other, the consequences which might arise from the Mahrattas having in their possession and under their influence a son of the late Nabob of Oude, did without delay advise Warren Hastings, Esquire, of the event aforesaid; and he did also write to Mr. Bristow, the Resident at the court of the Nabob Vizier, several letters, of the 9th and 20th of February, and of the 6th of March and 6th of April, 1783, in order that some steps should be taken for his return and establishment in his own country.  And the said Anderson did inform the Resident, Bristow, in his letter aforesaid, that, on the arrival of the fugitive prince, brother of the reigning sovereign of Oude, at the Mahratta camp, he did cause his tent to be pitched close to that of Mr. Anderson; but finding this not agreeable to the Mahratta general, Sindia, he afterwards removed:  and that he showed a strong attachment to the English, and was inclined to throw himself upon their generosity; that he was desirous of going to Calcutta, and declared, that, if he, the said Anderson, “would give him the smallest encouragement, he would quit all his followers, and come alone, and would take up his residence under his protection.”  And the said Anderson did declare, that he thought it “would be policy, and much to the credit of our government, that some provision should be made for Mirza Jungly in our territories.”

XLIX.  That the said Bristow did represent the aforesaid circumstances to Hyder Beg Khan, minister to the Nabob of Oude, declaring it his opinion, “that his Highness’s brother’s thus taking refuge with a foreign prince is a reflection upon the Vizier, and it would be advisable that an allowance should be granted to him upon the footing of his brothers, that he might remain in the presence.”  But the Nabob was induced to refuse to his brother any offer of any allowance beyond the two hundred pounds per month, allowed, but not paid, to his other brothers,—­and which the said prince did observe to Mr. Anderson, “that it was not only inadequate to his expenses, but infinitely less” (as the truth was) “than what his Excellency has settled on many persons of inferior rank, who have not so good a claim to his support; and that it would not be sufficient to enable him to live at Lucknow, where all his friends and relations were, and so many of his inferiors lived in a state of affluence.”  In case, therefore, it could not be increased, he requested leave to live in the Company’s provinces, or at Calcutta; for that in any of these situations “he could with less difficulty regulate his expenses.”  And he did declare, that, if his request was granted to him, he would immediately quit all his prospects with Sindia.  To these propositions he received a very discouraging answer from his brother’s minister, containing a positive and final refusal of any increase of allowance, obtaining only the Nabob’s permission to retire into the Company’s provinces.  But Mr. Anderson did not think himself authorized