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TheGekeral The General was confined at Seringopafam : where he was 



POISONED. 



not luftered to linger long. Various are the accounts given of 

 the manner of his end, but the mofl probahle is, that it was 

 hy poifcm. Numbers of his officers fufFered in the fame man- 

 ner, in different places, and died in the greateft agonies. His 

 Also others. brother, who unfortunately returned from his journey to Goay 

 and a Mr. Weldon., were taken into the jungles, and had their 

 throats cut. Numbers of the unhappy men, fated to die by 

 the poifonous draught, abftained from food for many days, till 

 defpair and hunger compelled them to take the fatal draught. 

 Others, who by delay made the executioners impatient, had the 

 poifon forced down their throats. My pity is fufpended for as 

 many as might have been guilty of the barbarity at Annam^ 

 pour, was it poffible they could have been acceffary to the favage 

 fury of their troops, ftained in every part of the expedition 

 with flaughter, cruelty, fraud, rapine, and avarice *. 



It is evident that the feverities exercifed by 'Tippoo, after this 

 victory, was here the determined refolution of infliding a juft 

 punifliment ; but, unhappily, he included in it the innocent, as 

 well as guilty. After his defeat of Colonel Braitbwaite, on the 

 banks of the Coleroon, how different was his condudt ; he con- 

 lidered Matthews as the fordid adventurer, Braithwaite as the 

 generous enemy, and treated him and the wounded captives 

 with a humanity that fhewed his coolnefs, and capacity of dif- 

 tinguifhing between the one and the other. 

 Kind OF Poison. I am uncertain what the poifon was; probably a vegetable, 



• Annual Regifter, 1783, p. 91. 



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