Papers Relating to Certain Pecuniary Transactions of Mrs. William Palmer and Co. with the Government of H. Highness the Nizam (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...all such transactions, since the whole perplexity and obscurity in which the accounts of the Aurungabad concern have been since involved would have been precluded, had Government not foregone, on that occasion, the scrutiny originally contemplated. 9-Under this impression, the Honourable the Governor-General in Council entirely approves the tenor of your reply of the 20th ultimo to the letter from the house; and I am directed to desire that you will immediately intimate to the house the expectation of Government, that no further demur will be made, on their part, to the production of all accounts between the house and the Nizam, or the officers of his Highnesses Government, as already specified in the instructions of the 23d November, or to affording you such further information, or explanation, regarding any items of these accounts, as you may see proper to require. In communicating these observations to Messrs. William Palmer and Co., you will distinctly apprize them, that their compliance with your requisition is an indispensable condition of the British Government's interference for the adjustment of their outstanding claims against the Nizam, and of its countenance to their future commercial dealings in his Highness's territories. 10. On the subject of your despatches of the 26th and 27th ultimo, I am directed to observe that the Honourable the Governor-General in Council concurs with you in opinion, as to the probable inadequacy of the amount required by the Minister, namely, eighty-five lacs of Hyderabad rupees, to accomplish all the objects contemplated by this Government in sanctioning an advance of money from the Company's funds. The Minister, however, having signified his acquiescence in all the prescribed conditions, the...