We ought to have taken the city, sent Tippoo down a prisoner to Madras, and there tried him for the murder of scores of Englishmen, and hung him over the ramparts.

We shall have all our work to do over again, in another four or five years.

However, it will not be such a difficult business as it was last time, now that we have the passes in our hands." "There is no doubt, Uncle, that a considerable part of the population will be heartily glad when Tippoo's power is at an end.

You see, he and Hyder were both usurpers, and had no more right to the throne than you had." "Quite so, Dick, and that makes our letting him off, when we could have taken the capital easily, all the more foolish.

If he had been the lawful ruler of Mysore, it might not have been good policy to push him too hard, for he would have had sympathy from all the native princes of India.