. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ers had been in active hostility. The advantages in this warfarewere decidedly on the side of the French. La Bourdonnais, the governor ofthe Presidency of the Isle de France, carried a force of three or fourthousand Frenchmen, sepoys, and negro-slaves, in French vessels across theIndian Ocean, and suddenly attacked Madras, in September, 1746. Hebombarded Fort St. George for five days, which then capitulated. LaBourdonnais stipulated to restore the settlement to the En
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ers had been in active hostility. The advantages in this warfarewere decidedly on the side of the French. La Bourdonnais, the governor ofthe Presidency of the Isle de France, carried a force of three or fourthousand Frenchmen, sepoys, and negro-slaves, in French vessels across theIndian Ocean, and suddenly attacked Madras, in September, 1746. Hebombarded Fort St. George for five days, which then capitulated. LaBourdonnais stipulated to restore the settlement to the English Companyupon the payment of a ransom. Dupleix, the Governor of the Presidency ofPondicherry, expressed great wrath at the terms of the capitulation. Madraswas within his jurisdiction, and he would not ratify the treaty. He lookedforward to the expulsion of the English from India; and desired to ase their AtUc, vol. hi. p. 346. 202 RETROSPECT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS: CLIVE. [1754. thriving settlement of Madras razed to tbe ground. Dupleiz annulled tliecapitulation, and insolently carried tbe Governor of Fort St. George, and. other officers, in triumph to Pondicherry. In the counting-house of amerchant at 3Iadras was a young Englishman, Eobert Clive, ?who at the timeof the capitulation was in his twenty-first year. He fled to the settlementof Fort St. David, a dependency of Madras, and there obtained an ensignscommission in the Companys service. The war of the two Companies wasbecoming serious; and a considerable force was sent from England in a larger European army than had appeared in India in modern times,the siege of Pondicherry was undertaken. After a great loss, the Englishraised the siege. The peace came, and under its conditions Madras wasrestored. But the English and French, although no longer able to fight asprincipals, could carry on their hostilities as supporters of rival native had more ambitious views than the heads of the English Presidenc
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