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INDEX. xxi equally obliged to respect his authority in the C'arnatic, 61. 1746. April, the Eng. affairs ill India threatened with danger, when Commodore Barnet died, 62. useful to con- template the progress made by the English in Indcy tan in the science and spirit of war after the loss of Madrass, 68. 1748. January, the Medway had been the principal cause of all the English disgraces and misfortunes in India, 88. Telliciierry an English settle- ment, 87. 174S. After the raising of the siege of Pondicherry, the military character of the French regarded as greatly superior to that ef the English, 106. the English had establishmen ts in Indostan many years before the French, 118, 119. 1752. July. Du- pleix violates the Eng. colours at sea by tak- ing 200 Swiss going to Fort St. David in boats, 255. Mrs. Dupleix in her letters to Mo- rarirow represents the English as a mercantile people unfit for war, 260. 1754 Sept. Ad- lercron commands theEng. troops in India, 372. ENGLISH, The, meaning their Government, Presidencies, Settlements, Factories on the Coast of Coromandel. 1746. the Eng. at Madrass call on the Nabob An- warodean to protect them from Labourdonnais' armament, 64. the protection of their settle- ments was the principal object for which the squadron was sent into India, 66. August, the English in Madrass, garrison included, did not exceed 300 men when besieged by Delabour- donnais, 66. September the 10th, by the capi- tulation surrender themselves prisoners of war, 68. but are permitted to reside in their houses, 68. useful from this time to contemplate the progress made by the Eng. in the science and spirit of war, 68. m, 69. m, 71. distressful and injurious terms inflicted by Dupleix on the English at Madrass, after the departure of Delabourdoruiais, 77. Fort St. David, an English settlement, takes the general admini- stration on the loss of Madra9S, 78. the Eng. there suspect Anwarodean Khan, and enlist 2000 Peons, 81. December the 8th, on the arrival of the Nabob's army at Chimunde- lum, and the retreat of the Fr. troops, sally with the whole garrison, 83. m, 84. 1747. Dupleix in order to make the Nabob with- draw his assistance represents the Eng. affairs as without resource, 85. their transactions at Fort St. David betrayed to Pondicherry, 88. 1749. employ their arms with great in- discretion, in assisting a deposed prince of Tanjore, 107. having no right to interfere in his cause, 108. make peace, and get the cession of Devi Cotah, but other causes than their arms made the K. submit, 118. August, cannot reproach Dupleix for his ambition in assisting Chundasaheb and Murzafajing, 130. they receive Madrass from the French, 130 the priests at St. Thome used to give Dupleix intelligence of the transactions of the English at Madrass, 131. Boscawen hoists the English flag at St. Thome, 131. The agents of the English E. I. Company puzzled about the titles of Nazirjing, and Murzafajing, of Chun - dasaheb and Mahomedally, 132, 133. send 120 Europeans to Mahomedally, 133. and imprudently let Mr. Boscawen sail with the squadron to England, 133. 1750. Feb. Nazirjing requests a body of troops from the English at Fort St. David, 138. who comply, 138. April, Major Lawrence, cautious of expos- ing their territory, will not accompany Nazir- jing to Arcot, 146. for which he is much exasperated against them, 148. July, send a body of troops to join Mahomedally under the command of Capt. Cope, 148. 1751. the. people of Coromandel suprized at their indo- lence, who had done nothing at interrupt the successes of Dupleix since the retreat of their army from Mahomedally in the month of August of the preceding year, 167. They resolve to support Mahomedally, and send 280 Europeans to Tritchinopoly," 168. rouzed by the insolence of the Dupleix to take the field, but resolve not to appear as principals in the war, 171. in which point the French are as cautious as the English, 175. Octo- ber, the expences of the English battalion begin to be defrayed by the treasury of Fort St. David, 202. 1*752. January, Rajah- saheb plunders their country houses at St. Thomas' mount, 209. March their successes in the C'arnatic recover a large, and valuable extent of country for Mahomedally, 213. May, Mr. Law will not let Chundasaheb, trust himself to the English, 236. June 1st Major Lawrence proposes to Monacgee that they should have the care of Chundasaheb, and keep him a prisoner' in one of their settlements, 238. June 2d, Law demands the services of the English in virtue of the peace, 239. Monacgee convinced that they are his friends, 241. They wece ignorant that the Nabob had promised Tritchinopoly to the Mysoreans, 242. will not interfere in the dispute, 244. Dupleix notwithstanding his ill successes makes no proposals of accommodation to them, 252. who make little advantange of the victory gained at Bahoore, 267. 1753. Suggestions of the Mysoreans against them to the King of Tanjore, 285, 286. They cannot spare troops to check the enterprizes of Mahomed Comaul, 317. Dupleix threatens the K. of Tanjore, if he gives them any more assistance, 319. Monacgee is represented as in close connexion with them, 319. The King sorry he had shewn so much will to N n a abandon