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Nm rative of the last out break 



!No. 31. 



directed with the regiment under his command, the 3d 

 N. I., to scale the works at some accessible point to the 

 right or left of the gate, much of the wall having at a dis- 

 tance a dilapidated appearance. The assailants made the 

 most persevering efforts to gain the place, but were repulsed 

 with severe loss, particularly at the gate, which as it had 

 been partially blown open, more hope was entertained of suc- 

 cess at that point. The garrison was numerous and resolute 

 throughout, and round the gate within there was an im- 

 penetrable host of spear men, and here we had four of 

 our officers slain. The enemy's fire was less considered, 

 but on this, as on every subsequent affair with these Poligars, 

 our troops had abundant proof of their formidable skill in the 

 use of their own favorite weapon, the spear. 



His Majesty's 19th Foot came up shortly after the assault, 

 and every thing was in rapid progress for another attack, 

 when the Poligar, despairing of further resistance, abandoned 

 his fort and fled with a few[retainers, first to Sevagungah, and 

 then to Tondiman's country, in the hope of finding conceal- 

 ment there for a time He was however seized by the prompt 

 interference of Captain Blackburne, then Eesident at Tanjore, 

 and being brought a prisoner to Kytaur, he was there exe- 

 cuted under the sentence of a military inquiry, a few weeks 

 after the criminal career above related. 



The detachment after the evacuation of Panjahlumcoorchey, 

 made a circuit to the north of the district, through Nagli- 

 poora and Colarputty, and then in a few days returned to can- 

 ton at Kytaur, the 3d regiment N. I. having been sent to 

 the north-west to awe that quarter. On this tour, the Civil 

 and Military authorities declared the confiscation of several 

 Pollams, the possessions of the confederated rebel Leaders ; 

 and at Kytaur was more deliberately pursued all those salu- 

 tary reforms, of which we enjoy the benefit at this day. The 

 misery of Tinnevelly from the cold-blooded oppressions of the 

 Nabob's Government, and still more from the open violence 

 and ceaseless rapine of the Poligars, can be known only by re- 



