IN addition to the camels which were some time ago sent to you, for the conveyance hither of certain articles of our special camp equipage, we have now dispatched fifty others, for the purpose of bringing treasure. You must, accordingly, dispatch the tents on the former, and on the latter the treasure.

The treasure here mentioned was, most probably, designed for the Mahrattahs; and appears, by a subsequent letter, to have consisted of 3,88,971 pagodas of sorts, and 72,000 Pondicherry rupees, making together about thirteen lacks of rupees, which agrees pretty nearly with the sum stated (as will be presently seen) by the Sultan himself, as the amount of what he paid to the Mahrattahs at the conclusion of peace.