A History of the Mahrattas v1.c19.142

v1.c19.142

Kanhojee Angria, retaining his districts in the Concan, levied his Chouth, as he termed it, by continuing to plunder the ships of all nations that appeared on the coast. For a time Angria refrained from molesting the English; but in consequence of his taking the ship *Success*, under British colours, war was renewed in 1717, and the settlement of Bombay was endangered by his intrigues with a Bramin, known by the name of Rama Kamatty,¹ who was employed in a confidential manner, and in command of the Sepoys, by the governor, Mr. Charles Boone.² On the accession of Mr. Phipps, as president in council, the war was vigorously prosecuted; but Kanhojee Angria continued to deride the efforts³