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400 In 1791, it was stormed by the English army under Lord Cornwallis, (whose name is familiar to us from the fact of his surrender at Yorktown to Washington, in 1782, having been the closing event of our Revolutionary War,) and carried with great slaughter. It is now held by the English; and so completely has the dominion passed into the hands of the new lords of the soil, that you would not suppose that it had ever been in other hands, and that here, a few years since, English officers had been shut up in dungeons or led out to execution by Hindu chieftains.

Bangalore is now the principal station for the troops of the Honourable East India Company in the Madras presidency. It is recommended for this purpose by the salubrity of the climate and its central position. The English regiments, after being quartered for several years in Madras, Trichinopoly, and other stations in the plains, are transferred to Bangalore, and, after remaining there for a year or two, give place to others needing a similar change. The presence of several thousand troops, both English regiments and regiments of native soldiery with English commanding officers, gives a lively and brilliant aspect to