करनाटक की नवापीका अन्त ५२५ , आगे की घटनाओं को बयान करने से पहले यह देख लेना आवश्यक है कि नवाब मोहम्मदअली और टीपू सुलतान के बीच का यह 'गुप्त पत्र व्यवहार' क्या था। कहा यह गया कि यह पत्र व्यवहार टीपू के उन नौकरों की मारफत हुश्रा था जो उसके दोनों नाबालिग कैदी बच्चों के साथ मद्रास भेजे गए थे। अंगरेजों ही के एक जाँच कमीशन ने इस इलज़ाम के सुबूत में कुछ गवाहियाँ भी जमा कर ली। applied to the evils which afflict that country, without obtaining from the Nabob powers at least as extensive as those vested in the Company by the late treaty of Tanjor At the death of the present Nabob, such a treaty might easily be obtained from his successor, (if after that event it shonld be tbought advisable to admit any nominal sovereign of the Carnatic, excepting the Company) . the whole question of the succession will therefore be completely open to the decision of the Company, upon the decease of the present Nabob The inclination of my opinion rs, that the most advis- able settlement, would be, to place Omdatul Omra's supposed son on the Musnad, under a treaty similar to that which was lately concluded with the Rajah of Tanjore It will however, be expedient that you should immediately consider whether it might not be a more effectual arrangement to provide liberally for every branch of the decendants of Wallayah and Omdatul Omrah, and to vest even the nominal sovereignty of the Carnatic in the Company." _ . the records of the late Tipu Sultan which fell into our hands after the capture of Seringapatam, have furnished me with the most authentic and indisputable evidence that the secret correspondence of a nature the most hostule to the British Power, was opened with Tippu Sultan by the late Nabob Wallajah towards the close of his life, through the agency of Omdatul Omra the present Nabob "-Lord Mornington's. letter to Right Hon'ble Henry Dundas, Wellesley's Despatches, volu, Pp244-246.
