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thus distinguished by the triple circumstance of its being the title 

 of Ally, the name of Tippoo Sultaun's assumed emblem, and the 

 name of his father, the founder of his dominion, was introduced by 

 him on every occasion ; and either the word at length, or its initial 

 letter, was stamped upon every article belonging to him." 



I have read many letters from Hyder and Tippoo on various 

 subjects, and on a former occasion introduced one from Hyder to 

 Colonel Wood, strongly characteristic of his determined and war- 

 like disposition. I have also given an extract of a bigotted 

 epistle from his son, very much in the same spirit with a prayer 

 prefixed to a foolish superstitious dream, thus entered in his diary: 

 " On the seventh day of the month Jaufre, of the } r ear Shaudaub 

 1217 from the birth of Mahomed, (answering to August 1790) 

 when encamped at Sulaumabad, before the attack upon the in- 

 trenchments of Ram Nayer, and after evening prayers, I made 

 invocation to the Deity, in these terms: ' Oh God! the damned 

 infidels of the hills forbid fasting and prayer, as practised by the 

 Mussulmans; convert them at once to the faith, so that the reli- 

 gion of thy prophet may acquire strength/ In the course of the 

 night, and towards the morning, I had a dream," &c. — This dream 

 is not worth relating, nor shall I give a translation of the cruel 

 mandates sent to the commanders of his forts respecting the Eng- 

 lish prisoners in the year 1783, particularly one (as I was credibly 

 informed) ordering Captain Mathews and Lieutenant Wheldon to 

 be turned out in a forest, and hunted to death by dogs, trained for 

 such a purpose. These epistles are too sanguinary for insertion : 

 they are equally cruel, but less energetic and concise than many simi- 

 lar compositions; especially that from the caliph Haroun-al-Rashid, 



