SELECT LETTERS

OF

TIPPOO SULTAN

TO

VARIOUS PUBLIC FUNCTIONARIES.

 

 

 

SELECT LETTERS

OF

TIPPOO SULTAN

TO

VARIOUS PUBLIC FUNCTIONARIES:

INCLUDING HIS

PRINCIPAL MILITARY COMMANDERS; GOVERNORS OF FORTS

AND PROVINCES;

DIPLOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL AGENTS;

&c. &c. &c.

TOGETHER WITH SOME ADDRESSED TO THE

TRIBUTARY CHIEFTAINS OF SHÂNOOR, KURNOOL, AND CANNANORE,

AND

SUNDRY OTHER PERSONS.

ARRANGED AND TRANSLATED BY

WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK,

Colonel in the Service of the Honorable East-India Company.

With NOTES and OBSERVATIONS, and an

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING SEVERAL ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.

London:

PRINTED FOR BLACK, PARRY, AND KINGSBURY, BOOKSELLERS TO THE HONORABLE EAST-INDIA

COMPANY, LEADENHALL STREET; AND FOR JOHN BOOTH, DUKE STREET, PORTLAND PLACE.

1811.