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OUR ANGLO-INDIAN ARMY.
without money, and without the means of raising any. The pay of the troops was several weeks in arrear; the supply of food was scanty and uncertain; the Sepoys deserted in great numbers: some of the European troops threatened to follow their example, while the feelings of the officers towards their commander were almost avowedly those of disaffection and hostility.
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Under these circumstances, Lally contemplated raising the siege of Madras; and his proceedings were accelerated by the opportune arrival, on the 16th of February, of a
