YOUR relation of your late encounters with the enemy’s horse* is become duly known; and we are much pleased with the account you have given of their chastisement, and of your having taken six prisoners and twelve horses from them. This behaviour was worthy of your noble descent and of your fidelity to us.

Let the prisoners be strangled,* and let the twelve horses, after being valued according to custom, and paid for to the captors,* be taken into the service of the Sircar.

N.B. By some letters which follow here, but which are not deemed sufficiently interesting to be inserted, it appears, that the Sultan was, at this period, much occupied in dedicating shrines, &c. to the principal Mahommedan saints. Whether as an expression of his gratitude for the benefits which he might suppose himself to have recently derived (in the instance of his military successes) from their intercession in his behalf, or in order to render them propitious to his ulterior views and wishes, is not stated. It is probable, however, that he was actuated on the occasion by both considerations.