10 NARRATIVE OP A JOURNEY 



would b6 fufficiently fecurcd, by committing them 

 to the protedlion of the lame armies, by which they 

 had been acquired, under the command of the leaders 

 who had hitherto condu6ted thofe armies to vi6lory ; 

 fome important advantages were to be obtained by his 

 prefence at Poo;2^. He hoped, by eftablifhing an in- 

 fluence in that court, to obtain an order for the rccal 

 of Ho L CAR and Ali Bahadur, and thus to be left in 

 Ible polleffion of the new conquefts. As the expence 

 of making and maintaining thofe conquefls, in the 

 name as he pretended, and on behalf of the Peshwa, 

 had greatly exceeded the revenues derived from them, 

 he hoped to receive, from the treafury of Poona, the 

 balance, which, on a comparifon of accounts, was al- 

 lowed to be eight crores of rupees, Laftly, as his pa- 

 ternal eftate in the Decan wa,s deftitutc of ftrong places, 

 he was defirous of obtaining a grant of fome fortrcfs 

 adjoining to it, for the fecurity of his family and pof- 

 feflions. Thefe were the principal heads infifted on, 

 in his negociations with the court of Poona ; and his 

 hopes of eflablilhing an influence there (befides what 

 he might expecl from the gratitude of the Peshwa 

 and of Nana Pharnawees, one of whom owed the 

 fovereignty, and the other his ofHce of prime minifler, 

 in a great degree, to Sindeah's exertions, were found- 

 ed on the refpe(Stable force by which he was attended ; 

 fufficient to awe the government, and make it afraid 

 to difoblige him. For the reft, he trulled to his own 

 addrefs, in flattering the vanity, and amufing the ju- 

 venile levity of the Peshwa, fo as to create, in his 

 mind, a perfonal attachment, towards himfelf. 



Besides thefe grand objedls, he had others in view, 

 of a fubordinate nature. He had been fourteen years 

 abfent from 0//;t'w, the capital of his jageer; and, many 

 complaints having reached him, of mal-adminiflra- 

 tration, on the part of thofe entrufted with authority 

 there, his prefence became neceHary, for the re6lifi- 

 cationof abufes. 



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