Chap. 11. 
Malabar and Coromandel. 
569 
CHAP. II. 
The Treaty carried on. What Articles were frofofed by the Dutch, a?)d agreed to 
by the Kjng, His Patent or Firman and Ratification of the Treaty. 
4C 
FOR fear of exafperating the Great 
Mogul beyond redrefs, it was thought 
fit to difpatch the following Letter to 
his Majefty. 
Moft Renowned, moft Potent, and 
mo/t Uluftrious King, and Lord, filPd 
" with Majefty and Wealth, the bright- 
" eft Princes among the molt Powerful : 
As an unjufliVVaris defervedly detell- 
ed by all Nations, and feldom comes to 
" a happy Conclufion foour being ob- 
" lig'd CO aft againft your Majefty (pur- 
fuant to the Command of our General, 
and the Council of the J isfound- 
ed upon very juft and legal Pretenfi- 
" ons. Had your Officers thought fit to 
" treat us according to the Tenour of 
" your Majefty's Patent, or F/V»7ii«,gran- 
^' ted to us, we fhould never have at- 
" tempted to raife any Differences be- 
" twixt your Majefty and us, much lefs 
have had recourfe to open Hoftilites. 
" But when we were forced to fee our 
" Traffick, not only in this Place, but 
alfo at Bengalc^ interrupted and fpolFd 
by moft injurious Monopolies ( to the 
great Detriment of the Company) 
by intolerable Affronts, and refufing 
our juft Requeft, and humble Petiti- 
" ons, to have the two Fugitives, and 
*' fince circumcifed Servants of the Com- 
pany, delivered into our hands \ and 
to have due reparation made for the 
Damage fuftained by the Company in 
the Robbery committed upon their 
" Faftory : All thefe injurious Pro- 
ceedings have obliged our Governor- 
" General, and the Council of the In- 
dies^ to have Recourfe to the Law of 
*^ Arms, to procure us reafonable Satif- 
faction-, and having for this purpofe 
fent us four Ships from Batavia, we 
did the nth and } 6th of this Month, 
feize your Majefty's Ships the Gen- 
jarcer and Sahabbi (coming from Mo- 
cha ) and after having taken out of 
them all the ready Mony they had a- 
board, and underftanding that the 
faid Gcnjawer and Sahabbi belonged 
properly to your Majefty, we thought 
fit ( out of refpeft to your Perfon) to 
have them carried by our Seamen into 
the River, and under the Caftle of Su- 
rattCj not queftioning but what we have 
Vol.111, 
been forced to undertake upon this ac- 
count for the maintaining of our Juft 
Rights, will meet with a favourable 
conftruftion from your Majefty. The 
Mony feized by our Veflels, ihall not 
" fuffer the leaft diminution, bat be kept 
" with all fccurity, till fuch time that 
" your Majefty ftiall grant us a new Pa^ 
" tent in due Form, purfuant to fuch 
Articles as we have Orders fiom our 
Superiors to reprefent to your Alaje- 
" fty, and are as follows. 
' 1. It is delired that leave be given to Articles 
build a Warehoufe for our own Ufe, /'J'^/'^A''^ h' 
' either in or near the Square of the Ca- ^l^^^^'^ 
ftle, where we may lay up fafely our Great m- 
' Merchandizes at the firft hand, free gul. 
' from thofe Diminutions and LofTes we 
' fuftained yearly in the jllphandigo^ pay- 
* ing exadfly the ufual Cuftoms •, that 
' done, we ihall be at liberty to carry on 
' our Traffick, as formerly, undifturbed 
' and unmolefted. 
The Governouv's Anfwerwas, ' That rfc 
' either a Place or Houfe fhould be grant- /wcr, 
ed us juft without the Caftle, not far 
ixomthQ Al^handigo^ for our proper ufe 
only. 
' II. We defire that our Traffick may 
be carried on without difturbance at 
Bcngale^ and in the circumjacent Places, 
free from paying any Dutys, except 
what is paid ufually at Pi^di (the 
place where Goods are embark'd, pur- 
fuant to the Patent formerly granted by 
his Majefty, but contravened by the 
avaritious Governours. 
Hereunto it was anfwered, ' That the 
Governour Miermofa ftiould endeavour 
to obtain this Point from the King. 
' HI. Reftitution was required of fuch 
Sums of Mony as of late Years had been 
unjuftly detained, both at Surattc and 
Amadabath^ and full Satisfadion deli- 
red for what Cuftoms had been extor- 
ted from our Ships betwixt Agra and 
Amadabath^ contrary to the exprcfs 
Words of his Majefty's Patent ^ the 
whole Sum amounting to 41479 Roplj^s. 
' IV. His Majefty was requefted to 
iffiie his Orders for the full reftitution 
of what Mony was taken out of our 
Faftory at Surattc^ and that a certain 
Sum (as his Majefty ffiould direct) 
might be allotted in lieu cf Satisfaftion 
F e e e * for 
