Mss Eur Orme India VI

1, p. 1324. A list of the officers killed and wounded in the siege of Fort St. George, 1759. Copied from 26. 1.

2, p. 1325. Ammunition expended in the siege of Fort St. George, 1759. Copied from 26. 2.

3, pp. 1325-1327. Account of the battle of Wandewash, dated 23 Jan. 1761, with a return of the loss of French and English, 22 Jan. 1761. Copied from 26. 7.

4, pp. 1328-1329. Letter, dated Fort St. George, 5 Feb. 1761, from Charles Turner to Capt. Maskelyne. Copy. Encloses an abstract of the list of prisoners, military and civil, taken at Pondicherry.

5, pp. 1330-1338. Letter, dated Hyderabad, 28 August 1756, from M. Bussy to M. de Leyrit, Governor of Pondicherry. In French. Copied from 16. 8.

6, pp. 1338-1339. Extract from a letter, dated 31 August 1756, from M.Morçain to M. Renault. In French, Copied from 15.9.

7, pp. 1339-1342. Letter, dated Hyderabad, - Aug. 1756, from an officer in Law' s detachment to --. In French. Copied from 16. 10.

8, pp. 1343-1364. A Narrative of the principal Occurrences and Revolutions at the Court of Shahjehanabad from the reign of Mahmud Shah. Dated 20 January 1762. Supposed to be by Mr. Warren Hastings, with an Index (i.e., a Glossary). Copy. Muhammad Shah died in 1748. This paper closely corresponds with IV. 8 above.

9, pp. 1366-1413. Major Caillaud, Journal in Bengal from December 12th [1759] to September 9th 1760. Copy. See A narrative of what happened in Bengal in 1760, which Mill (History of British India, III., 224, n.) ascribes to Caillaud, and which contains a verbatim transcript of the account given in this paper of the battle of Sirpur, pp. 1378-1380. See 203. 2 above.

10, pp. 1414-1423. Major Caillaud, Journal of the Carnpaign 1761 in the province of Bahar. Copy. 10 December 1760 to 23 May 1761.

11, pp. 1424-1499. Account of the Shastah, the religious book of the Gentoos in Bengal. Druga, or the religious principles of the Gentoos of Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa, with a view of therr principal feasts, fasts, symbols, &c., extracted and explained from their Shastah or Scriptures, to which are subjoined a Narrative of the revolutions in the Empire of Indostan from the reign of Aurengzebe to the accession of Mahomet Shaw, and a particular History of the rise, progress and consequences of the usurpation of Alliverdy Cawn to the Subaship of Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa. J.Z. H. Copy. This, see 45, p. 2 and 46, p. 1, is an extract from a first draft of "Interesting Historical events relative to the Provinces of Bengal and the Empire of Indostan with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the Honourable the Court of Directors of the East India Company, as also the Mythology and Cosmogony, Fasts and Festivals of the Gentoos, followers of the Shastah, and a Dissertation on the Metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine." By J. Z. Holwell, Esq., London, 1765. This being so, the Postcript, which is described as a "Plan of the means to conquer Bengal and keep it as a province dependant on Great Britain, supposed by Col. Scot" (pp. 1487-1499), is possibly also Holwell's, though in Chapter III. (pp. 177-205) he has modified his proposal to one of obtaining the Provinces from the Great Mughal in a peaceable manner. See, however, 12. 18, which is endorsed as Colonel Scott's Project for Conquering Bengal.

12, pp. 1500-1502. List of the principal Officers of the Nabob, Allyverdy Cawn's Court at Moxudavad, and of the Governors and Rajas subject to him in the Provinces of Bengal, Bahaar and Orixa, with the Revenues they furnish, 1754. On page 1499 there is this note: "The following I [R. O.] owe to my friend, 'Nimoo Goseyng,' a Gentoo priest of the first order now residing at Calcutta." "Nimoo Goseyng" is referred to in Mr. Charles F. Noble's letter to the Select Committee, Madras, dated 22 Sept. 1756 (Hilrs Bengal in 1756-57, Vol, III, p, 328), as the "High priest of the Gentues" and the head of the Fakir caste in Bengal.

13, pp. 1503-1587. Letters frorn a Gentleman who had resided thirty years in the English East India Company's Service in the Province of Bengal, &c., to his friend in London, on the management of the Company's Affairs by their Servants civil and military there, the Laws and Regulations in the Government of their Settlements and method of carrying on their Commerce. Copy. This is stated to be by Captain Thomas Fenwicke and is dated 1747-8, (1) pp. 1503-1532. Letter 1st, Containing his remarks on the false policy of the Directors; the oppressions, cheats, &c., committed by their Servants of all ranks, Europeans and Indians; the cause of our embroils with the Country Government; the irregularities of their Servants in the Government of their Settlements; abuses in private trade; necessary qualifications of their Servants for discharging their trusts; the policy of the Gentoo servants employed by the Company. (2) pp. 153:3-1541 Letter 2nd. On the East India Company's Connexions and Intercourse with the Court of Aluxudabad in Bengal, the general Character of their Servants, particularly their Writers, and the Methods necessary for referring abuses in the Government of their Settlernents there. (3) pp. 1542-1553, Letter 3rd. Upon the East India Company's commercial policy in India, the different powers and occupations of the Servants there, the abilities necessary for well discharging their different duties, &c. (4) pp. 1554-1568. Letter (4th) from a Gentlernan in Bengall to his Friend in London on the subject of the East India Company establishing a Resident at the Court, or at least in the city of Delly, the Mogul's capital. To this is appended (p. 1568) a Route from Calcutta to Dilly the capital of the Mogul Empire, giving the length of the marches day by day, total 57 days and 608 coss [or roughly 1,216 miles.] Duplicate of XIII. 53 below. It is copied from 12. 17. (5) pp. 1569-1589. Letter [5th]. On the East India Company's Military Strength in Bengal, Fort William, &c., and an historical Account of some military operations against the Morattoes and Country Government in Support of their Commerce. This letter is addressed to C. R., Esq. It contains letters from Mr. John Foster (the President or Governor) and Captain William Holcombe, and an address, dated 24 Nov. 1747, to the Gentleman Volunteers of Calcutta. These papers are of some interest for details, but the writer's style is very confused. VIII. 13 below appears to be a continuation of this correspondence. In the India Office Records Miscellaneous letters Received, Vol. 38, No. 187a) there is an original letter from Thomas Fenwicke to the Court of Directors dealing with much the same subjects as these letters.

pp. [i-ii]. Index, i.e., Table of Contents.