have no objection to receive a portion of the subsidy money from the Peishwa's treasury; or, if the Peishwa should be insuperably averse to the cession of any territory which our interests would permit us to accept, his Excellency will be willing to receive the whole amount of the subsidy by fixed instalments in money. In the event, however, of the Peishwa's engaging to pay the whole, or any part of the subsidy from his treasury, it will be neces sary to obtain the security of responsible bankers, or other valid security, for the regular pay ment of it. 28. The annual amount of the subsidy to be provided for the charges of the specified force is understood to be 25 lacks, the sum proposed by the Peishwa; any diminution of that amount of subsidy must be accompanied by a proportionate reduction of the extent of the subsidiary force. 29. The same restrictions with respect to the employment of the subsidiary force, must be imposed as exist with regard to the force subsidized by the Nizam; and it may perhaps be necessary to guard particularly against the possibility of the Peishwa's establishing a claim to the services of the subsidiary force in 'the prosecution of any hostile measures which he may at any time meditate against the Nizam, under any pretence whatever. The nature of the obligations subsisting between the Company and the Nizam, obviously precludes the admission of any engagement with the Peishwa, involving a right on his part to demand the aid of the subsidiary force for the purpose above described. In concluding subsidiary engagements, therefore, with the Peishwa, either he should be required to recognize this principle, or an express provision should be introduced, declaring that the Peishwa shall in no case be entitled to claim the services of the British troops for the prosecution of hostilities, or for enforcing demands against the Nizam. 20. It must be distinctly understood by the Peishwa, that under the obligation of engagements concluded on the basis of his late propositions, he will not be enti tled in any case to receive from the Company military aid exceed-. ing the extent of the force which he may consent to subsidize. Under this limitation of the engagement, no question can arise with respect to the admission of the Rajah of Berar to be a party to it. That question is exclusively connected with the case of our contracting engagements with the Peishwa on the basis of the treaty of Hydrabad, concluded on the 12th of October 1800. 31. If no hope can be entertained of the Peishwa's consent to the Company's arbitration of differences between him and the Nizam in the manner originally proposed, that branch of the engagement may be concluded on the terms specified by Gopaul Rao on the occasion of his communication with you upon the subject of the Peishwa's propositions, as detailed in your letter of the 21st December last. 32. Although the conclusion of peace between Great Britain and France, precludes any engage ment for the exclusion or expulsion of subjects of France from the Peishwa's dominicns, it would not be inconsistent with the amicable relations subsisting be1 B 2 tween tween His Majesty and France, to require from the Peishwa an obligation to dismiss from his service, and to expel from his dominions, the subjects of any European state with which we may hereafter be engaged in war. 33. In the event of the Peishwa's consent to enter into engagements with the Company on the basis of the foregoing propositions, his Excellency the Governor General authorizes you to conclude a trea. ty with him in the name of the Company under the prescribed conditions, subject to the confirmation of the Governor General in council. 34. Although the course of argument contained in the former part of this dispatch, tends to discourage all expectation of the Peishwa's consent to admit the permanent residence of any part of the subsidiary force within his dominions under any conditions whatever, his Excellency directs that you will nevertheless exert your utmost endeavours for that purpose. 35. There is still less reason to expect that in the present state of the Peishwa's affairs, he will be induced to conclude any engagements with the Company upon the principles of the treaty of general defensive alliance subsisting with the Nizam; his Excellency, however, relies on your zeal and judg ment to avail yourself of any cir. cumstances which may afford a prospect of the successful accom. plishment of this important object; and, with a view to provide for the possible occurrence of such circumstances, I am directed to state to you the modification which, under the present state of affairs in Europe and in India, his Excellency will be disposed to admit in the pro positions which have already been offered to the Peishwa's acceptance. dis 36. It appears from your patches, and from those of your predecessor, that the Peishwa is insuperably averse to the admission of the Rajah of Berar to be a party in any treaty of defensive alliance with the Company, and to the Company's arbitration of the differences subsisting between the Nizam and the Peishwa on the basis of the treaty of Mhar, and of the claim of the Nizam to a total exemption from the payment of Choute, but that he is disposed to consent to the introduction of the Rajah of Berar's name, in terms similar to those in which be is mentioned in the treaty of Salby. Important as these two points must be considered to be, his Excellency will nevertheless be disposed to concede them, and to admit the Peishwa to the benefits of the defensive alliance, provided he will consent to the permanent station in his dominions of a part of the force which he now proposes to subsidize, and will provide for the discharge of the subsidy in either of the modes specified in the 26th and 27th paragraphs of this letter, and also provided the Peishwa will admit the Company's arbitration of the Mah. ratta claims upon the Nizam under the terms specified by Gopaul Rao. 37. It will, however, be previously necessaryto obtain the coucurrence of the Nizam in such an arrangement, as, by the stipula tions of the separate and secret articles annexed to the treaty of Hydrabad, the Peishwa's consent to admit the Company's arbitration of differences between the Nizam and him, on the basis of the the treaty of Mhar, and of the Nizam's claim to a total exemption from the payment of Choute, is rendered an indispensable condition of the Peishwa's admission to the benefits of the defensivealliance. 38. His Excellency the Governor General entertains a confident expectation that the Nizam may be induced, by considerations con nected with his own interests, to concur in such an arrangement; and it is his Excellency's intention to furnish the Resident at Hydrabad with instructions for the eventual agitation of this point. If you should have reason to expect the Peishwa's consent to the modified propositions, his Excellency directs that you will immediately transmit the necessary in formation upon the subject to the Resident at Hydrabad, who will be prepared to open a negotiation with the Nizam, for the abrogation of the prohibiting clause in the first article of the separate and secret articles above referred to; and on receipt of information from the Resident at Hydrabad, that the Nizam has signified his concurrence in the proposed arrangement, you will proceed to adjust with the Peishwa the details of that engagement. 39. It is not, however, necessary that you should postpone a negotiation with the Peishwa, for the conclusion of defensive engagements upon the basis of the foregoing propositions, until you shall have received information of the Nizam's concurrence in them; on the contrary, it will be proper that you should open the negotiation, which you are authorized by these instructions to undertake, by proposing the prescribed concessions. Although you are authorized to offer the foregoing limited propositions to the Peishwa's acceptance, his Excellency observes that it will, of course, be the object of your en- . deavours to obtain his consent to terms more favourable to the views and interests of the Company and the Nizam, and particu larly to the permanent station of the whole of the subsidiary force within the Peishwa's dominions; and you will be regulated in the relaxation of your demands by the temper and disposition of the Peishwa, and by the apparent exigency of his affairs. 40. If it shall appear that the Reishwa has been insincere in the proposals which he made to your predecessor in November last, or if your endeavours to obtain his consent to those conditions which his Excellency the Governor General considers to be indispensable to the conclusion of any subsidiary or defensive engagements with the Peishwa should be ineffectual, on receipt of such information, his Excellency will be prepared to deter mine what course of measures it will be expedient to adopt for the security of the British interests in India, under such a state of cir cumstances. 41. Copies of these instructions will be transmitted to the Residents at Hydrabad, and with Dowlut Rao Scindia. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) N. B. EDMONSTONE, Fort William, Sec. to Gov. 23d June 1802. To Major Kirkpatrick, Resident at Hydrabad. Sir, I AM directed by his Excellency the Most Noble the Governor General to transmit to you for your information the accompanying сору copy of his Excellency's instructions to the Resident at Poona, for his guidance in conducting a negotiation for the conclusion of subsidiary engagements with the Court of Poona. You will observe that, for reasons stated in those instructions, his Excellency deems it to be expedient to authorize an eventual relaxation in the conditions prescribed by the treaty of Hydrabad, concluded on the 12th October 1800, for the admission of the Peishwa to the benefit of the defensive alliance. The considerations stated in the 24th paragraph of those in structions, are sufficient, in his Excellency's judgment, to demonstrate the policy of this measure, with reference to the interests of his Highness the Nizam. His Excellency confidently trusts, that the detailed discussion which these instructions contain, of the temper and disposition of the court of Poona, with respect to the British power, and to all the interests connected with it, added to your complete knowledge of the state of public affairs at the courts of Hydrabad and Poona, will enable you eventually to sug gest to his Highness the Nizam, arguments of sufficient force to induce him to consent to a relaxation in the conditions of that clause of the 1st article of the secret and separate articles, which precludes the Peishwa's admission to the benefits of the defensive al liance, on any other terms than bis acquiescence in the Company's arbitration of differences between the two courts, on the basis of the treaty of Mhar, and in his Highness the Nizam's exemption from the payment of Choute. His Excellency therefore deems it unnecessary todetail the arguments to be adduced on this occasion in support of the proposed measure, whenever the state of Colonel Close's negotiations may require the agitation of it, but directs that you be prepared to agitate this point, on receiving from the Resi dent at Poona the intimation pres scribed in the 38th paragraph of the inclosed instructions, I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) N. B. EDMONSTONE, Sec. to Gov, Fort William, 23d June 1802. INCLOSURE IN (A.) In Letter from the Governor General to the Secret Committee; dated the 24th December 1802. Received overland, the 9th May, 1803, To his Excellency the Most Noble Marquis Wellesley, K. P. Governor General, &c. &c. &c. Fort William. My Lord, MOONSHEE GOPAUL RAO visited me again, on the 27th, in consequence of his report to the Peishwa of our conference on the 21st. He was charged to communicate to me his Highness's consent to subsidize a permanent force of the Company's infantry to the extent of six battalions, with the corresponding artillery, as offered by your Lordship, and engaged to assign territory in Hin dustan, producing twenty-five lacks lacks of rupees annual revenue, in commutation of the subsidy, but that the troops should be retain ed within the Company's dominions at all times, except when the Peishwa should formally require their actual services; and that on every such requisition, he would allow a period of one month for the necessary preparation of the troops to march. 2. Gopaul Rao wishing to know my sentiment on their modifications of subsidiary stipulations, before he proceeded to further communication, I observed, that although the Peishwa's assent to admit into his service a permanent British force to the extent proposed, would be very desirable to your Lordship, I was apprehensive that the conditions which he had annexed to his acceptance of it, would on many considerations be deemed objectionable. The local situation of the territory proposed to be assigned in lieu of subsidy, was very inconvenient, the districts being dispersed and surrounded by and intermixed with the possessions of other chieftains of this state, and not contiguous to those of the Company; I was therefore of opinion that your Lordship would require a transfer of territory in either the Kokun or on the Peishwa's southern frontier. That a net revenue of twenty-five lacks of rupees would probably cover the expence of the subsidized troops, yet as your Lordship intended on this head to observe strict impartiality between his Highness and the Nizam, you was desirous the subsidy should be regulated by the estimate settled at Hydrabad, and the transfer of revenue for the dissharge of it conformable thereto, be it more or less, than the round sum now offered by the Peishwa With respect to the regulations proposed by his Highness, that the ordinary station of the subsidiary force be in the Company's territory, as the suspicious motive which dictated it was too obvious, I opposed it principally on consideration of advantage and security to the Peishwa himself, though I have observed that the general interests of the proposed alliance might also suffer, materially by the exposure of his High ness to sudden misfortune, from the distant situation of the forces of his allies. 3. When I had finished these observations, the Moonshee replied, that he could not en courage the smallest expectation of change on the Peishwa's selection of districts in Hindustan, for the discharge of the subsidy. His Highness was willing, Gopaul Rao said, to allow twenty-five lacks annually, as the amount of subsidy, but would not, he thought, exceed it; and insisted, that while the Peishwa could avail himself of the aid of so considerable a body of the Company's troops, no danger to himself, or injury to his allies, was to be apprehended from the local position of it which he required. 4. Gopaul Rao then informed me, that on another point of former difference, the admission of Ragojee Bhomslah as a member of the general defensive alliance, the Peishwa would recede, so far as to allow the insertion of that Rajah's name in the treaty, in the manner and to the effect he is included in the treaty of Salbhey. I observed that this concession dul not apply to your Lordship's object of accommodating the differ ences, and uniting the interests and securing |