text:  As a further reward for his (Mahomed Akber's) assistance the British Government were to pay him thirty lacs of rupees and four lacs of rupees per annum during his life! To this extraordinary and wild proposal Sir William gave ear with an eagerness which nothing can account for but the supposition confirmed by many other circumstances that his strong mind had been harassed until it had in some degree lost its equipoise; and he not only assented fully to these terms but actually gave a Persian paper to that effect written in his own hand declaring as his motives that it was not only an excellent opportunity to carry into effect the real wishes of Government--which were to evacuate the country with as much credit to ourselves as possible--but that it would give England time to enter into a treaty with Russia defining the bounds beyond which neither were to pass in Central Asia