ince. Law had previously rendered
some important services to the mogul against some native princes who had
opposed his elevation; and it was thought that nothing could resist the
progress of his arms. With his French fugitives and 80,000 natives, Law
made incursions into the province of Bahar, which province suffered so
severely that Major Carnac was sent by the council of the East India
Company to assist the rajah Ramnarrain in restraining his ravages. It
was in January, 1761, when Carnac advanced with 20,000 Asiatic allies on
this service, and in three days he arrived at Gyah Maunpore, where the
enemy was encamped. An engagement took place soon after his arrival, and
both the mogul and his rash adviser, Law, were taken prisoners. Law was
treated by his captors in a manner which his bravery on the field of
battle demanded, and which greatly exalted them in the estimation of the
Asiatics.

The fate of Count Lally, who had bravely defended Pondicherry against
Colonel Coote, was very different from that of Law. Though he had been
the most active partisan that ever attached himself to the French cause
in India, yet he was doomed, on his arrival in France, to suffer both
indignities and death. His sufferings are thus described by Mr. Mill:--
"By the feeble measures of a weak and defective government, a series
of disasters, during some preceding years, had fallen on France; and a
strong sentiment of disapprobation prevailed in the nation against the
hands by which the machine of government was conducted. When the loss of
the boasted acquisitions of the nation in India was reported, the public
discontent was fanned into a flame, and the ministry were far from easy
with regard to the shock which it might give to the structure of their
power. Anything, therefore, was to be done which might have the effect
of averting their danger; and, fortunately for them, many persons
arrived from India, boiling with resentment against Lally, and pouring
out the most bitter accusations. Fortunately for them, likewise, the
public, swayed as usual by first appearances, and attaching the blame to
the man who had the more immediate guidance of the affairs on which ruin
had come, appeared abundantly disposed to overlook the ministry in their
condemnation of Lally. The popular indignation was carefully cultivated;
and by one of those acts of imposture and villany, of which the history
of ministers in all the countries of Europe affords no lack of ex