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officers and privates marched through the Mysore dominions, so 

 engrossed conversation, that little attention could be given to any 

 other subject. The failure of British policy and intrepidity in the 

 late unfortunate expedition to Bednore, and the loss of the flower 

 of the Bombay army, were universally deplored. This, added to 

 the sacrifice of all our northern possessions, to obtain an ignomi- 

 nious peace with the Mahrattas, threw a gloom over the orien- 

 tal hemisphere on our departure from India. Important and 

 advantageous have been the succeeding events in that quarter of 

 the globe, where those fatal catastrophes are now so happily re- 

 versed. Tippoo destroyed, Mysore restored to the descendant of 

 its ancient rajahs, many of the Guzerat purgunnas once more in 

 possession of the Company, and British protection extended over 

 the greater part of the rich and populous regions of India, in a 

 retrospective view leave the mind absorbed in wonder, looking 

 forward in incalculable conjecture. 



I never visited Tellicherry without a sigh to the memory of an 

 amiable female, with whom in my juvenile years I had the happi- 

 ness of being intimately acquainted. At a season when youth, 

 beauty, innocence, decked her virgin form with superior charms, 

 and attracted universal love, a sable cloud, commencing its por- 

 tentous aspect at this settlement, obscured her brighter prospects; 

 and after a scene of accumulated sorrow, led her an early victim 

 to the grave, which to her was indeed a haven of repose; an asy- 

 lum where " the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are 

 at rest." The mournful history of the lovely Maria would call 

 forth the sympathetic tear from every heart of sensibility. It is 

 suppressed from delicacy to the survivors ; for the same reason 



