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The Fort of Bidjeghur was surrender’d Nov. 9th: 1781. The next day Nov. 10th 1781, The Gov. knew of it, as appears on Major Palmer’s Letter of that date, which is acknowledged by the Gov. as his own Act, by desiring a Copy of it.
The Gov. had authority to make War and Peace. He might cede Terretory: he might therefore seize Plunder. He allow’d Panna the Mother of Cheit Sing to retain fifteen per Cent. He might have
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