E A S T E R N n I N D O O S T x\ N. 57 



While by fix'd laws, and with a juft return 

 They feel twelve hours that (hade, for twelve that burn ; 

 And praife the neighb'ring fun whofe conftant flame 

 Enlightens them with fcafons ftill the fame. 



Fort St. George (the new name for Madras) was founded about Fort St. 



the year 1643, by permiflion of a prince tributary to the king of 



Golconda, the Gentoo Rcja of Chandergherri^ on their purchafed 



land of Cbinapatam --'•■. Poflibly we had as little territory round 



our infant fettlement, as the 7yr/<3';r queen gained round Car^ 



thage by her ftratagem of the lengthened thongs of her bull's- 



hide. Had his majefty looked into the mirror of fate, he Prophetic 



Vision* 

 would have feen his own kingdom fwallowed up by Aureng- 



zebe, in 1687 : he would have feen, undqr that prince, the Hin- 

 doojlan empire* fpread over the mighty peninfula ; after a few 

 years the glafs would have reflected a wondrous change : A 

 Terfian monarch carrying his arms to the capital of the empire, 

 bidding its weak monarch defcend from his throne ; and, ftill 

 more mortifying, bidding him remount the abdicated ftate : he 

 would afterwards have feen this mighty emi:)ire fall to pieces, 

 disjointed by the defed:ion of the great viceroys, and the em- 

 peror himfelf left with lefs power and lefs dominion than 

 the weakeft of thofe governors, who had lately trembled at his 

 nod. The horrors of the vifion would have multiplied : he 

 would have feen a fallen monarch, and the miferable Mogid\ 

 and tender family, left to fufFer the pains of hunger and thirft ; 

 ladies of the blood royal ftarved to death ; and others in de- 

 fpair precipitating themfelves from the fnmmit of the palace 



* Orme's Fragments, 84. t Shah AUum. 



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