[AFTER compliments].......... A long period has elasped, during which you have not delighted or gladdened me with the joyful tidings of your health and happiness. This neglect is very distant from the established rules of friendship, since friendship renders it incumbent [on you] to afford me regularly the satisfaction of receiving letters [from you], containing accounts of your welfare.

The victorious army being arrived in these parts,* it is fitting that that friend should afford me the pleasure of an interview [with him], in order that the foundations of mutual regard and amity may be strengthened, and that various points, which can only be properly discussed in a personal intercourse,* may be finally adjusted [be­tween us].

I am unable to say, whether the interview, here proposed by the Sultan, took place or not. It is probable, that Runmust Khân would endeavour to evade it, if for no other reason than because he could not consent to such a meeting, without rendering himself obnoxious to the suspicious and displeasure of the Nizâm, whose feudatory he was.

It must not be concluded, from the circumstance of the Patan chieftain being designated Foujdâr in the title of the foregoing letter, that he was actually addressed by this disparaging appellation. Such an affront could not be reconciled with the general style of the letter, which is not deficient in courtesy. It is very possible, however, that the Sultan might have been in the habit of speaking of him, to his secretaries and others, as the Foujdâr of Kurnool, and that term, like that of Sânoor Wâleh, might, in this manner, have come to be adopted by the transcribers, or registers, of the correspondence.