Siccacole, and Murtezanagur, or Condavir, by his royal firmaund, dated the 12th of Auguft 1765, or on the 24th of the moon Suphier, in the fixth year of his reign, and the Nabob Aufuph Jau, Nizam ul Mulck, as foubah of the Decan, having, by the fecond and third articles of the afore-mentioned treaty, ceded and furrendered by faneds, under his hand and feal, to the English Eaft India company, for ever, the afore-mentioned five circars, it is now farther acknowledged and agreed, by the faid Aufuph Jau, Nizam ul Mulck, Soubah of the Decan, that the faid company fhall enjoy and hold for ever, as their right and property, the faid five circars, on the terms hereafter mentioned.

II. By the afore-mentioned treaty of Hydrabad, it was ftipulated that the Nabob Aufuph Jau, having given the circar of Murtezanägur, as a jaghire, to his brother the Nabob Ummeer, ul Omrah Soujah, ul Mulck Behauder, Bazalet Jung, the company fhould not take poffeffion of the faid circar, till after the death of Bazalet Jung, or till he broke the friendship with the faid company, by raifing difturbances in the country of Nizampatam, or the Carnatic; and though the company might juftly claim a right to take poffeffion of the faid circar, from the late conduct of Bazalet Jung, yet, in confideration of their friendship for Aufuph Jau, and his family, and that they may not diftress his affairs, by obliging him to provide his brother Bazalet Jung with another jaghire, the company do agree and consent that Bazalet Jung ftill hold the circar of Murtezanagur, on the aforefaid conditions, or till it be the pleasure of Aufuph Jau that the company fhould take poffeffion thereof, provided that the faid Bazalet Jung returns immediately to his own country of Adony, and neither keeps with, nor receives from Hyder Naigue any vackeel or correfpondence, but lives in peace and harmony with the English company, and the Nabob Wolau Jau, and gives no protection or affistance whatever to the faid Naigue, or any of his people, nor any other enemies of the company, or the

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Nabob Wolau Jau; but if this article fhall at any time be infringed, the company fhall be at liberty, by virtue of this treaty, to take poffeffion of, and keep the circar of Murtezanagur, in the fame manner as the other four, and the Nabob Aufuph Jau engages to affift them therein with his troops, if neceffary.

III. The fort of Condapillee, with its jaghire, fhall for ever hereafter remain in poffeffion of the English company, and be garrifoned with their troops, under their own officers only, notwithstanding any thing to the contrary ftipulated in the twelfth article of the treaty of Hydrabad.

IV. Narraindoo, one of the zemindars of the circar of Siccacole, having lately raised disturbances in the Itchapore country, and refused (as he alledges, in conformity to the Nabob Aufuph Jau's orders) to pay his rents, or obedience to the company, the Nabob Aufuph Jau agrees, on the figning and exchange of the prefent treaty, to write letters, not only to Narraindoo, but to all the zemindars, in the circars of Ellour, Muftephanagur, Rajahmundry, and Siccacole, acquainting them that they are in future to regard the English company as their fovereign, and to pay their rents and obedience to the faid company, or their deputies, without raising any troubles or difturbances. The Nabob Aufuph Jau further agrees, that he will not in future encourage or protect, in raising troubles or disobedience, any zemindars, renter, or fervants of the English company, or the Nabob Wolau Jau; who on their parts engage the fame to his Highness Aufuph Jau.

V. It has been the conftant defire and endeavour of the English company and the Nabob Wolau Jau, to preferve their poffeffions in peace, and to live on terms of friendship with the foubah of the Decan; they still defire to do the fame; and though the operations of war have lately obliged the company to fend their troops towards Hydrabad, and to take poffeffion of the circars of Commamet, and Worangole, yet, as a proof

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of their friendship for the Nabob Aufuph Jau, &c. foubah of the Decan, on the figning and exchange of this treaty, the company's troops fhall be recalled to the fort of Commamet, from whence they fhall alfo retire into their own circars, fo foon as the soubah, with his army, has croffed the Kiftnah, leaving the fort of Commamet to the foubah's deputy; and, as a farther proof of the company's fincere defire to preferve a friendship with the foubah of the Decan, they agree to bury in oblivion what is past, and to pay him annually, for the space of fix years, to be computed from the 1ft of January 1768, or the 10th of the moon Shibaun, in the year of the Hegyra 1181, the fum of two lacks of Arcot rupees, at Madras, or Mazulipatam, that is to fay, one lack on the 31st of March, and also one lack on the 31st of October, or two lacks every year, and one lack more at each of these periods, whenever the circar of Condavir is put into the company's poffeffion; the company moreover promise, that if they peaceably poffefs the circars, during the aforefaid term of fix years, and the foubah gives them no trouble,, they will pay annually, from the 1ft of January 1774, the fum of five lacks, in two equal payments, as before expreffed, or of feven lacks, if Condavir be then in their poffeffion; but in cafe the foubah, or the Morattas by his inftigation, fhould invade the circars or Carnatic, or they, or any other Power, should conquer the circars from the English company, the payment of the said fums fhall be suspended till peace, and the circars are reftored to the company.

VI. It was ftipulated in the former treaty, made at Hydrabad, that the company and the foubah fhould mutually affift each other with their troops, when required, and their own affairs would permit; but it being apprehended at prefent, that fuch an agreement may fubject both parties to difficulties, and that mifunderstandings may arise on that account, it is now agreed only, that a mutual peace, confidence, and friendship, fhall fubfift, for ever, between the English

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company, his highness Aufuph Jau, and the Nabob Wolau Jau; the enemies of either fhall be regarded as the enemies of the other two Powers, and the friends of either be treated as the friends of all; and in cafe any troubles fhould arife, or any enemies invade the countries under the government of either of the contracting parties, the other two fhall give no countenance or affiftance to fuch enemies or invaders; the company and the Nabob Wolau Jau, willing however to fhew their voluntary attachment to the foubah, will always be ready to fend two battalions of feapoys, and fix pieces of artillery, manned by Europeans, whenever the foubah fhall require them, and the fituation of their affairs will allow of fuch a body of troops to march into the Decan, provided the foubah pays the expence, during the time that the faid troops are employed in his fervice.

VII. The exalted and illuftrious emperor, Shaw Allum, having been pleafed, out of his great favour and high esteem for the Nabob Wolau Jau, to give and to grant to him, and his eldeft fon, Meyen ul Mulck, Omdetul Omrah, and their heirs, for ever, the government of the Carnatic Payen Gaut, and the countries dependent thereon, by his royal firmaund, bearing date the 26th of August 1765, or the 27th of the moon Zuphur, in the fixth year of the faid emperor's reign, and the Nabob Aufuph Jau, Nizam ul Mulck, &c. having alfo, out of his affection and regard for the faid Nabob Wolau Jau, released him, his fon, Meyen ul Mulck, &c. and their heirs in fucceffion, for ever, from all dependence on the Decan, and given him a full discharge of all demands paft, prefent, and to come, on the faid Carnatic Payen Gaut, by a faned, under his hand and feal, dated the 12th of November 1766; in confideration of the said Nabob Wolau Jau having paid the foubah five lacks of rupees, it is now agreed and acknowledged, by the faid Aufuph Jau, Nizam ul Mulck, that the faid Nabob Wolau Jau, and after him his fon, Meyen ul Mulck, and their heirs in

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fucceffion, fhall enjoy, for ever, as an ultumgau, or freegift, the government of the Carnatic Payen Gaut, in the fulleft and amplest manner; the faid Nabob Aufuph Jau promifing, and engaging, not to hold or keep up any kind of correfpondence with any perfon or perfons, in the faid Carnatic Payen Gaut, or in the circars before and now ceded to the English company, except the faid Nabob Wolau Jau, or the faid English company, by the means of their prefident and council of Madras, who on their part, in conjunction with the faid Nabob Wolau Jau, engage likewise not to hold, or maintain, any correfpondence with any perfon or perfons in the Decan, except the Nabob Ausuph Jau, his dewan, and the fecurities, whofe names are hereunto fubfcribed.

VIII. The Nabob Aufuph Jau, out of his great regard and affection, and from other confiderations, having been pleased to grant and confer on the Nabob Wolau Jau, and his eldest fon, Meyen ul Mulck, Omdetul Omrah, feveral faneds, viz.

An ultumgau faned for the whole of the Carnatic; An ultumgau faned for the whole of the purgunnah of Imungundela, with the gudda of Ghunpoora;

An ultumgau faned for the whole of the villages of Cathafera, &c.

An ultumgau faned for the killedary of the fort of Colaur ;

An ultumgau faned for the whole of the district of Sonedaupe;

And a full and ample faned, containing a discharge for all demands, paft, prefent, and future, on account of the Carnatic, &c.

It is hereby agreed, that all and every one of these faneds fhall be regarded, equally binding with any 'other article of the treaty, and be as duly obferved, by the Nabob Aufuph Jau, as if entered here at full length.

IX. Hyder Naigue, having, for fome years past, ufurped