The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-08-16
ON THE OR A
THE ETST-INDIES.

In recent packet of EngIiih newfnapers. we
lind number of articles concerning the ffate o,
Hinduttan, and the rife and progrefs of the wars
| IN that country, during the Iaft two years. !,
! appears that the French naval fquadron in the
indian teas, had taken among feveral Others. A
mp on board OF which was variety of dir
patches, pnbifc and Ecyef, and of private correc
pondence-thefe having been forwarded bv ye-
neral Decaen from the Mauritius TO France.
have been pubhfhed in the MoNITEuR.--from
which Gazette the EngIiih papers have made
Tome partial, though interefing feleGiions.
No apology is required for placing before
our readers thete papers 70 far as we have oh.
tanned them-the concerns of 1sGa appears to
OBTAIN more ihan common attention among CT
vllized natiops-there appears to be growing
Thrift OF curiofity concerning its remote hifory,
learning and fcience and an anticibatiou that II
mutt at no remote day exhibit b6ego,,euoy O.
qua! in magnitude, originality, and importance
to the revolution Of America Such an event
viii inevitably arife-t is an event to he defred
by manklnd--but we are about only to renort
what has been written and publiheJ ,.llrwhere.
and to afford orr readers little variety of fo-
reign lnterefting matter to temper the warmth
and acerbity of local politics.
me Paris Mo1ifeRr Of the fra of Nav, and
iuoieonent papers contain number of inter
copied paperF, and difpatches, captured ON the
Bl1ti'f ihip Hope-fubfequent papers ALTO con-
tam ex' racts of 4 report made bv a f.b-Ecutevo,t
MULLER, who appears to have been frnt for the
pnrpoie into Hinduilan, and who gives very
clrcumItantiaI accounts down to recent date.
Oh the military operations in the Mahatta
county; ana II appears that Deeaen had fubfe-
qnentiy iueceeded in tending number of ltaf'
officers, engineers, and two well appointed
companies Of Hight artillery, 70 reinforce the ar
my OF Jufwunt Rao Iolkar.
The tlTlt article which we find is not com
pIete document the 4VboIc was publifbed in
me Mon'fem, bit the Englifh prints garble il
ana iuch only can we give it. 1t is difpatcb
or the 18Th jGly, 1904, from the fupreme couu-
cii ut Cllcutia, 70 toe fecret committee Of the
court OF diredors, and figned bv the Mqrou;t
WelfcjIer, Geo. III. Barlow, and 7. l.. JJdnev
and rs defcribed as extending to- tie buk of 4;
large pamphlet, giving circumhantisl and IN
ninous view OF the Britfh ipterefts throughout
indla, the policy Of TIE different princes. thrir
hliforY, deEgns, &c. In this difp1tch iyryeHy't
motives TOR the war agaiaG tie Mahrattahs are
dey-!oped-the following are the exir4.9s-
" he inmsdiafe cagjf the war arofp from the
refljai which the confederate M1hr1ttah chiefs
had made to divide and Withdraw TO their uG,.
AZ tadons, upon their refpeciive territories, TIE
1rnit'they had collected and concentrated w
on the frontiers Of our ally the Soubahdar OF
the Decaen, after having declared that the IN
tention OF that union was To- decide. qobei6er
f5eie bonH be pence or qOar with the Britill, TO-
vernmcGt and It's allies"
The north wen frontier of India is confdered
I'VE not feeble part Of the vail empire Of Britain
in hd5.
+" The power Of he Seyks, as well as Of the
Nahrattahs, and the Raipouts and other petty
tdtes' ahords conhderable advantage 70 Tie
lnvahon ct ~ enemy coming from the NOR dc
tani parts o. the B0rth weft Of Ala, orthe hanks
OF sndus; and it will be fiperilnons to refntrl,
10 yonT eSceency, that the enferrrifrg fBrir
oi fr6p>e, orthe ambition Of Ruin or even sic
violence or rspaci;y OF the %fstan tYibcsf.y,th
hhd'c nations, winch inhai,it the noith,rn md
We"Ffp ron".res OF Ala, may have conceived
P'd"s OF n'"io" IN that part, an ir.yai5a which