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effectually be made in thirty days from the day of figning the treaty. The Nabob will caufe them to be fupplied with provifions and conveyances for the journey, the expence of which fhall be made good to him by the company. The commiffioners will fend an officer or officers to accompany the prifoners to the different places where they are to be delivered: in particular, Abdul Wahab Cawn, taken at Chitoor, and his family, fhall be immediately released, and if willing to return to the Carnatic, fhall be allowed to do fo. If any perfon or perfons belonging to the faid Nabob, and taken by the company in the late war, be now alive, and in prifon in Bencoolen, or other territories of the company, fuch perfon or perfons fhall be immediately released, and, if willing to return, fhall be fent without delay to the neareft fort or fettlement in the Myfore country. Bafwapa, late amuldar of Palicacherry, fhall be released and at liberty to depart.

III. Immediately after figning and fealing the treaty, the English commiffioners fhall give written orders for the delivery of Onore Carwar and Sadafhevagada, and forts or places places adjoining thereto, and fend a Thip or fhips to bring away the garrifons. The Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder, will cause the troops in thofe places to be fupplied with provifions, and any other neceffary affiftance for their voyage to Bombay (they paying for the fame). The commiffioners will likewife give, at the fame time, written orders for the immediate delivery of the forts and diftricts of Caroor, Auracourchy, and Daraparam; and immediately after the releafe and delivery of the prifoners as before mentioned, the fort and diftrict of Dindigul fhall be evacuated and restored to the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder; and none of the troops of the company fhall afterwards remain in the country of the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder.

IV. As foon as all the prifoners are released and delivered,

livered, the fort and diftrict of Cannanore fhall be evacuated and restored to Ali Rajah Biby, the Queen of that country, in the prefence of any one perfon, without troops, whom the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder, may appoint for that purpofe; and at the fame time that the orders are given for the evacuation and delivery of the forts of Cannanore and Dindigul, the faid Nabob fhall give written orders for the evacuation and delivery of Amboorgur and Satgur to the English; and in the mean time, none of the troops of the faid Nabob fhall be left in any part of the Carnatic, except in the two forts above-mentioned.

V. After the conclufion of this treaty, the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder, will make no claim whatever in future on the Carnatic.

VI. All perfons whatsoever, who have been taken and carried away from the Carnatic Payen Gaut (which includes Tanjour) by the late Nabob Hyder Ali Cawn, Bahauder, who is in heaven, or by the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder, or otherwife belonging to the Carnatic, and now in the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder's dominions, and willing to return, fhall be immediately allowed to return with their families and children, or as foon as may be convenient to themfelves; and all perfons belonging to the Vencatacherry Rajah, who were taken prisoners in returning from the fort of Vellour, to which place they had been fent with provifions, fhail alfo be releafed, and permitted immediately to return. Lifts of the principal perfons belonging to the Nabob Mahomed Ali Cawn, Bahauder, and to the Rajah of Vencatagherry, fhall be delivered to the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun's minifters; and the Nabob will caufe the contents of this article to be publicly notified throughout his country.

VII. This being the happy period of general peace and reconciliation, the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder, as a teftimony and proof of his friendship to L12

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the English, agrees, that the rajahs or zemindars on this coaft, who have favoured the English in the late war, shall not be molested on that account.

VIII. The Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder, hereby renews and confirms all the commercial privileges and immunities given to the English by the late Nabob Hyder Ali Cawn, Bahauder, who is in heaven, and particularly ftipulated and specified in the treaty between the company and the faid Nabob, concluded the 8th of Auguft, 1770.

IX. The Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder, shall restore the factory and privileges poffeffed by the English at Callicut, until the year 1779 (or 1193 Hygera) and fhall restore Mount Dilly and its district, belonging to the fettlement of Tellicherry, and posfeffed by the English, till taken by Sardar Cawn, at the commencement of the late war.

X. This treaty fhall be figned and fealed by the English commiffioners, and a copy of it fhall afterwards be figned and fealed by the prefident and felect committee of Fort St. George, and returned to the Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder, in one month, or fooner if poffible; and the fame fhall be acknowledged under the hands and feals of the governor general and council of Bengal, and the governor and felect committee of Bombay, as binding upon all the governments in India; and copies of the treaty, fo acknowledged, fhall be fent to the faid Nabob in three months, or fooner if poffible. In teftimony whereof, the faid contracting parties have figned, fealed, and interchangeably delivered two inftruments of the fame tenor and date; to wit, the faid three commiffioners on behalf of the honourable English Eaft India company and the Carnatic Payen Gaut; and the faid Nabob Tippoo Sultaun, Bahauder, on his own behalf, and the dominions of Seringapatam, and Hyder Nagur, &c. Thus executed at Mangulore (otherwife

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called Codial Bunder) this eleventh day of March, and year 1784, of the Chriftian æra, and 16th day of the moon Rabillafany, in the year of the Hygera 1198.

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1756. 12 Oct.

1775. 6 Mar.

1778.

THE

HE treaty with the Marattas, confirming former treaties, regarding Geriah, and fettling trade.

E. Ind. Treat. p. 170.

The treaty between governor Hornby. and the council of Bombay, on the one part, and Ragonath Row Bellajee, Peifhwa, on the other, confirming former agreements, and protecting trade.

E. Ind. Treat. p. 337

The new treaty and additional agreements 24 Nov. between the fame parties.

1781. 13 Oct.

E. Ind. Treat. p. 348.

The treaty of peace and firm alliance between Colonel Muir, on behalf of the East India company, and the Maha Rajah Saheb Soubahdar, Madhee Row Sindia, Bahadar, on his part.

E. Ind. Treat. p. 316.
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1782.

The treaty of alliance and perpetual

17 May. friendship with the Marattas, fettled by Mr. David Anderfon, on behalf of the Eaft India company, E. Ind. Treat. p. 318.

[The following is printed from the Treaty, which was publifhed by authority, in 1784.]

The Treaty of Peace with the Marattas, 1782.

TREATY of perpetual friendship and alliance between the honourable the English Eaft India company, and the Peshwa Madhoo Row Pundit Purdhan, fettled by Mr. David Anderson, on the part of the honourable company, in virtue of the powers delegated to him for that purpose by the honourable the governor general and council, appointed by the King and parliament of Great Britain, to direct and controul all political affairs of the honourable English East India company in India; and by Maha Rajah Subadar Madhoo Row Sindia, as plenipotentiary on the part of the Pefhwa Madhoo Row Pundit Purdhan, Ballajee Pundit Nana Furnavese, and the whole of the chiefs of the Maratta nation, agreeably to the following articles, which fhall be ever binding on their heirs and fucceffors, and the conditions of them to be invariably obferved by both parties.

I. It is ftipulated and agreed to between the honourable the English Eaft India company and the Pefhwa, through the mediation of Madhoo Row Sindia, that all countries, places, cities, and forts, including Baffeen, &c. which have been taken from the Pefhwa, during the war that has arifen fince the treaty fettled by colonel Upton, and have come into the poffeffion of the English, fhall be delivered up to the Pefhwa; the territories, forts, cities, &c. to be reftored, fhall be delivered within the space of two months from the period when this treaty fhall become complete (as hereinafter defcribed) to fuch perfons as the Peshwa, or his minifter, Nana Furnavese, shall appoint.

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