GANGETIG HINDOOSTAN. sor 



woman Lady Janies (a Goddard), for the reception of her de- 

 parted relations. The General was of a refpedtable family in 

 Wilt/hire : he devoted himfelf to a military life at a very early 

 period; he went to Indm at the age of fixteen or feventeen, Charactek, 

 and was employed on every important occafion that occurred, 

 firft on the coaft of Coromande/, under thofe great mailers 

 Coote and Lawrence. He afterwards ferved in Bengal during 

 twenty years ; and had, as has been mentioned, the honor to 

 bring the arduous march acrofs the peninfula to a glorious con- 

 clufion. Few men have quitted life fo high in charadier ; he was 

 brave, generous and difinterefted, and equally as great in the 

 cabinet in planning his deligns, as he was adive and fuccefsfiil 

 in the execution. In a letter to a friend, he exprefles the fol- 

 lowing greatnefs of mind, * I have quitted the diamond mines 



* without polTeffing myfelf of a trinket, and lliall ufe the fame 



* conduct throughout the expedition, hopeful of preferving the 

 ' honor of the army, and my own reputation : and what I hold 



* moft dear, the fame and character of the man "■■■■ which is fo 



* much connected with the event of my operations!' 



We now return to Calpy-, and repafs the Jumnah. At Corab 

 Colonel Carnnc, in 1765, gave the final overthrow to the Sujab 

 ul Dowlab. The remnant of his army, difpirited by the defeat 

 at Buxar, fled ; and the Mabrattas, which compofed a part, dif- 

 perfed by our artillery, fecured themfelves beyond the river. 



From Calpy to Allababad is about a hundred and fifty miles. 

 Moil of the courfe of the Jumna is ied by numbers of rivers 

 on both fides, particularly on the wcftern, which are very ex- 



* Mr. Haftiiigs. 



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