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his firelock to his shoulder, and the Sultan, receiving 
the ball in his temple, expired.”* 
When the city was taken, and the sons of Tippoo 
secured, “ the Sultan was to be searched for in every 
corner of the palace. A party of English troops were 
admitted, and those of Tippoo disarmed. After pro- 
ceeding through several of the apartments, the Kelledar 
was entreated, if he valued his own life or that of his 
master, to discover where he was concealed. That 
officer protested, in the most solemn manner, that 
the Sultan was not in the palace ; that he had been 
wounded during the storm, and was lying in a gate- 
way on the northern side of the fort. He offered to 
conduct the inquirers, and submit to any punishment 
if he was found to have deceived. General Baird and 
the officers who accompanied him proceeded to the 
spot, covered with a promiscuous and shocking heap of 
bodies wounded and dead. At first the bodies were 
dragged out of the gateway to be examined, it being 
already too dark to distinguish them where they lay. 
As this mode of examination, however, threatened to 
be very tedious, a light was procured, and Major 
Allen and the Kelledar went forward to the place. 
After some search, the Sultan’s palenkeen was disco- 
vered, and under it a person wounded, but not dead. 
He was afterwards ascertained to be the Rajah Khan, 
one of Tippoo’s most confidential servants, who had 
attended his master during the whole of the fatal day. 
This person being made acquainted with the object of 
the search, pointed out the spot where the Sultan had 
fallen. The body being brought out and sufficiently 
* Mills’s British India, vol. vi. page 115. 
