49© Mr. stewart’s Account of 
number of fubje&s; a particular with which you have 
no doubt been acquainted by travellers from thefe parts. 
I have been repeatedly informed, that you have been 
engaged in hoftilities againft the Dah Terria, to which 
it is faid the Dah’s own criminal conduit, in committing 
ravages and other outrages on your frontiers, gave rife. 
As he is of a rude and ignorant race, paft times are not 
deftitute of the like mifconduit which his avarice 
tempted him to commit. It is not unlikely but he has 
now renewed thofe inftances, and the ravages and plun- 
der which he may have committed on the fkirts of the 
Bengal and Bahar provinces, have given you provocation 
to fend your vindictive army againft him. However, his 
party has been defeated, many of his people have been 
killed, three forts have been taken from him, and he has 
met with the punifhment he deferved. It is as evident 
as the Sun that your army has been victorious ; and that, 
if you had been defirous of it, you might in the fpace of 
two days have entirely extirpated him, for he had not 
power to refill: your efforts. But I now take upon me to 
be his mediator ; and to reprefent to you, that, as the faid 
Dah Terria is dependant upon the Dalai Lama, who 
rules in this country with unlimited fway (but, on account 
of, his being in his minority, the charge of the govern- 
ment. 
