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EXTRACT FROM A LETTER DATED MARCH 1783. 



" Alas ! my Friend, to what a scene of misfortune 

 are we reduced! I have received some very confidential letters 

 from Bombay; where the particulars of the treaty lately concluded 

 between the English and the Mahrattas had arrived, from Mr. 

 David Anderson, ambassador from the Bengal government to Mha- 

 dajee Sindia, through whose mediation it was effected. There 

 seem to have been two separate treaties ; one between the East 

 India Company and the Poonah durbar, the other between the 

 Company and Mhadajee Sindia only. The former is by no means 

 so favourable as that concluded by colonel Upton in 1776; be- 

 cause Jamboseer and every other cession and conquest from the 

 Mahrattas and Guicawars, since the commencement of the Mah- 

 ratta war, are to be relinquished, except Salselte, Caranjah, and 

 the smaller isles in Bombay harbour. All our possessions in the 

 Concan are vanished; no territory remains to Surat; nor is the 

 promised country of three lacs any longer to be expected. 

 These sacrifices might have been anticipated, but to gratify Mha- 

 dajee Sindia for procuring this peace, the governor general 

 and council have been pleased to grant him, by a separate treaty, 

 the city and purgunna of Baroche, a pretty douceur of near 

 one hundred thousand pounds per annum. 



"Most heartily do I execrate this inglorious convention; for 

 nothing surely could be more unjust than thus sacrificing the 

 Bombay presidency to the interests of the other two. But our 

 part, my friend, is submission ; and I feel the effects of the treaty 

 far more for the general loss and disgrace to the service, and the 

 interest of those individuals so essentially hurt, than anything that 



