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various inevitable impediments, could not efFeft his juniflion 

 with the vid:or till the 16th ; and it is not probable that Purfe- 

 ram Bhow ever quitted his lide : happy was it that he did not. 

 He faved the horrors with which his colleague Hurry Punt, 

 and the Nizam's generals were leized, when Lord Cornzvallis 

 cruelly left them alone all night to force his way into the 

 centre of an enemy's fortified camj^ in the dark I like a common 

 foldier ! with part only of his forces ! without cannon ! ! with- 

 out fear * ! 



The little fort of Hoolea-drobg was honored by having its 

 neighboring valley made the rendezvous of the combined ar- 

 mies dir-edted to give peace to Hindoojlan, by the fubduing the 

 ambition of an ufurping tyrant. All the vanity of the camp of 

 cloth of gold ^ appeared in the empty ftate of the eaftern princes, 

 the Choudered elephants ftifF in gold and filver, the Cbubdars 

 proclaming the fwelling titles of the riders, or attempting to 

 filence the noify multitudes of their military mob. The long 

 array of the Britiflj army marched in aweful filence, and with 

 the gravity of men fitted for great exploits ; deep fenfe, long 

 experience, and determined perfeverance marked charadleriftic, 

 the face of every veteran ! their adiions were correfpondent. I 

 fhall emerge with them out of the foreft, and crofs with them] 

 the Madoor ; again fee the fatal heights of Mailcotta, and, in 

 bloody vifion, the two days fight of our great commander, 



* Dirom, p. 141. 



t The famous interview between Flenry VIII. anJ Francis I, between Guines and Andres, 

 as fplendid and fdly as the parade at Holcadroog. 



victorious 



