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APPENDIX.
bach a lump of clay, abandoned by tbe whole world, his kingdom over-
thrown, his capital taken, and his palace occupied by the very man,
Major-general Baird,* who, about fifteen years before, had been, with
other victims of his cruelty and tyranny, released fi orn near four years' of
rigid confinement, in irons, in a prison scarce three hundred yards from
the spot where the corpse of the Sultaun now lay.
Thus ended the lile and the power of Tippoo Sultaun. It will require
an able pen to delineate a character apparently so inconsistent; but he who
attempts it must not decide hastily. Those who have served this cam-
paign, victorious and brilliant as it has proved, will however, I believe,
agree that the infantry of the Sultaun were not inferior to our sepoys ; and
that, had he been joined three or four months ago by four or five thousand
French troops, which he had every reason to expect, the event might have
been very different. What infinite credit then is due to the man who
planned and saw the fit moment to execute measures which, perhaps, have
saved us &om ruin !
No. xxxiv.
Ac c/ TAif &*. Cccrgc ^ /A A zb A TWc^/vA'c Ac The/
^ dfcnzhzg/cM, A. A. Ccccnzcr-^cMcrzz/, Ac. Ac.
My LORD,
Wr the undersigned inhabitants of Madras, impressed with a deep sense
of the glory and advantage derived to the British empire from your lord-
* Major general Baird, when captain of the light infantry of the late 73d regiment, (now
71st) was severely wounded and taken prisoner on the icth of September, 1780. After being
kept in Hyder's camp five or six weeks, with Colone! Baiilie and six other officers, he and
three others were sent to Seringapatam, and confined in a small Malabar house, subject to
every insult the guard chose to offer. The number ofprisoners gradually increased to forty-
two or three. The whole were kept in irons, and allowed only one fanam (about
each per day, to furnish every article of life. Major-general Baird suffered this confinement
until the peace of Mangalore, in March, 1784.; a period of three years and six months.
APPENDIX.
bach a lump of clay, abandoned by tbe whole world, his kingdom over-
thrown, his capital taken, and his palace occupied by the very man,
Major-general Baird,* who, about fifteen years before, had been, with
other victims of his cruelty and tyranny, released fi orn near four years' of
rigid confinement, in irons, in a prison scarce three hundred yards from
the spot where the corpse of the Sultaun now lay.
Thus ended the lile and the power of Tippoo Sultaun. It will require
an able pen to delineate a character apparently so inconsistent; but he who
attempts it must not decide hastily. Those who have served this cam-
paign, victorious and brilliant as it has proved, will however, I believe,
agree that the infantry of the Sultaun were not inferior to our sepoys ; and
that, had he been joined three or four months ago by four or five thousand
French troops, which he had every reason to expect, the event might have
been very different. What infinite credit then is due to the man who
planned and saw the fit moment to execute measures which, perhaps, have
saved us &om ruin !
No. xxxiv.
Ac c/ TAif &*. Cccrgc ^ /A A zb A TWc^/vA'c Ac The/
^ dfcnzhzg/cM, A. A. Ccccnzcr-^cMcrzz/, Ac. Ac.
My LORD,
Wr the undersigned inhabitants of Madras, impressed with a deep sense
of the glory and advantage derived to the British empire from your lord-
* Major general Baird, when captain of the light infantry of the late 73d regiment, (now
71st) was severely wounded and taken prisoner on the icth of September, 1780. After being
kept in Hyder's camp five or six weeks, with Colone! Baiilie and six other officers, he and
three others were sent to Seringapatam, and confined in a small Malabar house, subject to
every insult the guard chose to offer. The number ofprisoners gradually increased to forty-
two or three. The whole were kept in irons, and allowed only one fanam (about
each per day, to furnish every article of life. Major-general Baird suffered this confinement
until the peace of Mangalore, in March, 1784.; a period of three years and six months.