CHAPTER XXXV. 



TRANSACTIONS AT SURAT AND BOMBAY, AFTER THE 



EVACUATION OF BAROCHE, AND THE CESSION OF 



THE ENGLISH DISTRICTS IN GUZERAT 



TO THE MAHRATTAS. 



1784. 



" May not the pleasure of Omnipotence 

 To every clime some secret good dispense ? 

 Those who amidst the torrid regions live, 

 May they not gales unknown to us receive ; 

 See daily showers rejoice the thirsty earth, 

 And bless the flowery bud's succeeding birth, 

 The various heaven of an obliquer sphere ; 

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

 They feel twelve hours that shade for twelve that burn ? 

 And may not those, whose distant lot is cast 

 North beyond Tartary's extended waste, 

 Where through the plains of one continual day, 

 Six shining months pursue their even way ; 

 And six succeeding urge their dusky flight, 

 Obscur'd with vapours and o'erwhelm'd in night,— 

 May they not scorn our sun's repeated race, 

 To narrow bounds confin'd, and little space ?" Prior. 



