Note 254 — Chapter IV
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With reference to the final offers of Dost Mahomed to hold Peshawur, conjointly with Sultan Mahomed, tributary to Lahore (Jebbar Khan acting as the Ameer’s representative), Captain Wade wrote: “They seem to be in some accordance with the overture made by Runjeet Singh to Dost Mahomed before Captain Burnes’s arrival at Caubul, as reported in my despatch of the 8th of August last, and appear, as far as I can judge of them at present, to be more reasonable than his former overtures, though the Maharajah’s opinion of their operation on the Peshawur branch of the family remains to be disclosed. I am ready, with the sanction of the Governor-General, to communicate the proposition now made to Runjeet Singh, and to support by every argument that I can use the expediency of its acceptance by him.”—[Captain Wade to Mr. Macnaghten, March 3, 1838.]