The English immediately proposed an armistice.

The _Surveillante_ shortly afterwards brought the same news, with orders for Suffren to return to France.

India was definitively given up to the English, who restored to the French Pondicherry, Chandernuggur, Mahe, and Karikal, the last strips remaining of that French dominion which had for a while been triumphant throughout the peninsula.

The feebleness and the vices of Louis XV.'s government weighed heavily upon the government of Louis XVI.

in India as well as in France, and at Paris itself.
It is to the honor of mankind and their consolation under great reverses that political checks and the inutility of their efforts do not obscure the glory of great men.