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were executing their execrable orders on Mr. Eliisy a moft inti- 

 mate friend of his, the generous youth rullied upon the afTafllns 

 unarmed, and feizing one of their fcymeters killed three of 

 them, and wounded two others, till oppreffed with numbers, he 

 greatly fell." 



Every -good man naturally wifhes to hear that the end of a 

 villain is fuitable to his deeds. How are we difappointed, when 

 ^Ix.Joiiatban Scott "^^ tells us, that he was not impaled. But End ofSomroo. 

 being a good foldier, he found protedlion from the native ftates, 

 and ferved under them ; apj^ointed to a command in that cha- 

 rader, he committed the maflacre at Patjia. He died in tran- 

 quillity poffeffed of a corps of Sepoys^ which was continued after 

 his death for the maintenance of his fon and a favorite concu- 

 bine, with a falary of fix thoufand five hundred pounds a 

 month. Pie was a German of very low birth. When he lifted 

 into the French fervice, he took the name of Summers. His 

 comrades, from his gloomy countenance, changed it to Sombre^ 

 and the Indians corrupted it to Somroo. His barbarous em- 

 ployer, Mir Cqffimi was not fo fortunate in his end. After ef- 

 caping from the battle of Buxar, he wandered from place ta 

 place, at length died miferably under the walls of Debli. 



Our Company foon became repoflefled of Patna. Major 

 Adams, a brave and experienced ofiicer, purfued Mir Cojim, the 

 barbarous author of the murders ; defeated him at Balafara, 

 uQzv Mooj'/hedabad, on July 19th, 1763; and again completely on Battle ob 

 Augiijl 2(1, on the banks of the Nuncas NulluS) where it falls 



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