lieved every two days; also an advanced post in the pettah, near the fort walls, was held by one European regiment, and two battalions of Sepoys: the British thus being in strong possession of the east half of the island.

On the 8th, part of the infantry of the Mysore army was encamped on the glacis, the cavalry on the south side of the river; preparations for the siege were commenced, and the same day a park for entrenching tools and implements of the engineer's department was formed on the island; the trees in the splendid gardens of the Lal Baugh were all cut down to supply materiel for the siege, and the sick and wounded were removed into the Sultan's new palace, the upper part of which was occupied by the officers; the lower, and the Choultries round Hyder's tomb, by the different European corps.

On the 16th, the Bombay army, consisting of four European regiments (one the 1st Bombay European regiment), and seven battalions of Sepoys under General Abercrombie, arrived and joined Lord Cornwallis.

A considerable number of gabins, fascines, and pickets having been prepared by the pioneers and working parties daily detailed from the different European and native regiments, they were carried over on the night of the 18th, and the engineer's park formed on the outside of the boundary hedge behind Brown's redoubt.

On the 19th, to distract the enemy's attention,

an attack from the island with a brigade of H. M.'s 71st and 13th Bengal Native Infantry under Major Dalrymple, was made on Tippoo's army encamped on the south of the river; the party left the island about 8 P. M., and gained the enemy's camp about midnight, which Captain Robertson, of the 71st, entered undiscovered, and bayoneted a great many of the enemy's cavalry and their horses, creating a great alarm, which the entrenching parties on the north side took every advantage of, and before morning had advanced the parallel within 800 yards of the walls.

On the morning of the 9th, the Bombay army crossed the river to the south, drove the Sultan and his troops within the fort, and in the evening stormed and took a strong redoubt, and encamped on the heights out of gun-shot of the walls. By the 22d, the breaches had been advanced within six hundred yards of the walls; during the whole of the same day the Bombay army was severely engaged with the enemy, and completely routed them, repulsing several determined attacks: by the 23d, the second parallel was completed, and ground marked out for the batteries within 500 yards of the fort. On the same night, a detachment under Captain Montresore, constructed a redoubt on a small island within 1500 yards of the north-west angle of the fort; at the same time preparations were made by the Bombay army, which next morning was to effect a lodgment in a ravine near the walls, where a

battery was to be erected from which shot and shells. might be thrown into any part of the city.

The Mahratta army of Purseram Bhow, with Captain Little's brigade of Sepoys, were daily expected to join the army, and Major Cuppage's brigade of the 1st Madras Europeans, and three battalions of Sepoys, with field artillery, after taking Damicotta and Sattimungulum, had ascended the Gudzelhatty Pass, and was bringing up large convoys of supplies from Trichinopoly and Paligatcherry; the grand army was besides most abundantly supplied by the Brinjarries, and the Bombay army from the Malabar coast: the artillery, under Colonel Duff, were in the highest state of efficiency, and in a few hours a fire of sixty pieces of heavy artillery, with red-hot shot and shells, could have been opened on the city.

Such was the situation of the army, when, on the morning of the 24th, orders were issued to cease firing. Towards noon the firing ceased from the fort, immediately after which the following General Order was issued.

Camp before Seringapatam, 24th February, 1792.

"Lord Cornwallis has great pleasure in announcing to the army, that preliminaries of peace have been settled between the confederate powers and Tippoo Sultan, containing stipulations highly honourable and advantageous to the Company and the British nation; and, in consideration of the uncommon valour and firinness that has been mani

fested by the officers and soldiers of the King's and Company's troops during the whole course of the war, it is his Lordship's intention to take upon himself to order a handsome gratuity to be distributed to them, in the same proportion as prize-money, from the sum that Tippoo has bound himself by one of the articles to pay to the Company. It has been agreed, that from this day hostilities shall cease on both sides; but the army is not only to retain its present posts till further orders, but his Lordship likewise enjoins in the strongest manner, that no troops nor persons belonging to Tippoo, shall be allowed to pass the pickets and approach the encampment, without passports or permission regularly notified; and in general that the same vigilance and strictness that has been customary during the war, shall be observed by all officers and soldiers in the execution of every military duty, until the troops shall arrive at the posts that shall be allotted to them in the Company's territories. His Lordship thinks it almost unnecessary to observe that moderation in success is no less expected from brave men than gallantry in action, and he trusts that the officers and soldiers in his army, will not only be incapable of committing violence in any intercourse that may happen between them and Tippoo's troops, but that they will even abstain from making use of any kind of insulting expression towards an enemy now subdued and humbled."

On the 25th, Tippoo's two sons arrived in the British camp as hostages for the fulfilment of the treaty. Up to the 16th March, the Sultan delayed acting up to the treaty, when the young princes were sent on one march towards Bangalore, under charge of Colonel Floyd's cavalry brigade. On the 19th, the definite treaty was delivered, when hostilities ceased, and the Mysore campaign ended. Shortly afterwards, the troops withdrew from the Sultan's territory; and on the 12th May, from HeadQuarters, Camp at Venkitgherry, a General Order by Lord Cornwallis directed the following distribution of the corps.

The 2nd and 3rd battalions of the corps to Fort St. George; the 1st to. Vellore, and the 4th to Arnee.

During the war, the 2nd and 3rd battalions had secured the west of the Carnatic, and protected the convoys as they proceeded towards the grand army. The 1st had protected the southern provinces, eventually entered the enemy's country, and with Colonel Cuppage's brigade, advanced upon Seringapatam. The 4th had served with the grand army throughout the whole campaign; besides, a large detachment from the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the corps, was employed during the war performing the duty of sappers and miners.

The following are abstracts of the returns of the corps for six months of 1792, from May to October inclusive :