[AFTER some immaterial directions, the letter proceeds as follows:]—

If you should receive intelligence of the approach of any considerable force of the enemy, you must raise the siege of the fort, and taking your heavy ordnance with you, proceed and encamp near Dhârwâr. With the will of God the helper, we also shall march on the 14th of Ahmedy, and soon arrive there, when what may be proper shall be done. Nobody is going to lift the hill of Nergûnd to [his] head and carry it away: it is where it is. [i. e. it will remain where it is.]*

Bûrhânûddeen was the brother-in-law of Tippoo Sultan, who had married a sister of his. He appears to have possessed a great share of the confidence of the Sultan, who frequently intrusted him with important military commands, but not without placing him (at least at this period) in a certain degree of tutelage. He lost his life in the battle of Sattimungalam, in the year 1790. Of that battle the Sultan has given a partial and exaggerated account in one or two letters; in which it is remarkable, that he speaks of the death of this gallant commander without a single expression of regard or regret.

The fort, the siege of which is here provisionally directed to be relinquished, was no doubt Nergûnd.