Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Dispatches, giving an account of the defeat of Tippoo Sultan, sent by Mr. Fawcett from Bombay, were yesterday read in the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The action took place at the entrance of the Ghauts, on the 6th of March, and the victory was brilliant and complete. It was attended with great loss in the field to the perfidious Prince who provoked our arms, and in its consequences may involve his fall from a Throne which he has held, since the peace of Seringapatam, by the forbearance and generosity of Great Britain.
The preparations that the restless Tippoo had been making for war, the correspondence which had been detected between him and the French, determined the British Government to demand explicit explanations of his views, and to force him to dismiss from his service the French whom he entertained only with the view of hostility against the company. Our readers have heard of the steps which were taken by the Earl of Mornington to bring him to a categorical answer. Two armies were directed to march, one from Madras and the other from Bombay, of which General Stuart was the commander in chief. The result we can only state from the document which has been received by a commercial house only but which is most satisfactory.

August 4.
Official accounts have been received at the E. I. House of the complete defeat of Tippoo, and of his having been forced to retreat to Seringapatam, with great loss. It was in consequence of the Bombay and Madras armies having marched with a view to effect a junction at a given point, that Tippoo induced by the hope of defeating one of those armies before it could join the other attacked the Bombay army. So complete was the overthrow of the Tippoo, that it is supposed the East India Company will dethrone him, and Replace the King of the Myore on his Throne.