So you see, we have got better quarters; we are rid of the stenches and nuisances of the native town; the plague of flies which made our life a burden is abated; and we can sit here and enjoy the cool sea breeze, without its being poisoned before it reaches us by the heaped up filth on the beach.
"It must have wrung Dupleix's heart to give up the place over which they expended so much pains, and after all it didn't do away with the fighting.

In April we sent a force from Fort Saint David--before we came back here--four hundred and thirty white soldiers and a thousand Sepoys, under the command of Captain Cope, to aid a fellow who had been turned out of the Rajahship of Tanjore.

I believe he was a great blackguard, and the man who had taken his place was an able ruler liked by the people." "Then why should we interfere on behalf of the other ?" Charlie asked.
"My dear Marryat," their host said compassionately, "you are very young yet, and quite new to India.

You will see, after a time, that right has nothing at all to do with the dealings of the Company, in their relations to the native princes.

We are, at present, little people living here on sufferance, among a lot of princes and powers who are enemies and rivals of each other.