i06 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



CHAP. XVII. 



Jff'airs of India Continued. — Disposition of the British Force. — Outline of 

 the Campaign against Holkar. — Reduction of the Fortress of Chandorcy 

 hy General IVeUesky. — Jble Conduct of Lord Lake. — Signal Victor]/ 

 gained Ity General Fraser. — His Death — And Eulogy. — Extraordinari) 

 rapid Mortments of the Force under Lord Lake. — Surprise of the whole of 

 the Enemy's Cavalrj/, under Holkar himself— And complete Victory over 

 ikem.—Dest ruction of Holkar s Force— And his difflcult Escape. — Un~ 

 expected Protraction of the IVar. — Treachery of the Rajah of Bhurtpore. 

 — His Defection from the Company — Unexpected, and why — His open 

 Union with Holkar — To whom he becomes the sole Support. — Continued 

 Operations of Lord Lake— Whose brilliant Victories are, at length, 

 crowned with entire Success. — Reduction of Holkar — And Submission of 

 the Rajah of Bhurtpore. — Reflections upon the military Operations of the 

 Campaign. — Ueoric Conduct of the British Commanding Officers and 

 Arwy — To which Ejficiency is given by the able Government of the Mar. 

 guis Welleslcy — Result of these Operations — And their future probable 

 Consequences — With respect to India-^And to Great Britain. — General 

 Conclusion. — State of the Company's Alliances in India. — Highly satisfac- 

 tory— And owing to what Causes. — Return of the Marquis Wellesley to 

 Europe — Some Obtervatians thereon — And upon the Appointment of his 

 Successor as Governor General. — Real State of that Transaction. — Un. 

 founded A.fscr lions respecting the recall of the Marquis IVellcslcy. — Motives 

 for his protracted Return. — Highly honourable to his Lordship. — Hosti- 

 lity of the Court of Directors, manifested about this Period, to the Marquis 

 Wellesley' s Administration. — Arrival of the Marquis Cornwallis in India 

 — And Departure of the Marquis WelUsley for Europe. — Address of the 

 Inhabitants of Calcutta to the latter. — Misrepresentations upon tJiat 

 Subject, rectified. — General View (f the State of the British Indian Empire^ 

 at the Period of the Marquis Wellesley' s Departure. — Its flourishing Con- 

 dition to be a.fcribed solely to the wise and able Government of that Noble- 

 man. — The Subject concluded. 



TT would be extremely difficult, gevernment in India, against Hoi. 



J- if not indeed impossible, within kar, and which terminated soglori- 



the limits prescribed to ns by the ously for the mother country, in the 



nature of our publication, to give courseof the present year. It must 



an elaborate and correct view of the content us therefore to observe, 



campaign, carried on by the Britisfa that, while the troops in the Dec- 



kan, 



