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dominions, and he was desired to put his seal to it. After a delay of two days, he replied that he would neither give up Krishnagiri, Chitaldrug, nor Gooty. His unwillingness to part with these places, which could only be useful to him in an offensive war, con- vinced his Lordship of his hostile designs, and made him resolve to insist on their being surrendered : he ordered parties to make fascines, and the young princes to go next morning to Bangalore. The vakils of Tipii, seeing his sons marching off at daybreak, ran and called up Sir John Kennaway, and begged that they might be detained till they should inform the Sultan, and get another final answer from him. His Lordship, with his usual mildness, permitted them to halt after they had proceeded about two miles ; but still it was not till the i6th, three daj^s afterwards, that the vakils signed the treaty ; and it did not come out till the 19th with the signature of Tipii.

' So much good sense and military skill has been shown in the conduct of the war, that I have little doubt but that the peace has been made with equal judgment. It has given us an increase of revenue amounting to thirty-nine and a half lacs of rupees, which, though from Tipii's mismanagement of his finances it has not produced that for some years past, will soon be easily afibrded by the country ; and by giving us possession of the Baramahal, it has rendered it extremely difiicult, if not impossible, for Tipii to invade the Karnatik in future from the westward, — for the passes from Mysore into the Baramahal, though