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tho Turkish Oflloors, and the gotieral Inhabitants o£ tho place, of the existence
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of Tippoo 8ultan, and of the extent and solidity of his Dominions and power
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in India.
Suoh is the friendly disposition towards mo of Abdulla Aga, tho
Mussaleom, that on the Receipt of Your Lordship’s Commands-1 immediately
determined confidentially to coramunicato with him on tho subject of them,
and I fortunately found him most cordially inclined.to co-oporate with mo
to the extent of his ability and power, for tho accomplishment of Your Lord­
ship’s wishes for tho Return of the Embassy.
At tho suggestion and recommendation of the Mussaleem I sent to him
by Akan Mahomed Nobee (a Bussora Merchant of groat respectability, attached
to tho Factory) one of the Letters for Hussun Alii, which the Mussaleom meant
to deliver into his own Hands at tho Government House. On the Mussaleem
sending one of his Offioers, however to the late French Factory with a Message
to Hussun Alii requesting his personal presence at the Government House,
he (Hussun Alii) was found to bo confined by serious illness, and unable to
rise from his Bed. The -principal Embassador, Seiad Ali Mahomed Kandree,
however, immediately determined to visit the Mussaleem.
During the Visit in question, the Mussaleem took a proper opportunity of
delivering to Seiad Ali Mahomed Kandree the Letter for Hussun AUi, whd, on
reading it, coolly observed, that if the contents were really true, if Tippoo
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) Sultan had positively been killed in Battle, and Seringapatam taken by the
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English, still the Children of his master might bo alive, and that one of
them might have succeeded to his Throne and power, and been enabled by
ability and good fortune to resist or overthrow the armies of the English, that
he was an Embassador from a Sovereign Power to a Sovereign Power, not
merely from Tippoo Sultan to Sultan Selim, that bo was a servant, that he would
be faithful to his trust, that he would present, with the permission of God, to
the Ottoman Emperor at Constantinople, the Letters and Presents with which he
was charged, and that Religion called on him to represent to the Sublime Porte,
the miseries and misfortunes of the Maho'medanS in India, Seiad Ali Mahomed
Kandree added on taking leave of the Mussaleem, that he considered himself,
companions, and people under the immediate protection of the Turkish
Government, and in a moving and pathetic strain of Eloquence foroibily/urged
the Mussaleem carefully to avoid attachment to Christians, and to patronize
and protect on all occasions to the utmost of his abilities, tho followers of
their Holy Prophet Mahomed.
The artful conduct of Seiad Ali Mahomed Kandree made some impres­
sion on the Mussaleem, and the' conference which had takon place between
them having been a public one, he found himself forced to adopt a peaculiarly
cautious conduct. He informed me, by means of my confidential Messenger
to him, that he was unpleasantly situated, that I might however depend on
his co-operation with me, a9 far as prudence and his situation would admit, in
the attainment of my wishes respecting the Embassadors; that my friendship
for him would suggest to me the positive necessity of his so regulating his pro­
ceedings, as to avoid committing himself with his immediate Superior the
Baoha; arid that he strongly recommended to me to cease all active measures
respecting the Embassadors, until the arrival of the expected Orders from
Bagd'at.
From the moment in which I had the honor to receive Your Lordship s
ednimands, I determined, at all events, to prevent the proseoution, by the