“My return to the other coast with a favourable answer to Hyat Sahib, will be the signal to other Chiefs to throw off the yoke of Tippoo; and if Colonel Long has made any progress in the Coimbatore Country, or that General Matthews has not been too severely pressed by Tippoo, I may arrive upon the other coast in time to be of real use to the Company.
“I know, Honourable Sir, the liberal and great system of your administration: I will not, therefore, point out any little circumstances about the footing upon which I should return to Hyat Sahib, or remain upon the other coast. I wish only to be rewarded by my Employers as I am successful; and I shall leave it to your goodness, and to your distinguished zeal for the public propriety, to give me any instructions for my conduct, or to charge me with any advices to General Mathews, as you may think proper.
“I hope you will pardon this long and irregular address, and honour me by communicating any part of it that you may think worthy of communication to the Gentlemen of the Council.
“I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
“Donald Campbell.”
“P. S. When you are at leisure, and I am able to have the honour of attending you, I would wish to communicate to you a more particular detail of my conversation with Hyat Sahib——what General Mathews’s hopes of support from this Government were, and the future plans he then meditated——and my ideas of the measures that should be pursued by the Presidency of Fort St. George, to support General Mathews, and improve the advantages he has gained.
“To Warren Hastings, Esq.
Governor-General of Bengal.”
LETTER FROM HYAT SAHIB, ALLUDED TO IN THE FOREGOING.
(Usual Introduction.)