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c< happy with letters, which are caufes of confolation. 

 " At this time, as friendly offerings of union, and 

 <c affection, and unanimity, I fend one handkerchief, 

 " three tolah of gold, and one piece of cochin. Let 

 " them be accepted." 



Poorungeer, having received thefe difpatches in the 

 beginning of O&ober, after a refidence of five months 

 at Teefhoo Loomboo, took leave of the Lama and the 

 Regent, and fet out on his return by the fame route he 

 came to Bengal. The weather at this feafon of the year 

 being moil extremely favorable for travelling, he expe- 

 rienced no delay or interruption in the courfe of his 

 journey through Tibet and Bootan, but arrived at 

 Rungpore early in December, whence he proceeded as 

 expeditioufly as poffible to the Prefidency ; where, to 

 his great mortification and concern, he finds, upon his 

 arrival, his affairs involved in great diflrefs ; the little 

 territory his adopted Chela was left in charge of, 

 having, during his abfence, been violently invaded by 

 Raaj Chund, a neighbouring Zemeendar, and to the 

 amount of fifty begas forcibly taken out of his hands. 

 Prevailed on by his earned repeated folicitations, I am 

 induced to fay for him, that in your juftice and favor 

 are his only hopes of relief from his embarraffments ; 

 and he humbly fupplicates your protection in reftoring 

 and fecuring him in the poffeiTion of his invaded right. 

 The liberty of this intercefhon, I am confident to think, 

 would be forgiven, were it not in favor of one who has 

 rendered to this Government various ufeful fervices ; 

 but as, though of trivial importance, it affords an 

 authentic inftance of the encroaching difpofition of in- 

 ferior Zemeendars. Yet another circumftance it may 

 not be improper to point out. The ground alluded to 

 is a pan of the land fituated upon the weftern bank of 

 the river oppofite Calcutta, that was formerly granted 

 under a Sunnud of this Government to Teejhoo Lama, 

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