National Gazette

From the St. Christopher's Gazette.

MADRAS, March 1.

This moment the important intelligence of a peace with Tippoo has been announced to the public under a discharge of 21 guns from the wall of the fort—a peace that while it restores the long wished for tranquility of our possessions in India, secures the most honorable advantages to the British empire.

The following particulars are said to form the preliminary articles: Tippoo cedes to the allies one half of his dominions, the selection to be left to their own choice, and be made from those parts that lie contiguous to the territories of the respective parties; and all below the Ghauts, both on this side the Peninsula and on the Malabar coast, to be possessed by the company.

Tippoo to pay 3 Crores, and 30 lacks of rupees to the allied armies, as a reimbursement of the expense of the war, and to release all prisoners in his possession of every description, subjects of Great-Britain, without reserve.

His two sons are to remain as hostages in the Carnatic for the due observance of the treaty in all its parts.

On the morning of the 24th the young princes arrived in camp, in pursuance of the preliminary articles of the treaty. They were conducted to the tents pitched for their reception.

Captain Welsh with his battalion has the charge of the young princes.

The following are the general orders issued by Earl Cornwallis on this great occasion.

CAMP, SERINGAPATAM,

February 24, 1792.

Lord Cornwallis has great pleasure in announcing to the army, that preliminaries of peace have been settled between the confederate powers and Tippoo Sultan, containing conditions highly honorable and advantageous to the Company, and the British nation; and in consideration of the uncommon valor and firmness that has been shewn manifestly by the officers and soldiers of the king's and company's troops, during the whole course of the war, it is his lordship's intention to take upon himself to order a handsome gratuity to be distributed to them in the same proportion as prize money, from the sum that Tippoo has bound himself to pay to the company. It has been agreed that from this day hostilities shall cease on both sides, but the army is not only to retain its present posts till further orders—but his lordship likewise enjoins in the strongest manner, that no troops, nor persons belonging to Tippoo shall be allowed to pass the picquet and approach the encampment without a passport or permission regularly notified, and in general, that the same vigilance and strictness that has been customary during the war, shall be observed by all officers and soldiers in the execution of every military duty, until the troops shall arrive at the post that shall be allotted to them, in the company's territories.

His lordship thinks it almost unnecessary to desire the army to advert, that moderation in success, is no less expected from brave men, than gallantry in action, and he trusts that the officers and soldiers in his army, will not only be incapable of committing violences in any intercourse that may happen between them and Tippoo's troops, but that they will even abstain from making use of any kind of an insulting expression towards an enemy now subdued and humbled.