Secret Correspondence of the Court of the Peshwa. 147 



" for the privations and hardships they had already endured, and unwilHng 

 " to incur more, became discontented, and positively refused to remain. In 

 " this state of affairs Dewakar Pant (Bhosla's minister), who had been all 

 " along in camp, remonstrated against leaving any troops at all. He 

 " stated, that to form a cantonment in Berar fit to contain such an army 

 " as Ramchandra Ganes must necessarily have with liim, would incur an 

 " expense of at least twenty lacs of rupees, which could never be repaid 

 " by BHOS.LA. He entreated therefore for his master, that his Highness 

 " the Peshwa would be satisfied with having ravaged the country, and 

 " expelled Bhosla from it, and begged that the Peshwa would now 

 " accept his contrition. His Highness, on mature consideration, was 

 " induced to accede to the reasoning of DiiWAKAR Pant, and consented to 

 " permit him to quit the camp and bring Bhosla to head-quarters, on con- 

 " dition of his giving up twelve lacs of his old jagi'r and three lacs of liis new 

 " jagir, and of his paying five lacs in specie ; the cessions and specie to 

 " be shared equally by the allies. 



" After Bhosla arrives, visits will be interchanged for two or three 

 " days, when we shall return, as well as Ramchandra Ganes's division. 

 " The Nizam's troops are also to go home. 



" Dewakar Pant is to accompany this army. You shall know more 

 " when we meet." 



V 



The army reached Poona at the end of May, and the aspect of affairs in 

 the south rendered it necessary for the Peshwa to direct his attention to 

 that quarter : among other measures of precaution, was that of removing 

 the Carnatic infantry from the garrisons in that quarter of the country, and 

 replacing them by Mahrattas whom he could trust. The Peshwa writes thus 

 to his brother Narayan Rao, then quite a youth : 



" 5th of July 1769. 

 " I request that all the Carnatic infantry in the garrisons of the southern 

 " frontier may be relieved in Chinroydrug, Mudgirry, &c. Sec, and their 

 " place supplied by Mahratta infantry." 



But the Peshwa's first object was to prevent his uncle being mischievous 

 during his absence ; and the circumstantial proofs of his designs, up to the 

 very last moment of the war with Bhosla, were so complete, that he felt 

 himself justified in imposing new and more rigid terms on him for the 

 future. 



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