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tion he also agreed to remove, but evading his promise, he only 

 diminished the number. This early perfidy highly incensed and 

 embarrassed the commanding officer: to submit to it was too 

 painful a humiliation; to counteract it might be attended with 

 serious consequences. He therefore resolved to take the sense of 

 the commander in chief without delay. 



Jehan Khaun, second in command of the sultaun's troops 

 before Onore, was said at this time to be at open variance with 

 Lutoph Ally ; and as he bore the character of a brave soldier, and 

 professed the greatest respect for the gallantry of the British 

 troops, Captain Torriano was of opinion a private correspondence 

 with this officer might tend to the advantage of the service, and 

 prove a source of such information as might enable him to guard 

 against the machinations of the enemy ; nor were his expectations 

 disappointed. Through this channel he received frequent informa- 

 tion of what passed in the enemy's camp, the state of affairs at 

 Mangulore, and the most solemn assurances that should any thing- 

 happen likely to affect the subsisting truce, such timely notice should 

 be given as might frustrate those villainous stratagems, to which 

 Jehan Khaun himself observed the Moguls were so much addicted. 

 In consequence of the cessation of arms, the commissary's men 

 were sent into the country to procure cattle for the garrison. In a 

 few days they returned with the unpleasant intelligence that none 

 could be obtained. This disappointment, and no supply of grain 

 having been furnished either for men or horses, notwithstanding 

 the most pressing solicitations, provoked a stronger remonstrance 

 to Lutoph Ally than had hitherto been made, against such gross 

 evasions of the treaty. This remonstrance being equally unsuc- 



