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ultimate consequence to the petitioners, should the report prove to 

 be unfounded, and a Mahratta chief still succeed you. I thought 

 the grateful venerable Ardeseer, tandar of Zinore, would have died 

 with joy when he heard the news; and your purvoe damoder put 

 on the first smile visible on his long face since your departure. 

 He much regrets having dismantled your apartments in the dur- 

 bar; and in consequence of the favourable report, I am replacing 

 the copper bolls and bars which I had taken from the powder 

 magazine, being determined not to leave them for the Mahrattas. 

 I am most truly concerned to hear of the shocking conspiracy and 

 mutiny at Baroche; but I do not so much wonder at it, when I 

 consider the hatred of the Mahomedans to a Mahratta govern- 

 ment, although so timely discovered; it is a peremptory duty to 

 make a severe example of the ringleaders both among the conspi- 

 rators and sepoy mutineers." 



From Baroche, Id July 1783. 



" We detained your halcarra, my dear Sir, to inform 

 you of the transactions in council yesterday, as you could not 

 leave your residency to be present. It was our last meeting; and 

 our final resolutions respecting. this ill-fated settlement, closed the 

 consultation. This morning we are to assemble at a full Court of 

 Adawlel, and after settling the causes, dissolve the court; all priso- 

 ners confined for just debts are to be delivered over to the new 

 government. The chief is to do as he thinks right with the natives 

 committed by him as a magistrate. About twenty pieces of ord- 

 nance one bundled barrels of powder, and shot in proportion, are 



