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678 in possession of the bastion attacked, and the English colours hoisted in the fort. That the English army should remain in the pettah, or any where else out of the fort, keeping guards at the counterscarp of the ditch, for twenty days; during which, if no orders arrived from Madrass to deliver the fort again to the governor, it was to be evacuated by the garrison, who, in consideration of their gallant defence, were to carry away their arms and horses; but all provisions and stores belonging to the government of Mysore were to be left in the fort. If in this interval an army approached from Mysore, the garrison were in like manner to evacuate the fort to the English troops: four hostages were to be given by the garrison, until the conditions were ultimately decided, and an European deserter was to be surrendered." This capitulation was signed on the 2d of September, and the English Sepoys immediately took possession of the bastion attacked.

Captain Smith in his interview with Boniapah, the governor of the fort, was convinced that the king of Mysore had no concert in the assistance which Hyder Ally had sent to the government of Pondicherry; and Boniapah having no doubt from the articles of capitulation that Caroor would be restored to the king, proffered to withdraw the garrison to Namcull, a fort 20 miles to the north, and there wait the orders of Seringapatam, and Fort St. George; to which Captain Smith consented under the restriction, that none of the garrison should act against the English until the fate of Caroor was determined at Fort St. George. Accordingly all the Mysore troops evacuated the place the same day. The acquisition was valuable and important; for, besides that its revenues amounted to 44,0001. a year, it highly aggravated the resentment of the ministry of Mysore against Hyder Ally, as the author of the loss.

Hostilities had continued in this arrival between the Mysoreans of Dindigul, and the troops of Madura. The Mysoreans continued the attack of Battle Gunta for six days, and having driven away the troops which supported it without, carried the fort itself by assault; but the defence had been maintained with resolution, for in the course of it 30 Sepoys and 20 horsemen had been killed and wounded; and