(ji EASTERN H I N D O O S T A N. 



The flaughters and deil:ru6lions which defolated the northern 

 parts of Hindoojlan by 'Tamerlane and Kouli Kba?t united, can 

 fcarcely equal thole brought, in more detail, on Coromondel by 

 our modern deilroycr. In all the battles, flaughters, famines, and 

 the general malTacre at Behliy Kouli Khan occafioned the deaths 

 of two hundred thouland only *. Tamerlane wanted his record 

 of Death; yet lean enumerate a hundred thoufand innocent 

 prifoners murdered in cool blood before Dehli. Above that 

 number malTacred in the city w?hen it was ftormed. The 

 flreights of Kupeli furniflied its tens of thoufands, and heca- 

 tombs fell vi6lims in hundreds of places to the barbarity of 

 Mahometan zeal. Could a juft calctilation be made of the ex- 

 ploits of ytyder and Nadir Shah, adluated by ambition, and Ta- 

 merlane by bigotted cruelty, the lalt would fairly carry the 

 palm from his fucceeding rivals for the glory of barbarity. 

 March ot This incurfion was amply .revenged on Tippoo Sultan, the fon 



wALLis. of Ayder, by the Marquis CorjiwalUs, of whom fame can fcarcely 



give the extent of his praife. On him was beftowed the im- 

 portant charge. He quitted Madras on the 29th of Janiiary, 

 Vellcut. 179 r> and the fame day joined the army at Felhut, eighteen 



miles diftant ; Meadows, as fecond in command, alfo joined. It 

 v/as thought necefTary to carry fifty days provifions for the 

 troops. It v/as found afterwards unnecefTary, as Tippoo, deceived 

 by the manoeuvres of the Marquis, had left a great part of the 

 country, in the early march, unravaged. He continued his 

 march nearly due weft till February ijth, when he turned 



* Frafer's Hid. Nadir Shah, p. 222. 



northward 



