[AFTER compliments.].......... Agreeably to your request we have advanced a hundred rupees for your expences. Undân Subhy* will, in pursuance of our orders, arrive [there.] After receiving the aforesaid money, repair to the Presence. We enclose a passport [for you], and also a Purwâneh for the above mentioned Subhy, which you will deliver to him.

I am uncertain whether the Shûjaaûd Dowlah, mentioned in the superscription of this letter, be meant for the father of the present Nabob of Oude, or for some nobleman of the Decan, bearing the same title. It is well known, however, that the Nabob of that name left several sons, besides Asophûd Dowlah, his immediate successor, and Saadut Ali Khân, the present Nabob; who, on the death of their father, fled from their brother’s court, and sought an asylum among the neighbour­ing powers. Whether or not Nuwâzish Ali was one of these, I am unable to determine: but, whoever he might be, the reception here given him was certainly sufficiently discouraging. He is no where again mentioned.