ever? Would any prince, for
generations to come, ever after assist us, or unite with the
Peshwa? Be yourself the judge, and say whether such a conduct would
become a prince or not. Why, then, do you mention it? why do you
write it?

"The case is as follows.--At first there was the utmost enmity
between Hyder Naig and the Pundit Purdhaun, and there was the
fullest intention of sending troops into Hyder Naig's country; and
after the conclusion of the war with Bombay and the capture of
Ragonaut Row, it was firmly resolved to send troops into that
quarter; and a reliance was placed in the treaty which was entered
into by the gentlemen of Bombay before the war. But when Ragonaut
again went to them, and General Goddard was ready to commence
hostilities,--when no regard was paid to the friendly proposals
made by us and the Pundit Peshwa,--when they desisted from coming
to Poonah, agreeable to their promise, and a categorical answer was
given to the deputies from Poonah,--the ministers of Poonah then
consulted among themselves, and, having advised with the Nabob
Nizam ul Dowlah, they considered that as enemies were appearing on
both sides, and it would be difficult to cope with both, what was
to be done? Peace must be made with one of them, and war must be
carried on with the other. They wished above all things, in their
hearts, to make peace with the English gentlemen, and to unite with
them to punish Hyder Naig; but these gentlemen had plainly refused
to enter into any terms of reconciliation. It was therefore
advisable to accommodate matters with Hyder Naig, although he had
been long an enemy. What else could be done? Having nothing left
for it, they were compelled to enter into an union with Hyder."

My Lords, this declaration, made to Mr. Hastings himself, was never
answered by him. Indeed, answered it could not be; because the thing was
manifest, that all the desolation of the Carnatic by Hyder Ali, all
these difficulties upon which he has insisted, the whole of that union
by which he was pressed, and against which, as he says, he bore up with
such fortitude, was his own work, the consequences of his bad faith, and
his not listening to any reasonable terms of peace.

But, my Lords, see what sort of peace he afterwards made. I could prove,
if I were called upon so to do, from this paper t