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Both Houses of Parliament passed a vote
of thanks to him, & the Crown gave him
the remarkable title of "Captain-General
& Commander-in Chief of all the forces
in the East-Indies." In addition to these
numerous honours he was on December
2nd, 1799 raised by Pitt a step in the Irish
Peerage - a reward with which he seemed
but ill-content - & thus became the Marquis
Wellesley.

The Karnatik; Tanjore; & Surat.

We next turn to his work in the Karnatik,
in Tanjore, & in Surat. We put these three
together not for geographical or chronological
reasons, but because similar treatment
was in each case administered
to somewhat similar circumstances. In
each case the difficulty was the same,
that of overcoming the pest of dual
government. In each case too the Governor-
General had the advantage of a new
ruler with whom to deal, & in each case
the method of a subsidiary treaty was
adopted.

The Karnatik. The Nawab's treachery.

The Karnatik was the most important of
the three states, as being both by far
the largest & also the nearest to the British
centre - Madras. The Nawab of the Karnatik
offered no bad example of the worst
side of the Oriental character; a man who