A History of the Mahrattas v2.c37.13

v2.c37.13

(Jan. 20.)—By daybreak of the 20th, a battery of three eighteen pounders was ready to open within two hundred yards; but the garrison had evacuated the place in the night, and Mr. James Forbes¹ of the Civil Service, with a company of Sepoys and a few irregulars, was placed in charge of the new acquisition. Futih Sing now began to negotiate in earnest; met General Goddard, seemingly with as much cordiality as alacrity, and concluded a treaty of offensive and defensive alliance, which was signed on the 26th, on the terms proposed (Jan. 26.) by Governor Hornby and approved by the Supreme Government.¹