officers of experience, nor well armed, nor cordially attached to the fervice of their master; they are in arrears of pay, and would be defeated by a small force of regular difciplined troops, with a few pieces of well ferved artillery.

Mr. Perron's infantry are in appearance the best troops belonging to Scindiah: they are under better fubordination to their officers, and are more regularly. paid, armed, clothed, and disciplined.

The troops of the late Colonel Felofe and thofe of Colonel Heffing, ore equal to thofe of Mr. Perron.

Those of Begum Somroo are in a state of infubordination, and mutinous.

Those of Ambajee and Bapoo Scindia do not deferve the name of troops; they are undisciplined and ill-armed.

Their artillery is in general bad, and is frequently difmounted of itself in the ufual

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course of firing in a field of battle. Thomas relates one inftance where twenty-five pieces of cannon were rendered unfit for fervice, eight of which only were ftruck by the enemy's fhot.

Force of Ali Behaudur.

Ali Behaudur, the Marhatta chief, who is in poffeffion of the open country, as likewife feveral of the ftrong holds in Boondeelcund, has four battalions, confifting of between five and fix thousand infantry, fix or feven thoufand cavalry, with forty or fifty pieces of artillery, all of the very worst quality. The battalions, each about five hundred ftrong, are without difcipline, or military regulation of any kind, and may be confidered as a rabble.

The infantry consists of Rohillas, Boondeelahs, and Malwa Sebundys, who are armed with matchlocks.

The cavalry confifts of Marhatta Mooffulmans from Cuttair, (Rohilcund) and from the Doo Ab.

The best troops in the intereft of this chief are the cavalry of his affociate Himmut Behaudur, the Ghoffeen; they are in number about two thousand, and are chosen men.

Himmut Behaudur has likewise a body of infantry, amounting to about three thousand. We may therefore compute the collected force of Ali Behaudur at twenty-one thousand, chiefly rabble, and incapable, fays Mr. Thomas, of oppofing a regular and disciplined force, though far inferior in point of numbers.

At the head of this rabble, these chiefs keep poffeffion of a country capable of yielding a revenue of one crore of rupees.

Prefent Force of Kashi Row Holkar, and
Jeffwunt Row Holkar.

The cavalry of these two chiefs may be computed at thirty thousand, exclufive of the Pindaries or irregular horse. In this ftatement, made from information received from writers and foldiers in their fervice, who fel

dom fail to add to the number, there may probably be fome error. But it is certain that Jeffwunt Row Holkar is actually at the head of a body of cavalry amounting to twenty thoufand men; Kashi Row Holkar has from four to five thousand cavalry at Indore, his capital; to which, if the cavalry of Ameer Khaun, a tributary, be added, as likewife that under the different collectors, the number will amount in the aggregate to thirty thousand. These chiefs occafionally receive the aid of from fix to ten thousand Pindaries, a banditti who lay waste the countries through which they pafs, by predatory warfare.

Force in Infantry.

Confifting of eight battalions computed at four hundred men per bat