1769 the Nawab Hyder Ally Cawn), a perpetual peace, there is no doubt but the prefidency of Bombay will exchange, with the faid Nawab, a treaty to the fame purpose as this, respecting the affairs of the faid place etc. and all the factories on that fide, in the course of this war; it is hereby agreed. and ftipulated, that they fhall be mutually forgiven, and no claim or demand, on any account, made for them here after. Relaxa prifo niers. ART. IV. The above Nawab engages, that all the Officers, tion des Europeans and Sepoys, belonging to the presidency, of Madras, fhall immediately be released on the arrival of a proper perfon, at Bangalore, to demand them; alfo all the Sirdars, and people, belonging to the Carnatic Payen Ghaut, who may have been taken in this war fhall likewise be released; the English Company engaging on their fide to release the people, belonging to the faid Nawab, who may have been taken alfo in this war. des for ART. V. Relation The Contracting Parties mutually engage and terelles. agree, that the Forts and places, which may have been taken by either party, from the other in this war, fhall be mutually restored, except the fort of Caroor, and its diftricts, and whereas the English Company have, in the forts of Colar and Vencatigherry, exclufive of the former ftores therein, many canon, fhot, powder, ball, and muskets, the Nawab Hyder Ally Cawn engages, that the faid Company fhall have permillion to bring away the fame, without any let, or molestation, being given them therein; and as foon as they are withdrawn, the fame forts fhall immediatly be evacuated and restored to the faid Nawab. In witness whereof, the faid contracting Parties have interchangeably figned and fealed two instruments, of the fame tenor and date, viz the faid Prefident and Council, on behalf of the English Eaft India Company, and the Carnatic Payen Ghaut, in Fort St. George, this 3d day of April, in the year of the Chriftian aera 1769; and the said Nawab Hyder Ally Cawn Bahaudur, at his camp, at Madavaram, the 25th day of the moon Zeckyd, in the year of Hegyra 1182. 4. Traités entre la compagnie anglaise des Indes 1789 orientales et differents chefs des Marattes. а. Lettre du comte Cornwallis à Sa Hautesse le Nizzam en date du 7. Juil 1789, à la quelle on a attribué la force d'un traité dans le traité d'alliance du 4. Juillet 1790. (MACKENZIE sketch of the war with Tippoo T.I. app. p. 66.) Your Hignefs's letter, containing strong expreffions of friendship, was prefented to me by Meer Abul Coflim, and has afforded me the most inexpreffible fatisfaction. I have perfectly understood all the matters intrufted to the verbal communication of Meer Abul Coffim: and the fincere and friendly fentiments which I have difcovered your Highnefs to be impressed with towards me, have induced me to fhew the confidence I place in your Highness's declaration, by candid and explicit converfations with Meer Abul Coffim on fubjects of the highest importance, and as they all of them have tendency to ftrengthen and encrease our friendship, I fhall communicate, without relerve, to your Hignels what has occurred to me relative to them. It was with no fmall concern I found, on my arrival in charge of the controul of all the Company's affairs, that one of the eventual and most essential point of the treaty of friendship and alliance, made in 1768, between your Hignefs and the Company, remained unexecuted on both fides, viz. The furrender of the Guntoor Sircar to the Company and the regular discharge of your Highness's, demand for the Peifhcufh from the Company; anxious notwithstanding, that by urging the due performance of this Article, I fhould not intrude on your Highness while engaged in pursuits of importance, I poftponed negociation on the fubject, until I was convinced all 7. Juil. 1789 that your Highnefs uninterupted by war, had full leifure to confider the propriety of the performance of this Article of the treaty; and until you might have had fufficient opportunity to put implicit confidence in my affurances for the punctual difcharge of the Peifhcufh for the Northern Circars: I then deputed Captain Kennaway to your Highness's Court, with inftructions, to make the demand of the Guntoor Circar, by virtue of the treaty of 1768, to assure your Highness of my firm intention to discharge the balances, upon fair statement, due to your Highness on account of the Peifhcufh, and to imprefs you with the fincerity of my intentions for its regular payment hereafter. I have already expreffed my fatisfaction at your Highness's immediate compliance to deliver up the Guntoor Circar to the Company, and have affured your Highness of my firm intention to persevere in a strict fyftem of faith to engagements: and now, with fuch a proof of the fecurity of your Highness's friendship and good faith; I have, from a defire to teftify to your Highnefs that I am impreffed with fimilar fentiments, entered into a full difcuffion of every Article with Meer Abul Coffim, in order that fuch parts of it as are undefined, aud bear an obfcure and doubtful meaning, may be fo explained as shall preclude every neceflity of future difcuffion, remove all ground of mifuuderstanding and give stability and permanency to that friendship, which now fubfifts between us. In adopting this rule of conduct, I do no more than fulfil the intention of the King of England, and the British nation, who, by the system lately established for the Government of this Coun try, had in view the important end of giving efficacy to the existing treaties between the English and the powers of Hindoftan, and of fecurig a due performance thereof in future. This communication, I am perfuaded, will fully fatisfy your Highness of the propriety of my declining the proposals of Meer Abul Coffim, for entering into a new fecurity for the difcharge of the Peifhcufh, by mortgaging a portion of the Circars, confidering, as I do, the faith of the English nation already pledged for the due payment of it. In proof of the fincerity of my intentions that the treaty fhould be carried into full 1789 effect. I agree that in the 6the Article of the treaty, the words "whenever the fituation of affairs will allow of such a body of troops to march into the Decan" fhall be understood to mean, that the force engaged for by this Article, viz, two battalions of fepoys and fix pieces of cannon, manned by Europeans, fhall be granted whenever your Highness fhall apply for it, making only one exception, that it is not to be employed against any power in alliance with the Company, viz. Pundit Purdaun, Madajee Scindia, and other Marratta Chiefs, Peifhwa Ragajee Bhoola, the Nabob of Arcot, and Nabob Vizier, Rajahs of Tanjore and Trevancore: that the battalions at present not defined in number fhall not confist of lefs than 800. men each: that the fix field pieces fhall be manned with the number of Europeans, which is usual in time of war: that the expence to be charged to your Highness, shall be no more than the exact fum which it cofts the Company to main. tain a body of that force when employed on service in the field, that this expence be as per feparate account; that this detachment fhall march within two months, or fooner if, poffible after it is demanded, and your Highness shall be charged with the expence of it from the day it enters your Highness's territories, until it quits them on its return to the Company's, with the addition of one month, at the average calcution of the whole amount, in order to defray the charges, the Company must neceffarily incur to put fuch a force in a ftate fit for service. I have fo fully difcuffed the articles of the treaty that relate to the Nabob of Arcot, and the Carnatic, on the representation of Meer Abul Coffim, that a mere reference to the articles themselves will inform your Highness of the full force of my arguments; and although the long exifting friendship between that Nabob and the Company might be urged as further ground for declining the propofal of Meer Abul Cosfim, his right to the poffeffion of the Carnatic Payen Ghaut is fully established and admitted by the 7th. and 8th Articles, and papers appertaining to them. there can therefore be no neceffity for troubling your Highness with other reasons. In regard to the arti Tome V. C 1789 cles relative to the Dewanny of the Carnatic Balla Ghaut, your Highness must be well convinced that circumstances have totally prevented the execution of these articles, and the Company are in the full enjoyment of peace with all the world, but should it hereafter happen that the Company fhould obtain poffeffion of the Country mentioned in these articles, with your Highness's allistance, they will strictly perform the ftipulations in favour of your Highness and the Marrattas. Your Highness must be well assured, that while treaties of peace and friendship exist with any chief, negociations that tend to deprive that chief of any part of his poffeflions, unprovoked on his part, muft naturally create fufpicions in his mind unfavourable to the reputation of your Highness, and to the character of the Company, fince the only grounds on which fuch negociations could be carried on, reft on a treaty exifting upwards of twenty years, the execution of which is yet unclaimed, and fince no provocation has hitherto been made to justify a breach in the prefent peaceable and amicable understanding between each other. As I am at all times defirous that such circumstances as carry with them impediment and hindrance to good order and government, without bearing the Imallest advantage to either fide, should be fo changed as to produce the good effects expected from treaties, and as the affairs of both parties might fuffer great injury from being excluded from corresponding with the other powers of the Decan, I agree that in future either party, without a breach of treaty fhall be at liberty to receive or fend Vackeels, and correfpond with any powers in the Decan, in fuch manner as may be expedient for the benefit of their own affairs, under the condition that the object of fuch intercourfe or correspondence be not hoftile to either of the governments. I have in many instances, as well through Captain Kennaway, as to Meer Abul Coffim, and the first part of this letter, declared my firm intention to execute the treaty of 1768, and to live in perpetual amity and friendship with your Highnefs; and your Highness will be convinced from the explanations I have given to thofe articles in the treaty of am |