LETTER XCI.
To MAHOMMED GHYÂS and NOOR MAHOMMED KHÂN; dated 8th DÂRÂEY. (21st July.)

YOUR letter of the 23d of Jaafury has been received. You write, “that Hurry Pundit sent a message to you, through Râo Râsta, “desiring you to send away the musqueteers* with you, as it was not “proper that they should remain at Poonah.

It is known. We have already repeatedly written, and we now again write to say, that the hostile intentions of the chiefs in that quarter are evident; that the longer residence of that friend and of Noor Mahom­med Khân there, is consequently in the highest degree improper;* and that you must, therefore, both set out for our Presence, with the whole of your retinue. This order is accordingly to be considered by you of equal force with a hundred orders. You must not wait for any other; but, immediately on receipt of our present commands, proceed with Noor Mahommed Khân, and all the people attached to you, to the Presence. We shall write no more on this subject.

OBSERVATIONS.

The only remark necessary to be made on this letter is, that notwithstanding the apparently inflexible resolution of the Sultan, to withdraw his agents from Poonah immediately, they both appear to have continued there till the month of May in the following year (1786), or nearly a whole year after these peremptory orders for their recall.