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 CONTENTS. vii

CHAPTEE VIII.

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"War with France — Capture of Pondiolierry — Disputes with Nizam Ali and Basahit Jung — War with Hyder Ali — Detachment under Colonel Baillie destroyed— Sir Eyre Coote in command of the Madras army— Lord Macartney governor of Madras — Defeat of Hyder Ali — Military and naval operations — Death of Hyder Ali — Death of Sir Eyre Coote — Subsequent progi-ess of the war — Peace with France — Peace with Tippoo, 468

CHAPTER IX.

Visit of Mr. Hastings to Benares — Proceedings against the rajah — Parliamentary reports on Indian affairs — Proceedings in Oude — Resignation of Mr. Hastings — Eesignatiou of Lord Macartney — India bills of Mi-. Dimdas, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Pitt — Establish- ment of the Board of Control,. , - .531

BOOK VI.

FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL. TO THE COMPLETE EXTINCTION OF

THE company's TRADE.

CHAPTER L

Mr. Macpherson governor-general — The Nabob of Arcot's debts — Lord Macartney, pro- posed as governor-general, declines — Lord Cornwallis appointed — His civil and military reforms — The cession of Guntoor — New agreement with Nizam Ali,. 559

CHAPTER IL

Tippoo's tyranny and cruelty — His attack on the lines of Travancore— Confederacy against him — Progress of the war under General Medows — Lord Cornwallis assumes the command — Siege and capture of Bangalore — Operations in Coorg — Advance on Seringapatam — Siege of Seringapatam — Treaty of j^eace,. . . 582

CHAPTER IIL

The arrival of Marquis Cornwallis in England — Impeachment and trial of Warren

Hastings— Indian administration of Sir John Shore,. ■ . . . . . 640

CHAPTER IV.

Sir John Shore governor-general — Death of Mahadajee Scindia — War between the Nizam and the Mahrattas — Death of the Peishwa — Disputed succession in Oude — Death of Mahomed Ali — War with the Dutch, ....... 655

CHAPTER V.

Earl of Moruington, afterwards Marquis Wellesley, appointed governor-general — State of India on his arrival — Treaty with the Nizam — Disbandment of the French corps — War with Tippoo — Siege and capture of Seringapatam — Settlement of Mysore, 675