"حياة ومراسلات اللواء السير جون مالكوم، قائد فرسان وسام الطُهر، المبعوث السابق إلى بلاد فارس وحاكم بومباي؛ من رسائل ومذكرات غير منشورة. في مجلّدين. المجلد II." [‎١‎٧‎١] (٦٥٤/١٨٨)

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Much of time and much of space would it take to tell
all the several acts by which Badjee Rao had incurred
the just and reasonable displeasure of the Government to
which he owed so much. It is very probable that he
had no settled design to provoke the hostility of the
British; but the nature of the alliance was distasteful to
him; he felt the irksomeness of the restraint it imposed ;
and we do not commonly most love those to whom we
are most indebted. He was a weak rather than a vicious
prince; but his dissimulation was profound. He was
always ready with professions of friendship, and yet he
always secretly rejoiced in anything which tended to our
disadvantage. His common declaration was that the
enemies of the English were his enemies; and yet he was
continually favoring and supporting them. At last, in
the spring of 1817, the measure of his folly seemed to be
full. If he had not secretly fomented, he had connived
at insurrectionary movements intended to embarrass and
annoy us; and had aided and sheltered that most bitter
and most criminal of our enemies—Trimbuckjee Danglia
—with whose enormities every reader of Indian history
is familiar. The forbearance of our Government had
been thus tried to the utmost. Decided measures be
came necessary. So, early in May, the terms of a new
treaty were submitted to him, prefaced by an undertaking
to surrender Trimbuckjee Danglia within a month ; and,
as a security for the fulfilment of this preliminary, three
of the Peishwah's forts were demanded to be given up
within two days. Badjee Rao hesitated—asked for longer
time for consideration—and not until his capital had been
surrounded by British troops did he consent to surrender
the forts.
He was stung to the quick by this humiliation. But
the decided conduct of the British Resident proved that
there was nothing for him but submission or destruction.