asure to acquaint you that yesterday
having taken leave of you, I passed the night at Noorgunge, and next
morning, about ten or eleven o'clock, through your favor and
benevolence, arrived safe at Goondah. Mir Aboo Buksh, zemindar, and Mir
Rustum Ali, accompanied me.

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