The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-02 00:00:00

HOLYHEAD PACKETS.

The following' article, taken frern The Free-
man's Journal of Dublin, of the 2Gth inst., has
been transmitted to us by a Correspondent. As
ihe matter is interesting to the Commerce of the
Sister Island, we insert it, and shall readily open
our Columns to any arguments in support of the
'measure in question. We are perSuaded, how-
ever, that thevigilant, intelligent, and experienced
Officer,. who Aso ably superintends the Post:office
Department •in this Capital, must have been con.
suited on the'subject, and that he never would have
concurred ir4 any measure which did not evidently
tend tn the benefit of both Countries.

HOLYHEAD I,Aciurs.
To the PROPRIETOR of The Frecntan's Journal.
obServed in your Paper of the
ISth iust.i- an at ticle frrom a Correspondent, re.
bating to a new regulation about to be made, its
consequence of an order of.the Lords of the Trea-
sury, permitting the • Post, Office• Packets to carry
goods between Holyhead-and -Dublin, I ant in-
duced to offer a few 'observations, with a request
that you will let theM meet .the,public eye, which
is best calculated to examine the merits of the pro-
-1 posed plan: Your Correspondent must be 111 i-
- as to the present state•of the communi,
cation between the ports of Holyhead and Dublin-,
as he commences by declaring that there are no
means of Obtaining any article irom London in a
shorter space of time than three weeks, .while, it is
known, that there has been for many years a re-
gular conveyance between ttrose ports, which does
at present, and for a considerable time past lu
reduced to a certainty the receiving packages from
Holyhead in Dublin weekly.. This fact. is proVed
by the Custom-House daily list of imports and
exports, which skews, that on the IVednesday and
Thursday in every week, there area considerable
number of entries passed, and duty paid, to a very
large amount, on the goods an it ing..by the Holy-
head weekly trader.
" Your Correspondent also errs materially in
his statement of the expence now attendant on the
receipt of parcels from Holyhead,, and I am in•
dined to believe they are not greater than might
he expected, considering the, taxes laid on entries
in the Custom Houses of Holyhead and Dublin,
and the number of agents necessarily employed,
when, packages are unaccompanied by their
owners. It is therefore to be feared, that the re.
duction held out .to the public is a matter tending
rather to induce them to employ the conveyance
for which lie seems interested, than as likely lo be
carried into effect, as be states, that the carriage'
trout London to Holyhead is to be but 3(1. per lb,
weight, and the ex pence from Holyhead to the
place of destination in Dublin-one-fourth of that
sum but it must be recollected, that each,
package is to undergo au examination in the two
Custom Houses of Holyhead and Dublin, as well,
as payment of duty and expellees of entry (which,
appear altogether to. have esclped the notice of
your Correspondent.) •
" With respect to the advantage to be derived
by this country, in consequence of the proposed
new arrangements, it can as yet be but matter
for speculation ; however, front its present ap-
pearance, it does not seen) likely to he so be-
neficial as anticipated by your Cot respondent..---
He justly admits that it will injure the hatters,
milliners, shoemakers, tailors,' but these (with
but very few additions) comprehend all the ma-
nufactures at present carried on in this country.
" At the period of the Union it was found oe-
cetsary to protect the manufactures of Ireland
from annihilation, by placing a duty on almost
every article of import from England ; acd, to se-
cure the collection y that duty, packets and other
passage vessels, not being subject to the restric-
tions of trading vessels, were prohibited from
carrying any goods, excepting only pussengrrs'
luggage, the consequence of which was, that im-
portation was carried on on fair principles, all
importers being placed on an equality, and the
protection granted by the Act of Union justly af-
forded. But if the Post-Office packeti-are permit-
ted to carry tite packages (which by the existing
law is considered to be the business of traders
only) it will be found that the chief facility af-
forded by the -change will be to a contraband
trade, and consequently a vital injury to the
King's Revenue as well as the fair trader ; it will
also materially affect the eublic works, for the
erection and preservation of which the Taxes on
Jraditig vessels are laid, because Howth not be-
ing within the Port of Dublin, vessels discharging
there, without duty, will not be liable to the im-
posts laid for the Light-horses, Quay Walls,
Dooleary Pier, &c. ; and moreover the new regu-
lation cannot he supposed to apply exclusively to
the Holyhead • packets, but must of equal right
'extend to all vessels employed as packets between
the ports of Great Britain and Ireland, giving
them the right to connect their privileges as
packets with their employment as trading vessels..
" On every account it seems extraordinary, that
as the Legislature found it absolutely necessary to
the collection of the dwies, that ail vessels, not
traders, should he prohibited by Act of Parliament
front carryiug goods liable thereto, that sin u a
regulation should be remiered void without %WO^
ther Act repealing it ; and also that as the com-
merce of Dublin appears certainly most likely to
be, affected, that the measure should be disposed
of, without any apparent reference to, ur inter-
ference of the City Members.
" I tel assured, Sir, that had those ideas sug-
gested themselves to the Committee alluded to by
your Correspondent, they would have hesitat-
ed to carry the measure to the extent proposed.
" 1 am, Sir,
" Your most obedient humble Servant,
" Dublin, Dee, 21, 1818." " A TRADER.

The house of Mr.. Marsh, Onion-street, Bo-
rough-road, was broke open on Tuesday night,
anti a box was rifled of its contents, 'viz.--a Bank
note for 1001. five smaller notes., and other valu-
able property. •It is _supposed that the 'robbers
:were %yell acquainted mitt, the premises and the
habits of the family. Every thing else remained
untouched.

INDI A.

IXtrrect from the Answer of the Ararzittis
'HASTINGS, on his return, to Calcutta, -to tin
Address of -the Inhabitants :
In the original plan of the war, ibere as'as
"not the expectation or The wish of adding a rood
to the dominions of the Hunottrable Company.
''Our knowledge of the decided repugnance with
which any notions of extending our territorial
'possessions is always viewed at home', would
have forbidden such a project. Territory, 'in-
deed, was to be wrested from none, but the Phr-
alarriee ; and you will readily comprehend'the •po-
licy which dictated that such conquests should be
divided between the Nabob of BopatO,
and Holkar. It was useful to strengthen the
former, who had attached himself to us devotedly;
and it was desirable that the two Mahretta Sove-
reigns should perceive a degree of advantage for
'themselves to compensate 'for the unavoidable dis-
satisfaction they were to suffer from•the comple-
tion of our enterprise. The suppres ion of the
Ptedarries was our single. object. An association,
whose undisguised principles is to subsist by
plundering all around ; it is a body placed by its
own act it, a state of war with every reenlar Go-
vtrnment. To crush such a confederacy before
it should further increase that strength which
every year obviously augmented, would have been
a legitimate and prudent cause of exertion : but
such considerations were I,,ng gone hy. We were
tuned upon by the most imperious duty attaching
upon a Government—that of protecting its sub-,
jeers from desolation—to prevent the repetition
(confessedly preparing) of invasions, which had
for two years consecutively ravaged the Madras
• Dependencies with circumstances of noexampled
horror : on that principle we resolved to take the
field. To have limited our purpose to the expul-
sion of the Piodarries from the districts which
they had hithu occupied, would have been
worse than childishness. It was indiepensahle to
testineeish them wholly. We were not blind to
the iliffie,iltiee of the task. The interception and
dispersion of between five-and-twenty and thirty
thotisand horsemen, lightly equipped and singu-
larly inured to fatigue, on the immense field over
which they had the power of moving; in any di-
rection. way an operation that required no ordi-
nary effort. Much more, however, was to be
taken in'o calculation than- the aglity of our etre-
' mits. It was certain that their peril would he
regarded with the greatest anxiety by Scindia and
by Anceer Khan. I leave Holkar out of the ques-
tion, though he was interested in the result, for a
reason which I will hereafter explain. The Pindar-
lies were an integral, thdugh an unavowed, and
sometimes hardly manageable, part of the army
of Scholia. They were always the ready auxilia-
ries of Ameer Khan, with whom community of
ohject—rapine—gave them community of feel-
ing. It was, therefore, sure that those two Chiefs
would be strenuous in counteracting our attempts
to destroy the Pindarries—underhand, so lon,g as
their practice could be concealed—in arms, when
disguise would no longer avail. IVe had conse-
quently to aim at incapacitating Scindia and Ameer
Khan from taking the part they meditated.—
Enough was gained from Scindia, could we place
Lim tinder an inability of moving ; but much more
was requisite in respect to Ameer Khan. Though
his large army was better fashioned and more
sy•tematically organized than the Pintlarry force,
still he was essentially nothing but a leader of
freebooters. It was of fundamental urgency that
his army should be disbanded. Though it con-
sisted of 52 battalions with above 150 pieces of
cannon, and a powerful cavalry, it was luckily dis-
persed in small corps, either for the occupation of
the widely separated patches of territory which he
had won from different Chiefs, or for the extor-
tion of
,means of subsistence from weaker States.
ply hope of rendering Scindia and Aineer Khan
unable to struggle, rested on this—that I should
assemble my force before they suspected my in-
tention, and push it forward with a rapidity which
should make any concentration of their troops im-
practicable. The mere immovability of Scindia
wt,uld not have answered my purpose. The Pin-
(tarries, if prassed by me, would have traversed his
dominions, and gained the western States, whither
l should he [occluded from following, by a bar in-
superable as long as it existed. iVe were hound
ley Treats, with Scholia to have n 6 communication
whatever wilt those States, so that the l'indarries
would in the disunited Raipoot Territories here have
found not only shelter but the facility of combin-
ing their force with that of Amer Khan. lam
shotving to you that even the bonds of public
faith were,- in my contemplaiion, less surmount-
able than physical obstacles. Do you think that
I solved this embarrassment by an illicit use of the
advantage which I succeeded in gaining over Scin-
dia, by planting myself in the midst of his divi-
sions, and, prohibiting any attempt at theirionc-
tion ? You do not believe it ; yet you will like to
hear explained on what title I requited front him
the abrogation of that interdict which forbad our
intercourse with the western States. No Treaty, in
troth, was existing between us and Scholia. He
Lad dissolved it, first, by exciting the Pindateies to
invade our Territories, that he might see how a de-
sultory mode of war might affect our power; se-
condly, by lending himself, the year before, to the
profligate intrigues of the Peishwa, for the subver•
'ion of British preponderancy ; thirdly, by specific
promises given to the Pindarries of making com-
mon cause with them, should they be driven to
exigency. Will it he said dist this was possibly
the construction which we put on doubtful in-
formation ? Though the Pindarry chiefs, now
prisoners with me, have since borne evidence to
the truth of all those facts, my vindication shall
not repose itself there. Just as I was taking the
field, I caused to be deliveted to Scholia. in open
(foam., his own letters, signed with his own
band, and 'sealed with his own private seal, ad-
dressed to a Foreign Government, and evincing
the most hostile machinations already matured
against us. Nothing was said to him on the de-
livery of those letters other than that the Gover-
tow-General had not wished to peruse •tbens, and
that •iris Highness would perceive the seals were
unbroken. I had no need to peruse them, be-
eauseaheir contents were displayed by the letters
of itifetior agents, referring to, illustratingand

the expressions of the :Via.harajaisi. 'chest -parti-
culars are communicated to you, that you may
see how. 'steadily, notwithstanding the laxity of
the other party, our plan of upholding the exist-
NativeVrovernments of India was maintained.
Did Scindii dispute the verity of the proofs brought
against him ? No such thing. lie stink under
the'coninsion of the unexpected detection. There
vytel no denial, no attempt at explanation, no en-
deavour to extenuate the, quality of the Secret
Correspondence. On our part, the sole advan-
tage'ilrawn from the circumstance was additional
security for thgaccomplishment of our measures
against the Pindarries. The Maharajah was told,
in Mild and conciliatory terms, that the British
Croyernment would give way to no vindictive im-
pulse on. account of what had passed, but would
regard his Highness's aberrations as an indis-
cretion arising
,trom his not having sufficiently
considered the ties of amity subsisting between
us ; but it was added, that as those ties had not
appeared firm enough to secure our just interests,
a new Treaty should he proposed, which, while
it. preserved to the Maharajah all the solid be-
nefits enjoycd by him under I lie former one, would
give us the certainty of annihilating the Pindar-
ries. Scindia gladly agreed to the terms, which
pledged hint to active co-operation against the
freebooters,-and set us at liberty to m site those
engagements with the Itajpoot States, which
alone could induce them to combine-and oppose
any attempt of the Pindarries to find rriuge in
the AVestern Cettintry. A provisional agreement
was settled with those States instantly on our oh-
raining the right to take thew under our protec-,

A more decisive, conduct was'reqttisi•e towards
Ameer Khan. As his hand was protrs•edly against
every 111411 who had any thing to lose, the band
of every man might justly he raised against him.
There were no rot:mermen's, express or implied,
between him and us. He was, therefore, dis-
tinctly told of our resolution not to suffer the
con; innance of a predatory system in Central In-
Au option on this principle was (dirtied,
that he should subscribe to the disbanding of his
army, or witness the attack of it in, its separated
condition. Should he choose the twiner course,
he wo,ild be guaranteed io the possession of the
territories he had won (ruin States whose inju-
ries we had no obligation to. redress ; should he
risk the latter, he would be followed tip as a free-
booter the keenest pursuit that cot.ld be in-
stituted against a criminal disttirber of the public
peace. He had sagacity enough !o comprehend
that any* procedure but submission was hopeless.
The positions gained by us through celerity at
the outset, rendered the situation of those with
whom we had to deal defenceless. Seindia was
closely penned between the centre division on the
banks of-the Sinde, and Major-General Donkin's
division on the banks of the Chumbul. The lat-
ter corps menaced Ameer Khan on one side, while
Sir. D. Ochterlony's overhung that Chief' on the
other, and the division under Sir William Keir
prevented his escaping south,ward. In this ex-
tremity, Atneer Khan took the wise step of throw-
ing himself on our liberal justice. His artillery
was surrendered to us ; his army was disbanded ;
and the British Government stood (ree from em-
barrassment in that quarter. At that period,
which was tally in November, 1 had to consider
the objects of the campaign as completely gain-
ed; for the Pindarrics, sensible of the impracti-
cability of maintaining themselves in their own
territories, bad began their march to fall back on
supports of which they did not then know 1 had
deprived them, and were surrounded by our divi-
sions, which were then closing in uporlthem from
every side. An apparently well-grounded hope
was hence entertained, that the extensive revo-
lution which importantly changed the fortunes of
so many States, would be pertccted without the
effusion of other blood than what might be shed
in the disfersion- of the Pindarries.
That expectation waa not realized ; but its
failure taros'v from causes altogether unconnected
with the plan of our undertaking, or with any
steps used by us in the prosecution of it. I men-
tioned to you, that I reserved an explanation re-
specting Holkar. Though some of the Chiefs of
the Pindarries held,. large Jagheers from Holkar's
Government, they had acted so independently of
it, that they were considered as having divorced
themselves entirely from it; and that Government,
on my notifying to them the determination to
suppress the Pindarries, reprobated the lawless
ferocity of the freebooters, applauded the justice
of my purpose to chastise them, and closed the
letter with. expressions of every wish for my suc-
cess. The sincerity of those wishes might have
been questioned, though no apprehension of ob.
struction to our policy would have attended the
doubt, had not other and more particular corre-
spondence been at that time in procesi. between
Holkar's Government and ours. Toolsie Bliye,
the widow of the late Maharajah, was, as you
know, Regent of the State, during the minority
of young Holkar. Finding herself unable to con-
trol the insolence of the Sirdars, and to preserve
the interests of the family, she had sent a Vakeel
to solicit privately that Holkar and the State
Wright be token under the British tiovernment.—
The overture was met with the kindest encoo•
ragement. No burdensome condition was indi

cated—no subsidy reqttired—no stationing of a
British force in Holkar's territories proposed; the
only outline of terms was reciprocal support, in
case either State were attacked, and the zealous
co-operation of Holkar's Government in prevent-
ing the assemblage of predatory associations.—
While such frank cordiality reigned between the
parties, nothing could seens more out of the

' chances than a rupture : yt.t upon a sudden the
Irakiel was recalled, the different Sirdars, with
their respective troops, were snu►u,oned to repair
with the utmost speed to the Sovereign's person,
and the determination of marching to aid the
Peishwa was proclaimed by the Regent. What
ensued is fresh in your recollection. The Mal►-
ratta army found itself surrounded Earnest re-

presentations of the inevitable ruin they were en-
tailing on themselves were made on our part to
the Government, and many times repeated. The
Sirdars could not imagine such a teeling as the
moderation whence these friendly expostulations
flowed. Our assurances that their ebullition
should be forgotten, and that we' would. remin!l

on the some amicable footing as bulure, if they

abfinh'ittil their 'et travagant potpie, were sup•
posed arise from our consciousness otincompe-
iency to coerce them, and that persuasion in-
creased their temerity to the extent of actual
attack's-on our outposts. The Regent :dont per-
ceiveil the precipite ; - wished to • withdraw from
it ; and was publicly put to death by tbeSirdars,
for doubting the certainty of victory, the evening,
before the battle which reduced Holkar to a des-
titute fugitive.
A sitnilatlynnprovoked defection was exhibited
by the Rajah of Nagpore. If his inimical dispo-
sition was not marked -with the same insolent
.vaunt, it was only because he thought the basest
insidiousness would give him an advantage in the
attempt which be meditated against the life of our
accredited Minister, residing under the public
faith of a treaty at his Highness's Court. He
kept up his solemn protestation of devoted friend.
ship till the very hour of the attack on the Itesj-
deuey. His villainous efforts failed, his courage
deserted hint, he threw himself on our mercy, he
was continued on the Musntul, and every reve-
rence was paid to him, till we detected him in a
new conspiracy. Then the simplest principles of
self-preservation demanded his removal from the
Throne.

I have stated these two cases before I touched
,spun that of. the Peish wa , because they will
strongly elocidate the necessity of the conduct
held towArds that Prince, if Prince be not•a title
unfitly applied to an individuaV so filthily stained
will] perfidy. Oor endeavour' to. screen his re-
potation, by throwing the :while guilt of the
Onyek war Minister's murder on Ti imbuckjee
Diinglia, when:the Peishwa himself was not less
actively implicated in it, was'sci perverstly met
by him, that throughout the year 1815, we dis-
c.,vered the intrigues of his Highness at almost
every Court in India, to stimulate combinations
against us in revenge for our austerity towards
his despicable minion. They were thought to be
the effects of an acritnony which would soon
subside, and witch importance was not attached
to them. Oef finding, however, that they were
Cont inued„ I judged it right to apprise the
Peishwa that I was acquainted with the transac-
tions. This was done in the gentlest manner ;
and the iwimation was coupled with a profession
that I ascribed those
,practices to the indulgence
of an inconsiderate spleen, which he would chas-
ten in himself the moment he reflected on its real
nature. It was added, that in the conti.lenCe of
his being solicitous to retrace his steps, I was
ready, on the profession of such a disposition on
his part, to obliterate the remembrance of all that
had missed, and to invite his fullest reliance on
my perso'ial efforts to maintain his welfare and
dignity. Ilis answer was a protestation of never
ending gratitude for the gentle tone in which I
bad roused him to a sense of the track into which
he had unintentionally sudden, and which could
have led only to his ruin. He charged his agents
with having exceeded his instructions, whielt ne-
vertheless be admitted to have been indefeasible,
but which be would expiate by a strict fidelity to
the engagements existing between us,nowconficm-
ed anew by his most solemn asseverations. Shortly
after we detected him in the endeavour to collect an
army, under the pretence of quelling a rebellion,
headed by Trimbuckjee, to whom:a constant re-
mittance of treasure was made from the Peishwa's
coffers, as we knew by the most accurate infor-
mation, of every issue, 'We were then constrained
to anticipate this incorrigible plotter. We sur-
rounded hint in his capital, am! obliged him to
submit to terms which preserved the ancient ap-
pearances of connexion, hut deprived hint of much
strength, should he hazard future machinations.
At the same time, what we imposed was only a
fulfilment of an Article in the Treaty of Bassein),
by which he was obliged to keep for us an auxi-
liary force of 5000 horse. Not one of them had
ever been retained for us : and the money 'which
should have furnished them went into his High-
ness's private Treasury. But we now required
that districts yielding revenue to the requisite
alumna should be put into our hands for the
levy and maintenance of the cavalry in ques7
tion, according to the usual custom in the
Mahratta States, of assigning lands to Sirdars,
for the subsistence of a specified number of
troop!. This force, though it would be the
Peishwa's for every purpose of service while
friendship existed between us, would go into our
scale (since we were the paymasters), should. his
Serene Highness venture to. break with us. He

did, you are aware, venture to break with us, hut
you possibly may not have suspected how belie-
, ficial that precipitated step was for us. Had he
not done so, the conspiracy to which he bad given
a substance and shape much beyond what we had
conceived, might have burst forth upon us at an
unprovided moment, with mischievous concurrence
of exertion. The Peishwa trusred to wide co-opera-
tion. The sanguinary desire of massacreing Mr. El-
phinstone made him over hasty in breaking forth,
though he had no doubt but that Scholia and
Ameer Khan were already in the field against us.
The pledges pt reciprocal support, settled in 1815,
are what I have stated, against Scindia, in the
mil her part of the recapitulation. The Peishwa,
when, he resorted to arms, was not informed that

Seindia and Ameer Khan had already been reluctd
to nullity. They had been pot out of the question.
But Holkar and the Rajah of Nagpore'had yet the
power of moving. When, after their defeitt, they
were asked what could lead them to the extrava-

gait act of attacking us, with whom they were in
bonds of plighted amity, each pleaded the order of
the Peishwa as not to be contested. Ho!Lies Mini-
sters acknowledged their spontaneous net ion to be
taken under-the wing of the British Government ;
but tirge'd, " the Peishwa is our master ; and
what lie commands -we must obey." Tire It.aj;ili
of Nagpore being, after his last seizure, charged
to Iris face, by one of his former Ministers, a ith
ingratitude in making those attempts against ,vhich
he (the Minister), had used absolute supplications,
answered, that the conduct of the British Go-
vernment towards him bad been an uhvaried
stream of benefits conferred : that there never had
been a transient dissatisfaction, hut tliat it Was
his duty to fulfil every direction from his superior
the Peishwa. Whet) the Peishwa, seduced by
thOnvitation of the. Rajah of Nagpore, then at
liberty, and filling
,the Musmul, advanced with
his army to the Ward'', but on his arrival there,
instead Of finding the Nagpore army ready to join

ltitl;lca
Artiepdila sahebl,tta
tt
Ivas a
:idplA.
prisoner;liitb tie oss
ent,iscoveret
i
and that io
bility of getting back to his own dominions
ntootwbbaeds
aropflp:irdeenred. disposal
v ov
n t:t htabte them
there was
thenco
could
Peishwa admitted. To raise any of Bajee llow'S
family to the throne with another appellation;
would have been a delusion. The indefeasible
chatacter of Peishwa and Chief of the Mahratta •
armies
oi il‘t'ecol lid anyli vie been
) itr riers of ascribed
form to
whicho the iv
i
wec(oluualit4i
establish. A corresponding embarrassment hangs
upon us with .regard to Holkar and the state of
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nfbi,yetaoE,l:iiolkar showed
bnigestohiante.staltat
has on that account been dismembptelrr)oeetptßoora
itf.ialtinvsvooot;
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loaftviliss- have been transferred'rbegreater
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di.tpiltao C
st
beheiteits whom
kept
which the unforeseen change of circumstances re-
ay
quires our keeping advanced in that' quarter.
'olo!hl:et:rhieeti:aarreel subsidylstpti ec.,ot payablet
nto.N) t iavpgpore,
risilteoititilits:el:;axobobf.pyte:e,etutn,:r:setshel:taontroit‘fgNe•iern:taillti)toee'rrrerbte:yna:snyt:alardi
row the power of the" State; the other, tainiadt
tt9ine
ptriacte:sciobnc-;
sects itself with otlie
frontier. You are aware that Saegur, winch is the lioitession
alluded to by me, is nut an acquisition from the late catialtdigti.
It was ceded to us by the Peisliwa by the Treaty of ,Poonah.
The manager of it having given shelter to the Piudarries,anil
having suffered levies to be made openly in this town for the
Rajah of Nagpore, when that prince was in arms against ua
has been removed from his superintendance. By taking it
into our OWI! 114116, We not only constdt our own security,
but
iwnear,ewe,nabled to pay from it to the Jageer-Dar (Nannis
G
who resides at Jaloun), three times the amount
of the sum ever before received by him front the rents. If t •
talk of narrowing the means of Holkar and of the Na;pore
Rajall, I do so on the clear principle of right to dispose of
territory won in war. Each of those princes lead lost all.— .
Whatsoever they now possess is restored to there by us, as is
Kratuitons boon; and tire fact will serve to evince the leading
inclination with which we set out, of preserving the then ex-
isting Governments Of India. Though this has not been the
digression, the explanation of the unexpected manner in
which we find our territories increased, has put out of sight
fur the moment the direct object Of our appearance in the field.
The dreadful pestilence which made such havock inthe division
undermy iipmediate command, forced me to quit the banks of
the Slade, and to seek a more favourable country fur the reco-
very of my numerous'sirk. I did not find this until I was 50
miles from the river which I quitted. Fortunately the change
of air was rapidly beneficial : for a very short time had passed
when I received intelligence of an invitation said to have been
given by Scindia to the Pindarries. He was reported to have
promised them, that if they would- come so •near to Gwalior
as to make his getting to them easy, he would break his treaty
and join them with the force which lie had at his capital.—
The Piridarties were in full march for Gwalior, without
meeting even a show of tripediment from tile troops of
Scindia stationed in their route ; though the co-operation of
his army for the extinction of the Pindarries was an article of
tire Treaty. We hurried hack to the Sinde; but this time we
chose a position nearer to (fwalior than what he had before
occupied. We were within aO miles of the eitv, and our
vanced guard was sent to occupy the passes through the hills
which run at some distance south of Gwalior, front the Si tolo"
to the Chumbul. Those passes were the only route by which
communication could take place between the Pindarries and
Scindia ; and I was nearer to support advanced guard than
the Maharajah to attack it, could lie bring his Wald to
so desperate a stake. With all the suspicious circumstances
attending the state of things, our forbearance was not
wearied. No unpleasant hints were thrown out. Scindia
was told, that as I had learned the approach of the Pitidar-
ries, I had thought it an attention due to my ally to Pia"'
myself between hint and a set of lawless iidunilerers, who
would pot hiiu into great embarrassment could tlwy get into
his presence, and throw themselves on his protection. Civility
was answe,ren by civility. The Pindarries finding their hop"
baffled and the passage stopped, attempted to retire; but
they had been followed close by our divisions, were solarised*
dispersed, and slaughtered in a number of small actions. lit
short, they disappeared ; arid thus our objects were completed.
It remains now tube seen what is the change effected its
our situation.
In England, there are continual declamations against the
propensity of the Hon. Company's Government here to add,
to territorial possessions already too large. It is forgotten
that a tendency to expansion, dinounting almost to direct ne-
cessity, is the inherent and inseparable drawback on the ad-
vantages of a ptiwer established so munnalously as that of
the British in India. It would be a visionary confidence, to
suppose that your strength would not excite jealousy, that
your riches would not stimulate cupidity, and that your hu"
miliation of those native families which held Sovereignty
when you first got foothig in the country, would not bus
brooded over with a deep spirit of revenge. Yet a belief in
the non existence of those impulses is the ground on whiclt
they must stand, who insist on the progressive increase of our
sway. as a proof of constant ambition in the Hon Company s
Local Itepresentativea. There may Inure been cases, though.
I might God it difficult to indicate them, where prospects of
gaining political ascendancy, or too hasty apprehensions or
meditated attack, have misled us into hostilities otherwise ca-
pable of being avoided ; but the general history of ontr Indian
Empire is, that we have been wantonly
assailed, that ac bars
einiquered the unprovoked enemy, and that we have' retained
tine possessions wrested front him, not simply as a legitimate
compensation for the peril and expense forced upon us,
but oil considerations of brought home to
unr
by the nature of the violence just offer-
ed to us. What recently betel myself, as I have exlfium-
ed it to you, roust be the stroto,est illnstratien of this
eventual exigency. " Recover your strength and try contest
with us again," would be deemed a rather absurd address
to a treacherous for whoru von had vaionnshed; hut you would
alt
iaaseulrfitce-tiivsi.diyns
if )t,O int tit
given
han forting till
neutatiou of territory may not
it m y be said, though the anca
your strength by widening the
con-
tact frontier
with new enemies, reduces
uilnicyllTede teteliiitligmerte•xiitrregliiiein,suiti„lse, btrlilleigile3s:osutoinbela
11):•Y,iitiliricereisillotrearinitosn. ofS
circle of the eucumferances wt which it is to act, leaves ad-
unsupported, and above all a.
ad-
vanced stations 41411t;el'OlISly
wider occupation of territory exacts formidable addition to
your military charges.
i he argimielit Would be good, were the assumptions ad'
mined. Examine whether they ought. Undoubtedly your
sss;iy has been prodigiously extended by the late operations.
The Indus is now in effect your (nuttier ; and, oil the condi-
tions of the arrangement, I tll3llk lieirecli that it is so. What
is there between Calcutta and that boundary ? Nothing but
States hound by a sense of common interest with you, or aeortnci
pa ratis•ely sinal proportion °lift-disposed populatitin,reud ee
epower is wtit,ff, sllyand t triiittivi,l,ll);‘l4)gr:i,
kii ;,%The,
bNh
ylahar4tga•
been kept in p:irt, while the harks of its neighbours provoked'
the tempest, and perished it, presents
ids insulated and precluded
shattered tort trues: but he stet no exhibito ot
trout extraneous assistance. 1 unit SatiSited.of bisconvic-
tion th it his existence depend+ on t
his being o amity with
tar ltritisit (~uyrrument, and of hi; consequent resolution:to
multi, ate our good will. That, inclination
and will continue to be,
tiDfcig
Were his disposition different, it would be matter of nu eon-
cern to us. Ile is now ii(iiye n
tial liriangi, has ias
by been,ds
.
girded round by states which we have
rni~ed to the puwei of resisting him, even without our aid,
theirby our h eying allotted e
c vt,be
r ctaerriri territory takers
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