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company a fword enriched with diamonds. Thefe did not 

 countervail the unmerited mortification impofed on him. hi 

 1755, he had the pacific employ of being fent to invite the 

 Nabob of Arcot to Madras. He died in London^ on Januaiy 

 loth, 1775, aged 78 ; having attained only the rank of major- 

 general. He was lamented as a man and as a foldier. Let me 

 repeat his great eulogy in refpe6t to his military conduit, by 

 faying, that he was the first who introduced difcipline into 

 India, and of courfe enfured conqueft over native troops, till we, 

 by the wifdom of an Ayder or a Tippoo, are faced by troops 

 equally trained in the leffons of war taught by our illuftrious 

 veteran. 

 Arcot. Near to the banks of the Paliar, about fixty-lix miles from 



the fea, ftands Arcot, the Arcati Rcgia Sorce of Ptolemy, and 

 Soro-mandalam, corrupted into the modern Coromajidel, giving 

 name to the whole coaft. The princes of which were called for 

 a long facceffion Soren *. In far diflant times it became a 

 naboblliip : on the confufion which enfued after the invafion 

 of Hlndoojlan, by Kouli Khan, the perfidious Nlzain al Muluc^ 

 viceroy or foubab of the Dccan, kept pofleffion of that vafl 

 truft. Something fliould be given refpe<5ling that infamous 

 traitor, who, to gratify his revenge againft rival courtiers, in- 

 vited KotiU Khan to invade Hindoojian. After being the caufe 

 of the ruin of his mafter, the defolation of his country, and the 

 malFacres of thoufands of his fellow-fubjeiSls, araidft the con- 

 fufion which enfued, he feized on great part of the Decan, over 

 which he prefided by the authority of the emperor, dignified 



* D^Anvillc, Antiq. de I'lnde, p. 327. 



with 



