An Historical Account of the Settlement and Possession of Bombay: By the English East India Company, and of the Rise and Progress of the War with the Mahratta Nation |
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Page 295 - Dien, who crowded into a few years of *' early youth more crimes and abilities than " other confummate villains have done iu a " long life of wickednefs and treachery.
Page 295 - long life of wickednefs and treachery. '* Though he did not poffefs the Decan, *' the fruit of his grandfather's uncommon *' crimes, he may truly may be faid to have " been the genuine heir of the parts and " treafon of that monfter of iniquity and vil
Page 169 - Poouah at a moment's warning. On the 3d of November the refident and whole French factory at Surat were made prifoners of war by orders from Bombay. They continued fome time at Surat confined to their garden, being permitted to remain there to prevent inconvenience in their private arrangements ; but it was foon found that intrigues were carrying on for the delir yery very of the caftle of Surat to the Mahrattas, in which they had a confiderable fhare ; they were then transferred to Bombay.
Page 131 - I ments ; that the friends of one mould be the friends of the other, and the enemies of one the enemies of the other.