426 GA NOETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



murdered, with all their attendants, on the road. The gen^ 



tiemen, and others, who had been taken after their retreat, and 



Massacre of carried to Patuay were barbaroufly flaughtered there in cool 



THE EngUSH. 



blood, on Augnjl 6th, by a German Rejiegada, by the orders 

 of Mir CoJJim, in cowardly revenge for the various victories our 

 gallant Adams had gained over his forces, allifted by his ambi- 

 tious ally Sujah ul Dowlab. The Gerinan had invited about 

 forty of the principal prifoners to fup with him, when he com- 

 manded his Sepoys to fail on his unfufpedting guefls and cvit 

 their throats. The troops at firft refufed to undertake fo bafe an 

 affaffination, but offered to fight the Englijh on equal terms. 

 At length, compelled to the horrid fervice, they executed the 

 command of the German, the infamous Somers, but not before 

 fomc of the affaflins fell l>y the gallant refiftance of our unfor- 

 tunate countrymen, who to the lail: made the moft determined 

 defence with bottles and plates ; every weapon, even the knives 

 and forks, had been previoufly removed. Every other pri- 

 foner in the city underwent the fame fate, to the amount of 

 two hundred. The bafe affaflin fled to Sujab id Dowlab, v/ho,. 

 to his great difgrace,. refufed to- deliver him up to the due ven- 

 geance of the EngliJJj, who clamed that vi61:ini to the manes of 

 their flaughtered friends.^. 

 Of Henry The epitaph on Henry Lufbington, a youthful but diflin- 



guiflied charailer among our ill fated countrymen, is placed 

 on a Cosnotapb in the church at Eajibourne, in Su{fe\\-, by his 

 difconfolate parents. It is an impartial hiftory of hisfliort but 

 glorious life, which the reader will find in the appendix. Here 

 I lliall only give its great conclufion, that while " the Sepoys^ 



were 



lyUSHINGTOK. 



