A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH 
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CHAPTER be rich ;_and nothing but a bribe could prevent an accused indivi- 
from ruin. Tippoo certainly had considerable talents for war ; 
May 20, &c. but liis fondness for it, and his engaging with an enemy so much 
his superior in the art, brought on his destruction ; while his early 
habits, of contending with the Marattah plunderers, had given 
him a ferocity and barbarity, that must prevent every considerate 
person from pitying his overthrow. The policy in which he suc- 
ceeded best, was in attaching to him the lower Mussulmans. He 
possessed in the highest degree all the cant, bigotry, and zeal, so 
well fitted for the purpose, and which some few men of abilities 
have succeeded in assuming ; but with him, I believe, they were 
natural. None of his Mussulmans have entered into our service, 
although many of them are in great want ; and they, all retain a 
high respect for his memory, considering him as a martyr, who 
died in the defence of their religion. 
Fears for his 
personal 
safety. 
Private 
apartments. 
Though Tippoo had thus secured the affections of many of his 
subjects, and though he was perhaps conscious of good intentions, 
and fondly imagined that his government was fit to be a pattern to 
all others ; yet whoever sees his private apartments, will be sensible, 
that the mind of the despotic monarch was torn with apprehension. 
Such is, perhaps, the universal state of men of this description ; and 
although a knowledge of the circumstance may not be sufficient to 
prevent the ambitious from grasping at this power, nor to induce 
the person who has once possessed it to return to the calm of 
private life ; yet it may be some consolation to the persons ex- 
posed to its baneful influence, to know, that their ruler enjoys 
less security and tranquillity of mind than themselves. 
From the principal front of the palace, which served as a revenue 
office, and as a place from whence the Sultan occasionally showed 
himself to the populace, the chief entry into the private square was 
through a strong narrow passage, wherein were chained four tigers ; 
which, although somewhat tame, would in case of any disturbance 
become unruly. Within these was the hall in which Tippoo wrote, 
