. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. ter the capture of Seringa-patam,when his repositories were searched, along with treaties, state-papers,and political correspondence, there was found a record of his dreams andtheir interpretation, of which Colonel Beatson preserved some curiousspecimens. For instance : once, when he was threatened with an invasionof the Mahrattas, he dreamed that a young man came up and accosted him,who in the course of conversation proved to be a female. Hence he sagelyinferred that his enemy, who at fi
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. ter the capture of Seringa-patam,when his repositories were searched, along with treaties, state-papers,and political correspondence, there was found a record of his dreams andtheir interpretation, of which Colonel Beatson preserved some curiousspecimens. For instance : once, when he was threatened with an invasionof the Mahrattas, he dreamed that a young man came up and accosted him,who in the course of conversation proved to be a female. Hence he sagelyinferred that his enemy, who at first had a manly and formidable appearance,would in battle prove no better than women. These lucubrations form astrange contrast to his display of talent on other occasions. Nor can it bewondered at, that public measures resting upon conclusions like that citedabove should not always have proved very prosperous. The body of the sultan was carried to the palace, and the next day wasburied with military pomp in the magnificent sepulchre of the Lall Bang,erected by Hyder Ali on the island of The Lall Bang. BRITISH GOVERNMENT. 511 CHAPTER XXII. BRITISH GOVERNMENT Ix\ INDIA. The fall of Tippoo Saib placed a large kingdom at the disposal of thegovernor-general, the marquis Wellesley, who took in full sovereignty, forthe East India Company, the coast of Canara, the district of Coimbetoor,the passes of the Ghauts, and Seringapatam ; thus securing the whole sea-coast of southern India, with a free communication across the country. Alarge tract was assigned to the nizam adjoining his dominions, and a portionof the conquered states was offered to the peishwa, on condition that heshould allow British troops to be stationed within his territories ; but as theseterms were rejected, the proffered share was withheld, until circumstancesinduced Bajee Rao to consent to an arrangement by which his independencewas virtually lost. When the governor-general had taken possession of all
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