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a grant of territory to the annual a- peishwa requested the protedtion of 

 mountof 25 lacks of rupees, in per- the government of Bombay, and 

 petuity to the honourable company, was in the mean while conveyed, in 

 for the payment of tliat force. — a British vessel, to Savendroog, a 

 This proposition was acceded to by place of considerable strength, also 

 the resident, and a draught thereof in the Koukan, where his person 

 was immediately forwarded to Cal- was likely to be secure from thcat- 

 cutta, and was ratified by the go- tempts of the usurpers. 

 Tcrnor general on the same day it In this state of the Mahratta em- 

 was received: and judging this a pirc, it became indispensibly neccs- 

 favourable opportunity to extend this sary, as well for the protection of the 

 alliance to all the members of the British possessions, as those of the 

 Alahratta empire, colonel Collins nizam, and rajah of Mysore, its al- 

 was dispatched to Scindia, as am- lies; and for the repelling any preda- 

 bassador plenipotentiary, in order tory incursion (which might, in the 

 to propose to him the terms on course of the contest, be made by 

 which he might be included in the any vagrant freebooter belonging to 

 engagement just contracted with the either of the contending chieftains,) 

 peishwa. to assemble a considerable army of 

 In the mean time, the views of observation on (he Mahratta fron- 

 Holkar became more clearly deve- tier. Accordingly lord Cllve, the, 

 • loped. Finding that the peishwa governor of fort St. George, with- 

 had effected his escape, he detached out waiting the arrival of direct in- 

 a force to Jegoary, a fort about 30 structions from the governor-gene- 

 miles to the southward of Poonah, ral, got togethera considerable force 

 io seize on the person of Amrut at Hurryhur, on the north-western 

 Rao, (the adopted son of the late frontier of ^Mysore,* and governor 

 Ragobah) with the design of placing Duncan, of the Bombay prcsiden- 

 his infant son on the musnud, at the cy, adopted the same wise and salu- 

 same time declaring Amrut Rao tary measures of vigilance and pre- 

 prime-ministcr, and assuming to caution, by preparing for immedi- 

 hiniself the general command of the ate service the disposeabie strength 

 troops of the state. In this project of that government. While a con- 

 he was successful, and although sidevable detachment of the subsi- 

 Amrut Rao seems to have been diary troops in the pay of (he ni- 

 averse from the arrangement, the zam, was also ordered to hold itself 

 alfairs of government were thence- in readiness to fake the field, in con- 

 torward carried on under the autho- formity to a requisition io that of- 

 ■ily and name of the latter. feet from the resident at Poonah. 

 Wuriiig these transactions, the At this period, both Ilolkar and 



Scindia 

 • Cavalry .^,5R1 



Artiikrv 390 



European Infantry 2,845 



Native ditto 12,182 



18,998 

 Willi 800 pioneers, and 508 g%in Iascnr9, 4 iron twelve, and i. iron eieh'con poun-- 

 <ifrs, 4 brass twelve-poundf.-rs, 40 field pieces, lU long galloptr ^ma, ai;.] font 

 kowif/ers. 



