Summary: defence of their possessions against tlie English.” “The delay,” they add, “which each of our expeditions experienced, occasioned us to advance, by several weeks, to the Sultaun bis warlike apparatus; and also demanded explanation.” M. Dordelin; the gentleman who had accompanied the vakeels, informed the Sultan, by private letter, of the full result of the inquiry. “When I had reached Mauritius,” says he, “1 repaired immediately to the members of the council; and said, Here are the letters which 1 have brought you from tho Sultan. I expressly came to assure you, that there is no longer any expedition to be fear­ ed from the French.” “ Several anti-English passages,” he adds, “vhKh the vakeels had put into the letters, were expunged by the persons to whom 1 committed them.” With such “he most obstinate - epugnance, on tlie part of Tippoo to the English proceedings, M. Dordelin had ai y business. The islanders declared with vehemence, that they would not have con­ sented to the expedition, had it not been that they could ot oppose the government of the colony. Out of 5,500 e armed inhabitants of the island, 1,400 were Tamil Coolis. he rest could raise only 2,000 men, too few for any serious Was (1))U{. Despatches, ii. 2-23. —W. (8) I (Pnues unci ictteis addresseil by Tippoo Sooltauu, Lord Mominglon, and General Harris, to each oilier, and Clari©. tVo. s. E. Indies, vol. iii. Appendix.28. —M. (3) A (itindet to, and translation of, the papers found in So- raugaf^ilam. at tl . chamber of the Sultaun, succeeded, by order of the Governor-General.) No. 3 E. Indies, v l;iv. 1. — B.