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to the able Tippoo. By a fine retreat with two thoufand men 

 againtt thirty thoufand Myforians, he eluded his fury ; and foon 

 after, in conjun6lion with Macleod, repelled the attack of Tippoo 

 on his lines, which forced that chieftain to the mortifying ne- 

 ceffity of feeking fafety beyond the river Paniani, How op- 

 pofite to the merits of io brave a youth was his fate ! 



Brutus's baftard hand ;:■ 



Stabb'd 'Julius Ctejar ; favage illanders 

 Pompey the Great ; our hero dies by pirates. 



A. SMALL ifle, or rather rock, about a mile from Onore, was Taken by the 

 made remarkable in the war againft Tippoo, by being ftrongly 

 fortified by him, being intended for a magazine of all forts of 

 naval ftores for building and repairing fhips. He had refumed 

 his father's defign of becoming a naval power. Thofe Engllfb 

 frigates fruftrated his plan in OSlober 1791, and, by the defpe- 

 rate valour of a few marines, made themfelves matters of the 

 place. 



We omitted to fay, that at Onore^ the fon of Francis Almeyda Oxore anb 

 burnt the fleet of the prince of the place, defeated his army, 

 and burnt, but did not think it worth his trouble to take the 

 town. Barcelore, in Lat. 13° 25', is the next town of note, and 

 the parts adjacent are very produdtive of rice, that great food 

 of the Orientalijls. 



Mafigalore is a confiderable city, feated in Lat. 12* 50', upon Mangalore. 

 a rifing ground. This alfo has belonging to it very confiderable 

 rice grounds. It has the conveniency of three rivers, which 

 unite a little above its fite. The Portuguefe fupply you with rice 



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