Mss Eur Orme India VIII

1, pp. 1860-1897. Letters from Captain Vasserot to Mr. Vansittart, from 26 November 1759 to – July 1760, with explicit intelligence of the transactions of the Camp and Army. Copied from 22. 1. The campaign against Lally.

2, pp. 1898-2017. Colonel Coote's Journal, commencing from his departure from England, April 4th 1759 to the 4th of July 1761. Copy. See 63. 15. This very important paper covers the campaign against Lally, and contains much interesting matter outside the usual limit of a military journal. Certain documents are also included, e.g. :- (1) p. 1903. Proceedings of a Council of War held at Conjeeveram, 21 Nov. 1759. (2) p. 1905. Summons to the Fort of Wandiwash and reply of the Commandant. (3) p. 1906. Claims of the Officers to the plunder of Wandiwash, 1 Dec. 1759. (4) p. 1907. Letter from the officers of Col. Draper's Regiment. (5) p. 1908. Coote's reply to the above. (6) p. 1909. Two letters to Col. O'Kennely. (7) p. 1921. Summons to the garrison of Arcot and letter to Captain Hussey the Commandant. (8) p. 1923. Extract from letter dated 18 Feb. from the Council, Madras. (9) pp. 1924. Letter from Governor and Council, Madras, to Coote, 21 Feb. 1760. (10) pp. 1925. Coote's reply to the above, 24 Feb. 1760. (11) pp. 1930. Extract from and reply to a letter from the Governor and Council. (12) pp. 1933-1934. Opinion of the field officers on the present state of affairs. (13) pp. 1941. Extract from a letter from Major John Caillaud describing affairs in Bengal. (14) pp. 1944. Summary of a long complaint from the Nawab Muhammad Ali against the Council of Madras. (15) p. 1951. A Memorial from the Captains of His Majesty's service. (16) p. 1955. Opinions of the King's Captains regarding the Councils right to appoint Majors. (17) p. 1963. Letter to the Governor and Council, Madras, 5 Sept. 1760. (18) pp. 1963-1964. Letter from the Governor and Council, Madras, 8 Sept. 1760. (19) pp. 1964. Letter to Colonel Monson. (20) p. 1965. Letter to the Governor and Council, Madrag dated 9 Sept. 1760. (21) p. 1966. Letter from the Governor and Council, Madras, 13 Sept. 1760. (22) p. 1967. Letter to the Governor and Council, Madras, 15 Sept. 1760. (23) pp. 1967. Letter from the Governor and Council, Madras, received 16 Sept. 1760. (24) pp. 1969. Letter to the Governor and Council of Madras, 18 Sept. 1860. (25) pp. 1972. Letter from Major John Caillaud, dated Muxadavad, 5 Sept. 1760, on Bengal affairs. (26) p. 1990. Lally's proposal to surrender Pondicherry, 15 Jan. 1761. A slightly different translation is printed in Grose's Voyage to the East Indies, Vol. II., p. 399. (27) p. 1991. Coote's reply to the same. Printed in Grose's Voyage to the East Indies, Vol. II., p. 401. (28) pp. 1991. Capitulation proposed by the Council. Of Pondicherry. Printed in Grose's Voyage to the East Indies, Vol. II., 1). 402. (29) p. 1993. Expense of Ammunition at the several batteries against Pondicherry from the 9th Dec. 1760 to the 16th Jan. 1761. (30) pp. 1995. Proceedings of a Council of War held at Pondicherry, 22 and 25 Jan. 1761, by the officers of the Fleet under Admiral Charles Stevens and of the Army under Co1. Eyre Coote. (31) pp. 1998-1999. Return of Brass and Iron Ordnance, carriages, powder, shott and small arms, found on the works of Pondicherry Town, Citadel and Artillery Park. N.B. A summary of this is printed in Grose's Voyage to the East Indies (II. 405) where it is signed by Charles Milton, Military Commissary General, and E. Chancellor, Commissary of Artillery. (32) pp. 2001-2004. Exact state of the troops of His Most Christian Majesty under the command of Lieut.-General Lally in Pondicherry, which surrendered at discretion to Col. Eyre Coote, commanding-in-chief His Brittanick Majesty's Land Forces laying siege to that place, The fifteenth day of January 1761, Prisoners of War. Names of the Commissioned and staff officers in the above return. Abstract from the whole. A Summary of the first part of this paper is printed in Grose's Voyage to the East Indies, Vol. II. p. 406. (33) pp. 2006-2012. Narrative of the military transactions in the province of Bahar from the 1st of January 1761, by Major John Carnac, 4 April 1761. This has been printed in the Asiatic Annual Register, 1800. Misc. Tracts, pp. 7-28, as one of two communications from Col. Gilbert Ironside. It has also been recently reprinted in Bengal Past and Present, Jan. to March 1914.

3 (1), pp. 2018-2020. Extracts from the instructions to Col. Coote from the Presidency at Fort William relative to Ramnarain, April and May 1761. Copy. (2) pp. 2020-2021. Letter dated 18 June 1761, from the Select Committee [Fort William] to Col. Coote. Copy Gives instructions regarding Ramnarayan. (3) p. 2022, Extracts from Col. Coote's letters to the Presidency, May 25th to June 25th 1761. Copy. In reference to Ramnarayan.

4, p. 2023. Account of the loss of the "Fatasalam," by Captain Caulfield and Lieutenant Hill of the 84th Regiment Copy. The Fateh Islam was lost on the 23rd Aug. 1761. Appended are lists of the Europeans lost and saved.

5, pp. 2025-2053. Letters from M. Lally to Colonel Coote. Copy. Some in French, some translations. These all refer to the campaign which concluded with Coote's capture of Pondicherry, and comprise:- (1) Letters from Lally to Colonel Coote, 3 Jan. 1760 (p. 2025), 28 Jan. (p. 2025), 30 Jan. (p. 2025), 4 May (p. 2025), 11 May (p. 2026), 25 July (p. 2030), 27 July (p. 2030), 8 Aug. (p. 2030), 21 Sept. (p. 2032), 10 Oct. (p. 2032), 12 Oct. (p. 2033), 13 Oct. (p. 2033), 15 Oct. (p. 2034), 5 Nov. (p. 2034), 5 Nov. (p.2035), 10 Nov. (p. 2035), 11 Nov. (p. 2036), 14 Nov. (p. 2036), 14 Nov. (p. 2037), 16 Nov. (p. 2037), 22 Nov. (p. 2040), 28 Nov. (p.2040), 30 Nov. (p. 2042), 5 Jan. 1761 (p. 2043), 10 Jan. (p. 2043), 15 Jan. (p. 2043); 15 Jan. (p. 2044), 18 Jan. (p. 2044), 19 Jan. (p. 2045), 20 Jan. (p. 2045), 20 Jan. (p. 2046), 27 Jan. (p. 2047), 4 Feb. (p. 2051), 5 Feb. (p. 2051), 20 Feb. (p. 2053). (2) Letter from Lally to Admiral Stevens, 15 May 1760 (p.2027). (3) Letter from Lally to La Haye [Chef Partisan] 24 May 1760 (p. 2028). (4) Letters from Lally to Hyder Ally Cawn (p. 2028), 29 June 1760 (p. 2029). (5) Letter (intercepted) from M. Lally to M. Raymond desiring him to send provisions on the loss of the English ships in the storm, 2 Jan. 1761 (p. 2042). A translation is printed in Grose's Voyage to the East Indies, Vol. II., p. 397, where Raymond is described as the French Resident at Pullicat. Also in the Royal Magazine, July 1761, Caraccioli's Life of Clive, I., 58, and in A Complete History of the War in India from the year 1749 to the taking of Pondicherry in 1761 (pub. 1761), I. O. Library, Tract 61, and in many other publications. (6) Letters from Lally to the Syndics of the French Company accusing the Governor and Council of Pondicherry, 2 Feb. 1761 (p. 2047); giving a brief account of the surrender of Pondicherry, 2 Feb. 1761 (p. 2049). (7) Letter from Lally to M. de Landivisiau advising him to think of a capitulation for Pondicherry in conjunction with the Governor and Council, 24 Dec. 1760 (p. 2049). (8) Note from Lally to Major Eiser 18 Feb. (p. 2052). (9) Letter from La Haye to Lally, 24 May 1760 (p. 2028). (10) Letter from J. Macgregor to M. Lally, 19 Sept. 1760 (p. 2031). (11) Three intercepted letters. One, no date, from d'Andrez. (p. 2039); one no signature, but dated 17 Nov. 1760 (p. 2039), and one dated 13 Nov. 1760, from Desjardins (p. 2039). (12) Letter (intercepted) from Colonel [Edward] Kennedy to Butler, no date (p. 2040). (13) Letter from the Governor and Council of Pondicherry summoning M. Lally to capitulate with M. Coote, 14 Jan. 1761 (p. 2050). (14) Letter from Admiral Stevens to M. Lally refusing to have anything to say to him, 18 Feb. 1761 (p. 2052). (15) Letter from M. Chaponay to M. Lally, 5, March 1761 (p. 2053). (16) Letter from M. Nagle to Colonel Coote, advising the arrival of Raza Sahib's mother and family at the Mount, 1 March 1761 (p. 2053).

6, p. 2054. Letter from the King [Shah Alam] to Governor Vansittart. Received June 18, 1761. Copy. Accuses Ramnarayan of various offences.

7, pp. 2054-2055. Letter from the Nabob Cossimally to Governor Vansittart. Recd. June 17, 1761. Copy.

8, p. 2055. Letter, undated, from Col. Coote to the Nabob Shujah ud dowla Bahadre. Copy. Merely complimentary.

9, pp. 2055-2056. Translate of a letter from Mirza Culb Aly Beg to Mr. Lushington, recd. 5 Nov. 1761. Copy. Complains of the oppression of the Nawab Mir Kasim Ali.

10, p. 2056. Letter dated 15 Dec. 1761, from the Nabob Cossim Ally to Governor Vansittart. Copy. Desires that no troops may accompany him.

11, pp. 2057-2059. Nabobs of Arcot from Sadatoolla Cawn to Mahomedally. An Abstract furnished to Colonel Coote. Copied from 26. 3.

12, pp. 2059-2060. The Killedars Or Governors of the King's Forts in the Carnatic. The King of Tanjore, Nabob of Carrapah, Nabob of Cundahoor. Notes concerning Nizam-al-Muluk, Nazir Jing, Emperors Mahamud Jhan, Furrucksheer, Shaw-allum and Aurengzabe. Copy.

13, pp. 2061-2070. A letter from a gentleman who had resided 30 years in Bengall to his friend in London, on the East India Company's military force &c., there. Account of some rnilitary operations against the Morattoes and Country Government. Copy. This appears to be a continuation of VI. 13 above, and if so is by Captain Thomas Fenwicke.

14, pp. 2071-2092. Journey from Aleppo to Bossorah, August to December 1745, by William Beawes. Copy.

15, pp. 2093-2095. Account of a journey from Bussorah to Aleppo, June 11 to August 1748, by Mr. [Gaylard] Roberts. Copy. Another account of the same journey made in 1758-59 by Surgeon Edward Ives is printed with his voyage from England to India, and contains a plan of the journey.

16, pp. 2095-2097. Letter, dated 6 August 1750, from Mr. Bartholomew Plaisted to Governor Drake of Calcutta giving an account of his journey over the desert of Arabia from Bussorah to Aleppo in his way to England. Copy. Incomplete.

17, pp.2099-2125. Account of the Island of Bombay by a person unknown. Completed in Vol. IX. Copied probably from 282. 1, which is ascribed to [Commodore] John Burnell. A series of letters. The writer served in the military (see p. 2111) under General Aislabie. His first letter is dated 12 May 1710. The second is apparently incomplete. On page 2107 (and elsewhere) there is a reference to the "Packary of Apollo," from which possibly the "Apollo Bunder" may have derived its name.

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