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family, and that of Hyder, including the whole expenses of their 
maintenance, were little more than a lac of pagodas, yet the British 
have liberally appropriated two lacs for the use of the prisoners, 
which is found to be more than sufficient; though if all the sons 
should increase their families like Futty Hyder, it will be difficult' 
to say, what will be requisite. I pity most the young females, many 
of whom were betrothed before the death of their father, but have 
not yet been permitted to go to their husbands. It may be danger- 
ous to extend the alliance of a family, which has been always looked 
up to as the head of the Mussulmaun religion in the East. 
In a small habitation near the palace resides a brother of Tip- 
poo, who is deranged. Major Marriot had much trouble in re- 
moving him from Seringapatam. He intoxicated himself with 
bang, and sallied forth at the head of his women, declaring that 
he would not go. His poor women fell at the feet of the Major, 
conjuring him not to put their master to death. At length he was 
forced into a palanquin by two stout eunuchs, and care was taken 
that he should have no more bang. 
I doubted whether it would not at first have been more advise- 
able to remove the whole of the Hyder family to Calcutta, where 
they were unknown, and where the citadel would easily have 
lodged them : for, independently of any danger of these young tigers 
becoming again mischievous, their being at Vellore had at least 
the inconvenience of keeping 3000 men idle, who might otherwise 
have been usefully employed. It is thought adviseable to have a 
part of the garrison Europeans, which renders the evil still greater. 
The fatal events which have since occurred prove that the dan- 
ger was greater than I then supposed ; and the prudent consequence 
