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SCENES IN INDIA.
Ills firelock to his shoulder, and the Sultan, receiving
the ball in his temple, expired."'*
When the city was taken, and the sons of Tippoo
secured, " the Sultan was to be searched for in every
corner of the palace. A party of English troops were
admitted, and those of Tippoo disarmed. After pro-
ceeding through several of the apartments, the Kelledar
was entreated, if he valued his own life or that of his
master, to discover where he was concealed. That
officer protested, in the most solemn manner, that
the Sultan was not in the palace; that he had been
wounded during the storm, and was lying in a gate-
way on the northern side of the fort. He offered to
conduct the inquirers, and submit to any punishment
if he was found to have deceived. General Baird and
the officers who accompanied him proceeded to the
spot, covered with a promiscuous and shocking heap of
bodies wounded and dead. At first the bodies were
dragged out of the gateway to be examined, it being
already too dark to distinguish them where they lay.
As this mode of examination, however, threatened to
be very tedious, a light was procured, and Major
Allen and the Kelledar went forward to the place.
After some search, the Sultan's palenkeen was disco-
vered, and under it a person wounded, but not dead.
He was afterwards ascertained to be the Rajah Khan,
one of Tippoo's most confidential servants, who had
attended his master during the whole of the fatal day.
This person being made acquainted with the object of
the search, pointed out the spot where the Sultan had
fallen. The body being brought out and sufficiently
* Mills's British India, vol. vi. page 115.
SCENES IN INDIA.
Ills firelock to his shoulder, and the Sultan, receiving
the ball in his temple, expired."'*
When the city was taken, and the sons of Tippoo
secured, " the Sultan was to be searched for in every
corner of the palace. A party of English troops were
admitted, and those of Tippoo disarmed. After pro-
ceeding through several of the apartments, the Kelledar
was entreated, if he valued his own life or that of his
master, to discover where he was concealed. That
officer protested, in the most solemn manner, that
the Sultan was not in the palace; that he had been
wounded during the storm, and was lying in a gate-
way on the northern side of the fort. He offered to
conduct the inquirers, and submit to any punishment
if he was found to have deceived. General Baird and
the officers who accompanied him proceeded to the
spot, covered with a promiscuous and shocking heap of
bodies wounded and dead. At first the bodies were
dragged out of the gateway to be examined, it being
already too dark to distinguish them where they lay.
As this mode of examination, however, threatened to
be very tedious, a light was procured, and Major
Allen and the Kelledar went forward to the place.
After some search, the Sultan's palenkeen was disco-
vered, and under it a person wounded, but not dead.
He was afterwards ascertained to be the Rajah Khan,
one of Tippoo's most confidential servants, who had
attended his master during the whole of the fatal day.
This person being made acquainted with the object of
the search, pointed out the spot where the Sultan had
fallen. The body being brought out and sufficiently
* Mills's British India, vol. vi. page 115.