obedience or grant any redress, without a larger force than they have to send.  Great numbers of the same class are plundering and burning villages, and robbing and murdering on the highway, and laughing at the impotency of the sovereign.  It was certainly for aid in coercing these “internal enemies” that the Sovereign of Oude ceded his territories to us, and for no other, and that aid may be afforded at little cost, and to the great benefit of all under the system I have submitted for your Lordship’s consideration.  It will be very rarely required, and when called for, a mere demonstration will, in three cases out of four, be sufficient to effect the object.

14, After a time, or when the heir-apparent comes of age, the duties of the guaranteed members of the Board may safely be united to a supervision over the settlement made with the principal landholders, whose obedience our Government may consider itself bound to aid in enforcing; all the rest may be left to a competent sovereign; and there will be nothing in the system opposed to native usages, feelings, and institutions, to prevent its being adhered to.  I should mention, that many of these landholders have each armed and disciplined bodies of two thousand foot and five hundred horse; and, what is worse, the command of as many as they like of “Passies,” armed with bows and arrows.  These Passies are reckless thieves and robbers of the lowest class, whose only professions are thieving and acting as Chowkedars, or village police.  They are at the service of every refractory Zumeendar, for what they can get in booty in his depredations.  The disorders in Oude have greatly increased this class, and they are now roughly estimated at a hundred thousand families; these are the men from whom travellers on the road suffer most.

15.  A second Assistant would be required for a time to enable the Resident to shift off the daily detail of the treasury, which has become the largest in India,—­I believe, beyond those at the three Presidencies.

A good English copyist, capable of mapping, will be required in the Resident’s office at 150, and two Persian writers 100; total 250.  These are the only additions which appear to me to be required.

16.  I annex a list of the regiments now in the King’s service, Telungas, or regulars, and Nujeebs, or irregulars; and with my next official report I will submit a list of all the establishments, civil and military.

17.  The King’s habits will not alter; he was allowed by his father to associate, as at present, with these singers from his boyhood, and he cannot endure the society of other persons.  His determination to live exclusively in their society, and to hear and see nothing of what his officers do or his people suffer, he no longer makes any attempt to conceal.  It would be idle to hope for anything from him but a resignation of power into more competent hands; whatever he retains he will assuredly give to his