condly, examining it as another attempt at procrastination and evasion. 11. Admitting the proposal to have been sincere, it must have been devised for one of the following purposes, to manifest to your lordship, to his subjects, and to the world, his excellency's dissatisfaction at the measures pursuing, to distinguish one of his sons by a partial and undue preference, or to seek the aid and protection of some foreign power. In the first case it is a puerile resentment, from an indulgence in which no advantages to the common interest of the two states could be derived, but possibly some embarrassments, both immediate and remote; the delay of his departure, even for a month, would at this season of the year occasion some inconvenience in the settlement of the countries to be ceded. On the second supposition it is necessary to observe, that his excellency did not specify which of his sons should be selected for the important trust of deputy. His eldest son possesses none of his father's regard, and has recently incurred his displeasure, it may therefore be fairly presumed that the choice would not have fallen upon him: the son, though not in the same predicament with his eldest brother, does not enjoy his father's fondness in any degree equal to the third son; the object therefore might have been to place the third son in the immediate possession of the government, in the hope of an ultimate confirmation in it, and thereby set aside the rights of primogeniture. 12. The timity of his excellency's disposition, his fondness for money, and his unpopularity, almost preclude supposition that he would undertake any measure wherein the exertion of an enterprising mind is essential, wherein the expenditure of a large treasure would be inevitable, and wherein the attachment of his subjects, or a large proportion of them, would be requisite for the recovery of his power and dominions through any foreign aid. When, however, I noticed the possibility of his falling into the hands of some of our enemies, he treated such a contingency with perfect coolness and indifference. 13. Although in the two preceding paragraphs I have considered the propositionas offered with sincerity, yet itis scarcely entitled to such a regard; had it been sincere, and unmixed with any sinister view, no possible end could be answered by de clining to adjust the terms of the treaty, and to ratify it by his seal and signature. The measures could not ba averted, nor could his mind escape from any uneasy reflections, by the reservation of refusing to execute the treaty, whilst in an instrument under his hand and scal he commanded his deputy to carry the conditions of it into execution; the period of his departure, and the selection of one of his sons for the office of deputy, would furnish grounds for a protracted discussion, and most probably for a rejection of the proposition; and the necessity of consult ing your Lordship on so extraordinary a proposal would inevitably occasion the further delay of some days, which would have been employed in devising new pretexts for evasion. 14. There is yet another supposition in regard to this proposition, which is, that under the pretext of visiting certain holy places of resort his excellency may conceal the intention of proceeding to England; a measure which it is well known he had in contemplation when vizier Ally was placed upon the musnud. 15. By whatever motive his excellency may have been influenced in bringing forward the proposition, it bears so strongly the resemblance of a subterfuge, that I cannot couceive it affords a justifi able cause for suspending the execution of your lordship's orders, which I shall therefore proceed to carry into effect with as little delay as possible. 16. Although I entertain no suspicion that his excellency will excite disturb ances, yet as he will be at no pains to conceal the impending reductions in the cavalry, nor his dissatisfaction at the measure about to be pursued, and as the capital is full of idle and seditious Mohammedans, and of turbulent soldiers of fortune, at all times ready to join in acts of riotous violence, I have thought it a measure of common precautionary prudence to request of general Stuart, to order the regiment which was to have marched from Cawnpore on the first of the ensuing month, for the relief of the regiment on duty at Lucknow, to commence its march a few days earlier; and it is my intention to detain both regiments here as long as circumstances may seem to render it expedient. 17. Under the consideration of the season of cultivation being arrived, and the practice of giving Tuccavie, or advance, to the husbandmen, together with the im possibility, possibility, without the risk of considerable loss of revenue, of introducing at this instant a new system of collections in the countries to be taken possesion of, it appears to my judgment expedient, and, indeed, the only means of securing the revenue, and of obviating confusion, to continue to such of the aumils whose attachment to the company can be depended on, the management of the several districts of which they have now repectively the charge. With the view of consulting Almas Ali Khan on the subject of retaining the management of the Dooab, I had appointed a meeting with him this morning, but indisposition prevented his coming. My dear sir,-I was this morning favoured with your letter of the 24th instant. Prior to the receipt of lord Wellesley's commands of the 15th June, I had taken the liberty to offer my opinion to the vizier, that his lordship would not judge it suitable to visit Lucknow until the pending negotiation should be brought to a final determination. In my conference with his excellency of the 231 June I informed him that his lordship had apprized me of his intention to visit the upper provinces, but had expressed a doubt whether he should think it expedient to meet his excellency during the actual crisis of affairs. I shall now take the earliest opportunity of acquainting his excellency with his lordship's positive determination not to have any personal interview with his exe ilency whilst any of the equitable demands of the British government remain unadjusted. The paper of intelligence, inclosed in my letter of the 15th June, had been in my possession two or three days before it was transmitted, and I believe related a Conversation which had taken place between the 7th and 10th, the period between my verbal communication of lord Wellesley's sentiments on the vizier's paper of requests, and the delivery of his lordship's written reply. The answer from Calcutta alluded to in that paper was, I conclude, the written answer on his excellency's requests, which I had prepared him to expect from his lordship It a peared to me, on reading the paper of inteligence, that the other gentlemen to whom the molavy wished to be the bearer of letters, in terms which he should approve, were the members of the supreme council; I am not aware that his excellency holds any secret correspondence with gentlemen in Calcutta, although it is generally believed that he has a dawk established between Benares and the presidency, and Persian letters occasionally come for Molavy Suddun in the packets of the company's dawk. The report of a change in the ministry at home has for two or three days past been in circulation at Lucknow, but whether it has yet reached the ears of the vizier, I am unable to say. It shall, however, be my endeavour to discountenance the belief of it in his excellency's mind, and to preclude him from building on the report any hope of relaxation in the pre sent measures. Although his excellency cannot be ignorant of my having taken steps prepa ratory to the establishment of the company's authority in the districts to be appropriated as a security for the subsidy, yet he has discovered no intention of cooperating with me in the arrangement. I sent for and had separate conferences with almas Ally Khan, and Mirza Mehudy, in which I stated to them that the obstinacy of the vizier in rejecting all the governorgeneral's propositions for affording security to the just demands of the British government, had compelled his lordship, for the preservation of the company's rights and interests in Oude, to revert to the extreme measure of assuming a certain portion of his excellency's dominions, and that as some of the districts under their respective charges formed a large portion of that territorial assignment, I called upon them, in the name of the British government, to exert all their powers and influence to maintain the districts in perfect tranquillity and composure; they gave me the strongest protestation of implicit submission to the British government, and obedience to any orders from me; I satisfied myself with these assurances, without entering into the discussion of specific engagements for continuing to them the management of their respective districts. To Aimas I was more communicative, and touched upon the substance and objects of his excellency's requests; Mirza Mehudy was probably informed of them through Rutten Chund, with whom he is said to hold secret conferences. Having this morning learned from the vizier, who had sent for my moonshee, that both Almas and Mirza Mchudy had, with a view probably of conciliating his excellency, made an unfair report of my conversation, 1 versation by assigning to me a declaration that I was proceeding with the privity and approbation of his excellency, a declaration which I had never uttered, and which I am confident, from their communications to me, they could not through any miståke have supposed proceeded from me, I thought it expedient immediately to inform his excellency, that so far from having given them to understand that I was acting in concert with his excellency, I had explicitly told them that his excellency had pouitively refused his co-ope ration. This explanation I thought indispensable, as well in vindication of my candour and veracity, as to evince to his excellency my determination to prosecute the necessary steps for establishing the company's authority in the line of territory to be ceded without his consent, should he still persist in refusing his acqui escence. Although I have not received from the vizier any further payments on account of the balance of arrears, yet I hope the assiduity and perseverance with which I insist on the full liquidation of that demand, will immediately procure another payment. I am, my dear sir, &c. &c. (Signed) WILLIAM SCOTT, Lucknow, ed July, 1801. To his excellency the most noble the marquis Wellesley, K. P. governorgeneral. My lord,-1. I had yesterday the honour to receive your lordship's commands through the secretary's letter of the 30th June. 2. It is with much pleasure I acquaint your lordship that no steps have yet been taken of a nature to preclude the prosecution of the measure in agitation by the means of amicable negotiation; on the contrary, in a visit which the vizier paid to me the day before yesterday, at a private conference sought for by me, the discussion of a territorial cession was resumed, and his excellency was so far prevailed on to engage in the consideration of concluding, and executing the treaty, prior to his proposed temporary absence, as to express a desire of being furnished with a draft of the stipulation; I shall expect with the utmost impatience the arrival of your lordship's brother, the honourable Henry Wellesley; and in the mean time shall exert all my endeavours to cultivate and improve the above cir cumstance. 3. Although I by no means admitted that his excellency's intended expedition should be a condition of the territorial cession, nor engaged for your lordship's sanction and approval of that step, yet I promised, that if the treaty were concluded the stipulation of it should not be carried into effect until his excellency could consult your lordship, either personally or by letter, in the wish which he has so repeatedly expressed of being permitted to proceed on the pilgrimages. His excellency, on his part, desired that his being put in possession of a draft of the treaty might not be interpreted into an engagement to conclude it. 4. The draft of the treaty having been some time ago prepared, both in English and Persian, a copy of it in the latter language was yesterday delivered to his excellency by my moonshee, and I have the honour to transmit copies of the same to your lordship in both languages. 5. His excellency, after the payment on the 24th of June of the eight lacks of rupees on account of the balance of arrears of subsidy due to the company, having desisted from further payments, I thought it necessary, in compliance with your lordship's injunctions, to press for the immediate liquidation of the whole amount still due, and for this purpose addressed, on the 29th of June, a letter to his excellency, to which, on the 2d of July, I received a reply, the tenor and spirit of this reply appeared to me so exceptionable that I considered it my duty to repel the insinuations against the justice of the demand in the strongest and most pointed language. Copies of this correspondence are herewith inclosed for your lordship's information. 6. It was my intention, after giving his excellency a reasonable time to reflect on the sentiments and declarations contained in my last letter, to have proceeded to the sequestration of the revenues of some of his excellency's districts, in satisfaction of the company's just demand; but apprehensive lest such a measure might furnish a pretence to his excellency for bre king off the negotiation for the territorial cession, I have, for the present, satisfied myself with calling to his excellency's reflection that that ineasure of extremity for the recovery of the the public rights, is still impending over him. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. Lucknow, 10th of july, 1801. Draft of a treaty between the honourable the English East India company and his excellency the vizier ul Mumalick Yemeen ud Dowlah, Nazim ool Moolk, Sadut Ali Khan Behauder, for ceding to the said company, in per petual sovereignty, certain parts of his excellency's territorial possessions in commutation of the subsidy now payable to the said company by his excellency the vizier. Whereas by the treaty now subsisting between the honourable the East India company and his excellency the vizier, the said company have engaged to defend his excellency's dominions against all enemies; and to enable them to fulfil that engagement his excellency is bound by the aforesaid treaty to pay the company, in perpetuity, the annual subsidy of seventy-six lacks of Lucknow sicca rupees; and is further bound by the said treaty to defray the expense of any augmentation of force which, in addition to the number of troops stipulated in the treaty shall be judged necessary to enable the company to fulfil their engagements of defending his excellency's dominions alust all enemies: and whereas it is desirable that the funds for detraying these charges should be established on a footing which shali admit of no fluctuation of either increase or decrease, and which shall afford satisfaction and security to the said company in regard to the regular payment in perpetuny of all such charges, the following treaty is entered into between his exceliency the most noble the marquis Wellesley, K. P. governor-Leneral, on the part of the honourable the English East India company, and his excellency the nibob vizier ul Man lick Yemeen ud Dowlah Nizam ool Moolk, Saadut Ali Khan Behauder Mobaurez Jung, for ceding to the honourable the English East India company, in perpetual sovereignty, certain portions of his excellency's territorial possessions, in commutation of the subsidy and all other sums of money now chargeable to his excellency on account of the company's defensive engagements with his excellency. Article 1st. His excellency the nabob vizier cedes to the honorable the East India company, in perpetual sove reignty, all and every part of his territorial possessions lying to the southward and westward of the river Ganges, as well as those without the Doab and joining to the company's present possessions, as those situated with the Doab, including the dependancy of Furruckabad; his excellency the nabob vizier also cedes to the honourable the East India company, in perpetual sovereignty, the subah of Bareilly, districts of Reher, and all and every part of his possessions situated in the country at Kultair, commonly called Rohilcund, together with all the powers, rights, and privileges, which, as lord paramount, he possesses over the jaghire of Ahmed Al Khan Behaud r; his excellency the vizier further cedes to the ho nourable the East India company the districts of, &c.-A schedule of the Mehals so ceded is annexed to the treaty. ed.-The subsidy, which by the second article of the treaty of 1798 his excellency engaged to pay to the company, to cease for ever; and his excellency is released from the obligation of defraying the expenses of any additional. troops which may at any time be requisite for the protection of Oude and its dependencies, whether the countries ceded to the company, or of the territories which will remain in the possession of his exceliency the said vizier ad. The honourable the East India company hereby engage to defend the territories which will remain to his excellency the vizier against all foreign and domestic eneinies whatever; provided always, that it be in the power of the company's government to station the British troops in such parts of his excellency's dominions as shall appear to the said government most expedient; and provided also, that his excellency shall retain in his service such a number of armed men only as shall be absolutely necessary for the collection of the revenues, and such a number of horsemen and footmen about his person as shall be consistent with his dignity, and suitable to the purposes of state; and provided further, that there be established throughout his excellency's reserved dominions such a system of police, under the control of the company's officers, as shall be calculated to secure the internal peace of his excellency's country, and the orderly and quiet behaviour of his subjects of every description. 4th. A detachment of the British troops, and a proportion of artillery, shall at at all times be attached to his excellency's person. 5th. That the true intent and meaning of the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th articles of this treaty may be clearly undertstood, it is hereby declared that the territorial cession being in lieu of the subs.dy, and of all expenses on account of the compa ny's defensive engagements with his excellency, no demands whatever shall be inade upon the treasury of his excellency, on account of expenses which the honourable company may incur by assenbling forces to repel the attack, or menaced attack, of a foreign enemy, on account of the detachment attached to his ex cliency's person, on account of troops which may be occasionally furnished for suppressing rebellion, or disorders in his excellency's territories, or on account of a failure in the revenues of the ceded districts, arising from unfavourable seasons, from the calamity of war, or from any other cause whatever. 6th. The territories ceded to the honourable the East India company, by the first article of this treaty, shall be subject to the exclusive management and control of the said company and their officers; and the honourable the East India company hereby guarantee to his excellency the vizier, and to his heirs and successors, the possession of the territories which will remain to his excellency after the territorial cession, together with the exercise of his and their authority in the said dominions, subject to the provisions in the third article of this treaty. of 7th. The ditrict ceded by the 1st, article of this treaty shall be delivered over to the charge of the company's officer on the day and his excellency will continue to pay the subsidy, and the expenses of the additional troops, from his treasury, in the same manner as hitherto observed, until the company's officers shall have obtained complete possession from his excellency's officers of the countries so ceded. This company will not claim any payments of subsidy from his excellency's treasury after their officers shall have obtained possession of the said districts from his excellency's officers. 8th. The contracting parties, with a view of establishing such a commercial intercourse between their respective dominions as shall be mutually beneficial to the subjects of both states, here by agree to revive the commercial treaty concluded between the honourable company and the government of Oude in July, 1798, and to adopt the forms and stipulations of it to the altered cucumstances of the case; in the mean time it is agreed, that the ravigation of the ver Ganges, and of all other rivers where they may form the mutual boundary of both states, shall be fice and uninterrupted, that is to say, that no boats passing up and down the Ganges, or other rivers where they form the mutual boundary of both states, shall be stopped or molested on account of duties, or shall duties be demanded from boars which put to in the possession of either of the contracting parties, without intention of landing their goods. It shall however be in the power of both governments to fix and levy such duties as they may think proper on goods imported into. or exported from, their respective dominions, not exceeding the present usage. 9th. All the articles of former treaties, for establishing and cementing the union and friendship existing between the two states, are to continue in full force, and all the articles of the treaty concluded by the governor - general, Sir John Shore, Bart, on the part of the company, and his excellency the nabob vizar, in 1798, not annulled by this treaty, are to remain in full force, and be binding on the contracting parties. True copy. (Signed) W. SCOTT, Resident Lucknow. To the V zier. Dated 16 Suffer, 1216. 20 h June, 1801. I have received your exceilercy's letter of the 10th instant, and fully comprehend what your excellency has written on the subject of the arrears due to the company's government. His excellency the most noble the governor-general having strongly urged your excellency to the immediate payment of the arrears justly due to the company's government, your excellency, in the first instance, paid the sum of two lacks of rupees, for which a receipt was granted, and having subsequently paid the sum of four lacks of ripe from your own treasury, and eight lacks through Almas Alli Khan, I was in hopes that your excellency would have continued your payments without intermission, until the whole |