(Signed) "NATHANIEL MIDDLETON."

I will now call your Lordships' attention to other letters connected
with this transaction.

_Letter from Major Gilpin to Mr. Middleton, June 5th, 1782._

"Sir,--Agreeably to your instructions, I went to the prisoners,
Behar and Jewar Ali Khân, accompanied by Hoolas Roy, who read the
papers respecting the balance now due, &c., &c.

"In general terms they expressed concern at not being able to
discharge the same without the assistance of the Begum, and
requested indulgence to send a message to her on that subject, and
in the evening they would give an answer.

"I went at the time appointed for the answer, but did not receive a
satisfactory one; in consequence of which I desired them to be
ready, at the shortest notice, to proceed to Lucknow, and explained
to them every particular contained in your letter of the 1st
instant respecting them.

"Yesterday morning I sent for Letafit Ali Khân, and desired him to
go to the Bhow Begum, and deliver the substance of my instructions
to her, which he did, and returned with the inclosed letter from
her. From some circumstances which I have heard to-day, I am
hopeful the prisoners will soon think seriously of their removal,
and pay the balance rather than submit themselves to an
inconvenient journey to Lucknow."