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to it blockaded by a great number of native troops in 
the Rajah’s pay, who obstinately opposed their en- 
trance. This detachment was so small, that it could 
not venture to force a passage against such a pro- 
digious superiority in numbers, and it was therefore 
obliged to retire. Meanwhile the barbarians, who had 
surrounded the quadrangle in which the sepoy guard 
was stationed, inflamed no doubt by the resistance 
within the square, made a furious attack upon them, 
and, being well provided with ammunition, of which 
the sepoys were utterly destitute, soon obtained 
the mastery, and the brave guard, together with its 
officers, was thus cut off to a man. After the dread- 
ful affray had terminated, the bodies of Lieutenants 
Stalker, Scott, and Simes, were found lying near each 
other shockingly mangled, and quite dead. 
It was during this scene of carnage that Cheit Singh 
made his escape. This had evidently been prepared 
for, and was successfully planned. As soon as he 
came out of the wicket, which opens on the river, he 
found a boat ready to convey him across. He lost 
not a moment, and was quickly beyond the reach of 
pursuit, while the multiplied shouts of his ferocious 
followers conveyed to the ears of the Governor-Gene- 
ral ominous notice of disaster, which was but too 
fatally realized shortly after by the tidings of the 
Rajah’s escape and the massacre of the sepoy guard. 
The troops who had secured the prisoner’s escape 
followed him across the river in the boats which they 
had provided to accomplish his rescue, leaving the de- 
tachment of sepoys sent by Major Popham in posses- 
sion of the She wallah Gaut. 
