A History of the Mahrattas v2.c51.36

v2.c51.36

¹ [General Wellesley wrote to the Resident at Poona to inform Sindia and the Rājā of Berār ‘that, consistently with the principles and uniform practice of the British Government, I am perfectly ready to attend to their interests and to enter into negotiation with them upon objects by which they may suppose their interests to be affected. But they must first withdraw their troops from the position which they have taken up on the Nizam’s frontier and return to their usual stations in Hindustān and Berār respectively, and on my part I will withdraw the Company’s troops to their usual stations.’ Sindia and the Berār Rājā replied that ‘the armies now assembled here, and those of the English Government and of the Nizam shall commence their return upon the same date, and that each of the armies shall arrive at their usual stations on a date previously settled; that is, that the army of the English and of the Nizam now encamped near Aurangābād, the army of the English encamped near the Kistna, and you also with your army, shall all march towards their stations on the same date that the armies move from this encampment; and on the same date that all those different armies reach their respective stations at Madras, Seringapatam and Bombay, Sindia and myself