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Excerpt from Records of Fort St. George: Despatches to England, 1746-1751 The Unfortunate Occasion Of this Unexpected Address from us is to advise your Honours of the Loss of your valuable settlement of Madrass which to our Unspeakable Concern is now in the possession of Our Enemys the French. As the Gentlemen there seem to think the abs[ence] of his Majesties squadron (which they no doubt depended upon for Assurance) greatly conduced to this Misfortune, We shall give an Account [of] what we know for certainty of their Motions only and leave your Ho[nours] to form Judgement without presuming to give any of our own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.