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drawn from an immense reserve of civilized wealth and energy beyond the sea. After his campaign against Mysore, the chief object of Lord Cornwallis had been to provide for the peace of South India by inducing the Marathas and the Nizam A STREET - CORNER IN BHOPAL. of Haidarabad to join him in a treaty guaranteeing against Tippu the territories that each of them pos- sessed at the close of the war. To this proposition the Nizam readily agreed, being much afraid of the Ma- rathas ; but the Marathas declined it because they medi- tated plundering the Nizam. The two great Moham- medan States of Oudh and Haidarabad were remarkably weak in proportion to their territory and revenue; they