Sir,

Puuna.

I AM directed by his Excellency the Most Noble the Governor General, to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatches of the numbers and dates specified in the margin.

2. The copy of a treaty concluded with his Highness the Peishwa, stated to be inclosed in your dispatch, No. 62 (the duplicate of which alone has been received) did not accompany that dispatch. His Excellency infers from the tenor of that dispatch, that the treaty actually concluded by you with the Peishwa corresponds with the draught transmitted in your dispatch, No. 59. From the tenor, therefore, of his Excellency's instructions to you of the 18th January, on the subject of that dispatch, you will anticipate his Excellency's approbation of the treaty, a ratified copy of which will accordingly be transmitted to you on receipt of the copy stated to be inclosed in your letter, No. 62. The sentiments of his Excellency the Governor General, on the subject of the treaty communicated to you in the letter of instructions above referred to, preclude the necessity of any further observations on

that subject at the present mo

ment.

3. Ilis Excellency entirely approves your endeavours to induce his Highness the Peishwa to repair to Bombay, as well as your determination to remove the English troops assembled at Gorabunder to Bassein, for the protection of the Peishwa's person, in consequence of his Highness's refusal to proceed to Bombay.

3. His Excellency entirely approves the tenor of your letters to Jeswunt Rao Holkar, transiations of which were transmitted in your letter to the Secretary of the 6th ult. and in your dispatch to the Governor General, No. 64.

5. The sentiments and instructions of his Excellency, on the subject of Jeswunt Rao Holkar's propositions, will be communica ted to you in a separate dispatch in the course of a few days.

6. In consequence of your recommendation to the government of Fort Saint George, for the immediate advance of the English army assembled at Hurryhaul, his Excellency has deemed it necessary to communicate to te Right Honourable the Governor of Fort Saint George, his sentiments and instructions on that question, and to state to his Lordship the general principles by

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which

which the further measures to be adopted for the restoration of the Peishwa to the Musnud of Poona, are to be regulated.

7. A copy of his Excellency's dispatch to the Right Honourable the Governor of Fort Saint George on that subject, is inclosed for your information; his Excellency directs that your future proceedings may be guided by the spirit of the resolutions and intentions described in that dispatch, as far as they may be applicable to the situation in which you may be required to act.

8. In pursuance of the plan of operations which his Excellency resolved to adopt, orders will be immediately issued to the Resident at Hydrabad, authorizing him to direct the advance of the whole of the subsidiary force for the pur pose of forming a junction with the army of his Highness the Nizam, and of occupying in conjunction with that army, a position on the frontier of his Highness's territory most favourable for the march of that force to Poona. 9. His Excellency leaves to your judgment, regulated by the course of events, to decide on the proper period for the actual advance of the allied army from its position on the Nizam's frontier towards Poona. The commanding officer of the subsidiary force will be directed to conform to your suggestions, both with regard to the time of commencing his march from the Nizam's frontier towards Poona, and to any other points connected with the objects of the destination of that force; and his Highness the Nizam will be requested to issue orders to the officer in command of his troops, directing him to attend to any suggestions which he may receive

from the commanding officer of the subsidiary force, for the regulation of his conduct.

10. You will communicate both to the government of Fort St. George, and to the officer in command of the detachment proceeding from Hurryhaul, your sentiments with regard to the route which it may be advisable for that detachment to pursue.

11. The expediency of its proceeding to Meritch for the purpose of favouring the junction of the Peishwa, of its marching directly to Poona, or of its previously forming a junction with the allied army on the Nizam's frontier, must necessarily be determined by future events and contingencies.

12. I am directed to transmit to you for your information, the inclosed copy of his Excellency's further instructions to the Right Honourable the Governor of Fort Saint George, on the subject of the nomination of Mr. Webbe to the residency at Nagpoor, and of Mr. Maico in to that of Mysore : you will observe from the tenor of those instructions, that the appointment of Major Malcolm is in timately connected with the measures to be pursued for the accomplishment of the Governor General's views at the court of Poona. His Excellency, therefore, deems it proper that you should correspond with Major Malcolm on all subjects connected with the prosecution of those measures, and that you should transmit to him copies of your dispatches to this government, and to the government of Fort Saint George.

I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) N.B. EDMONSTONE, Sec. to Gov.

Fort William, Feb. 3d, 1803.

P. S.

P. S. His Excellency the Governor General desires that you will communicate the whole of

this dispatch to the Honourable the Governor of Bombay. (Signed) N.B. EDMONSTONE, Sec. to Gov.

To Major Kirkpatrick, Resident at Hydrabad.

Sir,

I AM directed by his Excellen cy the most noble the Governor General to transmit to you, for your information, the inclosed copy of his Excellency's instruc tions of this date to the Resident at Poona, and of the documents therein referred to; you will observe from the tenor of those do cuments, that his Excellency's intention with regard to the cooperation of the whole of the subsidiary force with the army of his Highness the Nizam, coincides with the suggestion upon that subject contained in your dispatch, No. ().

2. In conformity to the plan of operations, which his Excellency has resolved to adopt, you will direct the commanding officer of the subsidiary force to march the whole of that force, for the purpose of forming a junction with the army of his Highness the Nizam, having first obtained his Highness's consent to that measure; for which purpose it will be proper that you should communicate to his Highness the intended plan of operations. You will con

cert with the Resident at Poona the position which it will be advisable for the combined army to occupy on the Nizam's frontier, preparatory to its actual advance towards Poona.

3. His Excellency directs, that, in conformity to the tenor of the ninth paragraph of his Excellency's instructions of this date, to the Resident at Poona, you will instruct the commanding officer of the subsidiary force to conform to any suggestions which he may receive from the Resident at Poona, with regard to the time of commencing his march from the Nizam's frontier towards Poona, or to any other points connected with the objects of the destination of that force; and you will request his Highness the Nizam to issue orders to the officer in command of his troops, directing him to attend to any suggestions which he may receive from the commanding officer of the subsidiary force, for the regulation of his conduct.

I have the honour, &c. (Signed) N. B. EDMONSTONE, Fort William, Sec. to Gov. 3d February, 1803.

INCLOSURE

relations, I am convinced that the security of the British interest in that quarter of India, indispensably requires the permanent continuance of an able and experienced political Resident at the court of Mysore. I have hitherto reluctantly submitted to the necessity which has occasioned the absence of Mr. Webbe from his station of Mysore; I therefore deem it to be essentially necessary that a person, duly qualified, should be immediately and permanently appointed to succeed to that office, which will be vacated by the nomination of Mr. Webbe to the Residency of Nagpoor.

8. The critical state of the British interests, as connected with the affairs of the Mahratta empire, and the nature of our recent engagements with the Peishwa, render the presence of the British Resident at Mysore, at this period of time, an object of still more urgent importance to the public interests. With reference either to the permanent duties, or to the immediate ubject of that appointment, it is indispensably necessary that the person who may be nominated to that situation should be intimately acquainted with the condition and interests of the several states and chieftains composing the Mahratta empire, with the whole course of the late transactions in the Deccan, and with my views and sentiments with regard to the whole system of our political arrangements in that quarter of India.

9. The complete information possessed by Major John Malcolm, on all those important points, added to the zeal, judgment, and ability, which have distinguished the conduct of that officer in various important poli.

tical stations, qualify him, in a peculiar degree, for the situation of Resident at Mysore.

10. The knowledge which I possess of the sentiments of your Lordship, with respect to Major Malcolm's qualifications, leaves no doubt on my mind of your Lordship's entire concurrence in the selection of that officer for the situation of Resident in Mysore. I therefore request that your Lordship in Council will be pleased to issue Major Malcolm's appoint ment to that office, on the date of Mr. Webbe's nomination to the Residency at Nagpoor.

11. Major Malcolm will im mediately proceed to Fort St. George, for the purpose of taking charge of his appointment. Your Lordship has been apprized, by private advices from me, of the intention which I had formed of proceeding to Fort St. George, for the express purpose of regu lating, with more facility and effect, the course of the military and political proceedings connected with the actual state of the Mahratta empire. The tenor of the advices recently received from Colonel Close, and from Hydrabad, appearing, however, to ren der the expediency of my depar ture less urgent, and the exi gencies of the public service in this quarter of the British dominions requiring my immediate attention, I trust, that the inconvenience of my absence from Fort St. George in the present crisis, may be supplied, in a considerable degree, by the communications of Major Malcolm; whose instructions from me will enable him to state to your Lordship distinctly my sentiments and intentions with regard to the present state of the affairs of Poona: I accord