Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1761 edition. Excerpt: ... that of alienating it. Let the country recover its tranquility, and the marquis Duplcix will astonish, by fresh strokes of disinterestedness and moderation, those that have not so much as he. The third conclusion should be, that you are very far from wishing for peace as he does. He has endeavoured at it quite in a different manner from you, whether you consider his conduct or his offers. The affectation, which may be called immoderate1, wherewith you strive to lay the rupture of the conferences he proposed to you at his door, shews plainly that you only endeavoured to save appearances, and to turn them against him, if the thing were possible. Excuse, Sir, the length of this letter; one word advanced without proof requires often many reflections to refute it; we should have many others, but the equivalent will be found in former writings. If any thing should displease you, Sir, in what we have been exposing to you for our justification, we beg you will attribute it only to the necessity we were drove to, both by the end we were seeking and the matter we were treating. The marquis Dupleix laughed when we requested of him on your part, Sir, that he would not forget to transmit your letters to his superiors. He is not, fays he, the person that wishes the least to give them a knowledge of pieces so favourable to his cause. We have the honour to be, with profound respect, Sir, Pondichery, the 7th March, Your most obedient and humble servants, 1755* Fr. L. Lavaur. Bausett. De Kerjean, PRIDE AU X's Account of the HEGIRA. FROM the flight of Mahomet, the Hegira, which is the AEra of the Mahometans, begins its computation. It was first appointed by Omar, the Third Emperor of the Saracens, on this occasion. There happened a contest before him..."
