Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Nov. 5. A gentleman who has read the Calcutta gazette, of the 14th of April, brought by the St. Anne, arrived at Port l'Orient, from Pondicherry, relates, that a rumour prevailed at the French and English settlements, that the famous Tippoo Saib, King of the Mysore, and son to Hyder Ali, late sovereign of that part of India, was poisoned in a dish of coffee by one of his concubines; but the dose either not being sufficiently strong, or working slow, this Prince had time to call in a Persian physician, who immediately administered an antidote which saved his life. That the unhappy woman being discovered, Tippoo Saib's Council, in the absence of their master, who was confined to his bed, condemned her to be burnt by a slow fire; which sentence being a few days after ratified by the Prince in person, she was placed in a pile of wood, so contrived, as to admit the flames to one piece of timber at a time. This barbarous execution is said to have continued two hours before the wretched creature, who was consumed by inches, breathed her last.