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Book XIII. main prisoners with the English, and be not delivered into the hands of Mahomed Ally Cawn, still tinged with the blood of the father and husband, which he shed, to the shame indeed of those who delivered up Chundasaheb to him, but to the shame likewise of the commander of the English army, who ought not to have suffered such a barbarity to have been committed in his camp." — "Being himself confined by the cartel in the declaration which he is now making to Mr. Coote, Mr. Lally consents that the members of the council of Pondicherry make their own representations, on what may more immediately concern their particular interests, and those of the colony."

Father Lavaur and the other deputies presented another 'memorial, from the governor and council of Pondicherry. "That no hurt should be done to the inhabitants; their houses be perserved, their effects and mercantile goods left to their own disposal: that all who chose might remain in their habitations, and were to be considered as British subjects, and enjoy their former possessions and advantages. In their favour the Roman Catholic religion was to be maintained; the churches, the houses of the ecclesiastics, and the religious orders, whether within or without the city, to be preserved with every thing belonging to them; the missionaries free to go and come, and receive under the English flag the same protection as they had under the French." "No buildings or edifices, and no part of the fortifications, were to be demolished, until the decision of the respective sovereigns." — "The records in the register-office, on which the fortunes of individuals depend, were to remain under the care of the present depositaries, and be sent to France, at their discretion." — "Not only the inhabitants who were French, but of whatsoever other nation established at Pondicherry for their commerce, were to participate of these conditions." — "The natives of Bourbon and Mauritius, in number 41, having served only as volunteers, to return home by the first opportunity." — "Safeguards were to