formity to the treaty, before my departure from Lucknow, and I have the satisfaction to learn that the prescribed reductions are now nearly completed. It is my intention, as soon as the state of public affairs may admit, to prepare a detailed plan for the administration of the Vizier's dominions, founded on that which shall be established within the ceded provinces. In pursuance of the intention which I expressed to his Excellency of entering on the consideration of all matters depending between his Excellency and the Bhow Begum his Excellency's grandmother, and of effecting a settlement be his reserved dominions and to be exercised through his Excellency's own officers and servants, the British Government having engaged to guarantee the establishment and exercise of his Excellency's authority within his reserved dominions, and the Governor-General will never depart from this engagement. His Excellency has engaged to establish, within his reserved dominions, such a system of administration as shall be conducive to the prosperity of his subjects, and be calculated to secure the lives and property of the inhabitants. This system of administration is to be carried into effect by his Excellency's own officers and servants, and by his own authority. His Excellency has also engaged always to advise with, and to act in conformity to, the counsel of the officers of the honourable Company. In the establishment therefore of an improved system of administration within the reserved dominions, and also in all affairs connected with the ordinary government of those dominions, and with the usual exercise of his Excellency's established authority, the Vizier has engaged to advise with the British Government, and to conform to its counsels. Those counsels will always be offered to his Excellency in the form of friendly advice, and in the spirit of reciprocal confidence, and of mutual regard and respect. The Governor-General, when the importance of the subject shall require, and the nature of the occasion shall admit his immediate intercourse with the Vizier, will offer the advice of the British Government to his Excellency, by a direct communication either in person or by letter. The British Resident at Lucknow, however, is the constituted local representative of the British Government, and the ordinary and established channel of communication in all cases whatever. The Resident will therefore, in the common course of business, offer to the Vizier the advice of the British Government, in the name of the Governor-General; and in every case which may require the Resident to state such advice, it is to be received as proceeding immediately from the Governor-General. Such advice will be offered by the Resident in all practicable cases, under the general or specific orders of the Governor-General. tween the Begum and his Excellency on just, equitable, and permanent principles, I directed her Highness's confidential agent, Daraub Ali Khaun, whom the Begum deputed to meet me at Lucknow, to accompany me on my return to Benares, with the view to enter into a discussion of the several points of difference at issue between the Begum and the Vizier. The pressure of other urgent business, however, precluded the practicability of this discussion. I, therefore, merely received from Daraub Ali Khaun an explanation and statement of the Begum's demands and expectations from the Vizier and the British Government, with the design of entering into the consideration of them at some more favourable opportunity. I shall communicate to the Board hereafter the details of this subject, and the measures which I propose to adopt for the adjustment of all questions depending between the Vizier and the Begum. It is my intention to prepare, at the earliest practicable The Resident must advise the Nabob with perfect cordiality, and must employ every endeavour to coincide with his Excellency in an uniform course of measures, and to unite sincerely with his Excellency in carrying into effect exclusively, under his Excellency's authority, and through his Excellency's officers, those measures which shall be determined upon in conformity to the counsels of the British Government. In cases requiring the aid of the British Government, or the assistance of the British troops, they shall be employed according to the exigency of the occasion. The Resident must conduct himself towards the Nabob Vizier, on all occasions, with the utmost degree of respect, conciliation, and attention, and must maintain cordial union and harmony in all transactions, and must endeavour to impart strength and stability to his Excellency's authority. The Resident must never proceed to act in the affairs of the reserved dominions without previous consultation with his Excellency, or with his minister; and the Resident must, in the first instance, observe strict secrecy with regard to the subject of such consultations, until the measures to be adopted shall be finally determined. Under these regulations the Governor-General expects that the Nabob Vizier will act in conformity to the advice and representations of the Resident; and as no question of difficulty remains between the British Government and his Excellency, the Governor-General entertains a confident hope, that no future vexation can occur in the transaction of affairs. WELLESLEY. (A true copy.) N. B. EDMONStone, Persian Secretary. period of time, a representation to his Excellency the Vizier on the subject of the regular payment of pensions, in conformity to the declaration which I made to his Excellency at the opening of my conferences with him at Lucknow. WELLESLEY. No. CLXXXII. The Earl of Macartney to the Marquess Wellesley. MY DEAR LORD, Lessanoure, near Ballymoney, March 23, 1802. [Received Sept. 5th, 1802.] It would be natural for you to expect some news in a letter that comes to you from such a distance, but I am almost incapable of sending you any, for I have been retired to this place upwards of nine months past, and have never stirred a dozen miles from it during the whole time. If I had not been a little wiser than some people thought me, this letter might be dated from the India control office, but thank God, I was allowed to let that cup pass from me. You may easily imagine how bitter a draft it would have been to me, though I hear my Lord Dartmouth does not dislike it. Sir William Temple says, that a man should quit gallantry at forty, and public business at fifty. I added ten years to the latter term and extended it to sixty, at the end of which, (after six-and-thirty years service in a greater variety of employments than has often fallen to any man's share,) it was surely not too soon to claim the privilege of an Emeritus; but indeed, had I been younger and abler, I could not with any pleasure have born a part in the political drama that has been lately acted. Not that I would be understood to venture passing any censure upon it; I have been too distant from the scene, and too imperfectly informed to be guilty of so much presumption. They who signed the preliminaries must have known, what I did not; they must have known our own affairs to be worse, and those of the enemy to be much better than I had any idea of; they must have been sure, (which I could not be) that the time and the terms were too good and too favourable for them to hesitate upon, and they must have had reasons, (to which I was a stranger,) for their singular confidence in Buonaparte. Otherwise, when I recollected that we had annihilated the French, Spanish, and Dutch marines, that we had taken from the enemy every thing we wished to take, (Egypt the last,) and that in the course of an eight years war, we had not lost an inch of our own territory, I scarcely conceived that we should be compelled to part with Malta, the Cape of Good Hope, and Tobago. Malta would have secured our Mediterranean importance, and been a barrier against future Egyptian projects. Your Lordship knows the value of the Cape as well as any man, and I know that Trinidad will be a very precarious possession to us, whilst we have an enemy behind us in Tobago. But enough upon a subject, which you must already be perfectly master of, as I believe you have the best correspondents in the world, and living almost entirely out of it, as I do, I have none that go much beyond the intelligence, or speculations of a common newspaper. I have not indeed, much cultivated my political acquaintance of late, for I know not how it is, but I find so many objects to amuse and endear my retirement here, that I every day grow less inquisitive, and feel less interested in what is passing abroad. The event that has been of all others the most gratifying to me, is the union of Great Britain and Ireland, which I have had the happiness of seeing recently accomplished, and which I trust, not only secures the salvation of both, but will render them more flourishing and powerful than ever. I shall be obliged to return to England in two or three months, on account of some business which imperiously calls me there, otherwise I should not think of leaving this place for a great while. Though the country around me is wild, and the inhabitants consimilar, yet this place in itself is very beautiful, and every day becoming more so. I have placed an inscription over my gateway, which, if you will allow the authority of Ausonius for the quantity of one adverb,* I will venture to submit to the rigour of your prosody. Sub Libertate Quieti, Hos avitos agros, has ædes auctas et ornatas, D.D.D. Georgius Comes de Macartney in patriam redux, Anno salutis, 1800. * Ferè. Erin nos genuit, vidit nos Africa, Gangem Hausimus, Europæque plagas ferè visimus omnes, Turbidaque impavidi tentavimus alta Pechelæ. Sistimus hic tandem, atque Lares veneramur Avorum. Adieu, my dear Lord, I think when we parted at the Cape you talked of five years as being the term proposed for your residence in India; if your mind continues the same in that respect, we may flatter ourselves with the hopes of seeing you in the course of next year. Nothing could give greater pleasure to him, who is with every sentiment of respect, esteem and regard, My dear Lord, MY DEAR LORD, No. CLXXXIII. Lord Clive to the Marquess Wellesley. Fort St. George, 14th September, 1802. At the time the Britannia sailed from England, the belief of my being upon my passage home was so complete, that I am not only without information from my political friends, but have not even received a line from any of my family. And as I cannot expect an answer in less than two months to my despatch of February last, announcing the suspension of my departure in consequence of your Lordship's sentiments made known to me by Major Malcolm, I must necessarily remain in a state of doubt and anxiety with respect to the nomination of my successor, and the period of my being relieved, unless your Lordship's communications from home shall enable you to supply my want of information. I need not say how much I shall feel indebted for any intelligence respecting these points, or the situation of the government of Fort St. George, which, during the temporary cessation of |