LETTER CLI.
To the SHÂHNOOR WÂLEH (i. e. the NABOB of SHÂHNOOR); dated
10th HYDERY. (17th November.)

DISPATCH to Nursia, the Dewân of Nugr, one lack of pagodas, on account of annual Paishcush for the year Jullo, * and take his receipt for the same.

OBSERVATIONS.

The year Jullo had still more than four months to run; consequently, so far from granting Abdûl Hukeem any indulgence of the kind he had solicited, the Sultan appears determined to make him pay his Paishcush in advance, or, at least, before it was fairly due.

The style of Letter CL was tolerably civil: that of the present letter (written only the day after) is abrupt, and rudely peremptory. I cannot account for so sudden and striking a change in the Sultan’s mode of address in any other manner, than by supposing that he might, in the interval (though only a single day), have received some information, tending to excite a suspicion of Abdûl Hakeem’s attach­ment to the Mahrattah interests; which that chieftain certainly not long after em­braced openly, though, probably, driven to do so by the rigorous proceedings of his relative.