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with all the extensive districts included under the appellation of 

 the Malabar province, are now subject either to the power or in- 

 fluence of the East India Company, under whose settled govern- 

 ment and mild administration, the natives must be happy. Nor 

 can I quit this interesting spot without contrasting the cruel be- 

 haviour of Hyder Ally, in withholding food from a conquered 

 sovereign, the last of a noble Hindoo dynasty, who had never 

 offended him, with the generous conduct of the British govern- 

 ment to the descendants of the Mysore usurper, who are allowed 

 every thing becoming their royal descent, except the liberty of 

 treading in the bloodj r footsteps of their ancestors, and fomenting 

 wars and rebellions in their native country. 



The particular assignments to the family and descendants of 

 the late Tippoo Sultaun, and the sums appropriated to the zenana, 

 the legitimate and illegitimate children, and dependants of every 

 description on the Mahomedan sovereigns of Mysore, have been 

 so fully detailed in recent publications as to render it unnecessary 

 to insert them in this place. They arc liberal and benevolent, 

 becoming the conquerors of a despot with whom they were com- 

 pelled to engage for the preservation of their own existence in 

 India, and the restorers of the ancient line of Hindoo rajahs, from 

 whom the sovereignty of Mysore had been usurped by the unjust 

 ambition and cruel policy of Tippoo's father. 



Taking advantage of the land-breeze, we sailed from Chetwa 

 for Europe, soon after midnight on the 22d of February, and at 

 sun-rise the next morning I beheld, for the last time, the coast of 

 India, exactly eighteen years from my first arrival at Bombay, 

 where I landed on the 23d of February 1766. This diversified 



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