A History of the Mahrattas v1.c26.3

v1.c26.3

(1750.)—Mr. Richard Bourchier,² on the 24th November, 1750, announced to the Peishwa that he had succeeded to the government of Bombay and its dependencies on the 17th of the same month; and from that period a more intimate intercourse commenced between the Mahrattas and the English. They had for some years been mutually desirous of settling Surat and suppressing the depredations of Toolajee Angria. Ballajee Bajee Rao, on the first service he had seen in the year 1740, was impressed with a high idea of the English, from their conduct when they relieved Mannajee Angria at Kolabah. The warfare in the Carnatic had greatly contributed to raise their military reputation, and their fidelity to their master (as Mohummud Ally was termed), whose cause they had once embraced, had much effect in raising their national character in the minds of the natives of India.