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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



interests, presented him an address 

 on the 29th of February, in which 

 they expressed their entire concur- 

 rence in the justice and necessity of 

 the war, their admiration of the 

 plan of the campaign, the heroic 

 energy with which it was carried 

 into cffcdt, and the wise, humane, 

 and liberal policy which dictated 

 the conditions of peace. But, not 

 contented with this manifestation of 

 their respeft and gratitude, in a 

 few days afterwards they voted, 

 that a marble statue of the governor 

 general should be ere6ted at Cal- 

 cutta, as a lasting memorial of his 

 eminent public services. It'was also 

 agreed, at the same time, to present 

 swords of considerable value to ge- 

 nerals Lake and Wellesley, as tes- 

 timonials of their high sense of the 

 distinguished merit evinced by these 

 officers in the late campaign ; — 

 measures were immediately adopt- 

 ed to carry these resolutions into 

 ctTca. 



At home, the public gratitude 

 ■was not less alive to the extraordi- 

 nary ability and exertions of the 

 marquis Wellesley, and the troops 

 in India. The thanks of parliament 

 were voted to the governor general, 

 and the commanders, officers, and 

 soldiers of the several armies, which 

 had shared in the glory of the con- 

 test. His majesty was also further 

 pleased to create general Lake a 

 peer of the realm, and general Wel- 

 lesley a knight of the Bath, to 

 mark, in the strongest possible 



manner, the royal approbation of 

 tjicir signal services. 



We have gone so much info de- 

 tail in the preceding chapter, up. 

 on the origin and policy of the Mah- 

 ratta. war, that it is only necessary 

 here to observe, that every objeft 

 for which it had been found naccs- 

 sary to contend, was obtained in 

 a campaign of five monias, against 

 the two most powerful of the nativa 

 princes in India, without a single 

 reverse of fortune or serious disas- 

 ter befalling the British arms. In 

 the terms of peace, the British go. 

 verninent Avas as moderate as in war 

 its force had been irresistible ; every 

 point being abandoned and every 

 conquest restored, that did not be- 

 long to the principles of justice 

 and security upon which hostilities 

 had been resorted to. In a word, 

 the combined exertion of the ta- 

 lents and Avisdom of the marquis 

 Wellesley, the true military ge- 

 nius of generals Lake and Welles- 

 ley, and the invincible courage of 

 the troops, have produced the 

 most lasting benefits to their native 

 country ; by their result, the best 

 interests of humanity have been 

 served ; our enemies disconifit- 

 ted ; our allies protected ; cur 

 military superiority confirmed : our 

 dominion enlarged ; the subjcc'^s of 

 other European po-vvers excluded 

 from the peninsula, and a secure 

 and durable peace, founded upon 

 the general good as well as our own,. 

 established throughout India. 



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