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south of Jodhpore, Jeypore, and Gohud, implied that such
countries were, under the stipulation of that article, to be
confirmed in the possession of those to whom they had been
granted, situated in any other quarter. The person with
whom the British Government concluded the engagement,
as the legitimate Ran a of Gohu
lineal descendant of the ancient Under the promise
of an ample provision from the British Grovernment, this chief,
at the commencement of the war, raised a considerable body
of troops, with which he successfully opposed the troops of
Ambujee, and he has actively a
the British troops during the
countries of which that chief has possession were in the pos
session of his ancestors* and are most certainly those which
are meant by the country of the Kana of Gohud in the
Treaty of Peace. It is plain that at the time of the negotia
tion of the Treaty of Peace, Major-General Wellesley and
the Yakeels of Scindiah were fully aware of the extent to
which the stipulation of the ninth article of the Treaty of
Peace might eventually operate. Major-General Wellesley
distinctly declared to the Vakeels that engagements which
the Commander-in-chief, Lord Lake, might have concluded
with any chief in Hindostan, and particularly with the
Rana of Gohud, must he confirmed hy the ninth article of the
Treaty of Peace. And Major-General Wellesley positively
refused to insert anything in the Treaty which should tend
to defeat the arrangements which might have been made by
General Lake with the Rajah of Jeypore,
Gohud, and others. The several declarations, therefore, of
Major-General Wellesley,yar f
of that article with respect to the territories guaranteed to
the Rana, of Gohud, confirmed it in the most positive terms"
Upon this clear statement of the meaning and intentions of
the ninth article of the Treaty of Peace, the Resident then
required from the Maha Rajah Dowlut Rao Scindiah a
* Papera, folio 13,427, page 141, in British Museum.