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highly useful to the English garrison. At the first interview Mr. 

 Cruso discovered Mirza to be the same officer who commanded in 

 the sultaun's trenches before Mangulore, when the British guard 

 entered them, agreeably to the articles of cessation; and it was said 

 his highness had been so greatly incensed at some civilities he had 

 shewn our troops, lhat he removed him with a severe reprimand. 

 This in some measure accounted for his late conduct at Onore. 

 On all Mr. Cruso's visits Mirza professed the highest respect for 

 the British character, and a partiality for their customs, manners, 

 and even dress; producing a pair of silver buckles made in the 

 sultaun's camp, after an English pattern, and wishing to procure 

 some shoes and a pair of boots from Europe. At the next visit 

 Mr. Cruso carried him the best supply of those articles procurable 

 in the garrison. 



Gaming having arrived at an alarming pitch in the garrison, the 

 commanding officer published an order, purporting that as that abo- 

 minable vice prevailed to so great a degree among the non-commis- 

 sioned officers and privates, the first man found guilty should be 

 punished with the greatest severity ; and that any man who lost his 

 money by this breach of the articles of war, should not be obliged to 

 pay it. At this time intelligence was received that Captain Mathews, 

 brother of General Mathews, and Lieutenant Wheldon, having 

 been shipwrecked on the coast belonging to the rannee (or queen 

 of Cannanore) were sent bj r her to Tippoo Sultaun, when the in- 

 human tyrant, with that wanton cruelty which marked his charac- 

 ter, doomed them both to a most ignominious death. 



The commanding officer observing the daily desertions from 

 the different sepoy corps, issued a general order, in which he of- 



