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Fletcher, known for his successes in Oude, was dismissed for not at first repressing 

 the combination. — Grant. Mill. 



1767. — On the 16th January, Lord Clive declared his intention to resign. On the 

 17th February, Mr. Verelst succeeded. 



Presents having been forbidden, Lord Clive gave up a legacy of five lacs from Meer 

 Jaflfier, and adding to it three lacs, from Syeff-ul Dowla, the successor of Nujeem 

 ad Dowla, formed the fund (called Lord Clive's fund) for invalided officers and sol- 

 diers of the Company's Service, and their widows. — Mill. 



Abdulla Shah marched towards Delhi; after overruning some provinces, returned 

 to his own country. 

 An expedition sent to Nepaul by the English, and failed. 



The war with Hyder Ali broke out in the Carnatic, but the Anglo-Indian Govern- 

 ments were crippled for want of money. Lord Clive's splendid financial promises, 

 and the hopes iu England, regarding the riches of India, already proving fallacious. 

 — Mill. 



Notwithstanding the growing pressure for funds abroad, the Court of Proprie- 

 tors at home increased the dividend to 12§ per cent. In consequence of this and 

 other proceedings, the Restrictive Acts of the 7th of Geo. III. cc. 48, 49, and 57, 

 were passed ; by the last of these, the Sum of .£400,000 per annum was to be 

 paid by the Company to the Crown, for their new territorial acquisitions. — 

 Grant. 



1768. — Early this year, arrived the Company's peremptory order, entirely abo- 

 lishing their servants' private trade in salt, and restricting them to the maritime 

 branches of commerce. A commission of 2§ per cent, on the Dewannee reve- 

 nues to be granted, however, in proportionate shares to the Governor in Coun- 

 cil, Civil and Military servants of rank, with additional pay to Captains and 

 Subalterns. 



Great scarcity of treasure in Bengal. 



On the Coast, the war with Hyder Ali was sustained with difficulty. This adven- 

 turous soldier, originally a common peon, next a petty officer, soon a commander 

 of a few horsemen, and in charge of a small fortress — subsequently, a military retain- 

 er of the minister of the Mysore Sovereign, and leading a division of the royal 

 troops — next, acting for himself, displacing his patron, and lastly, ejecting the 

 pageant Hindu Prince of Mysore, and usurping the throne itself. — He was, by 

 this time, the most formidable enemy the English had met with. In September, 

 after some partial successes of the English, Hyder made overtures of peace ; but 

 the tenders were haughtily and unwisely refused. — Mill. Grant. 



1769. — After the display of much military talent, Hyder Ali drew off the English 

 army to a distance, and suddenly, with 6000 cavalry, appeared at St. Thome, in the 

 immediate vicinity of Madras. He there imposed his own terms on the Govern- 

 ment, wbo were forced, on the 4th April, into a peace, little creditable or advan- 

 tageous to the British. — Grant. 



In April an Act passed, that the territorial revenues should be held for five years 

 by the Company. 



Three commissioners were sent out to India, Messrs. Vansittart, Scrafton, and 

 Ford; they embarked in September, 1769, on the Aurora frigate, and were never 

 afterwards heard of. — Grant. 



At this time it was proposed to send out a Naval Commander-in-Chief, with full 

 political powers, on the part of the King ; after much opposition, the measure 

 was carried, and proved, for the short period that it lasted, very inconvenient. 

 — Mill. 



Mr. Verelst resigned in Bengal, 24th December, succeeded by Mr. Cartier.— E. 

 I. Chron. 



1770. — A dreadful famine in Bengal, one-fifth* of the population perished.—. 

 Grant. 



On the 10th March, died Nawab Syeff-ul Dowla, of Moorshedabad ; his brother, 

 Mubarek-ul Dowla, a minor, succeeded. The Court of Directors reduced his al- 

 lowance to 16 lacs per annum, during his minority. — Mill. 



1771. — The Parliamentary restriction on the dividends ceasing in 1769, the Court, 

 in March and September, notwithstanding their difficulties for money in India, 

 again raised the dividends to 12§ per cent. — Mill. 



In May, the Emperor Shah Alum unwisely left the protection afforded him at 

 Allahabad, and aided by the Vizier and the Mahrattas, re-entered his capital at 

 Delhi, on December 25th. 



1772.— Mr. Cartier was succeeded (13th April) by Mr. Warren Hastings, in tha 

 Bengal Government. — E. I. Chron. 



* Mill states the loss at i of the population. 



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