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which Mr. Thomas received the fum of 14,000 rupees, and an affignment for the rest of his claims. The latter, however, was never fulfilled.

In the march towards his diftricts, Mr. Thomas retaliated upon the Begum Sumroo, whom he now confidered his bitter enemy, laying under contribution that part of her country which came within his route...

Arriving at Goorath, a large and populous village, he impofed heavy contributions. Thefe amounted to a confiderable fum. He found here alfo an ample fupply of bullocks and forage.

Continuing his march, after a long and te-. dious day's journey, he encamped near the town of Tejara, a place in the centre of the Mewattee district. The night was dark and rainy this and the extreme fatigue of the foldiers confpired to render fuccefsful an attempt which the Mewattys made, and they carried off a horfe from the very centre of the

camp.

In the morning, a party was detached to difcover the village to which the horse had been conveyed. The party had not proceeded far when they were attacked, and obliged to retreat. Orders were then given for the cavalry to advance, and cover the detachment. And Mr. Thomas himself leading the infantry, hastily marched, and with his collected force, attacked the enemy at the village, to which, it appears, the horse had been carried. By this time they had affembled and became formidable. The centre divifion of Mr. Thomas's troops, in a fhort time fet fire to the village, and there seemed no doubt of a complete victory, when the divifions on the right and left giving way, fled with precipitation. The wounded left on the field were, even at this crisis of the action, cut to pieces by the enemy.

The centre divifion, under the special command of Mr. Thomas, now following the example of their brethren, left him, of his troops, only a dozen infantry and a few cavalry.

Thus difcomfited and vexed by the unsteadiness of his troops, Mr. Thomas, as a last resort,

encouraged his fmall party to exert themselves in extricating a nine-pounder, which unfortunately, previously to the battle, had ftuck in the bed of a nullah. In this he had just succeeded, when the enemy, as certain of victory, recommenced a furious attack, and endeavoured to feize the gun.

The commandant of cavalry, a man of dif tinguished bravery, ftill adhered to Mr. Thomas, and desperately, with a few others, threw himfelf between the gun and the enemy. They were cut to pieces, but the gallant effort afforded time to re-mount and oppofe a welldirected fire of grape from the nine-pounder. This faved Mr. Thomas and the brave few of his furviving party. For, after the discharge of a few rounds, the enemy retired to the furrounding ravines.

Mr. Thomas now collected the fugitives, who with his veteran party formed a detachment of about 300 men. With thefe he unconcernedly challenged the enemy to a renewal of the combat, which they now as cautiously declined.

In its firft view fo difaftrous, this action, by the dread it spread among the enemy, proved highly fortunate. Great as was Mr. Thomas's lofs of brave and attached foldiers, that of the Mewattys was infinitely more confiderable. The immediate confequence was an overture, on the part of their chief, of terms which shortly led to an amicable adjustment. They agreed to pay Mr. Thomas a year's rent, and to restore to him the property that had been ftolen. The performance of these articles was guaranteed by fecurities.

The punishment of this village, the strongest in the whole district, and its inhabitants the moft refractory, was highly favourable to Mr. Thomas's intereft; the more fo, as in a preceding campaign the whole force of Begum Sumroo had been in vain exerted to reduce it. Mr. Thomas next prepared to march against the remaining diftricts which were still in rebellion; and, having recruited his force for this purpose, he was ordered by Appakandarow to affift the collector of the district of Kishnagur.

Convinced by experience that vigorous meafures could alone enfure fuccefs, Mr. Thomas marched towards the refractory villages; of which having gained poffeffion, they were quickly confumed by fire,

An example fo fevere deterred others from pursuing a fimilar conduct. Of these the most confiderable was the town of Jyjur; which, however, fubmitting on the approach of the troops, oppofition was at an end, and Mr. Thomas returned to Tejara.

On the fubmiffion of Jyjur, Appakandarow gave Mr. Thomas an order for a supply of money upon the collector of that place. The collector endeavoured to evade payment, by representing that the diftreffed fituation of Appakandarow (whofe troops had just mutinied for want of payment of their arrears), required every rupee that could be raised; in confequence, Mr. Thomas muft, for the prefent, dispense with payment. This, he observes, was true; but his people being in diftrefs, to provide a remedy, he marched to Behadurg

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