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ceſtors---what neceſſity is there to deal in this way with me, who am ready to devote my life and property to your ſervice."--Many other letters followed this, and all were equally pathetic:

His manifeſto, addreſſed to the native Princes, abounds with many ſublime ſentiments, free from that founding phraſeology too frequently uſed in India; and expreſſive of the moſt lively ſenſibility for the, fate of a country, which he thus finely contraſts with the other territories ſurrounding it.

In vindication of his government, he ſays, "Look to my country; look to others---Do not the diffe-

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