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plication was immediately made to Ben¬ 
gal for a rc-in for cement, which arrived 
most opportunely, when the forces intend¬ 
ed for the attack were all assembled on 
the opposite shore, at the town of Pry a, 
where the Malays had constructed a fort. 
The distance of this place from George 
Town, was only two miles. Mr. Light 
finding all his efforts ineffectual to induce 
the King of Queddah to listen to any 
% terms of accommodation, very prudently 
determined not to wait for the attack, but 
to drive them away from the post they 
had occupied. lie accordingly attacked 
the fort on the 12 th of April, and made 
another attack on the Prows assembled 
in Prya River, on the l6th. Our troops 
were successful in both attacks; in the 
first, the Fort was taken by assault; in the 
latter, most of the Prows were entirely 
destroyed. 
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