YOU must give the most strict orders to all the merchants, and other inhabitants of that place [Calicut], neither to buy any goods of the English factor who is come thither, nor sell grain, or any other articles whatsover, to him. How long [in this case] will the above named remain?* He will, in the end, despair of making either sales or purchases, and depart from thence.
It will be sufficient to remark on this letter, that the order contained in it amounts to a gross infraction of the eighth article of the treaty of Mangalore, concluded between the English and Tippoo in March 1784.