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1803.
Gawilghur.
97
gate. We have had the detailof Cassauly {sic)J Lake is a glorious
old fellow. All people here praise his letter extremely. I was
struck with it at first, because the compliments to the killed
are well brought in, but everybody says he understands it. I
do not! do you ? Write me which campaign you think most
of, ours or his. Perhaps his is the most brilliant; but if any
one considers the difficulties occasioned by distance from home,
difficulty of supplies, narrow resources, and insecure rear,
doubtful allies, and an enemy well provided with cavalry and
headed by chiefs, I think he will allow most merit to our
Gieneral. I have matter and inclination for more, but I have
neither time, power, nor impudence enough to go on.
‘ Yours ever,
‘ M. E.’
‘ The people of this fort are inactive, contemptible fellows.
If they had defended these hills we should scarce have taken
them without great loss. If they had fired or sortied they
might have killed or taken both Gfeneral Wellesley and Colonel
Stevenson, and if they fired or rocketed Colonel Haliburton’s
camp they might kill many people.’
On the following day the Gfeneral’s party returned to their
own camp, where they found a vakeel from the Berar Raja.
The interview lasted several hours, but led to nothing. An-
other attempt at negotiation is referred to with a similar
result. ‘ The Berar Raja’s vakeel came. I always laugh at
conferences, particularly with the Berar vakeel. I am sensible
of the indecency, and try all I can to prevent it.’ This is all
that is said. On the military operations he enters very fully.
On the 12th he writes :—‘ The batteries are to be constructed
to-night, and to open to-morrow morning. The Gfeneral
expects to storm on both sides to-morrow at two, or, at farthest,
the next morning at daybreak. A third party (of Chalmers
and his battalion) are to push up to the third gate and to
7 The battle of Laswaree we fought on November 1. The force under
G-eneral Lake advanced from Kernmlee, and made a forced march to the place
where the battle was fought,
H
Gawilghur.
97
gate. We have had the detailof Cassauly {sic)J Lake is a glorious
old fellow. All people here praise his letter extremely. I was
struck with it at first, because the compliments to the killed
are well brought in, but everybody says he understands it. I
do not! do you ? Write me which campaign you think most
of, ours or his. Perhaps his is the most brilliant; but if any
one considers the difficulties occasioned by distance from home,
difficulty of supplies, narrow resources, and insecure rear,
doubtful allies, and an enemy well provided with cavalry and
headed by chiefs, I think he will allow most merit to our
Gieneral. I have matter and inclination for more, but I have
neither time, power, nor impudence enough to go on.
‘ Yours ever,
‘ M. E.’
‘ The people of this fort are inactive, contemptible fellows.
If they had defended these hills we should scarce have taken
them without great loss. If they had fired or sortied they
might have killed or taken both Gfeneral Wellesley and Colonel
Stevenson, and if they fired or rocketed Colonel Haliburton’s
camp they might kill many people.’
On the following day the Gfeneral’s party returned to their
own camp, where they found a vakeel from the Berar Raja.
The interview lasted several hours, but led to nothing. An-
other attempt at negotiation is referred to with a similar
result. ‘ The Berar Raja’s vakeel came. I always laugh at
conferences, particularly with the Berar vakeel. I am sensible
of the indecency, and try all I can to prevent it.’ This is all
that is said. On the military operations he enters very fully.
On the 12th he writes :—‘ The batteries are to be constructed
to-night, and to open to-morrow morning. The Gfeneral
expects to storm on both sides to-morrow at two, or, at farthest,
the next morning at daybreak. A third party (of Chalmers
and his battalion) are to push up to the third gate and to
7 The battle of Laswaree we fought on November 1. The force under
G-eneral Lake advanced from Kernmlee, and made a forced march to the place
where the battle was fought,
H