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Title: Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Sears, Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: New York, R. Sears
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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iving in exile,and he was soon at the head of an army sufficiently strong to drive theMussulman garrison from the forts, and clear his territories of those detestedenemies. Being once more in possession of his own dominions, he wasglad to obtain the friendship and alliance of General Abercrombie, who wasthus enabled to pass through Coorg peacefully with his army to joinLord Cornwallis, whose camp he reached a few days after the battle ofSeringapatam. Tippoo was now so fully sensible of his danger, that he opened a nego-tiation with the English, in the conviction that he should be obliged to makepeace with them on their own terms. The conditions they offered were,that he should cedeone half of his dominions to the allies — that is, to thenizam, the Mahrattas, and the English — who should be privileged to takethe portion nearest to their respective territories; that he should pay downa sum equivalent to four millions sterling; and that he should send his two ►^ CO <o -3C3 35 -d
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REIGN OF JIPPOO SAIB. 505 sons as hostages to the British camp. The haughty suUan assemhled hischief officers in the great mosque, and read these proposals to them, whenthey all agreed that his hest course was to secure peace, even on these hardterms; and the treaty was signed accordingly in February, 1792. The parting with the two young princes was a severe trial to the wholeof the royal family. The youths rode forth dressed in white muslin robes,wearing round their necks several strings of large pearls mixed with jewels,and mounted on elephants richly caparisoned. The walls were crowdedwith spectators to witness their departure, and Tippoo himself stood withhis people, to take a farewell look of the beloved children whom he wascompelled to confide to the care of his enemies, uncertain what sort oftreatment they might experience. The chief Vakeel, who accompaniedthem, was instructed to take them direct to the tent of Lord Cornwallis,and, in delivering them into the hands of that nobl

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