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APPENDIX.

ledgments, and, while we contemplate the benefits we now enjoy, we are
unable to express our gratitude in terms adequate to our sense of the decisive
termination with which the brilliant achievements of the Marquis Corn-
wallis and the victory of Admiral Lord Nelson have been crowned by the
Earl of Mornington.
26^ 1799.
To which the Right Honourable the Governor-general was pleased to
return the following answer.
GENTLEMEN,
i HE zeal which distinguishes your congratulations on the prosperous
termination of the late campaign in Mysore, is suitable to the character of
British subjects, animated by the glorious success of a just and necessary
war, and by the happy prospect of an honourable and secure peace.
it would not become me either to depreciate the efforts which have been
made for your defence, or to disclaim the share which my public duty
required me to take in them.
it would have been criminal in me to have neglected any precaution, or
to have declined any exertion which, in my judgment and conscience,
appeared necessary to the important object of fiustrating die avowed de-
signs of the enemy, and of providing for the safety of the valuable interests
committed to my charge.
in the discharge of this duty I am happy to declare, that I have received
the most cordial assistance from every class and description of the inhabit-
ants of this settlement.
My acknowledgments of the honourable, generous, and disinterested
support of Lord Clive, and of the zealous co-operation of the members of
the council, are not perhaps introduced with strict propriety on this
occasion; but his lordship will pardon my eagerness to offer to him a
public tribute of my sincere gratitude, respect, and esteem.
in all the principal civil and military officers throughout every branch
and department of this government, I have found an unanimous spirit of