AFTER the recall of Dupleix, the French empire
which he bad founded in the East soon crumbled away.
In a few years the supremacy of England was estab-
lished in India beyond any possibility of future over-
throw.

Godehue was the man selected by the French Com-
pany to replace the great governor-general, and be
was sent to India to obtain peace on any terms. The
company refused Dupleix the soldiers with which he
might have made himself master of a large part of
Hindustan, and it sent two thousand men with Gode-
hue with orders to make peace forthwith. His in-
structions told him that the great object of his mis-
sion was to pacify the troubles which had arisen; he
was to remember that the company did not wish to
become a temporal power, that extended possessions
were difficult to protect, and that his first endeavor
must be to conciliate the English. ¹ The new repre-
sentative of the company was well fitted to carry out
these pusillanimous directions. He was a man without
ability, and be suspected every one with whom he
bad to deal. ² Bussy, in his judgment, was an empty
boaster; the employees at Pondicherri were the cor-
rupt tools of his predecessor; and for the late gov-

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