A number of rats were introduced under this cover, and hot coals were heaped upon the vessel, till the rats, rendered furious by the heat, gnawed into the very bowels of the victim, in their agony to escape.
[Bor (viii.

628) conscientiously furnishes diagrams of the machinery by aid of which this devilish cruelty was inflicted.

The rats were sent by the Governor himself .-- Vide Letter of the Commissioners to Sonoy, apud Bor, viii.

640, 641.

The whole letter is a wonderful monument of barbarity.