feveral French artists and mechanics, fkilled in cafting cannon, in paper and glass making, with fome engineers and builders. Given in my palace of Seringapatam, under my fignature, that of my prime minifter, and authenticated with the ftate feal, on the 20th of July, 1798. Copy of a Letter from Dubuc to the Rajah of Travencore's Minifier at, Aleppo. My lord, I expect, with impatience, the arrival of fome veffels from India, to hear from you, and to learn from you that your health is perfecty reestablished, if, as it has been reported here, it has been in a bad ftate. As the means of fending intelligence to India are very fluctuating, I take the opportunity of a veffel which is failing for the coaft of Coromandel, to write to the prince Tippoo Sultaun, with whom I have the honour to correfpond. I requeft he will be pleased to communicate my letter to you, after having caufed it to be tranflated into the Oriental language, that it may not be neceffary for you to fhow it to any one. ally. You have been at war with the Pacha. I feel the fincereft conviction that every resentment should be forgotten; that all former difputes fhould be configned to oblivion: and that it is the duty of the two princes to enter into a treaty of alliance and friendship, in a way folid and fuitable to their reciprocal interefts. Were I in India, I fhould give you, as well as the fultaun, fuch fubftantial grounds for that proceeding, that I am confident my withes would be fulfilled; but it will be peculiarly your glory to unite these two powers. You are the counsellor and the friend of your king; you direct his affairs fo advantageously, that if you find this alliance profitable (and I do not doubt but you will), it will be fufficient for you to propofe it to him, and the two princes will readily come to a good understanding.Should my hopes be gratified in this refpect, my joy will be complete, for you will he confidered our ally in becoming that of a prince who has been for a long time united with France. I pray heaven to grant you long and happy days; and that thofe of your king may be profperous, is the fincere with of your fervant and friend, Mal. Defcombre. Ifle de France, March 5, 1798. I have often confidered, in my own mind, why your prince was not in Copy of a Letter from Dubuc to Tippoo alliance with the fultaun; and in recollecting that the great nabob, Hyder Ali, his father, had been the friend and ally of Ram Rajah, I was aftonifhed that that friendship, which had been deranged by fome event, had not been renewed. It is very common in Europe for a power which has been at war with its neighbour to become its friend and Sultaun; dated 10th December, 1798, O. S. 1 few days. They have been four months on their journey, and you may judge of their difpatch and of their punctuality in their fervices to you. The Hircarrahs whom I dispatched to you, on the 11th of laft month, returned yesterday with your majesty's anfwer of the 29th of the fame month, and I haften to fend them back, as they are very faithful perfons, and I wish them to be liberally rewarded. The perfon who was to have furnished the money has not made his appearance, and I fear there will be confiderable difficulty in getting them paid. I think it indifpenfably neceflary for you to expedite an order for taking up immediately all the money which is at Mercieu's, and to annex it to a letter of credit, as I had requested of you, on the republic. The importance of my miffion is fuch, and the refult of it must prove fo advantageous to your majefty, that I cannot too often repeat, money must be confidered as nothing when affairs of fuch immenfe moment are carrying on. It will be neceffary for me to depart, and without money I cannot. In all countries money is the finew of war; and if your majefty does not with to be ruined by the English, and lofe the affiftance of your good friends the French, give me a fufficent demonftration of -your confidence in giving me the proper means of proceeding. Socars with money will not be flopped, more particularly if it be in pagodas with ftars. Ufe difpatch in fending it to me, and I fhall inftantly fet off. The cloths are not yet come, and I have difpatched people to forward them. I requeft your majefty will authorize me to take a year's falary in advance, as you pro ifed me, in order to provide for the fubfiftence of my family in my abfence, fince the fix months. for which I have been paid expire on the 8th of next month, and I have been compelled to expend every thing in my poffeffion. The Englifh having taken my fhip and my property, you will confider my demand juft in every point of view, when you reflect that my family are in a foreign country, deprived of every refource. I once more repeat my earneft defire, that your majesty will give me full powers in that refpect, and order me immediately to be provided with the neceffary funds. The Hircarrahs have promiled to return within thirty days, and I fhall be abe to depart in forty. It would be prudent to have fome other Hircarrahs here, that you may receive intelligence every eight days. I beg leave to recommend earneftly to you the Ouaquil, who is not fufficiently paid, and has received nothing for eight months paft. He alfo fhould have a palanquin; for the envoy of a great prince, fo truly noble and generous as you are, ought not to walk on foot like a cooly. Are you content with my conduct? Speak candidly. You know how much I am attached to you, and you fhall have certain proofs of my fidelity. I befeech your majefty to countenance, with your bounty and protection, my good friend and colleague, general Chapuys. See him often, and the more you fhall fee him the more you fhall know that he is worthy of your efteem, as a man of honour and prudence. I have learned, that your majesty has written to the government of Madras and to lord Mornington. What will be the iffue of their anfwer? Be on your guard against them; them; be ready either to defend yourself, or to make an attack. The preparations for war are going on with great rapidity. The army of the Nizam is already on its march; it must be stopped. The English were defirous of carrying away Ouaquil Sadas Chidevaran; but I difcovered the plot, and it has not fucceeded. It is neceffary that your majesty should inftantly write to the government of Tranquebar, by a fwift courier, to demand its immediate protection for your general-inchief Dubuc, his major Fillietag, the interpreter De Bay, and your Ouaquil. Lord Mornington, governor-general of Bengal, and general Clarke, are coming to the coaft about the end of this month, for the purpofe of entering into negociations with your majefty; which, if they are not advantageous to them, they will caufe you to declare war against them. The refult of that measure will be the invafion of your country, and the dethroning of you, by fubftituting for you and your heirs a nabob of their own making. Your majefty muft perceive, that nothing lefs is in agitation than the deftruction of your kingdom. You must exert yourself, and negociate every where to maintain your power, until the moment when I fhall be able to fecure it for ever for yourfelf and your auguft children. It is very eafy for the English, in confequence of their intrigues in every part of India, to caufe troubles of a ferious kind, and deprive you of all your allies. Should they fucceed in the war against your majefty, they would afterwards effect the deftruction of the power of the Mahrattahs, and deprive them of every poffeffion which might be ceded to them by a new treaty of peace. It is therefore evidently their intereft to treat jointly with you, for the purpofe of finding a certain and mutual guarrantee, and that each member may defend the ftipulations and ceffions made by each at the peace which you figned in your capital with the contracting parties. The English threaten you, the Mahrattahs are bound to fupport you, and not fuffer you to be overcome. The barrier, which feparates you from the former, should exift without any encroachment. You may rely on your allies as long as you poffefs interefts in common, and you would be abandoned by them were these common interefts to ceafe. The time is fhort and precious. You must give proofs of your good intentions, and gain over the Englifh; and, at the fame time, throw obftacles in the way of their negociations at Poona. In fuch a conjuncture, the Mahrattahs ought to give to the law of treaties all poffible weight, and not to omit recalling to the minds of the English the affiftance granted by them against your majefty. Should their remonftrances be neglected, and the means of couciliation prove fruitless, let them inftantly take up arms, and threaten the nation guilty of a breach of the treaties. Such a proceeding would, perhaps, ftop all military defigns and operations againft your majefty. But if the event fhould prove different, the fword must be drawn, and the heath thrown fo far as to render every search for it ufelefs. We have no intelligence of any peculiar interest from Europe. The republic is uniformly victorious, and continues to refufe peace to England, Scind a has already taken Delhi; and I think he must have alfo finished the conquest of Agra. It would be prudent in your majefty to dispatch couriers to him, to acquaint him with the fituation in which you are placed. I entreat your majefty to read my letter attentively. It has been dictated by candour, truth, and a fenfe of your intereft. I pray God to grant fuccefs to the exertions of your majefty, to whom I have the honour to be, (Signed) Dubuc, commander-inchief, naval captain of the French republic, one and indivifible. (True Copy) C. Macauley, fec. Major Fillietag begs you to accept his homage and attachment to your 'majefty. (True copy) N.B. Edmonstone,P.T. Proclamation by Lieut.-gen. George Harris, the Honourable Hen. Wellefly, Lieut.-col.W.Kirkpatrick, and Lieut.-col. Barray Clofe, the Commiffioners for the Affairs of Myfore, 24th June, 1799, at Seringapatam. WE HEREAS the deceafed Tippoo Sultaun, unprovoked by any act of aggreffion on the part of the allies, entered into an offenfive and defenfive alliance with the French, and admitted a French force into his army, for the purpose of commencing war against the honourable English Eaft-India scompany, Bahadur, and its allie the Nizam ud Dowlah Afoph Jah Bahadur, aud the Pefhwah Row Pundit Purdham Bahadur; and the faid Tippoo Sultaun having attempted to evade the juft demands of fatisfaction and fecurity made by the honourable English company 10 Bahadur, and its allies, for their defence and protection against the joint defigns of the faid fultaun and of the French. The allied armies of the honour able English company, Bahadur, and of his highness Nizam ud Dowlah Afoph Jah Bahadur, proceeded to hoftilities in vindication of their rights, and for the preservation of their respective dominions from the perils of foreign invafion, and from the ravages of a cruel and relentless enemy. And whereas it has pleafed AL mighty God to profper the juft caufe of the faid allies with a continued courfe of victory and fuccefs, and finally to crown their arms, by the reduction of the capital of Myfore, the fall of Tippoo Sultaun, the utter extinction of his power, and the unconditional fubmiffion of his people. And whereas the faid allies being difpofed to exercife the rights of conqueft with the fame moderation and forbearance which they have obferved from the commencement to the conclufion of the late fuccefsful war, have refolved to use the power which it has pleafed Almighty God to place in their hands, for the purposes of obtaining reafonable compenfation for the expenfes of the war, and of establishing permanent fecurity and tranquillity for themfelves and their fubjects, as well as for all the powers contiguous to their refpective dominions. Whereas the faid allies have refolved, that of the territory poffeffed by the faid Tippoo Sultaun, the districts fpecified in the schedule A hereunto annexed, fhall be fubjected to the authority, and for ever incorporated with the dominions of the English company Bahadur; and that that the districts fpecified in the fchedule B hereunto annexed, fhall be fubjected to the authority, and for ever incorporated with the dominions of the nabob Nizam ud Dowlah Afoph Jah Bahadur; and that a feparate government fhall be established in Myfore, under the Mikifioor Maharaj Kithenrai Wuddiar, a defcendant of the ancient Rajas of Myfore, who fhall poffefs the diftricts fpecified in fchedule C hereunto annexed, and which fhall form the feparate government of Myfore. And farther, that the diftricts in schedule D fhall remain for the prefent under the authority of the faid Maharaj Kishenrai Wuddiar. And whereas the arrangements and ftipulations neceflary for the establishing the aforefaid divifion and allotment of the territory poffeffed by the late Tippoo Sultaun, between the faid allies, have been finally concluded. We, the above-named commiffioners, do promulgate the aforefaid division and allotment of the territories poffeffed by the late Tippoo Sultaun; and do farther hereby require, from all inhabitants and perfons belonging to, or refiding in, the aforefaid territories, that they pay full and implicit obedience to the government to which they become refpectively fubject by the foregoing arrangements and ftipulations. [Here follow the fchedules.] Speech of the Lord-lieutenant, 22d January, 1799, at the Mecting of the Irish Parliament. My lords and gentlemen, HAVE received his majefty's commands to meet you in parliament. t I congratulate you on the happy effects which have followed the unparalleled achievement of the detachment of his majefty's fleet under the command of rear-admirał lord Nellon; on the total defeat of the French fquadron off the coafts of this kingdom, by that under the command of fir J. B. Warren; and on the brilliant and important conqueft of Minorca. Thofe events, while they afford to us, in common with every other defcription of his majefty's fubjects, matter of juft pride and fatisfaction, muft, at the fame time, give confidence to other powers, and fhew to all Europe the beneficial effects of a fyftem of vigour and exertion, directed with manly perfeverance againft the deftructive projects of the common enemy. I feel much concern in being obliged to acquaint you, that a fpirit of difaffection ftill prevails in feveral parts of this kingdom, and that the fecret agents of the enemy are active in raifing an expectation of fresh affistance from France. In this fituation, and under the evident neceflity of continuing the war with vigour, his majefty firmly relies upon that fpirit and magnanimity which have hitherto marked all your exertions in fupport of the honour of his crown, of the interest of this kingdom, and of the general caufe of the empire. Gentlemen of the houfe of commons, I have ordered the public accounts and eftimates to be laid before you; and as I am confident your wildom will raife the fupplies which may be neceflary, in the manner leaft burthenfome to the fubject, fo you may depend upon my attention to their prudent and economical application. |