1 180 GANDA SINGH AND PESHAWRA SINGH.
2 terms offered to them by the British Govern-
3 ment, and that the army of the Indus would
4 now advance on Candahar without further delay.
5 Ranjeet Singh was informed of the event, and
6 urgently requested by Lieutenant-Colonel Wade
7 not to defer answering the letters which had
8 already been addressed to him on several im-
9 portant points, and also to despatch the Maho-
10 medan contingent of his troops, commanded by
11 a good and wise officer, either European or Ma-
12 homedan, and to give him particular injunc-
13 tions to adhere strictly to the conditions of the
14 tripartite treaty. In the same letter Ganda
15 Singh, the Thanehdar or commandant of Attok,
16 was praised for his good behaviour towards the
17 Mission and the Shah Zada; but Peshawra
18 Singh, one of the supposed sons of his Highness,
19 who is the governor of the place, was blamed
20 for his inattention.” The Maharaja was likewise
21 informed of the intention of her Britannic
22 Majesty to despatch for his Highness some
23 * He afterwards behaved in the same manner to Major
24 Ferris’s detachment ; and on the further representation of
25 Colonel Wade was removed from his situation.