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BRITISH ACQUISITIONS IN THE 



No. XXXVII. 



Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now- 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



Land 

 Revenue. 



1781 .. 

 1784 .. 



Negapatam . . 



A seaport in the District of Tan j ore, and 

 the terminus of the South Indian Rail- 

 way. 



(1.) 12th November.— This, the Chief 

 Settlement on the Coromandel Coast of 

 the Dutch, who took it from the Portu- 

 guese in 1660, capitulated, after nine 

 days' siege, to Sir Hector Munro, whose 

 small army was reinforced by seamen 

 and marines landed from the fleet under 

 Sir Edward Hughes. This achievement 

 was initiated by the Governor of Madras 

 Lord Macartney (Wilks). 



(2.) On the 20th May peace was signed 

 between England and the States General 

 of the United Provinces on the basis of 

 a mutual restitution of places captured 

 by the arms of either during the late 

 war — Negapatam was excepted ; Eng- 

 land agreeing, however, to treat with the 

 States General for its restitution in case 

 the States should ever have an equivalent 

 to offer. Nothing further was done, and 

 the place has remained an English 

 possession. 



SQ. MILES. 



H 



RS. 



832 



No. XXXVIII. 



1792 .. 



Districts ceded 

 by Tippoo 

 Sultan under 

 the Treaty 

 of Seringa- 

 patam. 



By treaty, 11 dated 17th March, there were 

 ceded and incorporated with the Madras 

 Presidency (1) the whole of present 

 district of Malabar, except Cochin and 

 Waindd ; (2j the Dindigul and Pulney 

 Taluks of the present Madura District; 

 (3) the whole of the present Salem District 

 except what is comprised in the present 

 Oosoor taluk; and (4) one taluk (Kan- 

 gundi) of present North Arcot District. 



13,789 



44,06,000 



11 By this treaty the Coorg Raja became subordinate to the Company instead of to Tippoo. He 

 agreed to pay the Company 8,000 pagodas = 32,000 rupees. Coorg became British territory in 

 1834, but has not been incorporated with the adjoining Presidency of Madias. 



