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APPENDIX.
APPENDIX, A.
(Referred to in the PREFACE.)
TRANSLATION of No. 1 of the annexed Plate, being the MEMORANDUM
of TIPPOO SULTAN.

“In the year Sehr, 1220 of the Mowloody [i.e. the birth] of Mahommed,* th?? Fringy the 5th of the month Rubbâny “English and the Dewân of the Nâbob, Nizâm Ali Khân, named Ghûlâm “Syed [and also called] by the title of Sohrâb Jung, and Hurry Pundit “Phurkia, all these three persons came together [or united] to make war; and “[after] taking Bangalore, Sawantydoorg, and other places, came to the royal “residence of Putn, when peace, upon the condition of [my] giving three crores “and thirty lacks of Imaumies [i. e. rupees] was settled, of which [sum] two “parts [i. e. two-thirds] were taken in money. And, at the time of [making] “peace, they did abundance of deceitful and bad things,* of which there would “be no end to the recital.* In fine, after the peace, [they] took two of my “sons, Aabdûl Khâlik and Moizûddeen, in pledge [i. e. as hostages] and, together with Ghûlâm Ali Khân and Ali Rizâ Nurwâil, took them away. And on “the 5th of the month Rubbâny, corresponding with the 3d of the month Rujub, “year Sehr, 1220* birth of Mahommed, peace was concluded [or settled]. “And the above-mentioned sons, on the 9th of Shuvwal, corresponding with the “10th of the month Behâry, year Sehr, being Monday, 1220 of the birth of “Mahommed, entered Chinaputn [i. e. Madras], and on the 23d of the month “Rujub, corresponding with the 24th of the month Kâzy, year Sâhir, being “Monday, year 1221 of the birth of Mahommed, coming forth from Chinaputn, “proceeded to the Presence, and after some days arrived in the Presence at “Yoosûfâbâd, on the 4th of the month Rubbâny, year Zuburjud, 1219 “of the birth of Mahommed, corresponding with the 2d of the month Rujub, “A. H. 1206, proceeded from the royal residence towards the Nusâra [i. e. the “Nazarenes]; and on the 9th of the month Tukky, year Sehr, 1220 of the “birth of Mahommed, answering to the 7th of the month Shuvwâl, A. H. “1206, entered [or arrived at] Chinaputn [i. e. Madras]: and on the 27th “of the month Râzy, year Sâhir, and 1221 of the birth of Mahommed, “corresponding with the 25th of the month Shaabân, A. H. 1208, being “altogether twenty-two months and eighteen days, they came forth from “Chinaputn; and on the 27th of the month Rubbâny, year Sâhir, and of the birth “of Mahommed 1221, arrived in the Presence, with Doveton, the English Fringy, “at Yoosûfâbâd, with Doveton, the English Fringy.

The foregoing memorandum is followed by a minute (also in the Sultan’s hand-writing) wherein the Sultan, after stating his own opinion pretty fully, calls upon his counsellors to deliver their sentiments, with regard to the measures proper to be pursued at this period (viz. the return of the hostages); after which follows a note of dates, furnished by Ali Rizâ Khân, and apparently designed to set the Sultan right, with respect to some of those given in the engraved memorandum. The dates in question relate, 1st. to the arrival of the hostages at Madras; &c., 2d. to their departure from thence; specifying precisely the day and hour of each occur­rence, and differing considerably, in both articles, from the Sultan’s statement.

TRANSLATION of No. 2 of the annexed Plate, being a MINUTE or NOTE, containing the joint opinion of GHÛLÂM ALI and SYED FUZL ALI, on the question respecting COLONEL DOVETON’S reception.

“The humble representation of your slaves is this. If one person of the “Nazarenes come along with the princes,* it is of no consequence. He may be “both honoured with an interview, and amused* with the words of friendship. “Whatever is in the heart, it may [nevertheless] remain there:* and whether “the interview takes place at Bangalore, or elsewhere, does not signify. [On “the other hand] in case his coming should be set aside, it will excite some “mistrust in their minds.*

“The humble representation of Ghûlâm Ali and Syed Fuzl Ali.”

The manuscript, from which the two foregoing articles have been taken, is composed of forty leaves of European paper, of the size of quarto post: and though several whole leaves and some pages are blank, it contains, besides the minutes here inserted, many other curious and interesting documents, chiefly questions proposed by the Sultan to his ministers, on political subjects, with their answers subjoined, in their respective hand-writings.