Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-08

the design so far, that he made the
great monarch tremble in his palace
at Susa And Alexander, at last, &C
complished 1t with incredible facility
Rollins Ant Hist vol. Ill. p. 202.-
236. ....
I do not recollect any example o
considered, more similar to tha'
which 1 have just now related, thar
in the resolute conduct Of the cele'
brated Lord Give, at the siege Of
Arcot, in the East Indies. To place
this example in its most proper light
1t may not be amiss to acquaint my
young readers that the Great Mogu
was the arbitrary sovereign Of the
East Indies; and besides him there
were many Indian princes, who were
permitted to enjoy their respective
sovereignties, without molestation, or
condition that they paid the stipulated
tribute, and did not infringe any Of the
articles Of the treaty by which they
or their ancestors acknowledged the
sovereignty Of the Great Mogul. These
Indian princes are called Rajahs, 1. e
Kings. More than one-half Of the
empire of Indostan, or, as 1t Is now
more generally written, Hindostan
(properly called India) was then sub
Jest to these Rajahs, Of which some
were princes Of very small territories
and others, as also the kings OF My
sore and Tanjore, possessed domin.
ions larger than those Of the kings o,
Prussia and Portugal. A very large
army, ready to move at the mrs
warning. was found necessary to over.
awe and be a check on the rajahsi
the same force divided under several
distinct commanders. would have
been Intellectual. Hence 1t was neces.
sary to give large tract Of country
to the government Of single officer
or to relinquish the design OF extend.
ing the dominion. Another branch OF
the duty of this officer Is to collec,
the annual revenues Of the crown
and pay them to the Saubahdah, Oh
Moguls victory, who RENTS them Il
the treasury of the empire; and to at
tend him in all his military expedi.
tioIls within his viceroyalty. These
officers are now we'll known in Eu.
rope by the title Of nabob, which sig.
nities deputy, though originally they
were no more than commanders OF
body Of forces, were frequently called
to court, kept there, or translated tt
another government, whenever tint
ministry thought these changes neces.
sary. But the divisions OF the roya
family gave the nabobs OF province.
distant from the capital, opportunities
of acquiring stability In their gov
ernments little less than absolute
and what Is more extraordinary In thu
officers of a despotic state, both thu
yiceroy and the nabobs have named
their successors against the will Of
the throne, and who have often sue
ceeded with as little opposition as II
they had been the heirs apparent to ar
hereditary dominion. The nabobisf
being thus attended with so much
power. and profit, the right Of sue
cession became an affair Of importance
and il has given rise to disputes and
wars as cruel and bloody as any re.
corded in history. The English anc
French who had settlements In thii
part Of the world, thought proper tc
Interest themselves very warmly ir
these disputes: in one of which, be.
tween Chunda-saheb and Mahomed
Ally, the French took the part Of the
former and the English Of the latter
The object Of this dispute was, Of the
greatest Importance: and, In the
course Of the war, Captain (after-
wards Lord) Give, who had many
times before distinguished himself In
a very extraordinary manner, pro.
pOSeu IO dtldCh tuC pOooCooioho Va
Chunda-saheb In the territory Of Ar
cot, and offered to lead the expedition
himself. His whole force, when COM
pleted, consisted of no more than
three hundred sepoys. and two hun.
dred Europeans, with eight officers;
six Of whom had never before been In
action, and four Of these six were
young men in the mercantile service
Of the company, who, infiamed by his
example, took up the sword to follow
him. This handful Of men, with only
three pieces Of their artillery, marched
from Madras on the Goth Of August
1851. On the 31st he halted within
ten miles Of Arcot, where the. enc.
mics spies reported that they had
discovered the English marching, with
unconcern, through violent storm OF
thunder, lightning and rain, and this
circumstance, from their notion o,
omens, gave the garrison 80 high ar
opinion of the approaching enemy
that they instantly abandoned the
fort, and, a few hours after, the En-
glish entered the city and marching
through a hundred thousand spec.
tators. took possession OF the fort
which was inhabited by between three
and four thousand persons. The mer.
LUZ cCSoiil.' oOPooAtSS
in the fort effects to the value of 50,-
600, but these were punctually re.
stored to the owners, and this judici.
GUS generosity conciliated many OF
the principal inhabitants to the En-.
glish interest. This acquisiation soor
produced the effect which had been
expected from It: Chunda- -sahed laid
close seige to the place. At the be.
ginning Of the seige, Captain Give
was deprived Of the service Of four
Of the eight officers, who set out or
the expedition, and the troops fit fol
duty were diminished to an hundred
and twenty Europeans, and two hun
dred sepoys. These were beseiged by
an hundred and fifty French, two
thousand sepoys, three thousand cav.
airy and five thousand poems. The
English sustained the attack with
invincible resolution. On the 30th OF
October, Rajah-sahed, who conducted
the operations Of the seige for his
father, Chunda- -saheb. sent a flag OF
truce, with proposals for the surrend.
er Of the fort. He offered honorable
terms to the garrison, and large
sum Of money to Capt. Give, add.
ing, that If these terms were not ac-
cepted, he would storm the fort i'm.
put SNSty htot W sAf>
sword. Captain Give. in his answer
rejecting on the badness Of Chunda-
saheb's cause, treated the offers OF
money with contempt; and said thai
he had too good an opinion of Rajah.
saheb's prudence to believe that he
would attempt a storm, until he had
got better soldiers than the rabble OF
which his army was composed. Elk.
asperated by this answer, he i'm.
mediately prepared to storm the fort
Besides a multitude that came with
ladders to every part Of the wall thai
was accessible, there appeared foul
principal divisions, two Of which ad-
vanced to the two gates, and two
were allotted to the breaches. 1r
these different attacks the enemy con-
tinued the storm for an hour when they
relinquished all their attempts of an
noyance at once, and employed them.
selves earnestly in carrying off theil
dead. Many Of the English beine
disabled by sickness or wounds, the
number which repulsed the storm wa,
no more than eighty Europeans, Of
ficers included, and one hundred ano
twenty sepoys; and these, beside:
serving five pieces Of cannon, fret
twelve thousand musket cartridges
during the attack. The loss Of the
enemy during the storm was com
puted to be no less than four hun,
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