As to Renault's further career little is known, and that little we should be glad to forget. Placed in charge of the French Settlement at Karical, he surrendered, on the 5th of April, 1760, to what was undoubtedly an overwhelming British force, but after so poor a defence that he was brought before a Court Martial and cashiered. It speaks highly for the respect in which he had been held by both nations that none of the various reports and accounts of the siege mention him by name. Even Lally, who hated the French Civilians, though he says he deserved death,[64] only refers to him indirectly as being the same officer of the Company who had surrendered Chandernagore to Clive. We shall now pass to what went on in Siraj-ud-daula's Court and capital. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 12: Journal of M. d'Albert.] [Footnote 13: Evidently the Parish Church of St. Louis. Eyre Coote tells us the French had four guns mounted on its roof.] [Footnote 14: In early accounts of India the Muhammadans are always called _Moors_; the Hindus, _Gentoos_ or _Gentiles_. The _Topasses_ were Portuguese half-castes, generally employed, even by native princes, as gunners.] [Footnote 15: Captain Broome says there were fifty European ladies in the Fort. The French accounts say they all retired, previous to the siege, to Chinsurah and Serampore.] [Footnote 16: Captain, afterwards Sir, Eyre Coote.] [Footnote 17: The fullest account is one by Renault, dated October 26, 1758.] [Footnote 18: The only one, excepting the battle of Biderra, between the English and Dutch.] [Footnote 19: Governor of Pondicherry and President of the Superior Council.] [Footnote 20: Eyre Coote, in his "Journal," mentions an old ditch, which surrounded the settlement.] [Footnote 21: One hundred toises, or 600 feet; but Eyre Coote says 330 yards, the difference probably due to the measurement excluding or including the outworks.] [Footnote 22: Tanks, or artificial ponds, in Bengal are often of great size. I have seen some a quarter of a mile long.] [Footnote 23: Letter to M. de Montorcin, Chandernagore, August 1 1756. Signature lost.] [Footnote 24: The Nawab, in July, 1756, extorted three lakhs from the French and even more from the Dutch.] [Footnote 25: British Museum. Additional MS. 20,914.] [Footnote 26: A kind of fibre used in making bags and other coarse materials.] [Footnote 27: Surgeon Ives's Journal.] [Footnote 28: Letter to De Montorcin.] [Footnote 29: Both English and French use this word "inhabitant" to signify any resident who was not official, military, or in the seafaring way.] [Footnote 30: This he did through the Armenian Coja Wajid, a wealthy merchant of Hugli, who advised the Nawab on European affairs. _Letter from Coja Wajid to Clive, January 17, 1757_.]