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parched immediately, and that the advance of
hfe army had arrived the preceding evening, at
Deflbor, distant from us about twenty-five miles,
and in the high road towards us. I was thereby
Satisfied, that the effect 1 had in view had taken
place, and ordered a proper place to be recon
noitred for polling the baggages, in case I Ihould
cither have found it advifeable to go and meet
the enemy, or to receive them on the ground I
had occupied. In the middle of the night of
the ill, or rather early in the morning of the 2d,
intelligence was brought me that Hyder had
come to Chittiput, distant from us about eleven
miles. The army was then under orders of
march to proceed nearer Arnee, which, I was
encouraged to hope, might prove an easy acqui
sition, and which, by the large stock of provisi
ons it contained, added to the extreme fitnefs of
its situation, opened to us no less a profpe& than
the total expulsion pf the enemy from the Car
natic. In my then position, with Hyder's army
on one fide, and no object of such magnitude on
the other, it became a point of deliberation,
which was the moll eligible line of conduct to
be adopted. To persevere in my original inten
tion of threatening Arnee (which Hyder had
mod undoubtedly come to cover) and thereby
bring on an action, or to advance and engage
the enemy, I preferred the former, as it promised
the most certain issue, upon the mind of Hyder,
whose sole view evidently was to save his grand
magazine. It was equal to him, whether he ac
complished that, by diverting our attention from
it, or by giving us battle. But it is reasonable
to imagine, that if he succeeded on the former
grounds, he would hardly, after having fuffered
four defeats, put any thing to risk on the latter.
We accordingly therefore commenced our march
towards Arnee, coutigous to which the advance
of our army had arrived, and we had began to
mark out the ground for our encampment,when
a distant cannonade opened on our rear, and
which was the firft annunciation I had of Hy
der's having approached so near us in force.---
His coming upon us, thus suddenly, proceeds
from his being able to cover the march of his
line of infantry, by his large bodies of horse,
which having generally been the companions of
our movements, during the whole of the war,
were never to be considered as any positive proof
of his army being at hand.
Every dispatch was used in making the neces
sary dispositions for repelling the attack, and
coming to action. Our line was then in alow
situation, with high and commanding ground
all round, which as the enemy had got possession
of, our different manoeuvres were performed
under every disadvantage, and exposed to a
heavy, though distant cannonade, it was not
until near mid day that we had reduced the ene
my's various attacks into one fettled point, so as
to advance upon them with effect, and with a
profpea of advantage; but so soon as that was
accomplished, we pushed on and they gave way;
we pursued them till the evening was far ad
vanced, taking from them in their retreat one
gun, five tumbrills, and,two carts loaded with
ammunition.
I remained at this advanced Ration to the last
moment the Rate of my provisions would admit
of; and when obliged to fall back for my sup
plies, I endeavoured to do it with all the credit
possible, by again seeking forHyder, who by my
intelligence, had encamped with his army con
tigous to a road by which we might march. He
retreated before me with precipitation,although
in poflefhon of ground which he could have dis
puted our approach towards with great advan
tage. We pursued our march the succeeding
day, by the fame road on which he had retreat
ed, but found that he had turned off and crossed
the country towards Arnee. On the Bth Tune
when encamped in the neighbourhood of Triva^
tore, and where he had halted a day to refrefh
both the troops and the cattle, of which they
^ need % having fuffered severely
doth by sickness and fatigue, our grand guard
was moll unfortunately drawn into an ambuf
cude composed of about fix thousand of Hyder's
chosen horse, and totally cut off before any fun
port could be afforded.
" h P ] , fur e I acquaint you, that the
L°'p eace w ith the Mahrattas is in
way towards being happily accom
plished, as, on the 17th of May last, articles of a
treaty of peace, and perpetual friendship and al
liance, between the English and the Mahrattas
were agreed to and executed by Mahdeo Scin^
di, on the part of the latter, and by Mr. David
The only important movement of the army,
which happened between the action of the 2d of
June, until this present time, was the relief of
the garrilon of Villore, which was performed
between the 7th and gift of August ; the army
having marched in that period near 200 miles,
and threw into the place provisions fufficient to
maintain the garrison to the lit of March next.
I am concerned to acquaint your Lordships
with the fall of Trinquemale, whicli by our in
telligence was surrendered to the French force
under Mons. Suffirein on the 31st ult. by capitu
lation. My orders were to defend it to the last.
Our Squadron had an action with the French
fquadronoff the place on the 3d instant, in which
the latter fuffered molt; but our fleet found it
neceflary to come to these roads, where it arriv
ed the 9th instant, and is now refitting, and in
tends proceeding to Bombay the middle of next
month. The Minerva Store Ship, and the Ma
jor and Nottingham Indiamen belonging to Sir
Richard Bickerton's fleet, are arrived; the two
latter having on board Lieutenant-Colonel
Adams, with two companies of his Majesty's
101st regiment, and Col. Reimbold, with two
companies of his Majesty's electoral troops.
I hey have all of them arrived extremely healthy,
and have Suffered very little indeed by the
voyage.
My present weak state will not allow of my
entering into a particular detail of the late march
of the army towards Guddalore, and its return,
together with the other occurrences which
have Since happened.
Major-General Sir He£tor Munro has fefign*
ed the service, and returns to Europe in the
Myrtle transport, which fails in a few days.
Major-General Stuart, who has been constantly
in the field during the whole of this year's cam
paign, will in consequence succeed to the chief
command of the company's troops on this efta
blifhment# He has been in command of the
army ever since my illness, in the conduct of
which he has shewn the molt indefatigable ac
tivity, in a manner highly to his own honor,
and much to my fatisfaftion.
" ° .DO N, April 9.
The notice given yesterday in the House of
Peers by the Duke of Richmond, of a material
motion he has to bring forward, in which the
well-being of the empire is materially concern
ed, promises no political sabbath of rest to the
new Adminiftration #
Lord Fitzwilliam is to go Ambassador to
France in the place of the Marquis of Carmar
then.
The Lord Advocate ofScotland has not got a
dice in the present arrangement, and has parted
his naval bread and butter with much regret,
notwithstanding his declaration of the vuatry de
partment so ill coalescing with the dry fludy of
the law.
By the removal of Lord North to the House
of Peers, a decided majority of senatorial abili
ties will be thrown into the new administrative
scale of the present Ministry in the upper House,
There is not any man who has reigned in the
late versatile change of Ministers and~ Placemen,
that goes out of office with greater credit to him
felf and more sincerely regretted by the public,
than his Grace the Duke of Richmond.
There are more ihips in the river bound to
New-York, than to any other part of America ;
the merchants are waiting the event of the Com
mercial Treaty now pending in the House be
fore they determine what (hips they shall fend.
April 11. The peace with the Marattas was
signed by Madajee Sindia and the English on the
17th ofMay, ratified in Calcutta the 3d, and
proclaimed at Madras the 23d of June, 1782
A copy ofthe articles has been received by the
Rodney packet. The peace was not ratified at
l oonah when the Rodney failed, for which the
Maratta Ministers assign the following reason:
They declare that they approve of the terms,
and they have no intention of carrying on hos
tilities in future against the English ; but having
heard ^ ir " ere advices from England, that
Mr, Hastings and the Supreme Council were to
Anuerlon, (deputed by the Governor General
and council) on the part of the former, fubjedt
however to the approval and ratification of their
refpe&ive governments, before they fliould be
come final. In as far as depends upon us I be
lieve every part has been confirmed ; but as yet
l have not heard of the conditions, having re
ceived the seal and Signature of the Pelhaw, and
the atteftationso f the dependent members of the
Poona State.
" having been difeovered that some linen ma
nufacturers in Ireland intend emigrating to Ame
rica, and that some Agents from Stonington, in
Co^neaicut (where a staple manufa&ory of that
kind is established) are busy in procuring some
the belt workmen to go over from Belfaft and
Newry : Upon a representation to the Lord
Lieutenant, the Viceroy sent over to England
for advice how to behave on this occasion; and
there have been two councils held at Buckings
ham house without having yet come to any de
termination; though it is said no vessels will be
permitted to take manufacturers or artificers
away.
The next parliament will have the happiness
meeting what has never been experienced by
Wednesday last the town of Wakefield was in
one continued uproar from one o'clock in the
afternoon till ntar ten at night: Early in the
morning General Tottenham's regiment (the
90th) marched out to the field to perform their
exercise; and when the commanding officer
came to the words "Ground your arms," they
all to a man left them, and refufed taking them
up again, declaring that they were determined
immediately to have their discharges. The Ad
jutant told them they should be dismissed in a
few days, but that it was not in his power to
grant any man a difeharge, till he had acquaint
ed the General ; and therefore requefled them
to carry their arms back to the town, and they
should have redress : This solicitation the men
complied with, and Upon their arrival they were
met on the parade by General Tottenham and
others of their officers, who reasoned much with
them, and the men departed to their quarters
seemingly fatisfied; but at one o'clock they as.
fembled again, broke open the store-house, re
leased the guard and prisoners, and having pro
vided themselves with amunition, and placed
a guard over the store, went and forrounded thd
Generals house, and made him prisoner, not
fuflering any person to speak to him, and de
claring, with the most hornd imprecations, that
, he r d , not sign their discharges that night hie
house should be about his ears before morning -
After a variety of language of this fort, the Ge
neral was obliged to comply with their demands;
and set them all at liberty that evening.•
April 12. The famine thatnow rages in Car
natic is of infinitely more alarming a nature
than people are aware of; it threatens as fatal
consequences as the famine which carried off
two millions of people a few years ago in Ben
'.re 1S g rea t room for apprehending
that the famine will produce a pestilence Eve
ry morning exhibits the most Locking fbe&a
cles round Madras; the high roads round the
town are Brewed with dead bodies; and from
the excessive heat of the climate, and the con
sequent putrefaction of these bodies, there is
every thing to be apprehended by those whom
Providence may have placed out of the reach
°• ° ne dreadful scourge, in order that they
might fall by another : But as if famine and
pestilence were not fufficient scourges for'the
poor Indians, the calamities of war are fuper^
added, and a victorious prince, with a numer
ous army, threaten even Madras with a siege.
and lays waste all the country round it. No
more truly deplorable than the
state of our settlements in India ; the Carnatic
is nearly ruined ; Bengal is very little able to re
1 Marattas and Hyder Ally are almost
'by l an d ; and the French are matters
°Happy it is for us that hostilities
with the last mentioned nation are soon to cease
in India.,
DUB LI N, April
On Wednesday last, an entry was made at the
custom-house by Mr. Ramage, of Granby row;
of goods for exportation to America, amounting
in value to no less a sum than eighteen thousand
pounds. These goods chiefly confined of low
prized poplins, half tabbinets, printed linens,
Butts, &c. Some consequence of this entry
may be formed, from the bounty on its draw
backs, amounting to upwards of nine hundred
pounds. Mr. Ramage, who is a native of this
kingdom and made a considerable fortune in A
meiica, has been buying up for some time past
the above goods; and to his great credit, when
he exhibited the invoices at the custom-house, to
ascertain the bounties, a receipt in full from the
different manufadurers, appeared fubferibed to
each.
be removed, and other gentlemen appointed by
the King and Parliament, they would wish to
fee if the new men approved the peace before
they ratified it.