"_To the Honorable Warren Hastings._
"Sir,--About the month of November last, I communicated to Mr.
Markham the substance of a conversation said to have passed between
Rajah Cheyt Sing and Saadut Ali, and which was reported to me by a
person in whom I had some confidence. The mode of communicating this
intelligence to you I left entirely to Mr. Markham. In this
conversation, which was private, the Rajah and Saadut Ali were said
to have talked of Hyder Ali's victory over Colonel Baillie's
detachment, to have agreed that they ought to seize this opportunity
of consulting their own interest, and to have determined to watch
the success of Hyder's arms. Some days after this conversation was
said to have happened, I was informed by the same person that the
Rajah had received a message from one of the Begums at Fyzabad, (I
think it was from Sujah ul Dowlah's widow,) advising him not to
comply with the demands of government, and encouraging him to expect
support in case of his resisting. This also, I believe, I
communicated to Mr. Markham; but not being perfectly certain, I now
think it my duty to remove the possibility of your remaining
unacquainted with a circumstance which may not be unconnected with
the present conduct of the Rajah.
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