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374.
Your own allowance is fixed at present at 500 Rupees per month exclu­
sive of your professional allowance which you may also from time to time
draw on this Government for the amount of at the same rate as if employed
*n the Fiold; both commencing from the 8th instant.
The Military Paymaster General has been directed to pay you in advance
the sum of 3000 Rupees.
I am,
8ir,
Your most obodient servant,
(Sd.) R. RICHARDS,
Secretary to Government.
Bombay Castle i
The 16th December 1799.

CCLXXXIV.
Translation of a letter from hlehedi Alikhan from Faherauu dated the 2Ut December 1799
and received the 11th February 1S00 per llie Majesty's Frigate La Forte.
5 On the 4th of December 1799 I arrived at the Capital of Taheraun accord-
reeptto? Al,kh“ J ing to his Majesty’s commands Ahmed Khan the Kawillur Akasy
r or master
Teberaa. 0f the ceremonies and Mirza Futteh Ullak the Mustavsey or Accountant
t
] General of ail Persia with other principal men came to well-come me and my
entry was attended with most honourable reception an abode being assigned
me in the house of Prime Minister Hadjee Ibrahim Khan when I have
experienced more marks of kindness and regard than I oan express.
Upon my interview with His Majesty none were allowed to sit but His
Majesty and me all the rest of the assembly standing even to the Royal Princess
whilst the Chief Nobles and officers of State at the respectful distance of two
or three hundred steps.
Briuin ? f,y fi made enquiry atter the health of the King of Great
the rn^ .afterwards as to the particulars of the English Government and
the rneamDg °f the term and of the well being of the Right Hon’ble
the Governor General and of your all which I delivered answers. The King
IS1”! 3”""1 had haPPeneii t0 to India and how I had
gave uRaht8 T edthere°“ the Part of ^sh roapeoting wbioh I
gave smtable explanations and thus passed the first interview.
■ third T Se°0nd audience business beean to be entered upon and at the
and l repres®nted a11 m7 objects which have been severally accomplished
the "RVhf tt mg y0Ur w’sbes to a degree exceeding even whatever

Thi 8h*h’ rA norh* nf P^-11 * ^renc^ Majesty’s orders are issuing to all the sea
I* Mixing Piinch > [!'a. 0 6 watchful and to seize on whosoever of the depraved French
YmmU m tb« OoJf. ^eir appearance by sea or land under whatever disguise that they
respect toN^6 1 6 u° Whi.cl1 effect the orders are now writing out with
will 8fUl* n Bu®hire as he belongs to ourselves it
orwar a copy only to him of these orders the originals of which