1844.] and final subjugation of the Southern PoUgars. 33 



happy to every] one, since here was an end to this irksome 

 service.. * 



Colonel Agnew now moved to the north of the Shevagun- 

 gah district, and Major Sheppard was sent with his corps to 

 overlook the southern part until matters became perfectly 

 quiet. Most of the corps forming the Force soon moved away 

 to other stations, and those that remained were chiefly engag- 

 ed on the apprehension of the principal offenders. The 

 Murdoo was soon seized, and he suffered his fate on the 

 highest bastion of Tripatore. This place was then a neat 

 compact strong post, which had been usually garrisoned by 

 the troops of the Nabob, until the Pollums passed to the 

 Company. At the rise of these commotions, it was occupied 

 by a "party from Colonel Martinz's Ramnad corps, from which 

 it was seized in great triumph by the Murdoo. The two 

 Panjaulumcoorchey rebel Chiefs now also atoned for their 

 crimes in front of their own works, which had proved the 

 grave of no less than 14 of our officers, and so many other 

 gallant men. 



In November, Colonel Agnew leaving a corps in Sheva- 

 gungah returned to Tinnevelly, bringing with him the 3d 

 Regiment N. I., which in March or February 1802 was sta- 

 tioned at Palamcottah, the 6th Regiment which was sent to 

 Sunkerninarcovil, and a corps of Cavalry which was placed at 

 Tachinelloor. During his absence north, other desperate 

 though minor characters of Tinnevelly, had been put down by 

 the activity of the Collector Mr. Lushington, and the Com- 

 mandant Major Macaulay, and many of them were now 

 banished to Prince of Wales' Island. The Carnatic had by this 

 time passed to the Company's authority, and Tinnevelly now 

 snjoyed a state of quiet and protection, which I am sure was 

 utterly unknown to it in any former day of its history.— 

 Colonel Agnew had soon the satisfaction of reporting to the 

 Government, the happy accomplishment of the service for 

 >vhich he had been specially selected, and he then returned to 



