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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
Baron Grant was unfortunately taken prisoner in this voyage by three English 
ships, which took him into Jamaica. On leaving that island for England, he suf¬ 
fered new misfortunes from being shipwrecked, and with great difficulty and dan¬ 
ger, and in the greatest distress, reached the island which he had so lately left. At 
length, however, he arrived in England, where he remained six weeks, when he 
returned to his estates at Vaux, in Normandy. 
Further Extracts of the History of India, during the seven Tears War. 
The descendants of Tamerlane and the Moguls continued from the time of that 
great conqueror to govern India, after having been driven from Tartary and Persia. 
Aurengzebe was the last monarch who inherited the talents of his predecessors; for 
after his death a general degeneracy followed, and, as it commonly happens in great 
monarchies, the provinces which were the most remote from the seat of government, 
became independent of the Mogul. Formerly the governors of these provinces, 
who are called Nabobs, practised more than a mere nominal submission to the 
imperial authority, as such a conduct confirmed their power. One of these subordi¬ 
nate princes, the Nabob, or, as he is by some called,* the Subah or Viceroy of Ben¬ 
gal, availed himself of some frivolous pretext, to besiege the English fort of Bengal. 
The place was bravely defended by Mr. Holwell; but on the 26th of June, 1756, 
it was taken by the Nabob. The immediate consequences of which are too well 
known to require any description of them in this place. The horrors and sufferings 
of the Black Hole have been already described by the able pen of Mr. Holwell, who 
had his portion of them, and from whose works they have been translated into the 
principal tongues of Europe. 
The English arms, however, in India, soon took their revenge, and repaired their 
losses. Admiral Watson, in the beginning of the year 1756, attacked and destroyed 
the residence of Angria, the pirate, who had long been the declared enemy of the 
English. He then set sail from Madras with no more than three ships of the line, 
and having touched at the port of Balasore, entered the Ganges; where, by the 
capture of the fort of Busbudgia, he opened a passage to Calcutta, which he reduced 
in one day, as wtll as Huegly, another establishment above the Ganges. The 
Nabob assembled an army of ten thousand horse and twelve thousand infantry; but 
on the 5th of February, 1757, they were defeated by an handful of English, and the 
Nabob was obliged to conclude a treaty of peace, by which the English East India 
