SHORT CHRONICLE 



OF EVENTS, 



[Oct. 19. 1 79 1.] 



WAR. IN INDIA. 



Ik the former numbers of this 

 Chronicle we have given a re- 

 lation of the ditferent fuccefles 

 of the Britiih arms againft Tip- 

 poo Sultan. — The following 

 letter from Earl Cornwallis, 

 the Governor General, who 

 commands the army in perfon, 

 to the Direiftors of the lodia 

 Company, gives a general view 

 of affairs in that country : fn>m 

 which it appears, that I he mea- 

 fures to be purfued are more 

 highly intereftlng to Great Bri- 

 tain,' than any that have been 

 undertaken againft this formi- 

 dable enemy. 



* Honourable Sirs, 

 ' I Ihall not trcMible your 

 honourable Court with an ex- 

 planation of the nature of the 

 HicelTint exertions, both of bo- 

 dy and mind, which are requir- 

 ed by the various duties ot ray 

 prelent fituation ; nor ftiould I 

 now have alluded to them, but 

 that I am under the indifpenf- 

 ablc ncceffity of (fating them, 

 as the caule ot my being oblig- 

 ed, on this oc-calion, inltead of 

 entering into a detail of parti- 

 culars, to limitmyfc-lftoacon- 



cife and general account of our 

 late operations, and of my fu- 

 ture intentions. 



' Our preparations for the 

 campaign having been complet- 

 ed at Madras, the army march- 

 ed from Velhout on the 5th ot 

 February ; and having reached 

 Ve'.'-ore on the nth, we halted 

 there two days, for the purpofc 

 of drawing from thence a fup- 

 p'y to my flock of provifions, 

 and an addition that had bee.a 

 prepared to the battering train, 

 and of receiving fome fto'es 

 and recovered men from Ar- 

 nee, 



' f had, previous to my ar- 

 rival at Vellore, employet! every 

 means in my power to obtain 

 accurate dcfcriplions of the 

 different pail'ts that lead into 

 the Myfore country : and hav- 

 ing feen fuffieient grounds to 

 be confident that t.*;e Moogly. 

 pafs could eafily be rendered 

 pratfticable, I turned off to the 

 right at Vellorj, and not only 

 afcended the pafs without: 

 much difficulty, but, by hav- 

 ing taken a route that Tippoo 

 does not feem to have expedted, 

 1 was alfo lucky enough to be 

 able to advance a conltderable 



