The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund BurkePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX B. N i. COPY of a Letter from the Governour-General to the Court of Directors. To the Honourable the Court of Directors of the Honourable United East India Company. Fort-William, 2gth November, 1780. Honourable Sirs, YO U will be informed, by our Consultations of the 26th of June, of a very unusual tender, which was made by me to the Board on that day, for the purpose of indemnifying the Company for the extraordinary expense, which might be incurred by supplying the Detachment under the command of Major Camac, in the invasion of the Mahratta dominions, which lay beyond the district of Gohed, and drawing the attention of Mahdajee Sindia, to whom that country immediately appertained, from General Goddard, while he was employed in the reduction of Bassein, and in securing the conquests made by your arms in Guzerat.'I was desirous toremove the only objection, which has been or could be ostensibly made to the measure, which I had very much at heart, as may be easily conceived from the means, which I took to effect it. For the reasons at large, which induced me to propose that diversion, it will be sufficient to refer to my Minute recommending it, and to the letters received from General Goddard near the same period of time. The subject is now become obsolete, and all the fair hopes, which I had built upon the prosecution of the Mahratta war, of its termination in a speed v, honourable, and advantageous peace have been blasted by the dreadful calamities, which have befallen your arms in the Dependencies of your Presidency of Fort Saint George; and changed the object of our pursuit from the aggrandizement of your power to its preservation. My present reason .for reverting to my own conduct on the occasion, which I have mentioned, is to obviate the false conclusions, ... |