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Dupleix's policy forced the The military adventurer has, in all ages, Madras government to take up Mahomed been a prominent figure in India; and his- Ali's cause; Clive, the "heaven-born gentory of that country derives much of its eral," sustained it; and the relation thus esinterest from the remarkable characters and tablished inevitably ended in the British anbrilliant achievements of such men, and nexation of the Carnatic. Anaverdy Khan their commanding influence on the fortunes made himself master of the Bengal provinces; of a community discordant in race, national and though he refused to quarrel with the sentiment, and religion, weak in political in- English, his fatuous partiality for Surajah stitutions and public spirit, and hence pecul- Dowlah brought about the crisis which he iarly liable to revolutions wrought out by the deprecated. Plassey was the contre-coup of sword. Thus, without citing earlier instances, the attack on Calcutta. The rise of Hyder, the Mogul empire was founded, undermined and the close alliance of his house with the and laid low by three representatives of this French, led eventually to the British conquest class, each well suited to his mission, and all of Mysore. De Boigne made Mahadajee memorable for the wild romance of their ex- | Sindia predominant at Delhi, and over a great ploits. The quick-witted, large-hearted, and part of Hindostan, though both he and his enlightened Baber, a conqueror in his boy-patron were careful to keep on good terms hood, youthful in spirit to the end, a knight- with the English. But when another soldier errant ever, was happily adapted to conciliate of fortune, Ameer Khan, incited Jeswunt his Indian subjects; and to stamp upon the Roa Holkar, an adventurer like himself, to government of his new dominions that blended march on Poona, the defeated Peishwa fled character of energy and tolerance, which it to Bombay, and concluded the treaty of Baslong retained under his descendants, and sein. This Mahadajee's successor, proud of which contributed so much to its stability. the position won for him by De Boigne, and But when the gloomy and persecuting Au- relying on the powerful army which the rungzib laid his hand heavily on the Hindoos, Savoyard had organized, thought proper to Sivaji arose as their deliverer and avenger: oppugn; and the triumphant English mulcted his subtlety, political ability, skill in irregular him of the so-called north-west provinces. warfare, religious zeal, and national spirit, In the ebb tide of British policy, after Wellesmade him irrepressible, and the Hindoo re- ley's departure, Ameer Khan prepared the action, initiated by him, irresistible. Sapped way for new annexations, both by exhibiting by the Mahrattas, the tottering empire was in his own licentious proceedings the intolerprostrated by Nadir Shah. This grim, in- able evils attending non-intervention, and by flexible, and able soldier, who freed Persia stimulating the growth of a yet more debased from a foreign yoke only to usurp the type of adventurers, the Pindaris, for whose throne, enforce a change of religion, play the suppression forces were assembled by Lord tyrant, and perpetrate frantic cruelties which Hastings. This circumstance hastened the cost him his life, was an appropriate instru- intriguing and suspicious Peishwa's exploment for the repetition of Timour's work of sion; and his defeat, surrender, and deposition destruction; and Nadir's indiscriminate mas-transferred his dominions to the company. sacre at Delhi recalled the dread memory of In Wellesley's days, an Irish sailor, George "the Scourge of God." The fortunes of the Anglo-Indian empire have been not less notably affected by the same class of men, though hitherto the general results of their operations have been favorable to it. The enterprise of adventurers Thomas, had made himself independent on the borders of the Indian desert; had played a masterful part in the Cis-Sutlej Sikh country; and had projected the conquest of the Punjab and of Sinde. He was cut off before he could attempt either object; and Runjit Singh Le sieur Dupleix.respecte trop les ordres du minisEng-tère et ceux de la compagnie pour oser publier ici ce secret, et, quelqu 'intérêt qu'il puisse avoir de justifier une conduite qu'il n'ignore pas que beaucoup de personnes ont condamnée, ce motif, tout puissant qu'il est, cédera toujours à la loi du devoir. qu'il lui a été enjoint d'ensevelir dans le plus profond Thus Dupleix continued to be misunderstood and underrated; and Macaulay, by a few vigorous and confident strokes, from an unfavorable portrait produced a caricature of the real man. An anonymous writer in the defunct National Review (October, 1862) first, as far as we are aware, explained the true state of the case relative to Madras and its treatment by the rival French officers; and later still Colonel Malleson in his History of the French in India has done ample justice to Dupleix. But the interest of the subject is by no means exhausted. Much of Dupleix's voluminous correspondence still awaits publication. A recent French writer, M. Tibulle Hamont, has consulted this, and based upon it a detailed and enthusiastic biography, interspersed with copious extracts from the letters, which throw a new and vivid light on the character and conduct of the brilliant adventurer. united and disciplined the northern Sikhs, the knowledge of his hero's personality seems François Joseph Dupleix was born on the especially al the exclusiv itself. 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