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1761. — After the bitterest disputes between the French and Lally, all parties 

 being exasperated against him, Pondicherry was surrendered on the 16th January, 

 to Col. Coote.— Be Bar. 



The English troops and navy wished to retain Pondicherry, for the king ; but Mr. 

 Pigot, the Governor, insisted on its being delivered over to the Company, or threaten- 

 ed to withhold all pay to the forces : it was given up to him, and he immediately 

 destroyed its works and fortifications. — Mill. 



The fate of Lally was melancholy. On his return to France, he was sacrificed by 

 the Ministry ; while the feeling against him aided the attempt of his enemies to 

 fasten on him alone the obloquy of losing India to Fiance : after four years' impri- 

 sonment, he was executed. Posterity have been more lenient, and reversed the opi- 

 nion against him. Other causes, than the mere pride and rashness of an individual, 

 were proved to have led to the destruction of the French empire in the Carnatic.-- 

 Mill. De Bar. 



Major Carnac, who succeeded Col. Calliaud in the command of the troops in Ben- 

 gal, arrived at Patna, early in January, and on the 15th, attacked and defeated the 

 Emperor atGya. M. Law, who, on the taking of Chandernagore, had proceeded up 

 the country, to seek service with the native powers, was with the Mogul, and here 

 taken piisoner. — Grant. Mill. 



The new Nawab, Meer Kassim Ali, soon began to be impatient of his English 

 friends, but wanting means to oppose them, he proceeded to Patna, to seize on the 

 treasures of his deputy, Ramnarain. The vice Nawab solicited the aid of Major 

 Carnac, and soon after of Col. Eyre Coote, who superseded Carnac ; but they were 

 prevented by the Council from protecting him, and he fell a victim to the rapacity 

 of the Nawab. — Mill. 



Other sources of dispute arose : the servants of the Company contended, that the 

 firmaun of 1717, and the late treaties, authorised their own private trade to be free 

 of duty. The Nawab denied this, and apparently with reason and justice; and 

 strenuously opposed such special immunity to the English. He soon began to organise 

 troops under Mogul officers, and removed to the Fort at Monghir. — Mill. Grant. 



1762. — Messrs. Vansittart and Hastings repaired to the new residence of Kassim 

 Ali, at Monghir, and the former treaties, relative to private trade, were modified ; 

 but the Council in Calcutta rejected the new terms, to the great indignation of the 

 Nawab. — Grant. 



The Philipine Islands taken by an expedition, fitted out from Madras. — Grant. 

 Kassim Ali renewed his remonstrances against the private trade of the Compa- 

 ny's servants, and the disputes assumed a serious aspect. — Mill. 



1763. — Messrs. Amyatt and Hay, sent on deputation to the Nawab, to insist 

 upon continued immunity from duties. He refused ; dismissing Mr. Amyatt, but 

 retaining the other as a hostage. Mr. Ellis, the chief at Patna, at this juncture, 

 widened the breach by his undisguised feeling of hostility to the Nawab. The lat- 

 ter had seized some arms on the way to Patna, and refused to deliver them. Mr. 

 Ellis, on the 24th June, suddenly seized the Nawab's Fort, at Patna ; but neg- 

 lecting proper precaution and defence, it was retaken the next day, and all the 

 English at Patna were seized as prisoners. The Nawab, on this act of hostility, 

 sent after, and murdered Mr. Amyatt, on his way to Calcutta. These events led 

 the Council at Calcutta, on the 7th July, to proclaim Meer Jaffier again as 

 Nawab, deposing Kassim Ali. Meer Jaffier confirmed all existing treaties with 

 the Company, besides according other advantages. Major Adams, on the 19th July, 

 defeated a force of Kassim Ali, between Calcutta and Moorshedabad. On the 24th 

 July, took Moorshedabad. On the 2nd August, routed a large force at Geriah. On 

 the 5th September, stormed and seized the Fort of Oudenullah, defended by 100 

 pieces of cannon. Kassim Ali, incensed to madness at these reverses, and frantic 

 under accumulated resentments and ruined ambition, fled to Patna, from Mon- 

 ghir, and there cruelly ordered the massacre of the English in his power : there 

 were fifty gentlemen, Messrs. Ellis, Hay, Lushington, and others, and one hundred 

 of lower rank. On the 5th October, they were brought out in parties, and barba- 

 rously cut to pieces, or shot under the direction of a German, named Sumroo. 

 Monghir fell to the English early in October. Patna was stormed on the 6th 

 November, and the Ex-Nawab fled to the Vizier of Oude, with his treasures, and 

 the remnant of his army. — Grant. 



Peace between France and England had been signed on the 10th February. The 

 11th article gave back to France all factories, in their then condition. France to 

 erect no fortifications, and keep no troops in Bengal. To renounce all acquisitions 

 on the coast of Coromandel and Orissa, and to recognize Mahomed Ali Khan as 

 Nawab of the Carnatic. The peace honourable [and advantageous to the English 

 in India. — Mill. Grant. 



