Account of the forming of Bangalore (From Mackenfe's Sketch of the War with Tippoo Sultan.) HILST the troops deftined for the ftations with awful ftillnefs, the garrifon, both in the fort and outworks, as if wearied with inceffant exertion, were equally lull a bright moon, at times obfcured by a pafting cloud, fhone against the battered precipices, over which the affailants had to pafs; from the heavens there came not a breath of wind; nothing difturbed thought; and this gallant corps, after beftowing, in reflection, a foldierly and affectionate tribute on their fair friends, bade adieu to all worldly concerns, and riveted their minds to death or victory. At the hour of eleven a fignal for advancing paffed along the ranks in perfect filence. A caufeway upwards of one hundred yards in length, which would not admit of eight men a breast, was the only road that led from the trenches to the point of attack. To render the breach inacceffible, the befieged had cut a wide and deep trench across this caufe way, leaving a wall about two feet thick entire on the right hand. As there was no draw bridge, it was by this wall that the garrifon communicated with the covert way, and were enabled to fally; but although fo narrow as to be paffed by Indian files only, it ferved alfo to convey our troops over the ditch, which was no where fordable in this quarter. To At the left the caufe way, about twenty feet in height, and but little damaged, as it was covered by the glacis, was efcaled in an inftant; but the principal part of the troops, in defiance of all obftructions, advanced ftraight forwards, and furmounted every obftacle. fome places they clambered over mounds, walls, bulwarks, and hindrances of various kinds, that had been shattered by the cannonade. At others, where the fortifications were more entire, they afcended or defcended by the help of ladders. As the affailants approached the baftion and curtain that had been breached, the refiftance, which till then had fallen far fhort of expectation, began to increafe. Awakened from a fatal fecurity, into which the garrifon had been lulled by the multiplicity of difficulties that the befiegers had to encounter, as well as by the ftrength of the they now bethought of precautions, which, if feafonably applied, would, in all probability, have rendered fuccefs doubtful. The alarm once given circulated like wildfire. Multitudes crowed tumultuoufly to the point of attack. In an inftant, blue-lights and fire balls, thrown in every direction, rendered all objects around the fort clear as at noon day; a blaze of musquetry, which added ftrength to this magnificent illumination, furnished it also with abundance of victims: a general difcharge of rockets contributed to the awful grandeur of an exhibition in itself truly tremendous; and one univerfal roar of cannon all over the fort and pettah at once firack the fpectator with confternation and horror. Whilft the forlorn hope mounted the breach, the leading companies kept a conftant fire on the parapet; as thofe afcended, other divifions fcoured the ramparts to the right and left. The affailants, although broken in advance, pufhed on with irrefiftible preffure. In. ftances of individuals at fingle combat were to be feen indifferent directions; courage was equal on both fides, but fuperiority in difcipline and bodily ftrength fecured to the British troops a firm footing on the ramparts. In thort, before one hour had elapfod, the grena L112 diers diers march, beating all over the works announced to their friends without complete poffeffion of the place. Of the garrifon, however, there were many who fought with a degree of valour that bordered on defperation; but the want of timely concert among them render. ed all attempts at oppofition abortive. Although the firuggle was of fhort duration at the breach, it was repeatedly renewed, as the columns proceeded to take poffeffion of the works. At feveral of the baflions the defenders, encouraged by fupplies of fresh troops, in vain endeavoured to retrieve their lofs; and the affailants, having previously divided their force, rufhed forwards to the right and left, until they met at the oppofite entrance, which is called the Myfore Gate. ceiving almoft as many wounds as were As women and children crowded along with the affrighted garrison through the gate, the carnage was dread ful. The height of the furrounding walls, the length of the arches, and the noife of the mufquetry, which had not yet fubfided, notwithstanding the humanity of the British troops, for a time prevented all diftinction of age or fex. About two thousand chofen troops, that haftened to ftrengthen the garrifon, preffed to get in at the Myfore Gate; but, from the rapidity of the affailants, this reinforcement, which was too late in arrival, contributed only to increase the confufion and flaughter. On the whole, upwards of fourteen hundred Anecdote of the late Earl of Chesterfield. lives were loft in this momentous event; Burke.) an event, which firmly fixed the war (From Mr. Wakefield's Reply to Mr. in the heart of the enemy's dominions, as it put Britain in poffeffion of, probably, the ftrongest and most impor- Aburial-vault of the earls of T Shelford, near Nottingham, is tant fortrefs of Myfore. We fhould here clofe our review of Chefterfield. Some years ago, the fexthis work; but the fubfequent paffage, ton of that church, who was a tailor which defcribes the death and character of the Killedar, or Governor of the Fort of Bangalore, is too important, and too well written, not to deferve to be inferted, whether we confider the writer's credit, or the pleasure of the reader. "Wherever gallantry is recorded, Bahruder Khan, Killedar of Bangalore, will hold a confpicuous place among the heroes of our times. True to his truft, he refigned it with life, after re by trade, violated the fanctuary of the tomb." by cabbaging flices of red velvet from the coffins of the noble fleepers, and felling them for coat-collars to his cuftomers. The whole parish was furprifed at the quantity of red capes flaunting through the village, and illuminated the country round. At length the vicar, a fagacious and pious man! traced the caule of these flaming exhibitions; and wrote, in terms of the the moft piteous horror and lamenta tion, to the late earl upon the fubject of fuch terrific and unhallowed depredation. The witty nobleman adminiftered ghoftly comfort to his vicar: exhorted him to moderate the exceffes of his forrow; and to join rather with himfelf in admiring and commending the provident ingenuity of the tailor, for bringing into light, and employing ufefully what himself and his ancestors had configned to eternal darknefs and decay. Abtract of Premiums offered by the Dublin Society, for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Planting; Manufactures and Fine Arts, in Ireland. 1. "A Planting Timber Trees. PREMIUM after the rate of four pounds an acre, will, be given to each perfon planting between the 1ft Auguft 1796, and the time of claiming, any quantity of ground not lefs than ten acres lying together, or in feparate enclosures, each containing not lefs than one acre, with at least 1000 oak trees, and 1000 of one or more of the following kinds, viz. afh, beech, poplar, black cherry, elm, chefnut, larch, fir, or pine, to each and every acre, on proof being made before the fociety that the faid ground is fufficiently fenced againft cattle. The claims for this premium to be made on or before the 1st of May, 1797. Planting Oak Trees. 2. A premium of three pounds per acre, will be given to each perfon who fhall plant between the 1ft May 1796, and the time of claiming, any quantity of ground not less than one plantation acre, for which he fhall not be entitled to, or fhall not claim the foregoing premium, with two thoufand oak trees (not less than two nor more than five years old) at the leaft to each acre, on proof being made before the fociety that the faid ground is fufficiently tenced against cattle. adjudged at the fame times refpectively as the preceding premiums. Planting Sweet Chefnut Trees. 3. A premium of three pounds per acre, will be given to each perfon who fhall plant between the 1st of Auguft 1796, and the time of claiming, any, quantity of ground not lefs than one plantation acre, for which he fhall not be entitled to, or fhall not claim either of the foregeing premiums, with two thoufand fweet chefnut trees (not lefs than two nor more than five years old) at the leaft to each acre, on proof being made before the fociety that the faid ground is fufficiently fenced againft cattle. Claims to be made and adjudged at the fame times refpectively. Sowing Acorns, and Beech Maft. 4. A premium of 15s. a barrel will be given for every barrel containing 4 bushels of found acorns, or of found beech maft, which fhall be imported into this kingdom between the ift of November 1796 and the 1st of April 1797, and either fown or fold by the importer for fowing, and which fhall be fown accordingly. Sowing /weet Chefnut, &c. 5. A premium of thirty fhillings a barrel will be given for every barrel of found fweet Chefnuts not kiln dried, which fhall be fown between the 1ft of November 1796 and the 1ft of May 1797, and of forty fhillings for every pound of good found feed of the cedar of Lebanon, and of twenty fhillings for every pound of good found feed of the Pinus Cembro, which fhall be fown between faid times. The claims for acorns and beech maft, and the foregoing feeds and chefputs to be made on or before the Ift May 1797. Agriculture. 1. To the person who fhall at a pub The claims are to be fent in, and lic examination to be held in the winter of of 1797, or fpring of 1798, (of the precife time of which notice will be given) anfwer beft in botany at large, the fum of 50l. and a gold medal. 50l. To the fecond beft, the sum of 30l. and a filver medal. 30l. To the third beft the fum of 20l. 2. To the perfon who fhall at a like examination anfwer beft on the feveral forts of vegetables, nutritive or detrimental to each fpecies of cattle, with their feveral qualities, botanic defcriptions, foils in which they thrive beft, &c. the fum of 50l. and a gold medal. 501. To the fecond beft, the fum of 30!. and a filver medal. 301. To the third beft, the fum of 20l. 3. To the perfon who fhall anfwer beft at a like examination, on the feveral forts of hay-graffes, their qualities, botanic defcriptions, and foils in which they thrive beft, the fum of 201. fhall be threfhed before the 24th June 1797, by any threshing machine work ed by wind or water, or by one or two horfes at the moft, and erected after the 1ft May, 1796, the fum of 6d. will be given, provided no more bounty be paid for at any one machine than for 1000 barrels. The claims to be made on or be fore the 24th of June 1797. Bees. A premium of ten fhillings will be given for every flock of bees preferved by any perfon through the fucceeding winter, over and above ten ftocks. The claims are to be made on the firft Thursday of May 1797. Hops. A premium of one fhilling per bar rel will be given on beer brewed with Irish hops of the growth of the years 1796 and 1797, for private ufe or fale. The claims to be made on oath before the 25th of March 1797. . BOTANIC GARDEN. The Dublin Society having taken fixteen acres of ground at Glasnevin, for the purpose of forming a Botanic Garden, purfuant to act of parliament, for promoting a scientific knowlege in the various branches of agriculture, have made fome progrefs in laying them out, pursuant to the following report from their committe of agriculture. The gardens at Glafnevin to be laid out as follows: 1. A HORTUS LINNEENIS. (Fruticetum.) (Arboretum.) Each plant therein to be arranged according to its clafs, order, genus and fpecies, beginning with the firft clafs, and proceeding regularly to the laft clafs of cryptogamia, for which a fepa rate divifion of ground is to be allotted. In each of thefe divifions every plant is to have a painted mark affixed to it, which is to fhew-the number in the Glafnevin Catalogue, the clafs and order-the generic and fpecific name, all in black on a white ground, and the English name in, red. Wherever a genus contains herbs and hrubs, or trees and fhrubs, a mark will be placed in its proper order in the herbarium and fruticetum, referring from one to the other, and fo in the arboretum, in order to fhew the regular continuation of the fyftem; and in like manner, wherever in the herbarium any clafs or order is omitted as not containing any herb, or any herb not hardy enough for the open air, a mark will be fixed in its proper place, to fhew why ir is omitted. In the arboretum, which is propofed to occupy the weft and fouth fides of the ground, and to form a fkreen of about five or fix perches wide, with a broad gravel way through the center, and the grafs kept as fine as a bowlinggreen; the trees are to be planted from twenty to thirty feet apart, and where there is a very delicate or choice fpecies, two may be planted, left one thould fail; the intermediate fpaces are to be filled with fir, larch, laurel, elm, &c. for fhelter, which are to be cut away when they come to interfere with the Linnæen plants, or are useless as nurses, always taking care that the nurses be as diftinct in appearance as poffible from the fpecies they are planted to protect, as deciduons for ever-greens, and vice verfa. Linnæs, Alton, &c.-do not notice varieties in general, but in this garden, every variety, even those that are merely feminal, and all variegations must be arranged in their proper places. This garden is calculated for the fcientific botanift, who ftudies the plants fyftematically. 2. The Cattle Garden. The next garden is the cattle garden or pecudarium, which is to confift of five divifions, as follows: 1. The theep divifion, or Hortus Ovinus. 2. The horned cattle divifion, or Hortus Bovinus. 3. The horse divifion, or Hortus Equinus. 4. The goat divifion, or Hortus Hircinus. 5. The fwine divifion, or Hortus Suinous. Each of thefe is to be laid out in regular beds, with alleys three feet wide between each, and with a gravel walk nearly in the center, across the beds; on the one fide of this walk are to be arranged in Linnæen order all plants which the animal to which the divifion is appropriated is fond of eating, and which are whole fome food for it, and alfo all plants which it is not fond of eating, though not unwhole fome; on the oppofite fide of the walk are to be arranged all plants which the fame animal will eat, but are injurious to it, and likewife all which it refuses to eat, whether injurious or not. The herbaceous plants and shrubs to be kept in each arrangement diftinct, whereby a ufeful fhelter will be gained in many parts. Every plant is to have a like painted mark to it, as before defcribed, and if a native, N. to be on the back of the mark. 3. The Hay Garden. The next garden will be the medow divifion, containing all plants of which hay can be made, arranged according to their times of being fit for cutting. placing on one fide of the walk thofe that are valuable, and on the other, thofe that are the leaft useful, for the fcythe. Thefe hay and cattle gardens are propofed for the inftruction of the practical hufbandman; he will there fee every plant, fhrub and weed which grows in Ireland; he will fee at once what are ufeful, what otherwife, for each animal; he will learn how to weed his meadows and paftures, how to felect the hay feeds which fhould be fown together, and what weeds on his ditches or tillage grounds he fhould be moft anxious to prevent feeding; and the moft illiterate man is capable of inftruction from thefe, by being told what is the defciption of the divifion he looks at. Catalogues |