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repulse of Lake in person at the siege of Bhartpur (Bhurt-pore) is memorable as an instance of a British army in India having to turn back with its object unaccomplished (1805).

Bhartpur was not finally taken till 1827.

Lord Wellesley during his six years of office carried out India almost every part of his territorial scheme. In Northern Wellesley India , Lord Lake’s campaigns, 1803-5, brought the North- 1805; ’

Western Provinces (the ancient Madhya-desha ) under British in therule, together with the custody of the puppet Emperor. The North >new Districts were amalgamated with those previously acquiredfrom the Nawab Wazir of Oudh into the ‘ Ceded and Con-quered Provinces.’ This partition of Northern India remainedtill the Sikh wars of 1845 and 1848-49 gave us the Punjab .

In South-eastern India , we have seen that Lord Wellesley’s in theconquests constituted the Madras Presidency almost as it exists ® outh ‘at this date. In South-western India , the Peshwa was reducedto a vassal of the Company. But the territories now under theGovernor of Bombay were not finally built up into their presentform until the close of the last Maratha war in 1818.

The financial strain caused by these great operations ofLord Wellesley had meanwhile exhausted the patience of theCourt of Directors at home. In 1805, Lord Cornwallis was Marquesssent out as Governor-General a second time, with instructions Cor . nwa l llsto bring about peace at any price, while Holkar was still 1805.’unsubdued, and with Sindhia threatening a fresh war. ButCornwallis was now an old man , and broken down in health.Travelling up to the North-West during the rainy season, hesank and died at Ghazipur , before he had been ten weeks inthe country.

His immediate successor was Sir George Barlow, a Civil Sir GeorgeServant of the Company, who as a locum tenens had no alter- ^ggj. ow ’native but to carry out the commands of his employers.

Under these orders, he curtailed the area of British territory,and, in violation of engagements, abandoned the Rajput chiefsto the cruel mercies of Holkar and Sindhia. During hisadministration, also, occurred the mutiny of the Madras Sepoysat Vellore (1806), which, although promptly suppressed, senta shock of insecurity throughout the Empire. The feeblyeconomical policy of this interregnum proved a most disastrousone. But, fortunately, the rule soon passed into firmer hands.

Lord Minto , Governor-General from 1807 to 1813, con-solidated the conquests which Wellesley had acquired. His 1807-13.