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that he sa not avail himself of It, but carried on tho
utmost resistance in his power to the last, to the se-
..
tious injury. of our troops, and, ultimately reduced
Sir THOMAS HISLOP to the necessity of taking his
fort by storm ; that in the heat of that operation he
fell into our possession, when he Was fully aware that
his life had • been forfeited, and when no expectation
whatever was held out to him that it would be spared."
Sir Tuoltas Htsoop, in his own dispatch, dis-
tinctly proves, that the Killedar was answerable with
his own life for the lives he had caused to be de-
stroyed among the British troops. Ile was, in fact,
" in a state of rebellion to his Sovereign, because
HOLKAR was at peace with us, and .had commanded
him to obey it. He had committed- hostilities with-
out any commission from his Sovereign, and was a
public marauder, and the consequences he entailed
upon himself thereby were similar to those to which
a pirate would be exposed." " The Killedar was
acting ahogethei independently cf HOLKArt, whom
he would not recolnize, and was pursuing his
own schemes." "He had entered the fort for that
express purpose only fifteen days before it was taken,
with all the artificers he could collect, at a time when
it was generally known in the town of Talneir that
• HOLKAR had made peace wi:h the British, and had
by Treaty ceded that fort ; and I will submit," con-
tinues Sir T. HisooP, " that as the inhabitants acted
on this information, it cannot be supposed that the
Killedar was ignorant of it."
The next consideration is, whether the necessity of
the case called for the application of so severe a
penalty. Upon this point, the reasoning of Sir T.
Hiram, is perfectly conclusive.
" Although," says his Excellency, " the deluded
man had so completely forfeited his life, and justice
to the manes of my brave Officers and men, who had
fallen victims to his lawless hostility, called for some
atonement, still my anxious desire was to save him
from execution, for it is ever the most painful part of
an Officer's duty to be driven to an act of severity.
Impelled with these feelings of mercy to a reduced
being in my possession, a 'struggle supported them for
a time, but they were overpowered, by considerations
of humanity due to others, which it must have been
deemed unpardonable in me to have neglected."—
" I had ne alternative, but to make a painful sacri-
fice of my private feelings to the cause of humanity
and my country ; and the necessity of.example being
the concurrent opinion of pffc'ers with whom I con-
sulted, the execution was reluctantly ordered." The
lawful right which Sir THOMAS Illsoop possessed to
take away the lite of the Ki licdar, and the expediency
of doing it being thus cle.rly demonstrated, it only
remains to shew that events coiroborated the pro-
priety of the sacrifice. Here again we borioss, the
language of Sir THOMAS HISLfT.IIIMSeIf:

" The good effect the examll: presl,.ired in the cause of Int-
inanity and to the public interest‘, becAne, as it Wtl r, instantly
apparent. - The confoleiacy of opposition to our lawful posses-
sion of Candeish was di solved ; the several kith:dais, till now
in resistance, yiekied to Holkar's rater, and, In obedience to it,
delivered up the formidable posts in their possession; the
Peishwa hovel' himself to Bi;ht ; Rant liven disappeared, and
not aneti;rrlje ucs lost, in the assumption of the cessions of Hol-
kar ; whertrs, had not an example been made at the critical
juncture it was, incalct.lable blocalshed would inevitably have
ensued."

Such were the particular features of this transac-
tion, and all the statements of his Excellency are
confirmed in the most decisive manner, by the una-
nimous testimony of the Officers whose names we
have mentioned, and whose separate narratives of the
affair are annexed to his Excellency's own account.