Mss Eur Orme India III

pp. [i-iii]. Index, i.e., Table of Contents. Continued at the end of the volume.

1, pp. 517-594. Part of a narrative composed by Captain John Dalton, of the military transactions in the Carnatic from the taking of Captain Maskelyne, June 1751 to the 14th of November 1753, when Captain Dalton left Trichanopoly. Copied from 15. 6. On p. 531 is a letter dated Sleningford, 13 December 1762, from Dalton to Clive, sending his Narrative with permission for Orme to use it. On p. 549 is a deleted letter dated 9 February -- apparently to Orme, the postscript of which runs :- "Pray who wrote the history of the war for Major Lawrence which he brought home and published? I know he never took any pains of that kind of himself, a thing of so much consequence." On p. 594 there is inserted a piece of paper (20 X 16 cm.) with a "Plan of the battle at the Golden Rock, sent me [i.e., R. O.] by Captain Dalton, 1763." Sec 333. 23. f

2, p. 532. Letter, dated 20 July 1703, from R. Orme to Major Joseph Smith. Makes certain enquiries regarding the gate in the barrier erected by the poligar "Lackenaig," which was forced by Muhammad Yusuf in Colonel Heron's expedition in 1755. The letter is repeated on page 746, where also Smith's reply is given. See No. 43 below.

3, p. 595. Letter, dated Sleningford, 25 Nov. 1762, from Capt. Dalton to Clive. Copied from 15. 7 (1).

4, pp. 595-597. Account of the defeat of the French party of cavalry under the command of Pischard by Innis Khan at Tritchanopoly, Dec. 1751, being copied out of Captain Dalton's Narrative (and sent by him to R. Orme, Dec. 1762. Copied from 15. 7 (2) .

5, pp. 597-606. Letters dated Sleningford, 26 December 1762, 2, 7 and 20 January, 9 February, 31 March, 7 April, 2 and 11 May, and 7 June 1763 from Captain Dalton to Orme. Copied from 15. 7 (3).

6, p. 607. Letter, dated 9 March 1754, from Capt. Maskelyne to Clive. Gives an account of Grenville's defeat near Trichinopoly. Orme (History, I. 346) in describing this affair does not mention Grenville's name.

7, p. 607. Letter, dated 20 July 1763, from Orme to Richard Smith. Copy. Enquires as to the exploits of the Mysoreans in the Madura and Tinnevelly countries in the beginning of 1755.

8, p. 608. Letter dated Harley Street, Cavendrish Square, 2 July 1763, from Orme to Richard Bourchier, late Governor of Bombay. Copy. Makes certain enquiries regarding Angria's revolt from the Marathas. For reply see No. 52 below.

9, pp. 608-612. Account of the Expedition of the English troops under the command of Lt.-Col. [Alexander] Heron to Tinivelly, Feb. to June 1755, Written by Major Joseph Smith. Copy. A very interesting paper, describing the early experience of the English with the Kallans of Madura and Tinnevelly. See also Nos. 42 to 44 below.

10, pp. 613-623. Extracts from the East India Company's Advices from their President and Council at Fort St. George, concerning "Affairs Political and Military on the Coast of Coromandel from 5 July 1752 to 18 March 1753." Copied from 17. 3, 4.

11, pp. 624-626. Relation de la derniére affaire de l' Inde qui a mis fin aux Troubles, 1750. Copied from 17. 1.

12, p. 627. Letter, dated Harley Street, 19 April 1763, from Orme to Dalton. Copy. Makes certain enquiries regarding the battles of the Golden Rock and the Sugarloaf Rock in 1753. Dalton replied in his letter of 2nd May 1763. See No. 5 above.

13, p. 628. Letter, dated – May 1763, from Orme to Dalton. Copy. Makes certain enquiries regarding the attempted escalade of Trichinopoly on the 27th Nov. 1753. Replied to by Palton in his letter of the 7th June 1763. See No.5 above.

14, pp. 629-649. Extracts frorn the Records at Madras made by R. O. in 1754 on his arrival there in September. Copied from 14. 23. (1) pp. 629-632. General advices, and from the Camp, or Letters from Starke, Deputy Governor of Fort St. David, and Col. Lawrence, from the 8th of Jan. 1753 to Sept. 1754. (2) pp. 632-636. Advices from Tritchanopoly, by Dalton, Jan. 1753 to Dec. 1753. (3) pp. 636-638. Advices from Chinglapett, Jan. 1753 to. July 1754. (4) pp. 638-639. General advices, and from the Camp July 1754. (5) p. 639. Advices from and concerning Abdull Wahab Khan, Jan. 1754 to March 1754. (6) pp. 639-640. Advices from Arcot (extra), Jan. 1754 to Aug. 1754. (7) pp. 640-641. Advices from Pegu, Jan. 1753 to July 1754. Copied from 14. 24. (8) pp. 641-642. Advices from Chinglapett, Jan. 1753 to July 1754. (9) pp. 642-644. Advices, extra-provincial, in the Decan, Jan. 1753 to July 1754. (10) pp. 644-649. Choromandel general affairs, and from the Camp, Jan. 1753 to Sept. 1754.

15, pp. 649-650. A reflection on the extent of Dupleix's views even after the death of Chundasaib, and on the little reliance to be had on the authenticity of accounts [of affairs] so far distant as the affairs of Golcondah. By R. O., 1763. Apparently a paragraph for his History (see History, I, 252) but thrown aside.

16, p. 650. Memoranda of events from the capture of Seringharn to the seizing of the Swiss Company in Pondicherry set down by R. O. in Aladras, 1753. Copied from 14. 22.

17, pp. 651-652. Accounts of Chundasaib, from the year 1736 to the year 1749, taken by R. O. at Madras in 1752. One from the Nabob's Wakiffdar at St. Thomé. One from Seik Gee, an officer of horse with Clive at Arcot. Copied from 14. 12.

18, p. 652. Letter, dated - Jan. 1753, from Orme to Ensign Symmonds. Copied from 14. 29.

19, p. 652. Letter, dated - Jan. 1753, from Orme to Paupa Bramin With his reply. Copied from 14. 14.

20, p. 651 Extracts of letters from the Consultations at Madras, referred to the extracts I made of advices on the Coast of Coromandel from Page 629 to Page 649 of this volume, but I do not understand the meaning of the references for they were made in the year 1754. Copy.

21, pp. 653-654. Heads of Events on the Coast of Coromandel from the attack of Vandewash, Oct. 1752, until the arrival of Mortizally at Pondicherry, March 1753, together with a List of Officers killed and wounded on the Coast. This Scrap by Capt. Clive in 1753. This list is not very clear either as to the time which it covers or the date when it was compiled, but it seems to show that out of a total of 35 officers, 15 had been killed, 2 made prisoners, and 11 wounded.

22, p. 654. Letter dated Harley Street, Cavendish Square, 23 June 1763, from Orme to Mr. Marmaduke Best. Copy. For reply see 31. 7. A curious story of infant sati.

23, pp. 655-657. Letter, dated 1763, from J. Smith to Orme. Copy. Gives an account of the English defeat at, Vellore, April 1763, Where Joseph Smith was taken prisoner.

24, pp. 657-659. Letter, dated – 1763, from Orme to Joseph Smith, with replies from Joseph and Richard Smith Copy. Certain information regarding the career and death of Muhammad Kamal, and the situation of Conandercoil," and the "Dalaway's Choultry."

25, pp. 660-661. Letter, dated London, 9 June 1763 from Orme to M. Bussy. Copy. In French. Desires some information regarding the Deccan, and mentions that Bussy's long letter to Lally on his arrival in India was lost, with other letters, in the Ajax. For reply to this letter see No. 50 below.

26, pp. 661-662. Letter, dated Trichinopoly, 15 Dec. 1753, from Orme to M. Bussy. Copy. In French. Desires some information regarding the Deccan, and mentions that Bussy's long letter to Lally on his Arrival in India was lost, with other letters in the Ajax. For reply to this letter see No. 50. Below.

27, p. 662. Letter, dated Fort St. David, 15 Feb. 1765 from John Carey to Clive. Copy. Reports the capture of Sergeant Lemon at "Chomundilum."

28, pp. 662-663. A very remarkable letter from Clive to Lawrence advising him what to do in order to frustrate the intentions of the French, who seemed to design crossing the Coleroon in order to attack Clive and his body at Pitchandah. May 1752. Copy. Orme states in the Index to this volume that this letter is without date of time or place, but "must have been wrote in May. 1752," This is a mistake as will be seen by reference to Lawrence's letter of the 20th April 1752 (see above, II. 35 (12), (p. 463), which is a reply to it. The following parallel passages are decisive.

Clive. "The following I take to be the enemy's design, the moment the river is unpassable to pass over with their whole force. Should this be the case I doubt much whether we shall be strong enough to defend ourselves against the enemy and their battering cannon. This party runs a risqué of suffering greatly as you will not be able to come to our assistance. Certainly the major part of the grand army ought to be on our side."

Lawrence (20 April 1752). "You now say that whether your party is sufficient to oppose the enemy should they attempt to pass your way when the river is up is much to be doubted as you then can expect no timely assistance from me, and that the greatest part of the forces should be on your side."

From Lawrence's letter, taken as a whole, it appears that Clive was consulted in the matter of the despatch of part of the army across the Coleroon, but hardly, as Orme states (History, 1. 244), that he suggested the move.

29, pp.663-664. Letters from Captain Dalton to Clive. Copy. (1) Letter, dated Camp near Wootatoor, 8, at night [3 May 1752], advising that he has just drove M. d'Auteuil's party into the Fort of Wootatoor. (2) Letter, dated Wootatoor Fort, 4 May, 9 o'clock. Reports the capture of Utatur and the retreat of d'Auteuil to Volkonda, In this letter Dalton says: "I give you joy my dear friend on the success of your scheme, which I think must be utter ruin to the enemy's army—as everybody almost disapproved of it you have all the honour of it." The scheme apparently was to send a separate force under Dalton to attack the relieving force under d'Auteuil, whilstClive, by holding fast at Samayaveram, misled the enemy into thinking that he intended no immediate action. In this letter Dalton mentions the deserter Captain Murray, and also the gallant behaviour of Muhammad Yusuf, the Nellore Subadar.

30, p. 665, An idea of the battle at the Sugar Loaf Rock, fought 23 Sept. 1753, taken from a sketch of Colonel Calliaud's, drawn by himself for me, R. O., with a pencil. Copy.

31, pp. 666--667, Fragment of a letter, undated, from Captain Dalton to Captain Clive, describing the action at the Choultry on Seringham in which the English party were cut to pieces, 24 December 1752. Copy. The description is more detailed than that given in Dalton's Narrative on pages 566-568 of this volume. Some writers assert that the defeat of the English was due chiefly to the gallantry of the Mysore horse under Haidar Ali, but Dalton here says that the Mysore people never came near, and that the battle was decided by Hari Singh and the Marathas. Orme says that the part played by the Mysoreans was the massacre of the fugitives (History. 1. 271). 32, pp. 667 -671. Affairs at Palarncotah from December 1753 to May 1754, written by Major Richard, Smith for R, O. in 1763, Copy. The Palamcottuh referred to lies north of the Coleroon and a little to the north of west of Devikottai. The account is confused but of some interest, as it refers to matters which Orme almost wholly omits.

33, pp. 671-672. Account of the action when Major Lawrence marched to Tritchanopoly, 16 August 1754. Written by Major Richard Smith for R.O. in 1763. Orders the 16th Aug. 1754. Copy. On p.672 there is a kind of postscript explaining the behaviour of the Tanjoreans who formed the rearguard. This action was one of those fought by Lawrence to relieve Trichinopoly (see Orme, History, I., p.369).

34, p. 672. Fragment of a letter from Captain Dalton, dated Tritchanopoly, 17 Oct. 1753, mentioning the battle of the Sugar Loaf Rock, 21 Sept. 1753. Copy. Very brief.

35, pp. 673-695. Narrative of what passed in the negotiation carried on at London for an accommodation between the English and French East India Companies of their differences on the Coast of Choromandel. From May 1753 to 16 Sept. 1754. Copied from 17. 5.

36, pp. 695-726. Letters from Robert Orme at Madras to Lord Holdernesse in London, from Nov. 1754 to March 1758, on the situation of affairs at different times during this interval on the Coast of Coromandel. (1) Letter, dated 5 Jan. 1755. Copied from 17. 11 (1). (2) Letter, dated 26 Oct. 1755. Copied from 17. 11 (3). (3) Letter, dated 11 March 1755. Copied from 17. 11 (2). (4) Letter, dated 9 Nov. 1754. Copied from 17. 8. (5) Letter dated 1 March 1756. Enclosing letter, dated: 10 Nov. 1755, from the Madras to the Bombay Presidency. Copied from 17. 11 (4). (6) Letter, dated 30 July 1757. Copied from 17. 13 (3). (7) Letter, dated 27 Oct. 1756. Copied from 17. 13 (1). (8) Letter, dated 15 Nov. 1757. Copied from 17. 13 (4). (9) Letter, dated 13 M arch 1758. Copied from 17. 13 (5).

37, pp. 726-742. Some essential letters of the correspondence between Mr. Saunders and Godeheu for the conclusion of the Conditional Treaty, 11 Jan. 1755. Re-copied with the exception of the first from 17. 10. (1) Letter of the 29th Nov. 1754, from M. Godeheu. Proposes an extension of the suspension of arms. Copy. (2) Letter of the 9th Dec. 1754, from Mr. Saunders. Copied from 17. 10 (1). (3) Letter of the 15th Dec, 1754, from M. Godeheu. 17. 10 (2). (4) Letter of the 23rd Dec. 1754, from Mr. Saunders. Copied from 17. 10 (4). (5) Letter of the 25th Dec. 1754, from M. Godeheu. Copied from 17. 10 (5). (6) Letter of the 2nd Jan. 1755, from Mr. Saunders. Copied from 17. 10 (10).

38, p. 742. Dimensions of Tritchanopoly. Copy.

39, p. 743. Paragraph of a letter, dated –. April 1754, from the Court of Directors to the Council at Madras. Copied from 17. 9. Part of the first paragraph, containing instructions as to the terms on which the Council were to conclude a Conditional Treaty with the Agents of the French Company.

40, pp. 743-745. Projet de Traité Conditionel, sent from M. Godeheu to Mr. Saunders, Nov. 1754. Copied from 17.10 (3).

41, pp. 745-746. Letter – 1763, from Orme to Richard Smith with his Reply. Copy. Enquiries regarding the exchange of prisoners in consequence of the Conditional Treaty, January 1735, and the time when the Mysoreans left Trichinoply in April 1755.

42, p. 746. Memorandums concerning Colonel Heron's expedition to Madura and Tinnevelly in the year 1755. Copy, Gives some of the dates of the expedition. See No.2. above.

43, pp. 746-747. Letter, dated – 1763, from Orme to Joseph Smith with his reply. Copy. Gives a rough plan of a Poligar Hedge. See No.2 above.

44, p. 747, Letter, dated – 1703, from Orme to Joseph Smith with his Reply. Copy. Makes certain enquiries regarding Heron's expedition to Madura and Tinnevelly. See No.2 above.

45, pp. 748-754, Affairs at Arcot and Chinglapet from July 24th to Oct. 3rd 1757, in letters from Captain [Edmund] Maskelyne to the Presidency of Fort St. George. Copy. This paper consists of extracts from Maskelyne's letters of the 24th July, 8th August, 23rd September, 29th September, 30th September, and 3rd October 1757. Chiefly concerned with the intigues of Bigam Sahib (the Nawab's mother), Abdul Wahab, and the Maratha Appaji Rao to get hold of Arcot and Chittapet in concert with the French.

46, pp. 755-757, Journal of the March of the English army under the command of Calliaud (now Colonel) Sept. 7th to Sept. 9th 1761, from New Town, near Fort St. David, to Gillieaporum near Temerry. Copied from 13. 4 (1).

47, pp. 758-759, Journal of the rout (sic) of the army from Gilliesporum to the siege of Veloor, from Sept. 19th to October 1761. Copied from O.V. 13.4 (2).

48, pp. 769-772/760-766. March of the English Troops from Veloor to Nelloor. Siege of Nelloor. March from Nelloor to Oodegherry to Timery, south of Arcot, from January 15th to April 13th 1762, Copied from 13. 4 (3) and (5).

49, pp. 767-769. A Journal of the siege of Arni, besieged by the English [1762] undcr the command of Colonel Caillaud. Copied from 13. 4 (4). In the Index to this volume Orme says that he has a map given him by Sir Robert Fletcher in 1763, but the map is not to be found.

50, p. 773. Letter, dated – 1763, from M. Bussy to Orme. Copy. In French. A reply to Orme's letter (No. 25 above).

51, p. 773. Letter, undated, from Captain William James to Orme. Copy. Gives some details regarding the expedition against Angria. See 72. 26 (2) and 289. 9.

52, pp. 774. Letter, dated Epsom, 11 July 1763, from Richard Bourchier to Orme. Copy. A reply to Orme's letter (No.8 above).

53, p. 775. Letter, dated Sleningford, 30 July 1763, from Dalton to Orme. Copied from 15. 7 (4). Gives a few details concerning the attempted escalade of Trichinopoly on the 27th Nov. 1753. See No. 26 above.

54, p. 775. Letter, dated 23 Aug. 1763, from Henry Powney to Orme. Copy. Gives the date of the arrival in Madras of the news of the capture of Cossimbazar.

55, pp. 775-776. A paragraph intended for my history, concerning the scantiness of military abilities amongst the Europeans in India for near a century past, evinced by a recital of their bad successes against the Princes of India. Copy. A short but interesting summary of European defeats by the natives of India prior to 1746. Discreetly summed up in eight lines in Orme's History, Vol. I., p. 77.

56, pp. 776-777. Letter dated Madras, 13 April 1759, from Colonel [William] Draper to the Officers of the two battalions in the Honble. Company's Service. Re-copied from 293. 17.

57, pp. 777-784. Letters, dated Fort St, George, August 1759 and 26 October 1759, from John Call to Captain Maskelyne. Copied from 26. 5 (1) and (2). Both of these letters have been printed by Colonel H. D. Love, R.E., in his Vestiges of Old Madras.

58, pp. 785-786. Letter, dated Fort St, George, 20 August 1756, composed by R. Orme, then one of the Council there, exhorting Admiral Watson to proceed with the Kings ships for the recovery of Calcutta. Copied from 28. 2. The official letter sent by the Council, Fort St. George, to Admiral Watson. The greater part of this letter has been printed in Hill's Bengal in 1756-57, Vol, I., pp. 199-200.

59, pp. 786-788, Letter, dated Fort St. George, 3 Sept. 1756, composed by R. Orme, then one of the Council, extolling Col. Adlercron to proceed with his regiment for the recovery of Calcutta. Copied from 28. 3. The official letter from Council to Colonel Adlercron.

60, p. 788. Remarks on the first volume of my History by Captain Dalton in a letter to R. O., dated [Sleningford] 1 Oct. 1763. Copied from 15. 7 (5). Acknowledges the receipt of the first volume of Orme's history and corrects a slight mistake. According to Orme (222. 149) Dalton was the only officer referred to in the first volume of Orme's History who was satisfied with what had been said of him.

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