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Chap. VI I] AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMPANIES. 507

cherry, with either an additional district or a new settlement between Nizam- a.d. i:m. patam and the Gundlacama, to compensate for the deficiency of the settlement of Carrical compared with those of Devicotta and Fort St. David ; that at Masu- lipatam a district should be formed equal in extent to the island of Divy in the same vicinity, and then a partition should be made by miitual agi-eement, giving the district to the one company and the island to the other ; that to the northward of Masulipatam, and within the Northern Circars, each company should have four or five subordinate factories, merely as places of trade, without any district attached to them, and so situated as not to interfere with each other. Till the ti'eaty was made definitive by its ratification in Europe, existing pos- session should be retained by both companies in conformity with the principle of uti possidetis, but during the truce no new acquisitions should be made, and the allies should either be bound to act in accordance with it, or be repelled by the troops of both companies in the event of their making an attack upon either.

In this treaty the Fi'ench Company aj)parently made the larger sacrifice. AmWgnitica Their revenues within the territorial limits over which the treaty extended had treaty, been augmented dming the war to at least £70.(1 per annum, while tho.se accpiired by the English Company fell short of £U),0. By consenting to an eciuality of possession, they renounced an income nearly equal to the whole difierence between these two smns. Such at least seems to be the plain mean- ing of its leading stipulations, and yet it must have been understood dift'erently, for Bussy's connection with Salabut Jung underwent no change in consequence of it ; and, as if in direct defiance of the very first article, he continued to fight ills battles as before. It may be alleged that it was impossible for him to do otherwise, as tliis was the condition on which the Northern Circars had been made over to him. The moment the troops were withdrawn, the Circars would iiave reverted to the niler of the Deccjin, and thus the princi})le of uti possidetis, which, according to another stipulation, was to be maintained so long as the treaty remained only conditional, woidd have been violated, to the manifest damage of the French Company. In point of fact, then, the suspension of hos- tilities was only partial; and while the English Company were specially excluded from attempting anything in the Carnatic, there was nothing to prevent the French Company from entleavoining, through the intervention of Buss}-, to extend their infiuence, and pave the way for the establishment of a complete ascendency in the Deccan. It soon appeared that this was not the only serious other Haw in the treaty. The allies had been made parties to it without being con- silted, and could not understand why they should be obliged to follow in the wake of foreign mercenaries, and make peace and war at their dictation. Nun- jeraj, in particular, continued to linger in Seringham, and openl}^ declared that he would never (jult it excepting for the purpose of making himself master of Trichinopoly. The nabob on his part was equally warlike ; and having little fear of the ^Ivsorean. now that the French were under an obliiration not to