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to the dilemma of subscribing the treaty which I offered to him,
or of crossing the hills through hye.patlis, attended by the
few followers who mire- he able to accompany him. sacrificing
his splendid train of artillery (above one hundred brass guns)
with all its appendages, and abandoni-g at once to Ise his most
valuable possessions. 'l'he terms interred tree, him were essen.
flatly unqualified aid,,,, though so celoureil s to aviiiii
making hint feel public humiliation. Their intrinsic rigour
will not he thought overstrained or unequitahle when it is (-deserved
that I had atirettained the Maharajah's having promise:l thc tie -
dank+ deciaive arienince„ and that I had intercepted the rent cur_
respnedence through which lie was instigating the Nepardese to at.
tack us. Nothing, in sheet, but my persiuteian that the maintenance
of the existing Government* in Central India, and the making ahem
nor instruments and sureties for preserving the Noire tranquillity
of the country, could have dictated the forbearance manifested
tinder the reiterated perfidies of that Prince. Ile cheied with the
pmffered conditions, and was saved by the sequieerenee. The
advantage to us was, that resistarce in any other quarter
corld be only a trensient ebullition. To the more distant States,
this nen-am:ceramic of a formidable force with which they were
econerate wan absolute incapacitation from effrer. In err way
heck to Cal:utta. in July. BIM, I received a reseript brouelit by
an corny heal the Diemen Monarch, whom we incorrectly call
Kin of Are. from one of the great divisions of his empire. The
purport of Oda curious paper was a reqn...ition for oar immediate
sunenclvr of all the provinces east of the Baum't. even le-
eluding Mcnothedabad, with it men ice, that 'shoul'd the de-
mand not he obeyed, he would lay waste our territories with
fire and sword. His projected hostility was evidently a mea-
sure rimer:icd with the 31shrattut; anti doting the rainy sea.
son, when the rivet-flawing of the rivers melees the march
or troope imprnetieable, his 3lajesty conceived, by advancing
a title. hammerer extravagant. to than provinces, he shnuld have
an ostensible ground for inrolin; a state with which of he
haul no quarrel. I sent bock the envoy with an intimation that the
answer should be conveyed through another cher:net. Ile had come
front the Court through the northern Rieman provinces. The an-
swer was despatched by sea en the Viceroy of .Irreesn, redditig at
tee port of Itartgiten in the Central Division, for transeeirion to his
sovereign. It expressed, that I was too well acquainted with his
Majesty's wisdom to Fe the dupe of the gross forge-y attempted
to he palmed upon me; whereferre I seat to him the document
fabricated in hue august name, and misted that he would sub-
ject to rmdign pneishment the persona who had so profligately
etelearintreal to sow direnstim between two rower, reciprocally
interented to cultivate amity. By this procetthre I evaded the
necessity of noticing an insolent stepn foteseeing that his Dir.
man Majesty would be thoroughly glad of the exense to re-
main quiet, when he lesreed his secret allies hod been sub.
tilted. That information lie received at the same time with my
letter; and all further discussion en explanatinn being forborne,
the former emicable intercourse enntinned without change. The
circumstance will show the extant to which the ncrwastions of
the Marren** had gine, exhibiting also the advantage of using
exertions so decisive, as should not leave time for distant enemies
to crone forward.
The femme treaty with Seindin. which I had declered annulled
on the proof of his hostile practices, contained an article equally
discreditable and embarratoine. We were biuml by it to have
no correspondence with the liajooto Staten. and were thence de.
bane,' from granting to them that protection, which they cdrered
to repay by en-operating for the etoppresviun of the Initaterriet.
Emancipated troin an inprious a shackle, I received all these States
as feudatory to the British Government. Though each possessed
considersble force, their reciprocal estrengs meets Omer-Ming
chiefly (ram punctilious and often hereditary quarrels between the
reigning Princes) merentetl their ever forming any union. They
or-, cut cqisende plundered for a succession of years, nu only by
the Pirularnes, but by the armies of Ameer Khan, or Seinida, and
of Bother. Devastation had become so familiar to the eye. of the
rulers of these countries, that they newel almost with hi-
der set ee the oppreasiora exercised over eve Rent. or cultivaers
of the soil, by the troops which garrisoned their fortresses or
were maintained about the Severeign's person. The connexion
which they now formed with tis *toured them against outrage
from without, while a main stipulation, on our part was, that
their own troops should he subjected to such a system of regu.
tante. as would ensure the property fur dome-site quiet of the
villager, or entail upon me aggression imm.eliate-memplary Amish.
men:. The further obligations under which the chieftain placed
themselves were, to refer all difference* among them to the !Mash
, Government, to keep a well, equipped earth-gent in readiness for
any call from us, and to employ that soldiery, in the mean time.
to crash within their respective States any petty predatory gangs
which might become a nucleus for fature riseLtrf. These at.
range;.•ents, rendered efficacious by very crimple measures adopted
on our recommendation, produced to the Soy:miens. as well as to
the subjects throughout thine populous regions, a comfort to which
every British individual who has tear reed that part of India will
hear witness. A move formal testimony is on recent When
filajonGeneral Sir Ilsariel Gehteriony was to quit Peilai. In order
to assume the superintend:nee of our relatice s with the Rs, pout
State*, he was directed to make 1111 extensive tour through thole
territories, in order that he might inform the t;overnment at Cal.
cotta what had really been the practical result of our efilLiteeta to
meliorate their conditios. A copy of his account is annexed to
this docutnerr. The nature of the statement auntits no More re-
presentation : it is an Miele, report, to tire eseuracy of which the
character nf the nrSeer is pledged.
Tire crepaign chard with our having acquired undisputed sway
over every portion tie India: the States which had nee poir:seedly
subecribtel to cur sovereignty (Gwalior and Illuiroure) being, in
truth, thence the more 'road, subjected 40 woe plemmer, shots
they. were unable to hesitate about tee:Thane, with any sug.
grown ; while our interference, on whatever pica of public Dec.,.
sity. would not be limited by those reservations which we had de-
tined in favour cf the kudatory sovereigne. this ail:tentage for
the Ennourabie Company ger atly enhanced, by its haring been
attained at a price in bled and treasure short of all probability,
when the operations wee on au vast a reale, that some of the corp.
directed to a common centre and object, had been movid from
lileite,lldiveent nut :at than twelve hundred miles restn each other.
The dissipation of a serinue coospirery, and the uniting slow st
every Native Power with our interests, were still not die only
rounds of satisfaction. The impudent &ignite in which, as ?err:-
sensed by Sir David Ochterlony, the population of the ltajpeot
States, amounting to some :Wiliam, war. benefited by the procreure
of the British Government, will excite lively gratifies/len. That
population, however, formed but a part of the immense mass
rescued from misery. A lighter term cannot well be tiled, fur the
condition of those who had been exposed to the ravages of the l'in-
denies. ".• hen it Is recollected that the asmeintien in tementn
consisted of above thirty thousand mounted when, all prouscolly
subsisting upon plunder, the trent of theatre necessary to runtish
an adequate prey, may he well conceived. The whole of the
Niaam's subjects, as well as the inhabitants of the northern Cur-
cars of the 3ladras Presidency, were constantly eapon.id to deers-
titian. It wan not rapine alone, hut unexampled barbarity, that
marked the cows: of the spoilers. Their riolstion of the women,
with circumstance* of peculiar indignity, which made multitudes
of the victims throw themselves into wells, or bum themerlyes
gether in straw huts, was invariable ; and they subjcctid the male
villagers to refined tortures, in order in extract 'Hecht-cur,: where
their little hurtles ol money were buried. From this temirge, the
ter.itories uo which I have alluded were freed by the Arial:rat:thin
of the Pi:Aar:its ; and the value of the relief war malieoted by
the %reedy. re-oecupation and cultirati..n of extensive districts in
the Nizain • dominion*, which had for sonic yeats lain deserted by
the former inhabitants. The extremity of despair, alone capa-
ble of making Ilineloos abandon their native scats, will be Viet-
lieible to all acquainted with India. flied it nut been fir the
timely interpodttoa, large tracts in th: Coarsest's provinces would
hare been similarly depopulated."

Esttaet front the Report matte by Major-General Sir Dsrid
Oehterlony tile tout which he had tweothrezted to make

through the Feudatory :states in 31eywar and
•• I have may to add, that throughout in tour I have derived the
mn•t sincere gratification, from observing the prevaktit trancio".:ty
and increasing prosperity of the country. From the ;niece to the
',acrn,. I have found every tongue clocurit in the capiession of
riatimde to the British lioverninciit fur the blessings they enj .y.
biaanitent or oppression appear I-gunny unknown. •rapt
Otijoin. and a `..ar tither places, in the iiumtdiste occupancy of
ri oodles re:a:ions."

The great improvements at Windsor Castle are getting
very forward, there being between tour and five hundred
hands at work at that fine ed.iiire.
The Lord Lieu:et:ant of Roxliarraltshire has appointo.l
Robert Kerr, &q. of Gallo, to be one of his Deputy-
Lieutenants in said bhire, of which his Majesty has been
graciously erased to approve.
On Friday morning last, tit. viretg- of Winebhurgh Ira!
thrown into a stale of considerable alarm. The horse of
the innkeeper, Mr. David Brown, was found plodding '
homeward his weary way along tlo Lan ks of the canal. It
was concluded that his master, who is very much caressed
by the neighbouring gentry, and who the flay heron• hail
been to one of their convivial buquets; had Wien from his
horse and met with a watery gym,. I eittrillatelv a number
of the villagers assembled sod drarred up and down for a
long time to no purpose. At last the drag caught hold of
miething, and every eve was fixed on thespot. sure that the
' first object which was to meet their tit ht, would bi t!te corpse
of Davie (for so he is familiarly called by nil the inhabi-
tants of Linlithgowthire). At this eriticai moment
who had all the long night, or nth( r morning, been " tally-
hoing" in the adjoining plantation, lintile his appearance on
the bridge under which the natives were elrvging for his
body, and seeing them thus employed, called out with the
greatest anxiety. '6 Wines lest noise? 119.'S kat now?
Deil tale that canal, there's aye mane ane d7nw nut' MI !"
LinbArfote Free Press.

Lady on IS edoesday morning tin, s'oop Intlustry of
Peterhead, John Suter, rnsqter, with n valuable ctrro of
iron, from Newport to Lvitli, rim put a4iore near I.mi-
sietnouth. The vessel has become a wreck, and frn:n her
situation there is little hope of being able 114) Pre any
ixtrt of the cargo. This is another intlaticihl7 instance
of the want of a light-donne on the 3totlichl Skerries,
which mitn he tit^ incars of sarhg onnuaily many valu-
able lives, and much prop:rty.—larcrress