India Gazette (Newspaper) - June 7, 1790, London, Middlesex Vol. 1790. 499" The temporary influx of European Intelligence prevented us from continuing the from until this when we refume the in confidence of it's being equally curious and relevant to the of the of from our Paper of the 10th HE of the Company in the fouth the are of magnitude and call forth the vigorous efforts for their in my due of under Divided into various held by different and occupied by tribes at variance with each many parts of them remained and Nor was it practicable for the enlightened of the Company's to form a of the benefits they by the alignment of the Nabob of revenues to the we were with the internal management of countries From the river their northern which divides from the to Cape extremity of the is not lefs than 300 and from the forms their limits on the to the countries of and belonging to and the of upon the is on an average at Immemorial and late have hitherto rendered countries but under a in any degree and founded on equitable they would undoubtedly an annual revenue of 1,000,oool. Of territories the of Tanjore is the fertile it is watered by a multiplicity of by means of embankments and are diverted into every - it annually affords two or three luxurious crops of country is with and formerly teemed with an who were expert in and habituated to fuch are the natural benefits it that no upon globe is Superior in productions for the ufe We are well that from the of the reigning family of the Maratta race 1675 f to the there has been fuch a diminution of the annual produce of late years is lefs by fifty per cent was a century As Europeans never interfered in the management of that and as it has been ravaged or it's muft be attributed to the malversation of it's Maratta or Gentoo but even in it's impoverished it ufed to before the laft about lacks of of worth about eleven lacks of or 440,000!. of was paid as tribute for the Company's to the of 1776, after laft fiege of when the Rajah became a of the Company difficulties that occured in reducing the of the and of the evince it's importance in a military view neither do the inferior and the and that the afford lefs eminent advantages in the moment of - * * The alignment was concluded in the end of the year between Mahomed Ally and Previously to that the were not allowed to interfere in the territorial affairs of the country of Tanjore contained 5753 towns and villages the when the Maratta government was ' contain 100,000 inhabitants to the that followed The of extending from the limits of Tanjore along the which divides it from the Carnatic on the till it reaches dominions on the near and including a range of fifty miles by is the fouth by the country of and by the woods of inhabited by lefs valuable than the country of the vicinity of the renders it extremely productive of Under the Nabob Mahomed Ally's the expenses of collection the greater part of the revenue from this which is at let to a renter under the of the revenues to the Company for about ten lacs of or 100,oool. prosperous it the means of extended and of The fize and of the the abundance of the and the long of the Nabob Mahomed Ally's the Ameer ul at that have rendered it the favorite of the to the cf the The two great pagodas of and on the adjacent ifland of command the veneration of while on that ifland on the or northern fide of and as well as on the plains of are recorded for the bloody of and mark with reverence the of But above it becomes important in a political and military as the and advanced upon the Company's frontiers towards the of My and the for cantoning in order to menace that The country of the the territories of and extends from the to the confines of Madura in a miles by With the exception of fome which have accidentally been it is overgrown with and inhabited by Before that country can be rendered the woods muft the holds and the Colleries compelled to their predatory in its fertile tracts are loft and the wild amounting to 30 or 40,000 men in arms under are ever ready to the in moments of The territory of or the Little from the on the to the of Mellore and Madura on the and from the country and the Colleries upon the norths to the territories of the Great on the containing about fifty miles in length and forty in The foil in general is unfriendly to though not quite of running artificial but the country is overgrown with thorns and The woods extend nearly forty miles in They are with bar and other defences around the fort of which is in the centre of the and as a refuge from or woods and the abound with and inhabitants are and can 12,000 fighting men into the armed with and Though lefs barbarous than the Colleries their yet arts and have made little among The country is capable of great but at hardly more than five lacs of rupees to the who pays one and 75,000 rupees to the Nabob of The Rajah is of the Taver and a of the of the * Is lefs uncultivated than his and at all times proved the faithful adherent Nabob father of the his and in the days of General the force at with at a time when their caufe And the ever afterwards exempted him from f Mahomed Great from which was at no very At the this territory in 1773 by General the Rajah having been then with and fome of the leading people of the into the and there lived under the protection of Hyder until the commencement of the laft During that country was by a in quiet the people acknowledged to be tributaries of the Nabob Mahomed But while their woods and barriers are fuffered to their may be dreaded on the of their profiting by The Great or Rajah of occupies a country fifty miles in length nnd thirty in extending from the boundaries of and Mellore upon the to the fea upon eaft and the confines of on the has-been more propitious to than to that yet arts and have made country is well the inhabitants are and the villages full of who manufacture the cottons produced by the adjacent The city of where the Rajah is and The is a track of open that innumerable herds of The revenues are equal to five lacks of rupees a and the tribute to the Nabob is one lack and 75,000 The reduction of the country in the year 1773 by General and a of the troops in the have deprived the native prince Still however he t andas the guardian of the waters and Pagoda of I come now to the of bounded by Mellore qn the by the Colleries on the by the country of belonging to on the and by on the Its territory is not more than forty-five miles in length and thirty-five in and its annual revenue is to 34,000!.- When the Gentoo Rajah reigned there in the laft his territories extended over many parts of the fouthern His were and of magnificence left by which are hardly in any age or coon remain a melancholy contrail with poverty and The gallant made by Mahomed when he allegiance to the Nabob is a proof that when the works are in this place may be defended the powerful Indian while it's vicinity to the country of belonging to renders it a of capital in the event future operations that - The but not the of territories is which is divided by a ridge of mountains on the north from the wild valleys of Watrap and belonging to It to the confines cf Madura and Ramnad on the eaft and reaches to the fea upon the and borders oil the weft with the of both terminating near Cape Its is generally flat from the till it approaches the mountains on its northern Nature has been peculiarly bountiful to rivers by it is luxuriant crops of the parts yield cotton in The productions that enrich the neighbouring of Ceylon would and might render us the rivals of the Dutch in cinnamon but the particular tenure under which has been the con it endured from the of the in the of this and the depravity of it's have counteracted the benefits of Even when a native Rajah governed this the flat and open only was and was let for fums to great who were with and the peaceful while various maintained armed and withheld their tribute on the appearance of who at amount in number to are capable of 30* 000 brave though troops into the they have alfo fortified towns and in the whither they retire in cafes of be arrived in the river from ras tHe Captain As left that place on the loth ult. cannot be to have brought auy recent On the are arrived five from Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and two French Letters from the Coaft that Lieutenant Col. Cockerell's detachment at jiear the 13 and had advanced as far as. near on the 20th j fo that a few days march will bring them to The company of artillery which landed from the has beea at Ellore fome Other of the fame bring advice that Major Hugh two battalions of Native three talions of fix pieces of ord. had marched from Ellore to join the who has been in the field five the of 70,000 it is that the attack to be made by fhe in with the forces under Major upon will commence in the of and on the fouth banks of the It is expected that the advices the Coaft will bring us intelligence of General Medows having joined the grand and broke ground from Various have been in circulation during the of the detachment under Colonel which are totally devoid of foundation j and were only forged to the of Jobbers in the If a flop is not put to the practice of oftentimes injurious to we may expect to fee the natives here as ingenious in every of intelligence to the of as the noted in noted Alley in On the 17th ult. the John ran on the She left with four feet water in her which had to when the Nothing has been from her and Her was and of of. various By the accounts brought from the Cape by the we find that the Lady with female convicts for Port. had been upwards of 8 months upon her from This evinced no either in the his officers to make a fo we may conclude it is at a. On Saturday morning early an of honour took place between two gentlemen in his one of whom was grazed in the of a Letter from dated 17th Mr. Crawford is removed from his at and appointed Chief of in the of Morgan who is to the Government in the of General Mr. Crawford is at by Michael 1 late of
