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This celebrated treaty has been the subject of much 

 controversy ; nor do the views which influenced Lord 

 Cornwallis seem ever to have been fully understood. It 

 appears to have effected either too little or too much. The 

 cessions extorted were such as to preclude all hope of fu- 

 ture friendship ; for they inevitably created in the mind of 

 a proud, ambitious, and restless prince a feeling of deadly 

 enmity, as well as an incessant desire to retrieve his 

 lost greatness ; while they left him a degree of power 

 which might easily become formidable in the h.inds of such 

 an enemy. 



Notwithstanding these unpromising circumstances, six 

 years elapsed without any violation of the treaty ; and all 

 its conditions being fulfilled, the two young hostages were 

 sent back to their father in 1794. Tippoo saw no pros- 

 pect of making war with advantage, and Sir John Shore, 

 who succeeded as governor-general, followed a strictly pa- 

 cific system, which he was even accused of carrying to ex- 

 cess. His policy was particularly questioned in the case 

 of the nizam, when the Mahrattas, his late allies, carried 

 into effect their long-cherished design of invading and 

 plundering his territories. The engagements entered into 

 with this prince previous to the commencement of the My- 

 sore war, though somewhat vague, were such as reasonably 

 led him, in that event, to look for British protection. Tho 

 new governor, however, considered himself as strictly pre- 

 cluded by his instructions from engaging in any war that 

 was not purely defensive. The nizam, in the exigency to 

 which he was thus reduced, had recourse to a Frenchman 

 named Raymond, who possessed no ordinary share of en- 

 terprise and military skill. He succeeded in alluring into 

 the service of his employer a great number of French 

 officers, and with their aid organized no less than 14,000 

 troops, who were superior to any native force, with the ex- 

 ception of the sepoys trained in the British army. Tippoo, 

 meantime, was busily employed in attempting to improve 

 his military system, though, from want of practical judg- 

 ment and information, he met with very imperfect success. 



Such was the state of afiairs, when, in May, 1798, the 

 Earl of Mornington, afterward Marquis Wellesley, came 

 out as governor-general. This nobleman, whose military 

 career was destined to eclipse that of Clive, was sent with 



