HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
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Malar tic’s Letters to Tippoo Sultaun’s Ambassadors. 
Isle of France, the 27th of February, 1798, 6th Year of the Republic. 
Gentlemen, 
I am too sincere in my nature to suffer you to remain ignorant of the great dissa¬ 
tisfaction which your letter of this morning has given me. Your Sultaun deputed 
you to solicit our aid on such conditions as we might deem just, and not on those 
which you now prescribe to us. 
The demands which I have proposed to you, within these few days past, were 
framed by General Dagincourt, who is particularly known to your Sultaun, under 
whose orders he served when a captain of grenadiers ia the battalion of the regiment 
of the Isle of France, which made a campaign during the last war, under the Bahau- 
dar and Tippoo Sultaun; ,1 therefore persist in demanding, for all the officers and 
volunteers, the pay and provisions stipulated in the last statement which I transmitted 
to you. 
The pay which was granted ten years ago, cannot be made a rule for the pay 
which ought to be given now. 
Those who at that period received 150 rupees per month, now demand 600. 
As you do not choose to take surgeons; you shall not have them •’ but your 
master will not be satisfied with your conduct on this article. 
The officers and volunteers who are to accompany you, shall not make a journey 
of 500 leagues to ascertain what pay Tippoo Sultaun may choose to fix for them. 
I shall order them not to disembark, until Tippoo Sultaun shall have satisfied them 
that he will allow the pay and provisions which I propose to him. 
We have not sought you, ydti came to solicit our aid: you ought, therefore, to 
submit to the conditions which I propose to you: they are just and reasonable. 
Salutation and fraternity. 
(Signed) MALARTIC, 
Governor-General. 
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(A true translation) 
G. G. KEBLE, French translator. 
