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were executing their execrable orders on Mr. EUisy a raoft inti-
mate friend of his, the generons youth rufhed upon the affaflins
unarmed, and feizing one of their fcymeters killed three of
them, and wounded two others, tili opprefled vvith numbers, he
greatly feil."
Evert good man naturally wifhes to hear that the end of a
villain is fuitable to his deeds. How are we clifappointed, when
Mr- Jonathan Scott* teils us, that he was not impaled. But EndofSomroo.
being a good foldier, he found protection from the native ftates,
and ferved under them ; appointed to a command in that cha-
racter, he committed the maffacre at Patna. He died in tran-
quillity poffefTed of a corps of Sepoys> which was continued after
his death for the maintenance of his fon and a favorite concu-
bine, with a falary of fix thoufand five hundred pounds a
month. He was a Ger man of very low birth. When he lifted
into the Frencb fervice, he took the name of Summers. His
comrades, from his gloomy countenance, changed it to Sombre,
and the Indians corrupted it to Somroo. His barbarous em-
ployer, Mir Cqßm, was not fo fortunate in his end. After ef-
caping from the battle of Buxar, he wandered from place to
place, at length died miferably under the walls of Debli.
Our Company foon became repoffeffed of Patna. Major .
Adams, a brave and experienced officer, purfued Mir Coßm, the
barbarous author of the murders; defeated him at Balafara,
near Moorßedabad, on July i9th, 1763; and again completely on Battlb o*
Augufl 2cl, on the banks of the Nuncas Nullus, where it falls
* Vol. ii. p. 263,264.
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were executing their execrable orders on Mr. EUisy a raoft inti-
mate friend of his, the generons youth rufhed upon the affaflins
unarmed, and feizing one of their fcymeters killed three of
them, and wounded two others, tili opprefled vvith numbers, he
greatly feil."
Evert good man naturally wifhes to hear that the end of a
villain is fuitable to his deeds. How are we clifappointed, when
Mr- Jonathan Scott* teils us, that he was not impaled. But EndofSomroo.
being a good foldier, he found protection from the native ftates,
and ferved under them ; appointed to a command in that cha-
racter, he committed the maffacre at Patna. He died in tran-
quillity poffefTed of a corps of Sepoys> which was continued after
his death for the maintenance of his fon and a favorite concu-
bine, with a falary of fix thoufand five hundred pounds a
month. He was a Ger man of very low birth. When he lifted
into the Frencb fervice, he took the name of Summers. His
comrades, from his gloomy countenance, changed it to Sombre,
and the Indians corrupted it to Somroo. His barbarous em-
ployer, Mir Cqßm, was not fo fortunate in his end. After ef-
caping from the battle of Buxar, he wandered from place to
place, at length died miferably under the walls of Debli.
Our Company foon became repoffeffed of Patna. Major .
Adams, a brave and experienced officer, purfued Mir Coßm, the
barbarous author of the murders; defeated him at Balafara,
near Moorßedabad, on July i9th, 1763; and again completely on Battlb o*
Augufl 2cl, on the banks of the Nuncas Nullus, where it falls
* Vol. ii. p. 263,264.
G g 2 int©