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more disposed to pass abstract resolutions than to
affirm sovereign rights and to act upon them in India.
When, in 1762, the French negotiators for peace de-
A MOUNTAIN ROAD AT M AHABLESHWAR, IN THE BOMBAY
PRESIDENCY.
manded the restitution of districts that had been taken
from them during the war, the English representatives
met the claim by demurring to " any right of the
Crown of England to interfere in the legal and exclu-
