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Bloody 



ATTACK 

 ON THE 



English. 



dong, a town on the eaiiern fide of the river juft within their 

 territory. We added to the Nabobfhip of Oude the province of 

 Rohulcinid, but baniflied to the wefl: fide of the Ganges, about 

 feventeen or eighteen thouland men and their families, the 

 moit rebelUous of the nation. This war was reprefented at 

 home in the moit infamous hght, that for the agorandizement 

 or the pleafure of an ally, " the whole nation, with inconfider- 

 *' able exceptions, was flaughtered anch baniflied ; the country 

 " was laid wafle v>ith fire and fword, and that land, ditlinguiflied 

 " above mod others by the chearful face of paternal govern- 

 " ment, -xwA protected labour, the chofen feat of cidtivaticn and 

 " plenty, is now throughout a dreary defer t^ covered with ruflies 

 " and briars, and jungles full of wild beafts I ! ! *" 



Let me add, we got an increafe of fubfidy to the conquering 

 .brigade, and the dilfrict of Benares for the Company, of the 

 yearly income of two hundred and forty thoufand pounds. As 

 to the brigade it is to over-awe the neighboring itate, and more 

 than probable to keep in order our nominal ally, but real fub- 

 jet^. This for a time may enable us to fupport our unhappy 

 boaft of having a territory from the ftreights of Kupeli to the 

 mouth of the Ganges, reckoning along its windings a courfe of 

 thirteen hundred and fifty miles. Sumbul, Anopcbine^ and Bn- 

 dayooHf are places diftinguiflied by capital letters on the banks 

 of the Ganges^ but their hiflory is not given. Furruckabad is 

 another capital of a fmall diftridt, feated alfo on the Ganges^ be- 

 longing to a Robilla chief. 



In 1794, tliefe favage clans arofe with all their native ferocity.. 

 1 imagine the caufe to have been a feudal quarrel between the 



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chieftain 



