own ease and peace of mind; and I exhorted his excellency to deliberate upon the propositions now offered to his consideration, with a calm and dispassionate mind, unbiassed by the undigested and insidious opinions of selfinterested counsellors.

4. I noticed that the paper which I had presented to his excellency was in the shape of a draft, and that if his excellency acquiesced in the fundamental principles of the proposition, I would, at any time and place which his excellency might be pleased to appoint, discuss with him, personally, the stipulations in the subsidiary articles.

5. I observed that many of the articles imposed a heavy expence upon the company, which could only be borne by his excellency's full acquiescence in the principle of the plan; and I took this occasion to call to his excellency's recollection, that a large sum of money was still due to the company, on account of the extra troops employed in his dominions during the time of their threatened invasion by Zemaun Shah, and the disturbances created by vizier Ally. If your lordship had not hitherto urged the payment of it, it was purely in consideration of the demands upon his excellency's treasury for the discharge of arrears to the disbanded troops: but as the right of the company to a reimbursement of the expences actually incurred on the above account incontestible, it was only by the immediate adoption and execution of the first proposition that your lordship could, in justice to the company, relinquish a claim which was so just and reasonable.

was

6. The only question asked by his excellency was, whether the plan comprehended a definite provision for the additional troops. He gave me the assurance of having a conversation with me as soon as he should have fully considered the contents of your lordship's letter, and the propositions contained in the paper I had presented to him.

7. It is impossible for me to form a judgment of what may be his excellency's determmation on the subject, but it has been reported to me, that immediately upon my taking leave, he read the papers, and summoned to his presence his favourite and confidential adviser Ruan Chund. After being closeted wah him for some time, his excellency went out to one of his gardens in the neighbourhood of the city, where he

purposes remaining ten or fifteen days, a communication of which design he had made to me prior to the delivery of the papers.

8. I do myself the honour of enclosing to your lordship an English copy of the draft of the proposed treaty; and having in a separate paper offered observations and explanations upon the several articles, I shall only express to your lordship my assurances, that the full measure of my zeal and reflection has been exerted to frame the propositions, upon such a plan as should ensure the extensive benefits which your lordship has in view, and at the same time be calculated, as far as is consistent with these objects, to render it acceptable to the

Whereas by the treaty and connection now subsisting between the united com, pany of merchants trading to the East Indies, and his excellency the nawaub vizier ul Mumalick Zemeen ud Dowlah, Nazim ul Mulk Saadut Ally Khan Behader Mobarez Jung, the interests of the two states are become one and inseparable: And whereas it is indispensable, for the preservation of the commoninterests, that a system of administration should be established in the dominions of the said vizier, which, whilst it shall ensure to the state the full and just revenues and resources of the county, shall be calculated to inspire the people with confidence in the security of property and of life; to protect the fruits of honest labour; to promote and to extend commerce; and to establish order and submission to the just authority of the state on the solid foundation of gratitude for benefits received, and expec, tation of continual security: and whereas the said salutary and important objects cannot be obtained otherwise than by the

direct

direct interposition of the wisdom, justice, and honour of the British government, the following treaty is now entered into by the most noble the marquis Wellesley, K. P. governor-general in council, on behalf of the said united company on one part, and by his excellency the said vizier on behalf of himself and his heirs for ever, on the other, for vesting in the said company in all times to come, the administration of the civil and military government of Oude, and its dependencies.

Article 1st.-The nawaub Saadut Ally Khan Behader hereby vesis in perpe tuity the sole and xclusive administration of the civil and military government of all the territories and dependencies of the state of Oude, together with the full and entire right and title to the revenues thereof (subject to the payment of a certain sum hereafter specified, for the maintenance of the said vizier, and the support of his dignity) in the Hon. East India company, and his excellency hereby empowers the said company, or their government-general of Bengal, to exercise for ever all the powers, authorities, and rights appertaining to the said

government.

Article 2nd.-The said company shall possess for ever the power and authority of constituting and appointing officers for the collection of the revenues, of establishing courts for the regular administration of civil and criminal justice, and of enforcing and carrying into effect the decrees and sentences of the said courts.

Article 3d-The courts so established shall be constituted of officers to be ppointed by the governor-general in council of Bengal for the time being, and shall in no instance whatever be subjected to the controul, authority, or interference of the said nawaub, but shall be conducted according to such ordinances and regulations (framed with a due regard to the existing laws and usages of the country) as shall from time to time be enacted and published by the said governor-general in council.

Article 4th-The revenues of the county shall be collected by the ochcers to be appointed by the said gov.mor in council for that purpose; and the said nawaub shall exercise no controul whatever, not in any manner interfere in the collections of the said revenues.

Article 5th-Whereas it is stipulated and agreed by the treaty of 1798,

that payment be made by the said vizier to the honourable East India Company of a certain subsidy, amounting to seventy-six locks of rupecs per annum: And whereas by the said treaty the said vizier engages to defray the expire of any additional troops which shail at any time be found necessary for the defence of Oude (and actually now pays a sum monthly on that account) it is hereby stipurated and agreed, that the aforesaid subs oy, and allowances on account of auditional troops, shall for ever cease.

Article 6th.It is hereby stipulated and agreed on the part of the said company, that the sum of lacks of Lucknow sicca rupees nnually, shall be allotted for the malignance and support of his exceliency the valer and his own immediate family, which sum thay be at the free and full disposal of the said vizier, and shall be paid by instalments et Lucknow sicca rupees per month from the company's treasury at Lucknow, without any deduction of batta or excha: ge, and subject to no charges of any kind whatever; and it is hereby further stipulated and agreed on the part of the said company, that the said sum of

lacks of rupees, without any abatement or diminution thereof, shall descend by way of inheritance to the legal heirs and successors of the said. nawaub, and be head and considered as a perpetual provision for the said heirs and successors, and the dependents of the family.

Article 7th.-The stipends and pensions assigned to the princes and begums of the family of his majesty, Shah Alum, residing at Lucknow and Benares, to the widow of the late nawaub, Asof ul Dowlah, and to the reputed children of the said nawaub, Asof ul Dowlah, shall be no longer chargeable to the said vizier. And the most noble the marquis Wellesley, governor-general, on the part of the East India company, does hereby engage that these stipends and pensions shall be henceforth paid by the company and that a suitable maintenance shall be established for the sons of Sujah ul Dowlah, for whom a provision may not be included in the jaghire of her highness at Fyazabad.

Article 8th. The jaghire which were or have been granted by the nawaubs, Sujah ul Dowlah, Asof el Dowlah, and his excellency the present nawaub, (which have not by any means reverted to the state,) shall remain in the full pos

session

session and enjoyment of the persons to whom they were originally granted, during their respective lives, unless some commutation, satisfactory to all parties concerned, shall hereafter be agreed upon. The inhabitants and residents of all descriptions on the said jagheers, being however subject to the jurisdiction of the courts which will be established for the administration of civil and criminal justice. It is however stipulated, that from and after the day of January, 1801, his excellency the vizier shall not grant or consign in jaghire, to any person persons whatever, any portion of the lands or territories of Oude, or its dependencies.

Article 9th The nawaub, Saadut Ally Khan, shall not be responsible for any debts contracted by the late nawaub, Asof ul Dowlah.

Article 10th-His excellency will not correspond with any foreign power, without the knowledge and consent of the governor-general in council.

Article 11th-The nawaub, Saadut Ally Khan, shall on all occasions, at all times, and in all places, be treated with a respect due to his dignity and situa tion, and a sufficient body of the company's troops shall be alloted for the protection of his person and palace.

Article 12th.-As the defence of the dominions of Oude against foreign enemies, and the maintenance of the internal tranquillity and police of these countries, will dissolve solely upon the East India company, his excellency the nawaub, Saadut Ally Khan, engages not to entertain or employ in his service any armed men beyond the number of

for the purposes of state. This number of armed men, or any portion of it which his excellency may be pleased to maintain, shall be at his own cost and expence.

Article 13th.-All the cannon, arms, and military stores, whether deposited at Lucknow, or in any of the fortresses or arsenals, or elsewhere within his excellency's territories, shall be delivered to the company, with the exception of such cannon as his excellency may wish to retain for the purposes of state, and of such arms as shall be requisite for the guards immediately about his person.

Article 14th. In complaints brought before any of the courts of justice to be established, in which it shall appear, either by the application of his excellency the wizier, or the representation of the defen

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dant, at or before the time of giving in an answer, or by the petition of the complainant, that both parties are relations of his excellency, the investigation of such complaint shall in the first instance be referred to the vizier. complaint against his excellency's rela tions, by persons of a different description, shall in the first instance be preferred to his excellency by the company's representative His excellency hereby engages to order an immediate investigation to be made by the person whom he may appoint to dispense justice amongst his own relations, or 11 case the parties should desire it, to order the dispute to be referred to a proper arbitration, his excellency engaging to bring it to a direct issue, and to carry the sentence or reward, if : favourable to his relations, into immediate execution.

Article 15th.-It is hereby supulated and agreed, that the East India company shali enter upon the exclusive administration of the civil and military governments of Oude, on the day of corresponding with the

day of

and his excellency will issue orders to his aumils, and to all his civil and military officers in any shape concerned in the coll:ctions of the revenues, to make over the district or districts under their respective charges, to such persons as shall be appointed by the governorgeneral in council to the management of the same, and also to deliver over to the persons so appointed all records, accounts, and official papers belonging to their respective kutcheries, or offices.

Article 16 h. The whole of the revenues and collections, of whatever kind, accruing to the state, shall, from the period aforesaid, be paid into the treasury of the aforesaid company; and the governor-general, on the part of the said company, hereby engages to dis charge all just arrears of salary and pay which may be really due to persons of all descriptions on the civil and military establishments, up to the day of transfer, or grow and become due to them respectively so long as they shall continue to be in the service; and in the same manner the governor-general engages to discharge all arrears of stipends which may be due to persons now actually on his excellency's pension list. If upon closing the account of the fusly year 1208, it shall appear that any balance of the revenues (from the time the administration of them was committed to the company)

company) remains with the company, (after deducting the expence of colice tion, and taking credit for the monthly kiss, and the mon hly payments due on account of the ardiionil troops, and for the sums disbursed on account of arrears of salary o the civil and military es ablishments, and of pensions as aforesaid) the said balance shall be made over to the vizier; and if the collections and revenues realized by the company do not equal in amount the issues made on the above accounts, the said nawaub shali be answerable for the deficiency out of the funds in his possession.

Article 17th-The nabob vizier engages to furnish the company with accurate statements of the arrears due to the civil and military establishments, and to individuals on the pension list; with the original engagements of the several aumils and renters, and also with correct accounts of the wausi baukee in every district and department. (Signed)

W. SCOTT, Resident at Lucknow.

A tru Copy.

(Signed) N. B. EDMONSTONE, Secretary to Government.

Observations on the Draft of the Treaty. PREAMBLE.

The preamble is intended to set forth the indispensable necessity of the proposed transfer, for the preservation of the common interess of the two allied states, and to e umerate the most striking advantages which would result to the counury from the administration of the civil and military governments being committed to the hands of the company. If the vizier should concur in the fundamental principles of the proposed arrangement, the preamble may be so modelled as to make it appear that the transfer is not merely a voluntary act on his excellency's part, but originating in and founded on a positive solicitation from him, that the governor-general should assume the management of the country for the welfare and happiness of the people.

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Articles 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th. These articles vest in the company the exclusive administration of the whole government, judicial, revenue, and military; and the endeavour has been to frame them with a precision which shall leave no room for future contention as to the real meaning.

Article 5th.-The stipulation in this article, which releases the vizier from

the payment of the subsidy, and allowances on account of the additional troops, is a natural consequence of his devolving upon the company the full and entire right and title to the revenues of Oude and its dependencies.

Article 6th.-It is difficult, if not almost impracticable, to devise a criterion on which to establish an allowance for the maintenance of the vizier and his family, which, abstracted from other considerations, should correspond with his excellency's desires and expectations, on the solid ground of substantial pecuniary sacrifices, and which should, at the same time, be an equitable charge upon the revenues, consistent with the heavy burthens imposed upon the company by subsequent articles

In the former reign, and, I understand, the same rule is still observed, although great reductions have been made in almost the whole of the departments, there was no less a sum than seventynine lacks of rupees annually appropriated to the expenditures of the vizier, undes the following heads:

Privy purse....

.....

22,68,8c9

Khassah and Doab....................... 30, 16,709

Wardrobe.....

Own family.

Ice houses................................................. Armoury..

Sundry necessary charges Tezich Khaneh.......

Library.......

Sundries.........

Household servants........ 3,16,168
Gardens..........
Huzzoory troops...

1,34,coo

13,00,000

79,59,660

It will be observed, that most of these items of expenses appertain to the pri vate and personal charges of the vizier, and the maintenance of his household; but as every necessary disbursement, with the exc prion of establishments for his sons, is separately provided for upon a Irge scale, it may be presumed, that a considerable portion of the immense sum in the first article, which was squan dered away by the nawaub, Asof ul Dow lah, has, together with other savings from reductions in various parts of the establishments, been hoarded up by his

successor.

The demand of a sum equal to the

aggregate