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to Bengal 'y he nobly anfwered, that in obedience to the orders 



of the fupreme council he was ordered to protect Bombavt and 



that thofe orders he fhould obey. This he did with incredible 



celerity and fpirit ; it was through a fine country^ filled with 



villages and inhabitants. On February 6th, he left Burharn- Goddard ar- 

 rives at SURAT, 



pour ; and on the 25th, including a halt of two or three days,. 

 he reached Surat ; a march, according to the account of Bom- 

 bay J of near three hundred miles. The fupreme council, to- 

 exprefs their fenfe of his merit, fent him a brevet of brigadier 

 general, and gave him full power of treating with the Mabrat- 

 tab court. 



No fooner had he arrived at Surat, than he fixed on a 

 healthy fpot for his army, in order to recruit the fatigues of 

 its march. He then fet out for Bombay, to concert with the pre- 

 fidency the plan of the campaign : It would not be refponfible 

 for it, yet agreed to furnifli him with affiflance,. and accord- 

 ingly fupplied him with four companies of Europeans^ and 

 two battalions of Sepoxs, commanded by Colonel Hartley. 



Goddard returned to Swat, and immediately fet his army in 

 motion, on January ift, 1780. I have, at p. p. 67. 90, of my 

 tirft volume, related his ftorming A7nedabad. Let me here add,- 

 that the gallant Hartley had the condu<ff of that dangerous 

 part of the fervice. The caufe our General was then to fupport 

 was that of Futty Sing, legal heir to part of the province of 

 Guzerat, in fome degree vifurped by the Mabratta government 

 ©f Poonab. Futty Sing was immediately put in polTeffion of 

 the conquered city. As foon as the Mabrattas heard of God- 

 dard'^ laying fiege to it,, they marched wkh- a confiderabkiforce 

 u> to- 



