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different fortresses in the Mysore dominions, wliere they were so 

 closely confined, that during the commissioners' journey they could 

 neither see nor hear from any one of them. By different channels 

 they learned too much of their unparalleled sufferings. During 

 the march from Bednore to their allotted prisons, the officers and 

 men were indiscriminately tied to each other with ropes, and some- 

 times chained together in pairs, without any distinction; the feeble 

 with the strong, the sick with the healthy, and, not unfrequently, 

 the living with the dead. Several instances having occurred of a 

 lifeless corpse being dragged for miles chained to a wretched com- 

 rade, who could obtain no relief from the merciless conductor until 

 they arrived at the nightly halting-place, when the chain was un- 

 locked and the body removed for sepulture, a favour not always 

 granted. In some instances the corpse was thrown out lo the 

 prowling hyenas and jackals. 



From the memoranda I made on conversing with the gentle- 

 men from Mangulore, I find two different accounts of the fate of 

 General Mathews, and the officers above the rank of lieutenant, 

 so treacherously surrounded at Bednore : that the field-officers, 

 captains, and commissaries of the army were all put to death, 

 there remained no doubt. The manner in which the tyrant's orders 

 were executed is not so clearly ascertained. By some it was as- 

 serted that General Mathews, another field-officer, and Mr. Charles 

 Stewart, the head commissary, and formerly a resident at Onore, 

 were summoned lo Tippoo's durbar, and received with respectful 

 politeness, which he well knew how to assume. After being seated 

 on the carpet they were each presented with a cup of poisoned 

 coffee ; it was offered first to the general, as of the highest rank : 



