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Rh of March was prepared to undertake an attack upon the pettah.

As the English were at this time Scindia's very good friends, he gave them a written order directing the Killadar to deliver up the fortress to them; at the same time taking the precaution to send another written order to the Killadar, directing him, if he valued his head, to hold out against them to the last extremity. This he very soon evinced his determination to do, by making two or three desperate sallies, in one of which Lieutenant-Colonel Fraser, of the Royal Scots, was killed; a disaster which was followed the next day by an accidental explosion of the magazine of one of our breaching-batteries