History of the Mahrattas

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HISTORY THE MAHRATTAS. CHAP. I. From A.D. 1772 To A.D. 1775. The Court of Directors appoint a resident envoy to Poona? intention of that mission.?Capture of Baroach.?Resolution of the Bombay government upon the receipt of intelligence from Poona during the campaign of Rugonath Rao against Nizam...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HISTORY THE MAHRATTAS. CHAP. I. From A.D. 1772 To A.D. 1775. The Court of Directors appoint a resident envoy to Poona? intention of that mission.?Capture of Baroach.?Resolution of the Bombay government upon the receipt of intelligence from Poona during the campaign of Rugonath Rao against Nizam Ally.?Negotiations with Rugonath Rao?resolution to support him?he refuses to accede to the terms.?Capture of Tannah.?Rugoba, deserted by Sindia and Holkar, renews the negotiation with Bombay.? State of the Gaekwar family after the death of Dummajee. ?Treaty between Rugoba and ilie English. The Court of Directors, in a despatch to the Presidency of Bombay, of the 1st of April 1772, directed that a resident envoy should be appointed to the Peishwa's court; and Mr. Thomas Mostyn, of the Bombay civil service, who had formerly been at Poona in the situation of assistant to Mr. Price's mission, was selected by the Court of Directors for this important duty. . The declared intention of the East India Company in appointing an envoy was for thejtpurpose of acquiring, Vol. ii.?1 from time to time, upon safe and honorable terms, such privileges and rights as might be beneficial to their commerce, and of security to their possessions, by maintaining a friendly intercourse with all the native powers; but carefully abstaining from active alliance with any. The resident was irtsferucted to communicate to Madras and Bengal direct all intelligence he could procure relative to the designs of the Mahrattas, of a nature likely to affect those presidencies; but the principal objects of the mission were to obtain possession of the island of Salsette, the port of Bassein, and the small islands of Kennery, Hog Island, Elephanta, and Caranja. The advantage of these islan...