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met the expedted fate; was at once defeated, with the lofs of 

 five hundred men. He made his retreat \\-\\.o Bednorcy which 

 he bravely defended feventeen days : but finding the garrifon 

 reduced by ficknefs, and the number of flain, he capitulated on Bedkors re- 

 honorable terms. The garrifon to be allowed the honors of war : '^''^^-'^^' 

 but to pile the arms on the glacis ; to retain all private property, 

 and to reftore all public. Sec. 8cc. Tippoo took pofTeffion of the 

 city. Notwithftanding his fituation, the avarice of the Gener.I 

 overcame every confideration. He ordered the officers to make 

 unlimited drafts on the paymafter, who had before been greatly 

 exhaufted by various contrivances. It was currently believed, 

 that he had fent by his brother to Goa, three hundred thoufand 

 pound*^, and a great quantity of diamonds, to be remitted to 

 Bombay \ and that, even on the point of his departure, he had 

 caufed the bamboos of his palanquin to be pierced, and filled 

 wixh pagodas. When Tippoo examined the flate of his treafurv, 

 he grew enraged at this infamous fraud ; he declared the 

 treaty void : put the officers and their SepoySy faithful to them 

 to the laft, indifcriminatcly in iron?, and marched them in that v 

 condition, in a burning fun, to prifona at Scj'-ingapatani and 

 other places. Numbers fell dead on the road, the remainder ar- 

 rived at the place of their deftination in the utmofl: miferv, and 

 that increafed by the wretched dungeons they were confined in. 

 Thofe who periflicd, were nightly flung over the walls, and in 

 Cbitteldroog the furvivors heard the tigers gorging therafelves 

 with the corpfes of their happier friends *, 



* Lieut. Sheen's Narrative, p. 89. 



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