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Hiftor'ical Chronick* 



theBritifhandMahrattaSjaftera j any infult offered to them by 

 long fiege, on the 3d of April, j the enemies of Abba Thulle. 

 The garrifon marched out with I On the 15th of January, a 

 all the treafure, and a great | dreadful fire broke oat at Ma- 

 part of the cannon. Cok)nel nilla, and raged for a few hours 



Frederick died during the fiege. 

 The fortrefles of Horregul and 

 Copul alfb furrendered ypon 

 terms. 



Tippoo had retaken a fort 

 called Chinabalaram, and put 

 the garrifon, which confifted 

 of poiygars, to the fword. 



A Suba^iar, and 40 other 

 black officers, who had been 

 prifoners at Copuldroog ever 

 fince the fall of General Ma- 

 thews, lately made their efcape, 

 which was as remarkable as it 

 was providential, as they were 

 to have been all maflacred on 

 the night of their efcape. Hav- 

 ing, however, received intelli- 

 gence of this intended adt of 

 barbarity, they came to the 

 defperate refolutionof ftorniing 

 the gate of tlieir prifon, and 

 felling their lives at as dear a 

 rate as poflible ; they found a 

 favourable opportunity, and 

 falling upon their guards with 

 irrcfifiible fury, they put them 

 to the fword, and made their 

 way good to Lord Cornivallis's 

 army. 



The Eaft India Company 

 have eftabliflied a fcttlement 

 in the Pchnv Iflan'is, with the 

 confentof the natives, and built 

 z fort, which they have called 



with the moft deftruclive vio- 

 lence, laying wafte a prodigious 

 number of dwelling hoiifes, go- 

 downs, &c. A conifderable 

 quantity of Bengal piece goods, 

 which had been landed at Ma- 

 nilla, and were unfold at the 

 time the fire happened, were 

 alfo deftroyed. The' amount 

 of the damage fuftained by the 

 abjve fire, 'is computed to b^ 

 i20,oool. fterling. 



A moft fingular and calami- 

 tous inftance of the effe<5ts of a 

 fudden inundation, occurred 

 on the 18th June, in the ifland 

 of Cuba, at a place called the 

 Puentes Grandes, about five 

 miles from the Havannah, and 

 where the King's mills for the 

 manufadure of fnuffare fituat- 

 cd. At this place there is a 

 river, which runs between two 

 hills, has fcveral houfes on its 

 bankp, and is much ufed for 

 bathing by the inhabitants of 

 the city, \^ ho, at the time m.en» 

 tioned, were there in confider- 

 able numbers. A gentle rain 

 had fallen in the earlier part of 

 the day : but about fcven in 

 the evening, fuch a deluge poiu"- 

 ed down, that a perfon who 

 was near the fpot, declares 

 that nothing was vifible but a 



Fort Abercrombie, in honour huge body of water ; this con- 

 of the Governor of Bombay.' tinned failing for near three 



The mailer of the Endeavour, 

 and fifty men, were Itft iv. it, 

 with orders to join in no war, 

 but to do their utmoft to re- 

 concile each party, and to take 

 care to be in a ftate to refent 



hours ; at the expiration of 

 which, the river, that on the 

 preceding day had been near 

 50 feet below its banks, over- 

 flowed, and inundated the ad- 

 jacent land, ,deftroying in a, 



