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■were absent : It was, there- 

 fore, considered as of impor- 

 tance to make a call of the 

 house to determine who were 

 present : this being decreed, 

 each member took the follow- 

 ing oath : 



*' I swear, in the name of 

 the nation, to maintain 

 liberty and equality, or to 

 die at my post ! 



Domestic. 



Lord Cornwallis has signifi- 

 ed his intention of returning 

 to Europe in January next, — 

 his lordfhip will be accompa- 

 nied home by general Mea- 

 dows. 



General Meadows at his re- 



turn, is to be invested with 

 one of the vacant knighthoods 

 of the bath. 



Lord Macartney succeeds 

 earl Cornwallis as governot 

 general in India, — his lord- 

 fhip will, after coi>i_luding his 

 embafsy to China, embark from 

 thence to Madras. 



The mayor of Leeds has if- 

 sued orders to the manufactu- 

 rers adjoining, to send patterns 

 of their commodities to lord 

 Macartney, to be (hown by 

 his lordfhip in china. Hali^ 

 fax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, 

 Bradford, and almost every 

 manufacturing town in the 

 kingdom, are adopting the 

 same measure. 



Wbitehall yiug. 21. 

 The definitive treaty with Tippoo Sultan, was received at 

 the India house overland yesterday from Bombay. 



• ABSTRACT OF THE ARTICLES IN THE TREATY. 



I. The treaties of 1770, with Hyder Ally Khan, and of 1784, 

 with Tippoo Sultan are confirmed. 



II. The fourth article of the preliminary treaty, by which 

 Tippoo agrees to yield half the country, and pay certain sums 

 -of money therein stipulated, and deliver two of his sons as hos- 

 tages, for the performance of these stipulations is ratined 



III. The general abstract of the countries ceded by Tippoo, 

 are hereunto subjoined, and the detail of them is inserted in 

 a separate schedule, bearing the seal and signature of Tippoo 

 Sultan. 



Districts ceded to the bomnrahle Englijh Comfar.y. 



Calicut 63 talojk^ — — — — 848761; 5 4 



^algaurchcrry — — — SScci o o 



1) nd gjl a ^d Pulnaveerpichry 2 talooks — — 900-0 o o 



Salem — — — — — 240CO o o 



Kooih — — — — — i*ooo o o 



Kamkool — — — — i6coo o e 



Siinkagherry — — — 40000 o o 



Cdrried forward. 



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