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‘. 13. If that Rate had not been, to the knowledge
of the Governor General, previoufly in conneBion
with the Government of France, your Honourable
Committee would not certainly deem that circum.
Hance worthy of affeaing the views of the Governor
General, which he direds to the danger to be feared
tioen die formation and increafe of fuch a power in
India. But that power was fully prepared to fupport,
with vigour and fincetity, the cattle of the French in
India, and to fecond the projects of France, with
equal promptitude and zeal.
o 14. The danger arifing from the flotation of the
province of the Rajah of Berar, as well as of his
means, which menaced the fecurity of the Britifh
empire in India, appeared at the commencement of
the war to cc:)sft of a military force much inferior
to that of Scindiah, in point of difcipline, hot which
augmented coofiderably the general force of the Con-
federates- againft the Britifh Government; fecondly,
in the poffeflion of a vas territory and fume fortreffes
which commanded the (Wes of the Company and
thofc of the Soubahclar of the Deccan in feveral at-
tackable points; thirdly, in the poffellion of the pro-
vince of Cuttack, which enabled the Rajah of Berar
ID intercept the communication between our northern
and fouthern provinces, to faciliate the isolation of
Bengal and the northern Circars, and to obtain the
'aaillance of the French or other European officers or
troops who irkke land in the province of Cuttack :
• fourthly, in the mixture of the poireffions of the R.
jah of Berar with thofe of the Soubandar of the
Deccan, his vexatious pretensions over the Court of
Hydrabad, and his influence at that Court : fifthly,
in the pretenfions of the Rajih of Berar over the
Government of Poonah, and ffie afeendiney and in.
fluence which his extradion gives him, conjointly
with the general greatnefs of his Rates and refources,
with his furomfed wealth, and with the hoftile difpo-
fition which ihe Rate of &rar had manifefled for fe-
veral years, by oppofing the interefts of the Britifh
empire in India.
13. Under this point of view of the *cum.
fiances and means above mentioned, polliffed by
Dowlut Row Scindiah and the Rajah of Berar re-
fpedively, and which threaten the fecurity of the
Britiffi empire in India, the defirable (Ned of an
eventual war with thofe Chiefs west, firtt with re•
fped to Dowlut Row Scindiah, the entire reduBion
of the regular corps of M. Perron, the incorpora-
tion in the Britifh Rates of all the territory between
the Moab and the Ganges, now polieffed by M. Per-
ron, the river Jumna becoming thereby the north-
welt frontier of our dominions on that fide ; the oc-
cupatton of Delhi and Agra, and of a chain of polls
on the weftern and fouthern banks of the Jumna ;
the free navigation of the Jumna, and the poffeffion
of both banks of that river; the permanent exclu-
lion of the Mahrattas from the north-weft part of
Indodan ; the eftablifhment of a fyftem of defenfive
alliance with the States of Indottan, whole territo-
ries, by their local pofition, might form a barrier be-
tween the poffeftions of the Company and thofe of
the Mahrattas, and enfure the exclufion of Scindiah's
influence and authority from the north-welt part of
Indollan ; the protedion of the perfon and nominal
authority of his Majelly Shah• Alum ; the occupa-
tion of the port and bay of Baroach and the terri-
tory annexed to it, as well as the redudion of the
power in general of Scindiah in the Gnzzerat ; the
ceffion of the territories of Scindiah, which are miz.
ed with thole of our Allies, the Soubandar of the
Deccan and the Peifhwali ; and in general the reduc-
tion of the military power and territorial refources
of Scindiah as far as it than be neceffary to our fecu-
rity, and the fafety and tranquillity of our Allies.
S.condly, with refped to the Rajah of Berar,
the occupation of the province of Cuttack, and the
ceflion of all the provinces of the Rajah of Berar, in-
termixed with thofe of the Soubandar of the Deccsus.

" 16. The above-mentioned details may be con-
fidered as having conflituted the neceffary °Ned of
the war, with rope& to its original caufes, and that
objet ha, properly formed the bafis of our demands
in the negociation of peace with cite confederated
Chiefs.

" 17. In conflicting the dangers to which the fe-
entity of the Baitifh Government has been acciden-
tally expofed, at the commencement of the war, by
the defttunive means already related in the preced-
ing part of this difpatch, which were in the hands of
the two principal Mahratta States, your honourable
Committee will be able to appreciate juftly the advan-
tages which have refulted to the Britifh empire from
the permanent removal of thofe dangers, effected by
she luccefies of the war, and by the conditions of peace.
tB. In the moment of our molt Signal
when the repe"ed and glorious tumefies of our arms
had almolt ex ..aguifhed the power of Seindiah and
the Rajah of Berar, and when we poffeffed fufficient
means to overthrew entirely thole two (laces, by the
continuance of military operations, at that maMent
the cnnceflions which the Honourable Major General
Wtficiley had orders to demand from the confederate
Chiefs, were limited to the extent abfolutely neceffary
to prevynt the renewal of the original caufes of the
war, and to provide for our permanent fecurity, and
eie Itithful execution of the pofitive engagements
c ntr.tcled before the war or during the continuance
of it.

19. it would not have been a juft, humane, or
honourable policy to have infilicd upon reducing the
power of the enemy more than is neceffary to fulfil
the jolt °Vie& of the war, and to guarantee the fecu-
rity t.f the Bi itifh Government and its allies. Public
4Jutv has required that every potriblc effort should be
made to retain the force of the eaemy within the li-
mits which the juts intereils of the Government and
its allies prefcribe ; but on the other hand, we Ihould
Lave thought that it was equally. contrary to the
glory and power of the Britifh Government, as well
as our duty, to the orders of the Honourable Com-
pany, and to the laws of our country, to profecute a
war which Mould have for its objea revenge, aggran-
difement, or ambition, or, to purfue a vatiquithed
enemy be ;ond the juR limits of rational fecurity and
).,I:Jie fa; At,

" to. Antengll the principal advantages Well
the late peace gives us, we mutt reckon the mainte-
nar.ce of the national chars ter in India, by the mo•
deration, the clemency, and the plaice which the
Britifh Government have rnanifelted in the condi-
tions of peace granted to our enemies, at a moment
and in a lituation which placed the exiftence of thcir
Rates abfnluttly at our difpofal.
" 21. Immediately after the reduCtion of Gaweil.
ghur, the Hon. Major General Wellefley prepared
to put foe the Rajah of Berar to Nagpour, the capital
of hi. territories ; and arrangements were agreed up-
on for the invafion of Berar, which was to have been
undertaken from the provinces of Sumbalpour, by
the corps under Lieutenant Colonel Broughton, and
of Cuttack by Lieut. Col. Harcourt.
" 22. The brilliant and decifive fucceffes of his Ex-
cellency General Lake, and the entire deßruftion of
the power of Scindiah in Indollan,left General Lake
the liberty of detaching a force againft the poffeffions
of the Rajah of Berar. Thus, conformably to the in-
aruitions of Ilse Governor General, General Lake
difpofed of a conliderable detachment, with the In.,
tention of invading Berar from the northern part of
Indoftan.

" 23. At that period, all the poffeffions of the Ra-
jah of Berar on the well part of the river Worda, the
province of Cuttack and its dependencies, and the
provinces of Sumbalpour and Patna were wrefted
from his domination ; and the only flrong place in
the limits of the territories of which he has been dif
poffeffed, was reduced by the Britith arms.
" 24. In this extremity of the affairs of the Rajah
of Berar, the Britifh Government granted peace to
that Chief under conditions which have been exclu.
lively governed by the confideration of national fe-
curity and public faith.
" 25. Before the condemn of the feparate treaty
of peace with the Rajah of Berar, the military power
of Scindiah had been deltroyed in Indollan, and deep-
ly wounded in the Deccan by the brilliant (tweaks
of the Britifh army, which had taken the field under
his Excellency General Lake and the Hon. Major
General Wellefley • and all the poffelllons of Scindtah
in the north of Indoftan and in the Deccan have
been conquered by the Britifh arms.
" 26. As loon as Major General Wellefley had re-
ceived the treaty of Deogaum, ratified by the Rajah
of Berar, all the neeetary meafures were adopted to
employ the whole force under General Wellefley
againfl Scindiah. To increafe the number of troops
under the command of Major General Wellefley a
confiderable force was cclleaed in the Guzerat, under
the orders of Colonel Murray, deßined for an unfore-
leen attack upon the provinces of Scindia% in the
province of Maliva. That force having been, by the
conqueft of Baroach and Powanghour, and of all
the poffeffionsofScindiah, in the province of Guzerat,
able to begin acing offenfively in the Malwa, was
at that period ready to advance directly agaiaß On-
grin, the capital of Scindiah ; and it began its march
to the frontiers of Guzerat to execute that project.
" 27. The conclulion of a feparate peace with the
Rajah of Berar, alfo placed General Lake in a con-
dition to make preparations for direaing the opera;
tions of the detachment deflined to invade Berar,
againft the fouthern poffeffions of Scindiah, by co.
operating with the forces under Major Gen. Wellef-
ley and Col. Murray.
28. Vigorou fly preffed on all fides in the ref of
his territories, Dowlut Row Scindiah Cued for peace.
Your Honourable Committee will view the condi-
tions of peace granted to Scindiah in the extreme
crifis in which his affairs were, as founded upon the
principles of mildnefs and patience, as far as they
were compatible with our jolt rights of reafonable in-
demnity,
and with the fecurity of our poffelfions, and
of the Rates, rights, and interelis of our allies.
6' 29. The conceffions made on the part of the ene-
my, sthich guarantee in the manner already Mention-
ed, the fecurity of the Britifh Government againfl
the dangers which had emitted at the commencement
of the war, neceffarily afford additional advantages
to the cattle of the Britifh Government and of its
allies. The arrangements which had been deemed
indifpenfibly neceffary for the fecurity of the Britifh
Government and its allies, have increafed and con-
folidated our territorial refources, and thole of his
Highncfs the Peilliwah and the Sonbandar of the
Deccan, the only powers who can jußly pretend to
participate in the eonqueßs of the war, and in the
other liipulations of the peace. We may confider
thefe arrangements as a guarantee of the entire ac-
complifhment of the general fyßem of political rela-
tions in India ; a fyftem which the uniform and ap-
proved policy of the Governor General, in obedience
to the orders of the Honourable the Court of Direc-
tors, tended to eftablifh, and which as experience has
demonßrated to us, affords the only practicable means
of preferviag the general tranquillity, and conic-
quently of being able to render the fecurity and
profperity of the Britifh empire in India really per-
manent.

" 30. In order to be able to lay before your Hon.
Committee a diffina piaure of the advantages arifing
out of the late pacification, the Goveanor General
will relate in regular order the different flipulations
of the treaties of peace concluded refpeaively with
Dowlut Row Scindiah and the Rajah of Berm., ac-
companied with the remarks which !ball be judged
neceffary, to illuflrate the objea and cad! of each
refpeftive article of the treaty of partition concluded
between the Honourable Company and its allies, and
of the treaty of defenfive and fublidiary alliance be-
tween the Honourable Company and Scindiah.
(To k continued)

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Falmouth garsifon. It is to (land on the well fide of
.the peninfula, immediately below the caftle of Pen-
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