B u s s y a t t a c k s
THE ENGLiSH.
and palled unlufpected through the quarters of Vmeramrauze,
and concealed themfelves in an adjacent thicket, in which they
lay concealed two days; on the third, two of them quitted their
retreat, and creeping on the ground reached his tent: they
altered at the back, and finding him afleep, ftabbed him in
thirty-two places : his groans brought in th,e centinels, but the
murderers, regardlefs of their own fafety, cried out, pointing to
the body: “ Look here! -we are fatisfied They were in-
ftantly ihot, and mangled after they had fallen. Had they
failed, the other two, who had remained in the for eft, were
bound by the fapie oath with their comrades to perform the
deed, or periih in the attempt.
C o lo n e l Fullarton, in 1782, attacked a Polygar fort, I think
in ■ %in&ve!ly, and forced his way through every difficulty, cutting
a paflage through, a vaff; depth o f WP°ds to, the center fort.
His attempt was crowned with fuccefs, unattended with the
horrors which accompanied M. Bufly' s viitory.
M. Bufly purfued his fiiccefs. The other Polygars, terrified
with the fate o f the chieftain of Bobilee, fubjnitted, and paid
the demanded tribute. He then turned his arms againft the
Fnglijb faitpries, and quickly reduced Vizigapatam, which
quickly furrendered, the garrifon being unequal to the extent
o f the works- Bufly., behaved with the utmoft generofity. It
was foon after recovered, by the ceifion of the Rajah to whom
it had been intruded. Maflulipataty, and our other fettlements,
were quickly reduced. Bufly was recalled by Lally., jealous of
his fame. He was fucceeded by the Marquis de Conflans, and
-oppofed by a moil able officer, Colonel Forde, fentby Clive., then
governor
governor o f Bengal. The Frericïr wérë' fat füpërioi: to ’ our'
forces,- but by fuperior valour and fupèrïor conduit they funk1
before us; F'orde gained a: decifive v'iitbfy àt'Peddipore, in J?«-
jcthmilndry : he piirfued' his fücceïsj took1 Maflulipdtam,'whhl
Mi Gonflons, who furfënderëd at difcretiori ; ' aiid fuch was the
end of that ill-fated name. This, with the capture of Gahgdnt,
in : December ' 1759* put an end to : the French empire in the
drear s. I
We fliall now purfue the line o f cbaffto thé extremity of the
Circars.— Let us preniife',- that ' it trends fait to the north-eaft as
far as CapeHalmiras, in Orixa. We will refume our route'
from the mouth of the' fouthern branch 'o f the Godaverylj p’afs-'
by' point ' GôrSewdrhèà, the' northern branch,; arid purfue our
ebUrfe "to Tizigap'atam, a fortified place, feated in Lat. 17“ 40'. Vizioafàtaiu
It has a confiderable trade in thecotton manufacturés ; hemp rs-
alfo collected, but not in confiderable quantities, !and ufed' in ’
making a coarfe kind o f faicy.' A mcilt fihgulaf'affair hap-'
pened here, very worthy to be récordèd : In the latter end of"
the' laft century, the Nabob of Chicaéoté attempted to furprife"
this place ; hë got into the factory with twènty or thirty attënd-
ants : the alarm being 'given, Mr. Richard Holden, a refolute
young gentlefrian, rah down flairs with his fufee in his hand,T
and his bayonet fcrdwed on its muzzlej’ and prefenting it to the
Nabob's brèaftf told him, in the Hindoo language (which hè’ was'-'
matter of) thathè'wiîs welcome, but i f any of his attendants ’
offered the left incivility, his life lhould anfwer for it." The
Nabob Was aftonifhed at the refbltition and bravery o f the young
gentlèman* and fat down to conlider a little ; Mr. Holden kéep-'
« ing