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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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French officers returning from East Indies report Tippoo Saib's cruelties against English prisoners as retaliation for British atrocities on Hyder Ali's soldiers. Tippoo mutilated many English, killing some, and selected skilled prisoners to convert to Islam and relocate inland, informing Madras council of their conversion.
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The French officers, returned from the East-Indies, justify the cruelties of Tippoo Saib, if they can possibly be justified, by declaring that the English had committed all kinds of horrid acts on the soldiers taken prisoners from Hyder Ally Khan. The new Nabob, not satisfied with delivering up General Matthews and his companions to their most dreadful punishments, caused also a great number of the English to be mutilated, part of whom are since dead, and others reduced to a melancholy condition. Tippoo Saib hath chosen from among the prisoners those who are versed in any art which may be of use to him; he has sent them up the country, and sent word to the council at Madras that they have turned Mahometans.
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East Indies
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great number of english prisoners mutilated, part dead, others in melancholy condition; skilled prisoners selected, sent up country, and reported as turned mahometans.
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French officers justify Tippoo Saib's cruelties by English horrid acts on Hyder Ally Khan's prisoners. New Nabob delivered General Matthews and companions to dreadful punishments, then mutilated many English. Tippoo Saib chose skilled prisoners for useful arts, sent them up country, and informed Madras council they turned Mahometans.