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mised, with every other advantage he thought proper to ftipulate.

On the 31st of May, the battering cannon arrived from Devi Cotah, and M. Law was fummoned to surrender at difcretion; while Monackjee advised Chunda Saib to come over to him that very night. He took an oath, the most facred of all to an Indian foldier, on his fabre and poniard, wishing they might be turned to his own deftruction if he failed in his engagements, which were to fend Chunda Saib with an escort to Karical: but when the unfortunate prince put himfelf into the power of the Tanjorine, he was fettered and confined as a prifoner, till his fate was determined by the Nabob.

THE next day, the Nabob, the Maiffore and Moráttoe generals, Monackjee, and major Lawrence affembled, and debated how to dispose of Chunda Saib. They were of different opinions, and the major propofed, that the Englifh fhould have the care of him; which was by no means approved; and they parted, without coming to any refolution: but Monackjee put an end to the difpute, by ordering the head of his prifoner to be ftruck off on the 3d of June. The executioner of this deed was a' Patan, who found the unhappy victim an aged man, ftretched on the ground, where he ftabbed him to the heart, and afterwards cut off his head; which was immediately fent to the Nabob, who then for the first time saw the face of his rival. After he had gratified his courtiers with a fight of it, they tied the head to the neck of a camel; in which manner it was carried five times round the walls of Trichinopoli; attended by 100,000 fpectators, who infulted it with all the indecent invectives peculiar to the customs of their country. The military abilities of Chunda Saib were much greater than are commonly found in the generals of Indoftan: and in his private character, he was generally acknowledged to

have been a brave, humane, generous, and bene volent man, especially as princes go in Indoftan. The many examples of a fimilar fate, which are perpetually produced by the contests of ambition in this unfettled empire, have established a proverb, "that fortune is a throne;" and therefore he who falls in fuch contentions is only accounted unfortunate, without having the odium of rebellion or treachery charged on his memory, unless he oppofes the Great Mogul, who is efteemed as the fovereign of all.

M. DUPLEIX, in his memoirs, falfely afferts, that major Lawrence himself ordered the death of Chunda Saib, notwithstanding that calumny had been clearly refuted before.

WHEN M. Law faw the fate of his ally, and heard of the defeat of his countrymen at Volconda, he thought of furrendering, and defired the mediation of the English with the Nabob. Major Lawrence held a perfonal conference with M. Law, who defired that the English would facilitate the retreat of his army into the French fettlements: but major Lawrence anfwered, that the English were in clofe alliance with the Nabob; in juitification of whofe conduct he produced a letter, wherein M., Dupleix declared, he would never cease to pursue Mahomed Allee, while a fingle Frenchman remained in the Mogul empire.

THE French in Seringham had only rice enough for two days; and as there was no poffibility of relief, or holding out any time, M. Law accepted the terms prescribed by the Nabob; whereby the. pagodas were to be delivered to him, with all the guns, ftores, and ammunition: the Europeans, Topaffes, and Caffres, were to be prifoners of war; the officers to give their parole not to ferve against Mahomed Allee Cawn, or his allies; and the deferters to be pardoned." These articles were figned

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by M. Law on the 3d of June; and the next morning the English took poffeffion of both the pagodas. In that of Jumbakiftna, the French troops flung down their arms in a heap, and furrendered prifoners to captain Dalton, who marched into the fort with 250 chofen men. The prifoners confifted 35 commiffion officers, 725 battalion men bearing arms, fixty fick and wounded in the hospital, and 2000 fepoys: their artillery were four thirteen inch mortars, eight cohorns, two petards, and 31 pieces of cannon, of which eleven were for battering, moftly eighteen pounders, and the reft field pieces: they had also a great quantity of ammunition ftores, and carriages of all forts in very good condition. The horfe and foot who had taken refuge in the large pagoda received the Nabob's Cowle, or protection, and were permitted to pass away without moleftation; after which they feparated and difperfed.

FOUR hundred of the French prifoners were escorted to St. David; and the reft, together with the artillery and ftores, were conducted into Trichinopoli, to complete the triumph of Mahomed Allee Cawn, who thus found a formidable army reduced without a battle, and himfelf reinftated in the Nabobship of the Carnatic. Although nominal lord of a country extending from the river Pennar to cape Comorin, he really had poffeffed no more of this great dominion, than the ground inclosed by the walls of Trichinopoli, where he had been closely befieged by a fuperior enemy.

THE French acted as allies to the rebels, who almost destroyed the country: but the English affifted the lawful prince, appointed by the Mogul, who was fo fenfible of his obligation to them, that major Lawrence, in his letter of the 12th of June, said," he had great hopes the English company would be able to carry on their trade in India to VOL. II. I

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more advantage than any other European nation." In fhort, the whole business of this war was effectuated in a few fieges and fome fkirmishes, in feveral of which, not a man of the English was loft: fo that, in reducing the country to the obedience of the Nabob, and making near 1000 Europeans prifoners, the English had not 50 men killed.

Bur fignal as thefe fucceffes had been, fo far were they from reftoring tranquility to the Carnatic, that in the very principles which produced them, were intermixed the feeds of another more dangerous and obftinate war,

The French establish SALABATZING as Soubahdar of the DECKAN at AURENGABAD: and M. DUPLEIX proclaims RAJA SAIB Nabob of ARCOT.-The dif pute between MAHOMED ALLEE CAWN and NANDERAUZE, who encamps near TRICHINOPOLI, from whence major LAWRENCE and the Nabob march to Arcot. They make the governor of VOLCONDA pay allegiance to the Nabob; and take TRIVADI. Major Lawrence refigns the command to captain GINGIN, and returns to MADRASS.—Major KINEER attacks the French army at VICKRAVANDI, and is repulfed. Both armies encamp near Fort St. DAVID. Major Lawrence defeats M. de KERJEAN at BAHOOR: and the English return to Trivadi. Captain CLIVE takes the Forts of COBELONG and CHINGLAPET, and returns to ENGLAND. Major Lawrence compels the governor of VANDEWASH to fubmit to the Nabob.-Nanderauze attempts to take Trichinopoli from captain DALTON, who attacks and plunders the MAISSOREAN camp at SERINGHAM, where the English are unsuccessful, and

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the Maifforeans cut off all fupplies from the city.— Salabatzing poisons his brother Gazi Odin Cawn at Aurengabad: and M. Dupleix deferts the intereft of Rajah Saib.

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VERY thing was thus happily finished to the southward, and nothing remained to be done, but to fettle the Nabob Mahommed Allee Cawn in quiet poffeffion of his territories to the northward, where the French retained Gingee and fome other places. M. Dupleix was not eafily dejected his pride fupported him, and his mind was full of refources.

He had established Salabatzing as Soubahdar of the Deckan, and the troops whom he fent on that expedition acquired immenfe riches for their fervices. In their March from Cudapah they came to Canoul, the capital of that Nabob who killed Muzapherzing, and they determined to punish the inhabitants for the treachery of their governor. The place was defended by four thousand Patans, who were foon put to flight, and retired into the caftle, which was ftormed by the French troops led by M. de Kerjean, a nephew of M. Dupleix; who foon took the place, and the army of Salabatzing affifted in putting all the garrifon to the sword. Many of the inhabitants were also maffacred; and the wife of the late Nabob, with her two fons, were made prisoners, in March 1751. M. Buffy then prevailed on Salabatzing to fettle the governments of Adoni, Cudapah, and Canoul on Sadoudin Cawn, the infant fon of Muzapherzing; which fovereignty is faid to have produced the young prince the annual revenue of near 1,000,000 l. fterling. This was done politicly by the French, to raise an opinion of their juftice, as well as of their power, through the countries in which they were attempting to establish themselves, where no European force had

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