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his Excellency the Commander in Chief to the presence of His
Majesty, who received hie Excellency seated on his throne.
His Majesty and the whole court testified the utmo,t joy at the
events which had placed His Majesty and the Royal Faintly wi-
der the protetion of the Bs Utah Government.
Soon after the arrival of the Commander in Chief at Delhi,
his Exce_lency received information that a sum of rimitcY,
amounting to six Lacks lit rupees., the pmperty of Dem hit Rao
Sindia, had been lodged in the hands of M. Drtivoli, the
Commandant of Delhi, for the pa yalen t of tile stro.e.i. tit
that sum M. Drugeon had disbursed 60.000 rupees for the pay-
silent of his troops, and on the approach of the British .kr toy
he had deposited the remainder with Shah Neva: Khan, the
Treasurer of His Majesty, with a view to prevent it front falling
ham the possession of the•Cemmander in Chief.
His Excellency being satisfied that the ininiey iii question
was the public prepaty of the enemy, and that tile transfer of
it to the hands of an Officer of His Majesty's Treasury, had no
other °hied than to deprive the British tiovernment of thc
benefit of the capture, deemed it to be his duty to daim the
property as belonging to the British Power : this application
was made in the most respected manner, and with every dr.
grec of attention to His Majesty's dignity. After some cote:Wet.
athin, the Emperor sent the nosey to the camp of the C -
islander in Chief, accompanied by a message to his Excellency,
requesting his acceptance of the alley as a donation to the
brave army, whose gallant co had released I Its Majesty
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from a iniserable subjetlion to the ahratta and French power,
and Oared him under the long desired prote(tien and liberality
of the British Government,

The Commander in Chief receivedthe money, and referred
the q.,estion of its disposal to the consideration and orders of
the Governor General.

The Emperor addressed a letter to the Governor General at
the same time, stating the circumstance of his haring be.hoved
this donation on the British army.
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The Governor General communicated to the Co.nmander in
Chief, without dela., his sentiment; and instruidioas relative
to the trinsadions above described.
In those instructions the Governor General stated his de-
cided opiuinit to be, that the original sum of six lacks of ru-
pees.. , as u the residue of that sum, after destaction of the
dsbuneannit made to the troops of the enedny, was certainly
the public property of the enemy, and that any part of that
primely captured in the hands of M. Inogeon, or of any
officer. soldi:.r, or subject of the enemy, would unquestionably
have listn adjudged lawful prize to the host .h tl.vernineirt.
The Governor General observed, that the fraudulent transfer
of the tralrafs pialwrty to the hands of the officers of Ho
Majesty Shah Auluin, at the time of the approach of the
Rrititii army, could not change the Datum of that prooerty, or
exempt it from the right of the captors who had defeated the
enmity's troops in the ovule of Delius ; and in consequence of
that glorious victory but captured the city and fortress of DAM,
occupied at that time by a division of the enemy's army 'that
no circumstance appeared to warrant a suggestion, that this
deposit could have been intended fur the service of His Ma-
jesty, although placed in the hands of the Chief Officer of
His Majesty's Treasury. That the state et indigence and
misery to which He: Majesty, his Royal Family mud Household,
had long been reduced by the Mahmtta power, excluded the
possibility of asupposition that M. Drugeoli intended to con-
tribute so large a stain to relieve the sufferings of Shalt A ulum
and his impoverishecicourt : That the object of the deprisim
was evidently to elude the rights of the congamors, and to
con: r the propel tyof the enemy in the liands of His htaj-sty's
nfficer% and under the Royal Name, without the aidhority or
knowledge of the Emperor, and wdbout any intention of relies,
lug His Majesty's urgest distress: That seder the cohclusion,
therefore, that the residue of the original sum of six kicks of
rupees, deposited by M. Drugeon 111 the hands of Shah Neoax
Khan, continued to be really the public property of the enemy,
the right of that moray appeared to the Governor General
to ham been vested in the British Govern:neat by the counties'
of De!hi.

Under these cir. umdances, the Governor General expressed
his er.,tire approbation of the Commander in Chief's conduct.
The Genemor General proceeded to observe, that Ilia Ma•
jest, Shah Aulum, baring been pleased to o3er the army as a
4iiiation, the sum of money claimed by his Excellency in
right of conquest, the Commander in Chief could not have
declined to accept that offrr without injury to Ilia Majesty's
(heady, unless at the same time the Comma,'ler in Chief
einild have relinquished altogether the claim on the part oldie
British Goverinneut to that part of the property of the enemy,
and that, in the judgment tithe Governor General, the Com-
mander in Chief would not have been justified in relinquish-
ing that claim, without the tame.: ,authority of the Governor
General in Ceuncil.

The Gamine( General further stated to the tom. ht Chief,
that the treasure in question being lawful prize, the Governor
C meral could rent have deemed himself warranted So any
wage of the transaction (under the circumstancet started by the
Commander in Chief; to have authorised his Excellcocy to
withhold the assertion of the claim ache British Government
to obtain the enemy's property hem the hand in which It had
been concealed ; adding, that the limited amount of the sun,
combined with the memorable events which attended the con-
quest, would have rendered the (;overion General peculiarly
anxious to secure, for the purpose of graining to the story, •
reward tamed by a degree of exertion and ment which had
tweer been surpassed.
The Goverour General, therefore, by those instructions, au-
thorised and directed the Commander in Chief to consider the
treasures, amounting to five lacks and forty thousand rupees,
received ass donation from His Majesty, but being really the
property of the enemy, to be prize money granted by the au-
thorny of the Governor G rival in Si, the army, in
testimony of the high sense eatertairied by the Gose ..... r t;is
neat in Council ef the discipline, perseverance, fortitude, and
zeal. displayed by that pliant army.
The Guvemiw General, however, thought it adviseable to
take an early opportunity of paying an equal suns to the ti-e of
the Emperor, in suds a manner as should he most acceidalile
to His Majedy, and as should secure its due application to Ills
Majesty's service
&emir tingly the Governor General addressed a letter to the
Emiwror, in which his Lordship stated to His Majesty the Cir.
CUITIgatiCeS which amid-it'd to render the money claimed by
the Commander in Chiet the undoubted right of the British
Government, acquired by 'the conquest of Delhi truss the
Mahrattat and French Afton establishing this fact, the Go-
vemor Gero.ral proceeded to state, that, agrevalily to the plea-
sure of His Majesty, he had issued 0 dors to the Commander
in Chief for the elistribiatein of the juriperty among the troop.
The Governor General then iiitiniateil ts Ills Majesty, that
his Excellency's attention was diireted to the formation of a
permanent arrangement, calculated to provide security for the
happiness, dignity, and tranquillity of fiat Ilajestyland of the
Royal Family, and that Ms Engetlence had hived issanmetione
to the Commander in Chief, to pay into the Royal Treasury
the sum of six lacks of rupees, with a vie • to provide for the
immediate exigencies of His Majesty's household; and the
(Sommer General issued orders accordingly, which have since
been carried into execution, and the money applied to His
Majesty's use
Previously to then:arch of the army from Delhi, the Com-
mander in Chief appointed Lieutenant Colonel Achterloin,
the Deputy Adjutant General, to reside with His Majesty un
the part of the British Government. Every pose.ble degree of
attention and respect has been manifested towards the unfor-
tunate Emperor' and his family and household i and His Ma-
jesty appr an to be fully impressed with a sense of the benefit
which, lie has already derived from the protection of the British
Government.

Ann, the battle of Laswaree, His Majesty deputed a special
mission tor the purpose of congratulating the Coinmandar
Chief on that brilliant victory, and c•mferring on his Excellen-
cy ati honorary dress, agreeably to the cuitonts of India.

The arrangements which the Governor General in Council
proposer ultimately to adopt for the support of HI. Majesty
and of the Royal Family will hereafter be stated to your
Honourable Consmittie The Governor General in Council,
however, deems it to be advisable to apprise your Honourable
Committee in this place, that it is nut his Excellency's in-
tention to require any concession whatever from His Ma-
jesty, nor to proceed in any immediate arrangement beyond
the limits of establshing a liberal allowance for His Majesty's
support, and for the comfort of His Royal Family and nobi-
lity, under the protection of the British power, with such ar-
rangements at Delhi as may render Ilk Majesty's residence in
that city tranquil, secure, and dignified; may improve the
condition of the inhabitants of the airy, and of the contiguows
provinces; and may combine with these desirable objects, ad-
ditional augmentation and strength to the military resources
and dt.fences of the Company's pouessions in that quarter.