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EASTERN HINDOOST AN. 69
Veteran governor alone ftood by his colors when transfixed by
a thoufand bayonets, he feil as glorioufly as an old Roman, or
the immortalized Velafquez, wrapped in the ftandard he died to
defend. The Marquis Cornwaltis fent to fippoo the offer of the
honored remains to be interred. TÜßpoo nobly replied, that to
an old foldier no place could be round Co fit as that on which
he breathed his Iaft. The interment was accordingly per-
form ed by the MujJ'elmen after their own rites.
Both Pettah and fort were taken in the face of a powerful
army, commanded by Tippoo in perfon. He made fome fruitlefs
attempts to relieve them. The importance to us was of thefirft
rate : it became the depot of ftores and provifions, a hofpital for
the fick or wounded, and the place through which our reinforce-
ments of every kind from the Carnatic were to arrive ; and as
it happened unforefeen, became the head quarters during the
monfoon, after our inevitable retreat from Seringapatam, The
fuccefs at Bangalore infpirited our friends, and depreffed the
mind of the enemy; and, according to perhaps the cuftom of.
even European nations, occafioned great defection from the
neighboring chieftains, who, in India particularly, feldom ad-
here long to the declining fide. The Polygars efpecially, who,
having no more to fear from the tyrant, poured in fupplies
to our army from every part *..
Bangalore lies, the neareft way, only eighty miles from Se-
ringapatam, Tippotf% capital;. the fall of which was to terminate
all our labors : but the march towards it was inevitably delayed
* Mr. Home.
for
Veteran governor alone ftood by his colors when transfixed by
a thoufand bayonets, he feil as glorioufly as an old Roman, or
the immortalized Velafquez, wrapped in the ftandard he died to
defend. The Marquis Cornwaltis fent to fippoo the offer of the
honored remains to be interred. TÜßpoo nobly replied, that to
an old foldier no place could be round Co fit as that on which
he breathed his Iaft. The interment was accordingly per-
form ed by the MujJ'elmen after their own rites.
Both Pettah and fort were taken in the face of a powerful
army, commanded by Tippoo in perfon. He made fome fruitlefs
attempts to relieve them. The importance to us was of thefirft
rate : it became the depot of ftores and provifions, a hofpital for
the fick or wounded, and the place through which our reinforce-
ments of every kind from the Carnatic were to arrive ; and as
it happened unforefeen, became the head quarters during the
monfoon, after our inevitable retreat from Seringapatam, The
fuccefs at Bangalore infpirited our friends, and depreffed the
mind of the enemy; and, according to perhaps the cuftom of.
even European nations, occafioned great defection from the
neighboring chieftains, who, in India particularly, feldom ad-
here long to the declining fide. The Polygars efpecially, who,
having no more to fear from the tyrant, poured in fupplies
to our army from every part *..
Bangalore lies, the neareft way, only eighty miles from Se-
ringapatam, Tippotf% capital;. the fall of which was to terminate
all our labors : but the march towards it was inevitably delayed
* Mr. Home.
for