It  is  foreign  to  our  tale  to  describe  every  event  of  the  war,
which  has  already  been  so  much  more  efficiently  done  in  the
histories  of  the  period ;  besides  we  have  a  pleasant  licence  in
such  matters,  without  which  it  would  be  impossible  for  us  to
conduct  our  readers  to  any  satisfactory  conclusion  of  our  history.
We  shall  therefore  only  state  that,  availing  himself  of  the  unde-
fended state  of  the  passes,  and  while  the  Sultaun  was  occupied
with  his  fruitless  negotiations  with  the  French,  Lord  Cornwallis
ascended  into  Mysore,  and,  ere  he  could  be  opposed  by  a,ny
force,  had  adva>need  considerably  towards  the  strong  fort  of  Ban-
galore. There  were  partial  engagements  for  some  days  between
the  Mysore  cavalry,  led  often  by  the  Sultaun  in  person,  and  the
English ;  but  they  were  attended  by  no  decisive  result,  and  did
not  operate  in  any  way  to  check  the  invasion.
Bangalore  fell  r  the  siege  and  the  heroic  defence  of  its  brav*
governor  are  themes  whitxh:  are  still  sung  in  the  country,  and  will
never  pass  from  the  memory  of  its  inhabitants  while  there  remains
one  of  its  itinerant  bards,  who;  with  two  brass:  wires,  stretched
between  two  gourds  at  each  end  of  a  stick,  perambulate  the
towns  and  villages  for  a  scanty  and  hardrearned  subsistence.
The  Sultaun  retreated  upon  his  capital,  and  to  capture  that
was  the  object  of  the  campaign  ;  but  ere  the  army  could  advance,
it  was  thought  necessary  to  reduce  some  small  forts  in  the*  neigh-
bourhood, and  to  throw  into  them  garrisons,  of  such  Hindoo
inhabitants  of  the  country,  who  had  welcomed  the  English  inva-
sion and  already  assisted  it  against  the  SultauMr  as  would  keep
them  from  the  occupation  of  the  Suteun's  troops.
