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Life of Mountstuart Elphinstone.
CH. V.
‘ De Profundis, August 22, 1805.
‘ Dear S.,—I write to tell you the strange news of this place.
The Eaja has lately received a Vakeel from Holcar. His brother
has, within five months, sent one to the same person, and he
has returned. Nana Sahib, who is almost the avowed enemy
of our government and partisan of the enemy, is allowed to go
to his chief town, Chanda. He went to-day. This is the more
extraordinary as I have remonstrated lately against his levying
a great number of troops in the country between Chanda and
Burhampoor, some of whom lately plundered twenty-eight
villages in our country. In the mean time the Eaja’s brother
loads me with civil messages, and at parting, and thongh we
long since ceased to meet in public, proposes that we shall meet
accidentally on horseback, to exchange how-d’ye’s and pass on.
He also, to show his great civility, sends me certain greyhounds,
viz. (1) one pup, that died mad this morning ; (2) one dog of
the coat and colour of a bear and nature of a jackass;
(3) one dog without a tail—he might as well have sent one
without a head; and (4) one very good bitch, all arrayed in
cloth of gold. I suspect that old Eaghojee, who dreads having
his territories invaded, sends this youth off, that Holcar, relying
on the known zeal of the latter, may think him (the E.) about
to despatch a corps under his brother, and deceive us with a
story of a quarrel. Perhaps old Eaghojee actually means to do
so. At all events, if he lets his brother fairly out of his hands,
it will probably cost him half his country at least, the younger
having -long aimed at independence. So much for parish
matters.
‘ All my plans of removal of course end with Lord W.’s ad-
ministration. My only objections to this place are its solitari-
ness, which stunts the mind, and that I have been long here.
The latter is my objection to every place of which it holds.
AIl my de Ponto’s begin—
“ Tomitance jani non novns incola teme.”
That is one great (among others, immeasurable and immense)
objection to India. Giod grant us both a good and (pray Gud)
Life of Mountstuart Elphinstone.
CH. V.
‘ De Profundis, August 22, 1805.
‘ Dear S.,—I write to tell you the strange news of this place.
The Eaja has lately received a Vakeel from Holcar. His brother
has, within five months, sent one to the same person, and he
has returned. Nana Sahib, who is almost the avowed enemy
of our government and partisan of the enemy, is allowed to go
to his chief town, Chanda. He went to-day. This is the more
extraordinary as I have remonstrated lately against his levying
a great number of troops in the country between Chanda and
Burhampoor, some of whom lately plundered twenty-eight
villages in our country. In the mean time the Eaja’s brother
loads me with civil messages, and at parting, and thongh we
long since ceased to meet in public, proposes that we shall meet
accidentally on horseback, to exchange how-d’ye’s and pass on.
He also, to show his great civility, sends me certain greyhounds,
viz. (1) one pup, that died mad this morning ; (2) one dog of
the coat and colour of a bear and nature of a jackass;
(3) one dog without a tail—he might as well have sent one
without a head; and (4) one very good bitch, all arrayed in
cloth of gold. I suspect that old Eaghojee, who dreads having
his territories invaded, sends this youth off, that Holcar, relying
on the known zeal of the latter, may think him (the E.) about
to despatch a corps under his brother, and deceive us with a
story of a quarrel. Perhaps old Eaghojee actually means to do
so. At all events, if he lets his brother fairly out of his hands,
it will probably cost him half his country at least, the younger
having -long aimed at independence. So much for parish
matters.
‘ All my plans of removal of course end with Lord W.’s ad-
ministration. My only objections to this place are its solitari-
ness, which stunts the mind, and that I have been long here.
The latter is my objection to every place of which it holds.
AIl my de Ponto’s begin—
“ Tomitance jani non novns incola teme.”
That is one great (among others, immeasurable and immense)
objection to India. Giod grant us both a good and (pray Gud)