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The present Nabob succeeded his father, in his affection for the English as well as in his Government. He had done them the mod influential Services, when his father was alive; he saved them, in a manner, from destruction, after his father’s death. He supported the whole expense of the war on the coast of Coromandel; he advanced money for the expedition to Calcutta, which procured for us the kingdom of Bengal, he defrayed the expense of the siege of Pondicherry, and thus broke the power of the French in Hindostan. The friends of the English were his friends; he made their enemies his own, he communicated with them in all his councils he made them partners in his authority, his power, and his resources.
