15th. When the matters now under discussion shall have finally been adjusted (according to what his lordship has written) let no fresh claims, of whatever sort, be anvanced; let no increase be demanded, nor, unless by advice, interference take place in any one affair of the affairs of this government. 16th-Let the engagements entered into between his lordship and this sircar be firm and permanent, and let such a treaty be now drawn up, that no governorgeneral, who shall hereafter be appointed to the charge of the company's affairs, may have it in his power to alter, change, or infringe the said treaty. 17th. Let the number of troops, for which a jaidad shall be granted, always remain within the ceded countries. 18th.-Whenever I may be inclined to perform pilgrimages, let no hinderance be offered to my departure; such excursions will prove the source of amusement to me, and I shall recover my wonted state of health, which has of late been upon the decline. Sunday, 3d Mohurrim, W.SCOTT, A true copy. (Signed) N. B. EDMONSTONE. Secretary to Government. Article. That the true intent and meaning of the foregoing articles of this treaty may be clearly and distinctly understood, it is hereby declared that the territorial cession being in lieu of the subsidy, and all expences for additional troops, no demand whatevever shall be made upon the treasury of his excellency, on account of expences which the honourable company may incur by assembling forces to repel the attack, or menaced attack, of a foreign enemy, on account of the detachment attached to his excellency's person, on account of troops which may be occasionally furnished for suppressing rebellion or disorder in his excellency's territories, or on account of a failure in the resources of the ceded districts, arising from unfavourable_seasons, from the calamity of war, or from any other cause whatever. Article. 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 controul of the said company and their officers; and, in like manner, the territories which will remain to his excellency the said vizier shall be subject to the sole and exclusive management of his excellency, his heirs, and successors, without any interference on the part of the said company's government, either in the collections of the revenue, the applica tion of them, or other affairs of this government, excepting by the interposition of their advice. (Signed) W.SCOTT, A true copy. (Signed) N. B. EDMONSTONE, Secretary to Government. His excellency the most noble the marquis Wellesley, K. P. My Lord,-As your lordship may possibly be of opinion, that under the powers which your lordship has been pleased to confer upon me, the necessity which I have felt of transmitting the vizier's paper of requests to your lordship did not in reality exist, I shall take the liberty of stating the motives which induced me to do so. 2. Whilst I could not take upon myself to commit your lordship's government in points of such delicacy, I feel an earnest solicitude that the territorial arrangement should, if possible, be concluded by the preferable mode of negotiation; and it occurred to me, that either your lordship's peremptory rejection of the articles of such modification as your lordship's wisdom might suggest, would induce his excellency wholly to retract them, or be content with such satisfaction on the several points as your lordship might be pleased to afford. The delay would not be productive of any inconve nience, since I am now preparing the treaty, and obtaining materials for ascer taining the true value of the countries to be ceded. 3. Since I did myself the honour of addressing your lordship on the 23d instant, I have found, amongst the papers of this office a private letter from the late governor-general, containing the following paragraph: "In your private letter you observed, that I omitted to furnish you with instructions respecting the late nabob's debts;" the following paragraph of my minute of the 5th March will supply the omis sion, and point out the proper line of conduct. On this subject (the debts) I informed the nabob, that although the articles was was withdrawn, it was still left to his equity to satisfy such claims as he might deem deem fair and just, and that in this class he would, upon inquiry, probably find the demands of the shroffs upon the late vizier, and if so, that it would be his interest not to overlook them. 4. From this it would appear, that a stand had been made to an article inserted in the draft of the treaty with the vizier, on his accession to the musnud, relating to the payment of the late nawaub's debts, and that sir John Shore had satisfied himself with verbally consigning the liquidation of them to the justice of the vizier. 5. I obtained another piece of information from the molavy this morning, that the vizier possesed a paper, under the seal or signature of sir John Shore, giving him full authority to search for and endeavour to discover any treasure or property which might have been embezzled by persons in charge of the late vizier's different departments. 6. Not having seen the paper I cannot vouch for its existence; and if it do exist it ought to be sufficient for the purpose expected from the 5th article of the present paper, without requiring a confirmation from your lordship. The motive of the molavy in mentioning the paper was to shew with what moderation the vizier exercised powers conferred upon his excellency, and further to evince with how much safety those now asked might be intrusted to him. 7. In the present stage of the negotiation it might appear presumptuous to apeak of the management of the ceded countries, were it not that the season for cultivation fast approaches, and, unless some steps be shortly taken, it is possible that considerable loss may be sustained in the first year. I think it probable, should your lordship see it advisable, that Almas Ali Khan might be prevailed on to continue in the management of the Dooab for another year, under conditions and superintendence as your lordship might prescribe, and the same in respect to Mirza Mehedy. The advantage of such a measure would be the opportunity thereby furnished of investigating, at leisure, and at a proper season, the condition of the country, and the amount of the revenues which it may be capable of bearing in the first in stance. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. Lucknow, (Signed) W. Sco. 9th May, 1801. To lieutenant-colonel Scott, resident at Lucknow. Sir, Para. 1. I am directed by his excellency the most noble governor-general to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23d instant. 2. His lordship directs me to inform you, that the tenor of that dispatch does not produce any alteration in the sentiments and resolutions which by his lordship's command I communicated to you in my letter of the 27th instant. His lordship therefore desires that you will proceed to carry those instructions into effect according to the strict letter of them. 3. In particular his lordship directs that you will insist upon his excellency's immediate liquidation of the arrears of subsidy, a demand from which his lordship is determined not to recede, except under the circumstances of his excellency's consent to the first proposition. 4. With respect to the articles proposed by his excellency, on the basis of an obligation to be guaranteed by his lordship's signature, and the seal of the company, his lordship directs me to observe to you, that the general tenor and spirit of them have excited his lordship's extreme regret and indignation. 5. His excellency must be aware that the demand of a territorial cession is a matter of right which the British government is entitled to claim without any corresponding concession on the part of the company; but were it otherwise, his lordship would not consider himself justified in affording the sanction of the British name to the perpetration of acts, and to the exertion of authority, so unjust, oppressive, and arbitrary in their nature, as those which are expressed in the document above adverted to. It is his lordship's determination, therefore, peremp torily to reject every article of those propositions, and to insist upon the territorial cession, under the terms described in his lordship's instructions contained in my letter to your address of the 26th instant. 6. His lordship has thought proper to prepare a statement of remarks upon the several articles of his excellency's propo sition; and when they shall have been rendered into Persian, the paper will be transmitted to you for the purpose of being presented to the vizier, as a reply to the extravagant and unjustifiable pretensions which his excellency has thought proper to advance upon this occasion. 7. His lordship, however, does not deem it necessary that you should postpone the intimation to his excellency the viziet of his lordship's absolute rejection of of all the proposed articles. You will, therefore, be pleased to convey this intimation to his excellency as soon as pos sible after the receipt of this dispatch, and urge his excellency to bring the negotiation to an immediate conclusion, according to the tenor of the instructions with which you have been furnished. 8. With respect to the two articles of agreement which you have proffered to his excellency the vizier, I am directed to inform you, that his lordship considers the first of them entirely unobjectionable; the second, his lordship observes, must be so modified as to conform to the terms upon which his lordship is disposed to guarantee to his excellency and to his posterity the dominion of his excellency's remaining territory, namely, the absolute extinction of his military power, and the establishment of such regulations of police within his excellency's dominions as may secure the possessions of the company from the detrimental effects of his excellency's ruinous and oppressive system of administration. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) N. B. EDMONSTONE, Secretary to Government. Fort William, 30th May, 1801. To lieutenant-colonel Scott, resident at Lucknow. Sir, I have the honour to transmit to you, by order of his excellency the most noble the governor-general, the paper of remarks adverted to in my address of the 3th ultimo, together with a Persian translation of the same, under his lordship's signature. His lordship directs that you take an early opportunity of presenting the Persian document to his excellency the vizier, accompanying its delivery with such representations as you have been directed to make, or as the circumstances may render expedient, without departing from the general spirit of his lordship's instructions. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. (Signed) N. B. EDMONSTONE. Secretary to Government. Fort William, ed June, 1801. The governor-general is precluded, by the strongest obligations of public duty, from affixing his seal and signature to the article communicated from the nabob vizier, through the resident at Lucknow, under date the gd of Mohurrun, 1216. His lordship has demanded territorial security for the payment of the subsidy due by the vizier to the company as a matter of right and justice, which required no correspondent concession on the part of the company; his lordship, therefore, could not enter into the consideration of the preliminary conditional articles proposed by the vizier in this stage of the transaction, even if the substance of those articles had been exempt from objection: on the other hand, if the governor-general felt himself to be at liberty to enter into a negotiation respecting the conditions of a territorial cession, the tenor of the conditions contained in the proposed articles is so objectionable, in every point of view, that no consideration would induce his lordship to entertain for a moment a project disgraceful to the British character, ruinous to the authority and honour of the nabob vizier, and incompatible with the dignity and security of his excellency's parents and of his rela tions, and with the general happiness of his subjects. The governor-general will not depart from the demand which he has made upon the nabob vizier for the payment of the arrears due by his excellency on account of the additional troops which the fafety of the province of Oude has required the company to station in that country; and his lordship now positively requires the nabob vizier to pay into the hands of the resident at Lucknow the whole of that arrear, delay. amounting to without further The company has actually, incurred and defrayed the whole charge of the additional troops, as stated by the resident to the nabob vizier; the right and duty of the company to station the additional troops in the vizier's dominions has already been fully proved and admitted by the vizier himself; the exigency of the company's affairs forbids further delay in the liquidation of this debt; the governor general therefore expect to learn, within the course of a few days, that the vizier his made provision for the discharge of its full amount; and his lordship requests that no further reference may be made to him on a question already decided. The governor-general will hereafter adjust, in concert with the nabob vizer, the proportion of the expences of the Persian embassies, to be charged to the vizier; but the governor-general desires that it may be understood to be his lord ship's ship's fixed intention to insist on the company's right to require from the vizier a due proportion of that extraordinary charge incurred for the express purpose of augmenting the security of his excellency's dominions. The governor-general has read the remaining articles of the nabob vizier's proposition with the utmost degree of regret; his lordship is concerned to be under the necessity of declaring, that the nature of those articles is such as to impress upon his lordship's mind the most unfavourable apprehensions of the nabob vizier's intentions and views; several of these articles betray the most unjustifiable, undignified, and improvident jealousy of the company's authority and power, especially the 6th, 8th, 15th, 16th, and 17th, articles. From these articles it appears that the nabob vizier has already forgotten that the safety of his person, and the existence of his government, have been maintained exclusively by the British power, and His by the presence of British troops. excellency now seems disposed to gratify his unwarrantable suspicions at the hazard of the continuance of his authority over his subjects, and even of his personal safety, by removing the British forces from his territories, and by confiding his government and his life to those whose treason had repeatedly endangered both. It would be utterly repugnant to the justice and bumanity of the company to phold the various arbitrary powers and vexatious authorities for the establishment of which the vizier has solicited the sanction of the British government in the 1st, 4th, 5th 7th, and 13th, articles. The object of those articles appears to be, under the shelter of the British name, to cancel all the public debts of the state of Oude, to degrade and plunder the ancient and venerable remains of the family and household of Sujah Dowlaḥ, together with whatever is respectable among the surviving relations and servants of nabob Asoph ul Dowlah; to involve the whole nobility and gentry of Oude in vexatious accusations and extensive proscriptions, to deprive the established dependents and pensioners of the state of the means of subsistence; to frustrate every institution founded in the piety, munificence, or charity, of preceding governments, and to spread over the whole country a general system of rapa-, cious confiscation, arbitrary imprison ment, and cruel banishment. The governor-general, in the name of the company and of the British nation, not only refuses his sanction to every article of a system so adverse to the wisdom and justice of the great nation whose authority his lordship represents in India, but his lordship hereby enters his solemn protest against the evil and odious councils which have so far perverted the judgment of the nabob vizier as to engage his excellency to propose to the governor-general to sanction the misery and ruin of a whole people, by the signature of the representative of the British nation in India, and by the seal of the English East India company. His excellency must be aware that the slightest intimation of the existence of such designs would inflame, to the most alarming heights of passion and despair, that discontent which his excellency has so frequently represented to constitute the characteristic spirit of the people of Oude. The publication of the articles tender] ed by his excellency to the governorgeneral, and still more any attempt to carry them into effect, would inevitably occasion the most dreadful convulsions in the province of Oude, and would for ever alienate from his excellency's person and government every sentiment of affec tion, obedience, or respect.. The governor-general, therefore, not only expresses his anxious hope that the nabob vizier will never revive the project contained in the proposed articles, but his lordship most earnestly recommends it to his excellency to exert every possible precaution to prevent the tenor of those propositions from transpiring in his excellency's court, or among any description of his excellency's subjects. With regard to the permanance of any settlement to be now concluded with the British government,the articles already proposed by the resident are sufficient for that purpose; articles will also be admitted for the purpose of providing ample security for the maintenance of the authority of the vizier within his remaining territories, to the extent compatible with the general safety of the company's contiguous possessions. His lordship deems it unnecessary to add any further observations on the subject of the vizier's propositions; and he concludes by repeating, in the most express terms, his demand for an immediate liquidation of the arrears of subsidy, and for a speedy adjustment of a competent His Excellency the most noble the territorial security. (Private.) To Lieutenant-Colonel Scott, Resident at Lucknow. My dear Sir, Para. 1. The stipulations which his excellency the vizier has proposed in his preliminary articles, binding the company to maintain a specific number of British troops within the ceded territory, and excluding them from his own, have suggested to his lordship the expediency of explaining to you his sentiments respecting the state in which the company's defensive engagements are placed under an arrangement founded on the basis of a territorial cession. 2. His lordship conceives that the territorial cession imposes upon the company the whole burthen of responsibility and expence attending the defence of his excelfency's remaining dominions, both now and in future. That it is an exchange of ter ritory for protection, and is founded upon a principle totally different from that which at the conclusion of the treaty of 1798 regulated the stipulations respecting the augmentation or decrease of the British troops employed in the province of Oude, for the defence of his excellency's po sessions. 3 His lordship conceives, that under the provisions of the territorial cession his excellency the vizier possesses no right to prescribe either the number or the disposition of the British troops to be employed in fulfilling our obligation, of which no part of the responsibility or of the expence rests with him. As the British government is alone responsible for the defence of the vizier's dominions and is chargeable with every expence, permanent or contingent, attending that engagement, the British government must alone decide both the number and disposition of the troops which may be necessary for that purpose 4. His lordship is anxious that this principle should be fully understood by his excellency, whose right, under the provisions of a territorial cession, to interfere in the company's military arrangements for the defence of Oude, his lordship observes, can never be adinitted. I am, &c. &c. (Signed) N. B. EDMONSTONE, Sec. to government. Fort William, 5th June, 1801. marquis Wellesley, K. P. governor. general, &c. &c. My Lord,-The unofficial letters which I have done myself the honour to address to your lordship, under dates the 14th and 23d instant, will have apprized your lordship of the embarrassments interposed in the way of the terri torial arrangement, by the vizier's obstinate perserverance in submitting a paper of requests for your lordship's approval and confirmation. Every argument addressed to usage, to decorum, and to common sense, and every attempt to demonstrate the imprudence, inexpediency, and inutility, of bringing forward sentiments so undisguised in their tendency as are some of the articles, and so incapable in their nature of receiving your lordship's sanction, ha ving been repeatedly urged, and exerted in personal conversations with his excellency, and through the medium of his confidential adviser, molavy Suddun, without the effect of prevailing on his excellency to withdraw them, I feel a necessity of transmitting to your lordship the paper under the formality of his excellency's seal. 3. The paper which had been carried away by molavy Suddun, on the 22d instant, was returned to me yesterday evening, enclosed in a letter from the vizier. It has undergone some slight alterations without any change in substance, and the heading, which required the confirmation of your lordship's signature and scal, is omitted and transferred to the letter. 4. I would have made another per sonal effort to persuade his excellency to withdraw several of the exceptionable articles; but owing to his being unable to put on his cloaths, from some eruptions on his body, he declined seeing me, and deputed molavy Suddun. 5. Taking up his excellency's letter to me, I observed upon a part of it, which bespeaks, the assistance of my friendship and regard, that I had given him the strongest proofs of both by the stand which I had made against transmitting the paper to your lordship, and by the means I had taken to convince his excellency's judgment of the measure he was parsing. 6. I he inolavy observed, that his excellency, having withdrawn the articles which required a auhinution of the amount of the subsidy, or that the coun |