a French settlement in Bengal, in a healthy situation on the western bank of the Hooghly river. It is about three quarters of a mile long, and is surrounded by a small territory, consisting of 2330 acres, with Chandler, a population of 32,670, of whom 218 are Europeans, 435 of mixed descent, and the remainder of native lineage. The authorities of Chandernagore are subject to the jurisdiction of the governor of Pondicherry, to whom is confided the general government of the French possessions in India. The town has an air of ruined greatness, its fine streets and noble quay being now overgrown with grass. The height of the houses is usually two stories; they have colonnades in front, and green Venetian windows, and are built of brick and mortar, plastered over with fine chunam, both inside and out. They have generally flat roofs, on which their proprietors sit in the evening and receive company. The French having obtained this situation for their factory in 1676, they afterwards fortified it, and the factory continued to flourish till the year 1757, when it was attacked by Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, who, having forced it to surrender, dismantled its fortifications. France recovered Chandernagore under the treaty of 1763. It was again occupied by the British in 1793 upon the breaking out of the republican war, but finally restored to the French at the general pacification in 1816. Distance north from Calcutta 17 miles. N. Lat. 22. 49.; E. Long. 88. 23.