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Lord Minto considered the prevailing situationto begrave, and thinking that the establishment' of British influence i,n, Afghanistan would interpose a strong 'barrier against the French manoeuvres towards India, he decided to court the friendship of Shah Shuja' !
2° After meeting Shah Shuja' and Akram Khan separately, Elphinstone began negotiations with the entire court with a view to allaying doubts and suspicions in the minds of the ministers, thus advancing the cause of his mission.
39 At this meeting the British envoy explained to the Afghan party the desirability of a treaty of defensive alliance between the two governments, which would, in fact, checkmate the probable French advance towards the East and remove, with British assistance, the danger to which Afghanistan was exposed.
50 He, however, gave a vague verbal assurance of pecuniary assistance to Mulla Jaffar,51 but made no mention of this in another draft of a treaty which he presented to Shah Shuja' at a later date under changed circumstances when the danger of Napoleon Bonaparte's advance towards India had become remote and the critical internal situation in Afghanistan had enhanced the importance of British financial help to the Afghan monarch.
By it the British Government was assured of the 'cooperation of the Court of Kabul in checkmating the probable French advance towards India without involving any reciprocal obligations of rendering any assistance to Shah Shuja' against his deadly internal enemies.