HC Deb 16 January 1805 vol 3 cc43-4
Mr. Francis

adverted to a motion which he had made in the course of the last sessions, for the production of certain papers respecting the war in India, and which was not complied with, as the papers were not then arrived to which his motion referred. Understanding now, that those papers were received, the hon. member submitted a motion, that there should be laid before the house copies of all treaties, engagements, and correspondence, as have taken place between the governments of Bengal, Fort St. George, and Bombay, and any of the surviving Mahometan princes or states, in the upper part of India, particularly with the king or mogul, at Delhi, or his ministers. —Ordered accordingly. —Mr. Francis also gave notice, that he would, on Monday next, move for the production of some farther papers with respect to the war in India, After the two distinguished chiefs, Scindiah, and the Rajah of Berar, had been conquered by our arms, and a treaty concluded with them; after India was understood to be completely tranquillized, it was heard with surprise that new hostities had commenced with Holcar, who was a minor chief. The papers for which he meant to move, the hon. member said, would refer to those hostilities, the cause of which the house and the country were naturally anxious to ascertain.