YOUR three letters (two of them dated the 9th of Behâry, and the other the 13th of Behâry) accompanied by five bills of exchange,* namely, four from yourself, and one from Noor Mahommed Khân, have been received. The detail you have entered into, regarding the insolent conduct of Suddashoo, the Hurkâreh, is understood. The aforesaid [person] is only an Hurkâreh: what question or debate [therefore] can arise with him, and why should he be made privy to any secret affairs? You must require of him those services which it is his duty to perform [and no other]; and when you may have any thing of a particularly secret nature to communicate, you must do it in the couplet cypher which is enclosed.*

If the [Mahrattah] minister, and the rest of them, will dismiss Noor Mahommed Khân, and allow him to return hither, it will be well; and, in the event of their being urgent for the return of you both, it will be better still: you will, in that case, set out together for the Presence.