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pedient was to clothe the brahmins in the sepoy uniform, and in- 

 termix them with the regulars of that corps, who were to embark 

 the next day; thus arranged, the boats containing the sick, bag- 

 gage, and garrison stores, dropped down to the bar, to remain at 

 anchor until the whole embarkation was ready. 



The next morning Mr. Cruso repaired to Mirza's durbar, to 

 clear up the affair of the sick brahmin, and demand a positive 

 answer to a request (which had been previously evaded) for a 

 boat to carry off eleven valuable horses belonging to the com- 

 mandant and other English gentlemen. When this request was 

 first made, he promised compliance; but as often as it had been 

 repeated, some evasion succeeded. Respecting the brahmin, 

 Mirza behaved well ; it was represented that being originally a 

 man of low station in the brahminical tribe, he had been em- 

 ployed in the hospital to wait upon the invalids of his own caste; 

 and at Mr. Cruso's earnest solicitation, on taking upon, himself the 

 responsibility of getting him away, Mirza agreed to make no fur- 

 ther opposition. The paltry equivocations concerning a boat for 

 conveying the horses, were now loo notorious to admit a doubt of 

 the sultaun having ordered them to be detained for his own use. 



On this intimation, captain Torriano, ordering the guards 

 from the sultaun's trenches, and the troops to be ready to embark, 

 sent Mr. Cruso with an officer to Mirza's durbar, finally to de- 

 mand the restitution of the officers and garrison treacherously 

 captured at Fortified Island, to request a pilot to conduct the 

 Company's gallivat over the bar, and to stipulate that a British 

 guard should keep possession of the fort until all the rest were 



embarked. Further, that the sultaun's troops should not enter the 

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