The title of the etching is "The Coming on of the Monsoons", an impression is owned by me. Some Notes from Mary Dorothy Georges volume on Britis Political cartoons : "Cornwallis, [It has been suggested that he is William Monson (1760-1807), then serving under Cornwallis, but as a captain in the 52nd he was not of sufficient note in England for caricature and Cornwallis's star removes all doubt of his identity. 'Monsoon' is not a pun, see BMSat 7938.] mounted on an ass, flees terror-stricken from a fortess (right) from behind the battlements of which the grinning Tipu Sultan, holding a sabre, urinates a devastating stream upon the fleeing British soldiers (right). Two cannon belch fire and smoke from loopholes. Cornwallis, wearing his Garter star, gallops past the bodies of dead soldiers, he drops his sabre and his reins, holding up his arms; his hat flies off. His ass is muzzled by a long nose-bag. Beneath the design is etched: '"Whats the matter Falstaff" - "Whats the matter! here be Four of "us, have taken a City this morning - where is it? - where is it? where is it? "taken from us it is; a hundred Thousand, upon poor Four of us, I am a "rogue, if I was not at half-sword with a Thousand of them for two hours "together, I have escaped by miracle, I am eight times thrust through the "doublet, four through the hose, my buckler cut through & through, my Sword "hack'd like a hand-saw, I never dealt better since I was a man: all would "not do!' 6 December 1791 Hand-coloured etching"

But my favourite is this one below, "How to Gain A Compleat Victory (and say, you got safe out of the enemy's reach)". I love this one - as an example of the rather low humour that Gillray often resorted to (but always with telling contextual effect). Again, the extracts from Dorothy George's book : "Tipu Sultan (left) gallops (right to left) past Cornwallis who is seated in an ornate chair on the back of an ill-drawn elephant. Tipu, rising in his stirrups, excretes a blast which displaces a boy-mahout on the elephant's neck and strikes Cornwallis. He says, "Now my Lord I'll Tip you the Swamps". The horse excretes a blast directed at the elephant's eye. The elephant, raising its trunk, says, "I wish I could run as fast as he how i would thump him." Cornwallis, with his sabre raised above his head, his left fist clenched, says, "These Monsoons are more Violent than ever I knew them before Boy turn back again." The boy says, "Yes my Lord I am going backwards Pr force." Behind Cornwallis's seat is a box inscribed 'Rice for Gruel during the Monsoons'. Behind Tipu (left) is a circular fort inscribed 'Seringapatam'. 15 December 1791. Hand-coloured etching" All I can say is that had there been an Environmental regulatory authority established then, and were I its Chairman, a "show cause" notice in the severest terms would have been issued to Tipu for damage to the environment .... I mean the purported damage to the ozone layer from cow farts must be nothing compared to this ....

Without Intrigue and the complicity of traitors, the Tiger would never have fallen to the British