YOUR letter has passed under our view, and its contents are understood. You write, “that the Byde horse,* out of employ, have “committed great excesses and depredations in the Sircar’s dominions.” It is known. You must issue the most peremptory orders [to these people] to carry their ravages into the Mahrattah territories, bringing away from thence all the horses they can make booty of, and desisting [for the future] from their depredations in our country.

You and Bûrhânûddeen must remain united in your councils; and collecting together the necessary materials for opening trenches against Nergûnd, lose no time in reducing that place. In short, you must, in all affairs, agree in word and thought.

Turrokul belongs to the Zemindâr of Kolapoor, and the said Zemin­dâr is well disposed towards us: you must, therefore, never mention his name, but attend to what we heretofore particularly and strictly enjoined on this head. What more shall be written?

If some disagreement had not recently arisen between Bûrhânûddeen and Kum­rûddeen, it may, at least, be inferred from the second paragraph of the foregoing letter, that the Sultan was in apprehension of it, and, therefore, judged it neces­sary to repeat so soon his former exhortations to harmony. It may be doubted, however, whether these admonitions produced the desired effect; since, not long after the date of the present dispatch, fresh symptoms of discord between the rival commanders are manifested.

It is not very clear, what the Sultan means, by enjoining Kumrûddeen “never “to mention the name” of the Zemindâr of Kolapoor. Kolapoor is a district situated near Soonda and Goa, and in the possession of a chieftain, who acknowledges the authority of the government of Poonah, and pays, I believe, a tribute to the Paishwa. It would seem, that a good understanding secretly subsisted between this chieftain and the Sultan; and that the latter, on this account, had determined to treat him as a neutral, notwithstanding his connexion with the Mah­rattah empire. It is also not improbable, that Kumrûddeen (ignorant, perhaps, of the friendly disposition of the Zemindâr towards the Sultan) may have proposed to take possession of Tûrkûl or Turrokul; in which case, the purport of the expression under consideration might have been, that the Zemindâr of Kolapoor was not to be considered or spoken of in a hostile manner, or his territory treated as that of an enemy.