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five days. One night all the Gorch'ians quitted the 

 siegeof LelU Pattan to pursue the English army, which, 

 under the command of Captain Kiriloch, had already 

 taken SiduU, an important fort at the foot of the Nepal 

 hills, which border upon the kingdom of Tirhut : but 

 Captain Kinloch not being able to penetrate the hills, 

 either on the Siduli quarter or by the pass at Hereapur, 

 in the kingdom of Macwanpur, the army of Gore' ha 

 returned to Nepal to direct their operations against the 

 city of Cafhmandu, where Gainprejas was, who had 

 applied for succour to the English. During the siege 

 of Cafhmandu the Brahmens ot Gorc'ha came almost 

 every night into the city, to engage the chiefs of the 

 people on the part of their king ; and the more effectu- 

 ally to impose upon poor Gainprejas, many ofthe prin- 

 cipal Brah?nens went to his house, and told him to perse- 

 vere with confidence, that the chiefs of the Gorc'ha 

 army were attached to his cause, and that even they 

 themselves would deliver up their kingPrif hwinarajan 

 to his hands. Having by these artifices procured an 

 opportunity of detaching from his party all his princi- 

 pal subjects, tempting them with liberal promises ac- 

 cording to their custom, one night the men of Gorc'ha 

 entered the city without opposition, and the wretched 

 Gainprejas, perceiving he was betrayed, had scarce 

 time to escape with about three hundred of his best 

 and most faithful Hindustani troops towards Leht Pat- 

 tan '> which place however he reached the same night. 



The king of Gore ha having made himself master of 

 Cafhmandu in the year i 768, persisted in the attempt 

 of possessing himself also of the city of Lelif Pattan, 

 promising all the nobles that he would suffer them to 

 remain in the possession of their property, that he would 

 even augment it; and because the nobles of Lelit Pat- 

 tan placed a reliance on the faith of his promises, he sent 

 his domestic priest to make this protestation; that, if he 



