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Rh the Raja's friends find plunged Govenor Hatings into new difficulties.

Ramjaum having put Ramnagur into a tate of defenc, conducted his principal troops to a fort called Pateetah, to which a detachment under the command of Major Popham was directed, compoed of what men could be pared from the garrion of Chunar. In the mean time Gaptain Blair was dipatched with his battalion and two companies of grenadiers to urprie the fort; and Lieutenant Polhill, who jut arrived from Allahabad, with ix companies of Seapoys from the Nabob Apah-doulah's life guards, was ordered to encamp on the posite