I have, however, agreed that, in case of a fresh war, I will raise an additional hundred cavalry.
"I expect it is in relation to this that he has sent for me to Arcot.
We know that the English are bound, by their treaty with Travancore, to declare war.

They ought, in honour, to have done it long ago, but they were unprepared.

Now that they are nearly ready, they may do so at any time, and indeed the Nabob may have learned that fighting has begun.
"The lookout is bad.

The government of Madras is just as weak and as short sighted as it was during Hyder's war.

There is but one comfort, and that is that Lord Cornwallis, at Calcutta, has far greater power than his predecessors; and as he is an experienced soldier, and is said to be an energetic man, he may bring up reinforcements from Calcutta without loss of time, and also set the troops of Bombay in motion.