'History of the Province of Gohud' [‎27v] (54/72)

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the British Government and the Rana of Gohud, by which
the British Government guaranteed to the Rana of Gohud
the independent possession of the countries assigned to him,
and the Rana agreed to subsidize a British force of three
battalions of native infantry, and to pay a subsidy of nine
lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. . The fort and town of Gwalior was ceded
by the Treaty to the British Government. The Governor-
General being decidedly of opinion that the rights acquired
by the British Government under the Treaties with Ambujee
Anglia and the Rana of Gohud, were acknowledged and
confirmed by the ninth article of the Treaty of Peace
with Dowlut Rao Scindiah, and that no fair construction of
that article could impose upon the British Government the
necessity of foregoing the advantage which it derived from
the Treaty with Ambujee, or would exonerate the British
Government from the obligations of the engagement which it
had contracted with the Rana of Gohud. Under the convic
tion of Ambujee's good faith, his lordship in Council issued
instructions to the Commander-in-chief to prosecute the
siege of Gwalior without interruption, and to proceed in the
occupation of the territory which has been assigned to the
Rana of Gohud by the Treaty with that chieftain." It has
been related how Gwalior was taken and made over to the
Rana.
It appears that the Governor-General, the Marquis Wel-
lesley, in Council, was not quite satisfied that the Resident
with Scindiah, Sir John Malcolm, had been sufficiently clear
and decided in his intimations to Scindiah and his Minis
ters, that their pretensions to retain Gwalior and Gohud
were distinctly in breach of the ninth article of the Treaty of
Peace, and could not be listened to. Sir John Malcolm, in
order to clear himself from this imputation, addressed the
Governor-General in Council on the 4th May 1804,* stating
that " of the object which your Excellency had in view at
the commencement of the war relative to Gwalior and
* Wellesley Papers, folio 13,737, 4th May 1804, para, 8,