Page:A history of the military transactions of the British nation in Indostan, Volume 1.djvu/383

Book V. flung himself upon the clemency of Salabad-jing, and went to Aurengabad, where he made his submission.

As soon as the suspension of arms was declared in the Carnatic, Mr. Watson, with the squadron, left the coast, in order to avoid the stormy monsoon, and proceeded to Bombay. In the end of December commodore Pocock arrived at Madrass with a reinforcement of two men of war, one of 70, and one of 60 guns. By this time Mr. Saunders and Mr. Godeheu had adjusted, as far as their powers extended, the terms which were to restore tranquillity to the Carnatic.

They were only impowered to make a conditional treaty, which was not to be deemed definitive until it had received the approbation of the two companies in Europe, who had reserved to themselves the power of annulling or altering the whole or any part of it. This conditional treaty stipulated as a basis, that the two companies were for ever to renounce all Moorish government and dignity; were never to interfere in any differences that might arise between the princes of the country; and that all places, excepting such as should be stipulated to remain in the possession of each company, were to be delivered up to the government of Indostan. The governors then proceeded to give their opinion what places each might retain without a risque of engaging them in future wars, either with one another, or with the princes of the country. In the Tanjore country the English were to possess Devi Cotah, the French, Karical, with the districts they at that time held: on the coast of Coromandel the English were to possess Madrass and Fort St. David; the French, Pondicheny, with districts of equal value; and if it should appear that the English possessions in the kingdom of Tanjore and in the Carnatic together, were of more value than the French possessions in those countries, then the French were to be allowed an equivalent for this difference in a settlement to be chosen between the river of Gondecama and Nizampatnam: districts near Masulipatnam were to be ascertained of equal value with the island of Divi, and of these districts and the island a partition was to be made as the two nations could agree in the choice: to the north-ward of the districts of Masulipatnam, in the Rajamundrum and Chicacole countries, each nation were to have four or five subordinate factories, or simple houses of trade, without territorial revenues, chosen