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thousand men were investing Brodera. Ragobah, then in reversed 

 circumstances, claimed his friendship and personal attendance 

 with all his men. Gratitude for past favours from his unfortunate 

 prince, with the prospect of seeing himself in possession of his 

 legal patrimony, induced him to comply with Ragobah's request; 

 relinquishing his own cause, he cheerfully enlisted under Rago- 

 bah's standard, and was from that time a faithful friend in all his 

 adverse fortune, though strongly solicited to join the confederate 

 generals. 



On effecting the junction between Ragobah's army and the 

 English detachment near Cambay, Futty Sihng, fearful of our 

 proceeding against Brodera, commenced a correspondence with 

 Ragobah, and sent a vackeel, or envoy, to the British commander, 

 who concluded a treaty in which he promised to desert the enemy 

 and join us on the first favourable opportunity. An English gen- 

 tleman was sent to him, at his express desire, for the ratification, 

 which he most craftily eluded by pretending that the confederate 

 generals, among whom he was encamped, had got intelligence of 

 the negociation, that he was surrounded by spies, and would not 

 answer for his personal safety unless the treaty was instantly de- 

 stroyed, not by tearing it in pieces, but by mastication, that not a 

 particle of it might be visible, and no fire could be procured to 

 burn it without suspicion. The gentleman complied in part, and 

 was glad to be escorted safely to the British lines. The whole 

 was discovered to be an artful contrivance of Futty Sihng, who 

 had made better terms with the confederates than the English! 

 and afterwards openly fought against us in every action. 



