Government Records Punjab--Records of the Ludhiana Agency

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1I. ] LUDHIANA AGENOY RECORDS, 1808-09. 25

2ENcLosvrg (1) To 9.

3Translation of a letter from the Resident at Dehli to Rajah

4Buaave Sine, written the 15th January 1809.

5I HAVE just received your friendly letter acquainting me

6that you had proceeded to Kurnaul in the hope of meeting

7Colonel Ochterlony, but that, on your arrival there, you found

8he had left that place and repaired to Chilkanah, and you

9conclude by asking whether it would be advisable that you

10should proceed to Chilkanah to meet Colonel Ochterlony, or

11that you should come to Dehli.

12After your late long journeys, it gives me sincere pleasure

13to find that you are in good health and have reached Kurnaul

14in safety. I know your merits, and am a sincere well-wisher

15to you and yours.

16You ask me whether I would advise you to proceed to

17Colonel Ochterlony or to repair to me at Dehli. My friend,

18you must be sensible that nothing could give me greater

19pleasure than to see you; but, as a desire to gratify one’s self

20must ever give way to public business and to a sense of

21propriety, and as upon the present occasion your being with

22Colonel Ochterlony, who, as well as myself, is an old friend of

23yours, appears to me to be desirable, I think it best to deny

24myself the pleasure of secing you at Dehli and to recommend

25to you to join Colonel Ochterlony. You must have a perfect

26recollection of the representations which you repeatedly made

27to me in March last when at Dehli, and must be convinced

28that the first and immediate object of the measures now

29adopting by the British Government is the security and

30preservation of yourself, Rajah Saheb Sing, Bhye Laul Sing

31and the other Sikh Surdars on this side of the Sutledge, who

32have deserved well of that Government. It is, therefore,

33highly proper that you should accompany Colonel Ochterlony

34when he proceeds towards the Sutledge with the detachment

35which is now about to march for your benefit. I recommend

36to you, therefore, to proceed to him as speedily as possible.

374.

38Letter from

39the Resident

40at Delhi to

41the Chief of

42Jhind.