1 17(5 TREATY WITH SINDH. A. D. 1032.
2 It deserves to be noticed that neither of the above trea-
3 ties was definitively settled, until the Chief of Kh3'rpoor
4 had already entered into an engagement with the British
5 Government. The jealousy, indeed, that was felt at this
6 proceeding, and the fear lest the Khyrpoor Chief should
7 be severed for ever from the association of Talpoor Meers,
8 were mainly instrumental in bringing Meer Moorad
9 to sign. The engagement with Meer Roostum Khan
10 was to the following efiect:
11 " A Treaty, consisting of 4 Articles, having been con-
12 " eluded on the 2d Zeekad 1247, A. H., corrrespond-
13 " ing with the 4th April, 1832, between the Hon'ble
14 " East India Company and Meer Roostum Khan,
15 '* Talpoor Buhadoor, Chiefof Khyrpoor in Sindh, through
16 *' the Agency of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pottin,
17 '* ger. Envoy on the part of the British Government
18 " acting under the authority vested in him by the Right
19 " Hon'ble Lord WiLLIAM CAVENDISH Bentinck,
20 " G. c. B. and G. c. H., Governor General of the British
21 " possessions in India, this engagement has been given
22 " in writing at Shinila, this day, the 19th June 1832,
23 "both in English and Persian, in token of the perfect
24 ** confirmation and acknowledgment of the obligations
25 " it contains in the manner following:
26 Article I. " There shall be eternal friendship between
27 '• the two States.
28 Article II. " The two Contracting Powers mutually
29 '* bind themselves from generation to generation never to
30 " look with the eye of covctousness on the possessions of
31 " each other.
32 Article IIL " The British Government having re-
33 ** quested the use of the River Indus and the roads of
34 " Sindh for the Merchants of Hindoostan, &c. the