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CORDONS UNDER ARMS. 7
Council {Bombay State Papers, n. 308)). Feb. 7, Capt, Torriano, Commander
of the port of Onore, heard from a messenger he had sent out that
Maw Mirza was told Feb. 6, by Col. Gordon on the " Batilla," that he had come from
Teliicherry, where he heard from Gen. Lang that Gen. Macleod had resigned the command of
the Bombay Army, and that a note for the Commanding Officer had been sent on shore the day
before, . . . with the provisions for the fort then removing from the " Batilla " into the Nabob's
boat. The note . . . proved to be only from the Deputy Commissary, specifying the supplies
dispatched and requesting that three guns might be fired as a signal of their safe arrival. As
soon as the Nabob's vessel left the port, the required signal was made, and an answer returned
to the Deputy Commissary indicating that the state of the garrison was totally misunderstood
by their friends, that ... if the ships left the roads, desertion would reduce them in a short
time to the last extremity. The Myer, employed betwixt Maw Mirza, the fort and the ships,
had been for some years in the English service, . . . after delivering Mr. Ravenscroft's letter
. . . told the Subadar Missauber that a jemidar, lately deserted from the fort, had accompanied
him on board as if sent from the garrison, and that Col. Gordon had delivered to his care a
private letter, which Maw Mirza received and secreted. Capt. Torriano . . . secured the
Myer [who] undertook to deliver a letter to Col. Gordon. . . . The vessels made signals for
sailing ; Feb. 8, got under weigh in the morning, but from their having waited so long, it was
conjectured that Col. Gordon had sent on shore an answer to Capt. Torriano's letter, directed
some signal to be made when it should be received, had remained in expectation of seeing or
hearing it" (Philippart's East India Mil. Cat., 11. 181-3). Mar. 11, Peace with Tippoo Sultan.
46- [•••]. 1784, Dec. 18, Lt., bur. at Trichinopoly (7.0. Rec).
47. [...]. 1795, Oct. 27, Lt., N. Lowland Fenc. Inf. {L.G., 1104).
48. [...]. 1796, Jun. 10, Vol., 34th Ft., served at the reduction of
the Island of St. Vincent, d. of wounds (Hist. Rec, 34^/2 Ft., 41).
49. [...]. 1796, Jul., Col., ?«. Miss Moncrief of Manchester Square,
[London ?], dau. of Col. Moncrief; k. at the siege of Dunkirk (G.M., vol. 66,
p. 612).
50. [•••]• 1797. Aug. 29, Gen.; Col. Sir David Baird wrote him
from Wallajahbad, "war would almost immediately be declared by Tippoo,
who had collected a very large army, and seventy pieces of artillery in the
neighbourhood of Seringapatam, it is reported that he e.xpects to be supported
from France" (Life of Sir David Baird, i. 150).
51. [...]. 1798, May 22, Capt., "of St. George's in the East"; his
dau. M. m. Mr. Hanam, Strand, London {G.M., vol. 68, pt. 2, p. 534).
52. [•••]. 1799, Jul. 13, Capt., Old Meldrum Vols. {L.G., 699).
53. [...]. 1801, May, Capt., in command of a small British con-
tingent, assisting the garrison (chiefly Tuscan) at Porto Ferrago, Elba,
when invested by about 1500 French troops ; subsequently blockaded ; con-
tingent afterwards commanded by Lt. Col. George Airey (Laird Clowes's
Navy, IV. 451 n.).