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HISTORY OF INDIA.

CHAPTER I.

Privileges obtained for the Company by Mr. Hamilton-Renewal of the Charter-War with France-Lubourdonnais takes Madras-Dupleix's breach of faith-Attack of Fort St. David-Of Cuddalore- Naval Operations-Attach of Pondicherry-The English repulsed-Peace-Restoration of Madras.

WHILE the general affairs of the Company were thus conducted both at home and abroad, an event befel which deserves particular notice, not more because of the effect which it produced upon the future fortunes of British India, than in justice to the memory of a high-minded and disinterested individual. In 1713, the first year of the reign of Feroksere, an embassy was sent from the presidency of Calcutta to the Mogul court, with the view of obtaining for the English merchants a greater degree of protection and more extended privileges than they had heretofore enjoyed. The object of the mission was, however, violently opposed by Jaffier Khan, then Soubahdar of Bengal, as well as by the Vizier, Abdoola, to whose exertions Feroksere had been mainly indebted for his

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