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 PAPv.T SECOND 
 
 OF 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 TO THE 
 
 NOTES 
 
 (Dated Fort William, 15th December 180;^.) 
 
 RELATIVE TO THE 
 
 LATE TRANSACTIONS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 MARHATTA EMPIRE 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 COPIES AND EXTRACTS 
 
 FROM 
 
 OFFICIAL NOTES AND DOCUMENTS, 
 
 RELAnVE TO THE LATE 
 
 WAR 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 MARHATTA CONFEDERATES^ 
 
 AND TO THE 
 
 TREATIES 
 
 OF 
 
 PEACE, PARTITION, AND DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE, 
 
 BY WHICH THAT WAR WAS TERMINATED. 
 
 Fort William, 1804.
 
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 APPENDIX TO THE NOTES 
 
 ON THE LATE 
 
 TRANSACTIONS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 MARHATTA EMPIRE. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 APPENDIX No. 1, A. A. 
 
 COPY of a Letter from the Governor General, to the Ho- 
 norable the Court of Direftors, dated the 24th December 
 1803 ; tranfmitting the Notes on Marhatta Affairs, printed at 
 Fort William, 15th December 1803. 
 
 APPENDIX No. 2, A. A. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from the Governor General to the Right Ho- 
 norable Henry Addington, Firft Lord of the Treafury, 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. dated the 23d December 
 
 1803, tranfmitting the fame. 
 
 APPENDIX A. 
 
 Official Reporis relative to Military Operations fubfequently 
 to the Battle of AfTye, 23d September 1803; tranfmitted to 
 the Governor General, viz. 
 
 No. 1. Copy of a Difpatch from Major General Wellef- 
 ley, to the Governor General, dated Camp, November 
 6, 1803, containing the Operations againfl; the Fort 
 of AfTeerghur, 
 
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 No. 2. From Major General Wellenry to the Governor 
 General, dated Camp at Ferdapore, Oftober 20, 1803. 
 
 No. ']. From Major General Welleflev to the Governor 
 General, dated Camp at Cheefe Khair, November 
 
 2, 'if^o3. 
 No. 4. From Major General Wellefiey to the Governor 
 
 General, dated Camp Parterly, Novernber 30, 1803. 
 No. 5. From Major General Wellefley to the Governor 
 General, dated Camp Parterly, November ^^c, 1803. 
 Thefe two Difpatchcs contain the Details of the Battle of 
 Arc;aum, fouglit on the ogth November 1803. 
 
 No. 6. From Major General Wellefley to the Governor 
 
 General, dated Deogatim, December 15, 1803. 
 No. 7. From Major General Wellefley to the Governor 
 General, dated Elichpoor, December 18, 1803. 
 Thefe Difpatches,<:ontain the Details of the Siege of Gawilghur, 
 taken by Storm on the 16th December 1803. 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 Copv of the Inflruflions of tlic Governor General to Ma- 
 jor General Wellefic}-, dated 27th June 1803, refpccling' 
 the Terms of Peace to be granted to the Confederate Ma n- 
 hatta Chieftains. 
 
 APPENDIX B. No. 1 and 2. 
 
 Two Proclamations, publifned at Fort William, by the Govcr-s 
 nor General, on the 29th Auguft and i6th September 1804. 
 
 APPENDIX B. No. 3. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from the Governor General, to HLs Ilighncn? 
 the Peifliwah, on the Conclufion of the Treaty ofBafTein. 
 Written gth June 1 803. 
 
 APPENDIX B. No. 4. 
 Copy of a Letter from the Governor General, to Rajah Ragojee 
 Bhoonflah, on the Conclufion of the Treaty of Baffein. 
 Written 13th May 1803.
 
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 APPENDIX B. Ko. 5. 
 Copy of a Letter from the Governor General, to Dow^at Rao 
 Scindiah, on the Conclufion of the Treaty of Banem. 
 Written 3d June 1 803. 
 
 APPENDIX C. 
 
 . No. 1. Extraft of a Letter from the Honorable Major 
 General Wellefley to the Governor General, dated 
 Camp Jaum, November 11, 1803. 
 No. 2. Copy of a Letter from Major General Wcllefiey. 
 to the Governor General, dated Camp, November 
 ^3^ '803. 
 Thefe two Documents refer to the Propofitions made by thf' 
 Enemy to Major General Wellefley, after the Battle of 
 Aflye, for the Conclufion of Peace. 
 
 APPENDIX D. 
 Indruftions from the Governor General, to the Honorable 
 Major General Wellefley, dated the nth Decemb?r 1803, 
 in reply to the Letters from ?vIajor General Wellefley. con- 
 tained in Appendix C, and relative to the Conclufion of 
 Peace with the Confederate Marhatta Chieftains. 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 Conferences betv/efen Major General Wellefley, and the Am- 
 baflador of the Rajah of Berar. 
 
 APPENDIX F. 
 Treaty of Peace concluded at Deogaimi, with the Rajah of 
 Berar, on the 17th December 1803. 
 
 APPENDIX G. 
 
 Extract of a Letter from Major General Wellefle)', to the Go- 
 vernor General, dated Camp at Elichpoor, December 17, 
 1803, tranfmitting the Treaty of Deogaum. 
 
 A P P EN DI X H- 
 
 Conference.s between Major General Wellefley, and the Am- 
 baffadcrs of Dowlut Rao Scindiah.
 
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 APPENDIX I. 
 Treaty of Peace with Dov.-lut Rao Scindiah, concluded at 
 Surje Anjengaum, on the 30th December 1803. 
 
 APPENDIX K. 
 
 Extradlof a Letter, from the Honorable Major General Wel- 
 lefley, to the Governor General, dated Camp, December 30, 
 1803, tranfmitting the Treaty of Surje Anjengaum. 
 
 APPENDIX L. 
 
 Treaty of Alliance and Mutual Diefence, concluded with Dow- 
 lut Rao Scindiah by Major Malcolm, at Boorhanpore, on the 
 27th February 1804. 
 
 APPENDIX M. 
 
 Treaties concluded by His Excellency the Commander in Chief, 
 with feveral Chieftains in Hindollan, in conformity to In- 
 • ftruftions from the Governor General, viz. 
 
 No. 1. Rajah of Bhurtpore, on the 29th September 1803. 
 No. 2. Rajah of Macherry, on the 24th November 1803. 
 No. 3. Rajah of Jeypoor {or Jeynagur), on the 12th 
 
 December 1803. 
 No. 4. Rajah Umbajee Rao Englah, on the i5th Decem- 
 ber 1803. 
 No. 5. Ranah of Gohud, on the 29th January 1804. 
 
 APPENDIX N. 
 
 Treaty of Partition concluded at Hyderabad, on the 28th of 
 April 1804. 
 
 APPENDIX O. 
 Treaty of Partition concluded at Poonah, on the 14th of 
 May 1804. 
 
 APPENDIX P. 
 NOTES relative to the Peace, concluded between the Britifh 
 Government and the Marhatta Chieftains, and to the various 
 qucRions arifing out of the Terms of the Pacification.
 
 PART SECOND. 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 APPENDIX A. A. No. l 
 Page 2, in marginal note, add the word "Notes" 
 For Bafieen throughout read BafTein 
 Page 4, line 13, /or Confedrate r^^zi Confederate 
 
 APPENDIX B. No. 1. 
 Page ij line g from the bottom, after Proclamation, infert and 
 
 APPENDIX B, No. 4. 
 Page 2, line 20, for remonftrations rtai remonftraiices 
 Page 4, line a, for engagement's rtai engagements 
 
 APPENDIX C. No. 1. 
 Note to page 5, line 4 from bottom, for and mud read and you muR 
 
 APPENDIX D. 
 Note in page 17, for Serong, read Seronge 
 
 APPENDIX H. 
 Page 42, line 12. "J 
 
 42, 15. i 
 
 Note in page 42, 4line from > •^''' ^''^^^^" P^™'^)' ^'^^ Powar Family 
 ihf. bottom. J 
 
 Note in page 43, line 6, after Conditions a commai, 
 
 8, after the Rajah of Berar a comma, 
 
 APPENDIX P. 
 
 ^ 1, I'ne 20,, infrt a Comma after War 
 3, .1111-. 20, after " Officers" dele a full flop, and put a comma , 
 - ■ 'rae 3 from bottom, dele comma after " danger", and infert comma 
 a"ter " concurred" 
 ''••- 7, line 14, dele comma after "State" 
 II, line 5, after " Bengal" a comma, 
 ■ 1 3, line 2 from bottom, a comma after " Peace" 
 ; ^-- 17, lines 2 1 and 22, for furnifhes read furnifli 
 
 — confolidates read confolidate 
 Page cS, line 5, dele after " Rupees" the word " of" 
 
 iiijeSi3ift.ri.
 
 APPENDIX P. 
 
 pacre 33, line 21, after Governmpnt, infert the word " for" 
 Page 36, line 14, for derived read derives. 
 Note in page 38, line o,^ for fum, rtai fums 
 Page 47, line ^g, for permament read pernrianent 
 Page 50, line 2, for expences reai expenfes 
 — 'iffor caufe read caufes. 

 
 APPENDIX No. 1, A. A. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from the Governor General, to the Ho- 
 norable the Court of DireSlors, dated Fort William, the 
 24,th December 1803; tranfnitting the Notes on Mar- 
 hatta Affairs, printed at Fort William, igih Decem- 
 ber 1803. 
 
 Honorable Sirs, 
 
 1. In conformity to the general tenor of Your Honorable 
 Court's Commands, prcfcribing the diftribution of the Correfpon- 
 dence of this Government, I have adJrefTed to your Secret Com- 
 itiittee the Difpatches of the Governor General in Council, relative 
 to the late important Tranfadtions in the Marhatta Ernpire ; and 
 to the recent Succefs of the Britifh Arms in India. 
 
 2. The operations of the Army have been infcparably blended 
 ■with various Political Negotiations, of which the final refult is 
 ftill depending; and under thcfc circumftancts, it appeared to be 
 more confiftent with the rules cftablifhed by Your Honorable 
 Court, to Addrefs the Official Difpatches to Your Secret: Com- 
 mittee, than to Your Honorable Court. 
 
 3. My perfonal refpeiSt for the Authority of Your Honorable 
 Court, and my folicitude to furnifli You with the earlieft informa- 
 tion relative to the condition of the arduous truft which You 
 have been pleafed to commit to my charge, have however induced 
 me to endeavour to collei'i with every pracSticable degree of dif- 
 patch, the fubftance of every material document connected with 
 the Origin, Conduft, and adtual State of the depending Contefl with 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and theRajah of Berar : I have alfo employ- 
 ed every exertion to reduce the information coUedted to fuch a 
 form, as may facilitate the exercife of Your judgment upon every 
 part of my coodudt, during the courfe of the recent Commotions 
 in the Marhatta Empire, and of the Negotiations and Hoftilities 
 which have enfued. 
 
 4. For
 
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 Rci«;ve -o .!.« 4. For inis purpofe, a Statement of the late Tranraftlans in the 
 
 liors in ihe Marhatta Enipire has been compiled for the ufe of Your Honorable 
 
 Marliaita Em- 
 pire dated Fort r^onrt to which every information has been added that can tend 
 
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 380"!"''" to illuRrate the feveral important queftions arifing from thefe 
 
 Tranfadions, and from the detailed documents fubmitted to Your 
 Secret Committee. 
 
 5. In order to afford further advantage in the confideration of 
 this cxtcnfive and complicated fyftem of Political Negotiation, and 
 
 Military Operation, it has appeared to me to be expedient to 
 print the Statement compiled for the ufe of Your Honorable Courts 
 and accordingly I have recorded the printed Statement annexed to 
 this Letter, together with this Letter in the Political Department at 
 Fort William. 
 
 6. I entertain a irrm confidence, thit the documents already 
 tranfmitted to the Secret Committee of Your Honorable Court, 
 (efpecially the Letter from the Governor General in Council, un« 
 tier date 25ih September, 1803,) together with the printed State- 
 irent now fubmitted to Your Honorable Court, will fatisfy Your 
 Honorable Court of the juftice and neceflity of the War commenced 
 ag^infl Dowlut Rao Scindiah, the Rajah of Berar, and their 
 French Commanders and Officers. 
 
 7. The iffue of the depending Negotiations for Peace with 
 Dowlut Rflo Scindiah, and the various arrangements which muft 
 proceed from the extenlive Succefs of the War, will require fur- 
 ther communications to Your Honorable Court, and will enable 
 inc to fubmit further obfervations to Your Notice, upon every Tran- 
 fadion conncded with the affairs of the Marhatta Empire: I truft 
 howcvery that Your Honorable Court will not poftpone Your pub- 
 lic declaration of the juftice and neceffity of the War, beyond the 
 period of time requifite for the confideration of the documents now 
 tranfmitted. 
 
 8^ In reviewing thofe documents. Your Honorable Court will 
 be pleafcd to advert to the following confiderations. 
 
 9. An improvement of the Alliance between the Company and 
 the Peilhwah, founded on the general principles of the Treaty 
 
 concluded
 
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 concluded at BafTccn, on the 31(1 of December 1802, had been 
 the uniform objed of afTiduous Negotiation between Your Govern- 
 ment General and the Court of Poonah, with the knowledge and ap- 
 probation of Your Secret Committee, from the time of the difcovcry 
 of Tippoo Sultan*s hoftile defigns in the year 1798, to the day 
 on which the Treaty of Bafleen was figned. From the year 179S, 
 to the year 1800, the Propofitions offered to the Peifliwah were 
 framed upon the principles of the Subhdiary Treaty, concluded 
 with the Nizam in the year 1798 ; and in the year 1800, a Treaty 
 was propofed to the Peiflawah on an enlarged fcale of Dcfeniive 
 Alliance and Guarantee, in exadt conformity to the Treaty, a6tual- 
 Jy concluded in the year 1800 with the Nizam. 
 
 10. The principles which conllitute the Bafis of the Treaty of 
 Bafleen, had therefore received the approbation of Your Secret 
 Committee, previcufly to the conclufion of that Teatv. The Trea- 
 ty of BafTeen contains no ftipulation in any material degree dif- 
 ferent from that propofed to the Peilliwah in the year ]8oo, (of 
 '.vhich copies were tranfmitted to Your Secret Committee at that 
 time,) and the Treaty of Baffeen was alfo tranfmitted to Your Secret 
 Committee, by theearliefl opportunity, which offerc-d, fubfequenrly 
 to its conclufion. 
 
 11. The juftice and policy of the Treaty of Baireen appearing 
 to be unexceptionable, and having received the previous appro- 
 bation of Your Honorable Court, and of His Majefty's Minifters 
 through Your Secret Committee, the fame principles of Jaftice 
 and Policy authorized and required Your Government in India 
 to maintain the Alliance, cemented with the Peifliwah by thi^ 
 Treaty of BafTeen, againft the attempts of any Power to difTolve 
 that Engagement. 
 
 12. Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and the Rajah of Btrar manifefl- 
 ed a determination to fubvert the Treaty of Baffeen by force, and 
 alio betrayed the indifputable fymptoms of an Hoflile fpirit 
 againft the Britifh Government and its Allies ; and Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah, and the Rajah of Berar provided powerful means of 
 afting with the utmoft advantage, in profecution of their evident 
 dcfigns ©f violence and ambition. 13. The
 
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 I •'. The nature of that branch of Dowlut Rao Scindiah's Mi" 
 Jitary Power, which confifted of regular Infantry and Artillery, 
 formed and difciplined by French Officers, will attra6l the par* 
 ticular attention of Your Honorable Court; and You will not 
 fail to obfervc, that the formidable French Forge in the fervice of 
 that Chieftain greatly aggravated the danger, and facilitated th? even-* 
 tual profecutjon of his Huftile projedts againlt the Bruifli Govern* 
 snent and its Allies. 
 
 14. Your Government manifefted the utmofl: anxiety to avoi4 
 the extremity of War with the Confederate Chieftains, and offer-, 
 ed conceffions amply fufficient to afford every reafonable proof of a 
 pacific difpofition, and to furnilh adequate Security for the main^ 
 tenance of Fsace, and of the juft rights of the Gonfedrate Chief, 
 tains. The fubltance and fpirit of the propofitions of the Confe- 
 derates will demand Your attentive ccnfiderationi and the judg- 
 ment and wifdom of Your Honorable Court will determine, whe- 
 ther thofc propofitions aff-rded any proof of a fincere difpoiition 
 for Peace, or furnilaed any Security for the Rights and Interefts of 
 the Com.pany and its Allies, againfl the Power of the combined 
 Armies of the Confederates, allembled on the frontier of the Ni-» 
 zam; or againft the operations of the French Troops of Scindiah, 
 Rationed on the Company's frontier in Gude. 
 
 15. Your Honorable Court will judge, under all the circurt)" 
 fiances of the cafe, whether a profpect exifted of fruftrating the 
 Succefs of thofe formidable Armies, in the profecution of the 
 manifeft defigns of their Chiefs, by any other means than a fea* 
 fonable and comprehenfive fyflem of adive War, diredted againi^ 
 the Refources, Power, and Influence of the Confederates, in every 
 branch of theirDominions, Dependancies, and Alliances, 
 
 16. The plan, condu6l, operations and refult of the War, will 
 form the ultiinate objeds of Your Honorable Court's judgment ; 
 and in confidering the execution of the general plans of Military 
 operation, which it was my duty to form, I entertain a confident 
 cxpcdtation, that Your Honorable Court will view the atchievc-! 
 rrients of theBritilh Comm;indcrs and Troops with the rooft ardent 
 
 emotions
 
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 . nioJJor.s Oi a liiuration, and public fpi.H j a;. J itui You will 
 
 •tii ani!5iate<i by an ii-naninuub zcdl torthi:; ititcrelti, t>u!ic,a:i.i glory 
 
 .^>f the Britiih Empire, augtuciued ar.d confirmed, by the triumphs 
 
 ,oi His Majefcy.'b and the Iljuorable Company's Arms in th^ late 
 
 profpcrous and rapid Campaign. 
 
 17 No, ex pre iTi on can convey uiy cltimationof rhe merits of Mi;: 
 Excellency General Lake, ths ConiinandL-r in Chief, iii the co 1- 
 xiud: 01 the maflerly and brilliant operations ot the Arrriy in Hin- 
 dofta?!. The printed Statement annexed to this LstteV, contains 
 an JH)per{'e£t reprcfentation of my judgment on the c^ndncl of 
 tt)ut iliuftrious Officer, and I requclt Your Honorable Court fo re- 
 ceive that Statement as my recorded opinion of his sranlccndeat and 
 -incihmable ferviccs. 
 
 iH. The near relation which I have the honor to bear to 
 >iajor General Wellefley, cannot exempt me froin the public 
 tiiity of my Station, in rendering a juft teftimony ofapproha- 
 non to his long, aiiiduous, able, and iplendid ferviccs in My fore, 
 in the march of the Army to Poonah, in the reftoration of His 
 Hiirhnefs the PeiQivvah, and in the whole courfc of rne late gio- 
 lious Campaign in the Dekan. 
 
 19. A general tribute of applaufe is due to the O^^Icers and 
 Tioops employed in Hindoftan and the Dekan; aad 1 requjll 
 liic favorable notice ot Your Honorable Court to inv ircner^i 
 OrHcrs publiOied on each important event of the \V<ir. 
 
 '-:o. It would be pi'emature to anticipate the probabi- rime 
 of the conclufion of Peace with the Confederates, or the rerrns on 
 which a general Pacification of India may be accompliihed. 
 
 21. Your Honorable Court has b^en aoprized, through Your 
 Secret Committee, that an Ambaflador of high rank from Dov/- 
 ku Rao Scindiah, arrived in the Camp oi:' Major General 
 V/elklley, fubfequently to Major General Weilefiey's judicious 
 refufal of an invitation to difpatch a Britilh Officer to ih.e Camp 
 of the Confederates. 
 
 02. Conferences on the fubjccl u{ Peace have commenced 
 between M«jor General WcUcflcy and th-At AmbaiTador. 
 
 23. Dowlut
 
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 25- 
 
 Dowlut Rao Sciiidiah an J t!ie Rajah of Berar have 
 ilparat^d their Forces; the Military Power of Dowlut Rao Scin- 
 Liiah has received an irretrievable blow, and the flrength of his 
 rcTular Infantry, formidable Artillery, and French Commanders, 
 inav juftly be confidered to have been entirely deftroyed. I en- 
 tertain an expedation therefore, that Scindiah will fpccdily bs 
 induced to accept reafonable terms ot Peace. 
 
 24. The Power of the Raj.ih oi Berar will probably yield 
 within a fliort period ot time to the Force employed in Berar, 
 and the Rajah of Berar cannot fingly maintain a Conteft with 
 the BritiHi Power. 
 
 Your Honorable Court may be afiured, that my endeavors will 
 be gealoufly and afliduoufly employed to effefl a Pacification at 
 the earlieft moment, compatible with the Security of the Com- 
 pany and its Allies^; and that I will avail myfelf of every oppor- 
 tunity to fubniit the motives and refult of my condud, in the 
 nioft diftind. manner, to the judgment of Your Honorable Court, 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 
 Honorable Sirs, 
 
 With great refpe£l. 
 
 Your mofl Obedient, OL.liged, 
 And faithful Servant, 
 
 WELLESLEY. 

 
 APPENDIX No. 2, A. A, 
 
 Copy of a Letter from the Governor General, to the Right; 
 Honorable Henry Addington, Firjl Lord of the Trea- 
 fury,-, Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. &c. dated the 
 2'^d December 180^ ; traiifiniUmg the Notes on the 
 Marhatta Affairs, printed at Fort Williajn, on the i^tk 
 December 1803. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 I HAVE the honor to tranfmit a Copy of a Printed Stafemonf, 
 recorded by my Authority at Fort William, containino; a 
 Narrative of the Origin, Condud:, and adlual Scate of the War, 
 in which I have been compelled to engage with the Confederate 
 Marhatta Chiefs and their French Officers. 
 
 That Statement, together with my Difpatches to the Court 
 of. Directors, and to their Secret CorrHnittee, willj I tnift, enable 
 You.and His Majefty's Miniflers to. pafsan early judgrrsent upon my 
 condufl on this imp.ortant occafion; and it is my nnxious wifli, 
 (iinlefs the Public Service fiiould appear to roi! to oppole obfla- 
 cjes to fuch a difcuiTion.) that the juftice, neceliirv, plan, anr^ 
 condudl of the War, together with the cnmprehenfive fyftem 
 of Policy v/hich it embraces, flioTdd recrive the fnlemn Jnd-T, 
 went of His.MajeAy, and of Parlismen^ gs lo-in as the Docu- 
 merits nov/ tranfmittcd can be fubmitted to both I-io,ufi.s. 
 
 I entertain a confident expf61ation, that the deliberate refuit of 
 iny confcientious opinion on the feveral important Queftions, 
 which have demanded, my decifion, and the meafiircs which I 
 hsNse adopted in confeq.uence of that deciHoil, will be fanfti- 
 OAfd by the approbation of mv Sovereign and of my Country. 
 
 My Orders have been executed by the Commanders, Officers, 
 and Troops employed in the prefent glorious Oimpaian in Hin- 
 doflan and the Dekan, with a degree of alacrity, ikill, and cou- 
 rage, •which demands the moft unqualified admiration and gra- 
 
 tituted :
 
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 titude : it is my particular duty to recdmmend \o your moft 
 diftineuiflied confideration, the fplended and valuable Services of 
 General Lake, the Commander in Chief in India, whofe a<5livity, 
 judgment, profeffional ability, promptitude, perfeverance, and 
 ardent valour have been the main fources of Our unparalleled 
 Succefs in Hindoftan j while his integrity, humanity, and ge- 
 nerous fpirit have engaged the refped: and attachment of the 
 conquered Provinces, and have augmented the reputation and 
 honor of the Britilh name itv India. 
 
 To this jufi: teflimony of the Services or the Commander in 
 Chief in Hindoftan, it is my public duty to add the expreflion of 
 my deliberate judgment upon the conduft of Major General 
 VVellefley, who Commands the Britifli Army in the Dekan, 
 oppofed to the Combined Armies of Scindiah, and the Rajah 
 of Berar, under the perfonal Command of thofe Chieftains. 
 From the time of Major General Wellefley's march from the 
 Frontier of Myfore on the 9th of March, to the date of his laft 
 fignal ViQory on the 29th of November, his fuccefs has been 
 uninterrupted and brilliant, and he has fecured the moft folid ad- 
 vantao-es to the caiife of the Allies : through the entire courfe of 
 his eminent fervices in the Dekan, he has difplayed all the quali- 
 ties of a moft able, flcilful, and gallant Officer, together with thofe 
 principles of juftice, honor, and moderation, which are calculated 
 to reHe6l additional ludre upon the triumphs of our Arms, obtain- 
 ed under his perfonal Command. 
 
 The detailed flatements will inform HisMijefty's Minifters of 
 the particular fervices of General Lake, at CocI, Alyghur, Delhi, 
 Agra, and Lafvvaree; and of Major General Wellcfley at Pdo- 
 nah, Ahmednuggur, Alfye, and on the Plains of Argaum. 
 
 In addition to thefe Military Operations, General Lake has ren- 
 dered the moft ufeful afTiftance in the deliverance and cftablifti- 
 mcnt of the unfortunate Emperor Shah Aulum at Delhi; in the 
 fcttlement of the Conquered Provinces; and in various Negotia- 
 tions with the Chiefs and States on the borders of our North- 
 Wcllern Frontier, and on the Banks of the River Jumna, 
 
 ALtjor
 
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 Major General Wellefley has alfo afforded moft eflential aid in 
 conducing with the utmoft judgment and difcrction, the reftora- 
 tion of the Pcifhwah to the Supreme Authority of the Marhatta 
 Empire; in conciliating the Southern Marhatta PowerSj and in 
 maintaining the efficiency of our Alliance with the Nizam, as well 
 as in conducing the Preliminary Nci^otiations of Peace with 
 Dowlut Rao Scindi-ah. 
 
 I have the honor to refer you to the Documents tranfmittcd by 
 this conveyance for the recital of the various merits of the Officer^ 
 employed in other branches of the fervice, under the refpe6live 
 Commands of General Lake, and of Major General Wellefley. 
 
 Lieutenant General Stuart, Commanding in Chief at Fort St. 
 George, has afforded me the moll zealous, able, and important co- 
 operation in all the arrangements neceffary to the completion of 
 my Plans for the Campaign in the Dckan. I acknowledge with 
 gratitude, the affiftance which I have derived from the experience, 
 wifdom, zeal, and public fpirit of that highly diflinguifhed and 
 refpeclable Officer, whofe claims upon the approbation of his 
 Country, eftablifhed by a long career of a<5live fervice, have been 
 augmented by his judicious execution of my Orders on this occa- 
 fion. From the Government cA' Fort St, George, in the hands of 
 Lord Clive, I received the fimc cordial and honorable fupport, 
 which diffinguifhed the coaiuct oF that upright, prudent, and 
 zealous Public Servant in the memorable Conquefl. of Myfore, and 
 in every period of his faithful, exemplary> and brilliant Admi- 
 riftration of the Affairs of Fort Sr. George, 
 
 To Lord Clive, I am indebted for the feafonable Equipment, 
 and for the complete preparation of the excellent Army, which, 
 under Major General Wellefley 's Command, has accompliflied Our 
 recent Succefs in the Dekan. His Lordlhip is alfo entitled to con- 
 fiderable 'praife for many of the early arrangements, connefled 
 with the pofition, movement, and fupply of that branch of our 
 Force. Lord Clive is not refponfible in any degree for the origin 
 cf the War; but I fhould be unjuft to genuine merit, and to the 
 noble public fpirit and indefatigable exertions of the principal 
 
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 Civil Officer fubj-c£i tc my authority, if I denierf to Lord Ctive 3. 
 confiderable fliare in the fuccef'; of the War; or, if I omitted my 
 anxious requefl-, that while the caufes of Hoflilities fhall be exa- 
 mined with reference to the condr,6l of the Confederates, and to 
 the authority of the Governor General in Council exclufiveTy, the 
 Government of Fort Sf, George, and the name of Lord Clive may 
 be afTociated with the memory of our Triumplis in India. 
 
 From Lord William Bentinck, fmce his Lordfhip's arrivtil in 
 India, I have experienced the moft cordial and invariable fupport 
 and co-operation. His Lordfnip has already manifefled confider- 
 abl-e judgment and difcretion, with great attention and zeal, and a 
 foirit of prornpt and chearful obediet^ce to the authority of this 
 Government. In any crifis of difficulty or danger, I rely with 
 confidence on the ufeful afliftance of Lord W^illiam Beritinck. 
 
 I have the honor to requefl:, that this Corhmunication, together 
 with the Documents to which it refers, may he fubmitted to His 
 Majefty's gracious Notice; and I fhall anxioufly expefi ta receive 
 the notification of His Royal Pleafure fefpedting my Condudl", and 
 to be favored with the early judgment of Parliament. 
 
 I have the honor to be. 
 
 With the highefl refpedl and efleem. 
 Sir, 
 Your moft faithful and obedient Servant, 
 
 (Signed) WELLESLEY. 

 
 APPENDIX A. 
 
 Official Reports relative to Military Operations fuhfequently 
 to the Battle of Affye, 2^d September 1803, tranfmilted 
 to the Governor General, viz. 
 
 No. 1. Copy of a Difpatch from Major General WcUcf- 
 ley, to the Governor General, dated Camp, November 
 6, 1803, containing the Operations againfl the Fort 
 of Affeerghur. 
 
 No. 2. From Major General Wellefley to the Governor 
 General, dated Camp at Ferdapore, Oftober 20, 1803. 
 
 No. 3. From Major General Wellefley to the Governor 
 General, dated Camp at Cheefe Khair, November 
 2, 1803. 
 
 No. 4. From Major General Wellefley to the Governof 
 General, dated Camp Parterly, November 30, 1803. 
 
 No. 5. From Major General Wellefley to the Governor 
 General, dated Camp Parterly, November 30, 1803. 
 
 Thefe two Difpatches contain the Details of the Battle of 
 Argaum, fought on the 2gth November 1803. 
 
 No. 6. From Major General Wellefley to the Governor 
 General, dated Deogaum, December 1^, 1803. 
 
 No. 7. From Major General Wellefley to the Governor 
 General, dated Elichpoor, December 18, 1803. 
 
 Thefe Difpatches, contain the Details of the Siege of Gawilghur, 
 taken by Storm on the 16th December 1803,
 
 FORT WILLIAM, November 30, 1803. 
 
 DISPA TCH, of which the following is a Copy, has been 
 tliis day received, by His Excellency the Moft Noble the 
 Governor General, from the Honorable Major General Weliefley. 
 
 Mv LoKD. Camp, I^ovcmhcr 6, 1803. 
 
 I NOW proceed to give your Excellency a detailed account of 
 Colonel Stevenlon's operations againfi AfTecr Qhur. 
 
 On the 1 6th 06lober, he advanced to A(rti,<:r Ghur, and encamp- 
 ed three miles South of the Fort. The remains of the Ene- 
 my's Infantry had fled toi-vards the Ncrbuddah on the pr ceding 
 day, in the (late in which I reported them to be, in my letter of 
 the 24111 Odober*j and Colonel Stevenfori therefure determined 
 ~to attack Aiiccr Ghur. 
 
 On tlic ibih, he reconnoitred the Fort, attended by a Squadron 
 of Cavalry, and the native Picquets of the Infintry ; and having 
 fcen a favorable opportunitv, attacked the Pettah and carried it, 
 and made a lodgemient within one hundred and fifty yards of the 
 lower wall of tiie port. In the evening he reinforrcd the Troops 
 in the Pettah by a Battalion. 
 
 On the 19th, all the preparations were made for carrying on the 
 Sifge ; and two Batteries were ready to open at tw o c/Clock in 
 liic Ahernoon of the 2Cth j one to breach the Upper Wail, and 
 another, of four Bra(5 twelve-Pounders, to deftroy the defences 
 t'f the Lower Wall. 
 
 On the I 8th, Colonel Stevenfon had fent a flag of Truce to tbc 
 Killtdar to lummon him to iurrender the Fort, to vvhich mefTige 
 he did not receive a decided anfwer. The communication was 
 roniinued ; but Colonel Stevenfon did not relax his operations 
 againft the Fort, as there was reafon to believe that the Negotia- 
 tion was carried on, only to give time to Dowlut Rao Scin- 
 dirih to ccm; to its relief. Before opening his Batteries, Co- 
 l;)nti Sevenfon apprized the KiHedar of the terms on which he 
 fhould furrender the Fort ; which were, that the Garrifon flrrald 
 inarch out w^ih their nrivate Property, and be allowed to go 
 where they might think proper, and that their arrears Ihouid be 
 
 paid to the amount of twenty thoufand Rupees. 
 
 ~ . ' Lj ^.. i 1 : ' ~- 
 
 * Noc Received, 
 
 Af:er
 
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 Aifrei- the Batteries had opened about an he ur, a white flag 
 Vvas fhewn from the Walls of the Fort, which was the fignal 
 which had bten agreed upon, in cafe the terms fliould be accept- 
 ed ; Hollages were fent down, and an engagement made that the 
 Fort fhould be delivered up on the following morning. It was 
 accordingly evacuated ; the Garrifon carried off their Property in 
 fecurity, and received the fum agreed to be paid to them. 
 
 Colonel Stevenfori mentions in high teims the coi ducfl of the 
 Officers and Troops linder his Command ; and I cannot omit to 
 take this opportunity of exprcfling to your Excellency my fenfe 
 of the merits of Colonel Stevenfon, and of the body of Troops 
 under his Command. Upon every occafion I have received from 
 the Colonel the mofl: coidial and zealous affiflance ; and the 
 Troops under his Command are in the higheft ftate of difciplinc 
 and order, and fit for any f.Mvice in which they can be ernployed. 
 
 On the i6th, nine Oificers, four Serjeants and one Matrofs, 
 formerly in the fervice of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, delivered thcm- 
 felves up to Colonel Stevenfon, under your Excellency's Proclama- 
 tion of the 29th Augiilr. 
 
 I h rive the honor to enclofe a lift of their Names, and a copy of 
 the Order iffued by Colonel Stevenfon to provide for their Subfiil- 
 ence. Lieutenant Stuart alfo delivered himfelf up at Poonah in the 
 end of the laft Month. I have called for accounts of the re£ulatcd 
 Pay and Allowances which thofe peirfons received in the Service 
 of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, which I fhall hereafter have the honor 
 of tranfmiltlng to your Excellency. 
 
 I have the honor to enclofe a Return of the Killed and Wounded 
 
 of the Troops under the Command of Colonel Stevenfon, during 
 
 the Operations againlT: Affeer-Ghur. Hereafter I fliall have the 
 
 honor of tranfmitting Returns o[ the Ordnance, Stores, Grainj and 
 
 other Property captured in that Fort. 
 
 I have the honor to be, My Lord, 
 
 With the greateft refpedf. 
 
 Your Excellency's tnofl: Obedient, 
 
 And faithful humble Servant, 
 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. 
 
 JJis ExccVer.cy the Governor Ccncrai. 
 
 Re mm
 
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 Return cf Killed, JVoundid, and Mijjtng, in the Corps ccmpojlug the 
 Q,ubjidia''y Force at the Si-gc of Affeer Gkur. 
 
 I ft BATTALION 6th REGIME \'T. 
 1 Rank end File Killed — i Drummer — 4 Rank and File 
 
 Wounded. 
 
 DETACHMENT CORPS OF PIONEERS, 
 I Puckally Killed — i Pioneer Wounded. 
 
 (Signed) J. COLEBROOKE, 
 
 "Dep. jldj. Gen. Suhji diary ForcL 
 Camp, three Miles South of JJfccr Ghur, OtJober 26, 1803. 
 
 Roll of Europeans late in the Service of Dozvlnt Rao Scindiahi zvbo have 
 Surrendered theinfelves to Colonel James Stcvenfon. 
 
 Names. 
 
 John James Dupon, 
 John Mercier, 
 Alexander Mars, 
 John Berdard, 
 Jooketn Caumbra, 
 John [-"adroos, 
 Francis Carooile^ 
 Manutl Joaza, 
 Joaza Cafloo, 
 Anthnny Dalmard, 
 Jofeph Roman, 
 Jofeph Anthony, 
 John Ammarai, 
 Name not afcertained. 
 
 I 
 
 Rank. 
 
 Camp at Boorhanpore, 
 0.73^ 16, 1803. 
 
 «- apiain, 
 
 Captain Lieutenant, 
 
 Enfigii, 
 
 Enfigu, 
 
 F.nfign, 
 
 Enfign, 
 
 Knfign, 
 
 Enfign, 
 
 Serjeant, 
 
 Scrjtant. 
 
 Serjesnt, 
 
 Matrofs, 
 
 Ranks as Serjeant, 
 
 Country. 
 
 rtflland, 
 
 France, 
 
 England, 
 
 Portugal, 
 
 Portugal, 
 
 Portugal, 
 
 Portugal, 
 
 Portugal, 
 
 Portugal, 
 
 Portugal, 
 
 Portugal, 
 
 Portugal, 
 
 Portugal, 
 
 (Signed) J. COLEBROOKE, 
 
 Deputy Adjutant General Subfidiary Fort.e 
 
 Extra5i from G. 0. by Colonel James Stcvenfon, commanding the 
 
 Subfidiary Force. 
 
 The European Officers and Serjeants, who have this day been 
 received from the fervice of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and all Euro- 
 peans who may in future come in from the fervice of that Chief, 
 6r any Power confederated with Him, are to be under the charge 
 
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 f.f the Deputy Anjutant General, and who will drav/ Fay (oT 
 them agreeable to rates which will be hereafter determined. 
 
 A true Extradl, 
 (Signed) J. C O L E B R O O K E, 
 
 Dep. Adj . Gen. Sub. For a. 
 Camp at Boorhanpoor^ i6th Othher, 1803. 
 Publifhed by Command of 
 
 His Excellency the Mod Noble 
 
 The Governor General in Council, 
 
 J. L U M S D E N, 
 
 Chief Sec. to the Govt. 
 
 FORT WILLIAM, December 7, 1804. 
 
 A DISPATCH, of which the following is an Exfradt, ha^ 
 been this day received, by His Excellency the Mosx 
 Noble the Go^'■ERNOR General, from the Honorable Major 
 General Arthur Wellesley. 
 
 Mv Lord, Camp, Ferdapore, OSloher 24, 1803, 
 
 I HAVE the plcafure to inform your Excellency, that Colonel 
 S^evenfon took pofltfiion of the City of Boorhanpoor, without 
 oppofition, on the i6th Infiant ; he marched to AfT^rer-GHur on 
 the 17th, took poflcffion of the Pettah on the iSth, opened a Bu- 
 tery againft the Fort on 'he 20th, and obtained poffefTion of ir on 
 the morning of the 2 1 ft. I have not yet received a detailed ac- 
 count of the manner in which Colonel Stevenfon obtained pof- 
 fclTion of this important Fortrefs, or whethei lie fuftained any lofs 
 in the attack of the Pettah on the iStn, or of the Fort. 
 
 2, After I had arrived at Poolmery about fixtcen miles North 
 from Aurungabad, I found that the Enemy did not advance tc the 
 vSouthward, as I had been informed they firft intended, and in the 
 night of the 15th, I received a- JJarticular account of the dif- 
 pofition of their Troops, Baggage, &c. which convmced mc ihst 
 they infcndfd to interrupt Coloiel Steyenfon's operations at 
 AfTcer-Ghur. ,
 
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 2' I tl.erefofe marched on the i6th to (he Northivard, and Je= 
 fccnced the Ghaut on the 19th. Scir.diah had moved to ths 
 Northward, but he halted as loon as he found 1 had returned ; and 
 he was yeflcrday at Aboon on the Taptee. Tlie Rajah of Eerar 
 has feparated from him, and, it is faul, has gone towards Chat:, 
 dore. I fufpecn: that the report has been circulated with a vitv/ 
 to draw me to the Southward again; but as Colonel Srevenfonhas 
 got poflefTion of Affeer-Ghur, and is fully equal to any thing 
 that canbe fent againfl; him, it is my intention to reafcend the 
 Ghaut inamediately. 
 
 4. Sixteen Officers and Serjeants belonging to the Campoos 
 hive joined Colonel Stevenfon, under your Excellency's Procla- 
 mation of the 29th of Auguft. I will hereafter fend a lift of 
 their names, and an account of the pay each is to receive. The In- 
 fantry retired towards the Nerbuddah when Colonel Stevenfoa ap- 
 proached Boorhanpoor, and by all accounts it is completely 
 deftroyed and diforganizcd. Ir is impoilible to form it into Corps 
 again, and it is not probable that it will ever be of any fervice to 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah. 
 
 5. I have diredfed Colonel Stevenfon to leave a GirriT^n in 
 A fleer Ghur, and to deliver the Diftrifts depending upon th.^f 
 Fortrefs to the charge of the Servants of the Soubah of tht; Dec- 
 kan. Your Excellency will obferve, that this is the laft of the 
 PofTefiions of Dowlut Rao Scindiah in the Deckan ; and the 
 operations of the Troops will now be direiled againfl thofe of 
 the Rajah of B^rar. 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 Mv Lord, 
 
 With the greatefl refpeft, 
 
 Your Excellency's moH obedient 
 And faithful hun"\ble Servant, 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESL£Y, 
 
 The Detailed Account of the Siege and Surrender of AlTcer 
 Ghur was publiQied in the Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary of 
 
 the
 
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 the ill: of December 1803. Major General Wclkfley's original 
 Difpatch, dated the 25ih oi' Ocftober 1803, has not been received. 
 The foregoing Extrad is taken from the Duplicate Copy of 
 the Difpatch, which reacl.eJ Fort WilHani this Morning. 
 
 Pubhflied by Command of 
 
 His Excellency the Mod Noble 
 
 The Governor General in Council, 
 
 J. L U M S D E N; 
 
 Chief Sec, to tbs Got'i, 

 
 HIS EXCELLENCY 
 
 THE GOVERNOR GENERAL, 
 
 (^c. ^c. &c. 
 
 Camp at Chcefe Kair, November 2, 1803. 
 My Lord, 
 
 1. AFTER I had fent off my difpatch to your Excellency of 
 the 21th of 06lober, I received authentic accounts that the Rajah 
 of Berar had paffed through the Hills which form the Boundary 
 of Candeilh, and had moved towards the river Godavery. 1 
 therefore afcended the Adjuntee Ghuit on the 25th, and con- 
 tinued my much to the Southward on the 26th, and paffcd 
 Aurungabad on the 29th. 
 
 2. The Rajah had advanced gradually to the Eailward, and 
 was at Lakeegaum, about twenty miles North from Puttun, 
 when I arrived at Aurungabad, and between that night and the 
 nicrht of the 3i(l:, during the whole of which time I w;s in his 
 neighbourhood, he moved his Camp five times. 
 
 3. On the 31ft, he detached a Body confining of 5,000 
 Horfe, to endeavour to intercept a Convoy confifting of 14,000 
 Bullocks, which was going forward to join the Troops on tliC 
 frontier. This Convoy was protedled by three Companies of 
 the 2d of the 3d Madras Native Infantry, with two 3-Pounders 
 under Cap'^ain Bayn^s ; which detachment, with 400 Myfore 
 Horfe, has for fome time been employed in convoying Grain 
 from the didridls South of the Godavery to my Camp, and by 
 a company from the Subfidiary Force, and two Companies from 
 the Corps ferving at Hyderabad, under the Command of Cap- 
 tain Seton. 
 
 4. They had marched from the Godavery on the morning of 
 the 3if>, and reached Amber, where they were attacked, and 
 they fuccecded in beating off the Enemy, and in fecuring the 
 Convoy, which arrived in fafety in my Camp yeftcrday, not- 
 withftanding the great fuperiority of numbers by which they 
 were attacked.
 
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 5. I have the honor to enclofe copies of the reports of thii. 
 Adlion, which I have received from Captain Baynes ; upon 
 which I have to obferve, that it affords another inftance of what 
 can be done, by difciplined Infantry, determined to do their 
 duty, againfl very fuperior numbers of Cavalry. 
 
 6. I beg leave alfo to take this opportunity to draw your 
 Lordfliip's notice to the Myfore Cavalry, under Bifhnapah 
 Pundit. This Corps, which confifts of 2,000 Men, have per- 
 formed all the Light Troop duties of this Divifion of the Army, 
 fince I was detached from the Toombudra in the month of 
 March lafl: ; they have performed the duties with the utmoft 
 chearfulnefs, and a zeal which I have never before vvitnefTcd in 
 Troops of this defcription. They have frequently been engaged 
 with the Enemy's Light Troops, have always conducted them- 
 felves well, and have loft many Men and Horfes. 
 
 I have the honor to be, My Lord, 
 
 Your Excellency's moft Obedient, 
 
 And faithful humble Servant, 
 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. 
 
 (COP Y.) 
 
 to CAPTAIN BARCLAY, 
 
 Deputy Adjutant General, &c. 
 SIR 
 
 I beg you will report to the Honorable Major General Wel- 
 lefley, that I was attacked this day about two o'Clock P. M. 
 by about four or five thoufand Horfe. They came on at iirfi: as 
 if determined to Charge, but receiving a few {l70ts from our 
 Guns, they retired, and though they frequently came near us, 
 as if to charge, and feme of them within Muflcet (hot, they 
 were always driven back. Our lofs is one European wounded, 
 two Sepoys wounded, and fome Myforcans killed and wounded, 
 beHdes a few (perhaps three) Hurfcs killed. The lofs of the 
 
 Enemy
 
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 Enemy is much greater, particularly in Horfes. I beg you to 
 fay to the General, that I fliall take Pod till I receive his in- 
 llrudions, I write this by Moonlight, which will, I hope, apo- 
 logize for hafle. We were under Arms till about Sunfet j at 
 which time they were out of fight. 
 
 (Signed) THO. BAYNES, 
 Umber, OHoier^i, 1803. Capf. Comdg. a Detcht. 
 
 To CAPTAIN BARCLAY, 
 SIR, Deputy Adjutant General, ^c. 
 
 I laft night had the honor to inform you, that I had repulfed 
 a Body of Bhoonflah's Horfe, and have now (for the informa- 
 tion of the Honorable Major General Wellefley) to make you 
 more fully informed of the circumftances. 
 
 I arrived with my Convoy about twelve o'Clock, and encamp- 
 ed near the Town, with my right flank to it, and my rear pro- 
 teiSled by a Hill. At two o'Cock P. M. the attack began (with- 
 out more than ten minutes warning of their approach) by 
 throwing great numbers of Rockets and advancing upon our 
 Left : this obliged me to change my Front by wheeling to the 
 Left ; at the fame time fome of them were within Mufket Shot. 
 I then opened my Guns, which flopped thtir approach ; they 
 at this time moved round, as if to gain the Rear, where the 
 Brinjarees were. This movement obliged me to detach a Par- 
 ty to cover them, and having previoufly pofled a Company on 
 the Hill on my Rear, my Line became very fmall j to prevent 
 their knowing my exa6l ftrength, I drew up the Myfore Horfes 
 in our Line. They came on repeatedly as if to Charge, but 
 were always flopped by our Guns. They continued to Roc- 
 ket us till dark, when they retired. I am forry to add, that 
 one hundred of the Gram Bullocks were carried off", and fome 
 Brinjaree Bullocks (perhaps one hundred) while at Grafs. I 
 have the honor to enclofe a lift of the Killed and Wounded. 
 (Signed) THO. BAYNES, 
 
 Capt. Comdg. a Detcht, 
 
 LIST
 
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 LIST of CASUALTIES in the Attach by the Marhatta Horse, 
 
 OElober 31, 1803. 
 
 His Majefty's 78th Regiment One Private Wounded, 
 
 ad Battalion Madras Artillery One Sepoy do. 
 
 2d ditto of 2d Regiment Native Infantry Three do. do. 
 
 2d ditto of 3d do. One do. do. 
 
 2d ditto of 5th do. One do. do. 
 
 Total — one Private of the 78th Regiment, and five Sepoys, 
 wounded. 
 
 Mysore Cavalry, Wounded^ Killed, and MiJJing. 
 Wounded Killed Miffing. 
 
 Men 130 
 
 Horfc 512 
 
 (Signed) T H O. B A Y N E S, 
 
 Capt. Comdg, a Detachment. 
 
 True Copies. 
 (Signed) R. BARCLAY, 
 
 Deputy Adjutant General. 
 
 Publiflied by Command of 
 
 His Excellency the Moft Noble 
 
 The Governor General in Council, 
 
 J. L U M S D E N, 
 
 Chief Sec. to the Govt. 

 
 FORT WILLAM, December 23, 1803. 
 
 A DISPATCH, of which the following is a Copy, has been this 
 Day received by His Excellency the Most NoBric 
 THE Governor General, from the Honorable Major General 
 Wellesley. 
 
 Camp at Parterly, Novemhr 30, i?03. 
 Mv Lord, 
 
 I HAVE the honor to inform you, that I attacked the Armies of 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah and the Rajah of Berar yefterday after- 
 noon, on the plains of Argauixi in this neighbourhcod, with ?he 
 divifion of the Army 'under my immediate Command, and the 
 Snbfidiary Force ferving with the Scubih of the Deckan, under 
 Colonel Stevcnfon, and completely defeated the Enemy, havintr 
 taken from them their Cannon, Ammunition, &c. & •. and def- 
 troyed vaft numbers of them. 
 
 I have reafon to believe that the lofs which I have fi:{laine4 
 upon this occafion has not been great. NoOfHcer hss been killed, 
 and but few wounded. I will forward to your Excellency a de- 
 tailed account of this Adtion, as well as of the circumflartces 
 which led to it, as foon as I fliall receive the Returns of the 
 killed and wounded. 
 
 I have the honor fo be. My Lor is. 
 With the greateft refpedt. 
 
 Your Excellency's mod obedient 
 
 And faithful humble Servant, 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. 
 
 His Excellency the Governor General^ Qfc. ^c. &c. 
 
 Publilhed by Command of 
 
 His Excellency The Mod Noble 
 
 The Governor General in Council, 
 
 J. L U M S D E N, 
 
 Chiej Sec. to the Govt.
 
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 fORT WILLIAM, December 25, 1S03, 
 
 k DISPATCH, of which the following is a Copy, has been this 
 l\. Day received by His Excellency the Most Noble 
 THE Governor General, from the Honorable Major General 
 Wellesley. 
 
 Camp at Parterly, November 30, 1803. 
 My Lord, 
 
 HAVING found that the Rajah of Berar was moving towards 
 his own Territories, that the body of Troops he had with him 
 was but fmall and decrciifing in numbers daily, and not likely to 
 do much michief to the Territories of the Soubah of the Deckan, 
 I defcended the Ghauts by Rajoora on the ( ) in order to fup- 
 
 port and cover Colonel Stevenfon's Operations againft Gawil* 
 ghur in Berar. 
 
 Colonel Stevenfon had equipped his Corps at Affeer Ghur for 
 the fiege of that Fort, and had marched to Ballapore, where he was 
 joined on the 24th, by the Brinjarries, and other Supplies which 
 had been faved from the Enemy by Captain Baynes's affair at 
 Amber ; and he marched forward on the 26th, 
 
 Your Excellency has been informed, that on the 23d I had 
 confented to a fufpenfion of Hoflilities with the Troops of Dow- 
 lut Rao Scindiah, in this quarter and Guzerat. The condition 
 on which this agreement depended, viz. that Scindiah fliould 
 occupy a pofition twenty Cofs to the Eaft of Elichpour had not 
 been carried into execution j and Scindiah was encamped at 
 Scrfooly about four miles from the Camp of Munnoo Bappoo*, 
 w'hich was at this place. The Army of the former confifted 
 only of Cavalry; that of the latter was Cavalry j a great part, 
 if not the whole of Ragojee Bhoonflah's regular Infantry; and a 
 large proportion of Artillery. 
 
 In the courfe of the 28th, the Vaqueels from Dowlut Rao Scin- 
 diah urgently preflcd me not to attack thefe Troops ; but I in- 
 formed them repeatedly, that there Was no fufpenfion of Arms 
 
 • Brother to the Rajah of Berar. 
 
 with
 
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 With Ragojee BhoonUah j and none with Scindiah till he fliould 
 comply with the 'terms of his agrecnicnt : and that I {hould 
 Certainly attack the Enemies of the Company wherever I fliould 
 find them. 
 
 Colonel Stevcnfon's divifun and mine both marched to this 
 place yefterday ; the Colonel having with great prudence and 
 propriety halted on the 28th at Hittee Andorah, to enable me 
 to co-operate in the attack of the Enemy, We found on our 
 arrival that the Armies of both Chiefs had decamped ; and I 
 could perceive, from a tdwer in Parterly, a confufcd mafs, abdat 
 t\vo miles beyond Scrfodly And Scindiah's old C.iaip, which 
 I concluded to be their Armies in march. 
 
 The Troops had marched a great diftance on a very hot dav, and 
 therefore I did not think it proper to purfue them, but ibortly after 
 ourarrival here;, bodies of Horfe appeared in our fioit.with v^hich 
 the Myfore Horfe fkirmilhed during a part of the day; and when 
 I went out to pufli forward the Picquets of the Infantry, to fupport 
 the Myfore Cavalry, and to take up the ground ofour encampment, 
 I could perceive diflinctly a long line of Infantry, Cavalry, and 
 Artillery, regularly drawn iJp on the plains of Ari^aum, immedi- 
 ately in front of that Villafge, and about fix miles from fthis place, 
 at which I intended to encamp. 
 
 Although late in the day, I immediately defrrrnined to attack 
 this Army. Accordingly i marched on in one Column, the Br:- 
 tifli Cavalry leading, in a dire6lion nearly ^parallel to that of the 
 Enemy's line | covering the rear and left by the Mogul and Myfore 
 Cavalry 
 
 The Enemy's Infantry and Guns were in the left of their cen» 
 tre, with a Bridy of Cavalry on their left. Scindiah's Army, con- 
 C"fting of one very heavy body of Cavalry was in the right, hav- 
 ing upon its right a body of Pindaries and other light Troops. 
 Their line extended above five miles, having in their rear the 
 Village and extenfive Gardens and Enclofures of Argaum, and 
 in their front a Plain, which however w.is much cut by water- 
 courfes, &c. &c, 
 
 I
 
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 I formed the Army in two lines ; the Infantry in the fird, the 
 Cavalry in the fecond, and fupporting the right ; and the Mogul 
 9nd My fore Cavalry the left, nearly parallel to that of the Ene- 
 my; with the right rather advanced to prefs upon the Enemy's 
 left. Some little time elapfed before the lines could be formed, 
 owing to a part of the Infantry of my Divifion which led the 
 Column having got into fome confufion. When formed, the 
 whole advanced in the greateft order; the 74th and 78th Regi- 
 ments were attacked by a large body (fuppofed to be Perfians) 
 and all ll.efe were deftroyed. Scindiah's Cavalry charged the ift 
 Battalion 6th R-giment, which was on the left of our line, and 
 were repulfed ; and the whole line retired in diforder before our 
 Troops, leaving in our hands thirty-eight pieces of Cannon and 
 all their Ammui.ition. 
 
 The Britifti Cavalry then purfued them for feveral miles, and 
 deftroyed great numbers, and took many Elephants and Ca- 
 mels, and much Baggage. The Mogul and Myfore Cavalry alfd 
 purfued the Fugitives, and did them great mifchief. Some of the 
 latter arc ftill following them j and I have fent out this morning 
 all of the Myfore, Mogul and Marhatta Cavalry, in order to fe^ 
 cure as many advantages from this Victory as can be gained, and 
 complete the Enerny's confufion. 
 
 For the reafons ftated in the commencement of this letter, 
 the action did not begin till late in the day, and, unfortunately, 
 fufficient day-light did not remain to do all that I could hava 
 wifhed ; but the Cavalry continued their purfuit by moon-light, 
 and all the Troops were under arms till a late hour in the night, 
 
 I have the honor to enclpfe a return ot our lofs in this adion. 
 The Troops conduced themfelves with their ufual bravery. The 
 7^th and 'ySth Regiments had a particular opportunity of diftin- 
 guiftiing themfelves, and have deferved and received my thanks. 
 I am alfo much indebted to Colonel Stcvenlon, for the advice and 
 ^fliftance I received from him ; to the Honorable Lieutenant Colo- 
 nel St. Ltger for the manpcrin which he led on the Britifh Caval- 
 ry; and to Lieutenant Colonels Wallace, Adams (who commanded 
 
 Lieutenant
 
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 Lieutenant Colonel Harnefs's Brigade, the latter being abfcnt on 
 account of fevere indifpofition), Haliburton, Macieaoe, Pogfon, 
 and Major Huddleftone, who commanded Brigades of Cavdlry 
 and Infantry j to Major Campbell, commanding the 94th Regi- 
 ment; to Captain Beauman, commanding the Artillery with the 
 divifion under my immediate Command; to Captain Burke, com- 
 manding the Artillery with the Sublidi\ry Force ; and to the 
 Officers of the Staff with my Divifion, and belonging to the Subfi- 
 diary Force. 
 
 i have alfo to inform your Excellency, that the Mogul Cavalry 
 under Solabut Khan, and the Myfore Cavalry under Biftnapah 
 Pundit, diftinguifhed thcmfelves. The former took a Standard 
 from Scindiah's Troops. 
 
 The Marhatta Cavalry were not engaged, as the perfon who 
 went to them with orders, miffed his road. Amrut Rao was not 
 in the adlion, as he had encamped Tome diftance in my rear on the 
 28th, and he could not march the whole diftance to Parterly yef- 
 tcrday morning j but he fent for orders as foon as he heard that 
 I intended to attack the Enemy. 
 
 I propofe to march to-morrow towards Gawilghur, and [ lliall 
 lofe no time in attacking that place. 
 
 I have the honor to be. My Lord, 
 Your Excellency's moft obedient 
 and faithful humble Servant, 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. 
 
 Return of the Killed, Wounded, and MiJJing, of the Troops under the 
 Command of Major General the Hoiiorable Arthur Wf.lles-. 
 LEY, on the 2()th November 1803, in the A^io^i on the Plains 
 of Argaum, "with the United Armies of Dovilut Rao Scindiah, 
 and the Rajah of Berar, commanded by the Maha Rajah, and Mun- 
 noo Bappoo, Brother to the Rajuh of Berar. 
 
 THE TROOPS COMPOSING THE HONORABLE MAJOR GENERAL WELLES- 
 
 LEY's DIVISION OF THE ARMY. 
 H, M. igth Lt. Dragoons. — -Wounded 1 Quarter Mafter and 5 Privates. 
 H. C. ^thRcgt, Nat, Cflr^/r/.— Killed 1 Trooper, i Officer's and 1 Re- 
 gimental
 
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 gimental Hor fc— Woiir.ckd i Trooper, i lierie—- Mifiiag 
 Horfes. 
 H. C. 5i:/j Regt. liat. (7^i;<3%.— Killed i Horfe. 
 U. C. jtli Regti Nat. Cavalry. — Killed 3 Horfes— Woundt: J 2 HorfeG— 
 
 Miffing I Trooper, 3 Horfes. 
 Artillery. — Killed 2 Lafcars — Wounded 1 Corporal, 1 Gunner, 4 M&- 
 
 troffes, 11 Gun Lafcars. 
 H. ^f. "j^tb Regt.' — Killed 1 Serjeant, 3 Rank and File — \younded 1 
 
 Lieutenant, 5 Serjeants, 1 Drummer, and 41 Rank and File. 
 H. M. yBlh Regt. — Killed 1 Serjeant, and 8 Privates — Wounded 2 
 
 Serjeants, 5 Corporals, and 31 Privates. 
 37? Bat. 2d Regt. Nat. Infantry. — Killed 1 Drummer, 1 Sepoy Recruit — 
 
 Wounded 3 Naiks, 9 Sepoys — Miffing 1 Sepoy Recruit. 
 ijl Bat. 3^ Regt. Nat. Infantry. — Killed 5 Sepoys-^Wounded 1 Lreute- 
 
 nant, 2 Sabadars> 1 Jettiidar, 1 Havildar, 3 Naiks, 1 Drutnmef, 28 
 
 Sepoys. 
 jy? Bat. i,th Regt. Nat. .hfaiU ry. -r-^Kiikd t Havildar, a Sepoys-^Wo-«a- 
 
 ded i Qiiarter Master Serjeant, 1 Naik, 2^ Sepoys, 
 iji Bat. Sth Regt. Nat. Infantry. — Wounded 2 Drumuieri, 1 Sepoy- 
 Miffing I Sepoy. 
 \ft Bat. lotb Regt. Nat. Infantry.— KWled i Jemidar, i Havildar, 2 
 
 Rank and File — Wounded 1 Subidar, 3 Rank and File — Miffing 
 
 1 Rank and File. 
 id Bat. 12th Regt. Nat. Infantry. — Killed 3 Sepoys — Wounded 1 Cap- 
 tain r Havildar, and 7 Sepoys. 
 Officers Wciinded. — Captain J. M. Vernon, 2d Bat. 12th Regt. Native 
 
 Infantry. — L.ieut. Langlands, H. M. 74th Regt. and Lieut. A. 'i'ur- 
 
 ner, ift Bat. 3d Regt. Native Infantry. 
 The Officer's Horfe Killed, belonged 10 Lieut. J. J. Meredith, 4th 
 Regiment Native Cavalry. 
 
 The Troops compofing the Subfidiary Force of His HighncHi the 
 
 Soubah of the Dekan. 
 
 2.d Regt. Nat. Cavalry. — Killed 1 Farrier, 3 Horfes — Wounded 1 Serje- 
 ant Major, 1 Havildar, 1 Naik, 5 Troopers, and 3 Horfes. 
 
 6th Regt. Nat. Cavalry. — Killed g Horfes — Wounded 1 Lieutenant, i 
 
 Naik, 3 Troopers, 1 Officer's and a Regimcnta} lloilbs— Miffing 2 
 
 Horfes. 
 
 j^rtUUry.
 
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 jlrtiHery. — K\\\cd i [lor (e —Wounded 2 Captains, 1 Gunner, 2 Matrof- 
 [cf, and 1 Firll rir.dal. 
 
 //. M. g\tb Regt. — Killed 2 Rank and File ~ Wounded 3 Lieutenants, 
 1 Serjeant, 1 Drummer, 32 Rank and File — Miffing 2 Rank and 
 File. 
 
 2.d Bat. id Regt. Nat. Infantry. — Killed i liavildar, 4 Sepoys. — Woun- 
 ded 2 Naiks, 13 Strpoys. 
 
 ifl Bat. 6th Regt. Nat. Infantry. — Wounded 1 Puckally. 
 
 2d Bat. -jth Regt. Nat. Infantry. — Wounded i Havildar, 1 Naik. 
 
 2d Bat. ^th Regt. Nat. Infantry. — Killed 3 Sepoys — Wounded 1 liavil- 
 dar, 8 Sepoys. 
 
 J fi Bat. ixth Regt. Nat. Infantry. — Killed 1 Sepoy — Wounded 10 Se- 
 poys — Miffing I Sepoy. 
 
 2d Bat. nth Regt. Nat. Infantry. — Wounded 10 Sepoys. 
 
 Oncer's IVounded. — Captains Burke, and Dalrymple, of ilie Artillery. — 
 Lieutenant Barnby, 6ih Regiment Cavalry. ~ Lieutenants James 
 Donald, John Robertfon, and Frederick Ca.mpbel!, of His Majefty's 
 94th Regiment. 
 
 Oficer's Horfes Killed. — Captain Burke's. — Wounded Brigade fvlajor 
 Conwav's. 
 
 ABSTRACT OF TtlE KILLED, IVOUNDED, AND MISSING. 
 
 The Hon. Maj. Genl. Wellcfley's Div. of the Army, 
 The Troops compofing the Subfidiary Force. 
 
 
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 (Signed) B. BARCLAY, Dept. Ailjt.Genl. My/ore. 
 
 Publiflisd by Command of His Excellency 
 
 The Moft Noble the Governor General in Council, 
 
 J. L U xM S D E N, 
 
 Chief Sec. to the Govt, 

 
 I
 
 FORT WILLIAM, January 27, 1804. 
 
 r~F~^HE following Difpatches from the Honorable Major Ge- 
 
 J ncral Wcllclley, were received by the Governor General 
 
 on the a4tli Indant, and are now publilhed for general information. 
 
 Camp at Deogaum, December 15, 1803. 
 My Lord, 
 
 After the Battle of Arguum, I determined to lofc no time in 
 commencing the Siege of Gavvilghur, and accordingly marched on, 
 and arrived at Elichpoor on the 5th inftant, with both Divifions, 
 and halted on the 6th, in order to eftablifli an hofpital for the 
 wounded in the B utle at Argaum. 
 
 The Fort of Gawilghur is fituated in a range of Mountains be- 
 tween the fources of the Rivers Poonah and Taptee. It ftands oa 
 a lofty mountain in this range, and confifls of one complete inner 
 Fort, which fronts to the South, where the rock is mofl: fteep, and 
 an outer Fort, which covers the inner to the Northweft and North. 
 This outer Fort has a third Wall, which covers the approach to it 
 from the North ty the Village of Labada. All thefe Walls are 
 firongly built, and fortified by Rampart and Towers. 
 
 The communications with the Fort are through three Gates : 
 6ne to the South wiih the inner Fort; one to the Northweft with 
 the. outer Fort ; and one to the North with the third Wall. The 
 afcent tc the firft is very long and ftecp, and is pradticable only 
 for men; that to the lecond is by a Road, ufed for the common 
 communications of the Garrifon with the Countries to the South- 
 ivard ; but the Road paflcs round the Weft fide of the Fort, and is 
 expofed for a great diftance to its lire : it is fo narrow as to make 
 it impracticable to approach regularly by it, and the Rock is 
 fcarped on each fide. This Road alfo leads no further than the 
 Gate. 
 
 The communication with the Northern Gate is dircdt from 
 the Village of Labada, and here the ground is level with that of 
 the Fort; but the road to Labada leack through the moun- 
 r2(ins foj' about thirty mil<s from Elichpoor, and it was obvious, 
 
 that
 
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 that the difficulty and labour of ftioving Ordnance and Stores t» 
 Labada would be very great. 
 
 However, after making enquiry at Elichpoor, it appeared both 
 to Colonel Stevenfon and me, that this point of attack was, upon 
 the whole, the mod advantageous, and we accordingly adopted it. 
 
 Colonel Stevenfon had equipped his Corps at Affeerghur for the 
 Siege of Gawilghur, for which fervice it had long been d t {lined j 
 and I therefore determined that he fliould make the principal 
 attack by Labada; while I lliould cover his operations, with 
 mv o.vn Divifion and all the Cavalry, and, if podible, afTifl them 
 by o'.her attacks to the Southward and Weftward. 
 
 On the 6ch Inftant, the ift Battalion 2d Regiment under Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel Chalmers, and two Companies of the 94th, and 
 theiftofthe 6th unJer Captain Maitland, were detached; tlie 
 former, to drive the Enemy from the ground which they occu- 
 pied to the Southward of the Fort j and the latter, to feize the for- 
 tified village of Damergaum, which covers the entrance of the 
 Mountains, by the Road by which Colonel Stevenfon was to pafs 
 towards Labada, and to prote£t the Parties fent forward to recon- 
 noitre and repair the Roads in the Mountains. Both thefe De- 
 tachments fucceeded. 
 
 On the 7th, both Divifions marched from Elichpoor; Colonel 
 Stevenfon, into the mountains by Damergaum, and my Divifion 
 towards the Southern face of the Fort of Gawilghur. From 
 that day till the 12th, on which Colonel Stevenfon broke ground 
 near Labada, the Troops in his Divifion wen* through a fcries of 
 laborious fervices. fuchas I never before witnelTed, with the utmoG: 
 chearfulnefs and perfeverance. The heavy Ordnance and Stores 
 were dragged by hand, over Mountains and through Ravines for 
 nearly the whole diftance, by roads which it had been previoufly 
 flcccflary for the Troops to make for themfelvcs. 
 
 On the 12th at night. Colonel Stevenfon credled two batteries 
 in front of the North face of the Fort; one, confifling of two 
 iron i8-Pounders, and three iron 12-Pounders, to breach the outer 
 Fort and third Wall ; and one, confifling of two brafs 12-Poun- 
 
 der«
 
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 ders and two i^^ inch Howitzers, to clear and dcftroy the defences 
 on the point of attack. 
 
 On the fame night, the Troops of my Divifion conftruded 
 a Battery for two iron and two hrafs 12-Pounders on the Moun- 
 tain under the Southern Gate; with a view, if polTible, to breach 
 the Wall near that Gate, or, at all events, to draw the Enemy's 
 attention to that quarter. Unfortunately, the iron Guns could 
 not be moved into the Battery, notwithftanding the utmofl exer- 
 tions of the Troops ; at)d the fire of the brafs Guns produced 
 but little cfFed:. 
 
 The fire of all thefe Batteries opened on the 13th, in the morn- 
 ing; and the 34fh, at night, the breaches in the Walls of 
 the outer Fort were pra61icablc. All the arrangements were 
 made for ftorming on this day, Lieutenant Colonel Kenny, of the 
 iith Regiment, commanded the Party for the Storm, confiding 
 of the Flank Companies of the 94th Regiment, and of the Native 
 Corps in Colonel Stevenfon's Divifion, fupported by the 94th 
 Regiment, and Lieutenant Colonel Halyburton's Brigade, with 
 Lieutenant Colonel Macleane's Brigade in a Referve. Ac the 
 fame hour, I made two attacks from the Southward, to draw the 
 Enemy's attention to this quarter. One, under Lieutenant 
 Colonel Wallace, conlifting of the 74th Regiment, five Com- 
 panies of the 78th, and the ifl Battalion 8th Regiment, on the 
 Southern Gate; and one, under Lieutenant Colonel Chalmers, 
 confiding of five Companies of the 78th, and the ift Battalion 
 lOth Regiment, on the North-Wefl Gate. Thefe la ft attacks 
 could be of no fervice, excepting to draw the Enemy's attention 
 from that from the North ; unlefis they fhould fucceed in blowing 
 open the Gates; till they Ihould communicate with the Detachments 
 from Colonel Stevenfon's Corps as they had no other means of 
 entering the Fort. All the Troops advanced at about ten in the 
 morning. The Detachment under Lieutenant Colonel Chalmers 
 arrived at the North-Weft Gate, at the moment when the Enemy 
 were endeavoring to efcape through it, from the Detachment of 
 Colonel Stevenfon's Corps, which had been fent to communi- 
 cate
 
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 cate with Colonel Chalmers, and he entered without difficulty. 
 
 The Wall of the inner Fort, in which no breach had been made, 
 
 was then to be carried. After fome attempts upon the gate of 
 
 communication between the inner and outer Fort, a place was 
 
 found, at which it was poffible to efcalade the Wall. Captain 
 
 Campbell, with the Light Infantry of the 94th Regiment, fixed 
 
 the Ladders againfl: this place, efcaladed the Wall, opened the Gate 
 
 for the Storming Party, and the Fort was fliortly in our pofTelfion, 
 
 The Enemy's Garrifon was numerouSc It confided of Raj» 
 
 poots, and of agreat part of Beny Sing's regular Infantry, which 
 
 had efcaped from the battle of Argaum, commanded by Beny 
 
 Sing himfelf. They were all well armed with Company's new 
 
 Mufquets and Bayonets. Vaft numbers of them were killed, 
 
 particularly at the different Gates. 
 
 This fervice has been performed, I hope, with fmall lofs on 
 our fide. No Officer has been killed, and none wounded that I 
 have heard of, excepting Lieutenant Colonel Kenny, of the nth 
 Regiment, and Lieutenant Young, of the 2d, yth. 
 
 In the performance of this iervice, all the good qualities of 
 Britilh Troops have been confpicuous, to a degree which I have 
 feldom witnelTed. In bringing on their Ordnance and Stores to 
 the point of attack, the Troops of Colonel Stevenfon's Divifioh 
 performed the mod laborious work, with a zeal for the fervice, 
 and patience and perfeverance never furpalTed ; and when oppof- 
 ed to the Enemy, their conduft fliewed the fame gallant fpirit 
 that has carried the Britifh Troops through (o many difficulties in 
 the courfe of this War. 
 
 I am particularly indebted to Colonel Stevcfifon, for the man- 
 ner in which he conducted the fervice entrufted to hitn, from the 
 moment of his march from Elichpoor to that of the Capture of 
 Gawilghur; to Lieutenant Colonel Kenny, for the manner in 
 which he led on the Storming Party ; to Captain Campbell and 
 the Light Infantry of the 94th Regiment, for the efcalade of the 
 inner Fort; to Major Campbell and the 94th Regiment, and to 
 Lieutenant Colonel Halyburton and his Brigade, which Troops' 
 fupported the attack. Captain
 
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 Captain Burke, wlio commanded the Artillery with the SuB- 
 fidiary Force, Captain Ileitland of the Pioneers, and Captain 
 Jphnfon of the Bombay Engineers, are alfo entitled to my 
 acknowledgements. 1 he two latter were fent from my Divifion 
 to adifl: Colonel Stcvenlon. Upon the occalion of mentioning 
 the name of Captain Johnfon, I cannot omit to inform your 
 Excellency, that throughout this Campaignj that Officer has per- 
 formed the mod important fervice in the Department of the 
 Guides entrufted to his charge ; and I have no doubt but that his 
 Surveys will be a valuable public acquifition. 
 
 Although the mod laborious, and the moft brilliant part of 
 this fervice did not fall to the lot of the Troops of mv Divifion, I 
 have to apprize your Excellency, that they performed that part 
 allotted to them in a manner perfe611y fatisfaflory to me ; and 
 Lieutenant Colonel Wallace, and Lieutenant Colonel Chalmers, and 
 Captain Beauman, Commanding the Artillery, have received my 
 thanks, for the manner in which the two former led their Divifionc 
 to the attack, and the latter exerted himfelf to forward the fervice 
 of his Department, 
 
 I fliall hereafter have the honor of tranfmittihg to yoiir Excel- 
 lency, lifls of the Killed and Wounded, and Returns of the Ord- 
 nance and Property captui-ed in the Fort. 
 
 J have the honor to be, M v Lord, 
 With the greatefl refpeft, 
 
 Your Excellency's mofl obedient 
 
 And faithful humble Servant, 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. 
 
 His Excellency the Governor General, &c. &c. &c. 
 
 My Lord, Camp at Elichpoor, December i"^, iSoj: 
 
 I HAVE the honor to enclofe a Return of the Killed and 
 Wounded, at the Siege, and in the Storm of Gawilghuf. Lieu- 
 tenant Young died after I addreffed your Excellency on the 15th. 
 
 I have likewife the honor to enclofe a return of the Ordnance, &;c. 
 
 captured
 
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 c.'iptureJ \'i Gnvllghur, The quanlry cf Properfy captured, lias 
 t>(St yet been afceruined ; but I imagine that there will not be 
 rrivich. 
 
 After I had addreff-d your Excellency on the 15th infiant,"! 
 Teceived from Colonel S'"evenfon a detailed report of the proceed- 
 ings of the Divifior. und-r his Command, in theftorm of the Fort, 
 from which I obferve, that Xyieutenant Cobnel Laing and Lieu- 
 tenaiit Colonel Deffe, had opportunities cf didinguifhirig thcm- 
 Llves, of which they availed themfch'es. In fhe courfe of the 
 -Compaign, I h;we more than cncehad occafionto obfcrve the zeal 
 of thefe Officers for tlie fervice, and their exertions to forward it j 
 they have received my thanks f.jr th-ir condud on the 15th 
 inflant ; and I beg leave to recommend them to your Excellen^y^s 
 -notice. 
 
 I have t1ie honor tobe, "My Lord, 
 
 Your Excellency's mod obedierif 
 
 And faithful humble Servanf, 
 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLE*^. 
 
 //// Extdlency the Governor Gcntrdl, &c. ^c. ^c. 
 
 ■Relum -cf the Killed, Wounded, and Mi(fing, of the Treops under 
 the Commani of Major General the Ihnoralle Arthur Wel- 
 x^zst^w ,from the 6th to the 'i^th of Dccembsr 1803, ificlujive, 
 daring the Siege and in the Stcrm (9/G anViLGHur. 
 
 ^rilE rkOOPS COMPOSING THE HONORABLE MAJOR GENERAL TFEL- 
 LESLEr's DiriSiON OF THE A RAD: 
 
 H M. "J ^th i?i?^r— Wounded, t Corpnral. 
 
 H. M. y^lb /^fj/!.— Wounded, 1 y>iivate. 
 
 The ijl Ball, zd Regt. N. /.-^Wounded, 4 S'epSp. 
 
 The ijl Bati. 3d Re^J-. N. /.—Wounded, s Sei>oys. 
 
 The ijl Bait. f>ih Regt. N. /.—Wounded, 3 Sepoys. 
 
 The \p. Ball, lo'A Regl. N. I. — Killed, i Ilavildar — 1 Sopoy milTing. 
 
 THE
 
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 THE TROOPS COMPOSING THE SUBSIDIARl' FORCE SERVING JVIIH HIS 
 HIGHNESS THE SOUBAHDAR OF THE DECKAN. 
 
 y^rii//^rjj— Killed, 1 Matrors, — Wounded, i Corporal, i Matrofs, and 
 
 2 Gun Lafcars. 
 H. M. g]th /?f^i.— Killed, 3 Rank and File— Wounded, 2 Serjeants, 
 
 and 51 Rank and File. 
 The id Ball. 2d Regl. N. /.—Wounded, 2 Sepoys. 
 
 l/? Batt. Sth Rcgt. N. 7. — Killed, i Sepoy — Wounded, 5 Sepoy."!. 
 sd Batt. jtk Rigt. N. I. — Killed, 1 LieHtenant, and 2 Sepoys — 
 
 Wounded, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Havildar, and 
 16 Sepoys. 
 Ike 2d Batt. gth Reg', A' A— Killed, 1 Sepoy — Wbunded, 2 Sepoy.<;. 
 ly? EalL nth Regt. N. /.— Killed, 2 Sepoys — Wounded, 1 Lieut. 
 
 Colonel, ai.d 6 Sepoyi- — MifTing, 1 Sepoy, 
 2d Batt. iilh Regt. N. I. Killed, 1 Sepoy— Wounded, 1 Havildaf, 
 
 and 6 Sepoys. — 
 P/o«ifi?n— Wounded, i Private— Miffing, 1 Private. 
 
 N. B.'-O /peers Killed, Li -ut. Young, of the 2d Battalion 7th Regi- 
 ment Native Iri''antry. 
 Wounded, Lieut. Col. Kenny, Cotntnanding the ift Battalion 
 
 iith Regiment Native Infantry: and, 
 Lieut. Parlby, of the 2d Batt. 7th Regiment Native Infantry- 
 
 ABSTRACT of the KILLED, WOUNDED, and MISSING. 
 
 
 Europeans. | 
 
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 The Troops compofing the Subfidiary Force, 
 
 
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 57 
 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 9 
 4^ 
 
 I 
 2 
 
 
 Total 
 
 5 1 59 1 ll 8 1 ji 
 
 ,3 
 
 
 Camp at Deogaum, 
 l6lb December) 1803. 
 
 (Signed) R. BARCLAY. 
 
 /)<•/. jiJJl. Cen, in My/ore. 
 
 RETURN
 
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 RETURN of ORDNANCE, ^c. found in the Fort of GAWitCHun; 
 
 Cimp near Gawilghur, i6th December, 1803. 
 
 
 
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 34' 
 
 37 
 
 
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 1 Mortar:;. 
 
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 Malabar Guns, of various Calibres, found in place, 1 . - . _ 10 
 
 Total number Pieces of Ordnance found in the place, 53 
 
 Upwards of Tivo Thoufand Stand of Englilh Arms ; J50 Wall Pieces, carrying from 4 to i pound 
 Balls ; and a variety of Country Arms, not yet collefied. 
 
 (Signed) yj. C U R K E, 
 
 Cn/it. Cam. Art. SuhfJiarj Font, 
 
 { True Copy, ) 
 
 (Signed) R. BARCLAY, Def. Adj. Go,, in My/ore, 
 
 Publidied by Command of 
 
 His Excellency the Mod Noble 
 
 The Governor General in Couneil, 
 
 J. L U M S D E N, 
 
 Chief Sec. to the Govt. 

 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 Copy of InJlru8lions from the Governor General to Major 
 General the Honorable Arthur Welle/ley, dated z-jth 
 June 1803, refpeding the Terms of Peace to be grant- 
 ed to the Confederate Marhatta Chief tains\ 
 
 SIR, 
 
 ^ I ^HE conducl of Scindiah and of the Rajah of Bcrar re- 
 X quires a fpccial notification to you of my views and in- 
 tentions with regard to the Operations of your Army, and to 
 fuch Political Proceedings as may be conne6led with a State of 
 War between the Briti(h Government and thofe Chiefs. 
 
 1. On the receipt of this Difpatch, you will defire Colonel 
 Collins to demand an explicit declaration of the views of Scin- 
 diah and of the Rajah of Berar, within fuch a number of days 
 as fliall appear to you to be reafonable, confiflently with a due 
 attention to the period of the Seafon, and to the facility of 
 moving your Army, and of profecuting Hollilities with the ad- 
 vantages which you now polfcfs. 
 
 2. If that explanation fhould not be fatisfa6tory, on fuch 
 grounds as in your difcretion you may flate to Colonel Collins; 
 you will defire Colonel Collins to repair to your Camp under a 
 proper Efcort. 
 
 3. In this event, or in any other ftate of circumflances which 
 may appear to you to require Hollilities, confiflently with the 
 general tenor of my Inftruftions*, you will employ the Forces 
 under your Command in the mofl active Operations againfl 
 Scindiah, or the Rajah of Berar, or againfl both, according to 
 your difcretion. 
 
 * Vide Inftrudions to Colonel Collins, Refident at the Court of Dovvlut Ran Scindiah, under 
 date the 5th May, and 3d June 1803, and Letters from the Governor General to Dovi'lut Rao 
 Scindiah and the Rajah of Berar, on the fuhjeft of the Treaty of BalTcin, under date the 3d 
 June, and 13th May i S03 refpeftively.— Vide alfo Inllruaions to the Refident at Poonah, 7th 
 snd 30th May 1S03, and Letter irom the Governor General to the Pcilhwah. dated oth June 
 I S03, on the conclufion ol the Treaty of HalTein.— Vide alfo Printed Notes on Marhatta Affairs, 
 pages ig and 20. All the(e Documents have been tranfmittcd bv the Belie Packet, and various 
 other Conveyances to the India Houfc; but it has bt-en thought' ufefid, with a view to facilitate 
 reiercnce, to annex to Appendix B. the Governor General's Letters to the Peilhwah, the Rajah 
 of Berari and Dowlut Rao Scindiah : See Appendix B. No. 3, 4, and 5. 
 
 4. It
 
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 4- It is probable, that the flate of the Rivers will afTord great 
 advantages to your Army, and will embarrafs the Enemy in a 
 confiderable degree, if Hoflilities (hould commence during the 
 Rainy Monfoon. In this event, I direft you to ufeyour utmofh 
 efforts to deflroy the Military Power of cither, or of both Chiefs, 
 and efpecially of Scindiah ; and to avail yourfelf of every ad- 
 vantage, which circumllances may offer to the utmofl extent of 
 the llrength of your Army. It is particularly defirable, that 
 vou flrould deflroy Scindiah's Artillery, and all Arms of Euro- 
 pean conftruction, and all Military Stores, which he may poffefs. 
 
 R. In the event of Hoflilities, you will therefore proceed to 
 the utmofl extremity which may appear to you to promife fuc- 
 cefs, without admitting Pacific Negotiation, until the Power of 
 the oppofmg Chief fhall have been completely deftroyed. In 
 fuch a cafe, the aftual feizure of the Perfon of Scindiah, or of 
 Ragojee Bhoonflah, would be highly defirable, and the flate of 
 the Rivers may perhaps favor fuch an advantage. 
 
 6. In any crifis, which may cxift under the terror of jcur 
 approach, or at any time after Hoflilities fhall have aftually com^ 
 menccdj I empower you to conclude Peace with Scindiah, or 
 with the Rajah of Berar, jointly or feparately, on fuch terms a? 
 may appear to you moil advifable ; I fliall however ftate to you 
 fhc objecls mofl defirable in the event of any Treaty with either, 
 or with both thofe Chiefs, founded on their Aggreffion, and on 
 our Succefs or Power. 
 
 7. The entire rcdu6lion of Scindiah's Power would certainly 
 afford confiderable fecurity to our interefls. In the event how- 
 ever of a Peace with Scindiah, which will leave his Power in 
 jExiflencc among the States of India, the mofl defirable arrange? 
 ment would be ; 
 
 Fii\fl. That Scindiah fliouid cede to the Company all his Pof- 
 fellions, Rights, and I'retenfions within the Countries, to the 
 Northward of a finedrawn from the North Frontier of Gohud, 
 to the Frontier ofjeynagur, together with all his Pofleffions, 
 ^c. to the Northward ofjeynagur. 
 
 This
 
 / 
 
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 This CcfTion would include Agra, Delhi, and the remainder 
 of the Doab of the Jumna and Ganges. The Moghul's Perfori 
 would neeeffarily fall under our protection; this Article muft 
 be a fpecial flipulation of Treaty. 
 
 Our Frontier towards the Ceded Provinces of Oude, would 
 then be formed by the fmall State of Gohud, and by the Raj- 
 poot States of Jeynagur and Jodepoor. 
 
 The Ranah of Gohud to become Tributary to the Company- 
 Gwalior to be occupied by the Company. 
 
 Dcfenfive Alliances to be formed with Jeynagur and Jodepoor, 
 
 By this arrangement the Marhattas would be excluded from 
 the North of Hindoftan, and from Communication with the 
 
 Seiks. 
 
 Secondly. Scindiah to cede Baroach and all his Maritime Pof- 
 
 ft ffions. 
 
 Thirdly. Scindiah to cede all his Poffeffions, Rights, &c. in 
 
 Guzerat. 
 
 Fourthly. Scindiah to cede all his PolTeffions, &c. Southward 
 cf the Nerbuddah. 
 
 Arrangements might be made for a Partition of thefe Ceffions 
 with the Peilhwah and the Nizam. 
 
 In the event of hoflilities with Scindiah and Holkar, and of 
 the complete defeat of thofe Chiefs, the moft diilinfct arrange- 
 ment would be, to take for the Company all the Territories, 
 Rit^hts or Pretentions of Scindiah or Holkar to the Northward 
 and Wellward of the Nerbuddah, and to make that River the 
 Boundary of the Northern Frontier of the Peilhwah, giving to 
 thePeifhwah all the Territories, &c. of thofe Chiefs to the South- 
 ward of the Nerbuddah, with the exception of all the Sea Ports, 
 which muft be referved to the Company. 
 
 Bundelcund is properly fubjeft to the Peifiiwah; it would be 
 defirable to obtain that Province for the Company, with a vie^V 
 to fecure the Navigation of the Jumna, and to the further lecu- 
 rity of the Province of Benares. 
 
 8. From tlie Rajah of Berar, I fhould wifh to acquire the 
 
 whole
 
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 whole Province of Caltack, fo as to unite the Nordiern Circars 
 by a continued hne of Sea Coafl with Bengal. 
 
 This Ceffion, including Balafore, &c. to he made either ah- 
 folutely or upon payment of a moderate Rent, or as a fecurity 
 for a Suhfidiary Force to be introduced into the Dominions of 
 the Rajah of Bcrar. The Diftria of Gurry Mundek has been 
 an objctt to the Nizam ; this objea is to be purfued according 
 to circumftances in tfie event of War with the Rajah of Beran 
 Without fecuring one Cff other of thofe advantages, you will not 
 make Peace with the Rajah of Ber^r, after he fh-iU have com- 
 pelled you to refort to Hollihties againft him, unlefs in yourdif- 
 cretion you fliould deem Peace with the Rnjah of Berar advifa- 
 ble on different terms. 
 
 Q. You are at liberty generally to modify the Terms of Peace 
 herein fuggefled, at your difcretion, or to change them altoge- 
 ther, if it fhould become advifable to detach any Chief from 
 the Confederacy. 
 
 10. If Holkar fliould join the Confederacy, you will aft' towards 
 hini on the principles of the preceding Inllruclions : It is mem 
 dehrable to creft Holkar's accidental Power into an elbablihed 
 State of India; his redu6lion would certainly be the moll 
 advifable policy, but die conduct and modification of our re- 
 lations with Holkar mufl be left entirely to your difcretion ; Ycu 
 zoillnot however prosecute Hojldiiies againjl Holkar, merely Jor the 
 purpofe of obtaining indemnity for the plunder of Aurungabad, or 
 for any predatory incurfwn; Juch qwflion may be rcfcrvcd for ami' 
 
 cable ^Negotiation. 
 
 11. In the event of Hoflilities, you will take proper meafures 
 for withdrawing* the European Officers from the fervice of 
 Scindiah, Holkar, and of every other Chief oppofed to you. 
 
 12. You arc at liberty to incur any expenfe requifite for this 
 purpofe, and to employ fuch Emiffaries as may appear moil 
 
 * The Governor General was afterwards pleafcd to ifTue two Proclareations.for this purpofe, 
 which are annexed to Appendix. B, and which were attended with complete fucc'efs, in deprivirig 
 the Confederates of a moft efficient branch of their Military Refources-.rSee Prockmatlots 
 Appendix B, No. i and 2, ... 
 
 fervieable
 
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 ferviceable. You are alio at liberty to enter into fuch Engage^ 
 ments as may appear advantageous with any of Scindiah's Mi- 
 niders, Chiefs, or Servants, or with thofe of the Rajah of 'Berar, 
 or_of Holkar, and to afford any ufeful encouragement to the 
 Party of the Bhyes, or to any others in the Dominions of any 
 of the Confederate Chiefs. 
 
 13. In the event of Hoflihties, I propofe to difpatch pro- 
 per Emiffaries to Gohud and to the Rajpoot Chiefs. You will 
 alfo employ every endeavour to excite thofe Powers againfl 
 Scindiah; I propofe to engage to guarantee their Independance, 
 and to fecure to them any other reafonable advantages which 
 they may require. The Independance of the Rajpoot Chiefs 
 would conllitute a Power, which would form the befl; fecurity 
 to our North Weflern Frontier in Hindoilan, in the fuppofition- 
 of Scindiah's redu6lion. 
 
 14. You will apprize His Excellency General Lake, through 
 the mofl expeditious channel, (if any more expeditious com- 
 munication fhould, offer than through Calcutta) of your plan of 
 Political and Military Operations under thefe Inllru^tions. 
 
 . J5. Scindiah's retreat acrofs the Nerbuddah (after his info- 
 lent and hoftile Declaration * to Colonel Collins of the 28th 
 May) will not alone be a fufficient proof of his pacific inten- 
 tions. Unlefs therefore Scindiah fliall have afforded full fatis- 
 fatlion and fecurity in your judgment, you will purfue him 
 acrofs the Nerbuddah, if you fhould deem that movement ad- 
 vifable for the purpofe of reducing his means ofmifchief. 
 
 1 6. The fame principle applies to any movement of the Rajah 
 of Berar, or of Holkar. The retreat of Ragojee Bhoonflah, or 
 of Holkar, to any place fituated within their refpeftive Ter- 
 ritories, or elfewhere, will not exclufively amount to a fuf- 
 ficient degree of fatisfaftion and fecurity, after the recent 
 ^— — ■ — . . — ~_ — — . 
 
 • «« Scindiah repeatedly declared, in Public Durbar, that he could not afford the fatisfaftion 
 .« demanded, until a meeting (hould have taken place between him and the Rajah of Berar, 
 
 « when the Britilh ReCdent fliould be informed, <■ Whether iriumld be Peace or War." Vide 
 
 Page 22 of the Notes on Marhatta Affairs, 
 
 proofs
 
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 proofs which ihe Confederacy has difclofcd, of determined 
 Hoftihty, and arrogant Ambition. 
 
 17. You will confider what Heps may be taken to excite 
 Cafhee Rao Holkar * againd Jefwunt Rao, and if, in profe- 
 cating Hoftihties, you fhould bs able to obtain poffeflion of 
 the Perfon of Khundee Rao Holkar f, you will avail yourfelf 
 of the advantage. 
 
 18. The precife time of adion from Oude, and in Cuttack 
 cannot now be Rated ; but I v/iil feize Agra, Delhi, take the 
 Perfon of the Moghul under the Britifh proteclion, and oc- 
 cupy the Doab, together with Cuttack, at the earlicft prac- 
 ticable moinent, after I fhall have learnt that you deem Hof- 
 tihties inevitable, or as foon as fuch meafures of precaution' 
 may appear to me to be requifite. 
 
 ig. In the movements of your Army, and in all your Pro- 
 ceedings under thefe Inltrudions, you will advert to the pre- 
 carious ftate of the Nizam's health, and to the neceflity of pre- 
 ferving our interefls at Hyderabad, in the event of His High- 
 nels's deceafe. The Refident at Hyderabad will apprize you 
 of the Orders J which he has received from me, refpe6ling the 
 fucceffion to the Mufnud of the Dekan. 
 
 20. Although a Divifion of the French Troops is already 
 arrived at Pondicherry, and the remainder may be foon ex- 
 pelled, I defire that you v/ill not be induced by that event 
 to precipitate an accommodation with any of the Marhatta 
 
 * Cafhee Rao Holkar, the elJeft Legidmate Son of the late Tuckojee Holkar. 
 
 + Khundee Rao Holkar, the Piifthumous Son of Mulhar Rao Holkar, fccond Son to Tuckc- 
 jee Holkar. — Vide Appendix A, Page 9, 10, and 1 1, to the Notes on Marhatta Afl".ars. for aa 
 Account of this Family. 
 
 J Tie Refident at Hyderabad, (in Inflruflions from the Governor General, under date the 
 18th January 1S03,) was direfled to countenance and fupport the Succefiion of SecunJer Jah, 
 (the cldcrt Son of llie Nizauv) to tlie Mufnud of Hyderabad on the death of his Father, without 
 exafting any new or additional conceffions whatever. Notwithftanding the Britifh Govern- 
 ment had at this period of time various points unadjufled v/ith the Court of Hyderabad, and 
 the probability of acontefled SucccfTion, the Governor General was of opinion, that it would b: 
 more expedient to manifcft the greatefl fpirit of liberality in all tranfad\ions with the State of 
 Hyder.ibad, and iiiiaiidiiioiiaUji to fupporf the SuccefTion of Secundcr Jah to the Mufnud of 
 his Father, with the whole Power of the llritab Govcrnnicnt, 
 
 Powers.
 
 ( 7 ) 
 Powers. The cfTcflual fjcurity of our interefls in the Marhat- 
 ta Empire, is tlie nrongcfl Barrier which can be oppofcd to 
 the progrefs of tlic French interefls in India. The early 
 reduftion of Scindiali (if that Chief fliould compel us to re- 
 fort to E^ofliHties) is certain, and would prove a fatal blow 
 to the views of France. An imperfeft arrangement with the 
 Marhatta Power, or a delay of a6live meafures, might open 
 to France the means of engaging with advantage in the affairs 
 of the Marhatta Empire. 
 
 I have the honor to be, &c. &c. Sec. 
 
 Signed) WELLESLEY. 
 
 WW
 
 APPENDIX B. No. i. and 2, 
 
 Two Proclamations, puhlijhed at Fort William, by the 
 Governor General, on the 2gth Augujl, and iStk 
 September 18 03 a
 
 PROCLAMATION, 
 
 3 
 
 BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST NOBLE THE GO^ 
 VERNOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL. 
 
 WHEREAS The Governor General in Council has 
 deemed it to be neceflary to provide eff^dual fecurity 
 for the defence of the Britifh PofTeffions againft the defigns of 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and of the Rajah of Berar. 
 
 His Excellency in Council hereby requires all Britifh Subjeds 
 holding employment in the Military Service of Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah, or of the Rajah of Berar, or of any Marhatta Chief or 
 other Power, or State, confederated with Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 or with the Rajah of Berar, forthwith to relinquifh the Service of 
 fuch Chief, Power, or Stale, refpediively, and to repair to fuch 
 Places as Ihall have been appointed by the OfHcers commanding 
 the Bntifh Forces in Hiadoftaa and the Dekkan, for the purpofe 
 of receiving all iuch Britifh Subjeds as fhall retire from the 
 Service of the faid Chiefs, Powers, or States, in obedience ip 
 fuch Proclamations or Orders, as may have been iffued by the 
 faid Commanding OfHcers, in conformity to the Inflrudlions of 
 the Governor General in Council, or in obedience to this Pro- 
 clamation. And the Governor General in Council is hereby 
 further pleafed to declare, that all Britifii Subjedls who have re- 
 ined, or who may retire from the Service of the faid Chiefs, Pow- 
 ers, or States, in obedience to any Proclamation iffued by the faid 
 Commanding OfHcers, or in obedience to this Proclamation, 
 who fhall have been, or ftiall be admitted by the faid Commanding 
 Cilicers to the Protedion of the Britifh Government, flaall receive 
 iiom the Honorable Company, a provifion, equal to the amount 
 oi the fixed Pay and Allowances, wrhich fuch Britifh Subjefts 
 luve received in the Service of the faid Chiefs, Powers, or States 
 rcrped:ively. The faid provilion to continue during the con- 
 tinuance of Hoflilities between any of the faid Chiefs, Powers, or 
 iSiates, and the Britifli Government, and fo long as fuch Britifh 
 
 Subjeds
 
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 Subjeds fnall be employed in the Service of the Honorable Com- 
 pany; arci all fuch Britifn Subjects after having quitted the Ser- 
 vice of the Honorable Company, fiiall receive a reafonable re- 
 muneration, and every indulgence, which their refpedlive fitua- 
 tions may appear to require, and which may be confi (lent with 
 the principles and regulations of the Britifli Government. And 
 the Governor General in Council further declares, that all Britifli 
 Subjects, who fliall remain in the Service of Dovvlut Rao Scin- 
 diah, or of the Rajah of Bcrar, or of any Marhatta Chief, or 
 other Power or State, confederated with Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 or with the Rajah of Bera'-, and all Britifli Subjeds, who fnill 
 bear arms againn; the Britifli Government, fliali be confidered to 
 have forfeited all Right and Claim to the Protedlion of the Bri- 
 tifli Government, and fliall be treated accordingly. 
 
 The Subje6ls of Frarice, Of of any other foreign European, or 
 American State, holding employments in the Military Service of 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah, or of the Rajah of Berar, or of any Mar- 
 hatta Chief, or of any Power or State confederated with Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah, or with the Rajah of Berar, who may be difpofed 
 to relinquifli the Service of the faid Chiefs, Powers, or States, 
 and to repair to fuch Places, as flull have been appointed by the 
 Officers commanding the Britifli Forces in Hindoftan and the 
 Dekkan. for the purpofe of receiving fuch Britifli Subjedts as 
 iliall retire from the Service of the faid Chiefs, Powers, or States, 
 fliall be admitted to the benefits extended by this Proclamation 
 to all Britifli Subjeds. 
 
 By Command of His Excellency the Mofl: Noble 
 The Governor General in Council, 
 
 J. L U M S D E N, 
 
 Chief Sec. to the Govt. 
 
 Fort William, Auguit 29, 1803. 
 
 PRO'
 
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 PROCLAMATION, 
 
 BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST NOBLE THE GO- 
 VERNOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL. 
 
 HERE AS open War exifts between the Britilh Govern- 
 ment and its Allies on the one part, and Dovvlut Rao 
 Scindiah and the Rajah of Berar and their refpe£live Allies on 
 the other: The Governor General in Council hereby declares, 
 that all Britidi Subjedls holding Commiflions or bearing Arms 
 under Dowlut Rao Scindiah, or the Rijah of Berar, or their ref- 
 pcflive Allies, during the exiftence of the War between the faid 
 Powers and the Britifli Government, or in any manner partaking 
 in the Councils of the faid Powers, or aiding or adhering to them 
 during the faid War, do thereby incur the guilt of High Treaf n. 
 And His Excellency in Council hereby further declares, that 
 all Britifii Subjefts in the fervice of the faid Powers, who (hall not 
 on or before the Firft Day of November next enfuing, claim the 
 benefit of a Proclamation iffued by His Excellency in Council on 
 the Twenty-ninth Day of Auguft laft, will be excluded from the 
 benefit of that Proclamation, and will be deemed by His Excel- 
 lency in Council to have remained wilfully in the fervice of the 
 faid Powers, and be fubje6led accordingly to ftri6l profecution 
 for their refpedlive Offences. 
 
 By Command of His Excellency the ^4oft Noble 
 The Governor General in Council, 
 
 J. L U M S D E N, 
 
 Chief Sec. to the Govt, 
 Fort Willi am, Septer,btr i6, 1803. 

 
 1
 
 APPENDIX B. No. 3. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from the Governor General^ to His 
 Highnejs the Pei/hwah, on the Condufion of the Treaty 
 of Bajfein. Written on the gth June 1803. 
 
 I HAVE received, with fentiments of the mod cordial fatis- 
 fadion, the happy intelligence of Your Highncfs's return to 
 Poonah, and of your rcftoration to Your Dominions and Govern- 
 ment, to the free exercife of Your independant authority; sind to 
 the fecure enjoyment of Your dignity and honor: on this prof- 
 perous refult of Your aulpicious Alliance with the Britifh Go- 
 vernment, 1 offer to Your Highnefs my fincere congratulations. 
 The happy event of Your Highnefs's leftoration was proclaimed 
 at this Capital by every diftindion of military honor and of 
 public rejoicing, on the fame day, on which the intelligence of 
 Your return to the City of Poonah reached me j and 1 have or- 
 dered fimilar demonftrations of joy to be manifefted at all the 
 principal Stations throughout the Britilh PoffefTions in India. 
 
 Your Highnefs has been reftored to the Mufnud of Poonah 
 under every circumftance, which could tend to provide for the 
 efficient exercife of Your authority, to fecure Your dignity and 
 independance, and to preclude the return of evils, fimilar to thofe, 
 from which Your Highnefs has been happily relieved by the 
 good faith, energy, valour, and power of the EritiQa Councils, 
 and of the Britifti Army. 
 
 The fituation in which Your Highnefs has been placed, fince 
 Your departure from Poonah, has afforded fufficient experience of 
 the conduft of Your Ally, to enable You to form a correal judg* 
 mcnt of the character and views of the Britifti Government, and 
 qf the real advantages, which muft be derived from the Treaty 
 ofBaffcin: Your Highnefs is therefore prepared to receive with 
 
 the
 
 ( ^ ) 
 
 the confidtDCe of cftablifiied friendfbip. a TuU exjiLma^iofi of the 
 rature and extent of my views and expeftations, in concluding 
 the la'e arrangements with Your HighntTs, and of the principles 
 which will uniformly regulate the condu6£ of the Britifh Go- 
 vernment towards Your Highncf^, and roivards every branch of 
 the Marhatta State. My endeavours have been anxioufly em- 
 ployed for fome years paft to eftablifli between Your Highnefs and. 
 the Britifii Government, fuch a connexion, as might fecure the 
 (lability and efficiency of Your Highnefs *s authorify, without in- 
 jury TO the rights of Your Hiuhnefs, or to thofe of the Confede- 
 rate Chieftains of the Marhatt.i Empire. My efforts for that pur- 
 P'A'c were renewed at thofc fcafons of difficulty and danger, when 
 Yjiir indc'p.nddace wis controlled, and when the exiftence of 
 Your Government was expofcd to hazard by the violence, rapa- 
 city, and ambition of Your Feudatory Chieftains. Had Your 
 Highnefs then affcnted to the moderate and falutary propofiiions 
 which I oiTer,;d to Your acceptance, You could not have been ex- 
 pofed to the difaftrous event, by which Your Highnefs was ex- 
 pelled from Poon.ih, by which Your Authority viras fubverted, Your 
 Perfon endangered, and Your Country's Capital abandoned to de- 
 vaftation and plunder; Your HTghncfs is now convinced, that 
 the powerful Alliance, which, if feafon<bly formed, would have 
 averted that calamity, afrord<;d the onlv means of repairing its 
 injurious conftrquences, by rertoring Your Highnefs to tlie free 
 exercife of Your authority in the State, and to the full enjoyment 
 of Your rights, dignity, and independance. 
 
 Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindiah could not eafily have fub- 
 di;ed Jcfwiint Rao Holkar, whofe Troops had recently defeated 
 the united Armies of Your Highnefs and -if Scindiah; and Your 
 Highnefs's experience of the control f:;?rcifed over Your autho- 
 rity by Dowlut Rao Scinciiah, muii have convinced You, that 
 even the I'ucccfs of Scindiah's Arms againft the Rebel, and Your 
 IJighnefs's return to the Mufnud of Poonah, under the pro- 
 tedion of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, would have been followed by 
 
 an
 
 ( 3 ) 
 ftn humiliating ibbietlion uf Your dignity and powc^r, to the 
 controul of one of Your Highnt-fs's Feudatories and Servants 
 
 In the moft defperafe crifis of Your Highnefs's affairs, I re- 
 newed my former propofitioa to Your flighnefs with the fame 
 limited views and equitable inrintion, to whicli it was originally 
 dircfled. Wiihout awaiting Your Highnefs's afleiU to the Ardcbs 
 of the propoftd Alliai^cf, I immediately adopted the moft a£live 
 meafures for the protection of Your Highuefi's Perfon, and for 
 the refloration of Your autliority; and Your Highnefs has re- 
 inaiked with fatisfadiion, the rnpid and judicious movement of 
 the Britifh Army under Major General Wtlknsy, and the ex- 
 fraordinary effort, by which that gallant and {l{:ilful Ofiiccr faved 
 Your Capital from deftrudtion. The condudt of the Britifh Go- 
 vernment on this occalion manifcf^s the finccrity of my regard 
 for Your Highnefs's welfare, as well as the jjflice and moderation 
 of my views : refledting on ihefe circumftancts, Your Highnefs 
 ■will rely on the (lability of the Alliance which You h iv^ wifelv 
 formed, and on the good faith, equity, and rn ignanimiiy of tb.e, 
 powerful Government which I reprefent* 
 
 My objedt is to cftablifh a permanent foundation of gene; ^l 
 tranquility in India, by fecuring to every State the free enjoy- 
 ment of its juft Rights and Independance, and by frudrating 
 every projcdl, calculated to dif^urb the Poffeflions, or to violate 
 the Rights of the cftablilhed Powers of Hindofian, or of the 
 Dekan. 
 
 My propofitionS to Your Highnefs were founded on the ap- 
 plication of this general principle to the circumftances of Your 
 Highnefs's fituation and Government; and the ftipulations of the 
 Treaty of Baffein have been framed exclufively with a view 
 
 'to maintain the general tranquility of India, by preventing the 
 deftrudlion of Your Power, and by fecuring Your jufl Riglits from 
 
 ■violence asjd ufurpation. 
 
 "- Under
 
 ( 4 ) 
 
 Under the Treaty of Baffein, Your Highnefs is reftored to the 
 exercife of your legitimate Power, on the foundation of the- 
 fupport of the Britilh Government. The Company is pledged 
 to proted Your Highnefs's Dominions from any encroachmeni; 
 either on the part of your Feudatory Chieftains, or of any foreign 
 Power I at the fame time, the mofl efFe61ual fecurity is provided 
 for the prefervation of the refpe6live interefts and PofTellions of 
 all the Marhatta Chieftains, within the limits of their feparate 
 Dominions and Authorities. The late Treaty being exclufively 
 of a defenfive nature, impofes no reftraint upon any State or Power, 
 which (hall rcfpefl the Rights and PolTeiTions of the Britifli 
 Government and its Allies j nor can any right or power to 
 interfere in the internal concerns of any of the Marhatta Chiefs 
 be derived from the ftipulations of that Treaty, beyond the limits 
 of Your Highnefs's legitimate authority, to maintain which, is 
 equally the duty of your Subjefts, Feudatories, and Allies- 
 
 The prefence of the Subfidiary Force at Poonah, will enable 
 Your Highnefs to enforce a due fubmiflion to Your autheiity 
 within your immediate Dominions; and Your Highnefs is entitle<^ 
 to Command the exertion of the whole Britifh Power in the 
 event of any emergency, which may require the ai:^ of the Com- 
 pany, for the ptotedion and defence of Your Government ancl 
 Pofleflions. 
 
 It is neither confident with the principle, nor neceffary to th« 
 objefts of the Treaty, that tlie Britifh Government (hould exer- 
 cife any interference in the internal affairs of Your Highncfs's im- 
 mediate Government, of a nature injurious to Your dignity and 
 Independance. The amicable Right of Mediation, \Ahich the 
 Britifh Government derives from the Treaty of BafTcin, is mani- 
 feflly neceflary to the eflFc£tual operation of that general Guaran- 
 tee, which conflitutes a fundamental principle pf the Alliance, 
 and which is equally eflcntial to the prefervation of Your High- 
 nefs 's legitimate authority, and to the fecurity of the juft Rights 
 
 and
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 and Intcrefts of other States. It is not the intention of the feritifli 
 Government to claim the exercife of the Right of Mediation, ex- 
 cepting in cafes exprefsly warranted by the Treaty of BafTein, 
 or in thofc cafes, in which the Britifh mediation has been rendered 
 nccclTary by the mcafures adopted for the reftoration of Your 
 Highnefs to the Mufnud of Poonah : Your Highnefs has juftlv 
 appreciated the zeal, ability, and fucceCs of the Honorable Major 
 Genera] Wellefley in obtaining the co-operation of feveral of Your 
 Highiiels's Southern Jagheerdars for the fupport of Your Highnefs 's 
 fcaufe, and in fecuring their future attachment to Your Highnefs's 
 Government, I received with great fatisfadtion from Lieut. Colonel 
 Clofe, the information of Your Higlinclb's declared refolution to 
 diflinguifli by Your favc r thofe among Your Jagheerdars, who, 
 on the faith of Major General Wellefley's affurances, have ma- 
 nifefted their attachment to Your Highnefs's caufe; and I am hap- 
 py to learn, that Your Highnefs had adopted meafures for con- 
 ciliating the general body of Your fubordinate Chiefs and Ja- 
 gheerdars. Your Highnefs muft be fenfible, that the complete con- 
 folidation of Your authority muft. depend in a confidcrable aegree 
 upon the fuccefs of the meafures, which You may adopt, for the 
 purpofe of fecuring the attachment and duty of Your fubordinate 
 Chiefs and jagheerdears : On this confidcration, 1 found a con- 
 fident expectation, that Your Highnefs will readily admit the ad- 
 vice and mediation of the Bruiih Government in fulfillmg tlie 
 equitable claims, and in cftablilhing the jult rights and privileges 
 of that clafs of Your Subjects. 
 
 The flipulation of the Treaty, which requires that Your High- 
 nefs Ihould neither commence nor purfue any Negotiations with 
 any other State whatever, without previous communication with 
 the Britifh. Government, is obvioufly eflential to the confolidation 
 of the Friendfhip of the two States, and is a ncceflary confequence 
 of the identity of interelts, eflabhftied between Your Highnefs and 
 the Britilh Government by the late Alliance. 
 
 I have
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 I have now ftated to Your Highnefs the utmcfl limit of my 
 views and intention in concluding the Treaty of BafTein; and I 
 iruft that Your Highnefs will be fatisficd, that the Alliance is cal- 
 culated to fecure Your Highnefs's juft authority, dignity, and in- 
 dependance, to preferve your Dominions from internal Anarchy, 
 and external Danger, and to promote the happinefs and tranquility 
 of Your Subjeds, and the general profperity of Your Government. 
 
 Your Highnefs cannot fail to have remarked the advantages en- 
 joyed by His Highnefs the Nizam fince the conclufion of Engage- 
 ments with the Britifh Government, fimilar to thofe, which have 
 now been contrafled with Your Highnefs; While the independant 
 Authority of the Nizam over his Subjects, and the internal Ordei 
 of his Dominions and Government have been confiderably im- 
 proved, the power and importance of the Court of Hyderabad 
 among the States of India, have been greatly augmented by the 
 Nizam's connedlion with the Britifh Government. 
 
 The vigilance and exertions of the Britifh Power under the 
 obligations of the Treaty of Hyderabad, have been on various 
 occafions fuccefsfully employed in fuppreffing the evils of internal 
 commotion, and in proteding the Nizam's Dominions from the 
 encroachments and ambitious projedls of external Enemies. Under 
 the protedlion of the Britifh Power, the Government of His 
 Highnefs the Nizam has enjoyed uninterrupted fecurity amidft 
 the deftrudions and diforders, which have diftiirbed the furround- 
 ing Stales of the Dekan, and which, (if the Britifh proteftion 
 had been withdrawn,) mufl have agitated the Nizam's Domi- 
 nions; Your Highnefs will not fail to contrafl the comparative 
 order and regularity of the Nizam's Government, (under the pro- 
 teding influence of the Britifli Power,) with the confufions which 
 have diftraded the State of Poonah, and which muft have endan- 
 gered its exigence, if Your Highnefs had not folicited and obtain- 
 ed the powerful and feafonable protedion of the Britifli Govern- 
 ment, 
 
 Your
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 Your HIghnefs will alfo contrail the condition of Your Autho- 
 rity and Government, (under the oppreflivc control and unwar- 
 rantable ufurpation of Your own Chicfi or Servants,) with the 
 freedom and independance of His Highnefs the Nizam's Authori- 
 ty, under the operation of his Defenfivc Engagements with the 
 Honorable Company. 
 
 Faithful to the fundamental principles of the Treaties fubfifting 
 with the Nizam, the Britifh Government has invariably limited 
 the exertion of its power to the proted:ion of His Highnefs *s Per- 
 fon and Government, and has manifefted an uniform difpofition 
 to maintain inviolate the dignity and power of the Nizam, and to 
 abftain from any infringement of His Highnefs's juft Authority 
 within his own Dominions. 
 
 Your Highnefs will therefore be fatisfied, by an attentive ob« 
 fervation of the conduil of the Britifh Government towards Your 
 Highnefs, towards the Nizam, and towards all our Allies, that in 
 concluding the late Alliance with Your Highnefs, my views and 
 intentions have been juft, amicable, and moderate ; that Your real 
 and legitimate Power is efFeftually fecured by this Alliance j and 
 that under the operation of Your engagements with the Britifh 
 Government, You may confidently expedl to enjoy that tranquility 
 and fecurity, accompanied by refpedt and honor, which You have 
 never experienced under the opprefUve influence of Your own 
 Subjefts, Servants, or Feudatory Chieftains, and which You could 
 never have obtained by the aid of any other State or Power. 
 
 My anxious exertions will be employed to maintain the Alliance 
 between the two State?, in the fpirit uf its original formation, and 
 to cultivate Your Highnefs's Confidence and Friendfhip, by every 
 demonftration of zeal for Your profperity and happinefs, and of ref- 
 pedt for Your Dignity, Authority, and Honor. 
 
 May thefe fentiments ever continue reciprocal, and may the 
 
 Bonds
 
 ( 8 ) 
 
 Bonds of Amity between Your Highnefs and the Britifli Goverri- 
 ment be perpetuated, by the mutual experience of an united inte^ 
 reft, and by the confirmed fenfe of a common benefit to the Allies, 
 and to every State, interefted in the prefervation of general tranqui- 
 lity, or in the maintenance of a juft fyflem of harmony and order 
 between the refpedive Powers of India, 
 
 For further particulars, I refer Your Highnefs to the verbal ccm- 
 munication of the Refident, Lieutenant Colonel Clofe. 
 
 (Signed) WELLESLEY. 
 
 A True Copy, 
 
 N. B. EDMONSTONE, 
 
 Perfian Secretary to Government. 

 
 APPENDIX B. No. 4. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from the Governor General to Rajah 
 Ra^oojee Bhoonjlah, on the Conclufion of the Treaty 
 of Bajfein. Written on the 1 ^th May, 1 8o;$. 
 
 TH!£ intimate Fiiendfhip and Alliance, which have long fub- 
 fifted between the Britilli Government, and the State of 
 Berar, induce me to communicate to you, without referve, the 
 Engagements recently concluded between the Honorable Com- 
 pany, and His Highnefs the Peifhwah, to explain to you the 
 principles on which thofe Engagements are founded, and to de- 
 nionftrate to you that the Treaty of Bafiein is formed with a 
 fincere regard for the integrity of the Marhatta Empire, and for 
 fhe Security of the fcparate Rights and Privileges of the confli- 
 tuent branches of that refpcctable Power. 
 
 When His Highnefs the Peifliwah was compelled by the vio" 
 lence and Ufurpation of Jefwunt Rao Holkar, to abandon the feat 
 of Government at Pooiiah, and to retire into the Kokun, His 
 Highnefs earneftly folicited the aid of the BritiHi Power, for the 
 prote6lion of his Pcrfon againft the outrages of his Rebellious 
 Subje(fl:, and for the refloration of his juft authority in the Mar- 
 hatta State. At the fame time, Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 alarmed at the fuccefsful progrefs of Jefwunt Rao Holkar's Re- 
 bellion, folicited the co-operation of the Britifli Arms, for the 
 accomplilhment of the finie important objcd:. His Highnefs 
 the Pcifliwah, and Dowlut Rao Scindiah were fenfible, that the 
 adive interpofition of the Biitifh Power, in that arduous crifis of 
 Affairs, afforded the only means of preferving the fabric of the 
 Marhatta Empire, from diforder and confufion. 
 
 The Britilh Government entertained a lincere difpofition to fuU 
 fill the obligations of Friendfhip towards His Highnefs the Peifli- 
 wah, in the hour of adverfity ; and an anxious folicitude to pre- 
 fer ve
 
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 ferve the Marhatta Empire from a condition of Anarchy, which 
 muft have proved highly dangerous to ail the contiguous States of 
 India, 1 therefore readily confented to ihe United wifa-s of th 
 Feilhwah, a: d Dovvlut Rao Scindiah, and His Highnefs the 
 Peiihwah ac::urding1y proceeded under the protedtion of the Bri- 
 tilli Pow=r to BalTcin. His Higlmefs fiibfcquently concluded 
 Engagements with the Britifn Government, on principles calcu- 
 lated to fecure ihe {lahility of his juft authority in the Marhatta 
 Empire, the Rights and Privileges of the feveral (ubordinate Chief- 
 tains of that Empire, and the future traiiquility and profperity 
 of the State. 
 
 For the accomplirtiment of this arrangement, a confiderable De- 
 tachment of Britifh Troops, which had been ftationed on the 
 Frontier of Myfoor, with a view to the protection and defence of 
 the Britifli Dominions, was direifled to march from the Frontier 
 of Myfoor to Poonah, and the Britifh Subfidiary Force, ferving 
 with His Highnefs the Nizam, joined by a cot,fidcrable Body of 
 the Nizam's Forces, was afTembkd on the Frontier of the Nizam's 
 Dominions, for the fame purpofe. At the fame time amicable 
 remonllrations were addreffed to Jcfwunt RaoHolkar; and afTu- 
 rances were conveyed to him by the Britiih Rcfident at Poonah, 
 of thr; fmccre difpofition' of the Britifh Government to mediate 
 between iiim and the Peifhv>?ah, and Dowlut Rao Scindiah, on 
 juPi and rcafonable terms, with the confent and knowledge of all 
 Parties. 
 
 The objedl of thi^fe Proceedings was to reftore order and tran- 
 quility, and to conciliate the concurrence of the Contending 
 Chiefs, in fuch a fyflem of mutual juffice, rcafon, and modera- 
 tion, as might iccure the continuance of Peace. 
 
 Thefe mcafures have induced Jcfwunt Rao Holkar, to with- 
 draw his Troops from the City of Poonah, and have removed 
 every obftacle to the return of His Highnefs the Peifhwah to his 
 
 Capital
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 Capital In the full exercife of his authority. The attention- ef 't'ne 
 Briiifli Government will now be direfted to the tlTi'cient accoin- 
 plifhmcijt of the arrangements concluded by the Treaty of Bafl"i;tii. 
 For your information, wiih r< gard to the Eiigagemeiits contradi-J 
 by ITisIiighhefs the Pcifliwah, f tranfmit to you enclofed, a Copy 
 of the Treaty of Bafflin, containing every Article and Stipula- 
 tion of that Engagement. Tl.is explii it communication will afford 
 you an additional proof of my Friendfliip and Refpedt, You will 
 be enabled by the Copy of the Treaty, and by this Letter, to af- 
 certain the fiill extent of all my views and intentions with regard 
 to the Marhatta Power. 
 
 An examination of the enclofed Copy of the Treaty, will de- 
 inonRrate the jufiice, moderation, and honorable Policy of that 
 Engagement ; and a review of the late Tranfadtions in the Mar- 
 hatta Empire, will be fufficient to convince you, that the inter- 
 pofition of the aid of the Britifh. Government, for the reiloration 
 of His Highnefs the Peifhwah to the Mufnud ofPoonah, far r'"ro[7i 
 having a tendency to fubvert the order of the Maihatta State;, 
 afforded the only means of avertuig confufion, and of providing" 
 for the future fecurity and tranquility of every branch of the 
 Maihatta Power. 
 
 Experience has already manifefted the inability of Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah, to refift the attacks of Jefwunt R.io Holkirj and 
 the views of Jefwunt Rao Holkar have been demonftrated by his 
 attempt to deftroy the Peifiiwah's Government, and to ailume 
 the entire authority of the Marhatta Empire. 
 
 Great danger m.uft have menaced the fcveral States, under fuch 
 circumftances. From the hazard of this Calamity, the Marhatta 
 fimpiie has bfen prefer ved by the feafonable interpofition of th? 
 Britifii Government, which has provided for the ReSoration r.nd 
 Stability of the Peifhwah's juft authority, and has afforded 
 additional Security for the legitimate and feparate Rights of 'he 
 
 Feudaforv
 
 ( 4 ) 
 
 Feudatory Chieftains of the Empire. Under the Treaty of Baf- 
 ken, (particularly hy the pth Article) thofe Chieftains are ef- 
 feftually prote6led againft any molefluion, either on the part of 
 His Highnefs the Peiflivvah, or of the Britifli Government, unlefs 
 any Chief fhould place himfelf in the condition of a Public Ene- 
 my to the State. At the fame time an option is afforded to all 
 the principal Chieftains of participating in the benefits of the de- 
 fenfive Alliance. The Conftitution of the Marhatta State, and 
 the authority of various precedents, have eftablifhed the inde- 
 pendant Right of His Highnefs the Peifliwah, to contr.i£l with 
 Foreign Powers all fuch Engagement's, as fliall not affe6l the fe- 
 parate Rights and Interefts of his Feudatory Chieftains ; That 
 Right is inherent in the Supreme Executive Authority of the 
 Marhatta State. 
 
 Under thefe circumftances therefore, I deem it neceiTary to 
 fignify to you my intention of eftablifhing the Provifions of the 
 Treaty now concluded with His Highnefs the Pcifhwah. Any 
 attempt on the part of any State, or Power, to obftrudl the Opera- 
 tion of that Treaty, mufl be deemed an aft of hvoflility againft 
 the combined Interefts of the Peifliwah, and the Britidi Go- 
 vernment. 
 
 My objeds are to fecure the Britilh Domiilions, and thofe of 
 our Ally the Nizam, from the dangers of contiguous Anarchy 
 and Gonfufion ; to fulfil the duties of Friendiliip towards onr 
 Ally the Peifliwah i and to provide at the fame time for the fafety 
 of the feveral branches of the Marhatta Empire, without difturbing 
 the conltitutional form of the State, and without affetling the le- 
 gitimate independance of its Feudatory Chieftains. This courfe 
 of policy murt: tend to ftrcngthen the bonds of Amity and Alliance 
 with the State of Berar, as well as with every other branch of the 
 Marhatta Power. 
 
 If a jufl regard to the real Interefls and profpcrity of your Go- 
 vernment
 
 5 
 
 ) 
 
 vernmEnt (hoiild difpofeyou to concUule defenfivc iingagenients 
 with the Honorable Company, fimilar to ihofe which have been 
 contrarted by His Highnefs the Pcifhwah, I (hall be ready to enter 
 into a Negotiation with you for tliat purpofe. The tics of Friend- 
 fhip however will not be relaxed by any declaration of your dif- 
 pofition tortm\in unconneded with the Powers now allied by 
 the Treaties of Hyderabad and BalTein ; whatever may be your 
 determination with regard to this part of my prefent propofal, I 
 fliall coutmufi to maintain with cordial folicitude the relation.! 
 of Amity and Peace, vy.hich have fubfilfed between thcBritifh Go- 
 vernment, and the State of Bcrar. It has been reported to me, 
 that you have viewed the conduit of the Britifh Government, in 
 the reftoration of the Peifhwah, with jealoufy and fufpicion, and 
 that you are afliduoufly employed in endeavouring to form a Con- 
 federacy for the purpofe of fruftrating the beneficial Operation of 
 the Treaty of Baflein. 
 
 The acknowledged prudence and diilrretion of your chara6ler, 
 your wifdom and experience, your approved FriendOiip, combined 
 with the confcious fenfe of my juft regard for your Rights and 
 Independance, preclude any fufpicion in my mind of your inten- 
 tions and condudl. I therefore conclude that you will continue 
 to regard the Britifh Power, with that confidence and efleem, 
 which our uniform condudl towards youjuflly demands. 
 
 To this candid declaration of my fcntiments, it may, however, 
 be proper to add a dilHndl view of my future intentions. Any 
 Mditary Preparations on your part; any Combination of your 
 Power with that of any other State, diredled to the fubverfion of 
 the arrangement lately concluded with the Pcifliwah, will be fol- 
 lowed by correfponding meafures of precaution and fecurity on 
 the part of the Britifh Government. 
 
 Unavoidable circumflances have hitherto prevented the depar- 
 ture of Mr. Webbe, whom I have feledted to be the reprefcnta- 
 
 tive
 
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 tive of this Government at your Court. Mr. Webbe, however, 
 will proceed to Nagpoor, and on his arrival will be prepared to 
 enter upon the difcuffion of all queflions depending between you 
 and the Britifh Government. 
 
 In the mean while, I truft that you will return a fpecdy and 
 amicable reply to this friendly Letter. 
 
 (Signed) WELLESLEY. 
 
 A TRUE Copy, 
 
 N. B. EDMONSTONE, 
 
 Perjian Secretary to Govt. 
 
 C*5®
 
 APPENDIX B. No, 5, 
 
 Copy of a Letter froin tlie Governor General to Dozvlut 
 Rao Scindiak, on the Condvfion of the Treaty of 
 Baffein. Written on the o^d of June, 1803. 
 
 HAVE received the iatisfaclory intelligrnce of His Highnefs 
 the Peifhwah's adual reftoration to the Mufnud ot Fconah, 
 under the prote6lion of the Britifli Power, and in confor- 
 inity to the Treaty of Defenlivc AUiance, concluded at 
 Ballein between His Highnefs and the Britifh Government. 
 
 You have long fince been apprized of the general natiirc 
 •of the Engagements concluded with His Highnefs the Peilh- 
 wah, and I received with great fatisfadion from Colonel Collins-, 
 th- information of Your entire concurrence in the expedien- 
 cy and wifdom of the mealures undertaken by the Britifh 
 Government, for His Highnefs's rcftoraticn, accompanied by 
 a declared intention on Your part, to abflain from any mea- 
 fares calculated to obftrucl the completion of the arran^^e- 
 ments eftablifhed under the Treaty of Baflein. 
 
 This lefolution manifcfled Your wifdom> as well as Your 
 good faith ; and Your declaration to Colonel Collins, was con- 
 formable to the principles of prudence and policy which 
 dictated Your dire£l application contained in Your Letter, (re- 
 caved 13th December 1802), tor the co-operation of the 
 Britifh Power for the purpofe of refloring His Highnefs the 
 Peirnv/ah to the Mufnud. 
 
 With this experience of Your public Declarations, and in 
 pofTeflTion of Your authentic Letters, under Your Signature 
 and Seal, I am difpol'ed to difcredit the reports, which have 
 reached me, of the formation of a Confederacy between 
 You, the Rajah of Berar, and Jefwunt Rao Holkar, direfled 
 
 X9
 
 ( 2 ) 
 
 to the Subverfion of the Arrangements concluded at EafTein ; 
 nor can I credit the rumour of Your luppofed intention to 
 meet the Rajah of Berar on the Frontier of His Highnefs 
 the Nizam's Dominions, in order to concert wirh that Chu-ftain 
 the meafures to be adopted for the purpofe o'F defeating the 
 Treaty lately concluded between tlie Britifh Government 
 and His Highnefs the Peifiiwah. The credit of tlicle reports 
 is, however, in fome degree, fuflained by the information 
 which I have received of Your having a^tnally marched in 
 the direftion of the Nizam's Frontier, and of the Rajah of 
 Berar having entered His Tents with a dvi^gn of meeting 
 You. 
 
 Compelled reluctantly to direct my attention to reports, of 
 which I flill hope, that You will enable me to d ttcl the 
 falfehood, the obligations of friendfaip, as well a? the laws 
 of prudence and precaution require, tliat I HiOuld declare 
 tO'You, without referve, my fentiments and refolutions in 
 the event of Your actually entertaining the deng'n of in- 
 terfering between the Britilh Governn';er.t and any of its 
 Allies, (efpecially the Nizam or the Peifbvvah,) or of violating 
 the Rights or PoiTeflions of the Corapinv, or of any State 
 connected v;ith it by Alliance or Friendfliip. The interpofi- 
 tion of the Britifh power for the refloration of His High- 
 nefs the Pcilhwah to the Mufnud, and the Arrartgcfnents 
 concluded between His Highnefs and the Briti fii Government, 
 in no degree di.'lurb Your ju.'l: Rights, and Authoritv. or 
 the general interells and profperity of the Marhatta Empire. 
 Before this difpatch can reach You, You \\'\\\ hnvc been ap- 
 prized of the full extent of the Engagements concluded be- 
 tween His Highnefs the Pcifhwah and the Britifli Govern- 
 ment, by the Treaty ol BafTein. An examination oi tl^e 
 Articles of the Treaty will dcmondratc the juflic'e, modcrr- 
 tion, rnnd honorable policy of thoT; En^^agcrnents : and u 
 feview of the lat. tra-'iftftiOns iri the Mai-hntta Empire, v.-ill 
 
 be
 
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 he fufficient to convince You, that the interpofition of the 
 aid of the Britifli Government for the refloration of His 
 Highnefs the Peifliwah to the Mufnud of Poonah, far from 
 having a tendency to fubv.rt the order of the Marhatia 
 State, afforded the only means of averting confafion, and of 
 providing for the future fecurity and tranquiiitv of everr 
 branch of the Marhatta Power. 
 
 The fuccefs of Jefwunt Rao Holkar, had completely efla- 
 bhflied the afcendancy of His Power in the Marhatta State, and 
 His views have been demonftrated by His attempt to deflroy 
 the Peifliwali's Government, and to aHumc the entire authority 
 of the Marhatta Empire ; You muff acknowled^jje tlie danger, 
 to which Your intercfts and thofe of the other Marhatta 
 Chieftains were expofed, by the extraordinary fuccefs of 
 Jefwunt Rao Holkar. In the moment of His vi6lory, Your 
 prudence and wifdom fbrcfaw the approaching ruin of Your 
 own power, and in the perfuafion that the progrefs of his 
 fuccefsmuft deftroy Your Dominions, You fohcited and ob- 
 tained the powerful and feafbnable aid of the Britifh Govern- 
 ment. The Marhatta Empire and Your poiver have been prc- 
 fervedby the timely interpofition of the Britifh Government, at 
 a moment, when the diflance of Your Army from the fcene of 
 aftion, precltided the polTibility of any cffv 6tual aid from You. 
 
 The Arrangements conne£led with the interpofition of tlie 
 Britifh Governnient, have effe61ed th'" icfloration, and provided 
 for the future flability, of the Peifhv/ah's jutl authoritv, and 
 have afforded additional fecurity for tlie legitimate and feparate 
 1-ights of the Feudatory Chieftains of the Empire. 
 
 Under the Treaty of Baffcin, thofe Chieftains are cffedually 
 protecled againfl any raokfiation, either on the part of His 
 Highnefs the Peifhwah, or the Britifli Government, unlefs anv 
 Chief Ihould place himfelf in the condition ox a public Enerri)^ 
 to the State; at th- fame time an optioii is afforded' to 
 
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 ( 4 ) 
 sllthe principal Chieftains of participa'ing in tlic Defcnfr;^ 
 Alliance. 
 
 The Conflitution of the Marhatta State, and the aulhor.ty 
 of various precedents, have eftabliincd the independanfc Right 
 of His Highnefs the Peifhwah to contract with foi-eign Fo-vvers, 
 all fuch Engagements, as fiiall not affcd: die feparate Rights 
 and interelts of His Feudatory Chieftains : that Right is inherent 
 in the Supreme Executive Authority of the Marhatta State. 
 
 The obje^s of the Treaty of Baffein, are to fecure the Bri* 
 tifli Dominions, and thofe of our Ally the Nizam, from the 
 dangers of contiguous Anarchy and Confufion; to fulfil the 
 duties of Friendfliip towards our Ally the Peifliwah ; and to 
 provide, at the fame time, for the fafety of the feveral branches 
 of the Marhatta Empire, without diflurbing the conftitu- 
 tional form of the State ; and, without aifeSing the legitimate 
 independance of its Feudatory Chieftains; This courfe of 
 policy is calculated to flrcngthen the bonds of Amity and 
 Alliance with Your Government, as well as with every other 
 branch of the Marhatta Power. 
 
 Under tliefe circumflances, therefore, I deem it necefTary 
 to fignify to You my determined refolution to accomplifh the 
 provifions of the Treaty now concluded with His Highnefs 
 the Peifhwah ; any attempt on the part of any State or Power 
 to obdrucl the operation of that Treaty ; any combination 
 among the Marhatta Chieftains directed to that purpole, mufl 
 be deemed an atl of hoilile Aggreflioq ag liwil the Pcifhv/ah, 
 and the Britiili Government 
 
 I have been informed by Colonel Colhas, that it is Y'our 
 intention to proceed with Your Army to Poonah. Th- origi- 
 nal objeft of Your march towards that Capital, having been 
 completely accomplilhed by the exertions of the B-itiiii Power, 
 
 the
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 (be prolccution of Your rtiarch to roona'n, i.-; o'DVioufiy un- 
 nccelTary for any purpofc conncclrd cither with Your own 
 fcciirity, or with the intercfls of His Highnefs the Fcifliwah ; 
 I (hall therefore be juflified in confidcrins; that mcafure to be 
 an unequivocal indication of Your refolution to attempt the 
 fubvcrfion of the late Arrangement concluded between His 
 Hio-hncfs, and the Britifli Government; and in that event, the 
 Britifli Government will be compelled to adopt meafures cal- 
 culated to counteraft fuch linwarrantable defigns. 
 
 . For the fime rcafon. Your continuance to the Southward of 
 the Nerbuddah, at the head of a powerful Body of Your For; es, 
 is equally unnecelTiiry, and is calculated to excite apprehenfions, 
 with regard to the nature of Your defigns, I Confidently ex- 
 pe6l, therefore, to receive early intelligence of Your having 
 commenced Your return to the Northward of that River : The 
 Britifh Government is difpofed to arbitrate on principles of 
 equity and jullice, any demands which You may have on His 
 Highnefs the Peifhwah. The fetdement of fuch demands, there- 
 fore, cannot be confidered to be a jiiflifiable plea for Your 
 proceeding to Poonah. The Britifh Government is alfo willin^^ 
 to arbitrate any differences which may fubfifl between You and 
 Jefwunt Rao Holkar, with whom it is my wjfii to maintain 
 Peace, provided He fliall manifefl a difpofition to rclinonifn 
 every inordinate pretenfion, and to accept reafonablc terms 
 of accommodation with the Peifnwah, and with the other 
 Powers, whofe Dominions He has invaded, and whbfe Rights 
 He has violated. 
 
 If the reports of Your tntention t6 enter into a Confederacy 
 with the Rajah of Berar, fhould be well -founded, the Britifh 
 Government has a right to cxpeft, that You will explain the 
 motives and objcfts of fuch a Confederacy, v/ith the fame 
 degree of candor, which I have manifefted in communicat- 
 ing to You the views and intentions of the Britifli Govern- 
 ment,
 
 ( 6 } 
 
 ment, in concluding the lace arrangements v/ith His Highnef's 
 the Peifliwah. I deem it necelTary to apprize You, that I have 
 addrciled, to the Rajah of Berar, reprefentations fimilar to 
 thofe contained in this Letter, I have expreffed to that Chief- 
 tain my fohcitude to maintain with Him, unimpaired, the re- 
 lations of Peace and Amity ; and I have at the fame time com- 
 municated to Him my refolution to refill any attempt on His 
 part, either fingly or combined with any other State, to ob- 
 Itruft the full accomplifhment of the Treaty of Baffein. 
 
 I further deem it to be necefTary to remind You, that in- 
 conformity to the Defehfive Engagements fubfifling between 
 the Britifh Government and His Highnefs the Nizam, any attack 
 uDon His Highnefs's Territories muft be confidered to be an 
 act of Aggreffion againfl the Britifh Government. 
 
 It is my earneft defire to maintain with You the relations of 
 Amity and Peace, but at the fame time it is my determined 
 refolution to refift any attempt on Your part to violate the 
 Rights, or to injure the Interells of the Britifli Government, 
 or of its Allies. 
 
 If a jufl: regard to the real interefts and piofj^erity of Your 
 Government ihould difpofe You to conclude Defenfive En- 
 gagements with the Honorable Company, fimilar to thofe 
 which have been contrafted with His Highnefs the Pcilhwah, 
 I fhall be ready to enter into a Negotiation with You for that 
 purpofe ; the ties of Friendfliip, however, will not be relaxed 
 by Your refolution to remain unconnefted with the Powers 
 allied by the Treaties of Hyderabad and Baflein. 
 
 Whatever may be Your determination with regard to this 
 propofal, I Ihall continue to maintain, with cordial folicitudc, 
 the relations of Amity and Peace, which have fo long fub filled 
 between the British Government and You, unlefi You fliall 
 
 compell
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 compell me to purfuc a contrary coiirfe. I trufl to Your 
 wifdom and good faith, that You will rather endeavour to 
 flrengthen the ties of amity and good will, than to favor the 
 evil defigns of the Enemies of both States, by liftening to any 
 Counfels adverfe to the flability of the Friendfhip which now 
 happily fubfills between Us. 
 
 I have inflrufled Colonel Collins to communicate fully with 
 You on all the points flated in this Letter, to which 1 fliall anxi- 
 oufly expert to receive a fpeedy and amicable reply. 
 
 (Signed) WELLESLEY. 
 
 (A True Copy,) 
 
 N. B. EDxMONSTONE, 
 
 Perjian Secretary to Governmsnt. 

 
 APPENDIX C, 
 
 No. 1. 
 
 ExtraB of a Letter from Major General the Honorable 
 Arthur Wellejley, to His Excellency the Governor Ge- 
 neral, dated Camp at Jaum, November ix, 1803. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 ^N the 24th of O£lober, I had the honor to apprize your Excel- 
 lency, that propofitions tending to Negotiations for Peace, 
 between the Britifli Government and Dowlut RaoScindiah, had been 
 made to me, in various Channels, one of which was through the 
 medium of Siddajee Rao Ninbalkcr, (commonly called Appah 
 Deffaye,) who is ferving with this Divifion of the Army, in the 
 Command of a Body of Troops, belongmg to the Pcifhwah, 
 The refult of his Communications has been, that a Vaquccl has 
 been fent hereby Dowlut Rao Scindiah, to treat for Peace. 
 
 The name of this perfon is Jefwunt Rao Goorparah, and he is 
 the Nephew of the late Morari Rao Goorparah ; the ufual vifits the Southern jiRb'er. 
 
 dars in the Fiift Part 
 
 of Ceremony have taken place, and I have h^done Conference with ofihe Appendix 10 the 
 
 J * ' Nofpi on Maiharra 
 
 him. 
 
 In this conference, nothing of any confequence pafled. He ap- 
 peared anxious to prove, that Dowlut Rao Scindiah had been de- 
 firous to remain at Peace with the Britifli Government ; and that 
 if Colonel Collins had not quitted his Camp upon receiving the 
 Letters addrefTed to me, which immediately preceded the Com- 
 mencement of Hoftilities, the War would not have taken 
 place. 
 
 His arguments upon this fubje6l were overiurneJ by a narrative 
 of what palTed at Ragojee BhoonQah's Tent, immsjiatcly previ- 
 ous to the difpatch of the Letters in queftion, as related in Colonel 
 
 ColHns's 
 
 No'ri on Marhitta 
 AtFiits for an Ac. 
 vuuia uf ihit Family.
 
 ( 2 ) 
 
 CoUins's Difpatch to me of the ifb Auguft *. 
 
 The principal fubjedl of this conference however vvas occafioned 
 by my calling upon Jefwunt Rao Goorparah to produce his full 
 Powers, wiien I fliewed him in my hand the Paper containing- 
 thofe with which your Excellency had cntrufted me, of which 
 I explained the nature. 
 
 In 
 
 * ExiraEi of a Letter from Colonel John Collins, Refdent at the Court of Dowhit Rao 
 Scindiah, to Major General the Homrabk Arthur Welkfey, dated Camp near Jul- 
 gong, \fi Augujl 1803. 
 
 I arrived at the Tent of the Berar Rajah at four o'clock ycfteniay Afternoon, but not 
 without confiderable difficulty, on account of the extreme heavinefs of the Roads. Cap- 
 tain Paris Bradlhaw, and Mirza Bauker Khan, attended nie on this occaflon, and I w::s 
 received with great politenefs, as well by Scindiah, as by Ragnjee Bhoonilah, in the lallcii: 
 Durbar that I have yet feen. 
 
 " Although our Conference laded more than four hours, yet as the arguments on the 
 part of the Marhatta Miniflers contained no new matter whatever, and as my Replies were 
 of courfe the fame as I had fo often given at our former interviews, I Ihall no: trouble you 
 with a repetition thereof, but proceed to ftate tht Propofitions that ti'ere made to me by 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah and Ragcjee Bhocnilah, after numbeilefs cvafions and much difH^reeablc 
 altercation. 
 
 ij} Frupofuim. — " That the United Forces of the Maha Rajah and the Raj ih of Bcr.Tf 
 " ihoutd retire to Boorhanpore, and that the Honorable Major General Wellefley fnoulJ withdraw 
 " the Company's Troops, to their ufual Stations." — This Prcpoiiiion I rejedled as altogether inaj- 
 niiffible, inafmuch as it was in oppofition, both to the letf^f kxA fpirit of your requifition, 
 which demanded, that Dowlut Rao Scindiah fhould recrojs the Nerbuddah, and the Rajah of 
 Berar return to Nagpoor. As this propofal was ftrongly conteiled on their pan, I faid at length, 
 that if Ragojee Bhoondah would repair to his own Capital, and SciWdiah'to Boorhanpore, I 
 would not, in fuch cafe, leave the Camp of the Maha Rajah, until I received your further in- 
 ftruftions. But this conceffion did- not fatisfy thofe Chieftains, who then introduced d^j'ecoi:! 
 Frofojition ; namely, 
 
 " That 1 (hould fix on a day for their marching hence with their refpefllve Forces, and a: 
 " the fame time pledge myfelf, that the Honorable Major General WcUelley fliould withdraw hi> 
 " Troops on the precife day that they moved towards their ufual Stations." I r;-plied, that yoi! 
 reqiiired, in the firft inllance, the removal of the Marhatta Armies from their prcfe.;: 
 menacing pofition on the Frontier of our Ally the Nawaub Nizam, and esclufive o: 
 this confideration, I obfcrved, that as the Political and Military Authorities were veiled 
 in the Honorable Major General Wellelley, I could not be icfponfible for the execution of an/ 
 meafure, but fuch as the Honorable Major General Welicn;y had particularized in his in- 
 fliudions to me, and in his Letters to Dowlut Rao Scindiah and Rajah Ragojce Bhoonllaii. 
 This remark produced their third and laft Propofition, from which they pofitively declared 
 they would not recede. 
 
 3(/ Proprftim. — " That Scindiah and Ragojee Bhoonflah would propofe to the I lonorablc 
 " Major General Wellefley by Letter, that he (hould fpecify fonie particular day f >r withdrawinjj 
 '• his own Armies, ?nd for the removal of Theirs, from their prefent poiltion oji tiie Nizam's 
 «' Frontier, and that on the day fo fpccificd, they would afluredly crniincncc their march. 
 " Thcfc Cliieftains further faid, that they would alfo requcft of the Honorable Major General 
 " Wellefley, in tlic faiv.c Letter, to name the time when the Forces und;,r his Conmiaad n.Jghi:
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 In anfwer Jefwunt Rao Goorparah faid, that it was not cufto- 
 mary to fend a letter by a Sirdar of high Rank ; and that Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah had particular objections to write a letter to me, 
 becaufe I htid omitted to anfwer that which he had written, which 
 
 was 
 
 " be expelled to reach their ufual Stations, and that they (Scindiah and Ragojee Bhoonflah) 
 " would fo regulate their marches sa to arrive at their ufual Stations, prccifcly at the fame pe- 
 ** riod of time, 
 
 I objefted to this propofal on the ground of Us being different In one particular from your 
 requifition, which demamled in the firft indance, the removal of the Miirhatta Annies from the 
 Nizam's Frontier. But as Scindiah's Minillers declared, ilat unlcfs you confcnted to this Propo- 
 fition, their Prince would not retire without an indelible ibiin on his honor, and as the Servants 
 of the Rajah of Berar maintained the fame fentimcnts vviih great firmnefs, I, at laft, agreed to 
 refer the point in quefiion to your confideration, and to remain with the Maha Raj^h until I 
 leceived your determination on this Propofition, provided Letters to your Addrefs ivere fent to 
 me for tranfmiflion before Noon, on the following Day, and provided tliofe Letters were ex- 
 prefled conformably with the terms they had then propofed. Here the Conference ended, and 
 I took my leave, after the ufual Compliments of Ottar and Paun. 
 
 It rained during the whole of ycRerday, and until the prefent hour, which is eleven o'clock 
 in the Forenoon; whatever therefore may be the line of coiiduft purfucd by the Marhatta 
 Chieftains, with refpeCt to the propofed Letters to your Addrefs, it will be utterly impradicable 
 for me to proceed towards Aurungabad, until an interval of fair weathf-r, as well on account tjf 
 the heavy Roads, as of the overflowing of a Nullah about midway between this and Toiidapoor. 
 
 I have juft received a Letter to your Addrefs, from Rajah Ragojee Bhoonflah, in which thii 
 Chief prcpofes to retire to Boorhanpore with Dowlut Rao Scindiah, inllead of returning to 
 Nagpoor, conformably to the Propofition that his own Mintller Sereedur Punt, firll brought for- 
 ward. I am too much accuftomed to Marhatta tergiverfations to be furprized at the difingenu- 
 ous conduft of the Rajah of Berar on the prefent occafion, but I muft confefs that I feel extreme- 
 ly hurt at my inability to leave the Camp of the Maha R;ijah this very day. I have acknow* 
 ledged the Receipt of Ragojee Bhoonflah's Khereetah, and told him that I fliould march froia 
 this place the inftant the Roads arc pafTable. 
 
 When Colonel Collins at length was enabled to quit the Camp of Doivlut Rao Scindith, both 
 Scindiah and his Minifter refufed to fupply him with Grain for the ufe of his Followers and Ser- 
 vants, or to grant him an Efcort for the proteftion of his perfon, until his arrival at^ the Britifli 
 Camp. 
 
 It may be ufeful to annex to the preceding Note, Copies of General Wellefley's Letters to 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah, dated 14th July, and 6th Auguft 1S03. 
 
 Copy of the Tranjlation of a Letter from the Honcrahk Mnjcr Gc::cral WellesLET, 
 /o Dowi.uT Rao Scindiah. Dated i/^th July i^o'^. 
 
 IN confequence of the reports that you had Confederated with other Chiefs, to oppofe th« 
 execution of the Treaty of BjiT;-en between the Honorable Company, and Rao Fundi: Purdhan, 
 of your Military Preparations, and your advance to the Frontiers of the Nizam, and above all, 
 of your declaration to tlie Briiith Refident with your Camp, that it was doubtful, whether 
 there would be Peace or War with the Company, I received the orders of His Excellency the 
 Governor General, to move with the Troops to the Frontiers, to take meafures of precaution, and 
 to be prepared to aft, if you (hould carry into execution your threats. 
 
 The Treaty of Bafieen, has tii-.cc been communicated to you, and you muft have obferved that 
 it provides amply for your Security ; and that in confequence of this Inftrunier:, you will hoKl 
 your Territories in the Dekan, by the fame fecure tenure that you have long held thofe rti 
 
 Hindoftan
 
 ( 4 ) 
 
 vvas tranfmirtcd in Colonel Collins's Difpatch of the 3d Auguft. 
 I explained that I had written an anfwer to that letter; and a long 
 Ccr.vcrfation cnfued upon that fubjcft, in which he pofitively de- 
 nied that the anfvver had ever been received. 
 
 I then pointed out that it was the common praQice throughout 
 the World, and more efpecially in the Marhatta Empire, that no 
 Ao-ent ever wss employed in the tranf'aflion of the mod trifling 
 bufii.-efs, who did n(jt poiTcl's fome Powers from his Employer, 
 
 which 
 
 Hindoftan bordering upon the Ccmpar.j's Frontier, notwithdanding your abfence fruin them 
 with your Armies. 
 
 I perceive by your Letter to Mis Kxcclkncy the Governor General, of which Colonel Col- 
 lins his communicated to me a Copy, ti.at you have declared thai you have no intehtion lo 
 commence Hoftilities againft the Compuiy, or their Allies, or to oppofc the execution "of the 
 Treaty of B.iffcen, by tliC Paities who had a Right to enter into it. 
 
 I have accordingly the greateft pleafure in contemplating the probability of the dufatidhi 
 of the Peace, between the Honorable Company, and your Government, vvhichhasloog fubliftcd 
 with much benefit to both Parties. 
 
 Bnt if you are fmcere in this declaration of your friendly intentions, there appears to be nooc- 
 cafion for affembling your Army, and joining it with that of the Rajah of Berar on the IsJizam's 
 Frontier. 
 
 That meafure, uncombined with other circumftances, would, at at any time, render neeeflarv 
 correfponding meafurcs of precaution, the refult of which would be either your removal from 
 the Frontier of the Company's Ally, or an appeal to Arms ; but when it b.as been accompanied 
 by declarations cf an holtile nature, wl;en you have declared that it vvas doubtful whether there 
 ■would be Peace, or War, between the Company, and j'our Governme:;!, it becomes more necef- 
 fary that you fhould remove your Troops to their ufiial Stations. 
 
 Whatever refpeft 1 inay h.".\e for your word, f.i folcmnly pledged as it is iu yonr Letter to 
 the Governor General, to which I have above alhided, common prudence requires that I fliould 
 ncit truft to that alone for the Security of the Company and their Allies,, which has been given 
 to my charge. 
 
 Accordingly I c.ill upon you, if your Profe(r:ons are (incere, to withdraw with your Troops 
 to their ufual Stations acrofs the River Nerbuddah. 
 
 You was the firft by your hoftile meafures and declarations, and the exprcffion of doubts of 
 the duration of the Peace, between the Honorable Company and your Government, and by the 
 movements of your Troops, to render ncccfTary correfponding meafurcs of precaution by the 
 Company's Government, and you ought to be the firll to withdraw your Troops, if your inten- 
 tions are really as pacific as you profcfs them to be. 
 
 When you (hall have withdrawn your Troops to their ufual Stations beyond the Nerbuddah, 
 I alfo fhall draw back thofe under my Command to tlicir ufual Stations. 
 
 But if unfortunatclyldiould learn that after the recciptof this Letter, you liave advanced towards 
 the Territories of the Nizam ; or, if I find that you do not commence the march of your 
 Troops towards their ufual Stations beyond the Nerbuddah, I muft confider your Intentions to be; 
 hofiile, notw ithflanding your Prof-ffions, as tiierc can be no ufe in keeping your Armies in the 
 Country, excepting for tie purpoHs of Hollility; ar.d I Ihall immediately carry on thofe Ope. 
 rations againll you, which are in my power, in confetiuenco of the advantageous pofition of the 
 Company's Arniics. 
 
 In
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 which he could produce; and I ftated the inconvenience which 
 would rcfult in tranfaftions between States, if this praftice were 
 departed from, I faid, that I was convinced tliat a man of his 
 name and high Rank would not aticmpt to deceive me, and thaf 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah would net venture to deny that he had erh- 
 ployed him as a Vaquccl ; that on this ground, and as Appah 
 Deilaye had a letter from Scindiah, faying that he was his Va- 
 queel, I fhould fufFer him to reiiiain in Camp, and (hould lillen fo 
 what lie had to fay; but that I infifted upon his producing full 
 Powers to treat for his Employer, as foon as a Mefienger could 
 
 return from Scindiah's Gamp, 
 
 •In anfwer Jefwunt Rao Goorparah acknowledged the trutli and 
 
 juftice of my obfervations ; and faid, that he fliould jiroJuce the 
 
 iiiual Powers as required, 
 
 I have given Your Excellency only an outline o^ ti.e Conver- 
 
 fation which paficd upon this fubjed; ; a Memorandiun has been 
 
 taken of this Conference, a Copy of which Ihall be tranfmiited, as 
 
 foon as it can be made. 
 
 In your Leiter to the Governor General, 3'ou have declared that you do not ir'tnd to cp- 
 <,pofe the arrangement concluded at Baffeen, provided the arrangements of the Peifhwah with you 
 and Rajah Ragojee Ehoondah, and other Chiefs of the Mathatta Empire, are refpefled. The 
 Treaty of Baflecn, fecures your Intereils, and it is not tonfiRent with that Treaty or with the 
 principles of the Kritifh Government to'fupport any Tower in the broech of a Treaty. You may 
 therefore be fatisiicd on that head, 
 
 . Copy of the Tranflal'ion of a Letter from the Honorahk Major General Wellesley, to 
 Dowi-UT Rao Scindiah, dated Augufi 6, 1803. 
 
 You will recolleft that the Britifh Government did not threaten to commence Hoftilitifs 
 againll youi but you threatened to commence Hollilities againll the Briiilh Government aad 
 its Allies, and when called upon to explain y,)ur intentions, you declared that it was doubtful 
 whether there would be Peace or War ; and in conformity with your thteats and your declared 
 doubts, you afiembled a large Army in a station contiguous to the Nizain"> Frontier. 
 
 On this ground I called upon you to withdraw that Army to its ufual Stations, if your fub- 
 fequent pacific declarations were fmcerc. Eiit inllead of tcm.plying with this r^afonable re- 
 quifition, you have propofed that 1 (houid withdraw the Troops which are intended (e defend 
 the Territories of the Allies againft your defigns ; and that you and the Rajah of Berar, (liould 
 be fufFcred to remain with your Troops aflembled, in readinefs to take advantage of their 
 
 "abfence. 
 
 This Propofition is unreafonable and inadmiflable ; and muft ftand the confequen"es of the 
 meafures which I find myfelf obliged to adopt in order to repel your AggrefTions. 
 
 I offered you Peace, upon terms of equality and boiioraMe to all Panics, You have chofeii 
 ■ War, and are refponfiblc for all the Confeqncnces. 
 
 I
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 I cannot account for JeiWunt Rao Goorparah's coming unpro- 
 vided with the ufual Powers. In proporUon however that I gain 
 experience of the Marhaftas, I have reafon to be aftoniilied at the 
 low and unaccountable tricks, which even the highert: Cbffes of 
 them praftife, with a view, how ever remote, to forward t'heJr 
 own Interefts. 
 
 As Jefwunt Rao Goorparah is a man of high Familjr, and in 
 his manners and appearance rather fupsrior to the Marhatta 
 Chiefs who I have feen in general, and as there is no doubt, but 
 that Dowlut Rao Scindiah is reduced to great diftrefs, it is pro- 
 bable that this MifTion is intended to obtain Peace. It is only 
 lately that Dowlut Rao Scindiah, has heard of the brilliant Suc- 
 cefTes of His Excellency the Commander in Chief, in the neigh- 
 Th: Affiuit and bourhood of Delhi ; and it is probable that the firft accounts 
 
 Capture of the 
 
 Town of Agra, that hc will rcccivc of that of the loth Ottober near Agra will 
 
 and of the Ene» ^ 
 
 dlr thf will" of be from this Camp, when he will of courfe become more anxious 
 
 the Town. 
 
 to obtain Peace. 
 
 1 have therefore no doubt but that the proper Powers will be 
 tranfmitted to his Vaqueel, within the time fpecified ; and if 
 they are not, I fhall requeft Jefwunt Rao Goorparah to withdraw 
 from this Camp. 
 
 As I apprized your Excellency lately, in the Month of 06lober, 
 of the probability that I fliould foon have propofitions for Peace, 
 and as I tranfmitted the letters I had received from Ballajee Khoon- 
 jur and Mahomed Meer Khan, I think it poffible that i may re- 
 ceive your Excellency's Inftruftions applicable to the ftate of 
 Affairs, at the period at which you will have received my Difpatch 
 «i.iic inthe of the Odobcr; but leall I Hiould not, I proceed to ftate to 
 
 Origintl. 
 
 your Excellency the demands which I propofe to make to Dow- 
 lut Rao Scindiah, according to your Excellency's Inftrudions of 
 the 27th of June. 
 
 /zVy?. I fliall demand from him the CefTion of all his Terri- 
 tories fituated North of thofe of the Rsjahs of Jodcpoor and Jcy- 
 na gur 
 
 Secondly. The Ctflion of the Fort of Baroach ar.d a T-rrl- 
 
 fory
 
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 tory depending thereon ;i mount in j^ to ( ), and the Fort 
 
 of" Ahmed,nuggur, and a Tcrritoiy depending thereon amounting 
 
 . thirdly.. The Ccfiion of all his Territories fituated to the 
 South\y;iid and Kill ward of the MilU called the Adjuntee Hills 
 including tlic Fort and Didridl of Jalnapoor, and all DiftriQs in 
 which he may have a joint Right, with the Souhah of the Dekan, 
 to.collccl the Revenues. 
 
 Fourt.kly.. A renunciation of all Claims of Choutc, and all 
 other Claims of whatever cienomination on the Soubah of the 
 Dekan, and al! the Allies ot the Britilh Government. 
 
 Fifthly. An ackno^vledgement of the Independance of the Ra- 
 jahs ot Jodepoor and Jcynagur. 
 
 Sixthly. A renunciation of all Claims upon the Ranah of 
 Gohud, who is in future to be dependant upon the Britifh Go- 
 vernment. 
 
 Seventhly. An Engagement never to entertain in his Service, 
 any Europeans belonging to a Country, which may be at War 
 wiih Great Britain. 
 
 Eighthly. That His Majefly (hall be under the proteclion of ti,= Emperor 
 
 ... Sluh Aulum» 
 
 the Bruma Government. 
 
 Ninthly. Th.it Scindiah fi;iall not moleft thofe Chiefs who may 
 haveafiiiled the Britilh Government during the Warj of whom I 
 fliall include the names of as many as I can procure. 
 
 I propofe to iettlc fome plan for afcertaining what Diftridls in 
 Candeilh and Malwa belong to the Pcifliwah, and what to Scin- 
 diah. 
 
 According to this plan for a Peace, Scindiah will regain his Pro- 
 vince of Ahmednuggur excepting the Fort j his Territory fubjc6l 
 to Baroach, the Fort of Powanghur, and all his Territory in Guze- 
 lat ; and the Fort of Afleerghur, and the City of Boorhanpoor, and 
 all the Territory depending upon them in Candcifli. 
 
 This Plan appears to provide for all the material objeds of 
 your Excellency's Inftrutliotis of the a/th June 1803 ; and I Ifiall 
 now ftate my reafuns for not making demands to the full extent of 
 thofe Inftrudions. yj^e
 
 ( 8 ) 
 
 The only objecls which I could obtain in addition to thofc 
 which I propofe to demand, are the Forts of Afleerghur, and the 
 City of Boorhanpoor, and the Territory depending on them in 
 Gandeifii; the Territory depending on Ahmednuggur, and that 
 in Guzerat depending on Baroach, and the Fort of Powanghur, 
 and its Dependancies and Territory. 
 
 The Fort of Aficerghur, if crdeci by Scindiah, would belong to 
 the Soubah of the Dckan ; and from what I hive feen and ex- 
 perienced of His Highnefs's Government, I think there are weighty 
 objedlions to the increafe of His Highnefs's Territories on his 
 Northern frontier. His Highnefs depends entirely for their de- 
 fence upon the exertions of the Britifli Governmenr, The fyftem 
 of ooerations on this Frontier niufl: be fundamentally defenfive, 
 from the nature of His Highnefs's Government, fiom the defi- 
 ciency of his means of defending his Country, and the probable 
 ftrength of the Corps, which the Britifli Government can allot in 
 any War to give him afliftance. 
 
 But in propo-'ion as the diftance of the frontier is increai'ed, the 
 difficulty of defending it will increafe likewife. The Fort of 
 Afleerghur will give no ftrength to ir ; and as for the City of Boor- 
 hanpoor, it would be an additional weak point on the extreme 
 frontier, for the defence of v\hich, it vv^ould be neceflary to pro- 
 vide (as for Aurungabad, in the prefent War,) out of the means 
 provided by Treaties with the Bri'ifli Government, for carrying 
 on cperatioTis in the Field. 
 
 Another reafon for ceding thefe Territories to Scindiah is, that 
 iinlefs they arc given to him, he has no motive for making Peace. 
 This reafon is likewife applicable to the Ceflion ot the Territo- 
 ries depending upon Ahmednuggur, and thofe in Guzerat. 
 
 I have alfo to obfcrve, that as jefwunt Rao Holkar has kept 
 himfelf hitherto entirely out of the War, and as he will not be 
 weakened id proportion as Dowlut Rao Scindiah has been by its 
 operations, and as Scindiah will be by its refult under the pro- 
 pofed Peace, it may be thought necjfl'iry by Your Excellency to 
 preferve a part of Scindiah 's ftrength, to enable him to fupport 
 himfdf againfl JefVv'unt Rao Holkar. If 
 
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 If Peace according to the plan above propofed, fliould be made, 
 it will remain to be determined, in what manner the Soubah of 
 the Dekan is to parricipate with the Britilh Governnient in the 
 advantage of the War. I believe there is no doubt, but that His 
 Highnefs has not performed all the conditions of the Treaty of 
 Dcfcnfive Alliance with ihe Company; But upon the whole, 
 Your Excellency may think it more confident with the liberal 
 policy of Your Government to admit him to a fliare of the be- 
 nefits of the Peace. 
 
 If thefe Arrangements fhouki be confcnted to. His Highnefs 
 will have Jalnapoor, and all the Diftrids of which Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah hjis hitherto colleded the P^evenue, jointly with His 
 Highnefs, fiiuated to the Southward and Eaftward of ths Ad- 
 juntee Hills ; I dont know the value of thefe Diftrids, but I 
 believe it is above Three Lacs of Rupees per Annum. 
 
 The Peifhwah has no Claim to participation in the Conquefts j 
 However Your Excellency may deem it proper, that he fhould 
 enjoy fome of the advantages refulting from the War; and the 
 Ceflion of his Territories in the Surat Attaveefy^ would be full 
 fatisfadion for all his Claims. 
 
 I have the honor to be, My Lord, 
 
 With the greatefl: Refpeft, 
 Your Excellency's moft obedient. 
 
 And faithful humble Servant, 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. 
 
 * The Territories in the Surat Attaveefy belonging to the Peifhwah were included in the 
 Schedule of Ceffions annexed to the Treaty of Baffeen. 
 
 @® 

 
 APPENDIX C, 
 
 No. 2. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from Major General the Honorable Arthur 
 Wellejley to the Governor General, dated Camp, Novem- 
 ber \ 3, 1803. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAVE the pleafiire to inform Your Excellency, that Amrut 
 Rao* joined me yefterday ; and that I had a meeting with him 
 in the neighbourhood of this Camp. I ana to vifit him this 
 day. 
 
 1 have lately received a letter from Paifheram Punt Pritty 
 Niddy, in which that Chief informs me, that he propofes to 
 fend to Poonah immediately, the Quota of Troops, which he 
 ought to furnifli for the fervice of the Peifhwah. 
 
 The Chiet'"s to the Southward arc in tranquility, and have 
 no extraordinary numbers of Troops about them ,• the Polygars 
 alone fituated between the Rivers Mulpurba and Gutpurba, 
 have been guilty of committing fome outrages, encouraged I 
 believe, by Serja Rao Ghautky. 
 
 Ragojcc Bhoonflah is gone towards the Barim Ghaut on the road 
 to Nagpour; and Scindiah was, by the lafl: accounts, with a 
 body of Cavalry to the Eaftward of Mulkapour, likcwife on his 
 road towards the Berar Country. 
 
 Colonel Stevenfon has by this time completed his Equip- 
 ments for the Siege of Gawilghur, and I hope that we fhall 
 now be able to carry on that operation, and to make the Berar 
 Country the feat of the War in the Dekan. 
 
 I have the honor to inclofe a Memorandum of the Conferences 
 
 Vi leConfeien- 
 cci with the 
 
 * Amrut Rao is the adopted Son of Ragoba, the Fatlier of the prefent Peidiwah. An En- 
 gagement has been concluded with Amrut Rao, by which the payment of a certain fum of 
 Money annually is guaranteed to him by the Britifh Government. Amrut Rao has obtained 
 the Governor Gsr.eral's permiflion to refidc at Eer.arts.
 
 ( 
 
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 Ambaffadorof which I havc had with Jefwunt Rao Goorparah, and Naroo 
 Berar.-Ap- Punt Nana, and Appah Deflaye, on the fubje6l of Peace. 
 
 peodix £• 
 
 1 have the honor to be, 
 
 My Lord, 
 With the greateft refpecfV, 
 
 Your Excellency's moft obedient 
 
 And faithful humble Servant, 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. 
 
 His Excellency the Governor General, &c, &c. &c. 
 
 
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 APPENDIX D. 
 
 iTi/lruSlions from His Excellency the Governor Genei'al, 
 to Major General The Honorable Arthur Wellejley, 
 under date the nth December, 1803, relative to the 
 Conclufion of Peace with the Confederate Marhatta 
 Chieftains. 
 
 TO MAJOR GENERAL THE HONORABLE 
 
 ARTHUR W E L L E S L E Y, 
 
 i^c. ^c. efr. 
 S 1 R, 
 
 1. I HAVE the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your 
 Letters, noted in the margin *. 
 
 2. I entirely approve your condudl in having admitted without 
 hefitation a Vaqucel from Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and in the recep- 
 tion which you gave to that Vaqueel. The Conference with that 
 Vaqutel of the loth November, was condudtd on your part with 
 confiderable judgment. Your demand of the full P.-wers of the 
 Vaqueel was perfc6lly juft and proper, and it was abfolutciy ne- 
 ctlTary to infift upon the produ<Sion of thofe Pov. eis from Scin- 
 diah, previoufly to the conclufion of any arrangements tending to 
 Peace. At the fame time, it was proper to permit the Vaqueel to 
 remain in your Camp, until he could be enabled to obtain regular 
 Powers from Scindiah, and it was expedient durmg his continu- 
 ance in your Camp, to permit him to offer to you whatever prp- 
 pofitions he might chufe to fubmit to your confideratiin. 
 
 3. I alfo approve your refolution to requeft the Vaqueel to witl^- 
 draw from your Camp, if he fliould not be enabled to produce the 
 lequifite Powers within the time which j ou have fpeciiied for that 
 purpofe j and I conclude, that if he ihwuld not havq produced full 
 
 ♦ One, <]:ued Camp Jaum, November ii, 1S03; and the other, dated Camp, November 
 13. 1803. 
 
 Powers
 
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 Powers from Scindiiib, yuu will have compelled - the Vaqueei to 
 depart from your Camp. 
 
 4. The fame principles will nccfilaril}' induce you to refufe ad- 
 mifficn into your Camp to any Vaqueei who may hereafter arrive 
 from Dovvlut Rao Scindiah, or from the Rajah of Berar, without 
 producing full Powers from thofe Chieftains refpedively. The 
 omifTion of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, to furnifli Jefwunt Rao Goor- 
 parah with full Powers, may have heea accidental. It may alfo 
 be attributed to the barbarous pride of Scindiah, whofc infolcnce 
 and arrogance, wounded by difappointment, may have fought r lief 
 in the hope of acquiring a temporary triumph in his own Durbar, 
 by the acquiefcence of the Britifh Government, in his difrefped:ful 
 attempt to open Negotiations for Peace through an Agent, pcffciT- 
 ing no direfct or regular Authority, from any of the Belligerent 
 Powers. The objedt of Scindiah may alio have been to gain 
 time in the defperate condition of His Affairs. 
 
 5. Your Prudence and Public Spirit frufcralcd whatever fiope 
 might have been founded on iuth mfidicus and weak projc(5tS. 
 Altera formal notification to Scmuiah, and t'ne Riijah of Berar, cf 
 your determination not to admit hereafter any AmbclTador, who 
 ihall not be furniflied vvith full Powers from his aiiedged Principal, 
 an attempt to intrude Etniffaries from the Enemy into your Camp, 
 under the pretence of opening Negotiations for Peace, will be re- 
 ceived by you as an infuit to the Britifli Government, and you will 
 (ignify to the Confederates your dct<'rmination to treat all fudi 
 EmilTaries as Spies, and to punilli them according to the eftabli-fh- 
 ed Law of Nations. You will (ihferve that under the Treaties of 
 Bafleen and Hyderabad, neither the Ptilhwah nor the Nizam, can 
 enter into any Separate Negotiaticn irom the Driiilh Government, 
 and you v/ill accordingly forbid any intcrcourfe between the Ene- 
 my and thofc Princes refpetSively. 
 
 6. The conduct of Appah DefTaye, manifcHs an entire de- 
 
 votion
 
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 votion to the interefls of Scindiah. Your Replies to the treacherous 
 communications of that artful Maihatta were extremely judicious. 
 
 7. You were empowered by my Inflrudlions of the 26th and 
 37th June, to conclude Peace with Scindiah, the Rajah of Berar, 
 and Holkar, jointly, or feparatcly ; the progrefs of the War, how- 
 ever, has afforded fufficient proof of the advantage to be derived 
 from fcparating the intercils of thofe Chiefs, and our fituation 
 now enables us to infili on fiich a reparation; My Notes of the 
 16th of O^dlober, accordingly indicated my wifh to conclude Peace 
 feparatcly with Scindiah, and the Rajah of Berar. The admiffion, 
 however of thofe Chieftains to a joint Treaty of Peace, would not 
 necefTirily involve the admilTion of either of them to Negotiate 
 cxclufively for tlie other. The Treaty may be a joint Inftrumenr, 
 although each Party may have Negotiated feparatcly for its own 
 interells. To admit any of th- Belligerent Powers to Negotiate 
 for any other, would eftablifh a permanent influence in the fcale 
 ef that Power, beyond the limits of its due weight. I therefore 
 approve your fentiments with refpedl to the feparation of the in- 
 terefls of Scindidh, the Rajah of Berar, and Holkar. 
 
 8. Scindiah cannot be permitted to treat either for the Rajah 
 of Berar, or for Holkar, excepting in the lafl extremity of our 
 affairs : Unlefs therefore circumftances fliould abfolutely compel 
 you to permit a Negotiation, of this nature, you will politively 
 rejedl ir. The fundamental principles of my recent Negotiations 
 and Treaties with the Peifliwah, would be entirely fubverted by 
 eftablifhing fuch an union of Power, as would be fixed in the 
 hands of Scindiah, if he v/ere permitted to Negotiate for the 
 Rajah of Berar, and for Holkar, or for either of thofe Chiefs. 
 
 9. In the prefent defperate ftate of Scindiih's affairs, he mufl: 
 fpeedily be convinced, that the only policy, by which he can 
 recover any confiderable degree of Rcfource or Territory, is Jo 
 feparate his intereffs from thofe of the Rajah of Berar. 
 
 10. Holkar
 
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 10. Holkar has not yet entered direftly into the War, and it 
 is certainly expedient to confider him as a Friend in every Nego- 
 tiation with the Confederates. The conduct of Kolkar however 
 is extremely fufpicious, and this circumftance furniflies an addi- 
 tional reafon for compelling Scindiah and the Rajah of Berar to 
 treat fcparately for Peace. 
 
 11. If the War with Scindiah fhouid continue, you will either 
 remove Appah Deflaye from his prefent Command, or you will 
 provide tfFc6lual fecurity againft the confequences of Appah Def- 
 faye's proved attachment to the caufe of Scindiah. In the event 
 of a protracted War with Scindiah, it would be highly defirable to 
 remove Appah Deffaye from all intercourfe with your Army. 
 
 12. Your Letter of the 6th October, tranfmittipg the Letters 
 which you had received from Ballajee Khoonjur, reached me on 
 the ift of November ; and your condu6l on that occafion received 
 my entire approbation, which was fignified to you by my Private 
 Secretary. 
 
 13. On the 26th of Odobcr, a Papsr * of Notes was for- 
 warded to you, (under date the i6th Odober) relative to vari- 
 ous qucftions afFedling the terms of Peace with the Confederate 
 Chieftains. The delay in the difpatch of thofe Notes from 
 Fort William, was occafioned by an interruption in the Paffage 
 of the Dawk, through the; Province of Cuttack. The general 
 tenor of thofc Notes will have furniflied you with a view of 
 my opinions at that period of time with regard to the condi- 
 tions of Peace. But it has not been poffible, until the prefent mo- 
 ment, to obtain (uch information with regard to the State ol the 
 War in all parts of India, to the condition of the Negotiaiions 
 
 • This Paper being in fubftancc the fame as the Governor General's Inftruflions of the i itli 
 
 December 1 boj, is not Printed in tliis Appendix. 
 
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 with various Powers, or to the fituation and views of the Confe. 
 derated Chieftains, as might enable me to IfTue final inftrudions 
 refpcfling the terms of Peace. 
 
 14. The jiift, necefTary, and attainable conditions of Peace 
 will be clearly afcertained by examining the caufcs, obje5s, ar.d 
 refiilt of the War, together with the fituation of the Enenny at 
 the prcfent time. 
 
 15. The immediate caufe of the War, was the refufal of the 
 Confederates to fcparate and withdraw to their ufual Stations, with- 
 in their refpedive Territories, the Armies which they had affem- 
 bkd and united on the Frontier of cur Ally, the Soubahdar of the 
 Deckan, after having declared, that the intention of that jundion 
 was to decide, whether there Ihould be Peace or War with the 
 Britiih Government and its Allies. 
 
 16. Under thelecirciimflances, the continuance of the Confe- 
 derate Army in the pofition, which the Chieftains appeared deter- 
 mined to maintain, was a manifeft indicaiion of a delian to fruftrate 
 by hoftilities, or by the terror of their Arms, the operation of the 
 AlHance concluded between the Britifh Government and the Peilh- 
 wah, and to difturb the tranquillity of the Dominions of the Ni- 
 zam, and ultimately of the Company. The Union of the Con- 
 federate Forces, and their commanding and menacing pofition, 
 afforded every advantage to the Chieftains in profecuting the hoftile 
 defign, which they had manifefted, and rnabled the Confederate 
 Chieftains to hold the ifTues of Peace and War in their hands, ar.d to 
 arbitrate the fateof the Deckan, according to their interefts or caprice, 
 
 17. At the fame time, the pofition and ftate of Scindiah's Forces 
 under the Command of his French Officers in Hindoflan, and the 
 machinations of Mr. Perron with the adjoining States, and wirh 
 the Subjcfts of the Company, and of the Vizier, manif^-fted ad- 
 ditional proofs of the hoftile defigns of the Confederates, and 
 
 furni(h-d
 
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 fUrniihed [h'Ce Chieftains with additional mearts of profctuUng 
 fuch defigns. 
 
 iR. The primary objed: cf the War, originating in thefc caufcs, 
 was to deprive the Confederates of the means, which they poffjjTed, 
 of profi^cvUirg their unwarrantable defigns j and the general plan of 
 Military Operations, conneded with a correfponding fyftern of 
 Political Arrangements, was calculated to preclude the Confederates 
 from reviving the fources of that Military and Political Power, 
 which they had employed to difturb the Securify of our Alliances, 
 Dependancies, and Dominions. 
 
 19. The "power of Dowlut Rao Scindlah, confidered virith rela- 
 tion to his means of afFedling the Security of the Britifh Empire in 
 India, may be defcribed to have confided at the commencement of 
 the War, in the following branches of Military and Political Rc- 
 fource : — • 
 
 iv'//?. The efficient ftate of Scindiah's Military ERablifhment, 
 under the dircdticn of European Officers, and particularly the for- 
 midable condition of his regular Infantry and Artillery, under the 
 Command of thofe Officers, 
 
 Secondly. The pofleiiion of an extenfive and rich Territory, and 
 of various ftrong Forts, Magazines, Founderics and Arfenals, with 
 confiderable fupplies of Ammunition and Military Stores, depo- 
 ftted in convenient Stations upon our Frontiers, contiguous, to the 
 moft vulnerable part of the Britifii Dominions in Hindoftan. 
 
 Thirdly. The Eftablilhment of a large and well difciplined 
 body of Troops, with a formidable train of Artillery under the 
 Command of French Officers within that Territory in Hindoflan. 
 
 Fourthly. The aftual affignment of that Territory in Hindoftan 
 to the French Officer holding the Chief Command of thofe 
 Troops. 
 
 Fifthly. The pofircffion of the Perfon of His Majcfiy Shah 
 Aulum, under the immediate power of the Forces commanded by 
 French Officers, in the fervice of Dowlut Rao Scindiah; and the 
 
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 ''xerrire of the nominal authority of the Mogul, through thoife 
 French Officers. 
 
 Sixthly. The afcendancy eflablifiud by the Agency of the French 
 Officer in Command of Scindiah's Troops in the North Wefl of 
 Hindoftan, over the Rajpoot Ciiicftains of Jeynagur andjodepour, 
 and othir States and Ciiicftains in the Northern and Weflcrn 
 Provinces of Hindoftan, and over rmany of the Seik Chiefs and 
 others occupying the Territory from the Jumna to the Banks of the 
 Indus ; and the facility afforded by the advanced Pofls of Monfieur 
 Perron's Army towards the Indus, of aiding the invafion of the 
 Britifh Dominions ihiough that quarteh 
 
 Seventhly. The facility which the pofTeffiidn of the Sea-Port of 
 Baroach afforded to Scindiah of improving his Military Eftabliffi- 
 ment by the acceffiori of Frctich or other European Officers, of 
 Military Supplies and Stores, &c. and even of a Body of French, 
 or other European Auxiliary Troops, 
 
 Eighthly. The power of difturbing the tranquillity cf the Poffcf- 
 fions of the Guikwar, and of the Company, in the Province of 
 Guaerat, By means of Scindiah's intermixed Territories and For- 
 trcffes in that Province, and by his claims and influence in that 
 quarter. 
 
 Ninthly. The Power of diP.urbing the tranquillity of the State 
 of Poonah, and the flability of our Alliance with the PeiHiwah, 
 by Scindiah's intermixed Territories and Fortreffes in the vicinity 
 of Poonah, and to the Southward of ihe River Taptee (efpecially 
 the Fortrefs and Territory of Ahmednuggurj and by Scindiah's 
 various claims upon the State of Poonah^ and by his influence at 
 that Court. 
 
 Tenthly. Scindiah's intermixed and bordering Fortreffts and 
 Poffeffions, which enabled him to menace and difturb the Domi- 
 tiions of the Soubahdar of the Deckan, and to impair the efficien- 
 cy o? the Britifh Alliance with that Prince; and Scindiah's 
 various claims upot\ the Soubahdar of the Deckan, and confcquent 
 influence at Hyderabad. 
 
 Eleventhly. The general magnitude, wealth, and flrength of Scin- 
 diah's
 
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 diah's Dominions and Army, and the reputation of riis Military 
 Power, from which he derived a general influence and afcendancy 
 at Poonah, and over all the Mahratta States, and even at Hydera- 
 bad ; which influence and afcendency had be^n uniformity diredl- 
 ed to injure the Britifli Power. 
 
 20. Under this view of the condition of Dowlut Rao Scindi- 
 ah's Power at the commencement of this War, it was dangerous 
 to the Britifli Empire ; 
 
 Firjl. By the facilities which it aftx)rdcd to the French, of in- 
 iurins^ the Britiih Intereds in India, either in co-operation with 
 Scindiah, or through the independant aid of his French and other 
 European Officers. 
 
 Secondly. By maintaining againft: the Britifli Government, a 
 Rival and hoftile influence throughcut every Native State in Incia, 
 and efpecially amongfl: our moft important Dependants and Allies 
 on the Weftern fide of India. 
 
 21. The danger ariflng from the condition of the Rajah of 
 Berar's Power, with reference to the fame conliderations, appear- 
 ed to be, at the commencement of the War j 
 
 tirji. A Military Force greatly inierior to Scindiali*s in point 
 of Difcipline, Numbers, and Artillery, but furuilliing a confidcra- 
 b!e acceflion to the general fl:rength of the Confederacy againft the 
 Britifh Government. 
 
 Secondly. The pofreflfion of an cxtenfive Territory, and fome 
 flrong Forts Commanding the Dominions of the Company, and 
 of the Soubahdar of the Dcckan in fcveral vulnerable paints. 
 
 Thirdly. The FoflTeflTion of the Province'of Cuttack, by which 
 the Rajah of Berar was enabled to interrupt the communication 
 between our Northern and Southern poflcflionsj to facilitate the 
 . invafion of Bengal, and of the Northern Circarsj and to'obtain 
 the aid of French and other European Ofiicers or Troops to be 
 landed in the Province of Cuttack. 
 
 Fouilhly. Tiic intermixture ol flic Rajah oi Berar's Poflcllions 
 
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 with thofe of the Soubahdar of the Dcckan, and his Vexatious 
 claims upon the Court oF Hyderabad, and his confequent influence 
 
 at that Court. 
 
 Fifthly. The Rajah of Berar's pretenfions to the Government 
 of Poonah, and the ifcendancy and influence, which he derives from 
 his Defcent, connected with the general magnitude of his Don^ini- 
 ons and Refources, with his fuppofed wealth, and with the hof- 
 tile fpirit, which has been manifcfled by the State of Berar for ma- 
 ny years, in counteradling the interefts of the Britilh Empire in 
 India. 
 
 22. It is not neceflary to advert to the State of Holkar's Pow- 
 er, as he has not hitherto been confidered to be a Party in 
 the War. 
 
 23. It would alfo be fuperfluous to enumerate the fpecial ob- 
 jedts of the War, as they have been fufficiently defcribed in the 
 view, which the preceding Paragraphs contain of the condition of 
 the Enemy's Power at the commencement of the War. 
 
 24. The progrefs of the War and the glorious fuccefs of our 
 Arms in Hindoftan and the Deckan, in Guzerat and Orifla, have 
 adually accomplifhed every requifite obje6l, with refpedt to the 
 rcdudlion of Dowlut Rao Scindiah's Military and Political Power, 
 have materially affe(Sled the Rajah of Berar, and have placed in 
 our hands the means of eftablifhing the fecurify of the Britifli 
 Interefts againft Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and the Rajah of Berar, 
 on foundations, which appear to promife confiderable duration. 
 
 25. At the date of your lafl difpatch, you could not have been 
 apprized of the extent of Scindiah's Lofs, and of our Sjccefs 
 againft his Power, in evory quarter, in which it has been attacked. 
 Thefe confideratioas however muft form the bads of the con, 
 ditions, which we are empowered to require from Scindiah, at 
 the eoncluiion of Peace, 
 
 26.
 
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 26. The French Force under the immediate Command of 
 Monfieur Perron in Hindoftan, has been completely deftroyed. 
 Nearly the whole Force of Scindiah's Regular Battalions in Hin- 
 doftan and the Deckan, has been dcflroyed or difperfed by the 
 Vidories obtained under the perfonal Command of His Excellen- 
 cy General Lake, at Delhi on the 11th September, and at Lafw^- 
 ree on the ill November; and under your perfonal Command at 
 AlTye en the 23d September ; and nearly the whole of Scindiah's 
 Artillery has been taken or dcftroyed. The greater part of Scin- 
 diah's European Officers is now placed under the proteftion of 
 the Briiifh Power. The Territory formerly pofT'eired by Dowlut 
 Rao Scinoia'h in the D'oab of the Jumna and Ganges, and affigned 
 to Monfieur Perron f6r the payment of the French Force in Scin- 
 diah's fervice, has been fubjedled to our authority; Scindiah has 
 loft the Forts of Delhi, Muttra, and Agra, with the adjoining 
 Territory on the Right Bank of the Jumna, ?.nd a confiderable 
 fum of Money (Twenty-four Lacks of Rupees) taken in the Fort 
 of Ao^ra, and Five Lacks of Rupees at Delhi ; wiih further fumsof 
 Money taken at Alyghur, and in other places, and immediately 
 divided by the Troops after the leveral Aftions. The perfon of 
 His Majefty Shaw Aukim, and the Royal F"amily, have been 
 placed under the prctetlion ot the Britrfli Power. Scindiah has 
 been deprived of the means of availing himfelf of his conneftiora 
 with the Seiks, with the Rajpoots, and with all the Chiefs and States 
 in the North of Hindoftan, and the Alliance of fevcral of thofe 
 Chieftains has been tranferred to the Britifli Government. Bt^gum 
 Sumroo has placed herfelf under the prote(Sion of the Britilh -Go- 
 vernment, and has recalled her Battalions in the Dcckaii frOni 
 Scindiah's feivice. From the State of the Negotiation with Rajah 
 Ambajee at the date of our latefi. Advices from His Excellency 
 the Guminander in Chief, it may be expe<ited thtt Scindiah is 
 now deprived of that portion of his Territorial PolTcmons in Hin- 
 doftan, which was placed under the authority of Ambajee, and 
 that Scindiah has altogether loft the iupport of Ambajec*s. Power. 
 The Sea-Port of Baroach and its dependant Territoryi the Forts 
 
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 ofChampaneer and Pcwanghiir, with fhe whole of ScindisK's 
 Territory in the Province of Guzerat fituatcd to the Northward 
 of Baroach, have been fubje(f\ed to our authority. The Diftrift of 
 Godra has been occupied by our Troops. The Fort and Terri- 
 tory of Ahmednuggur, with the City of Boorhanpoor and the 
 Fort of Afleer-ghur, have alfo been fubjt-acd to the authority of 
 the Britidi Government j and the Fort and Diltridt of Jalnapore 
 with other Diftrids in the Dsckan have been occupied by the 
 combined Armies of the Britilh Government and the Soubahdar 
 of the Deckan. 
 
 27. The lofs fuflained by the Rajah of Berar muft be conii- 
 dered feparately in any Negotiation wirh that Chief. It is pro- 
 per however to ftate that lofs in this place, becaufe it his dimi- 
 nifhed the Power of Scindiah as a Confederate againfl the Britifh 
 Government and our Allies in the further profecution of the 
 War. 
 
 2S. From the Rajah of Berar, all the intermixed Marhatta 
 Territories within the Frontier of the Company on the fide of 
 Midnapoor, have been taken and annexed to the Britilli Domini- 
 ons; and the valuable Province of Cuttack has alfo been fubdued, 
 and nearly fettled. The lofs of Jaggernaut mufl: deeply affed: 
 the confideration of the Rajah of Berar in the eyes of all the Na- 
 tive Powers. It is alfo reafonable to fuppofe, that the Military 
 Force of the Rajah of Berar muft have fuffered confiderably at the 
 Battle of AfTye, and during his fubfequent unfuccefsful Operations, 
 until the period of his difgraceful retreat to his own Territories. 
 
 29. Under thefe cir^umftances, the Power and Dominion 
 of Dowlut Rao Scindiah mu(l: be confidered to hive fufTcred a de- 
 gree of redudlion nearly amounting to total ruin; and the Rajah 
 of Berar, with fuch redudion as he has fuffered in his feparate 
 refources, appears to be at the Mercy of tlie Britilh Governmenc 
 for the remainder of his PulTsffions, without any further hope, (ia 
 
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 tiie event of a continuance of the War), than that which he 
 may found on the exifting remnant of Scindiah's Power. 
 
 30. You have not apprized me of your opinion- with regard 
 to the degree of connexion remaining between Scindiah and the 
 Rajah of Berar fince the reparation of their Forces. The propofi- 
 tion of Appah DefTaye, tending to reprcfent Scindiah as a Mediator 
 for the Rajah of Berar and for Holkar, furnifhes no proof of the 
 fubfiflente of the Confederacy between Scindiah and the Rajah of 
 Berar. This reprefentation may have been fabricated by Appah 
 DclT'aye, cr by Jefwunt Rao Goorparah, or by Scindiah, for the 
 purpofes of their own interefls, or for the gratification of the cha- 
 rafleriftic vanity and pride of the Marhatta Chieftains. 
 
 31. It is therefore polTible, that in the prefent flate of the rela- 
 tion between the two Chiefs, neither can expe6l cordial or effec- 
 tual fupport from the aid of the other, while it is evident, that the 
 caufe of both mull have fufFered from their common lofs and dif- 
 grace, during the continuance of the Confederacy. 
 
 Q2, Scindiah cannot entertain any jufl: hope founded upon his 
 own power and refources of recovering any part of his Poffcffions, 
 or of retrieving any branch of his affairs by the further progrefs of 
 the War. 
 
 33. Scindiah can entertain no hope ofeffe£lual affiftance from 
 the Raj h of Berar, who mufl: alfo expedt to fuffcr additional lofs, 
 if not utter deftru£lion, from a protradted War with the Britifli 
 Power, in its prefent condition. 
 
 34. It is not probable, that either Scindiah or the Rajah of 
 Berar found any expedaticn of affiflance from the co-operation 
 of Holkar. If Holkar fliall engage in the War, his operations 
 will probably be directed to his own feparate purpofes : no appre- 
 henfion cxiQs of Holkar's fucccfs in any important cnterprize, 
 
 either
 
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 either for the attainment of his own objeds, or of thofe of the 
 Confederacy. The means which may be employed to conciliate 
 Holkar, may alfo be expetled to prove fuccefsful. 
 
 35. From the French it is nearly impoffible that either Scin- 
 diah or the Rajah of Berar could now derive any aid, even if thofe 
 Chieftains, after the dcfedion of Monfieur Perron, (hould be dif- 
 pofed to accept fuch affiflance; nor is it p robable, in the prefent 
 flate of the French Power in India, and iti Europe, that France 
 could make luch an attempt upon any part of our Dominions ia 
 India, as might operate to divert our Forces from the cffc6lual 
 profecution of another Campaign againfl Dowlut Rao Scindiahj 
 and the Rajah of Berar, and even againfl Holkar, if he flaould 
 mix in the War. 
 
 26. On the other hand, the refources of the Britifli Govern- 
 ment in India, are fully equal to the continuance of the War for 
 another Campaign, if fuch a delay fliould appear to be neceffary, 
 for the purpofe of placing our fecurity on folid foundations. 
 
 37. An early conclufion of the War is however highly defira- 
 hle, if it can be obtained by fuch means, as Ihall effedually fecure 
 the juft obje<fls of the War, and the {lability of Peace, 
 
 38. The fituation of the Enemy therefore, (combined with that 
 of the Britifh Government,) has reduced every itnportant queflion 
 lefpedting the Conditions of Peace, to confiderations of policy and 
 juftice. No neceflity exifts to require a fpeedy conclufion of 
 Peace on terms in any degree inadequate to our juft Rights arid 
 permanent Security. 
 
 39. Any appearance on our part of a folicitude for the early 
 termination of the War would probably fruflrate that defirable 
 objed:, and a premature or defedlive Treaty of Peace would 
 open frelh and abundant fources of War, from which innu- 
 
 merable
 
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 merable calamities would flow hereafter, when we might not 
 retain the advantages, which we now pofiefs, for the vigoruus 
 profecution of hoftilities. 
 
 40. The refloration to Dowhit Rao Scindiah of any part 
 of the Territories conquered froni that Chieftain is therefore to 
 be viewed as an aft of mere concefTion and hberal clemency on 
 the part of the Britifli Governmtnt, proceeding from thofe prirj- 
 ciples of moderation and prudence, which conftitute the foun- 
 dations of our Policy in India. 
 
 41. It would neither be juft, humane, nor honorable to infift 
 upon the redudion of Scindiah's Power to any extent unnecelTa- 
 ry to fceure the juft objeds of the War, together with the fafety of 
 the Britifli Power and of its Allies. The Britifh Government will 
 never deem any courfe of Policy to be confiftent with its wifdotn 
 and true interefls, which is repugnant to the genuine dictates of 
 juftice, humanity and honour. 
 
 42. My duty requires me to employ every effort to reduce 
 the Power of the Enemy within the bounds prefcribsd by the 
 fccurity of the interefts committed to iny charge ; but it would 
 be equally injurious to the glory and Power of this Government 
 to profecute War for purpofcs of Vengeance, and to urge the 
 fall of a Conquered Enemy, beyond the limits of our own 
 fafety and felf defence. 
 
 43. The flafe of the War,and the condu6l of Scindiah might have 
 beenfuch, as to require the entire dcflruction of Scindiah's Pow- 
 er for purpofes abfolutely ncccflary to our fecuriry ; In the prc- 
 fent circumflances, it appears to me 10 be unnecefTar}' to pro- 
 ceed to that extremity, and under this imprefTion, I now pro- 
 ceed to fignify to you the condition.";, upon which, I am pre- 
 pared to conclude Peace with Scindiah. 
 
 44. The mofl advnntaficous bads of a Peace with Scindiah 
 
 would
 
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 would certainly be formed by his acceffion to the General De- 
 fenfive Alliance, ami by his acceptance of a Subfidiary Force from 
 the Britilh Government on the terms of the Treaties of Hydra- 
 bid and Bad'een, according to the propolitions tendered to 
 Scindiah by Colonel Collins, at various periods of time: Go- 
 pies of thofc Propofitions are forwarded to you, for your infor- 
 mation and jruidance. 
 
 a^ 
 
 45. in order to explain to you, in the mofi diftindl manner, 
 the nature of my views with regard to the conclufion of Peace 
 with Scindiah, it will be necefHiry to confider the cffc6t, which 
 Scindiah's acceptance of a Sublidiary Alliance, ought to be per- 
 mitted to produce upon the terms of Peace. 
 
 46. Fur this purpofe, as well as with a view to apprize you 
 of my ultimate determination with regard to a Ceffation of Hof- 
 tilities with Scindiah, I deem it to be advifable to ftate three 
 diftindl plans of Peace with Scindiah, modified according to the 
 circumltancfs of each refpedlive Cafe. 
 
 (A.) Fir//. The terms of Peace with Scindiah which would 
 be moft defirable, if he lliould not accept a Subfidiary Alliance. 
 
 (B.) Secondly. The terms of Peace which mud ultimately be 
 required from Scindiah, even at the hazard of continuing the 
 War, if Scindiah fhould decline a Subfidiary Alliance. 
 
 (C.) Thirdly. The terms of Peace to be concluded with Scin- 
 diah upon the bafis of a Subfidiary Alliance. 
 
 FIRST PLAN A. 
 
 ARTICLE I. (a a.) 
 There fliall be Peace and Friendfliip between the Britifli Go- 
 vernment and all its Allies, and Dependants, and Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 All Territories, Rights, and Pretenfions of Dowlut Rao Scindi- 
 ah
 
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 ah, fituated to the Northward of the Territories of Oudepoor, 
 Jodepoor and Jyenagur, to be ceded to the Company. 
 
 ARTICLE 11. 
 
 The Rajahs of Oudepoor, Jodepoor, and Jyenagur, to be inde- 
 pendant of Scindiah, and inckided in the Treaty of Peace, as 
 Allies of the Britifh Government. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 Scindiah's Claims on the Ranah of Gohud to be renounced. 
 The Ranah of Gohud to be independint of Scindiah, and included 
 in the Treaty of Peace, as an Ally of the Britilh Government. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 All Territories now held by Ambajee, to be ceded to the 
 Britifh Governtnent. Ambajee to be independant of Scindiah, 
 and to be included in the Treaty of Peace, as an Ally of the 
 Britifh Government. 
 
 ARTICLE v.* 
 
 Scindiah to renounce all interference or connet^ion with the 
 Chiefs and Territories of Machcrry and Bhurtpoor, of Calpee and 
 Janfi ; with the Chiefs or Territories, fituated between the Right 
 Bank of the Jumna, and the River Sutledge ; with the Chiefs and 
 Territories of Bundelcund and Bogglecund, and with any Chief 
 or Territory fituated to the Northward of the Province of Malvva, 
 and all claims whatever on all thofe Chiefs and Territories. 
 
 ARTICLE VI.* 
 
 Scindiah to renounce all Claims upon the Seik Chiefs, or 
 Territories. 
 
 ARTICLE VII.* 
 
 All Chiefs and States, who may have afTifted the Britifli 
 Government during the War, to be proteded from injury, al- 
 though their Territory may be reded to Scindiah by (he Treaty of 
 Peace. < 
 
 ARTICLE
 
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 ARTICLE VIIL* 
 All Treaties concluded bv Central Lake, or Major G^rt^rsl 
 Welleflev, or by the Britifh Gorernment with any Chiefs or 
 States durtnj^ the W-ir, to be acknowledged and confirmed by the 
 Treaty of Peace, ard all Alliances formed by the Britifla Govern- 
 ment during the War, to be acknowledged and confirmee? by the 
 Treaty of Peace. 
 
 * Note to explain the intention of Articles jth, 6th, 7th and 8tli, rcfpei'^iiig the exi.-Iufian 
 of Sciinliah's ii.fluence over the Petty .States in Hiruioflan. 
 
 Ambajac'sTcrrritories extend to Serous, ani include Gohud and the Diflrift of Kutchwab. 
 j-jplni-E;. it is ft.ited, ll'.irrecn Lacs of Riipres annually. 
 
 Within tlicfe Territories are the ind«pendant Chieftains of ^ 
 
 Kota, 
 
 Kng°oS'jr, } Situated bet\7*en Kota and Seron*: 
 Chanderce, 
 r)utt>ah, 
 Janfi, 
 Calpy and 
 
 Narw;i. ■ ■ ■ i 
 
 The r.ther Chieftains to l)c rendered inJcpenJant of SciaJiah, a:;d to be included In thi; 
 Terms of Peace, appear to be 
 
 I. The SEIKHS. 
 
 II. The RAJPOOTS : viz. 
 
 1 Jeypoor, 
 
 2 Jodepoor, 
 
 3 Oudcpoor> 
 
 4 Petty Chiefship of Kcro-.vlii", 
 
 5 Petty Chiefship of Killienghur, near Agimere, , - . 
 
 6 The Chief of Macherry, called the Row Rajah, whofe Capital is Ahv'ar, 
 
 and with whom a Treaty ]ias been concluded hv General Lake. 
 
 7 The Dlftria of Beykaneer. And • • ' 
 
 8. Generally all Territories, iyin^' to the Northward of Oudepoor, Kutchwara/ 
 (Ambajee's Diffriifi', whith is to be incliidcd) and Behut, fo as to in-l 
 cUidc the Paffes in that quarter leading into HiaJoftan. 
 in. The JAUTS. The principal of whom are the RaiS.ih, of Gohnd, and the Bhurrpont 
 K:'j:ih, with the lat'.ti of whom a Treaty has already been contlu.ied ■ 
 ly General like. 
 
 IV. The Diftiias of Enndelcund, 
 Eopglecundj 
 liopaui) 
 Gurrah, 
 Chundail, 
 Schajepoorj 
 Chohan, 
 iBiitonj.-:, 
 Sing row la. 
 
 Srme Petty Chieftains may hare b?en omitted in this lift, but General Weilelley is recom-' 
 trended to call upon Lieutenant Colonel keyno'ds, who poflVlTes the moll accurate information 
 vith rcari to the Province oi* Mdwa, and thb Cduntties in its vicinity. 
 
 Tl is Note was rather intended for the purpofe of apprizing General Wellefley, of the. ge- 
 neral outline of the limits widur'wl.ich ii was the Governor Generals defire to confine the 
 Power of Scindiah, than to form the ground of any enumeration of Diliricls in the Treaty 
 of Peace. The Governor General ir. a Lctt;'r c'f the 17th January i S04, to Major General 
 Wellefley ohferves. — " I am aware that over fome of the Dillrifls enumerated in the Notes, 
 " Scindiah has never excrclfcd any authority, and perhaps never advanced; any pretenfior.sl 
 " Mv widi was merely to explain to ycu the orient of the Boundary which I defirsu to oppole 
 «• to Scindiah's Power. By fome accidental error, the. name ot the Diftrict of Eopaul has 
 " been inferted in the Note. Yea will be pleafed to correft this .-niilake, as it was not ir,y 
 ^< ii-rt;ntien that the Dlftrift of Bona;' fhiitld in anv manner bi brought into <jue(?ion." 
 
 ARTICLE 
 
 V See Rentiell'i Map of Ilindoaan.
 
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 ARTICLE IX: 
 His Majefty Shah Aulum, and the Royal Family, tobe under 
 the protection of the Britifli Government, and Scindiah to re- 
 nounce all concern in His M;tjeRy's Affairs. 
 
 A R T I C L E X. . 
 
 The Fortrefs and City of Baroach, with the whole Territory 
 Dependant thereon, to be retained by the Company, 
 
 ARTICLE XL 
 
 The Fortrefs of Powanghur and the Fort and Diftrid of Cham- 
 poneer, to be retained by the Company. 
 
 ARTICLE Xir. 
 All other Diftrifls in Guzerat, belonging to Scindiah within 
 ( ) diftance of the Sea, to be ceded to the Company. 
 
 ARTICLE XIIL 
 The Fortrefs of Ahmednuggur, with the Territory dependant 
 thereon, to be ceded to the Peifhwah. 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 All Territories belonging to Scindiah, fituated to the South- 
 ward and Eaflward of the AJjuntee Hills, including the Fort 
 and Diflridl of Jalnapoor, and all Diftri6ts in which Scindiah 
 may have exercifed a joint right with the Soubahdar of the De- 
 kan to colled the Revenues, to be ceded to the Soubahdar of the 
 Dckan. 
 
 A R T I C L E XV. 
 
 Scindiah to renounce all Claims of Choute of whatever denomi- 
 ration on the Soubahdar of the Dekan, and on all Allies of the 
 Britifh Government. 
 
 ARTICLE XVL 
 Scindiah to renounce all Claims of whatever denomination 
 upon the Nizam, the PeifliwaU, the Guikwar, and all Allies of 
 the Company. 
 
 ARTICLE XVII. 
 Scindiah to difmifs fronx his Service, all Europeans novf enter- 
 tained
 
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 tained therein, and never to entertain any European in his Service, 
 niihout the cxprefs confent of the Britifh Governnment. 
 
 ARTICLE XVIir. 
 Scindiah never to entertain in his Service any Native Sub- 
 jedl of the Britifh Government, without the exprefs permiflion 
 of the Britifh Government. 
 
 ARTICLE XIX. 
 The Britifh Government and Scindiah coiiflantly to maintain 
 Refident Envoys at their refpedtive Durbars, for the prefervation 
 of mutual good underftanding. 
 
 ARTICLE XX. 
 
 The Fort of AfTcerghur, and the City of Booihanpore, with 
 all the Territories Dependant thereon in Gandeifh, to be reftored 
 to Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 
 ARTICLE XXL 
 
 The Diftrid: of Godra to be reftored to Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 
 ARTICLE XXII. 
 
 All Territories and PolTeflions Conquered from Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah in Malwa and Candeifh to the Northward of the 
 Taptee, to be reftored to Dowlut Rao Scindiah. 
 
 ARTICLE XXIli. 
 AH Territories and PolTeflions belonging to the Peifliwah in 
 Malwa or Candeifh to the Northward of the Taptee, to be Ceded 
 to Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 
 47. This Plan provides effe6lually for every obje£l of Securi- 
 ty againft the Power of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and it is my 
 earneft defire, that an effort fhould b,e made to obtain all thefe 
 Conditions, unlefs Scindiah can be induced to accede to a Sub- 
 lidiary Alliance with the Company. If Scindiah fhould ob- 
 ject to fuch an Alliance, it will then be neceffary to confider 
 the ultimate terms which muft be required from Scindiah at the 
 hazard jf continuing the War. 
 
 48.
 
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 48, In ftating tbefe terms, the mofl clear method will be to re- 
 fer to Plan (A) , marking fiich Articles as mull be maintained 
 without alteration by Ir-tter (B), and ftating fuch modifications as 
 are admillible in any Article refpedively. 
 
 S E C O N D P L A N (B). 
 
 Article ifl,-^ 
 
 Article 2d, 
 
 Article 3d, 
 Article 4th. 
 Article 5th. 
 Article 6th. )* 
 Article 7th. 
 Article 8th. 
 Article gth. 
 Article 10th. J 
 
 Article nth. 
 The Fortrefs of Powanghur, and the Fort and Diftrid of 
 Champonecr to be reftored to Scindiab. 
 Article 1 2th. B. 
 Article 13th. 
 The Fort of Ahmednuggur, and a Territory depending thereon 
 amounting to ( ), to be retained by the Peifliwah. The re- 
 maining Territory of Ahmednuggur, to be reftored to Scindiab, 
 under an engagement, that Scindiab Ihall never maintain in that 
 Diftridt a Military Force beyond the amount of ( ), or beyond 
 the amount neceffary for the colledion of the Revenue, and the 
 maintenance of the Police of the Country. 
 Article I4tb.^ 
 Article 15th. 
 Article 16th. 
 Article lytb. 
 Article 18th. )>']^^ 
 Article 19th. 
 Article 20tb. 
 Article 2ill. 
 Article 22d. J ^rt-
 
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 This Article may probably be omittcJ, if the itdituiicns fla- 
 tcd in the preceding Article, be made to Scindiah. This Article, 
 however, might perhaps be received by Scindiah, as a Compcn- 
 iation for the retention of Territory in the vicinity of lidroacb, and 
 on the Sea Coaft, as fpctitied in Articles io:h and 12th of this 
 Plan. 
 
 49. This Plan (B) differs from your prop.ofuions, in Article 
 4th, which flipulates for the Cellion of the Territories, held by 
 Ambajee; in the Articles 10th and 12th, rcfpeciling the retention 
 of. the Territory of Baroach and Scindiah's Maritime PofTeffions 
 in Guzerat ; and in Article 13th, which impofcs reftridtions upoiv- 
 tlie amount of the Force to be maintained by Scinihah, in the 
 Diftriftof Ahmednuggur. Articles 17th, 18th, and ipih, are alfa 
 additions to your propofitions. The independance of Anibajee 
 and the Arrangements of the Territory held by him. have pro- 
 bably been guaranteed already by the Commander in Chief. This 
 Article therefore will not admit of alteration. 
 
 50. The admiffion of Scindiah into any part of the Diftrid: of 
 Guzerat is extremely objedtionable; and if it be pradieable, it would 
 tend much to the Stabihty of the P<;ace, to exclude Scindiah- al- 
 Too-ether from all intermixture with the Territories of our Alhrs. 
 The fame reafoning applies with additional Force, againft the relli- 
 tution of any part of the Territory of Ahmednuggur. The reflo- 
 ration of any portion of Scindiah's authority in a poflTcffioa 
 contiguous to Poonah, and to the Frontier of the Nizam, ought 
 to be avoided. 
 
 51. The reflitution of Povvanghur, Champoneer and Godra 
 appears to be lels dangerous, than any other reftitution propofcd 
 in Guzerat. The abfolute exclufion of Scindiah from any Mari- 
 time PofleiTion appears to me to be jndifpenfible. 
 
 52. Youi?
 
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 52. Your reafoning refpedlng the Fort of Affciergliur, and the 
 City of Boorhanpoor, is perfeftly fatisfaftory. 
 
 53. The Articles (17th and i8th) ref^cdling the exclufion 
 from Scindiah's Service, of all European Officers, and Britifh 
 Subjedts, European or Native, are indifpenfable. 
 
 54. The 19th Article, refpecling the Refidence of Envoys, is 
 
 alfo abfolutely neceilary. 
 
 55. The alterations which I have made upon your propor- 
 tions, appear to me to be extremely defirable, if not abfoluteiy 
 necefTary for our Security againft Scindiah. 
 
 56. You will however, be more competent to form a corred: 
 viewof many details of this fubjedV, than it is poffible for me to take 
 at this diftance ; you can alfo afcertain correcftly the precife degree 
 in which Scindiah's means of continuing the War have been redu- 
 ced by our fuccefs, and therefore, although my judgment would 
 incline me to apprehend danger from any conceffions, beyond the 
 limits of this Plan (B), I authorize you to exercife your dif- 
 cretion in changing or modifying any of the Articles, (except- 
 ing Articles 4th, 17th, i8th, and r9th,) bearing in mind, how- 
 ever, the general tenor and fpirit of my Inftrudlions. 
 
 57. In my opinion, the terms of Peace, granted to Sclndiah, 
 by this Plan (B), are not only juft and equitable, but liberal, confi- 
 dered with reference to the relative fituation of the Belligerent 
 Powers. 
 
 r8. The principal objeds to be obferved in the conditions of 
 Peace with Scindiah, fhould be to limit his Mihtary Power and Re- 
 fources, and to preclude his intercourfe with France, his inter- 
 ference with our Allies and Dependants, and his refumption of 
 the means of menacing our Frontier, and of difturbing the internal 
 'iranquillity of our Dominions. 59. If
 
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 ^9. If Scindiah flioiild conclude a Treaty of Peace with the 
 Britifh Government upon the Bafis of a Subfidiary AUiancc, and 
 fhould enter with fincerify into that AlHance, I fhould feel no 
 difficuhy in conceding every point ftated in your propofitions, as 
 far as they refpc£l rellitution of Territory* 
 
 60. The Articles 4th, lylh, iSih, and 19th, of the two pre- 
 ceding Plans, admit of no change or modification. 
 
 61. In order to render this divifion of the Subjedl entirely 
 diftindt, I have thought it proper to enumerate the feveral Ar- 
 ticles of a Treatv under this Plan, 
 
 All Articles of Plan (B) to be retained in this Treaty without 
 alteration, will be marked (C.) and any admiffible alterations or 
 modifications will be ftated under fuch Articles, as are to be altered 
 or modified. 
 
 THIRD PLAN (C) 
 
 Articles ift." 
 2d. 
 
 3d. 
 4th. 
 
 5th. > a 
 
 6th. 
 7th. 
 8th. 
 gih._ 
 
 Article loth. 
 
 To be modified according to your propofition, retaining only 
 the Fortrefs and City of Baroach, with an adequate Territory. 
 
 Article nth, as in Plan B. (C.) Article 12th, in Plans (A) and 
 (B) to be omitted. Article 13th, the Fortrefs only of Ahmed- 
 nuggur, with a fufficient Territory to be retained. 
 
 Article
 
 c. 
 
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 Article i4fh. 1 
 
 Article 15th. 
 
 Article iGth. 
 
 Article ijih. 
 
 Article i8th. ')> 
 
 Article 19th. 
 
 Article 20th. 
 
 Article 21ft. 
 
 Article 22d. 
 
 Article 23d. It would be defirable to efFcd an Exchange of 
 the Peilliwah's Territories, iti Mahva,and Candeilh, Northward of 
 the Taptee, for the Diftrids of Ahmcdnu^gur ; and if thofe Ter- 
 ritories in Malwa, and Gandeilh (hould not prove an adequate 
 Compenfation to Scindiah, an endeavour might be made to Com- 
 penfate to him by a further Arrangement. Perhaps hov/ever, the 
 determination, which I now proceed to ftate, may appear to 
 furnifh adequate Compenfation for any difference between the 
 value of the Diftrii5ts of Ahtnednuggyr, and ihcife which the 
 Pcifliwah may cede to Scindiah, in Malwa and Candeifli. 
 
 62. If Scindiah fliould agree to accept a Subfi<.^iary Force, 
 of the amount of that ftationcd at Hyderabad, I would require no 
 other affignmcnt of Territory, or pf other funds for the pnymenr 
 of the Subfidy, than that comprehended iu the Articles ot the 
 Treaty propofed in this Plan (C). 
 
 63. In this event, you wilj annex the Subddiary Engagements 
 on the part of the Britifli Government to the Articles already flatcd, 
 omitting any aflignment of Terrirory, or of otlicr Funds for the 
 payment of the Subfidy on the part ot 13a.\lut Rao Scindiah. 
 
 64. As it ispoffible, however, that it may be fatisfa£lory to 
 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah, to adign by the Terms of the Treaty in the 
 
 form of Security for the payment of the Subfidy, the whole or part 
 
 of the Territories, rrqniitd to be ceded to the Biitifli Government 
 
 ; by
 
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 by the preceding Anicles, I authorize you to accede to any fuch 
 propofition on the put of Dovvlut Rao Scindiah, provided the 
 ceflion of ail fuch Territory (hall contain a complete renunciation 
 of all Right or Claim of Sovereignty or Authority on the part of 
 Dotvlut Rao Scindiah, and an acknowledgement of the perpetual 
 Rights of Sovereignty of the Britifli Government over fuch 
 Territory, to the extent in which Scindiah may pofTcfs the Right 
 or Pov/er of ceding or acknowledging [fuch perpetual Sovereign- 
 65. In the prefent condition of Scindiah's Affairs, it is not im- 
 probable that he may be inclined to feek the Protecflion of a Sub- 
 fidiary Force of Britifh Troops, from which alone, he can now 
 cxpe£l to derive efFc6lual Support againft Holkar, or even the 
 msans of maintaining himfelf againfl the Tributaries, and Depen- 
 dants, which will remain nominally annexed to his Dominion, at 
 the clofe of the War. 
 
 66. As the preceding obfervaticns contain every inflru£lion 
 neceffary to enable you to negotiate and conclude Peace with 
 Dowiut Rao Scindiah, and as you have already received the no- 
 tifications of the concefllons to be required from the Rajah of 
 Birar, I (hall difpatch this Letter, referving for future confidera- 
 tion fuch inflrut^ions as may appear to me to be neceflary to re- 
 gulate the Partition of our Conquefts with the Allies, and to com- 
 plete the fyflem of a general Pacification of tlie Native Powers 
 of Hindoftan and the Deckan. 
 
 67. In reviewing this difpatch, I perceive that I have not 
 noticed an omifTion in the Plan of Peace with Scindiah contain- 
 ed in your difpatch of the nth November, this omiffion is 
 fupplied in the Eighth Article, of each of the three Plans A. B. C. 
 and as the fubftance of that Article was brought under your 
 particular confideration by the Notes difpatched to you on the 
 26th of Oflober; I am fatisfied that this fnhjed will engage 
 
 your
 
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 yout attention in the Negoaatioa of Peace with any of the 
 Belligerent Powers. 
 
 I have the honor to be, <5cc. Sec. Sec, 
 
 (Signed) WELLESLEY. 
 
 Fort William, 
 tith of December t 1803. 

 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 Conferences between Major General WelleJIey, and the 
 Amhajfador of the Rajah of Berar,
 
 MEMORANDUM of the CONFERENCES be- 
 tween Major General The Honorable 
 ARTHUR WELLESLEY and the AMBASSA- 
 DOR of the rajah of BERAR. 
 
 November 30, 1803. 
 
 JESWUNT RAO RAMCHUNDER. brought a letter from the 
 Rajah of Berar, and defired to have a meeting with Major 
 tJeneral Wellefley. He came in the evening, and had a confer- 
 ence with Major General Wellefley, at which were prefent Major 
 General Wellefley, Govind Rao, and Mr. Elphinflone. 
 
 He began by faying that the Rajah of Bsraf w;is the. antient 
 Ally of the Company, and he went through a long hiftory of his 
 arrival at Scindiah's Camp, of his converfations with Colonel 
 Collins, and of Colonel Collins* departure from the Camp, becdufe 
 the Rajah would not diey his orders to return to his ov/n Coun- 
 try. Jefwunt Rao then faid, that Ahmednuggur and Baroach were 
 taken, the War comnrienced, and he was fent here to endeavouf 
 to put an end to it. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that it certainly was material 
 to the caufe of the Rajah of Berar, that it (hould be proved, 
 that he had not been the aggreflbr in the War; as, if he (hould 
 prove that, however fuccefsful the Britifli Troops had been, the 
 juftice of the caufe would be on (he fide of the Rajah, and he 
 certainly would be entitled to fome confideration. But Major 
 General Wellefley obferved, the juftice of the Britifh caufe had 
 been as cleaf, as the valour of the Britifh Troops had been 
 confpicuous, and their exertions fuccefsful. 
 
 He then related the fa£ls as they had occurred, from the time 
 (he Rajah marched from Nagpour to the period of the breakino^ 
 out of the War ; he alluded particularly to the letter written 
 by the Rajah to Azim ool Omrah*, and to the notoriety of the 
 
 ♦ Prime Minifler to the late Nizam, 
 
 reports
 
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 ^porfs that the Marhatta Chieftains were confederated to attack 
 the Britifli Government ; and he concluded by alTcrting ttie right 
 of the Britifh Governmtni, to call for explanations in affembling 
 iheir Armies on the frontiers of tb.e Nizam, or t^. difpcrfe theni 
 if thofe explanations were nut fatisfadtory, and lo go to War if 
 they refufed to difperle the formidable armaments, for the af- 
 fembUng of which, no cayfe could be alTigned, excepting to ait-iLk 
 the BritifK Government. 
 
 Major General Wellefley denied that Colonel Collins lutd 
 quitted Scindiah's Camp bccaiife his ord-rs were not obiyed ; buc 
 he quitted it, becaufe no latisfadlory explanation xyas given of 
 the intentions of the Chiefs, in allembling their Armies, and the^r 
 refufed to fcparate them.. 
 
 The Vaqueel replied, that th? Countries in which the Armies, 
 had been a0cmbled, belonged tp the Rajih of Bcrar; that he had, 
 gone there for the purppfe of meeting S^cindiah, and of fettling a 
 difpute between him arid Hollva^. '^'hat the P^ifliwah had made 
 a Treaty with the Englilli, and, contrary tp. th^ cuf^otn of the 
 Marhatta Empire, had net prcvioitfly communicated with thf 
 jpthcr Marhatta Chiefs ; ^nd tha.t the leti,er vwhich had bc;cn wri;^- 
 ten to Azim ool Omrah alluded only to that Treaty, and thai he 
 had no intentipi;v qt making War when he wrote that letter. 
 
 Major General WcHcfley, iq reply, afked what hiifinefs th^ 
 Rajah of Berar had to interfere between Scindi^h and I^alkar J 
 and, if he did interfere, why he fhoii,ld bi;ing his Army to that 
 paiHicular part 9f his tern Lories \ 
 
 \\\ reply, the Vaqueel faid, th^t the Rajih interfered betwecr\ 
 Scindi^h and Holkar, b.ecaufe thole Chiefs had for many years 
 been at War, and had> plundered each other ; and had dellroyed 
 the whole of Hindoftan; and that lately the Englifli had obliged 
 Holkar to quit Foonah, and that the Rajah had been defirous 
 to iivak.Q Feace between them ; as., if he did npt,, they would have 
 fallen upon bis Country- He faid, that thcfe; Chiefs were great 
 Men with Urge Armies, and that ft was, impoITible to mediate be- 
 tween them without an Army. 
 
 Major
 
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 Major General Wellefley replied, that he believed the Vaqucel 
 had ftated the true caufe of the mediation, which was to favc 
 the Rajah's Country, and to term a Confederacy which ftiould 
 caufe an invafion of that of tht Nizam; but the Major General 
 obferved, that it was a curious mode of ccndudling a mediation 
 for a Prince to go with a fmaller Army, and (eat himfelf in the 
 Camp of One with a more powerful one j that if he had medi- 
 ated with an Army at Na^pour, the excufe might be admitted j 
 olherwife, it could not. 
 
 The Vaqueel then faid, that frhe reafon for which he had joined 
 Scindiah was, that Holkar was ftrong, and Scindiah was weak, and 
 would have been overpowered without the Rnjah's affiftance. 
 
 In reply, Major General Wellefley obferved, that the contrary 
 was the fad; that Scindiah had driven Holkar out of Hindoftan, 
 and had feized all the polfcflions of his family ; but that fup- 
 pjflng the fa6l to be as the Vaqueel had reprefented it, a curious 
 mode had been adopted of Ifrengthening Scindiah and weakening 
 Holkar; namely, by transferring to the latter all the territories of 
 his family. He concluded by obfcrving, that thefe futile argu- 
 ments and mifrcprcfentaLions of fads would certainly do no 
 good to the Kajah's caufe, and only tended to prove more clearly 
 the iad, that lite Rajah had been the original caufe of the War. 
 
 In refpcd tu the Treaty of BalTeen, Major General Wellefley 
 obferved, that the Rajah had ftated that he had no objedion to 
 that Treaty, and he would not allow that ever to be brought 
 forward as the caule of the War, or of alTimbling the Armies. 
 At all events the Major General faid, he denied the right of the 
 Marhatta Chiefs to be conlulted by the Peifhwah before he fhould 
 make a Treaty, by which His HighnefsV Government alone was 
 to be bound. 
 
 A long argument then enfued upon the fubje6l of the letters 
 written by Dowlut Rao Scindiah and the Rajah to Major General 
 Wellefley immediately previous to the War, which was to the 
 lame purport, as in the conference with Scindiah's Vaqueels ; 
 and the I'ads were equally mifreprefentcd. 
 
 Major General.Welltfley replied to this argument by relating what 
 
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 palled in the Rajah's Tent, as Rated in Colonel Collins's dirpatch. 
 
 The Vaqueel then faid, thai the Rajah was now defirous of 
 Peace, whatever might have been the caiife of the War, 
 
 Major General Wellefley alked what powers he had, and in what 
 manner he propofed, that Peace fhould be brought about. 
 
 In reply, the Vaqueel faid that he had been ordered by the Rajah 
 to learn Major General Wellefley 's wiflies upon that fubje6l, and 
 to a<5l iti conformity thereto. 
 
 In reply, Major General Wellefley recapitulated the injuries re- 
 ceived from, and the various adls of aggrefllon committed by the 
 Rajah ; the loiTes fuflained and eSpences incurred by the Company 
 in the War, and their aflonifliing and rapid faccefs ; for all which 
 the Major General faid, that compenfation would be required as 
 the price of the Peace ; and he aflced the Vaqueel, whether he was 
 empowered to treat on that bafis. 
 
 In reply, the Vaqueel faid he was not, and ufed the old argu- 
 ments regarding the injuries the Rajah had received, which was 
 overturned in the fame manner as before; 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that if the Vaqueel had no pow- 
 ers, it was neceflTary that he fliould apply for fufficient powers, 
 and that in the mean time he might remain in fome of the towns 
 in the neighbourhood cf the Camp. 
 
 TheVaqueel then cxpreflTed an anxious defire, that hoflilities fliouId 
 be fufpcnded, and that he fliould be allowed to remain in Camp. 
 
 In reply, Major General Wellefley pofitively refufed to fufpenci 
 hoflilities till Peace fliould be concluded ; and as to his remaining. 
 Major General Wellefley obfervedy that it could anfwer no pur- 
 pofe, and that it was very inconvenient to him to haVe any body 
 in his Camp belonging to the Enemy, who did not poflTefs full 
 powers to fettle a Peace. He therefore recommended that the 
 Vaqueel fliould go to Elichpour, or any other place he might chufe 
 in the neighbourhood. 
 
 DECEMBER 9, 1804. 
 Ragojcc Bhoonflah's Vaqueel Jcfwunt Rao Ramchunder, came 
 
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 to Major General Wcilefley's tent, at which were prefcnt Major 
 General Wellefley, Mr. Elphinftone, and Govind Rao. After 
 Ibme converfation, Jefwunt Rao produced two letters from Ra- 
 gojee Bhoonflah, in both of which, that Chief expreffed his con- 
 feat to give compenfation to the Company in a Peace for the 
 injuries they had received, and he wiflieJ that Major General 
 Wellefley would ftate what would be required. 
 
 Major General Wellefley anfvvered, that he fliould require for 
 the Nizam, that his boundary fliould be extended to the Hllh, 
 on which are, Gawilghur and Nernullah to the Northward, and to 
 the Wurda River to the Eaftward. That befid.-s this, Ragojee 
 Bhoonflah fliould renounce all claims of every defcription on all 
 the Nizam's territories within his new boundary. 
 
 For the Company, Major General Wellefley faid, he fliould 
 require the Province of Cuttack, and the Port of Ealafore, to becon^- 
 hedled by a convenient frontier with the Company's other territories. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Ramchunder faid in reply, that Major General 
 Wellefley was mafter of the Country, end niight take what he 
 pleafed; but that if the Rajah loft all that had been demanded, 
 nothing would remain. He added that there was no occafion to 
 take fo much for the Nizam's Government, and he wiflied that 
 lefs were taken for the Nizam, and more for the Company. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that the Rajah was a great 
 Politician, and ought to have calculated rather better his chances 
 of fuccefs before he commenced the War ; but that havino- com- 
 menced it, it was proper that he fliould fufFcr, before he fliould 
 get out of the fcrape. 
 
 In refpcd: to the Nizam, Major General Wellefley faid, that 
 he was the antient Ally of the Company ; and the Britifli Go- 
 vernment would never give him up ; and it was peculiarly ne- 
 cefTary to provide compenfation for him fo be taken from Ragojee 
 Bhoonflah, becaufe the Rajah had in the moft barbarous manner 
 plundered his Country. Major General Wellefley added, /baf 
 indeed had been the only mode of carrying on the War which 
 Ovs Raj,ih had adopted ; and it was perfeaiy confident with juf- 
 
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 tice ■ that at the Peace, he (hould make facrifices correfpondent to 
 the injuries he had done. 
 
 JefwLint Rao then faid, that he hoped the demands were con- 
 fined to Guttack and the Countries Weft of the VVurda, and that 
 the Company would not interfere between the Rajah and the 
 Peifliwah in Gurry Mandela. 
 
 Major General Wellefley rephed, that all that he lliould require 
 for the Peifliwah, would be a fair and juft mode of fettling the 
 joint claims of His Highnefs and Ragojee Bhoonflah, to any ter- 
 ritory, the revenues of which they might colled jointly. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that another demand he had to 
 make was that Treaties made with Dependants of Ragojee's fliould 
 be confirmed. 
 
 jefvvunt Rao aflced, what Treaties, and with what Cliiefs ? 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that he fliould be informed in 
 due time. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that another demand he had to 
 make was, that Ragojee Bhoonflah fliould never take any French- 
 men in to his fervice, or any European the fubjeft of a Government 
 which fliould be at War with the BritiOi Government, or any 
 BritiQi Subjedt, whether European or Native of India, without the 
 confent of the Britifli Government. 
 
 Jefvvunt Rao anfwered, that he had no objedion to this Ar- 
 ticle ; that the Rajah had no Europeans in his fervice, and never 
 intended to have any. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that another demand he fliould 
 make would be, that each Government fhould have at the Court 
 of the other, an authorized Envoy. 
 
 To this Jcfwunt Rao replied, that, that v;as a natural confe- 
 quencc of the Peace. 
 
 A Converfation then enfued upon the demands, which Jefvvunt 
 Rao canvaflTdd particularly, and among other things declared, that 
 if Major General Wellefley took thofe territories from the Rajah, 
 and tlic Fort of Gawilghur, nothing would remain of his former 
 ftate. He then faid, that the Rajah had old claims for Grafs 
 
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 and Gram upon certain Territories of the Nizam, and afkcd whe- 
 ther thofe were to be relinquiflied. 
 
 In reply, Major General Wellefiey faiJ, every claim of every 
 defcription muH: be entirely relinquifhed. Ik- faid that thefe 
 trifling claims were the caufe of conftant quarrels, and the en- 
 forcing them had been the fourcc oi all tlie evils which the Ni- 
 zam's Government had fuffered ; and that till they were entirely 
 relinquifhed, there could be no Peace. 
 
 Jcfwunt Rao then defired, that Major General Wclicfley 
 would confcnt to a cefTation of Hoflilities. 
 
 Major General Wellefiey replied, that he cculd not. Hz re- 
 commended to Jcfwunt Rao Ramchunder, if he was .luihorized 
 to do fo, fo fign the Pc;acc immediately, and to fend it off to the 
 Rajah to be ratified. 
 
 Major Gener.il Wellefiey faid, that he did not wifli to do the 
 Rajah more injury than he had done him already, and hintej 
 that delays were dangerous. He faid that four days mufi: elapfe 
 before the Rajah's fentiments upon the propofed Peace could 
 be known, and fuppoiing that he fliould defire his Minifter to 
 fign it, four days more mufl elapse before the Treaty could 
 be ratified. 
 
 Jefvvunt Rao then faid, that three or four days could not pof- 
 fibly make any diffjrence, and he wiihed to refer the fubje6l to 
 the Rajah. 
 
 Major General Wellefley begged that Jefvvunt Rao would 
 rccolledl what he had faid to him upon this point. 
 
 A long converfation enfued upon the fufpenilon of hoftilities, 
 in the courfe of which, Jefvvunt Rao begged that Major General 
 Wellefley would fix a place where the Rajah (hould remain, if he 
 would not agree to ftop hoflilities. 
 
 This, Major General Wellefley declined, as he faid that by 
 
 .doing that, he would aftually engage to ceife Hoflilities, which 
 
 he was determined not to do, till the Rajali ihould have fio-Qcd 
 
 the Peace, and the Ratification fliould have been given into his 
 
 hands. 
 
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 When Jefwunt Rao was going away, Major General Wellefley 
 faid, that the Peace which he was about to make with the Rajah, 
 muft be really a fincere one. 
 
 He faid, that it had long been a favourite objeft with the 
 Rajah to form a Confederacy againfl the Britifh Government, 
 and that he had fucceeded lately. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, it was true that the Confederacy 
 had failed to produce any one of the objetls for which it Had 
 been formed, and that he knew it no longer exiiled. But it was 
 neceflary that the Rajah fhould formally declare that he no 
 longer adhered to it, and as the War with fonie of the other Con- 
 federates might ftill continue, notwithftanding the Peace with 
 the Rajah, Major General Wellefley faid that he fhould re- 
 quire that a hoftage fliould refide with him, as a fecurity for 
 the performance of this Engagement, until Peace fliould be 
 concluded with the other Confederates; Major General Wellefley 
 particularly explained, that the perfon who fhould be fent as an 
 hoftage, muft be informed for what purpofe he is fent. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao made no objedlion to this demand. 
 
 December 12, 1803. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Ramchunder, came to Major General Wcllelley's 
 Tent, at Vv'hich were prefent Major General Wellefley, Mr. 
 Elphinflone, and Govind Rao. He prefented a letter from the 
 Rajah of Berar, 
 
 ' He then intrtated General Wellefley to moderate his demand 
 for the Soubah of the Deckan. He quoted many infl:ance3 in 
 which the two States had been at War, and fometimes the 
 Rajah, and fometimes the Nizam had the advantage; but he 
 faid, that they had never made demands of Territory. He then 
 fdid, that it would be better that Major General Wellefley 
 fhould allow the Rajah to fettle his Peace with the Soubah, 
 and that he was convinced he would not make fuch a demand. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that he had made that demand 
 On the behalf of the Allies ; and he did not deny that he in- 
 tended 
 
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 "tended that territory for the Soubah of the Deckan, as a fmali 
 compenfation for the lofTes he had fullained by the War, in 
 confequencc of the plunder of the Rajah. That he fhoulJ not 
 Telinquifh that demand, and that he rnuft infift upon the Coun- 
 try being delivered over to the Government of the Allies. 
 Afterwards, if the Rajah could prevail by fair means on t'ne 
 Soubah to reflore ir, that would be another confideration, in 
 which. Major General Wellefley faid, he did not fee at that 
 moment, that the Britifli Government would have any concern. 
 A long converfation followed in which the fame arguments 
 Weie repeated, and the Vaqueel denied that the Rajih had 
 plundered the Nizam's Territory ; Major General Wellefley re- 
 plied, that he knew that tlie Rajah had marched from the 
 Tapty for the purpofe of plundering thefe Territories; and that 
 he knew that the Rajah had done as he intended, for that it had 
 fallen to his lot to follow the Rajah and drive him out, and 
 that he had been a Witnefs of the Rajah's condudt. 
 
 December i6, 1803. 
 
 jcfwunt Rao Ramchunder came to Major General Wellefley 's 
 Tent, at which were prefent Major General Wellefley, Major 
 Malcolm, Mr. Elphinftone, and Govind Rao. 
 
 Major General Wellefley aflced, whether any anfwer had been 
 received from the Rajah, to the letter written, containing the 
 t-erms on which Major General Wellefley thought it poflible to 
 conclude a Peace. 
 
 The Vaqueel replied, that an anfv/er had been received ; and he 
 would give it in detail on each particular demand. He then faid 
 that the Rajah had no objedion to giving the compenfation requi- 
 red to the Coi^panyj but that he hoped they would not aflc for 
 rwore than half the province of Cuttack. That Jaggernaut was his 
 cJwn Pagoda, and he was defirous to retain it. That his honor 
 was involved in this point, and iie was hopeful it would not be 
 infiHed on. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that the whole Province of 
 
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 CiitLack was abfolutely necefTary, tliat the Company had long 
 bfen clefirous to obtain this Province, in order that there might 
 not be a break in the communica'ion between Calcutta and Ma- 
 dras, and that to take only half of it, or to allow the Rajah to re- 
 tain that part in which was fituated the Pagoda, would entirely 
 deTat that grear objed:. That in refpetl: to the Pagoda it was 
 well known, that no power in India paid fo much attention to 
 buildinc^s of that defcription as the Britilh Government; that 
 everv body h.ad accefs to them as they pleafed, in the utmofl fafe- 
 !v, for the purpofes of religion ; and t!iat nothing would prevent 
 the Raj lb frnm ufing that Pagoda hereafter, as he had done 
 brcnifore. 
 
 After [ome converfation, this point was given up. 
 The Vaquer.l then faid that the Rajah had but two poffeffions, 
 Cuttack and Berar. That he had granted the former, and he 
 could not confent to cede the latter. That he would give a com- 
 penfation to the Soubah of th.e Deckan in money. 
 
 Major General Wcliefl.'y repHed, tliat money would not com- 
 penfate for the injuries tlie Soubah had received, and the rifks he 
 had incurred ; that territory was abfuiutely ncccffary, and territory 
 rnufl be given, if the Rajah wanted Peace. 
 
 The Vaqueel repeated his objeftion, and faid that the whole of 
 Berar to the Wurda could n^t be given without a facrifice of the 
 Rajah's State. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that it was not wiflied to de- 
 flroy the Rajah's State, and he afked what portion of the country 
 the Rajah was willing to give. The anfwer was one-auarter of 
 their revenues which he enjoyed, which might amount to Five 
 Lacks of Rupees annually. 
 
 Major General Wellcfley replied, that, that would not anfwer; 
 that he was not defirous to ruin the Rajah, but that the Soubah of 
 Deckan muft have at leafl Thirty Lacks of Rupees annually from 
 the Rajah ; or if the whole of the country claimed was not equal 
 to that, the Wurda River for a boundary. 
 
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 This point was at lad ceded, and it was agreeti, that thfe Sou- 
 bih fhouid have the Wurda for a boundary. 
 
 In defining tlie Northern boundary, Major General Wtllefley 
 faid, that the R'ljah (hoiild have back the Forts of Cawilghur and 
 Nerwulia. 
 
 The Vaquecl afkcd for country to fupport the Garrifons of 
 Nerwulia and Gawilghur, and Major General Wei leflt v agreed 
 that the Rp.jih fliruld have diflricfts contiguous to the Forts, 
 (which he would know hereafter,) to the amount of Fcur Lacks of 
 Rupees annually. 
 
 The Vaqueel then demanded that the Rajah Hiould retain the 
 claims of Ser Defmouky, which he faid, he held by a grant from 
 the Pcifliwah, and of Grafs, and other trifling claims in the coun- 
 try ceded. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that all claims of every de- 
 fcription on th«fe and all the territories of the Allies rr,u(i be 
 entirely renounced. That in refpeft to the Peifhvvah's claim of 
 Ser Defmouky, that would eafily be feftled by the Britilh Govern- 
 ment, between His Highnefs and the Soubah of the Deckan. 
 
 The Vaqueel then faid, that having ceded thefe exten five coun- 
 tries, he hoped that the Rajah would be free from all claims of 
 the Peilhwah and the Nizam on his territories; and that all the 
 Sunnuds and Treaties would be held good. 
 
 After much argument upon this point, it was agreed, that the 
 Britifli Government ftiould mediate and arbitrate, according to the 
 principles of jullicc, between its Allies on the one hand, and the 
 Rajah on the other. 
 
 The Vaqueel faid, that the Rajah mufl depend upon the juHice 
 and generofity of the Company ; otherwife, the Peifliwah would 
 lay claim to all his remaining territories. 
 
 The Vaqueel faid, that the Rajah had no objedion to the de- 
 mand refp-ding Europeans, or to that refpeding Vaqueels; but he 
 did not underdand that demand refpeding treaties made with 
 other Chiefs. 
 
 . Major General Wellefley ftated the reafons for which Officers 
 
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 in different fituations had betn authorized to make treaties wk'n 
 the fubjcd;s and feudatories of the Confederated Marhatta Chiefs; 
 thofe for which it was abfolutely necelTary to adhere to thefc 
 engagements ; and thofe for which it was impoirible to (late the 
 names of the feudatories at the prefent moment. He f:id the 
 demand was indifpenfable, and mull be complied with ; at the fame 
 timt, he declared, there was no intention to injure the Rajah's Stat6, 
 and iljat he might rely vvith fecurity on the honor of the Britifh 
 Government, that no engagement fhould be entered into, after n 
 fliould be known, that the Peace had been concluded. 
 
 The Vaqueel faid, the Rajah had no obje£lion to renounce the 
 Confederacy, and that he would give no affiftance to the Compa, 
 ny's Enemies. In refpedl to an hoftage which it was explained to 
 him, it was ncceflary to give for the Rajah's fincerity, till the War 
 fhould be concluded, the Vaqueel faid, that excepting the Rajah's 
 Brother, his Son, and his Nephew, any other Sirdar in the State 
 that mif^ht be demanded, fhould be fent. 
 
 Iti reply, Major General Wellciley faid, that as this Treaty ap- 
 peared to be made in the fpirit of Friendlliip, and a defire of Peace, 
 he would not infill on having any hollage ; but would rely on 
 the Rajah's honor and his feufc of his own intered, in adhering 
 to it. 
 
 'Ihe Vaqueel then defired, that the treaty fliould be put intQ 
 writing, which was done immediately. 
 
 Major General VVelleilcy left the Tent, and in the cveninpf 
 returned to it agitiii, with Major Malcolm, to lign the Treaty. 
 
 The Vaqueel propofed, that an Article Ihould be inferted, pro* 
 viding for the Rajah's rights under grants from the Pcifliwah; and 
 faid, that he feared that the Britifli Government would be induced 
 to attend to the importunities of the Peilhwah, to alllU to deprive 
 the Rajah of them. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, iliat lie would not agree 
 to guarantee rights, tlic nature and extent of which he did 
 not know; and that it appeared to him, tliat the Rajah could have 
 no better fecurity than the juftice of the liritifli Covcrnrnent. He 
 
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 pointed out particularly, that to attend to importunities, was not 
 to decide according to the rules of juftice. 
 
 The Vaqueel was fatisficd with this explanation. ; 
 
 He then laid, tliat lie wilhed a claufe Ihould be added to the 8th 
 Article, providing that the Britilli Government fhould not give 
 countenance or protedlion to the Enemies of the Rajah's State. 
 
 To which, Major General WcHelley confented ; and it was add- 
 ed to the Treaty. 
 
 The Vaqueel then complained of the loth Article, and faid that 
 in fadt it laid the whole of the Rajah's State at the feet of the Bri- 
 tifli Government. That his whole Territory had been conquered 
 from Zemindars and olhers, and that it Treaties had been made 
 with them, he had nothing left. 
 
 Major General Wellelky replied, that the Article was indifpen- 
 fable, and inufl ftanJ as it was. He faid that it never was in- 
 tended to deflroy the Rajah's State, or to increafe the acquifitions 
 of the Allies by means of that Article. That if he had had fuch 
 a wifli, he would have itiade the demand without further cere- 
 mony. 
 
 Major General Wellefley alfo obferved, that if there had been a 
 willi to dcllroy the Rajah's State, he would not have made Peace 
 with hiin ; but that at all events he promifed him, that the Ar- 
 ticle fhould be as little injurious to him as pofiible, and that io 
 far from increafing the numbers of thole who Ihould be the objedts 
 of it, M^jor General Wellelley promifed, that as far as it could 
 be done coiififtently with the honor and good faith of the Britilh 
 Government, it Ihould have no operation at all. 
 
 The Vaqueel declared, that he was fatisfied with this declara- 
 tion, which Major General VVellclley defired him to communicate 
 to the Rajah. 
 
 The Treaty could not be prepared this ni'_;ht. 
 
 In the courfe of this day's conference, inc Vaqueel frequently 
 exprelied a wilh to draw more clofely the ties between the Rajah 
 and the Company, and faid, that by thefe means, he hoped that the 
 Rajah's Territories would be aeain increafed. He received encou- 
 raging
 
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 raging anrwers, and was told, that whatever propofitions he had 
 to make en that fubjcft, would be communicated to the Governor 
 General, who would probably receive them favourably. 
 
 December 17, 1803. 
 'I'he Treaties having been prepared during the night, were fi'in- 
 ed in the morning by Mnjor General Wellefley, and Jefwunt Rao 
 Ramchunder. 
 
 fSi^iicdJ ARTHUR WELLESLEY. 

 
 TREATY OF PEACE and FRIENDSHIP with 
 THE RAJAH OF BERAR. 
 
 TREATY of Peace between the Honorable English In- 
 dia Company and their Allies, on the one part, and 
 SenahSaheb Soubaii RagojeeBhoonslaii, on the other, fet- 
 tled by Major General THE Honorable Arthur Wel- 
 LESLEY, on the part of the Honorable Company and their 
 Allies, and by Jeswunt Rao Ramchunder, o.i the part of Sc- 
 NAH Saheb Soubah Ragojee Bhoonslah; who have each 
 communicated to the other their full powers. 
 
 A R T I C L E I. 
 
 There fliall be perpetual Peace and Friend Qiip between the Ho- 
 norable Company and their Allies on the one part, nnd Sena!; 
 Saheb Soubah Ragojcc Bhoondcih, on the other. 
 
 A R T I C L E II. 
 
 Senah Saheb Soubah Ragojee Bhoonllah cedes to the Honora- 
 ble Company and their Allies, in perpetual Sovereignty, the 
 Province of Cuttack, including the Port and Diftricl of BalaCore. 
 
 ARTICLE III, 
 He likewife cedes to the Honorable Company an ' their Alliec, 
 in perpetual Sovereignty, all the Territories, of which he has 
 collcded the Revenues, in participation with the Soubah of the 
 Dcckan, and thofe of which he may have poflelTion, which are 
 to the Weftward of the river Wurdah. 
 
 ARTICLE IV, 
 
 it is agreed, that the frontier of Senah Saheb Soubah, towards 
 the Territories of His Highnefs the Soubah of the Deckan, lliall 
 be formed, to the Weft, by the river Wurdah, from its illue 
 from the Injardy Hills, to ifs jundion v/ith the Gcdavery. 
 The Hills on which are the Forts of Nernullah and Gawilghur, 
 are to be in the pofTeffion of Senah Saheb Soubah, and every 
 thing South of thofe Hills, and to the Weft of the river Wurdah, 
 is to belong to the Britifti Government and their Allies. 
 
 ARTICLE
 
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 ARTICLE V. 
 Diftricls amounting to Four Lacs of Rupees per Annum con-; 
 ^igucus to, and to the South of, the Forts of Nernullah and 
 Gavvilghur, are to be given over ro Senah Sahetr Soubah. 
 Thofe Diilrifis are to' be fixed upon by Major General Welleflry, 
 and delivered over to Senah SaHeb Soubah at the failie tifiae with 
 the Forts. 
 
 A R T I C L E VL 
 Senah Saheb Soubah, for himfelf, his Heirs and $ucc£lIor3, en- 
 tirely renounces all claims of every defcription on the Territoii^is 
 of the Britifli Government and their Allies, ceded by the Second, 
 Third, and Fourth Articles, and on all the Territories of His High- 
 nefs the Soubah of the Deckan. 
 
 ARTICLE Vn. 
 
 The Honorable Company engage, that they will mediate and ar- 
 bitrate according to the principles of juftice, any difputes or differ- 
 ences that may now exift, or may hereafter arife, between the 
 Honorable Company's Allies, Secunder Jah Behaudur, his Heirs 
 and SuccelTors, and Rao Pundit Purdhaun, hi$ Heirs and SucTctjITor* 
 refpediveiy, and Senah Saheb Soubah. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 Senah Saheb Soubah engages, never to take or rerain in his 
 fervice, any Frenchman, or rhe Subje6l of any other E'uropean or 
 American Power, the Government of which may be at war with' 
 {he Britifa Government ; or any Bririfh Subjeel, whether Euro- 
 pean or Indian, without the confent of the Britifli Government. 
 The Honorable Company engage on their parr, that they will 
 not give aid or countenance to any djfcontented Relations, Rajahs, 
 Zemindars, or other Subjeds of Senah Saheb Soubah, who may 
 Hy from, or rebel againft, his authority. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 Inordertofecure and improve (he relations of Amity and Peace 
 l.ereby cftablidied between the Governments, it is agreed, that ac- 
 credited Minifters from each (hall irefide at the Court of the other. 
 
 ARTICLE
 
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 ARTICLE X. 
 
 Certain Treaties have been made by the Britifh Government 
 with feudatories of Scnah Saheb Soubah. Thefe Treaties are to 
 Ipe confirmed, l^ifls of the Perfons with whom fuch Treaties 
 have been made will be given to Senah Saheb Soubah, when this 
 Treaty will be ratified by His Excellency the Governor General 
 in Council. 
 
 A R T 1 C L E XL 
 Senah Saheb Soubah hereby renounces, for himfelf, his Heirs 
 and SuccefTors, all adherence to the confederacy formed by him 
 and Dowlut Rao Scindiah and other Marhatta Chiefs, to attack 
 the Honorable Company and their Allies. H^ engages not to 
 afllft thofc Chiefs, if the War with them (hould flill continue. 
 
 ARTICLE Xn. 
 
 This Treaty of Peace is to be ratified by Senah Saheb Soubah 
 within eight days from this time, and the ratification is to be 
 delivered to Major General Wellefley ; at which time the orders 
 for the ceffion of the Ceded Territories are to be delivered, and 
 the Troops are to withdraw. Major General Wellefley engages, 
 that the Treaty fhall be ratified by His Excellency the Mod 
 Noble the Governor General in Council, and that the ratification 
 fhall be delivered in two months from this date, 
 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. M^J. GenL 
 JESWUNT RAO RAMGHUNDER, 
 
 ON THE PART OF 
 
 SENAH SAHEB SOUBAH. 
 
 Done in Camp at Veogaum, this i -]tb 
 Decejnber 1803, anfwermg to the 
 zi Ramzaun 1213 Fuzake. 
 
 A True Copy, 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 
 
 Major General, 
 @®
 
 APPENDIX G. 
 
 Extr'aSi of a Letter from Major General Wdlefley to the 
 Governor General, dated Camp at Elichpour, Decemher 
 17, 1803, tranfmitting the Treaty of Deoo;(iiim. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAVE the honor to enclofe the En<fli("h, Marhattj, and Per- 
 flan Copies of a Treaty of Peace, which I have this day con- 
 cluded with Jefwunt Rao RaiT\chunder, the Vakeel of the Rajah 
 of Berar. 
 
 I have made the Treaty in the n^me of the BritiQi Government 
 and its Allies generally, and have engaged that it Iliall be ratified 
 by Your Excellency only. 
 
 It will remain with Your Excellency to give fuch orders as you 
 may think proper, to the ReliJents at the dili'crent Durbars, to ob- 
 tain the affent of the Allies to this Treaty. , But I (hould imagine 
 that the Rajah of Berar will be fatisfied with Your Excellency's 
 Ratification. 
 
 The CefTions by the Treaty are made to the Britifh Government 
 and its Allies ; and I have drawn it in this in inner, in order that 
 Your Excellency may have an opportunity of difpoling of them 
 hereafter, in fucii manner as you may think proper. As foon as 
 the Rajah (liall ratify the Treaty, I propofo to defire the Offijcr 
 of the Soubah of the Dekaa to take charge of the Countries ce- 
 ded in this quarter ; but I (hall requefl the RefiJent at Hydera- 
 bad to apprize His Highnels's Minilter, that this mufl he conli- 
 dered only a temporary arrangement, and that all the acquifitions 
 muft be liable to be difpofcd of hereafter, when Peace Ihall be 
 made with all the Powers engaged in the War. 
 
 I wifhed to be able to dtfine more accurately the bounds of the 
 Ccflion of the Province of Cuttack, but I had no information 
 upon the fuhjedt. Lieuten nt Colonel Harcourt flated his opinion, 
 
 that
 
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 that it vvoald be convenient if the Diftrifcls of Soutpour and Boad, 
 were ceded bclides Cuttack, and Mr. Melville his, that it would 
 be convenient to add to the Province of CuUack, Countries which 
 would have joined the Northern Circars With the Province of 
 Bundelciind ; but upon reference to the Map, (which is all the in-« 
 formation that I could procure,) I found, that even the firfl: would 
 ^ have increafed the extent of the detnaud on that fiJe to fuch a 
 
 degree, as to make it nectffary to give up a part of what I de- 
 manded on this fide, or to rilk the conclulion of the Treatjr 
 altogether. 
 
 I learn alio by a letter fibiii Lieutenant Colotlel HarcOtitr, tlt*t 
 he has corainenceJ Negotiations with the Rajahs of Sjnepaur and 
 Boad, and if he (hould cuiiclade them by Treaties, thole Dif- 
 tri£ls will be added to the Corhpany's Territories under the 
 Tenth Article of the Treaty of Peace If he fhuuld not, it is 
 cettain that the Company will not have for Cuttack the Bounda- 
 ry for which Lieutenant Colonel Harcourt wiihcd, but I dont 
 doubt that that Province will have a Very good Bjuiidary. 
 c.'.ie.iin Rr„. By the Third Article, the Company and their Allies gain 
 
 iicl's M<p, the _ 
 
 Buidah; it it on this fide the Province of Berar*, and the FrontiL-r of the 
 
 ail .inn of the 
 
 Godave.y. Soubah of the Dekan will be cairicd forward to the Wurdah 
 
 River. The Countries thus ceded, are an old Puffcifion of the 
 Soubahs of the Dekan, the Revenues of which have been col- 
 Icdled by them and the Rajyli of Berar in different proportions, 
 at different times. When the latter were admitted to a partici- 
 pation of them, they received one-fifih, afterwards a fourth, thca 
 half by Treaty, and htrerly four-fifths by exjiitions and violence -, 
 Jt appeared to mo to be an objetl of greaf^/ importduce to gee 
 rid of the Rajah of Bcrar entirely from this tiai Country, than 
 to receive an additional barrief for (\ittack. 
 
 The Revenues of B.-rar on lius fide the Wurdah are computed 
 to amoutil lo abcut one Crore or Rupees. The Rajah has appro- 
 priated entirely to hiinfelf, Countrits, the Revenues of which 
 
 * Tliat is the Province of Bcwr proper. The Northern parts of tlie Berar Territories arc 
 <-.illcd Guiidwana. 
 
 aii
 
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 are computed to have been Ten Ivies of Rupees, and the remain- 
 der under different Treaties was to be divided equally betweca 
 him and the Soubah of the Dekan ; hovt'ever I have reafons 
 to believe from the contereiices durin<^- the Negrjtiations, that the 
 Rajah of Berar never received moic tiiaa Thirty L^cs as his Iharc 
 of the Cou itrics oji this liJc of the Wurdah : Territory of this 
 value was a great object to jjain in this quarter, confidering the 
 probable circumftances of tiie Peace with Scindiah, But v.'h.u- 
 ever m)y be the real value ot the acquilitioii, a great objeCit is gained 
 by defining the Frontier of the Rajah tSwards the Soubah of 
 thfc Dekan, and by his renunciation of all Claims of every def- 
 cription, not only on the Countries ceded, but on the other Ter- 
 ritories of the Soubah. 
 
 In the courfe of the Conferences on the Megotiation, (the mi- 
 nutes, of which I fhall have the honor of tranfmitting as foon as 
 they can be copied,) the Rajah's Mir.iilsr declared repeatedly, 
 (and I have reafon to believe with fome truth,) that the demands 
 made were of the fineft and moft: valuable parts of his Territory. 
 
 By the Fourth Article, I have agreed, that the Kajah Ihdl have 
 pofieffion of the Forts of Nernullah and Giwilghur. In t.i6l 
 thefe Forts are of greater importance to the Power which re- 
 mains in pofTcirion of the Mountains, than to that which po(- 
 fcffes the Plains. Without them the Rajah could not have ex- 
 ercifed the Powers of his Governmeiu over the Gondwanah Ra- 
 jahs in thole Mountains, (a race of people, who above all others 
 require reftraint ;) and to have given them to the Soubah of the 
 Dekan, would have added nothing to His Highnefs's Power. 
 
 I confcnted to the Fifth Article, becaufc the Diftrids on the 
 Plains immediately under the Hillb, wiii always be liable to the 
 depredations of the Inhabit,.nts of the Hiils. The lofs to the 
 Soubah's Guvcrnmeut will be but trifling, in comparifon with 
 that which it would incur, if the Kajaii were not interefted, at, 
 he will now be, to leRraiu the incurfions of the Hill People into 
 the Plains. 
 
 The Seventh Article provides, that the Honorable Company ar« 
 
 to
 
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 to arbitrate bit'.veen tlie Rij;!"!, and t!ic Souhah of the D-^kan, 
 and the PeifliWcdi. The Rajah's Miniftcr was dTfirous that I 
 fhouKJ conler.t to confirin all Grants and Treaties made here- 
 tofore by thofe Powers j but I re fu fed this, on the ground, that 
 I could not confcnt to any thing, of which I had no knowledge. 
 I then propofed the mediation and arbitration of the Britifli Go- 
 vernment and its juftice, as the befl: fecurity ihe Rajah could have 
 for his Claims ucon the Soubah of ihe Dekan and the Pci(hwah ; 
 which propcfal was accepted. 
 
 The. Territory which the Rajab wiflied to fecure, was the Pro- 
 vince of Gurry Mundela, of which he ought to collect the He- 
 venues in participation v/ith the Pfifn'.vah; but I imagine that 
 he has lately feized the whole for his ou n uf^-. 
 
 yii all eve Jits it appears to me to be an important point gained, an J 
 highly honorable to the characler 'f lac Britijli Government, that eve7i 
 its E'lemies are willing to appeal to its jujlicc ^gainji the demands of 
 its Allies. 
 
 There was no obji^dlion on the pnrt of the Rajah's Minifler to 
 the Ei<'hth or Ninth Articles of th.e Treaty. The la(l Claim was 
 added to the Eighth, by his defire, after the Treaty had been drawn 
 up. The Tenth Article is one of confiderable importance. The 
 Rajah's Minifter appeared to feel the full extent of the engage- 
 ments to which it boun^ the Kaj in, and expreffcd the greaigil 
 uneafinefs upon the fubjecSt. He faid that after ceding Berar and 
 Cuttack, the Rajah had no Territories, excepting what he had 
 conquered from Zemindars and Rajahs ; and that by this Ar- 
 ticle he might be bound to L'ive up the whole of his Territories. 
 I told him that whatever might be the conftquence, the Article 
 was indifpcnlable, and muft be agreed toj that Peace would not 
 have been agreed to, it the Britilh Government had wilhed for 
 tlie deilruftion of the Rajah's State, and that it certainly was not 
 . intended that the Article Ihould apply to more cafcs than were 
 ablolutcly ncctfl'ary to prcferve the good faith of the Britilh Go- 
 vernment j and I promifcd liim that the Britifh Government would 
 apply it to as lew cafes us v.'as pyHiblc, confiOcntly with an ad- 
 herence to pood faith. 
 
 The
 
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 The Vaqutcl was fatisfied wiih this alTiiriUice, which I requeu- 
 ed him to convey to the Rajah ; as I think it piobable that this 
 Article will be that to which bis Daib.u will have theftrongefl ob- 
 jedions. 
 
 I had demanded rn Hoftage for the peiformance of the Tenth 
 Article of the Treaty, but upon confidcring all the circurjiftanccs 
 of the cafe, it appeared to me that the bcfl fecurity that the Britifh 
 Government could have, would be its ftrcngth and continued fuc- 
 cefs, and I therefore determined not to perfift \n that demand. 
 In giving his anfwer upon it, the Vaquetl faid, that the Rajah 
 would fend to me whoever I plcafed, excepting his Brother, his 
 Son, or his Nephew, who are the only perfons whofc detention in 
 my Camp might poffibly be a feclirity againfl his Hoftility. 
 
 It appeared to me, that he would not confent to lend any of 
 thofe perfons^ and the prefence of any other would certainly have 
 been uklefs. Upon the whole, therefoie, I thought it beft not to 
 perfift in a demand with which he would not comply, and which 
 might have rifkcd the whole Treaty. 
 
 I hope that Your Excellrncy v\ill approve of, and ratify this 
 Treaty. It appears to me to provide for all cfTential points, at 
 the fame time that it leaves the Rajah's Government in exiflence 
 and ftrength. I fliould have demanocd a fum of Money, but I 
 think there is every reafon to believe, that the Rajah of Berar is 
 as poor as the ether Marhatta Chiettains. 
 
 I have written to Mr. Wcbbe* to inform him, that I have fign- 
 cd this Treaty, and to requeft him to prepare to fet out for -Nag- 
 poor, as foon as poffible. In the mean time, I propofe to fend the 
 Honorable Mr. Elphinftone to the Rajah, to a6l as Refident till 
 the arrival of Mr. Webbc. 
 
 * This diftingiii{hed arid much lamented Public Officer did not proceed to Nagpoor, but 
 was appointed RcfideiiJ at the Court ot" Dowlut Rao Scindiah, where he died on the 9th of No- 
 vember 1804. Onfhe melancholy occafion of the death of Mr. Wcbbe, the Governor General 
 was pleafed to direft the following expreffion of the fentiments of the Supreme Authority in 
 India, to be publiibed in the Calcutta Gazette, of the 6th of December 1S03 : — 
 <' The GovERN'iR General in Council has received with sentiments of the 
 
 " DEETEST regret AND SORROW, THE MELANCHOLY INTELLIGENCE OF THE DeATH OP 
 " JoSIAH WeBBE, Es(^ LATE RESIDENT AT THE CoURT OF Dov/L UT R AO Sc I ND I A H, 
 " WHO DIED AT HaSSINCABAD ON THE BaNKS OF THE NeRBUDDAH RivER, ON THB 
 
 «' 9TH November 1804, after a long and severe Illness. 
 
 " The Remains of Mk. Webbe were i nterred on the ioth November, with 
 •' the respect and honor due to his superior Character, Talents, and Know- 
 " I edge, to his Eminent Integrity and Public Virtue, and tw his distix- 
 « guished Merits in the Service of hi« Country in India." 
 
 In
 
 The Governor General 
 was p]eafed to appoint 
 Mr. Etphinftone, to be 
 Kefidei.t at the Court 
 of Nagpoiir, on the 5th 
 of June ]dj4» 
 
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 In cafe Your Excellency fliould ratify the Treaty, I roqtitfl tliat 
 the Ratification may be fent to the Refident at Hyder.ibad, to be 
 forwarded either to Mr. Elphinflone, or me, according to circum- 
 ftances ; as I might be at 2 great diftance, and the P>.atification 
 might not reach the Rajah in the time fpecified. 
 
 Upon the occafion of mentioning Mr. Elphinflone, it is but 
 juftice to that Gentleman to inform Your Excellency, fhat I have 
 received the greateft affiftance from him fince he has Seen with me. 
 
 He is well verfed in the Languages, has experience and a know- 
 ledge of the interefts of the Marhatta Power, and their relations 
 with each other, and with the Britifh Government and its Allies. 
 He has been prefent in^all the Actions which have been fought in 
 this quarter during the War, and at all the Sieges; and is ac- 
 quainted with every tranfa6lion that has taken place, and with my 
 fentiments upon all fubjedls. 
 
 I therefore take the liberty of recommending him to Yi.'ur 
 Excellency. 
 
 I have the honor to he, &c-. o^. 
 
 &e. 
 
 (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY.* 
 
 • The Treaty of Deogaum was ratified by the Governor General in Council, on the 9th 
 January 1 8o4> and in a Letter of that date to the Honorable Major General Welkfley, the Go- 
 vernor General was pleafed to expref) his fenfe of the Services rendered on this occafion by Ge- 
 neral Welleflcy, in the following terms : — 
 
 " Your Difpatch dated the 17th of Decem'ier 180.3, enclofing theCopv of aTre.itv of Peace, 
 concluded by you on that date, on the part of the Honorable Companv, with the Rajah of Berar, 
 has been received, and fiibmittcd to the Governor General in Council. 
 
 " The Gov'ernor General in Council has great fatisfaftion in communicating to you his high 
 approbation of the terms of I'eace concluded with the Rajah of Berar, which His Excellency in 
 Council confidcrs to be in the higheft degree advantageous, honorable, and glorious to the Bri- 
 tifh Government. 
 
 " The Governor General in Council difchargesa fatisfaifVory part of his duty in exprelling to 
 you the high fenfe which he entertains of the judgment and ability manifefted by you on this oc- 
 cafion. '1 he Governor General in Council ton fiders you to have rendered an effeutial fcrvice 
 to the Interells of the Honorable Company, and to have augmented the reputation of the Britifh 
 Name by the conclufion of this advantageous and honorable Treaty. 
 
 " The Governor General in Council has this day ratified the Treaty of Peace with the Ra- 
 jah of Berar, and the ratified Copy will be iinmcJiately difpntched to the Refident at Hyderabad, 
 for the purpofc of biding tranfmitted to the Rajah of Berar, through Mr. Elphinllone, whom yoii 
 have appointed to aft in the capacity of Refident at that Chieftain's Court. 
 
 " T he Governor General in Council enlirelv approves your intention to difpatc!i the Honor- 
 able Mr. Elphinftonc to the Rajah of Berar, to aft in the capacity of Refident at that Chieftain's 
 Court, until the arrival of Mr. Webbe. 
 
 " The Governor General in Council has great {atisfaftion in exprefiing upon this occafion, 
 the high fenfe which he entertains of the zeal, abilities, and fervices of Mr. KIphinftone, durini;- 
 his attendance upon you in the Field. The Governor General in Council "ill readily i-vail 
 himfcll of any opportunity of rewarding the merits of Mr. Elphinllone by appointing hitn to- a 
 fiiiialion, which may enable that Gentleman to acquire additional honor in the employment of 
 his dillinguiflied zeal and talents in the promotion of the public fcrvice. 
 
 << You will Ix pleafed to communicate to Mr. Elphinftone, this recorded approbation of bis 
 Public Conduct." 

 
 MEMORANDUM of the CONFERENCES be- 
 tween Major General The Honorable 
 ARTHUR WELLESLEY and the AMBASSA- 
 DORS OF DOWLUT RAO SCINDIAH. 
 
 November io, 1803. 
 
 JESWUNT RAO GOOIIPARAH defired to have a meeting 
 with Major General VVelkfley on this day, and came in the 
 evening. After a fhort time, he exprefled a wifh to fpeak in pri- 
 vate ; and the two Vaqueels, Jefvvunt Rao Goorparah and Narroo 
 Punt Nana, Appah Deflaye*, and Mr. Elphinftone, Mdjor Ge- 
 neral Welleflcy, and Govind Rao, went into Major General 
 Wellcfley's Tent. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah, began by lamenting, that any diffe- 
 rence {hould have occurred between the Government of Dowjut 
 Rao Scindiah, and declared that the Maha Rajah felt the greateft 
 concern upon the fubjed:. He then laid, that it was to be attri- 
 buted entirely to the violence and precipitation of Colonel Col- 
 lins, who had been entreated to wait only a few days, till an an- 
 fwer could be received to letters which had been addrefTed to 
 Major General Wellefley, by Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and the 
 Rajah of Berar, which he had refufed, and had gone off without 
 taking leave. He faid that he and Narroo Punt, were prefent at; 
 the conference which had been held in Ragojee Bhoonilah's 
 Tent, and knew all that had pafled. 
 
 In anfsver, Major General Wellefley obferved, that this was the 
 firft time he had heard of Colonel Collins' violence ; that if it had 
 cxifted, it would have been eafy for the Maha Rajah's Minifters 
 to apprize him of it, as he was at no great diftance, and a remedy 
 would immediately have been applied. 
 
 Upon the fubjecfe of the letters from Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and 
 the Rajah of Berar, Major General Wellefley recalled to the re- 
 
 • The Commander of the Forces of the Peifhwah ferving with the Britilh Army. 
 
 colledion
 
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 colle<Stion of the Vaqueels, (if they had been prefent at the conf.'- 
 rence at Ragojee Bhoonllah's Tents), that a propofal had been 
 made to Colonel Collins, that letters flioiald be written to Major 
 General Weliefley, ftating that the Gliiefs were willing to with- 
 draw from the Nizam's frontier, and that they would arrive with 
 their Armies at Boorhanpore, when Maj jr General Wellcfl'jy and 
 the Britifh Troops fliould arrive ar Madras, Botr.bay, and Se- 
 ringapatam ; which propofal Colonel Collins abfolutcly rejedted, 
 and declared, that he would depart, if letters conformable to it 
 were written j that afterwards, another propofal was made, that 
 letters fliould be written, flaring that the Chiefs would imme- 
 diately feparate, and that each (hould move towards his own 
 Country, and make marches in proportion as the Britifh Troops 
 {hould make them, and that the Army of each Chief fliould ar- 
 rive at their ufual Stations, at the time that the Britifh Troops 
 fhould arrive at the Stations they ufually occupied. 
 
 Colonel Collins agreed to this propofal, and faid, that he would 
 wait till anfvvers (hould be received to the letters which fliould 
 be written conformable thereto ; inftead of writing letters con- 
 formable to their laft propofal, (in which Colonel Collins had 
 acquiefced), the Chiefs wrote letters conformable to their firft, 
 with which they knew, that Colonel Collins would not agree, 
 and after he had pofitively told them that he mufl depart if fuch 
 letters were written. Colonel Collins accordingly quitted the 
 Camp. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah and Narroo Punt agreed, that what 
 Major General Welldley had ftated, was ftriftly true, but they 
 contended, that the propofitions which had been made in the con- 
 ference alluded to were verbal, and could not be confidered as 
 binding. Major General Weliefley anfwered, that he never could 
 admit that principle ; and that if it ever was to be admitted, the 
 confequences would he, that all public tranfadtions muft be m 
 
 writmg. 
 
 He then obfcrved, that in fad, the letters written by Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah, and the Rajah of Berar, were an additional provo- 
 cation.
 
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 cation ; and that Colonel Collins, iiiftcad of being hurried, ftaid 
 much longer than he was authorized to flay. Thofe Chiefs had 
 been guilty of a grofs breach of the amity exiting between them 
 and the Company, by afTembling their Armies upon the Nizam's 
 frontier, which Armies they refufed to withdraw, notwithflan- 
 ding the entreaties of Colonel Collins, not for one day, but for 
 two months, and Major General Wellefley's letter to them, in 
 which he pointed out in the cleareft manner, the confcquences of 
 their refufal to withdraw their Armies which they had affembled 
 on the Nizam's frontier, avowedly for the purpofes of hoftili- 
 ties. 
 
 Appah DtfTaye then obferved, that it was immaterial in what 
 manner the difpute began. The objeft then was to make Peace, 
 and Jefwunt Rao Goorparah faid, the moft anxious wifli he had, 
 was to fee a friendly meeting between Major General Wcllefley, 
 and Dowlut Rao Scindiah, in which every thing fliould be for- 
 got. 
 
 Major General Welltfley obferved, that he had no perfonal 
 enmity to Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and he did not believe that the 
 Maha Rajah had any reafon to entertain a perfonal enmity againft 
 him. But the M;ijor General faid, that he mufl: confider himfclf 
 as charged with the interefls of a great State, and the Maha Rajah 
 as the head of another State, with which the Britifh Government 
 is at War. That in this view of their relative fituations, he mufl: 
 lay afide all perfonal confiderations, and muft in every thing ad: 
 as the interefts confided to him fhould require. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah explained, that he meant that the 
 meeting fhould be fubfequent to the pacification between the two 
 Governments, which he was ready to endeavour to bring about. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that he was ready to hear 
 ■what he had to fay upon that fubjedl, but that in the Br(\: place, 
 it was necefTary that he fbould know, what powers Jefwunt Rao 
 Goorparah had frotn the Maha Rajah. The Major General faid 
 he had full powers from the Britifh Government, and he con- 
 cluded that Jefwunt Rao had fomething of the fame kind from 
 the Maha Rajah. In
 
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 In reply, Jefwunt Rao Goorparah fa id, that it was not ufual 
 for a man of great rank to carry a letter; and that befides, the 
 Maha Rajah had fome obje(5lions to writing a letter, becaufe the 
 laft which he had written to Major General Wellcfley upon the 
 fubje£l of his march to Boorhanpore, had never been anfwered. 
 
 A long converfation then enfiied upon the fubjeft of this 
 letter, in which Major General Wellefley declared, that he had 
 written an anfwer to the Maha Rajah, which Colonel Collins 
 had forwarded from Adjuntee, and that Meer Mahomed Khan 
 had adverted to it, in a late letter received from him; and the 
 Vakeels declared that the Maha Rajah had not received it ; Major 
 General Wellefley then faid, that there could be no difficulty 
 upon the fubjedt of the lofs of the letter fent, and as no per-, 
 fonal rudenefs was ever intended to the Maha Rajah, another 
 copy fiiould be fent. On the fubjetl of the Credentials, M'jor 
 General Wellelley faid, that the common practice throughout the 
 world, but particularly in the Marhatta Empire was, that no com- 
 mon Karkoon* was ever fent on the moft trifling bufinefs, who 
 did not bring a paper from his Employer; and that in the greater 
 concerns of States it was indifpenfable. 
 
 Major General Wellefley after pointing out the inconvenience 
 which would refult from a departure from the common rule, 
 faid, that he had no doubt whatever, that Jefwunt Rao Goorpa- 
 rah was fent to him by Dowlut Rao Scindiah, as he faid he was, 
 and that he was a nun of fuch rank and charadler, that he would 
 not deceive him upon that point, and that Dowlut Rao Scin- 
 diah would not venture to caft a fliade upon his chara£ler by 
 denying that he had employed him as a Vakeel. On this ground, 
 and as Appah Deffaye had a letter from Scindiah, flating that 
 thefe perfoiis were his Vakeels, Major General Wellefley faid, he 
 was willing to hear what Jefwunt Rao Goorparah had to fay ; 
 but he mhfted upon it, that as foon as an Ilircarrah fhould be 
 able to return, the regular Credentials flxould be produced. 
 
 • The technicaHignification of thf <etin " IJiafkotm" js an «' Aucoununt."^ Karkoons however 
 arc frcquentl/' employed in affairs of a nature, wholly dilVmft from the original duties of their 
 office. * 
 
 Jefwunt 
 
 I
 
 ( s ) 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah and Narroo Punt thca retired, and 
 Appah Deffaye remained behind : lie faid that he had a letter from 
 the Maha Rajah, faying, tliat thefts perfons were his Vakeels 
 which mi"ht be deenned fufficient, and repeated, that the rcafoa 
 for which t!ie Maha Rajah had not written to Major General 
 Wellcfliy was, tl.at his former Icttrr had not been anfwcred, 
 upon which fubjedl he was much hurt. 
 
 A long converfarion cnfued upon t!;is fubjca. At lafl Appah 
 Deffaye faid, that it was ufual, and the Maha Rjjah would con- 
 fiderasacompUment, if Major General Wdleflcy were to write 
 to him and inform him, that Jefwunt Rio Goorparah and Narroo 
 Punt Nana had arrived. 
 
 Major General Welkfley rgreed that he would write fuch 
 a letter, which is to be done. 
 
 PIcre the conference ended. 
 
 November ii, 1803. 
 
 Appah Deffaye* fent a meffage to inform M ijor General 
 V/clleilcy, tb.at he was delirous lo have a confere;ice with him, 
 and came in the evening. 
 
 The General withdrew to his Tent with Appah Deffaye, Mr. 
 Elphinftone, and Govind Rao. 
 
 Appah Deffaye faid, that he had difcovered the propofitions ' 
 for peace which Jefwunt Rao Goorparah was to make to Major 
 General Wellclley, an 1 that they were as follows : 
 
 That Scindiah would confent to acknowledge the Treaty of 
 Baffeen. That he would engage not to affemble his Troops on 
 the Frontier of the Nizam, or to molcfl: His Highnefs. That 
 the Company Ihould arbitrate certain Claims, which he had upo.i 
 the Nizam. 
 
 Upon ihefe conditions being complied with, Scindiah wo ild 
 
 • This Perfon was formerly in the fervice, atiii much in the confidence of Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah,- who is married to his Niece. He 's now in the fervice of the Peilhwah, but like 
 all the other Servants of that Prince, aid indeed every Marhatta, he looks up to Scindi ;h. 
 The objeft. of this conference was undoubtedly nn to difcover the inftru'tlons of ScinJiih's . 
 Vacjueel, but to find out Majo,r General Welklley's intention. 
 
 meet
 
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 meet the Pciflnvah as heretofore, and co-operate with the Eftg-* 
 lilTi Government to advance his (ervice. 
 
 Major General Wcllefley expreffcd himfelf much obliged to 
 Appah Dtflaye for having apprized him of the nature of Scindiah's 
 plan for a Peace ; but faid, that he Ihould referve his opinion 
 on that plan, and indeed upon every point relating to if, until 
 full and fufficient powers arrived here, for the Sirdar employed 
 by Dowlut Rao Scindiah to negotiate for him. 
 
 Appah DelFaye then began a long difcourfe on the fubjed of the 
 union between Dowlut Rao Scindiah, Ragojec Bhoonflah, and Jef- 
 wunt RaoHolkar; and he faid, that Scindiah had always been 
 authorized to negotiate for the interefts of the two latter, and that 
 he would fettle the terms of the Peace for them again with Major 
 General Wellefley ; and that if they did not agree to them, he 
 would join Major General Wcllefley in forcing them to agree to 
 what he arranged for them. 
 
 Major General Welltfley replied, that, he did not know that 
 jefwunt Rao HoKKar was the Enemy of the Britirti Govern- 
 ment; that he be] eved he was a better friend to the Britifh Go- 
 vernment than he was to the CcnFedcrates, and that there did 
 not appear any occalicn for the interference of Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah to leiile the terms of a Peace, where War had never 
 exifted. 
 
 The General then pointed out the abfurdity of fettling with 
 one Power, the terms of the Peace which Oiould be made with 
 another Power, entirely independent of it, as Ragojee Bhoonflah 
 was cf Scindiah; and obferved, that if Scindiah had powers to 
 arrange a Peace for Ragojee Bhoonflah, it became flill more ne- 
 cefTaiy for Major General Wellefley to proceed with caution, 
 and to fee the powers of his Miniflcr, before he fliould make 
 known his ftntiments on any plan for a Peace. 
 
 Major Gtneral Wellefley thrn faid, that the firfl: objtd for 
 Scindiah, and his Miniflers, Was to make Peace for hirnftlf, and 
 afterwards for his fuppofcd friend; and the General faid, that he 
 Ihould nrj^Gtiatc a Peace for l^agojce Bhocnlldh, either with 
 
 Scindiah,
 
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 Scindiah, or with Rarrojec himfelf hereafter, according as he 
 ftiould find it nic.ft advantrigeous for the intcrefts of the Compa- 
 ny and ot their Allies. 
 
 November 20, i8(>3. 
 
 Major Gcnfral Wclklky fent for Jefwunt Rao CoorpSrah, 
 vho came in the evening, accompanied by Narroo Punt Nana, 
 and Appah DclTiye. 
 
 After a (hort rime, they retired to the Genet-al's Tent, in which 
 were prcfent, Major General Wcllefley, Govind Rao, and Mr. 
 Elphinltone. 
 
 Mdj>r General Welleflcy h\d, that he uifbed Jefwimt R^o 
 Goorparah would ftate candidly, by whofe order, and with 
 uhat view, he had come to this Camp, as he informed Jef- 
 wunt Rao that he had that day received a letter from Dowliit 
 Rao Scindiah, in which the Maha Rajah defired him not to pay 
 any attention to v;hat (hoiild be faid to him by any Chief who 
 did not produce the regular papers, empowering him to aifl 
 on behalf of Dowlut Rao Scindiah^ Major General Wtlleficy 
 likewife informed Jefwunt Rao Goorparah^ that he had re- 
 ceived other letters from the Durbar of the Maha Rajah, ftating 
 that he (Jefwunt Rao) had not been fent here by Dowlut Rao 
 Scindi;ih as a Vakeel, but that he had had leave to return to 
 his J igheer, and had come here to pafs himfelf upon Major 
 General Wellcfley as a Vakeeh 
 
 In anfwer, Jefwunt Rao Goorparah faid, that what Do^xluf 
 Rao Scindiah had v\ritten, was perfect iy proper, viz. that MajoT 
 General Wellcfley ought not to trufi: any perfon who did not 
 poflefs the regular papers. He declared, that although for tcafons 
 he had already ftated, he had not brought thefe papers with him, 
 he held been appointed by Dowlut Rao Scindiah to be his 
 Vakeel in this Camp ; and in proof of this declaration, he offer- 
 ed to produce Scindiah's letter to Appah DefTaycj and he pro- 
 duced a letter written to himfelf by another Vakeel from Scin- 
 diah in the Camp of Ragtjce Bhoonflah, in which that per- 
 fon
 
 t 8 ) 
 
 fon pointedly alludes to the objeft of his million in this Camp, 
 and fays, that he had been apprized of the nature of it, by 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah himfelf. He then related the manner in 
 which he had accepted the miflion from Dowlut Rao Scindiah; 
 and faid, that if he had been defirous of becoming acquainted 
 with Major General Wellelley, it was not neceffary that he 
 ihould pretend that he was fent on a miOTion by Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah; and that he believes he would have been well received, 
 if he had cfrcred his fervices. He faid, that fuppofing circum- 
 flances were againft him ; and that it fhould be believed that he 
 had not been fent, and that he was going to his J igheer, how 
 would they account for his being accompanied by Narroo Punt: 
 Nanna, and by the Hoozoories*, and Camel Hircarrahs belonging 
 to Scindiah. 
 
 In anfwer. Major General Wcllcfley faid, that he had no 
 doubt but that Jefwunt Rao Goorparah had been fent, as he 
 had faid, he was. He faid, that Dowlut Rao Scindiah had 
 certainly a right to change his fervants, as often as he pleafcd, 
 and that as long as he did not appoint a Vakeel to com.e here, 
 to whom there was a perfonal objeclion, Major General Wellefl^y 
 (Kould not objeift to his changing his Vakeels, although he ad- 
 mitted, that thofe changes did not give him great caufe to rely on 
 the fincerity of the Maha Rajah in his wiflies for peace. He obferv- 
 cd, that this cafe was one entirely different from that of a mere 
 change of perfons, employed in an office. 
 
 Ths Maha Rajah in bis letter to Major General Wellefley, virtu- 
 ally denied that he had ever employed Jefwunt Rao Goorparah 
 as his Vakeel j and fome of the perfons of the Durbar had 
 written that Jefwunt Rao Goorparah was adualiy an impoftor. 
 He then pointed out the dangerous fituation in which Jefwunt 
 Rao Goorparah had been placed. Under the letters received that 
 
 • " Muzzoorce.as" arc a clafs of confidential Domeflics, whofe peculiar duty it is to rcj 
 mam in conlbnt attendance on tlicir Employers, as the etymology of the word fliewg 
 «< lloozoor," fi^nifying " Prcfcncc." It appears tliat this defciiption of Servantj is only re- 
 tained by Minillers, or Sovereign Princes, 
 
 day
 
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 day from Dowlut Rao Scindiah's Gamp, M;ijor General Wellefley 
 faid, that he would have been juftified in feizing the perfons of 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah and all his attendants, and in punifli- 
 ing them as Impoftors and Spies ; and that his omitting to 
 adopt this mode of vindicating the honor of the Britifli Go- 
 vernment, miiil: be attributed entirely to his moderation, and to 
 his belief, that Jefwunt Rao Goorparah had been fent as a 
 Vakeel as he had ftated, and that the letters which he had that 
 day received, were the refult of an intrigue in the Durbar. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah, admitted the juftice of what Major 
 General Wellefley had faid, and declared that he confidered 
 himfelf entirely at his mercy. He wifhed however, that before 
 any further fleps were taken, M jor General Wellefley would 
 wait till the anfwer fhould be received to the letters which he 
 had difpatched, on the day after his conference with Major 
 General Wellefley. 
 
 In anfwer. Major General Wellefley faid, that he had no ob- 
 jedion to his remaining in Camp till ihofe anfwers ftiould be 
 received, or to his obeying the Oiders which they fliould con- 
 vey i and if they were to depart, as was to be expedted, he 
 fliould allow him to go off. Major General Wellefley however 
 defired him to recoiled: what had pafled in this converfation, 
 and to report it faithfully to the Durbar i and to let the Maha 
 Hajah's Minifters know, that if ever they ventured to play fuch 
 tricks again, not only would their Inftrument fuffer for them, 
 but that it would become impoflible to hold any intercourfe 
 whatever with the Durbar of the Maha Rajah. 
 
 November ai, 1803. 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah and Narroo Punt Nana, can-.e to 
 Major General Wellcfley's Tent in the evening, letters having 
 been received from Dowlut Rao Scindiah, which gave them 
 and Appah Defl"aye, the regular appointment of Vakeels. 
 
 Appah Deflaye did not come, becaufe Major General Wellef" 
 ley had intimated to him, through the medium of Mr. Elphin- 
 
 ftonCj,
 
 ( 'o ) 
 
 ftone, in the morning, that he did not conceive it was rcgi;hr, 
 that one of the Peidiwah's Sirdars fhould have, and exercife, 
 the appointment of a Vakeel from Dowlut Rao Scindiah ; and 
 that Major General Wellefley conceived, that if he did exercife 
 if, the Company could no longer, confider him in the Service 
 of the Peifliwah. On the other hand, Mr. Elphinftone in- 
 fo-rmcd him, (hat Major General Wtllefley would not confent 
 to his being prefent at (he conferences between him and Jef- 
 wunt Rao Goorparah, unlefs he appeared there in the charadler 
 of an authorized Vakeel from one of the Parties concerned ia 
 the War. 
 
 There were prtfcnt at the meeting of this day, Jefwunt Rao 
 Goorparah, Narroo Punt Nana, Mr. Elphinfione, Govind Rao, 
 and Major General Wellefley. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that now that the Maha Rajah 
 had written, that they were perfons in whom he confided, and 
 whom he had employed to confer with him, he was defirous that 
 thty ffiould lofe no time, but ihould inform him what the objedt 
 of their miflion was. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao faid, that they were infirudled to flate the willi 
 of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, that there fhould be Peace between 
 tlie two Governments; to afcertain Major General \Vellefley's 
 wifl'.es upon this fubje61, and to return to Camp, bringing, with 
 them an Officer, having full powers from Mnjor General Wel- 
 lefley to conclude a Treaty. 
 
 Major Gcrteral Wellefley faid, that he had hoped that they 
 would have brought forward fome plan for a Treaty of Peace, 
 which he might liave confidered, and upon which he might 
 have given his opinion j but: that as they had not done fo, he 
 would open his mind regarding a Peace. 
 
 Major General Welltflcy then related all the principal tranfa6lioi7s 
 which had taken place between the Britifli Government, and the 
 Maha Rajah, from the period of Flolkar's vidlory near Poonah, 
 to that of the breaking out of the War i and he pointed out that 
 the War was one of aggreflion, on the part of Dowlut Rao 
 
 Scindiah •>
 
 ( 11 ) 
 
 Scindiab; and that the Britifh Government had done every 
 thing that was confiftent with honor to avoid ir. 
 
 He particularly noticed the condudl of Dowlut Rao Scindiah 
 in iijfl calhng upon the BritiHi Governnaent to come forward to 
 alTifl: the Pcifliwah a<];ainft Holkar; and afterwards his makinor 
 Peace with Holkar, and facrificing to him the vafl Territories 
 which lie had conquered from the Hulkar family, only to induce 
 him to become a party in the War againft the Britifh Govern- 
 ment. 
 
 In this War, Major General Wellefley fud, thus begun in 
 confcquence of the aggrefllons and uiijiiftifi^ble condud; of Dow- 
 lut Rao Scindiah, in aiTcmbling his Troops on the Frontier of 
 our Ally, the operations of the Britifh Troops had been moft 
 fuccefsful, and the Maha Rajah had iofl: nearly the whole of 
 his Territories j and his Government hung only by a thread. 
 
 The Maha Rajah now wiflies for Peace; but Major General 
 Wellelley faid, it muft be recolled:ed, that he begun the W^ar, 
 and had been the occafion of vail: expences incurred by the 
 Britifli Government, of the lofs of many brave Officers and 
 Men of the Bntilh Army, and of great damage done to the 
 Territories of the Soubah of the Deckan. Under thefe circimi- 
 ftances, and confidering the fuccefTes of the Britifli Troops, M^ijor 
 General Wellefley faid, that the Maha Rajah mud not expe;^- 
 Peace, and the Britifh Government would not make it, uti- 
 lefs the Maha Rajah's Government fhould give compenfation 
 for what had pafTed, and fecurity that the Allies would not be 
 liable to fuch unjufl attacks in future. 
 
 In refped: to the fending a Sirdar to the Camp of the Maha 
 Rajah, Major General Wellefley faid, that he had no objedion 
 to adopt that meafure if it was necefTary, but he did not fee what 
 end it was to anfwer. The Company had in their hands the 
 PofTeflions of the Maha Rajah, by means of which, the Peace 
 was to be made. Tlie Britifli Government had nothing to afk 
 fro,m Dowlut Rao Scindiah, ahhoucrh he had much to adc from 
 the Britifh Government ; and therefore, it appeared, that this 
 
 Camp
 
 ( 12 ) 
 
 Camp was the proper place to negotiate the terms on which 
 Peace Ihould be made. 
 
 In reply to this difcourfe, Jefvvunt Rao Goorparah recapitu- 
 lated the various expences, injuries, and loffes which the Britifla 
 Government and their Allies had fuftained by the War, and 
 faid that Dowlut Rao Scindiah had fuftained them equally. 
 
 He faid that Dowlut Rao Scindiah had been obliged to affem- 
 ble large Armies ; and that he had loft them, and all his Artillery; 
 ihathis Country, inftead of being overrun, had been taken from 
 hi-n; that he hid loft Holkar's Territories by the War*, and he 
 pAnicularly expatiated upon the lofs of power and profit which 
 his Government had fuftained by the eftablilhment of the Britifli 
 influence at Poonah. He faid, that the Peifhwah's power had 
 been in his hands, and now it was in the hands of the Britifh 
 GjVi^rnment. He faid, that for all thefe loffes, furely Dowlut Rao 
 Scin.iiah ought to have f;me compenfation. 
 
 Major General Wellelley obferved, in rt;ply, that if all thefe 
 lolTcs had not been brought on the Maha Rajah, by his cwn 
 a'ft, and his violent aggrefTion and hoftility towards the Britifh 
 Govcrp.ment, there might be fome claim for compenfation for 
 loffcs ; at Icaft juftice would be on his fide. But the cafe was en- 
 tirely different rScindiah's lofTes were occaiioned by his own a6t, and 
 thofe which the Britifti Government had fuftamed, were in defend- 
 ing iifelf, and its Allies. Major General Wellelley then obfervcd, 
 tliat in rcfpedt to the claim of compenfation brought forward 
 for the lufs of Holkar's Territories, the fa6l was, that thefe 
 Territories had been facrificed in order to encreafe the number of 
 ihe Enemies of the Britifh Government ; and it would be a curious 
 arranLTtrncnt to lot ofT again (I the claim of the Britifh Govern- 
 ment to compenfation for an aggrefTion, the lofs of thefe very 
 Territories by the Powers, which had nrcrificed them in order to 
 encreafe the number of our Enemies, and if poffiblc, to inlure 
 the liiccefs of the Confederates, united in a War of AggrefTion. 
 
 In rtTpecl to the Peifliwah, Mijor General Wellelley denied 
 that his power was identified with that of Dowlut Rao Scin- 
 diah;
 
 ( ^3 ) 
 c^iahj or tliat the latter was any thing but the fubjed of the 
 former; and in refpcft to the AHiance between the Britifli Go- 
 vernment and the Pcifi-iwah, Major General Wellefley faid, that 
 he would not allow it to be brought forward at all as a grievance 
 which occafioned the War, as the Maha Rajah and Ragoj.e 
 Bhoonflah had both written to the Governor General, and had 
 expreflcd their acquiefcence in the juftice and propriety of the 
 Treaty of Bafleen before the War broke out. 
 
 Major General Wellefley then faid, that having as he thought 
 eflablifhed the right of the Company and of their Allies, to 
 have compenfation for the injuries they had received, and fecu- 
 riiy againft fucli wanton attacks in future, he wifhed to know 
 whether Jefwunt Rao Goorparah and Narroo Punt Nana were 
 }>repared and authorized to admit that principle as the bafis of 
 the tcrm.s of the Peace. 
 
 A long converfation tlien enfued, in which the Vnqueels de- 
 clared, that the Maha Rajah was def^rous to renew the old 
 friendthip upon the old footing, and to owe the re-eftablilhment 
 of his State, (which they avowed,) was gone to the Britifli Go- 
 vernment, 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that the re-eftablifliment of 
 the State of Dowlut Rao Scindiah on the old footing was out 
 of the queftion. That fuppofing the Britifli Government and 
 their Allies were willing to forego the advantages which their 
 fucceffcs in the War had given them a right to expedt, Engage- 
 ments had been entered into with different Chiefs, by which 
 they had been taken under the prote6lion of the Company, and 
 had promifed, that they would afUfl: the Company againft their 
 Enemies ; and that thefe Treaties would never be departed from. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that the Britifli Government 
 had no defire to deftroy the State of Dowlut Rao Scindiah ; oa 
 the contrary. Major General Wellefley faid, it was their wifli to 
 prelerve it. But from what he had already faid, the Major 
 General obferved, that the Vaqueels muft fee clearly, that unlefs 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah foon made Peace, he would have no State left. 
 
 The
 
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 The Vaqueels preffed to know the extent of the compcnfa- 
 tion, which Major General Wellefley would require. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid. that he could not enter into 
 details till he-knew whether they were authorized to grant com* 
 penfation, and he repeated his queftion upon that fubjecH:, la 
 anfvver, they faid they were not. 
 
 Major General Wellefley then faid, that they muft apply for 
 further powers, and that in tht; mean time the negotiation 
 muft ftand ftill ; and they might report to Dowlut Rao Scindi- 
 ah all that he had faid. 
 
 The Vaqueels then exprelTed a dcfire that hollilities Oiould be 
 fufpended, and fhewed different letters upon the fubjedl both 
 from Scindiah and his Minifters in which the greateft anxiety 
 is expreffed upon this fubjedl, The principal reafon which the 
 Minifters affigned for making this reqiieft was, that the com^ 
 munication tnight be more quick and eafy, by both Armies being 
 ftationary. Major General Wellefley replied, that the propoficion 
 to make his Army ftationary included that of fufpending hof- 
 tilities againft Ragojee Bhoonflah, to which he was determin- 
 ed not to agree, till he had made Peace with that Chief; he faid, 
 that if they had any propolition to make regarding a fufpenfion 
 of hoftilities with Scindiah only, he was ready to liften to it. 
 After fome converfation in which the Vaqueels repeated 
 frequently, that Ragojee Bhoonflah depended entirely on Scin^ 
 diah, they propofed, that Major General Wellefley fiiould fuf- 
 pend hoftilities with Scindiah only j and they fliewed the 
 fecret inflrudtions of Eetul Pundit on this fubje£l, from which 
 it appeared, that Dowlut Rao Scindiah wis exceedingly alarms 
 ed at the Corps poftcd at Dohud in Guzarat, and at the prof- 
 pedt of being engaged with Colonrd Stcvenfon's Corps ; and 
 that he wiflied to take up his Itation at Boorhanpore during the 
 negotiations for Peace. 
 
 In anfwer, Major General Wellelley faid, that he had no ob- 
 jections to a fulpcnfion of hollilities with Dowlut Rao Scindiah 
 only, which fliouUl be applicable only to the Troops in the 
 
 Dcckan,
 
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 Dcckan, and to thofe in Guzerat; but that he could not con- 
 fent to the Maha Rajah's taking vp his pofition at Boor- 
 hanpore, as that place then belonged to the S uibah of the 
 
 Deckan. 
 
 That as the operations of the Britini Troops «roukl ftill 
 be continued againft Ragojte Bhoonflih, it would be neceffary 
 for Dowlut Rao Scindiah to remove to a diftance ; and that the 
 fituation, which he (Major General Wellcfley) would mofl ap- 
 prove of for him, would be in the Berar Country, at any place he 
 thouo-ht proj-cr, not Icfs than twenty Cofs from Elichpoor, 
 
 The Vaqueels prelTcd that the fufpenfion of hoftilities fliould 
 extend to the Troops in Hindoftan. Major General Wellefley 
 replied, that thofe Troops were not under his orders, but under 
 thofe of the Commander in Chief, and that he could not fufpend 
 their operations ; at all events he obferved, that it would take fix 
 weeks to communicate with the Commander in Chief, and- long 
 before that time, it was to be hoped, that a Treaty of Peace 
 would be concluded ; or, if it was nor, hoftilities muft be renewed 
 every where. 
 
 The Vaquecls then agreed to the propofition made by Major Ge- 
 neral Wellefley, regarding Dowlut Rao Scindiah's propofition ; 
 and they firongly urged that a Treaty to that purport fhould be 
 immediately drawn out and figned by Major General Wellefley 
 and by them. 
 
 Major Gener.'.l Wellefley faid, that it was then late, and that 
 he wilhed to cynfider the details of the arrangement till the next 
 day, when the Treaty fliould be drawn out. 
 
 The Vaqueels then afked, whether a Vaqueel from Ragoojee 
 Bhoonflah would be received in Camp; Major General Wellef- 
 ley faid, that alter what had already happened, he would not 
 receive any perfon from Ragojee Bhoonflah, who did i ot firft 
 cotnmunicate the bufinefs on which he was fent ; but with that 
 refervation, he would receive a Vaqueel from Ragojee Bhoonflah, 
 if he had any thing to communicate to him. 
 
 November
 
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 NoVExMBER 23, 1804. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah and Narroo Punt Nana, eame in the 
 evening. Mr. Elphinflone, Govind Rao, and Major General 
 Wellefley were prefent at the conference which followed. 
 
 The Perfian and Marhatta letters to Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 were read and explained to th^m, with which they were per- 
 fedlly fatisfied. 
 
 The terms of the agreement for the fufpenfion of hoflilities 
 were then canvaffed ; the Vaqueels expreffed a wifli, that Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah might be allowed to chufe a ftation twenty Cofs 
 from Elichpoor to the wellward of that City, if he fliould think 
 proper. 
 
 To this Major General Wellefley objeded, that the neighbour- 
 hood of Boorhanpoor belonged to the Soubah of the Dekan, and 
 he could not confent to Dowlut Rao Scindiah's remaining in any 
 part of His Highnefs's Territories. The agreement was at length 
 fettled as follows : 
 
 Major General Wellefley, on the part of the Honorable Com- 
 pany, and their Allies, and Jefwunt Rao Goorparah and Karroo 
 Punt Nana, on the part of the Maha Rajah Ali Jah Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah, having each communicated to the other their full Pow- 
 ers, have made the following Agreement. 
 
 1. There fhall be a ceflation of hoftilities between the Troops 
 commanded by Major General Wellefley in the Deckan and in 
 Guzarat, and thofe in the fervice of the Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah. 
 
 2. To prevent accidents, and in order to infure the execution 
 of the Firft Article, it is agreed, that there fhall be an interval of 
 twenty Cofs between the different Britidi and Allied Armies, 
 and that of the Maha Rajah ; and the Maha Rajah will march 
 with his Army and take up a pofition, twenty Cofs to the 
 Eaftvvard, and he will forage ftill further to the Eaftward. 
 
 3. In cafe the operations of the Britifh and Allied Armies 
 againft the Enemies of the Britifla Government, fliould draw either 
 
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 of tb6;n nearef than tU'cnty Cofs to the pcfition which iIjC Mahas, 
 R;;jah ihall h;ive occupicii, according to the Second Article ; previ- 
 ous notice of fuch opciation will bs given, in order that the 
 Maha Rajah may tr.ke timely meafbre always to prefervc ah inter- 
 val of twenty Cofs, between his Army and the British and Al- 
 lied Troops. 
 
 4. In Guzerat, the BlitiHi Trdops /liiU not advance beyond 
 Dohud. Thofc of the Maha Rajiih on th^ fide of Guzerat fli.ill 
 not approach nearer to Dohud tnan twenty Cofs. 
 
 ^. Notice muft be given in cafe either of the parties fliould b6 
 dcfirous to put an end to this Agreement, 
 
 6. This Agreement is to be ratified by the Maha Rajah Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiab, and his Ratification is to be given to Xvlajor General 
 Wcllsfl:y, in the fpace of ten days from this time. 
 
 Dated Cimp, Is'ovember ?.3, 18031 
 
 After having fettkd this Agre^miCnt, Major General Wellefley 
 /■lid, that he wiflieJ to know whether the perfon who was carrying 
 on the Predatory Operations on the borders of the Ahmednuggur 
 diftrid, and thofe belonging to the Soubah bf the Dcckan in that 
 quarter, was, or was not, in the fervice af Dow'lut R.ao Scindiah. 
 It he was, Mi^jor General Wellefley faid, that his operations mufl 
 be flopped ; if he was not, M^jor General Wclieftry faid, then 
 he flioald give orders that a reward m-ight be offered for his appre- 
 henfion, ia order that he might be taken, and hanged as a free- 
 booter. 
 
 The Vaqaeels replied, that they would enquire about that per- 
 fon, and in cafe he ihould prove not to be in the fervice of the 
 Maha R:;j::h, or if being in his fervice, he did not ftop his operati- 
 ons when ordered, they willied he might be puniOied as a free- 
 booter. 
 
 A converfation then enfuedj about fome people taken at Jalna- 
 pour and detained ; Major General Wellefley took that opportunity 
 of adverting to the conduft of the Confederates in feizing ths per- 
 ions of the Inhabitants of the Country, when they found that th^ 
 
 could
 
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 could make no imprefiiou on the Forts or ftrcng holds. Majop 
 General WelkHey faid, that in confequence of this conduit, he 
 had been obliged to give orders, that the perfons of thofe attached 
 to the Confederate Chiefs, and their adherents fliould alfo be feized 
 by way of retaliation. 
 
 The V^q'Jeels denied, that iDovv'Iut Pvao Scindiah had ever feized 
 any body, and declared, that he had tsktn during the War, only 
 Mr. Simpfon, who was living in Camp. 
 
 Major General WcUelley had cautiouuy avoided to mention 
 the name of that Gentleman, and even to enquire after him, becaufe 
 the feizure of his perfcn was a gral's violation of the laws of Nations-, 
 and adifgracc to the Government of the Maha Rajah. 
 
 He was attached to Colonel Collins's miffion, and it would have 
 been equally proper to have feized and detained the perfon of 
 Colonel Collins himfelf. Major General Wellcilcy faid, that he 
 hoped that the Maha Rajah was unacquainted with that circum- 
 ftance j and now that he had acquainted his Vaqueels with it, they 
 would immediately apprize him of itj and that Mr. Simpfon Ihould 
 
 be fent to Camp, 
 
 They faid he (hould* ' 
 
 The Vaqueels then faid, that in the Conference of the day before, 
 Mijor General Wellefley had faid, that the Britilh Government 
 mufl have cornpenfatioii arid fecurity, in order to induce them to 
 n-iakc Peace, arid at the fame time Major General Wellefley had 
 faid, that it was not the wiHi of the Britifl^i Government to deftroy 
 the State of the Maha R?jah, and that this compenfation would be 
 taken without deftrovin<r his Government. 
 
 They willied to know how this could be done. 
 In anfwer, Mnjor General Wellcilcy faid, that he had the day 
 before Hated the rcafons for wliich he thought the Britifli Go- 
 vernment entitled to coinpenfation, wliich realbns were unan- 
 fwtrable. He certainly conceived that it was pofTible to give 
 compenfation to the Eritidi Government and their Allies, and 
 flill to prcfcrvc the State of the Maha Rajah, which it was the 
 wifh t f tjic Britilh Government flioijld Hand ; but he faid, that 
 
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 he coiild not ftate his ideas in detail upon that fubjea, till he 
 fliould learn from the Vakeels, that the Maha Rajah was willing 
 to adopt the principle of giving compenfation to the BritiOl 
 Government, as the bafis of the negotiations for Peace. 
 
 The Vakeels fa-id, that the exiilence of the State of Dowlut: 
 Rao Scindiah was in the hands of the Britilh Government; and 
 that in future, in whatever fituation he might be left at the 
 Peace, he muft depend upon the Britifli Government for fup- 
 port i and that after Major General Wellefley had fettled the 
 terms of the Peace, and put an end to the V/ar, it would be 
 necedary that he Ihould fettle-the Government of the Maha Rajah.r 
 
 In anfwer Major General W^cllcflcy faid, that the firft thing 
 to do was to make Peace ; and that after that v/as done, it v/ould 
 be time enough to talk of other matters^ 
 
 Here the convcrfation ended^ 
 
 November 28, 180 j. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah and Narroo Punt Nana, came to Majof 
 General Wellefley 's Tent; and there were prefent Major General 
 Wellefley, Mr. Elphinftone, and Govind Rio. 
 
 The Vaquecls produced a letter from Dowlut Rao Scindiah, in 
 which that Chief ftated, that he had not ratified the agreement 
 for fufpending hoftilities, and his reafons for this omifTion, (whicH 
 were principally, that Ragojee Bhoonflah was not admitted as a par- 
 ty to it,) and that he had not fent the letter which had been given 
 to him addrclTed to Colonel Stevenfon, aS he feared, that that 
 letter contained an order to that Officer to attack Ragojee 
 Bhoonflah's Troops. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that the Maha Rajah was at 
 liberty to ratify, or not to ratify the Agreement, which had been 
 made with his Vaqueels, by his particular defire, at their urgent 
 requeft. But as he had not ratified it, and had not carried into 
 -execution any of its conditions, Major General Wellefley defired 
 ..to have back his letters, addreflcd to Colonel Stevenfon and 
 Colonel Murray, containing orders to fufpend hoftilities. 
 
 Major
 
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 Majof Gcnei'al VVclkfley ubfcrvcd, that the una to Colonel 
 Muna/ was not mentioned in the letter from Dowlut Rao Scin- 
 diah, and he defired to know whether that letter had been fent. 
 If it had, Major General Wellefley faid, that the Maha Rajah hid 
 been ^^uilty of a grofs fraud, v\hich would render it impoflible 
 ever to truft him again. 
 
 The Vaquecls faid, they had every reafon to believe that the 
 letter had not been fent, but they promifed to give an imm-'diate 
 anfvicr upon that fubjedt. 
 
 They then produced a letter frctn Vencajee Ehoonflah*, by 
 which they pretended, they were empowered to afl for Ragojee 
 Bhoonllahj and they deilrcd Major General Wellefley to agree to a 
 fufoenfion of hofl'-lities with that Chief. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that Vencajee Shoonflih was not 
 Iv^f^ojee Bhoonnah; that it did not appear that he had any power to 
 bind Ragojee Bhoonflah, who was his Sovereign ; and therefore he 
 fiiould have nothing to do v.ith Vaqucels appointed by him. 
 
 A long argument enfued upon the fubjedt of the Powers 
 vi'hich Vencajee Bhootifiah had j and Major Gerieral Vvelleflev de- 
 clared, that till he faw fome formal Inflrument (igned by Ragojefe 
 conveying them, he flsould not confider that he had any, and 
 fliouid not negotiate regarding Ragojec's intcrefls with Vaqueeis 
 appointed by Vencaj e. 
 
 The Vaq.ieels aflted on the part of Dowlut Roa Scindiah, whe^ 
 ther Ragojee Bhoonflah would be admitted to thj fufpenfion of 
 hoflilities, if lie fliould fend to M-'jor General Wellefley, a Va.^ 
 queel, regularly appointed with full powers. 
 
 M^'jor General Wellefley replied, that he fiiould rcf^rve to 
 himfelf the terms which he fliould grant to Ragojee Bhoonflah, till 
 a Vaqueel appointed by that Chief fliould arrive in this Camp. 
 That Scindiah ha i no right whatever to aflc a qaellion upon that 
 fubjcd, and that at all events, fuppofmg he had, it would be ra- 
 ther a curious proceeding to fpccify the ter^ns of an arrange- 
 
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 • Bfoilier tu Kngojec Bhoonflah, the Rajah of Botar, 
 
 ment
 
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 ment which (hould be made with any Chief, provided fuch 
 Chief would do Major General Wellefley the favor to fend a Va- 
 queel to his Camp to accept them. 
 
 Tlie Vaqueels faid, that Scindiali and Miinnoo Bapoo* were 
 er.camped at no great diftance from each other, and ihit the latter 
 had thrown himfelf under the protedlion of ihe former. That Colo- 
 nel Steven fon was at the difliance of only hx Cofs from Munnoo 
 Bapoo, and that there was every reafon to believe, that his Troops 
 would (bon come to an engagement with thofe under Munnoo Ba- 
 poo. They were therefore very defirous, that Colonel Stevenfon 
 fliould be defired to halt, and that Majur General Wellefley alfo 
 fhould halt, as they faid that Scindiah would be involved in great 
 difficulties, and would not know how to ad: in fuch a cafe. 
 
 JVIajor General Welltfley replied, that if Scindiah fliould ad- 
 here to the agreement for fu/pending hoftilitics, and fhould a61 
 in conformity thereto, tliere would be no difficulty. 
 
 Munnoo Bapoo might be attacked, and he would not be near 
 enough .either to give him afTifhance, or to fufJ-r difgrace for 
 not afTifting him ; if he fhould not adt in conformity with his 
 agreement; Major General Wellefley faid, he was ftdl the 
 Company's Enemy, and he would be treated as fuch wherever he 
 was found out of the pofition, which it had been agreed that he 
 Ihould take up. 
 
 The Vaqueels urged this point again, and requclled that Colo- 
 nel Stevenfon might hi defired to fall back, or at leafl to halt 
 one day ; and they faid, that fuppofing Munnoo Bapoo fhould 
 follow Scindiah, and fliould fly to him for an afylum, what was 
 to be done then? 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that Colonel Stevenfon 
 fliould not go back, and that he fhould not halt even for an hour. 
 In refpe(5l to Munnoo Bapoo's following Scindiah, Major General 
 Wellefley faid, that if Scindiah fhould go to the pofition pointed 
 
 * Munnoo Bapoo. This is the fame perfon as Vencajee Bhoonflah, Brother to the Rajah of 
 Berar : See Appendix A. page 1 7, of the Notes relative to the late Tranfaftions in the Marhatta 
 Empire. 
 
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 olit foi- him, the agreement provided for fuch an event ; and no- 
 tice would accordingly be given to Scindiah, if an intention 
 Ihould be formed of attacking Munnoo Bapoo, in order that Scin- 
 diah might move out of the way. But that if Munnoo Bapoo 
 fhould jom him, and he fhould not be in the pofition which it 
 had been agreed that he fliould take up, of courfe he was to run 
 his chance in the fame manner as any other Enemy of the Bri- 
 tiih Government. 
 
 The Vaqueels mentioned their furprize at the ufe of the word 
 Enemy, and repeated their requeil regarding the attack of Munnoo 
 BiDoo, Major General WcUeflcy gave the fjmeanfwer; and ad- 
 ded, that Munnoo Bapoo and Scindiah would certainly be attacked 
 on the next day (the twenty-ninth) if tiiey did not retire, and Scin- 
 diah did not take up the pofition whith had been agreed upon. 
 
 In rerpe(5t of the word Enemy, Major General Welleflcy faid, 
 that Scindiah was ftill the Enemy of the BritiHi Government ; 
 that fo far from being at Peace with that Government, the Va- 
 queels had not fo much as even fpoken one word upon that fub- 
 jedl ; and that their whole obje<fl appeared to be to fave the Rajah 
 of Berar from the jull puniQiment which awaited him. 
 
 lie then afked, whether any anfwer had been received to the 
 queftion refpe6ling the Peace which had been put to thsm : viz. 
 Whether Scindiah was willing to give compenfation to the Com- 
 pany and their Allies for the injury which had been done them by 
 his unjull aggreffion. 
 
 In reply, ilic Vaqueels faid, they had received his orders upoa 
 that fubjed ; but as it was late, and they were defirous of writing 
 to their mafter that night, they wiflied to defer to deliver his fen- 
 timcnts upon that fubjedl to the next day. 
 
 December i, 1803. 
 Jefwunt Roa Goorparah and Narroo Punt Nana, came to 
 Major General Welleflcy, and had a conference with him; at 
 which were prefent, Major General Wellefley, Mr. Elphinftone, 
 and Govind Rao. 
 
 Jefwunt
 
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 Jefvvunt Rao Goorpurah laid, that he had brout^ht the Agree- 
 ment for fulpcnding Iloftilities ratified by Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 and which h^: prclintcHl to Major Gcrneral Wellefley. 
 
 M ijor General WclIeflcy obfervecl, that the Treaty muft be 
 confide rid as void, uniels the Moha R;ij;ih complied with all its 
 flipuhitions. Jefvvunt Rao Goorparah faid that he had, and was 
 then marching towards Elichpore ; and prefented letters to BapoO" 
 jee Scindiah and the Sirdar Commanding the Troops in the Niig- 
 gur Diftrift, conveying to them orders to fufpcnd Hoftiiities. 
 
 Jcfwunt Rao Goorparah then prefented a letter from Dowlut 
 Rao Scindi.jh, by which Major General Welltfley was agaid 
 referred to Jcfwunt Rao Goorparah for further verbal communi- 
 cations. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah then faid, that Major General Wellefley 
 had required that the Company fliould have Compenfation at the 
 Peace, and he wifhed to know what Mijor General Wellefley 
 would require. 
 
 Major General WtlUfley replied, that he had required that Dow- 
 lut Rao Scindiah fh )u:d confent to make Compenfation to the 
 Company, the Bifis of the Negociacion for Peace; inflead of doincr 
 that, Scindiah had only required, that Major General Wellefley 
 (hould infarm liim, what compenfation the Company would re- 
 quire ; M.ijor General Wellrflcy deflred to be informed: fiifl, 
 whether Dowlut Rao Scindiah would, or would nor, g've compen- 
 fation ; and next, to fee the Vaqueel's infttudions upon that point. 
 
 The Vaqueels confounded the diflindtion between the demand 
 and grant ot compenfation generally, and the demand and grant of 
 particular Countries as compenfation ; and faid, it was impoffible 
 for them to fay that the latter fhould be granted, till they knew 
 what they were. 
 
 The diftindlien was repeatedly explained -to them ; Major General 
 Wellefley requii'ed, either, that they fliould fign a paper, ftating that 
 they were authorized to adniit of the right of the Company to com- 
 penfation, as the principle of the Negotiation, or that they fliould 
 fliew their Inftruilions ; as he obferved that there was fo much du- 
 plicity
 
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 pllcity and want of fteadinefs in Dowlut Rao Scindiah's Durbar, that 
 it was neceflary that he fhould have fuch a document before he fliouid 
 go any further. After a long argument upon this point, the Vaqueels 
 produced their inftrudioHS, from a perufal of which it appeared, thit 
 they were only inftruded to find out in what manner it was propofed 
 to take compenfation to the Company, without deftroying Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah's State. 
 
 The Vaqueels contended that this paper included every thing, 
 that was required ; and Major General Wellelley oblerved, that if it 
 did in their opinion, they could have no difficulty in figning the 
 paper which had been required. 
 
 At laft however they agreed, that it did not, and they propofed 
 to make a reference to Dowlut Rao Sc'indiah, and to give an anfwer 
 on the next day but one. 
 
 Major General Wellefley took this opportunity cf obferving 
 upon the manner in which all the papers were drawn up, which had 
 reached hi;n from Scindiah's Durbar. He faid that the paper 
 which had jufi: been produced might be conflrued either one way 
 or the other, as might be thought moft convenient ; that thofe 
 which had reached him previous to the War, bad been drawn up 
 in the fame manner; and that this want of fincerity and candour had 
 partly been the caufe of it. He then faid, that if on the next day 
 but one, the Vaqueels did not produce a paper, clearly drawn out, 
 admitting the right of the Company to Compenfation as the princi- 
 ple of the Negociations for Peace, he fliould requeft the Vaqueels 
 to quit his Camp, and Ihould leave Dowlut Rao Scindiah to his fate. 
 
 December 8. 1803. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah and Narroo Punt Nana came to Major 
 General Wellefley's Tent in the Evening; Major General Wellefley, 
 Mr. Elphinflone, and Govind Rao were prefent. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah faid, that he had received a letter from 
 
 - Dowlut Rao Scindiah, dated {c\en days ago, in anfwer to that 
 which he had written, communicating Major General Wellefley's 
 
 - defire, that the Britifli Government ihould have compsnfiition for 
 
 the 

 
 iVie injuries and aggrefllon it had received frnm the M:ilTa Rajah 
 and his Confederates. After fome convernuion, this letter was pro- 
 duced, and it nlluded to a memorandum, which accompanied a 
 Treaty, which Dowlut Rao Scindiah propofed fhould be figned by 
 Major General Wellcfley in two Articles. 
 
 The firfl Article ftated^ that the Britifli Troop's liaving talcert 
 iForts, Gunsj Stores, and Property of all kinds from the Maha 
 Rajah, a part of thefri were to be reflored to him. 
 
 The fecond Article flafed, that in confiderarion of the firft 
 being agreed to, Dowlut Rr.o Scindiah would agre to give to 
 the Britifli Government Compenfation ^or the ex^enfes, whirh 
 they had incurred during t'le War. He then recited the ne- 
 ceflity to which he was reduced, and expreflcd a hope that the 
 demand upon him would not be heavy. 
 
 Major General Welleflev faid, tliat he did not fje anv nrccfilf/ 
 for figning that paper. He had always faid, that he had no iri- 
 teiitioti to retain all the ConqueftS whith the Britifh Troops had 
 made. He certainly fliould reftore a part of them, and that 
 part which he fliould tsftore would be in a cond^ition as perfedl, 
 as on the day that the Treaty fliould be ratified. 
 
 The Vaqueels hinted a wifK that fome of the Guns taken in 
 Battle might be given back ; to this Major General Welleflev 
 replied, that he never would or could confent to fuch a propofa! r 
 That the Troop<5 and thf» Britifli Government confidered tliofe 
 Guns as honorable Trophies of their Vidtories ,• and that it would 
 be confidered a difgrace to Piipuhife for their refloration in any 
 inanncr. 
 
 The Vaqueels prefTed this point, arid Major General Welleflev 
 fofitivelv refufed it. 
 
 The V<iqueels faid, that the Guns were abfolutely necefTary to 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah to enable him to defend himlelf. Major 
 General Wellcfley replied, that he knew that Scindiah had fome at 
 Oiigtin ; at all events he could cafl; them, but that even if he had 
 none, and could not procure any, it would be impofTible for him 
 to refl:ore the Guns taken in Battle. 
 
 Majdr
 
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 Major General Wellefley then faid, that as it appeared the Ma- 
 Jia Rajah was inclined to grant compenfation to the Company 
 and their Allies for ihe injuries they had received, he would pro- 
 ceed to flate what he inoald demand. 
 
 He began with ihe Rajpoot and Jaut Chiefs and States, and 
 faid, that the Company had concluded Treaties with them, which 
 could not be departed from, and that their Chiefs muft be declar-. 
 ed lo be ir.r'cptndent of Dov\lu!; Rao Scindiah, 
 
 Major General Wt;lltfley mentioned, that there were feveral 
 pfthefc Chiefs and States with whicli Treaties had been concluded, 
 9nd faid that he would hereafter produce a lift of them. In the 
 mean time he faid that the Jvlaha Rajah muft acknowledge their 
 Independance. 
 
 Major General Wellefley next went to the Nizam. He faid, 
 that for him he (hpuld require a diftindl frontier, aod that his Ter- 
 ritories (hould be freed from all interference and mixture with 
 thofe of Dowlut Rao Scindiah ; alfo that the Maha Rajah fhould 
 renounce all claims of Choute and other claims upon the Nizam^ 
 to which Major General Wellefley obferyed, he had no right 
 whatever, either in his own perfon, or on behalf of the Peifhvi^ah, 
 \vho had fubmitted his claims to the Arbitration of the Britifli Go-: 
 Vernment, and had repeatedly declared that he had not authorize^! 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah to enforce them. 
 
 The Vaqueels replied to this obfervation, that they defired to 
 refer to the Treaties between the Maha Rajah and the Nizam's 
 Government to afcertain his claims, and to the Sunnuds from 
 the Pdillivvah. Major General Wellefley faid, that he had no objec- 
 tion to examine the Treaties, and would do fo, but would not allow 
 the claim of Choute, the renunciation of which, he declared, was 
 abfulutely neceftary to obtain Peace, whether the claim was 
 founded upon Treaty, or upon a Sunnud frorii the Peifliwah, or as 
 he apprehended, upon the right of the fword. 
 
 He explained to the Vaqueels, that when Dowlut Rao Scindiah 
 went to War, he broke all Treaties, and there was an end of them; 
 and unh'Ts renewed, they muft be ponfidcrcdin the fame light, as 
 )f they had never been made. Majof
 
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 Major General Wellcfley alfo explained the ncceflity of the 
 jciiuncintion of Choute, in order to have any peace or profperity in 
 the Country. 
 
 In refped; to the Pciihwah's Government, Major General Weilef- 
 ley laid, that it would be necellary to appoint Commiflloners to 
 afcertain what diftridls belonged to His Highnefs, and what to 
 Dowluf R;io Scindiah, whofe decidon fhould be final, otherwife 
 Major General Wellcfley obferved, difputes would be perpetual, 
 and in the end, there would beanothtr War. 
 
 Major General Wcllelley next adverted to the CelTions of Terri- 
 tory vihich would be required from IJ)owliir Rm Scindiah. 
 
 He told the Vaqucels that the Company would require from 
 him all his Territories lying to the Northward of thofe of the Ra- 
 jahs of Jeypoor, Jodepour, and of the Ranah of Gohud, the Fort and 
 Territory of Baroach, the Fort and Territory of Ahmednuggur, 
 and the Diftridis near the Godavery, which would be necelTary to 
 exclude him from the Nizam's Territories, 
 
 Major General Wellcfley faid, that the Fort and Territory of Ba- 
 roach were neceffary for the prefervation oi the Company's Intcr- 
 clls in Guzerat; the Fort of Ahmednuggur was neceffary to the 
 indcpendance of the Peifliwah ; and the Territories to the North- 
 ward to the fecurity of the Company, and to aflord compenfation 
 to the Allies, and to provide for the King, and other Chiefs, who 
 during the War had joined the Company. 
 
 Major General Wellefley here obferved, that he could not confi- 
 der the State of Dowlut Rao Scindiah as much diminiflied by 
 thefe Ceffions, as in fi6l he had not pon"cfTed the Territories to the 
 Northward; they had been in the hands of Monfieur Pe-rron, 
 who had never given hin the Revenue, had frequently refufed 
 to ferve him, and was in fadl independant of him. 
 
 The Vaqueels wlio had been filent nearly till this moment, ex- 
 claimed that the Maha Rajah's State muft fall, if he Ihould Infe 
 his influence over the King, and if thofc Territories which Mon- 
 Tifur Perron had, were not reRored to him. They faid that 
 Munfisur Perron had fervcd, and they inftanced the Battle of 
 
 Kurdlah;
 
 ( 28 ) 
 Kurdlah*; and they faid that ihe Maha Rajah had always had 
 fome of the Campoos-f with him. 
 
 Major General VVellefley faid, that he might have ferved for- 
 meih' but that he knew that latterly he had refufed to fend his 
 Troops into the Deckan, and that after having been one of the 
 principal inftigators of Scindiah to go to War with the Britilh Go- 
 vernment, he had bafely abandoned him. 
 
 In refpeft to the King, Major General Wellefley faid, that Scin- 
 diah had given hitn over to Frenchmen, who had treated Him 
 in the mofl: barbarous manner, and it would be entirely inconfif- 
 fent with the humanitv of the Britifli Government and the rules 
 of good faith, if His Majcfly were to be given up to the Marhattas 
 again. In reply, the Vaqurels faid, that it was true that Monfieur 
 Perron and his Frenchmen had bafely deferted Scindiah: but the 
 Native eftablidiments of the Campoos ftill remained, and they de-» 
 ckred Scindiah's incapacity to fupport them, unlcfs thefe Ter- 
 ritories were reftored to him. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that he had other Territories 
 from which thev might be fupported, and ftated the intention to 
 reftore Boorhanpoor, AfiTcerghur, and the Territories bordering on 
 Gu7crat. 
 
 The converfation continued fome time upon this point, and 
 at length the Vaqueels defued Major General Wellefley to 
 continue. 
 
 M jor General Wellefley faid, that one of the principal caufes of 
 the prefent War was to be attributed to the inftigations and intrigues 
 of Frenchmen in Scindiah's Durbar. He faid, that wherever there 
 was a Frenchman, there was a decided and reftlefs Enemy of the 
 Britidi Government : The events of the War had fhewn, that thefe 
 Oflicers in Scindiah's fervice could not be depended on, and at all 
 events, could render him no fervice ; and Major General Wellefley 
 
 • The Battle of Kurdlali was fought helwecn the late Nizam Ali Khan, and the Mar- 
 hattas, in the year 1795. The Corps of Monfifur Perron, on the fide of the Marhattas, 
 iind of Monfieur Raymond, in the fervice of the Nizam, were engaged on this occafion. 
 
 ■f A corruption of the Knglift word " Camp,'* and ufcd to fignify " Regular Brigades." 
 
 obfcrvcd,
 
 ( 29 ■) 
 
 obfcivcdi that he could prove to Scindkh in the ckarcft manner, 
 that an alliance with the French Natit)n, would, uiuK-r prcfent cir- 
 CLimflancts, be of no ufe to him, excepting to inwilve liiin in fur- 
 tlicr difhcultics. Major General Wellcflcy faid, that on thcfe 
 grounds it was neccir;iry, that the Britilh Government IhouKi dc- 
 itiand, thut Scindiah fhould coiilcni never to take a Frenchmen in'- 
 to his fcrvice, or any European or American fubjcdl, v/hof'e Go- 
 vernment (hould be at War with the Englilli ; and ii would not 
 be inconvenient to Scindiah to j-rant this articie. 
 
 The V'aqueels declared in reply, that they would grant it mtk 
 plcafurc;; that Scindiah had not the fmallelL wi(h cv'cr to lee a 
 Frenchman again, 
 
 A Log converfation than enfued upon the ceflion of the Terri- 
 tories to the Northvvard, in which, what had palled before was 
 recapitulated j particularly, that the Infantry Eftablithment was 
 neccO'.iry, that it was intended to keep it up, and that it could riot 
 be kept up unlefs thofe Territories v/ere reiloredc 
 
 Major General Welle (ley then faid, that there was another fub- 
 jt6l that he had omitted to mention, and that was, that the 
 Britiih Government, and Dovvlut R .to Scindiah, iliould e'cii 
 have a Miuifier redding with the other. The Vaqusels aiT.nLed 
 to this propolition ; and Jefwunt Rao Goorparah in particular faid, 
 that he fitould be hap. y to be the pcifort employed by tlic ivlaha 
 Rajah upon this oecaiicn. 
 
 Major Girneral Wellellcy took this opportunity of expreffing 
 Ills latisfatti jii with his condudt, and his hopes thai it nij^ht be 
 podibe to arrange a Peace upon the Bails which he had dated. 
 
 In the courfe of the coiiverfition which followed, and indeed 
 frequently during this day's conference, the Vaqueels declared 
 that Dowlat Rao Scindiidi was abiolutely reduced by necelFity to 
 171 d<:e any Peace the Biiciili GoverniTient chofe. This dt-claratioa 
 appe'ars alfo in his cw'a letters. 
 
 The Vaqueels then defired to have in writing v.'hat Major 
 General Wellefley had dated, which was prcmifed on ths fol- 
 lowing day.
 
 ( 30 ) 
 
 T he Vaqucels urged again their demand for the Rajah of Berai , and 
 faid, that Scindiah was very defirous thart the Rajah fliduld beheve, 
 that he had affifted to obtain Peace for him ; and aiked, whether 
 Major General Welkfley would admit the Rajah'd Vaqueeis tu 
 the conferences for Peace. 
 
 Major General Wellcfley replied, that he ihoul^ n6t admit th6 
 Raj^ih's Vaqueeis to the conferences with them, unlefs the Rajah had 
 Powers fiom Dowiut Rao to treat for himj nor on the other 
 hand, fliould he admit therti to the conferences with the Rajah's 
 Vaqutels. Major Gdneral Welleflty faid, that he had no ob- 
 jcflion to make Peace with the R^jah j that, on the contrary, for 
 his own pcrfonal convenience, he wi filed to put an end to the 
 War; although to the Goveirnment, it mufi be indifferent how long 
 ir riiciiU lafl, as, by the fuccefsfiil exertibtIS of the Britifli Troops, 
 Territories had been taken polTeilion of, the Revenues of which 
 would pay its expences, 
 
 December ii, 1803. 
 
 jefwunt Rao Goorparah and Narroo Punt Nana, came to Majoir 
 General Welkfley 's Tent; at which were prefent, Mnjor General 
 Wellefley, Mr. Elphinftone, and Govind Rao. 
 
 They came they faid to talk over with Major General V/cl- 
 Lfley, the Articles on which he had propofed on the former day to 
 frame Peace. They exprelled a wifli to know what Territories 
 Major General Wellcfley defired to have in Hindodan, and where 
 the Company's Boundary was to be. 
 
 Major General Welleftey replied, that the Territories which it 
 was necellary that Scindiah lliould cede, were all tholc to tlie 
 Northward of the States of Jcypoor, Jodepoor, and Goliud. In 
 rcfptft to the Company's boundary, Major General Wellcfley 
 faid that there was no intention of carrying the Company's Ter- 
 ritories further than the Jumna, and to thofc places on the Right 
 Bank, which would fecure the Navigation of that River, and the 
 Company's frontier. That the remainder of the Territories ceded, 
 would be applicable to the fupport of the King, and of other 
 
 Sirdars
 
 ( 3' ) 
 Sirdars who had rrndtied Scivicts to the Company durin;; the 
 War, and whofe Services merited reward. Major General Wel- 
 le lley obferved, that he did not admit the right of the Vaqueels 
 to alls, any qucftion regarding the difpofal of the Territory which 
 Scindiah fhould cede, nor did he pledge the Company's faith 
 that it would be dilpofcd as \\t had ftated. But Major General 
 Wclltfley faid, that this dilpofal of the Territory was a proof of 
 the gcncrofity of the Britifh Government, and he had therefore 
 no dtfire to conceal it. 
 
 The Vaqueels then prtflcd moll anxioufly, that the Territory 
 to be given to the King and others might be allowed to remain 
 in their hands ; that ihe amount of the lubfiilence to be given to 
 the King might be fixed by the Company, and that Scindiah 
 Ihould pay it to Him ; and that the lame arrangement Ihould be 
 made for the other perfons, for whom the Company's Government 
 were delirous to provide. 
 
 They particularly alked what was to become of Scindiah's 
 Office of Vizier ? They faid, that hitherto, the Countries in Hin- 
 doftan, (particularly Perron's Jagheer,) had always been managed 
 in the name of the King. That Scindiah appointed and difmilTed 
 Aumildars and others in His Majefty's name, and that he 
 alfoin His Majelly'sname, diftributed the Revenues of theDiilrifts 
 (txcepting, as was underftood, Perron's Jagheer), in their three 
 Shares, to his own Government, that of the Peifhwah, and that of 
 Holkar. The Vaqueels alked how this was to be in future ? and 
 they vvifhed Major General Wellefley to fpecify particularly the 
 nsmis of the Talooks which he required, as Two-thirds of all to 
 the Northward of the States of Jeypoor, &c. belonged to the 
 Peifliwah and Holkar. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that the Bririfh Government 
 would never cunlent to leave in the hands of Scindiah, or any 
 other ptrfon, the provifion to be made for the King, or for thofe 
 who had fupported them in the War, and who they had taken 
 under their prote£lion. That the demand upon thit point, would 
 bcver be be ccmplied with. 
 
 ta
 
 { 3^- ) 
 
 •Tn rtfpe-d to Scindiah'^ O'iHcc of Vizlir, Mijor General Wcl"- 
 Idlcy fjid, that lie fuppofed His Majefly had the pov\er of difmif- 
 finsr liim from ir, now that He was no longer held in a deora- 
 dcd fubjeflion by Monfieur Perron's Troops, and that He was in 
 Alliance wiih the Company. That v.'hen He was difmiflld froiti 
 tl.at Office, which after all was but Nominal, and the authority 
 belonging to which, depended upon the exiftcnce of Scindiah's 
 Military Power, there would be no qucltion rcTpedting the 
 exercife of iis duties. 
 
 In refpecl to the names of the Diflrid^s which he fhould require; 
 Major General Wellclley faid, that he would endeavour to pro- 
 cure them. In the mean time, however, he demanded from 
 Scindiah, th^t he fliould cede all his Rights and Territories to 
 the Northward of Jeypoor, &c. In this ceflion, Major General 
 WcUelley faid, that of courfe the rights cf the Pcifliwah, and thofe 
 of Holkar, were not included; as M:ijor General Wellefl^y faiJj 
 he had more than once told the Vaqueels, they hud no right to 
 cede or demand on the part of any body; excepting their own 
 maflcr: Moreover, the Britifli Government were bound to 
 proted; and fupport the rights of the Pcilhwahj and as for Hoikar, 
 he was able to protect his own ; and certaiuly the Company had 
 no intenrion to interfere with him, as long as he retrained frorrl 
 hoftilities againft them. 
 
 A lorur converlation enfued Upon this point, in which eveiy 
 thing th.^t had been faid before, Vv^as repeated more than once. 
 The Vaqueels exprrfTed their aftonilhment, that the Company's 
 Government fliould make fuch demands for other perfons, and 
 they faid, that there would be no cbjc^lion to the ceffidn of Per- 
 ron's J^ghcer. They exprelfed themfelves ffrongly upon the hard- 
 fliips which Scindiah mufl fufFer, while thofe who had brouglit 
 him into the Icripc, and who had not alTifted him, viz. the 
 Peilhwah and Holkar, were, the former fopported and proteded^ 
 and the latter unmoleiled. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that il might accelerate matters, 
 and throw lome light upon this point in the negotiation?, if they 
 
 would
 
 i 23 ) 
 
 would give him a McmoranJum upon the fubjecfl of Hindoftan, 
 in which they flioultl ftate particularly, in wliat manner the 
 Revenue was collected, and the bufinefs conduced. 
 
 The Vaqiiecls tlien went to the Demands for the Nizam. They 
 faid that Jalnapour belonged to the Peifhwah, and had been 
 granted by the Peifhwah to Scindiah. 
 
 Major General Welkfley replied, that the fame anfwer migjlit 
 be given to every demand made. He aflced for that Diftridl on 
 the part of the Britifli Government and their Allies, and Scindiah 
 muil cede it if he wifhed for Peace. The Britifli Government 
 would find r.o difficulty in fettling the queftion between the 
 Peifliwah and the Nizam. 
 
 The Vaqueels then adverted to the demand of Baroach, and faid 
 that that place had been given to Madhajee Scindiah by the Britifli 
 Government; that it was the only Sea-port they had, and hoped 
 they might be allowed to keep it. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that it was unfortunate that 
 Scindiah .had not recollecfled that the Britifli Government had 
 given him Baroach, at the time he expofed it to rifk. That in 
 refpedl to the place, it was important to the Company's Interefts 
 in Guzcrat, and by no means fo to Scindiah's, excepting to dif- 
 turb them ; and that in refpedt to the want of a Sea-port by Scin- 
 diah, Major General Wellefley cbferved, that it was notorious 
 that the Company's Sea-ports were managed on the moft liberal 
 principles, and that all perfons who condudttd themfclves peaca- 
 bly, and conformed to the laws of the place, had the ufe of them. 
 
 The Vaqueels then adverted to the demand of Ahmednuggur. 
 They gave up the Fort without much difficulty ; but they in- 
 fifled upon keeping the Territories depending upon it; or rather 
 thofe Territories oi which the Britifli Government had taken 
 pofieffion. They faid, that thefe were the antient Family Lands 
 of Scindiah, and that he never could ccnrcnt to give ihem up. 
 
 Major General Wellefley in reply, ftated his reafuns for de- 
 rr.ar ding them ; he faid, that they were mixed with the Lands of 
 the Peilhwah, and that cue of the confequences of that fyftem 
 
 of
 
 ( 34 ) 
 
 of mixing Territoiics was, that the CoanLry enjoyed no Peace, 
 and could not profper. 
 
 The Vaqueels faid, that thefe Lands were not Jagheer, but were 
 Enaum*, that Scindiah kept no Troops in them, and there could 
 confequently be no difpntes or pkindcr fuch as Major General 
 Wellefley apprehended. They faid that thefe Lands were the 
 Family Eflate of Scindiah, and he never could confent to part 
 with them. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that he would take this demand 
 into further confiderarion, and that he would not prefs it, if he 
 Ihould find, that it would not be very inconvenient to the Peifh- 
 vvah not to have thefe Lands. 
 
 The Vakeels faid, there would be no difficulty refpe£ling the 
 demand about Europeans in Scindiah's fervice. 
 
 They defired to know, who the Chiefs were with whom Trea- 
 ties had been made, which Scindiah was called upon to confirm. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that when a great Confederacy 
 had been formed againfl the Britifh Government, it was neceflary 
 that it fhould fecure its own interelfs as far as might be praftica- 
 ble; and accordingly, different Officers employed in different parts 
 of India, had been authorized to enter into Engagements with 
 any Chiefs, who chofe to adhtre to the caufe of the Company. 
 
 Major Gener.il Wellefley faid, that owing to Scindiah's delays, 
 the War itiU continued, and the number of the Company's par- 
 tizans was daily incrcafing in proportion to the fuccefs of their 
 Arms. The bcntfit of thefe Engagements had been amply ex- 
 perienced, and it was determined to continue to enter into them 
 till Scindiah fhould make Peace, But as fome of the Officers 
 authorized to make them were at a great diflance, and it was 
 difficult to communicate with them, Major General Wellefley 
 did not know at that time the extent of their Engagements, and 
 therefore cuuld not mention n3mcs ; much lefs could he mention 
 the names of all the Chiefs with whom Engagements might be 
 
 • Enaum, (ignifies a Free-gift. 
 
 made
 
 ( 35 ) 
 made, before the Officers authorized to make them, would hear 
 of the Peace. 
 
 Notwilhftanding this difficulty. Major General Wcllcfley faid, 
 tliat the honor of the Britifli Government required, that all thefe 
 Engagements fliould be kept. 
 
 He therefore propofed to draw an Article which fliould provide 
 generally for thefe Engagements, and to fpecify a time, at which 
 the names of the Chiefs, with whom they had been made, fliould 
 be communicated to Scindiah. 
 
 Major General Wellefley obferved, that he had repeatly inform- 
 ed the Vakeels of thefe circumftances, and had pointed out the 
 inconveniences of further delays, particularly in this inftance ; and 
 he then faid, that if Scindiah did not take care, he would have 
 no State and no Army left. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah obferved, that by agreeing to this 
 demand, the Maha Rajah might, without knowing, cede away 
 half his remaining Territories ; as thefe Treaties might contain 
 Stipulations to grant Territories to the South of the line, which 
 the Company had dem.anded as a Bounlary. 
 
 Major General Wellefiey replied, ihat this was true ; but he 
 faid that he did not believe, that hitherto, any Treaty was made, 
 by which Territory was granted South of the line mentioned, 
 (although Claims and Peilhcufh* certainly were,) or that it was 
 intended to deprive Scindiah of any Territory, but what General 
 Wellefley had claimed. 
 
 The Sirdars with whom Treaties have been made hitherto, were 
 provided for within the Boundary, and not without. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah then faid, that in fadl Scindiah's State 
 muft in future depend upon the Company. He hinted that as 
 foon as this War fhould be concluded, that with Holkar would 
 be renewed, and that Scindiah had no means of defending him- 
 felf, excepting fuch as the Company would afford him. He par- 
 ticulaily fpecified Battalions and Money. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that under no circumftances 
 
 Generally fignifying Tribute. 
 
 whatever,
 
 ( 36 ) 
 
 whatever, would the Company fupport Scindiah in a War of 
 Aggreflion againft Holkar, or any other Power. He faid gene- 
 rally, that the Company would not view with fatisfadlion the 
 deftru£lion of Scindiah's Government by Holkar, particu- 
 larly if that Chief were to be the Aggreflbr ; and that he did not 
 doubt, but that when Peace fhould be madcj it might be pof- 
 fible to come to fome arrangemeut upon this point. 
 
 Tefwunt Rao faid, that he had a requeft to make, which he 
 
 would make hereafter, which he hoped would not be refuftd. 
 
 - Major General Wellefley replied, that he could not fay whether 
 
 he fliould ret'ufe or not, till he fliould ^ hear what the requeft 
 
 was. 
 
 December 24, 1803. 
 . Scindiah's Vaqueeis came to Major General Wtilefley's Ten*, 
 and a conierence enfued ; at which were prefent, Eeiul Punt*, 
 Moonfliee Kavil Nyn, Jefwunt Rao Goorparah, and Narroo 
 Punt Nana, Majoi General Wellefley, Major Malcolm, Mr. 
 Elphip.ftone, and Govind Rao. 
 
 Eeiul Punt began to explain, that the Maha Rajah had always 
 been deiirous to procure Peace with the Company, ar.d that 
 it was rot his fault, that the War had commenced, Vvl.ich he 
 had done every thing in his power to avoid. 
 
 M.ijor General WcUefiey interrupted him, and faid, that it 
 was ufclefs to commence over again this difcuflion, which I'.ad 
 bttn already well canvalTed. That it was impofiible for Eetul 
 Punt to (ay more upon that fubjcdl than Goorparah had faid 
 already, tveiy word of which had been anfuered : and that it 
 would be better to break up the meeting, and for the Vaqueeis to 
 retire with Goorparah, and Icain fri m him, what had palled on 
 this fubj eft, than to take up Major General Well.flcy's {in;e 
 by renewing the difculFion. 
 
 Ihc Major General faid, that tiiC Company's right to com- 
 
 • EctuI Punt, Scimliiih's Confidential Miniflcr, with Moouflicc Kavil Nyn, were fcnt to ih« 
 BiiiKh Camp, on the 2 3(1 Teccmbcr i S03. — Sec ilx Calcutta Ca/.cttc Extraordinary, of ti.c 
 ijth January 1804. 
 
 penfi-ion
 
 ( S7 ) 
 
 ^jenfatlon had been ndmitfed as a principle of the Negotiation, and 
 he had made certain demands whicii had been referred to th^ 
 Maha Rajjh ; he underftood that thefe new Miniflers had broueht 
 the anfwers to tliofe demands, and certain propofitions which 
 th.e Miha Rajah wifhed to make ; and the Major General 
 faid, that it w.nild favc time, if they would at once enter upon 
 the obje(5l of tiicir miflion. 
 
 After a long preamble upon the fabjedl of the antient Al- 
 liance between the Company and Madhajee Scindiah*, Eetul 
 Punt at length faid, that the Maha Rajah was defirous of con- 
 nefling himfclf m.ore clofely v/'nh the Company, and of edablifh- 
 ing an Alliance, which Ihould be laflinjr, and highly advan- 
 tageous to both Parties, and fhould occarion the jealoufy of all 
 the other Powers in Hindoflan. 
 
 He was preffed in anfwer to fpecify what he meanf, and was 
 told, that it was impofhble to conclude ariy arrangement upon 
 fuch general terms. He then faid, that the Maha P.ajah wifhed 
 that the Friends and Enemies of our State fliouid be the Friends 
 and Enemies of the others ; and that there fli )iild ba no difference 
 between them, and that the aggrandizement of the one fliould be 
 proportionate to the aggrandizement of the other. 
 
 In reply, M-JJor General Wellefley faid, that he underflood his 
 meaning to be a General Guarantee of both States of their mutu- 
 al Territories j and an Engagement, that they fhould defend each 
 other. 
 
 Eetul Punt afknted to this : Major General Wellefley faid, that 
 the Company's Government were bound by fuch Engagements 
 with other States in India, and that he did not know, that to make 
 En<x32ements in a fimilar manner with Scindiah, wotild be incon- 
 fiftent with its interefts. 
 
 But there were fome points, with which it was dehrable, that 
 the Vaqueels (hould be fir!l apprized, before they Ihiould make 
 thefe Engajjements. 
 
 In the firft place, the Company's Government could not mike 
 
 * Uncle and Predeceflbr to Doulut Rao Scindiah.
 
 ( 3S ) 
 
 a War of A'^greffion, confiftently either with the Laws of Great 
 Britain, or the Rules of their own Policy. Secondly, they could 
 not make an OfFenfive Alliance with any Power, to attack another 
 Power, with which their Government maybe at Peace, and whicii 
 may not demonftratc any intention to attack them, or their AHies. 
 Thirdly, the Alliance which they would make therefore, would 
 be only Defenfive; and confined entirely to the defence of the Rights 
 and Territories of their own Government, and thofe of their Allies. 
 
 From thefe fads, it followed, that when the Britifh Government 
 cnrered into an Alliance with any Power in India, not perhaps fo 
 ftiidly bound by Laws and Principle* of Policy, it was necefTary, 
 that it (hould take care in the very Treaty of Alliance, to provide, 
 that it Ihould not run the rifk of being engaged in a War of Ag- 
 (rreffion, or on futile or infuffici.ent grounds j and therefore, if tlie 
 Maha Rajah lliculd make this propofed Treaty with the Compa- 
 ny, it would be neceffary, that he fliould bind himfelf to make 
 the Cor.ipany's Government acquainted with all his relations 
 with Foreign Powers, and atttiid to the advice of the Company's 
 Government in all his Foreign Concerns. 
 
 Major General Wcllefley obferved, that he might do this 
 without any rifle to his honour. That what had occured lately, 
 was a fufficient proof of the attention of the Britifli Government 
 to the interefts of its Allies ; and that the War in which they wera 
 then engaged, was in defence of the Nizam's Government. 
 
 Major General Wellefley then faid, that if the Maha Rajah 
 wilhed to Ally himfelf with the Britifh Government for the fup- 
 port, and in the defence of the juft Rights and interefts of both 
 Governments, fuch an arrangement might be made ; but if the 
 objedl was ofFenfive War againflany Power, it woijld not. 
 
 The Vaqueels replied, that what Majoi General Wellefley had 
 faid, appeared very juft and proper. But Kavil Nyn obferved, 
 that the Government of Scindiah had always been one of violence; 
 that he had railed and maintained himfelf by force and ufurpation, 
 and if he was to be made, to give up all that he had ever taken 
 in that manner, his Power and State would be much diminifbed 
 indeed. Major
 
 ( 39 ) 
 
 Major General VVcllefiey faid, that he did not mean to enquire 
 into the Maha Rajih's Title to all his Territories. 
 
 Dy the Treaty of Peace, it would be provided, that he fliould 
 have nothin!: to do vv iih the Nizam, and that there (hould be an 
 equitable mode of fciiling what countries in Scindiah's pofleflion 
 belonged to the PeiQiwah : That he would be obliged to give up 
 thofe ; He mufl: alfo give up all claims upon the Rajahs, and 
 others with whom the Company may have made Treaties; and he 
 muO^ not prefs upon others unauthorized demands. 
 
 Major General Wellefley alfo faid, that he underflood the Maha 
 Rajah had formerly fcized the whole of the Holkar Territory, 
 and that he had lately made a Treaty with Jefwunt Rao Holkar 
 to reftorc it. This Treaty with Holkar, whatever it might be, 
 mud: be carried into execution; The Company's Goverr; ent 
 could never fiipport the Maha Rajah in any War, caufed by a 
 breach of the Treaty by him. 
 
 The Vaquecls paid particular attention to this part of Major 
 General Wellefley *s difcourfe, and afked many queftions to draw 
 explanations in refpe£l to Jefwunt Rao Holkar. They com- 
 plained bitterly of his condudl towards the Maha Rajah, de- 
 clared that he had been the caufe of the War, of the misfor- 
 tunes of the Peifhvvah's Government, and of thofe of Scindiah, 
 and that he had contrived to keep himfelf out of the fcrape. 
 
 They alfo faid that he had lately plundered Scindiah to the 
 amount of twenty Lacs of Rupees. 
 
 They adced what it was intended to do refpedling Holkar. 
 
 Major General WelleHey replied, that he did not think it 
 neceffary to difclofe his intentions in anfvver to fuch a queftion. 
 That if Holkar attacked either the Company, the Peifhwah, the 
 Nizam, or Ahmed Rao Guikwar, he mult be confidered as an 
 Enemy and be deftroyed; oiherwife, there was no ground for 
 attacking him. 
 
 Maj r General Wellefley faid, that before this propofed Treaty 
 fhould be made, it would be neceffary to furnifti the Britifh 
 Government with a Copy of the Treaty with Holkar. Tha 
 
 Vaqueeb
 
 ( 40 ) 
 
 Vaqiietls then faiJ, that when this Treaty flioukl be ccncludecj, 
 there wculd be no difference between the Company and Scindi- 
 ah, and it was fiippofcd that he might go to Poonah. 
 
 Msjor General Wellcfley faid, that in refpcct to his going to 
 Poonah, he would not allow him to go there with an Army. 
 That he did not fee any objedion to his going to pay his rcf- 
 pt6is to the Peifliwah, vvithrut one, provided His Highnefs 
 made no objedion : but Major General Wcllefley obfervcd, that 
 he thouoht it would be n-ore advantageous to him to go to Ougein 
 and fettle the affairs of his own Government. The \aqueels 
 faid, that it would be diflicult, if not impoffible to make this ar- 
 rantrement without the coni'ent of the Pefliwah, as Scindiah 
 was His Highncfb's Servant. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that he would anfvver for 
 the Peifl^.wah's confent ; but obfervcd that he had hitherto talked 
 to them under the notion that Scindiah was the Head of a State } 
 and if inllead of being cor.fidered in that light, he wiflied to be 
 fonfidertd as the Peifnwah's Servant, the cafe was fo much 
 altered, as to render a different fyflem neceffary ; and he hinted, 
 that in that cafe, the iSiaha Rajah was now in Rebellion. 
 The Vaqueels gave up this point, 
 
 A Converfation followed upon the fufpcnfion of Hofiilitics, 
 which Major General Wtlkflty laid the Maha Rajah had 
 broke. 
 
 In anfutr, the Vaqueels faid, thnt every thing that was 
 poflible had been done to rtflrain tlie Pindarries. 
 
 Major General Welltiley defued, that the Maha Rnjah would 
 fnove into Hindoftah. 
 
 December 26, 1803. 
 
 Scindiah's Vaqiieels came to Major General Wellefiey's Tent, 
 
 i-nd a Conference tnfucd, at which were preftnt Major General 
 
 Wellcfley, Major Malcolm, Eetul Punf, Moonfliee Kavil Nyn, 
 
 Jtfwunt Rao Gonrpnrah, Narroo Punt Nana, and Govind Rao. 
 
 Major General WelKlley (aid, that when converling with Jefwunt 
 
 Rao
 
 ( 41 ) 
 
 Rao Goorparah upon a former cccafion upon the fubjedl of the 
 terms of the peace, Goorparah haJ exprefTed the great defire of the 
 Maha Rajah to retain certain Diftrifts and Villages in Ahmednug- 
 gur, to which Major General Wcllefley had objeded. He wifhed 
 now to know whether the Maha Rajah was derermined upon this 
 point. 
 
 In reply the Vaqueels explained that thefe Lands were in fact 
 the Enaum Lands, or Family Eftate of the Maha Rajah, and that 
 he was very dcfiroiis to retain them. 
 
 Major General Wellcfley explaireJ the principle upon which 
 he was defirous that they fliould be given up ; namely, that as 
 long as the Maha Rajah had Claims in ihofs part of the Country, 
 it was in vain to hope, that the Peifhwah would be able to fettle 
 his Country. That his objedl in this Peace was, that it (hould 
 leave no further ground for War : and that this could not be the 
 cafe, as long as the different Powers engaged, hid their Territories 
 intermixed, and concurrent claims in many inilances to the fime 
 Village. 
 
 In reply, the Vaqueels urged, that thefe were Enaum Lands^ 
 refpedling which there never had been, and never could be, anv 
 queftions ; and they faid they were willing to leave the decifion of 
 the point to the Minifters of the Nizam, or of the Peifliwah. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that he knew thefe Lands were 
 Enaum; but the fad: was, the Marhattas were in the habit of 
 urging and eflablifliing their claims to benefits of this defcriptioa 
 at the head of large Armies, which are thus introduced into the 
 heart of the Territories of the Company's Allies. Major General 
 Wellefley faid, that at all events he mufi: infill upon it, that no 
 armed force fhould ever be introduced into thefe Territories on 
 any pretence whatever. 
 
 After a long difpute upon this point, in the courfe of which the 
 Vaqueels repeatedly declared their readinefs to appeal to the 
 Peifliwah's, or the Nizam's Minifters, and the fear of the Maha 
 Rajah that he fhould be difgraced by this CefTion ; Major Gene- 
 ral Welkfley at laft agreed, that they fliould have Chumargoon- 
 daf , &c. 6cc. provided that no armed Men were ever to be intro- 
 
 Sec the Eighth Article of the Treaty of Surje Anjengaum. 
 
 dticed
 
 ( 42 ) 
 
 (juced in thcTe parts, whether with a view to the ccHedion of the 
 Revenue, or under .iny pretence whatever. 
 
 Major General Wtllclley faid, that upon a former occafion, he 
 had been told, that the Peiftivvah and Holkar had claims to the 
 Territories in Hindoftan, which he had demanded, and he wilhed 
 to have an account what tho(e claims were. 
 
 In anfwer, Eetul Punt faid, that the old arrangement among the 
 Marhattas was, that of every Conqueft, the Peifhwah, Holkar, 
 Scindiah, and the Pawan * Family, fliould each have a Fourth, 
 provided each Party co-operated equally in the Conqueft, and paid 
 an equal fliare of the Expence. That in the Conqueft of Hindof- 
 tan, the Pcidiwah and the Pawan Family had done nothing, and 
 had contributed no part of the expence; and that Holkar not only 
 had not aftifted, but had oppofed Madhajee Scindiah; that under 
 thefe circumftances, Madhajee Scindiah had referred his claims to 
 the Peifliwah, had reprcfented the expences he had incurred, 
 andtheloffcs (of his whole family) which he had fuftained in 
 this conqueft ; and that in confideration of them. Nana Furnavefe 
 had informed him by the PciQ:ah's defire, that His Highnefs con- 
 fented to his holding thofe Tertitorics free from the clamis of the 
 ether Parties. That notwithftanJing this, Madhajee Scindiah 
 had admitted the claim of Tackojce Holkar to a fliare, and had 
 delivered to his Aumiklars, Teifitories of the value of 'I'en Lacks 
 annually. 
 
 Major General Welltflry afi-;ed, uiicther the Holkir Family 
 were, at this moment in poffcirion of t!ic(e Territories. 
 
 The Vaqueelb anfwcred. No. — Major Gcn=jal Vv'ellcflry faid, 
 that he underftood that the Maha Rdjah had lately made a Treaty 
 with Jefwunt Rao Holkar, and he willacd to know whether any 
 thing was granted to the Holkar family by tliat Treaty. 
 
 In anfwer Eetul Punt faiJ, that Holkai's right to a fliare in 
 Hindoftan was admitted by that Treaty, but that he had not 
 performed its Conditions, and that he therefore could derive no 
 
 * The Pawan Family formed one of the origin;il Members of the Marhatta (3onfederacy. 
 The Ciipital of iheir Tcrvitories was cftablidied at i)/^<7r, a pliici- in Malwa, about forty miles 
 aiftant South-Weft from Ougein. In courfc of time, the iJOlTellions of this Family h.ne been 
 feiied l)y the more pov.crfid Chieftains, an,'! ar; now ptincipally included in the 'Itrr tones of 
 Scindi.ih.. 
 
 rights
 
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 rights from it. Jcfwunt Rao Goorparah faicl, " the Comh'tions may 
 " as Well be acknowledged ; they were, That he JJjoulJ join in the 
 ** Attack of the Brilifh Government *, which he has never done." 
 Eetul Punt faid, '* That Ragojee Ehoonjlah mediated the Treaty^ and 
 '* toas the Guarantee : and that he had it at that moment in his pojfejjfions.*' 
 
 Major General Welleflty aflced, what might be the Share allotted 
 to the Holkar Family by the Treaty in queftion ; the Vaqueels faid 
 One Fourth of the Revenues, after payment of the Expences of the 
 King, andof the Peifhwah's Government, andcertain other Expences. 
 
 The Vaqueels then delivered in an Account of the Revenues ia 
 Hindoftan, formerly in the hands of Monfieur Perron, as managed 
 by other Aumildars, or Serinjamee-f to Sirdars in Scindiah's 
 fcrvice, or Jaghcers, 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that he had taken into confidera- 
 tion, the Maha Rajah's wifh to be allied more clofely with the 
 Company, and all the circumftances attending the fituation of 
 the Ladies of Madhajee Scindiah's Family, and the Sirdars in 
 his fervice, who had Lands in thofe parts. 
 
 The Major General then informed the Vaqueels, that he was 
 willing to make the following arrangement : namely, That pro- 
 vided all the Territories North of Jeypoor, Jodepoor, and Gohud, 
 were ceded ; Fir/l, that the Maha Rajah fliould not be called 
 upon to incur any further expence in confequence of the Treaty 
 of Defenfive Alliance; but that all fuch expence fhould be de- 
 frayed by the Honorable Company. 
 
 * This extranrdinnr}' and voluntary Declaration conftitutes the moft pijiti've, diftinli, and 
 irrifragable fnuf of the originn! h-JiiU dejigns of the Rajah of Berar, and of Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah againft the Briti(h Government, and of their real intentions in maintaining their 
 Armies unitfd upon the Nizam's Frontier, until repelled by the Britifti Forces under the Com. 
 ninnd of Major General Wellefley. The Declaration to Major General Wellefley of Scindiah's 
 Minillers, by which it svas acknowledged That the Conditinm under luhkh Hoikar's Right luas 
 admitted to the benefit nf the Treaty concluded bj him ivilh Doiuhit Rao Scindi,ih and the Rajah of 
 Berar ivere, that He Jhould ioia luith thofe Chief tains in " attacking" the Rritifh Goi-ernment, 
 deferves the moll ferioiis attention. Tliis ftatement was afterwards confirnied by the Miniller 
 of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, in a Conference with Major Malcolm, who was deputed after the con- 
 clufion of Peace on a miffionto Scindiah's Camp. A Copy of the Treaty concluded with Hrll;ar 
 was given to Major Malcolm, and tranfmiited to the Governor General, who forwarded it to 
 the Secret Committee in a Letter under date the 15th |nne 1804. The Treaty itfelf contains 
 evidence of its conclufion, not only bcfire the junftion of the Armies of Dowljc Rao Scindiah, and 
 the Rajah of Berar, at Miilkapoor, on the 14th June 1S03, and confequently before the com- 
 mencement uf the Negotiation with thofe Chieftains, for the return of thofe Forces within their 
 lefpeftive Dominions ; but bcfire the Rajnh of Berar commerced his march from Na^foor. Tlie Treaty 
 in its Preamble is dated to have been prepared at that City by Jadoon Rao Bhalker, (killed at the 
 Battle of AlTye,) at that time Scindiah's Prime Miniilcr, and Agent to the Court of Berar. 
 
 + Serinjamee. A certain yearly allowance made to the ColleAor of a Diftrift out of the Grofs 
 Kental, tor the purpofe of enabling him to defray all incidental Charges and F-xpences connected 
 with the Collection of the Revenue. 
 
 Secondfy.
 
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 Secondly. Tli^t the L,anies and others who held Jaglieers, 
 fhoiild keep them. 
 
 Thirdly. The Jagheers (hould be granted to other of Scindiali':J 
 Sirdars, provided that the whole amount granted, including the 
 Jagheers of the Ladies, &c. lliould not exceed Fifteen Lacs of 
 Rupees per Annum. 
 
 The V.iqueels aflsed whether the Lands would be granted. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that that point would remaia 
 ?,t th.e option of the Honorable Company, 
 
 The Vaqiieels faid, that the Maha Rajah pofleiTed three Dif- 
 triBs alfo to the Northward of Jeypoor, Jodepoor, and Gohud, 
 which had been given in Enaum to his Family by the Kings of 
 Hindoftan, and were not included in the Dufters *; their names 
 were Dholpore, Bharee, and Rajah-Kerah. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that thofe alfo fliould remain 
 to him in Enaum under the Company's protedion, on the fame 
 conditions as the Enaum Lands about Alimednuggur. Major Ge- 
 neral Wellefley then faid, that there remained only one Point for 
 DifcuiTion, and that related to the Treaties negotiated by other Of- 
 ficers empowered by His Excellency the Governor General ; and he 
 repeated what he had explained on a former occafion on this fubjeft. 
 
 In reply Kavil Nyn faid, that it was very proper thofe Treaties 
 fhould be confirmed, provided the Parties with whom they had 
 been made, performed all their conditions. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that this was a point for the Bri- 
 
 tifli Government to decide, and not the Maha Rajah. He was 
 
 called upon to confirm the Treaties ; if thofe with whom they had 
 
 been made, fliould have broke them, the Britifli Government would 
 
 have no difficulty in finding a mode of fettling that point. 
 
 The Vaqueels faid, that after having ceded fuch extenfive Ter- 
 ritories, they hoped that they would not be called upon to cede 
 more by thefe Treaties; and that no Treaty would have been 
 made with any Rajah, by which, thofe parts of the Maha Rajah's 
 Territory which remained, would be ceded. 
 
 Jefwunt Rao Goorparah faid, that in talking upon this fubjedt 
 
 • Dufters or Offices of Record. 
 
 before.
 
 ( AS ) 
 Defofe, Major General Vv'clltfley had explained to hmi, thai the 
 Treaties would go only to deprive the Maha Rajah of Peifhcufh 
 and other payments by Rajahs; that the Treaties with Sirdars 
 •would not difpofc of Territory, and that if" any Territory were 
 dif'pofed of, ii would be within the Company's Bounds. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that he pcrftflly recollefled what 
 lie had faid. That he had not intended to i'-pply it to Rajahs, but 
 only to Sirdars j and he faid, that it was not intended to afic the 
 Maha Rajah for Territory for any of them beyond what had been 
 already granted : but he had no obje8icn to go ftill further, and 
 to fay, that none of the Maha Rajah's remaining Territories, 
 (fuch as were really his,) fhould be granted away by any Treaty, 
 rnade with any Rajah or other perfon. 
 
 The Article of the Treaty regarding the t)efcnfive Alliance, was 
 then explained to the Vaqueels, particularly that this Article was 
 inferted, in order to leave it at the option of the Maha Rajah to 
 form the Alliance with the Company, or not, as he might think 
 proper, and to prove to him that there was no defire to force him 
 to enter into it. 
 
 The vaqueels liflened to it with great attention ; and afl-cei 
 
 ■ 'i : . * i!( 
 where the Force prepared was to be flationed. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that, that was a point v/hich 
 
 the future Treaty would fettle, according to the convenience and 
 
 benefit of the Contra£ling Parties, 
 
 December 28, 1803. 
 
 Scindiah's Vaqueels came to Major General Wellefley's Tent • 
 Prcfent Major General Weilefley, Major Malcolm, Govind Rao, 
 Eetul Punt, Moonflite Kavil Nyn, Jefwunt Rao Goorparah, and 
 Narroo Hurry*. 
 
 The Treaty of Peace (drawn out according to the terms agreed 
 upon at the lafl: meeting,) was firfl: read over ; and afterwards read 
 Article by Article, in order that the Vaqueels might have an op- 
 
 5 The fame a$ Nanoo Punt Nana» 
 
 portunity
 
 ( 45 ) 
 
 portunify of making their objedlions to any Article, of which they 
 did not approve. 
 
 They objected to the !ntrodu<5lion of the Territories of Jodepoor 
 as the Boundary in the Second Article. They laid that the Maha 
 1<. ;.j,ih had TtTiitories to the North of Jodepoor, which they had 
 f.ot intended to cede; and tliat by the Article as then drawn, they 
 would give up their claims upon Jeypoor and Gohud. 
 
 Major General Wcllefley contended againft this aflertion, and 
 called upon the Vaqueels to name the Diftrids which they fiippo- 
 fed they (hould Icfe. He then produced the Map, and fketched 
 the relative fituation of Gohud, Jeypoor, and Jodepoor, for their 
 examination ; and pointed out, that the pofTeflions of the two 
 former were not at all affedted by having the latter as the Boun- 
 dary of the Company's Territories. 
 
 The Vaqueels in reply faid, that Ajmcere was between Jode- 
 poor and Jeypoor, and would ftill belong to Scindiah ; and they 
 repeated their fear, that they would lofe Jeypoor and Gohud bv this 
 Article. They then propofed that the ChumbuU* River fliould be 
 the Boundary, that every thing to the Northward fhould belong 
 to the Company, and every thing to the South to Scindiah. 
 
 Major General Wcllefley replied, that they pofitively would not 
 lofe Jeypoor and Goliud by the Second Article of the Treaty, ^Z- 
 ihougk rlicy might ly another ; and he . pofitively refufed to infert 
 any thing in the Treaty, which fliould tend to defeat the arrange- 
 ments, which might have been made by General Lake with the 
 Rajahs of Jeypoor and Gohud, or others. 
 
 The Miniflers repeated their old fears and objeftions, and pre- 
 tended, that they did not underhand the Article, or the Boundary 
 which was intended. At lafl: after much argument they were 
 fatisficd with the addition to the Article of the foUowintj words: — 
 " Such Countries formerly in the poflllhon of the Maha Rajah, 
 ♦' fituated between Jeypoor and Jodepoor, and to the Southward 
 " of the former, are to belong to the Maha Rajah." 
 
 • The Cliiiii.b'.ril is one of the principal Rivers of Hindoftan ; its fource is fituated near tlic 
 Ciiy of Mundu, in the Province of MaUvah ; afier a courfc in a Norih l).all dircdion of about 
 four hundred and fifty miles, k emrtics itfelf into the Jumna, a few miles below Etawah. 
 
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 ( 47 ) 
 
 In the courfe of this difpute, they were repeatedly called upon 
 to flatc, what were their remaining Territories, in order to difco- 
 ver whether they had c!ainis to any Ccuintries approaching the 
 Right Banic ot the Jumn;i, South of Gohud. 
 
 They particularly faid, ihat Bundelcund belonged to Ally 
 Bahaudur*. and Janli and Calpee to the Feilhwah. 
 
 Upon the peruial of the Third Article, they repeated what Goor- 
 parah had faid before upon the ccffion of Baroach ; and faid, that 
 as the Connpany had given that place to Madhajee Scindiah, the 
 Maha Rajah had expe£led that it would have been reftored to him. 
 Major General Wclleflty replied, that it was unfortunate that the 
 Maha Ryjah had ever riflied the lofs of Baroach, by forgetting the 
 frieiidfliip for Madhajee Scindiah, which had occafioned the gift ; 
 as it was now, the Company mufl: have the place. 
 
 The Vaquccls defircd to know, what Territory was to be given 
 v;ith B.uoach. 
 
 Major Central Wellefley replied, all the Territory, and produ- 
 ced a lift of One Hundred and Seventy Four Villages, vv'hich he 
 faid he murt; have. 
 
 Upon the perufal of the Fourth Article, Gocrparah faid, that 
 there was a Village called Sindheir, between the Hills and 
 Jalnapour, which had been an old Gift to Madhajee Scindiah, 
 which the M^iha Rajah was defirous to retain. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that, that Village was too near 
 the Frontier to be given up in that manner. At all events, he 
 faiJ, that as well as he recollefted, inftead of being held in 
 Enaum, it was at that moment the harbour of a noted Band 
 ot Thieves, and he politively Ihould not confent to Scindiah's 
 keeping it. 
 
 Upon the perufal of the Fifth Article, the Vaqueels faid, that 
 Scindiah had claims upon the Peifliwah to the amount of Crores 
 of Rupees, and other claims upon Anund Rao Guikvvar. 
 
 * Son of Shumfiiere Bahaudur, the natural Son of Esjee Rao, the 5rlt Fei(hw;ih ; he con- 
 qiicred a great part of Bundelcund under a Comoiiffion fr.uii tie rcinv.vih. See PiiiiteJ Notes 
 on Midiatta Affairs, Page 89. 
 
 Maior
 
 ( 48 ) 
 
 Major General Wellcfley called upon the Vaqueeb to ftate par- 
 ticularly the nature of thefc claims. He obferved however, that 
 by the Article of the Treaty of Peace, a mode of fettling the 
 Peiflivvah's claims was provided,- and he propofed that the quef- 
 ticn of Scindiah's claims upon the Pcilhwah (hould be defer- 
 red till that Article fhould be difcuffed j that then, that Articfe 
 ■lliculd be new modelled, if the Vaqueels fhould wiPa it, and 
 an exception (llould be added to the Fifth Article of tlic cUinis 
 therein dated to cxilt upon the Peidiwah, and the Guikwar*. 
 
 This was agreed to. 
 
 Upon the pcrufal of tht Seventh Article, the Vaquecls begged, 
 that as the Ccflion of Territory was fo very large, the amount 
 given in Jagheers or Penfions might be larger. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that he had taken the fub- 
 jedt fully into confideration, and he lliewed that after fluking out 
 Begum Sumroot and the Rajah of Bhurtpoor+ from the lift of 
 Jaghecrdars, the amount he had confented to give in penfions, 
 ivas nearly equal to that given in Jagheers by the Maha Rajah. 
 He faid that after fuch a War, fuch a Gift was unexampled; and 
 he'hati hoped, that the Vaqueels would have been fatisfied. 
 
 The Vaqueels then begged to have Fifteen Lacs befides the 
 Landed Jagheers. 
 
 At lad Major General Wellefley agreed to make the grant 
 of Seventeen Lacs, including the Landed Jagheers. 
 
 The Vaqueels then objedled to the claim reftriding Scindiah 
 from having armed Men in Dholpoor, and faid, that the Reve- 
 nue could not be colle6lcd without fuch afTiftance. 
 
 Major Geiieral Wellefley replied, that he never would con- 
 
 • There is a Subfidiary and Defcnfive Alliance concluJeJ bv Lord VVellefley between the 
 Company and the Guikwar. 
 
 + This Peifon's name is Zeeb-nl.'Niffa Begun:, but fhe is generally called Sumroo's Begum. She 
 Jicid a confiderablc Jaghccr under the Marhatta Government, in the Doab of the Ganges and 
 Jumna, and in the Centre of the Territory formerly poflsffed by Monfieur Perron. 
 
 \ The Rajah of Bhurtpoor, is one of the principal Chieftains of the Tribe of Jauts. His 
 Territory is fituatcd on the South Weft or Right Bank of the Jumna in the vicinity of Agra.— 
 Under Inftruftions from ilie Governor Gcnsral, the CbmmanJer ia Chief C9aeluJed h Treaty 
 * Jth this Chieftain on the 9th October, i ?oj, 
 
 fent
 
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 fent to the introdudlion of a fitigle Maihatta Soldier to the Nohhi 
 ward of the Line, laid down in the Second Article, as the Com- 
 pany's Boundary. 
 
 Upon the pcrufal of the Eighth Article, the Vaqucds faid, 
 that there were other Villages which had belonged to Scindiahj 
 which they were delirous to podeCs, thi.- names of which and 
 of the Pergunnahs in which tlity were fituated, they had fori 
 gotten. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that there was no ihtehtioii td 
 deprive Scindiah of his perfonal property ; but that it wai 
 impoffible to enter in a Treaty Any thing fo indefinite, as the 
 Claim juft ftated. He faid however, that he had no objediori 
 to write them a letter, in which he (hould engage to them, that 
 they Ihould have the Villages in qtieftion, provided they were 
 really Scindiah *s private property, and provided all the flipulati- 
 ons of the Eighth Article were carried into execution rcfpecling 
 them, as well as rcfpedling the Villages named in the Treaty. 
 
 The Ninth Article was examined very clofely ; but the ob- 
 jecflions to it were not repeated. 
 
 When the Eleventh Article was read, Major General Wel- 
 lefley propofcd, that the Vaqueels Ihould fay what Claims they 
 had upon the Peilhwah, and upon the Guikwar; arid he propo- 
 pofed to new model the Article, and have it a general ar- 
 bitration of Rights and Claims on both fides. 
 
 The Vaqueels faid, the Claims upon the Pcifhwah and Guikwat 
 were of no confequence, and not Worth detailing ; but they faid, 
 they feared that this Article rcfpedling Malwah would deflroy 
 the Treaty. They faid the Peifliwah had no rights in Malvva. 
 
 Major Gen eral Wellefley e>plained it ; and pointed out, that 
 the Article did not afTert that the Peilhwah had any rights in 
 Malwa; but only, that his rights, whatever they were, Ihould 
 iland as heretofore. He obferved however, that if the Peifhvvah 
 had no rights, his Servants had, and mentioned particularly the 
 right of Nurfing Cundy Rao, to a Diftrid which Scindiah 
 had feizsd. 
 
 the
 
 ( 50 ) 
 
 • T he Vaqueels replied, that the whole of Malwa had been 
 feized by the Peifliwah's order, and that Diftritt an^ong others. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that if they could produce that 
 order, it would be fufficient; but he faid, that he never would fufFer 
 the Peifhwah's rights tobefeiz:d without further enquiry. 
 
 Major General Wellefley offered to new model the Article, 
 if the Vaqueels thought it would create any alarm in Scindiah's 
 mind ; but he faid, that the fubftance of it muft be retained. 
 
 Upon the perufal of the Twelfth Article, the Vaqueels afl<.ed 
 what was to become of Scindiah's Office of Vaqueel Mutulluck* ? 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that he mufl refign it, or 
 His Majelly mufl appoint another perfon to it; But that Scindi- 
 ah mufl have nothing to do with His Majefly's affairs. 
 
 The Vaqueels faid that Scindiah held that Office, the Peifh- 
 wah that of BuLfheef, Saadut All + that of Viaier, ^c. &c. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, all that did not affedl the 
 queflion. Thefe appeared to be Nominal Offices only, but none 
 of the Perfons holding them mufl interfere in His Majefly's 
 Bufinefs. 
 
 No objeQion Was made to any other Articles, excepting to 
 the time of delivering up the Pofts ; Major General Wellefley faid, 
 that this was the cuftomary mode of delivering back Conquefts, 
 and he mull infill upon adopting it. 
 
 Eetul Punt then defired, that Major General Wellefley w^jld 
 cive him an order for the immediate delivery of Boorhanpore, 
 uhich was refufcd, till the Treaty fliould be ratified by Scindiah. 
 Moonfliee Kavil Nyn faid, that the Maha Rajah was very 
 defirous to prefcrve fome property in the neighbourhood of 
 Muttra in the fame manner as Dholpore, the revenue of 
 which property, he faid, was applied to religious purpofes; Major 
 General Wellefley faid, that the bcfl mode of obtaining this 
 
 * An Office fimilar to that of Regent or of Viceroy, exercifing alinoft independant Pow- 
 ers of Sovereignty under the Great Mogliul or Emperoc of Hindoftan. 
 + Bukdiee or Commander in Chief of the Army, 
 J Saadut All (Son of Sujah Dowlah) the prefent Nawaub of Oude. 
 
 pi'-pcrty
 
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 property wuuld be for the Maha Rajah tu apply ^o l'^^ Go- 
 vtinor Gentr-al ; and Major General Welltfley faid, ihat they 
 would find His Excellency well difpofed to oblige him. That 
 at prelcnt the Treaty was drawn out, and it would not anfwer 
 to alter it. 
 
 Moonfliee Kavil Nyn, then faid, that there were feme Guns 
 and Stores in three Forts not yet taken in Hindoftan, which 
 Scindiah was defirous to have. 
 
 Major General Welltfley faid, that it was ufual to give over 
 Forts with all thtir Equipments of Stores, &c. However, that 
 in the courfc of this War, the Company's Troops had taken 
 vaft Numbers of Guns from the Maha Rajah, and he might be 
 diftreffed for the means of defending himfelf, unlefs he fliould 
 ^et the Guns and Stores in queflion ; Major General Wellefley 
 promifed therefore td v/rite upon the fubjedt to the Commander 
 in Chief, and to requefl that Scindiah might have the Guns in 
 thefe Forts, provided thfey (hould not have been taken pofleffion 
 of before the Commander in Chief (hould receive the Treatyj 
 and Major General Wellefley's Letter. 
 
 December 29, 1803. 
 
 The Treaty having been copied, the Vaqueels came to Major 
 General Wellellcy's Tent at night j pre fent Major General Wei-' 
 Iclley, Captain Barelay, Govind Rao, Eeiul Punt, Moonfhee Ka- 
 vil Nyn, Jefwunt Rao Goorparah, and Naroo Hurry. 
 
 The copies of the Treaty and of the Schedules were read and 
 compared, and they were figncd at about one in the morning of 
 the 30lh December. 
 
 Naroo Hurry faid, that Bapoojec Scindiah had a Village in Ba- 
 roach, which they wifhed that he fhould keep under the Britifli 
 Government. 
 
 Major General Wellefley replied, that they would always find 
 the Britifh Government difpofed to attend to their wifhes ; and 
 he did not doubt, but that upon an application to His Excellency 
 the Governor General, this wifli would be attended to. 
 
 January
 
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 January 5, 1804. 
 
 After delivering the Treaty of Peace ratified by Dovvlut Rao 
 Seindiah to Major General Wdlefley, Eetul Punt faid, that he 
 vas defirous of fpeaking to the General, who retired with him to 
 his Tent, accompanied by Major Milcolm and Govind Rao. 
 
 Eetul Punt began by alking, what were the Company's inten- 
 tions rcfpedting Holkar ? He faid that Seindiah was then at Peace 
 with the Bririlh Government, and it was natural, that he fhould 
 he anxious upon this fubjedt. 
 
 In reply, Major General faid, that Holku had not attacked the 
 Company, or their Allies; tint on the contrary, he had cautioufly 
 reframed from approaching them ; and that of courfe, as long as 
 he continued in that line of condudl, the Company would not in- 
 terfere with him. 
 
 Eetul Punt then faid, " but di you mean to allow hini to 
 •' deflroy us ? Smce the commencement of the War, of which he 
 *' was thecaufe, he has plundered Seindiah of above twenty Lacs 
 " ol Rupees : he is now employed in the attack of Agimere, a part 
 " of the Maha Rajah's Territories, and there is no doubt, but the 
 " Maha Rajah muft defend himfelf." 
 
 Major General Wcllefley replied, that after this Peace (liould 
 have been eftablilhed, there was every reafon to hope, that it would 
 laft, and that the unfortunate inhabitants would be allowed fome 
 repofe; that the Company's Government would certainly view 
 with difplcafure any frelh war, and could not confider as a friend, 
 the perfon who fliould commence it. That in particular, they 
 would view with the greateft diflatisfadion, the dcllruftion of 
 Scindiah's Guvernment, or any injury done to it j but Major Ge* 
 neral Wellefley faid, he could fay no more. 
 
 Mijor General Welleiley then obferved, that Seindiah *s Go- 
 vernment had been much weakeced by the War; that his Army 
 was fcattcrtd, and in diforder ; and fuppofing a renewal ot the 
 tontcfl with Holkar to be necclTary, it appeared 10 him to be ad- 
 Vifcablc to delay it, till he fhuuld have gained fome Ihcngth^ and 
 afcerlaincd the real ilate of his Government and Refources. 
 
 Eetul Punt replied, that Major General Welkfley's laft ob- 
 
 fcrvaiion
 
 ( 53 ) 
 
 fervation was very correcl: ; but that Holkar was not a man 
 likely to lofe an opportunity. 
 
 That he knew the ftate of 5cindiah's affairs, and that he was 
 likely to attack him at this moment, bccaufe the flower of his Army 
 was deftroyed, and the Troops he had left, difperfed and diforga- 
 nized. Eetul Punt then laid, that the only chance Scindiah had, 
 ■was the fupport of the Company, which he hoped would be given 
 to him. 
 
 Major General WtUtfley replied, that the Company would not 
 fupport Scindiah in a War of Aggreffion, in any cafe whatever. 
 Hefaid, that by the Treaty of Peace, the Maha Rajah had aa 
 option of becoming a Party to the Treaty of General Defenfive* 
 Alliance with the Company, the Peifliwah, and the Soubah of the 
 Deckan, and if he fliould accept that offer, it would follow, that 
 he would be entitled to participation in all the benefits refulting 
 from it, to all the Parties. That one of thefe benefits would 
 certainly be fecurity againft the invafion of Holkar. That even 
 in this cafe however, the Company would not enter at once into 
 a War with Holkar, to revenge the injuries the Maha Rajah might 
 have received, in the courfe of the War. That in every cafe it 
 would be necelTary firll to proceed by the way of amicable re- 
 monftrance and negotiation, and that if that fhould fail, then to 
 have recourfe to Arms. 
 
 Eetul Pimt faid, in cafe the Maha Rajah fhould agree to the 
 propofed Treaty, and the confequence fliould be a War between 
 the Company and Holkar, and the Company's Arms fhould be 
 attended with their ufual fuccefs, what fhare of the Conquefts 
 would fall to Scindiah's Lot ? 
 
 Major General WelleOey replied, that, that was a point which 
 might eafily be fettled in the Negotiation of the Treaty; and re- 
 ferred Scindiah to Major Malcolm upon it. 
 
 In the courfe of this converfation, which Eetul Punt intended, 
 fhould be between Major General Wellefley and him, Jefwunt 
 
 * Accomplilhed by the Treaties of Hyderabad, concluded on the 1 2th of Oiftober 1 800, and 
 of Baffecnonthe jift December iSo?. 
 
 Rao
 
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 ^ao Goorparah firfl came in, and at lad MoonHiee Kavil Nyn and 
 Narroo Hurry ; and then Eetul Punt broke it off, and turned to the 
 Articles of a Memorandum from Scindiah, which he had in his 
 band, a tranflation of a Copy of which Paper (received fines 
 from Narroo Hurry,) is annexed to this Memorandum. 
 
 The Firft Article relates to Demands of Money, from the 
 Guikwar Government. 
 
 Major General Welleflcy faid, that one of the Articles of the 
 Treaty provided, that all claims whatever of every defcription 
 upon the Guikwar Government (hould be given up. However, 
 that it was not intended to apply this Article to Debts, bona-fide 
 due by the Guikwar Government to Scindiah, which Major 
 General Wellefley faid, that he underfloo.d that the Government 
 of Bombay had allowed to be juftj and therefore he wifhed that 
 Scindiah would ftate the amount of the demands to Major Mal- 
 colm*, who would forward them to Major Walker-f-, and thus put 
 the matter in a train of being adjufted. 
 
 Upon the Second and Third Articles, relating to claims upon 
 General Perron, and Colonel Helling, Major General Wellefley 
 faid, that the firft point for confideration would be the nature of 
 the arrangements made with General Perron and Colonel Heffing, 
 by the Commander in Chief, when thofc Officers delivered 
 themfelves up ; and the degree of protedlion which the Britifh 
 Government might think it proper to give them ; the (econd point 
 for confideration was the degree of power which the BritiQi Go- 
 vernment might think it pruper to cxercife over the property of 
 thofe Gentlemen ; and here M^ijor General Welleflcy obferved, 
 that the Britilh Government never interfered with private pro- 
 perty. 
 
 Moonfliee Kavil Nyn faid, that fuppofing there had been no 
 agreement made with General Perron; i;ll that was willied was, 
 that the Courts of juftice fhould be open to Scindiah as well as 
 to other perfons. 
 
 • Major Maltolm was deputed by General Wellefley to proceed to the Camp of Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah, for the purpofe of negotiating the Defenfive Alliance propofcd by the r5th Article 
 of the Treaty of Peace. 
 
 4 Major \V;ilkcr is the Eriiidi Rcfident at the Court of the Gwikw.ir. 
 
 Major
 
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 Major General Wellcfley replied, that the bed thing to do, 
 would be to refer this point to the Governor General, throu"h 
 Major Malcolm. 
 
 Upon the p'ourth Article relative to the attack of the Seiks, 
 Major General Wellcfley faid, that the f3riti(h Government never 
 "would attack the Seiks, vinlefs the Seiks fhould attack it, or its 
 Allies. 
 
 The Vaqueels afked, whether there vironld be any objedlion to 
 Scindiah's levying Tribute from them ? 
 
 Major General Wellcfley replied, tha,t, that would depend upon 
 the faft, whether they were in alliance with the Company, or not; 
 but this point ought alfo to be referred to the Governor General. 
 
 The Fifth Article in the annexed Memorandum, regarding 
 Money, was not mentioned in the Conference. 
 
 Upon the defire in the Sixth Article, that Scindiah fhould have 
 Hurdwar and Jalnapoor, Major General WelleUey referred the Y^- 
 queels to future negotiation with Major Malcolm. 
 
 Upon the Seventh Article in the Memorandum, namely, Hol- 
 kar's and the Peilhwah's Claims in Hindoftan ; Major General 
 Wellefley obferved, that he had repeatedly told the Vaqueels, that 
 they had no right to negotiate for Holkar, or any other Powpr 
 or-State excepting their own Mailer ; and that of courfe Holkar 
 had nothing to fay to their Mafter. That if Holkar had any 
 claims in Hindoftan, the Company would give him an anfwer. 
 
 In talking upon this Article of the Memorandum, the Vaqueels 
 faid, that the Peifhwab, Holkar, and all the Marhattas would be 
 highly difpleafed with Scindiah for having made this Peace. 
 As to Ragojee Bhoonflah, he had no reafon to complain, as he 
 had been the firft to make Peace ; but he attributed the necellity 
 imder which he laboured to make the Peace, to Scindiah's having 
 fent Vaqueels. 
 
 Upon this fpeech Major General Wellefley obferved, that no- 
 body had any right to find fault with the Peace, who had taken 
 no part in the War ; and that as to the Peifhwah, he was a Painty 
 againft Scindiah, and v;as not likely to cavil at this Peace. 
 
 The
 
 ( 56 ) 
 "ths Ei^^Vth Article in the Memorandum was not alluded' to 
 
 in the conference. 
 
 Upon the fubjed of the Ninth Article, namely, that no afliftanc* 
 or afylum (liould be given to Criminals, Major General Wel- 
 lefley obferved, that, what was propofed was reafonable ; he re- 
 ferred the fubjea to Major Malcolm, to bs laid before the Go- 
 vernor Getieral. 
 
 Major General Wellefley faid, that he would take care that 
 the Perfons mentioned in the Tenth and Eleventh Articles, 
 Ihould retain their Jagheers, &c. and Enaums. 
 
 Major General Wellefley gave an anfwer in the affirmative 
 to the Twelfth Article. 
 
 Major General Wellefley referred the perfons mentioned in 
 the Thirteenth Article to the Adawlut at Benares. In the mean 
 time he faid, that Major Malcolm would addrefs a letter regard- 
 ing them to the pcrfon in authority in that City. 
 
 The Fourteenth Article was not alluded to in the Conference. 
 Upon the Fifteenth Article, Major General Wellefley faid, that the 
 Britifli Government were known never to be behind hand in 
 a£ls of Charity; and that Scindiah's recommendation of the per- 
 fons in queftion would certainly be attended to. 
 
 It is believed, that the Paper received from Narroo Hurry is 
 not a Copy of that from which the Vaqueels read the Memo- 
 randum in this conference. 
 
 Befides the points abovementioned, the Vaqueels likewife again 
 claimed Sindheir as a part of Scindiah's family property, and 
 Peftuly and Dumauly in Dewal Ghaut, and Beer, Pytun, and 
 other Diftri6ls in the Territories of the Soubah of the Deckan. 
 Majbr General Wellefley repeated the objedlions he had made 
 to reflore Sindheir, and declared that he pofitively would not 
 give up that Diflri6l. 
 
 In refpedt to Peduly, Dumauly, &c. Major General Wellefley 
 faid, that thefe trifling claims gave confl:ant caufe of Quarrel; 
 and that they rnufl be relinquiflicd, according to the Treaty. 
 During this conference, an account came, that the Pindarries 
 
 had
 
 ( 57 ) 
 
 had attacked Mulkapour, which Major General Wellcfley fhewed 
 to the Vaqucels. He tlica declared that there ir^uft be citkcJ 
 Peace or War. 
 
 That if Scindiah chofe th; former, every man miiH: be with* 
 drawn from the Territories of the Soubah of the Deckan, |but that 
 if they were not, he (Major General Wellcfley) flaould chufc the 
 latter; and he declared, that if Scindiah did not keep the Treaty, 
 he would march the Army to Boorhanpoor, and would not ceafe 
 the ^uHuit of him', as long as he had two men together. 
 
 Eeiul Punt begged that Major General WcUelley vvould allow 
 only four days time to draw ol^the Pindarries. He declared, that 
 they were a defcription of Troops entirely unmanageable, and that 
 now, that he was out of Camp, and rio body to fettle with themj 
 triey were worfe than ever thty had been before. 
 
 Major General Wcllellcy then adverted to the conduct ot 
 Mulwah Dadah, in the Nizam's Territories ; and explained, that 
 lii the orders he had given to the perfon in charge of Chumar Goon- 
 da, Sec. to deliver thefe places to the Maha Rajah, he had 
 particularly defired, that none of the places might be delivered up, 
 t*ll tviulwah Dada fhould have qilitted the Country with liis 
 Banditti^ 
 
 The \'aqiieels thet^ denied, that Mulwah Dadah belonged to 
 Scindiah. 
 
 tn anf(Ver, Major General Welleiley faid, that they formerly 
 faid he did; and recallcti to their recollettion, the orders which 
 Jefwuni Rao Goorparah Had delivered to the Major General from 
 Sdindiah, dddreffed to Mulwah Dadah to ccafe hoflilities ; aid the 
 requeft they had mr.dr, that he might riot be treated as a common 
 Thiefi 
 
 The Vaqueels then faid, that they would fend Huzzoories 
 to Mulwah Dadah*, to order him ouc of the Country, and tell him 
 in the face of all his follovveis, that if he dil'obeyed, they would 
 all be treated as thieves ; after that, they inuft leave the pimifli- 
 ment of him to Major General Wellcfley. 
 
 fSigiiedJ ARTHUR WELLESLEY. 
 
 • Mulwah Dadah, a Predatory Chief, whofe Band of Robbers was afterivards deftroj-ed b/ 
 Major General \Vsll(;lley; near PirticJ.;.,
 
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 MEMORANDUM from DOWLUT PvAO 
 
 SCINDIAH, MENTIONED IN THE FOREGO- 
 ING CONFERENCES. 
 
 I ft. ^'i "^HE Peifhwah has given Scindiah Drafts upon the Guik- 
 M^ war Government for certain (<:.m% of Money on 
 account of Expences at the Feafl: of the DufTfrah, on account of 
 which Draft, Money is ftill due, which Scindiah is dcfirous to 
 
 have. 
 
 ad. General Perron owes Scindiah Money on account of 
 Nuzzeranah * and his Jaidadf Lands, and of Peiflicuili received, 
 and other fums on account of olher Claims of Scindiah upon iiim. 
 It is wiflied that enquiry might be made into thefe Claims, and 
 an adjuflment nnade. 
 
 3d. Colonel George HefTiog had Lands for the payment of 
 his Troops, the annual value of which was greater than the fum 
 required for their payment, and the furplus was paid to Scindiah» 
 It is dcfired that this matter fiiould be arranged. 
 
 4th. Scindiah had Claims upon the Seiks and the Ilooney 
 Harari ; the Company's Territories are rov between Scindiah. 
 and thefe people. It is propofed that the Armies of Scindiah 
 and the Company fhould join to levy tribute from thefe; people, 
 and that each Government fhould have a fhare of what Ihould hz 
 levied. 
 
 5th. It is fettled by the Treaty, that Scindiah is to have 
 Seventeen Lacks of Rupees in Hindoftan, or Money in lieu 
 thereof. Some time will elapfe before this point can be adjufted; 
 in the mean tim;, it is requ:fl:ed, that fomething may be given 
 on account, as Scindiah is in great diilrefs. 
 
 6th. Hurdvvar and Jalnapoor are places of Hindoo Religions 
 Worfliip, and Scindiah is dcfirous to be allowed to retain 
 them. 
 
 • An Offering on prcfcntation to Office, and on Grand Fettivals. 
 + Land held by a Military Tenure. 
 
 7th,
 
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 nth. Scin.liali has confented to all the arrangements propofed 
 for the Treaty of Pence in rcipcdl to Hindollan ; and he is defi- 
 reus, that he fhould not be anfwerable to the Peifliwah, or to IIoI- 
 kar for what he has ceded by the Treaty. 
 
 8th. It is written in the Treaty, that Scindiah is to have no 
 Claims upon the Peifliwah J Scindiah defircs alfo, that the Peifh- 
 \vah may make no Claims upon him. 
 
 9th. The Boundaries oi the Territories of the Company, and 
 of Scindiah will join j and each will be in Peace in their own 
 Territories. It is defirable that the Company fliouid give no 
 alylum or afliftancc to any perfon, who may be guilty of crimes 
 in Scindiah's Territories, and Vv'ho may fly to thofe of the 
 Company. 
 
 ioth. Saloo Baye Scindiah, Aliah Baye Goorparah, Raujee 
 Jadoo, Canajee Jadoo, are perfons belonging to Scindiah, who 
 have had Jagheers in the Territories of the Peifh'vahj to which 
 in confequence of the War forrie injury has been done. It is re- 
 quefted, that they may retain their Jagheers withotit being mo- 
 lefted. 
 
 lith. Sree Saheb (Manoor Saheb,) has fome Villages as 
 Charitable Donations, or Enalim in the Province of Beer; which 
 it is reqaefted that he may be allowed to keep. 
 
 lath. Is Scindiah to fend Vaqueels to the Nizam, and the 
 Peifhvvah i 
 
 13th. Hurry Ambajee Ghittavees, and Aherdan Seevaran, 
 have Hoafes and Property in Benares, to which it is requelicd, 
 that no injury may be done. 
 
 14th. Some Inhabitants of Pytun, (Dyvanaut Naig, &c.) are 
 in confinement at Hyderab.id, It is requeued that the Nawaub* 
 may be applied to to relcaft: thofe people. 
 
 15th. Money was given in Charity to Facqueers and Bramins 
 in Hindoftan, which it is hoped will be continued. 
 — ' I I ■■■ 
 
 * The Soubah of the Deckan, Eccundcr Jah, 

 
 APPENDIX I. 
 
 Treaty of Peace with Dowlut Rao Scindiah, concluded at 
 Surje Anjengaum, on the ^oth December 1803.
 
 m
 
 TREATY OF PEACE and FRIENDSHIP with 
 DOWLUT RAO SCINDIAH. 
 
 TREATY OF PEACEbetween the Honorable English 
 East India Company and their Allies, on the one 
 part ; and the Maha Rajah Ali Jah Dowlut Rao Scin- 
 DiAH, on the other J fettled by Major General the Honor- 
 able Authur Wellesley, on the part of the Honorable 
 Company, and rheir Allies) and by Eetul Mahadeo, Moon- 
 fhce Kavel Nyn, Jes\^unt Rao Goorparah Ameer-ool- 
 Omrah, and Narroo Hurry, on the part of the Maha Rajah 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah, who have each communicated to the 
 other their full Powers. 
 
 A R T 1 C L E I. 
 THERE fliall be perpetual Peace and Ffiendfliip between the 
 Honorable Company and their Allies, on the one part, and the 
 Maha Rajah Ali Jah Dowlut Rao Scindiah on the other. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 The Maha Rajah cedes to the Honorable Company, and their 
 Allies, in perpetual Sovereignty, all his Forts, Territories and 
 Rights in the Doab, or Country fituated between the Jumna and 
 Ganges; and all his Forts, Territories, Rights and Interefts in 
 the Countries which are to the Northward of thofe of the Rajahs 
 of Jeypoor and Jodepoor, and of the Ranah of Gohud ; of 
 ■which Territories &c. a detailed lift is given in the accompanying 
 Schedule. Such Countries formerly in the poflcffion of the Maha 
 Rajah fituated between Jeypoor and Jodepoor, and to the South- 
 ward of the former, are to belong to the Maha Rajah. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 The Maha Rajah likewife cedes to the Honorable Company, 
 and their Allies, in perpetual Sovereignty, the Fort of Baroach 
 and Territory depending thereon, and the Fort of Ahhiednuggur 
 
 and
 
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 and Territory depending thereon; excepting thcfe Lands wliich it 
 is ao-reed by th* Eighth Article of this Treaty, that the Maha 
 Raj^h is to retain. 
 
 A R T I C L E IV. 
 Tiis Mjhi Rajah hkewife cedes to the Honorable Company and 
 their Al!i;s, all tlie Teiritories which belonged to him previous 
 to the br?2];ing cut of the War, which iire fituated to the South- 
 ward of the Hills called the Adjuntee Hills, including the Fort and 
 DiHriift; of Jalnapore, the Town and DiQrift of Gandapcre, and 
 nil other Diftrifts between that Range of Hills and the River 
 Godav'^rv. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 The Maha Rajah Ali jahDowlut Rao Scindiah, for himfelf, 
 his Heirs and SuccefTors, hereby renounces all the claim to the 
 Forts, Territories, Rights and Interefls, ceded by the Second, Third, 
 and Fourth Articles; and all claims of every defcription upon the 
 Britifli Governments, and their Allies, the Soubahdar of the Dec- 
 kan, the Peilhwah, and Anund Rao Guikvvar. 
 
 A. R T I G L E VI. 
 
 The Fort of Afleerghur, the city of Boorhanpore, the Forts 
 of Powanghur, and Dohud. and the Territories in Candeifh, and 
 Guzcrat, depending on thtle Forts, fliail be reftored to the Maha 
 Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindiah. 
 
 A R T I C T E VII. 
 Whercns the Maha Rajah Dovi'lut Rao Scindiah has reprefented 
 that his Family have long held in Enaum as a Gift from the Kings 
 of Hindoflan, the Diflridisof Dholpoor, Baree, and Rajah- Kerrah, 
 which ;«re lituatcd to the Northward of the C>ountries of the Ra- 
 jahs of jrypoor and Jodepoor, and of the Rap^ah of Gohud, and 
 that Lands m Hindoftan, ceded by the Second Article of this Treaty 
 to th» Honorsblr Compnny and their Allies^ are held in Jagheer by 
 : ,. . perfons
 
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 pcrfons of the family of the late Madhajee Scindiah, arid othefs by 
 principal Sirdars ia his Service, a' I of whom woulii fuffiii- diftrefs, 
 if deprived of the advantages they enjoy in thciff: Countries: It 
 is agreed, that the Maha Rajah fliall continue to hold and enjoy 
 in Enaum the Lands of Dholpoor, Barce, and Rajih K^rrah; 
 and that Bala Baye Sahib, and M'unfuor Saliib, Moonlhte Kavel 
 Nyn, Boogajee Jamdab, Amrajee Jadboo, nnd Wirdab CJharic, 
 fhall continue to hold their Lands in Jagbire, under the pro- 
 te6lion of the Honorable Company : And further, in order that no 
 individual may incur lofs or fuffer diftrefs in con(cq;ience of this 
 arrangement, it is agreed, that the Honor. iblc Company (hall 
 either pay Pcnlions, or grant Lands in Jaghire, according to the 
 option of the Bririfh Government, to certain other Sirdars and 
 others to be named by tlie Maba Rijah, provided that the total 
 amount of the Sums paid, or Jagbircs granted or held, does not ex-t 
 cped Seventeen Licks of Rupees per Annum, including the annual 
 value of the Lands, which it is agreed by this Article that Bala 
 Bave Sahib, Munfoor Sahib, ;Moonrhee Kavei'Nyn, Boogajee Jam- 
 dah, Amrajee Jadhoo, and Wirdah Gharie, are to continue to hold; 
 and provided that no Troops in the fervice of the Maha Rajah are to 
 be introduced into Dholpoor, Baree, and Rajah Kerrah, or the other 
 Lands held in Jagbire, under the pretence of collefting the Revenue, 
 or any other pretence whatever. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 Whereas the Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindiah has reprefentcd, 
 that his Family have long held in Enaum certain Lands, Vil- 
 lages, &c. in the Territories of Rao Pundit Purdhaun, viz, 
 Chomargoondee Pergunna, 
 Jamgaum, 
 Ranjingaum, 
 
 Half of Seo Gaum Pergunna, » 
 
 Six Villages in Umber Pergunna, 
 Five Villages in Pytun Pergunna, 
 Five Villages in Niwaz Pergunna, 
 
 Fivfi
 
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 Vive Villagfcfe in Kurla Perguniu, 
 
 Six Villiiges in Poonah Pcrgunna, 
 
 Two Villages in Wiihy Pergunna, 
 
 Six Villages in Patutood Pergunna, 
 
 Five Villages in Pandipeergaum. Pergunna, 
 
 Five Villages in Pagood Pergunna, 
 
 Two Villages in Parnyra Pergunna, wliich have lately been 
 taken pofleffion of by the Briiifli Government and their Allies j 
 it is agreed, that thofe Lands and Villages (hall be reftored to him, 
 provided that no Troops fliall ever be introduced into thofe Lands 
 and Villages, under pretence oi coUet^ing the Revenues, or any 
 other pretence whatever. 
 
 ARTICLE IX 
 Ctrtain Treaties ha\e been made by the Briiilh Government 
 with Rajahs and others heretofore Feudatories of the Maha Rajah 
 Ali Jah Dowlut Rao Scindiah. Thefe Treaties are to he confirmed, 
 and the Maha Rajah hereby renounces all claims upon the Perlbns 
 with whom fuch Treaties have been made, and declares them to 
 be independant of his Government and Authority, provided that 
 iioneof the Territories belonging to the Maha Rajah, fituated to the 
 Southwaid of thofe of the Rajahs of Jeypoor and Jodepoor, and the 
 Ranah of Gohud, of which the Revenues have been collcded by 
 him or his Aumildars, or have been applicable as Surinjamee to the 
 payment of his Troops, arc granted away by fuch Treaties. Lifts 
 of the Perfons with whom fuch Treaties have been made will be 
 given to the Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindiah, when this Trea- 
 ty will be ratified by His Excellency the Governor General. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 No Perfon whatever is hereafter to be molefled on account of 
 the part which he may have taken in the prefcnt War. 
 
 A R T I C t E XI. 
 
 It is agreed, that the Rights of His Hjghncfs the Pcifhwah to cer- 
 tain
 
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 tain Lands in Malwa, and elfewhere, fliall be eftablidied as here^ 
 tofore, and in cafe any difference Ihould arife rcfpeding thofe 
 Rights, it is agreed that the Honorable Company fhall mediate, ar- 
 bitrate, and decide according to the principles of juftice between 
 His Iliahnefs and the Maha Rajah, and whatever (hall be thus de- 
 cided, will be agreed to by both Parties, and will be carried inta 
 execution* 
 
 ARTICLE Xlf. 
 The Maha Raj.ih Dowlut Rao Scindiah hereby renounces all 
 claims upon His Majefty Shah Aulum, and engages on his part to 
 interfere no further in the affairs of His Maj.fty. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 The Maha Rajah Alt Jah Dowlut Rao Scindiah engages never 
 to take or retain in his fervice any Frenchman, or the fubjedt of 
 any other European or American Power, the Government of 
 which may be at War with the Britilh Government j or any Bri^ 
 ti(h Subject, whether European or Native of India, without the 
 confent of the Britifh Government, 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 In order to fccure and improve the relations of Ainity afid Peace 
 hereby eftablifhed between the GovernmentSj it is agreed, that 
 accredited Miniflers from each fliall refide at the Court of the 
 
 other. 
 
 ARTICLE XV. 
 The Honorable Company being bound by Treaties of general 
 Defenfive Alliance with His Highnefs the Soubahdar of the Dec- 
 kan, and His Highnefs Rao Pundit Purdhaun, to which the Maha 
 Rajah Ali Jah Dowlut Rao Scindiah is defirous of acceding, he is 
 to be admitted to the benefits thereof; and the Honorable Com- 
 pany, with a view to the future fccurity of the Maha Rajah's Ter- 
 ritories, engage, in the event of his agreeing to the Treaty above- 
 mentioned
 
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 fnentioned, in two months to furnifli him with a Force conGAing 
 of Six Battalions of Infantry, with their Complement of Ordnance 
 and Artillery, and ufual equipments of Military Stores, &c. and 
 the expenfe of this Force is to be defrayed out of the Revenues of 
 il.e Lands ceded by the Second, Third, and Fourth Articles. But it 
 is agreed, that in cafe it fliould fuit the interefts of the Maha Rajah's 
 Government to decline to enter into the Treaty abovementioned, 
 fuch refufal fliall not aff;cl any of the other Stipulations of this 
 Treaty of Peace, which are in every refpeft to be binding on the 
 ccntrading Parties, their Heirs and Succeffors. 
 
 ARTICLE XVL 
 
 This Treaty is to be ratified by the Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah, in Eight Days from this time^ and the Ratification is to be 
 delivered to Major General Wellefley. 
 
 Major General Wellefley engages, that it fhall be ratified by His 
 Excellency the Moft Noble the Governor General in Council, 
 and the Ratification fhall be delivered to the Maha Rajah in Three 
 Months, or fooner if pofTible. 
 
 The orders for the Cefiions of the Territories fliall be delivered 
 to Major General Wellefley at the fame time with the Ratification 
 of the Treaty of Peace; but the Forts cf Adeerghur, Povvanghur, 
 and Dohud, are not to be delivered up, till accounts will have 
 been received that the Territories ceded, have beea evacuated by the 
 Maha Rajah's Officers and Troops. 
 
 {Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 
 EETUL MAHADEO, 
 KAVEL NYN, 
 
 JESWUNT RAO GOORPARAH. 
 NARROO HURRY. 
 
 Done in Camp at Surje Anjengaum, this 30/Z) of 
 December 1803, anfwerivg to the i ■^tb 
 Raviza un 1 2 1 3 Fuzalce. 

 
 APPENDIX K. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from Major General the Honorable Arthur 
 Wellcflcy, To His Excellency The Governor General 
 dated Camp J December -^o, 1803. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I HAVE the honor to inform Your Excellency, that I have 
 this day concluded and figned with the Vaqueels of Dovvlut 
 Rao Scindiah, a Treaty of Peace ; Copies of which in the Englifli, 
 Perfianj and Marhatta languages, I have the honor to cnclofe. 
 
 This Treaty, like that with the Rajah of Berar, is concluded ia 
 the Name of the Britifh Government and its AlUes generally, and 
 the Cedions are made to all the Allied Powers. It will remain 
 with Your Excellency to give orders to the Refidents at the dif- 
 ferent Durbars, to procure the confent of the Allied Governments 
 to the Treaty, and to divide the Conquefts in fuch manner, as You 
 may think proper. 
 
 By this Treaty, which I hope Your Ejccellency will ratify, all Thffc rnffruc- 
 
 , ^ tioiis fortn A'p« 
 
 the important obje6ls detailed in Your Excellency's Inftrufllons of pendixB. 
 the 27th June 1803 are fecured, and the ground is laid for a more 
 complete Alliance with Scindiah's Government ; or fuppofing that 
 he (hould omit to take advantage of the terms offered to him to ally 
 himfclf more clofely with the Company's Government, fuch an 
 influence will be edablifhed in his, as will render it very impro- 
 bable, that its means will ever be again dire6led againfl; that of the 
 Company. 
 
 By the Second Article of the Treaty, Scindiah confents to cede 
 to the Honorable Company, all his Territories North of the C nm- 
 tries of the Rajahs of Jeypoor, Jodepoor, and the Ranah of Go- 
 hud; a Schedule is annexed to the Treaty, which contains the bed 
 account that can be procured of the Revenue of thofe Territories. 
 
 Befides the Territories included in the Schedule, there are three 
 Pergunnahs alfo North of the Countries of Jeypoor, Jodepoor, 
 and Gohud, viz. Dholepoor, Baree, and Rajah-Kerah, which were 
 
 formerly
 
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 formerly granted to the Family of Scindiah in Enaum, which have 
 never been carried into the Dufters* under the head of Lands in 
 Hindoftan, and have been confidefed as the private Property of 
 Scindiah 's Houfe. Thefe Pergunnahs are to remain in his poficf- 
 fion under certain Stipulations, which exclude his Troops from 
 the line fixed upon by Your Excellency. 
 
 Befides thefe Pergunnahs, there are others, the Jagheer Lands of 
 the Ladies of the Family of the late Madhajee Scindiah, and thofe 
 offomeof the principal Sirdars and Minifters ofDowlut RaoScindiah 
 alfo not included in the Schedule, which, according to the Seventh 
 Article, are to remain in the hands of their prefent Poffeffbrs, 
 under the protedion of the BriilH Government ; and the Britilli 
 Government is to give Penfions or Jagheers, according to its op- 
 tion, to Sirdars to be named by Scindiah, to the amount of Se- 
 venteen Lacs oi Rup<;cs, including the value of thofe Jagheers to 
 remain in the hands of their prefent PofTcfTors under the Seventh 
 Article. 
 
 It would have been impoffible to arrange this great CefTion in 
 the diflurbed ifats of Scindiah's Government, under all the cir- 
 cumflances of his misfortunes in the War, and of the great di- 
 minution of his Military Power and Reputation, in comparifon 
 with that of his rival Holkar, without determining to provide in 
 fome degree for thofe who reaped benefits from the Revenue of 
 the Ceded Territories, or making up my mind to throw into Hol- 
 kar's hands, and to add to his Armies, all the Sirdars and Troops 
 who had been fubfifled by the refources of thofe Countries, and 
 who mufl have been forthwith difcharged from Scindi.ih's fcrvice, 
 and would have looked to Holkar for protecftion and future em- 
 ployment. I chofe the former, which I think is moft confident 
 with Your Excellency's Policy; and it appears, that befides avoiding 
 iiic evil of incrcafing the numbers of the followers of the only 
 Freebooter that remains in India, it tends to eftablilh an influence 
 in Scindiah's Durbaj which mufl guide its meafures in a great 
 degree, even if Scindiah Ihould omit to unite himfcif more 
 
 * Offices of Record, 
 
 clofcly
 
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 clofely with the Company ; and niufl (end greatly to facilitate alt 
 the objtcls of the Britilh Government in his Durbar, if he fliouIJ 
 agree to the Terms of the General Defenfivc Alliance. 
 
 Upon the whole therefore, 1 hope that Your Excellency will 
 approve of this arrangement, the cxpence of which will amount 
 to about Fourteen Lacs of Rupees annually, to be dedudl:ed 
 from the Revenues flated in the Schedule. 
 
 The next point: to which 1 wiOi to dravv Your Excellency's 
 attention, in order to bring under Your view at once every thing 
 relating to the Ceflion in Hindoftan, is the Fifteenth Article of the 
 Treaty, by which it is agreed, that Scindiah fliall have a Sub- 
 lidiary Force, the expence of which lliall be paid out of the 
 CefTions made by the Second, Third, and Fourth Articles of the 
 Treaty. 
 
 In the courfc of this War, Scindiah's Power, Reputation, and 
 Military Refources have been greatly diminifhed, while his rival 
 Holkar, after having recovered the Poflellions of his Family by 
 his Treaty* of Peace with Scindiah, remains with undiminiflifd 
 Power, and increafed Pvcputation. Comparatively with thofe of 
 Scindiah's, his Power, and his Military refources are much grea- 
 ter than they were previous to the \Var j and I have but little 
 doubt, that the Conteft between thofe Chiefs will be renewed. 
 
 This would be a matter ot little confequence to the Britifli 
 Government, if the Parties were fo equal in point of Strength, 
 Refources, and Abilities as to render the event of the Conteft 
 doubtful. But Holkar is certainly at this moment fuperior to 
 Scindiah in every point of view, and the confequence of leaving 
 the latter to his own means, muft be, that he will fall an eafy 
 prev to Holkar ; or if he (hould endeavour to avoid the Con- 
 tell, (which I dont think probable, ) his Government will by dfl» 
 grees become dependant upon that of his rival. 
 
 • This is the Engagement concluded by Scindiah with Holkar, previoufly to the late War, 
 in order to induce Holkar to join the Confederacy againft the Britifh Government. On this 
 fubjeft, vide pages 42 and 43, of the Conferences bctv/een Mjjor General Wellefley and 
 the Ambafiadors of Scindiah, forming Appendix H. 
 
 Under
 
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 Under thefe circumftancws, and particularly as I was aware of 
 Your Excellency's determination to fupport the Peace, and 
 of I he relative fituation in which it would leave the different Pow- 
 ets from the manner in which the Peace had been eftabliHied by 
 the exercife of the Force of the Britilh Government, I thought it 
 expedient to hold forth to Scindiah, an option of becoming a 
 Party of the general defenfive Alliance ; and as a farther induce- 
 ment to him to agree to that Treaty, to engage, that the aflir. 
 tance which (liould be given to him, (liould occafion no furth;;r 
 diminution of his Revenue. 
 
 I was induced to make this lafl; engagement by the convicflion 
 that Scindiah would not agree to the Treaty of general defen- 
 five Alliance, (although his Minlfters propofed, that he {houKl 
 unite himfelf more clofely with the Company,) if he was to be 
 obliged to pay for the affiftance which he fliould receive, and 
 that if he does agree to that Treaty, the Peace of India is infured 
 as far as it can be by human means. 
 
 I have every reafon to believe alfo, that when Scindiah fnall 
 wind up his affairs at the end of this War, he will not have 
 a difpofeable clear Revenue, fuch as the Britifh Government would 
 require to pay the expences of the Force, which might be given 
 to him. 
 
 Upon this point I have likewife to obfervc, that fuppofing Scin- 
 diah fliould agree to the Treaty of Defendve Alliance, the di- 
 minution of receipt to the Company will be Eight Lacs of 
 Rupees annually, if His Highnefs the Peiflivvah be admitted 
 to participate equally with the Company and the Nizam 
 in the benefits of the War; and Twelve and an half Lacs of 
 Rupees, if His Highnefs the Nizam only Ihould be admitted 
 to that participation. 
 
 I have fanguine hopes therefore, that Your Excellency will ap- 
 prove of this Article of the Peace. 
 
 By the Ceffion of Baroach, the Company will gain a clear re- 
 venue of Ten Lacs of Rupees annually, and a valuable Territory 
 in a commercial point of view, 
 
 I
 
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 I oid:.'red that th;? Hill Fort of Powanghur might be deflroy- 
 ed, when I determined to return that Conquefl: to Scindiah: 
 My motives lor returning the Conqudls in that part of In- 
 dia, and Airecrghur and Boorhanpoor in the Dekan, arc ex- 
 plained to Your Excellency in my difpatch of the i ith November, 
 and although I intend to endeavour to retain PofTellion of Powan- 
 gur and Dohiid, in the negotiation of the Treaty of general De- 
 fenfive Alliance in exchange for Land elfewhere, I am ftill of 
 opinion, that without making fome facrifices, I could not have 
 had Peace, and thefe places appeared to be of lefs confcqucnce than 
 any of the other Conquefts which the Britifli Troops had made. 
 
 The Territories reftored in the neighbourhood of Ahmednuorcrur 
 are the antient Family Lands of Scindiah, and Your Excellency 
 will perceive in the minutes of the Conferences which will be fcnt 
 as foon as they can be copied, the great anxieiy to retain thefe 
 Lands : they have been returned thertfoie under a particular fti- 
 pulation, that no armed Men are ever to be kept in tliem. 
 
 I did every thing in my Power to retain the Lands of which [ 
 took PoiTeffion upon the capture of Ahtnednuggur, as I wiflied to 
 exclude Scindiah entirely from the Dckan ; but as the Lands are 
 really his Family property, to have kept them would have occafion- 
 ed a perfonal inconvenience, which Your Excellency would have 
 been defirous to remove, and the reftoration of them is accom- 
 panied by a ftipulation, which I hope will prevent the bad confe- 
 quences attending his having any Lands in thofe Countries. 
 
 There was confiderable difficulty alfo in fettling the Ninth Ar- 
 ticle, refpedling the Treaties made with the K.ijahs. The Mi- 
 nifters appeared to be aware of the lofs which Scindiah's Go- 
 vernment might incur under this Article, and they contended 
 flrongly againfl: it, until at lalt, I was obliged ro tell thetn, that un- 
 lefs they agreed to it, I could not make Peace. The advantage 
 which it appeared to m.e that Your Excellency expefled to derive 
 from the independance of the Rajahs of Jeypoor and Jodepoor, 
 and the Ranah of Gohud was, that thofe Chiefs fhould connedt 
 themielvcs by Treaty with the Britiih Go\ernment. From the 
 
 different
 
 (- 6 ) 
 
 different accounts however, which I have received, I obferve, that 
 Treaties have not been concladed ai:h any of tliofe Chiefs, not- 
 withftandinc- the rapid and allonifhing fuccefs of His Excellency 
 the Commander in Cliicf. The confequence o( rheir indepen- 
 ctencc, funlefs they fhould have conncdted thenDfclves with ihc 
 Britilh Govv.rnment,) would be, that the annual conteft which they 
 have had with the Marhattas for the Peiflicufii would ceal'e, and 
 the Britifh Government would derive no additional fecurity. 
 
 I therefore deemed it beft to ftipulate generally for the inde- 
 pcndance of every Rajah with whom a Treaty Ihould have been 
 concluded, by which Yotir Excellency's objed is fecured in ref- 
 pcdl to all of this defcription. 
 
 There was not much difHculfy in arranging the other Articles 
 of the Treaty of Peace. There were lome objedions to the 
 Twelfth Article founded upon the neceility of Scindiah's perform- 
 ing tl'.e duties of his OiEcc of Vaquccl-ool-Mutluck, which how- 
 ever were eafily overcome. 
 
 In negotiating this Treaty, I have received the greatefl aflif- 
 tance from Mr. Elphinftorlc, and fmce he arrived in Camp, 
 from Major Malcolm; indeed the acquaintance of the latter with 
 Your Excellency's feniirnents upon all political queflions, and 
 his own political knowledge and abilities have enabled me to 
 conclude this difficult Treaty in a manner, which I hope will be 
 l'atisfa61ory to your Excellency. 
 
 I have requefted Major Malcolm, to prepare to go to Scindiah's 
 Camp, as foon as I Ihall have received the Ratification of the 
 Treaty. By a rcfidcnce there for fome time, he will be enabled 
 to lettle with that Chief the Treaty of general Dcfenfive Alli- 
 ance, (if it fhould be poflible to arrange it,) oral all events to acquire 
 a knowledge of the Charaflcrs at his Durbar, and of ilie flate 
 of his remaining Military Refources. 
 
 In cafe Your Excellency Ihould think it proper to ratify this 
 Treaty, it will be beft to lend one copy of the Ratification to 
 Major Kiikpatrick, to be forwarded to Major Malcolm, and 
 one to His Evc-.-l!ency th: Commurdcr in Chief, to be forwarded 
 
 through
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 through Hindoftan ; as one of the firft ol)je(5Vs of Major Mal- 
 colm's attention will be to communicate with His Excellency by 
 a Dawk. 
 
 I propofe to define the Servants of the Soubah of the Dekan to 
 take poffcflion of Sciudiah's Territories ceded by the Fourth Arti- 
 cle of the Treaty of Peace ; in refpedl to the other Territories, 
 they will remain to be difpofed of according to the Orders which 
 I may receive from Your Excellency. 
 I have the honor to be. 
 
 My Lord, &c. &c. &c. 
 
 ^Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY.* 
 
 Hu Excellency the Governor General, &c. &c. &c. 
 
 * In a Letter under date (lie 13th February, from the Secretary to Government in the 
 Secret, Political, and Foreign Department, tranfinitting to Major General Wellefley, the Rati- 
 fication of the Treaty of Peace with Dowlut Rao Scindiah; the Governor General in Council 
 was pleafcd to exprefs his approbation of the conduft of .Viajor General Wellefley, in the con- 
 clufion of that Treaty, in the lollov/ing terms : — 
 
 <• The Governor General in Council has this d.iy had the honor to receive the quadruplicate 
 of your Difpatch, under date the 30th of Decemlier, tranfmitting a Copy of the Treaty of 
 Peace, concluded by you on the part of the Britifli Government with Dowlut Rao Scindiah. 
 
 « The Terms of the Treaty of Peace, concluded with Dowlut Rao Scindiah, are entirely 
 conformable to the general principles of the Governor General's Inftriiftions of the z-jxh June 
 1803, and are confidered by His Excellency in Council to be in every refpeft highly advantage- 
 ous and honorable to the Britifh Government and its Allies. That Treaty has accordingly 
 been this day Ratified in Duplicate by the Governor General in Council. 
 
 " The details of the fentiments of His Excellency in Council, and his Inflruftions on all 
 points conncfted with the Treaty, will be communicated to you and to Major Malcolm, at the 
 earlieft practicable period of time. The Governor General in Council however takes this 
 occafioii to exprefs to you the high fenfe which His Excellency in Council entertains of ths 
 diilinguiO.ed judgment, ability, firmncfs, and temper, manifcfted by you during the whole 
 courfe of your Negotiation with the Vaqucels of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and his entire approba- 
 tion of the wife, beneficial, and glorious pacification of India, which you have efFefled by the 
 concl,ufion of the Treaty of Peace with Scindiah. The prudence and difcernment which you 
 have nKinifefted in the conduft and conclufion of your Negotiations with the Rajah of Berar 
 and %vith Dowlut Rao Scindiah, correfpond with the fpkndour of your atchievements in the 
 Field, which have added Littre to the Briti.'h Name, and Stability to the Britifh Empire ia 
 India." 

 
 APPENDIX L. 
 
 Treaty of Alliance and Mutual Defence, concluded with 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah, by Major Mcdcolm, at Boorkan- 
 pore, on the zjth February 1804.
 
 TREATY OF ALLIANCE with DOW- 
 LUT RAO SCINDIAH. 
 
 TREATY of Alliance and mutual Defence between the Ho- 
 norable the English East India Gompanv, and 
 the M AH A Raj A II Ali Jau Dowlut Rao Scindi ah Baiiau- 
 DUR, and his Children, Heirs and SuccefTors, fettled by Major 
 John Malcolm, on the part of the Honorable Company, 
 and by Bapoo Eetul Punt and Moonshee Kavel Nyn, on 
 the part of the Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindi ah, after 
 having communicated to each other their full Powers ; the faid 
 John Malcolm being deputed to the Court of Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah, by Major General the Honorable Arthur 
 Wellesley; The Honorable Major GentrnI aforefaid being in- 
 verted with full Powers and Authority from His Excellency 
 the Most Noble Richard Marquess Wellesley, Knight 
 of the M. ft IHuftrious Order of Saint Patrick, one of His Bri- 
 rannick Majeify's Mofl: Honorable Privy Council, appointed by 
 the Honorable Court of Direftors of the faid Company to dire6l 
 and control all their affairs in tlie Eaft Indies. 
 
 WHEREAS by the blefTing of God, the relations of Friendfliip 
 and Union have been happily eftabllfhed between the Government 
 of the Honorable Company, and that of the Maha Rajah 
 Ali Jah Dowlut RaoSc i NDI.^ h Ba haudur by a recent Trea- 
 ty of Peace, the tvv'o Governments aforefaid adverting to the com- 
 plexion of the Times, have now determined with a view to the 
 prefervation of Peace and Tranquillity to enter into this Treaty of 
 general Defenlive Alliance, for the reciprocal protedlion of their 
 rcfpedtive Territories, together with thofe of their fcveral Allies 
 and Dependants againfi unprovoked aggreflion and encroachments, 
 of all or any Enemies whatever. 
 
 Article First. 
 The Friendfhip and Union eftablifhed by the former Treaty 
 between the two States, [fliall be promoted and encreafed by this 
 
 Treaty,
 
 ( 2 ) 
 
 Tearty, and fljall be perpetual ; the Friends and Kneniies ofelthcf 
 State fliall be the Friends and Enemies of both ; and their mutual 
 Interefts fliali henceforward be infeparable. 
 
 Article Second. 
 
 If any Perfon or State whatever fhall commit any aft of unpro- 
 voked hoftility or aggreffion againft: either of the Contrarting Par- 
 ties, and after due reprefentation, (hall refufe to enter into ami- 
 cable explanation, or fhall deny the juft fatisfadlion or indemnity 
 ■which the Contradling Parties (hall have required, then the Con- 
 trafting Parties will proceed to concert and profecute fuch further 
 meafures as tlie cafe fhall appear to demand ; for the more dif- 
 tin£l explanation of the true intent and effetl of this Article, the 
 Governor General in Council in behalf of the Honorable Com- 
 pany hereby declares, that the Britifla Government will never per- 
 mit any Power or State whatever to commit, with impunity, any 
 adt of unprovoked hoftility or aggrcdioii againft the Rights and 
 Territories of the Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindiah ; but will at 
 all times, in compliance with the requifition of the Maha Rajah, 
 maintain and defend the fame, when fuch requifition is made, in 
 the like manner as the Rights and Territories of the Honorable 
 Company are now maintained and defended. 
 
 Article Third. 
 
 With a view to fulfil this Treaty of mutual Defence, the Maha- 
 Rajah agrees to receive, and the Honorable Eaft India Company 
 to furnifli, a Subfidiary Force of not lefs than fix thoufand regular 
 Infantry, with the ufual proportion of Artillery, and with the 
 proper equipment of Warlike Stores and Ammunition. This Force 
 is to be fliationed at fuch place near the frontier of Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah as may hereafter be deemed moft eligible by the BritiOi 
 Government, and it will be held in readinefs at fuch ftation to 
 proceed as foon as poilible, for the execution of any fervice 
 on which it is liable to be employed by the condition of this 
 Treaty, 
 
 A R T I c L IJ
 
 C 3 ) 
 
 Article Fourth. 
 And it is further agieed, that in conformity to the ftipulationS 
 of the Fifteenth Article of the Treaty of Peace, concluded by Ma- 
 jor General Welltfley on the part of the Honorable Company, and 
 by Bapoo EetuI, Moonllice Kavel Nyn, &c. on the part of Ma- 
 lia Rajah All Jah Dowlut Rap Scindiah, that all charges and ex- 
 penfes of the fix Battalions abovementioned, and of their Ordnance, 
 Artillery, Military Stores, and Equipment fhall be defrayed by 
 the Honorable Company out of the produce of the Revenues of 
 the Territories ceded by the Malia Rajah Ali Jah Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah to the faid Company, by the Articles Second, Third, and 
 Fourth of the aforementioned Treaty of Peacfe, which Territories 
 are fpecified in a itatement annexed to that Treaty. 
 
 Article Fifth. 
 Grain and all other articles of confumption, and Provifions, 
 and all forts of materials for Wearing Apparel, together with the 
 neceflary number of Cattle, Horfes, and Camels required for the 
 ufe of the Subfidiary Force fliall, whenever the aforefaid Force is 
 within the Territories of the Maha Rajah, in confequence of 
 his requifition, be entirely exempt from duties ; and whenever 
 any further Force of the Honorable Company (hall, in cot^fe- 
 quenceofWar with any other State, be in the Dominions of 
 the Maha Rajah, they fliall in like manner as the Subfidiary 
 Force, be exempt from all duties upon the aforefaid articles of 
 necefTary ufe and confumption j and it is alfo agreed, that when- 
 ever any part of the Army of the Maha Rajah is in the Ter- 
 ritories of the Honorable Company, for purpofes connected 
 with the fulfilment of this Treaty, that no duties on Grain, 
 Camels, Wearing Apparel, &c. as ftated above, which the party 
 of the Army of the faid Maha Rajah may require, fl'iall be 
 collected ; and it is further agreed, that the Officers of the ref- 
 pedlive Governments, while they are in the fulfilment of the 
 Articles of this Treaty, either with the Army, or in the Territo- 
 ries of the other, fhall be treated with that refpedt and confidera» 
 fion, which is due to their rank and fiction, 
 
 Articlc
 
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 Article Sixth. 
 The SubfiJiary Force will at all times be ready, on the requifi- 
 tion of the Maha Rajah, to execute fervices of importance, fuch as 
 the care of the perfon of the Miha Rajah, his heirs and fuccefforsi 
 the prote£lion of the Country from attack and invafion, the 
 overawing and chaRifement of Rebels or exciters of diflurbance in 
 the Maha Rajah's Dominions ; but it is not to be employed on 
 trifling occafions. 
 
 Article Seventh. 
 
 Whereas it is agreed in the Thirteenth Article of the Treaty of 
 Peace, that the Maha Rajah Ali Jah Dowlut Rao Scindiah, (hall 
 never take or retain in his fervice any Frenchman, or the fubjedt 
 of any other European, or American power, the Government of 
 which may be at War with Great Britain, or any EritiHi fubjeft 
 whatever, European or Native of India, without the confent of 
 the Britifli Government ; the Maha Rajxh now further engages 
 that he will hereafter never employ in his fervice, or permit to 
 refide in his dominions any European, or American whatever, 
 without the confent and acquiefcence of the Britifh Govern- 
 ment; the faid Britilh Government on its part engaging, that it 
 never will employ or permit to refide in its dominions any per* 
 fon fubjedl of the Maha Rajah, or others, who fliall hereafter be 
 guilty of crimes, or of hoftility againfl: the Perfon or Govern^ 
 ment of the aforefaid Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindiah. 
 
 Article Eighth. 
 
 As, by the prefent Treaty, the Union and Friendfliip of the 
 two States is fo firmly cemented, that they may be confidered as 
 one and the fame, the Maha Rajah engages neither to commence 
 nor to purfue in future any Negotiation with any principal States 
 or Powers, without giving previous notice, and entering into mu- 
 tual confultation with the Honorable Eall India Company's 
 Government; and the Honorable Company's Government, on 
 their pait, declare that they will have no manner of concern with 
 
 any
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 any of the Maha R.ajah's Relations, Dependants, Military Chiefs, or 
 Servants, wiih refpedt to whom the Maha Rajah isabfolute; and 
 that they will on no occafion ever afford encouragement, fupport, 
 or proteftion to any of the Maha Rajah's Relations, Dependants, 
 Chiefs, or Servants, who may eventually aft in oppofition to the 
 Maha Rajah's authority, but on the contrary, at the requifition of 
 the Maha Raj^h, they will aid and afTifl: to punifh and reduce all 
 fuch offenders to obedience j and it is further agreed, that no 
 Ollicer of rhe Honorable Company Ihall ever interfere in the in- 
 ternal affiirs of the Maha Rajah's Government. 
 
 Article Ninth. 
 
 As tiie chief objedl and defign of the piefent Defenfive Alliance 
 is the fecurity and prote6lion of the Dominions of the Gontradling 
 Parties, and their Allies and Dependants from all attack whatfoever, 
 the Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindiah, engages never to com- 
 mit any a6l of hoftility or aggreflion againfl any State or Chief ia 
 Alliance with the Honorable Company, or againfl any other 
 principal State cr Povv'er ; and in the event of differences arifing, 
 whatever adjuftment the Company's Government, weighing mat- 
 ters in the fcale of truth and juftice, may determine, fhall meet 
 with his full approbation and acquiefcence. 
 
 Article Tenth. 
 
 The Contradling Parties will employ all pradlicablc means of 
 conciliation to prevent the calamity of War, and for that purpofe 
 will, at all times, be ready to enter into amicable explanations 
 with other principal States or Powers, and to cultivate and im- 
 prove the general relations oi Peace and Amity with all th© 
 principal Powers of India, according to the true fpirit and tenor 
 of this Treaty; but if a War ftiould unfortunately breakout 
 between the Contradling Parties, and any other State or Power 
 whatever, then the Maha Rajah. Ali Jah Doulut Rao Scindiah 
 Bahaudur, engages, that the Englilh Force confifling of Six Bat- 
 talions, with their Guns, 6cc. joined by a Detachment of his 
 
 Army,
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 Army, confifting of fix thouCand of the Maha Rajah's Infantry, 
 arvd ten thoufand of his Pagah and Sillahdar Cavalry, which Force 
 the Maha Rajah engages always to keep ready, rtiall be imrr/:- 
 diately put in motion, for the purpofe of oppoling the Enemy; 
 and the Maha Rajah alfo engages to employ every further effort 
 fbr the purpofe df bringing into the Field the whole Force which 
 he may be able tci fupply from his Dominions, with a view to the 
 effcdual profecution and fpeedy termination of the faid War. 
 The Honorable Company in the fame manner engage on theii: 
 part (on fuch event occurring,) to employ in adlive operations 
 againfl the Enemy, as large a Force as the fervice may require, over 
 and above the faid Subfidiary Force. 
 
 Article Eleventh. 
 
 Whenever War fhall appear probable, the Maha Rajah All Jah 
 Dovvlut Rao Scindiah engages to colledt as many Brinjaries as^ 
 poffible, and to ftore as much Grain as may be practicable in the 
 Ff€fntier Gafrifons. The Company's Government alfo, with a 
 view JO the efFe(^ual prol'ecution of the War, engage to adopt 
 fimilar meafures in their Frontier Garrifons. 
 
 Article Twelfth. 
 
 The Contradting Parties entertain no views of Conquefts or 
 extentions of their refpedive Dominions, nor any intention of 
 proceeding to hoftilities againft any State or principal Power, 
 unlefs in the cafe of unjuft and unprovoked aggreihon, and after 
 the failure of their joint endeavours to obtain reafonable fatisfa(5tion 
 through the channel of pacific Negotiation according to the tenor 
 of the preceding Treaty. If, contrary to the fpirit and obje6l 
 of this defenfive Treaty, War with any State fliould hereafter 
 appear unavoidable, (which God avert), the Contrading Parties 
 will proceed to adjuft the rule of Partition of all fuch advantages 
 and acquifitions as may eventually rcfult from the fucccfs of 
 their united Arms. It is declared that, in the event of War, 
 andi of a confequent Partition of Gonqusfts between the Contradt- 
 
 ing
 
 ( 7 ) 
 ing Parties, the (hares of each Government fhall be equal in 
 the divifion of any Territory which may be acquired by the 
 fuccefsful exertion of their united Arnns, provided that each of 
 the Contrading Parties fliall have faithfully fulfilled all the fti- 
 pulations of this Treaty. 
 
 Articli: Thirteenth. 
 
 The inlereftsof the Contrading Parties being identified by this 
 defcnfive Alliance, it is agreed, that the Honorable Company's 
 Government (hall be at liberty to employ the whole, or any part 
 of the SuhfiJiary Force eftablilhed by the Treaty in the queliinff 
 of any difturbances which m.ay arife witl.in their Territories^ or 
 in the performance of any other fervice which may be required 
 by the faid Honorable Company's Governmenr, provided fuch 
 fervice fliall not interfere with any other duties on which the 
 faid Subfidiary Force is liable to be employed under the condi- 
 tions of this Treaty. And il diQuibances fliall at any time 
 break out m any part of the Maha Rajah's Dominions which lays 
 contiguous to the Frontier of the Honorable Company, and to 
 >vhich it might be inconvenient to detach any proportion of 
 the Subfidiary Force, the Biiiifli Government in like rnanner, 
 if required by Dowlut Rao Scindiih, fhall dired fuch of the 
 Company's Troops, as may be nioU conveniently Rationed for 
 the purpofe, to aflifl in quelling the faid difturbances within the 
 Maha Rajah's Dominions ; and if difturbances fliall at any time 
 break out in any part ot the Dominions of the Britifh Govern- 
 ment, which lay contiguous to the Frontier of the Maha Rajah, 
 the Maha Rajah, if required by the Britifli Government, fliall 
 diredl fuch of his Troops as may be moft conveniently ftationed 
 for the purpofe, to afllfl in quelling the faid diflurbance;- within 
 the Dominions of the Britifli Government. 
 
 Article Fourteenth. 
 
 In order to flrengthen and confirm the Friendfliip eftablifhcd 
 between the two States, it is agreed that neither of the two Con- 
 trading
 
 ( 8 ). 
 
 tradling Parties (liall enter into any Alliance, or have any con- 
 cern with the Tributaries or Chiefs of the other; and in order 
 to fupport the independent authority of both Governments, it is 
 agreed and declared, that hereafter neither of the Contradling 
 Parties will give protedion or countenance to the Rebellious 
 Tributaries and Subjeds of the other, but they will ufe their 
 utmoft endeavors for the apprehenfion of fuch Rebels, in order 
 that they may be brought to punifhnoent. 
 
 Article Fiftfenth. 
 
 '] he Honorable Company agree to exert their influence to 
 maintain the obfervance of fuch ufages on matters of form and 
 ceremony and other cuftoms, as fhall appear to have been fixed 
 en all points of intercourfe and communication between the 
 Peilhvvah and his AnceftorSi and the Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah, and his Anceftors ; And the Englifh Government alfo 
 agree to recognize the right of Dowlut Rao Scindiah to all 
 PoflTefiions he holds, whether by w^ritten Sunnuds or Grants, or 
 by the unwritten authority of the Peifhwah, according to former 
 ufage, provided fuch Sunnuds do not interfere with the faith- 
 ful fulfilment of the Treaty of Peace ; and provided alfo that 
 in all cafes, where difputes may arife on the fubjed: of PoUef- 
 fions held by unwritten authority, the Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah agrees to refer to the fole Arbitration of the faid BritiQi 
 Government, who will decide with reference to former ufage, 
 on the principles of truth and juflice. The Englifli Govern- 
 ment further agrees, to ufe its endeavour to prevent any adts which 
 have been done by Dowlut Rao Scindiah, or his Anceflors, under 
 the authority repofed in him or them by the Peifliwah or his 
 Anceftors, from being fubverted, provided their being fnpported 
 is ftriftly confiftent with the prefervation of the honor and dig- 
 nity of His Highnefs the Pciniw.ih, and of the (lipulations of 
 the Treaty of Pcaci-. 
 
 Article
 
 ( 9 ) 
 
 Article Sixteenth. 
 This Treaty, coiififting of Sixteen Articles, being this d-jy fet- 
 tled by Major Malcolm, on the part of the Ilonor.blc Company, 
 and by Eetul Punt and Moonfhee Kavel Nyn, on tlic pait of 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah ; Major Malcolm has dJivcied ojic Copy 
 thereof in Perfian and Marhatta and Engliili, figned and fcalcd by 
 himfelf to the f'aid Maha Rajah, who, on his part, has alfo delivered 
 one Copy of the fame duly executed by iiimfelf : and Major Mal- 
 colm, by virtue of a fpecial authority given him in that b-half by 
 Major General the Honorable Arthur Wellefley, (himfelf vcdcd 
 with full powers as before flated,) hereby declares the faid Treaty 
 to be in full force from the date hereof, and engages that a Copy 
 of the fame from the Governor General in Council, in every ref- 
 ped: a counterpart of that executed by himfelf, fhall be delivered 
 to the Maha Rajah Ali Jah Dowlut Rao Scindiah in the fpace of 
 two months and ten days ; and oa the delivery of fuch Copy, the 
 I'reaty executed by M.ijor Malcolm fliall be returned. 
 
 Done at Boorhanpoor, the Twenty-feventh of February A. D, 
 J 80.1, or Fourteenth of Zsccada A. H. 1218. 

 
 APPENDIX M, 
 
 Treaties conchided by His Excellency the Commander in, 
 Chief y with feveral Chieftains in Hindoflan, in con- 
 formity to Inflriidions from the Governor General, 
 
 VIZ, 
 
 No, 1. Rajah of Bhurtpore, on the 29th September 1803. 
 
 No. 2. Rajah of Macherry, on the 24th November 1803. 
 
 No. 3. Rajah of Jeypoor (or Jeynagur), on the 12th 
 December 1803. 
 
 No. 4. Rajah Umbajee Rao Englah, on the 16th Decem- 
 ber 1804. 
 
 No. 5. Ranah of Gohud, on the 29th January 1804.
 
 TRE/VTY WITH THE RAJAH of BHURRUTPORE. 
 
 TREATY concluded between His Excellency Gene- 
 ral GERARD LAKE, Commander in Chief of 
 His Majcfty's and the Honorable Company's Forces in the Eaft 
 Indies, on the part of His Excellency The Most Noble 
 RICHARD MARQUESS WELLESLEY, Knight of the Moft 
 Illuftrious Order of Saint Patrick, one of His Britannick Mijefty's 
 Moft Honorable Privy Council, Giptain General and Commander 
 in Chief of all the Land Forces ferving in the Britifli PofleflTions in 
 India, and Governor General in Council at Fort William in Bengal, 
 and Maha Rajah BISHOINDER. SEWAEE RUNJEET 
 SING BAHAUDUR. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 Perpetual Friendfhip fhall be maintained between Maha Rajah 
 BiQioinder Sswaee Runjeet Sing Bahaudur, Bihaudur Jung, and 
 the Honorable Company. 
 
 A R T I C L E II. 
 
 The Friends and Enemies of either State, fliall be the Friends 
 and Enemies of both. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 The Britifh Government fliall never interfere in the concerns of 
 the Maha Rajah's Country, nor exadl any Tribute from him. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 If an Enemy fliould invade the Territories of the Honorable 
 Company, the Maha Rajah hereby engages tofuvnifli to the Eng- 
 lilli the aid of his Troops in the cxpulfion of fL:ch Enemy. 
 And, in like manner, the Honorable Company engages to a'lill 
 the Maha Rajah with it's Forces in defending his Dominions 
 againfl; external attacks. 
 
 The fincerity of this Engagement is attefled on the Holy 
 Bible. 
 
 Dated on the Twenty-ninth Day of September, in the Year of 
 our Lord One Thoufand Eight Hundred and Three, correfpond- 
 ing with the Eleventh Day of the Month of Jemmaudee oos Saunce, 
 in the Year Twelve Hundred and Eighteen Hijree.
 
 I
 
 TREATY WITH THE KAJAII of MACHERRY, 
 
 REATY concluded between His Ekceliekcy Gene- 
 ral GEPcARD LxAKE, Commander in Chiet 
 of His Majcrftj'fc Siini t'r.e Honorable Company's Forces \a 
 ihe Eaft ladies, on t;ic part of His Excellency the Most 
 Noble RICHARD MaROUESS WELLESLEY. Knight of the 
 Moft llluftiious Order of Saint Patrick j One of His Britannick 
 Majefly's Moft Honorable Privy Council; Captain General and 
 Commander in Chief of all the Land Forcrs fcrving in the Britifli 
 Poffeflians in India, and Governor General in Council at Fort 
 William in Ber^.g;i], and Maha Rao Rajah SEWAY BUCK- 
 TAWUR SING BaHAUDUR. 
 
 Article the First. 
 A permanent Fricndlhip is eftabliflied between the Honor- 
 able Englilh Eaft India Company and Maha Kao Rajih Scway 
 Bucktawur Sing Bahaudur, and between their Heirs and SucceiTors. 
 
 Artcle the Second. 
 The Friends and Enemies of the Honorable Campany (hall be 
 confidered tlie Friends and Enemies of Mah^ P-ao R.ajah, and the 
 Friends and Eneinies of Maha Rao Rajah liiall be the Friends and 
 Enemies of the Honorable Company. 
 
 Article the Third. 
 The Honorable Company fliall not interfere with the Country 
 of Maha Rao Rajah, nor (hall demand any tribute fiom him. 
 
 Article the Fourth. 
 In the event of any Enemy evincing a difpofition to attack the 
 Countries now in the pofTcfTion of the Honorable Company, or of 
 their Allies in Hindoftan, Maha Rao Rajah agrees to fend the 
 whole of his force to their afliftance, and to exert himfelf to the 
 utmofl of his power to repel the Enemy; and to omit no opportu- 
 nity of proving his friendfliiip and attachment. 
 
 Article the Fifth. 
 As, from the friendfliip eflablilhed by tlu Second Article 
 of the prcfent Treaty, the Honorable Company become Guaran- 
 tee to Maha Rao Rajdi for the fecuriry of his Country againft
 
 ( o 
 
 external Enemies j Maha Rao Rajah hereby agrees, that if a-y 
 tnirunderftanding fliould arife between him and the Sircar 
 of any other Chieftain, Maha Rao Rajah will, in the firfl ia- 
 ftance, fubmit the caufe of difpute to the Company's' Government, 
 that the Government may endeavour to fettle it amicably. If, 
 from the obftinacy of the oppofite Party, no amicable terms car\ 
 be fettled, then Maha Rao Rajah may demand aid from the 
 Company's Government. — In the event above fluted in this arti- 
 cle, it will be granted, and Maha Rao Rajah agrees to take upon 
 himfelf the charge of the txpence of fuch aid, at the fame rate as 
 has been fettled with the other Chieftains of Hindoftan. 
 
 Dated on the Fourteenth Day of November, One Thoufand 
 Eight Hundred and Three of the Chriftian sora; agreeing with the 
 Twenty-fixthof Rujeb, Tvv-ilve Hundred and Eighteen Hijree; and 
 ihe Fifteenth of Aghun, Eighteen Handred and Sixty Sumbut. 

 
 TREATY wini the RAJAH of JYEPOOR 
 (or JYENAGUR). 
 
 TREATY of Amity and Alliance between the Honora- 
 ble THE English East Endia Company, and 
 Maharajah DHEEKAJ RAJ RAJINDEK SEWAY JUG- 
 GUT SING BAHADUR, fettled by His Excellency Genj:- 
 RAL GERARD LAKE, Commander in Chief of the Bririfn 
 Forces in India, in virtue of authority verted in him for that pur- 
 pofe by His Excellency the Most Noble RICHARD 
 MARQUESS WELLESLEY. Knight of the the moft Illaftrious 
 Order of Samt Patrick, one of His Britannick Majeftv's mod 
 Honorable Privy Council, Governor General in Council of all the 
 Britifh Poffeflions, and Captain General of all the Britifh Land 
 Forces ill the Eaft Indies, in behalf of the Honorable the Englifh 
 Eaft India Company, and by Maha Rijah Dheeraj R^j Rajinder 
 Seway Juggut Sing Bahadur, in behalf of himfclf, his Heirs, 
 and Succeflors. 
 
 Article the First. 
 A firm and permanent Friendfhip and Alliance is eftabliflied be- 
 tween the Honurable the Englifli Company, and Maha Rajah Dhee- 
 raj Juggut Sing Bahadur, and between their Heirs and Succeflors. 
 
 Article the Second. 
 Whereas Friendfhip has been eftabliflied between the two States, 
 the Friends and Enemies of one of the Parties, fhall be confidered 
 the Friends and Enemies of both, and an adherence to this condition 
 fhall be conftantly obferved by both States. 
 
 Article the Third. 
 The Honorable Company fliall not interfere in the Government 
 of the Country now pofleffed by Maha Rajah Dheeraj, and fliall 
 not demand tribute from him. 
 
 Article
 
 ( 2 ) 
 
 Article the Fourth. 
 In the event of any Enemy of the Honorable Company evincin" 
 a difpofirion to invade the Country lately taken poffciTion of bv 
 the Honorable Company in Hindooftan, Maha Rajah Dheeraj 
 fliall fend the whole of his Forces to the alTiftance of the Compa- 
 ny's Army, and fliall exert himfelf to the iitmoR of his power in 
 repelling the Enemy, and fhall neglc6l no opportunity of proving 
 his friendfhip and attachment. 
 
 Article the Fifth. 
 Whereas in confequence of ilie Friendlhip eRablifhed by the 
 Second Article of the prefent Treaty, the Honorable Company be- 
 come Guarantees to the Maha Rajah Dheeraj for the fecurity of his 
 Country againft external Enemies j Maha Rajah Dheeraj hereby 
 aorees, that if any mifunderilanding fliould arife between him 
 and any other State, Maha Rajah Dheeraj will, in the firft in- 
 flance, fubmit the caufe of difputeto the Company's Government, 
 that the Government may endeavour to fettle it amicably. If, 
 from the obflinacy of the oppofite Party, no amicable terms can 
 be fettled, then Maha Rajah Dheeraj may demand aid from the 
 Company's Government. In the event above ftatcd, it will be 
 granted ; and Maha Rajah Dheeraj agrees to take upon himfelf the 
 charge of the expence of fuch aid, at tha fjme rate as has been fet- 
 tled with the other Chieftains of Hindoftan. 
 
 Article the Sixth. 
 Maha Rajah Dheeraj hereby agrees, although he is in reality the 
 niafler of his own Army, to adt during the time of War, or prof- 
 pedl of adion, agreeably to the advice and opinion of the Com- 
 mander of the En glifli Army, which may be employed with his 
 Troops. 
 
 Article the Seventh. 
 The Maha Rajah fliall not entertain in his fervice, or in any man- 
 ner give admiflion to, any Englilh or French rubje<Ss, or any other 
 
 peifon
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 rerfon from among the inluibitants of Europe, without the confent 
 of the Company's Government. 
 
 The above Treaty, comprifed in Seven Articles, has been duly 
 concluded and confirmed by the Seal and Signature of His Excel- 
 lency General Gerard Lake, at Surhindea, in the Soobah of Akbur- 
 rabad, on the Twelfth D.iy cf D-cemb:r 1803, of ths Chriftian 
 a;ra, correfponding with the Twenty-fixth of Shabaan 1218 Hej- 
 ree, and with the Fourteenth of Poos i86oSumbut; and under 
 the feal and fignature of Maha Rajah Dheeraj Raj Rajinder Seway 
 Juggut Sing Bahadur, at on the day of 180 
 
 of the Chriftian a:ra, correfponding with the of 
 
 1218 Hejree, and with the of i860 Sumbut; 
 
 When a Treaty containing the above Seven Articles, fhill be deliver- 
 ed to Maha Rajah Dheeraj, under the Seal and Signature of His Ex- 
 cellency the Mod Noble the Governor General in Council, the 
 prefent Treaty under the Seal and Signature of His Excellency Ge- 
 neral Lake ihall be returned. 

 
 TREATY WITH RAJAH UMBAJEE RAO 
 
 ENGLAH. 
 
 TREATY of Amity and Alliance between the Honorable the 
 East India Company and Rajah Umbajee Rao En- 
 gl ah, providing for the relinquilhment to the Honorable Com- 
 pany of certain DiftricSs, including the Forts of Gualior, Gohud, 
 and others, hitherto held in farm by Rajah Umbajee, and for the 
 Guarantee on the part of the Honorable Company to Rajah Urn- 
 bajce of certain portions of Country, including the Fort of Naruar 
 and others, to be hclJ by him in fovereignty, concluded by His 
 Excellency General Gerard Lake, Commander in Chief of the 
 Britifli Forces in India, in virtue of authority vefled in him for that 
 purpofe by His Excellency The Most Noble Richard 
 Marquess Wellesley, Knight of the Moft Illuftrious Order of 
 Saint Patrick, one of His Britannick Majefty's Mod Honorable 
 Privy Council, Captain General and Commander in Chief of all 
 the Land Forces ferving iu the Britilh PoII'sffions in India, and 
 Governor General in Council at Fort William in Bengal, on the 
 part of the Honorable Company, and by Rajah Umbajee Rao 
 Eiiglah, for himfelf, his Heirs and Succeffors. 
 
 Article the First. 
 A pernianent Friendfliip and Alliance is edablillied between the 
 Honorable Company and Rajah Umbajee Kao Englah, and be- 
 tween their Heirs and SuccelTors :' In conformity to the Friendfhip 
 eflabliflied, the Friends and Enemies of one Party fhall be the 
 Friends and Enemies of both, and neither Party fiiall fwerve from 
 this oblijration. 
 
 c> 
 
 Article the Second, 
 Rajah Umbajee hereby agrees to deliver over, without delay or 
 evafiOM, to the Company's Government, tlieFortrefs of GuaHor 
 with the Diftridls undermentioned, which have been hitherto iield 
 by him in farm, with the Forts fituated in them, whenever the Of- 
 ficers
 
 ( 2 ) 
 ficers of the Company's Government may be deputed for the pUr- 
 pofe of taking poffeffion of them ; and farther agrees that thefe 
 Diftrias and Forts may be difpofed of as may appear expedient to 
 the Britifh Government, relinquifhing on his part all farthei' 
 claims on any account whatever to the faid Diflridts and Forts. 
 
 Gualior Khas, 
 
 _ - _ 
 
 - 
 
 40,000 
 
 Atree and other five Mohals : 
 
 
 
 Chummerch, Bower, Salbye, andChounara, 
 
 1,50,000 
 
 Allahpbre 
 
 - 
 
 
 40,000 
 
 Summoulee 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 60, 000 
 
 Puhorghur and others 
 
 of Talook Inkurwaree, 
 
 1,00,000 
 
 Talook Jetawur 
 
 M M 
 
 
 25,000 
 
 Purgunna Dolpore 
 
 - 
 
 
 1,50,000 
 
 Baree 
 
 - 
 
 m 
 
 2,00,000 
 
 Rajakera 
 
 M m 
 
 - 
 
 60,000 
 
 Binde with 
 
 its Talooks 
 
 - 
 
 2,20,000 
 
 Attere 
 
 - 
 
 H 
 
 1,10,000 
 
 Talook Phoonp 
 
 «■ ■■ 
 
 - 
 
 20,000 
 
 Oomree 
 
 wm m ■ 
 
 - 
 
 35,000 
 
 Balawa, 
 
 m ^ 
 
 - 
 
 30,000 
 
 Ammow, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 1,00,000 
 
 Jagnee, 
 
 - 
 
 •■ 
 
 30,000 
 
 Seray Choolah, 
 
 <m 
 
 - 
 
 10,000 
 
 Doondree, 
 
 V Mr 
 
 - 
 
 40,000 
 
 Ahnoun, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 1,00,000 
 
 Noorabad, 
 
 -? J 
 
 
 25,000 
 
 Attowra, - 
 
 ■i 
 
 m 
 
 25,000 
 
 Bahadurpore, 
 
 m iri 
 
 tm 
 
 30,000 
 
 Ballaitee, 
 
 - 
 
 m 
 
 20,000 
 
 Curwas, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 15,000 
 
 Havvellec Gohud, 
 
 ^ 
 
 m 
 
 50,000 
 
 Behut 
 
 •• •• 
 
 
 50,000 
 
 Sooklharee, 
 
 •< 
 
 ■k 
 
 8,000 
 
 Talook Aman, 
 
 •t ■ 
 
 . 
 
 25,000 
 
 Inderkec, •• 
 
 at 
 
 « 
 
 50,000 
 Budhaik
 
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 
 Budhaik, 
 
 - 
 
 18,000 
 
 Bhandere, 
 
 - 
 
 2,00,000 
 
 Nhodah, 
 
 » m 
 
 30,000 
 
 Lehar and fix others forming the Zillah 
 
 
 Kutchvvakar, 
 
 - - - 
 
 2,00,000 
 
 Goojera, 
 
 m m ** 
 
 10,000 
 
 Kuttoullee, } 
 
 - 
 
 2,00,000 
 
 Lawunkalan, 
 
 to ■« 
 
 30,006 
 
 Pergunna Noh, 
 
 ^ - 
 
 50,000 
 
 Ditto Betwa 
 
 - 
 
 50,000 
 
 Ditto Deoghur, 
 
 - 
 
 50,000 
 
 Rupees 26,56,000 
 
 Article the Third. 
 In confideration of the friendfhip and attachment to the Honor- 
 able Company manifefted by Rajah Umbajee by the engagements 
 entered into on his part by the prefent Treaty, the Honorable Eaft 
 India Company do hereby guarantee to the Rajab, and to his Heirs 
 and Succcffors, the pofTeflion in fovereignty of the Fort of Narvvar, 
 and the Diftri£ls undermentioned, which are reported by the Officers 
 of the Rajah to be now in his poffeffion, with the Forts fituated in 
 them. The Honorable Company llaall demand no tribute or rent 
 whatever from Rajah Umbajee on account of thefe Poffcflions. 
 
 Narwar Khas, 
 Talook Surwareeu, 
 
 Bara Doongree, 
 
 Digdoulee and Cheras, 
 
 Rajaghur 
 
 Gunefhkera, 
 
 Barye &c. 
 
 Ray, 
 
 Saferam, - 
 
 Souknee, 
 
 Kureeawul, 
 
 Deoghur, 
 
 9,000 
 9,000 
 4,500 
 8,000 
 7,500 
 
 1,000 
 4,000 
 5,000 
 7,000 
 10,000 
 
 1,500 
 Talook
 
 ( 4 ) 
 
 Talook Mooferee, - ^ 
 
 Gopaulpore, 
 
 Doongerpoor and Magrounee, 
 
 Pattye kuryc, 
 
 Beeturwas &c. 
 Villages of Gualior which have been at- 
 tached to Narwar, viz. Rampore, Bounce, 
 and Buferee, 
 Doodakhaner, _ w - 
 
 Saer, - - ' 
 
 Suboolghur and nine others, 
 Beejipore and two others, 
 Pouree, 
 
 Serfye and Paren, 
 Utulpore Beejrawan, 
 Lawun of Pergunna Shadoura, 
 Poulahghur kurfena, 
 Talook Beenouree, - - 
 
 Budrita and Village Kera and two others, - 
 Negounee, 
 
 Villages of Enam Ghutree Trimuckjee &c. 
 Pergunnh Googul Chutree, 
 Talook Alumpore, 
 
 Koonch, -r 
 
 Sepree, 
 
 Kolarus, 
 
 Irnee, - r 
 
 Kearah, 
 
 Terait, 
 
 Oochar Bubroalee, 
 
 Lawur, Chupar, and Badaoon, 
 Village Koonernu, 
 Talook Alkee Beelhree, 
 
 Chergawiin, 
 
 Ranaghur and Kergawun, 
 
 5,00a 
 5,000 
 
 25.000 
 6,000 
 
 46,200 
 
 5,000 
 
 10,000 
 
 12,000 
 
 1,25,000 
 
 47,000 
 
 51,000 
 
 4,000 
 
 5,000 
 
 2,500 
 
 2,000 
 
 12,000 
 
 1,500 
 10,000 
 45,000 
 25,000 
 1,50,000 
 50,000 
 50,000 
 20,000 
 70,000 
 
 7,000 
 15,000 
 
 1,500 
 
 3,000 
 
 2,500 
 
 6,000 
 
 6,000 
 Talook
 
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 Talook Mookuree, - - 10,000 
 
 Boofliera, - - 2,000 
 
 Gurvvaee, - - 7,000 
 
 Lamrut Berutch - - 7,000 
 
 Village Gatta Budoura - - 4,000 
 
 Derut, - - 5,000 
 
 Talook Falood, - - 10,000 
 
 Roomalee Biirvva Sagur - - 10,000 
 
 Sefye, . , lo.ooo 
 
 Talook Dooan Berye, - - 10,000 
 
 Bangpoor, - - 4,000 
 
 Pergunna Mamohunee, - - 25,000 
 
 Rupees 9,41,700 
 
 Articie the Fourth. 
 Rnjah Umbajce fliall not eiUertain in his Service, or in any 
 manner give admiffion to any Englilli or French fubje£is, or anv 
 orhcr perfon from among the inhabitants of Europe, without the 
 confent of the En^rUfl-i Government. 
 
 '&' 
 
 Article the Fifth. 
 R.ijah Umbajee, during the period of this or any future War 
 which may t^ike place wi'h ilie Enemies of the Britifh Govern- 
 ment, ia the vicinity of his Polleflions, fliall join the Company's 
 Army with the whole of his Troops; and in this event, although 
 the Rajih retains the fole Command of his own Army, he agrees 
 to adl in the War agreeably to the advice and counfel of the 
 Commander of the Company's Troops. 
 
 Article the Sixth. 
 Whereas in confequence of the Third Article of the prefent 
 Treaty, the Honorabh Company becomes guarantee to Rajah 
 Uivibaj-e for the ficurity of his Country aga in fl: external Enemies. 
 Rijah Umbjjee hereby agrees, that if any mifiind.rflanding 
 fhould crife between him and any other State, the Rajih will in 
 the firft iallancc fubmit the caufe of difpute to the Company's 
 
 Gc-vcrnment,
 
 ( s ) 
 
 Government, that the Govc-fiment may endeavour to fettle it 
 amicably. If from the obftinacy of the oppofite Party no ami- 
 cable terms can be fettled, then Rajah Umbajee may demand aid 
 from the Company's Government. In the event above ftated in 
 this Article, it will be granted; and Rajah Umbajee agrees to 
 take upon himfelf the charge of the cxpence of fuch aid, at the 
 fame rate as has been fettled with the other Chieftains of 
 Hindoolhsn. 
 
 Article the Seventh. 
 The Guns, Ammunition, and Military Stores, now in the Forts, 
 to be delivered over to the Honorable Company, fiiall bs confi- 
 dered the property of the Honorable Company. Rajah Umbajee 
 is at the fame time, empowered to carry off whatever Money 
 Grain, or Property of any other defcription than that above men- 
 tioned, which may be in the Forts, and no interruption fhall be 
 given on the part of the Company's Officers to his fo doing. 
 
 Article the Eighth. 
 The Honorable Company agree, that Rajah Umbajee, when- 
 ever he may make a requeft to that purpofe, fliall be allowed to 
 refide with his Relations and Family and Property in whatever 
 place within the Company's Dominions he may chufe, without 
 any moleftation on the part of the Company's Government. 
 
 Article the Ninth. 
 In the event of a Peace being concluded between the Honorable 
 Company and the Mahratta States, the Honorable Company fliail 
 confider Rvijah Umbajee included in the Treaty as an Ally of the 
 Company. 
 
 Article the Tenth 
 If any Enemy of both the Parties fliould invade the Country 
 of Umbajee, and the Englifh. Army adt in concert witli the 
 Troops of Rajah Umbajee, in expelling the Enemy ; in this cafe 
 Rajah Umbajee fliall not be liable to any expencc on account of 
 the Honorable Company's Troops. 
 
 Tlic
 
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 The above Treaty comprifed Ten Articles, lias been duly con^ 
 eluded and confirmed under the Seal and Signature of His Ex- 
 cellency General Gerard Lake, at Surhindee in the Soobah of 
 Ukburrabad, on the Sixteenth Day of December 1803 of the 
 Chriftian aera.correfponding with the Firfl; of Ramzan 1218 Hijree. 
 and with the Second of Poos Soodee i860 Sumbut, and under the 
 Seal and Signature of Rajah Umbajce Rao Englah at 
 on the day of of the Chriftian sera, 
 
 corrcfponding with the of 1218 Hijree, and with 
 
 the of ]86o Sumbut. When a Treaty 
 
 containing the above Ten Articles fliall be delivered to Rajah Um- 
 bajce Roa Englah, and the Seal and Signature of His Excellency 
 the Mofi: Noble the Governor General in Council, the prefent 
 Treaty under the Seal and Signature of His Excellency Ge- 
 r.eral Lake fliall be returned. 

 
 TREATY WITH THE RANAH of GOHUD. 
 
 *" I TREATY of Amity and Alliance, between the Honorable 
 -^ THE East India Company, and Maiia Rajah Seway 
 Ran All Kerrut Sing 1. uckinder Bahaudur, providing for 
 the Guarantee, on the part of the Honorable Company, of the 
 Country of Gohudand others, to be held by M ah a Rajah Ran ah 
 in fovcreio;nty, and for the payment on the part of the Maha 
 Rajah Ranah ofaSubfidiary Force from the Honorable Com- 
 pany, concluded by His Excellency General Gerard 
 Lake, Commander in Chief of the Britifli Forces in Iniia, in 
 virtue of authority vefted in him for that purpofe by His Excel- 
 lency THE Most Noble Richard Marquess Wellesley, 
 Knight of the Moll lUuflrious Order of Saint Patrick, one cf 
 His Britannick Majtfty's Moft Honorable Privy Council, Cap- 
 tain General and Commander in Chief of all the Land Forces 
 ferving in the Britifh Pofleflions in India, and Governor General 
 in Council at Fort William in Bengal, on the part of the Ho- 
 norable Company j and by Maha Raj ah Seway Ranah 
 Kerrut Sing Bahaudur, forhimfelf, his Heirs and SuccelTors. 
 
 Article the First. 
 A permanent Friendfliip and Alliance is eftablifhed between 
 the Honorable Company and Maha Rajah Ranah Kerrut Sing Ba- 
 haudur, and between their Heirs and Succeffbrs. In conformity to 
 the Friendfiiip eftablifhed, the Friends and Enemies of one Party 
 Ihall be the Friends and Enemies of both. 
 
 Article the Second. 
 The Honorable the Eaft India Company hereby agree to efla- 
 blifh Maha Rajah Ranah Kerrut Sing, in the fovereignty of his Here- 
 dit-iry Countries of Gohud, and the undermentioned Diflrifts, to 
 be pofllffed by him, his Heirs and SuccelTors, free from all de- 
 duf^lions under the Guarantee of the Honorable Company : 
 
 Gualior
 
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 Gcalior Khas. 
 
 -Antree, and others, 5 Mahals, 
 
 Antree, 
 Chummack, 
 Powan, 
 
 Salbye and Chunour. 
 tjllahpore, 
 Summoulee, 
 
 Puharghur, and others, conipofing Talook Sukurwaree^ 
 Talook Jetwur, 
 
 Purgunah Binde, with its Talooks, 
 Purgunah Phomp, 
 Talook Oomree, 
 
 Ballawa, 
 
 Jugnee, 
 Seroy Choolah, 
 Doondree, 
 Ahnoun, 
 Noorabad, 
 Attowra, 
 Buhadurpore, 
 Ballaittee, 
 Curwas, 
 
 Hawellee Gohud, 
 Behut, 
 Talook Sookulharec, 
 
 Amaun, 
 Inderkee, 
 
 Nhodah, 
 
 '] Laliar, 
 
 Lehar, and others, from 
 ing 
 kar, 
 
 Goojirra, 
 
 Rampoom, 
 ing Zillah Katchwa- > Kukfees, 
 
 Kuthoonuda Bakfa, 
 Gopalpoom, 
 
 Kauttoulee,
 
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 Kuttoulce, 
 Lavvan Kalan, 
 Purgunah Moh, 
 
 Ratwa^ 
 
 Talook Deoghur. 
 
 Article the Third. 
 Three Battalions of the Ilonoriible Company's Sepoys fhall 
 be permanently ftationed witii MahaRajah Ranah for the protedion 
 of his country ; the expenccs ol which fliall be regularly paid by 
 Maha Rajah Ranali to the Honorable Company every month, at the 
 monthly rate of Twtnty-five Ihoufand Lucnow Sicca Rupees, or 
 Rupees of the fame ftandard value, for each Battalion, amounting 
 to the monthly funi of Seventy-five Thoufand Rupees, or Nine 
 Lacs of Rupees annually. In the event of a failure on the part 
 of the Maha R:jr.h Rarah in the regular monthly payment of the 
 expences of the Battalions, the Honorable Conipany's Govern- 
 ment retains to itfelf the right of appointing a Perfon to fuper- 
 intend the Colledlion of the above amount from the Country^ 
 
 Article the Fourth. 
 Maha Rajah Ranah agrees, that the poffelTion cf the Fortrcfg 
 and City of Gualior fhall be permanently vefled in the Honorable 
 Company's Government, and that it fhnll be at the option of the 
 Government to ilation the Honorable Company's Troops in 
 whichever of the other Fort^ or places of ftrength in the Ranah's 
 Country, and at whatever time the Government may deem ex- 
 pedient, with the exception of Gohudjand to level fuch Forts 
 and places of ftrength in the Ranah's Country, with the exception 
 of Gohud, as to the Government may appear advifable. 
 
 Article the Fifth. 
 The Honorable Company flaall not demand any tribute from 
 the Country delivered over to Maha Rajah Ranah Kerrut Sing. 
 
 Article the Sixth. 
 In the event of any Enemy of the Honorable Company evincing 
 a dipofitjon to attack the Countries lately taken pofTedion of by 
 
 the
 
 ihe Honorable Con;pany in Hindoftan, Maha Rajah Ranah agree* 
 to fend the whole of his Forces to their afliflance ; and exert him^ 
 felf to the utmoft of his power to repel the Er.emy, and to omit 
 no opportunity of proving his friendfhip and attachment. 
 
 Article the Seventh. 
 As by the Second Article of the prefent Treaty, the Honorable 
 Company becomes Guarantee to ?vlaha Rajah Ranah for thefecurity 
 of his Country againfl: external Enemies, Maha Rajah Ranah hereby 
 agrees, that if any mifunderftanding fhould arife between him and 
 the Sircar of any other Chieftain, Maha Rajah Ranah will, in the 
 lirll ini^ance, fubmit the caufe of difpute to the Company's Go- 
 vernment, that the Government may endeavour to fettle it amica- 
 bly : If, from the obftinacy of the oppofite Party, no amicable 
 terms can be fettled, then Maha Rajah Ranah may ernploy the 1 
 
 Honorable Company's Troops, ftaiioned for the protection of his 
 Country, againft the oppofite Party. 
 
 Article the Eighth. 
 Although Maha Rajah Ranah retains the exclufive command of 
 his own Army, yet he hereby agrees to adt during the period of 
 a War in conformity to the advice and counfel of the Commander 
 of the Company's Troops. 
 
 Article the Ninth. 
 Maha Rajah Ranah (hall not entertain in his fervice, or in any 
 manner give admiflion to any Englifh or French Subje6ls, or any 
 other perfons from amongft the inhabitants of Europe, without the 
 confent of the Britifli Government. 
 
 The above Treaty, compiifed in Nine Articles, has been duly 
 concluded and confirmed under the Seal and Signature of His Ex- 
 cellency General Gerard Lake, at Beanah, on the Seventeenth Day of 
 January 1804, of the Ghriftiaii a;ra ; correfponding with the Third 
 of Sowall 1218 Hijree, and with tlie Twentieth of Maugh i8i6Sum- 
 but, and under the Seal and Signature of Maha Rajah Seway Ranah 
 Kerrut Sing Luckindur Bahaudur, at Gualior, on the Twenty-ninth 
 
 Day
 
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 Day of January, One thoufand Eight hundred and Four of the 
 Chriftian £Era, correfponciing with the Fifteenth of Sowall 1218 
 Hijrce, and with the Third Phagon iSSoSumnniit : When a Treaty 
 containing the above Nine Articles, ftiall be delivered to Maha 
 Rajah Scway Ranah Kerrut Sing Luckinder Bahadur, under the Seal 
 and Signature of His Excellency the Mofl Noble the Marquefs 
 Wellefley, Governor General in Council, the prefent Treaty under 
 the Seal and Signature of His Excellency General Lake Ihall 
 be returned. 

 
 APPENDIX N. 
 
 Treaty of Partition concluded at Hyderabad, on the zSth 
 
 of April 1804.
 
 PARTITION TREATY of HYDERABAD, with 
 HIS HIGHNESS the SOUBAHDAR of the 
 
 DECKAN. 
 
 rrpREATY for the Settlement of General Peace in llin- 
 JL doftan and the Deckan, and for the confirmation of the 
 Friendfliip fubfillmg between the Honorable English East 
 tNDiA Company and its Allies, His Highnefsthe Soubaiidar of 
 the Deckan, and His Highnefs Rao Pundit Purdhaun Peish- 
 WAH Behadur, fettled between the faid Honorable Com- 
 pany, and the fald Allies, by Major James Achilles Kirk- 
 patrick, Relident at the Court of Hydrabad, in virtue of the 
 powers delegated to him by His Excellency the Most No- 
 ble Richard Marquess Wellesley, Knight of the mofllUuf- 
 trious Order of Saint Patrick, one of His MajeRy's mofl 
 Honorable Privy Council, Governor General m Council 
 of all the Britifh PofTeflions, and Captain General of all 
 the Britifii Land Forces in the Eafl: Indies. 
 
 WHEREAS by the Terms of the Treaties of Peace, con* 
 eluded by Major General the Honorable Arthur Wellefley, on 
 the part of the Honorable Company, and it's Allies, with the 
 M aha Rajah Senah Saheb Soubah Rajah of Berar, at Deogaum, 
 on the 17th of December 1803, and with Maha Rajah Dowlut 
 RaoScindiah, atSurje Anjengaum, on the 30th of that month, 
 which Treaties have been duly ratified by the Governor Ge- 
 neral m Council, and by the Allies of the Britifh Government, 
 certain Forts and Territories have been ceded by Maha Rajah 
 Senah Sahib Soubah, and by Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindiahj 
 to the Honorable Company and it's Allies, the following Articles 
 of Agreement for the fetdement of the faid Forts and Territo- 
 ries have been concluded by the Britifh Government and by 
 the faid Allies. 
 
 Article First. 
 The Province of Cuttack including the Port and Diflrift of 
 
 Balafore,'
 
 ( 2 ) 
 
 Balafore, and allCcfTions of every defcription made by the Se- 
 cond Article of the Treaty of Deogaum, or by any Treaties 
 which have been confirmed by the Tenth Article of the faid 
 Treaty of Deogaum, fliall belong in perpetual So\ereignty 
 to the Honorable Englifh Eaft India Company. 
 
 Article Second. 
 The Territories of which Maha Rajah Senah Saheb.Soubah 
 formerly colle6led the Revenues, in participation with His 
 Highnefs the Soubahdar of the Deckan, and thofe formerly pof- 
 feflfed by Maha Rajah Senah Saheb Soubah to the AVeflvvard of 
 the River Wurdah ceded by the Third Article of the Treaty of 
 Deogaum, and the Territory fituated to the Southward of the 
 Hills on which are the Forts of Nernullah and Gawilghur, and to 
 the Weftward of the River Wurdah, ftated by the Fourth Article 
 of the Treaty of Deogaum to belong to the Bntifli Govern- 
 ment and it's Allies, fli -11 [belong in perpetual Sovereignty to 
 His Highnefs the Soubahdar of the Deckan, with the ex- 
 ception of the Dillrifls referved to Senah Saheb Soubah in the 
 Fifth Article of the faid Treaty of Deogaum. 
 
 Article Third. 
 All the Forts, Territories, and Rights of Maha Rajah Dow- 
 lut RaoScindiah in the Doab, or Country fituated between the 
 Jumna and Ganges, and all his Forts, Territories, Rights, and 
 Interefts in the Countries which are to the Northward of thofe 
 of the Rajahs of Jyepoor and Jodepoor, and of the Ranah of Go- 
 hud, ceded by the Second Article of the Treaty of Surje Anjen- 
 gaum, fliall belong in perpetual Sovereignty to the Honorable 
 Company. 
 
 Article Fourth. 
 
 The Fort of Baroach and Territory depending thereon, 
 
 ceded by the Third Article of the Treaty of Surje Anjcngaum, 
 
 (hall belong in perpetual Sovereignty to the Honorable 
 
 Company. Articlf
 
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 Article Fifth. 
 The Fort and City of Ahmednuggur, together with fuch part 
 of the Territory depending thereon, as is ceded by the Third 
 Article of" the Treaty of Surje Anjengaum to the Honorable 
 Company and it's Allies, fhall bt-lcng in perpetual Sovereign- 
 ty to His Highnefs the Peifhwah. 
 
 A^RTiCLE Sixth. 
 All the Territories which belonged to Maha Rajah Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah before the commencement of the late War, fitua- 
 ted to the Soutliward of the Hills called the Adjuntee Hills, 
 including the Fort and Dillnd of jalnapore, the Town and 
 Diilricl of Gandaporc, and all other Dillrifts between that range 
 of Hills and the River Godavery, ceded by the Fourth Article 
 of the Treaty of Surje Anjengaum, to the Honorable Company 
 and it's Allies, fhall belong in perpetual Sovereignty to His 
 Highnefs the Soubahdar of the Deckan. 
 
 Article Seventh. 
 All CefTions made to the Honorable Company by any Trea- 
 ties which have been confirmed by the Ninth Article of the 
 Treaty of Surje Anjengaum, fhall belong in perpetual So- 
 vereignty to the Honorable Company. 
 
 Article Eighth. 
 This Treaty, confilling of Eight Articles being this day, 
 the Seventeenth ofMohurrum, correfponding with the 28th of 
 Apiil, fetded and concluded at Hyderabad, by Major James 
 Achilles Kirkpatrick, with His Highnefs the Nawaub Afoph 
 JahMcer Akber Ali Khaun Behauder, Soubahdar of the Dec- 
 kan, the laid Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick has delivered 
 to His faid Highnefs a Copy of the fame in Englifli and Perfian, 
 under the Seal and Signature of the faid Major James Achilles 
 Kirkpatrick, and His Higlinefs the Nawaub Afoph Jah Meer 
 Akb.r Ali Khaun Bchaudur has delivered to the faid Major 
 
 James
 
 ( 4 ) 
 
 James Achilles Kirkpatrick another Copy, alfo in Perfian and 
 Englifh, bearing His Highnefs's Seal and Signature ; and the 
 aforefaid Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick has engaged to 
 procure and deliver to His faid Highnefs, without delay, a 
 Copy of the fame, duly ratified by His Excellency the Moft 
 Noble the Governor General in Council, on the receipt of 
 •fvhicli by His faid Highnefs, the prefent Treaty fhall be deem- 
 ed complete and binding on the Honorable the Englifh Eafl: 
 India Company, and on His Highnefs ; and the Copy of it now 
 delivered to His faid Highnefs the Nawaub Afoph Jah fhall be 
 returned. 
 
 Done at Hyderabad, this Twenty-eighth Day of April A. D. 
 1804, or Seventeenth Day ofMohurrum, A. H. 1219. 

 
 fo iiifi di[i no hpuooj ^v ppp?ipuo3 uoi^ijMfj Jo (vp^xj^ 
 
 'o X I a N 3 a J V
 
 PARTITION TREATY of POONAH, with HIS 
 HIGHNESS THE PEISHWAH. 
 
 npREATY for the Settlement of General Peace in Hin- 
 -iL doflan and the Deckan, and for the confirmation of the 
 Friendfliip fubfi (ling between the Honorable English East 
 India Company and its Allies, His Highnefs the Soubahd a r of 
 the Deckan, and His Highnefs Rao Pundit Purdhaun Pf.ish- 
 WAH Behadur, fettled between the faid Honorable Com- 
 pany, and the faid Allien, by Lieutenant Colonel Barry 
 Close, Refident at the Court of His Highnefs the Peishwah, 
 in virtue of the powers delegated to him by His Excellency 
 the Most Noble RicharId Marquess Wellesley, Knight of 
 the mofl Illuftrious Order of Saint Patrick, one of His Ma- 
 jefty's mofl Honorable Privy Council, Governor General in 
 Council of all the Britilh Poffeflions, and Captain General of 
 all the Britifli Land Forces ill the Eafl Indies. 
 
 WHEREAS by the Terms of the Treaties of Peace, coiv 
 eluded by Major General the Honorable Arthur Wellefley, on 
 the part of the Honorable Company, and it's Allies, with 
 lylahaRaJaliSenahSaheb Soubah Rajah of Eerar, at Deogaum, 
 on the 17th of December 1803, and with Maha Rajah Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah, at Surje Anjengaum, on the 36th of that month, 
 which Treaties have been duly ratified by the Governor Ge- 
 neral in Council, and by the Allies of the Britini Government, 
 certain Forts and Territories have been ceded by Maha Rajah 
 Senah Saheb Soubah, 6nd by Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 to the Honorable Company and its Allies, the following Articles 
 of Agreement for the lettlement of the faid Forts and Territo- 
 ries havebten concluded by theBritifh Government, and; by 
 the. faid Allies. 
 
 Article First, 
 
 The Province of Cuttack. including the Port and Diflria of 
 
 Balofore
 
 ( 2 } 
 
 Balafore, and iillCtffions of eveiy dcfcription made by the Se- 
 cond Article, of the TieaJy oF Deogaum, or by any Treaties 
 which have been conhimed by the Tenth Article of the faid 
 Treaty of Deogaum, ihaU belong in perpetual Sovereignty 
 to the Honorable Enghfii Eaft India Company. 
 
 Article Second. 
 The Territories of which Maha Rajah Senah Sahcb Soubah 
 formerly collefled the Revenues, in participation with His 
 Highnefs the Soubahdar of the Deckan, and thofe formerly pof- 
 iefled by Maha Rajah Senah Saheb Soubah to the Weftward of 
 the River Wurdah ceded by the Third Article of the Treaty of 
 Deogaum, and the Territory fituated to the Southward of the 
 Hills on which arc the Forts of Nernullah and Gawilghur, and to 
 the Weftward of the River Wurdah, ftated by the Fourth Article 
 of the Treaty of Deogaum to belong to the Britifh Govern- 
 ment and it's Allies, Ihall belong in perpetual Sovereignty to 
 His Highnefs the Soubahdar of the Deckan, with the ex- 
 ception of the Diftrifts referved to Senah Saheb Soubah in the 
 Fifth Article of the faid Treaty of Deogaum. 
 
 Article Third. 
 All the Forts, Tertitories, and Rights of Maha Rajah Dow- 
 lut Rao Scindiah in the Doab, or Country fituated between the 
 Jumna and Ganges, and all his Forts, Territories, Rights, and 
 Interefls in the Countries which are to the Northward of thofe 
 of the Rajahs of Jeypoor and Jodepoor, and of the Ranah of Go- 
 hud, ceded by the Second Article of the Treaty of Surje Anjen- 
 gauni, fliall belong in perpetual Sovereignty to the Honorable 
 Company. 
 
 Article Fourth. 
 'I he Fort of B a roach and Territory depending thereon, 
 ceded by the Third Article of the Treaty of Surje Anjengaum, 
 Ihall belong in perpetual Sovereignty to the Honorable 
 
 Company. 
 
 Articlb
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 Article Fifth. 
 The Fort andCity of Ahmednuggur, togetlier with fuch part 
 6f the Territory depending thereon, as is ceded by the Third 
 Article of the Treaty of Surje Anjengaum to the Honorable 
 Company and it's Allies, fhall belong in perpetual Sovereign 
 ty to His Highnefs the Peilhwah. 
 
 Article Sixth. 
 All the Territories which belonged to Maha Rajah Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah before the commencement of the late War, litua- 
 ted to the Southward of the Hills called the Adjuntee Hills, 
 including the Fort and Diflridl ol Jalnapore, the Town and 
 DiRrift of Gandapore, and all other Dillrifls between that range 
 of Hills and the River Goduvciy, ceded by the Fourth Article 
 of the Treaty of Surjc Anjengaum, to the Honorable Company 
 and it's Allies, fhall belong in perpetual Sovereignty to His 
 Highnefs the Soubahdar of the Deckan. 
 
 Article Seventh. 
 All Ceflions made to the Honorable Company by any Trea- 
 ties which have been confirmed by the Ninth Article of the 
 Treaty of Surje Anjengaum, fhall belong in perpetual So- 
 vereignty to the Honorable Company, 
 
 Article Eighth. 
 This Treaty, confiding of Eight Articles, being this day, 
 the Fourteenth of May 1804, A. D. correfponding with the 
 3d of Suffer 1 219 A. H. fettled and concluded at Poonah, by 
 Lieutenant Colonel Barry Clofe, Refidcnt with His Highnefs 
 the PeiHiwah, Lieutenant Colonel Clofe has delivered to His 
 faid Highnefs a Copy of the fame in Englifli, Perfian, and 
 Marhatta, under the Seal and Signature of the faid Lieutenant 
 Colonel Barry Clofe ; and His Highnefs the Peifliwah has deli- 
 vered to the fdid Lieutcnaet Colonel Clofe, another Copy 
 alfo in Perfian, Marhatta, and EngUfh, bearing His Highnefs's 
 Seal ; and Lieutenant Colonel Clofe afore faid has engaged to 
 
 procure
 
 { 4 ) 
 procure and deliver to His faid- Highnefs, without delay i 
 Copy of the farne, duly ratified by His Excellency the Mofl 
 Noble the Governor General in Council ; on the receipt of 
 which by His fa.id Highneli;, the prefent Treaty fliaU be deem- 
 ed complete and bindmg on the Honorable the Englilh Eaft 
 India Company, and on His Highnefs ; and the Copy of it 
 how ddivered to His faid Highnefs (hall be returned. 

 
 APPENDIX P. 
 
 NOTES 
 
 RELATIVE TO THE 
 
 PEACE, 
 
 CONCLUDED BETWEEN THE 
 
 BRITISH GOVERNMENT 
 
 AND THE 
 
 MARHATTA CHIEFTAINS, 
 
 AND TO THE 
 
 VARIOUS QUESTIONS 
 
 ARISING OUT OF THE 
 
 TERMS OF THE PACIFICATION.
 
 NOTES relative to the Peace, concluded between the Britijh 
 Government and the Confederate Marhatta Chieftains, 
 and to the various quejiions arifing out of the Terms 
 of the Pacification*, 
 
 THE advantages which the Britifh Government, has derived 
 from the Terms of the Pacification, are to be confidered 
 with reference, to the caufe and objefts of the War; to the 
 improvement and confolidation of our territorial ftrength and 
 general refources; and to the improvement in our fyftem of 
 Political Relations, effefted by the operation of the feveral Trea- 
 ties of Peace, Subfidy and Alliance, upon the general tranquility 
 and welfare of the Native States of Hindoftan and the Dekan. 
 
 The immediate caufe of the War, was the refufal of the Con- 
 federated Marhatta Chieftains to feparate, and to withdraw, to 
 their ufual Stations, within their refpedive Territories, the Ar- 
 mies which they had affembled and united on the Frontier of 
 our Ally, the Soubahdar of the Dekan, after having declared, 
 ihat the ijitention of thai junction was to decide, whether there 
 Jhould be Peace or War with the BritiJIi Government and its Allies. 
 
 * Thefe Notes have been extnfted and arranged, from the Letter of the Governor General 
 in Council to the Secret Connmittee, under date the 13th July 1804. Great part of that Letter, 
 according to official praaice, is a tranfcript of the original Inftruaions of the Governor General 
 to Major General Wellefley, of the nth December 1803, of which a printed Copy forms 
 No. D. of this Appendix. 
 
 A Under
 
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 Under thefe circumilances, the con liimaiicc of ths Confederate 
 Army, in the pofition which the Chieftains appeared determia- 
 ed to maintain, was a manifeft indication of a defiga to fruftrate 
 by hoflilities, or by the terror of their Arms, the operation of 
 the Alliance, concluded between the Britilh Government and 
 the Peifliwah, and to dillurb the tranquility of the Dominions 
 of the Nizam, and ultimately of the Co:npany. 
 
 The union of the Confederate Forces, and their commandiog 
 and menacing poiition, afforded every advantage to the Chief- 
 tains in profecuting the hoilile defigns which they had manifefted, 
 
 and enabled the Confederated Chieftains to hold the ijjues of Peace 
 and War in their hands, and to arbitrate the fate of the Dekan 
 according to their interefls or caprice. At the fame time, the 
 ■pofition and flatc of Scindialis Forces under the Command of 
 his French Ofjicers in Hindoftan, and the machinations af Mon- 
 fieur Perfon with the adjoining States, and with the Subjeds of 
 the Company and of the Vizier, manfcfled additional proof s of 
 the hoftile defigns of the Confederates, and furnifhed thofe 
 Chieftains zvith additional means of profecuting fuch defigns. 
 
 The primary objed;s of the War originating iu thefe caufts, 
 were to deprive the Confederates of the means which they poi- 
 feffed, of profecuting their unwarrantable defigns, and to preclude 
 the Confederates y-ro/w reviving the fources of that Military and 
 Political Power, which they had employed lo dillurb the Secu- 
 rity of our Alliances, Dependancies, and Dominions. 
 
 The Power of Dowlut Rio Scindiah, confidered with reference 
 to his means of affeding the llcurity of the; Biiiifli Empire in 
 India, may be defcribed to have confiited, at the commence- 
 ment of the War, in the following branches of Military and 
 Political refource : — 
 
 Firft. The efficient flate of Scindiah's Military Eftabliniment, 
 under the dirtdion of European Officers, and particularly the 
 
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 formidable condition of his regular Infantry and Artillery, under 
 the Command of thofe Ofliccrs. 
 
 Second. The poflcffion of an extenfive and rich Territory, 
 and of various flrong Forts, Magazines, Founderies, and Ar- 
 fenals, with confiderable fupplies of Ammunition and Military 
 Stores, depofited in convenient Stations on our Frontier, contiguous 
 to the moll vulnerable part of the Britifli Dominions in Hindoftan. 
 
 Third. The eftablifhment of a large and well difciplined body 
 of Troops, with a formidable train of Artillery, under the Com- 
 mand of French Officers within that Territory. 
 
 Fourth. The a6lual affignment of that Territory to the French 
 Officer, holding the Chief Command of thofe Troops. 
 
 Fifth. The polTcffion of thePerfonof His Majefty Shah Aulum, 
 under the immediate Power of the Forces, commanded by French 
 Officers in the Service of Dowlut Rao Scindiah; and the exercife 
 of the nominal authority of the Mogul, through thofe French 
 Officers. 
 
 Sixth. The afcendancy cftablifhcd by the Agency of the 
 French Officer in Command of Scindiah's Troops in the North- 
 weft quarter of Hindoftan, over the Rajpoot Chieftains of Jeyna- 
 gur and Jodepore, and other States and Chieftains in the Northern 
 and Weftern provinces of Hindoftan, and over many of the Seik 
 Chiefs, and others, occupying the Territory from the Jumna to 
 the Banks of the Indus, and the facility afforded by the advanced 
 Polls of Monfieur Perron's Army towards the Indus, of 
 aiding the invafion of the Britifli Dominions, through that quarter. 
 
 Seventh. The facility which the poflcffion of the Sea Port of 
 Baroach afforded to Scindiah of improving his Military cflablifh- 
 ments, by the acceffion of French or other European Officers. 
 Military Supplies, and even of a body of French or other Eu- 
 ropean Auxiliary Troops. 
 
 Eighth, The power of difturbing the Polfeffions of the Guik- 
 ■war, and of the Company, in the Province of Guzerat, by means 
 of Scindiah's intermixed Territories andFortrefles in that Province, 
 and by his Claims and influence in that quarter. 
 
 Kinth. 
 
 The Jagheer of Moarr< 
 Pcrrun, in the Doab at 
 the Jumna andGangec, 
 and hii Tcrritr^rial Pof- 
 fefTiont on (he Right 
 Banic of the Jumna 
 fcom Delhi to Agra. 
 
 Coel, 
 
 Arfenal and Magazine 
 
 at Alyghur, 
 
 Delhi, 
 
 Founrtery at Maltra, 
 
 Arfenal and Magazine 
 
 at Agra, 
 
 Coel and Alyghur, 
 Head Quaatcr, 
 
 Monfr. Perron.
 
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 Ninth. The power of diftisrbing the tranquility of the State of 
 Poonah, and the (lability of our Alliance with the Pei(hwah, by 
 Scindiah's intermixed Territories and FortrefTes, in the vicinity of 
 Poonah, and to the Southward of the River Taptee (efpecially 
 the Territory and Fortrefs of Ahmednuggur), and by Scindiah's 
 various claims upon the State of Poonah, and by his influence at 
 that Court. 
 
 Tenth. Scindiah's intermixed and bordering Fortrelles and 
 PofTeffions, which enabled him to menace the Dominons of the 
 Soubahdar of the Dekan, and to impair the efficiency of the Bri- 
 tilh Alliance with that Prince^ and Scindiah's various Claims upoa 
 the Soubahdar of the Dekan, and confequent mfluence at Hy- 
 derabad. 
 
 Eleventh. The general magnitude, wealth, and Ihength, of 
 Scindiah's Dominions and Army, and the reputation of his Mi- 
 litary Power, fiom which he derived a general influence and af- 
 cendancy at Poonah, and over all the Marhatta States, and even 
 at Hyderabad ; which influence, and afcendancy, had been for 
 fomc years pad; uniformly direded to injure the Britilh Power 
 in India. 
 
 Under this view of the condition of Dowlut Rao Scindiah's 
 Power at the commencement of the War, it was dangerous to the 
 Britifh Empire :— - 
 
 Firjl. By tbefucilities which it cfforded to the Fiench of injuring 
 the Britijli interejls in India, either in co-operation with Scindiuh, or 
 through the independent uid of bis French and other European 
 Officers. 
 
 Secondly. By maintaining againfl the Britifh Government, a 
 rival and hoftile influence throughout every Native State in India 
 ami efpecially amongfl our moft; important Dependants and Allies 
 on the Wcftern fide of India ; and by affording a powerful bond of 
 union to any hoftile Confederacy of the Native States againft 
 the Britifli Government, as well as an efficient and for- 
 midable
 
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 itiiilablc innrument, for the profccution of the objc6ls of fuch aa 
 tiniud. 
 
 With a view to exhibit the extent and magnitude of the dan- 
 gers to uliich the Britifli Empire was eventually expofcd, at the 
 commencement of the late War, by the condition of Scindiah's 
 Power, and of the feveral States in the Northwefl: of Hindoftan, 
 and efpecially by the exijlencc of the French Force under the 
 Command cf Monfieur Perron, combined with his indepcndant 
 pojfeffion of a large traR of Country in the Doab of ihe JwnvnO. 
 .and ike Gaiiges, it may be advifable to infcrt in this place, aa 
 Extradl from the Inftrudlions of the Governor General to His 
 Excellency the Commander in Chief, under date the 27111 of 
 July 1803. 
 
 " To every perfon converfant with the true nature of the Bri- 
 *' ti(h Interefts and Povs^er in India, the North Weflern Frontier of 
 •' Hindoftan mufb have appeared to prefent the moft vulnerable 
 *' point of our extenfive Empire. 
 
 •' The condition of the power of the Seiks, ns well as of that 
 ** of the Marhattas and of the Rajpoots and other petty States, 
 " offers confiderable advantage to an invading Enemy from the 
 
 more remote North Weflern Countries of Afia, or from tho 
 ' Banks of the Indus j and it is unneceffarv to remark to your 
 " Excellency's judgment, experience, and knowledge, that the 
 *' enterprizing fpirit of France, or the ambition of RufTia, or eveti 
 " the violence and rapacity of the Afghan Tribes, or of other 
 " Afiatic Nations inhabiting the Northern and Weftern Countries 
 *■ of Afia, might have purfued proje6ts of invafion in that quar- 
 *• ter, which might have occafioncd confiderable embarraiTment 
 «' to the Britifli Power in India. 
 
 '♦ A fenfe of this danger, concurred with other motives, to in- 
 *' duce me to conclude thofe arranfrcments with the Nawaub Vi-> 
 " zicr, which terminated in the Treity* of Lucnow, and which 
 
 I • Treaty of Lucnow concluded on the loth November iSor. 
 
 B " Secured
 
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 «' fecured a cciiGderable augmentation oF the Military, Politicil, 
 »' and Financial Refourccs and Power of the Biitifli Nation on ihs 
 •' North Weftern Frontier of Oude. 
 
 " The refult of that happy fettlement has certainly afForded a 
 " great acceffion of feciirity againft the dangeis, which menaced 
 " the ftability of our Empire on that fide of India. 
 
 «' But the local pofition of Scindiah's Territories, the condition 
 " and nature of Scindiah's Military Force in Hindoflan, and the 
 " corrupt and profligate Counfels of that weak, arrogant and 
 " faithlefs Chief, flill conflitute a ferious danger to the Britifh 
 " interefls. The Territories of Scindiah between the Jumna and 
 •* the Ganges, interrupt the line of cur defence in that quaiter j 
 ** and fomc of his principal Pofl:s are introduced into the centre of 
 " our Dominions j while the pofTeflion of Agra, Delhi, and of the 
 " Weflern and Southern Bank of the Jumna, enables him to 
 •* command nearly the whole line of our North Weftcrn Frontier. 
 •' In the event of any confiderable acceflion to Scindiah's Pow- 
 " er, or in the event of his forming any connexion with France, 
 •' or with any Enemy to the Britifh intcrefts, the ad:ual pofition 
 *' of his Territories and Forces in Hindoftan would furnifh 
 •' great advantages to him in any attack upon the Company's 
 " Dominions. 
 
 *• Formidable as the power of Scindiah might have become, in 
 •• the event of any acceffion to his ftrengih, a danger more urgent 
 " and more direEl in all its confequences, has grown out of the 
 '* decline of Scindiah's local authority in Hindoftan, and has re- 
 «» cently aflumcd a more alarming afpeft, in proportion to the 
 " accumulated embarraflment of Scindiah's circumftances in the 
 " Dekan, and to the general decay of his Refourccs and Power. 
 
 " The regular Infantry in the fervice of Scindiah, under the 
 •' Command of European Officers, is fupported by Funds, dc- 
 " rivable almoft exclufively, from the Territorial PofTeflions of 
 *' that Chief, fiiuated between the Jumna, the Ganges, and 
 " the Mountains of Cumaon. 
 
 ♦' A cor.fidcrable portion, if rot the whole, of this Territory, 
 
 " has
 
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 *• has been afligned to Monfieur Perron, a French Officer, who 
 ** has fuccccdcd Monfieur Duboignc, in the Chief Command of 
 •' Scindiah's regular Infantry. 
 
 " Monfieur Perron has formed this Territory into an independant 
 *' State, of which Scindiah's regular Infantry, may be juftly 
 •' termed the National Army. That Force is now ftated to 
 " amount to 39,050 * Men. 
 
 " The inhabitants of the Difirids, comprehended in Monfuur 
 '* Perron's Jaghcer, confider that Officer as their immediate 
 " Sovereign, while the Troops fupported from the revenues of the 
 " Country, regard Monfieur Perron as the immediate executive 
 " authority, from which the Army is to receive Orders, Subfif- 
 ** ence and Pay. PofiTefling fuch means, Monfieur Perron didiates 
 *' with the authority of a Sovereign State, of fuperior rank, and 
 '' with the vigour of efficient Military Power, to the petty 
 '' States occupying the Countries to the Southward of the Jum- 
 " na ; and by the terror of his Name and Arms, holds in abjedt 
 " fubmifiion, the Rajpoot States of Jcynagur and Jodepore, 
 •' together with the Jauts and the State of Gohud. extend- 
 " ing his influence even to Bundelcund, and to the Country 
 ** occupied by the Seiks. 
 
 *• Scindiah retains no efficient control over Monfieur Perron, or 
 '** over his regular Troops. Various inftanccs muft be familiar 
 *' to Your Excellency's knowledge, in which Monfieur Perron has 
 ** cither openly difobeyed, or fyliematically evaded the orders of 
 ** Scindiah, efpecially in the late crifis of that Chief's Affairs. 
 
 *' Monfieur Perron has for fome time pjft manifcfied a fyfiematic 
 •* difpofition to remove all Britifii Oflicers from the Command 
 *.* of Scindiah's regular Infantry, and to introduce French Officers 
 *• under his own immediate patronage. 
 
 " Monfieur Perron is fuppofed to have amafled a tonfidera- 
 *< ble fortune, and Your Excellency is intimately acquainted 
 •* with his anxious dcfire to return to Europe, and to difuofe 
 
 * This was the number of the regular Infantry under t!ie Command of Monfieur Perron ; of 
 
 thai uiimber 16,600 Men wcie in the Doab in ±t month of June iSoj. 
 
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 " of his adtual Command, and of his Territorial Poffeffions, t6 
 '• {omt per Ton of the French nation. 
 
 " To thefe confiderations, it is important to add, that 
 *' Monfieur Perron is in pofTsdian of the Perfon of the unfor- 
 " tunate Sh ih Aulum, and confequently is Maflcr of the no- 
 ♦' minal Authority of that unhappy Prince. Monfieur Perron 
 •' therefore may transfer this valuable PolTeffion, together with 
 *' his Property of any other defcription, to any French Adven- 
 " turer or Officer, who may be enabled to complete fuch a pur- 
 " chafe. 
 
 •' Thus, the coincidence of various extraordinary and uncon- 
 " trolable accidents, the weaknefs ofScindiah's perfonal Cha- 
 *' radler, the rapacity and profligacy of his Minifters, (who 
 " have engaged him in purfuits of aggrandizsment, avarice, and 
 " ambition, at a diftance from Hindoftan, in the Dekan» 
 " at Poonah, and in the Southern Provinces of the Marhatta 
 " Empire,) the treachery of many of his Chiefs, whofe inter- 
 " efts confifl in diverting his attention from the affairs ofHin- 
 •' doftan to thofe of tlie Dekan, and the recent fhock which 
 " his Power has received from Holker, bav,? contributed to found 
 •' iin independant French State, on the mofl inlncrable part of the 
 " Company's Frontier, 
 
 " Under the influence of a Succeflion of French Adventurers, 
 " this State mufl be cxpofed to every intrigue of the French 
 " in India, and even to the ambition and hodila fpirit of the 
 " Perfon, who now rules the French Nation j nor could an 
 " indrumcnt of deftrudlion, more fi'viifully adapted tJ wound the 
 " heart of the Britifli Empire in India, be prefented to thevindic- 
 •' tive hand of the Chief Con ful of France. 
 
 " This French State adlually holds pofiefTion of ihe Perfon 
 " and nominal Authority of the Mogul ; maintains the moft 
 *' efHcicnt Army of regular Native Infantry, and the mofl: pov/er- 
 " ful Artillery, now exiding in India, (with the exception of 
 *' His Majefty's and the Company's Troops,) and cxercifes a 
 " conhderablc influence over the neighbouring State?, from the 
 
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 " Banks of the Indus, to the confluenceof the Jumna and the Ganges. 
 
 '• In the fuppofition of the moft intimate and eflablifhcd connec- 
 " tion of Amity and Alliance betwet-n Scindiah and the Britifh 
 " Power, and in the event even of Scindiah's acceffion to the 
 *' Treaty of Bafleen, and to the general Dcfenfive Alliance* with 
 *' the Company, the Nizam, and the Peifhwah, it is impoflible to 
 " fuppofe, that this French State would co-operate with cordiality 
 " in fupport of the Britifh interefts. The aid of this State could 
 " be lead expeded in the cafe whicli would moft urgently demand 
 " it, and which would require the mofl: aftive operation of the 
 *' principles of the geneial Defenfive Alliance." 
 
 " In the event of an attack from France upon the Bririfla Domi- 
 " nions or Power in India, it could not be expedted that a French 
 " State, credlcd under the nominal and oftenfible aufpices of Scin- 
 ♦' diah in Hindoftan, would afford any fubfbmtial aid to the Ally 
 " of the Britifli Power, in a conleft againft France, even if that 
 '• Ally Ihould be difpofcd to affid us in fuch a crifis." 
 
 " On the other hand, no doubt exifts, that Scindiah would receive 
 ♦' the moft zealous aid from the fame State, in any attempts, which 
 *' he might be difpofed to make, either for the reducflion of the Bri- 
 " tifh, or for the aggrandizement of the French Power in India.'* 
 
 " In addition to thefe remarks, Your Excellency is apprized, 
 ** that the vicinity of Monficur Perron's regular Infantry operates 
 " as a conftant drain upon the population of the Company's Pro- 
 " vinces, and diminifhes the fources of our Agriculture, Manu- 
 *' fadlures. Commerce, and Revenue, as well as of our Recruits 
 *♦ for the Armiy in that quarter." 
 
 " In the prefent crifis, when every circumftance announces the 
 *' probability of a renewal of the War with France, and urges the 
 «♦ neceftity of reforting to every pradlicable meafure of precaution 
 *' and fecurity, the fkfety of the Britifli Dominions requires the 
 «« reduction of Monfieur Perron^s Military Refources and Power, 
 " independently of any queftion. which might exift between 
 *' Scindiah and the Britifh Government." 
 
 " In a ftate of profound Peace and even of Alliance with 
 ** Scindiah, the ncceflity of providing for our own fecurity. 
 
 * Eftabl idled by the Treaty of Hyderabad, concluded in Odober 1800, and by the Treaty 
 
 of Bi'.fleen concluded in Dectmb?r 1S02, 
 
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 " would juftify a formal demand for the removal of a danger fo 
 " eminent from the Frontier of our Dominions. The refufal of 
 " Scindiah to comply with fuch a demand, would afford a juffc 
 " ground of War againft that Chief, and any true or falfe plea 
 •« of inability on the part of Scindiah, to coiurol the movements, 
 •' or to reduce the power of this French State, v/ould authorize 
 ♦' and require the BritiQi Government to adume the protedlion 
 " of its own Territories, and to remove wirh its own hand, the 
 ** proximate caufe of infecurity and alarm." 
 
 That this State had not, to the knowledge of the Governor Ge-* 
 neral, been formally connected with the Government of France, 
 will not be deemed to be a circumftance, afFed:ing the Governor 
 General's view of the danger, to be apprehended from the forma- 
 tion and growth of fuch a Power in India. That Power was 
 fully prepared to afford efficient and cordial Jup port to the French 
 Caufe in India, and to meet the projects of France with adequate 
 alacrity and zeal. 
 
 The origin and progrefs of Monfieur Perron's Civil and Mili- 
 tary authority are indeed to be aicribed to the dilorder and con- 
 fufion of the Marhatta Empire, to the weakt^efs and corruption 
 of the Councils of Scindiah, and to the decline of his real iater- 
 clts and juft Dominion, The Chiefs and Commanders of this 
 French State were alfo mere Military Adventurers, and its re- 
 fources were derived from licentious Conquell, and buundlefs 
 Depredation. Thefe features of its charadttr may not however, 
 appear of fo peculiar a nature, as to have rendered it altogether 
 unworthy of adoption by the prefent Rulers of France 
 
 The danger arifing from the condition of the Rajah of Berar's 
 Power, with reference to his means of afFcfting the fecurity of 
 the Britifla Empire in India, appeared to be, at the commence- 
 ment of the War : — 
 
 Firfl. A Military Force greatly inferior to Scindiah's, in point 
 of Difcipline, Numbers, and Artillery, but furnifliing a confider- 
 ablc acceffion to the general flrength of the Confederacy, againft 
 the Britifti Government. 
 
 Secondly. The PoffcfTion of an extcnfive Territory, and fome 
 flrong Forts, commanding the Dominions of the Company, and 
 
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 of the Soubahdar of the D^kan, oa feveral vulnerable points. 
 
 Thirdly. The pofTeflion of the Province of Ciittiick, by which tlie 
 Rajah of Berar was enabled to interrupt thccommunicdtion between 
 our Northern and Southern PofTefrions, to facilitate the invafion 
 of Bengal and of the Northern Circars, and to obtain the aid of 
 French or other European Officers or Troops, to be landed in the 
 Province of Cuttack. 
 
 Fourthly. The intermixture of the Rajah of Bc-rar's PoiTrflions, 
 with thofe of the Soubahdar of the Dekan, his vexatious Claims 
 upon the Court of Hyderabad, and his confequent influence at 
 that Court. 
 
 Fifthly. The Rajah of Berar's pretenfluns to the Government 
 of Poonah, and the afceodancy and influence which he derives 
 fiom his Defcent*, conne(fled with the general magnitude of 
 his Dominions, and Rslburces, with his fuppofcd Wealth, and 
 with the ho Hie fpirit which had been manifcfled by the State of 
 Berar for many years, in countcracling the interefts of ihe Britilli 
 Empire in India. 
 
 Under the preceding review of the means pofTefTed by Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah and by the Rajah of Berar refpcdivcly, of affediing 
 the Security of the Britifli Empire in India, the mo[l defirable 
 objeds of eventual War with thofe Chieftains, manifeflly were ; 
 
 With reference to Dowlut Rao Scindiah: — .Firff, the en- 
 tire redud ion of Monfieur Perron's Regular Corps. Second, the 
 annexation to the Britiih Dominions, of the whole of the Territory 
 wiihin the Doab of the Jumna and Ganges in the PcfTcflion of Mon- 
 fieur Perron, thereby rendering the River Jumna the North wcflern 
 Frontier of our Dominion in that quarter. Third, the occupation 
 of Delhi and Agra, and of a Chain of Ports on the Weftern and 
 Southern Bank of the Jumna, fufficient to fccure to the Britifli 
 Power, tlie free navigation of the Jumna, and the Poffeflioii of 
 both Banks of that River. Fourth, the permanent exclufion of 
 
 * The Rajah of Berar is defcended from the Rajahs of Sattarah. See his Defcent in pages 3 
 and 6, of Appendix A. to the Notts on Marhatta Affairs, 
 
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 the Marhattas from the Northwcil of Hmdoltan. Fifth, the 
 eftablifhment of a fyflem of Defenfive Alliances with Slates ol 
 Kindoftan, the local portion of <vhofe Territories might form 
 a Barrier between the Poffeffions of the Company and the Mar- 
 hattahs, and fecure the exclufion of the authority and influence 
 of Scindiah from the Northwelrern divilion of Hindoftan. Sixtlx, 
 the protection of the perfon and nominal authority of His Ma- 
 jefty Shah Aulum. Seventh, the occupation of the Sea Port of 
 Baroach and of the Territory annexed to it, together with the 
 redudion of Scindiah's General Power in Guzerat. Eighth, the 
 Ceffion of Scindiah's Territories intermixed with thofe of our 
 Allies the Soubahdar of the Dekan and the Pcifhwah, and ge- 
 nerally, the redu6lion of Scindiah's Military Power and Terri- 
 torial Refources, within the limits neceffary for the purpofcs of 
 cur Security, and of the fafety and tranquility of our Allies. 
 
 With reference to the Rajah of Berar; The occupation of 
 the Province of Cuttack, and the Ceffion ot all the Rajnh of 
 Berar's Poffcffions intermixed with thofe of the Soubahdar of 
 the Dekan ; and the general redudion of the Rajah of Berar's 
 influence and power within the bounds requilite for the fame jull 
 and legitimate purpofes. 
 
 Thefe may be confidered to have conftituted the neceffary cb- 
 jcds of the War with reference to its original caufcs, and thefe 
 objeds psopcrly formed the bafis of our demands, ii\ negotiating 
 the Terms of Peace with the Confedeiated Chieftains, 
 
 In eflimaiing the dangers to which the Security of the Britifli 
 Government was eventually expofcd, at the commencement of 
 the War, by the exiftc^nce, in the hands of the two principal 
 Marhatta States, of thofe means of injury, which have been de- 
 Icribed in the preceding part of thefe Notes, the advantages 
 which the Britilh Empire has derived from the permanent re- 
 moval of thofe dangers by the Succelfcs of the War, and by the 
 Terms of the Peace may be eafily appretiated. 
 
 In
 
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 In the moment of our moft brilliant Vidlories, when the rapid 
 and glorious fuccefs of our Arms had nearly extinj;uifhed the 
 power both of Dowlut Rio Scindiah and the K^jih of Berar, 
 and when We poffcffed ample means of entirely fubverting both 
 thofe States, by the continuance of Military operations at that 
 time adlually in progrefs, the concefTions which the Honorable 
 Major General Wellellev 'vas inltrufcted to demand from t!ie 
 Confederated Chieftains, were limited to tlie extent, abfolutdy 
 neceffHry xo preclude the revival of the original caujes of the War^ 
 and to provide for our permanent fecurity, and for the faithful 
 difcharge of the obligation of pofitive engagements, contracted, ei- 
 ther previoifly to the War, or during the progrefs of Hofulities. 
 
 it would have been neither a juft, humane, nor honorable 
 policy, to have infifted upon the reduction of the Enemy's Power 
 to any extent unneceffary to fdcure the juft objerts of the War, 
 and the fafety of the Britifh Government and its Allies. The 
 public duty of the Governor General required the employment 
 of every effort to reduce the ftrength of the Enemy within the 
 bounds, prefcribed by the juft interefts of the Britifh Government, 
 and ot its Allies; but the Governor General would have deemed. 
 it to have been equally injurious to the glory and pover of the 
 Britifh Government in India, and contrary to his Duty, to 
 the Commands of the Honorable Company, and to the Lhvvs 
 and Policy of England, to have profecuted War for the purpofes 
 of vengeance, aggrandizement, or ambition, or to have urged the 
 fall of a vanquifhed Enemy, beyond the juft limits of National 
 Security and Public Faith. Among the principal advantages 
 therefore of the late Pacification, muft be ranked the maintenanca 
 of the Nation.il Charader in India, by the moderation, clemency 
 and juflice, m.anifefted by the Britifh Government in the Terms 
 of Peace, granted to our Enemies, under circumftances, wnich had 
 placed the exiflenge of their refpeclive States abfolutely at our 
 dijpofal. 
 
 D Immediately
 
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 Immediately after tlie rediiftion of Gawilghur, the Honorable 
 Major General Wcllc-llcy, prepared to purfiie the Rajah of Berar 
 i6h D.ctmbcr fo Naj^poor, the G;ipital of his Dominions, and arrangements 
 had been adopted for the invafion of B=rar from the Province of 
 Sumbulpore, by the Corps employed in that quarter under Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel Broughton, and from Cuttack by the Troops 
 under the Command of Lieutenant Colonel Harcourt. 
 
 » The brilliant and dccifive fuccefs of His Excellency General 
 Lake, and the entire deftrutlion of Scindiah's Power in Hin- 
 doftan, left General Lake at liberty to detach a Force againfl the 
 PflTeflions of the Raj ih ot Berar. In conformity therefore to 
 the Governor General's Infinidions, General Lake prepared a 
 confiderablc Detachment for the purpok of invading Berar, from 
 the Northern quarter of Hindoflan. 
 
 At that period of time, the whole of the Rajah of Berar's PoC- 
 feffions on the Weft (ide of the River Wurda, the Province of 
 Cuttack, and its Dependancies, and the Provinces of Sumbulpore 
 and Patna *, had been wrefted from his Dominion; and the only 
 Cawii^har. ftrong Foftrcfs within the limits ot his former Territories, had 
 
 been reduced by the Britilh Artns. 
 
 In this extremity of the Rajah of Berar's affairs, the Britilh 
 
 17th December Government granted Peace to that Chieftain, on terms regulated 
 
 1X03. 
 
 exclufively by confiderations of National Security and Public 
 
 Faith. 
 
 Prcvioufly to the conclufion of the feparate Treaty of Peace 
 with the Rajah of Berar, the Military Power of Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah, had been dellroyed in Hindoflan, and deeply wounded 
 in the Dekan by the brilliant Snccefs of the Britifh Armies 
 in the Field under the Command of His Excellency General 
 
 • Diftritts belonging to tbc Rajah of Berar, fituatcd near the Wf rtcrn Frontier of Bengal 
 and Behir. 
 
 Luk 
 
 e
 
 ( IS ) 
 
 Lake and the Honorable Major General VVclIeUey, and the wholif 
 of Sciddiah's PofTcfTions in the North of Hirnioftan and in the 
 Dekan * had been conquered by the Britifh Arms. 
 
 As foon as Major Gener:il Wcllcdey had receive. 1 the Trea'v of 
 
 Deogaum, ratified by the Rijah of Berar, everv arrangement was ^•^^ dc emvr 
 
 1 803* 
 
 adopted, for the purpofe of employing the whole of the Forces 
 under M;ijor General VVellefley's Command againfl Dowjut Rao 
 Scindiah, In additiou to the Troops under the perriml Command 
 of Major General WcUcfley, a confiderable Force had been afTcm- 
 bled in Guzerat, under Colonel Murray, for the eventual attack of 
 Scindiah's PolTcffions in the Province of Malvva ; this Force being 
 left at bberty by the Conqueft of Baroach and Povv.\n;;hur, and 
 of all Scindiah's PoltelTiDns in the Province of Guzerat, to com- 
 nnence offenfive Operations in Malvva, was ready at this period 
 of time to ad v nice direilly upon Scindiah's Capital Ougein, and 
 had ailualiy marched to the Frontier of Guzerat in the profecii- 
 tion of that defign. 
 
 The conclulio!! of a feparate Peace with the [iajah of 8-rar, aif.^ 
 enabled General Lake to be prepared to direft the Operations of 
 the Detachment which had been intended for the invafion of 
 Berar, againfl; the Southern Foffeflions of Scindiah in co-operation 
 witii the Forces under Major General Wellcflcy and Colonel 
 Murray. 
 
 Under this fevere prelTiire on every quarter of his remaining; 
 
 Territories, Dowlut Rao Scindiah fued for Peace, and the Terms ^"'^ Dtc^motr 
 
 ' 1803. 
 
 of the Peace granted to Dowlut Rao Scindiah in that extremity 
 of his afl-iirs, were regulated by principles of lenity and forbear- 
 ance to the iitm'](} extent, confifl-ent with our juft right of rca- 
 fonable indemnity", and with the Security of our Pofleirions, and 
 of the Dxr.iiiions, Rights, and Interells of our Allies. 
 
 * I hs Nerhudd ih Rivrr forms tlii Nonlwn P.oimi.Ury of the Dekan, la'cta ii its general 
 frnfir. 
 
 Tne
 
 ( 1^ ) 
 
 The conceffions on the part of the Enemy which provide in tha 
 snanner already defcribed for the Security of the Britifh Govern- 
 ment agaivjl the return of thofe dangers, which exJjled at the com* 
 mencement cf the War, neceffarily coin prize additional advan- 
 ta<^es to the caufe of the Britifli Government and of its Allies. The 
 arrangements deemed to be indifpenfably nectfTary for the fecuri- 
 ty of the Britida Government and its Allies, have augmented and 
 confolidated our territorial refources and thofe of His Highnefs 
 the Ptifliwah, and the Soubahdar of the Dekan, the only- 
 Powers poficfiing anyjuft prelenfion to participate in the Con- 
 quefts of the War. Combined with other provifions of the Peace, 
 thefe arrangements may be coniidered to have fecured the com- 
 plete accon.plifhment of that general fyftem of Political Relations 
 in India, which it has been the uniform and approved Policy 
 of the Governor General, under the orders of the Honorable 
 Court of Diredlors, to eflablifh, and which experience has demon- 
 ilrated to afford the only means of preferving general Tranquility, 
 and confequently, of providing effedlually for the permanent 
 Security and Frofperity of the Britifh Empire in India» 
 
 M 
 
 Partition Treaties con- 
 clud'd at Hyderabad on 
 the 28ih of April i8->4, 
 and a: Poonali on the 
 34th May i8'-4 — See 
 iijipeiidix N. ar.d O. 
 
 Treaty of Dcfcnfivc Al» 
 ]iancc witli Scindiah, 
 concluded at Boorhan - 
 pnre on the iyth Fcbru- 
 iry 18.14— S-c Appendix 
 I.. 
 
 TKEATV OF 
 DEOGAUM. 
 » ^ > 
 
 xfl Afticle. 
 
 In order to afford a diflinft view of the advantages of the late 
 Pacification, it will be proper in this phce to ftate in regular order 
 the feveral provifions of the Treaties of Peace, concluded rcfpec- 
 tively with the Rajah of Berar, and with Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 accompanied by Inch remarks as appear requifite to illuftrate the 
 intent and operation of each Article refpedlively, with reference 
 to the Treaties of Partition, concluded between the Honorable 
 Company and the Allies, and to the Treaty of Defenfive Alliance 
 and Subfidy, concluded between the Honorable Company and 
 Scindiah. 
 
 I. TREATY OF IE ACE WITH THE RAJAH OF BERAR. 
 
 The Firft Article provides for the permanence of Friendfliip^ 
 between the Contrading Parlies, 
 
 The
 
 TREATY o» 
 UEOGAUM. 
 
 ( n ) 
 
 The Second Article connefted with tlx- 1 irfl Article of the ^nuud-. 
 Treaties of Partition, cedes the whole of the Province of Cuttack, 
 including the Port and Diflrid of Balafore to the Honorable 
 Company. That Province conne6ls the Territory of Bengal with 
 the Northern Gircars. In tlie hands of an Enemy, the Province 
 of Cuttack woidti aftord peculiar advintages to the profecution 
 of Moftilities againft the Britifh Power. It furniflies the means 
 «f interrupting the communication between Bengal and all our 
 Pofllffionsand DependancicS in the Southern and Weftern Pro- 
 vinces of India. That portion of the Sea Coaft which the Pro- 
 vince of Cuttack includes, together with the Port of Balafore, would 
 enable a Native Enemy to receive fuccours from an European State. 
 An auxiliary Fiench Force combined with a Marhatta Army 
 might thus have nfTcmblcd on the Frontier of our moft valuable 
 Territories, and might have endangered the fafety of the primary 
 fource of the Power, Wealth, and Influence of the Britifh Em- 
 pire in India. In Th^; hands even of a Neutral Native State, the 
 Province of Cuttack prefents a favorable point for the difembar- 
 kation of an hoftile European Force, and for an attack upon 
 the Britifh Dominions. In the hands of the Company, the Fort 
 and Territory of Cuttack furniflies a flrong additional Barrier to 
 all our poffeffions in that quarter, and confolidates every part of 
 our Refources and Power. 
 
 The intermixture and contiguity of the Territories of the 
 Company and of the Marhattas on the Southern Frontier of 
 Midnapore, occalioned conlbnt difputes between the (ubieds of 
 the two Governments, and the ready afylum which Robbers and 
 Delinquents obtained within the Marhatta Territories, contitni- 
 ous to Midnapore, operated as an encouragement to the com- 
 miflion of every fpecies of outrage within the limits of the Com- 
 pany's neighbouring Diftrids. The Ceffion of the Province of 
 Cuttack and its Dependancies, is therefore of the utmoft impor- 
 tance, independantly of their Financial and Commercial value. 
 
 The
 
 TREATY OF / iQ \ 
 
 DEOC5AUM. I " J 
 
 The information obtained of the rcfources of the Province of 
 Cuttack, is not fufficiently accurate to exliibit a complete Report 
 updn the Revenue of the Territory, fceded by the Second Article. 
 By a Statement however exfrafted from the Marhatia Records, 
 the Revenue of Cuttack proper is eftimated at from Sixteen to 
 Seventeen Lacs of Rupees per Annum. 
 
 ii Aiticic. The Third Article of the Treaty of Deogaum, provides for thfi 
 
 Ceffion of all the Territories, of which the Rajah of Berarcol- 
 leded the Revenues* in participation with the Soubahdar of the 
 Dckan, and of all the 'l"erritory which the Rajah of Berar oof- 
 felTed to the Weftward of the River Wurdah, eftimated at the 
 Annual Sum of Sixty Lacs of Rupees. 
 
 By the transfer to the Soubahdaf of the Dekan, under the 
 Treaty of Partition of the Territory ceded by this Article, all the 
 inconveniences, embarraffments, and hazards, arifing from the 
 intermixture of the Territories of the Soubahdar of the Dekan, 
 aad the Rajah of Berar have been removed ; By this Article alfo, 
 the DomiiJon of the Soubahdar of the Dekan, has been aug- 
 mented * and confolidated, and a diftindt limit has been eftablifiied 
 between the Territories of His Ilighnefs and of the Rajah of 
 Berar. 
 
 The faithful attention which this Article, combined with the 
 Treaty of Partition manifells to the interefis of our Ally the 
 Soubahdar of the Dckan, produced the mcft favorabk impref= 
 fion at the Court of Hyderabad, and has tended to cement the 
 ties of Alliance, as \v«U as to render our Ally more efficient 
 and ufeful. 
 
 *thandjthAt. Thc arrangements of the Fourth and Fifth Articles which 
 
 rcftorc to thc Rajah of Berar the Forts of Nernullah and Gawil- 
 
 • The Diftrli^s acquired by thc Soubahdar of thc Dckiii arc extremely Rich anJ I'cr- 
 tilci and under proper mar^igeiTici.t, would without difficulty jield an Aumial Kevcnue of 
 Odc Million Sterling. 
 
 chur. 
 
 ■-•Cl«l.
 
 ( in ) TREATYof 
 
 *• y J DF.OGAUM. 
 
 ghur, together with Diflridls contiguous to thofe Forts, yielding 
 an annual Revenue of Four Lacs of Rupees, were therefult of a li- 
 beral and Juft confidcration for the future fecurity of the Rajah's 
 remaining poffeffions. 
 
 The Sixth Article provides for the renunciation on the part of 6a Ark\t. 
 the Rajah of Bcrar, of all claims of any defcription on the Territo- 
 ries ceded by the preceding Articles, and on all the Territories of 
 His Highnefs the Soubahdar of the Dckan. 
 
 By the latter ftipulation, the vexatious pecuniary Claims of the 
 R'jah of Berar On the Soubahdar of the Dekan have been relin- 
 quifhed. Thofe claims conftiluted a perpetual fource of difagree- 
 ment between the two Powers, and afforded to the Rajah of Berar 
 the means of maintaining a coofidcrable influence, and ofprofecut- 
 ing intrigues at the Court of H}derab.ad, of a nature injurious to 
 the interefts of the Britifla Government. 
 
 The Seventh Article of the Treaty of Deogaum ftipulates for the 7thA.!:cic. 
 the arbitration of the Britifh Government in all cafes of difference 
 between the Courts of Poonah and Nagpoor. By this ffipulation, 
 the Britijh Government will be enabled to control the caujes of dijfeii~ 
 tion between thofe States refpeElively, and the intercourfe between 
 them under the operation of this Article, will be too limited to 
 admit the fuccefsful profecution of any intrigues injurious to the 
 intereft of the Britifh Government. 
 
 The chief obje6l of this Article was, to meet the wifhes of the 
 Rajah of Berar, vvhofe Ambaffador expreffed an anxious defire for 
 the interference of the Britifli Government, both for the purpofe 
 of proteding the Rajah of Berar againfl all claims of the Peifhwah 
 and the Soubahdar of the Dekan on his Territories, and of fecur- 
 ing the Rights of the Rajah of Berar, under Grants obtained from 
 the Peifhwah, or the Soubahdar of the Dekan, or under Treaties 
 concluded with thofe Chiefs. In reply to the propofition of the 
 
 Rajah
 
 IREATYor ( 20 ) 
 
 UEOGAUM. 
 
 Rajah ofBerar's Ambafllidor upon thefe points, the Honorable 
 Major General Wellefley obferved, that without poffeffing ac- 
 curate information with regard to the Claims, Grants and Treaties, 
 (he faith of the Britifii Government could not be pledged in the 
 manner propofed by the Ambaffador; with a view however to meet 
 the vvifhes of the Rajah of Berar, without incurring the hazard of 
 compromifing the faith of the Britifli Government, the Honorable 
 Major General Welltfley propofed the arbitration of the Britilh 
 Government on the Terms ftipulated in the Seventh Article of the 
 Treaty of Deogaum; to whicii propofition the Ambaffador readily 
 aflented, obfeiving, that the Rajah of Eerar pojfcjjed no Jecurity 
 agatnjl the encroachments of the Peijliwah, but in the jujlice and, 
 generofity of the BritJIi Government. 
 
 gth Aticir. The Eighth Article of the Treaty contains a ftipulation for 
 
 the exclufion from the fervice of the Rajah of B rjr, of the 
 Subjccfts of European or American Powers, tll^ Governments of 
 which may be at War with the Britifli Government, and of all Bri- 
 tifh Subjed:?, whether European or Indian, vvitlout the confent 
 of the Britifli Government; and by the fame Article, the Britifh 
 Government engages neither to affifl: nor toencourage any Relations 
 or Subje<fls of the Rajah of Berar in rebellion agaii.ft that 
 Chieftain. 
 
 The experience of the formidable refiflance oppofed to theBritifh 
 Forces during the late War, by the regular Troops of the Enemy, 
 under the Command of European Oflicers, and compofed in a con- 
 fiderable degree of Natives of India, fubjeds of tie Britifh Govern- 
 ment, combined with the view which the Government of France 
 * is known to entertain for the aggrandizement of the Fiench Power 
 in India, fufEciently demonflrates the importance and advantage 
 of providing for the perpetual exclufion of the fcveral claflcs of 
 pcrfons, defcribed m this Article, from the fervice of the Native 
 Powcis to fucb an extent, as the Governor Generil in Council may 
 deem confiflent with the fafcty of the Britifli intcrefis in India. 
 
 The
 
 ( 21 ) TKEATYop 
 
 ^ * DEOGAUM. 
 
 The indefatigable zeal with which the French Nation is dif- 
 pofed to purfue any meafure, calculated to injure the intereOs of 
 the Britifh Government in India, and the confequent ncceffity of 
 providing ly every pradicable means, for the exdufwa of the 
 Agents of France from the Dominions of the Native States, has 
 lately been manifefted by the arrival at Poonah, of three French 
 Oflicers, (who, having received a CommifTioii in the Ifle of France 
 from the French Captain General,) landed clandeftincly, dif- 
 guifed ia the Afiaiic drefs, at a Pore in the' Kokun, from 
 a French Privateer, (fubfequently captured by His MajeAy's Ship 
 of, Fiorenzo on the 6th January 1804,) charged with Letters or 
 Pioclamations in the Perfian language, addrelTed generally to all 
 the Native States of India, for the purpofe of engaging the Native 
 States to combine their Powers for the deftrudion of the Britirti 
 Empire in this quarter of the Globe. Tiiefe Frenchmen were ap- 
 prehended by His Highnefs the PeiH^wah, at the requilicion of 
 the Britifh Government, under the general provifions of the Trea- 
 ty of Baffeen, and four of thofe Proclamations were found upon 
 them. The PrifonerS have fince been fent to Bengal. The Go- 
 V-:rnor General thought it proper nor 10 admit them 10 their Parole 
 for a certain time, in order to deter others from engaging in iimi- 
 l.ir mifiions. Under our fubfifting Defcnfive Alliance with the 
 Pcifhwah, in a feafon of adual War, in which the Peifhvvah and 
 the Company were equally engaged as Allies, the condud of thefc 
 Frenchmen would have entitled the Governor General to proceed 
 againft them as Spies, and to have reforted to the means warranted 
 by the Law of Nations in fimilar cafes. 
 
 Tiic Ninth Article of the Treaty of Deogaum provides for the g-hArticu. 
 Refidence of accredited Mmilfcrs on the part of the Britilh Go- 
 vernment and of the Government of the Rjjah of Berar, with 
 ihofe Governments refpedively. 
 
 The Tenth Article of the Treaty of Peace with the Rajah of Be- ioa Arude. 
 rar, which corrcfponds with the Ninth Article of the Treaty of 
 
 F Peace
 
 TREATY Oft ( 22 ;. 
 
 ^"^'^^^'^^^ peace with Dowlut Rdo Scmdiiih, recognizes and confirms all 
 engagements concluded by the Britifli Government with Feudato- 
 ries and Dependants of the Rajah of Berar. The object of this 
 Stipulation was not only to fecure ihc benefits, vhich the Bfitifli 
 Government might derive from fuch engagements, but to enable 
 us to difcharc^e the obligations of our public faiih towards ih? 
 perfons, with whom thofe engagements r.nght have been contract, 
 ed. By the confirmation of thefe enga^tments, und^r the flipu* 
 lations of the Treaty of Peace with ihc R j -h of Berar. the autho. 
 rity and influence of the Marhaita Government has been com. 
 pletely excluded from all the Territories in the vicinity of Cuttack 
 and Midnapore, and a barrier has been eftabliflied between Bengal, 
 Behar, the Province of Cuttack, and tlie Rajah of Berar's remain, 
 io" Territories, compofed of petty States*, exercifing an indepen, 
 dant authority within their rcfpedive Territories under the pro- 
 tcftion of the Britifh Government. 
 
 ..lO. Aritck. By the Eleventh Article of the Treaty of Deogaum, the Rajah 
 
 of B-rar renounces " all adherence to Llis Confederacy formed hy 
 ••' him and other Marhatta, Chiefs, to dLtsck the Honorable Com- 
 *•■ pany and their Allies, and he engages not to affiil thofe Chiefs, 
 '• if the War with them fliuuld continue." 
 
 « 
 
 1 Rajah of Boad -i Occupying Territory contiguous to the South Weft Frontier of 
 
 2 Sonepore, and 1- Cuttack, and Commanding the principal Paffes into that Pro- 
 
 3 Ratnghur, J vince. 
 
 4 Rajah of Khoonjur, a powerful Chieftain, whofe Territory is fituaicd on the Noichetq 
 Frontier of the Province of Cuttack, and who has always been ccnfidcrcd to be indcpendant of 
 the Marhatta Power, although at the period of the War, that Chieftain rented a portion oi ^ht 
 Province of Cuttack. 
 
 5 Zemindars of the Diflr!^ of Mohurbunje, and certain Diftrifls belonging to the Raj«h of 
 Ecrar on the North-eaft fide of the River Soobunceka, and intermixed with the Territodes f on. 
 ilituting the Zemindary of Midnapure. 
 
 6 Zemindars of Sumbulpore and I'atnn, Dldrifls formerly belont;lng to the Rajah of Berar, 
 and Ctuated near the Wcftern Frontier of Bengal and Behar. 
 
 By the Engagements concluded with thefc refpedive Chieftains, they are exempted from the 
 payment of Tribute, to the Marhatta Government, ar.d arc guaranteed in the poflclTion of their 
 rcfjieftive Territories, on tlic condition of their faithlul difchargc of tlr; duty of Tributar;':* 
 to ths Honoiabic Company. 
 
 Thi«
 
 ( 23 ) 
 
 This Article, wiiick contains a dijlinlh avowal on the part of 
 the Rajah oj Berar, of the CopJ ederacy formed by that Chieftain 
 and Dozolut Rao Scindiah, for the exprefs purpofe of making War 
 upon the Britifli Government and its Allies, deferves particular 
 attention, and confirms the juftice and neccflity of the War againft 
 the Confederates. 
 
 The Twelfth and laft Article of the Treaty of Deogaum, re- 
 lates exclufively to its ratification by the Governor General in 
 Council. 
 
 TREATY OP 
 DEOGAUM. 
 
 i2ih ind U(t 
 Ariide. 
 
 2. TREATY OF PEACE WITH DOWLUT 
 RAO SCINDIAH. 
 
 The Firft Article of the Treaty of Peace provides for the per- 
 manency of Friendfliip between the Contradling Parties. 
 
 TREATY OP 
 SURJE AN- 
 JENGAUM. 
 
 id Article. 
 
 The Second Article provides for the CelTion to the Allies of *^ ■'^"'•e' 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah's Rights and PofTeflions in the Doab of the 
 Ganges and Jumna Rivers, and to the Northward or thofc of the 
 Rajahs of Jeynagur and Jodepore, and of the Ranah of Gohud, 
 with the exception of certain Diftridls fpccified in a fubfequent 
 Article. 
 
 By this Article, combined with the Third Article of the Treaties 
 of Partition, and the Fourth Article of the Defenfive Alliance 
 with Scindiah, the authority ot the Britifli Government has been 
 cflablifhed over the whole of the Territory formerly occupied by 
 Monfieur Perron. The Provinces which previoufly to the War, 
 covfiituted a State under the rule of French Adventurers, and fur- 
 7iified rejources for a numerous body of regular Infantry, and for 
 a formidable Artillery, tender the direction of French Officers, naw 
 form a part of the Honorable Ccinpavys PoffeJJions, and of the 
 territoral fecurify for the fubfuliary payments due from Scindiah 
 to the Company ; and rhe Britiih Government has been enabled 
 to accomplifh the objects originally propofed, " of rendering the 
 
 •* River
 
 TREATY OF 
 «URJt AN- 
 
 JENUAUM. 
 
 ( 24 ) 
 
 •' River Jumna the Frontier of our Dominicn in that quarter, 
 •* and of occupying the Fortreffes of Delhi and Agra together 
 " with a Chain of Foils on the Right Bank of the River Jumna, 
 " fufficient to fecure to the Britifh Power the free navigation on 
 ♦' that River. 
 
 Under the provifions of this Article alfo, the power and influence 
 of' the French and of the Marhattas, have been excluded from the 
 North Wedern divifion of HindoIUn* 
 
 sdArtide. By the Third Article, the Fort and Territory of Baroach, toge- 
 
 thei with the Fort of Ahmednuggur and its dependant Territory, 
 with the exception of certain Diftrifts, fpecified in a fubfequent 
 Article of the Treaty, are alfo ceded by Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 
 By the Ceffion of the Territory of Baroach, and under the Fourth 
 Article of the Treaties of Partition, an annual Revenue of about 
 Twelve Lacs of Rupees is added to the Refources of Bombay, 
 and Scindiah's communication with the Sea is completely precluded. 
 Under the Difenfive Alliance with Scindiah, this Ceflion forms a 
 further part of the Security for the Subfidy from that Chieftain, 
 
 Tiie Ceflion of Ahmednuggur, and the Conditions annexed to 
 Scindiah's refervation of a portion of the Territory dependant on 
 that Forirefs, effentiaily impede Scindiah's means of interfering 
 in the affairs of the Court of Poonah, and of affeding the juft 
 operation of the Alliance between the Britifh Government and 
 the Peifliwah ; and by the Treaties of Partition concluded at Hy- 
 derabad on the 28ih day of April 1804, and at Poonah on the 14th 
 day of May 1804, the Fort and remaining Territory of Ahmed- 
 nuggur is ceded to tlie Peilliv/ah, and will form an important 
 addition to His Highnefs's Military ftrength, under the protection 
 of the Company. 
 
 4th Ariide. 
 
 Under the Fourth Article of the Treaty of Peace, Dowlut Rao 
 
 Scindiiib
 
 ( 25 ) 
 
 Scindiah cedes all the Terrifories in his pofleffion, at the com- 
 mencement of the War, fituated between the Adjuntee Hills and 
 the River Godavery. By this arrangement, Scindiah abandoned all 
 that part of his Territorial PoffelTions which was intermixed with 
 the Territory of our Ally the Soubahdar of the Dekan ; and the 
 Britifli Government was enabled by afligning thofe Ceflions to his 
 Highnefs the Soubahdar, under the Sixth Article of the Treaty of 
 Partition, to improve * and to confolidatc His Highnefs's Territo- 
 rial power and refources. 
 
 TREATYnp 
 SURJE /.N- 
 JENtiAUM. 
 
 »- - — .r 
 
 By the Stipulations of the Fifth Article of the Treaty with i^hAnuw 
 Scindiah, (which provide for Scindiah's renunciation of all Claims 
 of every defcription upon the Britifli Government and its Allies, 
 the Soubahdar of the Dckan, the Peifhwah and the Guikwar,) 
 every ground of interference on the part of Dovvlut Rao Scindiah 
 in the internal Concerns of the Soubahdar of the Dekan, the 
 Peifhwah, and the Guikwar, has been precluded, and a danger- 
 ous fource of intrigue, dijlurbance, and encroachment has been 
 effedually dejlroyed. 
 
 The Sixth Article of the Treaty of Surje Anjengaum provides 
 for the reftitution to Dowlut Rao Scindiah, of the Fort of Aflfecr- 
 ghur, the city of Boorhanpoor, the Forts of Powanghur and 
 Dohud, and the Territories in Candeifh and Guzerat, dependant 
 on thofe Forts. This Article affords a proof of the difpofition 
 of the Britifh Government, to make every conceffion to the 
 Enemy, even in the moment of viftory, which might be con- 
 fiflent with our fecurity, and with good faith towards our Allies 
 in the War. 
 
 £ih Articlct 
 
 By the Seventh Article of the Treaty of Peace, Dowlut Rao 7th Article. 
 Scindiah is allowed to retain pofTefiion of the Diflrids of Dhole- 
 pore, Barce, and Rajah-Kerrah, fituated to the Northward of 
 the Territories of the Rajahs of Jeynagur and Jodepore, and of 
 the Ranah of Gohud, flated by Scindiah to have been long held 
 by his Family, as a Gift from the Kings of Hindoflan ; and by 
 
 * The Annual Revenue of thefe Ceffions is eftimated at Six Lacs of Rupees. 
 
 G the
 
 TREATY OF { 26 ) 
 
 SURJE AN-. ^ -' 
 
 JENGAUM, 
 
 ' »— ' the provifions of the fame Article, it is ftipulatcd, that certain 
 
 Members of the Family of the late Madh^jee Scindiah, and certai;i 
 Officers of Dowkit Rao Scindiah 's Government, (who formerly 
 poflefTcd Jagheers in the Territories ceded by the Second Article 
 of the Treaty of Surje Anjengaum) fliall either retain poflcflion 
 of fuch Jagheers, or fhall receive Penfions, at the option of the 
 Britifli Government, provided that the annual value of fuch 
 Jagheers, and the amount of fuch penfions do not exceed the 
 fum of Seventeen Lacs of Rupees ; the fame Article alfo precludes 
 the introdu6lion of Scindiah's Troops either into the PiltricSs 
 of Dholepore, Baree, and Rajah-Kerrah, or into the Lands even- 
 tually to be rellored in Jagheer to Scindiah's Family and Of- 
 ficers. This prohibitory claufe obviated in a confiderable degree 
 the objedlions to the admiflion of the authority cf Dowlu* Rao 
 Scindiah into the Territories of Hindoftan, from which it was a 
 principal objedt of the Peace to exclude that Chieftain's Power 
 and influence. Thefe conceflions originated principally in a 
 fpirit of conciliation and lenity, which it was the wifli of the 
 Governor General to exercife on this occafion, to the u:moft 
 extent compatible with our Safety, and with our jud Rights 
 andlntereftsj the Britidi Government derives at the fame time 
 great advantage from an arrangement, by which the fources of 
 the fubfiftance of fome of the principal branches of the Family 
 of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and many of his principal Officers, 
 are placed under the immediate control and authorit}'^ of the 
 Britifli Government. 
 
 gth Article. By the Eighth Article of the Treaty of Surje Anjengaum, 
 
 certain Diftridls ftated to have been long in the poflcfljon of 
 Scindiah's Family, and fltuated within the Territories of His 
 Highnefs the Pcifliwah, are alfo reflored to Dowlut Rao Scin- 
 diah, on the condition, that no Troops fliall ever be introduced 
 into thofe Diftridls, under any pretence whatever. Oafervations 
 fimilar to thofe which have been flatcd with regard to the Seventh 
 Article, are applicable to the reflri^^ions under this Article of the 
 
 Treaty. 
 
 By
 
 ( 27 ) 
 
 By I he Ninth Article of the Treaty of Peace, all Engagements 
 Conchuled between the Britifli Government, and any of the 
 Feudatories or Dependants of Dowlut Rao Scindidh, are rccoq- 
 ni/^ed and confirmed j provided only, that Territory, formerly be- 
 longing to Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and fituated to the Southward 
 of the Territories of the Rajahs of Jeynagur and Jodepore, and 
 of the Ranah of Gohud, fhall not be alienated by fuch engage- 
 ments from the pofl'cffions of Scindiah. 
 
 The provifions of the Ninth Article, were indifpenfibly ne- 
 cefTary to enable the Britilli Government to fulfil the obliga- 
 tions of Faith contradled in the progrefs of the War. They 
 were at the fame time tll'ential to the Security of a principal 
 objedl of the War, namely, the Eftablifliment of a Syftemi of 
 Alliances with the States of Hindoflan, the local PofTefTion of 
 Vvhofe Territories might form a Barrier between the PolTeflions of 
 the Company and the Marhattas, and fecure the exclufion of the 
 Authority and Influence of Scindiah, and of France, from the 
 North Weftern Divifion of Hindoftan* 
 
 With the attainment of that objedt, was combined the im^ 
 mediate cfFe6l of promoting our Succefs in the War, by de- 
 taching from the Interefts of Scindiah, his Tributaries and De- 
 pendants, and by obtaining their co-operation with the BritifH 
 Power. Of the Engagements contrafted with the Chieftains 
 of Hindoftan, and recognized by the Provifions of the Ninth 
 Article of the Treaty of Peace with Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 thofe which principally contribute to the fecurity of the ul- 
 timate objedl of our politic<d arrangements in HindoHan, are 
 the Treaties concluded with the Ranah* of Gohud, and the 
 Rajah of Jeynagur. 
 
 Treatv op 
 
 SURJE AN. 
 JENUAUM. 
 
 ^ih Auidc. 
 
 * Tfie Ranah of Gohud, although deprived by the ufurpation of the late Mhadajec 
 Scindiah of his hereditary Poffeffions, retains a confiderable influence with the Tribe of Jauts. 
 He raifcd a Body of Troops during the late War, by the aid of a fum of Money which the 
 Commander in Chief was authorized to advance for that purpofe, and was adivelv and fiiccefs- 
 fully employed during the whole courfe of the War in oppofmg the Troops of the Enemy, 
 $fi4 iii difcluarging the duties of a faithful Ally of the Britifh Government, 
 
 By
 
 TRKATYo* ( 28 ) 
 
 SURjE AN- 
 
 ' " — -^ Bv the Treaty with the former, the ancient PolienTions of the 
 
 Vide Trcary ■' 
 
 ^i:l%%ltlf. Ranah of Gol)i:d are reftored to the Reprefentative of the 
 
 pendixM. N0.5. 1 /-< r 1 t> • • /i 
 
 Family, under the Protedlion and Guarantee or the Britiih Go^ 
 vernment. That Chieftain is bound to Subfidize three Batta- 
 lions of Biitifli Troops at the rate of Nine Lacs of Rupees of 
 per Annum. The Pofieffion of the Fortrefs of GvvaHor, which 
 Commands one of the principal entrances from the South, into 
 the North Weflern divifion of Hindoftan, is permanently vefted 
 in the Honorable Company, and the Britifli Government pof- 
 feffes the privilege offtationing its Troops in any of the Forts 
 or Pofitions within the Territories of the Pvanah, at whatever 
 time the Britifii Government may deem expedient, with ihc 
 exception of the Fort of Gohud. 
 
 The Ranah of Gohud is pledged to employ the whole of his 
 Forces and his Power, in ccnjundlion with the Britifli 
 Troops, againft any Power, which fhall ever endeavor to difturb 
 the Pofleflions of the Honorable Company ; and in the event of 
 War, to employ his Troops in conformity to the advice and 
 diredion of the Commanding Officer of the Company's Forces. 
 
 IVith a viezu of preferving in the hands of the Briii/h Go' 
 vernment, the means of checking the growth of Lifftntions, tend^ 
 ing to produce War, and confequently to require the inter pofition 
 of our Military Pozoer in the Defence of the Ranah' s Poffeffions, 
 the BritfJi Government referves to itfef the right of Arbitrat- 
 ing any caife of Dijpiite, -which may eventually arife, between 
 the Ranah of Gohud and any other State or Chieftain. 
 
 The Ranah of Gohud having been relieved from irnprifonment, 
 and diftrcfs, and reftored to his Hereditary Dominion, by the 
 aid, and under the protedion of the Britifii Government, it will 
 be manifeft, that the Ranah of Gohud is in the hijrheft detrree in- 
 tereflcd in maintaining his attachment to the Company j and that 
 the Britifli Government can at all times Command every advan- 
 tage
 
 / ^ TREATY OF 
 
 \ ^1 ) SUKJK AN- 
 
 JhNGAUM. 
 
 uge, derivable from the local Pofition, Strength, ind Rf:fources ' *— — ' 
 
 ot the Territory of Goluid. 
 
 The Treaty, concluded with the Rajah of Jcynagur,* is founded videTrMty 
 
 Appendix Mi 
 
 on the bifis of reciprocal aid againft external Enemies. The ^"^ a* 
 Rajah of Jeynagur is pledged to employ the whole of his Military 
 Power and Refources, in repelling any attempt to invade the 
 PofTefTions of the Honorable Company in Hindoftan, and a reci- 
 procal obligation is impofed on the Britifll Government, with the 
 nccejfary refervation of a Right, on the part of the Britijh Govern- 
 ment, to arbitrate eventual disputes for the purjjofe of preventing 
 War. The Rajah further engages, in the event of War, to em- 
 ploy his Troops in concert with the firitifli Forces, in fuch a 
 manner, as the Commanding OfHcer of the Britifli Forces may 
 advife and diredt. On the other hand, the Britifli Government is 
 pledged not to interfere in the internal concerns of the Rajah's? 
 Government, nor to demand from him any tribute whatever. 
 
 By this engagement, the Rajah of Jeynagur is permanently 
 relieved from the payment of his accuffomed Tribute to Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah, and from the apprehenfion of future exadtions and 
 tncroachments on the part of tl at Chieftain, or of any Foreign 
 State. Thefe important benefits, which the Rajah of Jeynagur 
 derives from his AUimce with the Honorable Company, cannot 
 fail to iecure his fidelity to the Britifh interefls. 
 
 The Engagements, which His Excellency The Commander videTrea'y 
 
 Appendix M» 
 
 in Chief concluded, under the orders of the Governor General, N"- ' »"'i 2- 
 with the Rajahs of Bhurtpoor-f- and Machery ;J;, (and which are alfo 
 
 • Jeynagur is fometimes called Jeypoor. 
 
 + The Rajah of Bhurtpoor is one of the principal Chieftains of the Tribe of Jauts, and 
 poffefles a confiderable Territory, and feveral Forts, in the vicinity of Agra atid Muttra, on 
 the South Weft, or Right Bank, of the Jumna. 
 
 J The PoffeiTtons of the Rajah of Macherry are bounded on the South and Weft by 'the 
 Territory of the Rajah of Jeynagur, and on the Eaft by that of the Rajah of Bhurtpoor. The 
 local Situation and Refources of the Territory of Macherrv, enable the Rajah of that Country 
 materially to aflift, or to impede, the incurfions of the Marhattas in the Northern parts of Hindo'- 
 ftan. The Rajah of Macherry, or the Rao Rajah, is a Rajpoot, His Capital is Al^var, 
 Ctuated about Ninety Miles South Weft by South {torn Delhi. 
 
 H recognized
 
 TREATVop ' ( CIO \ 
 
 SURJE AN. V O } 
 
 JENGAUM. 
 
 recognized and confirmed by the Ninth Article of the Treaty of 
 Peace wirh Dovvlut Rao Scindiah,) are framed upon the fame 
 principles as thofe of the Alliance with the Rijah of Jeynat^ur. 
 Thofe Chieftains are guaranteed by the Britifh Government in 
 thci independant polTelTion of their refpedlive Territories, on 
 the conditioa of their co-operation with the Britifh Troops 
 againfl: an invading Enemy, and of fubmitting, in all ccijes, their 
 dijputes to the arbitration of the Brilifa Government, prcvioujly td 
 engaging in aBual Hoftilities. 
 
 The local pofitiou of the Territories of thofe Chieftains, is well 
 calculated ro ftrengthen the Barrier oppofed to the attempts of an 
 invading Enemy by the Countries of Gohud and Jcynagur. The 
 fyflem of Alliances eftablifhed by the Britifli Government in 
 Hindoftan, affords the means of controlling in a confiderabU 
 degree, the primary caufes of that diforder and confufion, which, 
 during fo long a period of time, have difturbed the Territories of 
 Hiidoftm, and have afforded encouragement to the lavvlefs Ambi- 
 rion, predatory Habits, and refllefs Violence of the Native States 
 of Hindoflan and the Dekan. The continuance of thefe diforders 
 mifl tend to afed the Tranquility and Security of the Covipavy's 
 contiguous Poffcjjions. By controlling the fources of diffention^ 
 among the Petty States of Hindofl.m, and by protcding them 
 froni the Ambition and Rapacity of their more powerful neigh- 
 bours, tbofe States may be encouraged, and enabled, to cultivate 
 the Arts of Peace, in the independant enjoyment of their refpedlive 
 rights. 
 
 The cxtevfon and operation of this fyjlcm, mufl tend gradually 
 to mitigate the turbulent fpir it of fuch af the Native States of 
 India, as are contiguous to the borders of our extenfive Empire, and 
 the fame policy promifcs to provide the moft folid fecurily for the 
 profperity of our valuable Pojfelfwns, in the concord and tranqui- 
 lity of furrounding Powers. Tliefe feveral Treaties, havmg been 
 formally recognized and confirmed by the proviiions 'A the Kinrh 
 
 Articl«;^
 
 r 01 ^ TREATYoir 
 
 ^ o J SURJE AN- 
 
 JENGAUM.. 
 
 Article of the Treaty of Peace with Dowlut Rao Sciiidiah, the »• ^— — » 
 
 benefits immediately rcfulting from thofe engagements may juftly 
 be confidcred among the advantages of the General P^icification. 
 
 The Tenth Article of the Treaty of Peace with Dowlut Rao lothAtiide. 
 Scindiah, is diredled to the protcdlion of the fubjeds of DjwIuI: 
 Rao Scindiah, (who might flill be within the limits of his au- 
 thority,) from the cfFedts of his refentmcnt, for the difpoution 
 which anv of them may have manifcfted to promote the Bri- 
 tifh cauft. This ftipulation was indifpenriblc to the prefcrvation 
 of our good faith. 
 
 The Eleventh Article of the Treaty, (which fecurcs tht^ Peifh- nthAr-icsc. 
 -wah's Territorial Rights in MaKva,) alfo provides for the arbi- 
 tration of the Britifa Government in the event of any difference 
 which may zrue, with rcfpeft to thofe rights, between His High- 
 nefs the Peifinvahj and Dowlut Rao Scindiah. 
 
 In flipuliting with Dowlut Rao Scindiah for the Peifliwah's 
 reftoration to his Terrirorial Rights withm the Province of Mal- 
 wa, our guarantee ard conftquent arbitration of thofe Rights 
 was naturally cornb ned with that ftipulation. — But it was an 
 obvious -principle of p( licy to render the States of the Peifliwah 
 and Dowlut Rao Scindiah as diftindt as poffible, and to clofe 
 every avenue to intrigue, which the intercourfe either of cordi- 
 ality or dilTention might have opened to the machinations of the 
 Marhatta Durbars. 
 
 By the Twelfth Article of the Treaty of Peace, Dowlut Rao 
 Scindiah renounces all claims upon His Majcffy Shah Aulum, 
 and engages to abftain from all interference in the concerns of 
 His Majclty. 
 
 It may be ufeful to flate in this place, that the lace Madhajee 
 Scindiah, after having jreLusd the unfortunate Rcprcfcntative of 
 
 the 
 
 itath Article.
 
 TREATY OP ( 72 ) 
 
 SURJE AN- ^ ^ ' 
 
 JENGAUM. 
 
 the Houfe of Timour, from the fanguinary violence 6f Gholaum 
 Kaudir*, obtained from His Majefty the grant of the Office of 
 Vakeel. ool-Mutluck, or Executive Prime Minifler of the Moghiil 
 Empire for His Highnefs the Pcifliwah ; and was hinifelf ap- 
 pointed to execute the fundlions of that OlRce, under the title 
 of Deptiry ; and that Dowlut R90 Scindiah luccecded to the Of- 
 fice of Deputy VakeeUool-Mutluck, and to the confcquent con- 
 trol, which his predeccffor had eftabliflied over the Perfon and 
 Family of the aged and unhappy Monarch of Delhi. In the 
 courfe of events, Monlieur Perron obtained the Ofiice of Com- 
 mandant of the Fortrefs of Delhi, which is the refidence of the 
 Rcyal Family, and thus fecured the PofTefTion of the Perfon and 
 of the nominal Authority of the Emperor. Nofwithftanding His 
 Majefty's total deprivation of real Power, Dominion, and Au- 
 thority, almoft every State and every clafs of People in India 
 continue to acknowledge liis nominal Sovereignty. The current 
 Coin of every eftablifhed Power is ftruck in the name of Shah 
 Aulum. Princes and Perfons of the higheft rank and family 
 flill bear the Titles, and difplay the Infignia of Rank, which thev, 
 or their Anceftors, have derived from the Throne of Delhi, under 
 the acknowledged Authority of Shah Aulum j and His Majcffv 
 is ftiU confidered to be the only legitimate fountain of rnnil.ir 
 honors. 
 
 The pride of the numerous Clafs of MufTulmans in India is 
 gratified by a recognition of the nominal Authority of the illuftriou^ 
 Reprefentativeof the Houfe of Timour, over the Territories, wliicli 
 once conftituted the extenfive and pou'crful Empire of the Mo- 
 ghul ; and the Mufulmans are flill difpofcd to acknowledge the 
 legitimacy of pretenfions or demands, ofbenfibly proceeding from 
 the autliority of the Imperial Mandate. 
 
 Under thefecircumffances, the Perfon and Authority of His Ma- 
 
 * This Barbarian dcprivcil His Majefty of fight, and trtated all the Royal Family at Delhi, 
 with the moll favage Cruelty. Gholaum Kaudir afterwards was taken by Madhajce Scindiah, 
 and fuffcrcd the iHinidimcnt due to liii Crimcj, 
 
 jcfly
 
 jtfiy Shah Auluiti, might form a dangerous iiiftrumTt in the 
 Jiands of any State, poflcffintr fufficjent power, enere:y, and judg- 
 ment to employ it in profecutinj^ views of aj::grandizement and 
 ambition. The Moghul his n'-ver been an important or danger- 
 ous inflrumf^nt in the hands of the MarhdHas ; but t!ic aup-t-nenta- 
 tion ot Monfieur Perron's influence and power, a/ifsf the vro"Mh 
 vf a French interefl in HindoJLan, had given a new afpecl to the 
 condition of the Moghul, and that unfortunate Pfin.-:e niijrht have 
 become a powerful aid to the caufe of France in India, under the 
 direction of French Agents. 
 
 TPEATYoF 
 8UKJE AN- 
 JENGAUM. 
 
 Whatever may have been the conftrudion adopted in England 
 of the Convention of 1787, with regari to tlie nature of the 
 French Eflablifhmcnts in India, the circumftances which attended 
 the arrival at Pondicherry of Motiiienr Binot, and of Monfieur 
 DcCaen, the Captain General of the French Cor/imercial Eftablifh- 
 ment in India, together with the general condui:!: of the French 
 linded at Pondicherry, lince the concUifion cf the Peace of Ami- 
 I s, evidently demonftrate, that it ruas the intention of France to 
 Ej'laUiJh a Military and Political Power in India. 
 
 This intention will appear manifeft by referring to the annexed 
 Statement* of the El^ablilhment formed by the French Government, 
 
 the 
 
 ff 
 
 ETAT MAJOR DR L'lNDE. 
 
 De Caen 
 
 General de Divifion, Capitaine General, 
 
 Vandermaefen, 
 
 General de Brigade, Lieutenant de Capitaine General. 
 
 De Morgan, 
 
 General de Brigade, 
 
 St. Suzanne, 
 
 Chefde Brigade, Commandant les Troupes. 
 
 Binot, 
 
 Adjutant Commandant. 
 
 
 ADMINISTRATION. 
 
 Leger, 
 
 Prefet Colonial, 
 
 Cabean 
 
 Faifant fonction de Chef d'Adminiftratien. 
 
 De Montigny, 
 
 General de Brigade, Commandant a Chandernagore» 
 
 Perfonval, 
 
 Chef de Brigaiie, Commandant a Mahe, 
 
 De Kerjean, 
 
 Chefde Brigade, Commandant a Karical, 
 
 Lau. 
 
 Commandant a Coffimbazar, 
 
 De Chaflet, 
 
 Dacca, 
 
 De Marlet, 
 
 Garde Magazine, Karical, 
 
 Du Buc, 
 
 Mafter Attendant at Pondicherry.
 
 TREXTYoF ■ ( 24- ) 
 
 the occupation of the Fiench Settlements on the Continent of 
 India. This Eftabliflimsnt sdually departed from France in the 
 
 jinlved at Pottdichcrry on tht Frigate La Belle Poule, 
 
 6._OFFICERS OF THE logrn DEMI BRIGADE. 
 
 Monfieur Bloquet, Captain, 
 
 Grabeiii!, Id. 
 
 Koctliet, Lieutenant, 
 
 Peflorieie, Id. 
 
 Rouclier, Sous Lieutenant, 
 
 Conftant, Id. 
 
 8.— O FFICERSOFSEPOYS. 
 
 M. Pennemaret Mainville, Chef des Cipaves, 
 
 Dk Brun, 
 
 
 Capitainf, 
 
 Peheta, 
 
 
 Id. 
 
 Chrnolt, 
 
 
 Id. 
 
 Pechard, 
 
 
 Lieutenant, 
 
 Rouriet, 
 
 
 Id. 
 
 Pfheta, 
 
 
 Id. 
 
 Delpor, 
 
 
 Sous Lieutenant. 
 6— ETAT MAJOR. 
 
 E;:iot, 
 
 
 Adjutant Cominandarit, 
 
 Seinonin, 
 
 
 Capitaine, 
 
 Depon, 
 
 
 Id. 
 
 Le Febre, 
 
 
 Lieutenant, 
 
 Le Payre, 
 
 
 Secretaire de I'Etat Major, 
 
 Lc Mairc, 
 
 
 Id. 
 
 M. Bripx, 
 
 
 Clief de Lesion, "i 
 
 Id. \ * 
 
 Laurillon, 
 
 
 Douzon, 
 
 
 Chirn. en Chef, "i 
 Pharmacop en Chef, J ^ 
 
 Tournerct, 
 
 
 9-- 
 
 -OFFICIERS D- ADMINISTRATION 
 
 M. Brodc'pt, 
 
 
 
 Vlarqui't, — Garde 
 
 Ma^^afin, 
 
 Clericean, 
 
 
 
 Martin, 
 
 
 
 BHn, 
 
 
 
 Gomhault, 
 
 
 
 Petit Lamufcu 
 
 re, 
 
 
 Ceudenoe, 
 
 
 
 Courfdti. 
 
 
 
 ETAT DES VAISSEAU & DES TROUPES. 
 Partis de Breft dans le mois de Mars — Le Valfleau Le Marengo 'i± Canons, 
 
 Centre Amira! Linois, 
 Le General De Caen PafTager abord. 
 
 TROUPES. 
 Gardes de Gouverncnr, - - . - 8o horamcs. 
 
 Une Compagnee d'Artillerie Legere, - . - So 
 
 logme | Brigade, - - - . 200 
 
 L'ATALANTE 40 CANONS. 
 I OQine {- Brigade, - - - - 160 
 
 LA SEMILLANTE 40 CANONS, 
 I ogme Demi Brigade, - - . - 160 
 
 LA BELLE POULE 40 CANONS. 
 logmeJ Brigade, - - ' . . jg^ 
 
 LA COTE D'OR TRANSPORT. 
 3mc Battalion dc la 8me Legion, - - _ ^qo 
 
 zme C O N V O L 
 Le Bdicr, Corvette de 16 Cannons. 
 
 Le Malabar, autre Tianfport dcvant porter un Battalion de Noir Africains, fous le nora de 
 Chaffciirs Africalni. 
 1 a divifion dcftinec pnur I'Iflc dc France devait partir fous pcu ; ellc doit etre confiderablc. 
 
 Month
 
 ( 3S ) 
 
 Month of March i 803 ; the greater part of it is at the Hlc of 
 Frame, under the Command of Monheur D;; Caen, and tile rc- 
 iTuiinder has embarked from Madras for France, under the Com- 
 mand of Monfieur Binot, according to the Terms granted to th- 
 French, who hmdetl at Pondicherry in the Month of June. 
 
 It is evident that the bafis of the French Eftabhfliment as it 
 iirtivcd III India in 1 S03, was ablblutelyof a Mihtary defcription, 
 and that the French Government adually appointed for the Icrvicc 
 uf India a Militaiy St.iff, conftruded upon an extenfivc fcale, 
 and capable of furnilliing Otlicersi for a confiderablc Army. The 
 intentions ot the French with regard to the repair of tlieir 
 former Fortifications, or to the Conftruition of new Works, vvure 
 not declared j but the nature ot the Eliablifliment which arrived 
 in Iidia, leads to the necelluiry inference, that it was the intention 
 of France to avail hcrfelf of evtry opportunity to flrengthen and 
 tx:-nd her Military Refouices and Power in India. 
 
 The transfer of the Civil and Military Government of the 
 Carnatic to the hands of the Company, oppoled gieat dillituhies 
 to the Political Intrigues of the French, who arrived under Mon- 
 fieur Binot; whili the vigilance of the Government of Fort St. 
 George, rendered all communication between the French at Pondi- 
 cherry, and the Native Powers of India, nearly impradlicable; but 
 abundant proof exifts, that the French arrived in India with the 
 moft hoftile fpirit, and with an anxious folicitudc to avail them- 
 filves of every opportunity of founding among the Native Powers, 
 a fyftem of Political intrigue, and ultimately of rival influence, 
 for the purpofe of impairing the Britifh Power in tliis quarter of 
 the Globe. 
 
 If any doubt could be entertained of the views of the French 
 in this rcfped, that doubt would be removed by tie Tenor of 
 Documents, obtained at Pondicherry and Calcutta, and iranf- 
 mitted by the Governor Generjl to the Right Honorable Lord , 
 Hobarf, one of His Majefty's Secretaries of State. 
 
 With 
 
 TREATY 0?
 
 TREATY rF ( q5 ) 
 
 SUKJE AN- ^ '-' '' 
 
 JLNGAUM. 
 
 With a view to afford a diftind: j.'rocf of the proje(5l in the contem- 
 plation of the Government of France with lefped to the Emperor 
 Shah Allium, it may be advifable to infertin this place a tranflation 
 of an Extrad: from one of thofe Documents. That Document was 
 obtained at Pondicherry from an Officer who accompanied General 
 De Caen to India ; and is entitled, " ^Memorial on the frefent 
 " impoftance of India, and on the mop efficacious means of r e-tjljblijh- 
 '• ivg the French Nation in its ancient Splendor in that Country^* 
 
 E%'-aaivmthe «• SucH hss been the treatinent received from a Company of 
 
 Fiench MeniJ- 
 
 Tiai< 
 
 «• Merchant Adventurers by the Emperor of Hindoftan, the fole 
 •' branch of the Illuihious Houfe of Timour, fo revered ihrough- 
 " out the Eaft. that his Sovereignty is univerfally acknowledged, 
 " although his Power is no more j and the Englifh Company 
 •' derived its own Conflitutional Power from his infinite good- 
 *' nefs. It is evident that Shah Aulum ought to be the undif- 
 " puted Sovereign of the Moghul Empire, as the Great Grandfon 
 " ot Aurung Zebe, the Tenth Succelfor in a line from Tamerlane. 
 " This great queftion with refpedt to the Sovereignty of the 
 " Empire being decided, it remains to confider whether it is 
 " not poffible that the brandies of this unfortunate Family may 
 " find at fome time Proteftors, who fliall affert their facred 
 " Rights, and break their ignominous Chains. It will be then 
 " that a mutual Alliance, and a judicious Union of Powers fliall 
 " fecure the permanent Sovereignty of the Emperor, and render 
 *• his immediate Subjedls, ns well as his Tributaries happy in 
 " the enjoyment of perfonal Security, and of that Wealth, which 
 '• fprings from Peace, Agriculture, and a Free Trade. 
 
 " The Englilh Company, by its ignominious treatment of the 
 «' Geat Moghul, lias forfeited its rights as Dewan and Treafurer 
 *' of the Einpfre ; tiie Nawaubs of Oude and ot Btngal are equally 
 •* criminal, becaufc they have adlcd as Traitors towards Their 
 
 Lawful
 
 ( Q-f ^ TREATYoy 
 
 V ol I STJKJF, Aii. 
 
 JENGAUM. 
 
 *• Lawful Sovereign : Thiss the En^peror of Delhi has a real anc] ^ v ' 
 
 " indifputable right to tranfmit to whomfocver he may pleaft: 
 
 " to felc6}, the Sovereignty of his Dominions, as well as the Ar- 
 
 •' rears due to him from the Englifli. Thefe Arrears of the immd-d cuim .r.hs 
 
 Gcvfrnnicnt ( f Frar.cf , 
 
 •' Tribute of Twenty- fix Lacs of Rupees promifcd by the Com- '^C!^^l"Z''(\.r\'.A2 
 
 • I 1 T n z 1 -> II' n ^^^ '"''" ecmpany; 
 
 pany, \\ iili tlie Intereit or the Country addec", will amount (c«iufivrof ihc i>rri- 
 " at this prefent time, to four hundred and fifty-two Millions ^'""t,^'"'''^' ^'i"" 
 
 1 ' -' lea: Mtlhuil, Seven Uun^ 
 
 " of Livres Tournois, a fum which greatly exceeds the value of 'i-'h,l/f,^. -'*'■"'-' ■■^'*" 
 '• the Company's moveable Capital* 
 
 No doubt therefore remains, that it was the intention of the Go- 
 vernment of France, after tie conclvfon of Peace, Lo ejlallijli, on 
 the foundation of her Pofe/fions in India, a Political and IvJili- 
 tary State, and to jJrtnglhen and augment 'it hy cve>y praSiicabk 
 connexion inith the Native States of India, and hy every art of 
 indefatigable intrigue and fyflematic ambitii^n. The fy/iem of 
 introducing P tench Adventurers into the Armies of the Native 
 States, for the improvement of their dfcip!:nc and efficiency, had 
 been found to afford the readiell and mull eifctlual means ofel- 
 rablifliing the influence and authority ot the Freiicii in the Go- 
 vernment of ihofe Stales, and graduaih of ere^ittg for France 
 in India, an independant Territorial and MilitaTy Power "juiih' 
 in the limits of a Foreign Dominion. The exitnfion and improve- 
 ment of this fyftem during the coaiinuance of Peace, would 
 undoubtedly have conftituted a piincipal object ot the attention of 
 the Government of France in lodia, and adverting to the facilities, 
 ■which ivould have been cifforded to the views and projiHs of the 
 French, hy the extent of Territorial and Military Pcu'er and In- 
 depcndance eflablijhed under the due Slim of Monfieur Perron, in 
 the North Weft of Hindollan, it cannot be cloiibred, that under 
 the continuance of Peace between His Majefly and France, and 
 between the Britifh Government and the Marhatta States, the 
 progrefs of French intrigue, and the aggrandizement (f the Fiench 
 Pozcer in India, voould have been mo/t rapid and da?:gercus to 
 our fecuriiy. In the profecution oi thc-fc viev.s, the French 
 
 would
 
 SUR1F. AN- \ ^ J 
 
 ]EN'GAUN'. 
 
 "^ — -^.T'-^' vvould manifetUy have derived eiTential aid from the poffenion of 
 the Ferfon and Family of the Emperor Shah Aulum. The name 
 of that Monarch would have been employed toj-ulify cxavft.'^ii, 
 violence, and encroachment, nntl under the plea cf rcilurirg His 
 M:ijefty to his Hereditary Dominion, /he Pacer cf Fici.ce in India 
 mi^ht have been dircded io the JabverfLon of every !itcie, and to 
 ihe appropriation of every Tctritory, unprotecled by Alliance 
 with the BritiHi Nation. The Emperor might have lesn compeKci 
 to confliliite the 'Territorial Pofcfions of France in India, an inde- 
 pendant Sorereignty ; and under the plea f pf jfing Sovjieign 
 Authority, the proceedings of the Government of Fiance in In- 
 dia might have proved, in the highefl degree, injuiious to the in- 
 terefls and fecurity of tlve Britiih Empire in this quarter. 
 
 Independently of the confideratiohs above ftated, adverting to 
 the degree of Venerarion, with which the Illuflrious Defcendant 
 of Tirnour is regarded by all clafTes of people in India, (and 
 efpecia-Uy by the clafs of MulTulmans,} and to tn^ fi^afe of indignity 
 2nd mifery, to which that unfortunate Monarch had been reduced, 
 under the oppreffive Control of the Marhartas" and the French, the 
 Governor General in Council confidered, among the moft impor- 
 tant political benefits nf (hat arrangement, the reptitation v/hich 
 the Britifh name would acquire, by afrording an lii'noralile anrf 
 tranquil alylum to the fallen dignity, and declining age of the 
 Kinff of Delhi, and bv fccurinfr the means of Comfort to His 
 Majefty's nurnerous-" and diftreffcd Family. 
 
 »3thArt;cif. By the Thirteenth Articie of the Trer.ty of Peace with Dovir- 
 
 lut Rao Scindiah, tvhich correfponds with the Eighth Article of 
 i'he Treaty of Deogaum, that Chieftain engages neUer to tale or 
 retain in kis Serxice, any Vrenchtnan, ox the Subjed of any Eu- 
 ropean or American Pov/er, the Governnunrs ot which may be 
 at War with the BrirKh C^ovcrrnment ; or any BntiOi Subjed:, 
 
 * There are fifty Sona' and Daughters of iHe Emperor ; the Monthly ftipentl- allowed to each 
 of the Princes of the Imperial p-amily by the French and M;ni.att;is, did not exceed Kittecn 
 R'Jpces or about Two Pounds Sterling. • 'i he Monthly Sinn dilburfed by IVJunlieur Drugeon, 
 (who had ch.Troc oFihe Peri'.jn of tlie l.mpcrcr,) v.ere, ibr the K\pencf5 of His MaJL-IIyi Royal 
 ffamily, Di-pcn.iar.ts, Ellabli(h:nc;its, iic' about ocventecn 'Ihoufand Kupcci, (about 2,125 (,• 
 ■Ssesliiiij).. 
 
 whether
 
 K 29 I 8UKJE AN. 
 
 jKNCiAtJM. 
 
 .tviiciliCi European or Native of Indi.i, wirhout the confent of the * v ' 
 Britilli Govcrumcnr. The general (.brervalions Hated in favor of 
 the Eighth Article of the Treaty c': Dcogaum, apply with pecu- 
 liar force to this Article. 
 
 The Fourteenth Article flipulates for the Rcfidcnce of accredit- J4th Anicie. 
 ed Miniflers on the part of the BriliHi Government, and of the 
 Government of Douliit Rao Scindir.h, vvitli ihofc Governments 
 rcfped-ively. The advantage of Icciiiiiig fuch intercourfe by 
 Treaty, is too obvious to require e;.:p]an.;tion. 
 
 The FifteePith Article of the Trent y of Surje Anjengaum pro- 1511. Article, 
 vidts for the eventual admilfion of Dnwlnt Rao Scindiah, to the 
 benefits of a Dtfenhvc and Subfidiary Alliance with the Britidr 
 Government, on terms fiinilar to thofe or the Alliance between 
 the Britifli Government and the Peilhwah. The general prin- 
 ciples on which a Treaty of DcfmOve and Sublidiary Alliance 
 •>i\ith Dowlut Rao Scindiah was at all times defirable, are the fame 
 8S thofe which dictated the Policy of the Treaty cf BafTein, con- 
 cluded with Mis Highnefs the PeiOivvah. The intention of the 
 Governor General to conclude futh a Treaty with Scindiah, at a 
 favorable opportunity, was fubmitieo' to the Goverrment in Eng- 
 land, at the fame time that the renewal of the Negotiation with 
 the Pciflrvvah, for the conclufion of Defenfive Engagement?, wac 
 communicated to the Court of Diredors, through their Secret 
 Committee; and the Refident with Do^^ Itit Rao Scindiah a6lu- 
 f.ily proceeded to the Court oi tliat Chieftain, previoufly to the 
 War with the Confederate Marhatta Chieft^ains, in the Month of ■ 
 pccember 1801, charged with infl^rudlions to Negotiate the terms 
 cf a Defenfive Alliance with Dowlut Rao Scindiah, at the time 
 ^^hen the Negotiation vvith His Highnef", theFeiOiwah for the fame 
 f urpole, was in progrefs. 
 
 Thefc Negotiations were intimately ccnneded, and may 
 >»e confidered toconftirwte branches of the fame fvftcm. With 
 a view to preferve the integrity of that combined fyftem of 
 Defenfive Arrangement with thefe two principal Members of 
 
 the
 
 TREATYoV ( 40 ) 
 
 SURJE AN- 
 
 JENGAUM. ^ , 1 -r. r J " ' 1 - • /-^ /- ta 1 .. 
 
 > the Mirhalta Confederacy, ine Keiidcnt at the Court oi Uowlut 
 Rao Scindiah was ftridly enjoined to rtgulate his proceedings by 
 the progrefs of the Ncgotiaiion at the Court of His Highnefs 
 the Peifhwah. 
 
 Thefe general confideraticns were alio flrcngly corroborated by 
 the relative conditicn of Scindiab's Fewer ard Refciirces at the 
 conclufion of Peace. 
 
 In the courfe of the War with th,e Confederated Maihana Chief- 
 tains, the Power and Refources of Dowlut Rao Scindiah had 
 been greatly reduced, while thofe of Jefwunt Rao Holkar had been 
 augmented, by a confiderable acceflicn of Territory, which had 
 Vide Note to ^^^" ccdcd to him by Dowlut Rao Scindiah, on the condition of 
 f/ge"3,\f p'^rt his joining the Confederacy agairjl the Britifi Poicer. The na- 
 
 Second, ot" Ap- 
 
 No"ei%n° Ma'. turc of the differences fubfifting betv\een Dowlut Rao Scindiah 
 bauaAiairs. ^^^ Je{wunt Rao Holkar, precluded all expeftations cf Concord 
 and Amity between thofe Chieftains. 
 
 In the adual condition of Dowlut Rao Scindiah's Power, at 
 the clofe of the War, that Chieftain could not reafonable enter- 
 tain any profpe^l of fuccefs in a contefl with Jefwunt Rao Holkar. 
 Unaided therefore by a Foreign Power, the Dominion of Do vlut 
 Rao Scindiah, would probably have been added to that of h.is Rival 
 jefwunt Rao Holkar; fuch an accumulation of Territorial fireneth 
 in the hands of that turbulent Freebooter, would have been utterly 
 incompatible with the tranquility of India, and with the fecurity 
 of the Britifli Covernment and its Allies, The danger which the 
 Miniflers of Dowlut Pvao Scindiah apprehended from the fuperior 
 power, and hoftile difpolition of Jefwunt Rao Holkar, induced 
 them in the courfe of the Negotiations for thKCcnclufion of Peace, 
 to exprefs great anxiety for the eftablifhment of a clofer connec- 
 tion with the Britilh Government, and the ccnfiderations of po- 
 licy above dcfcribed, fuggefted the expediency of offering to Dow- 
 lut Rao Scindiah's acceptance, the benefits of the Defcn five and 
 Subfidiary Alliance, concluded with His Highnefs the Peifhwah. 
 
 The
 
 ( 41 ) 
 
 The Treaty of Dcfcnfive Alliance concluded between the Bri- 
 tifh Government and Dowlut Rao Scindiah, correfponds with all 
 the Stipulations of the Treaty of Hyderabad, concluded in the 
 month of Odober 1800, excepting only with refpeft to the extent 
 of the Subsidiary Force, and its permanent continuance within 
 the Territory of the Subiidizing Power. The Britifh Force fub- 
 iidized by Dowlut Rao Scindiah, confifts of Six Battalions of In- 
 fantry, or Six Thoufand Men, with a due proportion of Artillery i 
 and that Force is to be ftationed at fuch place, near the Frontier 
 of Dowlut Rao Scindiah's Territories, as may be deemed moll 
 eligible by the Britifh Government, and is to be holden in 
 readinefs for the execution of any fervicc, on which it is liable 
 to be employed by the conditions of the Dcfenlive Treaty. 
 However defirablc it might be to ftation the Subfidiary Force 
 permanently within the Dominions of Djw'lut Rao Scindiah, 
 it is evident, that in the adlual condition of the fcveral Native 
 States of India, every effential purpofe of the D.fenfivc Alliance 
 with Dowlut Rao Scindiah has been attained by the Terms of th.e 
 Treaty, adlually concluded with that Chieftain. 
 
 That Treaty renders whatever may remain of the Power of 
 Scindiah, an additional bond of the General Peace, and of the 
 fafety and ftrcngth of the Britifh Power j Nor can any juft ap- 
 prehenfioh be entertained of the growth of any diforder dangerous 
 10 our Interefts in India, while Scindiah*s reduced Power iKall 
 depend for its exiftence upon the Britifh Government. The 
 growth of the hoftile Power of Myfore from the year 1792 to 
 1798, might probably have been controlled, or even converted to 
 the purpofe of our Security, had it been poflible to induce Tippoo 
 Suhaun to enter into a Subfidiary Alliance with the Company, at 
 the clofe of the War in 1792. 
 
 The Power of Tippoo Suhaun however had not been reduced 
 by that War to fuch a fcale, as to induce his haughty and vindic- 
 tive charadcr to liflen to any Terms of Alliance with the Com- 
 
 L pany. 
 
 TKKATYoi' 
 SUKJE AN-
 
 TREATY or 
 SURJE AN- 
 JENGAUM. 
 
 i6[h Ar:ide. 
 
 ( 42 ) 
 
 pany. Such has been the redudion of Scindiah's Rcfources of 
 every defcnptioa by the late War, that his txiftence as a Power 
 in India, depends abfolutely upon the genercfity of the Company, 
 and cannot be fuftained without our adlive aid. Under fuch cir- 
 cumftances, the Power of Scindiah no longer remains an obji.£l 
 of apprehenfion to the Britifli Government; nor can Scindiah 
 view vvith jealoufy, the proteding influence of that State, to whofe 
 clemency he is abfolutely indebted for the Relloration, and on 
 whofe flrength he muff rely for the Security, of every Poffefrion 
 which he retains. 
 
 The Def"enrive Alliance concluded with Dowlut Rao Scindiah, 
 under the Stipulations of the Treaty of Peace, therefore, combined 
 with the Provifions of the Treaty of BjfTeen, has precluded any 
 future combination of the Marhatta States of a nature dangerous 
 to the Britifli Empire, and has oppofed a permanent and infupera- 
 ble obftacle to the revival ot Scindiah's Military Strength, beyond 
 the fcale, which may be deemed by the Britifli Government to be 
 confiflent with the Security of our Interefls. Tfiis important 
 Treaty not only precludes the eventual Employment of Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah's remaining Power againft the Britifli Government, 
 under any contingency, but fecures the eventual application of that 
 Power to purpofes, conne6lcd vvith the fafety of the Britilh Em- 
 pire in India. 
 
 The Sixteenth Article of the Treaty of Peace with Scindiah, 
 provides for the Ratification of the Treaty by the Governor Ge- 
 neral in Council, and prefcribes, tiiat the' orders for the CefTions 
 of Territory, llipulatcd in the Treaty, fliall be delivered to the 
 Honorable Major General Wellefley, at the fame time with the Ra- 
 tification of the Treaty of Peace; but that certain Forts, which by 
 the terms of the Treaty are to be rcRored to Scindiah, fliall not be 
 delivered up to Scindiah's Officers, until certain information fhall 
 have been received, that all the Territories ceded to the Britifh 
 Government and its Allies, have been evacuated by Scindiah's 
 
 Officers and Troops. 
 
 With
 
 ( .43 ) 
 
 With a view to exhibit a Statement of the advantageous' Opera- 
 tion of the arrangements ol tlic General Pacification upon all the 
 Interefts of the Company, and of the Nation in India, it will be 
 proper to conclude thefe Notes by a General Recapitulation of the 
 Benefits, which the Britifli Government in India has derived from 
 the fuccefs of the V/ar, and from tlie combined arrangements of 
 the Pacification, including the Treaties of Peace, of Partition, and 
 of Defenfive Alliance and Subfidy. Thofe benefits m:iy be enu- 
 merated under the following heads : 
 
 Firjl. The redu6tion of- the Military Power and Territorial 
 Rel'ources of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and ihc Rajah of Beraf, within 
 ihe limits, indifpenfably ntceilary for the Lcurity of the Briiilh 
 Government in India, and of its Allies. 
 
 Second. The d('Jlrud,ion of the French Territorial Power, ejla- 
 blijlied by Mojificur Perron, on the vmjl vulnerable part of the 
 Frontier of ihe Brit^Jh Pojfefjlons in India, under circumfoanccs of 
 iuternal Strength, Military Refources, and Political Influence, 
 vjhich menaced ihe Briiifi Government toith great and extenfve 
 dan":ers. 
 
 OFNERAL RECAPI. 
 TUUATION OF Tiie 
 ULNEFITS rr tii» 
 
 I'ACitlCA'noN. 
 
 the Tiei- 
 
 Third. The Barriers oppofed by tlie Stipulations of Treaty, 8 h Anicis ofti 
 to the revival of the French Pozuer and Infuence in any quarter of -'.^^'t,,^'""' ^"'■'° ^^ 
 India, 
 
 yrh aiuo Trcd'y of Dc - 
 leiifivc Ailiaiict: witfl 
 Duwiut Rdo Scindi«^. 
 
 Fourth. The annexation to the Britilh PoITcfrions of the 
 Territory, formerly occupied by the French Force, under Mon- 
 iieur Perron. Under this accellion of Territory, our North Wef- 
 teru Frontier has been flrengthened, by being advanced to the 
 Banks of the Jumna, and by the occupation of. the feveral impor- 
 tant Pofls and FortrefTes, which command that River : From the 
 Jource of former danger, xoe now derive additional fccurity to the 
 Briiijh Poffeffions in India. 
 
 Fifth. The augmented fources of Revenue and Cinir.crce ac- 
 quired
 
 ( 44 ) 
 
 quired by the annexation to the Britifli Territories of the fertile 
 Countries fituatcd in the Doab of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges, 
 (in which the authority of Monlieur Perron had been eftabliftied,) 
 combined with the complete Command over the Navigation of 
 the Jumna. 
 
 Sixth. The deliverance of the Emperor Shah Aulum froni 
 the control of the French Power eftablifhed in the North Weftern 
 quarter of Hindoftan ; by which, the Govermnent of Fr'ance hai 
 been deprived of a pozoeful infrument in the eventual profeau 
 tion of its hoflile defigns againft the Britifti Empire in India ; 
 and the Britifh Government, has obtained a favorable opportunity 
 of conciliating the confidence, and fecuring the applaufe of fur- 
 rounding States, by providing a fafe and tranquil Afylum for the 
 declining age of that venerable and unfortunate Monarch, and a 
 fuitable maintenance for his numerous and diftrcfTed Family. 
 
 Seventh. The eftablifhment of the BritiOi influence in the 
 North Weftern divifion of Hindoflan, and the additional fecurity 
 acquired by the conclufion of Treaties of Defcnfive Alliance with 
 the Rajpoot State of Jeynagur, and with the Petty States in the 
 vicinity of our PofTetTions in that quarter. Thofe States, under 
 the operation of the Alliances concluded with them, conftitute a 
 Barrier between the Britifla Territories and the Maihatta States, 
 which arrangement, with other ftipulations of the Pacification, 
 fccures the permanent exclufion of the influence and control of the 
 Marhattas from the North Weftern quarter of Hindoflan. 
 
 Eighth. The commanding Pofition which the Britilh Govern- 
 ment has fecured by the poflefTion of the Itrong Fortrefs of Gwa- 
 lior, and by the eftablifhment of a Subfidiary Force within the 
 Territory of the Ranah of Gohud, under the conditions defcribed 
 
 Vide Treaty, ^ 
 
 AppendixM. in thc Treaty concludcd with the Ranah Gohud. This branch 
 of the general arrangements of the Peace contributes in a particu- 
 lar degree to maintain the tranquility of Hindoflan, and to con- 
 
 folidate
 
 ( AS ) 
 
 folidate the barrier eflabli Hied for the excliifion of the Marhatta 
 Power and Influence from that quarter of India. The fame ar- 
 rangements alfo connedl our Pofleflions in Bundelcund with thofe 
 to the Northward of the Province of Gohud, and provide addi- 
 tional fecurity to the Navigation of the Jumna, and additional 
 protfftion to our valuable PofTeflions in the Doab. from the hoftile 
 attempts of any regular State, or from the predatory incur/ions of 
 any enterprizing Adventurer. 
 
 Ntnih. The additional means of defence acquired by the efta- 
 bliflied fyftemofour external relations in the North Weflern 
 quarter of Hindoftan, againft any attempt on the part of the 
 Northern Powers of Afia, or of the French Republic, through the 
 aid of thofe Powers, to difturb the fecurity of the Britifli PofTtf- 
 fions in India, 
 
 Tenth. The augmented fecurity which the Britiih Empire 
 derives from the annexation of the valuable Province of Cuttack, 
 (including the Sea Port of Balafore, and all the Dcpendancies of 
 that Province) to the Britifh Dominions. Firjl, by eftablifhing 
 between the Province of Midnapore and the Northern Circars, a 
 continuation of the Britifh Dominion and Authority; and thereby- 
 completing the line of connexion between the Territories under 
 the immediate Government of Bengal, and thofe under the 
 authority of Fort St. George. Secondly, by depriving the Go- 
 vernment of France of the facilities, %vhich the Province of Cut- 
 tack, while in the pofTeffion of a Native Power, afforded, for 
 the profecution of intrigues, injurious to the Britifh interefts, and 
 for the invafion of the Britifli Territories, either fingly, or in co- 
 operation with a Native Power. Thirdly, by the advantages 
 which our polTelTion of the Province of Cuttack would afford to ns 
 in the event of a contcfl with the State of Berar; and. Fourthly, 
 the augmented fources of Revenue and Commerce opened to the 
 Britilh Government, by the poffefficn of that fertile and valuable 
 Province, and by the influence and reputation to be acquired 
 
 M throughout
 
 ( 46 ) 
 
 throughout India, from the poiTeffion of the Great Temple of 
 Jaggernaut, and from the juft and benevolent adminiftrarion ot 
 the affairs of that Temple, with relation to the innumerable PiU 
 grims, who frequent it from every part of India. 
 
 Eleventh. The acquifition of the Port and Territory of Baroach, 
 and of the Sea Ports belonging to Scindiah en the Weftem fide 
 of India, which afforded to Scindiah, and to ihe French Officers 
 in his fervicc, the means of intercourje "jvith the Government of 
 France; and to ihe Trench, an eafy accffs to the Mar halt a States in 
 a quarter, where our Military Power was lefs formidable, and our 
 Political influence lefs firmly efiabliflied than in other parts of India. 
 
 Twelfth. The degree of fecurity afforded by the pofTeffion of 
 the Sea Port and Territory of Baroach againft any attempt on the 
 part of France to fupply by that channel, any Native State with 
 Arms and Military Stores, or with Officers, for the purpofe of 
 difciplining their Armies; and againft: the profecution of any in- 
 trigues beween the Government of France and any Native States, 
 by means of the facility of communication, which the Sea Port 
 and Territory of Baroach might affi^rd, while in the hands of a 
 Marhatta Power, to the indefatigable zeal of French EmifiTaries. 
 
 Thirteenth. The additional fecurity which our pofiefilons and 
 intereftsin Guzerat muft derive from the pofFeifion of the Port and 
 Territory of Baroach, and from Dowlut Rao Scindiah's renuncia- 
 tion of all Claims on our Ally the Guikwar. 
 
 Fourteenth. The augmented fources of Revenue and Com- 
 merce acquired by the pofi!effion of the Port of Baroach and its 
 Diflridb. 
 
 Fifteenth. The improved flate of our Alliances with the Sou- 
 bahdar of the Dekan and the Peifhwah, under the provifions of 
 the Treaties of Peace and of Partition. By the combined Opera- 
 tion
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 tion of thofc Treaties, the Power, Territory, and Refources of the 
 Peifliwah and the Souhahdar of the Dekan, have been encreafed 
 and confolidated, and their means of difcharging the duties of 
 Alliance have been confequently augmented. The confidence of 
 thofe Allies in the power, juftice, and moderation of the Britifli 
 Government, has been confirmed and increafed by their experience 
 of the advantages of the Alliance in the profecution of the War, 
 and in the ultimate arrangement of the Peace. 
 
 The ftipulations of the Treaties of Peace have, in a confidera- 
 ble degree, removed the caufes of diflention and the means of 
 political intrigue, between our Allies and the Marhatta States, 
 by precluding the future intermixture of their Territories, and 
 the confequent collifion of their authorities, by requirino' from 
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah and the Rajah of Berar the renunciation of 
 their Claims on the Soubahdar of the Dckan and the Peifhwah, 
 and by vefting in the Britifh Government, a right of arbitration, 
 in all cafes of difference, which may arife between thofe Powers 
 refpedively. Thus the influence and afcendancy of the Britilh 
 Government in the Counftls of Hyderabad and Poonah, have 
 been encreafed and permanently eflablifhed, 7iot by limiting the 
 authority, controlling the Jndependance, or reducing the Power of 
 thofe States, but by the operation of Arrangements, which have . 
 emancipated their refpeclive Sovereigns from the undue and illicit 
 influence and control of their own Servants and Tributaries ; have 
 confirmed and corroborated their refpedive Rights, Authorities, and 
 Jndependance, extended their Dominion, confolidated their Power, 
 and augmented their Refources ;f cured them from the vexatious 
 Claims, and litigious and infolent interference of other Powers^ 
 and eflablifhed the jour ces ofpermament tranquility and prof perity 
 within the limits of their refpeEtive Dojninioyis. 
 
 Our influence and afcendancy in the counfels of thofe Allies, 
 are now founded on the folid balls of their entire and eflablifhed 
 confidence in the approved equity and moderation of our views, 
 and of their jufl reliance on our proteding Power, 
 
 Sixteenth
 
 C 48 ) 
 
 Sixteerdh. The elevation of the fame and glory of the Britifii 
 Nation in India, by the fplendid Atchievements of the Britifh 
 Arms in the profecution of the War, and by the clemency, 
 moderation, and public Faith, which diftinguifhed the Britifh 
 Counfels in the conclulion of the Peace. 
 
 Seventeenth. The Conclufion of a Defenfive and Subfidiary 
 Alliance between the Britifh Government and Dowlut Rao Scin- 
 diah, by which, the Britifii influence has been completely efla- 
 blifhed at the Court of that Chieftain, on the foundation of Dowlut 
 Rao Scindiah's deliberate view of the real interefts of his Govern- 
 ment, and by which, the mofl formidable Enemy of the Britifh 
 Power in the late ccnteft with the Confederated Marhafta Chief- 
 tains, has been rendered an efficient Ally of the Honorable 
 Company. 
 
 Eighteenth. The Power acquired by the Britifli Government 
 under the general arrangements of the Peace, and the Treaties 
 of Partition and Subfidiary Alliance, of controlling the caufes 
 of difTention and conteft among the feveral Marhatta States, and 
 of precluding the refloration of any of thofe States to a formidable 
 degree of Power, their combination for purpofes injurious to the 
 Britilh Government or its Allies, their communication and co- 
 operation with an hoftile European Force, and their means of 
 profecuting dangerous intrigues with Allies or Subjeds oftlic 
 Britifii Government. 
 
 Nineicenih. The fecurity afforded to the Territories of our 
 Allies, the Soubahdar of the Dekan, the Peifhwah, the Guikwar, 
 the Rajah of My fore ; and to the Dominions of the Honorable 
 Company, from the dangers to which ihty were expofed by the 
 Anarchy and Confufion, exifcing in the Marhafta Empire, and 
 by the chaniftcr and habits of the contending Marhatta Chieftains. 
 
 The general arrangements of the Pacification, combined with 
 
 the
 
 ( 49 ) 
 The Treaties of Partition, with the Defenfive and Subfidiary Al- 
 liance now concluded with Dowlut Rao Scindiah, with the con- 
 dition of" our external Relations, and with the internal prof- 
 perity of the Britifli Empire, have finally placed the BritiHi 
 Power in India in that Commanding Pofition with regard to 
 other States, which affords the only polfible fecurity for the per- 
 manent tranquility and profperity of thefc valuable and impor- 
 tant PofTeflions. 
 
 By the efiablifliment of our SubfiJiary Forces at 11) der^bid, 
 and Poonah, with the Guikwar, Dowlut Rao Scindiah. and the 
 Ranah of Gohud, an efficient Army* of upwards of 24,000 Men 
 will be ilationed within the Territories, or on the Frontier of 
 Foreign States, and paid by Foreign Subfidies. — That Army will 
 be conflantly maintained in a (tate of perfedl Equipment, and pre- 
 pared for adfive lervice in any diretftion at the (horteft notice. 
 This Force may be directed againft any of the principal States of 
 India, without the hazard of difturbing the tranquility of the 
 
 fi Regiment of Europeans, 
 
 I 6 Battalions of Sepoys. 
 * At Hyderabad, . - - -c^ 2 Reginnents of N.itive Cavalry. 
 
 I 2 Companies of Fiiropean Artillery. 
 
 \^t Company of Pioneers. 
 
 f 6 Daitalions of Sepoys. 
 At Poonah, ----- s 2 Companies of European ArtDIery, 
 
 *■ I Regiment of Native Cavalry. 
 
 f6 Battalions of Scpo\s. 
 WithDovvuot RaoScii 
 
 INDI&H, < 
 
 1 Companies of European Artillery. 
 
 f2 Battalions of Sepoys. 
 With the Guikwar, - - -! ' 
 
 L I Company European Artilier}'. 
 
 With the Ranah of Gohud, 3 Battalions of Sepoys. 
 
 Grand Total, ----- 1 Regiment of Europeans. 
 
 3 Reg;;r.ents of Native Cavalry.' 
 23 Battalions N.itive Infantry, and 
 
 1 Company of Pioneers. 
 The advantage of an arrangement by which the tbirgcs of fo confidcrabic a proportion of 
 the eftablilbed Military Force of India is defrayed liy Foreign SubCdi- s, will be duly apprc- 
 tiated ; and adverting to the conllant preparation and equipment in which ihe Subfidiary 
 Force muft be maintained, an accurate eftimate will be formed of the Influence and Security, 
 which the Britiih Government muft derive from the Kftabliihment of fo formidable a Force in 
 Pofitions, calculated at the fame time, to repel external Aggrcffion, and to fecure the mainte- 
 nance of tranquility within the flourifliing and cxtenftve Poffeflinns of h: Company in India. 
 
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 Company's Pofleffions, and without iequiriog any cor.fiderable 
 increafe to the permanent Military Expences cf the Governments of 
 
 India. 
 
 The pofition, extent, and equipment of this Military Force, 
 combined with the privilege which the Britifli Government pof- 
 feffes, of arhh rating Differences and. Bijfcntions between the feveral 
 States with which it is conneded by the obligations of Alhance, 
 enable the Britifli Power to controul the caufe of that internal 
 warfare, which during fo long a term of years, has defolated 
 many of the mod fernle Povinces of India, has occafici.ed a 
 ccnftant and hazardous fludluation of Power among the N.itive 
 States, has encouraged a Predatory Spirit among the Inhabitants, 
 and formed an inexhauaible fource for the fupply of Military- 
 Adventurers, prepared to join the ftandard of any turbulent 
 Chieftain for the purpofe of Ambition, Plunder, or Rebellion. 
 
 No danger can refult from the operation of our Defenfive Al- 
 liances of involving the Britifli Government in War, excepting 
 in cafes of manifeft Judice and irrefiflible NecefiTitv. Tiie power 
 of Arbitration referved in all cafes by the Britiih Government, not 
 only fecures the Company from the contingency of War in the 
 profecution of the unjuft views of any of our Allies, but affords 
 a confiderable advantage in authorizing, and empowering the 
 Britifli Government to check, by amicable Negotiation, the primary 
 and remote fources of Hoftilities in every part of India. 
 
 A bond of connexion is now cflablifhed between the Britifh 
 Government, and all the Great States of Indi^, on principles, 
 which render it the Interefl of every State to maintain its Alliance 
 with the Britifli Government, preclude the inordinate aggran- 
 dizement of any of thofe States by an ufurpation of the Rights 
 and PoffefTions of others, and fecure to every State within the limits 
 of its eAabliflied Dominion, the unmolefted exercife of its feparatc 
 Authority, under the general protedion of the Britifli Power, 
 
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 The agitation which is the neccffaiy confequcncc of a long 
 courfe of War and Tumult, cannot be expcfled to fubfidc im.- 
 xncdiately upon the conclufion of the Treaties between the B-lli- 
 gerent Powers ; the habits and charadlirs of various Chiefs and 
 Clafics of the People in India, will alfo naturally tend to protradt 
 the continuance of commotion, until tlie more powerful and 
 durable caufcs, arifing from the fettlemcnt of Peace among the 
 principal States, Ihall have produced a full efFeft, by diffufing 
 the principles of general tranquility and good order. In this 
 interval, temporary interruptions of the tranquility of particular 
 Diftri^s may be occafioned by predatory incurfion, or by local 
 diforder, and the lawlefs violence of Freebooters and Robbers, 
 in the early operation of the feveral Treaties, may require cor- 
 redion. But the comprehenfive and permanent policy of the 
 Pacification, which has been concluded, will not be effentially 
 affedted by thefe local and temporary difturbances. The refult of 
 the War, and the conditions of the Peace, have left no State in 
 India of fufficient Magnitude or Force, to (hake the foundations 
 of the general fyftem of Defenfive Alliance; founded upon 
 principles of Juftice, direded to the falutary objedt of general 
 tranquility, and fupported by adequate ftrength, that fyftem 
 promifes in the progrefs of time, to conciliate the attachment of 
 thcfe great States, whole interefts it embraces, and to Command 
 the refpeft of other Powers. 
 
 END OF PART SECOND OF APPENDIX TO THE 
 NOTES ON MARHATTA AFFAIRS. 
 
 
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