Summary: the communication from the Hon'ble the Court of Directors, but am also desirous of taking the earliest opportunity of expressing my deep concern that any suggestions should have been offered to my prejudice at a distance, or that His Highness the Nawab should have been made a party to them which might be prejudicial to me. Your Lordship's intimate quotient of my late commerce and transactions with the Nawab, will enable you to correct any misconceptions that may have arisen with respect to the nature of any engagements which have subsisted between His Highness and myself; Your Lordship therefore cannot fail to appreciate the distress which an unmerited censure, however well intended, must inflict on an individual, at any period of his life, who views with equal regard the welfare and approbation of his Country, his Government, and himself. In these circumstances, I consider it my duty respectfully to explain to your Lordship, as the medium of communication between Government and myself, the real nature of the engagements which subsisted between His Highness the Nawab, and myself. My earliest commerce at Vizagapatam, led to an intercourse with several...