enabled me to communicate to his excellency the most noble the governor general your excellency's acquiescence in a plan which embraces the complete reform of the whole administration, and applies an effectual remedy to the evils which pervade every part of these dominions. Although your excellency's rejection of the treaty deprived me of that gratification, yet it never entered my mind that your excellency would in answer to the letter from his lordship, declare that you could not consent to cede a portion of your territories adequate to the expences of the subsidy, and the additional troops.

Notwithstanding I had endeavoured in former conversations to demonstrate to your excellency, by reference to parts of his lordship's letter, that in the event of your excellency's refusal of the first plan, a cession of a portion of your excellency's territories, equivalent to the subsidy, and the expence of the additional troops, was indispensable, yet on the perusal of your excellency's letter to his excellency the most noble the governor-general, I was impelled, by various considerations, to exert all my endeavours to divert your excellency from making the communication, and for this purpose solicited an interview.

In the conversation which ensued, after again referring to that part of his lordship's letter which states the necessity of security, in respect to the funds for defraying the subsidy, and the expence of the additional troops, I placed before your excellency his lordship's declaration of the impossibility of bis departing from the proposed arrangement, together with your excelleccy's dissent from it, and intreated your excellency to reflect how such adverse senuments were to be reconciled.

Your excellency was at this time in possession of a sketch of the proposed arrangements, and I had acquinted your excellency with the line of territory which his lordship had thought it desirable should be relinquished to the company; I stated tha: the countries first to be received were the Dooab, and all your excellency's possessio is on the other side of the Ganges, and the province of Kultair; I explained to your excellency that his lordship's reason for selecting these portions of your dominions was because they constituted the frontier from which danger could approach your excellency's territories,

and that the defence of that frontier by the company's troops consequently secured the territories which would remain to your excellency against the attacks of foreign enemies; and I drew to your excellency's recollection that these countries did not originally belong to your ancestors, but were added to the family possessions by the power of the British arms.

In reply to an observation from your excellency, that if the countries to be ceded were taken only according to their present produce, the resources of the country would sustain heavy losses; I endeavoured to demonstrate, that, in respect to the Dooab, the reverse would be the case, the present Jumma of which is at as high a rate as can be expected, and the collections only secured by the rigorous administration introduced and maintained by Almas, Ali Khan. But that Almas, sensible of the decap of his constitution, and his inability to persevere in the necessary exertions, was earnestly desirous of relinquishing the charge; and that whenever your excellency committed the management of the Dooab to another aumil, or rather aumils, you must lay your account to a diminution of income from it. In respect to the reduced Jumma of Bareilly and Rehr, I contended that no hope could reasonably be entertained of any improvement under the present system; and that if ever the produce was raised to the standard it bore when these two districts came into the possession of your excellency's family, or near to that standard, it could only be by the wise and just regulations which would be established by the British government, and executed by their

servants.

All my remarks having proved ineffectual to induce your excellency to withdraw the refusal of a cession of territory, I concluded with observing, that having fulfilled every duty of friendship and regard to your excellency by the expostulations which I had made, it now remained for me to fulfil the duty which I owed to my own government, by demanding from your excellency, in conformity to lord Wellesley's commands, a portion of your excellency's territories adequate to cover the subsidy and he expence of the additional troops.

In pursuance of this declaration, and of the orders which I have received, I now, in the name of his excellency the most noble the marquis Wellesley, governor

governor-general, require that your excellency make a cession to the company, in perpetual sovereignty, of such portion of your territories as shall be adequate, according to their present produce, after deducting the expence of collections, to the subsidy and to the charges of the additional troops; the former amounting to 76 lacks of rupees per annum, and the latter to 54 lacks twelve thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, making the aggregate sum of one crore thirty lacks twelve thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine rupees.

The whole of your excellency's possessions on the other side of the Ganges, including the districts of Areil Maundah, and the Dooab, with its dependency, Furruckabad, the Soubah of Bareilly, and the district of Rehr, with every part of the province of Kuldair in your excellency's possession, being within the line of territory which the most noble the governor-general thinks it advisable should in the first instance be transferred to the company, I beg leave to express my earnest desire that your excellency will be pleased to furnish me with a statement of the present gross jumma of these places respectively, together with a statement of the expences of collections, that it may be seen how far the present produce of these provinces, after deducting the expences of collections, shall be equal to the sums required.

(Signed) W. SCOTT,

Resident Lucknow.

To lieutenant-colonel Scott. Sir, I am directed by his excellency the most noble the governor-general to transmit to you the enclosed copies of a letter from the military auditor-general, and of the accounts referred to there. in, exhibiting the arrears due by his excellency the vizier for the extra troops serving in the province of Oude, from the 1st of November, 1798, to the 31st of October, 1799, inclusive.

His lordship directs that you will complete the calculation of arrears due by his excellency the vizier down to the present time, upon the principle of the accounts now transmitted to you, and that you will then proceed to demand from the vizier, in the name of his excellency the most noble the governorgeneral in council, the immediate payment of the amount.

I am further directed to request that after having framed the calculation above

To N. B. Edmonstone, Esq. Secretary to government in the foreign, secret, and political departments.

Sir, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th instant, together with the copy of an extract of a letter from the resident at Lucknow enclosed in it.

In compliance with the orders of his excellency the most noble the governorgeneral in council I have prepared the enclosed statement of the air ais due by his excellency the vizier for extra troops employed in Oude, between the 1st of November, 1798, and the 1st of November, 1799. The statement of the expences of each corp. is formed on the prin ciple suggested by colonel Scott, of

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including every fixed and contingent expence for burien gs, camp equipage, "&c." and the number and description of corps are also taken from colonel Scott's statement, with the addition of his majesty's 27th regiment of dragoons, according to the directions contained in your letter.

The calculations for the expences of the corps, specified in the statement, are made on the supposition that the corps were complete, and though this may not be accurately true in all instances, yet the deficiencies were certainly small, and for them a very liberal allowance is made by the admission of colonel Scott's calculation of the fixed establishment for Oude, provided for by the subsidy.

Colonel Scort states the establishment to be four companies of artillery, with their lascars, which he estimates at 1,100 men;-Two regiments of native cavalry, 1,000; -One regiment of European infantry, 1,000; five regiments of native infantry, 10,000.-Total, 13,100. But he number of fighting men on the esta-, blishment of these corps is as follows: Four companies of Artillery: Non-commissioned officers Drummers

* Eleven companies of Lascars
attached in 1798-9.
Non-commissioned officers and
Lascars, 75 each

360

8

825

1,193

The first regiment native infantry.-The complete charges of one regiment in the vizier's dominions receiving full batta is, sonaut rupees 636,487 per annum, as per statement No. 4, but this regi ment having left Oude inthe middle of March, 1799, the proportion of the above-mentioned expence is here

stated for four and half months, viz. from 1st November, 1798, until the 5th March,

1799. The 6th regiment native infantry left Oude the end of May, 1799: the proportion of charges of that regiment for seven months, from 1st November, 1798, to 31st May, 1799, is His majesty's 27th regiment of light dragoons

for one year, from 1st November, 1798, including subsistence for the complete establishment, off-reckonings, and arrears payable in England, and company's allowances in Bengal, together with the calculated contingencies of tear and wear of public buildings, horses, arms, accoutrements, horse furniture, grain for horses, petty stores, and camp equipage, amounts, as per statement No. 5, to Independent regiment of Hindoostanee cavalry. The annual expence of this regiment from 1st November, 1798, to 31st October, 1799, including excercising,

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