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brother, Regent Chanjoo Cooshoo, Punjun Irtinnee Nimoheim, and his 
confidant Soopoon Choomboo, Cooshoo Shapie, who entertain not the 
shadow of a doubt of the Emperor’s receding from his word, but assure 
me of their belief, that he will ratify the promises made to the former 
Teshoo Lama, the moment the present Lama is capable of renewing 
the application, when the proposed regulations will immediately take 
place. 
The success of your designs is too obviously, and too intimately, 
connected with this event, to need any comment. If Teshoo Lama shall 
be made to resume the plans projected by him in his presumed pre¬ 
existence, for the recovery of the prerogatives annexed to the office of 
Lama; the same consistency of conduct will certainly prompt him to 
look back to the negociations of 1 7 75, to the proposal of a free inter¬ 
course of trade between Tibet and Bengal, which then coincided with 
his desires, and which seems at last to have been one motive, and object, 
of his solicitude for the extension of his privileges. 
I am aware that it may be asked, why the agents of government 
under Teshoo Lama, were not dismissed with the promised powers? 
and this omission, I think, may be satisfactorily accounted for, from 
the consternation, and confusion, in which his sudden death neces¬ 
sarily involved all his attendants, depriving them of the ability to 
pursue proper measures, for the accomplishment of their designs. I 
believe the fact is, that they were incompetent to the attempt; for, 
being merely the agents of Teshoo Lama, they rightly reflected, that 
their intercessions with the Emperor would have little weight, when 
their superior was no more. Prudence therefore enjoined their silence.. 
