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

Rajahs of Korah Roondee, and other Rajpoot Chiefs
whom we wished to strengthen. Pert has been kept
in our hands, to pay the expense of the troops which
the unforeseen change of circumstances requires our
keeping advanced in that quarter.
" With respect to Nagpore, we have taken terri-
tory instead of the subsidy payable in money by the
original treaty. There are two motives for this—one,
that we thereby narrow the power of the State ; the
other, that the track connects itself with other pos-
sessions of ours, and completes the frontier.
" You are aware that Saugor, which is the posses-
sion alluded to by me, is not an acquisition from the
late campaign. It was ceded to us,by the Peishwa,
by the treaty of Poonah. The manager of it having
given shelter to the Pindarries, and having suffered
levies to be made openly in this town for the ltajah
of Nagpore, when that Prince was in arms against
us, has been removed from the superintendance.—
By taking into our hands, we not only consult our
own security, but we are enabled to pay from it, to
the Jageer-Dar (Nauna Govind Row, who resides at
Jaloun), three times the amount of the sum ever
before received by him from the rents. If I talk of
narrowing the means of Holkar and of the Nagpore
Rajah, I do so on the clear principle of right to dis-
pose of territory won in war. Each of those Princes
had lost all. Whatsoever they now possess is re-
stored to them by us as a gratuitous boon; and the
&ct swill serve to evince the leading inclination with
which we set out, of preserving the then existing Go-
verntn-!nts of India.

" Though this has not been digression, the expla-
nation of the unexpected manner In which we find
our territories increased, has put out of sight for the
moment the direct object of our appearance in the
field. The dcoadful pestilence which made such
haVoc in the division under my immediate command,
forced me to quit the banks of the Sinde, and to seek
a more favourable country for the recovery of my
numerous sick. I did not find this until I was fifty
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. lie 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 he had
at his capital. The Pindarries were in full march
for Gwalior, without meeting even a shcw of impe-
diment from the troops of Sandia stationed in their
route—though the cooperation of his army for the
extinction of the Pindarries was an article of the
Treaty. We hurried back to the Sinde ;• but this
Lime we chose a position nearer to Gwalior than what
we had before occupied. We were within thirty milei
of the city, and our advanced guard was sent to oc-
cupy the passes through the hills, which run at some
distance south of 6..valior, from the Sinde to the
Chumbul. Thcse passes were the only "route by
which communication could take'place between the
Pindarries and Scindia; and I was nearer to support
my advanced guard than the Maharajah was to at-
tack it, could he bring his mind to so desperate a
stake. With all the suspicious circumstances attend-
ing the state of things, our forbearance was not wea-
ried. No.unpleuant hints were thrown out.
" Scindia was told, that as I had learned the.. ap-
proachof the Pindarries, I had thought it an :men—
tion due to my ally to place myself bCtween him and
a set of lawless plunderers, who would put him into
great embarrassment could they get into his pre-
sence, and throw themselves on his protection. Ci-
vility was answered by civility. The Pindarries find-
ing.their hopes baffled and the passage stopped, at-
tempted to retire-but they had been followed close
by our divisions, weresurprised, dispersed, and slaugh-
tered in a number of small actions. In short, they
disappeared—and thus our objects were completed.
" It remains now to be seen what is the change
effected in our situation.

" In England, there are continual declamations
against the propensity of the Honourable Company's
Government here to add to territorial possessions al-
ready too large. It is forgotten, that a tendency to
expansion, amounting almost to direct necessity, is
the inherent and inseparable drawback on the advan-
tages of a power established so anomalously as that
of the British in India. It would be a visionary con-
fidence, to suppose that your strength would not e:-
cite jealousy, tLat •your riches would not stimulate
cupidity, and that your humiliation of those native
families which . held sovereignty when you first got
footing in the country, would not be brooded over
with a spirit of deep revenge. Yet a belief in the
non-existence of those impulses is the ground on
which they must stand, who insist on the progressive
increase of our sway as a proof of constant ambition
in the Honourable Company's Local Representatives.
There may have been cases, though I might find it
difficult to indicate them, where prospects of gaining
political ascendancy, or too hasty apprehensions of
medited attack, have misled us into hostilities, other-
wise capable of being avoided ; but the general his-
tory of our Indian Empire is, that we have been wan-
tonly assailed, that we have conquered the unpro-
voked enemy, and that we have retained the posses-
sions wrested from him, not simply as a legitimate
compensation for the peril and expense forced upon
us, but on tonsiderations of self-defence, brought
home to our conviction by the nature of the violence
just offered to us. What recently befel myself, as I
-have explained it to you, must be the strongest illus.
;tration of this eventual exigency.
" Recover your strength, and try the contest with
us again,' would be deemed a rather absurd address
to a treacherous foe whom you had vanquished ; but
you would as effectively put it on that footing by the
restoration of all his means, as if you had given him
the advice in terms. Still it may be said, though the
augmentation of territory may not involve any thing
reprehensible, it is not the less to be lamented ; since
the extension of frontier brings you in contact with
new enemies, reduces your strength, by widening the
circle of the circumference on which it is to act,
leaves advanced stations dangerously unsupported,
and, above all, a wider occupation of territory exacts
formidable addition to your military charges.
" The argument would be good, were the as=
sumptions admitted. Examine whether they ought.
Undoubtedly, your sway has been prodigiously ex-
tended by the late operations. The Indus is now in
effect your frontier ; and on the conditions of the ar-
rangement I thank HEAVEN that it is so. What is
there betwon Calcutta and that bound? Nothing

but States bound by a sense of common interest with,'
you, or a comparativel?small proportion o:
posed population, rendered incapable of raising a
standard against you. The Mahratta Power is wholly
and irretrievably broken. Scindia, by having been
kept in port, wfillte the barks of his neighbours pro-
voked the tempest, and perished in it, presents no ex-
hibition of shattered fortunes ; but he stands insulated,
and precluded from any extraneous assistance. I am
satisfied of his conviction that his existence depends
on his being in amity with the British Government,
and of his consequent resolution to cultivate our good
will. That inclination in him has been, and will con-
tinue to be, unfeignedly encouraged by us. Were his
disposition different, it would be matter of no concern
to us. He is now girded round by States which we
have raised to the power of resisting him, even with-
out our aid, by our having allotted to them most of
the territory taken from ifolkar ; and their political
views can never coalesce. _ _ _

You will not forget the direct and heavy defal-
cation from Scindia's strength in the extinction of the
Pindarries. Where is that host, the half of which
were to wear us out in fruitless pursuit, while the
other half was to get behind us and lay waste our
provinces? Gone, vanished !—multitudes of them
slain in a number of desultory actions, still more of
them massacred by the peasantry, as (after abandon-
ing theft horses and arms to escape from us through
the jungles) they endeavoured to make their way'
through the country in small parties as travelletF.
There then remain only States which have sponta-
net,usly and earnestly prayed to be received as feuda-
tories under the British banner. It knot conquest that
has extended our rule, we have beaten down nothing
but tile lawless violence which had for so many years
Made those regions a scene of unparalleled wretched.
ness. It is not the awe of our power which has made
all the Itajpoet States solicit to be united 'with us. 'A
distinct perception, that the misery which they had
so long suffered could not be prevented hut by their
identitying themselves with us, was-the sole motive
for the anxiety with which they sought the connexion.
In the terms of it there is nething to affect pride or
wound convenience, so that the confederation carries
with it no natural seeds of dissolution. With their
internal Government we profess to have no right of
interference. Mutual support in the field is of course
plighted—but, the price of our superior contribution
to that contingency is an engagement that the Feudal
States shall not disturb the generAtranquillity by
attacking each other. Their differences or claims to
be submitted to the arbitration of the British Go-
vernment—and this provision, which extinguishes the
necessity for their resorting to the sword on petty
points of honour, heretofore enforced by die preju-
dices of the country, is hailed by them with a just
conception of its utility.
" Thai yourealarged sway is nothing hut the in-
fluence arising frern the reliance of the several States
on your moderation, your good faith, and your honest
desire to promote their welfirre. Should it be said,
that to counterbalance this obvious political gain, me
must take into account the disadvantages of extended
positions and the charges attendant on increased esta-'
blishments, I answer, that when the multiplication of
points of defence is urged, the diminished means of
annoying us are also to be contemplated. I have'
shewn to you that scarcely any continue to exist.—
Our new situation has not brought us into contact
with any thing that can have the wilt, or bad it the
wish, could have the power of giving us trouble."

F.X4RAORDJNARI" CICCUMSTANOF..— A woman of
the name of Elizabeth llardiniT, who was left in the
care of a Gentleman's house an. Tottenham Court-'
road, was found dead in her bed yesterday morning.
The little finger of her left hand was completely
eaten away by a cat which she had in the room, and
the arm of the same side bitten iu many places by
the same animal. She was in perfect health at ten
the preceding night, and was found dead at eight in
the morning. After the body was laid out, the cat,
on the opening of the door, same in, and, in the pre-
son& of a daughter of the deceased and another
woman, flew on the corpse, began to gnaw it again,
and was with difficulty torn from the body.
J. Goodall, owner and driver of the Watford
stages, who was convicted at HattOn-gardea Office
yesterday, in the penalty of 1.:20, for carrying more
outside passengers than is by law allowed, and which
conviction was confirmed at the last Sessions, having
refused to pay the penalty, was committed to the
House of Correction for three months; when, after
having remained there four days, he paid the penalty,
and was discharged.—J. Moody,' owner and driver of
one of the Windsor coaches, under the like circum-
stances was apprehended ; when he paid the penalty,
and was discharged.
ROBBERIES AND BURGLARIES.—The shop of Mr.
Solomo'n Davies, tobacconist, in the Borouh, was
entered a few nights ago, by some robber, who, un-
perceived, carried off a cask of snuff, value 4220.
On Sunday night last, during the absence of Mr.
Purdy and his family from his house,- Grove-lane,
Horsemonger-lane-jail, some thieves broke into his
house, aid stole a quantity of valuable silver-plate,
linen, and other property.—The premises of Mr.
Constable, glass manufacturer and cutter, Broad-
wall, Lambeth, was entered by some illains, and a
number of beautiful and valuable cutglass decanters,
and other articles, were carried off.-11n Wednesday
night the house of Mr. Alsop, Baalzephcn-place,
Bermondsey, was entered by some robbers, by break-
ing open a door With an iron crow ; the wearing
ap-
parel and linen of the children, and of Mr, dud Mrs.
Alsop, was carried off with a variety of valuable
property, by the villains.—The house of Mr. Marsh,
Utuon-street,Borough-road,was broken open on Tues-
day night; a box was rifled of its contents, viz. a
bank-note for £lOO, five smaller notes, and other va-
luable property. It is supposed that the robbers
were well acquainted with the premises and the ha-
bits of the family : every thing else remained un-
toitched.—On Wednesday evening about dusk, a
thief entered the shop of Mr. Golder, Lambeth-walk,
and carried off a piece of valuable oil-cloth, with
which he escaped.—The shop of Mr. Barker, draper,
284, Holborn,was broken open a few nights ago, and
robbed of articles of drapery to a very considerable
amount.—On Tuesday evening, as Mr. George
Taylor, residing at Pentonville, was passing along
the islingten-road, near Newington-green, he was
hustled by a gang of six villains. Mr. Taylor being
a very powerful man, he resisted ; but the villains
succeeded in robbing him of a gold watch, &c.