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when taken by the English, had since treated them with kindness, 

 determined to sacrifice him: for which purpose, ordering his regular 

 troops from the trenches, and assembling them with the rest of his 

 army, on a hill within view of the Mangulore ramparts, he rode be- 

 fore the lines, surrounded by his guard of silver lances, and all the 

 state insignia. A gallows having been previously erected, the order 

 of death was issued, and the killedar conducted to the spot. While 

 standing under the gibbet with a halter round his neck, Mahomed 

 Ally, an officer of high rank, and a great favourite of the late nabob, 

 Hyder Ally, came forward, and in the most earnest manner suppli- 

 cated for a pardon, which being indignantly refused, Mahomed 

 Ally ordered his brigade to follow him in an imprudent attempt to 

 prevent the execution. They were soon overpowered, and a 

 dreadful example immediately followed, in the presence of the 

 two generals. The officers and colour-bearers were blown from 

 the guns; the noses and ears of the sepoys were cut off; and Ma- 

 homed Ally, after beholding the execution of his friend, Avas or- 

 dered into confinement, and cut off on the road by a private order 

 from the sultaun. Thus perished two of the best and bravest offi- 

 cers in his service. Their only crime consisted in having shewed 

 too much humanity to the English during the siege of Mangulore; 

 who, from the ramparts, were witnesses of this melancholy spec- 

 tacle. 



The other account of the fate of the British officers captured 

 at Bednore, was, that all above the rank of lieutenant were put to 

 death ; by what means was not particularly stated, excepting in the 

 case of General Mathews, who being closely confined, and suspect- 

 ing he was to be taken off by poison, refused for many days to taste 



