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HE English establishments in the kingdom of Indostan are divided into three governments, independant of each other. Bombay commands the factories on the western side of the peninsula, commonly called the Malabar coast; together with those in Persia: the establishments and possessions on the eastern or Coromandel coast are under the government of Madrass: and those in Bengal depend on Calcutta. From the year, 1745 to the conclusion of the late peace, the English have been continually engaged in war, in one or other of these divisions: and the preservation of their commerce in the East-Indies