is the. account given on the authority o f the Eajl India Com-
pany. The author o f the War in AJia, i. p. 483, makes our
General a Quixote, who, rather than be carried into Gberiah for
a tingle day, was above‘ coming to an explanation, • and madly
fought the unequal force o f the barbarians. Humberjlorl died of
his wounds on April 30, o f whom the author* gives a cha-
radler that thould not be fuppreffed. “ He died in the twenty-
“ eighth year o f his. age. An early and habitual converfancy
“ with the heroes of antient, as well as modern times, nouriihed
“ in his mind a paflion for military glory, and fupported him
“ under unremitting application to all thofe ftudies by which
“ he might improve his mind, rife to honorable diftincftion, and
“ render his name immortal; he being not only acute, but pro-
“ found and fteady in his views, gallant without oftentation, and
“ fpirited without temerity and imprudence.” At his early age
be was great in the cabinet as in the field t . He laid the fineft
plan for the overthrow o f our great rivals, Ayder and his fuc-
ceflbr: and asfar as they were attempted, they fucceeded. He was
honored with the command o f a fmall body of troops, oppofed
• This youthful "hero was defended from a younger brother of the Seaforth family. His
father, Col. Mackenzie, married the only, daughter of a Mr. Humberfton, of a rich old family
in Lincolnftnre, feated at Humberfton, once a Benedi&rne abby, not remote from the mouth
of the Humber. Old Humberfton left his daughter five hundred a y eat: the reft'of his eftate
to a brother’s fon, who dying, was fucceeded, as next heir, by the young Colonel, then in India*
He added the family name to that of-his own. His brother, Francis Humberfton Mackenzie
of Seaforth, as I am informed, fold, by his mother’s content, - the Humberfton eftate, and
bought the Seaforth.
.f Hon. Charles Grevile’s Britiih India, iii. p. 824 to 848.
** to
to the able Pippoo. By a fine retreat with two thoufand men
againft thirty thoufand Myforians, he eluded his fury ; and foon
after, in conjunction with Macleod, repelled the attack of lippoo
on his lines, which forced that chieftain to the mortifying ne-
ceflity of feeking fafety beyond the river Paniani. How op-
pofite to the merits of fo brave a youth was his fate !
B r u t u s ’s baftard hand
Stabb’d Julius Ctzjar; favage iilanders
Pompey the Great; our hero dies by pirates.
A s m a l l ifle, or rather rock, about a mile from Onore, was
made remarkable in the war againft Pippoo, by being ftrongly
fortified by him, being intended for a magazine of all forts of
naval ftores for building and repairing ihips. He had refumed
his father’s defign of becoming a naval power. Thofe Pnglijh
frigates fruftrated his plan in October 1791, and, by the defpe-
rate valour of a few marines, made themfelves mafters o f the
place.
We omitted to fay, that at Onore, the fon of Francis Almeyda
burnt the fleet o f the prince o f the place, defeated his army,
and burnt, but did not think it worth his trouble to take the
town. Barcelore, in Lat. 13° 23', is the next town of note, and
the parts adjacent are very produ&ive o f rice, that great food
of the Orientalijls.
Mangalore is a confiderable city, feated in Lat. 12’ 50', upon
a riling ground. This alfo has belonging to it very confiderable
rice grounds. It has the conveniency of three rivers, which
unite a little above its fite. The Portuguefe fupply you with rice
V ol. I. R 4 from
T a k e n b y t h e
E n g l i s h .
O n o r e a n d
B a r c e l o r e .
M a n g a l o r e .