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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



CHAP. XVI. 



Affairs of India. — Rdrosped.-^Charscter of Hollcar — His rejredory and 

 contumacious 'Behaviour. — Hostile Views lowards the British Gopgrnmeni 

 —Acts of Agi^rfsnon on his Part — Meilitated Treachery — Secrrt Intrigues 

 "With Scind all— Dihcovered. — Facijic Overturns made to him — Unaccepted, 



Ond xohy Actual Hostilities eonnneiiced by him.— The Ju^naghiir Territo. 



Ty plundered. — Moderation of the Governor-Gun eral towards Holkar 

 throughout the Whole of this Period.—Nafure and Conditions of the 

 Treaty proposed to the latter. — His exlrdvugant Demands in Consequence 

 •mrTotally rejected -^Holkar refuses to withdruis his Forces — Fresh Pro- 

 positions of Peace. — Insolent Letter of Holkar to Mnjor-General Wellesley. 

 —Impossibility of conciliatory Measures being continued—and War re- 

 solved upon. — General View of the wild and lenient Conduct of the Governor- 

 General in these Proieedins.s—and its probable Effect upon the native 

 Princes of I^dia. — Dispoition of the British Forces in India at the Com- 

 mencement of the War with Holkar. 



BEFORE we proceed to an ac- 

 count of the transactions in 

 •which Great Britain was engaged 

 in the course of the present year, 

 nearer home, we find it incumbent 

 upon us to bring up the affairs of 

 India to the close of the present 

 year. To a just view and under- 

 standing of this important subject, 

 one, we arc convinced, aifecting, in 

 the highest degree, the vital inte- 

 rests of this country, we wish to 

 lead the public attention. Much 

 misunderstandiog and misconcep- 

 tion at present prevails upon it, 

 and which, if continued in much 

 longer, may occasion the ruin of 

 the British establishments in that 

 part of the globe. 



In our last volume, in that por- 

 tion which wc devoted to the 

 i;oa&ideratiou of the affairs of In- 



dia, relative to the railitary opera- 

 tions in that quarter, we have car- 

 ried them down to the period of 

 time, at which peace was concluded 

 by the British government, in Ben- 

 gal, with the confederate Mahrat- 

 tah chieftains, Dowlut Rao Scin- 

 diah, and the rajah of Berar. — 

 In our present volume, it is our 

 intention to notice the subsequent 

 railitary operations in which the 

 company's government was engaged 

 with Jtswunt Rao Holkar, towards 

 the close of the marquis Wellesley's 

 administration in India ; together 

 with some circumstances, the kr\ow- 

 ledge of which we derive from 

 sources of intelligence, which, we 

 trust, will be found authentic, and 

 which motives of impartial justice 

 prompt us to state, for the inlorma- 

 tioa of our readers, relative to the 



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