LETTER CLXXXVI.
To BÛRHÂNÛDDEEN; dated 14th TULOOEY, at Night. (21st December.)

DIRECTING him to send for Wenkia Naig, the banker; and also to transmit a Kowl [engagement] and letter of encouragement to Koornath Pundit. To write to Syed Meerân, the Kilaadâr of Dhârwâr, directing him to keep a strict watch over the family of Umbâjee Râm and his nephew, and to take care that they are not suffered to go any where. Desiring him, moreover, not to think of putting garrisons of the Sircar into Shâhpoor, Bulgong, &c. as they belong to ———.

OBSERVATIONS.

In Letter CLXIX, Bûrhânûddeen is directed to place garrisons in Shâhpoor, Bulgong, and Gokauk, which are there declared to be dependencies of Kittoor. It would now appear, however, that the Sultan had discovered, that those places did not belong to Kittoor, but to some other chieftain or state, whom he did not wish to offend by seizing on them. The name is left nearly blank in the manu­script; the original, probably, not having been legible to the transcriber. I have said nearly blank, because it is not, in fact, entirely so; the terminating letters, or syllable, of the deficient word being preserved. This is <Arabic> which occurs at the end of many Hindoo words, and among others that of Mahrattah. If the places in question belonged to the Mahrattahs, it may seem strange, that he should not have known this when he sent the first orders for their seizure. Of the desire he might yet have to abstain from any directly aggressive proceedings against that people, and to confine himself, for the present, to mere defensive measures, some explanation has already been offered; and more will hereafter be furnished by the Sultan himself.