Star.
London, England, 1819-01-02 00:00:00

BOMBAY, JULY 4.

Futteh Sing, whose drath was officially announced
in our extra Courier of the 2d, was the brother of
Anund Row, the reitning Guicawar, and the pre-
sumptive heir to the Nfusnud. His career, short as
it has proved, has not been unattended with the vicis-
situdes of fortune. Whilst living with his mother in
the vicinity of Poona, in the year 1803, they were
seized by the late Jessevant Row Holkar, and joined
that Chieftain's army soon after his victory in the
neighbourhood of that capital. The mother and sna
were subsequently transferred to the custody of a
Patan Chief, named Shamut Khan. ‘Vhen the al-
liance with the Baroda State was negociated, it be-
came an object of importance with the British Go-
vernment, to rescue the presumptive heir to the Mus-
nud from the hands of the Patans. Measures were
accordingly adopted to effect his release, and Shamut
Khan agreed to ransom both mother and son, for the
sum of 50,000 rupees, which was paid, and they were
liberated in 1804.

The reigning Guicawar being disqualified by a
constitutional weakness of mind from conducting the
laborious details of the State, the administration of
affairs was intrusted to a Commission of Government,
conducted by Futtch of Pretheeniddee or Mutaligy, in
which capacity he acted in subordination to his elder
brother, whose powers of sovereignty were in no de-
gree superseded by that arrangement.
Futteh Sing married in 1807, but has no issue ; his
younger brother, therefore, Syajee Row Guicawar,
who is now about 18 years of age, is the next in suc-
cession to the Government.

We are rejoiced to learn that, thronh the influence
of the Resident at Baroda, Futteh Sing's favourite
wife was prevailed upon not to sacrifice herself on
the funeral pile of her husband—an example which
we trust will have its influence in checking, and ulti-
mately abolishing that horrid practice wherever the
Influence of the British Government may predominate.

4illLll'Apy oPERAtiONILv

Extract frosts the Answer of the Marquis of Hast-
ings, on his return VI Calcutta, to an Address of the
Inhabitants :

" In the original pia* of the war, there was not the
erpectation or the wish of adding a rood to the do-
mininns of the Honourabk Company. Out know-
ledge of the decided repugnance with which any no-
tions of extending our territorial possessions is ahrays
viewed at home, would have forbidden such a pro-
ject. Territory, indeed, was to be wrested horn none
but the Irmdarries: and you will readily comprehend
the policy which dictated that such conquests should
be divided between the Nabob of Bopaul, Scindia,
and Holkar. It was useful to strengthen the former,
who had attached himself to us so devotedly; and it
was desirable that the two hlahratta Sovereigns
should perceive a degree of advantage for themselves
to compensate for the unavoidable dissatisfaction
they were to suffer from the completion of our enter-
prise. The suppression of the Pindarries was our
single object. An adociation, whose undisguised
principles ere to subsist by plundering all around it, is
a body placed by its own act in a state of war with
every regular Government. To crush such a confe-
deracy before it should farther increase that strength
which every year obviously augmented, would have
been a legitimate and prudent cause of exertion : bur
such considerations were long gone by. We were

called upon by the most imierious duty attaching
upou a Government—that of protecting. its subjects
from desolation—to prever.t the repetition (confess-
edly preparing) of invasions, which had for two years
consecutively ravaged the Madras Dependencies with
circumstances of unexampled honor: on that prin-
ciple we resolved to take the field. To have limited
our purpose to the expulsion of the Pindarries from
the districts which they had hitherto occupied, would
have been worse than childishness. It was indispen-
sable to extinguish them wholly. We were not blind
to the difficulties of the task. The interception and
dispersion of between five-and-twenty and thirty
thousand horsemen, lightly equipped and singularly
inured to fatigue, on the immense field over which
they had the power et moving in any dir'ection, was
an operation that required no ordinary effort. Much
more, however, was to be taken into calculation than
the agility of our enemies. It was certain that their
peril would be regarded with the greatest anxiety by
Scindia and by Ameer Khan. I leave Holkar out of
the question, though he was interested in the result,
for a reason which I will hereafter explain. The
Pindarries werean integral, though an unavowed, and
sometimes hardly manageable, part of the Army of
Scindia. They were always the ready auxiliaries of
Ameer Khan, with whom community of object—ra-
pine—gave them community of feeling. Ii was,
therefore, sure that those two Chiefs would be strenu-
ous in counteracting our attempts to destroy the Pin-
darries—underhand, so long as their practice could be
concealed—in arms, when disguise would no longer
avail. We had consequently to aim at incapacitating
Scindia and Ameer Khan from taking the part they
meditated. Enough Was gained Gem Scindia, could
we place him under. an inability of moving ; but
much more was requisite in respect to Ameer Khan.
Though his large Army was better fashioned and
more systematically organized than the Pindarry
force, still he was essentially nothing but a leader of
freebooters. It was of fundamental urgency that his
Army should be disbanded. Though it consisted of
5'2 battalions with above 150 pieces of cannon, and
a powerful Cavalry, it was luckily dispersed in small
corps, either for the occupation of the widely-sepa-
rated patches of territory which he had won from
different Chiefs, or for the extortion of means of sub-
sistence from weaker States. My hope of rendering
Scindia and Ameer Khan unable to struggle, rested
on this—that I should assemble my force before they
suspected my intention, and push it forward with a
rapidity which should make any concentration of
their troops impracticable. The mere immovability
of Scindia would not have answered my purpose.
The Pindarries, if pressed by me, would have tra-
versed his dominions, and gained the western States,
whither I should be precluded from following, by a
bar insuperable as long as it existed. We were bound
by treaty with Scindia to have no communication
whatever with those States, so that the Pindarries
would in the disunited Rajpoot territories here found
not only shelter, but the facility of combining their
force with that of Ameer Khan. I am showing to
you that even the bonds of public faith were, in my
contemplation, less surmountable than physical ob-
stacles. Do you think that I solved this embarrass-
ment by an illicit use of the advantage which I suc-
ceeded in gaining over Scindia, by ehnting myself
in the midst of his divisions, and prohibiting any at-
tempt at their junction? You do not believe it ; yet
you will like to hear explained on what tide I required
from him the abrogation of that interdict which for-
;bade our intercourse with the western States. No
treaty, in truth, was evisting between us and Scindia.
" He had dissolved it, first, by exciting the Pin-
darries to invade our territories, that he might see
lhow a desultory mode of war might affect our power;
,secondly, by lending himself, the year before, to the
profligate intrigues of the Peishwa, for the subver-
sion of British preponderancy ; thirdly, by specific
'promises given to the Pindarries of "nuking common
cause with theist, should they be driven to exigency.
Will it be said that this was possibly the construction
which we put on doubtful information ? Though the
Pindarrie Chiefs, now prisoners with me, have since
borne eviden-le to the truth of all those facts, my vin-
dication shall not repose itself there. Just as I was
taking the field, I caused to be delivered to Scindia,
in open durbar, his own letters, signed with his own
hand, and sealed with his own private seal, addressed
to a Foreign Government, and evincing the most hos-
tile machinations already matured against us. No-
thing was said to him on the delivery of those letters
other than that the Governor-General had not wished
to peruse them, and that his Highness would per-
ceive the seals were unbroken. I had no need to
peruse them, because their contents were displayed
by the letters of inferior agents, referring to and il-
lustrating the expressions of the Maharajah. These
particulars are communicated to you, that you may
see how steadily, notwithstanding the laxity of the
other party, our plan of upholding the existing Na-
tive Governments of India was maintained. Did
Scindia dispute the verity of the proofs brought
against him No such thing. He sunk under the
confusion of the unexpected detettiou. There was no

denial, no attempt at explanation, no endeavour to
ex-titillate 414 qisaliii of ' the Secret Correspondence.
. On our part, the sOle advantage dralith from the cir-
cumstance was additional security-for .the accom-
plishment of our measures against the Pindarries.
The Maharajah was told, in mild and conciliatory
terms, that the British Government would give way
to n'o vindictive impulse .on account of what had
passed, but would regard his Highness's aberrations
as an indiscretion arising from his not having suffi-
ciently considered the ties of amity subsisting be-
tween us ; but it was added, that as those ties had
not appeared firm enough to secure our)ust interests,
a new Treaty should be proposed, which, while it
preserved to the Maharajah all the solid benefits en-
joyed by him under the former one, would Live its
the certainty of annihilating the Pindarries. Sc in.l i a
gladly agreed to the terms, which pledged him to
active co-operatian against the freebooters, and 'et
us at liberty to make those engagements with the
Rajpoot-States, which alone could induce them to
combine and oppose any attempt of the Pindarries to
find refuge in the Western Country. A provisional
agreement was settled with those States instantly on
our obtaining the right to take them under our pro.
tection. A more decisive conduct was requisite to-
wards Ameer Khan. As his hand was professedly
against every man who had any thing to lose, the
hand of every man might justly be raised against
him. There were no engagements, express or im-
plied, between him and us. He was, therefore, dis-
tinctly told riT our resolution not to suffer-the conti-
nuance df a predatory sysrem in Central India. An
option on this principle was offered, that he. should
subscribe to the disbanding of his army, or witness
the attack of it in its separate condition. Should he
choose the former course, he would be guaranteed in
the possession of the territories he had won from
States whose injuries we had no obligation to redoes, :
should he risk the latter, he would be followed up as
a freebooter with the keenest pursuit. that could be
instituted against a criminal disturber of the public
peace. He had sagacity enough to comprehend that
any procedure but submission was hopeless. The
positions gained by us through celerity at the outset,
rendered the situation of those will: whom we had to
deal defenceless. Scindia was closely penned !se-
tweet' the centre division on the banks of the Sinde,
and Major-General Donkin's division on the banks el
the Chumbul. The latter corps menaced Ameer
Khan on one side, while Sir 1). Ocitterlony's over-
hung that Chief on the other, and the division under
Sir William heir prevented his escaping southward.
In this extremity; Ameer Khan took the telse step of
throwing himself on our liberal justice. His artillery
was surrendered to us ; his army was dis Landed ; ar.d
the British Government stood free from embarrass-
ment in that qnarter. At that period, which was
early in November, 1 had to conEriler the objects of
the campaign as completely gained: for the Pin.lar-
ries, sitnsible of the impracticability of maintaining
themselves in their own territories, had begun their
march to fall back on supports of which they did not
then know I had deprived them, and were sot rounded
by our divisions which were then closing in upon
them from every side. An apparently well-grounded
hope was thence entertained, that the erenstve revo-
lution which importantly changed the IM:unes of so
many States, would be perfected without the effusion
of other blood than what might be shed in the dis-
persion of the Pindarries.
" That expectation was not realized ; but its failure
arose from causes altogether unconnected with
the plan of our undertaking, or with any steps used
by us in the prosecution of it. 1 mentioLed to yen
that I reserved an explanation respecting Ilockai.—
Though some of the Chiefs of the Pinda.ries held
large Jaglieers from Ilolkar's Government, they had
acted so independently of it, that they were consi-
dered as having divorced themselves entirely form
it ; and that Government, on my notifying to theni
the determination to suppress the Pindarree repro-
bated the lawless ferocity of the fretbocters, :cp.
plauded the justice of my purpose to chastise them,
and closed the letter with expressions of every v. i h
for my succes'. The sincerity of those wishes might
have been questionable, though nu apprehension cf
obstruction to onr policy would have totem-led the
doubt, had not other and more particular corre-
spondence been at that time in process between Flol-
kar's Government and curs. Toolsie Bhye, the %el.
dow of the I':e Maharajah, was, as you It ow. Re-
gent of the State, during the minority of s creig
Ilolkar. Finding herself unable to controt,l the in-
solence of the Sirdars, and to preserve the interests
of the family, she had sent a Vakeel to scrlit.it pri-
vately, that Ilolkar and the State might be taken
under the British Government. The overture was
met with the kindest encouragement. No but,;en.
some condition was indicated—eo silbsidy requite...—
no stationing of a British force in Holkat 'x wino:lies
proposed ; the only outline of terms was rec;i,i,scal
support, in case either State were attacked. and the
zealous co-operation of Hulkar's Government ie Fre-
veoting the assemblage of predatory associari.sree—
While such frank cordiality reigned between the par•
ties, nothing could teem more out of the charices
than a rupture: yet upon a sudden the Vakeel was
recalled, the different Sirdars, with their respective
troops, were.surnmoneti to repair with the utmost
i speed to the Sovereign's rerson, and the determina-
I tion of marching to aid the Peishwa was proclaimed
by the Regent. What ensued is fresh to your recol-
lection. The Mahratta army found itself surrounded.
Earnest representations of the inevitable ruin they
were entailing on themselves were made on our part
to the Government, and many times repeated. The
Sirdars could net imagine such a feeling as the mo-
deration whence these friendly espostulations flowed.
Our assurances that their ebullition should be for-
gotten, and that we would remain on the same ami-
cable footing as before, if they abandoned then ex-
travagant purpose, were supposed to arise from our
eonsciousness of incompetency to coerce them, and
that persuasicn increased their temerity to the extent
of-actual attacks on our outposts. The Regent alone
perCeived the precipice ; wished to withdraw front
it ; and was publicly put to death by the Sirchirs.
for doubting the certainty of victory, the es-cuing be.
lore the battle which reduced Ilolkar to a destitute
fugitive. A similarly unprovoked defection was ex-
hibited by the Rajah of Nagpore. If his inimical
disposition was not marked with the same insolent
vauut, it was only because he thought the basest in-
, sidiou..act.s would give hint an advantage in the at.
tempt which he meditated against the life of our

I
N

O.f
•• •
• lA,
1

:;

fi

fiL
Pis?

~}^~
,~

, .
..?
. )
• ... 1
1
ti 1
.. 4
. .
• ,
t . 0
. i
' 0
.1. • i
t '•
1 1
, i 4
•
• ',l
4 i
1 'l. ' ,!
1 t'
t ' ; ;•
.k4t. 1 1 I
Si 1;
. ,
1 •
1
' .
:II ~•
J ‘i4 4 •
I
; ' )
.1 I I;
•1; . t
; • - SI
1 i.
t
...,,
1
1., i
4..1141,1
.i. ) t .il
t‘' i‘j :I
.t.rct
ti
(t t ;1, i