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the Raja's friends find plunged Govenor Haſtings into new difficulties.
Ramjaum having put Ramnagur into a ſtate of defenc, conducted his principal troops to a fort called Pateetah, to which a detachment under the command of Major Popham was directed, compoſed of what men could be ſpared from the garriſon of Chunar. In the mean time Gaptain Blair was diſpatched with his battalion and two companies of grenadiers to ſurpriſe the fort; and Lieutenant Polhill, who juſt arrived from Allahabad, with ſix companies of Seapoys from the Nabob Aſpah-doulah's life guards, was ordered to encamp on the op-
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