HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
‘dia*, the fort of Gualiorand terri- 
tories of Gohud were restored to 
that chief, and the river Chumbul 
declared to be the boundary on the 
nnorth between his states and the 
dominions of thecompany. Consi- 
derable pensions were also settled 
upon him and upon his wife and 
daughter for their respective lives ; 
and the company engaged not to 
enter into any treaties with his tri- 
butaries, nor to interfere in any 
shape in his internal arrangements, 
with them or with the family of 
Holkar. By the treaty with 
Holkar+, that chief was acknow- 
ledged as the friend of the com- 
pany, and permitted to return with 
his forces to Hindostan, by a'route 
prescribed to him. His possessions 
to the North of the Boundee hills, 
then occupied by the British forces, 
were ceded to the company, but 
part of them were afterwards res- 
toredto him. He also renounced 
his claim to the district of Koonch 
in the province of Bundlecund, but 
the company engaged to settle it, 
in jaggbire, upon his daughter, 
provided his conduct at the end of 
two years continued to merit their 
approbation. The company on 
| their side engaged to have no con- 
| cern with the ancient possessions of 
the Holkar family, situated to the 
south of the river Chumbul, and 
| agreed to restore all their conquests 
from that family in the Dekhan, ex- 
| cept the fort of Chandore and some 
other districts, which, however,they 
| engaged to give back at the end of 
eighteen months, provided the 
conduct of Holkar were in the mean 
time satisfactory. | Holkar also, 
, like Scindia, became bound to en- 
* State papers, p. 702. 
253 
without the consent of the British 
government ; and both chiefs enga- 
ged never to admit into their coun- 
cils or service, Serjee Rao Ghautka, 
that person having been proclaimed 
an enemy to the British govern- 
ment. 
After the conclusion of peace 
with Holkar, nothing occurred du- 
ring the present year, to disturb the 
tranquillity of the British empire 
in- the east, except the alarming 
spirit of mutiny and revolt, which 
broke out among the native troops 
in the pay of the company, in dif- 
ferent parts of the peninsula of In. 
dia. ‘fhe first and most fatal evi- 
dence of this spirit of disaffection 
appeared in the massacre at Vellore, 
the circumstances of which were as 
foliows. On the 10th of July, about 
two o'clock in the morning, the 
European barracks at Vellore, 
containing four complete compa- 
nies of the 69th regiment, were 
surrounded by two battalions of 
Sepoys in the Company's service, . 
who poured in .a heavy fire of 
musketry, at every door and win- 
dow, upon the soldiers: at the 
same time the European sentries, 
the soldiers at the main guard, and 
the sick inthe hospital, were put 
to death ; the officers houses were 
ransacked, and every person found 
in them murdered. Upon the 
arrival of the 19th light dragoons, 
under colonel Gillespie, the Sepoys 
were immediately attacked; 600 
cut down upon the spot, and 200 
taken from their hiding places and 
shot. There perished, of the four 
European companies, about 164, 
besides officers ; and many Bri- 
tish officers of the native troops were 
murdered by the insurgents. Sub. 
¢ State papers, 706, 
sequent 
