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that the leifure allowed to officers in the hours of relaxation from their profeffional duties, has not altogether been thrown away; and alfo in the entertaining a confident hope that the honeft pursuit of laudable studies will ever meet with public approbation and support.

APPENDIX III.

General Statement of the Forces of feveral of the Natives Princes and States in the western Parts of the Peninfula.

THE

HE prefent force of Dowlut Row Scin-
diah may
be stated under the following

heads.

1ft. Cavalry, Marhatta, and Hindooftany, including the cavalry stationed with the different collectors that might be brought to act in a war Ambajee's cavalry in the district of

Gualior

Mr. Perron might muster in Hindoostan, that is, Delhi, Agrah, Jauts, Bapoo Scindia, and Madhoo Row's cavalry, exclufive of Seiks or Rajepoots

Entire force of Scindiah's cavalry

20,000

4,000

7,000

31,000

Scindiah's Infantry.

2d. The number of battalions at prefent under the command of Mr. Perron amount to forty; each battalion generally consists of five hundred men, gunners and fighting men of every description included. Each battalion is provided with four field-pieces, a carronade, or howitzer, and fome pieces of ordnance of large caliber, for the purpose of throwing grape.

A brigade confifts of eight battalions; it has generally a separate park of ten pieces of artillery attached to it. This park is compofed of battering guns and fpare field-pieces.

The strength of each brigade will confist as follows.

Strength in officers and fighting

men of every description

Pieces of artillery

Strength of five brigades

Pieces of artillery

4,150

50 20,750

250

The remains of Colonel Felofe's bri

gade, fix battalions, men

Ordnance

3,000

бо

Five battalions of Col. John Heffing 2,600
Ordnance

Ambajee's battalions may be computed at four hundred men each, of which he has fixteen battalions

His artillery is not regularly attached to his battalions, and therefore often varies; but, generally speaking, may be computed at four pieces to each battalion

The battering train likewife varies, be computed at pieces

but

may

Total artillery of Ambajee's pieces

Begum Somroo.

*Five battalions of about fix hundred

men each

Pieces of artillery

Cavalry

30

6,400

64

20

84

3,000

24

150

* I find by this, that the statement of the Begum's force, as given in the History of Shah Aulum, is partly incorrect,

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REMARKS BY MR. THOMAS.

*It is proper to obferve, that Mr. Perron and Ambajee are now levying troops, which may cause a material error in this ftatement a few months hence. Ambajee and Perron are poffeffed of artillery exclufive of the abovementioned; and Scindiah, by the artillery taken from Holkar, is able to add confiderably to his own part.

Present state of Scindiah's infantry. They are the worst in India; are not commanded by

*This statement was made 1802.

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