1 214 CO-OPERATION OF GENERAL AVITABILE.
2 17th. — Chamkani. General Avitabile,
3 though yet without any instructions from La-
4 hore, being well informed of the articles of the
5 tripartite treaty and his master’s will, professed
6 his own readiness to assist the Mission in for-
7 warding its objects, but of course without in-
8 curring any responsibility which might exceed
9 the ordinary exercise of his authority. In
10 compliance with the request of Sir Claude
11 Wade, he issued a proclamation to the people
12 of the Peshawr territory, declaring the terms
13 of the tripartite treaty, with an assurance that
14 there was no objection on the part of the Sikh
15 Government to any Mussulman joining the
16 Shah Zada; in short, that the interests of
17 the two states in the present enterprise were
18 identical. Such a manifesto was much re-
19 quired to remove suspicions from the minds of
20 the Mahomedans about Peshawr, who feared
21 incurring the displeasure of the Sikh Govern-
22 ment from joining the Shah Zada—to such
23 a degree had the opinion got abroad that it
24 was averse to the measure.
25 An agent on the part of the Prince was. at