ganaut forced to fly to the Englifh for proteftion *. Afpiring
to the office, he flattered the Englijh with vaft advantages in
cafe they efpoufed his caufe; and foon prevaled on them to
commence hoililities. Salfette, BarOack, and other places fell
before them. The treaty o f Poor under, in 1774, fecured thofe
places to us for a time. In a little fpace war broke out again,
fomented by Roganaut, aflifted by our fears of the French, who
were bufy in their intrigues at the court o f Poonah. In 1778
ton?11 EgER" a fmaI! army> under the command o f Brigadier General Egerton,
aflifted by a field committee, ever embarraffing, from the days
o f the Duke of Marlborough to the prefeht, was lent with him
to advife, or rather to perplex the commanders. The army,
which confifted of not quite four thoufand men, crofled the bay
to XJptab river, marched by Panwel, Campooly, and up the Shore
Gtiaut to Candolab, which we found unoccupied: the objetit was
Poonah. They reached the once fair city of FMingaum, on
January 1779. It had been burnt the night before, by the
Mabrattas themfelves, who appeared covering the plains, numerous
as the fands of the fea. They made frequent attacks on
our army, and deftroyed feveral gallant officers, and numbers
o f our European foldiers, and Sepoys. We made a quick retreat
to the village of Worgaum. From thence our field committee
fent a flag of truce, , and offer o f treaty. It was accepted, on condition
that we were to relinquilh our paft conquefts of Salfette,
and other places; to give up Roganaut and two o f the field committee
as hoftages, and to fend orders to General Goddard, on full
march with the Bengal army, to return i'nftantly home. God-
* Account of Bombay, p. 48. ‘65.
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dard received the humiliating orders, but rcjccictl tiiem with
indignation, and continued his route, marked in every place
with glory and viffory
\vi January 1^ 1 , after the conqueft o f BaJJein, that able
officer affembled his troops at Fizrabuy, and in order to make a
diveriion in favor o f Madras, then in imminent danger, advanced
to Campooly, and from thence to Candolab, which the
enemy had pofleffed themfelves o f in great force, but they foon
were driven from their arduous ftation. It Ihould feem that Tul-
lingaum had been rebuilt finee the laft expedition, for the General
found it juft burnt, and Poonah filled with combuftibles,
ready for the fame fate. He found an army of feventy thoufand
horfe and foot, ready to oppofe his little body o f fix thoufand
; yet fuch was the terror of the foe, that they again burnt
the town of Tullingaum. An Indian town is ,as foon rebuilt as
deftroyed ; and every preparation was made for burning Poonah,
by filling the houfes with ftraw, and removing the inhabitants
to the ftrong hold of Sattarab. Thus circumftanced, our General
thought proper to retreat, in order to affift, with part o f his
forces, his friends then befieged in Tellicberry, by Sardar Kban,
a general of Ayder Aid’s. This movement was. conduffed with
fuch fecrecy and lkill, that the whole o f the artillery and heavy
ftores reached the foot o f the pafs in fafety, and without the
fmalteft interruption from the enemy, who were aftoniihed, on
* See the hiftory of this difgraceful buf.neft, i„ . 1Me +to. pampbletj M - J T
" ° c 3 I794’ “ M The Expedition o f Tullingaum, &c. and the War in Afia, i
p. p. IJ. 65. 69.
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