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Rh was dipatched, with an ecort of two Seapoys to Gooldgngunge, which was conidered the cheapet market, to purchae corn for the army, and had in my poeion for that purpoe, four hundred goolmores, with bills on the Commiary there, amounting in all to fifteen hundred pounds terl. As we journeyed onwards, one of the Seapoys happened to trample ome melons in pa ing through a plantation near the river ide, and on being oberved by the proprietor, who deired him to be more cautious in his career, he returned him ome impertinent anwer, which roued the peaant's reentment, and dicord expanding her gloomy wings; a battle enued; the neighbouring cottagers thus alarmed,