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extraordinary request could not be complied with ; but as one of 

 his declared views was to shelter the ships from the weather, it 

 was engaged, if proper materials were sent in, they should be 

 applied to that purpose; and as this refusal did not affect the 

 treaty, which no where restored the marine-yard to the sultaun, 

 Captain Torriano deemed it in full force, and insisted that the 

 article for supplying cattle should be immediately complied with. 



Shortly afterwards another messenger arrived from Mirza, to 

 express his surprise at the little attention paid to the sultaun's re- 

 quest ; and as he must suppose there had been some mistake in 

 its delivery, he sent another person to state it more clearly, when 

 he was assured of receiving a different reply; particularly if well 

 understood that Mirza's complying with the treaty must depend in 

 a great measure on granting as a favour what had been made the 

 express condition of acceding to his demands. 



Captain Torriano, justly incensed, desired the second emissary 

 to acquaint his master, that conceiving the request to have been 

 first made in obedience to the sultaun's commands, while his own 

 mind reprobated his conduct, he had preserved great moderation 

 in his answer, which he flattered himself would have been ascribed 

 to its true source, a personal delicacy to Mirza. But since a repe- 

 tition of the demand had been made, he deemed it an insolent 

 puerility, so little becoming the character of Mirza, that he hoped 

 he did not err in imputing it to the short-sighted policy and chi- 

 canery of the brahmins by whom he was surrounded. That the 

 proper time for restoring the ships would be, when the sultaun's 

 troops were able to take the outworks in which they stood ; until 

 that event, the commandant was determined, not only to keep 



