YOU did right in apprizing Monsieur Cossigny, the Governor [of Pondicherry], of your arrival at Anuntgeery; and must, hereafter, act as the aforesaid Governor shall recommend to you. [When you resume your journey] you must proceed to Pondicherry, without stopping by the way.* How are the English people* to open and search any thing belonging to you?*

It would appear by this letter, that the Vakeels had, in their dispatches to the Sultan, expressed some apprehensions of being stopped and searched by the English, in their passage through the territories of the Nabob of Arcot. The Sultan affects to treat their fears as chimerical; but, nevertheless, seems to have thought it advisable that they should elude the observation of the English as much as possible, and with this view, directs them to travel by night to Pondi­cherry. He had previously, as the context leads me to suspect, caused their dispatches to be concealed in some part of their apparel, or bedding.

By a subsequent letter it appears, that M. Cossigny recommended, that the Vakeels should remain at Anuntgeery till the arrival of M. Monneron from the Mauritius. On this occasion the Sultan observes, that M. Cossigny “has coun­selled well, and is a good man, to whose opinion it will be proper in them “always to conform.” He concludes the dispatch, here alluded to, with exhort­ing them to approve their zeal and fidelity in the execution of the commission entrusted to them, and with promises of high reward and favor on their return from their embassy.