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tate of Affairs in India, Madrass, andPondicherry. The Expedition ofLa Bourdon.naie j the Con dud of.Dv Pleix, &c. WHI LE the Englifh were carry irrg theirvictorious arms over To many feas, andthe whole globe was become the theatre ofwar, they began to feel its effects in their co-lony of Madrafs. A perfon named Mahe de la : 'Bourdonnaic, who was at once a merchant anda foldieF, avenged the honour of the Frenchflag in the heart of Afia. To render this event more diftincl, it irneceflary to give fome idea of India ; of theEuropean commerce in that rich and extenfivecountry, and of the rivalry fubffting amonjjthem, which* is. often- kept up by force of arms. Though fuch multitudes of Europeans have'gone to India, where they have cftablifhcd fet-tlements, and carried on war, by which feveralhave am a fled immenfe fortunes, few have ap-plied themfelves- to the ftudy of the antiquitiesof that country, formerly more famous for its laws
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