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C H APTER XXXVIII 



On Sir Charles Warre Malet's arrival at Agra, some difficulties 

 arose, with respect to his meeting with Mahdajee Sindia, who was 

 then encamped at Muttra, about twenty-eight miles from the city, 

 with Shah Aalum, the degraded emperor of Delhi. The purport 

 of this intended meeting was to conceit with Mhadajee Sindia the 

 best mode of completing the establishment of the embassy to the 

 court of Poonah, in the manner most compatible with the interests 

 of the English and the views of this great chieftain, through whom 

 those interests had been for some time conducted with the peshwa, 

 the supreme head of the Mahratta empire. This predicament, 

 certainly of considerable delicacy, was soon cleared of its obsta- 

 cles by the address of Mr. James Anderson, then resident minister 

 from the government-general of India, with Mhadajee Sindia; 

 and who, by the suavity of his manners, excellent understanding, 

 perfect knowledge of the Persian and Hindostan languages, and 

 peculiar fitness for his important situation, had established a 

 considerable influence in the personal regard of this Mahratta 

 chief. 



On the 13th of May Sir Charles Malet received a letter from 

 Mr. Anderson, dated at Sindia's camp, informing him that Babo- 



