New light on the end of the Northern Province, 1731

"The year succeeding Boone's departure was a stirring one in Bombay.

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Since the conclusion of the Portuguese treaty with Angria, an angry correspondence had gone on between Goa and Bombay, and soon the old causes of quarrel were revived. The chief of these was the levying of duties at certain places. The General of the North, who had tried to force on a quarrel a year before, smarting, doubtless, under the treatment he had received from Matthews at the siege of Alibagh, began to levy duties on provisions coming from Bombay to Portuguese territory. Phipps retaliatedby levying customs duties at Mahim, which the Portuguese had always claimed to be free to both nations. The quarrel grew hot. The General of the North forbade all communication with Bombay, and, on the 26th May, a British gallivat was fired on at Mahim.

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Meanwhile, it becameknown that Angria's assistance was being invited by the Portuguese. On the23rd June, a party from Bombay landed and destroyed the Portuguese fort atCorlem, and shelled Bandra. Captain Loader, of the Revenge, without orders, burned the undefended village on Elephanta

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Want of shipping for a time prevented any vigorous prosecution of hostilities on the part of the Council. They were obliged to remain on the defensive, while Portuguese galleys cruised off the island, making occasional raids, killing a militiaman or two, and burning villages. Mahim,Riva, and Darvi were all raided, but with small benefit to the assailants.On the 28th August, at night, a Portuguese force landed and destroyed the fort at Warlee, assisted by the treachery of a renegade Portuguese.
On the3rd and 4th September, two attempts to land at the Breach were repulsed

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A small expedition of eleven gallivats under Stanton was also fitted out, and a battery erected by the Portuguese at Surey to hinder provisions coming into Bombay was captured. One man of the Exeter was killed and another wounded. Just then came news that Angria was fitting out an expedition of five thousandmen to attack Carwar, and the Exeter sailed there to defend the factory."