When the Turk, or king of day, (the sun) marched with his army of light from the plains of the east towards the west, (in allusion apparently to the original country of the Turks,) the General marched forward,— he, however, left all his heavy baggage on the ground, and the Kuzzak horse and the Kushoons again were put in motion, and they sur­rounded him, and commenced the action like true and faithful soldiers; when, as fate decreed, Boorhan­uddín the Sipahsalar, who commanded the advanced guard of the victorious army, proceeded in front of the whole on horseback to examine the face of the field of battle, and to find ground qualified, or con­venient for a cavalry charge. It happened, that in front of him was a dry bed of a river, in which some English soldiers were stationed in ambush, and these seeing horsemen near them, fired a volley at them, and a ball from one of their unlucky muskets entered his valiant forehead, and he died, and his soul sped to its eternal abode. The troops with him now retired, and laying his body in a pálkí, and proceed­ing to the presence, reported the circumstances of his death. The Sultán, who had a tender heart, at the death of that strong arm of his prosperity, was much grieved; nay, so afflicted, that he shed many tears, and, therefore, on that day he restrained his troops from fighting any more, and however much the Sipahdárs and other officers desired that they might receive orders to attack and charge, and by that means decide the fortune of the day, still, no orders came, and they rubbed the hands of grief one upon the other. In this time the General (Meadows) perceiving that his enemies were timid and slow, marched on without delay, and entered the Fort of Trichinopoly. The Sultán now con­signed the troops of Boorhanuddín Khán to Kumruddín Khán, and detached him to take the Fort of Suttimungul, while he himself turned the direction of his standards towards the Payanghaut and encamped in the neighbourhood of Turwur Paleh, and from thence detached his cavalry to plunder and destroy the towns (dependencies) of Trichinopoly and those of Tanjore. The Gene­tal now halted where he was for sometime, and then by the route of the sea-shore retired with his troops to Madras. The Sultán, the destroyer of his enemies, now followed this army and arrived at Jingee and Purmokul Gurh. In the mean time Kumruddín Khán, as soon as he had taken leave of the Sultán, immediately commenced the siege of the little fort of Suttimungul, attacking it on all sides (it should be Koimbetore, according to Colonel Marriott) and after battering and destroy­ing the walls prepared for the assault. Before, however, the victorious troops could take the fort by that mode of attack, the officer in command there, who was much distressed for want of ammunition, provisions, and water, despatched a mes­senger to the Khán, and made terms of peace, and after the sanction of agreements and covenants the fort was delivered up to the agents of the Sultán, and the Khán, having made over the fort to the charge of the Asof of Sulaumubád, himself with his prisoners, returned to the presence. In result, orders were issued that the officers with Major Chalmers should be placed in confinement, and sent to Seringaputtun, and that his Sipahees should be incorporated in the Sultán’s Kushoons, and this was accordingly done.

As soon as the General had arrived at Madras, the Sultán detached several large bodies of troops from his army to plunder and take possession of different parts of the country, and accordingly Kumruddín Khán was sent to take the Hill Fort of Purmokul Gurh, the walls of which had formerly been battered down, but had lately been replaced by fortifications of earth, and an officer who had in former time been taken prisoner by the late Nawáb with two hundred men, was appointed to command there. Kumruddín, therefore, according to orders with his own division of troops marched thither, and thousands of the poor inhabitants and peasantry of the neighbourhood, relying in the strength of the English garrison, having sought refuge on the hill were plundered and destroyed. The cause was this, that immediately on the arrival of the Sultán’s troops, the officer commanding in the fort frightened at their great numbers, and recollecting his former perils and hardships, under pretence of a violent headache, took to his chamber and left the defence of the fort to the Soubadárs and other officers, and they seeing from the want of order and arrangement in the store and provision depart­ments, that there was no chance of successfully defending the fort, agreeably to the wishes of their officer, peaceably surrendered it. The whole of the people, therefore, who had sought refuge there were placed in confinement, and at that time Kishen Rao, the Mutsuddi, or clerk of the Sultán’s trea­sury, arriving, he exacted the sum of ten thousand rupees from these poor people, and then released them. The officer and garrison of Purmokul, were also allowed to proceed to Madras.