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but those events have ceased to be interesting. My fever increas- 

 ing, attended by many symptoms of the liver complaint, I was 

 obliged, not only to leave the army in Guzerat, but to return to 

 Bombay, and embark in the first vessel for England, in hopes of re- 

 establishing my health. 



I shall therefore only add, that in consequence of orders from 

 the newly appointed governor-general in council at Bengal, an 

 embassy was sent from thence to the ministers at Poonah, by which 

 means a peace was concluded between the Mahrattas and the 

 English, the Bombay detachment withdrawn, and Ragobah com- 

 pelled to resign the peshwa sovereignty to the posthumous child 

 of Narrain Row. As a compensation for this sacrifice, he was 

 to be allowed a jaghire from the Mahratta government, and 

 some other privileges: but becoming discontented with a private 

 station, he again asserted his claim to the sovereignty; was once 

 more assisted by the Bombay government in an expedition sent 

 from thence in 1779, which proved unsuccessful: and Ragobah's 

 death happening soon afterwards, terminated the civil wars in the 

 Mahratta empire. 



I shall close the subject of the campaign in Guzerat with an 

 account of the Mahratta army in 1795, communicated to me by 

 Sir Charles Malet, at that time the British ambassador at the 

 court of Poonah; in which character he accompanied the peshwa 

 in an expedition against the Nizam. This information, derived 

 from such a source, I consider a most valuable acquisition to the 

 preceding narrative; especially as it elucidates many points which 

 I had no opportunity of investigating. 



