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his operations on Auguji the 50th ; and after a feries of bkin- 

 ders, on September the 30th, began his difpofition to raife the 

 fiege. The land army loft a great number of men ; the naval 

 only a common failor, and captain Adcifns, brother to the late 

 George An/on, efquire, of Shugboroiigb, a young man of high 

 expe(51:ation. The French boafted, that from the incelTant fire 

 made from our fquadron, they loft only an old Malabar woman 

 killed in the ftreets. 



It was during this fiege that Lord ClivCy then a very young 

 enfign, firft fliewed thole figns of courage and genius, which 

 fo ftrongly marked the reft of his days. It is difficult to fay, 

 whether he fliewed more intrepidity in the trenches, than pru- 

 dence and fpirit in refenting a blow from a fenior officer, and 

 at the fame time, a cruel afperfion from the fame perfbn, whom 

 he compelled to give private fatisfadlion, or quit the fervice ; 

 which laft, the coward preferred to the meeting in the field the 

 youthful hero *. 



But the fall of Pondicberry was referved for the year 1760, SiKEvRuCoaTE. 

 for abler officers, and more confiderate condu^l. Colonel 

 Eyre Cootet afterwards fo juftly dignified with the order of the 

 Batbi one of the firft conjmanders of his time, commenced the 

 blockade of this city in the month of Auguji, At that time the 

 brave, but furious and indifcreet Lally^ beaten out of the field, 

 was cooped within the walls, with a great and gallant garrifon. 

 The tyranny and infolence of the general alienated entirely the 

 affe(5tion of the people, civil or military; notv/ithftanding which 



* Life of Lord Clive, Br. Blogr. iii. p. 646, laft E*i. 



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