"Can you imagine that the English will ever submit to take passes of any Indian nation?
This they cannot do.

We grant passes, but would take none from anybody." Toolajee was told that if he was in earnest in desiring peace, he should return the vessels he had taken, and send men of figure and consequence to treat, instead of the obscure individual through whom his overtures had come.

In spite of this peremptory reply, Toolajee continued to make half-hearted proposals for peace.

The fact was that he was now at open war with the Peishwa, who had made himself master of the Concan, with the exception of the coastline.

According to Orme, Toolajee had cut off the noses of the agents sent by the Peishwa to demand the tribute formerly paid to Satara.