A History of the Mahrattas v2.c39.19

v2.c39.19

¹ [Mr. Charles Warre Malet was dispatched to Sindia’s camp to gain his consent to the appointment of a permanent Resident at Poona by orders issued in January 1785. The embassy started from Surat on March 15 of that year, marched through the heart of Central India to Ujjain, reached Gwalior on May 2, visited Agra, where quarters were allotted to Mr. Malet in the Tāj Mahāl, and thence proceeded to Mathurā (Muttra), where Mr. Malet had an interview with Māhādajī Sindia and also visited Shāh Ālam, the Mughal Emperor. After obtaining Sindia’s consent to the appointment of a Resident at Poona, Malet proceeded via Cawnpore to Calcutta, which he reached on October 18, 1785. On November 13 he received ‘the instructions and credentials of the Honourable the Governor-General and Council to act as their Minister at the Pēshwā’s Durbār, under date the 7th instant, with orders to proceed immediately to Bombay on my way to Poona.’ (See Malet’s Diary of his journey, 1785–6, pp. 485–526 of Forrest’s Selections (Marāthā Series), vol. i.)]