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every where; cast your eyes every where; encourage the troops, be encouraged yourself, for you appear to me to have the greatest need of encouragement! Are these gentlemen enabled so speedily to effect a passage into the fort, or are you willing to make a way for them yourself? Think of your honour; recall to your memory the little forts of Sarcené, Bidjegur, Kutchoura, &c. and recollect the remarks which you yourself have made.

Evince by your actions the truth of your professions, or the world will say, that Colonel Pedron has talked much, but done nothing.

Within a few days you will see a large army on the plains of Alligur; not to listen to the arguments of Mr. Longcroft, but to give a proof of their virtue and fidelity.

I am, &c.

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faire partir le Général Anglois aussi on peut-être plus vêtement qu'il est venu. Soyez tranquil à ce sujet la, ou l'armée de l'Empereur ou l'armée du Général Lake sera entrée devant le fort d'Alligur, s'il ne le trouve pas necessaire de s'en aller avant que notre arriveé, pour prendre soiu de son propre pays. Runjeet Sing, le Rajah de Lahore, a passé le Soutlege avec une armée de 25,000 hommes et me joindra en quatorze ou quinze jours. Le Nizam Alee Khan est mort; son fils a retiré son armée, et declaré la guerre contre les Anglois. Il n'y a rien a craindre, faites votre devoir, et defendez le fort pendant qu'il reste une pierre sur une autre.-Encore une fois souvenez vous de votre nation! 'des millions ont leurs yeux fixés

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You will have received the answer you are to make to the propositions of General Lake. I never could have believed that for an instant you could have thought of a capitulation. Upon you perhaps depends the fortune of all this country; either liberty or slavery.

Remember you are a Frenchman; and let no action of yours tarnish the character of your nation.

I hope in a few days to send back the English General as fast, or perhaps faster than he came ; make yourself perfectly easy on this subject. Either the Emperor's army or the army of General Lake shall find a grave beR2

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fore the fort of Alligur, if the General does not find it necessary to take his departure before our arrival, in order to guard his own country.

Runjeet Sing, the Rajah of Lahore, has passed the Sutlege with an army of 25,000 men, and will join me in fourteen or fifteen days.

Nizam Ally Khan is dead; his

son has withdrawn his army, and declared war against the English. There is nothing to fear. Do your duty; and defend the fort while one stone remains upon another! Once more, remember your nation! the eyes of millions are fixed upon you.

I am, &c.
C. PERROX.

INCLOSURE (F.)

dated the 3d August, 1803.

Governor General's Letter to the Commanding Officer of the Northern Division of the Army; To Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, commanding the Northern Division of the Army, &c. &c. &c. Sir,

You have been apprized by my Military Secretary of my general views and intentions with respect to the occupation of thẻ province of Cuttack.

2. You have been informed that a force will be detached from Bengal to act under your command, together with the force which you may be enabled to col lect from the Northern Sircars, in consequence of the orders signified to you by my Military Secretary. The force from Bengal will embark in the course of a day or two, and I have directed returns of it to accompany these instructions.

3. You are directed to assem ble at Ganjam, from the division of the army under your command, a force of not less than fifteen hundred native infantry, and to increase that force, if practicable, consistently with the tranquillity of the Northern Sircars.

4. With the force which you

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have assembled under those or ders, and with the detachment from Bengal, you will enter the province of Cuttack, and proceed to Juggernaut.

5. In passing the frontier of the Mahratta territory, you will use every possible means to conciliate the inhabitants, for which purpose you will issue the procla mation which accompanies this dispatch; you will also promise protection to the persons and property of all those who shall re main in their possessions, and shall not attempt to act against the British authority, declaring that no person shall be molested except such as may appear in

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respect due to the Pagoda, to the religious prejudices of the Bramins and pilgrims. You will furnish the Bramins with such guards as shall afford perfect security to their persons, rites, and ceremo nies, and to the sanctity of the religious edifices; and you will strictly enjoin those under your command to observe your orders on this important subject with the utmost degree of accuracy and vigilance:

8. The Brains are supposed to derive considerable profits from the duties levied on pilgrims; it will not therefore be advisable, at the present moment, to interrupt the system which prevails for the collection of those duties; any measures calculated to relieve the exactions to which pilgrims are subjected by the rapacity of the Bramins, would necessarily tend to exasperate the persons whom it must be our object to conciliate. You will therefore signify to the Bramins, that it is not your intention to disturb the actual system of collections at the Pagoda. At the same time you will be careful hot to contract with the Bramins any engagements which may limit the power of the British government to make such arrangements with respect to that Pagoda, or to introduce such a reform of existing abuses and vexations, as may hereafter be deemed advisable.

9. You will assure the Bramins at the Pagoda of Juggernaut, that they will not be required to pay any other revenue or tribute to the British government, than that which they may have been in the habit of paying to the Mahratta government, and that they will be pro. tected in the exercise of their religious duties.

10. In every transaction rela tive to the Pagoda of Juggernaut, you will consult the civil com, missioner whom I have named for the settlement of the province of Cuttack.

11. You will understand that no part of the property, treasure; or valuable articles of any kind contained in the Pagoda of Juggernaut, or in any religious edi fice, or possessed by any of the priests or Bramins, or persons of any description attached to the temples or religious institutions, is to be considered as prize to the army. All such property must be respected as being consecrated to religious use, or by the customs or prejudices of the Hindoos. No account is to be taken of any such property, nor is any person to be allowed to enter the Pagodas or sacred buildings, without the express desire of the Bramins.

12. You will leave a sufficient force in the vicinity of Juggernaut, under the command of an officer whom you will particularly select, and in whom you can place perfect reliance, for the due execu tion of the directions contained in these instructions.

13. You will then proceed to the town and fort of Cuttack, in the reduction of which places the same precautions are to be employed for the prevention of plunder, and for preserving the inhaa bitants from all violence and oppression. You will employ similar precautions in your march through the country. In order to form the basis of rules for the conduct of your army during its progress, my Military Secretary has been directed by me to for ward a Memorandum, to which I desire to point your special at

tention.

14. You

14. You will endeavour to open an immediate communication with Midnapore and Jellasore, at the earliest practicable moment.

15. It is desirable to establish posts at Ballasore, and from thence to Jellasore, for the purpose of ensuring the line of communication with Bengal.

16. You will afford the most vigilant and effectual protection to the Dawk Peons and to the Dawk Chokeys, and you will use every endeavour to secure a free intercourse between Cuttack and your army, and also with Ganjam; your first object should be to secure the free and safe passage of the Dawk.

17. You are at liberty to detain the ships which convey the troops to Ganjam.

according to the best and most re cent authorities.

20. I have reason to believe that a considerable proportion of the province of Cuttack is occupied by chieftains'or Zemindars, who have been enabled, by the weakness of the Mahratta government, to render themselves independent of the Mahratta power, or who yield to it a partial obedience. Considerable tracts of country contiguous to that province are also possessed by chieftains who acknowledge no superior autho-: rity, or who are merely tributary to the Mahratta state. I deem it necessary that such of those chieftains or zemindars as are subjects. of the Mahratta government, and, have revolted, should be required to acknowledge subjection to the British power; with other chieftains who may possess the means of embarrassing your progress, it may be advisable to negotiate engagements on terms favourable to their interests, without requiring their absolute submission to the British authority.

18. In establishing your posts at Juggernaut aud Cuttack, you will use the necessary precautions to secure your army from any surprise from the side of Nagpore. It is my intention, as soon as I shall learn the intelligence of your arrival at Cuttack, to detach a force of no less than 21. I have appointed Mr. J. 200 Sepoys by sea to occupy Balla-Melville to be Commissioner for. sore, and I shall also strengthen the the affairs of Cuttack. The object post of Jellasore; whence, as soon of this appointment is to provide, as the season shall admit, I pro- in the most effectual manner, for pose to direct a battalion of Sepoys the speedy settlement of the re-. to advance into the province of venues of the province of Cuttack, Cuttack, and to join your army. and to afford you the aid of a civil officer of government in con ducting any negotiations with the officers and subjects of the government of Berar, or with any of the independent chieftains of the province of Cuttack.

19. I have selected Captain Blunt, of the Bengal Engineers, to act as engineer and surveyor on the present service, as he has surweyed the province of Cuttack, and possesses much local information. I refer you to Captain Blunt for detailed information respecting the route from Ganjam to Cuttack; in the mean while my Military Secretary is directed to transmit to you atap of the road,

22. I have furnished Mr. Melville with special instructions with respect to the settlement of the revenues of the country, and I direct that you afford him every assistance which he may require.

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to enable him to carry my instructions into effect. I have also vested Mr. Melville with the powers to conduct, in concert with you, any negotiations of the nalure described in the 20th paragraph of this dispatch."

23. You will take every necessary precaution for the regular supply of provisions for your detachment, and you are hereby authorized to purchase whatever cattle and grain you may deem necessary.

24. The collector of Ganjam will be authorized to make you any advances of money, on the public account, which may be required.

25. You will correspond regularly with my military secretary, or with the secretary to government in the secret department,

and if you should entertain any apprehension of the security of the Dawk, you will dispatch your letter by proper boats to Kedgeree, or to the nearest port in Bengal.

26. If any circumstance should require your return to your command in the Northern Sircars, you will be particularly careful to select an officer properly qualified to hold the command in Cuttack, until my orders can be received ; and you will transmit to Fort William the earliest notification of your departure, and of the ap pointment of the officer whom you may select to succeed you in the command in Cuttack. I am, Sir, (Signed) WELLESLEY. Fort William, 3d August, 1803.

INCLOSURE (G.)

Governor General's Instructions to J. Melville, Esq., appointing him Civil Commissioner with the Army; dated 3d August 1803.

To J. Melville, Esq.
Sir,

THE course of events in the Mahratta empire having compelled the British government to proceed to hostilities against the power and possessions of Dowlut Rao Scindia, and the Rajah of Berar, bis Excellency the most noble the Governor General has been pleas ed to direct that a detachment of troops be dispatched immediately from the presidency by sea, to join the force assembled near Ganjam, under the command of LieutenantColonel Campbell, for the purpose of establishing the authority of the British government in the province of Cuttack.

His Excellency deeming it expedient that a Civil Commissioner should accompany the British forces, for the purpose of effecting the settlement of the country, and of assisting the commanding officer of the forces in the conduct of any negotiation with the chieftains and officers of that country, or of its contiguous territories, has been pleased to select you for that purpose, and you are accordingly directed to embark on the ship Philip Dundas, the commander of which has been directed to receive and accommodate you.

I am directed by his Excellency the Governor General to commuicate to you the following gene

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