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and pafled unfufpedted through the quarters of Vizeramrauze, 

 and concealed themfelves in an adjacQiit thicket, in which they 

 lay -concealed two days ; on the third, two of them quitted their 

 retreat, and creeping on the ground reached his tent : they 

 entered at the back, and finding him aileep, ftabbed him in 

 thirty-two places : his groans brought in the centinels, but the 

 murderers, regardlefs of their own fafety, cried out, pointing to 

 the body : " Look here ! we are fatisfied I" They were in- 

 ftantly fliot, and mangled after they had fallen. Had they 

 failed, the other two, who had remained in the foreft, were 

 bound by the fame, oath with their comrades to perform the 

 deed, or perifh in the attempt. 



Colonel Fullarton^ in 1782, attacked a Polygar fort, I think 

 in Tinevellyt and forced his way through every difficulty, cut- 

 ting a paflage through a vaft depth of woods to the center fort. 

 His attempt w^as crowned with fuccefs, unattended with the 

 horrors which accompanied M. Bujffs victory. 

 BussY ATTACKS M. BtiJJy purfucd his fuccefs. The other Polygars, terrified 



THE English. 



with the fate of the chieftain of Bobilee, fubraitted, and paid 



the demanded tribute. He then turned his arms againfl: the 



EngliJJj factories, and quickly reduced Vizigapatam, which 



quickly furrendered, the garrifon being unequal to the extent 



of the works. BuJJy behaved with the utmoft generofity. It 



was foon after recovered, by the ceffion of the Rajah to whom 



it had been intruded. MaJJulipatam, and our other fettlements, 



were quickly reduced. Buffy was recalled by Lallyy jealous of 



bis fame. He was fucceeded by the Marquis de Coyifans, and 



oppofed by a mofl able officer, Colonel Forde, fent by Clive, then 



governor 



