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patam and the other factories of the English in the Northern 

 Circars. The Count de Lally took Fort St. David and laid 

 siege to Madras, but the tide of war soon turned in favor of 

 the English. The siege of Madras was raised by the arrival 

 of an English fleet in February 1759. Colonel Forde, with 

 a body of troops despatched by Olive from Bengal, drove 

 the French out of the Northern Circars, and concluded a 

 treaty with the Nizam, dated 14th May 1759, and subse- 

 quently confirmed by a firmaun from the Mogul, dated 13th 

 August 1765, whereby the whole of the Circar of Masuli- 

 patam, with eight districts, as well as the Circar of Nizam- 

 patam and the districts of Condavir and Wacalmanuer, were 

 given to the English as enam ; and the Nizam engaged that 

 he would not in future suffer the French to have a settle- 

 ment in the country on any account whatsoever. 59 Pondi- 

 cherry was taken on the 14th January 1761, and on the 5th 

 of April Gtingee surrendered, after which the French had not 

 a single military post in India. This put an end to the war 

 in India. In Europe it was terminated by the Treaty of 

 Paris, definitely signed on the 10th of February 1763, by the 

 11th Article of which it was agreed that Great Britain should 

 restore to France the different factories which that crown 

 possessed at the beginning of the year 1749. This Article 

 also disposed of the disputes as to who should be the Nabob 

 of the Carnatic, and who should be the Nizam or Subhadar 

 of the Demean, by providing that in order to preserve future 

 peace on the coasts of Coromandel and Orissa, the English 

 and French should acknowledge Mahomed Ali Khan as 

 lawful Nabob of the Carnatic, and Salabut J ung as lawful 

 Subhadar of the Deccan, and that both parties should renounce 

 all demands and pretensions of satisfaction with which they 

 might charge each other or their Indian allies for the depre- 

 dation or pillage committed on either side during the war. 



59 Aitchison's Treaties, vol. v, p. 2. 



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