Ill 



The English batteries under the command of captain Torriano, 

 opened against the fort of Onore on the first day of January 1783. 

 It was taken by storm on the sixth: several of the besieged fell in 

 the fury of the assault; the rest, in number about two thousand, 

 received quarter, and were soon after set at liberty, except the 

 killidar, (or commander of the fort), the buxey (paymaster), and 

 a few principal officers. The confusion from the storm having 

 subsided, the following day Avas dedicated to the burial of the 

 dead, and collecting the wounded of the enemy, upwards of a 

 hundred of whom, together with all the sick and wounded of the 

 Company's troops, were placed under the care of the army sur- 

 geons, in the house which had formerly been the English factory ; 

 this being a large and commodious building, was now appropriated 

 for the general hospital. Several prisoners remained there more 

 than three months, where they experienced every kind attention, 

 and when discharged the commanding officer gave each of them 

 money to enable them to reach home. 



Captain Torriano being disabled by a wound received in the 

 batteries from proceeding with the army to invade the enemy's 

 country, was appointed to the command of the fort of Onore and 

 its dependencies. On the 12th of January General Mathews con- 

 stituted this fortress the grand magazine of the British forces, and 

 in his instructions to captain Torriano, mentioned it as a trust of 

 the highest importance to the welfare of the army, and requiring 

 his utmost vigilance. 



The night before the departure of Shaik Muckdum, (the 

 nabob's late killidar of the fort), captain Torriano privately deli- 

 vered to him the jewels belonging to his family; which at the 



