Item CR9/21/30 - Letter from Navab Vazir al-Mumalik Shuja al-Daulah Bahadur to Clive.

I have aleady given you an account of the events here and the measues taken against the threat of the Marhattas. Meanwhile, I have received a letter from Hafiz Rahmat Khan; I am sending a copy of the reply I sent to him. As it is paramount that we stop the advance of the enemy I had written to you earlier that you, as an experienced and able General, should be appointed to face this challenge. -- Enclosue: Copy of the reply sent to Hafiz Rahmat Khan on the 27th Rabi al-Avval. -- -- Thank you for your letter of the 16th of Rabi al-Avval. You wrote that Navab Najib al-Daulah with his friends Rajah Madhu Singh, Munir al-Daulah and others are all ready and prepared to face the Marhattas and that it was necessay that we all agree on a commom front. The Marhattas have arrived vey near to here. They have appealed to you to settle this matter by negotiations but you have not accepted their terms as you fear that this would open the doors to the whole county. It was therefore necessary that we join each other, face them together, and open negotations with them when our position is strong so that impressed by our strength they may agree to favouable terms for peace. -- I had earlier brought this matter to the notice of the English and they advised me that as the rainy season was appoaching it would be adviseable to start the campaign after the rainy season was over. I agree with them in this matter and will be going to see them soon to dicuss this further.