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ftation during the cannonade, and formed the right of their firft line, and Monack jee likewife quitted the convoy and drew up the Tanjorine, cavalry in a feparate body at a distance, in order to prevent the Myforeans, from falling upon the right flank of the ar my and baggage. Hidernaig, the beft officer of the Myforeans, happened to be in this part of the plain, and feeing the baggage left without protection, ordered fome of his troops to amufe the Tanjorines in front, whift he himself with another body galloped round the French Rock, and fell upon the rear of the convoy, amongst which they created no small confufion, and feized thirty five carts, fome of them laden with arms and ammunition, and others with baggage belonging to the English officers. Major Lawrence, as foon as he difcovered the miflakes which had given rife to this diforder, directed the rear-guard to march back to their station; but before they arri ved the enemy were gone off with their booty towards Chuckleya-Pollam. A party of 500 Topaffes and Sepoys, with two guns, had croffed the Caveri, and were advanced at this time from Seringham to take poffeffion of the French Rock, which being perceived by captain Kilpatrick, he fallied with a party of his garrifon, and cannonaded them fo brifkly that they retreated in great con ufion to the island. Some time was spent in re-affembling the fcattered bullocks and coolies; after which the army continued their march, and encamped near the walls to the fouth of the city. Eight Europeans were killed by the cannonade, and amongst them captain Pigou, an officer of pronailing hopes, whofe death was much lamented; near 100 of the French battalion were killed and wounded; but the irrefolution and faint nefs of their behaviour this day was not im puted fo much to want of courage, as to orders, which it was fuppofed their commander Mr. Maiffin had received, to avoid a gene. ral engagement.

The Itock of provifions brought with the army were depofited in the city for the ule of the garrifon, and inajor Lawrence determined to get fupplies for his camp as ufual from Tanjore and Tondeman's country: But as it was necessary to drive the enemy from the plain before this could be effected with facility, he moved on the 20th of Augut to the Facquire's tope, hoping to provoke them to fight. This motion produced a different but a better effect, for at noon they fet fire to their camp, and retreated to Moota Chellinoor, oppofite to the head of the island. In the evening Monack-jee with the Tanjorines, invefted Elimiferum where the enemy had a guard of 150 Sepoys, and thirteen Europeans with one piece of cannon. Thefe, after very little refiftance,

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furrendered on the 22d; and a garrifon of 200 English Sepoys, with a few artillerymen, were left to fecure it.

Major Lawrence finding that the enemy fhewed no inclination to quit Moota Chellinoor, marched from the Facquire's tope on the 1ft of, September, and encamped nearer to them, to the north-weft of Werriore pagodas. They had made an inundationon each flank of their camp, the Caveri was in their rear; and they had flung up works and mounted cannon to defend their front, which was acceffible only by one roadleading through rice fields covered with water. Notwithstanding the advantages of this fituation, they had not courage to continue in it; but fufpecting that the English intended to attack them, they croffed the river in the night, and retreated to Seringham. The English took poffeffion of the part they aban doned, and finding that they had done. much mifchief to the watercourfes which from this place fupply the ditches and refervoirs of Tritchinopoly, they employed fome days in repairing them; after which major Lawrence, in compliance with a promife he had made to the king of Tanjore, detached Monack-jee with the Tanjorine troops, accompanied by a party of 230 Europeans, 600 Sepoys, and two field-pieces under the command of captain Jofeph Smith to Coiladdy, in order to protect the coolies employed there in repairing the great bank which the enemy had ruined in the month of May. The rainy feafon being now fit in, the reft of the Englith battalion and Sepoys went into cantonments in Warriore pagodas on the 13th of September.

At this time a fquadron, under the com→ mand of admiral Watfon, confifting of three flips, or 60, 50, and 20 guas with a loop, as alfo feveral of the companies fhips, arrived on the coaft, having on board the 49th regiment of 700 men, under the command of colonel Adlercron, with 40 of the king s artillery men, and 200 recruits for the coinpany's troops. The French likewife had received during this feafon, 1200 men, of which number 600 were a body of Huffars, under the command of Fitcher, a partizan of foue reputatio; but the reft were only raw recruits: fo that both fides now were able to bring into the field an equal force of about 20co Europeans; but the English troops were in quality fo much fuperior to the French, that if this long and ob finately contefted war had now refted on the decifion of the fword, there is no doubt but that the French would foon have been reduced to afk for peace on much lefs advantageous terms than the prefidency of Madras were obliged to accede to, in obedience to the or ders they now received from Europe GodeLeu Limfdlf was fenfible of this disparity,

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and dreading at the fame time the advantages which the English might derive from their fquadron, he fhowed a moderation in his propofals fuflicient to induce Mr. Saunders to agree to a fuspension of arms, before the terms of the treaty were adjusted.

The allies on both fides were included in this fufpenfion, which were proclaimed at Madrafs, Pondicherry, Tritchinopoly, and in all other places on the coaft of Coromandel, where the English and French had troops, on the 11th of January. As foon is it was proclaimed, major Lawrence, who now received a commiffion appointing him to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the king's fervice, quitted Tritchinopoly and came to Madrafs, where he was prefented by the prefident, in the name of the compa. ny, with a fword enriched with diamonds, as a token of acknowledgment of his military fervices. Thefe diftinctions, however, did not countervail his fenfe of the neglect which had been shown him, by fending colonel Adlereron, an officer of fuperior rank, to command the English troops in India.

The two armies at Tritchinopoly, whilft remaining in expectation of the fufpenfion of arms, had attempted nothing decifive against each other fince the French retreated to the island. The French indeed detached a ftrong party to cannonade the workmen repairing the great bank at Coiladdy; and thefe troops appeared feveral times in fight of captain Smith's detachment,, but were, by the vigilance of that officer, prevented from giving any interruption to the work: fome other parties likewife molefted the coolies repairing the watercourfes at Moota Chellinoor, but they perfifted as foon as Mahomed Iflouf, with fix companies of Sepoys, were ftationed there. In other parts of the province very few difturbances had happened fince Maphuze Khan had marched from Conjevaram to fort St. David, where he ftill remained. The Phouldar of Velore, foon after he released captain Smith in April, made overtures, offering to acknowledge Mahomed-ally; upon which the prefidency of Madrafs gave him in writing a promife of their protection fo long as he conformed to the allegiance due from him to the Nabob; and Abdulwahab the Nabob's brother, made a treaty with him on the fame condition.

In the beginning of the year 1754, Sallabad-jing accompanied by Mr. Buffy and the French troops, took the field to oppose the Marrattah Kajoge Bonfola, who, as he had threatened, had began to ravage the northeaftern parts of the Soubahfhip. No details of this campaign, any more than of the others in which Mr. Buy has acted, are hitherto published, andall we know from more private communication is that the ariny of Sallabadjing and his allies advanced as far as Niclur

the capital of Rajoge, near which after many fkirmishes a peace was concluded in the month of April; and at the end of May Mr. Bully came to Hydrabad refolving to proceed into the newly acquired provinces, in which Mr. Moracin had, although not without difficulty and oppofition, eftablished the authority of his nation. Jaffier-ally, who had for fome years governed Rajahmundrum, and Chicacol, when fummoned, resolved not to resign them; and finding Vizeramrauze, the moft powerful Rajah of thofe countries with whom he was then at war, in the fame difpofition with himself, he not only made peace, but entered into a league with the Rajah; and both agreed to oppofe the French with all their force: in confequence of which treaty they applied for fupport to the English factory at Vizaga patnam, as alfo to the prefidency of Madras; the English encouraged them in their refolution, but were too much occupied in the Carnatic to furnifh the fuccours they demanded. The interefts of the Indian princes and Moorish governors perpetually clashing with one another, and with the intereft of the Mogul, will perhaps always prevent the empire of Indoftan from coercing the ambitious attempts of any powerful European nation when not oppofed by another of equal force; much lefs will any particular princ pality in India be able to withstand fuch a invader. Mr. Moracin, not having troops enough at Mafulipatnam to reduce the united forces of the Rajah and Jaffer-ally, made overtures to Vizeramrauze, offering to farm out to him the countries of Rajahmundrum and Chicacole at a lower rate than they had ever been valued at. -Such a temptation was perhaps never refifted by any prince in Indoftan, and Jaffier-ally finding himself abardoned by his ally, quitted his country f ef indignation, and determined to take re fuge with Ragogi, who was at that time fighting with Sallabad-jing and Mr. Bully: traveiling with this intention to the wellward he fell in with a large body of Marat talis, commanded by the fon of Ragogi, whom he cafily prevailed upon to make an incurfion into the Chicacole countries over the mountains, which till this time were deemed impaffable by cavalry; but a Polygar who had been driven out of his territory by the Rajah, and accompanied the Nalob in his fight, undertook to conduct them through defiles and pafles known to very few 'cxcept himself. The Marattahs under this guide entered the province of Chicacole, whilft the Rajah thinking fuch an inroad impoffible, lay negligently encamped near his capital, where falling upon him by furprize, they gained an eafy victory over lus troops, and the Rajah hurried away to Ma fullpatzam, to demand affiftance from the

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of Burgundy, and whofe dominions, bordering on Holland and Haynault, were fo happily fituated to be united with her own. Margaret of Burgundy, the mother of Jacoba, wiring the alliance with a Prince of her own houfe, folicited her daughter to comply with the laft requeft of her father; and the Princefs, at the age of eighteen, confented to give her hand to the Duke of Brabant. But this unhappy marriage, to which Jacoba had yielded more from deference to her parents, and from reafons of ftate, than from her own inclination, proved the principal caufe of her misfortunes. John Duke of Brabant, the fon of Antony Duke of Brabant, who had been flain, not long before, fighting in the fields of Agincourt against Henry the V. of England, was in the eighteenth year of his age at the time of his marriage; a prince of a narrow understanding, of a feeble conftitution, and little fuited to gain the affections of a Printefs of the fprightly character of Jacoba.

An occafion foon prefented itself, that difplayed the weakness of the Duke of Brabant, and thefuperior genius of the Princess. John of Bavaria, the uncle of Jacoba, a turbulent and ambitions Prince, upon a vain title afferted his right to Holland and Hainault; and, feconded by a difaffected party in Holland, made fo great a progrefs in that province, that it was found necessary to oppose him by arms. In that war, Jacoba, who poffeffed valour and martial prowefs, of which examples in that age were not few among the fofter fex, took the field at the head of her troops of Hainault, and, by her undaunted fpirit, animated them to fignal acts of brave ry; whilst the Duke of Brabant, by his un warlike character, fpread dejection among his troops of Brabant, and rendered the fucceffes of the Princefs fruitlefs and of no effect. At length, that he might hide his shame, he drew his forces away from Holland, commanding Jacoba to follow him into Brabant; and an inglorious peace, upon diladvantagious terms, was concluded with John of Bavaria.

If Jacoba had reafon to be difplcafed at the little ardour that the Duke had howa in the defence of his dominions, his conduct afterwards tended ftill more to alienate her. Neglecting the Princefs, he estranged himself from her company, purfuing mean pleasures, and yiling to the guidance of unworthy favourites. To the neglect of the Prince's he added harthness and ill ufage, difiniting from Ver perfon her women that had accom panied her from Haynault, and in other inftances treating her with contumely. The contempt that Jacoba had before entertained of her husband was now changed into refentment: and, liftening to her anger, fhe took

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and from Brabant, and of retiring into her own country of Haynault.

Jacoba, in the full luftre of her beauty, had attained only her twentieth year when the withdrew herfelf from her hufband. Inclined to the tendernefs of love, and capable of feeling that paflion in all its ardour, he had proved a fevere disappointment in her union with the Duke of Brabant, and the now thought only of diffolving an union that had been to her fo unhappy. A reason was not wanting in the nearnefs of blood be tween her and the Duke of Brabant; and s reafon had been thought fo powerful at onjection to the marriage, that the Pope Martin V. who gave the permiffion to marry, had at one time, on account of the nearnes of blood, revoked that difpenfation, which he afterwards granted. While Jacoba fought to annul her marriage with the Duke of Brabant, the caft her eyes on a Prince who feemed more worthy of her affection.

Henry V. King of England, at this time waged thofe wars begun by Edward III. that were fo fatal to France. The courfe of the war had led this Prince to the borders of the Low Countries, and the frontier of Artra had been the fcene of his fplendid victory of Agincourt. Among the Princefs and nobles of England that attended Henry in this war, the Princess Jacoba had feen and diftinguished the youngest brother of the King, Humphry Duke of Glocefter, who name is fo well known in the English flory; a Prince at this time in the flower of his age, handfome, fprightly, brave, and endowed with all thole qualities that might gain the heart of the Princefs. In an union with tha accomplished Prince, Jacoba hoped that the might find that happiness which the hac fought in vain with the duke of Brabant. The Duke of Glocefler, on his part, wa neither infenfible to the charms of Jacoba, nor unmoved by the profpect whic opened itfelf to his ambition, in the poffe on of a Princefs the fovereign of fo mast ftates. Thus mutually attracted, Jaco and the Duke of Glocefter flattered the felves, that they might prevail upon th Pope to annul the former marriage of Jar ba with the Duke of Brabant; the m eafi y, that the church was at this time rr by a fchifmm, and that Pope Martin V. fras a competitor for the Papal throne in Be diet XIII. But whilft the Duke and th Princess indulged the hope that their ma ringe might be calily erected, a power obflasle to their union arofe in the kinf of Jacoba, the Duke of Burgundy.

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of the Dauphin of France, afterwards Charles VII. Philip, poffeffed of eminent talents, nourished an ambitious mind, and, already mafter of ample domains in the Netherlands, fought to augment his power in that country. The fair inheritance of his kinswoman, the Princefs of Haynault, prefented an object to which the ambition of this Prince afpired; and he had studied to draw advantage to himself by fomenting troubles in her ftates. For this purpose he had formed a league with John of Bavaria, and had fecretJy aided him in his enterprifes in Holland. Ae indulged the hope that no progeny would rife from the bed of the Duke of Brabant; he had not been much moved by the marriage of Jacoba to that Prince, and he had afterwards heard with fatisfaction of the variance that had taken place between that ill-afforted pair; but he was greatly alarmed when he learned the new engagements that the Princefs had formed with the Duke of Glocefter, and refolved to employ all his efforts to prevent their intended union. With this view, whilft he applied himself to oppose the fuit of Jacoba to the Papal See, he also made warm reprefentations against this marriage to King Henry and the EngIfh court, where he juftly pofieffed much influence. England had been indebted for a great part of her triumphs over France to the aid of the House of Burgundy; and her future fucceffes in that war depended much on the affiftance of that powerful Houle. The refentment that Philip had conceived against the Dauphin, on account of the affaffination of his father, now bound him in firm amity with England; and it was of much moment that no just cause of offence hould be given to this Prince, by which his bond of union might be weakened. The influence which Philip possessed in the English court was alfo augmented by his affinity o the Duke of Bedford, the second broher of the King, a brave and accomplished prince, to whom he had given his fifter Anne n marriage.

But the oppofition, though powerful, of he Duke of Burgundy, did not hinder the Princess Jacoba and the Duke of Glocefter com the accomplishment of their purpofe. The Princefs paffed over into England, Where the was weil entertained by the King nd the English court, and where the maried the Duke of Glocefter. And that a apal fanction might not he wanting, a fenence was foon after procured from Benedict I. by which her former marriage was an ulled, and her marriage with the Duke of Hoceer was established. Fortune now pemed to finile on Jacoba, and with an anaile Prince fhe tafted a happiness that he ad not before experienced. The Duke of Jocefter took the title of Count of HayHib. Mag, Dec. 176%.

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nault, Holland, and Zeland, and a large part of the Netherlands feemed deftined to the fway of an English Prince. After fome time, the Duke, accompanied by a body of English troops, paffed over with the Princefs into Haynault, to take poffeffion of the dominions that he now claimed by the title of his marriage.

But the felicity of Jacoba was of no long duration, and the was foon to prove the ill effects of nuptials too precipitately contracted. The Duke of Burgundy, now full of refentment, inveighing feverely against the light conduct of Jacoba, and complaining loudly of the wrong that was done to the Duke of Brabant. joined his troops to thofe of that Prince, and a powerful army advanced into Haynault to oppofe the Duke of Glocefter. The force of the Duke of Glocester was not able to withstand the combined army of Burgundy and Brabant, and a flaughter was made of a great part of the English troops at Braine in Haynault. Letters of mutual accufation and defiance now paffed between the Dukes of Burgundy and Glocefter, and a day was appointed for the fingle combat of these princes. Whilft by this defiance, which yet in the end took no effect, a fufpenfion of arms was produced, the Duke of Glocefter took that occafion of returning into England, that he might collect a larger force. The Princefs had at first determined to accompany him thither; but, won by the prayers of the citizens of Mons, who gave folemn affurances that they would defend her during the abfence of the Duke, the consented to remain in Haynault, and to fix her abode at Mons. She had foon cause to repent of this too eafy compliance. No fooner had the Duke of Glocefter departed, than the Duke of Burgundy applied all his efforts to feduce the people of Haynault from their duty to their lovereign, and in particular to gain the city of Mons. In this he fucceeded too well; and the Princess, betrayed by the citizens of Mons, in whom the had trufted, and finding no fuccour from the Duke of Glocefter, to whom the conveyed her griefs in a letter written from her falle and traitorous city of Mons *,' as fhe styles that place, vas compelled to furrender herfelf to the Duke of Burgundy, and was by him conducted a prifoner to his city of Ghent in Flanders.

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