Meanwhile, the subahdar of Deccan, who owed his exaltation entirely to the French, began to be tired of their control, and dis- banded the foreign troops ; but Bussy, their commander, reassembling them, was enabled to dictate his own terms.

Much territory on the coast of Coromandel was ceded to the French, making them, including former acquisitions, masters of a country six hundred miles in extent, and producing about four millions dollars of revenue.

Dupleix, however, in the midst of his artful and ambitious career, was superseded in his station, and compelled to return to France.

Commissioners were now sent out by the two governments to arrange an amicable settlement of the disputes between the rival companies.

It was stipulated that each party should restore all its native conquests an arrangement highly unfavourable to the French, who had made far greater acquisitions than their rivals.