About two months since, an attempt was made to assassinate Rajah Ticket Roy, the acting minister's confidential agent; but he happily escaped unhurt.

Nabob Bahadur, _his Highness's brother_, has not been so fortunate, as will appear from translations of two of his letters to me, No.

1, which I have the honor to inclose for your information.

Although my feelings are sensibly hurt and my compassion strongly excited by _the disgraceful and miserable state of poverty to which his Excellency's brothers are reduced_, yet, situated as I am, it is not in my power to interfere with effect.

My efforts on a former occasion failed of success, _and my interposition now would only excite the resentment of the minister towards the unhappy sufferers, in consequence of their application to me, from whom ALONE, however, they hope for relief from their present distress_, which, their near connection with the Vizier considered, is both shameful and unprecedented.