The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-08-29
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dence. Since the passage OF Mr.. Pitt'f
bill, however, much benefit has certainl,
intendence of men of the highest rank and
abilities as Governors-G General, and judges
the most enlightened to preside in the In.
dian courts. The first reforms that were
attempted under the new system, though
not so successful as might be wished, pro.
ceeded from those two personages, the
Marquis CORVALLIS and Sir William Jones
From the conduct of Lord Cornvillis and
his successors Lord Flignmouth and Lord
Mornington, afterwards Marquis Welles.
ley, it is extremely evident that the system
of neutrality and forbearance prescribed
by the resolutions of Parliament, and pre-.
amble of the act of 1884, would have been
scrupulously adhered to had it been pos.
sible consistently with the security of the
British settlement, but towards the close
of the eighteenth century, the English were
compelled to defend themselves from the
most formidable designs of the celebrated
Hyder Ally and his son Tippoo Saib, who
unquestionably had il view toxexterminate
the British andi probably all other Euro
peans from the peninsula of India. The
result of these conflicts, which took place in
Mysore and tho Carnatic, was the total
overthrow of Mahomedan dynasty of
only two sovereigns, commencing with q
mere adventurer of most singular character,
who having waded through crimes to his
object succeeded in placing himself and
his son on one of themost brilliant thrones
of the east and in condition to De very
considerable trouble to the English govern
ment there.
Hyder Ally, the father of Tippoo, was
bofn in 1712, and died in 1882. Tippoo was
born in 1853, and lost his life in the cele-
brated assault on the capital of his new
dominions, Seringapatam, in 1893. They
we're very different men, faving been diff
ferently educated. The former had strong
natural powers, which compensated for. his
want of acquired knowledge; the latter was
vain of his scanty proficiency in Persian
literature and a few other attainments to q
degree of absurdity, fanoying himself the
greatest philosopher of the age, the wisest,
bravest and handsomest of men. Hyder
Ally was tolerant in religious concerns to q
degree of Indifference; Tippoo bigoted
Mussulman to the utmost pitch of intoler-
ance and persecution. The former med
died little with religion; the latter contem-
plated changes in Islamism, as in every
thing else, having as a preliminary substi-
tuted a new era in his coins, dating from
the birth instead of the flight of Mahomet.
Both father and son were devoid Of prin-
ciple, but The former was much the greater
man.
It was owing to the vigilance and prompt
measures of Lord Wellesley that Tippoo
was so opportunely overthrown. Though his
were weak, they were carried
on with much duplicity and deceit, and
upon principles of alliance which in other
might have become very
alarming. Under the most positive and
repeated assurance Of peace and amity,
he had intrigued with France, Turkey, the
King of Candahar "a descendant of the Gel
obrated Afghan chief Abdallah), the Nizam
of the Deckan and the Mahrattas, for the
express object of forming strong confed-
eracy to extirpate the English. In his ne
~; .r;% fho ofH Hor1ohor on1
Constantinople, indeed, he had declared
vengeance against the infidels generally,
whence it has been reasonably concluded
that his schemes of destruction embraced
all the European powers, the French not
excepted (according to the English version
Of the matter), had his projects but been
successful. But Lord Wellesley detected
all his plots, and when it became impos-
sible to treat farther with him on any fair
grounds, by the decisive measures and rap
id movements efectually averted the blow
that had been decidedly aimed Mt the Brit
sh empire in India.
On the fall of Seringapatam, the Myso-
rean dominions were by allotment to the
allies, the British, the Nizam and the Nah
rattas, nearly reduced to the limits by which
hey were bounded before the usurpation
If Hyder Ally, and surviving represent.
stive of the Hindoo dynasty. child only
i've years old, placed on the throne, with
IN acknowledged dependency OH the Brit
sh government. C.
To be .ontinued.
The Four Great Moseses.
Moses, the son of Amram, he who
brought the children of Israel out of Egypt
Who broke tho chains of slavery; our great
aw-giver was our first Moses.
Moses Ben Maimeu, known as Maimon-
des, who lived in the twelfth century, a
scientific Investigator, writer of philo- |
'ophioal works, student of medicine and J
.ich in Talmudical learning; he was ouc
'econd great Moses.
Moses Mendelssohn, born in lzz9, q
modern thinker and pursuer of tie phil
,sophy of the former, who was frll of Jew
sh piety, and yet succeeded to raise the So
,ial elevation of his Jewish brethren; he