text:  It has been rumoured that Shah-Shoojah during his long exile made repeated overtures to the Cabinet of Calcutta for the cession of his dormant claims to the _suzerainte_ of Scinde in exchange for an equivalent either pecuniary or territorial; but the representations of a fugitive prince who proposed to cede what was not in his possession were disregarded by the rulers of India; and even in the famous manifesto preceding the invasion of Affghanistan Lord Auckland announced that "a guaranteed independence on favourable conditions would be tendered to the Ameers of Scinde