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needing to the place of execution, gave information that all the 

 sepoys posted in the outworks, headed by their jemautdar, had 

 agreed to desert to the enemy the following night. The guards 

 were directly withdrawn from the outworks, and the guns brought 

 into the fort. The jemautdar, suspected to be the ringleader, was 

 put in irons, and sent into close confinement; where, conscious of 

 his guilt, he committed suicide. 



In the mean time Mr. Cruso repaired to Mirza's durbar, to 

 complain of his not having relieved the sultaun's guard stationed 

 at Onore, and to inform him, if not immediately done, twenty of 

 his men would be ordered out of the fort. Mirza sent an apo- 

 logy with the necessary order, which had only been prevented by 

 a multiplicity of business. In the evening the sepoy who com- 

 municated the intended assassination of the European officers, 

 underwent an examination, in which it appeared he was addicted 

 to drinking, and his story proved altogether absurd and improbable; 

 the garrison were nevertheless so strongly impressed with the idea, 

 that at night when the commanding officer retired to his couch 

 near the breach, he found himself attended by a guard of Euro- 

 peans, with fixed bayonets. On the sultaun's guard being re- 

 lieved, agreeably to the stipulation, two field-pieces, loaded with 

 grape-shot, were placed under a proper guard, with lighted 

 matches, immediately opposite the station; where they remained 

 until the evacuation of Onore. It is almost unnecessary to re- 

 mark, that this step was taken for the sole purpose of dissipating 

 the prejudices of the Europeans, which no argument could subdue. 

 When it is considered that these prejudices originated entirely 



