The Kentucky Gazette

FROM THE AMERICAN EAGLE.

Published at Salem by Mr. Thomas Cuthing.

BY late intelligence from India we learn, that the French have ceded Pondicherry, on the coast of Coromandel, to Tippoo Saib—reserving the right for a limited time of keeping a small number of troops in the citadel, for the protection of such ships as may touch there before this session is generally known. Transports were gone to bring General Conway, (the French Generalissimo in India) and the troops to the Isle of France.

Tippoo had destroyed the strong fortress of Mangalore, on the Malabar coast. The English possessed themselves of this commanding situation the last war; but Tippoo, determined that they should never more take advantage of it, detached a large body of troops to destroy it, and attended himself in person to see that it was effectually done. It was blown up and overturned to its very foundations, exhibiting a scene of ruin like the effects of a violent convulsion of nature.

The policy of this warlike and ferocious Prince appears to be, to gain India entirely to himself, and to destroy all intercourse between its inhabitants and Europeans. For this purpose, he has ordered every pepper shrub to be rooted up in his dominion, and every object of commerce to be destroyed.

Tippoo's numerous troops are under the most excellent discipline. The English by fighting them and the French by aiding them, have taught them the European art of war. A great number of General Matthews's army, who were captured last war, and other Europeans, are now in his pay.