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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
Count D’Ache, rendering him alone responsible for the loss of Pondicherry, and 
threatening to appeal to the justice of the king against his conduct. This protest 
was unanimously signed in the hall of the council in Fort Lewis, in Pondicherry, 
the 17th September, 1759, as follows: Lally, Duval de Leyrit, Renaut, Barthe- 
lemy, Chevalier des Soupirs, Nichel Lally, Bussi, Du Bois, Cariere, Verdieres, 
Dure, Gaddeville, Du Passage, Beausset, Renaut, De la Selle, Guillart, Porcher, 
Pere Dominique, capucin pretre de la paroisse de Notre Dame des Anges, F. S. 
Lavacer, superieur general des Jesuites Fran^ais dans les Indes, L. Rathon, supe- 
rieur general des missions etrangeres, Potier de Lorme, Duchatel, Audouart, 
Aimar, Combaut d’Autheuil, Goupil, Keisses, J. C. Bon, De Wilst, Banal, Rauly, 
Termelier, Saint Paul, J. B. Launay, Deshayes, Fischer, Du Laurent, Audoyer du 
Petit Val, D’Arcy, Medin, Diore, Bertrand, Legris, Miran, Bourville, F. Nicolas, 
Du Plan, De Laval, Boree, De L’Arche, Boyelleau et Guellette. 
M. D’Ache had already set sail, but the winds and currents, having driven him 
to the north, the protest overtook him at sea; in consequence of which he returned 
to Pondicherry, where he remained seven days, and once more departed for Ma¬ 
dagascar ; promising, however, to return at a very early period of the following 
year; but from that time, which comprehends a space of sixteen months, nothing 
more was heard of him. 
M. de Lally, who had now recovered his health and strength, daily expected the 
arrival of Bassuletzingue, brother of Salubetzingue, sovereign of the whole country, 
with a body of twelve thousand men. This prince was not more than thirty-five 
leagues from the French army when he demanded an officer of distinction, and a 
detachment of European troops, to facilitate their junction, and M. de Bussy was 
accordingly sent on that service. The army was now assembled under the walls of 
Arcot, from whence the Indian batallion was detached, as it began to foment a 
second revolt, on account of the pay due to the soldiers, from the not being able to 
dispose of the diamonds. The absence of M. de Bussy, which did not require more 
than ten or twelve days, continued for two-and-forty; and the English, availing 
themselves of the impracticability of the French to begin the campaign without cavalry, 
made themselves masters of Wandewash. 
Being disappointed of the arrival of Bassuletzingue, M. de Lally concluded, as 
soon as possible, in concert with M. de Leyrit, a treaty with a Mahratta chief, for 
a body of two thousand cavalry j which, joined to another of eighteen hundred 
