1 134 APPENDIX.
2 *^ Article the U/.— Perpetual friendship shall subsist be-
3 tween the British Grovemment and the State of Lahore :
4 the latter shall be considered with respect to the former, to
5 be on the footing of the most favoured powers, and the
6 British Grovemment will have no concern with the terri-
7 tories and subjects of the Rajah to the northward of the
8 river Sutl^e.
9 ^Article 2nd,—The Rajah will never maintain in the ter-
10 ritory, which he occupies on the left bank of the Sutl^;e,
11 more troops than are necessary for the internal duties of the
12 territory, nor commit or suffer any encroachment OA the
13 possessions or rights of the chiefe in its vicinity.
14 ** Article SrtL — In the event of a violation of any of the
15 preceding articles, or of a departure from the rules of friend-
16 ship on the part of either State, this treaty shall be con-
17 sidered to be null and void." (The fourth and last article
18 provides for the exchange of ratifications.)
19 The treaty being concluded, Mr. Metcalfe came away on
20 the 1st May following. All frirther discussions with Ruigeet
21 Singh were then dropped, and it became a principle in 9II
22 relations with this chief to confine conmiunicaticms, as much
23 as possible, to friendly letters and the exchange of presents,
24 but the British officers on the frontier were instructed to
25 watch the proceedings of Runjeet Singh, and to require in-
26 stant redress, in case of any infringement of the terms of the
27 treaty, by interference with, or encroachment on, the rights
28 and territories of chiefs and sirdars, east or south of the
29 river Sutlege. The continued prosecution of this course of
30 policy, weaned the chief from all apprehension of danger to
31 his own authority, from the ulterior views for which he long
32 gave us credit.
33 To turn to the Sikh protection states. — The declarations
34 with which the British force, under Colonel Ochterlpny,
35 advanced to the Sutlege, were in strict conformity with the
36 application, made by the chiefe occupying the country be-
37 tween the Indus and Sutlege, through the mission deputed
38 by them to Dehlee, in March, 1808. Protection was pro-