at Bho( Bdgan in Howrah. 
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good sense, which evinced high sentiments and self-respect and, at the 
same time, conveyed a gentle menace, couched in the most humble 
language. He perceived in it also the best opportunity to carry out 
his cherished view for the extension of British intercourse with the 
terra incognita on the Himalayan heights. 
A treaty of peace was accordingly entored into and ratified between 
the Governments of Bengal and Bhutan, on the 25th of April, 1774. By 
the different articles of this treaty it was, among other things, agreed 
that the English would relinquish the Deb Raja’s possessions acquired by 
conquest; that they would deliver up the Kuch Bohar Raja Dwijendra 
Narayan and his brother Devan Deo who had been taken away as 
prisoners of war ; that the Bhutanese Mahants shall have their former 
privilege of duty-free trade, and allowed to visit Rangpur annually ; 
that the Bhutanese shall not cause incursions into the country, nor 
molest the rayats (or subjects) of the Company ; whatever Sannyasis are 
considered by the English as enemies, the Deb Raja shall not allow to 
take shelter in any part of the districts now given up, nor permit them 
to enter into the Honourable Company’s territories or through any part 
of his. 1 
This treaty having been concluded in the interest of Kuch Behar 
and the Company on the one hand, and in that of Bhutan on the other, 
whereby the Lama’s intercession was completely respected, Warren 
Hastings mind was turned upou commercial schemes, which were not 
a little matured at the sight of the presents which the Lama had sent 
by his deputation. He conceived the idea of sending a mission to the 
Lama in Tibet, and accordingly framed a letter to him, proposing, among 
other things, a t re a t y of amity and commerce between the Bengal and 
Tibetan states, and entrusted it to a deputation composed of Mr. George 
Bogle, servant of the Company, and Dr. Hamilton, with Puran Gir 
Gosain, as their sincere and faithful friend. 
This is the first of a series of missions which Hastings successively 
sent to the cis- and tmus-nivean Btates on the frontier heights, and it is from 
among the incidents of this initial deputation that the main facts which 
led to the grant of the sanads, the foundation of the Bhot Mandir, and 
the consecration of the motley group of idols there, are to be gleaned. 
In this mission as well as in the second attempted embassy to Tibet 
under Mr. Bogle in 1779, in the third, under Captain Turner in 1783, 
and in the last, under Puran Gir Gosain himself, just at the closing 
period of tbe same statesman’s career in 1785, are to be sought all the 
important services that the great Gosain has rendered to the British 
Government, and the conspicuous traits of his remarkable chai'acter, and 
1 Captain R. Boileau Pemberton’s Report on Bhutan, App., p. 178. 
