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from their principal object, the seizure of the brahmins. Deeply 

 versed in that cunning and artifice, the peculiar characteristic of 

 Asiatics, they suspected a counter-plot, and turning all their at- 

 tention to the embarkation of the troops, singled out, to a man, 

 every brahmin recruit, and insisted on their being delivered up. 

 Captain Torriano resolving steadily to adhere to those honourable 

 and humane principles which had hitherto regulated his con- 

 duct, determined they should not be sullied by his last act on this 

 ill-fated spot. Upon being threatened that if the brahmins were 

 not instantly given up, the Onore garrison should be detained, he 

 positively declared not a man should be touched while he had 

 power to defend him ; and resolutely commanding the troops and 

 brahmins immediately to embark, his decided conduct silenced all 

 further opposition. 



The guard was now ordered to leave the fort: while they were 

 embarking, the subahdar, Missauber, having locked the gates on 

 the inside, at a signal made by captain Torriano, struck the British 

 colours, and coming through a sally-port, resigned the keys to 

 the Sultaun's officer ordered to take possession; whose detach- 

 ment waited without the outworks until this ceremony had taken 

 place. The whole being now safely embarked, captain Torriano fol- 

 lowed with two chests of treasure belonging to the Company. Night 

 coming on, they were obliged to anchor under the guns of the fort 

 until day-break, when the Wolf gallivat and all the boats pro- 

 ceeded over the bar; the officers embarked on board the Uawke 

 Indiaman, and the whole fleet sailed for Bombay. 



During the voyage thither captain Torriano rewarded the ser- 

 vices of the subahdar Missauber with a pair of gold bangles; pro- 



