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when if the flag of mutiny was not taken down, 
and the pagoda door opened, I would put on the 
Company’s seal and starve them. They saw I was 
resolved, and instantly obeyed. Under one of their 
own princes they would have succeeded. 
An extraordinary event requires my presence at 
the fort of a polygar, where the commander-in- 
chief of the army to the southward is arrived. I 
am to endeavour to prevent the matter coming to 
any extremities, the man being under the Company's 
protection. This may be the subject of another 
letter. Till then believe me, with increased fervency, 
My dear Cousin, yours most affectionately, 
NATHANIEL EnpwarpD KINDERLEY*. 
* The Kinderley family having been mentioned in a former 
page, it may not be uninteresting in this place to relate the fol- 
lowing anecdote, which an old servant who had lived fifty-two 
years with Mrs. Kinderley and her daughter Mrs. Smith, fre- 
quently repeated as a fact with which she was well acquainted, 
and in part a witness of. 
The Rev. John Kinderley’s con- 
nexion with Scotland had procured him the acquaintance of 
several families in the North, among whom Lord D—— was 
one of his most intimate friends. This nobleman had met with a 
lady at Bath, both young and attractive, and who passed for the 
widow of an officer. His lordship becoming attached to this 
lady, he married her, and they soon after left England to reside 
on the Continent. Here, after a few years, she was seized with 
an alarming illness, and earnestly desired her lord, in case of her 
death, that she might be conveyed to England and interred in a 
particular church, which she named. Upon this event taking place, 
Lord D—— accompanied the body in the same ship, and, upon 
landing at Harwich, the chest in which the remains of his lady 
were inclosed excited the suspicions of the Custom-house officers, 
who insisted upon ascertaining its contents. Being a good deal 
shocked with such a threat, Lord D 
proposed that it 
