killadars, &c., officers and people shall assist in saving the goods, stores, MYSORE. &c., which shall be all returned to the English.

ARTICLE 7.

The English have free liberty to cut timber, stones, hay, and wood, for to build their factory: but if they want masts for their vessels, they must apply for leave to cut them.

ARTICLE 8.

No grabs, gallivats, or armed boats, belonging to the English, shall pay anchorage, but have free liberty to go and come.

ARTICLE 9.

The English will not assist the enemies of the Nawab; nor, on the other hand, shall the Nawab afford any assistance to the enemies of the English.

ARTICLE 10.

The killadars and officers of the Nawab shall always show the English and their servants a due respect every where, and at all times be ready to assist them.

Signed by the NAWAB.

Bednure, the 10th of Mojee, 1176, or the 27th of May, Anno Domini, 1763.

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No. XXI.

GRANT from HYDER ALI KHAN BAHADOOR, dated the 23rd February 1766.

I, Hyder Ali Khan Bahadoor, in consideration of the friendship subsisting between me and the Honourable united English East India Company, do hereby confirm and ratify all the several grants and privileges made over to them by the several Malabar powers, for the sole purchasing and exporting the produce of these countries, particularly pepper, sandal-wood, and cardemums, from the Malabar frontier to the

MYSORE. northward to the Samorine's dominions, including them; and further, I Nos. XXI. & do promise to grant and confirm the same, whithersoever my arms may XXII. prove victorious.

Given under my hand, in Mudday, the day and year above written.

No. XXII.

TREATY with HYDER ALI, 1769.

A TREATY of perpetual friendship and peace, made and concluded between the GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF FORT ST. GEORGE, in behalf of the Honourable English East India Company, for all their possessions, and for the Carnatic Payen Ghat, on the one part; and the NAWAB HYDER ALI KHAN BAHADOOR, for the country of Mysore Hyder Nagur, and his other possessions, on the other part; on the following conditions:

ARTICLE 1.

That all hostilities shall immediately cease on the conclusion of this Treaty, which is to be perpetual, or as long as the Company may exist; that peace and friendship shall take place between the contracting parties (particularly including therein the Rajah of Tanjore, the Malabar Ram Rajah, and Morari Rao, who are friends and allies to the Carnatic Payen Ghat), also all others, the friends and allies of the contracting parties, provided they do not become the aggressors against either of them; but if they are aggressors, they are not to be assisted by either party.

ARTICLE 2.

That in case either of the contracting parties shall be attacked, they shall, from their respective countries, mutually assist each other to drive the enemy out. The pay of such assistance of troops, from one party to another, to be after the following rates, viz., to every soldier and horseman fifteen Rupees per month, and every sepoy seven and a half Rupees per month: the pay of the Sirdars and Commandants to be as it shall be agreed on at the time.

The Presidency of Bombay, and all the factories and places which No. XXII. were before or are now under their government, are included in this Treaty of friendship: and the Nawab Hyder Ali Khan Bahadoor engages, out of his friendship and regard for the Company, to grant to them the factories, privileges, and exemptions in trade, in the same manner as they before held them; moreover, to release all the Sirdars, Europeans, sepoys, &c., who may have been taken on that side and this, immediately on the arrival of a proper person from the Governor and Council of Bombay for that purpose; and also to settle the particulars of the privileges of trade, and other matters relative to the sandal-wood and pepper, &c., articles of trade. And as there is now established between the contracting parties (the Company and the Nawab Hyder Ali Khan) a perpetual peace, there is no doubt but the Presidency of Bombay will exchange with the said Nawab a Treaty to the same purport as this, respecting the affairs of the said place, &c., and all the factories on that side. With regard to the ships, &c., which have been taken on both sides in the course of this war, it is hereby agreed and stipulated that they shall be mutually forgiven, and no claim or demand on any account made for them hereafter.

ARTICLE 4.

The above Nawab engages that all the officers, Europeans, and sepoys, belonging to the Presidency of Madras, shall immediately be released on the arrival of a proper person at Bangalore to demand them; also all the Sirdars and people belonging to the Carnatic Payen Ghat, who may have been taken in this war, shall likewise be released; the English Company engaging on their side to release the people belonging to the said Nawab who may have been taken also in this war.

ARTICLE 5.

The contracting parties mutually engage and agree that the forts and places which may have been taken by either party from the other in this war shall be mutually restored, except the fort of Caroor and its districts. And whereas the English Company have, in the forts of Colaur and Vencatigherry (exclusive of the former stores therein) many

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MYSORE. cannon-shot, powder, ball, and muskets, the Nawab Hyder Ali Khan Nos. XXII. engages that the said Company shall have permission to bring away the same, without any let or molestation being given them therein; and as soon as they are withdrawn, the said forts shall immediately be evacuated and restored to the said Nawab.

In witness whereof, the said contracting parties have interchangeably signed and sealed two instruments, of the same tenor and date, viz., the said President and Council, on behalf of the English East India Company, and the Carnatic Payen Ghat, in Fort St. George, this 3rd day of April, in the year of the Christian era 1769; and the said Nawab Hyder Ali Khan Bahadoor, at his camp at Madavaram, the 25th day of the Moon Teckyd, in the year of the Hegira 1182.

No. XXIII.

TREATY with HYDER ALLY, 1770.

ARTICLES for a Treaty of peace and firm friendship between the HONOURABLE THOMAS HODGES, Esquire, President and Governor, and the Council of Bombay, in behalf of the Honourable United English East India Company, on the one part, and the NAWAB HYDER ALI KHAN BAHADOOR, &c., Titles, for the countries of Mysore, Hyder Nugur, and Soondah, on the other part.

ARTICLE 1.

That agreeable to the third Article of the Treaty of peace concluded between the Honourable the President and Council of Madras and the Nawab Hyder Ali Khan Bahadoor, there be, from this day, a firm peace and friendship between the Honourable English East India Company and the said Nawab, and their successors, to continue for ever.

ARTICLE 2.

That the Honourable Company may have free liberty to build a commodious factory and warehouses at Onore, by the water-side, or any place they may pitch upon, and that they may enclose the compound with a suitable wall; and the ground allotted them shall be rent-free. They shall also have permission to cut timber, bring stones, hay, and wood, for their use. In like manner, they shall have a factory at

Carwar; and the Nawab promises to oblige the Rajah of Bilguey to MYSORE. give all the pepper produced in his country to the Honourable Company No. XXIII. at the same price as they may purchase this article at Onore.

ARTICLE 3.

That the Honourable Company shall likewise have the sole and exclusive right of purchasing all the pepper and sandal-wood produced in the Nawab's dominions, the prices of which must be settled agreeable to former custom. The amount, or as much of it as the Honourable Company choose, to be made good in guns, muskets, salt, saltpetre, lead, and gunpowder, and the balance made good in ready money.

ARTICLE 4.

That the Honourable Company shall have free liberty to export from Mangalore, or other ports of the Nawab's dominions, whatever rice they may want for Tellicherry or Bombay; three hundred corges of which is, as usual, to be free of the duty called adlamy.

ARTICLE 5.

That the English shall have free liberty of trading in the several ports of the Nawab's dominions on the Malabar coast, paying customs at the rate of one and a half per cent. on the sale of all goods; and to have permission to re-export any goods which will not sell free of custom, on signifying the same to the custom-master. No customs to be charged on gold and silver nor on any articles for the immediate use and consumption of the English, their servants, and dependants.

ARTICLE 6.

The Nawab obliges himself to assist the English in recovering their just debts from his subjects, by compelling them to make good the same, on the debts being fully proved to his satisfaction.

ARTICLE 7.

That the Honourable Company, and the English in general, shall have free liberty to cut and purchase masts, timber, and plank, at Onore, Mangalore, or any other ports of the Nawab's country, teak excepted.