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the gentleman deputed to meet 
the Nipaulese Commissioners, 
to extend his inquiries to the 
Jands newly seized as above sta- 
ted, as well as those which form- 
ed the original object of his 
deputation. 
The pretext by which the Ni- 
paulese attempted to justify their 
occupation of the lands in Nun- 
noar, which consisted of no less 
than 22 villages, was, that they 
were included in the Nupah of Ro- 
tehut, forming a division of Per- 
gunah Sunnown, which Tuppah 
was restored to the Nipaulese in 
the year 1780, with the rest of the 
Terraice of Muckwanpore, which 
had been conquered by the Bri- 
tish arms under Major Kinloch. 
The utter groundlessness of this 
pretext was proved by the evi- 
dence taken by Mr. Young, which 
clearly established that the dis- 
puted lands were situated in the 
Tuppah of Nunnoar, a portion of 
Pergunnah Suurawan which had 
been reserved by the Company at 
the time of the restitution of Rote- 
hut and Muckwanpore. 
[The declaration goes on to 
charge the Nipaulese with hav- 
ing acted on a premeditated sys- 
tem of gradual encroachment, 
which, owing {to the unexampled 
forbearance and moderation of 
the British government, they had 
already found to be successful ; 
and that the assertion of the 22 
villages having been included in 
the Tuppah of Rotehut, was mere- 
Jy brought forward to give a co- 
Jour to their conduct. The at- 
tempt to fix on the subjects of 
the Honourable Company the 
guilt of the murder of Subah 
Luchingir, and to urge, because 
the Rajah of Betteab and his fol- 
Jowers, were not punished for that 
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act, that they were justified in 
their subsequent proceedings, is 
rebutted by the uncontested fact, 
that Luchingir had, previously to 
the occurrence of the affray 
in which he died, possessed him- 
self of some villages in Betteah, 
and was preparing to extend his 
encroachments. — The declaration 
then proceeds. ] 
As the final resolution of the 
British government, with respect 
te the usurped lands in Betteah, 
was in part influenced by the con- 
duct of the Nipaulese, relative to 
the disputed territory of Bootwul 
Sheoraj in Goruckpore, it will 
be proper to advert to the cir- 
cumstances of that transactioa in 
this place. 
It is notorious, and it has also 
been proved by reference to au- 
thentic records, and by the unim~ 
peached testimony of living wit- 
nesses, that the whole of Bootwul 
to the very foot of the hills, with 
the exception of the town of Boot- 
wul alone, was held by the Rajahs 
of Palpah, from the Nawaub Vi- 
zier, for a considerable period an- 
tecedent to the treaty of cession 
in 1801: and that it was trans- 
ferred to the Company by the 
terms of that treaty, being spe- 
cifically included in the schedule 
thereunto annexed, It is no less 
matter of notoriety that the 
district of Bootwul actually came 
into the possession of the British 
government by virtue of the ces- 
sion, and that a settlement was 
made by the collector of Goruck- 
pore with the agent of the late 
Rajah of Palpah, at that time a 
prisoner at Catmandhoo, for anan- 
nual rent of thirty-two thousand 
rupees, without the semblance of 
an objection on the part of the 
Rajah of Nipaul. So it remained 
