To what extent can I prolong the praises of you, my beneficent friends?  May the Supreme Being, for this benign, compassionate, humane action, have you in His keeping, and increase your prosperity, and speedily grant me the pleasure of an interview!  Until which time continue to favor me with friendly letters, and oblige me by any commands in my power to execute.

May your wishes be ever crowned with success!

  My compliments, &c., &c., &c.

Copy of a Letter from Colonel Hannay to Jewar Ali Khan and Behar Ali Khan.

  Khan Saib, my indulgent friends,

Remain under the protection of the Supreme Being!

After compliments, and signifying my earnest desire of an interview, I address you.

Your friendly letter, fraught with kindness, I had the pleasure to receive in a propitious hour, and your inexpressible kindness in sending for Mir Nassar Ali with a force to Taunda, for the purpose of conducting Mr. Gordon, with all his baggage, who is now arrived at Fyzabad.

This event has afforded me the most excessive pleasure and satisfaction.  May the Omnipotence preserve you, my steadfast, firm friends!  The pen of friendship itself cannot sufficiently express your generosity and benevolence, and that of the Begum of high dignity, who so graciously has interested herself in this matter.  Inclosed is an address for her, which please to forward.  I hope from your friendship, until we meet, you will continue to honor me with an account of your health and welfare.  What further can I write?

V.—­REVOLUTIONS IN FURRUCKABAD.

I. That a prince called Ahmed Khan was of a family amongst the most distinguished in Hindostan, and of a nation famous through that empire for its valor in acquiring, and its policy and prudence in well governing the territories it had acquired, called the Patans, or Afghans, of which the Rohillas were a branch.  The said Ahmed Khan had fixed his residence in the city of Furruckabad, and in the first wars of this nation in India the said Ahmed Khan attached himself to the Company against Sujah Dowlah, then an enemy, now a dependant on that Company.  Ahmed Khan, towards the close of his life, was dispossessed of a large part of his dominions by the prevalence of the Mahratta power; but his son, a minor, succeeded to his pretensions, and to the remainder of his dominions.  The Mahrattas were expelled by Sujah ul Dowlah, the late Vizier, who, finding a want of the services of the son and successor of Ahmed Khan, called Muzuffer Jung, did not only guaranty him in the possession of what he then actually held, but engaged to restore all the other territories which had been occupied by the Mahrattas; and this was confirmed by repeated treaties and solemn oaths, by the late Vizier and by the present.  But neither the late nor the present Vizier fulfilled their engagements, or observed their