in Hindustan, a town, the principal place of a small native principality, situated in the province of Malwa, between Lat. 22. 30. and 23. 2., Long. 75. 53. and 76. 27., containing an area of 256 square miles. The authority by which this petty state is ruled deserves notice from its singular character. The territory appears to have been originally granted to two brothers, and it still continues to be held conjointly by two princes of the Puar or Pramara rajpoots. Although these chiefs were personally on good terms, it was found that their principal servants, in conducting the administration of affairs, came frequently into collision; and at length an arrangement was effected under which the two rajahs agreed to act by a union of authority, and to carry on the government by means of one public minister. By the provisions of a treaty concluded in 1818, British protection has been extended to this petty state, and the rajahs in return are bound to maintain a military force to be at the disposal of the British government. The revenue of the state amounts to about L40,000 per annum, and its population is estimated at 25,000. The town is in Lat. 22. 59., Long. 76. 4.

DE WITT, Joos, one of the greatest statesmen of Holland, was born at Dort in 1625. From his father, who had been a member of the states of Holland, he inherited a sleepless jealousy and suspicion of the power and influence of the house of Orange; and when in 1652 he was made grand-pensioner of Holland, he used all his efforts to break up that plurality of office which had hitherto been vested in the princes of that family, and had made them, in the capacity of stadt-holders, almost the equals of kings. The last stadt-holder had died in 1650, and his son, afterwards William III. of England, was at this time a mere infant. Availing himself of the opportunity thus presented, De Witt caused the office of stadt-holder to be abolished, and the power of the states-general to be declared supreme. In 1654 he concluded a treaty with Cromwell, in a secret article by which provision was made that no member of the Orange family should in future hold the highest offices of state. On the restoration of Charles II., the grand-pensionary sought the alliance of France. England, alarmed at this, declared war against Holland; and though her arms were at first successful, she was ultimately obliged to sue for peace. Dewsbury the more especially as De Ruyter had appeared with a powerful fleet at the mouth of the Thames, and burnt the shipping in the Medway. Soon afterwards the aggrandizing policy of Louis XIV. of France began to assume a definite form against Holland, and De Witt hastened to seek the assistance of Sweden and England. The treaty with these powers was concluded in great haste, so that it was not submitted to the federal council of each province, but was ratified at once by the states-general. This measure, which was perfectly justifiable in the emergency, was afterwards brought up against the grand-pensionary. Meanwhile De Witt was organizing the internal policy of Holland, regulating the finances, and carrying out his scheme of excluding the Orange family from any share in the government. But his plans were defeated by the intrigues of Louis XIV., which resulted in a coalition of France and England against Holland. The armies of France entered Holland in 1672, laid waste the country, and advanced to within a few miles of Amsterdam. At this crisis the people rose against the grand-pensionary, whom they believed to have neglected the necessary precautions against an invasion, put the young Prince of Orange at the head of the army, and expelled the grand-pensionary's brother Cornelius. De Witt himself immediately resigned his office; and as he and his brother were retiring into the country, the mob rose against them and murdered them in cold blood, under circumstances of the most revolting cruelty.