LETTER CCXXV.
To BÛRHÂNÛDDEEN; same Date. (13th February.)

YOUR letter has been received, and its contents are comprehended. We approve of your having, for the present, with the advice and con­currence of the Sipahdârs, encamped with your army in the vicinity of Kittoor, which [it seems] is a safe and strong position. You will con­tinue there, and observe the utmost vigilance, care, and precaution. Dispatch the Daisye and his managers, with all their effects and cattle, to the Presence, under charge of Hyder Ali Baig, one hundred horse, and two or three hundred Piâdehs.

You have done right, in taking possession of the two villages of Sipra and Jâmooty, belonging to Kittoor; and in placing in the former fort a trusty Sipahdâr, with a garrison of three hundred Piâdehs.

OBSERVATIONS.

The orders contained in this letter, respecting the position to be occupied by Bûrhânûddeen’s army, are, it will be perceived, at variance with those trans­mitted to that officer about ten days before (Letter CCXX). The latter directed a retrogade movement to Dhârwâr, which Bûrhânûddeen and his council of war would appear to have thought inexpedient: and in this opinion we here perceive the Sultan acquiescing.