through his mediation, was earnestly recommended to the said Hastings by the Presidency
of Bombay so early as in February, 1779, who stated clearly to him the reasons why such
application ought to be made to Sindia in preference to any other of the Mahratta chiefs,
and why it would probably be successful; the truth and justice of which reasons were fully
evinced in the issue, when the said Hastings, after incurring, by two years' delay, all the
losses and distresses of a calamitous war, did actually pursue that very plan with much less
effect or advantage than might have been obtained at the time the advice was given. That he
neglected the advice of the Presidency of Bombay, and retarded the peace, as well as made
its conditions worse, from an obstinate attachment to his project of an alliance offensive
and defensive with the Rajah of Berar, the object of which was rather a new war than a
termination of the war then existing against the Peshwa.
That the said Hastings did further embarrass and retard the conclusion of a peace by
employing different ministers at the courts of the several confederate powers, whom he
severally empowered to treat and negotiate a peace. That these ministers, not acting in
concert, not knowing the extent of each other's commissions, and having no instructions to
communicate their respective proceedings to each other, did in effect counteract their
several negotiations. That this want of concert and of simplicity, and the mystery and
intricacy in the mode of conducting the negotiation on our part, was complained of by our
ministers as embarrassing and disconcerting to us, while it was advantageous to the adverse
party, who were thereby furnished with opportunity and pretence for delay, when it suited
their purpose, and enabled to play off one set of negotiators against another; that it also
created jealousy and distrust in the various contending parties, with whom we were treating
at the same time, and to whom we were obliged to make contradictory professions, while it
betrayed and exposed to them all our own eagerness and impatience for peace, raising
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