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of the enemy was very great. Upwards of three millions of treasure were found 
in the palace. 
Mangalore is to be added to the British territory in India; a circumstance not 
more important in the benefit it will render to our commerce and marine, than in 
depriving the enemy of a port in which they found protection and relief. 
The partition of the treasures and other spoils of Seringapatam is thus arranged: 
the arms and military stores are to be given to the king; one clear moiety of all 
the other produce to the besieging troops, and the other moiety to the East India 
Company. In Lord Cornwallis’s expedition against the Mysore country, the Com¬ 
pany ceded their portion of the booty to the brave captors; but so great are the 
spoils at present, that it is thought the allotted share will amply compensate their 
services, though eminent in the greatest degree. 
The standard of Mysore was sent by General Harris to Fort William: it is of 
light green silk, with a red hand represented in the middle, and was never hoisted 
but on the palace in Seringapatam. 
This history cannot be concluded better than by quoting the singular and just 
catastrophe which was predicted of this tyrant by an eminent writer:—“ He would 
continue to advance till he came to a point from which there was no receding, and 
then, like a stag at bay, he would terminate his career of despotism, cruelty, and op¬ 
pression.” 
We now resume our account of the Isle of France, up to the period when the 
Ambassadors of Tippoo had left it, in March, 1798. 
A Continuation of the late Events which took place in the Isle of France , 
until 1800. 
1798. There only remained in the Isle of France the skeletons of the two old 
regiments of the Isle of France and Bourbon. The Colonial Assembly, by dimi¬ 
nishing the number of the soldiers in the colony, flattered themselves that they should 
more easily retain them in their duty; and, in fact, until May, 1798, the tranquillity 
of the island was not disturbed: but, at this epoch, these two regiments having also 
formed the same project of proclaiming liberty to the slaves, the Colonial Assembly 
obtained an order from General Malartic for the two companies of grenadiers to em¬ 
bark on board the frigate la Seine, then ready to sail on a cruize. The grenadier 
