1 province, in which there are feve ral forts, but they made no refiftance; he found fome pieces of artillery in them, which he added to his forces. On the intelligence of this event, General Perron detach the whole of the cargo was totally Jan. 25. By letters from the fhore. - Muttra, Dec. 30. -A perfon named Saltaun Shah, one of the wandering fakeers, gave himself out to be Galaum Kaadur; and, to verify his affertion, circulated a report, that when Golaum Kaadur was ordered to be executed, some of his partizans put another person in the wooden cage in which he was confined that this perfon fuffered death, and that he (the real Golaum Kaadur) made his escape that he remained many years at Mecca, in religious worship; and that he is now returned, by the orders of the great prophet, in order to recover Hinduftân from the Mahrattas, and eftablish the Muffulman religion. This ftory, like all other abfurdities, eafily gained implicit credit with the common people: a multitude of them flocked to him; he placed himself at their head, and invaded Sarungpour, a purgunnah above Delhi: the fon of Madha Row Palkea, a Mahratta chief amed Ramchunder Palkea, oppofed his progrefs; but the impoftor eafly gained a victory over the timid Mahrattas, and fubjugated the whole mand of Capt. L. F. Smith; they were joined on the road by fome troops of the Begum of Sombre. The impoftor Sultaun Shah, instead of being intimidated on hearing of the approach of the troops deftined against him, marched forward himfelf to meet them, and told his army that they would only have half an hour's work in cutting up the bat talions; that he would then march on, and place the Aumils and Killedars which he had with him, and which he had already nominated for Delhi, Agra, &c. On the 22d of December 1799, the troops which were detached against him came near Daylun, a village in the purgunnah of Sarumpoor, near the small river called the Caullee Nuddee: the three battalions of General Perron croffed over, but the Begum with her forces remained on the other fide for more fecurity. In the evening, the impoftor Sultaun Shah's army appeared, and encamped on the fame fide of the river, and within long cannon fhot of General Perron's battalions. The impoftor's force, by the most moderate account, was above twenty thoufand foot, compofed of Rohillas and Seiks, and four hundred horse, chiefly Seiks, and fome fmall pieces of cannon.-Early on the morning of the 23d of December, Capt. L. F. Smith began the attack with the three battalions, and advanced on near enough to make ufe of the grape; the Rohillas after à fhort refiitance fled with precipitation, and left about four or five hundred killed and wounded on the field of battle. The battalions of General The army which, by your Lordthip's directions, proceeded to the capital of the late Tippoo Sultaun, and achieved the conqueft of Myfore, RESOLVED, upon the plains of Seringapatam, to requeft your Lordhip's acceptance of a ftar and badge of the Order of St. Patrick, made from the jewels of the Sultaun, as a mark of their high respect. In the name, and by the defire of that army, I have now the honour to prefent your Lordship with the ftar and badge. In performing this pleafing duty, I am proud to feel and to acknow. ledge that the fplendid fuccefs of the late campaign muft, under Divine Providence, be in juftice re ferred to the inftructive wifdom and characteristic energy of your Lordhip's Councils. Thofe Councils have formed a memorable æra in the Hiftory of India. From their ffects, the Company has gained a new fource of increasing prosperity; and, in their operation, the widefpread interefts of the British Empire in the Eaft being confolidated, and raised on a firm and durable bafis, have attained an eminence of elevation and fecurity hitherto unknown. The glory of having been made by your Lordship inftrumental to the acquirement of fome of these ineftimable advantages, excites in my mind feelings of fatisfaction and gratitude, which no language can adequately convey. A copy of the letter to me from Major-General Floyd, Prefident of the Prize Committee, I have the honour to enclose. I remain, with the highest (Signed) GEO. HARRIS. To Lieut. Gen. HARRIS, Comman der in Chief. SIR, The army that, under your com mand, achieved the conqueft of the empire of the late Tippoo Sultaun, in the fpring of this year, being anxious to offer the Earl of Morn ington, K. P. Governor General, whofe wisdom prepared and directed that event, fome marks of its high efteem, has caused a star and badge of the Order of St. Patrick to be prepared, in which as many of the jewels as could be found fuitable, were taken from the treafury of Tippoo. I have now the pleasure of fending you the fame in a gold box and wooden cafe. I have the honour to request you will be pleased to prefent the ftar and badge to the Earl of Mornington, in the name of the army, as a mark of its respect. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) J. FLOYD. Choultry Plain, Nov. 9, 1799. + E 2 T To bis Excellency Lieut.-General SIR, HARRIS. Fort William, Jan. 7, 1800. Any mark of the refpect of that gallant army which achieved the conqueft of Myfore, muft ever be efteemed by me as a diftinguished honour. The refolution now communicated to me by your Excellency, having been adopted by the army in the hour of victory, and on the - field of conqueft, affords a moft fatiffactory teftimony of their intention to affociate my name with the me. mory of their anexampled triumph. Under this imprefion, the fentiments of public zeal, and the just fenfe of honourable ambition, con cur to render me fincerely defirous of accepting the gift of the army, and of wearing it as an emblem of their glory, and of their good will towards me. I am fatisfied that it never was in the contemplation of the Legif. Jature of Great Britain to prohibit the acceptance of fuch honorary marks of distinction; but an attentive examination of the laws relating to the government of the British poffeffions in India, will convince your Excellency, that I could not accept the gift which you prefent to me in the name of the army, with out violating the letter of exifting ftatutes, and without creating a preedent which might hereafter become the fource of injury to the public fervice. I must therefore requeft your Exrellency, in affuting the army of my high estimation of the honour which they design to confer upon me, to fignify that my acceptance of it is precluded by the pofitive letter of the law. I return your Excellency my thanks for the obliging expreffions of your letter: it is the unfeigned wifh of my heart that your Excel. lency may long enjoy the grateful recollection of your eminent public fervices; and that you, and the unrivalled army employed in the late glorious war, may receive from your King and Country every public de monftration of the fame fentiments of admiration, gratitude, and affec tionate refpect, which your conduct has excited throughout the British Empire in India. I have the honour to be, &c. MADRAS, Jan. 29, 1800. GENERAL ORDERS BY THE COM MANDER IN CHIEF. Lieut. Gen. Harris cannot quit his command without renewing that public teftimony of approbation to the officers and foldiers of the army, at the head of which he has fo long been placed, which their valour, difcipline, and exact fubordination, have fo often called forth during the period of his command; and it affords him particular pleafure, that, in quitting India, he delivers over his military truft to an officer whofe long fervices, and intimate acquaintance with the army of this establishment, enables him to eftimate correctly the fervices and merits of individuals, and to point out to Government their claims to reward. (Signed) P, A. AGNEW, Adj. Gen. of the Army. GEN. ORDERS BY COVERNMENT. Fort St. George, Jan. 27. In confequence of the departure of the Commander in Chief, Lieut. Gen. Harris, the chief command of the army under the Prefidency devolves on Maj. Gen. Brathwaite, in all the branches of the military fervice; and from the entire fatif faction BOMBAY, Jan. 1, 1800. On Col. Dow's obtaining leave to return to Europe, Government published the following order: -Refolved, that Col. Dow's application to proceed to Europe on furlough, for the recovery of his health, be complied with.-The Board very readily fubfcribe to the merited commendation beftowed by the Commander in Chief on. this officer's long, faithful, and zealous fervices, which have frequently call, ed forth the approbation of Government, and will not fail to be fuitably noticed by the Court of Direc. tors." Jan. 14.-On Saturday last, a great concourfe of gentlemen, and fome ladies, affembled at the riding fchool, to enjoy an amufement of rather a novel nature in this fettle. ment, the baiting a buffalo, horfes, wild bears, and a leopard, which were provided for the purpofe. The fpeftators were feparated from the performers on this occafion by a bam. boo railing of confiderable height; and the gallery, and every place from which the propofed exhibition could be feen, was crowded. The first thing to which the leopard was introduced, was an artificial human figure, which the animal attacked and tore with great ferocity, thereby giving his fpectators a very to lerable idea of what they were to expect, were but the barriers that protected them either removed or overcome. A wild hog was next ufhered in; but the leopard, with a true Muffulmanic averfion for fwine's flesh, rather avoided this animal, which alfo upon its part fhewed no difpofition to hoftilities. Every poffible expedient was then ufed by the gentlemen in the exterior of the railing to provoke the leopard to battle. He was teazed with fquibs and crackers, and pelted with every kind of annoyance, until, at length, irritated to the highest pitch of exasperation against his tormenters, he made a fpring, with which, to the terror and aftonishment of all prefent, he reached the top of the lofty railing which divided the houfe, and would, in another fecond, have been down ameng the thickest of the crowd, had not the mafter of the fchool, who fortu. nately had a loaded gun, by him, at the critical inftant fired and thot the animal, who received the ball between the breaft and shoulder, and immediately fell over into his enclosures. The confternation which prevailed among the ladies and gen tlemen prefent on this alarming oc cafion, can be better imagined than defcribed, each perfon being willing to wave all ceremony in order to eftablifh his own right of precedency. The gallery ftairs being rather narrower than fuited the defires of the company, many betook themfelves to the windows, through which which they made a very rapid paf- the war. My Lords direct me at fage. FEBRUARY. CALCUTTA, Feb. 1, 1800. On Sunday morning laft, two laf. cars were brought to town from the fhip Admiral Rainier, charged with having attempted to fet that fhip on fire in Sugar Roads. We understand that one of them was caught in the very act of putting a firebrand into a tub of combustibles prepared for the purpofe, and, upon being immediately tied up and punished, he acknowledged that he had been inftigated to it by the head tindal of the hip, who had firft given him liquor to intoxicate him, and afterwards provided him with the fire, &c. MADRAS VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION. The committee for receiving and remitting the fums fubfcribed to the yoluntary contribution for the fupport of the war, have the pleasure of communicating to the fubfcribers the following copy of a letter forwarded by Major-General Nixon, from the Lords Commiffioners of his Majefty's Treafury, in confequence of the receipt of the firft remittance on the above account from the fifter prefidency. Treafury Chambers, May 10, 1799. SIR, "I have it in command from the Lords Commiffioners of his Majef. ty's Treafury to acknowledge the receipt of the bills from Madras which you left here, to the amount of fixty-feven thoufand feven hun. dred and fifty-two pounds thirteen Thillings and eleven pence, with the refolutions of the inhabitants, fubfcribers to the voluntary contribution at Madras for the fupport of the fame time to return you their thanks for your attention to the bu finefs, and to request you will convey, through the committee at Ma. dras for the conducting the fubfcription, the ftrong fenfe their Lordships have of the zeal, liber. ality, and public fpirit of the gentlemen who, at fo great a diftance from their country, have thus ftood forward in fupport of it." I am, Sir, Your most humble fervant, (Signed) GEORGE ROSE. Major-General Nixon, &c. Feb. 3.-We understand that the Bombay Turf Club, having taken into confideration the very high prices demanded for horfes imported from the Perfian Gulph, have come to the laudable and public-fpirited refolution of encouraging, by all the means in their power, the breeding of horfes in Bombay and its dependencies; and, as a preliminary effay towards the attainment of their object, propofe to give one hundred gold mohurs, to be added to a fweeptakes, to be run for by two, three, and four-year-old colts and fillies, in December 1805, The colts and fillies entitled to run must be foaled in Bombay or its dependencies, by mares which fhall have been in poffeffion of gentlemen at leaft twelve months. |