Houfe of Mahomed Ally, it is manifeft that the Degree of Security will be greater, than if the fame Object fhouid be obtained by the Exercife of our Power, even under the Qualification of our indilputable Right; becaufe fuch a Mode of Proce- dure is calculated to conciliate the Affections of our MufRilman Subjects, inflcad of inflaming the difcontented State of their Minds, and to fecure at leaft a negative Application of the luppofed Treafure to the ordinary Ufe of the Family, inflcad of diverting it to the Purpofes of Treachery or Floltility. 12. On a Review of all thefe Circumftances and Confiderations, I have judged the Principles of your Lordfhip's Orders to remain in full Force, although the Mode of applying them has failed with relpect to the fuppofed Son of Omdut ul Omrah; but every Confideration of our general Policy, of Expediency with refpect to our external Relations, and ol Prudence with regard to our in- ternal f NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 7J ternal Tranquillity, requires, in my Judgment, that the aclual Eflablifhment No. to. of our Security on the Balis of Right to exercife the entire Civil and Military continued. Government of the Carnatic, mould be accompanied by the gracious and conci- liatory Meafure of eftabiifhing a Branch of the Houfc of Mahomed Aiiy in a Degree of Rank and Splendour, fuited to its long fubfifting Connexion with the Company, and confiftent with the actual Circumftances of the Carnatic. 13. I have already apprized your Lordfliip by my private Difpatches, that, tinder the Imprtflion of thefe 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 myfelf at Liberty to extend to the prefent Situation of the Affairs of the Carnatic, the provifional Inltructions contained in your Lordfhip's Difpatch of the a6th of March 1800. Having adopted, in confequcnce of this in- tention, the neceffary Me.ifures of Precaution for removing the Rcftraint impofed. during a long Period of Time, by the Family of Omdut ul Omrah, on the Perfon of Azeem ul Dowlah, I directed Mr. Webbe and Lieutenant Colonel Clofe 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 "Wifh of the Britilh Government to avoid, as far as might be con- filtent with its actual Security, the Humiliation of this ancient and illultrious Houfe. 14. I have the Honour of acquainting your Lordfliip, that the Negociation has *^£^£. been brought to a fuccefsful Determination, and I encloie the Draft of a Treaty * muted in the which Azim ul Omrah has bound himfelf to execute in a more formal Man- theGoverior ner, as foon as Circumftances may be fufHciently advanced to admit the Exe- £ c " s u '^' uf CUtion of a public Inftrument. George, Hated 31 July 1801 ; — i\o.6. u. 33. 15. In providing a fuitable Maintenance for the Succeflbr of Omdut ul Omrah, 1 have thought it more advifeable to render the Amount dependant on the general Profperity 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 r Carnatic to the Hands of the Britifh, with the Prefervation of an active Principle tor fecurifig an Union of Interefts between the Nabob of the Carnatic and the Company in the Adminiftration of the Affairs of the Country; and this Mcue polTeiTes the farther Recommendation of relieving the Provifion for the Main- tenance of the Nabob from the Appearance of a mere Penfion. On the fame Grounds of Reafoning, I have judged it expedient to fecure the Income of the Nabob from the Effects of any considerable Failure in the Revenues of the Car- natic. On the Principle adopted, 1 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 ftated in your Lordfhip's Letter to his Highnefs the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, of the 24th April 1799, containing the Plan of a propofed Treaty for the complete Adjuftmentof all his Highneh's Affairs with refpect to the Company, and a Claufe has accordingly been in- troduced into the prefent Treaty, by which Azeem ul Dowlah formally acknow- ledges, on the Part of himfelf and of his PredecefTors heretofore Nabobs ut the T Carnatic, i-r 74 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 10: Carnatic, the Debts due by their Highneffes to the Company on Account of the continued. Cavalry Loan, and on Account of the Proportion of the Confolidated Debt of 1777, paid by the Company to the Creditors of the Nabob Mahommed Ally. By the fame Claufe his Highnefs Azeem ul Dowlah has further bound himfelf to acknowledge, as ajuft Debt, the Amount which fhall be decided to be the juft Ba- lance of the unadjufted Accounts referred to the Determination of the Governor General in Council, by his late Highnefs the Nabob Mahommed Ally. 17. I have judged it to be my Duty to ftimulate 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 Juflice in fecuringto 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 confidered this Duty to be the more urgent, from the Reports now prevailing with refpeft to the Progrefs already made towards an Arrangement for the Confolidation of thofe Debts, and from the manifeft Neceffity of fecuring, in fuch an Event, a more adequate Proportion of the Revenues of the Carnatic for the Defence of the Territories fubjecl: to this Prefidency. »vird the Degree of Security required by your Lordfhip's Orders. The Conduct of rhofe Khans, and of Ally Huffain, has fince been conformable to this Affectation of independent Rights. The pofnive and direct Communication of the Intention of the Britifh Government, has not deterred thofe Perfons from proceeding to the or- dinary Ceremonies of inflating Ally Huffain in the oftenfible Rank, of Nabob of the Carnatic. This Mode of Procedure manifefts, on the Part ofOmdutul Omrah's re- puted Son, and of his Advilers, a fyftematic Adherence to the Spirit of Hoftility which animated that faithlefs Ally, and a perfect Obedience to the teltamentary Couniels of his Father. I have therefore been compelled to guard againft the Confe- quences which fuch an Appearance of Oppofition to the Britifh 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 Purpofe to take complete Poffeffion of the Palace of Chepauk, by Means of the Britifh Troops, and to clofe the public Offices until the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah fhall be inflated. I have the Honour to be, Fort St. George, &c. &c. &c. 27th July 1801. (Signed) Give. By the Right Hon Me Lord Clive. (Signed) J. Webbe, Chief Sec y to Gov 1 ; (A true Copy.) N. B. Edmonfione, Sec''. (Official, N° 20.— -Moft fecret.) To his Excellency the Moft Noble the Marquis Wellesley, K. P. &c. &c. &c. My Lord, 1. THE general Grounds of Belief of the Exiftence of a very large Trea- fure in the Family of the late Nabob Mahomed Ally, has been confiderably ftrengthened by Circumftances which have occurred during the recent Negocia- tions with the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah j I have therefore judged it to be my Duty to endeavour, by the prefent Arrangements, to provide that a Proportion of the Treafure fhould be appropriated to the Liquidation of the Cavalry Loan. 1. No Doubt can exift of the Juftice or of the Expediency of fuch a Provi- fion; but under the actual Circumftances of the Cafe I fear that confiderable Dif- ficulties will be oppofed to the Execution of it. The Prince Azeem ul L'owlah has been fo long excluded from the Knowledge of public Affairs, a: the Durbar of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, that it may be practicable to conceal from his Knowledge the Mode in which the Treafure may have been diftributed, if (as may be expected) the greateft Portion of the Treafure has been difpofed of among ■ 7 $ PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 10. among the Female Part of the late Nabob's Family, or if it mould have been de- continued. pofited in the interior Apartments of the Palace, the Recovery of it mud be at- tended with much EmbarafTment : The Neceflity of retorting to the Meafures re- quifne for that Purpnfe, 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 Submiffion to the Arrangement concluded with him, which I confiderit of Importance to conciliate from all our Muffulman Subjects. 3. In this View of the Queftion I have judged it advifeable to itipulate with Azeem ul Dowlah a feparate and fecret Article, providing for the eventual Dif- charge of the Cavalry Loan from the Trealures which may be difcovered. The Knowledge of the Exiftence of this Article, after Azeem ul Dowlah lhall have been eflablifhed in the Saubahdarry of the Territories of Arcot, not being liable to the Inconveniences which render the Difcovery at prefent inconvenient, it is my Intention to keep this Article profoundly fecret; and I truft that your Lord- fhip will confider me to have provided by this Mode the beft Security for the Difcharge of the Debt which is confiftent with the extreme Delicacy of the Quef- tion, and with the Advantages of relieving the firft Meafures of Azeem ul Dow- lah's Government from the ungracious Confequences of demanding the immedi- ate Reftoration of the public Property. 4. I have the Honour of enclofing a Copy of the Article for your Lordfhip's Information. I have the Honour to be, &c. &c. &c. Fort St. George, Clive. 27th July 1801. By die Right Hon Me Lord Clive. (Signed) J. Wehbe, Chief Sec y 10 Gov'. (A true Copy.) N. B. EdmonJloMy Sec". /**" i\\o\ NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 77 No. ii. 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 AfTumption of its Government by the Company. To the Honourable the Secret Committee of the Honourable the Court of Directors. Honourable Sirs, Par. i.YOUR Honourable Committee has been already made acquainted, by the Difpatches of his Excellency the Mod Noble the Governor General, with the written Evidence difcovered at Seringapatam, of the treacherous Conduct of their Highnefies the Nabobs Walajah and Omdut ul Omrah. 2. On the Receipt of the Governor General's feparate Difpatches, Lord Clive, in conformity to his Excellency's Defire exprefted in a private Difptch, ap- pointed Mr. Webbe, the Chief Secretary of this Government, and lieutenant Colonel Clofe, the Refident in Myfore, to be Commiffioners, for the Purpofe of conducting the oral Examinations necelTary to complete the Proofs of thefe molt extraordinary Tranfactions. 3. The Report of the Commifiloners, with the Proceedings, was received by Lord Clive, and tranfmitted to his Excellency the Governor General, in the Month of May 1800, with -a Difpatch from Lord Clive, containing his Lord- fhip's Sentiments on the Refult of the Enquiry initituted at Seringapatam. 4. Circumilances connected with our general Policy and Interefts, rendered it expedient for the Governor General to poftpone his Excellency's Determination, with refpect to the Meaiures to be adopted in confequence of this flagrant Viola- tion of the Tics of Amity and Alliance by the Nabobs Mahomed Ally and Om- dut ul Omrah. The Caules of this unavoidable Delay are explained in a recent Difpatch, received by Lord Clive from the Governor General, containing the Refult of his Excellency's Deliberation on this important Queftion, together with his Lordfliip's Inll ructions in regard to the Nature and Extent of the Security to be required for the Rights and Interefts of the Company in the Carnatic. 5 During the Time when this Subject was under the Confideration of the Go- vernor General, the State of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah 's Health became fo precarious, as to portend Confequences fatal to the Exigence of his Highnefs. U 6, At 7* PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. ri. 6. At an early Period of Time, after the Difcovery of the Papers found at Se- xontimed. ringapatam, the Governor General had judged it expedient and prudent to trans- mit eventual Inftructions to Lord Clive, applicable to the Contingency of the Na- bob Omdut ul Omrah's Death, previoufly to the Determination of the Meafures which might be rendered neceffary to our Safety by the Detection of the faith!: :{s and hoftile Conduct of his Highnefs. Lord Clive was alfo enabled to receive In- structions from the Governor General, applicable to the Continoencv of the Na- bob's Death, fubfequently to the Determination of the Syftem of Policy to be purfued for the future Security of our Interests in the Carnatic. 7. Thefe Difpatches were entrufled by the Governor General, together with his Excellency's verbal Inftructions, to Mr. Webbe, who arrived at Fort St. George previoufly to the Diffolution cf the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah. Alchough the important Meafures connected with the Execution of the Governor General's Orders, rendered Lord Clive extremely anxious to demand, at the earliefr practica- ble Period of Time, an adequate Security for the Britifh Interefls againft the hef- vile Councils of his Highnefs, yet the extreme Debility of Omdut ul Omrah appeared, upon the Affidavit of his Highnefs's Phyfician, to be fuch as to deter Lord Clive from communicating to his Highnefs the Arrival of the Governor General's Difpatches. The fubfequent Death cf Omdut ul Omrah, which hap- pened on the 15th Ult. fruftrated the Intention of Lord Clive to open a Negocia- tion with his Highnefs according to the Inftructions of the Governor General. 7. On the Demife of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, Lord Clive deputed Mr. Webbe and Lieutenant Colonel Clofe to open a Conference with the principal Of- ficers of the late Government, for the Purpofe of demanding from the SucceiTor of Omdut ul Ormah the Security required by the Instructions of the Governor General. 5eeN°4.p.S. 8. The Manner in which thofe Conferences were conducted, is defcribed in a Report of the Deputies; and the Refultof them was a Declaration by Ally Huf- fain (the reputed Son, and the Heir appointed by the Will of the late Nabob Om- dut ui Omrah) of his final Refolution not to acquiefce in Lord Clive's Demand of Security to the Extent confidered by the Governor Genera!, and by his Lord- fhip, to be indifpenfably neceffary to the Security of the Britifh Interefls. 9. During thefe Conferences with the Perfons appointed by Omdut ul Omrah to affift the Councils of his Highnefs's reputed Son, the Deputies nominated by Lord Clive endeavoured to imprefs on the Minds of thofe Khans the Nature of the Proofs eftablifhed on the written and oral Teitimony taken at Seiingapatam ; and no Means of ASTurance, Argument, or Perfuafion were omitted, which could tend to convince thofe Perfons of the Exiftence of the Governor General's Orders, founded on the Inftructions of your Honourable Committee, and of Lord Clive's ferious Determination to carry thofe Orders into Effect, to the Extent of -obtaining an adequate Security for the Rights and Interefts of the Company in the Car.'iatic. Under the Gircumftances 0' the recent Death of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and of the indeterminate State of the Affairs of his Highnefs, fome Degree ot Delay was inlparable from thefe Negotiations ; but we have no Doubt that your Committee will confider the Inconveniences arifing from that Delay, to be compensated by the Gencrofity of affording to the Family of Omdut ul Omrah, in this Spirit of Temperance and Moderation, Sufficient Leifure to appreciate the ferious . / / NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 79 ferious Effects of this alternative Choice en its immediate Intereft. The Khans No. it. appointed to a a on the Part of Ally Huffain having perGfted to refbfe to the De- continued. puties the Security required by the Governor General, Lord Clive judged it to be his Lordfhip's Duty, previouGy to the Adoption of the Meafures dependant on that Refufal, to obtain, if poffible, a Knowledge of the genuine Sentiments of Ally Huffain himfelf on this important Propofuion. Lord Clive accordingly held two perfonal Interviews with the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah, at which none of the Officers or Advifers of the late Government were prefent, the Place at which thefe Interviews were held being within the Encampment of the Britifh Troops. The Mode of this Meeting was attended with the further Advantage of affording to Ally Huffain immediate Security and Protection in the Event of his dtfiring°to relieve himfelf from the defperate and infatuated Councils of his Ad- vifers.° At thefe perfonal Interviews, the Nature of the Rights acquired by the Eritilh. Government was explained to Ally Huffain ; the Determination to exercife thofe Rights was ftated ; and the Confequences of a Refufalon his Part to afford, in an amicable Manner, the Security required by the Britifh Government, were announced in the mod ferious and formal Manner by Eord Clive to the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah. In reply to this Communication, Ally Huffain diftinflly and formally ftated his Refolution to adhere to the Councils of the Khans appointed to affift, and to refufe, with a perfect Knowledge of the Confequences of that Refufal, to accede to the Demand for the Eftablifhment of an adequate Security for the Interests and Rights of the Company in the Carnatic. 10. In confequence of the Refinance, unexpectedly oppofed by Ally Huffain to this reafonable Demand, it remained for Lord Clive to apply the Inftruftions and Authority conveyed to his Lordfhip by the Governor General to the adual State of Circumftances. In proceeding to exercife the Rights of the Britilh Government, which the Conduct of Ally Huffain had compelled his Lordfnip to affert, Lord Clive (till judged it to be confiftent with the Sentiments of National Magnanimity and Generofity, that the Britifh Government mould refrain from the Exercife of the Company's Power, and from the abfolute Humiliation of the Family of Ma- homed Ally, if an adequate Security could be obtained through the Channel of an amicable Adjuftmenr. Under the Impreflion of thefe Sentiments, Lord Clive directed 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 Grandfon, by both hi* Parents, of the Nabob Ameer lid 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 Initrument, the hereditary Claims of the Hcufe of Mahomed Ally defcended to the Second Branch of the Family, reprefented by the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah, the Son of Ameer ul Omrah, who was the Second Son of the Nabob Mahomed Ally. 11. As foon as the Reftraint impofed by the Family of Omdut ul Omrah on the Perfon of the Prince Azeem ui Dowiah could be removed, Lord Clive directed the Deputies, Mr. Webbs and Lieut. Col. Cloff, to open a Communication with that Prince, for the Purpofe of reviving the Alliance between his Anceftors and the Company, and of eftabl ifhing the Rights and Interefls of the Britifh Govern- ment in the Carnatic on a permanent B?.us of Security. The Grounds of the SeeN'io. Reafoning in which this Determination was founded, are ftated in a feparate Difpatch £ 3 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. it. Difpatch from Lord Clive to the Governor General, to which we refer your continued: Honourable Committee. 12. The Prince Azeem ul Dowlah having been informed by the Deputies, of the Foundation on which the Right of the Britifh Government to demand an adequate Security was fupported, and of the Nature of the Security required, fig- riified his Acknowledgment of that Right, and his Willingnefs to afford, in the Event of his Elevation to the Mufnud of his Anccftors, the Security demanded by the Authority of the Governor General. The Deputies accordingly proceeded to frame a written Engagement on thefe Principles, which was executed by the Prince Azeem ul Dowlah. 13. In conformity to this Arrangement we have acknowledged Azeem ul SeeN°7- Dowlah to be Nabob of the Carnatic, and refer your Committee to the detailed Grounds of this Meaure to a Declaration, which has been tranfmitted to the Go- vernor General in Council, to the Governor in Council at Bombay, to the Go- vernor of Ceylon, and to the Refidents at Hydrabad and Pooruh ; for this Pur- Ib'.d. _ fg we a ]f re f er the Committee to the Treaty, which has been concluded with the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder. T4. The Mode of providing for the Support of the Dignity of his Highnefs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, is conformable to the Principles on which the Alliance between his Highnefs's Family and the Company has been revived and eftablifhed. By thefe Means the Intefefts of his Highnefs will become united with thofe of the Company in the general Profperity of die Carnatic j and while the actual Security of the Britifh Interefts, provided by the preftnt Arrangement, remains undiminiihed, the Mode of fuppiying a Fund for the Expences of the Familv in the Manner fukable to its Rank, and to the Dignity of the Britifh Go- vernment, by the Allotment of a Proportion of the Public Revenues for that Pur- pofe, is entirely relieved from the degrading Name and Appearance of a ftipen- diary Maintenance. 15. In conformity to the Plan defcribed 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 propofed to his Highnefs, a complete Adjuftment of all the Affairs of his Highnefs, and of his Highneis'i Anccftors, which yet remain unad- jufled with the Company, Lord Clive deemed it to be his Duty to ftipulate ;in entire Adjuftment of the Debts due by the Family of the Nabob to the Com- pany. His Highnefs having affented to this Demand, a Chufe has accordingly been introduced into the Treaty, by which the Nabob Azeem ul Dow tab ac- knowledges on his own Part, and on that of his Anccftors, heretofore Nabobs cf the Carnatic, the Debt commonly called the Cavalry Loan, and the Debt arifing from the Proportion of the Coiif ■lidaied Debt cf 1777, paid by the Com; any to the private Creditors of the late Nabob Mahomed Ally, to be juft Debts due -to the Company, together ' with the In ercft arifing thereon. His Hiahnefi the Nabob A?:ecm ul Dowlah farther finds ■ himfclf to acknowledge, as a juft Debt due to the Company, the Amount which may be pronounced by the Governor General in Council, to be the juft and fair Balance of the unad- jufted Accounts between his Family and the Company, according to the Engage- ment by which the Nabob Mahomed Ally bound himfelf to abide by the De- cifion v^ NABOB OF THE CARN ATI C. 8* cinon of the Governor General in Council, when his Highnefs referred thofe No. n. Accounts to the Determination of the Supreme Government. continued. 1 6. It will be obvious to your Honourable Committee, that the Intention of Lord Clive, in ftipulating this Article of the Treaty, was directed to fecure to the Company the Appropriation of the Sum of Six Lacks and Twenty-one Thoufand Pagodas, unincumbered by any Deductions, to the Difcharge of the Public Debt due to the Company, as foon as the Confolidated Debt of 1777 (hall have been liquidated, under the exifting Eng agements with the Conditions of the Nabob Mahomed Ally. 17. The Object of fecuring this Sum, for the Liquidation of the Debt due to the Company, did not appear iefs important to Lord Clive, than the Expediency of providing that, under any Circumftances which may occur, a more adequate Proportion of the Revenues of the Carnatic fliould be applied to the Military De- fence of thofe valuable Pofieffions, than can now be appropriated to that Purpofe. The calamitous Impoverifhment of every Source of Wealth and Population, of which the Caufes have been repeatedly Hated to your Hon; le Committee, leaves no immediate Expectation that the Net Revenues of the Carnatic will ex- ceed the Sum of Nineteen Lacks of Scar Pagodas. This Fund, after allotting a fuffi- cient Sum for the Support of the Expences of the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, for the Maintenance of the principal Officers, Minifters, Dependants, and Family of the late Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and for the Payment of the Amount appropri- ated to the Liquidation of the Confolidated 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 thefe extenfive Territories. o 1 8. That Sum exceeds, by a very fmall Amount, the Proportion cf 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 Afieffment levied for the Public Protection in every ether Part of the Territories fubject to this Prefidency. The prefent Deduction of Six from Fifteen Lacks of Pagodas, is therefore fo difproporticned to the prefent Revenues of the Carnatic, that we can indulge no very fanguine Hope cf an imme- diate Augmentation of cur pecuniary Refources from the Administration of the Civil Government of the Carnatic. The progreffive Decline of the Revenues of the Carnatic may be confidered to have approached that Stage, at which your Committee have been prepared to expect the entire Failure of the Nabob's Go- vernment, and, under the exifting Engagements, the Augmentation of our Refources mutt be proportioned to the gradual Restoration of the Wealth and Profperity of the Country ; every Confideration, therefore, of the actual Expence of protecting the extenfive Provinces of the Carnatic, every View of the indifpenfa- ble Neceffity of maintaining an adequate Military Force for the Defence of the Br'uifh PofTefiions in the Peninfula of India, and every Motive of Attention to the alarming Prefiure on the Finances of this Prefidency, required Lord Clive to eftabiifh, by the prefent Treaty, the bet pofilble 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 Pleafure in congratulating your Honourable Committee on the Completion of an Arrangement, which has at length fecured the Britifh Interefts X in Si PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 1 1. In the Carnatic on the folid Bafis of territorial P< ■ ; and which is, at the fame i ./. Time, calculated to confirm the Reputation of our nanunky, Gm rofity, and Moderation. We have no Doubt, that your Honourable Comn. concur in our Sentiments, that the Negociation, which has terminated in the Accomplishment of thefe important Objects, has been conducted in a Manner consent with the liberal Policy of the Nation, unbi: the adventitious . age which might have been derived from the early E nt of a Com; tion, founded on the Variety of adverfe Interefts depen etermination of the Britifh Councils. We have the Honour to inform you. that, in conformity to the Treaty, the Installation of the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah was c d on the 31ft Ult. accompanied with every Demonftration of public Refpedt, fupporrxd by every pofiible Degree of Splendour, and confirmed under the Obfervunce of the rnoft formal Procedure. Refpect, Fort St ;e, 7 5-1 Augufl: 1 801. J We have the Honour to be, with the greateft Honourable Sirs, Your faithful humble Servants, (Signed.) Clive, f. Stuart, trie, E. ■ •The " 1 . : an this Di 1, and a ],'.: (A.) i clofed. Extract of a LETTER from Marquis Wellesley, to the Secret Commit Da'. . : Sept. 1S01. THE principal Documents reflecting the fir.:;! Settlement of the Carnatic, have already been forwarded to you from Fort St. George ; I hr.ve the Honour to annex to this Difpatch Copies of fuch Documents*, relating to that Subject, as are now at this Frefidency. The Georgiana will touch r3s, in order to take Duplicates of the Papers already tranfmitted : Committee from that Prefidency, with fuch farther Advice?, refpeccing the of the Carnatic, as the Right Flonourable the Governor in Council may bi ed to tranfmit to Europe. The Mornington Packet will convey to you a Review, which I am now g, of the Cireumftances which have led to the late Arrangements in the Carnatic ; in the mean while the Difpatches from Fort St. George, will have fuf- ntly apprized your Honourable Committee of the Principles which governed my Conduct, in my Instructions to Lord Clive, and in the Ratification of the Treaty concluded by his Lordftrip with the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah. Extract of a Secret LETTER from Fort St. George, dated ill October i8or. Par. 1. ON the Third of./ 1 we had the Honour of communicating to you, by the Whim Packet, the Death of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, and the Progrefs of the TranfacVions which had terminated in the Elevation of the Prince Azeem ul Doulah Eehauder to the Rank of the Nabob Soubadar of the Carnatic, and in the Establishment of the Rights and Interefts of the Company in the Carnatic, on the NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 83 the folid Foundation of territorial Security. Duplicates of that Difpatch hav ng No. n. been tranfmitted by the Overhnd ( :;ce, and fubfequ* extra Ship Brido-ewater, we truft that your Honourable Committee will have received t earlieft Intelligence of thofe important Events. 2. We have fince had the Honour to receive the Determination of his Exc lency the Mod Noble the Governor General in Council, on the Subject of the Treaty concluded by us with his 1 [ighnefs the Nabob Azeein ul Dovdah; and have the Satisfaction of informing the Committee, that the Governor General in Council has expreffed his Excellency's entire the Conduct of i Government, during the Progrefs of the various Events which have terminated fo highly advantageous to the Interefls of the Honourable C01 3. The reputed Son of his Highncfs the Nabob Ofndut ul Omrah, having met thejuft and moderate I'ropofitions, founded on the Instructions of the Governor General, for the Security of the Britilh Interefls in the Carnatic, by a deliberate Refufal to enter into any Engagements, abfolutely neceffary to that indifpenfa Object, his Excellency coniider'ec! the general Spirit of the Inftructions convey- ed to Lord Ciive at different Tin i r the various Changes w! ire taken place in the Situation of Affairs, entirely to warrant this Government in offering to the Son of the late Ameer ul Omrah the fame Terms which had beei d to the reputed Son of Omdut ul Omrah ; and the Eftablifhment of the acl ged 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 Meafu re of Moderation and Wifdorn. 4. Under thefe Circum fi . his Excellency in Council has been pleafed to exprefs his entire Approbation of the general Spirit and Stipulations of the Treaty concluded with the Nabob Azeem ul Dowla'i. 5. The Governor in Council accordingly ratified the Treaty executed at Fort St. George, but being defirous of introducing fome Improvements of Importance into that Treaty, the Governor General flated his Opinion of the propofed Modi- fication, fubjecting the Adoption or Rejection of ir, without farther Reference, to the Difcretion of this Government. 6. The Governor General having deemed it to be necefTary that a Change of the Terms of the Preamble, and of the nrft Article of the Treaty, fhould be intro- duced, for the Purpofe of fpecifying more distinctly, that the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah owed his iilevation, not to any hereditary Pretentions; but to the Libe- rality and Generofity of the Britifh Government ; a Copy of the Treaty, fo modi- fied and ratified by his Excellency in Council, was tranfmitted to us. The Go- lb- 1 vernor General in Council having alio deemed it to be expedient, that explanatory Articles of Charge to be permanently deducted from the Revenue, previoufly to the Allotment of the Nabob's Proportion, for the Purpcfe of relieving the Com- pany from the Appropriation of the Jagheers in Land, and of fubftituting pecu- niary Stipends for the Support of the Families of the Nabob Mahomed Alii and of the Nabob Omdat ul Omrah, and for the Purpcfe of limiting the Income of the Nabob, on Account of his 1 ion of the Revenue, to an ultimate Sum, his Excellency in Council tranfmitted to us Inftructions for framing additional Articles, in conformity to the Suggeftions of the Governor General. 7. Lord s 84 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. it. 7. Lord Clive had great Satisfaction in remarking die peculiar Delicacy >ime "* o\ I by the Governor General in propofing thofe Modifications, and the Confidence which his Excellency repofed in this Government, by committing to t :ercife of its Difcretion the eventual Adoption of the Improvements con- fi.'ered by his Excellency to be requifite to the final Arrangement of the Affairs of the Carnatic. S. In the Mode adopted by the Governor General for conveying his Excel- lency's Cbicrvarions and Inftructions, Lord Clive had fincere Pleafuie in receiving the mod flattering Teftimony of the Succefs which has attended his Lordfhip's anxious and. uniform Endeavours to cultivate the Confidence of the ! Government, by a zealous and cordial Co-operation in the Syftem of Meafures adopted by the Governor General with refpect to this Government ; and Lord Clive took that Opportunity to aflure his Excellency of the unfeigned Satisfaction which he Ilk on this Occafion, and which he will feel on all Occaf.ons, in carrying into Execution thofe Arrangements which his Excellency may judge molt con- ducive to the Honour and Profperity of the Empire in India. q. We have the Honour of informing the Committee, that the Reference to the hereditary Pretenfions of Azeem ul Doulah, as ftated in the Preamble and firft Article of the Treaty, was entirely voluntary on the Part cf Lord Clive, and that throughout the late Negociations, the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah ftated his Conviction that the Right of his Highnefs's Famiiy, founded on its Connection with the Company, had been annihilated, and that his Highnefs confidered the Caufes of his own Elevation to have flowed from the Generality deration of the Britifh Government. Lord Clive was therefore relieved from the fuppofed Difficulties ftated in the Governor General's Difpatch, in propofing to the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah the Modification of the Preamble, and of the firft Article of the Treaty executed at Fort St. George. to. In conformity to tiie Principles repeatedly declared by his Highnefs, the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah received this Propofkion with the utmofT Degree of Chearfulnefs, and relfnquifhed all Claim to the Acknowledgments of his heredi- tary Pretenfions, without exprefllng any Diffidence or Alarm with refpecl to the Intention of the propofed Modification. The modified Treaty, tranfmitted by the Governor Genera], has accordingly been executed by us, and formally delivered to the Nabob Azeem ul Doulah. 11. In ob-dience to the further Inftructions of the Governor General in Council, with refpeci to the explanatory Articles, we have executed and inter- changed with the Nabob Azeem ul Doulah feparate Articles, to be annexed to the Treaty, and we have tranfmitted a Copy of thofe Articles for the Purpofe of bein°- ratified by the Governor General in Council. 12. In fixing the ultimate Amount of the Nabob's Income, we have been ouideJ by the Governor Gen' fal's fej arate Difpatches to Lord Clive ; and your Committee will obferve, that the Pi inciple of Calculation adopted by us will limit his fc's Proportion to about Three Lacks of Pagodas, under the moft .beneficial Arrangements now adopted for the Admihiftration of the Revenues of the Carnatic. 13. We NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 85 13. We have the Honour to inform the Committee, that the ratified Treaty, No. if. ■with the explanatory Articles, was interchanged with his Highnefs the Nabob continued. Azeem ul Doulah, on the 16th Ultimo, under every Circumftance of public Refpcct fuited to the Importance of the Occafion. 14. We entertain a juft Senfe of the Honour which the Governor General in Council has conferred on us, by the Expreffion of his Excellency's public Thanks on the Occafion of executing this Treaty; and we have afTured his Excellency, that ■we confider the Manner in which his Sentiments have been conveyed to us, highly honourable to the Adminiftration of the Affairs of this Government. 15. Reflecting on the Progrefs and Termination of this Tranfaction, Lord Clive deemed it his Duty to bellow that Tribute of Praife which is due to Mr. Webbe and to Lieutenant Colonel Clofe. His Lordfliip confidered himfelf fortu- nate, that Circumftances permitted him to employ the Services of thofe Gentle- men, according to the Wiflies of the Governor General, in the oral Examinations taken at Vellore and Seringapatam, and that he fliould be enabled, at a fubfequent Period of Time, to avail himfelf of the fame Services in the Conduct 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 Lordfliip attaches to the confident Form preferved by thofe Means, in the Progrefs of the Tranfadtion, and to the peculiar Advantage derived from the Employment of European Gentle- men of Honour, eminently qualified by their Knowledge of Eaflern Manners and Languages, Eo conduit an Affair of fo much Delicacy. 17. Lord Clive knew that it was unneceflary for his Lordfliip to direct the Attention of the Governor General to the Merits of Lieutenant Colonel Clofe and Mr. Webbe ; but his Lordfliip felt it to be no lefs an Act of Juflice, than of perfonal Satisfaction, to exorefs to his Excellency in Council his Lordfhip's high Senfe and Approbation of the Temper, Judgment, and Ability manifefted by thofe Gentlemen in the Accomplifhment of an Arrangement, by which the Government, acting under the Authority of the Governor General in Council, has been enabled to adjuft: the Affairs of the Carnatic in a Manner fo honourable and advantageous to the Company and the Nation. 18. Lord Clive having, in concert with his Highnefs the Nabob, and in conformity to the Inftructions of his Excellency the Governor General in Council, framed an Arrangement for the Support of the Families of the Nabobs Mahommed Ally andOmdut ul Omrah, and for the Maintenance of the principal Officers of the late Government, has communicated to us the Plan propoled by his Lordfliip; in which we entirely concur. 19. We have the Honour of tranfmitting a Copy of Lord Ciive's feparare Minute for the Information of the Committee; who will have the Satisfaction of obferving, that the total Amount of the pecuniary Stipends, Penfions, and Eftablifhments, is lefs than the Sum provided by the Treaty of 1792, for the Family Jagheers of the late Nabobs; and that the ftated Principle of Diftinction, while it fecures a liberal Support to every Branch of the Family, will neceflarily produce a gradual Diminution of the total Expence to be incurred by the Com- pany. Y From Z6 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. n. continued. From Marquis Welleslev to the Secret Committee ; dated 21 October 1801, To the Honourable the Secret Committee of the Honourable the Court of Directors. Honourable Sirs, Par. 1 . — AT the Moment of clofing my Letters intended for the prefent Difpatch 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 Conclufion and Exchange of Engagements between the Honourable Company and his High- nefs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, in conformity to the Directions contained in the Orders of the Governor General in Council to the Government of Fort St. George, under Date the 1 3th of Auguft (a Copy of which accompanied my Dif- patch (D), dated the 28th September by the Georgiana Packet), and enclofing for my Ratification two explanatory Articles, framed according to the Inftruftions of the 1 8th Auguft; which Articles had been executed by the Right Honourable the Governor in Council and his Highnefs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah. 2. Being abfent from the Prefidency of Fort William, on my Progrefs 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 tranfmit, 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 Highnefs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, together with all the Documents con- nected with the Subject of this important Arrangement. 4. By thofe Difpatches your Honourable Committee will be apprized of the State of the Negociation with his Highnefs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah at the Period of Time when thofe Documents were tranfmitted. Your Honourable Committee will certainly receive a Communication of the Refult of the late Nego- ciation with his Highnefs, from the Right Honourable the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, by the Ships under Difpatch from that Prefidency, together with Copies of his Lordihip's Addrefs 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 earlieft 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 tranfmit by the prefent Difpatch Overland the following Documents : — Copy of a Letter from the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, dated 31ft July i3ci : Copy of the Treaty concluded with his Highnefs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah, tranfmitted in the foregoing : Copy of a Letter from the Governor General in Council, dated the 18th Auguft : Memorandum of the propofed Modification of the Treaty with his Highnefs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah : Copy u NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 87 Copy of a Letter from the Right Honourable the Governor in Council of Fort No. 1 r. St. George, dated 2 ad September : continued. Copy of the Explanatory Articles enclofed in the foregoing. 6. I requeft your Honourable Committee to accept my Congratulations on the Conclufion of an Arrangement, which, while it is highly creditable to the Juftice and Moderation of the Britifh Character, has happily eftabliftied the Rights and interefts of the Honourable Company in the Carnatic upon the fecure and perma- nent Foundations of territorial PoiTefiion, of excluiive Civil and Military Govern- ment, and of undivided Influence and Power. — It is a great Satisfaction to have ultimately accomplifhed an Object, long and anxioufly defired by the Honourable Company, and earneftly recommended by the Court of Directors to my fpeciai Attention, when I had the Honour to receive the Charge of this Government. Your Honourable Committee is apprized of the early Solicitude which I manifefted for the Accomplifliment of this important Meafure, upon my firft Arrival at Madras in the Month of April 1798, as well as of the repeated Attempts which I made on various Occafions in the Years 1798 and 1799, to effect the fame falutary Arrange- ment; the fucceffive Failure of thefe Attempts, combined with the Reflections arifing from the equally unpropitious Refuit of every preceding Proportion of a fimilar Nature, have enhanced in my Mind the Pleafure of witnefilng the Conclu- fion of the late Treaty. The intimate Connexion of this happy Event, with the Suc- cefs of your Arms in Myfore, forms a peculiar and interesting Feature of the whole Tranfaction ; nor can your Honourable Committee fail to remark, that the Poffef- fion of the Records of the Houfe of Hyder Alii, in difclofing to your Government the whole Syftem 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 Introduction into the Carnatic of the wife and benevolent Syftem of Government, to which thefe Provinces are indebted for their prefent Haopinefs and Profperity, will be the next Object of my Anxiety and Care. The Union of all local Authorities, and the Extinction of every Principle of conflicting Power, will preclude the Operation of thole Caufes ofDifcord and Counteraction, which mud ever have impeded the Progrefs of good Government in the Carnatic, while the Adminiftration of Affairs continued in the Hands of the Nabob. 8. I confider it to be a mod grateful Part of my Duty to exprefs to your Honourable Committee the high Senfe which I entertain of the Zeal, Judgment, and Temper, which has diftinguifhed the Conduct of Lord Clive, and of the Go- vernment of Fort St. George, during the whole Courfe of thole important Tranf- aclions, and arduous Negociations, which have terminated in a Manner fo advan- tageous to the Interefts of the Honourable Company in India, 9. To his Lordlhip's judicious Exercife of the Powers veiled in him by my Authority for the Settlement of the Affairs of the Carnatic, is principally to be afcribed the Succefs of thofe Meafures which the Treachery and Ingratitude of their late Highnefies the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah, compelled me to adopt for the Prefervation of the Rights and Interefts of the Honourable Com- pany in that Country. 10. Juftice to the Merits of Mr. Webbe, Chief Secretary to Government at Fort St. George, and of Lieutenant Colonel Clofe, late Refident in Myfore, re- quires 88 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. i r. quires me to exprefs to your Honourable Committee my cordial and grateful Ap- cmtinued. probation of the important Services rendered by thofe Gentlemen to the Public, during the Courfe of the late Tranfactions and Negociations at Fort St. George. The Affiftance which Lord Clive has derived from the Zeal, Talents, and Know- ledge of Mr. Webbe and of Lieutenant Cok.nel Clofe, contributed in an effential Degree to the Succefs of his Lordfhip's Meafures for the Arrangement of Affairs in the Carnatic. ii. The Difcretion manifefted by thofe Gentlemen in the Conduct of the Examination of Gholaum Alii and Alii Rezza, inftituted by the Government of Fort St. George under my Orders of the 7th April 1 800, under Circumftances of peculiar Delicacy and Difficulty, deferves the higheft Applaufe. 12. I acknowledge with Gratitude the Affiftance which I received from the Abilities and local Knowledge of Mr. Webbe, whom I directed to attend me at Fort William, for the Purpofe of aiding me in framing the Syl'cem of Meafures to be adopted for the future Adminiftration of Affairs in the Carnatic, in confequence of the detected Treachery of their late Highnefies the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdutul Omrah. 13. The eminent Services of Lieutenant Colonel Clofe, have already attract- ed the diftinguifhed Notice of the Honourable Company. 14. The Obligations of public Duty, and the mofl indifpenfable Rules cf Juftice, concur to demand from me a recorded Teftimony in favour of the inde- fatigable Activity, of powerful Abilities, and proved Integrity of Mr. Webbe, who adds to thofe Qualities a molt accurate Knowledge of the oriental Languages, and an intimate Acquaintance with every Branch of your Affairs in the Peninfula. 15. In confirming the honourable Teftimony afforded by the Rig''t Honour- able the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, in his Lordfhip's Addrefs to this Government, under Date the 2 2d ultimo, to the public Merits and Services of Mr. Webbe and Lieutenant Colonel Clofe, on the important Occafion which attracted his Lordfhip's Approbation, I confider it to be incumbent on me to folicit the fpecial Attention of your Honourable Committee, and of the Court of Directors, to the unremitting Exertions of Mr. Webbe in the Service of the Ho- nourable Company, fince the Commencement of the late War in Myfore ; being fatisfied, through the regular public Channels of Information, as well as by my perfonal Obfcrvation, that the laborious Induftry of that Gentleman has been employed in the mod difinterefted Zeal, and with great Succefs, to render himfelf an useful Inflrument, under the Government of Fort St. George, of pro- moting the'Tnterefls of the Honourable Company, of fecuring the Integrity and Vigour of the Adminiftration of Government, ofimoroving the Condition of our Native Subjects in the Peninfula, and of augmenting the Reputation and Honour of the Britifh Name in every Part of the extenfive Dominions fubject to the Pre- ficlency of Fort St. George. 16. By the next Pifpatch I hope to be able to tranfmit to your Honourable Commirteea detailed Review of the Caufes, and a Profpect of the probable Con- fequences, of the Settlement of the Carnatic. I have 'he Honour to be, Honourable Sirs, with the greateft Refpcct, Patna, 1 Your moft obedient and faithful Servant, nftOct. iSoi.J (Signed) WELLESLEY. */ // // v/V* NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 89 No. 12. Copy of ORDERS published to the Settlement of Fort St. George, dated 31ft July 1801, relative to the Treaty between the Company and Azeem ul Dowlah. Revenue Department. PROCLAMATION. I. WHEREAS the Object of the Connexion fubfifting between the Honour- able Company and their Highnefles, heretofore Nabobs of the Carnatic, was in- tended to cement the Union and Alliance between the Contracting Parties, and to eftablifh, on a folid Foundation, the Security and Rights of the faid Con- tracting Parties in the Territories of the Carnatic: And whereas the feveral En- gagements concluded for that Purpofe, have failed to anfwer the Intention of the Contracting Parties, whereby the Form of Government throughout the Pro- vinces of the Carnatic has been fubjefted to Changes injurious to eftablifhed Opinions, to general Confidence, and to permanent Profperity : And whereas the Munfub of the Soubadarry of the Territories of Arcot having become va- cant, his Highnefs the Nabob Walajah Ameer ul Omrah, Madar ul Mulk, Ameer ul Hind, Azeem ul Dowlah, Shewkul Jung Sepah, Salar Anwerodeen Khan Behauder, has fucceeded by the hereditary Rights of his Father, and by the full Acknowledgment of the Honourable Company, to the PofTefTion of the laid Munfub: — Wherefore his faid Highnefs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder, and the faid Company, being defirous of correcting fuch Errors as have been heretofore introduced into the Government of the Carnatic, and of fupplying the Defects of all former Engagements between the faid Contracting Parties ; and being alfo 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 Interefts of the State, on a broad and (table Foundation, have mutually, and of their own Accord, agreed, by a Treaty bearing Date the 31ft July 1801, that all former Provifions for fecuring a partial or temporary Interference on the Part of the Honourable Company in the Government, or in the Adminiftration of the Re- venues of the Carnatic, fhall be entirely annulled ; and that in lieu thereof a per- manent Syftem for the Collection of the Revenue, and for the Adminiftration of Civil and Criminal Judicature, under the fole and undivided Authority of the Honourable Company, fhall be eftablilhed throughout every Village, Purgunnah, and Province, of the entire Territories of the Carnatic. 1. Now Proclamation is hereby accordingly made to all Zemindars, Jaggeerdars, Talookdars, Polygars, Cavilgars, and Inhabitants of every Defcription of the Car- natic, that the Honourable Company have, by theTreaty above mentioned, acquired a perfect Right to afcertain, determine, and eftablifh Rights of Property, to fix a reafonable AiTefiment upon the feveral Purgunnahs and Villages of the Carnatic, and to fecure a fixed and permanent Revenue, to be collected and accounted for by fuch Officers as fhall from Time to Time be appointed for that Purpofe by the faid Company. And it is further publifhed and declared, that the faid Company have alfo acquired a perfect Right to eftablifh Courts for the due Ad- Z miniftration 9 o PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. id. miniftration of Civil and Criminal Judicature, under the fole Authority of the continued, faid Company, which faid Courts fhall be conducted by Officers to b- appointed from Time to Time by the faid Company, under fuch Ordinances and Regula- tions as (hall fiom Time to Time be enacted and publifhed by the Governor in Council of Fort St. George. 3. And whereas his faid Highnefs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder has diverted himfelf, by the Treaty above mentioned, of all Controul, Authority, or Interference in the Collection of the Revenue, or in the Adminiftration 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 fame accordingly. And it is hereby farther proclaimed and declared, that the Engagement now entered into between the Contracting Parties for the Purpofes above mentioned, are unconditional, and liable to no Change whatever. Therefore the faid Zemindars, Jageerdars, Talookdars, Polygars, Cavilgars, and Inhabitants of the Carnatic, are required to take Notice, that the Rioht and Power of fixing and collecting the Revenue, as well as of adminifter- irig Civil and Criminal Judicature throughout the Provinces, Purgunnahs, and Villages of the Carnatic, are veiled in the faid Company alone, as long as the Sun and Moon (hall endure. 4. Wherefore all Zemindars, Jageerdars, Talookdars, Polygars, Cavilgars, Officers, and Inhabitants of the Carnatic, are feverally and collectively required, by virtue of the Rights and Powers acquired to the faid Company by Compact with the prefent lawful Nabob of the Carnatic, his Highnefs the Nabob Azeem ul Dowlah Behauder, to yield due Obedience to fuch Officers as may be appointed, and to fuch Ordinances or Laws as may be enacted by the faid Company alone, for the Adminiftration and Government of the Territories of the Carnatic, and in all Time to come. 5. Although die Right Honourable the Governor in Council trufts that the Ex- perience which the Inhabitants of the Carnatic have already had, will have ren- dered it unnecefi'ary for his Lordfbip to explain the general Principles of Modera- tion, Juftice, Protection and Security, which form the characteristic Features of the Britifh Government; yet his Lordfhip, in accepting the facred Truft trans- ferred to the Company by the prefent Engagements, invites the People of the Carnatic to a ready and chearful Obedience to the Authority of the Company, in a confident Aflurance of enjoying, under the Protection of public and defined Laws, every juft and afcertained civil Right, with a free Exercife of the religious Institutions and domeftic Ufages of their Anceftors. By Order of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council. (Signed) J. IVebbe, Chief Secretary to Governm'. Fort St. George,? (A true Copy) 31ft July 1 80 1. J Jn Usdgsoii, Sec J to Gov'. NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 91 No. 13. INFORMATION fubmitted to the Honourable Houfc of Commons, in obedience to fcveral Orders dated nth June 1802 : Stating Reafons why the fame have not been fully complied with. THE Papers required by the 3d Order, are prefumed to be contained in the Documents numbered 1 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 fame Document, Page 15. The Atteftation of the Mahomedan Lawyers, and of the Families of the Na- bobs Mahomed Alii and Omdut ul Omrah, required by the 6th Order, have not been transmitted to the Court of Directors by the Government of Fort St. George; nor has the Correfpondence required by the 8th Order, or the Proceedings and Minutes required by the 13th Order, or the feparate Minutes required by die 15th, 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. NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 93 No. 14. Copy of the AFFIDAVIT of the Fhyfician of the late Nabob of Arcot, on the State of His Highnefs's Health j dated 2 2d June 1801. MAURICE FITZGERALD, Efquire, Fhyfician to his Highnefs the Nabob of the Carnatic, having been apprized by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Clive, Governor in Council of Fort St. George, of his Lordfhip's Defire to communicate to the Nabob of the Carnatic the Arrival of a Difpatch from the Mod Noble the Governor General in Council, involving Confiderations of great Importance relative to the Affairs of the Carnatic, and of the Government of Fort St. George; and the faid Mr. Fitzgerald being farther informed, that it is the Intention of Lord Clive to folicit the Nabob's Appointment of an early Pe- riod of Time for the Confideration of the Object of that Difpatch, unlefs the Medical Gentlemen attending his Highnefs's Perfon fliould be of Opinion that fuch a Communication would be attended with Confequences injurious to the State of his Highnefs's Health : Declares upon Oath, That although from the attual State of his Highnefs's Illnefs, he the faid M. Fitzgerald cannot take upon himfelf to fwear, that the Communication of Lord Clive's Intentions above de- fcribed would produce Effects immediately dangerous to the Exiftence of the Nabob; yet, as a Profeffional Man, he can have no Doubt, and accordingly de- clares on Oath, his Belief that the Knowledge of the Arrival of Difpatches from the Governor General, ferioufly affeding the Interefls of the Carnatic, would tend to aggravate and inflame the dangerous Symptoms which now threaten his Highnefs's Life. (Signed) M. Fitzgerald. Sworn before me 1 at Fort St. George, > this 22d June 1S01. J (Signed) Clive. Witneffes prefent, , c - n { A. Grant. Signed) \ ., „,.,, I M. Wins. 54 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 15. Copy of the EXAMINATION of certain Perfons, taken before M efts. Webbe and Close, at Vellore and Seringapatam, in the Month of May 1 800, by Order of Marquis Wellesley. Vellore, 3d May 1800. ALLY REZZA having been required by Lieutenant Colonel Doveton to attend the Commiffioners, is accordingly introduced, and is informed of the Orders of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, and of his Lordfhip's Authority committed to the Commiffioners, for the Purpofe of conducting an Enquiry into certain Tranfactions of great Importance, connected with the Interefts of the Honourable Company. Previously to the Commencement of his Examination, the following introduc- tory Explanation having been tranflated into the Perfian Language, is read, and explained to Ally Rezza. " The Confideration which the Englifh Company has fhewn to the Family of Tippoo Sultaun, and to the Dependants of his Government, muft have manifested to all Defcriptions of Perions the Liberality and Moderation by which it has been always guided ; and it muft be equally evident, that having confulted the Claims of Humanity, as well as the Dignity of its own Character, in this diftinguifhed Manner, the Englifh Government would meet, with the utmoft Degree of Regret and Concern, any Neceffity which fhould compel it to modify the Arrangements which have been made for the Comfort and Happinefs of the Dependants of the late Tippoo Sultaun. '* It is however not inconfiftent with this Magnanimity, that the Britifh Govern- ment fhould exact from thofe who have accepted its Bounty, the Duties of Attach- ment and Truth, in all Matters connected with its Interefts ; and it requires no Explanation to fhew, that as the Britifh Government has the Generofity to for- give, fo, if neceffary, it porTeiTes the Power to punim thofe 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, fecret, and confidential, of the Government of Tippoo Sultaun, fell into the Hands of the Conquerors ; and, confidering the Caufes which produce the Neceffity of the late War, it will be obvious to you, that the Englifh Government has been inquifuive to difcover the Arrangements and Councils, by which it was the Intention of the late Sultaun to have effected his Purpofb of Enmi'y againft us. " This Enquiry has naturally led to the Difcovery of much important Matter, and many original Documents, plain as well as in cypher, relative to the Meafures and Intentions of the late Sultaun. Some of thefe Meafures require the Explana- tion, which it is known to be in your Power to give : The Englifh Government has therefore appointed us to be Commiffioners for receiving this Information ; and it will be your Duty, as well as your very near Intereft, reflecting on what is already llatecl, to give a faithful and juft Explanation. From NABOB OF THE CARNAT1C. 95 From the Treatment which you have already experienced, it will be evident to No. 15. you that the Britifh Government places too juft a Value on the Obfervance of continued. Fidelity, to impute to the Servants of the late Sultaun any Blame for being the Channel of executing his Orders or Meafures. According to the eftablifhed Practice of the Law of Nations ; according to the Principles of Juftice and Reafon, Servants are not held to be refponfible for executing the Orders of their Sovereigns, as far as they may be confident with the Public Law, by which the lntercourfe between Independant States is regulated ; you may therefore rely on a liberal Conftruction of your Condudt by the Britifh 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, unlefs by Prevarication, or any treacherous Attempt to conceal the Truth, you fhould render yourfelf 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 ConfiJeration and Relpect which is becoming the Occafion." Ally Rezza acknowledges that he comprehends and feels the Force and Mean- ing of the foregoing Exhortation, and having himfelf perufed it in the Perfian Lan- guage, profefles his entire Readinefs and Defire to anfwer all Queftions, and to give all Information which may be required, to the beft of his Power and Know- ledge. The Commiflioners proceed to the Examination of Ally Rezza. The Papers marked (Nos. 14 and 15,) in the Correspondence tranfmitted from Bengal, having been produced and read to the Witnefs, are immediately recog- nized by him. Queftion. What did Omdut ul Omrah communicate to you in the fecret Meeting which you held with him in the Garden, fubfequently to the 23d July '793 ? Anfwer. Omdut ul Omrah informed the Vakeels, of the probable Rupture between the French and the Englifh, and of the confequent Attack on Pondi- cherry; he Rated, 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 Walaj-h, from his Attachment to the Faith, made this Communication to prevent any Indifpofition between Tippoo Sultaun and the Company; thatthefe Sentiments were communicated from a Regard to the Welfare of Tippoo Saltaun. He recommended, that after the Departure of the Hoftages, the Sultaun fhould appoint an Ambaflador at Madras, which would be attended with the beft Confe- quences, and Mated that this was not communicated from any Partiality to the Englifh, but from good Wifhes towards Tippoo Sultaun. Q^_ What were the particular Expreflions 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 Prefence of your Mafter? A. Having repeated the Subftance of his Anfwer to the preceding Queftion, Ally Rezza was about to explain the Expreffion of the " Affair known," which 9 5 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. ij, is mentioned in the laft Paragraph of Papers (Nos. 14 and 15,) but was inter- coniinued. rupted. Q. What Anfwer did Tippoo Sukaun return to the faid Communication from Omdut ul Omrah, and through what Channel was that Anfwer tranfmittedf A. The Sukaun replied, that the Vakeels were Perfons of Ability and Informa- tion, and would conduct their Affairs for the Benefit of the Sircar. The Vakeels communicated the MeiTage after their Arrival in the Prefence, that no immediate Obfervation was made upon it; that Nine Days after they fell under the Difpleafure of the Sukaun, and that the Intercourfe between them and the Sukaun was in confequence discontinued. The only fubfequent Communication was on the Subject of a Letter from Bengal, relative to the Releafe of the Englifh Prifoners, and to the War between England and France. Tippoo Sukaun, notwithstanding the Contents, fully directed him (Ally Rezza) to prepare an Anfwer, and fend it to the Prefence that it might be difpatched. Q^ Did Tippoo Sukaun return any Anfwer to the Letters, Nos. 14 and 15 ? A. Yes. He directed us to enquire into the Particulars of the Affair, to repre- fent them after our Arrival, when he would act according to Propriety. Q:_ Have you any Recollection of receiving from Tippoo Sukaun, a Letter di- recting you to commit to Writing, and to tranfmit to the Prefence, the Communi- cations of Omdut ul Omrah ? A. No. He wrote nothing more than the above. He (Ally Rezza) fays, that at the Departure of the Vakeels, Omdut ul Omrah made Three Obeifances; and directed them to affure the Sukaun of his (Omdut ul Omrah's) Regard, and to advife him not to break with the Englifh ; that he fhould not confider this Communication to be a Deviation from the Principles of their Religion, but that the true Ifiam confilted in preferving Unity with the Englifh. [The Paper (No 13,) is produced.] Q^ Do you recollect this Letter ? A. Yes; and he wrote befides to the above Effect. Q State the Nature and Object of the Agreement, which was eftabliihed through you, between the Nabob Wallajah and Tippoo Sukaun ? A. At the Time of the Departure of Lord Cornwallis, his Lordfhip defired me to proceed to Seringapatam, and to communicate to the Sukaun much Matter of Advice, containing Obfervations on the State of Holtility, which had been protracted for a long Time, from the early Defcent of Hyder Ally into the Car- natic, and the Action of Colonel Baillie : That Lord Cornwallis wifhed the Sukaun to preferve the Relations of Peace and Friendfhip ; and defired that Ally Rezza fliould proceed from Madras to Seringapatam, to reprefent verbally and fully the Subject of this Difcourfe. That at the fame Time the Nabob Wallajah alfo made fimilar Obfervations, with Profefilons of his friendly Difpofition towards the Sultaun. On his Arrival at Seringapatam, he (Ally Rezza) rcprefented the Whole of Difcourfe, and, according to the Orders of the Sultaun, committed it to Writ- ing, which was delivered to him (the. Sultaun) : That Tippoo Sukaun wrote an Anfwer ,/ from Madras. Is A BO B OF THE C A R N A T I C. 97 Anfwer to Lord Cornwallis, profefling his Difpofition and Wifh to preferve Peace No. 15. ■and Friendfhip ; that the Letter was very full on this Point, and was accompanied continued, bv Prefenrs to Lord Cornwallis, Governor Oakeley, Mr. Cherry, 6cc. Me (Tippoo Sultaun) alfo lent Letters to the Nabob Wallajah certainly; b the Witnefs does not recoiled: whether any were fent to Omdut til Omrah. Q. In the preceding Queftion, you were defired to explain the Nature of the Agreement eftablifhed between Tippoo Sultaun and the Nabob Wallajah; in your Anfwer you have not done fo? A. The Agreement was to preferve the Friendfliip eftablifhed between the Two Durbars, the Knglifh and Tippoo Sultaun, as well as the Intercourfe of Civility and Attention. Befides this the Nabob Wallajah, at the Time of taking Leave, prefented 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 Prefervation of Friendfhip, Peace, and Attention. A Copy of this Letter was delivered to the Vakeels, which they opened at Conditoor*, and were furprifed to find, that it * Two Stages contained nothing more than the ordinary Expreffions of Friendfhip, and a Lift of the Prefents. The Letter was delivered to the Sultaun. The Nabob informed the Vakeels, that it was his HighnelVs Wifh fo grant a Jagheer for the private Expences of the Princes, as well as of the Vakeels : They replied, that it was contrary to the Cuftoms of their Government to receive thofe Jagheers; but that they fhould -reprefent this Wifh of his Highnefs, on their Arrival at Seringapatam. Q^ Did you, according to the Sultaun's Orders, commit to Writing the Matter of a fecret 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 ProfeiTions of Regard, ■which had been communicated by Omdut ul Omrah. Having again referred to Nos. 14 and 15, and 13, the Witnefs is afked what Anfwer he gave the Sultaun ? A. That he had been enjoined at his Departure to poftpone the Communication until his Arrival at Seringapatam, and that he would accordingly represent it in the Prefence. Q^ Why did Omdut ul Omrah defer this Communication till your Departure ? And why did he exadt an Oath of Secrecy on the Communication of this Regard and Friendfhip for the Sultaun ? A. Perhaps from Apprehenfions that this Intercourfe fhould be known, and give Difpleafure to the Englifh. Q. Did he exact a formal Oath i A. No; he conjured us. Q_ It appears that the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah ftated, in the Prefence of Englifh Gentlemen, their Regard and Friendfhip for Tippoo Sultaun : Why fhould they be fo anxious to conceal it in the private Meeting? A. He repeats the fame Anfwer, and can give no orher Explanation. The Paper (No. ij,) is again produced and read. B b <^ Reconcile 9$ PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 15. Q^ Reconcile the Formality of the Proceeding defcribed at the Mofque, with coHtmuak t he mere Profefllons of Friendfhip ? A. He acknowledges that the Formality may be confidered preparatory to more important Matter ; but nothing paffed except Profefllons of Regard, the Pro- priety of keeping up a friendly Intercourfe, and an Offer of fettling fome Mur.fbori theinfelves, which they declined in a fuitable Manner. Q^ During your Refidence at Madras, did you underftand that there was any Reftraint on the Intercourfe of the Nabobs Waiiajah and Omdut ul Omrah with the Plottages, or with the Vakeels? A. There was no Reftraint, they had but four or five Meeting?, which were with Major Doveton's previous Knowledge. Q^ Did Major Doveton know of the Meeting at the Mofque ? A. No; the Vakeels told him that they were going to the Mofque 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 firft Meeting with Omdut ul Omrah at the Mofque, that he had nothing to communicate but Profefllons cf Friendship, why did the Vakeels depart from their eftablifhed Cuftom by concealing from Major Doveton the intended Meeting at the Garden ? A. As the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah intimated a Wifii of feeing them pri- vately, they thought that the Prefence of Major Doveton would be embarrafllng to his Highnefs. At my Departure from Seringapatam on my Return to Madras, Tippoo Sultaun communicated to me his Defire of forming a Connexion by Marriage between his own Family and that of the Nabob Waiiajah. 1 his MeiTage I delivered by the Sultaun's Orders to Gholam Ally Khan; and on our meeting at the Garden a fecond Time I withdrew ; a Converfation took place between Omdut ul Omrah and Gholam Ally Khan. From him I afterwards underftocd that the Agitation of the Affair was fufpended, until the entire Com- pletion of the Treaty of Seringapatam, and the Releafe of the Hoftages, in order that the Difpofiticn of the Sultaun might be well afcertained at the Difrance of fome Time ; that in the mean while there was neither a pofitive Defire nor Indif, ofuion exprefied by the Nabob Waiiajah for this Connexion. The Propoial was firft made from the Sultaun ; and as it paffed in the Lifetime of the Nabob Waiiajah, I conclude that the Anfwer of Omdut ul Omrah was with his Knowledge. After the Return of the Vakeels to Seringapatam, they . undei the Difpleafure of tiic Sultaun; and I underitood that Gholam Ally Sud '-'.' an I Pooniah weie deputed to Ghi la \A lly Khan, to aicertain wh.it IVo- f-refs had been made in the Affair of the Connexion, wiibing at the fame Time \ Gholam lly Khan Should give a Letter on that Subject, to Omdut ul Omrah. This Letter r. to have been granted, but does not know. (X Did any Orders pafs from the Sultaun on the Subject, of the Marriage b<.;< . irn to Seringapatam from Madras? A. No. This Que 1 1 fore. On my Arrival at Seringapatam, Tippoo Sultauii enquired of me the Particulars relative to the Children of \ lajan. 11 •, zza, of himfelf ftati , That the Nabob Waiiajah communicated in the rn £1 ! to witnefs, his Entreaty to the Sultaun, that fhould 1 ' with the Englifb, and that he fljouJd- adhere to Friend Q, The NABOB OF THE CARN ATI C. 99 Q. The Propoful of Marriage having been made in the firlt Inftance on the No. i 5. Part of the Sultaun, it was certainly Evidence of his Wifn to cultivate a good continued. Understanding with the Nabob Wallajah's Family. It is extraordinary therefore that the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, on making a fimple Propofuion of Friendfliip, (hould doubt the Sultaun's Acquiefcence, and Should on that Doubt poftpone the final Communication of his Sentiments until the Anfwer of the Sultaun fliould be received ? A. He (Ally Rezza) acknowledges that the Propofuion for the Marriage was an Indication of entire and cordial Friendfliip. But although he understood from Gholam Ally Khan, that the Nabob Wallajah was difpofed to this Connexion, he yet learned from others that the Cafe was different ; he therefore conjectures that the Nabob fhewed a Defire of Ample Friendfliip, without Reference to the Mar- riage. Q, When the Nabob Wallajah made his Propofition of Ample Friendfliip, re- quiring an Anfwer, how did it happen that the Vakeels, who were in Pofleffion of the Sultaun's Orders to effect a much more intimate Connexion, did not Satisfy •the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah of the Disposition of the Sultaun, without farther Reference to Seringapatam? A. A Propofition of Marriage being of a very delicate Nature among MmTu!- mans, and confined in this Inftance to Gholam Alii Khan only, it was not proper for both Vakeels to interfere on this Subject; the Converfation was entire!; c< n- fined between Omdut ul Omrah and Gholam Alii Khan at the Garden ; when they took Leave at parting, Ally Rez,za ftates of himfelf, 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 feparate Converfation with Gholam Ally Khan, which he fuppofes to have related to the Propofition of the Marriage. Q__ Were you, or were you not, en Terms of confidential Communication with Gholam Ally Khan, relative to the Progrefs of this Affair of the Marriage ? A. I was ; and heard from Gholam Ally Khan, that the Nabob Wallajah had confented, although I undcrftood from other Quarters that this was not the Cafe. Q^ Both Vakeels being (a? is Stated in your Anfwer) in confidential Communi- tion relative to the Point of the Marriage; how did it happen that they did not take on themfelves to fatisfy rhe Doubts expreffed by the Nabob Wallajah, in or- der to promote the Wifhes of the Sultaun; there being no Impediment to a proper Communication either between the Vakeels themfelves, or between Gholam Ally Khan and Omdut ul Omrah ? A. Having obferved the Doubts of the Nabob with refpefl to the Dil'pofition of the Sultaun, I took Occafion to fuggefl 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 pofitive Proof of the Sultaun's Difpofition evinced in his Propofal 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 Highnefs to that Effect, tnd that his Highnefs had aequiefeed. The Witnefs repeats that he had heard from others, that the Nabob Wallajah was averfe to this Connexion. Q. As the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah acquiefced in the Arguments of Gholam Ally Khan, why did it become neceffary to apply for a further Declaration of the Sultaun's Difpofition, on the Propofition of fimple Friendfliip? A. I conceive that there are Two different Questions, one of the Marriage, the other of fimple Friend d the Vakeels thought it neceffary to addrefs the Sultaun en that Pofnt. Q Li 300 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. i 5. C^_ In the Paper (No. 14,) the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah is ftatcd to commum- cailinuea. cate his Wifh of difcovering a Matter of Secrecy, and accordingly a Secret Meet- ing was contrived for that Purpofe. By your foregoing Anfwers, the Refuk of this Propofition i , nothing more than a fimple Propofition of Friendfhip, connected v ith a Doubt of its being received by the Nabob Tippoo Sukaun. At the very fame Time that this Doubt is dated, the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, is (aid to have been reminded of the Proof of the Sultaun's Difpofition, contained in h ; s Propofal of Marriage, and (according to Gholam Ally Khan) to have acquiefced in the Arguments. It is extraordinary that Omdut ul Omrah mould require fo much Secrecy in declaring his Wifh of cultivating the Friendfhip of Tippoo Sukaun; and it is inooafiftent with Reafon that he mould doubt this Proof of the Sultaun's Difpo- t:on at the Moment of his endeavouring to difcover ir. This Explanation of Omdut ul Omrah's Propofition cannot be therefore reconciled with the Expla tion which has been given; for as the reftettive Propofitions of Marriage, and of fimple Friendfhip, did not depend on each other, either the Doubt of Omdut ul Omrah muft have been without foundation, or the Neceffity of farther Reference to the Sukaun under the Appearance of Secrecy, mull refer to other Matter ? Mem. — The foregoing Queftion is explained and ftated in every Point of View to Ally Rezza, with a ferious Warning to confider it, and to declare the Truth. A- He acknowledges the Inconfiftency, but takes God to witnefs in the moil jfolemn Manner, that nothing paffed at the Mofque with his Knowledge, fave the Communication between Omdut ul Omrah and Gholam Ally Khan, en the Sub- ject of the Marriage, the Declaration of Omdut ul Omrah's Defire of cultivating Tippoo Sultaun's Friendfhip, and his Offer for eftablifhing Jagheers and Munfubs for the Princes and the Vakeels. Q. You have ftated, that on purfuing the Copy of the Letter delivered to you through the Means of Sir Charles Oakeley, you were furprized to find that it con- tained nothing but Expreffions of Civility, and a Lift of Prefents. What did you expect the Eetter to contain ? A. i expe&ed that the Letter would relate to the Propofition of Marriage, or Friendfhip, or to the Jagheers or Munfubs. Q. What do you mean by the Expreffion in No. 14, " to redeem the Time » pad ?" A. That the Injuries of Enmity would be replaced by the Benefits of Friend- ship. 'I he Letter in Figure Cypher is now produced, and Ally Rezza acknow- ledges it to have been written by him. • Q. Was any other Cypher ufed in the Correspondence with Tippoo Sukaun? A. I do net recollect any other. ( •. ".hen was the Cypher delivered to you ? en I was returning from Seringapatam to Madras. CL For what purpofe was it given to you ? A. For the Purpofe of writing Intelligence and other Matters of a fecret Nature. The "Witnefs date?, that he once received a Letter in Cypher in Tippoo's own Hand writing, which could not be explained, ami was referred back to him. He alfo ftates, that the Sukaun was at the Ti ne extremely interefted in the French Affairs; and was defirous of obtaining Information reflecting then by every poifible Means; and he told the Vakeels fo, upbraiding them for not having tranfmitted Intelligence. Q^ Explain NABOB OF THE CAR NAT I C. 101 Q. Explain the Affair referred to in the lad Paragraph of No. 15 ; and date No. 15. how Omdut ul Omrah became the Means of laying the Foundation of ic ? continued. A. It refers to the Proposition of Marriage 5 and Ally Rez: ins, that it 1 of Tippoo Sultaun to obtain a Daughter either of Wallajah, or of Omdut ul Omrah, for Sultaun Moyen ul Dei The Affair was communicated to Omdut ul Omrah, and he was made the far- ther Inftrument of Communication to the Nabob Wallajah. Ally Rezza dates ol :ord, during this Part of the Examination, that he took Occafion of dating to General Harris (he believes through Captain Macleod) at Seringapatam, th iety which had been ex by Lord Corn- wallis, the Nabob Wallajah, and Omdut ul Omrah, that Tippoo fliould refrain 1 the Infra tidn of the Treaty, and fhould be induced to prtferve Fricr.dfhip and Cordiality with I iilh, as the only Means by which the Fortunes of his Houfe could be 11 -, and. that he (Ally Rezza) had explained thele SenSiments to 1 10 iultaun in vain. The Paper (No. 16) is produced and read. Q^ Was Omdut ul Omrah prefent at the Ceremony defcribed in this Letter ? A. No; the younger Sons of Walla 1 were' pr'efenr/. Q^ What was the Object of this Cerpmony ? A. He explains ; that it was a Practice of Tippoo Suitaun's to adminifter Oaths to his Servan:s, Dependants, and Officers of his Government, on the Points dated in the Paper, and that the Order was received by the Vakeels for fwearing thole at Madras, which was accordingly done in the Manner defcrib Q^_ Was it not to engage the Congregation prefent to adift the Khcdadad Sirkar, and to throw off their Allegiance to i ifh Government ? A. The Oaths were adminidered only to the Servants of the Khodadad Sirkar. The Difcourle was addreffed to all the Mufiulmafis prefent; a::d it is obvious, 'from the Letter itfelf, that the Intention was to ai ilmans to Tippoo Sultaun, and to reprove them tor adhering to thofe .'a different Perfuafion. He (Ally Rezza) adds, that he'divefts himfeif of'al'l iffictfky in making this Con- fefiion, fince it is the Object of zac prefent Enquiry to obtain the Truth. Q. Did the Nabob's Sons, who were prefent, join in the Prayer, that the Kho- dadad S:rkar might be triumphant and victorious? A. The Prater for Victory and Triumph refers entirely to the Servants of the Khodadad Sirkar. Q. Why did Tippoo Sultaun imagine that you might feel apprehenfive in fulfilling- his Orders refpecting this Ceremony ? A. Becaufe the Ceremony was to be performed in the Territories of a Foreign /Power, and becaufe the Nature of the Oatn adminidered to the Servants was ad- verle to thofe of a different Perfuafion. Q^ Was the Obligation and Engagement taken on that Day in the Mofoues Fr< m the Servants of Tippoo Sultaun only; or was it a general Union amon« thofe profefiing the Mahomedan Faith, relident at Madras ? A. No Perfon but toe Servants of the Khodadad Sirkar received the Oath. Q^ When did you leave Madras for Seringapatam ? A. On the aad Jaffer 1209 Ha'gry *. * A MHhke> Q^ how often did you go to Seringapatam ? to September .A. Once during the Reiidence of the Princes at Madras? „ r c O^ When 102 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. Q; When did you return to Madras ? . ; was abfent nearly Three Months, and returned about the iS or 19 of Jemrady ul (Jvol. The Paper, No. 7, is produced. Q^ Who was meant by the Term Well-wiiber of Mankind ? A. The Nabob Wailajah. Q^ Why was he diftinguifhed by that Name ? A. In confequence of a Defire expreffed by the Nabob Wailajah to be diftin- guifhed by that Epithet, in order to fhcw that he was not confined to any Party, bjt well-difpofed to all Mankind. Q^ What are the Points which could not be committed to Paper, and could only be communicated in Perfon ? A. To recapitulate, according to Lord Cornwall's Directions, the Courfe of hofcile Tranfaclion which had taken place from early Times between the Two Scares ; to infill on the Detention of the Prifoners by Tippoo Sul] 1 1, and his Cruelty towards them ; to inculcate the Necefiuy of a Reform in his Sentiments towards the Briti Nation, and to lay the Foundation of permanent Friendlhip, to be farther confirmed in Europe. Thefe Propofitions of Lord Cornwallis were confirmed by the Advice of the Na- bob Wailajah, founded on his long Experience and Age. Q^ What Sirdars are meant in the Paflage " At this Time the Friendlhip and cc Goodwill of bah the Sirdars is from God and the Royal Auipices ?" A. Lord Cornwallis and the Nabob Wailajah, Q^ Why could not thefe Points be committed to Writing at Madras, fince they were committed to Writing after your Arrival at Seringapatam ? A. The Time of paying the Kids had palled ; and the Prifoners were Mill de- tained ; it was with the Intention therefore of ufing my perfonal Influence with the Sultaun in thefe Points, fince all Writing had pr ved vain. Ally R.ezza Rates from himfelf, that about this Time he had received a I rt;er from Tiupoo Sultaun, mentioning that no Prifoners remained in his Dominions; that this Communication was in confequence made to the Britifh Government, but that in One Month Three Prifoners made their Ef ape and arrived. Q. 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 Hopped.. No. Q. Were you in the Habit of correfponding with the Nabobs Wailajah and Omdut ul Omrah, after your final Return to Seringapatam ? ' . No; there was Intercourie between thefe Nabobs and Tippoo Sultaun by ins of Letters, and of Mahomed Ghyaus and Mahomed Ghaus Kl Q. Were any other Perfons employed befides thofe Two Perfons as Vakeels at Madras ? A. I was under Confinement; but believe not. O. Did you at any Time receive Letters from the Nabobs Wailajah or Omdut ul Omrah, after your Departure to Seringapatam ? A ' N ° ne * Q, Did NABOB OF THE CAR N ATI C. ,03 Q^ Did you receive any verbal MelTages ? No. 15. A. None i I was confined. continued. CK Do you know whether the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ulO;r.rah ufed any Cypher in writing to Tippoo Sultaun ? A. I do not; I only recollect Two Letters from the Nabob Wallajah, and One to him from Tippoo Sultaun. [The Paper (No. 6,) is produced.] Q. Did you ever fee this Paper ? A. I have } it was tnftitutcd by Wallajah for Purpofes of fecret Communica- tion, and the Original I believe was written in Pencil by Kadir Nawas Khan, oj fome Perfon about the Nabob Wallajah. CK You fated that you knew but of One Cypher, and you acknowledge to have feen this Second Cypher now produced ? A. It is very true; but h this Pa intended for Purpofes of fecret Communication, it was of a different Description from what. I meant by the Cypher. To my Knowledge this Paper was not brought into Ufe, it having b< intended for Ule after the Departure of the Hoitages, in cafe of Necei Q^ Did you carry this Paper with you to Seringapatam, when you went with Tord Cornwaliis's Proportions ? 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 compofed for Communication between Tippoo Sukatfn and the Nabobs Wallajah and Omdut ill Omrah ; that a Copy ihould 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 ul Omrah, and it appears that Two Cyphers were eftablifned for the Purpofe cf fecret Communications. It is therefore very extraordinary, that lb much Trouble fhould have been taken to conceal Matters, which, if accomplished or known, muff, have tended to increafe the Friendfhip between Tippoo and the Britiih Nation ? A. I acknowledge another Inconfiftency between the Means ufed and the Pur- pofes already ftatcd, and that i;;ch an Inconfiftency does afford Ground for Sus- picion. With refpedt to the Second Paper, I do not know of its having been brought into Ufe ; and I call God to witnefs, that I am ready to meet any Ex- tremity which the Engiifli Government may choofe to inflict, if any Point was agitated with my Knowledge befides thofe already ftatcd. 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 ufed I 1 the Two Durbars. Ke (Ally Rezza) once took Occalion to of Gholam Ally Khan what was the Reafon c: this Attention to the Ob- ance of Secrecy in Affairs which were apparent] :ent. Gholam / Khan faid, that a certain Delicacy of Concealment (Hijalee) was to be obferved in the Affair of die Marriage. Q. You have ftatcd, that when you received frorr Ghol tm Ally Khan the Cvpher (No. 6,) you confidered it to be for Purpofes of fecret Communicati n. .-.'hat was your Idea of the Nature of the intended fecret Commi ions ? . I 104 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. i f. A. I concluded it to be for the Purpofe of ccr :he mention of any Affair ther relating to i . tm, or the-Mahrattas, or .... Q;_ A Paper of this Nature is generally prepared for fome particular Purpofe; for what particular Purpofe do you believe this Paper (No. 6,) to have been pre- d ? Mem. — Great Pai tave beei . ken to explain the above Queftion, Ally Pczza, after fully comprehending the Purport, and after due Confideration, ft; : A, That he conceived the P 0.6,) to have been prepared for Ufe, in cafe of any Neceffity whatever, but that it was not intended for any particular Purpofe. Q. It appears that all Intercourfe had been fufpende i for a long Time between the Durbar of id that of the Nabob Wallajah; that a Com- munication was 1 on the Conclusion of Peace, under great Sufpicions Doubts en the Part of the Nabobs V\ allajah and Omdut ul Omrah, with refpeel to the Difpofition of Tippoo Suitaun ; and although that Intercourfe is ftated to be n erely for a friendly Communication between the Two Durbars, yet the Nabobs Wallajar and Omdut ul Omrah put into the Hands of Tippoo Suitaun a con- fidential Paper, calculated to conduct hidden Correspondence of a general political ore. A. I acknowledge, that to an indifferent Perfon there are flrong Grounds to fufpeel, that more was intended than appears ; but I repeat, that 1 do not know of any particular Object for which the Paper (No. 6, ) was prepared. He (Ally Rezza) adds, that it was delivered by Kadir Naurs Kh.~n toGholam Ally Khan, between whom fome Communications pafftd, of which he (Ally Rezza) had no Knowledge. n — The foregoing Anfwer being judged inadequate to the V eight of the •Queftion which it follows, the Commiffioners think it neceffary to explain this Deficiency in the fulleft Manner , to refer Ally Rezza to the diftindt Explanations •contained in the Preamble, and to attract his feriou Attention to the Difficulty of this PafTage in the Examination. h a full Senfe of this ferious Exhortation, Ally Rezza repeats, that he has ed. every Thing within his Knowledge, on the Points ftated in the Examina- tion.; that the Inconuftencies pointed oat are obvious, but that he is unable to "ive a further Explanation of the . o i Q^ Do you attach any other Meaning to the Expreffion of " the Affair known " of" except that of the propofed • ? A. None whatever. If I had, I would have mentioned it. Mem. Here Ally Rezza infilled how much it would be adverfe to his Interefrs, and contrary to the Devotion he ow G m the Truth. The Fac Simile of the Indorfement on the Cypher (No. 6,) is | duced. Q^ Do you know this I land- writing? A. I do not. Q^ Where were you in the Month of Zawkry, of the Year Shaud 1 223, A . A. Under 1 ere at St 1 i am. Q^ Were you in the Habit of being in any Degree confultcd by Ti] Suitaun ? A. t was not confulted ; Tippoo Suitaun in in the Event of Omdut ul Omrah making ] NABOB OF THE CARN A TIC. «°S lira far Ally Rezza or Gholam Ally Khan, that they attended the Durbar No- 15. M / ' continued. as ufual. Q^ What was the Object of that Deputation ? A. I do not know; I was in Confinement. Q. Did you fend any Letters or Meffages by thofe Ambaffadors to the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah ? A. None. Q^ Did you receive any Letter or verbal Meffage by them from Omdut ul Omrah ? A. None. Q^ Did you receive any Letters from Kadir Nawas Khan ? A. None ; I had no Intercourfe. Q^ What were the Couplets which Tippoo Sultaun fent to you foon after your Arrival at Madras ? A. I have no Recollection of them, the Papers (Nos. 1 and 3,) are produced, Q^ Wfiat are the Couplets of which you acknowledge the Receipt ? A. Ally Rezza repeats the following Couplet, which was intended, he fays, to explain or ferve 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 ftated 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 Scringapatanr? A. It was firft delivered to me at that Time. Q^ If fo, it is impofTible that the Couplets can refer to the Cypher, becaufe by Dates they appear to have been fent from Seringapatam before your Departure from Madras with Lord Cornwallis's Propofitions ? A. Ally Rezza afcribes this to fome Miftake of his Memory, but makes no Change in the Matter of Facl with refpe.cl to the Cypher. [The Paper (No. 5,) is produced.] Q^ What were the Exprefiions of Friendfhip which Tippoo Sultaun ftat.es you to have heard from his Mouth ? A. I never heard any Expreflions of Friendfhip from his Mouth, and confider the Expreflion to be nothing more than Form. The Papers {Nos. 1 and 4,) are produced. C^_ It is ftated that the Nabob Wallajah difliiaded Lord Cornwallis from the War. Did you hear the Nabob fay fo ? A. The Nabob Wallajah did addrefs himfelf particularly to me, and did ufe thofe ExprejScns;. Q^ Did you beljeve the Nabob Wallajah fincere in thefe Expreffipnis ? A. I did not.— There was no Sincerity on cither Part in thofe Expreflions. CL gh you do rot believe any Sincerity 10 have been intended by the Nabob Wall.-.jah, in his E: ; ns of Friendfhip towards Tippoo Suitaun, do you give any Credit to his ProfefCcns of Interference founded on his Attachment to the Rpj gi 1 . .'■ [ahoraed? Dd a. The *oS PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 15. A. The Whole is Compliment. How is it poffible that the Nabob Wallajah continued, could forget the Indignities fuftained 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 thefe Expref- fions of Friendfhip, why was not the Chain preferved after the Departure of the Princes from Madras? Q_ Is the Warmth of the Expreffions in this Letter (No. 4.) confident with the general Forms of Civility ? A. In the Weftern World, People are correct and limited in exprefling them- felves, but the People of India exaggerate extravagantly their Expreffions of Re- gard. I regard the Whole of the Expreffions in this Letter (No. 4) to be exag- gerated. Q^ Did the Nabob Wallajah actually make ufe of thefe Expreffions ? A. It was cuftomary for the Vakeels to heighten the Expreffions of Regard which fell from Lord Cornwallis, or the Nabob Wallajah, or any other Perfon, for the Purpofe of conciliating the Mind of Tippoo Sultaun. Q^ Did the Nabob Wallajah actually ufe the Expreffion, " That the Sultaun was the only Pillar of the Faith ; and that with refpect to himfelf, the State of Affairs here (meaning at Madras) was well known ?" A. The Expreffion is certainly heightened ; but the Nabob Wallajah did allude to the Difference of Circumftances between himfelf and the Sultaun, with refpect to Power and Independance, lb as to form a fufficient Foundation for the Repre- fentation of the Vakeels. Man. — It being now Eleven o'Clock, and impoffible to conclude the Examina- tion of Ally Rezza this Night, great Pains are taken by the Commiffioners to im- prefs on him, in the moil earneit Manner, the abfolute Neceffity of obferving the ftricteft Secrecy on the Subject of this Enquiry. It is further explained to him, that the Knowledge of the Circumftances of the Enquiry being confined to the Commiffioners .and himfelf, any Difcloiure of the Proceedings mud certainly be traced to him, and as certainly followed by the Privation of his Penfion. Ally Rezza ftated, in a very impreffive Manner, the Duties which he owed to the Company ; and urged, as a Confirmation of his own Defire to adhere to thefe Duties, the intimate Connection of his perfonal Interefts, which could in no Manner be fo well fecured to him, as under the liberal Protection and Provifion which he now enjoys from the Company. Vellore, 4th May 1 800. Ally Rezza again attends the Commiffioners, and, previous to his Examination, he requefts Permiffion to ftate Two Points, which did not occur to him in the Examination of Ycfterday. The Firft was, that at the Departure of the Vakeels from Madras, they had been charged with fome rich Prefents 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 expreffed a ftrong Defire of obtaining an Eftablifhment of Land within the Dominions of Tippoo Sultaun. The oftenfible Object was, the greater Convenience of fending Prefents and Pilgrims to Mecca from fome Place on the Malabar Coalt, than from any Part of the NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 107 the Carnatic ; and the Nabobs were in confequence defirous of obtaining an In- No. 15. terchange of Diftri&s for this Purpofe. continued. The Commiflioners proceed to the Examination of Ally Rezza. Q;_ Did you ever fend to Tippoo Sultaun a Defcription of the Works of Fort St. George ? A. I did. Q^ By what Means did you become acquainted with the Defcription of them ? A. I made the beft Defcription I was able, from my own Obfervation, and from the Information of a Maiftey Carpenter, fent for that Purpofe from Seringa - patam by Tippoo Sultaun. Tippoo Sultaun was defirous of building a Fort on the Model of Fort St. George, and alfo an Arfenal, of which the Maiftey took a Drawing. Q;_ Was the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah privy to this Order? A. No ; the Order was kept fecret. Q^ Did you ever receive any Intelligence from the Nabobs Wallajah or Omdut ul Omrah of a fecret Nature ? A. The Vakeels received Intelligence of the Death of the King of France, with Advice from Wallajah to withdraw Tippoo Sultaun's Vakeel from Pondi- cherry. Q^ Did the Nabob explain his Intention in giving this Intelligence ? A. The Nabob explained, that his Motive for doing fo arofe from good Wifiies towards Tippoo Sultaun. Q.._ In your firft Vifit to the Nabob Wallajah, he appears to have made a Pro- pofal for the Eftablifhment of Union and Harmony between his Plighnefs and Tippoo Sultaun. Soon after he enquired whether any Anfwer had been received at a fubfequent Period; Omdut ul Omrah enquired whether you had full Powers, and poftponed the Communication of his Sentiments until the final Departure of the Vakeels. He then did not make the Communication until he had exacted the molt folemn Adjuration of Secrecy. What did you fuppofe to be the Caufes of this Anxiety and Caution, and what did you expect to be the Refult of this Pre- paration ? A. I certainly expected that fome Affair of Importance to Tippoo Sultaun, and of a fecret Nature, would in confequence be communicated; but I had no fixed Idea of what that Affair would be. [The Paper (No. 11,) is produced.] Q^ What do you fuppofe to have been the Intention of Omdut ul Omrah's Propofitions of Friendship defcribed in this Letter ? A. The Eftablifhment of Cordiality. Q^ Confidering the long eftablifhed Rivalry and Enmity between the Two Families, fomething more than mere Cordiality appears to be imputable to the Anxiety of Omdut ul Omrah? A. The Profecution 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 thofe Loffes by the Prefervation of Peace. Q^ From the general Warmth of the Expreffion in the Correfpondence of Tippoo Sukaun and Omdut ul Omrah, do you ftippofe that it was the Intention to io8 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 15. to extend th Union and Harmony of thofe Princes, to a Means for the general continued. Advancement of the Mahomedan Caufe ? A. i do not believe that their Views were extended to any Object of that Kind. Q^ It appears from many Pafiages in the Correfpondence, as well as from the Proceedings at the- Jaurnah Mofque, that Prayers were offered for the Triumph and Victory of Tippoo Sultaun j if thofe Prayers had been fuccefsful, there is no Reafon to believe, from the former Conduct and Enmity of Tippoo Sultaun, that his Victory would have been attended with any temporal Advantage to the Nabob Wallajah's Family ? A. Of courfe the Succefs of thofe Prayers would have been extremely difad- vantageous to the Nabob Wallajah. Qi Then the Object of Wallajah and Omdut ul Omrah, in offering thofe Prayers, mud have been extended to the general Succefs of the Mahomedan In- terefts ? A. It was the Language of the Tongue, and not of the Heart. Qi Is not that Language ftronger than that ufed in the ordinary Intercourfc between Princes ? A. It certainly has the Appearance of Exaggeration, but to my Knowledge it did not extend beyond Civility. [The Paper (No. il) is produced.] Q^ What is meant by the Expreflion ? " It is certain that no Afliftance will be offered from thence ?" A. That the Suitaun, attending to the Circumftancesftated in the Letter, would not certainly afiift the French. Q^ Was there any Communication between the Vakeel Ram Row at Pondi- cherry, and the Nabob Qrndur. ul Omr?.h ? A. None. Ally Rezza ftates, that at the Time of the Equipment againft Pondicherry, Sir C. Oakeley acquainted the Vakeels in a private Manner, that Pondicherry would certainly fall inco the Hands of the Englifli, and that if Tippoo fhcuid offer the French Afliftance, it would as certainly be attended with injurious Confequences to him. [The Papers (Nos. 8 and 9,) are produced.] Q^ Confider the particular Points infilled on in thefe Letters, and explain the Object of them ? A. It is well known that the Object of the Sultaun was to unite all MufTulmans for the Purpofe of extirpating the Fnglilh ; or of falling in the Attempt ; and the frequent Repetition of Oaths to his Servants and Army was directed lblely to that Object. Q^ This Intention of the Sultaun's being well known, is it nor rcafonable to conclude, that the frequent Allufions of the Nabobs WaHajah and Omdut ul Omrah, to the Intereft taken by the Sultaun in the Mali >medan Caufe, may be referred to the fame Intention, and included under the fame ConfidCration ? A. I think not; but that they were Expreflions of Civility. On one Occafion the Nabob Wallajah dated, that the Sultaun Ihould confider the Coflfle^ipn with the Englilh to be die proper Object of his religious Care. CL, Was NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 109 Q. Was Kadir Nawas Khan the only Perfon of Rank through whom Cornmu- No. 15. nications between the Vakeels and the Nabobs Wallsjah and Omdut ui Omrah continued. paffed ? 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, fecret '• from the Englifh? A. It was intended to have been efFecTed with the Knowledge of the Britifh Government. 1 brought Prefents .for the Purpofe, which were to have been delivered in cafe of Succefs ; and otherwife to be returned to Seringapatam, which was accordingly done. Q^ Was Kadir Nawas Khan acquainted with the Ufe of the Cypher, No. 6? A. He was ; he gave it to Gholaum Ally. Q^ Do you recollect the particular Phrafes ufed by Omdut ul Omrah, in com- municating his ultimate Meffage prcvioufly to your leaving Madras r A. I do not ; but am certain that nothing more paffed with my Knowledge than what I have dated. Q^ You are acquainted, that your Report on the Works of Madras, and your Exhortations to the Muffulmans at the Jaumah Mofque, have come to the Know- ledge of the Britifh Government : You mull be fenfiblc aifo, that in the one Cafe you had taken Advantage of the Confidence repofed in you by the Britifh Govern- ment, as an Hoftage, to betray its Interefts under the Made of Friend fnip ; and that, in thefecond Cafe, you have preached the Language of Rebellion in the Capital of the Company's Dominions. In both Inftances you can have no Doubt that you have acred contrary to the Laws of Nations, and are therefore liable to the Refentment of the Britifh Go- vernment. The Principles on which the Britifh Government acts, in reference to thefe Points, were explained to you at the Commencement of this Examination; and as you will jufily have forfeited all Claim to its Favour, if, on the Examination of other Perfons, you fhould be proven to have deviated from., or to have fuppreffed the Truth, which is the Object of this Enquiry; it is earneftlv recommended to you by the Commiffioners to trace the whole Subject in your Mind, and to corred any Errors which you may have committed, while it is yet not too late. Mcm.— \\vt foregoing Quefiion, being of a very ferious Nature to Ally Rezza, . is transited and committed to Writing; and Ally Rezza, after full Confideration, delivers the following Anfwer, written by himfelf in the Perfian Lanouacre. Anfwer. The Truth is, tliac in giving this Information I was under The Orders of ny Matter. He gave me pa Rticular Injunctions to procure Information on thefe Points, and alfo fent a Carpenter in order to examine the Works. In this Cafe it was not in my Difcretion to aft contrary to thofe Orders ; I therefore made known whatever I had obTerved. According to the Rights of Peace, this Conduct was improper in a Perfon entrufted : Being without Reiburce, I afted in conformity to the Orders of my Mafter. In refpeft to the Exhortation, I acted under fimilar Cireiirnftances. Although thefe Ads, in a Foreign Territory, were improper, vet I was without . Refoureej and acted accordingly. E e With no PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No.- 15. With regard to the Recommendation of the Commifiioners to trace the Subject continued, of the Enquiry in my Mind, in order to correct any Errors which may have occurred, or any Omiflions of the Truth, the Cafe is this : The T ran factions are of Jong (landing; in every Cafe in which I have been queflicned, have anfwered to the beft of my Remembrance; if any Tiling farther mould occur to me, I will reprefent it without any Deviation. It is for Confideration, whether a Perfon like me, enjoying fuch Favour from the Company, would, by concealing any Matters in liis Knowledge, wilfully expole himielf to Injury. It will never be, that I (hall conceal from the Compiny any Thing of a fecret Nature in my Knowledge. In every Point in uhich 1 have been quefV.or.ed, I have repiriented whatever I knew,; and I repeat, that if ar.y new Matter (hall arile in the Enquiry, I Iliad be ready to give Information to the Extent of ir.y . Ability. Idie Injunctions on the Subject of Secrecy having been repeated to Ally R.e:rza, : his Examination is clofed ; and the Commifiioners think it their Duty to (bate, that throughout the Examination of Ally Rezza they have obferved (as far as depends on exterior Manner) a ready Difpofuion on his Part to give the fullell Information; and that although great Inconfiltencies appear in the Courfe of the Enquiry, the Commiffioners did not difcover any wilful Prevarication, or outward .Jindeavour, to fupprefs the Truth. (Signed) y. Webbfa By Clofe. (A true Copy.) .(Signed) M. fFilks, Mil 7 Secretary. (A true Copy.) . jV. . B. Edmonficr.e, See''. Seiingapatam, 9th May i3co. GHOLAUM A LI KHAUN attends the Commifiioners, by the Directions of the Honourable Colonel Wellefky, and they proceed to take his Examination ; Colonel Wellefley being prefent. The introductory Paper of Explanation, tranrbted into the Perfian Language, See before an j prefixed to the Examination of Ally Rezza, is read and minutely explained r> Gholaum Ally Khaun, who acknowledges himfelf to understand the Meaning and Extent of the Paper, and profeiTes himfelf at the fame Time ready to anlvver any Queftions that may be propofexl to him. The Papers (Nos. 14. and 15,) of the Correfporidence are produced, and Gho- laum Ally Khaun acknowledges the Contents of them. Q What did Qmdut ul Omrah communicate to you in the fecret Meeting which you held with him in the Garden, lubfequently to the 23d of July 1793 ? A. 1 recommended to Lord Cornwallis, that before his Lordfliip's Departure, fome Mean: (hould be taken to eftablifh Harmony and Cordiality between the Families of Tippoo Sultaun and of the Nabob Wallajah; and the bell Means which occurred to me of doing fo, was that of reciprocal Marriages in the Two Families'; and this Affair is the Ground of the Two Letters, (Nos. 14 and 15.) Q_ What were the particular Expreffions of 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 Prcfence of your Mailer ? A. That V / NABOB OF THE CAR NAT IC. m A. That the Enmity between the Families of Tippoo Sukaun and the Nabob No. 15. Wallajah had been removed by the Interference of Lord Cornwallis; and that continued. Unicy had been eftablifhed between them. The whole Subftance of the Difcourfe however referred to the Object already explained. Q^ What Anfwer did Tippoo Sukaun return to the Communication from Omdut ul Omrah, and through what Channel was that Anfwer tranfmitced ? A. The Anfwer was, that on the Arrival of the Vakeels this Communication v mid be made known, and taken into Confideration. C\ In what Manner did the Affair of the propofed Connexion arife ? And how was it conducted ? A. The Object of our Million was to attend the Hoftages until the Completion of the Treaty. Tippoo Sukaun, finding that there was a Difpofition on the Part of the Nabob Waliajah to eftablifh Cordiality and Harmony between the Two Families, thought that the bed Means of effecting, it would be by Marriage; and therefore directed the Vakeels to make a Propofition ro that Effect. Mem. — It is explained to. Gholaum Ally Khaun, that this Enquiry is of great Importance, and that it will be nt-ceflary for him to recollect, in order tbat his Anfwers may be confident. Anfwer. Gholaum Ally Khaun then itates, that the Agitation of the Affair of the Connexion firft originated with the Nabob Wallajah. Mem. — This Anfwer being io inconfiftent with the Fact, as it appears from the Correfpondence and from the ether Teftimonies ; the .Caution is repeated: And, A. He ftill adheres to the laft Explanation.— --Gholaum Afluadds, that Tippoo Sukaun, on receiving this Communication, confidered it to be an Affair of great Delicacy, and. not to be conducted by Writing. He therefore ordered Ally Rezza to attend the Prefence, and returned by him a Meffage. with confiderable Prefents. Qi You have ftated, that the Nabob Wallajah was the firft Agitator of thi- Affair. In your Letter (No. 15,) you ftate, that you have made Omdut ul Omrah the Foundation of die Affair. Explain the Inconfiffency ? A. It is true that the Nabob was the firft Agitator of it, but in a difguifed Manner; and therefore Omdut ul Qmrah was made the In ft rum en t of Com- munication. Q^ What was the Object and Intention of Ally Rezz.iY Journey from Madras . t« Seriogapatam, during the Refidence of the Plottages at Madras ? A. The Sukaun. confidered the Affair. to be of great Importance, not to be committed to Writing; he therefore ordered Ally Rezza to attend the Prefence on that Point. [The Paper (No. 7,) of the Correfpondence, is. produced and read.] CK It is flared in this Fetter, that the Affair cannot be committed to Writing • and that therefore you (the Vakeels) confidered the Departure of Ally Rezza to be particularly neceffary ? A. The Departure of Ally Rezza was confidered particularly neceffary, f; in " conformity to the Orders of the Prefence." • Gholaum Alii Rates, of his own Accord, that after the Death of the 'Nabob Wal- lajah, hi (Gholaum Alii) wrote to Omdut ul Omrah, renewing the Negociation by Order of Tippoo Sukaun, which Letter was fent to Madras by Mahomed Cjhyaufs of.Cuddapah. The Anfwer was not brought to him, but he has fince underftood »«■* PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 15. underwood from Ghyaufs, that Qmdut ul Omrah had faid in reply, that the iontimed. gfincefTes were the Daughters of tlve hue Nabob Wallajah, and his Property ; with which Orndut ul Omrah was not at Liberty to interfere. Q^ The Propofal having originated with the Nabob Wallajah, and Tippoo Sukaun having fhewn his Difpofition to agree, by fending Ally Kezza with . fents for the Occafion; how did it happen that the Affair failed of Accompiifn- rperit, both being willing ? . The Nabob Wallajah confidered Lord Cornwallis's Leave to be necefTary. but which was not obtained. This was the Caufe of the Impediment. Q^ Was the fifft Propofal, on the Part of the Nabob Wallajah, co / :■:"■' to the Vakeels, with the Knowledge of Lord Cocnwaliis ? A. The Nabob laid Ten Times, in the Prtfence of ti.e whole Durbar, that i: was proper to eftabliih fuch a Connection, and that, for his Part, he would cor.- ient to and effect ir, if his Lordfhip would have no Objection. [The Paper (No. 6,) is produced, and an immediate Change was obferved, as well in the Countenance as in the Manner of Gholaum Ally Kkaun.j Q^ Did ycu ever fee this Paper ? A. I never faw it before this Day, and do not know the Intention of it. [The Paper (No. 7,) is again produced.] Q. Who is meant by the Term-, " The Weil-wifher of Mankind?" A. Wallajah. Q^ Why did you call him The Well-wilher of Mankind ? A. The Nabob told me to ufe that Phrafe, and not his own Name, Wallajah. [The Paper (No. 8,) is produced.] Q^ Who is meant in this Letter by the Term, " Well-wifher of Mankind : " ' A The Nabob Wallajah, who was always diflinguifhed by that Name in Tippoo Sultaun's Letters. Q^ Who was meant by the Term, " The Diflinguifhed in Friendfhip. ?" A. Ally Rezza. Q^ Was that a Title conferred on him ? A. It was a mode ot Addrefs fixed for him. CL, By whom ? A. The Author of the Letter. Gholaum Ally ftates, of his own Accord, that formerly Tippoo Sukaun m r - tinguiihed the Nabob by the Name of Wallajah, and latterly by that of " Well- c: wittier of Mankind." Pie adds alfo, that the Paper (No. 6.) contains certain figurative Terms, efta- blifhed in the Dar-ai Infna, or Secretary's Department. C^_ At what Time was it eftablifhed ? A. I do not know. Q^ You fay that it was eflablifhed for the Conduct of Bufinefs in the Dar-al Irifha. On what Occafion ? A. I did not attend the Durbar for Five Years, and I fuppofe it to have been in vented for that Purpofe. Ci What is meant by this PafTage in No. 8, viz. " I am perfectly fatisfied, cc that you will fhew that Kindnels, which is becoming your exalced Perfon, to- , ' ]>< « wards . Hearts your Gucfts." A. The V V NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. u 3 A. The Children. j^ T ? Mem — It is necefiary here for the Commiffioners to explain, that the Witnefs continued. at once gave the above Anfwer ; bur, on Recollection, he endeavoured to refer the Term " Hearts" to its literal Meaning en the Compofition of this Puflage, by explaining that Tippoo Sultaun meant his Hearts, (which was the fame as Heart, i. e. the Plural for the Singular) fhould be the Gueft of the Nabob Wallajah, and that Wallajah Ihould beftow his Affection on it. It being evident to the Commiffioners that the Witnefs 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 Ferfian Language is again read to him, and minutely ex- plained. Gholaum Ally Khan again repeats, that he perfectly underftands the Paper, and acknowledges himfelf liable to the Penalty eventually or conditionally denounced. Q^ You have Hated that the Nabob Wallajah exprefled his Defire of beino- dif- tinguifhed by the Name of" Well-wiflier of Mankind." Recollect yourfclf, and delcribe the Particulars rejecting the Communication of that Defire ? A. At the Time of Ally Rezza's Departure from Madras to Seringapatam, the Nabob Wallajah exprefled his Defire to both the Vakeels, that the Name of ** Well-wifher of Mankind" and not of Wallajah, fhould be ufed whenever it be- came necefiary to mention his Name. Ci_ Did the Nabob Wallajah delire that his Name might be ufed only in Tippoo Sultaun's Letters, or did he defire that it fhould alio be ufed in the Letters of the Vakeels ? A The Vakeels being both prefent when Ally Rezza took Leave, the Nabob Wallajah laid, 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 directed the Vakeels to tell Tippoo Sultaun, that he wifhed to be diftinguifhed by the Name of" The Well- " wifher of Mankind." Q^ Did you receive the Expreffion of Wallajah's Defire from his own Mouth, or through the Medium of another Perfon ? A. From Wallajah's own Mouth. Q^ In what Place did he communicate this Defire ? A. In the Fort, when the Nabob Wallajah came laft to give Leave to Ally Rezza. Q^ Who were prefent befides yourfelf and Ally Rezza ? A. No Perfon. Q^ Did the Nabob retire to a Place of Secrecy, as only Three Perfons were prefent ? A. I was fitting in my Chair,* and the Nabob and Ally Rezza came clofe to *™£%^ make the Communication to me. • CL, Did the Nabob Wallajah exprefs any Wifh thar any other Perfons or Things fhould be diftinguifhed by fimilar fictions Tides ? A. No ; only with refpect to himfelf. Q^ When was the Title of " Diftinguifhed in Friendihip" firft conferred on .Ally Rezza ? A. It appears, from the Correspondence of Tippoo Sultaun, Ally Rezza was .formerly diftinguifhed by another Title, which I forget; but on Ally Rezza's Return to Seringapatam, he requeued that his Title might be increased. This was done. F f Q^Did ii 4 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No, 15. Q^ Did Tippoo Sultaun communicate to you this Increafe of Ally Rezza's untinued. Title ? A. No. Q^ As no Communication was made to you of the Increafe of Ally Rezza'i Titles, how was it poffible for you, or for the Nabob Mohammed Ally, to know who was meant by the Diftinguifhed in Friendflii] ? A. Recaufe Ally Rezza was himfelf the Bearer of the Letter. Q^ At what Time did Aliy Rezza return from Seringapatam to Madras? A. 1 do not recciiect; but believe that I can afcertain the Point, from a Me- morandum of the Preparation made by me to receive Aliy Rezza. Q^ Both Vakeels being prefent at Madras, did it ever happen that one of them *vrotc fepante Addrefies to Tippoo Sultaun ? A. When both were prefent, they wrote jointly. Q^ The Explanation which you have given of the Expreffion " Hearts " &r. being fo constrained, as to render the PafTage almoft void of Meaning; how do you reconcile the Abfurdity of this Paflage, according to your Construction, with the ufual Stvle of Tippoo Sultaun's Letters, which is evident and reafonable? A. i explain it thus; viz. " Our Heart is in fact, or truly, [for] your Houfe, and [far] your Little Ones. In this Manner [for this Reafon] there is the fuileft -Confidence, that Kindnefs becoming exalted [great] Characters, will be put in Practice." ■Q^ Do you think that Tippoo Sultaun would have written a Paflage fo abfo- Jutely deftitute of Meaning ? A. He nas written it. Mem. — After a full Difcuffion of this Construction, it is (tared to the Witnefs, that the Inconsistencies and Abfurdities of his Explanation have eStablifhed a Be- lief, that he is endeavouring to conceal the true Meaning, which it remains for him either to remove, or to be anfwerable on his Refponfibility to the Company. Q^ On this Queftion being firft put to you, you gave a direct Anfwer, which was intelligible ; but, on Confideration, you have fubitituted an Anfwer which is not to be understood. A. It is true, I may have faid fo. The Paper, No. 6, is put into the Hands of Gholaum Alii Khaun again, and he is afked, in the moft ferious Manner, Q. Did you ever fee this Paper, or not ? or did you ever hear of its being brought into LJfe ? A. I now fee that O'ndut ul Onirah's Name is at the Bottom of the Paper. After the Death of his Father, Omdut ul Omrah fent it to Tippoo Sultaun, to be ufed in their Correspondence. Q^ How do you know this ? A. Becaufe it i» endorfed by one of the Moonfhees of Tippoo Sultaun. Q. What Connection is there between the Endorfement and the Period you have defcribed ? And on what Grounds have you fixed the Period at the Death illajah ? A. [It is impoffible to obtain any Anfwer ; but he fays, that] it came in the ■Cover of a Letter, which mult have been dated.— I am rdponfible for this Fact. CLlt NABOB OF THE C A R NATIC. 1 1 5 •Q^ It ha? been explained to you, that the Englifh Government is in PofTeffion No. 15. of the Records and fecret Papers of the late Tippoo Sultaunj and, confequently, continued. that they have ample Means of examining all Perfons who appear to have had any Share in the TranfaC'.ion of his Affairs ; confider welt, and anfwer this Qiieftion on your Refponfibiiity to the Company : — Did you, or did you no:, receive this (No. 6,) written in Pencil, from Omdut ul Omrah ? A. No ; I did not. After further Hefitation, Gholaum Ally fays, if he lent it, he may have fent it by means of Ally Rezza. Q. If he lent it at the Time of the Death of the Nabob Wallajah (as you have ftated), how could he have fent it by means of Ally Rezza ? A- I fpoke from Conjecture. Mem. — It appears from the Whole of Gholaum Ally Khaun's Anfwcrs, that he is wilfully prevaricating, and that no Explanation can be obtained from him. As he appears, therefore, to be callous to the manifeft Falfehoods in his Tefti- mony, the Commiffioners deem it unnecefiary to purfue this Part of the Examina- tion further. Q^ Was there any Cypher in ufe in your Correfponder.ee with Tippoo Sultaun? A. If there was, it was lodged with Ally Rezza, and I underfland that fuch a Paper was given to him on his Return to Madras. After further Hefitation, Gholaum Ally Mates, that Ally Rezza defired him to take a Copy of the Cypher, which he declined, faying that he was not a Perfon to be engaged in thofe Affairs. Q^ Was it everufed by Ally Rezza ? A. He never told me of his having done fo. Q^ Did you ever hear that it was brought into Ufe ? A. Never, never. Qj, Did Ally Rezza ever communicate to you that he had ufed 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 prefent at Madras, they corre- sponded feparately with Tippoo Sultaun? A. No. Q^ Did Tippoo Sultaun ever fend any Letter feparately to either Vakeel, when both Vakeels were prefent at Madras ? A. No. Q^ Did the Letter above-mentioned in Cypher come to Ally Rezza alone, or ad- drefied 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 Neeociation. -& Q^ Was it ufual for Tippoo Sultaun to write in Cypher on the Subject of your Expences at Madras? A. I know that he wrote one Letter in Cypher. Q^Did 116 PAPERS CONCERNlNG\HE LATE No. 15. Q^ Did Tippoo Sultaun ever communicate to you any Circumftance whatever continued, by means of a Cyphered Letter ? ' A. No. Q^ Did he ever communicate any Circurr.flance in Cypher to Ally Rezza? A. No; no Letter was received. He fhewed me one Letter. Q^ Did you ever hear that Ally Rezza had, on any Occafion whatever, written to Tippoo Sulrav.n by means of a Cyphered Letter ? A. I did not know of it: 1 never heard of it; and never was told of it. Q^ What were the Orders of Tippoo Sultaun for conducting your Correspond- ence? A. He gave us no Orders ; none whatever. Q^ Did you ever hear that Tippoo Sultaun had ordered an Oath of Fidelity to be adminiflered to his Servants, at the Mofque in Madras ? A. Yes ; Orders came for that Purpofe, which were executed by Ally Rezza. Gholaum Ally Khaun having earneftly requefted PermifTion to retire, Leave is accordingly granted to him ; it being evident, from his Determination to prevari- cate, that no farther ufeful Matter can be obtained from his Tcftiraony. Seringapatam, x 1 th May 1 Soo. Gholaum Ally Khaun again attends the Commissioners, agreeably to his Ap- pointment. [The Paper, N" 7, in the Correfpondence is produced.] CK_ What are the Points which could not be committed to Paper, and could - only be communicated in Perfon ? A. The Communication of the Friendfhip and Harmony which was felt for Tippoo Sultaun. Q^_ What Sirdars are meant in the PafTage, " At this Time the Friendship " and Good-will of both Sirdars is from God and the Royal Aufpices.?" A. Lord Cornwallis and the Nabob Wallajah. Q^ What appeared to you to' be fo extraordinary in the Friendfhip and Good- will of both Sirdars, as to make you think and fay that it could only have pro- • ceeded from God and the Aufpices of Tippoo Sultaun ? A. Formerly Enmity was eftablimed between the Two States ; I therefore con- sidered this Dilpofition now manifcfied to be a moft fortunate Occurrence. Q. Why did you confider what had palled between you and the Nabobs Wallajah and Omduc ul Omrah, as an unlooked-for Good ? A Becaufe I found a better Difpofitbn than 1 expeded towards my Matter. Q^ What was the Subject alluded to in this Letter, in which Tippoo Sultaun was to deliberate maturely, and to bring fully home to his Mind ? A. The Harmony and Friendfhip which is mentioned in the Letter. CL, What was meant by the AHufion in this Letter to the Changeablenefs of the Times ? A. The Inftability of human Affairs; I therefore meant to imprefs on the Sul- taun's Mind the Neceffity of forming ufeful Friendships. Q^ What was the Affair which you were dcfirous .Tippoo Sultaun fhoukl a^ree to ? A. My o NABOB OF f HE CARNATIC. 117 A. My Objcft was to promote a Difpofition on the Part of the Sultaun to cul- No. 1 e. tivate this Friendfhip. continued. Q^ How did you mean to apply the Paffage 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 diflemble ? A. I meant to imprefs the Policy of cultivating the Friendfhip of the Two Sir- dars j and of keeping apart from the Mahrattas and the Nizam. Q^ Did you at any Time receive Letters or Meffages from the Nabobs Walla- jah or Omdut ul Omrah, after your final Return to Seringapatam ? A. Soon after my Return I was put under Retlrainr, and I received no Com- munication whatever, either by Letter^ or Meffage from the Nabob Wallajah, or from Omdut ul Omrah. [The Paper, N° 17, of the Correfpondence is produced.] Qi Do you recollect receiving from Omdut ul Omrah the Letter, of which this is a Copy ? A. As it is an Anfwer to the Letter which was written under my Seal, by the Nabob Tippoo Sulraun, I did not receive it. Q^ Did you receive any verbal Mefiage or Letter from the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, or from any Perfon in his Confidence, through the Channel of the Am- bafiadors Mahomed Ghyaus and Mahomed Ghous I A. None. [The Paper, N° 20, is produced.] Q^ Do you recoiled: to have received this Letter ? A. No. Qj_ Was your Seal fent for more than once by Tippoo Sulraun ? A. No. ' Q^ Flow many Years are pafied fince the Sultaun fent for your Seal ? A. I do not recoiled j it is a considerable Time, upwards of Two Years, as far as 1 can guefs. Q^ You fay that the Sultaun fent 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 mult have been written by yourfelf ? 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 myfelf. Q. Did you at any Time receive a Letter from Kadir Newaz Khaun ? A. I received one ; it was a Letter of Recommendation. Q^ Refpeding whom ? A. I do not recoiled his Name ; he was a Gentleman deftined for this Quar- ter ; I returned no Anfwer. C4 Did you receive any other Letter from Kadir Newaz Khaun ? A. No. [The Paper, N° 21, in the Correfpondence is produced.] Q^ Did you not receive from Kadir Newaz Khaun, fome Time in the Month of Rajeb 121 1 Higery, a Letter, of which this is a Copy ? A. I did receive it. G g Q^ When ? I Il8 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. if. QiWhenf continued. A. 1 have no Recollection of the Time. CX 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 feparate Note of Recommendation. 0^_ By whom was it brought ? A. The Gentleman above-mentioned, about a Year after my Return from Madras. Q. What were the Contents of your Letter to Kadir Ncwauz Khaun, which is acknowledged in this Letter ? A. Informing him of my Arrival, and communicating the Expreffions of Friendfhip and good Wilh.es towards the Sultaun. Q. What was the Nature of the Intimations of Kadir Newauz Kaun's Attach- ment toTippoo Sultaun, which had occafioned Tippoo Sultaun to exprefs through you his Satisfaction ? A. Nothing more than the Defire already expreiTed of eftablifhing and pre- fervin» Cordiality and Friendfhip between the Two Durbars. Q. Through what Channel were the faid Intimations conveyed to Tippoo Sul- taun ? A. I delivered the Mefiage of Kadir Newauz Khaun, on my Return to the Prefence, and acquainted him with the Reception of it by the Sultaun. This is the Anfwer to my Letter. O. What did Kadir Newauz Khaun mean by faying, that the Syftem of Har- mony and Union between Tippoo Sultaun and Omdut ul Omrah had acquired the requifite Degree of Stability and Firmnefs ? A. I explain, that being a Man not very opulent, Kadir Newauz Khaun was defirous of rendering his Inftrumentality in eftablifhing the Friendfhip and Cordi- ality ufeful to himfelf, by obtaining a Prefent from Tippoo Sultaun. Q^ Did he obtain any ? A. None. The Object of the Connection was not accomplifhed. Q. You muft be fenfible, that, from the Inconfiftency of your Anfwers, you have endeavoured to fruftrate the Object of this Enquiry, and we have explained to you that this Examination will be tranfmitted to our Superiors. We refer you, therefore, a^ain to the ferious Exhortation which was given to you at the Commencement of this Equiry ; and, as the Prevarication in your Teftimony is too obvioufly intended to conceal fome Matters connected with the Enquiry, we recommend that you mould confider the Nature of the Evidence you have given, left it fhould fubject you to the ferious Difpleafure of the Britilh Government? Mem. — The above Queflion having been verbally explained to Gholaum Ally Khaun, he is informed, that it will be tranflated into the Pcrfian Language, and fent to him in the Morning (it being now very late); and that he will be required to fabfcribe his own Anfwer in the fame Language at the Bottom of theQueftion. Gholaum AUi Khaun accordingly withdraws. Seringapatam, May iach, 1800. The quefuon recorded Yefterday, having been tranflated into the Perfian Lan- guage, is fent to Gholaum Ally Khaun, by Colonel Clofe's Moonfhee; and after a confiderable Interval, the following Note is received from Gholaum Ally himfelf. " The NABOB OF THE C A R N A T I C. 119 « The Moonfhee is defirous that I fhou'd write at the Bottom of the Paper fent No. 15. u to me. At one o'Clock To-morrow I will wait on the Gentlemen, and communi- continued. u cate lbmcthing. For the prefent, I requcft that the Moonfhee may be recalled." Seringapatam, May 14th, 1800. In conformity to his Note of the 12th Inftant, Gholaum Ally Khaun attends the Commiffioners: And, after dating the Reluctance which he felt for difclofing the Secrets of his Mailer entrufled to him, delivers the following Anfwer (written by his own Moonfhee) to the Queftion recorded in the Proceedings of the 1 ith Inftant; viz. '* God and his Prophet know and witnefs, that whai ever was known to me from " the Beginning of the Year 1207 to the Year 1214 Higiry, has been explained, " without Deviation or Difference, before the Gentlemen of the Company." Q^ In your Note of the 1 2th Inftant, you dated, that you had fomething to com- municate. What is that fomething ? 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 Prefent to Tippoo Sultaun. It was alfo my Intention to date, that the Ink was fcarcely dry on the Treaty (of 1792), when Tippoo Sultaun fent for his Vakeel from Pondicherry; I did not know what palled between them, but I explain the Obfcurity of the Paflage in the Letter (No. 8.) by referring the Word" Hearts;' to Tippoo Sultaun himfelf, and the word " Khordegaum," to the French. Q^ There being the mofl 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 Highnefs ? A. It was an Allufion. [The Paper (No. 10,) of the Correfpondence is produced.] Q_ Did the Nabob Wallajah actually communicate this Intelligence to you ? And did you tranfmit the Meffage without Addition to Tippoo Sultaun? A. I received the Intelligence through the Means of Kadir Newauz Khaun. On drafting the Letter, I (hewed it to Kadir Newauz Khaun, and he having ap- proved of it, it was difpatched to the Prefence. 0^_ What is the Meaning of this PafTage, viz. " What in the Judgment of this " Well-wilher now appears expedient is this. In a fhort Time his Lordfhip will " go to Europe, and the Keils are in a Courfe of Payment. After his Lordfhip's " Departure the Liquidation of the Keftsand other Points, whatever may be his " Highnefs's (Tippoo's) Pleafure, will be right and proper. At prefent it is better " to be filent in every Tiling, becaufe at this Time his Highnefs's Honour would at " all Events be called in queftion. When another fhall arrive from Europe, the " Imputation will in every Event and in every Meafure fall upon him P" A. The French, — the French, — the French, — a thouland Times the French. CK_ Flow could the Agitation of the Affairs here alluded to, before the Departure of Lord Cornwallis, be attended with Difreputation to Tippoo Sultaun? A. Becaule Lord Cornwallis himfelf being a Party to the Treaty, any Deviation from it on the Part of Tippoo Sultaun, at lb early a Period as during his Lord- fhip's refidence in India, would be particularly injurious to the Character of Fippoo Sultaun. Q^ How ijo PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 3 C. Q^. Plow could the Departure of Lord Cornwallis remove any Part of the Dif- ccntiiuied. reputation of violating the Treaty ? A. Ey the Pofiibility 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 ? A. I received the Meffage from Kadir Ncwauz Khaun on the Part of the Nabob Wallajah, and therefore only include him in it. Q^ What Anfwer did Tippoo Sultaun return to this Propofition ? A. An Anfwer 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 cur Difpatch, and enclofcd a Letter for the Nabob Wallajah from himfelf, which was accordingly delivered. Q. Was the Letter tranfmitted to the Nabob Wallajah by means of Kadir Newauz Khaun ? A. It was delivered to the Nabob Wallajah himfelf at one of his Vifits to the Princes. Q. The original Meffage from the Nabob Wallajah having been verbally com- municated to the Vakeels, did his Highnefs make no Mention to you of the Pur- port of the Anfwer which he had received from Tippoo Sultaun ? h. No; I made no Enquiry on the Subjedt. Q. You have ftated, that the Whole of the Affair alluded to in this Letter re- fers to the French; but the very Subject 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 underftand, that in giving this Advice the Nabob Wallajah com- municated his Intention to the Britifh Government? A. I have no Knowledge on this Point. [The Letter in figured Cypher is produced, and recognized by Gholaum Alii Khaun.] Q. Did you tranfmit to the Sultaun the Defcription of the Works of Fort St. George, promifed in this Letter? A. No, we did not; who would permit us to obtain the Information ? Q. The Britifh Government is in Poffeffion of a very long and detailed De- fcription of the Works of Fort St. George, written during the Refidence of the Vakeels at Madras ? A. It may be, but I have no Recollection of it. If fuch a Letter was written, it will have fallen into the Hands of the Britiih Government. Q. At what Place did you take your laft 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 Purpofe of delivering his laft Meffage, why did he follow them to the Mount ? A. After our Return from our Meeting at the Garden, we received a Meffage from Kadir Newaz Khaun, that the Nabob would entertain us at the Mount, and accordingly Omdut ul Omrah came thither. ° ' Q^ Had NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 121 Q^ Had you any particular Converfation with Omdut ul Omrah on that No. 15. Occafion ? continued. A. No ; none whatever. Q^ Had you any particular Converfation at the Garden when you took Leave of Omdut ul Omrah ? A. None. That Meeting was Five or Six Months previous to our actual Departure. Q^ Was the Affair which Omdut ul Omrah required you not to commit to Writing, communicated only to yourfelf, or to both the Vakeels ? A. To both. Q^_ Was there at that Meeting any Converfation between yourfelf and Omdut ul Omrah unknown to any other Perfon ? A. Yes : We converfed on the Subject, of the Connection by Marriage, and of the Harmony of Tippoo Sultaun and the Englifh, during which Time Alii Rezza was on one Side. Q^ Was there any feparate Converfation between yourfelf and Omdut ul Omrah at the Tomb ? A. Yes. There was on the Subject of the Connection. Q^ It appears that you held private Converfations with Omdut ul Omrah at the Mofque, and in the Garden ; recollect whether you had not alfo yourfelf a feparate Converfation with him at the Mount ? A. None whatever. Gholaum Alii Khaun retires. (Signed) J. Weble. By. Clofe. IT h I 11 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 1 6. Copy of fuch 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 Directors, dated 3 Auns to difcharge the Duties of that Station with Satisfaction to this Government and Advantage to the Company. I propole accordingly to nominate Gholaum Huffain to attend (under the immediate Orders of the Governor) the Durbar of his Highnefs the Nabob, with a Salary of One Hui agoclas per Month, and with an Allowance of Fifty Pagodas for cEquipage and Servants. Thefe Sums of Money it is my Intention to charge on th Fund to be appropriated to the Support of the Family and Dependants of the Nabob. The Board will obferve, by the Statements which I have the Honour of com- municating to it, that the Amount of the propoled pecuniary Provifion for the Family and Dependants of the Nabob, is lefs than the Amount appropriable to that Purpofe, accoiding to the Stipulations of the Treaty of 1792; and the Nature of the prefent Arrangement is calculated to fecure a gradual Diminution of this Expenditure. I propofe that the Payment of the Stipends mall commence from the Firft Day of October. I. STATEMENT of the pecuniary Provifion to be made for the furviving Branches of the Families of their Highneffes 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 Huffain ul Mulk --------- 50,000 Nuffur ul Mulk --------- 50,000 Daughters by legitimate Marriage ; viz. Sultan il Niffa Begum 25,000 Mullickil Niffa Begum ------- 25,000 Omdut ul Niffa Begum ------- 25,000 150,200 Ten 128 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 17. Rupees. continued. -r, , „ c j Brought forward - - 225,000 Ten Sons by Nika; viz. Huflain Nawaz Khan ------- 10,000 Serafraz Khan ----_____ 10,000 Abdul Hamud Khan ------- 10,000 NuiTur Oollah Khan -----_._ 10,000 Gholum Mahomed Khan ------ j 0,000 lfmael Khan ---------- 10,000 Huflain Mahomed Khan ---___ 10,000 Aboo Tufab Khan ---_--__ 10,000 Abdul Mahhood Khan ------- 10,000 Abdul Ghuffar Khan ------- 10,000 100,000 Five Nekail Ladies ; viz. Rieful Nifia Begum -------- 5,000 Zub ul Nifla Begum &*■ 5,000 Lai Mahal ----------- 5,000 Khuttajah Begum --------- 5,000 Padlha Begum --------- 5,000 ■ 25,000 Twelve Daughters by Nika; viz. Nejubul Nifla Begum ------- 5,000 Aziezul Nifla Begum ------- 5,000 Serojul Nifla Begum -------- 5,000 Afzul ul Nifla Begum ------- 5,000 Fachnul Nifla Begum ------- 5,000 Dowlut ul Nifla Begum ------- 5,000 Rizzia Begum ----------- 5,000 Reheem ul Nifla Begum ------ 5,000 Fuzulut ul ft ifla Begum ------ 5,000 Raabia Beglim - -------- 5,000 Lutful Nifla Begum -------- 5,000 Hafiza Begum ___------ 5,000 ■ 60,000 One Grandfon by Nika ; viz. Abdul Bofil Khan ----------- 3,000 Inferior Nekail Ladies ; viz. Purfun Buby ---------- 3,000 'Hudjaing Buby --------- 1,200 Aumunah Buby --------- 1,200 Kar.ullah Buby --------- 1,200 Four Circaflians --------- 4,200 Muddary Begum -------- i,;oo 1 :,ooo The Harara ----. 3,400 Total - - - 4>.U>4°° 2d FAMILY NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. 129 2d F A M I L Y of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah. Rupees. The Begum Dolary Begum ------------ 25,000 Three Sons by Neka; viz. Tadjul Omrah --------- 24,000 Shab Sowar Jung -------- 10,000 Bakir Huflain Khan ------- 10,000 44,000 One Daughter by Neka ; viz. HuiTa bul Nifla 5,000 Four Nekail Ladies ; viz. Guflaty Begum --------- 5,000 Colfum Begum --------- 5,000 Chuloor Begum --------- 5,000 Mahatab ----------- 5,000 20,000 One inferior Concubine, recently admitted into the Mahal with her infant Son __----------- 2,400 The Haram ---------------- 4>053 Total - - 1,00,453 No. 17. continued. 3. The Family of Abdul Wahab Khan, the legitimate Brother of the Nabob Mahomed Ally ; viz. Rupees. Two Sons by legitimate Marriages ; viz. Diker Jung ---------- 24,000 Khan Jehan Khan -------- 12,000 36,000 Four Sons, by Neka; viz. Serafra Khan ---------- 3,000 Needum Oollah --------- 3,000 Abdo Rezzakkhan -------- 3,000 Kurrein odeen Ahmeed ------- 2,oco * 8,000 One legiumate Wife, Lally Begum ---------- 6,oco Three Nekail Ladies ; viz. Allah Rukky __--_-___ 2,000 Muftura Khanum _-_____- 1,000 Sulliah Bee --_-______ £00 3,500 Five Daughters ; viz. Kurrem ul Nifla --------- 2,000 Rahmul ul Nifla --------- 2,oco Ahmedy Begum --------- 2,000 Buddyul Begum --_______ 2,000 Wugjyul Nifla _-.._ ____ 2,000 i IC.COO The Family of F.chidar Khan, a Son by Neka - ------ 2,000 Total - 65,500 K k 4. The • So in the Original. i 3 o PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 17. 4. The Family of Maphooz Khan, the Brother of the Nabob Mahomed Ally continued. by Nik a. Kupe e ?. One Son Maphooz Khan ---_--___ 6,cco Three Daughters ; viz. The Wife of Mahomed Merad ----- 2,000 Do. of Mahomed Ally Khan ----- 2, coo Buby Saheb ___--_--._ 7,200 5,200 Total - 11,200 5. Separate Connections of the Nabob Mahomed Ally Abdul Kadir, Rupees, the Nephev/ of Mahomed Ally by his legitimate Sifter - - 12,000 The Family of Jan Jehan Khan, Nephew of Maho med Ally by his legitimate Sifter ------- 5,000 The Family of Lew ad Khan, a Nckail, Son of Maho- med Ally ------------- 5, coo The Family of Hufiain Ally Khan, a Nekail, Son of Mahomed Ally ------ 5,000, The Family Nejeeb Ollah Khan, a N el. ail, Brother of Mahomed Ally ---------- - 2,000 The Family of Budder ul Iflam Khan, a Nekail Brother ofD° ___..-- 3,000 Total - 32,000 6. Ooices of the Government of the Nabob Omdut ul Omrah, not included in the ProviSon made for the Family of his Rupees. Highnefs Mochuir J'jng Foujdar of Tinnwelly - - - 4,200 Alls' Newaz K ian, Killadar of A< cot - - - - - 4,200 Porky Ally Khan, one of the Minifters at Madras - - 4,200 Meer Aflud Ollah Khan --------- 4,200 Kiittub OoJun Khan ---------- 4,200 Jowaher Ally Khan, Killadar of Rylafgur - - - - 1,200 Scrafrag Ally Khan, Killadar of Terrioor - - - - 1,200 Bakir Gowar, KiiJadar of Chittoor ------ 1,200 Ameen Vd Dun Ally Khan Bchauder ----- 2,400 Commandant Mahomed Ibrahim ------- 1,200 Moonlhy Gholaum Huffain -------- 6,320 Total - - 34,520 7. Three Relations of the Emperor of Delhi, penfioned by the Nabob Mahomed Ally. Rupees Ilumacoin Bucht --------- 6,coo Ally Bucht ----------- 4,:co His young Brother - -------- 1,200 1 1,400 (Signed) Clive. A true Copy. (Signed) J. IVebbe, Chief Sec'' of Gov'., No. 17. continued. NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. rJI RFC APIT UL ATI ON: Runees. i. Family of the Nabob Mahomed Ally _______ 4,33,400 2. D° D* Omdut Ul Omrah ------ 1,00,45-5 3. D° D° Abdul Wahab Khan ------ 65,500 4. D" D° Maphooz Khan 11,200 5. Separate Connections -----_.--____ 32,000 6. Officers of the late Government ----_-_-_ 34>520 7. Relations of the Emperor -----,---__! 1,400 Grand Total - - 6,98,473 ir- PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 18. Copy of a PAPER, purporting to be a Letter from Huffein Ally, the reputed Son of the late Nabob of Arcot, to James Stuart Hall and Samuel Johnftone, Efquires. * From his Highnefs the Nawaub Wallajah, Omeer ul Hind, Tajool Omrah, Omcer ul Mulk, Moren ud Dowlah, Mahommed Ally Huffein Cawn. Bahodar Juffer Jung, &c. &c. &c. &c. To James Stuart Hall and Samuel Johnftone, Efqs. WHEN I look around me, and perceive the many Dangers which befet me, I am overwhelmed with Difficulties; every Object occafions new Alarm, and my little Experience in Bufinefs, my Unacquaintance with the WorlJ, and my great Want of Friends in a Trial fo ferious, leaves me little able toencounter the Difficul- ties which prefent themfelves. Th ugh a Stranger in Perfon, yet I would perfuadc myfelf that, in Relation and Character, I am not who'ly unknown ; nor will you for- get the anxious Solicitude with which my ever honoured and lamented Father re- commended his only Offspring to you, at your Departure from thefe Regbns; a pious Solicitude, which feemed to anticipate the awful and melancholy Moment which has fince enfued. Apprifed as I am of the Efteem in which you was held by his late Highnefs the Nabob, of your unalterable Concern for his true Interefts, and of your fincereFriend- fhip for his Family, 3 naturaliy turn to you in this F.mbarraCment of my Affairs, and moft earneftly entreat the Benefit of your Advice and Endeavours to extricate me from furroundin^r Perils. o I have not trufted to a Stranger's Aid to make known thefe Circumftances, which it is my firft Wifh to be communicated to you : I will deta 1 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 vou the Sentiments to which they have given rife; the Refults to which they have already led; and the Confe- quences which they may eventually occafion. Thefe will not only direct your Services, of which I conlider myftifiecure,to proper Objects, but will be the Means, (for 1 am confident in the Juftice of my Claims), of obtaining the Redrefs which J am feeking. A true and faithful Account of my Situation, to whom it may be re- quired to be made known, will be all fufficient to the Succels of my Application. In order that you may have a complete Knowledge of all that has happened, it will be neceftary to begin with Circumftances apparently remote, though certainly not unimportant nor unconnected with the prefent Situation of Affairs: I mall there- fore firll acquaint you, that early in the Month of Tunc laft his Highnefs the Nabob j \.*-^r-\ ■ / \ / NABOB OF THE CARNATIC. l33 Nabob of the Carnatic was feized with very dangerous Symptoms, which continued, N Q 1 3 , with little Variation, tor the Space of feveral Days, and were fufficient to alarm his continued. Family and Friends for his Highnefs's Safety and Life: It pleafcd the Al- mighty to allow his Highnefs an Interval of a few Days of Quiet and Tranquillity, to arrange and fettle the Particulars of his Houfe, and to provide for the Succcflion to his Dominions ; and to ferene and untroubled a Moment of Freedom from Bodi- ly Pain and Infirmity did His Highnefs enjoy, that Ids Family and Servants had a mod reafonable Hope that he might be able to overcome the Violence of the At- tacks. After a few Days, however, the Difeafe returned with an Increafe of Violence, and difappointed all the Expectations and Prayers which had been kindly conceived and fervently offered up for his Highnefs's Recovery : Tears will not allow me to defcribe with Exaftnefs the Scene which followed : You will in a Word learn, that his Highnefs lay on the extreme Bed of Sicknefs, awaiting the Summons from an eventful Life with a dignified Patience and Refignation, affording a ftfiking Leffon, never to be forgotten, of the Vanity of fublunary Greatnefs ; and in this painful and agonizing State he continued until the 15th of the fucceeding Month, when his Spirit and Soul forfook him, in their Way to a higher Glory and more perfect Happinefs. On the 5th July, about Ten Days previous to the melancholy Event which I have lalt mentioned, a large Body of Troops, confuting of European and Na- tive Infantry and Cavalry to the Number of 800 Men, with a proportionable Number of Artillery, fupplied with requifite Stores and Field Equipage of every Denomination, were fent by Government under the Command of Colonel M'Neil (one of the Company's Officers) to take Poffeflion of the Garden and Palace of Chepauk, under the Pretence of defending them againft any Infult or Violence, which the Deceafe of his Highnefs the Nabob might poffibly pro- duce ; a Meafure which had been advifed and adopted without any Communica- tion either with his Highnefs or his Minifters, until the very Moment of its Exe- cution, when Major Grant, the Town Major of Fort St. George, was fent to the fick Chamber of his Highnefs, to acquaint him with the inftant Approach of the Troops, and to explain to him the Reafons which had determined that extra- ordinary Aft of Government. It will not be necefTary for me to attempt a Relation of the various Emo- tions, under the Conflict and Agony of contending Paflions, which this fudden and unfeafonable Communication unfortunately excited ; you will be able to form fome Conjecture at them, if you advert to the Situation and Condition of his Highnefs at that Moment, and to the Hand which executed . the Meafure. Whether from this or fome other Caufe, I am too deeply and dearly interefted to dare to form an Opinion, his Highnefs's Dilbrder augmented daily in Violence, and ended in the unfortunate Way which I have before been obliged to ftate. The Troops, notwithstanding the Reprefentations and laft Entreaties of his Highnefs, furrounded his Highnefs's Apartments, and the inmoft Receffes of his Palace at the Time of his Demife ; and although but one Mind manifefted itfelf amongft his Highnefs's Relations, and the Minifters of his Affairs ; although the moft uninterrupted Order and Regularity every where appeared, and a Spirit of Loyalty, 1 am proud to fay it, univerfally fhewed itfelf to his Highnefs's Succeffor ; yet the Military Force ftill kept its Pofition under the fame Inftruftions, and feemingly with a View to dictate the Order and Terms of the Succeffion. L 1 Under i3+ PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 1 3. Under thefe unhappy Circumftances, did an old and honourable Ally draw his continued, extreme Breath. In this degrading Situation, did his unoffending SuccefTor begin the Cares of his Government and Dominion. Decent Attentions had fcarcely been paid to the inanimate Form of his High- nefs to prepare it for its Shroud, when Mr. Webbe, the Secretary of Government, and Colonel Clofe, the Refident of Myfore, were fent to the Palace under the In- structions, as they reprefented, of the Right Honourable the Governor. His Highnefs departed this Life at about a Quarter pad Ten, and at a Quarter pad One of the fame Day, I was advifed of the Approach of the Commiffioners of Go- vernment : I am thus circumftantial in my Detail, as I cannot but conceive, that it will tend to fhew the Features of the Policy which was intended to be adopted in the Beginning, and which has eventually terminated in the utter Subverfion of every Thing like Right and Juftice. Though fecure from the Pofitiofi of the Force about the Palace of every Accefs to it, and of the Knowledge of every Aft which might pafs within it, yet at the facred Hour of Sorrow, and into the Chamber of hallowed Affliction, did thefe cold Commiffioners obtrude themfelves, not with the tender Offers of Friendfhip or Condolence, but with Offers of Indignity and Infult. It would not be believed, unlefs folemnly afferted, and I do affure you, on the Honour and Faith of a Prince unufed to any Subterfuge or Compromife, that at this melancholy Juncture, I was drawn by peremptory Meffages from the Side of the great Deceafed, to anfwer to the counriefs Interrogatories of Commiffioners inftructed to examine me : 1 hope I mall not fuffer in the Eyes and Contempla- tion of good Men, in yielding to Importunities fo unworthy of myfelf and them, which nothing lefs than the Peace and Tranquillity of my Family, and the Fear of Pollutions, which I cannot bring myfelf to think of, could poffibly have led to ; but they are paft, and I will endeavour to be calm. Attended by feveral of my principal Officers, I went to the Apartment where the Commiffioners were waiting, when I was immediately accofted by one of them with an Enquiry as to the Difpofition which his Highnefs had made of his Affairs : I anfwered with Calmnefs, but not without a Senfibiiity natural to my favoured Situation (from the Bounty of my Royal Piedeccffor; that fiach Difpo- fition was clear, fhort, and unequivocal, and was contained in a written Paper, which had been executed in Quadruplicate, the feveral Parts of which Iud been fent many Days previous to his Highnefs's Demife, to their feveral Deftinations ; one of them had been forwarded to his Majefty the King of Great Britain, one to the Court of Directors, one to the Governor General, and the remaining Part was firft delivered to his Highnefs's Chief Minifter, and had by him, fince the Deceafe of his Highnefs, been delivered into my Poffeffion, v. here it then remained. The Commiffioners requefted to fee the Papers to which I had immediately alluded, when one of my Officers, ftruck with the Impropriety of the Requeftat fuch a Seafon, could not reftrain himfelf from obferving, that the prefcnt Moment was devoted, as well by Feeling as Cuftom, to the Indulgence of Grief; and he trufted, that they would not again advert to the Papeilj or to CircumrftariGes to which it had Relation, but would fuffer the Intervals allowed to humane and re- ligious / • NABOB OF THE CARNA TIC. *35 ligious Considerations, not to be rnolefted with worldly Cares or Reflexions } that, No. 18. after Three Days, his Highnefs would be happy to produce the Will, and cor- continued. full with them on the Obje&s connected with it, fo far as they related to the Com- pany. But the Commiffioners would not hear this confiderate Suggeftion, but in- fifted, with a Firmnefs to which 1 was unafed, 0:1 the immediate Produ&ion of •the Paper. Fearing that fome poffible 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 Reluctance as the Occafion could permit; th v examined it in my Prefencc, and in the Prefence of my Officers, with a par- ticular and fcrupulous Care, obferving, when it was returned to me, "That his " Highnefs had appointed me to the entire Dominion and Government of the " Carnatic, and, with very fmall Exceptions, to the Poffeffion of all his Pro- ■" perty ; but that in Contemplation of my Youth, had placed me under the Guar- " dianfhip of Two of the Noblemen, or Cawns, about his Highnefs's Perfon, " who were to fill the Office of Regents, until I fhould arrive at my Nineteenth " Year." I inftantly oblerved to them, " That I had been long fenfible of this " Difpofition of his Highneffes's Affairs ; that I was well aware and greatly «' thankful for the kind and tender Precaution of his Highnefs, in committing " my Inexperience into fuch able and worthy Hands; that I well knew and " highly refpecled them, and was ready in all Things to abide by their Council and " Advice;" and concluded with remarking, " That fince his Highnefs had fo dif- " pofed of me, and had fo configned the Bufinefs of the Government, it were ua- <: neceffary that I fliould be confulted further at a Moment fo inaufpicious. The « Regents, I was fure, had not lefs Inclination to meet and forward the Defire " of the Cbmpany, than what I now felt, and fhould ever continue to feel, being " the firft and earlieft Impreffion I had received, and would, I hoped, be the " laft that would remain with me." On this I was preparing to depart, when the Commiffioners defired that I would yet remain, having fomcthing important to communicate to me, and which they begged to deliver in private, or, at leaft, in the Prefence only of the Regents and mvfelf : On this my Officers and Ser- vants were inftrucxed to withdraw, when the Commiffioners proceeded in the Manner in which 1 (hall now fuccinclly and clearly relate. On the immediate Departure of mv principal Servants, the Officers of Govern- ment produced a Letter, reprefented by them to have been written by the Marquis Welkfley, and intended for his late Highnefs the Nabob ; which ac- cufed my Royal Grandfather, and my much revered Father, of an improper and unjuftifiable Correspondence with the Sukaun of Myfore, and concluded with demanding an immediate Surrender of all the Country of the Carnatic for an .".Hedged Breach of Treaty. After the reading of this Correfpondence, they re- marked that the Territory of his Highnefs had been forfeited to the Company by the Act which had been ftated in the Letter, and that of confequence he had no Manner of Right to difpofe of it by Will ; yet to ffiew that the Com- pany had every Difpofition to ferve and protect the Son, whom his Highnefs bad fo favoured, they were fully inclined to make a very liberal Provifion for him, on Condition of his previous Surrender of all the Dominions which had been nominally willed to him. The Regents being prefent, were as much moved as myfelf at the extraordinary Communication which had been juft made to us ; and 136 PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. 18. and although we were fully convinced that no unauthorized Correfpondence continued, had ever taker, place between his iate Highneis or his Predeceffor, with the Sultaun of Myforc, yet we were {o much agitated and afflicted at the feri- ous Manner in which the Charge was preferred, as not to be able to afford a cool and difpafTionate Anfwer. After ftating our internal Imprefiions, that nei- ther of the refpefted Perfonages, to whom Alluiion had been made, could have ever been engaged in a clandeftine Communication with any Foreio-n Power, in Enmity with the Britifh Interests, and our great Mortification at the Propofal which had been offered, as founded on that fuppofed Fact, we begged for a fe\v Days Consideration of the Terms which had been fuggefted ; which was conceded to us after fome Difcufiion. Every Enquiry was made in the Interval to afcertain the Correfpondence which had at any Time taken place of the Nature already mentioned, when no Veflioe could be traced which could throw the {lighted Stigma on the venerable Names which had been implicated in lb unfortunate a Charge. The only Correfpondence which had ever occurred between the Parties in queftion, and which could have given Rife to the Sufpicion entertained by the Company, happened at the Instance of the Earl Cornwallis, after the Termination of the War fo fuccefsfuliy conducted by his Lordfhip against the late Sultaun, and related to a Family Connexion, which, from well known Circumftances, never took place. This Correfpondence naturally produced mutual Communication of Courtefy on feveral domestic Events, which concerned either of the Parties per- fonally as Occasion happened, but nothing that could affect any Interests con- nected with national or public Considerations. The Regents, at the Conference on the next Evening, being confirmed in their first Imprefiions of the Rectitude of his late Highnefs's Conduct in the Particulars referred to, Hated, in peifpicuous Terms, the Steps which they had purfued to investigate into the Truth of the Accusation which had been alledged to have been contained in the Letter of the Marquis Wellefiey ; and that they had found, on a full Investigation, that there was not the fmailett Foundation for the Charge which had been urged J but on the contrary, that the only Correfpondence which had occurred between his Highnefs and the late Sultaun, Ir.d been carried on with the Knowledge and Confent of the executive local Government, and had been for- warded officially by them ; and in Proof of this Afiertion referred the Commif- miiffioners to their own immediate Records. The Regents then exprefTed their Concern that the Matter of this Accufation had not been made known, and enquired into, in the Lifetime of his late High- nefs, when it might have been fairly and candidly explained and anfwered. This Circumstance alone led them to hope, that the Company did not ferioufly believe that Correfpondence of fuch a Description had in reality happened, though they might have felt themfelves authorized in requesting an Explanation concerning it; and, under this Conviction, they could not but conclude the Terms propofed to them at their last Conference would be given up, as they were applicable to a Situation of Things which did not exift. The Regents next profeffed themfelves most ready to receive any Propofals, which might ferve to promote a good Underftanding in refbect to the exilting Engagements, / V NABOB OF THE C ARNATIC. 137 Engagements, or might render them more conv< ni to either of the fubferibing No. 18. Parties, though they were net fcnfible how they could be improved, at the fame continued. Time they were apprehenfive that a new Arrangemei give Rife to Difcuf- fions which had been long fet at rell by the fubfifting Treaty. The Commiflioners flill flood on their firft Giound, and infilled, in peremptory Language, on the Propofal which they had before made. Seeing there was no Pof- fibility of diverting them entirely from this Object, the Regents confidered of an Expedient, which, in their Expectation, might have induced the CommiAioners to have foregone their Propoial, at lead in the Extent in which it had been moved, being well aware, from an intimate Knowledge of Ids late Highnr Affairs, that the preceding Governors of Fort St. George had looked for Poflef- fion of the Tinnevelly, and fome of the adjacent Countries, as more convenient to their Affairs, and fenfible, that the prefent Government, from the Nature of the Propofal made, had fimilar Views, though in a more extended Shape; they determined, under the peculiar Circumftance in which they flood, to meet their Defires, in as much as they could, confiftcnt with their own Honour and the Interefts which they had been given in charge; and with this Intention, they pro- pofed tc deliver into the Hands of the Company (fur 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 fhould be allowed in his periodical Kilts the Amount Rent of iiich Diftricts, agreeable to the Schedule No. 2, annexed to the Treaty of 1792; being a Yearly Sum equal to the full Amount of the Subiidy claimable by the Company by virtue of fuch Treaty. To the Propofal of the Regents, the Officers of Government gave a fhort Reply : " That it would not in any way do ; and that nothing fhort of the De- mand which had been made could be accepted or confidered." — In confequence of this Difpofition, on the Part of the Commiflioners, the Regents requefted a farther Time to reflect, and were indulged to the next Day. I ihall not trouble you with the Particulars of the next or the fucceedinc Meeting on the Day following, for you will find them circumftantially related in the Journal of the Regents, which I have directed to be forwarded with this. You will readily anticipate, that ahhough the Regents have been difpofed to have rendered up more of the Countries (which really was the Cafe) on a like Condi- tion with thofe already tendered by them, they could not unworthilv bring them- felves to make an unqualified and unconditional Surrender of thole Rights, which it was their Duty to protect and guard. The Meetings therefore, to which I have laft requefted your Attention, palled without Effect. Seeing that the Regents were inflexible in their Duty, and conceiving, from my Want of Knowledge in public Concerns, that I might poftibly be rendered an Inftrument (as I cannot but confider) to my own Undoing ; the Commiflioners, at the laft Conference, and towards the Conclufion of ir, Tent a Note to Lord Clive, who thereupon appeared at the Palace; bur, inftead of going to the Apart- ment where Negotiations had hitherto been carried on, his Lordfhip went to the Tent of Colonel M'Neil in charge of the Troons about the Gardens, and imme- diately requefted my Attendance on hirn, M m I cheerfullv i3* PAPERS CONCERNING THE LATE No. i3. I cheerfully complied with his Lordfhip's Requcft, and to the Tent : His continued. Lordfhip then accofted me with Teeming Kindnefs, and begged " I would well " confider the Company's proffered Terms, which, if then neglected, would " evade my Acceptance for ever; that they were now offered for the la ft Time; " that a liberal Allowance mould be made out of the Collections (but which his " Lordfhip did not particularize) if I would liften favourably to his Propofals, " but that if 1 did not incline to them, that I mould be reduced from the Gran- y£Lm D 000 4591 54 - k , PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE \ k THIS BOOK CARD - 1 - 1 s ~ r ^ ■ | r-n o 5 o s SfllCfc 2 CD V *-" / \1 =o ! * i -^ v^_^/ v 3 a a £ o £ -J H s 3D i i j £ i s i .