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ecute the plans resolved upon, had properly understood one 
another; had, in conjunction, planned their measures ; had’ 
been, in fhort, eridowed with the knowledge necefsary to 
prevent the commifsion of a single mistake, in’ either the 
project or execution, the Englifh minister is too pene- 
trating, too active, and has too many means of discencert- 
ing an enterprize of this kind, at pleasure, which could 
not be supported with an army equal to what they have 
in India. According to the partisans of Pondicherry, 
our fortune in India depends upon the pofsefsion of this 
place. Nothing can be performed in India without having 
there a landing place where they can form magazines and 
hospitals. This is for want of having studied the poli- 
tics of India in India, that they are mistaken in the instruc- 
tions given to their generals. They ought to oppose this: 
policy to the formidable power ofthe Englith. 
The author, to'answer this objection, which, if not welt: 
founded, is at least ungenerous, traces the military and po- 
litical map of the powers of India, with which we are any 
way connected, This method is a kind of analysis of alt. 
Indostan, a vast country, divided into several states, uz the 
Englith East. India company; the succefsor of Hyder Ali- 
ean, the great Marhattas, the Subah of the Decan, the 
little Mazhattas, and the Mogul. Among these powers the 
Englith East India company is indisputably the first, whe- 
ther considered in a military or a commercial point of 
view, or as poisefsing an immense extent of territory. We 
are informed for certain, that the Englifh have just now- 
in India 13000 European troops, and perhaps 100,000 
seapoys. We fhail not follow the author in enumerating — 
the countiies that this company and the other’ pewers 
pofsefS, nor in the rauster of their forces in infantry, caval- 
ry, and artillery. It is indeed astonifhing that the Mogul 
empire fhould fhut up the rear. Its immense extent once> 
contained Indostan and the peninsula; but such is its: 
