ral instructions, for the regula tion of your conduct in discharging the duties entrusted to your charge:

You will be pleased to accompany the detachment destined to proceed against the province of Cuttack.

The primary object of your duty will be, as the army advances into the enemy's territory, to effect a settlement of the revenue of the conquered country, with the persons who may be in actual charge or possession of it.

It is the intention of the Governor General to establish the laws and regulations of the company's government, in the province of Cuttack, in the same manner as they prevail in the other provinces of the Company's dominion.

This arrangement, therefore, must be considered to form the basis of any engagements which you may contract with the landholders of that province, and in concluding such engagements, it will be proper that you should signify to those persons the intention of the British government ultimately to admit the inhabitants of the conquered territory to the benefit of our laws and regulations, explaining at the same time the nature of the protection which the British administration extends to all who are placed under its authority, and the lenity and justice of its laws and principles.

The complete introduction of our regulations, and of our system of revenue, into the conquered districts, must necessarily be a work of time for the present, it will be sufficient to conclude engagements with the landholders for the term of one year. It is impracticable to prescribe the

precise terms of such a settlement; I am directed to observe, howe ver, that the revenue to be assessed should be so moderate as to conciliate the parties with whom engagements may be contracted towards the British government, and to reconcile the prejudices and pride of the native rajahs or chiefs to the new arrangement.

To enable you to effect this temporary settlement, you will endeavour to procure from the landholders the accounts of the revenues, and you will employ every other means in your power also to obtain the best information with regard to the actual assess ment of the several districts.

You will be careful to observe the most conciliatory conduct to wards all the chieftains,Zemindars, and inhabitants of the Mahratta territory, with whom you may have occasion to communicate.

His Excellency the Governor General has stated in his instruc tions to the commanding officer of the troops, his sentiments with respect to the conduct to be observed towards the Bramins in charge of the Pagoda of Juggernaut; a transcript of that part of his Excellency's instructions which relates to that subject, is inclosed for your information and guidance. You will obtain the earliest and most accurate information with regard to the system and extent of the collections at that Pagoda, and to the amount of revenue which the Mahratta government derives from that branch of resources; and you will make the necessary arrangements for securing the due payment of that proportion of the collections at Juggernaut, regu lating your proceedings, however, according tothe spirit of lenity and

forbear

forbearance prescribed in his Excellency's instructions to Lieute nant-Colonel Campbell.

I am further directed to fur nish you with the inclosed extract from those instructions, containing the communication of his Excellency the Governor General's sentiments with respect to the conduct to be observed towards such of the Zemindars and chieftains, in the province of Cuttack, and in the vicinity, as have rendered themselves independent ofthe Mahratta power, or who possess independent rights. You are empowered to conduct, in concert with Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, such negotiations with these chieftains and Zemindars as may appear to you and to LieutenantColonel Campbell to be advisable, and consistent with the spirit of his Exceliency's instructions.

When the whole of the province shall have been subjected to the British authority, you will continue in charge of the collections, fixing your residence at such station as you and the commanding officer of the troops may judge to be most convenient.

To aid you in the discharge of these duties, Mr. Hartwell and Mr.

Hunter have beeu directed to at tend you in the capacity of assistants, and you are authorized, if you think proper, to vest those gentlemen with the charge of any of the conquered districts until further orders, furnishing them with proper instructions, and requiring them to act under your immediate authority.

You are authorized to draw your present allowances until further orders, and to entertain, at the public charge, such an esta blishment of native officers as may be necessary to aid you in conducting the duties of the situation to which you are appointed.

Your assistants are authorized to draw the following allowances from the date of their appointment: Salary

Deputation allowance

Rupees.

400

350

Inclosure (H.)

THE friendship and union which so strongly and happily subsisted between the late Nawaub Nizam Alli Khan Behauder (whose soul is in Paradise) and the Honourable Company's government, are to be considered as perfectly un

impaired, and shall meet with no interruption whatever. All existing treaties and engagements, likewise, that were contracted with the late Nawaub aforesaid, are in full force to all intents and purposes; and we hereby declare, that we are effectually bound by

the

the engagements and treaties a foresaid; and, by the blessing of God, the said treaties and engagements shall be duly observed until the end of time.

Signed and sealed on the 7th day of August, Anno Domini 1803, answering to Rubbee oos Saunee, A. H. 1218, with the seal and sig nature ofMeer Foulaad Ali Khaun, Secunder Jah Behauder, Soubahdar of the Deccan, and delivered in duplicate on the day aforesaid by his Highness himself to Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick, Resident at the court of Hydrabad.

(A true Copy.)
N. B. EDMONSTONE,
Sec. to Gov.

Inclosure (I.)

THE friendship and alliance which so firmly and happily subsisted between his late Highness the Nawaub Nizam Ali Khan, Soubahdar of the Deccan, and the Honourable Company's government, shall be considered to subsist with equal force and sin

cerity, and shall continue for ever unimpaired between his late Highness's eldest son and successor the Nawaub Secunder Jah, and the Honourable Company; and all treaties and engagements which subsisted between his late Highness and the Honourable Company's government, shall be considered to be in full force to all intents and purposes; and his Excelleney the Most Noble the Governor General in Council hereby declares, on the part of the Honourable Company, that the British government is effectually bound by the said engagements and treaties, and that the said engagements and treaties shall be duly observed until the end of time.

Given under the seal of the Honourable Company, and the signature of his Excellency the Most Noble the Governor General in Council, at Fort William, in Bengal, this twenty-fourth day of August 1803.

(A true Copy.) (Signed) N. B. EDMONSTONE, Sec, to Gov.

annual revenue of 316,000 rus pees, should revert to his High-. ness's government, in order to be restored to Vittel Sook Deo.

3. That the regiment of native cavalry, of the same strength and complement as the cavalry regiments belonging to the Hydrabad subsidiary force, should be added to the Poona subsidiary force.

4. That the military force to be furnished by the Peishwa's go

vernment

vernment in time of war, by present agreement, should be reduced to 5,000 cavalry, and 3,000 infantry. His Highness's government to furnish, however, as large a number over and above this quota as its means may be able to admit.

5. That the British government should maintain a corps of Mahratta cavalry, amounting to 5,000, during the present war; besides the troops under Goklah and Appe Dessaye, who would continue to be subsisted at the charge of the Peishwa.

6. That the Peishwa shall cede in perpetuity to the Honourable English East India Company, from Bundelkund, territory yielding an estimated annual revenue of 36,16,000 rupees, agreeably to the following detail:

3d. In lieu of the cession mentioned in Article 1; territory equal to an estimated annual revenue of 16 lacks of rupees:

In lieu of the districts of Colpar, mentioned in Article 2, territory equal to an estimated annual revenue of 3 lacks and 66 thousand rupees.

To bear the entire expence of the regiment of cavalry mentioned in Article 3. territory yielding an estimated annual revenue of 7 lacks and 50,000 rupees.--To serve as an equivalent for the expence to be incurred by government in paying and maintaining, during the present war, the 5,000 Mahratta horse mentioned in Article 4, territory equal to an estimated annual revenue of 5 lacks of rupees. Total estimated annual revenue 36,1600 rupees.To meet the extraordinary expence which the British government must be subject to, in establishing its authority in Bundelkund,

and preserving the cession in obedience, territory equal to an estimated annual revenue of 4 lacks of rupees.

Total estimated annual revenue 36,16,000 rupees.— The whole of the territories to be ceded from Bundelkund to be taken from those parts of the provinces most contiguous to the British possessions, and in every sense, most convenient for the British government; and the pro-, position itself, if agreed to by the British government, to be understood as clearing the Peishwa of the imputation of all failure on his Highness's part in regard to his engagements under the treaty of Bassein, on account of not hav ing shewn himself capable of furnishing the quota of troops required from his government in time of war, by the 15th Article in that treaty.

4. In detailing the foregoing proposition under the several heads, Ragonaut Rao explained to me, that in offering it, his Highness the Peishwa was actuated chiefly by the following considerations:--1. To manifest to your Lordship how much he is disposed to attend to your Lordship's wishes as communicated to his Durbar by the British Resident :--2. To demonstrate to your Lordship his sincere desire to adhere to his engagements, and to afford the alliance his most cordial support;--and, 3. To have the means of conciliating and restoring to the ancient possessions of his family Vittel Sook Deo, the most faithful adherent of the Poona state. I told Ragonaut Rao, that I might venture to assure his Highness, that his motives for making the proposition would be highly satisfactory to your Lordship.

5. I then discussed the several heads