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walls, towers, and fofs. In this ftate it was attacked by the 

 young hero Clive, in 175 ij when it was garrifoned by eleven 

 hundred fokliers. Clive marched againft it with only three 

 hundred Seafoys and two hundred ILuropeayis^ and eight offi- 

 cers, fix of whom had never feen fcrvice. He halted ten miles 

 from the place. The enemy's fpies reported that they were 

 marching through a dreadful tempeft of thunder,, lightning, 

 and of rain. The garrifon thought them more than men, and 

 evacuated the fort with all fpeed. Clive marched coolly through 

 a hundred thoufand fpeitators, gazing on them with admira- 

 tion and refpei5t, and took poffeffion of the fort •'••. He did not 

 confine himfelf within its wails ; he made- frequent fallies, and 

 beat the foes in every adtion. At length they polfelfed them- 

 felves of the town. A clofe fiege commenced. He defended 

 the place from September 6th to November 15th; vv'hen, tired 

 of confinement, he took the field, and left the future defence to 

 Captain Kilpatricky an officer of approved gallantry. 

 Sadras. To return to the coaft. Sadras ftands near the fea, a little" 



to the north of the river Paliar. It is a Dutch fettlement, ori- 

 ginally made for the purchafing the manufacflories of the 

 country. It is feated in a very fertile country, which enables 

 the induftrious inhabitants to fupply their neighbors at Madras 

 with the various produdions of their gardens, which the fteril 

 foil of that country denies to the capital of Coromandel. In 

 1754, i^ ^^'^•'' ^^^ place in which the conference was held be- 

 tween the Englijh and the French for fettling a peace ; but by 

 the arts and the demands of M. Dupleix, it ended with the 

 Itrongeft exafperation on both fides t. A little to the north of 



* Orme, i. 183. \ Same, p. p- 339- 3+i- 



Sadras 



