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102 and excitable, and had only recently been roused by a rising — happily unsuccessful — which had been attempted by the sons of that prince.

It was clear then that a crisis of no small magnitude was impending,— one which was likely to produce an important effect upon the fortunes of the Company in India, and to form one of the principal landmarks in the history of the progress of British power in Asia.