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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
may well remember that after the taking Madras, last war, the English Company, in 
their Council of the 14th of July-, 1747, determined that all ransoms made in India 
should be anulled. In regard to the English troops, both officers and writers be¬ 
longing to the Company, and to the inhabitants of that nation, the Sieur de Lally 
is to permit none of them to remain on the coast of Coromandel: he may, if he 
pleases, permit the inhabitants to go to England, and order them to be conducted in 
armed vessels to the Island of St. Helena. But as to the officers and writers belong¬ 
ing to the East India Company, as well as soldiers and sailors, he is to order them 
to be conducted as soon as possible to the Island of Bourbon, where it ,will be per¬ 
mitted for the soldiers and sailors to work for the inhabitants of that place, accord¬ 
ing to mutual agreement. Though the sending them to the French islands should 
be avoided as much as possible, to prevent their being acquainted with the coast, as 
well as the interior part of the island. It is by no means his Majesty’s intention that 
the English officers, soldiers, and sailors should be ransomed, as none is to be delivered 
up but by exchange, man for man, according to their different ranks and stations. 
44 If the exchange of prisoners should be by chance settled at home, between the 
two nations, of which proper notice will be given to the Sieur de Lally, and that the 
islands of France and Bourbon should have more prisoners than it would be conve¬ 
nient to provide for ; in that case, it will be permitted to send a certain number to 
England, in a vessel armed for that purpose. 
“ No English officers, soldiers, &c. are to be permitted to remain in a place 
after it is taken; neither are they to be suffered to retire to any other of their settle¬ 
ments. The Sieur de Lally is not in the least to deviate from the above instructions 
and regulations, unless there should be a capitulation which stipulates the con¬ 
trary ; in which case the Sieur de Lally is faithfully and honestly to adhere to the 
capitulation. 
44 The whole of what has been said before concerns only the natives of England ; 
but as they have in their settlements merchants from all nations, such as Moors, 
Armenians, Jews, Pattaners, &c. the Sieur de Lally is ordered to treat them with 
humanity, and to endeavour, by fair means, to engage them to retire to Pondicherry, 
or any other of the Company’s acquisitions; assuring them at the same time, that 
they will be protected, and that the same liberty and privileges which they before 
possessed among the English will be granted them. 
“ Among the recruits furnished to complete the regiments of Lorrain and Berry’s, 
