of grape-shot and musquetry;
notwithstanding which they entered the breaches and drove the enemy from
bastion to bastion. At length, the marquis de Conflans sent an officer
to demand quarter for the garrison, which was granted as soon as he
ordered his men to cease firing. Thus, with about three hundred and
forty European soldiers, a handful of seamen, and seven hundred sepoys,
colonel Forde took by assault the strong town of Masulipatam, garrisoned
by five hundred and twenty-one Europeans, two thousand and thirty-nine
Caffres, Topasses, and sepoys; and here he found above one hundred
and fifty pieces of cannon, with a great quantity of ammunition.
Salabatzing, the suba of De-can, perceiving the success of the English
here as well as at Madras, being sick of his French alliance, and in
dread of his brother Nizam Allee, who had set up a separate interest,
and taken the field against him, made advances to the company, with
which he forthwith concluded a treaty to the following effect:--"The
whole of the circar of Masulipatam shall be given to the English
company. Salabatzing will not suffer the French to have a settlement
in this country, nor keep them in his service, nor give them any
assistance. The English, on their part, will not assist nor give
protection to the suba's enemies."--In a few clays after Masulipatam
was reduced, two ships arrived in the road with a reinforcement of four
hundred men to the marquis de Conflans; but, understanding the fate of
the place, made the best of their way to Ganjam.

SURAT TAKEN BY THE ENGLISH.

The merchants residing at Surat, finding themselves exposed to
numberless dangers, and every species of oppression, by the sidee who
commanded the castle on one hand, by the governor of the city on the
other, and by the Mahrattas, who had a claim to a certain share of the
revenue, made application to the English presidency at Bombay, desiring
they would equip an expedition for taking possession of the castle and
tanka, and settle the government of the city upon Pharass Cawn, who
had been naib or deputy-governor under Meah Atchund, and regulated the
police to the satisfaction of the inhabitants. The presidency embraced
the proposal: admiral Pococke spared two of his ships for this service.
Eight hundred and fifty men, artillery and infantry, with fifteen
hundred sepoys, under the command of captain Richard Maitland, of the
royal regiment of artillery, were embarked on board the company