26 HISTORICAL REMARKS ON 



Nation on that part of the coaft, that in 1727 the Com- 

 pany's fervants atTellicherry mediated a peace between 

 the Kings of Canara and Colaftria, under which cir- 

 cumitances they added, in 1734-5, the iflandofDer- 

 mapatam, and the fort of Madacara, to their pofTef- 

 flons, together with the entire lad mentioned illand in 

 the year 1749, Vv ^ tn power to adminifter juftice therein, 

 on the fame footing as at Tellicherry : and they appear, 

 in fhort, to have been from this period courted, ref- 

 lected, and feared, by ail the Rajahs and Chiefs within 

 the limits of the ancient Colaftrian kingdom, with which 

 their good intelligence fuffered, however, a temporary 

 interruption, in confequence of the Company's Go- 

 vernment having, in 1751, entered into a treaty with 

 the Canarefe King of Bednore j whereby, for the con- 

 federation of a factory at Onore, and a freedom of 

 trade in his dominions, they agreed to affifl him in the 

 profecution of that Prince's then meditated continua- 

 tion of hoftilities- againffc the country of Colaftria : but 

 the former harmony was again eftablifhed in 1757, 

 when a new treaty of mutual defence was concluded 

 between the Company and the Rajah ofCherical; and 

 fuch appears to have been in general the progrefs of 

 the Britifh influence, that the Englijh Eaft India Com- 

 pany became every where entitled to fuperior or exclu- 

 live advantages in purchaiing the valuable products of 

 the country, viz. pepper, cardamums, and fandal- 

 wood j and at la ft obtained, in 1761, from the Rajah 

 of Cherical, the further important privilege of collect- 

 ing for their own behalf, the cuffom-houfe duties and 

 tolls within their own territories, for the moderate con- 

 sideration of a fixed quit-rent of 21,000 filver fanams, 

 or 42,000 rupees per annum, to be paid to his govern- 

 ment : in addition to all which, he and the other Ra- 

 jahs had by this time fucceilively yielded up their right 

 to all wrecks or ftranding of the Company's veffels or 

 properry ; an article which, with the cuftoms on mer- 

 chandize, constituted two of the moft inherent and ac- 

 knowledged rights of the Malabar Princes at that 

 period. XXVII. 



