collections at the British Museum with the Miscellaneous Letters Received and the HomMiscellaneous series at the India Office and papers lodged in the archives of the French Ministry of the Colonies and at Pondchéry. [...] The first is concerned with the projects of Dupleix arising out of the struggle of the War of the Austrian Succession. [...] Thus the second part of the story opens—distinct from the first because its scene was remote from the Carnatic yet resulting from the first flowing in natural sequence out of it because the actors were the troops and officers who had previously been cmc entrated at Madras because their ideas policy and purpose were the fruits of their experience in the Carnatic and because the success which [...] When a French squadron appeared in Indian waters and began to seize English shipping the Pondichery Council did its best to limit its captures and to secure good terms of ransom for English prizes while the English were so obliging as to remit the proceeds of the French prizes to Bengal for the French investment.' But the growth of Pondichery and the development of its trade during the twenty [...] The consquence was that the failure of a single year's shipping would involve the non-payment of the loans falling dui! the impossibility of raising new loans and the total stoppage of trade.
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