YOUR letter has been received, and its contents are duly understood. You write, “that the Bâzâr price of Kûrg pagodas was thirteen “fanams and three-quarters, but that you had advanced the same one “fanam and four annas, and issued them, at this rate, to the Piâdehs “of the Ehshâm.”* It is known. You will fix the value of the pagoda at one fanam above the market price, or exchange, and issue it, at that rate, to the servants of the State. There is no necessity for raising the exchange higher than this standard; and, accordingly, this has been heretofore repeatedly signified to you. It surprises us extremely, that you should nevertheless pursue the suggestions of your own fancy.

No prospect of advantage could tempt the Sultan to wink at any contravention of his positive orders. The financial operation, here spoken of, is not an uncommon one in India. The Sultan’s displeasure was not occasioned by the oppression, but by the disobedience, of which the Darogha had been guilty.