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timely notice to make the necessary preparations, and that the number of troops sent may be sufficient for the service required of them, of which the aforesaid Company are to be left the entire and sole judges; and as the success of all expeditions depends much upon secrecy in council, both parties do hereby engage themselves not to reveal any such designs as they may communicate to each other until everything on both sides is ready for execution.

ARTICLE 11.

The Honourable English East India Company, in consideration of the diamond mines, with the villages appertaining thereto, having been .always dependent upon His Highness's government, do hereby agree that the same shall remain in his possession now also.

ARTICLE 12.

His Highness, in order to convince the whole world of the great confidence and trust he reposes in the English nation, agrees and consents that the fort of Condapillee shall be entirely garrisoned by the troops of the aforesaid Company; in consideration of which the aforesaid Company do hereby agree and consent likewise that there be a killadar therein on the part of His Highness, and that the usual jaghire annexed to the killadarry shall be ceded to him.

ARTICLE 13.

In virtue of this Treaty of mutual favor, alliance, and friendship, between the two contracting parties, His Highness promises and engages to assist the aforesaid Company with his troops when required; reserving to himself the same liberty of withdrawing the whole, or any part thereof, in the same manner as is expressed, for the aforesaid Company, in the second Article of this Treaty, whenever the same shall become necessary.

ARTICLE 14.

In virtue of the above Treaty of favor, alliance, and friendship, both parties do mutually and solemnly engage to the punctual and strict observance of all and every one of the above-mentioned Articles, that from this time all doubts and suspicions shall cease between them, and in

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their room a perpetual, just, and sincere confidence be established, so that the great affairs of the Deccan government, and the business of the Company may increase every day in honour, riches, and happiness, from generation to generation.

In confirmation of which, His Highness, on the one part, and John Calliaud, Esquire, Brigadier General, invested with full powers from the English Company, on the other, have hereunto affixed their hands and

seals.

Dated in Hyderabad the 9th of the moon Gemace-dussuny, in the year of the Hegira 1180, equal to the 12th of November 1766.

TRANSLATION of a SUNNUD, under the seal of NIZAM ALLY KHAN for the five Circars.

Be it known to the deesmookees, deespondees, muccuddems, husbandmen, and inhabitants of the Circars of Rajahmundry, Ellour, Moostafurnugger, Siccacole and Moortizanugger, belonging to the Soubaship of Hyderabad, that out of our great favor and goodess, from the 9th of the moon Gemace-dussuny, in the year of Phasely 1176, equal to the 12th of November 1766, the whole of the said Circars (the jaghire of the Moostafurnugger, alias Condapillee fort, and the usual villages appertaining to the diamond mines excepted) are now given to and conferred upon the European English Company, by way of enam, or free gift, for ever and ever, agreeable to their petition signed by us; in return for which, they the English Company are to pay the annual sum of nine lakhs of Rupees, and to stand to all sebbendy charges, and whatever earthly or heavenly mischances may happen: you, therefore, our abovementioned deesmookees, &c., are hereby required, with contented minds, to live in obedience to the above Company's deputies, and to pay the proper revenues at the fixed and stated times.

Looking upon this as a positive order, obey it accordingly.

Dated the 9th of the moon Gemace-dussuny, in the year of the Hegira 1180, equal to the 12th of November 1766.

TRANSLATION of a DISCHARGE, under the seal of NIZAM ALLY KHAN, to OMDET-OOLMOOLK SERAJAH DOWLAH ANNEVERDEEN KHAN BAHADOOR MOONSOOR JUNG, Foujdar of the Carnatic Payen Gaut, from the Borders of the Palnaud country to the further extremity of those of the Malavar country, and-to the sons and heirs of the said Omdet-ool-Moolk Bahadoor.

In consideration of the fidelity and attachment the said Omdet-oolMoolk Bahadoor has promised and engaged to my Court by the means of General Calliaud, and in return for the sum of five lakhs of Rupees (agreeable to the petition hereunto mentioned, countersigned by us) this discharge is now given to him, the said Omdet-ool-Moolk, his sons and heirs, for the whole of the above-mentioned countries, as well the past, present, as the future also.

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TRANSLATION of the PETITION supposed to be presented by OMDET-OOL-MOOLK
BAHADOOR'S Vakeel.

In consequence of the fidelity and attachment Omdet-ool-Moolk Bahadoor has promised and engaged to your Highness's Court by the means of General Calliaud, I beg leave to hope that, in return for the sum of five lakhs of Rupees, a discharge for the past, present, and future may be given to him (the said Omdet-ool-Moolk Bahadoor), his sons and heirs, for the Carnatic, from the borders of the Palnaud country to the further extremity of those of the Malavar country.

Dated the 9th of the moon Gemace-dussuny, in the year of the Hegira 1180, equal to the 12th of November 1766.

TRANSLATION of an OBLIGATION given to HIS HIGHNESS NIZAM ALLY, by GENERAL
CALLIAUD on the part of the NAWAB SERAJAH Dowlah.

Whereas evil-minded people have taken great pains, by false representations and otherwise, to instil doubts and suspicions into His Highness's mind regarding Omdet-ool-Moolk Serajah Dowlah Anneverdeen Khan Bahadoor; in order, therefore, to prevent all causes for the same in future, and strengthen and establish, in the strongest manner,

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the alliance, attachment, and fidelity, between His Highness the said Omdet-ool-Moolk Bahadoor and the English Company, I, John Calliaud, Esq., Brigadier General, do hereby promise and engage, on the part of the said Omdet-ool-Moolk Bahadoor, that he will do nothing prejudicial to the interests of His Highness, or contrary to the friendship and alliance by the means of the said Company now happily established between them, for the true and just performance of which the aforesaid Company do hereby become securities.

Given at Hyderabad, the 11th of the moon Gemace-dussuny, in the year of the Hegira 1180, equal to the 14th of November 1766.

TRANSLATION of an OBLIGATION given to HIS HIGHNESS NIZAM ALLY, by GENERAL
CALLIAUD, on the part of the NAWAB SERAJAH DOWLAH.

I, John Calliaud, Esq., Brigadier General, do hereby promise and engage, on the part of Omdet-ool-Moolk Serajah Dowlah Bahadoor, that agreeable to the terms which His Highness has done for him, he, the said Omdet-ool-Moolk Bahadoor, one month after my arrival at Madras, shall pay into the hands of Soucars, for the use of his said Highness, the sum of five lakhs of Rupees, for the performance of which the Company are hereby made securities.

Dated at Hyderabad, the 11th of the moon Gemace-dussuny, in the year of the Hegira 1180, equal to the 14th of November 1766.

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TREATY of perpetual friendship and alliance, with the Nawab of the Carnatic and the Soubah of the Deccan, 1768.

A TREATY of perpetual friendship and alliance made and concluded at Fort St. George, between the Honourable United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, in conjunction with the NAWAB WOLAU JAH OMDET-OOL-MOOLK UMMEER-OOL-HIND SERAJAH DOWLAH ANNEVERDEEN KHAN BAHADOOR MOONSOOR JUNG, Sippa Sirdar of the Carnatic Payen Gaut, on the one part, and the great Nawab high in station, AUSUPH JAH NIZAM-OOL-MOOLK MEER NIZAM ALLY KHAN BAHADOOR PHUTTAH JUNG SIPPA SIRDAR, Soubah of the Deccan, on the other part; by the HONOURABLE CHARLES BOURCHIER, Esq., President and Governor of Fort St. George, and the Council thereof, on behalf of the said English East India Company; the Nawab Wolau Jah Omdet-ool-Moolk, on behalf of himself, as Nawab of the Carnatic; and the Nawab Recun-ood-Dowlah Dewan, invested with full powers, on behalf of the said Nawab Ausuph Jah Nizam-ool-Moolk, his heirs and successors, as Soubah of the Deccan. Done on the 23rd day of February in the year 1768 of the Christian era, and on the 4th of the moon Shevaul, in the year of the Hegira 1181.

Whereas, on the 12th of November, in the year of the Christian era 1766, or on the 9th of the moon Gemace-dussuny in the year of the Hegira 1180, a Treaty was concluded at Hyderabad by and between General John Calliaud, invested with full powers, on behalf of the English East India Company, and the Nawab Ausuph Jah Nizam-oolMoolk, &c., on behalf of himself, as Soubah of the Deccan, with a design to establish an honourable and lasting friendship and alliance between the two contracting powers; and whereas, some misunderstandings have since arisen, which have perverted the intent of the said Treaty, and kindled up the flames of war; now be it known to the whole world, that the before-mentioned Nawab Ausuph Jah and the English Company, with the Nawab Wolau Jah, have entered into another Treaty of the strictest friendship and alliance, on the following conditions :

ARTICLE 1.

The exalted and illustrious Emperor of Hindostan, Shah Allum Padtcha, having, out of his gracious favor and in consideration of the attachment and services of the English East India Company, given and

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