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Book V panick to Gingee, where they shut themselves up. This success, nevertheless, did not induce Maphuze Khan to proceed as he had promised to Tritchinopoly; but he returned to Conjeveram with a resolution, not to quit it again until he had received the money he had so often demanded. The presidency finding he was not to be influenced by any other motive, paid him 50,000 rupees, and agreed to pay as much more after he had crossed the Coleroon; this and the function of the large detachment sent to accompany him, left him without any farther pretences for delay, and he began his march from Conjeveram in the beginning of July.

Morari-row returning, after the victory he had gained over Gaude-row, to his camp on the other side of the Coleroon, pursued the rest of his scheme, writing to the Nabob, who was then just arrived at Tanjore, that if he would give him security for the payment of 800.000 rupees, he would return to his own country, and never more be an enemy either to him the English, or the Tanjorines. The Nabob having no money, applied, as the Morattoe had foreseen, to the King of Tanjore, who after many meetings consented to furnish it, and the articles were drawn up and signed, stipulating that 50,000 rupees should be paid as soon as the Morattoes arrived at Volcondah, 600,000 more when they came to the pass of the western mountains, and the remaining 150,000 when they arrived in their own country. Whilst this transaction was carrying on at Tanjore, Morari-row acquainted the regent of Mysore that he was in treaty with the Nabob, put offered if the Mysorean would pay him the arrears he had so often demanded to return to his assistance: the regent sent him what money he could spare, about 50,000 rupees, which the Morattoe no sooner received than he marched away with all his troops to Volcondah, and in the beginning of July left the province and went to his own country, which lays about 130 miles north-east from Arcot. Here Morari-row, after he surrendered Tritchinopoly to Nizam-al-muluck in 1746, was permitted to erect a principality, dependant indeed on the Soubah of the Decan, but independant of his own nation: as all new states are conducted with more vigour and attention than such as have been long established, he soon made himself admired and