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tereils of his country; his abilities, and his labors for that end 

 were amazing. In him appeared all the powers which, in after 

 times, gave to his order that vaft importance in the affairs of 

 the univerfe. I will conclude this article with faying, that out 

 of the fifty thoufand inhabitants found in Bednore when Ayder 

 Alii took pofTeflion of it, thirty thoufand were Cbrijlians, 

 " who," fays his hiltorian, i. p. 83, " were endowed with great 

 " privileges." 



Cranganore^ and a fort on the oppofite fide of the river, named 

 Jacotta, gave rife to the important, war of the Mvfore. They 

 had been taken from the Portugueje by the Butch, and pofTefTed 

 by the laft a hundred and fifty years. Ayder Alii, feeing the 

 conveniency of Cranganore to his Myforean kingdom, in 1780, 

 feized and garriibned it. In the enfuing war, the Butch re- 

 pofTefTed themfelves of it. In 1789 ^ippoo Sultan, the fuccefTor 

 of Ayder, determined to make himfelf mafter of it, in right of 

 his father. He raifed a mighty army, which fo alarmed the 

 Butch, that they refolved to difpofe of the two forts to the 

 Rajah of Travancore, an ally of the Englijh, in order to divert 

 the ftorm from themfelves. I'ippoo marched with his forces, 

 and attacked the lines of 'Travancore. The battle between his 

 army and that of the Rajah, the latter in defence of Cranganore, 

 on May i, 1790, was the fignal of the general war, on which 

 commenced the firtl: campaign in June following. The con- 

 clufion of that glorious war was the putting us in pofTeflion of 

 the whole coail, from Caroor as far as mount Dilly, a trait of a 

 hundred and twenty miles. This is the rcfult of the partition 

 treaty. 



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