An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

TIBET. 429now four hundred and fifty indermillees, so that the exchange wasmuch in favour of the trader.Poorungheer, during his residence at Tcshoo Loomboo, had frequentinterviews with the Regent and tiie minislers, and he assuresme, that lie foiuid the heartiest dispositions in them, to encourage thecommercial intercourse, estabhshed under the auspices of the lateGovernor General, whose departure, however, the Regent regretted asthe loss of the first friend and ally he became acquainted with, I believeit may be said, in any foreign nation. In him, was acknowledgedalso, the original cause of opening thecommunication, and commencinga correspondence between the governments of Bengal and Tibet.But though, in consequence of the Regent's having, Irom the beginning,been used exclusively to address himself to the agents of Mr.Hastings, his attachment to the English nation, during a long interchangeof conciliating offices,personality, yet, Tree from allhad been mixed with a great degree ofunworthy capriciousness of temper, hedescended not, to take advantage of the opening offered him, to closethe new connection. The respect he had learned to entertain for ournational integrity of character, was deep and sincere;and apparentlyfrom a conviction, that our views tended to no scheme of ambition,but'were confined merely to objects of utility and curiosity :Poorungheerassures me, he expressed an anxious desire for continuing, with thesucceeding Governor General, the exercise oj those offices of friendship,so long supported by his predecessor. And, in the hope that his ownwould be met with equal good Avishes on your part, he determined toinvite you to join him, in preserving between Tibet and Bengal, the