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262 such being the modest title assumed by this daring freebooter. He had elevated some of his officers to the rank of Azoffs and Nabobs; and had not his progress received a timely check, he might have been a second Hyder Ali, in a country where states and dynasties have frequently sprung up from equally trivial and disreputable beginnings.

Soon after the fall of Seringapatam, the Marquis Wellesley had suggested to the Ministers at home the practicability of employing a force from India, to co-operate with any that might be despatched from Great Britain against the French in Egypt. The suggestion was