[AFTER compliments].... What you write, respecting the severity with which Râkhunder Nâik, &c. press the payment of the eight lacks of rupees [due to us by you], as well as your request, that we would send orders to the aforesaid Nâik, to desistfrom his rigorous proceedings in regard to this money, is understood. Agreeably to your desire, we have trans­mitted [the necessary] directions to the Nâik, whom you will send back to us, accompanied by the same persons, on your part, who formerly attended upon us; in order that, a valuation being made in [concert with them] of the gold, the trinkets, the jewels, &c. which have arrived in charge of Weethul Doss, the banker, the same may be [duly] delivered into the Sircar [i. e. paid into our treasury].

You write “that the danger occasioned by the enemy’s approach “having lately increased, the husbandmen, inhabitants, and others in “that quarter, have, in consequence, taken the most serious alarm; “and that this is the reason of your not having been enabled, hitherto, “to satisfy our fair claims.” It is comprehended. God, the Aider, pleasing, the enemy will soon be repelled,* and receive the proper reward of their unjust proceedings.* After the confidence and tran­quillity of the husbandmen, &c. shall have been restored, you must apply yourself to the discharge of our demands.

With a view to your ease and satisfaction, we have remanded the aforesaid banker, &c.* to our Presence; in order that all controversy and importunity, respecting pecuniary affairs, may be suspended, till the re-establishment of quiet.* What more shall we pen?

N.B. There follows a letter, of the same date and tenor, addressed to Dileer Khân Behâdûr Dileer Jung, whom I conclude to have been the principal minister of Abdûl Hukeem Khân, the Nabob of Sânoor.