1 A. D. 1827. MISSION TO LORD AMHERST. 147
2 and annoying warfare with the Sikhs, directed against
3 their convoys and small detachments.
4 Lord Amherst passed the hot season of the year
5 1827, at the station of Shimla, near Subathoo, in the
6 hills east of the Sutlej. The proximity of this posi-
7 tion to Lahor induced Runjbet Singh to send a
8 mission of compliment to His Lordship, with presents,
9 and amongst others a handsome tent of shawl for the
10 King of England. The mission was received with
11 distinction, and a retarn compliment made of the same
12 kind. Captain Wade, the officer at Loodeeana, through
13 whom the correspondence with the Lahor ruler was
14 jnducted, and some officers of the Governor General's
15 personal suite, were deputed to Labor with return pre-
16 sents, and a suitable retinue, to express the Gover-
17 nor General's satisfaction at the terms of cordiality
18 and friendship, which subsisted between the two states.
19 In 1828, the British Commander in Chief, Lord Com-
20 BERMERE, passed the warm season at Shimla, and a
21 complimentary Vakeel was sent over by Runjeet
22 Singh, to offer his congratulations. It was his Lord-
23 ship's desire to procure an invitation in person to
24 Lahor, but the wily Chief evaded compliance with this
25 wish.
26 At the Durbar of Lahor, at this time, the entire favor
27 of the Chief was engrossed by Raja Dheean Singh,
28 the Chamberlain, and his brothers Goolab Singh and
29 SoocHET Singh, Meeans of Jummoo, where their
30 influence had betu re-established under Runjeet
31 SiNGHS authority, by the grant of the place in Jageer in
32 1819, as before related. Heera Singh, a boy of about
33 T 2