६२६ भारत में अंगरेजी राज बहुत काल से पेशवा की सरकार के, मेरे और राजा राघोजी भोसले और अन्य मराम नरेशों के बीच कायम है।" जाहिर है कि ये दोनों मराठा नरेश केवल मराठा साम्राज्य के स्वाधीन अस्तित्व और उसकी व्यवस्था को वेल्सक्षी का युद्ध बनाए रखने के लिए चिन्तित थे और इसीलिए का इरादा अपने हत पूना भेजकर पेशवा से सब बात तय कर लेना चाहते थे। बैठे बैठाए अंगरेजों से या किसी से युद्ध करने का उनका कदापि इरादा न था। किन्तु अंगरेज भी इसी 'मराठा साम्राज्य के स्वाधीन अस्तित्व और उसको व्यवस्था' को अन्त • “I have received your Lordship's friendly letter notifying the con- clusion of new engagements between His Highness the Peshwa and the English Company at Bassein, together with a copy of the treaty, and I have been fully apprized of its contents, ____"Whereas the engagements subsisting between the Peshwa and me are such, that the adjustment of all affairs and of the concerns of his state and Government should be arranged and completed with my advice and partici- pation, . . . Not withstanding this, the engagements which have lately been concluded between that quarter ( British Government) and the Peshwahave only now been communicated Therefore, it has now been determined with Raja Raghoji Bhonsla, in presence of Colonel Collins, that confidentual persons on my part and the Raja's, be despatched to the Peshwa, for the purpose of ascertaining the circumstances of the (sard) engagements. At the same time no intention whatever is entertained on my part to subvert the stupulations of the treaty consisting of 19 articles, which has been concluded at Bassein, between the British Government and the Peshwa, on condition that there beno design whatever on the part of the Englash Company and the Peshwa to subvert the stipulations of the treaty, whach, since a long period of time, has been concluded between the Peshwa's Strear, me, and the saud Raja and the Maratha chefs."-Maharaja Doulat Rao Scandhia's letter to Marquess Wellesiey, received on the 31st July, 1803.
