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(Published March 24, 1807, by R. CRIBB, 288, Holborn,)

REPRESENTING THE
DELIVERY OF THE RATIFIED TREATY OF 1790

BY
SIR CHARLES WARRE MALET, BART.

TO HIS HIGHNESS
SOUAE MADAROW NARRAIN PESHWA,
AT POONAH, THE CAPITAL OF THE MAHRATTA STATES,

IN THE
EAST-INDIES,

FROM A PICTURE PAINTED BY THOMAS DANIELL, ESQ. R. A.

AND
ENGRAVED BY MR. CHARLES TURNER.

THIS picture derives interest from the accurate delineation of costume, in the faithful representation of an important political event in the annals of the British Empire in the East.

From the year 1774, the East India Company had been engaged in successive hostilities with the Mahratta State, which were terminated in the year 1782-3, by a Treaty of Peace between the British Government and the Peshwa, concluded at Salbyhe by Mr. David Anderson, under the orders of Governor General Hastings, through the good offices and mediation of the celebrated Mahratta Chieftain Mhadjee Sindia; with a reservation that our future intercourse with the Peshwa, or Supreme Head of the Mahratta Empire, should be through the channel of his interposition.

But the re-establishment of a direct and immediate communication with the Head of the Empire, naturally became an object of the solicitude of the British Government, as the best mode of obliterating recent animosity, and of establishing the most effectual check on the restless ambition and inveterate enmity of Tippo Sultan; and the jealousy of Mhadjee Sindia having been gradually lulled by the wise and candid policy of Mr.