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306 JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE
civility, I determined to send my private assistant,
Mr. Burnett, with an escort of sepoys, and two
sontabadours, with a silver salver and gold cloth,
to receive and bring his majesty's commission to
me. I accordingly sent notice of my intention,
and was informed that the court were well pleased
with this intended respectful mark of my attention.
At half-past eleven a.m. I sent Mr. Burnett, §c,
to the looto; the escort, <§c, was stopped at the
outer gate of the palace, and Mr Burnett was
conducted to the looto, and seated in the line of
sandoghans, and other inferior officers of the
court. They kept him waiting till three o'clock,
when he was informed that the commission could
not be delivered to him; that I myself must come
to the looto to receive it, and to take an oath of al-
legiance to his majesty. Previous to this, the three
woondocks present, offered to take the commis-
sion to my house, but to this the mhee whoonghee
objected, and insisted on the necessity of my at-
tending in person at the looto. He sent for my inter-
preter to say something to him, and he went round
to his excellency to hear what he had to say, when
his excellency said he wished him to take a message
to me; but as I had given Mr. Burnett strict orders
to enter into no d iscussion, but confine himself solely
to the receiving the commission ; he told him, that
his orders confined him to receiving the commis-
sion, and that if it was not to be delivered to him,
civility, I determined to send my private assistant,
Mr. Burnett, with an escort of sepoys, and two
sontabadours, with a silver salver and gold cloth,
to receive and bring his majesty's commission to
me. I accordingly sent notice of my intention,
and was informed that the court were well pleased
with this intended respectful mark of my attention.
At half-past eleven a.m. I sent Mr. Burnett, §c,
to the looto; the escort, <§c, was stopped at the
outer gate of the palace, and Mr Burnett was
conducted to the looto, and seated in the line of
sandoghans, and other inferior officers of the
court. They kept him waiting till three o'clock,
when he was informed that the commission could
not be delivered to him; that I myself must come
to the looto to receive it, and to take an oath of al-
legiance to his majesty. Previous to this, the three
woondocks present, offered to take the commis-
sion to my house, but to this the mhee whoonghee
objected, and insisted on the necessity of my at-
tending in person at the looto. He sent for my inter-
preter to say something to him, and he went round
to his excellency to hear what he had to say, when
his excellency said he wished him to take a message
to me; but as I had given Mr. Burnett strict orders
to enter into no d iscussion, but confine himself solely
to the receiving the commission ; he told him, that
his orders confined him to receiving the commis-
sion, and that if it was not to be delivered to him,