He then proceeded to the upper provinces, and formed a plan which, for a military man, has great civil and political merit.

He put a bound to the aspiring spirit of the Company's servants; he limited its conquests; he prescribed bounds to its ambition.

"First" (says he) "quiet the minds of the country; what you have obtained regulate; make it known to India that you resolve to acquire no more." On this solid plan he fixed every prince that was concerned in the preceding wars, on the one side and on the other, in an happy and easy settlement.

He restored Sujah ul Dowlah, who had been driven from his dominions by the military arm of Great Britain, to the rank of Vizier, and to the dominion of the territories of Oude.

With a generosity that astonished all Asia, he reinstated this expelled enemy of his nation peaceably upon his throne.