To SHUMSÛDDEEN KHÂN and GHÛLÂM HYDER, DÂROGHAS of the TOSHEH-KHÂNEH at SERINGAPATAM; dated 22d WÂSAAEY. (21st September.)

DIRECTING them to advance to three certain Usud-Ilhyes the sum of three hundred rupees [i. e. one hundred to each], on occasion of their approaching marriage; and, moreover, instructing them to give strict injunctions to the Dârogha of the Mint to furnish every thing necessary for the celebration of their nuptials.

This letter furnishes an additional proof of the lively interest taken by the Sultan, in whatever related to this favorite corps, the establishment of which he appears to have always considered with peculiar self-complacency, as bearing indubitable testimony to his zeal for the propagation of the Mahommedan religion. The same observation is applicable to the Ahmedies, for whom he manifested, on various occasions, an equal partiality. Even Letter CCCLXVII, affords an instance of this favorable disposition towards them: for it is highly probable, that if any other description of his troops had presumed to express the same dissatis­faction with the rations served out to them, which was declared by the Risâladârs of this body, they would have received a similar answer to that given to Shâh Noor Ullah, when the latter ventured to represent the badness of the rice delivered for the use of his retinue (see Letter CLXXVII). Here, on the contrary, the Sultan, so far from reproving the complainants, seems to have been sufficiently willing to indulge their preference for Dâl of Toor, provided that article happened to be in the market or in the public store.