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OF THE WAR WITH TIPPOO SULTAUN. 21?
and his correspondence with Monsieur Raymond,* (all which
transactions appear distinctly on the records discovered at Serin-
gapatam), furnish abundant evidence, that his antipathy to the
English was the ruling passion of his heart, the main-sprm ;
of his policy, and the Axed and fundamental principle of ins
councils and government.
The heir of Tippoo Sultaun must have been educated in the
same principles, encouraged to indulge the same prejudices and
passions, and instructed to form the same views of the interests
and honour of the throne of Mysore. These sentiments would
necessarily acquire additional force in his mind, from the issue of
the late war. Our unexampled success had subverted the foun-
dations of his father's empire, and transferred to our possession,
every source of the civil or military power of Mysore. Placed
on the throne by our favour, and limited by our controul, he
would feel himself degraded to a state of humiliation and weak-
ness, so abject, as no prince of spirit could brook. Under such
an arrangement, our safety would have required us to retain, at
least, all the territory which we now hold by the partition treaty
of Mysore. Whatever we retained, must have been considered
by this prince, as a new usurpation upon his Royal inheritance,
and an additional pledge of his degradation and disgrace. In
proportion to the reduction of his territory and resources, he
would have had less to lose, and more to regain, in any struggle
for the recovery of his father's empire: nor does it seem un-
* Appendix, XLI. A letter from M. Ripaud to Citizen Sultaun Tippoo,
which establishes the fact, that M. Raymond, Commander of the French army at
Hyderabad, had opened a correspondence with the Sultaun.
- F f
and his correspondence with Monsieur Raymond,* (all which
transactions appear distinctly on the records discovered at Serin-
gapatam), furnish abundant evidence, that his antipathy to the
English was the ruling passion of his heart, the main-sprm ;
of his policy, and the Axed and fundamental principle of ins
councils and government.
The heir of Tippoo Sultaun must have been educated in the
same principles, encouraged to indulge the same prejudices and
passions, and instructed to form the same views of the interests
and honour of the throne of Mysore. These sentiments would
necessarily acquire additional force in his mind, from the issue of
the late war. Our unexampled success had subverted the foun-
dations of his father's empire, and transferred to our possession,
every source of the civil or military power of Mysore. Placed
on the throne by our favour, and limited by our controul, he
would feel himself degraded to a state of humiliation and weak-
ness, so abject, as no prince of spirit could brook. Under such
an arrangement, our safety would have required us to retain, at
least, all the territory which we now hold by the partition treaty
of Mysore. Whatever we retained, must have been considered
by this prince, as a new usurpation upon his Royal inheritance,
and an additional pledge of his degradation and disgrace. In
proportion to the reduction of his territory and resources, he
would have had less to lose, and more to regain, in any struggle
for the recovery of his father's empire: nor does it seem un-
* Appendix, XLI. A letter from M. Ripaud to Citizen Sultaun Tippoo,
which establishes the fact, that M. Raymond, Commander of the French army at
Hyderabad, had opened a correspondence with the Sultaun.
- F f