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INTRODUCTION. 
spring, abounds with satisfaction, gladness, and joy. Praise be to God, 
that the star of your fortune is in its ascension! Praise be to him, 
that happiness and ease are the surrounding attendants of myself and 
family! Neither to molest, nor persecute, is my aim: it is even the 
characteristic of our sect, to deprive ourselves of the necessary refresh 
ment of sleep, should an injury be done to a single individual; but, 
in justice and humanity, I am informed, you far surpass us. May you 
ever adorn the seat of justice and power, that mankind may, in the 
shadow of your bosom, enjoy the blessings of peace and affluence ! By 
your favour, I am the Raja and Lama of this country, and rule over a 
number of subjects, a circumstance with which you have no doubt 
been made acquainted, by travellers from these parts. I have been 
repeatedly informed, that you have engaged in hostilities against the 
Deh Terria, to which, it is said, the Deh’s own criminal conduct, in 
committing ravages and other outrages on your frontiers, gave rise. 
As he is of a rude and ignorant race, past times are not destitute of 
instances of the like faults, which his avarice has tempted him to com¬ 
mit. It is not unlikely that he has now renewed those instances; and 
the ravages and plunder which he may have committed on the skirts 
of the provinces of Bengal and Bahar, have given you provocation to 
send your avenging army against him. Nevertheless 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 punishment he deserved. 
It is as evident as the sun, that your army has been victorious; and 
