'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. I.' [‎168] (193/342)

FORSTER'S TRAVELS.
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<c felves, and for our defendants and fucceffors ? that we will re-
i( niain united.—I fwear, by the Almighty God, by his Prophet,
ci and the Holy Koran, never to vary or depart from this treaty,'
upon condition that my beloved fon MuzzufFer Jung do adhere
Ct to it alfo on his part. In witnefs whereof, thefe lines are writ-
“ ten in the Ryle of a treaty. By the grace of God, whenever
6C the Mahrattas are conquered, and driven out of the country,
€C & n d mine enemies expelled, I will deliver up to my dearly beloved
cc fbn, MuzzufFer Jung, the territories he formerly poflefied, and
u which he has loft in the war, to the Mahrattas, Dated accord-
It ing to the Chriftian sera, January, 1774.”
Shujah-ud-Dowlah did expel the Mahrattas from the
Bungufh territory 5 but he did not fulfil the tenor of his treaty
with MuzzufFer Jung, to whom, on the fuccefs of the Mahratta
campaign, he gave a final! fum of money, but no part of the
country which had been fo folemnly promifed.
The grand objeft of the Vizier’s ambition had ripened into
maturity, and was now publicly avowed: — he applied to the Englifh
Government for a body of troops, to aifift in the conqueft of Ro-
hilcund, the chiefs of which, he reprefented, had refufed to per
form their engagements with him, and had ever been the inveterate
enemies of his houfe. The Government appear to have been
deeply embarrafFed by the Vizier’s requifition : they faw the danger
of carrying their arms againft a remote and warlike people, and
they felt a difficulty in framing the caufe of a war againft a nation
from