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lity of moving; but wines snore was requisite in respect to Amer,' Khnn. Though his large army was heeler fashioned and move gyalematieelly organised than the Pin.tarry force, still he was essentially nothing but a leader of freebooters. It was of fnutlamental urgency that his army should be dig. bawled. 'f Witch it consisted of fifty-two battalions, with above one hundred and fifty pieces of tuners and a power ful cavalry, it was luckily dispersed ise small corps, either for the occupation of the widely separated patchea of terri tory winch he Ind won from different Chiefs, tee for the ex to. tem of mean. of snleeistenee f.emo weaker Slates. M v hope of rendering Seindia sad Aimee. Kleen titusble to struggle rested sin this, that I s' Li assemble pay force before they euspecteel my intention, mid push ;t. forward with a rapi dity which should make any c ~,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, of their troop. inepractitahle. The mere immroahility of Seintlia would toot have answered my purpose. the Piedarries, if pressed by mro. uuld have traversed his dominions and coined the west• era states whither I should be precluded from foelowing by n bar insuperable as long as it existed. V.P. were hound byTreally with Saudis to have no communication whatever with those States, SU that the l'inelarries would in the disunited Raj pool territories have found not only shelter, but the faci lity of elonthionsose their forces with that of AillePr Khau I am shewilig to you that Bern here the Intuits of pub. lic faith were in my contemplation lem surmountable than physical obetacks. Do you think that I solved this ember. goverment by an illicit Nowa the atteemiage which I succeeded to gaining over &ludic, by ;Arsenio:: myself in the midst of his divalent's and prohibilitg any attempt at their j lion' Yon do met believe it ; yet you will like to hear teplaineel on what title I reqsireel from him the nherigation of that in terdict which forbade our intercourse with the western aisles. Ni. Treaty, in troth, was existing betweea us and Seindia. lie had dissolved it first by exciting the Pindarries to Invade our kreituries, that lie Might see how a desultary mode of War might eff..^l our power; secondly, by lending himself Coe year before to the !weenie:ate intrig ues of the Peishwa tar the sedeversion of British preponlerancy ; thirdly, by specific promises give's to the Pinelarriee of making common cause with them, should they be driven to ex igenry. Will it be said that this was poesibly the eonetrueli 111 l which we put on doubtful idursivelloso ? Though the Piaslairy Chiefs wow prisuners wills me have since boriie ciia, ore in the tenth of all those fact., my vindicaill , ll 111113 nut repose it self there. Just a s I was liking the lie Id, I enuseel to be its. livered to Seintlia, in open ;Weber. less owes letters, signed with hes own hand, and sealed with his owes private seal, ad. dressed to u foreign (Lover:wlet , and evioriee it,. most hostile machinations already matured seainst us. Nothing was said Si, lien on the delivery of those let errs other them that the tioveritur-Genern had not a ishe et to pause them, /11111 Oat his Highness would perceive the seal. we le niihrekcii. 1 hid no need to peruse them, because their centents were aisplayeet by the letters of inferior agent., ref.-I.l'lg to and i f_ Inetrating the espressious of the Maharaj Is These pastern. tars are mumerted to you, that you nosy see how steadily, ootwitlietanding the laxity of the other patty, our plan of uplsoblisig the existing Native Governmeet• of India was tuanitnined. Did Seiudia dispute the verity of the proofs brought resist him? Nu such thing. lie sunk under the confusion or the unexpected d teetioe. 'there a a s u s, ( b. ial, sin 'attempt at explatostine, no endeavour to extenuate be quality of the secret curreapon.lence. ' On our psi t, the . sole advautiege drown (rem the eircumstince a. additemal F security fur the accomplishment a nue inea.asers agaiiise the Pinelarries. The Maharajah was told, in mild and concilia tory terms, that the British elorernineull would give way 1.1 no viudictive impeder 011 account of what had pursed, but would regard his Iliglooese'e aberrations ss an iudiseretion arising from loss not having rufficiently considered the lies of amity ronsistiug between its; but it was added, that ne those ties hid uut appeased fi.sn cueing!' to secnre onr just intervene a new 'Freely shaulel be proposed, elite Is, while it preserved to the Maharajah all the solid benefits ei.j .y e el by him ouster the former one, would give us the certainty of asinihitatuar the l'inslerriee. Sciatelia gladly agreed to the terms which pledged him to active coesperat ion against the freebooters, and art us at liberty to mike those engagements with the Iteipant States, whirls alone could induce them 111 combine mod oppose any Micro et of the Pindarrice to find refuge in the Western Country. A provisional agreement was looted with those States instantly nu our tobtaiseing the sight to take them wider our protcetiuts. A more el. csive conduct was requisite Inwards Atnecr Khali. As Is.. hand was professedly against every man who Isa.l sly tiOne :Is lose, the hand of every man might justly be ratan egain.t bum. There were no eneagements,expless or implied, between him sud us. lie was, therefore, dis tinctly tub: of oar resolution ant to suffer the onetime:ince ' of a pre/it:bey system in Central Inuits. Au (Veit, was nu this principle offered, that lir shauld e uliseribe to tile dis banding of his army, or witness ties: attack of it in its sepa rated cninlition. Sheeild he choose list faun. r course, lie ' crenuld he Xllarallieell in the p......e.einn of the territories hr ' hail woo bum States whose inju.ies we hush on obligation to redress; should be risk the latter, he weed.' be followed up as a In eiboote r with the keenest pursuit that eaul.l he Medi. toted agaiast a criminal disturber of the public peace. lie had sagacity enough to comprehend that any procedure but submissiusi was hopeless. The positions gnomel by us i Inveigh exit.' ity at the mitset, reside red the eituatiun of show with whom ho had to deal dere electrum. Seiedia was closely pruned between the centre division on the Leeks alibi. Sande, a id d %jot-Gal. Ounkin's division em the banks of the Chum. biol. Tin. letter corps menaced Amoy, Khali on one aide, while Sir David (ehterlemy's overlinue that Chief on the either, and the division under S:r William Kier prevented lite escaping southward. lu toss e xtreinity, Ammer Khali took the wise step of throwine hini.elf on our liberal justice. His artillery was surrendered to tow; his army was disbanded; and the !triune Government motel free fi am end) ie./limning in that quarter. At that period, siltich was early in November, I hail to eusieitles Ilse objects of the (amputee as completely gained; for the Penelar ries, sensible of the inspeacticaleiltty of maintateetne them ,. Ives tee their own territories, had beetle: Ileac march to lea bark un supports of which they did 'suit then know I lead deprived them, and were surrounded by our divisions, which were then closing in upon them from every side. Au apparently we 11.grousided hope was thence tutertained that the eat. massive revolntion which importantly changed the for iIIIIPS of so many Sta.. a, would be perfected without the effusiun of odor blood thou what might be %heel in the oliepersum of the Poldarriee. That expectation was IAUt M 1111111; but its failure arose (roust cause* altogether 11/111'011- neried with the plan of our undo., taking, or with any steps used by us in the ieuseeution of it. I mentioned to yule (list I reserved WI 1 )(plait:saw.) respecting Welker.— Thooseli some of the Chiefs of the Peoularries held las ee J•glwere from llolkaa's Government. they bail meted su inere peneleutly of it, that they were considered as having divorced themselves entirely from it; said that Government, sin my aotifyieg to them the determinstion to suppress the Pin der. ries, reprubated the lawless ferocity of the frerboottes, ap plauded iht justice of my purpose to chastise them, fled closed the letter wills exprewoules of every wish for tic success. e--The 'Curia et y of those wishes might have been leestion. able, though no spier elocution uf ebbs' election to our policy would have attended the doubt, heel uut other and more Is ei touter cerreeponilt toe bee se at that lime in procees be ts. en H9lkal 'a Gee., sem. sit and um*. Toulon. {Myr, the e silos of the late 31allarajalo, was, an you know, Went of the State, 1:111111X the naisourity uf 'using Welker. Feeedsiee tier. self unable to control thee iusoleuce of the Stenos Duel to pre serve the iteei est tot the family, she had sent a Vakeel to so. licit private ly, that liolkar and the State might be taken ruder the Mellish Government. The uverture was met with the kindest . 10'.111fa i rr1111. Ili. NU 1011 . 4e1111/11111: condition was 11010'411,1, on sobsuly required, ties stationing of a British force to Dolores territtolier proposed ; the only °attire of tering was reciprocal support, /11 case either State ern- at. Locke .1, god the sealous vo ..p.eatiou of ilulkar's Guyer's. meat in preventing the asenitolsge of predatory asseetiations. %Valle such Rank cordiality reigned beteeru the Parties, no. %tong could se eat more out of the clianeestliait a 1 apt sire : y.l ...pees a *when Ilse Vakeel was recalled, the eh ffese tit Sobers s o tto slime re.te (live troops, we me 141 ttttt nutted to repair with the utmost speed to the Sovereige's peesoti, and the &termination eef marthisig to aid the Pe talrea sins m eta I by flee. It. gent. Whet castled is fresh iii your le. coil. etwie. TM: 11altrnita army fume! itself sin - eon:nest. Carucci reprtatoluituss of the inevitable suet Ishii It they were ruts:ling on themselves, vitae made un oar part tu the 6 es..-rumen', and many times feiH sled. 'fin Sitars) could mot imagine such a feeling as the moderation whence these friendly exposiislations flowed. Our assurances that their ebullition should be forgotten, and ant we would remain on the same amicable fouling as before, if they abandoned their extraysicent purpose, were aupposeil to arise from our couscionaness of incompetency to coerce them, and that 'Persuasion increased their temerity to the extent of actual attacks en our outposts. The It.lent alone perceived the precipice; wished In withdraw from it ; and was publicly put to death by Hie Sirilars fur doubting the ceriiiisly of victory the evening be. foie Hie battle which redoes il 111011 car to a destitute fisgitite. A similerly unprovoked defection was exhibited by (lir Rajah o agpore. If his inimical disposition was not in-irk ed with the same insolent vaunt, it was only because, he thought the basest inaidionsiiess would give limb an 44.11411. (age in the itierupl which he meditated against the life or 1/llr acci ((flied Minster, residing under the public (11111 of a I scaly at his Highness's (lutist. He kept up his Rohm's, pro test:Hi...of devoted friendship till the very hour of the shack on the Residency. His villainous efforts failed, his courage 61s:tested him, lie threw himself on our wiry, he w•aa cauti oned on the Musiosil, anti every reverence was !stid to him, till we detected him in a new conspiracy. Theis the simplest principles of self•preservatuu demanded his removal from the throne. I have stated these two cages before I touched upon 11131 of the Peisliwa, hreause they will eirongly elucidate the BMh sity u 1 the couilart held towards that Prince, if Prince bo nit a title unfitly applied to an individual so filthily retuned with perfidy. Our endeavour to screen his reputation, by thiowing the whole guilt of the Hoyt-knee mister's tourehe on Trimbackjee Datnglia, when the Pi:nitwit himself was won less actively implicated its it, seas so perversely tart by him, that thrall:limn the year 18Th we discovered the in. trigueit of his Highness at almost every Colin in India, to : atimnlate combiner against 111 in resenge for our Pilate. _ Nay towards his despicable minim... They were 1! ell 151 be the effects of sot acrimony whir's, -timid soon enlisele, and - much importance was nut attached to them. On Mama, howrver, that they were continned,l jiolzed it rest to :spprise the Priam* Shut I was &eliminate.' with the trisusactione. wili, done ro. the tent lest 111: rt.; sod the iutimation WA9 coupled with • p, ufession that I *seri lwd those practices to the indulgenceof an inconsiderete -.oleos. which he would chasten in himself the moment he it-fleeted en its real nature. It was added, that in the confidence of lilt being solicitous to re trace his steps, I was ready, MI the proft-ssion of sods a ilia. position out his part, to obliterate the tentembstire of all that hail passed, aunt to invite his fullest reliance on my per sonal &tins to naanstaiu his welfare and dignity. ills au• seer was a protestation of never.eudieg gratitude for the gristle lobe in which I 11411 roamed Is. t o to a sense of the track hit° which he hail unisiteutimially aluldeu, and which could hate led unly to his ruin. He cher:fed his aerate wi lt !mine exceeded his inetructions, which, nevertheless, he :oh ttttt ial to have been indefensible, but which he waiild ex. pi tie by a oriel flacony to the engseementa existing between era nowcinlirmed anew by his must solemn atwevreat V. ry slioitly after we detected him in the endeavour to ciii. heel an army mailer the pretence of quelling a r. bs ilium, headed by Triinbuckjee, to whom • eiisotaist remittleve of Treasure was made from the PClllll9l . s cuff. re, as we knew by the must accurate informati tttt of every issue. We were thee constrained to anticipate this inenrrielble plotter. We sur rounded hint ei his capital, situ obliged I to submit to terms Wl/leta preset veil the 1111fivla appearances mf e ttttt hot deptived him of much strength, Amish! he hazard future machinatems. At the same liin., what we im posed was wily a fulfilment of an article is Site Treaty of in, by which lie was obliged to keep up for us an maxillary force of 5,000 horse. Not Hue of teem had ever beets retained fur us; and the m iney whir!, ehoill.l have finfished theta went into lug lltg6ncscs pi n :lie treasury Hut we new reposed that district% yirl.liug revenue to Ilie requicite amount, should he put into our hands for the I. vy nod maintenance of the cavalry in qeestioli, accord ing to Ike usual custom in the ilabralta States, or oso 4 o. Jo g lands his Sitilais for the subsistence of n spec bee of troupe. The foist, though it would he the Peishwa's fur every .purpose of service while friendship existed he. meets no, would go into our scale (since we mete the paymasters), el Id his Serene Highness venture to break with us. He did, you are aware. venture to break with ; but you possibly may not have suspected bow nefieial Mat precipitated step ea. for us. Had he not done an, the conspiracy to which he hail riven a sub. stance and shape much beyond what we had c unt raved, might have burst forth upon us at an 1111111uvitIrd Moil. 1 lit with mischievous concurrence of exertion. The Pt I.ltwa trusted to wide co-operatt no. The sanguine' y desire of l i tttttttttttt Mr. Elphinstone, wade him over hasty in breaking turns, thuitgli lie had no dusibt, lon that Sciudin and Attires. Khan wire already in the field isgaiost us. The ptedaes of reciprocal support, craned in ISIS, ate *hat I have staled sepias' Semite in the earlier part of the recapitio lation. 'lle Peishwa when he reverted hr arms, was not it,. formed that Soothe and Auner Khati hail .heady been re. ducted to indlity. They had been put out of the gentian. But II olkar and the Rajah of Simpler had yet the pow. r of outvote. WWII alive their deftest they were asked a hat could lead them to the extravaaaut net lir 3112,.164g its, with wh o m they were its bonds of plighted sunny, each pleaded the order of the Peishwa as tot Ili lie cut. Jested 11.ilkar's Minister. acknowledged their span* 'cuisine petition to be taken under the wing of the British (moveriiment ; but urged, " the Pei.liwa is our 31 as t r, and what b.. COWI• minds we utast obey." The it sjah of Nagpare after his last seizure, charged to Ilk face by our of hie former Ministers, with Mgr:inhale in making time, at. tempts against which he (the 3iti ttttttt) had used absolute supplications, atoms red, that the conduct of the H. 1111.11 Irs 111111.111 IoWAI.L. 111 M had Lest, All uurstieit sit cam of be mute conferred, that there nee "r had larii a traasient slia satislaction, but that it was his duty to fulfil carry direction from his superior the Prishwa. After did-timelier like these, after such proof that uut holly the enpulations el i.e Treaty of Bassi in, which a Ileil the authority of the Peiritwa, but that the most pointed oaths and the siroegeet obligations fur benefits received, email not counterbalance the influence inherent to the name of Peishwa, sou will out he surprised at our feeling it irrational to think of ie-esta. blishilig that title. When the Peishwa, et-deiced he the invi tation of the Rajah of Nagpore, theft at libet tv, and filliuG the MUSItUII : adcaund Willi loos army to the Wattle, het on his :its nal there, Instead of finding the Nagpore runty ready to jute hen, learned that the plot had been discoveieti, mid that Appa Saheb was a prisoner, llie uopossibdily of groins back to his own dominions 1939 appaient. The dißposa lof them was then to be considered. I hare Octet] that there could not be a Prielswa admitted. To raise any sof Itijee Riot's leanly to the throne with another appellation, would have been a della-duo. The Milt-feasible character of Petsliwa and Chief of the Maliralta locates, would have been ascribed to the individual lit despite of any harriers of nom which we (unlit establish. On that priuciple we could assign to the Rajah of Satarali only a ',noted ter. rims y, and by no awaits 1119011 111511 191111 tile sovereignty of the Vomits!' do ttt t Huns (hi the other hand, should we set up any one of a faintly witheut pretension, w !tether Hindi.° or Mitssulinan, we humid aurae lees to tip. hold ae-tiest all the distaste and prejudices of the iiihaltitente the i. 17.1 %%Inch we had elevated. tVIIAI Was W./114., we B liss id have lit suppnit agaimst the just indignation of the coittitry that prileips that brutal tyrausiy, *ludo we insist expect would take place under any natise sit called to the throne. It Was thence matter of positive moral necessity that we should ,for the present at least) keep the is rrltoi 1. if naive Row, the late Peishwa, in A t silt sponiling eutharrassineut hangs 11111.11 Ws wish re- - . grid in Holksr, and the State of Nagpore. The exerlionm mole by Hulkar skewed to um the dulcerous impu try I I. uring that Slate in ii condition to be ever mien trouble. some. It has on that account been ilisinetnbt red of two : thirds of its territory. The greater proportion of !Log t I nuts have been transferred to the Rajahs of Kotah, !Lunde', aid other Itajpoot Chiefs, whom we wished to plrvaigtliin. Part has biro kept in our hawk to pty the expense of the troops which She unforeseen eimilLN of ciscusintanees rerpoires our keeping advanced iu toat rpiart.r. With iespect to N:igpt,re, we hare taken territory instead of the suaxidy payable in wont" by the to iziont Treaty. There are two motives for this: that we thereby narrow the power of the Stair; She oilier, 1 that the tract connects stilt with 5.111. r psi intim of .3, and ionipletes the frontier. You are aware that Sooror, which is the pctsv.sion alluded to by out an acipitsitioa • from the late eampitigo. It was ended ill to* by the Primlina by the Teemlv of Poonah. The manager of it having given shrlter to the Plotlaeries, and hay tug sulfured levies to be made °petals its this town fur the Rajah of Nagpore, whets that Prince was in arms against us, has keen removed ftons his superintendeuer. By taking it into our own hands, we not only commit our own seam sty, but we see snaffled its pity from it Its the Jagster- Dar (N:gona Govilid Now, who resides a t Jabilltil three tunes the :mound of the sum ever before I revived by hint ft oin the petits If I talk of oarrowssig the 111P11111 of llolk me col of the Maginot Rajah, I do so I'll the clear principle of tight so alis;mse of territory WOll In war. Each of those Priori% li, lost al I. What soever they now possess is restored to thcio Ity Its as a gratui tous loom ; stud the fact will serve to es 'aye the leatlllig in- Cline i wills which we 9 0 1 out, of preserving the then exist. Mg Governments of 111.11 a. Though ibis has 1101 !Nen di gression, the explanation of the mt. specteil manlier in which we find our territot ire increased, has put out of sight for the moment the direct object of our appearance in the field. 'rue dreadful pestileure which made such havoc in the dipision tinder my immediate command, totted me to quit the batiks of the Sinde, and to seek a more fa vonrahle enotitry for the recovery of my numerous sick. I dud lost find this mild I was fifty mots from the river which I gniltsti Irto Innately the change of air was rapidly beneficial; for a very slim t tune had passed when I re ceived intelligence of au invitation said to have been emelt by Seintli• to the Pindarries. He was reported to base promised them that if they would come so near to Gelation. as to make his getting to them easy, he would break his 'I scaly and join them a Alt the force whirl, he hid at his capital. The • Pitolarries wire w full march for Gwalior„ without even 11 sheet of impediment rutin She troops of Scindia stationed Its their route ; tlootta4 lb cooperation of his army for the extinction of the Pitidarries was an tide of the Treaty We Inn vied hack to the Snide; hot this time we Ouse a posit' nearer to Gwaltor than whit we had before verso pied. H - a were or it hot :Id miles o f the c i ty, an d one rolvanred gu rd was sent to 1/11 . 11pythe brasses through the hills which rim at some dim:tore smith of Gwalior f the Smile to the Chuntliti I. Thou- pa• sea woe the only mute by which commuitication could take place between the Pouters tea and Sandia anal I alts nearer to Pflpion t my advaitc..l ;;card Hum the Maltactjah am: Its at tack it, could be bung his mind to MI &sin rate a stake. With till the suspicious eircontat:itic..s uncoiling OW stale of ihitszo, our forbear:nem was tint wearied. No unpleasant hints were thrown out. Sciudia was told that a. I had learn ed the approach of the Pintlarries, I had thought it ail atten tion due to my ally to place myself between loin and a st t of lawless pletoderers, who wmilil put him into great embarrass. RICH I could they get into his pus. nor, and throw thentselvt a on Lis protection. Civility was nowt rt .1 by civility. '1 he Pittelarries finding their fume* kilned and the passage stop. rattempted to retire ; they bad been followed close yattemptedaur divisions, were surprised, dispersed, 1111.1 slaughter ed in a number of *mall actions. In short they diaapptiared. And thus our objects uric completed. It remains now to be *evil, what is the change effseted its our situation. . ..... . In England there are continual iltelaniations against the propensity of the Honourable Company's Governm e nt here to ■old to territorial 11.01.5CC.1.1119 already toe I.llge It is for. got lei that a tendeory to xpaiesi ..... arnonoting almost to dieret necessity, is the inherent and ius••parable draw hack ow the advantages of a power est allbshed an anomalously as that of the British in India. I "UM Ise a visi .... ary essti. deuce to slippier iliat your sir. oath would nut excite jea lousy, that your tat hes would not bl.mulate cupid ity, and that your humiliation of thase native (ninth. a *hick held sove reignty when you first got footiog in the coattail, would nut he brooded over wills 3 deep sob it of revenge. Yet a belief in the ison-exiatence of those impulses is the ground on which they insist stand, who Moist MI the progi easier increase of our away as a moor of constant ambition in the Hun. Company . * local Representatives. There assa y !save been Casell, though 1 might bud it difficult to iodic ite them, whete prospects of gaininz political aseendaury, or too hasty apprehensions of lords slid attack, have misled us into hostildies other wive capable of bring avoided but the g.•ueral history of our Indian Empire is. that we have been a antunly wooded, that we have conquered the unprovoked enemy, and that we have retathed the possessions wrested from him, not simply as a legitinsite compensation for the peril and rap nse forced upon us, but MI considerations of self defence, brought home to our conviction by the nature of the viisleuce just offered to us. WW'h•t recently betel myself, as I have explained it to you, must be the strongest illustration of this t vent oat txigf pry. " Recover your strength and try contest with us again," would be deemed a rather absurd address to a treacherous fur whom you had vanquished ; hot y o u would as eff, etivi ly put it on Chit ri•ilitex by the restorati.fn of all his means, as if you had given him the advice in let ins. Still it msy be sell, though the angruentati .... of territtny may not invobre any thing erprehensibli. it is not the leas ICI be laniented ; s lie.• the Islet:snot of ( 1 . 0 10 1 ..; brings y o u In contact wait iiew enemies, "educes your sit engi li by widen. ing the ei.ele nu the eirenuifeeences of whit it it is to act, leaves ifelvaile• it stations dangerously uusu;ulw.uled, suit 'shove all a abbe uf (ovation 111 tcrril•.ry exacta furinolabla addition's to your military chaig. s. Th► argon...tit starlit he good were the assumptions ad mined. Examme whether they ought. t7toloulartl4 pine sway has tweet prodigiously oventled by the late operations. The !tidos is mow in .fleet your fstoilier; stud, on the conditions of t!o• arrangement, I thank Heaves. that it is SO. What is there oetween C 1114111.1 and 11241 boundary? Nothing but Staff a bound by the fa u se of c o mmon interest with yeti, or a compaeat.veiy small proportion of ill-disposed popula tin's, rest& .1 ,1 incapable of rearing a standard against you. The al &rata power is wholly and ii re lii.vahly broken. S. Oodles by having betau kept in port while the barks of its neighbours in - tweak' .1 the tempest and pet Isla(' in it, pre. gents no exhibition of slim ti red fortunes; but he stand* in sulated and preelndtal Cwtu any rat riiliColl9 ASSiShillet. I en sattsfied of his conviction that his existence depends oa his b• log iu amity atl6 the British Goveritimmt, and of his consequeut resolution to cultivate our good will. That int halation' in him has Iwtn, and will cambium to be unfeignedly encouraged by us. Wile his disposition differ ent, it would he instter of no concern to us. Ile is now girded round by States which we have raised to fli , power of resisting him, evil' without our aid, by our ha vtiez ath.t. led to them most of the territory taken tram ; and their political views never can coalesce. You will not to. - get the direct and heavy defalcation from Scintlia's strength in the eatmetion of the Pinilari ics. %Vhere is that host, the half of which was to wear us nut in fruitless pursuit, while the other half was In get behind us and lay waste our provinces? Gone, vanished!—multi. holes of them slab, in a number of desultory actions, still more of them massacred by the peasantry, ;IS (after abatis &ming their horses and urns to escape Aunt us through the jungles) they eitileavostrial to snake their *ay through the country in small parties as travellers. There then remain only Staten which have spontaneously and earnestly pay. ed to be received AS feudatories loftier the Bettis!' mm. ner. It is not conquest that has extended our rule, we have beaten down nothing hut the lawless violence which bad for so many years made those regions n scene of tintrirelleled terelehedsitss. It is not the awe of our power which has made till the Itiiiposit States solicit to be smiled with Its. A distinct perception, that the misery which they bail so long buffeted cool.' not he prevented but by their identifying themselves with us, was the sole motive fur the anxiety with which they sought the councxinn In the terms of it there is nolhang to affect pride or wound conveni ence, PO that the t onfederation carries with it WO 11•11.11 - 41 siesta of dissolution. %Vali their interual Government we profess to have WI right of interference, Mutual support iti the field is of course plighted; but, the ;nice fit our supe rior entstrilott ion to that contingency is an engagf tat tit that the ' , flood Slates shall not disturb the general tranquillity by atm kiiig each other. Their diffrreoceis or claims are to be submitted to the arbitration Of the British Gavertinient ; and this provision, which eitinguishes the neceasity for their resoctiog to the peon, on petty resits er Itemise, heretofore enforced the pm' joilices or the eimeary, is hail by them with a jest conception of .1s utility. Thus your enlarged away is nothing but the influence arising from the rs fiance of the several Staten on your moileratiou, your good faith, and your honest &sue In pruuwti• 16rir lislcate SIN/11111 It be said, that to rountethalance this obvious political gaits, we must take Mot account the fisadvanlagi•s of extended pasitions and the charges attendant ott tut:teased est mutts, T anawer, that when ihr multiplicalion of points of defence• is orgi rl , the dimiitisliel means of isimoylog us are elm to he cool. imitated. I have obelus to you that scare( ly any contimie I•i exist. One new situation has nit brought ua into emit.irt with :me thing that can have the wish, or had it the wit ii. could Ins tee the power of Kirin us trouble. All within the Ind.. is Mini bed to :snit. Ibe Indus would lie n h •• h ice against contact, were there any S:iite uu the other side of it adverse to you in it) intertsts. Should any such hereafter amiear, it is u-it your iiifhtencing the. Government. ui the v,ciiiity of the Indus that would be the cause of (parr. I ; and I caisoot roticcive any stronger dissuasive to cot iiirices &goblet ne from beyond the river, item the knowledge that all within it are linked with us in the bonito of cordial union. In this I deceive myself egregiously if ally augmented military charges will nut be light 'lnked in comparison with the large additional rrsonrees arcureJ ill meet such omit tin I demands. 'lbis is our beau fit in the arrangement: wh•rt is that of the Itajpoot states? Deliverance from an oppression more systematic, more unremitting, more Amt.'', than perhaps ever before trampled on humanity. Security and comfort are established, where nothing but ter ror and misery before existed; nor is thin within a narrow sphere. II is a proud phrase to use, hut it is a true one, that we have bestowed blessings neon nollions. Nothing can be more delightful thau the reports I receive of the k e en e ensi. tidily manifested by the inhabitants to this change in their ciectiniststne. a. The smallest .1. tachment of our troops CAW MA pass through that country without meeting every where rag. r nod exulting gratillations, the Irene of which proves them to cane from glowieg hearts. Multitudes of people lave, even in Shia shirt iiiteessl, come from the hulls and fastnessis, in which they had sought refuge fin• yrais, and • have re-mutinied their nurieht deserted villa_.'. The phonetists:so e is ■g.rin in ev.,yquiitir, lou s ing ti p a sail. which had for many season, never been stirred, except by the hoofs of predatory ceealiy. here then is a display of g. nerst advantage and an exhi hinting woolly- of politic quiet. Every one of the facts on which I have founded the repi.senistiou, is capable of heing by each of yon, %lilt hide ir,oad, or inquiry, if I have *de:weed them mcurle,ily. I have sit angely hazard. ed any character, if tiny are liable to refutation. If thi y are not, t. het we have done is befitting the policy, the equity, the benignity of our country. You justly appreciate the admirable energy of the officire commanding the divisions to which the more active part of the sea vice fell; and the zeal of the whole of the troops, with the splendid gallantry of those who were on any °erasion en gaged, noel its all the praise which you have ofh red. I concur ardently cilia you in the sentiment you es:press, of our obligation to aim at rendering what we have dime still more beneficial to the inhabitants of India. The main obstacks to our infusing improvement are remot cd; and Wfl may certaMly dasse ate useful instruction, without. in the slightest degree, ri.•king dissAisfartion, by meddling with the religious moutons of Me natives. Information 1111 prartical points is what is watiliiig to the peopCe; for, from the long course of anarchy in those parts, all relations of the community are coufused. 'This Government will not lose sight of the object. We may surely sneered in inculcating principles of mild and equitable rule, distinct notimis of social oboe. Yancey, and a just sense of alio. al duties, hailing per haps in God's good time to a purer conception of the more subbase claims oat the human mind. At least, let us Jo what is lii our power. Lit us put the seed into the ground, and Providence Will determine on its growth. Should it be the will of the Almighty that the tree should rice and flou rish, and that the inhabitants of Muse extensive regions should enjoy al'curity and comfort under its %bride, we 'hail have dune much fun many of our fellow.ci eatures ; but we 'hull have dour well also fur that in which our liveliest inte rest is faced. Ti- cherished memory of our forecasting be mlieence • ill r. main to future times in ludic the noblest monument of the British name. MADRAS PAPERS. lIADtAti JULY 18. Most deplorable details continue to reach us from Bengal, of the rapid progress of the fatal epidemic. About 30.000 are said to have fallen victims to it at Gorruckpoor, in the coarse of oue month. •UQUS? I. We observe by the Bengal General Order., that Captain Browne. who commanded the guard, from which the Ilaialt of Nagpnew effected his escape, is to lie tried by a General Court-Martial. The setting in of the rains will proltably put • atop to the operations of tiro troops that are yet in the field ; but unless she subjugation of a ft w re fractory Kill, des, titere terrains nothing to com plete the triumph of our arm. The settlement of the Stater, which the late brilliant campaign has placed at the disposal of the Marquis of Hastings, will next occupy his Lordship's attention ; and judgiug from tale line of wise and vigorous policy which he loc hitherto tongued, we may auticipitr with the 'vomit eusitiilence, that such a system of control and superiotentlence will be introduced, as will put is final stop to the scrota of rapine and pil lage that have au lout: desolated some of the floret provisoes of Hitolmtait. We base all along regard ed the measures of Load Hustings as eminently cal culated to promote the interests of the British Em pire itt the East. That the reins of Administration should have fullest into his Lordship's hands, at a period *6 big wills importance to the future peace and prosperity of India, is one of those beiteficeut gifts of Providence fur which we cannot he too thankful; and that lie may lung continue to guide them, is a prayer which every one will prefer, who is interested in the welfare of the British power in Media. AUGUST 15. We copy the following article from the India Guzette, of the 47111 July : I. , tiers received from Ajmere, dated the 211 instant, stale, that on the morning of the 40th of June, Seindia delivered over the town nod fort to the British Government. Repot) Sci n did nit at first feel inclined to give up his trust, but after the delay of a day or so, the city was given up, and Ballots retired to the fort with his people. This place being nearly inaccessible, Balmer seemed determined to hold out, but on the let instant, some guns amid howitzers were got up to withiti 300 yards of the wall. The enemy kept up a sniping fire upon the troops who were escorting the gums; and Ilitpoo, as soots as he found that the ar tillery was in battery. agreed to surrender. On the eri lie tpiii..d the fort, wtal tl.e gate was occupied by a c slimy of the it7tit. 'lt .s .aid that there was • deep valley between thr bitters and fort, and that if the enemy had liven deterntio)ed, the troops never could have gut the olive-in , ascent to a•-mutt them. The city is lurtified all rotted, null has long been a ill:Kea ninth note. It was here that Jelianeete received an Ambas.ridor from Eirglatid. S.r Tt u• mil , li me , %nine years ago. 'lee whole place is Is valh v, t•owitletely ettirtwild.tl by tionlit;,ier, ill which lead :sod sortie utl , er i . res are dog tutu, and a committable bade in the knurr article is eattitd on." V ./ nom BAY PROCLA ATION. " The MAI Ituiensrshle tile tiny, rune in Council has received, with feeling* of unfeigned n Bret, inlclli¢rui e of she death of his Ifishotvs Futtch !;•H{ !tow Goyckwar, at 'lnside, OH the evening of the 23J ut ;ast mouth, anis au M ersa of live days. " Asa to:A k of respect fur the thlrocter of a nines who I 11.4 ever manife‘t. 4 the stronerA attachment to the B. Government, the Governor 111 in pleased to r . that the flag he ./ui.ited half moo 11411 on the flag.‘taff r.ttrisonln-rhts row ■1 son-rise, and that minute con., number of 26, the wee if hie late Highness, he a: thr ii:ue fired from Hornhy'r bath ry. " by order of the I! 1.1 Himont the Guvernor in Council, " F. WARDEN, Otter Sec. to Guverortynl• " Bombay Castle, lit Judy, 18110 BOMBA Y.—Futirli Sing, whose death was offi';4l. ly announced in our extra (*warier of the Qd, y i p [lee brother of A (tow, the reiguing Guyckiit r , a! the presumptive heir to the Musuud. lin e a . ri fir, short as it has proved, has nut been unatten.h,s' with the viLissittides of fortune. Whilst living xi, his mu' her in the vicinity of Poona, in the 1403, they were seized by the late Jesserant and joined that Chieftain's army soon after his victory in the neighbourhood of that capittd, The toothier and son were subsequently transferred to the custody of ■ Paton Chief. named Shata..t K hen. • When the A Mince with the Mirada State seat negotiated, it become en object of importance vith the British Government to rescue the presum..t , heir to the Mustiud from the !otdo of the P, Measures were seem-chilly adopted to eft • .1:1: release, sod Shamut Khan agreed to ransom hair, mother and son for the suns of 50,000 ropers., %Pith was paid, and they were hbecited in 1804. The reignin* driyukwar beittg disqualified by a Oonstitutional weakness of mind from condurti v , the laborious details of the State, the ach • • g halloo of affairs was intrusted to a commission of GOVejli• 'neut. of which Futteh Slog was nominated a member. and invested with the office of Prettier. niddee or Mutehey, in which capacity he acted +a subordiustion to his elder brother, whose powers of sovereignty were to no degree superseded by that arrangement. Futteh Sing married in 1807, but has no isms , ; his younger brother, therefore, Spjee Row Gu)elc war, who is now about IS years of age, is the next in snecession to the Gureitiment. We ■re ri-joired to lesrii, that, through the i n . fluence of the Resident bit Ba►oda, Futtth favourite wife was prevailed upon not no sateitiv « herself on the funeral pile of her husband ; an ex. ample which, we trust, will have its influence .11 checking, and ultimately abolishing that ' , wilt practice, wherever the influence of the British Gs vernment arty predinutuate.—(Bambuy Loaner, July 4.) CALCUTTA. The troops about to proceed to Ceylon, are to be commanded by Colonel Situldiom. The force will be much greater than we formerly mentioaii, amounting to 73 Officers and 3,3:7 private.. FOREIGN LVTELLIGENCE. FLANDBItS MAIL DRESSELS, DECEMBER 2C. Private letters from Amsterdam say, that t:.e number of persons tai;ssiug iu that city since the lac., dreadful fog, amonnti to 169, who sire therefore supposed to have wren drowned. . We are sorry to say that ?diadem. Catehini going to leave us, without giving a third crnicer;, ma we had hoped. She is going to Arniverdaut, sod then to Berlin ; but she does not quit us without leafing behind many proofs of her generosity, among which we only mention a present of 200 francs, towards the establishment of a school on the hew f.y WI t; v!) our magistrates are creating in the ancient capital of Belgium. DECEMBER 29. The Director General of the. Indirect Taxes is extremely busy at this moment on the volummoin lteport which he is to present shortly In the Stool her of the S'otes General, upon the new projects of lusts relative to this important subject. l he remonstrances which have been aildrethed him from all quarters will probably lead to tie: changes which are called fur in all parts of tLe Southern Provinces. The la.t letters from America say, that the sale of CA: Swedish island of St. Bartholomew was cot: chided on the gth June la , t, and was to be cornea into effect in the course of this mouth. It is to said to what power it iv ceded, but a letter bor. that Woad says, it is aluiost certain that it is t.) Russia. Our breve countryman, General Beaulieu, Nestor of the Auori in army, has just entered into his 95th year. Ile rrides still at his beautify; country teat tear l.mtz, works in his garden like a young man, and reads without spectacles. We have before us L letter of a recent date from t:.. veio•r•il.le %tailor, the stile of which indicates that la,ulties ate %I'll' in their full vigour. VIENNA, DEC. 16. M, de Pfeffel, Miniriter Plenipotentiary of Be t at the Court of Loudon, and Baron de Celto, arrived here from Munich the day betm ytorrii..y. They are supposed to be charged a uni••iou from thin Court, relative to the pritieu.lrs laid down at Aix-ha-Chapelle, for the arraiv mem, with the Court of Baden. FRANKFORT, DFCEMBER 15. The Prince of Hesse Philiptolial, General iii !1., service of Ruvriiii, is gone to Ei.gland to grt s!, artificial leg made, to supply the place uf Ow , which he his lost in battle. IRON, DECESIRrr Some corps of troop., foriniog part u► titans of Navarre sod Biscay, kne been 0,1 march for some days past to La Nlancha, 'Owe ..- merooa band, of robbers ha►e cututuittrd e .1., eYre•9r4. o,clers are given to form it the grey rxti 01 Tritildecpir, onto( the moot populoti. nr I ',null ity. it garrison composed of some dew it ' I . infantry and cavalry. Several compote. of alit Ili fat:try are sent to La Caroline, a colony Want! 'r•' 1 p A 11 moiamms•