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the Roman Catholic church at Onore, being dangerously ill of 

 the same distemper, now desired permission to leave the fort. 

 Captain Torriano immediately accommodated him with his palan- 

 quin, wrote a suitable letter to Maw Mirza, and sent him properly 

 attended to the saultaun's army; where, to the honour of Mirza, 

 he. was kindly received and treated with great humanity, until in 

 a few days death happily released him from his sufferings. 



On the 18th of February, the moody, or native commissary, 

 who had been sent into the enemy's camp, returned with a com- 

 plimentary messsage to the commanding officer from the rajah of 

 Zeremullee mentioning his illness, and requesting Mr. Cruso might 

 visit him in camp. This Hindoo rajah was one of the tributary 

 princes dependent on Tippoo Sultaun; he then commanded a 

 thousand men in that army, and was much in the confidence of 

 Maw Mirza. On Mr. Cruso's arrival he found the rajah's indis- 

 position very slight, and more a pretence to procure an interview, 

 than any real disorder. He accordingly desired him to remon- 

 strate in his name with captain Torriano, on the folly of not ac- 

 cepting the terms of capitulation now offered, as the garrison must 

 from necessity fall in a very short lime; and the sultaun, being 

 minutely informed of their wretched situation, had directed Mirza 

 no more to summon the fort to surrender, nor to recommence 

 hostilities; but when the English chose to evacuate it, to suffer 

 them to do so unmolested. The rajah further added, that the 

 commissioners expected from Madras to settle the terms of peace 

 had not yet descended the ghauts; and the hostages, wearied by 

 their irksome delay, had requested the sultaun's leave to proceed 

 to Tellicherry, which would be granted in a few days. Mr. Cruso 



