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more disposed to pass abstract resolutions than to affirm sovereign rights and to act upon them in India. When, in 1762, the French negotiators for peace de- A MOUNTAIN ROAD AT M AHABLESHWAR, IN THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. manded the restitution of districts that had been taken from them during the war, the English representatives met the claim by demurring to " any right of the Crown of England to interfere in the legal and exclu-