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 ORDERED TO JOIN LALLY. 505 name Haidar Jang, into his own tent, and cansed him Cl *£ ? - to be assassinated. In the tnmult that followed, Shah '„ Nawaz Khan was killed, whilst Nizam Ali fled for his 1758. life to Burhanpur, one hundred and fifty miles north of Aurangabad. The flight of Nizam Ali simplified the arrangements that had been proposed, and which were in no other way altered than by his removal from the government of Haidarabad. An attempt, indeed, was made to pursue him, but it was speedily countermanded, and Bussy, more secure than ever in his position, prepared to accompany the Subadar and his new Minister to Haidarabad. Here he arrived on July 15, and found waiting for him a letter from the Count de Lally, dated June 13, ordering him to repair at once to Arkat, leaving no French with the Subadar, and only so many in the Sirkars as would be sufficient to maintain them. He was instructed to make over the command of these troops to M. de Conflans, an officer recently arrived from Europe, and who had but just joined him on the march, and to bring with him Moracin, who had hitherto administered the affairs of Machhlfpatan. This letter was like a thunderbolt to Bussy as well as to Salabat Jang. It called upon the former to renounce at once the work of the past seven years and a half, to give up the province to maintain which Dupleix had not hesitated to risk the loss of the Kar- natik, and Bussy had devoted, to an extent bordering on the superhuman, his never- tiring energies. He had however only to obey.* But the Subadar, who had leant so long upon Bussy, who had so recently ex- Bussy writes : — " I reply at once to perplexity, considering the fearful the letter you have done me the situation in which I am, 1 proceed to honour to write to me on the 13th execute them with the utmost promp- June last, which I received yesterday titude." The remainder of his letter evening at 9 o'clock. There is one is taken up in explaining the state of thing, Sir, which I have always known affairs as they affected him and the how to do better than anything else ; projected movement. — Memoir e pour it is to obey ; and although your Bussy.
 * Tn his reply, dated the 15th July, orders throw me into the greatest