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fuccefsful in drawing thefe ont, to have 
attempted to maintain it againfit us, or to 
exideavour to inake his way to the palace, 
and there make his laft ftand. 
‘Ass he was croffing to the gate by the 
communication from the outer ramparts, 
he received a mufket-ball in his right fide, 
nearly in a line with the breaft: he how- 
ever paffed on, untill he was ftopped about 
half through the arch of the gateway, by 
the fire of the 12th light intantry from 
within, when he received a fecond ball in 
the right fide clofe to the other : the mare 
he rode being wounded at the fame time, 
funk under him, and bis turband fell on the 
ground. 
the fame time on every fide of him by muf- 
ketry from both fides of the gate. The 
fallen Sultaun was immediately raifed by 
fome of his faithful adherents, and placed 
wpon his palankin under the arch, and on 
one fide of the gateway, where he lay or 
fat for fome moments, faint and exhaulted, 
until forme European foldiers entered the 
gateway. A fervant, who has furvived, re- 
lates, that one of the foldiers feized the Sul- 
taun’s fwerd-belt, and attempted to pull it 
off; that the Sultaun, who ftill held his {word 
-in his hand, made a cut at the foldier with 
all his remaining ftreneth, and wounded 
him about the knee; on which the feldier 
put his piece to his fhoulder, and fhot the 
Sultaun through the temple, who inftantly 
expired. Not lefs than 300 men were kil- 
led, and numbers wounded, under the arch 
of the gateway, which foon became im- 
paflible, except over the bodies of the dead 
and dying. | 
About dufk, Major General Baird, in 
confequence of information he had received 
at the palace, came with lights to the gate, 
accompanied by the late Killadar of the 
fort and others, to fearch for the body of 
the Sultaun; and after much labour, it was 
found and brought forward with a heap 
of others to the infide of the gate. ‘The 
countenance was no ways diftorted, but 
had an expreffion of {tern compofure. The 
turband, jacket, {word and belt were gone, 
but the body was recognized by feveral of 
his people who were there, to be the Pid- 
fkaw; and an officer who was prefent, with 
the leave of Major General Baird, took 
frorp off the right arm the talifman, which 
contained, fewed up in pieces of fine flow- 
ered filk, one amulet of a brittle metalic 
fubftance, of the colour of filver, and fome 
manuferipts in magic, Arabic, and Per- 
fian characters, the purport of which, had 
there been any doubt, would have fully af 
certained the identicy of the Sultaun’s body. 
Tt was placed on his own palankin, and by 
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Anecdotes of Eminent Perfons. 
Many of his people fell about - 
of the uncertainty of human affairs. 
[June is 
General Baird’s orders conveyed -to. the 
court of the Palace, where it remained du- 
ring the night, furnifhing a remarkable in- 
ftance to thofe who are given to reflection, 
He 
who had left the palace in the morning, a 
powerful imperious Sultaun, full of vat 
ambitious projects, was brought back a 
lump of clay, abandoned by the whole 
world ;—hnis kingdom overthrown, his 
capital taken, and his palace occupied b 
the very man, Major General Baird, wha 
about fifteen years before, had been, with 
other victims of his cruelty and tyranny, 
releafed from nearly four years rigid con- 
finement in irons, in a prifon fearcély 300 
yards from the fpot where the corpfe of 
the Sultaun now lay. 
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CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTES of su- 
WARROW ; by @ GERMAN OFFICER, 
who ferved under him in POLAND. 
NEVER faw a man, who, in fpite of 
I the contradictory reports that are cur- 
rent to his advantage and difadvantage, 
and many of which are undoubtedly falfe, 
fo much attracied my refpeét at firft fight 
as Suwarrow. He is 4 little meagreman, 
how above feventy years of age, witirfilver 
white locks, and ftoops,a little. But every 
nerve of the fenior yet thews a terrific 
quick elaiticity : there is animation in 
every ftep, energy in every motion: and 
almoit his every word is apophthegm and 
laconifm. His whole art, is to infufe a 
dreadful energy into the fouls of his men, 
who then think themfelves invincible 
whilft fighting under his command. 
He is the idol of the Ruffian army. Aman 
like Suwarrow is formed to win the heart 
of the foldiery, though not always of the 
officers of fuperiorrank. It is his cuftom 
to addrefs the common men every where 
briefly and energetically, efpecially in the 
front of theline, at a review or before® an 
engagement. When he has communi. 
cated to them a portion of the fire that ani- 
mates his own breaft, he lets every thing 
proceed according to the difpofitions that 
have been made ; and every thing proceeds 
accordingly. He is accufed of ieverity, 
cruelty, inhuman barbarity. But in war, 
fuch imputations often originate from the 
unavoidable confequences of the energetic 
meafures of a general. When the race- 
horte is flying at full-fpeed over the courte, 
it isnot eafy to ftop him ; and when the 
grenadier has ftormed a battery, and ftill 
wades through blood, the higheft moral 
law prefents itfelf to his mind in different 
chara&ters, than to the philofopher in his 
doétorial chair. Suwarrow calculates the 
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