A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan/Volume 1/Alteration
ALTERATION.
IN Page 252, instead of the Paragraph beginning with the words "In the month of August Salabad-jing exhibited"—and ending an embassador from the great Mogul"—Read as follows.
In the month of August Salabad-jing exhibited another ceremony to amuse the people receiving a delegate from Delhi, who brought, as was pretended, the serpaw, or vest, with the sword, and other symbols of sovereignty, which the Great Mogul sends to his viceroys, m their appointments. He remained at Aurengabad during the rest of this year settling his government, without the interruption of my military operations. But in the spring of the next year 1752, Balagerow, encouraged as before by Ghazi-o-dean Khan from Delhi, invaded his dominions with 40,000 horse, which separating in various detachments, committed all kind of ravage and devastation. The river Gunga flowing about 3"> miles to the westward of Aurengabad, was at this time the boundary between the territories of the Soubahship and of Balagerow, whose capital, Poni, is by the usual road about 130 miles distant from the other city, and had no kind of defences. Salabad-jing having taken the field with all his forces, submitted the direction of the campaign to Mr. Bussy, who instead of opposing the incursions of the Morattoes into the territories of the Soubahship, retaliated the same mischiefs in their country, and advanced within 30 miles of Poni. This soon recalled the Morattoes, who burnt all their own villages in front and on either hand of his progress; and even destroyed their granaries in Poni itself. At the same time their detachments interrupted, harrassed, and cut oft the Soubah's convoys of provisions, all of which came from behind, and from far. They likewise several times insulted the Soubah's encampments, but in these skirmishes were always repulsed with loss by the French musketry and artillery. Nevertheless the Soubah's army was almost famished: and the countries of both having suffered equally by this wasteful war, Balagerow consented to a cessation of hostilities for a present of 100,000 rupees. This treaty was concluded in the beginning of July; when Salabad-jing, without returning to Aurengabad, proceeded with his whole army towards Golcondah; and in the rout exacted the submissions and received the tributes due from several refractory Zemindars; but the Rajah of Neirmel, the most powerful in these parts of the Decan and several others of inferior note, united, and opposed the army of Salabad-jing, with all their forces, which were very numerous, but irregular: a general battle ensued, in which the Rajahs were routed, and Neirmel himself slain; after which Salabad-jing met no farther opposition during the rest of his progress to Golcondah. In the beginning of this campaign, Mr. Bussy hearing of the decline of Chunda-saheb's fortunes at Tritchinopoly, employed the influence which the expectation of his immediate services gave him over the councils of Salabad-jing, to obtain a commission, appointing Mr. Dupleix Nabob of the Carnatic, notwithstanding that Chunda-saheb was at that time alive; this, with several other pompous patents, was sent to Pondicherry, and Salabad-jing promised they should soon be followed by an ambassador from the Great Mogul.