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INWA.

EXTRACT ItIOK ,ArEES LAtELY tittlEN7rP TO
THE HOUSE Of cohistok, RELATING l'u EAST
IKbIA AFEAIRS.
(Continued from our Paper dr 1-04,4 av

Exttaa Letter from Governor Dune= to the Secret Conn

d3trd fith,
,tfiil.
Para. 11. The lone..dependiug cunt't bytween Zeniaun
Shah and his brother Mellowed has at length been terminated
in favour decisively of the latter, who hat t.ilom Zernaat, p•i-
soner, and is said to kave put out his eye; ; bnt tin: last article
of intelligimee seems not confirmed ; although, tegaiding the
complete overthrow and captivity of Zeinatiii, thee be not a
d.ubt. The same news refers to the probability of Mohamed
prosecuting his brother's views in India, to which he said to
have been invited by the Alghan Chiefv, but that the Seiks
were fully determined to oppose his progress through their
country.

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Extra Letter front the Resident at Lucknow to the Governor-
General ; dated August 16, 1/98.
Para. 7. Your Lordship will find in the inclosure (No. 4,),
the latrit account I have received of the preparations of Ze-
inaun Shah. It was forwarded to nie by Molest* Zeo til
Nubbee, a man of meet resperffahle character, in the service of
Nussur-ella•Khan. it is not easy to speculate with any cer-
tainty on what will be the probable result of the Shah's avowed
design to invade Ilindostair ; but as all accounts concur in stat-
ing the magrotiole of his preparations, and as (censidering the
feeble resistance he experienced from the Seiks, un his late in-
cursion into the Punjaub) it is impossible to say that he say
not penetrate to Delhi, prudence sevuis to require that we
should be prepared for any event. Supposing that the Mar-
liattas in Ilindostan were strong enough to 'Imo:: hist in the
field (arid they, and the Seiko, are our only barriers against
him), the distrafted state of their stairs will probably palsy all
their efforts. If, titerefore, the Shalt is seriously bent on this
expedition, he will naturally consider the circumstances of the
present time as more 'avowable to his views than any that are
likely to offer hereafter, and he will be further instigated to
prosecute them, by the expetrfatton held out to him by Glin-
Lom Slahrimed Khan, of the support of a large budy of A lg.
whom he alas be enabled to attach to the cause.
Translation of a Copy of Extracts of Letters from Mulch-
them Ruktish arid Mollunimud Assud, to Malay, Zea
Nubber, from Meer; tisteived the Ibth August, 1793.
At this time a Kaused brought to me at Salem letters from
Moltrimintid Assud, at Cabal, addressed to avysslf and to you,
with Amer to the Nawaub Vizier, Saadit Ali Khan, from
which I leant that Zesuaun Shah is making such prepare-
terns, and collecting such an army for the invasion of Hie-
da-:.nr, as it is impossible fur nry pen to describe. How shall
r.,lat.• the preparations of arms, the artillery, the camel artil-
1. ry n Shuturnals) innumerable, to an extent far beyond what
were pier made eat former occasions. It was intended that the
arm? should have advanced about this time; but it pleased
God to prevent its crossing the risers, by heavy rains and Roods.
Z..piatiu Shah is firmly resolved, with Gal's aniutAnce, to
mareh on the Ist of itibbee-u Sallie, from Cabal, towards
•Ilki, for the purpose of extirpating the Seikr. 'flue Nabob
.Gthozee-u-t b./out Kban, Vizier, is the cane and the promoter
nt these iiit.isuret. He has lately arrived at Peshawar. and
Zeeman Shah has honoured horn with a Klielaut of high ilea
tinHwn T.ere is no doubt whatever of the Shah's curoirig ;
what wi:l be the con•equences, God roily knows.

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Cm.y of Let ra.ll of a Letter front fvfoloimmild A.sud, :at:abut
At this time, Ztmaitai Shall is resolved to piece,d a; rant
11.ndostan, and makes the greatest prepa.ationa: what will be
the consequence, God only knows.
True Copies of the Tratislatiens.
(Signed) J. LU%ISDEN,
Resident, Vizier's Court.
Eatnitt Letter from Major-Geneva! Stuart to the Reside...l at
Idi•lkirow ; dated Camp at Fintychur, 21st August, 1794.
1 th-event of Shah's atinal appmach, Id. COD.
eery, that the preserice of the whole of the force under my
co•iiii,aird will be mqvined in R•ilialcund ; and, in that event,
that it wit -.4ecome proper and necessary to relieve the chin ion
Di my tolopit ot Rainiest, wish art adequate force of such of
hh Escellency the Vizier, CJlrg, Whose fidelity and alai:b-
ittern to hi. serv:ce can be relied upon, thereby to enatOe me
eife.tually d. sorer the Menem Rorti:ctind Frontier, which is
erav where accessible during the Ere months; hut a, the ne-
ea...fly of this movement will entirely depend upon the Shah's
•pproaeh, wtrch, It:011(0.4,W my judgment still appears proble-
matical, independent el the present current report of his death,
it neat perhaps be deemed InltteCellifY to enter ',MI tt berme
t -• ensuing tXtolser ; when, should he advance, oilier move•
intim, and anangements of greater extent and importance will
become necessary ; artd that these may be previews!, concerted
w eh all due rt.:liberation, era a, to enable us to act with vigour
and promptriess, urrentangled with it.iiibta or d ffercnces of
loon, whet the moment of actual shall arrive, 1 could wish that
Sir Jamie Craig ahril myself had previous opportunity of can.
Prefers with the Na..r.mb and you.
k:xtrad Letter from Major-General Sir James Craig, to the
araideot at Lucknno ; datA Carotene, /EIJI August, 17,2.
It appears to me, tri.it neither you our (tend Stuart
Well to apprehend any serious consequences from the ap-
proach of llh.rfaum Ideliarainuil, while unsimpurted by that.
of the Shah; at any rate, uncaneeded with that event,
any dinuthences which might arise frown .1 would probably be
suppreiseed : but sf.osiiil the long-threatened invasion of
the Stott be et length realised, there it, I think, Mate Joust
that it will !be supported by alniost the whole of the Rohilla
tribe ; and the means to be emp.eyed to repel it MCC Le of a
'honed. far eace•ding these rime in this province. I should
erreniote thvt they will be directed by the Commander in Chief
peren., who will, no Conn, make these ananiaunenrs that
are necessary, and send in instructions as to such as he may re-
; ..re of us. I neither feel itrysef at this moment as sewed
.th command, or as likely to be sit, trir am 1 honoured w th
nstrticnotis. sod I therefore feel nw self little authorised to trite
steps which I night Irtfi,litithink it any duty to de, did I con-
•:der the respersetbili•••• ••f the issue to rest with me. I can,
'•nwemr, have no ehtectien to the corifelence es proprood by
General Stuart; and shill, with great pleasure, pror.ed to
I,u-tchow for the purpose, at any period that may he agreed
upon ; as I know of no partiehl a obi' .1 that east interfere with
..ergard to me, I leave the arrangement, as to the time, to your
inn his convenience.

Est,'set of a Letter from Majn,-Gennat Stout, ti the Re.ident
at Lucknow ; dated Camp at futtyiltut. sth of September,

,:~s.

I &inseam that oorarmy in tie field is inadequate to exc.
cute the plan of operation 1 have it...noosed, which would r,..
quilt a .term( fence In the advanced army, and certainly not a
weak nue, to come the coveri.ig army t cud at we catomt
rirdloke to oneseives any effectual emiteowee -frentar. mime is
termed the Nawitsh's army, l wish it c told be reconeded to the
iadgment of our superiors to enr rrrrr the estaiel,shme it ..fenr
native battalions in the field to 15 or 1600 each, to be formed
into reennents, whit.t ally belief was entertained of thF Shah's
determi +anon to advance.

Copy of a I.eVer from %I ajor.Geneial Sir :sines C.. 4, to the
Resiililit at Lucktiow, dated CJIII p, item Na.opure, Decent:
bet 8, 1:9111.
SlR—Theueh the accounts I receive of the niotiont of 7,,
maun Shan, are in other reipeaa sere contradictrev, yt t they
all agree, more INT leas, in representing his adyince at to rapid,
that it is impossible tor me to defer calling to me so coilO•lor-
able a part of it,, force the two tritalions of the 7th R.
riment, now at Liacktiow. If Ili+ Excellency, the N.,le,h
Vizier, has the intention t (joining our arr,y, I must request,
that you will repres-ott to him, In forrible terms, the necesoly
either of his not delaying his departure a moment beyond what
may be indispensably requisite for the preparshon of hie ac-
commodati.m, or of his permitting the r•vonent to wuceed
without hots, Win Excellency himself following natter the es.
cart °lsom, of hil Val*. lithe Plawsub prefer the former, it
will net be leis ca-ceasry, that he proceed as rapidly in MS
161.11nt, at to comport:de with his being actompartied by •
body of infantry. I trust that the Nabob oil: 44 iusticela the
motives by which lam compelled hi offer th's reprerentatiun
to him.

The time is very near also, when the seizing all the heats on
the river will becunie a stemure of precaution, of the first ems-
sequence; and I ana led, front the eery ispoitant light in
which I view this subject, connected with that of guarding the
ford. over the Ganges, to think it sty indispens,sl- duty to
suggest the necessity of d -parting in some rweessire (mat the
arrangement that w.ss made, when I was la.t at •, Loy
which almost the whine of the % troops, Low s.s ftsshal.
cwt.% were t remain et thesr stations, to prevent our
deaica-
ron au the revenue of the clunk,. The occupying tn.. IJ

ntreecark for tl. e 1-fi•ttrc of the ford•, will require int.t.:lln:i:
tvvkniistedge and abdines, and as I ant given to undorAs
tAat thaueral Itet.ittinit has, in a scowler httcoiuing all his
conduct through lute, ofr.trorl his se. V il:rb in any way in
it may ►ti thought 014 he can be useful, I -hook' think titre!.
fortunate, if it coulJ be so arranged with the Nabob, that his
troops in It ohilculri phou'd be put under the tieireial's orders,
to be employed in this service, and that the latter would pro-
ceed, without rtilay, to the discharge of this trust. I hate a
delicacy, irking from our peculiar situation, in writing to tau
General un the frabject, in the first instano e ; hut, I bet that,
yon still assure him, that he Inas, rely on my cordial ~,„1,,,,,
lions and on every assistince that I can give him.
(To be continued.)