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48 EASTERN HINDOOSTAN.
Company a fword enriched with diamonds. Thefe did not
countervail the unmerited mortification impofed on hira. In
1755, he had the pacific employ of being fent to invite the
Nabob of Arcot to Madras. He died in London, 011 January
ioth, 1775, aged 78; having attained only the rank of major-
general. He was lamented as a man and as a foldier. Let rae
repeat his great eulogy in refpecl: to his military conduct, by
faying, that he was the first who introduced difcipline into
India, and of courfe enfured conqueft over native troops, tili we,
by the wifdom of an Ayder or a Tippoo, are faced by troops
equally trained in the leflbns of war taught by our illuftrious
Veteran.
Arcot. Near. to the banks of the Paliar, about fixty-fix miles from
the fea, ftands Arcot, the Arcati Regia Soroz of Ptolemy, and
Soro-mandalam, corrupted into the modern Coromandel, giving
name to the whole coaft. The princes of which were called for
a long fncceffion Soren *, In far diftant times it became a
nabobfhip: on the confufion which enfned after the invafion
of Hindooßan, by Kouli Kban9 the perfidious Nizam al Muluc,
viceroy or ßubab of the Decan, kept poffeffion of that vaft
truft. Something fhonld be given refpeÄing that mfamous
traitor, who, to gratify his revenge againft rival comtiers, in-
vited Kouli Khan to invade Hindooßan, After being the caufe
of the ruin of his mafter, the defolation of his country, and the
maffacres of thoufands of his fellow-^fubjeds, amidft the con-
fufion which enfued, he feized on great part of the Decan, over
which he prefided by the authority of the emperor, dignified
* D'Anville, Antig. de 1'Inde, p. 327,
with
Company a fword enriched with diamonds. Thefe did not
countervail the unmerited mortification impofed on hira. In
1755, he had the pacific employ of being fent to invite the
Nabob of Arcot to Madras. He died in London, 011 January
ioth, 1775, aged 78; having attained only the rank of major-
general. He was lamented as a man and as a foldier. Let rae
repeat his great eulogy in refpecl: to his military conduct, by
faying, that he was the first who introduced difcipline into
India, and of courfe enfured conqueft over native troops, tili we,
by the wifdom of an Ayder or a Tippoo, are faced by troops
equally trained in the leflbns of war taught by our illuftrious
Veteran.
Arcot. Near. to the banks of the Paliar, about fixty-fix miles from
the fea, ftands Arcot, the Arcati Regia Soroz of Ptolemy, and
Soro-mandalam, corrupted into the modern Coromandel, giving
name to the whole coaft. The princes of which were called for
a long fncceffion Soren *, In far diftant times it became a
nabobfhip: on the confufion which enfned after the invafion
of Hindooßan, by Kouli Kban9 the perfidious Nizam al Muluc,
viceroy or ßubab of the Decan, kept poffeffion of that vaft
truft. Something fhonld be given refpeÄing that mfamous
traitor, who, to gratify his revenge againft rival comtiers, in-
vited Kouli Khan to invade Hindooßan, After being the caufe
of the ruin of his mafter, the defolation of his country, and the
maffacres of thoufands of his fellow-^fubjeds, amidft the con-
fufion which enfued, he feized on great part of the Decan, over
which he prefided by the authority of the emperor, dignified
* D'Anville, Antig. de 1'Inde, p. 327,
with