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act I tenticry to ih eirhoryitol tof terr*Atiriel pow).
%it'll, awl lo WO' Veld lIS bol II ,1-11..11 1),qt:owl the
o•ct•-•ory botolook At it perlit.l of Indian lipotory
1144 the votes el Roth:n.ll4.o. or 11r recorrird Het*

„r the authorities at hoiste. been mute laithfoll
ns.Arle the ground,' of tilt. i.roceetinigs of the her!
!wills, than ,Iture the adnusitstretio,
of the ftlargiour ; et um period lisd
th.t locel authorities lirrit more cilled from the
consideratnai of external ae,,ranilizitent to the
cultivation of 'medic im.:l,tirt, fur interoiel
provement. ll'. (Mr. Canning) haul followed up
the pacific views of hie Noh:e Pierlect,isor iu this
respect, and uniform's' disinictly interdicted
foreign aggression. uwle.y under ricron't4l)ce4 of
the greatest possible exigency. S111•'1 1111 YXIgIIIICY
hail, however. arisen revions to 14e co,)tert
lie alluded to the condmit of the 11111,14 m.-.. a 1)11,1y
who bore little resemblance to the other Power' in

lodic It may be thought. at first view, surprising
that so small a body sl Id have rendered 'wee.-
nary the adoption of such rxterasive measures for the
suppression of the war. The Powlarries consisted
of from between 3n to 40,000 regoilar and irregular
cavalry, capable of receiving (occasional reilitorec-
memo, and most formidable from the iiiisoos.ibility
of bringing to bear tiptoes them the operati•nis of
regular war. In point of race, religion, and of
patios*, they were the refine and remnant of former
wars and disbanded soldiers—the refuse or nucleus
to collect around every loose vagabond in the whole
extent of the Indian empire, who was idle, dissolute,
and averse to habits of peace and industry. Armed
for a quick warfare, and front the nature of their
habits, only capable of being suppressed when they
could be surrounded and pent up in it num.", space
of country. No speculation upon the danger amid]
a body to all around them could justify the local
Government to strike the first blow, and stir up all
the elements of so unquiet and dissolute a popula-
tion. It was not on any speculation ul the in-
compatibility of the existence of such a power, in
central India, with the maintenance of social order,
that the late war was undertaken ; the Goverii-
mem, on the contrary, for a long time tolerated uhl
that they could from this armed body, without
giving the native Powers in alliance with the
British Government any just notion to believe that
an authority had been superseded which once ruled
over their interests, and which, at least, extended to
them its sympathy. A series of actual aggressions at
length rendered this war necessary. In 1812 the Piti-
darries made an irruption into the Bengal district—
in 1813, into that of Bombay-s-stud in subsequent
years, into that of Madras. There was then no
choice remaining but all appeal to arms, and the
wet season enabled the Governor-General to corn-

municate with the Government at home, and re-
ceive an answer permitting him to remain with his
hands untied iii this particular case. The charac-
ter of the successive irruptions of the Pintlames
was dreadful in its extent ; there wes tin degree of
human violence they did not perpetrate—rapine,
murder, rape, and conflagration, were not the ac-
cidental attendants upon their march in the course
of the year 1817. hut the uniform and constant
concomitants of their track, the constant arms,
Wt'llolls, and system of warfare which they used to
insure temporary and partial success to their en-
terprize. There were not wanting instances where
females, at the approach of these sanguinary and
predatory bands, drowned themselves in their vil-
lage wells to escape the barbarity which they knew
they must experience if they fell into the bands of
the victors ; there were not wanting instances
where fathers and PIM% and whole families, had
surrounded their dwellings with fuel, and perish-
ed in the conflagration they themselver had light-
ed at the approach of the enemy. Both the
Government of India and the Government at
home had foreseen that this apparently insulated
body might have extensive ramifications. They
foresaw that it was not alone necessary to prepare
to take the field against • force of 30,000 armed
persons, who, though they might be dispersed,
could no more be detested by a single discomfiture.
than a ball of quicksilver could he said to be se-
pirated, which recedes from the hand and then re-
unites, but that also as they were the refuse of
the armies of several great Chieftains to whom
they still professed some sort of allegiance, it would
be necessary to guard against the possible co.
operation of Scindia and II olkar, under a horn
many of the Pindarries had served. There was a
third Power, whose means of annoyance, and worse
than equivocal character. had also to be considered.
lie alluded to Ameer Khios. One side the British
territorial isosadisions in India touched upon the
country of the predatory Pandarries, and on the
other, upon the hostile Mahraiia nations. When
the Marquis of Manor had planned his cant.
;nip, he had provided against the possible co-ope-
ration with the Pindarries of the Powers already
mentioned, but he did nut anticipate the hostility
of the Peishws, or of the With of Nagpore, for
they were both bound to die British Authorities
by the obligations of recently-framed Treaties,which !
had defiiiitively arranged some local differences. It I
was necessary to bring into the field such an array
of military strength as would overawe Send's, and
prevent their co-operation with the Pindarries. As
to Ameer Khan, as a proof of Ins submission, he had '
withdrawn his troops and surrendered his artillery.
There still remained the third Power, Ilolkar, be-
tween whom and the British there was a subsisting
Treaty. On this point, lii coosequence oleo acct.
dental omission in the transmission of the ac-
counts from India, there was less information to
the papers before them, than upon any other branch
of the subject. When Holkar's hostile itittntions
were tendered manifest, his army was attacked and
entirely rooted at Ml,aidpore, by the divisions
under Sir T.Hislop and Sir..T. Malcolm, who though
second iu command to the former, wits second
to none iu a knowledge of the views of the several
native powers in India, and a man of the most coo-
summate talents and skill, whose name will be
remembered in India as-long as the British mime is
known or the British flag hoisted in that IMUltlibt
extent of territory..—(Hear, .4ear.)—All at the
- south side of the river Nerbuilila was teduced by
• the promptitude and military skill of the British
Commanders. But there were iwp events which the
Marquis of Hastings had oat sforeseen, which doll
broke upon him with all their force; use of these
was the hostility of the Peisliwil, who w ,s the execu-
tive bead of the &Windom, the Rajah. Satrap, tied
real Goers nor of the Mahriota Empre. So coritide,‘t
.ivei Sir_,John Malcolm, who hod hem a shunt time