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impression which the conduft of the 

 commander in chief, on this interest- 

 ing occasion, made on the minds of 

 the inhabitants of Delhi, and of all 

 the mussulmans in India, who have 

 been made acquainted with the trans- 

 actions of the memorable 16th of 

 September, 1803. In the m.cta- 

 phorical language of the east, the 

 native news Mriters who describe 

 this extraordintlry scene, have not 

 scrupled to declare that his majesty 

 Shah Allium received his sight from 

 excess of joy. la addition to many 

 other marks of the ro} al f^ratitude 

 and favour, the emperor bestov.ed 

 upon his deliverer, the second title 

 in the empire.* 



The result of general Lake's ope- 

 rations, equally judicious and spirit, 

 ed at Cocl, Ally Ghnr, and Delhi, 

 ■were highly beneficial to the British 

 interests in India. While the French 

 officers, deprived of influence and 

 authority, became the objects of 

 the just indignation of the country 

 they had so long enslaved, and 

 found their best safety in the gene- 

 rosity and protection of the viftors, 

 ■whoie humane conduft and order- 

 ly deportment caused them to 

 be regarded universally through- 

 out the conquered provinces, as 

 friends and deliverers. But these 

 vi6lorics, great and important as 

 ♦hey certainly were, would have lost 

 half their lustre, and all their effe6l, 

 did they not serve to enable the go- 

 vernor-general the more eftcdually 

 to extend his wise, just, and liberal 

 system of policy, oversogreata por- 

 tion of thelndian peninsula. Already 

 advantageously known throughout 

 Asia as the restorer of the ancient roy- 

 al house of the Mysorean dominion ; 



his raising from the dust the venerable 

 and unfortunate Mogul emperor, to 

 enjoy, in his latter days, those com- 

 forts and even necessaries of which 

 lie had so long sultered the priva- 

 tion, and the dispersion or subjuga- 

 tion of the enslavers of tiiat sove- 

 reign, established the reputatioa 

 "for valour, clemency, and justice 

 ofthe British government throughout 

 the East. Its triumphs brought iw> 

 terror, save to the tyrant: — and its 

 alliance and friendship were consi- 

 dered by the native powers as the 

 surest pledges, to their several states, 

 of happiness and tranquillity. Con- 

 sidering these events' also in a view 

 purely political, it will be remem- 

 bered, that by their operation, the 

 Mogul emperor being now firmly 

 restored to his funflions, and un- 

 der the protection of the British go- 

 vernment, no other power coukl 

 now avail itself of the weight and 

 influence which his name must ever 

 possess amongst the Alahometan in- 

 habitants of Hindostan. 



The commander in chief having' 

 made the necessary arrangements, 

 at once for the security of Delhi 

 and the preservation to the emperor 

 of those blessings of peace and inde- 

 pendence to which he had been re- 

 stored, proceeded in pursuit of the 

 enemy towards Agra. 



During these transa6tions, the 

 force under colonel Powel, station- 

 ed near Allahabad, had formeil 

 a junction with the cavalry ofthe 

 peishwa, commanded by Ilimmut 

 Bahader, his principal officer in the 

 province of Bundelcund. This unit- 

 ed army, amounting to near 17,000 

 men, reached the banks of the ri- 

 ver Cane, on the 10th of October, 



• The Pcisirin titles conferred on general Lake are in Englibli, " The sword 

 •f the state, tlic hero of the limd, the lord of the age, and the victorious in 

 »ar." 



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