i88 GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



part of the peninfula into Guzerat *. His is the merited fame, 

 but the Colonel LeJIie, an officer highly credited in America by 

 ovir hero Wolfe^ had the conduit in the early part. A frequent 

 fuccellion of war and peace had long been known between 

 the prefidency of Bombay and the weftern Mahratias, occafioned 

 by the factions in the court of Pocnah. A partial account has 

 been given at p. 93 of my firft volume; the whole is well told 

 in the hiftorical account of Bombay, printed in 178 1. After 

 fome ftrong difputes between the fupreme council at Calcutta, 

 and the governor general, the genius of Mr. HaJIings got th6 

 better ; and it v^as determined to fend the Bengal brigade on the 

 great defign of croffing the Peninfula, effc6i;u-illy to decide the 

 long reigning difputes. This force has been exaggerated, but 

 it confifttd in the whole of only fix thoufand fix hundred and 

 twenty-four nathe troops, without a fingle European corps, and 

 thofe commanded by a hundred and five European officers. To 

 thefe the author of the JVar in Afia, i. p. 22, adds the firll re- 

 giment of cavalry, all compofed of natives, commanded by Cap- 

 tain Wray, and the fame number of the nabob of Oudes, or 

 Vifier\, Candabar horfe. From the force of cuftom, this little 

 army was followed by a train of very near thirty-two thoufand 

 fervants, futlers, &c. Sec. dreadful plagues to difcipline, and to 

 the mind of an European commander. 



On April 3d, 1778, part of the firft brigade arrived at Allaha- 

 bad-, and on different days others, with the artillery park, ftores, 

 and treafure, arrived at Corah. LeJlJe joined the troops on the 



* Authorities for this March arc from the Account of Bombay j and the Journal, ^c. 



printed for Faclen. 



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