LETTER CCCCXXXIII.
To KUREEM SÂHEB; same Date. (2d February.)

YOUR humble address, accompanied by a Nuzr, on account of our chastisement of, and [late] victory over, the enemy, has passed under our view. What you write, respecting your intention of repairing to our Presence, and the re-establishment of your health, is understood, and has afforded pleasure to our mind. With the blessing of God, our special retinue will soon shed lustre on that place [Seringapatam] when we shall have a meeting.

OBSERVATIONS.

Kureem Saheb was the second son of Hyder Ali by a concubine, but was adopted by Medina Begum;* who, I believe, was a lawful wife of Hyder, as well as Fukhurûn Nisa Beeby, the mother of Tippoo Sultan. Kureem Saheb survived his brother, after whose death he came under the protection of the British govern­ment, together with the other branches of his father’s family, and was still living in 1808. He is represented to be of weak intellects; and would not, at any period, appear to have been entrusted with authority by his father, or to have been an object of jealousy to his brother. The foregoing letter is not the only one to his address which appears in the present collection. There is another of a prior date, acknowledging, as this does, the receipt of a Nuzr on occasion of a former victory.