Mss Eur Orme India VII

1, pp: 1590-1607. Journal of the Transactions of the Engrish at Patna, from the 23rd June 1763 to Oct. 6th, when the English prisoners were massacred by Cossimally's orders, wrote by [Dr. Anderson] an eye-witness and an unhappy sufferer. Copied from 84. l. Printed in J. Talboys Wheeler's Memorandum on the Records of the Foreign Department, 1865, and in Firminger's Diaries of Three Surgeons.

2, pp. 1608-1650. Letters between Colonel Coote and Colonel Clive and others during Coote's expedition in pursuit of the French under the command of M. [Jean] Law in Bengal and Behar. (Copy). These letters range from the 19th June 1757, reporting Coote's capture of the Fort at Cutwa, to the 17th Nov. 1757. A few of them have been printed in Hill's Three Frenchmen in Bengal. They consist of the following :- (1) From Major Coote to Col. Clive, 19 June (p. 1608), 13 July (p. 1608), 18 July(p. 1609), 18 July (p. 1611), 22 July (p. 1612), 25 July (p. 1612), 27 July (p. 1613), 28 July (p. 1614), 29 July (p. 1615), 4 Aug. (p. 1617), 8 Aug. (p. 1621), 13 Aug. (p. 1623), 14 Aug. (p. 1626), 16 Aug. (p. 1(28), 17 Nov. (p. 1639). (2) From Major Coote to Major Killpatrick, 22 Aug. (p. 1630), 31 Aug. (p. 1636). 1 Sept. (p. 1637). (3) From Mr. Johnstone (Secretary to Major Coote) to Col. Clive, 11 Sept. (p. 1638), and to Major Killpatrick, 25 Aug. (p. 1633). (4) From Major Coote to Ramnarainsing, 1 July (p. 1639), and 7 Aug. (p. 1639). (5) From Major Coote to Sujah Dowlat, 10 Aug. (p. 1640). (6) From Major Coote to Jaffier Ali Khan, 28 Aug. (p. 1641). (7) From Col. Clive to Major Coote, 29 June (p. 1641), 10 July (p. 1642), 11 July (p. 1642), 13 July (p. 1642). Two letters, 13 July (p. 1643), 14 July (p. 1644), 17 July (p. 1644), 24 July (p. 1644), 28 July (p. 1645), 1 Aug. (p. 1646),6 Aug. (p. 1646), 13 Sept. (p. 1649), 17 Nov. (p. 1649). (8) From Major Killpatrick to Major Coote, 9 Aug. (p. 1647), 22 Aug. (p. 1648), and 24 Aug. (p. 1648). (9) From Alexander de Saussure to Major Coote, 13 July (p.1640).

3, pp. 1650-1672. Journal of the Proceedings of the Expedition to Bengal under Admiral Watson, cornmanding his Majesty's fleet, and Colonel Clive the land forces, from the 17th Oct. 1756 to the 5th of July 1757. Copy. Internal evidence shows that this is the journal of Sir (then Captain) Eyre Coote. It has been printed in Hill's Bengal in 1756-57, Vol. III.. p. 39. N.B. In the Genuine Minutes of the Select Committee, published by T. Evans, 1772, there is in a note (see pp. 38-40) what purports to be a verbatim extract from Coote's journal, describing the battle of Plassey, which he read to the Select Committee. In this it is definitely stated that Clive went to sleep during the battle. This statement is not to be found in Orme's copy of the Journal (see p. 1667). Like Coote's other Journals this Journal contains copies in full of a number of letters and papers, viz. :- (1) Two letters from Admiral Watson, 2 Jan. 1757, p. 1652. (2) Translation of the Treaty of Peace and Agreement with the Nabob Sirajah Dowlat, p. 1656. (3) Articles of Capitulation proposed by the Directors and Council of the French East India Company's affairs at Chandernagore to Admiral Watson, and his answers, 23 March 1757, p. 1661. (4) Proceedings of a Council of War (Clive's famous Council), 21 June 1757, p. 1665. (5) Treaty with Mir Jafar, 24 June 1757, p. 1668. (6) Proceedings of a Council of War at Muxadavad, re prize money, 3 July 1757, p. 1670.

4, pp. 1673-1691. Journal of the Expedition under Major [Eyre] Coote in pursuit of the French, under John Law, from July 6th to Aug. 4th 1757. Copy. Contains (p. 1674) the letter from Alexander de Saussure to Jean Law, which caused de Saussure's conviction and execution as aspy, the Proceedings of a Council of War held at Bankipur, 30 July 1757 (p. 1683), an Account of the annual produce of the Saltpetre Aurungs (p. 1686), and the Proceedings of a Council of War held at Chupra, 4 Aug. 1757 (p. 1690). An account of this expedition is given in the Journal of Surgeon Edward Ives, Cap. XI.

5, p. 1691. Abstract of Account of oppressions, wrongs and extortions cornmitted by the Mogul Government on the E.I. Company Estate at Surat, frorn the year 1661 to the 31st of July 1683, amounting to Rs. 1,356,450, made up by the Company's Agents at Surat, Sept. 25th 1684. Copiedfrom 12.6.

6, pp. 1693-1708. Proceedings of the Embassy sent by the East India Cornpany to Furuckshir, from January 1715 to June 1717, extracted frorn the Original records in the East India House by me, R. O. March of the Embassy from Patna to Delhi, pp. 1693, 1694. Copied partly from 12. 4, but apparently compared with the official copies, as some of the papers are missing in that volume.

7, pp. 1709-1711. Phirmaund for Bengal, Behar and Drixa granted by Phuruckshir, translated at the time the phirmaund was obtained. This and a number of other papers connected with the Surman Embassy will be found in the Report of the Select Committee appointed by Parliament. Dated 1773. The Farman has often been printed, e.g., with other papers in J. Talboys Wheeler's Memorandum on the Records of the Foreign Department.

8, p. 1711. Proceedings of the Embassy from 25 Sept. 1715 to Nov. 25, 1716. N.B. A full account of the Embassy has been printed in Dr. C. R, Wilson's Early Annals of the English in Bengal, Vol. II., Part II., entitled the Surman Embassy.

9, pp.1712-1716. Extracts from the Letters wrote to the Company by their Agents in Bengal from August 1685 to January 1708, taken by me, R. O., out of a book in the India House in which the Letters from all the Presidencies in India are abstracted. Copied from 12. 5,

10, p, 1717. List of Books rcceived from Bengal, concerning Mr. Surman's Embassy to the Mogul's Court, out of which some extracts have been taken by me, R. D. These books are in the India House. Copied from 12. 4 (1).

11, pp. 1718-1725. Factories in Bengal (see Hedges' Diary, Vol. II., under dates given). (1) pp. 1718-20. Minute of a Consultation held at Ingelee, June 8, 1687, when Job Chanock made peace with the moors, containing the demands made by the Deputies sent by Chanock to treat with the Nabob's general, together with the Nabob Shastaw Chans perwana, or order, on this subject. Taken from the Fort St. George Copy Book of Letters received from the 28th July 1687 to the 18th February 1687-8. Copied from 12.3. (2) pp. 1721-1722. Extracts from Letters received and sent to and from the Company and their Agents in India, from Dec. 1683 to Jan. 1st 1687, concerning the State of the factories in Bengal. These extracts were made and deliverecl to me, R. O., by Mr. Mitchell [of the India House]. Copied from 12.3. (3) pp. 1723-24. Deposition of Thomas Ley, one of the English Council at Hughley, concerning the first hostilities committed there between the English under the command of Job Chanock, Oct. 28th 1687. This is copied out of a printed book lent to me by Mr. Alexander Hume, which book is entitled "An impartial vindication of the E.I.C. from the unjust and slanderous imputations cast upon them in a treatise entitled A justification of the Directors of the Netherlands East India Company, as it was delivered over unto the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Provinces. Translated out of Dutch, and feigned to be printed at London in the year 1687, but supposed to be printed at Amsterdam as well in English as in French and Dutch." London, 1688. Copy. The deposition was sworn before John Shorter, Major, on the 7th March 1687, and may be found on pp. 208-217 of the Impartial Vindication. The latter contains a number of copies of original papers.

12, pp. 1726-1733. An Account of the English East India, Company's privileges and establishments in Bengal, from their original in 1636 to 1687, composed by an unccrtain hand, who appears to have been one of the Company's Agents in Bengal, during the agency of Job Chanock, which I, R. O., first discovered in the E. I. House in a book entitled "Fort St. George Letters received from the 28th July 1687 to Feb. 1687/8." Copied from 12. 1.

13, p. 1734. Description of the Bastions and Guns mounted on them at Pondicherry. Length of the place, N. to S., 940 fathom. Breadth, E. to W., 615 fathom.

14 (1), p. 1735. A Return of his Majesty's 84th Regiment at Fort St. George, 22 Aug. 1761. Copy. (2) p. 1735. A return of the officers and men embarked on board the "Pattasalam," August 23, 1761. Copy. (3) p. 1735. Names of the Officers lost on board the "Phattasalam." Copy. (4) p. 1736-37. A list of the officers of his Majesty's 84th Battalion of Foot as it stood the 24th of June 1763. Copy. It is interesting to note that in this list the Surgeons hold military rank.

15, pp. 1737-1739. A list of persons who Were rnassacred at Patna and the other places during the troubles in Bengal. Copy. A poor list without Christian names.

16, p. 1739. A list of the officers buried out of his Majesty's Battallion [84th] from their arrival at Madras the 26th day of October 1759 to the 24th of January 1764. Copy.

17, pp. 1740-1776. Journal of the army under the comrnand of Major Adams in Bengal from June 26, 1763 to March 23, 1764. Copy. This is really a copy of "General Orders." There is a much better copy, possibly the original, in the British Museum (Addl. MSS., Nos: 6049-50), which continues as far as the 31st Aug. 1765.

18, pp. 1777-1780. Letter, dated Falmouth, 5 October 1764, from Adjutant [Charles] Marsh to the Secretary of War [the Honble. Welbore Ellis] concerning his Majesty's troops in Bengall. Copy. The writer is evidently Captain Charles Marsh of the 84th Regiment. Mentions the death of Major Adams on the 7th Jan. 1764, and the mutiny of the European army in Bengal.

19, pp. 1780-1802. Fragment of the History of Bengall composed by R. Orme in 1762, intended for the Public before I began to compose the Story of Coromandel. It breaks in the Beige of Calcutta, and is very imperfect. Copy. This has very little resemblance to Book VI. of Orme's History, to which it corresponds. There is in the India Office a printed volume marked, "Book VI. The War of Bengal," which differs from both. This printed volume is very interesting, as from the marginal notes it appears that only six copies were printed, and that this version was submitted to Lord Clive with a particular request that no one except Colonel Richard Smith and Mr. Edmund Maskelyne should be allowed to see it. See 222. 143 and 293. 9, 10.

20. pp. 1802-1818. Papers by Mr. William Watts regarding the troubles in Bengal during the time of Siraj-ud-daula. (1) pp. 1802-1808. Letter, dated Chandernagore, 3 July 1756, from Williarn Watts and other of the Company's Agents to the Court of Directors. Copied from 19. 7. (2) pp. 1808-1809. References to a plan of the fort of Cossimbuzar with the adjacent buildings. Copied from 19.10. (3) p. 1810. An Account of the [military] stores that were at Cossimbuza Factory at the time the Nabob's forces arrived. By Francis Sykes, Storekeeper. (4) pp. 1810-1818. Account of cloth belonging to the Honble. Company, what was left in the Factory when the place was taken as also what was found on its being retaken with the deficiency and overplus. Copied from 19. 21. (5) pp. 1812-1813. Account of cloth belonging to the Honble. Company deficient in the Export Warehouse from what was left in the Factory when the place was taken. Copied from 19. 20. (6) p. 1813. An account of Aurung Cloth found in the Export Warehouses belonging to the Honble. Company, exclusive of what was left there when the place was takeen. Copied from 19. 22. (7) p. 1814. Letter dated Calcutta, 28 Jan. 1757, from Mr. Watts to Colonel Clive and Major Killpatrick. Copied from 19.8. (8) p. 1814. Opinion of Col. Clive and the Captains of the Army that the fort of Cossimbuzar when surrendered to the Nabob could have only sustained a very short siege. Copied from 19. 11. (9) pp. 1815-1818. Letter, dated Moorshedabad, 13 August 1757, from William Watts to his father. Copied from 20. 14.

21, pp. 1819-1820. (1) Commodore James sails from Bombay with three ships carrying reinforcements from Bombay to Bengal, and in the passage near Calicut takes the "Indienne" laden with stores for Mauritius, Copied from 72. 26 (2). (2) Commodore James in the "Revenge" takes 200 recruits out of 4 East Indiamen in order to land them at St. David's, is surrounded the next morning by a French squadron, and nevertheless lands the recruits, and, escaping, sails to Bengal. Copied from 72. 26 (2).

22, pp. 1821-1825. Affairs of Madras from May 1756 to June 1757, by Colonel Richard Smith. A fragment. Copied from 26.5.

23, pp. 1826-1831. (1), p, 1826. Captain Mill's account of what happened to him after he came out of the Black Hole until he joined the fleet on 10 August 1756 at Fulta. Copy. Printed in Hill's Bengal in 1756-57, Vol. 1., p. 194. (2) pp. 1827-1831. Journal of Capt. Mills, who was in the Black Hole, from the 7th of June to the 1st of July 1756. Copied from 19. 6. Printed in Hill's Bengal in 1756-57, I., 40.

24, pp. 1832-1840. Journal of the expedition to Bengal from 13 Oct. 1756 to 18 Feb. 1757, kept by one of Colonel Clive 's family. Copied from 4. 16. Printed in Hill's Bengal in 1756-57, III., 30.

25, pp. 1841-1845. Capt. [Alexander] Grant's Account of the causes and manner of his retreat from the Fort of Calcuttta to the ships, 22 June 1756. Copied from 19. 18. Printed in Hill's Bengal in 1756-57, I., 89.

26, p.1846. Account of the Sou Raja and the Nana Ballajeerow in 1756 by Sir James Foulis. Copied from 23. 3.

27, p. 1847. Account of the loss sustained by the Company in their different Offices and Warehouses at Calcutta when taken June 1756. Copy.

28, p. 1848. A return of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores in the Garrison of Buggey Buggey. Copied from 20. 3.

29, pp. 1848-1853. Fragment of a letter, undated, from – to Captain White. Copied from 26. 6. Military operations in Madras from 19 Nov. 1759 to 10 Jan. 1760.

30, pp. 1854-1855. proceedings of a [Naval] Council of War, held at Fort St. George, 30 Sept. 1756. Copied from 28. 4.

31, pp. 1856-1857. Correspondence between the Council of Madras and Admiral Watson. Copied from 28. 5-7. (1) p. 1856. Letter, dated Fort St. George 4 Oct. 1756, fom the Council of Madras to Admiral Watson. (2) pp. 1856-1857. Letter dated Fort St. George, 4 Oct. 1756, from Admiral Watson to the Council of Madras. (3) p. 1857. Letter, dated Fort St. Geoerge, 5 Oct. 1756, from the Council of Madras to Admiral Watson.

32, p. 1858. Abstract of a retur'n of the Company's troops encamped near' Barnagore, Janurary 21st 1757. Copy.

33, p. 1858. Abstract of a return of troops belonging to Colonel Adlercron's Regiment encamped near Calcutta from the month of February 1757. Copy.

34, pp. 1858-1859. Particulars of the Road between Calcutta and Masulipatam. Copied from 60. 17.

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