We cannot conclude this subject without adverting in the strongest terms to the prohibitions which have from time to time issued under the authority of different Courts of Directors against any of our servants, or of those under our protection, having any money transactions with any of the country powers, without the knowledge and previous consent of our respective governments abroad.  We are happy to find that the Nabob, sensible of the great embarrassments, both to his own and the Company’s affairs, which the enormous amount of their private claims have occasioned, is willing to engage not to incur any new debts with individuals, and we think little difficulty will be found in persuading his Highness into a positive stipulation for that purpose.  And though the legislature has thus humanely interfered in behalf of such individuals as might otherwise have been reduced to great distress by the past transactions, we hereby, in the most pointed and positive terms, repeat our prohibition upon this subject, and direct that no person, being a servant of the Company, or being under our protection, shall, on any pretence whatever, be concerned in any loan or other money transaction with any of the country powers, unless with the knowledge and express permission of our respective governments.  And if any of our servants, or others, being under our protection, shall be discovered in any respect counteracting these orders, we strictly enjoin you to take the first opportunity of sending them home to England, to be punished as guilty of disobedience of orders, and no protection or assistance of the Company shall be given for the recovery of any loans connected with such transactions.  Your particular attention to this subject is strictly enjoined; and any connivance on your parts to a breach of our orders upon it will incur our highest displeasure.  In order to put an end to those intrigues which have been so successfully carried on at the Nabob’s durbar, we repeat our prohibition in the strongest terms respecting any intercourse between British subjects and the Nabob and his family; as we are convinced that such an intercourse has been carried on greatly to the detriment and expense of the Nabob, and merely to the advantage of individuals.  We therefore direct that all persons who shall offend against the letter and spirit of this necessary order, whether in the Company’s service or under their protection, be forthwith sent to England.

Approved by the Board. 
HENRY DUNDAS,
WALSINGHAM,
W.W.  GRENVILLE,
MULGRAVE. 
WHITEHALL, 15th Oct. 1784.

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Extract from the Representation of the Court of Directors of the East India Company.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,—­