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royal army fent to oppofe him. The armies met : the generals 

 had a coPiference ; the refult was, an agreement between both 

 for a confederacy, not againit the king, but the traitor Ca}2ero. 

 A deputation was fent to Seringapatmn. Canero was given up ; 

 Jyder appointed regent of the kingdom, and guardian of the 

 young prince. He left Canero to be tried by the Brahmins^ 

 who condemned him to death. Ayder changed the fentence to 

 one more fevere, to be fliut up in an iron cage, and left expofed 

 in the moft public place of the city ; he lived two years, and his 

 bones vvere to be feen in his ftrange prifon feveral years after 

 his death. Ayder continued to the lawful prince the fame treat- 

 ment as he or his predeceffors experienced under the ufurp- 

 ing Vifiers, a fplendid confinement, and the fame annual exhi- 

 bition of his perfon to the faithful Hindoos. 



The founder of Seringapatam, the capital of the My/ore 

 kingdom, judicioufly placed it in an ifland of the Cavery\ 

 about eight miles to the north of the town of My/ore, the an- 

 tient capital, and a fortified poll*. The channel of the river, 

 moft rude and rocky, is at all times a ftrong defence, even when 

 the water is loweft. Part of our troops paflcd it when it was up 

 to their necks, in order to poflefs themfelves of the ifland, after 

 the vidtory of February 6th and 7th. The important fpot is in 

 the middle a mile and a half broad ; the length four miles : 

 from the middle it flopes on every fide to the river. The fort 

 and outworks occupy about a mile of the weft fide, and face 

 the north. The ground which it covers towards that point far 

 more ftecp than in other parts of the ifland, and the ground 



* Mr. Rennd. 



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