besides an ample supply of ammunition of all sorts, and a great number of fire arms. During this first capture, and second siege of Pondicherry by the British, their loss was thirty-two officers, and 500 rank and file killed and wounded; that of the enemy considerably greater. After its surrender, there was some misunderstanding on the part of H. M.'s officers, whether or not Pondicherry should be given up to the East India Company; but on reference to the King's patent of January, 1758, the city and its dependencies were handed over to Mr. Pigot, the Governor of Fort St. George. The forts of Gingee and Thiagur still held out, the former was attacked by Captain Stephen Smith, of the corps, with a detachment of Europeans from the regiment, and a large body of Sepoys. After a slight resistance it was taken in the middle of February, and on the same day the strong fort of Thiagur surrendered, after a bombardment of sixtyfive days, to a force under Major Preston, of the corps, consisting of a strong detachment of Europeans from the corps, a large party of artillerymen, and a considerable body of Sepoys and native horse; the enemy lost nearly 100 Europeans killed and wounded. During the following month, the settlements of Mahè and Tellicherry were taken from the French, in which service a detachment of the corps and the company of the Bombay European Regiment under Captain Gore of that corps participated: By the 5th of April, not a single settlement remained in India belonging to that nation. Thus, after a war of nearly fifteen years' duration, in every action or affair of which the corps, or a detachment of it, had been engaged, during the whole of which period, it had alone kept the important fortress of Trichinopoly, and not only defeated every assault made upon it, but had, on seven different occasions, defeated the French in pitched battles on the plain, within sight of the walls, and thrice taken prisoners or utterly destroyed the entire investing French force, was the same injury inflicted upon them as they had intended to the British after the reduction of Madras in 1746, the destruction of whose commerce and power in India was the object of De la Bourdonnais' expedition, and the whole policy and ambition of those two most able men, Dupleix and Lally. Shortly after its capture, the fortifications and public buildings of Pondicherry were razed to the ground; and in a short time not a building of the kind or a work was standing in this once wellfortified city. M. Lally after his exchange, returned to France, to fall a victim to popular violence in 1766. On the 9th December of the previous year, Major-General Lawrence, who had for some time. been unable from age and infirmity to perform any active duty, returned to Europe. No one ever left the shores of India more highly respected and loved by all classes, natives as well as Europeans. Adored for his distinguished and noble spirit, the name of Lawrence," the great and good," must always rank high among the many of India's most illustrious soldiers. In the language of Sir John Malcolm, Lawrence "neither was nor pretended to be a statesman; but he was an excellent officer. He possessed no dazzling qualities, and his acts never displayed that brilliancy which men admire as the accompaniment of genius; but he was nevertheless a rare and remarkable man. We trace in all his operations that sound, practical knowledge of his profession, which, directed by a clear judgment and firm mind, secured to him an uninterrupted career of success, under circumstances of great difficulty and danger. As one of the chief causes of this success, we may notice the absence of that common but petty jealousy which renders men afraid lest they should detract from their own fame by advancing that of others, and the influence of which is, consequently, most fatal to the rise of merit. Lawrence early discovered and fully employed the talents of those under his orders; and we find him on all occasions much more forward to proclaim their deeds than to blazon his own. To this quality, which is the truest test of a high and liberal spirit, England is principally indebted for all the benefit she has received from the services of Clive. It was the fostering care and the inspiring confi |