A History of the Mahrattas v2.c43.21

v2.c43.21

Sindia was very apprehensive of a connexion of that kind; and, to allay Nana’s well-founded jealousy of his regular infantry, he only brought with him a small party under an Englishman of respectable character, named Hessing,¹ and one complete battalion commanded by Michael Filoze, by birth a Neapolitan, a low, illiterate man of worthless character, but of considerable address and cunning. Sindia arrived at Poona on the 11th June, and pitched his camp near the Sungum, or junction of the Moota and Moola rivers, the place assigned by the Peishwa for the residence of the British envoy and his suite; and hence the Sungum and the Residency, a spot for many reasons interesting and well known to most of our countrymen who have visited that quarter, became synonymous.¹