were sent off.  On the 1st May, an ensign and fifty-one men, collected by Mr. Adams from Calicut and Tellicherry, joined the garrison, and gave some relief from the constant sentry duty that was necessary.  The enemy, meanwhile, had contented themselves with harassing the garrison by firing long shots at them; but it was rumoured that the Rajah of Travancore was sending troops, and then they would have to sustain a serious attack.  Gunner Ince, on whom the whole weight of the defence rested, let it be known that in the last extremity he would blow up the magazine.  It is cheering to find that there was at least one man who was prepared to do his duty.  Sewell and Lapthorne got drunk, and joined with the warehouseman, a Portuguese named Rodriguez, in plundering the Company’s warehouse and sending goods away to Quilon; the soldiers followed the example, and plundered the rooms inside the fort, while the late interpreter’s family were allowed to send away, to Quilon, effects to the value of one hundred thousand fanams, though it was known that the Company had a claim on him for over two-thirds of the amount, on account of money advanced to him.  Davis was dying of a lingering illness, to which he succumbed in the beginning of July.

On the 24th June, a vigorous attack was made on the fort from three sides at once.  On one side the enemy had thrown up an entrenchment, and on the river side they had effected a lodgment in Cowse’s house, a substantial building close to the wall of the fort.  This would have soon made the fort untenable, so a small party was sent to dislodge the occupants.  At first they were repulsed, but a second attempt was successful.  Marching up to the windows, ‘where they were as thick as bees,’ they threw hand grenades into the house, which was hurriedly evacuated; numbers of the enemy leaping into the river, where some of them were drowned.  Ince then bombarded them out of the entrenchment, and the attack came to an end.  Several of the garrison were wounded, but none killed; but what chiefly mortified them was that the arms of the men slain with Gyfford were used against them.  After this the land blockade lingered on, but no very serious attack seems to have been made.  A second reinforcement of thirty men was sent down by Adams from Calicut, and the Rani and Poola Venjamutta sent ‘refreshments,’ and promised that the attacks of their rebellious subjects should cease.  The Rani also wrote to the Madras Council, and sent a deputation of one hundred Brahmins to Tellicherry, to express her horror of the barbarities committed by her people, and her willingness to join the Company’s forces in punishing the guilty.