Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-05

hlcd his fafety to Colonel Sutherland, by Whole
activity tho traitors were fecured. Sutherland
was tara,er.y a lieutenant 10 the Engliih EAT
India Ccmpanys service, and was forced to re-
Ggn upon fome impntations Of cowardice. He
entered into the icrvicc OF Scndea, and has riien
by his valor and merit TO the chicl command OF
all the troops dlicipiined in the European man-
n6r = he is about 20 years
"A letter received from Bengal fAys, l. ap-
pcais from manuicript found in Sclingapatanl,
thu, he throne belonging TO the late Sultaun,
which has been TENT tc England, was begun a.
bout the period of Iippoos expedition aganit
thu MFRS in l778. "A little before his march a.
gauit the raj h Of Irayancois in 1889, the full
taun iilued orders throughout his territories,
that, i.:tendiug to mount his throne all perfons
who were ab liz to be married might repair to-
seringspatam, aud would have the marriage ex-
pences betrayed BY governments. Accordingly
ION ,houiands repaired to the capital, but were
70 terrified by report that the iut lun had re-
lolved to m ke NJ homed; n, Of the hindoos,
tn, they all fed from the danger. Defeated at
the rrevaacore Ines, Tippoo dropped his inten.
ton Of attending he throne, and i.lne time af-
forwards made vow never E ute IL unit he hid
recovered the provinces ceded to the Englifh by
the treaty Of Seripga pasam, i'll the year 1872.
Pr1ent Priers.
In 1899, confois were 631, Gcnlols 60!
India, 1913 India, zo3
Bank, 156 Bank, IS3
So that conlols have rilen 5 per cent.
India only S, and Bank II. This iecms
the more lurprizing, as it is we'll known,
that by the lase treaty with The nabob OF
Dude, nearly tave millions per annHm are
added TO the territorial revenue OF the
company and the relative value OF India
ftotk, compared TO con6ls in point Ct IN
tereit, is 23os, per cent.
1t puzzles the natural philosophers to
account for woman's having an irreGita-
lie patton for letting houfes on fire, but
that men fhouid entertain an inviucible
propencity to burn cities and depopula;e
provinces, does not appear at all extraor-
dinarys 70 familiar are we become with
this phenomenon
A private letter received from Bengal,
dated in March laft, informs US that the
collections of falr and opium have been
very great, and have produced conflde,a-
bic higher prices than heretofore known
In any year. Since the year 1899, great
improvements have taken place.
We underffand, from. Ba.bary, that
Tippoo iSul,aun had determined, in cafe
he had forced the Brirrh troops from the
lines before Serina apatam. to take refuge
in Chittledroog, were there is a Paacs
and great number of magazeins of pro-
viGons and military flores, tanks OF fine
water, &c. from which place, in conle-
quence Of IT'S natural and artificial Rrength
we ihould have found it nearly impolllble
to dillodge him. This place coe Hyder a
leyen years Gege, and did only then fall
into his hands by treachery.
We might cite ieveraI inRanees from
hi&ory to thew in what manner the great
men Of antiquity regarded the freedonyof
public opinion. The various characters
Of alexander The Graf, Julius C9far,
and even lt6eri0s, concur upon this 1ub-
jett, though they meet from very differ.
ent points. The Macedonian thought
that it was to be conquered by his great
actions; the hdt Roman emperor by cle-
msncy and Cancellation, and the third by
fetting it at his defiance.
But there is iomething infinitely fub-
lime in the advice of Diogeues to che who
comulted him upon the means of reveng-
ing himfelf upon fone who had fpoken
fcandal Of him Let them be the caue of
your becoming irreproachaoIe, liaid the
philofopher.) If they are your enemies,
they will never forgive thernielves for
having made you better man.