[AFTER compliments]........ Your friendly letter, announcing your firm intention of repairing hither with the troops belonging to you, has been received, and afforded us the greatest satisfaction. Your [intention of] coming hither is highly approved [by us]. Proceed in the execution of your purpose with the utmost confidence and security, and make us happy by an interview, for which we are extremely impatient. The distance [between us] being considerable, you should bring along with you as great a force as possible.* By the grace of God, we shall make you such appointments, in Jageers and money, as shall be entirely satisfactory to that friend.

The rosary, kneeling-carpet,* &c., which you sent us as tokens of friendship, arrived, and afforded us the utmost pleasure. Although, by the bounty of the Almighty, we possess an inconceivable number of worldly curiosities,* yet these, being religious rarities,* are esteemed by us equally with the richest treasures.*

It was our wish and intention to have sent that friend a dress, together with some jewels, &c.; but we have been prevented from doing so, by the Hurkârehs having declined to take charge of them, on account of the dangers of the road.

I have no certain knowledge who Sumsâmûl Mûlk was. The interchange of presents, spoken of in the letter, rather discountenances the idea of his being a disaffected Omra of the court of Hyderabad; since a correspondence of that sort could hardly have escaped detection, and is not likely, therefore, to have been hazarded, during the existence of actual hostilities between the two states. The same objection applies to the supposition of his belonging to the train of Dârâjah (the son of the late Busâlut Jung, and nephew of the Soubah) who, at this period, held Adoni in appenage. The former conjecture is further opposed, by the consideration, that none of the memoirs of Nizâm Ali Khân, in my possession, notice the defection of this, or any other person of distinction, from his service, during the present war. But whoever this Sumsâmûl Mûlk was, it is probable that his negociation with the Sultan proved abortive, since we hear no more of him after this time.