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32 ^ASTERN HINDOOSTAN.
"Tippoo had cruelly ordered to be murdered at the approach of
Rayacotta. our army, regretted and refpe&ed by the inhabitants. Raya-
cotta, the key to the Myfore, furrendered after fome refiftance.
This, and feveral others lefs important, being taken, left free
accefs from the Camatic, through the Odcagurgam pafs, which
was found more convenient for the invafion of the Myfore than
the Muglee, which we fhall find was taken by Lord Cornwallis,
and found to lie too far north.
Pondicherry. About twenty miles to the north of Cuddalore ftands its po-
tent neighbor Pondicherry. The fite and territory, in 1674, be-
longed to the king of Vißapour. Am. Martin, after the retreat of
the Frencb from St. Thome, purchafed a village from the king.
From that time, the little colony flourifhed and increafed tili
it became the mofl magnificent city in India. I fhall not
enter into the checks it received, its being plundered by the
Mahrattas under Sevatjee, and its being taken by the Dutch
in 1693, and ceded by them in the peace of Ryjwick. I will
take up its flory in the celebrated fiege of 1748, when Admiral
Besieged by Bofcawen commanded the moft powerful fleet ever feen in the
Admiral
Boscawen. Indian feas. He alfo appeared in the character of general; and,
quitting his proper element, marched from Fort St. Davide at
the head of a great army. He was a brave and experienced
naval officer, but totally ignorant of the conduct of a fiege, or
the Operations in the field: he was notorioufly prefumptuous,
and fuffered for his prefumption. Unprovided with intelli-
gence, he made a fruitlefs attack on a neighboring fort; a for-
tunate explofion foon after made him mafier of it; he loft many
days about the place. When he reached Pondicherry he began
his
"Tippoo had cruelly ordered to be murdered at the approach of
Rayacotta. our army, regretted and refpe&ed by the inhabitants. Raya-
cotta, the key to the Myfore, furrendered after fome refiftance.
This, and feveral others lefs important, being taken, left free
accefs from the Camatic, through the Odcagurgam pafs, which
was found more convenient for the invafion of the Myfore than
the Muglee, which we fhall find was taken by Lord Cornwallis,
and found to lie too far north.
Pondicherry. About twenty miles to the north of Cuddalore ftands its po-
tent neighbor Pondicherry. The fite and territory, in 1674, be-
longed to the king of Vißapour. Am. Martin, after the retreat of
the Frencb from St. Thome, purchafed a village from the king.
From that time, the little colony flourifhed and increafed tili
it became the mofl magnificent city in India. I fhall not
enter into the checks it received, its being plundered by the
Mahrattas under Sevatjee, and its being taken by the Dutch
in 1693, and ceded by them in the peace of Ryjwick. I will
take up its flory in the celebrated fiege of 1748, when Admiral
Besieged by Bofcawen commanded the moft powerful fleet ever feen in the
Admiral
Boscawen. Indian feas. He alfo appeared in the character of general; and,
quitting his proper element, marched from Fort St. Davide at
the head of a great army. He was a brave and experienced
naval officer, but totally ignorant of the conduct of a fiege, or
the Operations in the field: he was notorioufly prefumptuous,
and fuffered for his prefumption. Unprovided with intelli-
gence, he made a fruitlefs attack on a neighboring fort; a for-
tunate explofion foon after made him mafier of it; he loft many
days about the place. When he reached Pondicherry he began
his