hat they have had the
folly and madness to produce to you for other purposes, that he might at
any time have made a better treaty, and have concluded a more secure and
advantageous peace, than that which at last he acceded to; that the
treaty he made was both disadvantageous and dishonorable, inasmuch as we
gave up every ally we had, and sacrificed them to the resentment of the
enemy; that Mahdajee Sindia gained by it an empire of a magnitude
dangerous to our very existence in India; that this chief was permitted
to exterminate all the many little gallant nations that stood between us
and the Mahrattas, and whose policy led them to guard against the
ambitious designs of that government. Almost all these lesser powers,
from Central India, quite up to the mountains that divide India from
Tartary, almost all these, I say, were exterminated by him, or were
brought under a cruel subjection. The peace he made with Mr. Hastings
was for the very purpose of doing all this; and Mr. Hastings enabled
him, and gave him the means of effecting it.

Advert next, my Lords, to what he did with other allies. By the treaty
of Poorunder, made by Colonel Upton, and which he flagitiously broke, we
had acquired, what, God knows, we little merited from the Mahrattas,
twelve lacs, (112,000_l._) for the expenses of the war,--and a country
of three lacs of annual revenue, the province of Baroach and the isle of
Salsette, and other small islands convenient for us upon that coast.
This was a great, useful, and momentous accession of territory and of
revenue: and we got it with honor; for not one of our allies were
sacrificed by this treaty. We had even obtained from the Mahrattas for
Ragonaut Row, our support of whom against that government was a
principal cause of the war, an establishment of a thousand horse, to be
maintained at their expense, and a jaghire for his other expenses of
three lacs of rupees per annum, payable monthly, with leave to reside
within their territories, with no other condition than that he should
not remove from the place fixed for his residence for the purpose of
exciting disturbances against their government. They also stipulated for
the pardon, of all his adherents except four; and the only condition
they required from us was, that we should not assist him in case of any
future disturbance. But Mr. Hastings, by his treaty, surrendered that
country of three lacs of revenue; he made no stipulation for the
expenses of the w