DECLINE OF THE NAYACA DYNASTY. 
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misseram was renewed. The King of Madura,, in 
order to put a stop to these outrages, released the 
Rajah, when they immediately ceased. This Prince 
dying soon after, was succeeded by his son-in-law, 
who, to wipe out the stain of his predecessor’s rebel- 
lion, marched with an army of sixty thousand men 
against the princes of Mysore, who had invaded Ma- 
dura, and drove them beyond the ghauts with great 
slaughter. Trimal Naig was so gratified by this 
proof of his allegiance, that he released him from 
his tribute, and made him an independent sovereign, 
extending the grant to his heirs in perpetuity. * Tri- 
mal Naig died in the year 1661, after a reign of 
forty years. From this period the glory of the family 
gradually declined. During one reign, and that was 
when the reins of government were held by a woman, 
the dignity of the Nayaca dynasty was for a time 
supported; but the irradiation was transient, and 
the declension from this time was as rapid as had 
been its original rise. Madura is. now in the pos- 
session of the East India Company, who have hitherto 
shown no disposition to lift it from its present political 
and social degradation. 
Ram Raz, a literary Hindoo of considerable ce- 
lebrity among his own countrymen, and a correspond- 
* The possession of the once powerful kingdom of Ramnad was 
one of the late cases in dispute before the courts of India. The 
hearing of the appeal, made by the descendants of her princes, 
having been put off from time to time, the inconvenience caused 
to the people of the country by that delay was the ground upon 
which Sir Alexander Johnston proposed the modification of the 
Privy Council which now prevails for the hearing of Indian 
appeals. 
