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commencement of the storm by the English had been secreted 

 under some ruins. Captain Torriano was informed of this circum- 

 stance at midnight, by a confidential servant of Shaik Muckdum, 

 who intended them as a present to the captain, in return for his 

 kind attentions while a prisoner in the fort; he was consequently 

 overwhelmed with gratitude when the jewels were thus restored to 

 him. Similar M'as the conduct of the commandant on receiving 

 information of some valuable articles concealed in the woods near 

 Govind-ghurry. He sent trusty persons in boats to search the 

 spot alluded to; who returned with several bales of cloth, jars of 

 sandal-oil, and ottar of roses. They were immediately placed 

 under a guard, and a publication issued throughout the country, 

 that they would be gratuitously restored to such persons as could 

 prove a title to them. The following week they were claimed by 

 a merchant, who jointly with his father had been the company's 

 brokers at Onore factory. He proved the articles to have been 

 secreted by his father and himself when the English forces landed 

 on the coast, from an apprehension (afterwards realized) of their 

 being ordered by Ayauz Saheb to Bednore, where his father was 

 cruelly put to death, and the son escaped with the greatest diffi- 

 culty. These facts, as also the humanity shewn to the prisoners 

 taken from Tippoo Sultaun, are thus particularized, in contradiction 

 to some unfounded assertions, of a contrary tendency, which ap- 

 peared in the historical records of the Annual Register at that 

 period. 



About this time the former inhabitants of the town of Onore, 

 who had fled from their habitations on the arrival of the British 

 troops, won by the humanity shewn to the wounded of their 



