The respectable inhabitants--the merchants, traders, and men of good family--were driven from their houses, tortured often to death, scourged, and blown away from the mouths of cannon.

No person was safe from his persecution, and the poorest were forced to deliver up all their little savings.

The rich were stripped of everything, and atrocities of all kinds were committed upon the hapless population.
Bajee Rao countenanced these things, and was now included in the hatred felt for Ghatgay and Scindia.

Troubles occurred between the Peishwa and the Rajah of Satara, who refused to deliver up an agent of Nana whom he had, at Bajee's request, seized.

As Scindia's troops refused to move, Purseram Bhow was released from captivity and, raising an army, captured the city of Satara, and compelled the fort to surrender; but when ordered by Bajee Rao to disband the force that he had collected, he excused himself from doing so, on the plea that he had no money to pay them, or to carry out the promises that he had given them.
Scindia himself was not without troubles.