Mss Eur Orme India X

1, pp. 2350-2669/1-320. Letters written by Colonel Clive to English and other Europeans on Public Affairs in Bengalfrom the 11th of October 1756 to November 24, 1759. Of which an explicit Index is subjoined at the end of this volume. Copy. Many of these letters have been printed in the Report of the Select Comrnittee 1773, Malcolm's Life of Clive, and Hill's Bengal in 1756-57. The following letters, papers, &c., are included. (1) Letters from Clive to Peter Amyatt, 5 June 1758 (p. 2503), 8 June 1758 (p. 2504). 5 July (p. 2558), 31 Aug. 1758 (p. 2571), 25 Sept. (p. 2578), 20 Oct. (p. 2586). 7 Dec. (p. 2596), 29 Dec. (p. 2599), 28 Jan. 1759 (p. 2603), 5 March (p. 2607), 10 March (p. 2609), 12 March (p. 2613), 15 March (p. 2(14), 24 April (p. 2636). (2) Letter from Clive to Peter Amyatt and Stanlake Batson, 12 Feb. 1758 (p. 2495). (3) Letters from Clive to Adrian Bisdom, Directore, &c., Chinchura, 13 April 1757 (two letters, p. 2399), 13 April (p. 2401), 7 July (two letters, p. 2436), 29 Oct. (p. 2479), 4 Dec. (p. 2484), 11 Aug. 1758 (p. 2568), 2 Oct. (p. 2579), 12 Oct. (p. 2583). (4) Letters from Clive to the Honble. Richard Bourchier. Esq., and Select Committee Bombay, 26 July 1757 (p. 2518), 10 April 1759 (p. 2(28). (5) Letters from Clive to John Bristow, 1 Aug. 1758 (p. 2566), 31 Aug. (p. 2570). (6) Letters from Clive to Lieut. Lewis Brown, 20 Oct. 1758 (p. 2587), 25 Oct. (p. 2587). (7) Letter from Clive to Lieut. Cochran, 25 Feb. 1759 (p. 2605). (8) Letters from Clive to Matthew Collet, 4 April 1757 (p. 2397), 23 April (p. 2404). (9) Letters from Clive to Governor and Council, Fort William, 5 July 1757, with Invoice of Money [nearly 59 lakhs of rupees] received from Mir Jafar Ali Khan (p. 2468), 3 Oct. 1757 (p. 2478), 6 March 1758 (p. 2497), 24 March (p. 2500), 26 June (p. 2556), 23 Nov. (p. 2591), 5 Dec. (p. 2594). 23 March 1759 (p. 2617), 27 May 1759 (p. 2644). (10) Letter from Clive to M. Courtin, 15 July 1758 (p. 2560). (11) Letters from Clive to the Court of Directors, 1 Feb. 1757 (p. 2368), 23 Feb. (p. 2382), 22 Aug., with list of Packet (p. 2529), 26 Dec., with list of Packet (p. 2542). (12) Letters from Clive to Roger Drake, 11 May 1757 (p. 2413), 17 Oct. (p. 2479), 14 Nov. (p. 2483),19 Dec. (p. 2485), 10 Jan. 1758 (p. 2490), 25, Jan. (p. 2494), 27 Feb. (p. 2496), 3 May (p. 2501), 11 May (p. 2502), 4 June (p. 2502). (13) Letter from Clive to Capt. John Dyer, 5 June 1759 (p. 2646). (14) Letter from Clive to M. Fleurin, 15 July 1758 (p. 2559). (15) Letters from Clive to Colonel Francis Forde, 24 June 1758 (p. 2555), 3 Oct. Printed in Col. Lionel Forde's Clive's Right Hand Man, p. 189 (p. 2580), 27 April 1759 (p. 2636). (16) Letters from Clive to Captain John Gouin, 15 July 1758 (p. 2561), 18 July (p. 2563), 19 July (p. 25(4), 21 July (p. 25(4), 28 July (p. 2565), 31 July (p. 2566), 3 Aug. (p. 2567), 13 Aug. (p. 25(9), 3 Sept. (p. 2571), 9 Sept. (p. 2572), 10 Sept. (p. 2574), 18 Sept. (p. 2577), 6 Oct. (p. 2582), 13 Oct. (p. 2584), 25 Feb. 1759 (p. 2605). (17) Letter from Clive to Mr. George Gray, 13 Dec. 1758 (p. 2598). (18) Letters from Clive to Warren Hastings, 20 Aug. 1758 (p. 2569), 22 Aug. (p. 2570), 31 Aug. (p. 2570), 5 Sept. (p.2572), 9 Sept. (p. 2573), 10 Sept. (p. 2575), 18 Sept. (p. 2576), 24 Sept. (p. 2577), 2 Oct. (p. 2579), 6 Oct. (p. 2581), 8 Oct. (p. 2583), 17 Oct. (p. 2585), 9 Nov. (p. 2589), 17 Nov. (p. 2591), 28 Nov. (p. 2593), 4 Dec. (p. 2594), 13 Dec. (p. 2597), 18 Dec. (p. 2598), 12 Jan. 1759 (p. 2601), no date (p. 2604), 27 Feb. (p. 2605), 4 March (p. 2606), 15 May (p. 2642). (19) Letter from Clive to [Charles] Hutchins[on], Esq., Governor of St. Helena, 25 Feb. 1757 (p. 2377). (20) Letter from Clive to Juggut Seat and Mairaja Seroopchand, 15 June (p. 2426). (21) Letter from Clive to Major James Killpatrick, 7 July 1757 (p. 2470). (22) Letter from Clive to James La Tour, Chief of the Dutch Factory at Patna, 5 March 1758 (p. 2496). (23) Letter from Clive to Jean Law, 9 July 1757 (p. 2438). (24) Letter from Clive to James Macdonald, 12 Jan. 1758 (p. 2492). (25) Letters from Clive to Messrs. William Mackett, Henry Doidge, John Michie, and John Pye, Agents for the Navy, and Messrs. Peter Amyatt, George Clive, and Thomas Maunsell. Agents for the Army, with Invoice of Money received from Mir Jafar Ali Khan for the army and navy, 5 July 1757 (p. 2468), with similar Invoice, 9 Aug. (p. 2471). (26) Letter from Clive to Capt. Richard Maitland, 12 Sept. 1758 (p. 2576). (27) Letters from Clive to Charles Manningham, 27 June 1757 (p. 2467), 20 Oct. (p. 2479), 19 Dec. (p. 2486), 12 Jan. 1759 (p. 2599), 5 March (p. 2607), 8 March (p. 2608), 12 March (p. 2611), 13 March (p. 2614), 19 March (p. 2616), 24 March (p. 2618), 31 March (p. 2622), 9 April (p. 2625), 19 AprIl (p. 2632), 24 April (p. 2635), 30 April (p. 2639), 15 May (p. 2641), 4 June (p. 2645), 12 June (p. 2647). (28) Letter from Clive to Messieurs Mitard et Grayelle, 15 Nov. 1758 (p. 2590). (29) Letters from Clive to the Officers who sent the Remonstrance and Protest, 5 July 1757 (p. 2469), 9 July (p. 2470). Printed in Malcolm's Life of Clive, I., p. 279 and p. 281. (30) Letter from Clive to Charles Stafford Pleydell, Chief at Ballasore, 17 July 1758 (p. 2562), 26 July (p. 2564), 1 Aug. (p. 2566), 12 Aug. (p. 2568), 10 Sept. (p. 2573), 17 Oct. (p. 2584). (31) Letters from Clive to George Pocock, 13 Nov. 1757 (p. 2481), 14 Nov. (p. 2482), 16 Nov. (p. 2483), 27 Nov. (p. 2484), 29 Dec. (p. 2488). (32) Letters from Clive to the Honble. P. Renault, Esq., President, &c., Council of Chandernagore, 9 March 1757 (p. 2384), 11 March (p. 2384), 12 March (p. 2386), 13 March (p. 2387), 12 April (p. 2398), 13 April (p. 2401). (33) Letters from Clive to Alexander Scott, 10 Sept. 1758 (p. 2574). (34) Letters from Clive to Luke Scrafton, 21 April 1757 (p. 2402), 6 Nov. (p. 2480), 4 Nov. (p. 2481), 14 Dec. (p. 2485), 21 Dec. (p. 2487), 29 Dec. (p. 2487), 4 Jan. 1758 (p. 2489), 11 Jan. (p. 2491), 10 Feb. (p. 2495), 29 May (p. 2502), 8 July (p. 2506 and p. 2558), 15 July (p. 2506 and p. 2561). (35) Letters from Clive to the Secret Committee, London, 11 Oct. 1756 (p. 2350), 1 Feb. 1757, enclosing list of Packet (p. 2363), 22 Feb., with list of Packet (p. 2370), 31 March, enclosing list of Packet (p. 2392), 16 April, enclosing list of Packet (p. 2392), 26 July (p. 2512), 6 Aug. 1757 (p. 2528), 22 Aug. with list of Packet (p. 2527), 23 Dec., with list of Packet (p. 2535), 18 Feb. 1758, with list of Packet (p. 2548), 12 March 1759 (p. 2612), 16 March (p. 2615), 10 April (p. 2626). (36) Letters from Clive to Governor Pigot and the Select Committee, Fort St. George, 8 Jan. 1757 (p. 2351), 28 Jan. 1757 (p. 2356), 29 Jan., enclosing list of Packet (p. 2360), 3 March, with list of Packet and Promotions in the Fort St. George troops on the expedition to Bengal since Oct. 1756 (p. 2379), 30 March 1757, enclosing list of Packet (p. 2389), 2 July (p. 2507), 3 Aug., with list of Packet and list of Promotions on the Coast Establishment from 15 March to July 31 (p. 2519), 12 Sept., with list of Packet (p. 2531), 27 Sept. (p. 2534), 24 Dec. (p. 2541), 12 Jan. 1758 (p. 2542), 18 Feb., with list of Packet (p. 2547), 28 Aug., with list of Packet (p. 2548). (37) Letters from Clive to Governor Drake and the Select Committee, Fort William, 20 Jan. (p. 2354), 3 Feb. (p. 2369), 13 April (p. 2401), 21 April (p. 2403), 26 April (p. 2405), 29 April (p. 2407), 18 May (loose leaf), 24 May (p. 2420), 26 May (p. 2421), 28 May (p. 2422), 2 June (p. 2423), 6 June (p. 2425), 15 June, duplicate (p. 2426), 16 June (p. 2427),17 June (p. 2427), 19 June (p. 2428), 20 June (p. 2428), 21 June (p. 2429), 23 June (p. 2429), 24 June (p. 2430), 25 June (p. 2431), 26 June (p. 2431), 27 June (p. 2432), 30 June (two letters, p. 2433 and p. 2435), 2 July (p. 2435), 4 July (p. 2435), 13 July (p. 2438), 7 Aug. (p. 2477), 4 Nov. (p. 2462), 6 Nov. (p. 2462), 13 Nov. (three letters, p. 2463), 17 Nov. (p. 2464), 24 Nov. (p. 2464), 27 Nov. (p. 2465), 6 Dec. (p. 2466), 9 Dec. (p. 2466), 19 Dec. (p. 2467), 7 Aug. (p. 2477), 31 Dec. (p. 2488), 12 Jan. (p. 2491), 12 Jan. 1758 (p. 2493), 18 Jan. (p. 2493), 25 Jan. (p. 2494), 7 Feb. (p. 2494), 15 Feb. (p. 2495), 6 March (p. 2498), 17 March (p. 2499), 1 April (p. 2501), 4 March 1759 (p. 2606), 7 March (p. 2607), 8 March (p. 2608), 10 March (p. 2610), 18 March (p. 2615), 23 March (p. 2616), 27 March (p. 2620), 4 April (p. 2622), 9 April (p. 2624), 19 April (p. 2630), 24 April (p. 2633), 30 April (p. 2638), 8 May (p. 2640), 19 May (p. 2643), 27 May (p. 2644), 26 June (p. 2(48). (38) Letters from Clive to John Spencer and Council at Surat, 10 April 1759 (p. 2(28), 10 April (p. 2629). (39) Letter from Clive to Laurence Sulivan, 30 Dec. 1758 (p. 2551). (40) Letters from Clive to William Sumner, 4 June 1758 (p. 2503), 1 Sept. (p. 2571), 9 Sept. (p. 2573). (41) Letter from Clive to Captain Nicholas Weller, 16 Nov. 1757 (p. 2484). (42) Letters from Clive to Admiral Charles Watson, 20 Jan. 1757 (p. 2356), 7 Feb. (p. 2369), 24 Feb. (p. 2376), [11 March (p. 2385)], 14 March (p. 2387), 18 March (p. 2388), 13 April (p. 2400), 21 April (p. 2402), 28 April (p. 2405), 12 May (p. 2413), 24 May (p. 2420), 28 May (p. 2421), 29 May (p. 2422), 10 June (p. 2425), 15 June, duplicate (p. 2426), 15 June (p. 2427), 18 June (p. 2428), 30 June (p. 2432), 7 July (p. 2437), 19 July (p. 2444), 25 July (p. 2445), 27 July (p. 2448). (43) Letters from Clive to William Watts, 23 Feb. 1757 (p. 2375), 1 March (p. 2378), 3 March (p. 2378), 7 March (p. 2383), 9 March (p. 2383), 23 April (p. 2403), 28 April (p. 2407), 30 April (p. 2408), 2 May, with proposals for alliance with Mir Jafar (p. 2409), 5 May (p. 2411), 10 May (p. 2411), 11 May (p. 2412), 12 May (p. 2412), 13 May (p. 2414), 14 May (p. 2415), 19 May, containing copies of the real and fictitious agreements with Mir Jafar (p. 2415), 1 June (p.2423), 2 June (p. 2423), 5 June (two retters, p. 2424), 6 June (p. 2424), 8 June (p. 2425), 9 June (p. 2425), 11 June (p. 2426), 4 Nov. (p. 2480), 22 June 1758 (p. 2504), 26 July (p. 25G5), 4 Aug. (p. 2567), 12 Aug. (p. 25(8), 25 Oct. (p. 2589). (44) Letter from Clive to the Honble. William Watts and the rest of the Gentlemen of the Council of Fort William, accepting their offer to resign the Presidentship to him, 26 June 1758 (p. 2556). Printed in Malcolm's Life of Clive. Vol. 1., p. 356. (45) Letters from Clive to Ensign Wick, 16 July 1758 (p. 2562), 19 July, in French (p. 25(4). (46) Letter from Clive to T. Winderkilde, 19 Oct. 1758 (p.2585). (47) Letters from Clive to Mons. Ziegenbalg, Chief at Frederick Nagore, 16 July 1758. In French (p. 2561), 18 July (p. 25(2), 30 Sept. (p. 2579), 19 Oct. (p. 2585). (48) Letter from Clive and Killpatrick to Governor Drake, 11 March, enclosing copy of a letter of same date for Admiral Watson (pp. 2385 and 2386). (49) Letter from Messrs. Clive and Watts to the Governor and Council, Fort William, 24 March 1757 (p. 2499). (50) Letter from Messrs. Clive and Watts to the Select Committee, Bengal, 9 Jan. (p. 2490), 6 March (p. 2498), 24 March 1758 (p. 2499). (51) Letters from Clive, Watts, and Manningham to the Governor or President and Council, Fort William, 20 July 1757 (p. 2444), 20 July (p. 2445), 21 July (p. 2445), 23 July (p.244), 27 July (p. 2447), 31 July (p. 2448), 3 Aug. (p. 2451), 6 Aug (p. 2452), 8 Aug. (p. 2452), 19 Aug. (p. 2453), 27 Aug., with list of parwanas obtained from the Nawab (p. 2454), 31 Aug. (p. 2458), 6 Sept. (p. 2459), 12 Sept., with subsidiary list of parwanas (p. 2460), 13 Sept. (p. 2460). N.B. The parwanas contain lists of the native districts or governments, and the officers or governors holding them. (52) Letter from Clive, Watts, and Manningham to Paul Richard Pearkes, 5 Aug. (p. 2453). (53) Letter from Clive, Watts, and Manningham to Drake and Becher (i.e., Select Committee), 13 July 1757 (p. 2440), 15 July (p. 2441), 16 July (p. 2443), 17 July (p. 2443), 26 July (p. 2446), 27 July (p. 2446), 28 July (p. 2448). (54) Letter from Clive, Watts, and Manningham to Messrs. Sumner, Waller, and Cartier of the Dacca Factory, 3 Sept. 1757 (p. 2459). (55) Letter from Clive, Watts, and Manningham to Admiral Watson, 15 July 1757 (p. 2442). (56) Letter from Clive, Watts, and Manningham to Charles Watson, George Pocock, Roger Drake, and Richard Becher, 13 July (p. 2439). (57) General Account of Jewels, plate and money received from the Nabob Meet Mahmud Jaffeir Cawn, on behalf of the Honble. East India Company, the sufferers at the taking of Calcutta, and the squadron and land forces laden on 9 country boats, and are to be delivered to the Honble. Roger Drake, Esq., President and Governor, &c., Council Calcutta, for account of the concerned, signed by William Watts, James Killpatrick, and Charles Manningham, 30 Aug. 1757 (p. 247). (58) Letter from William Watts and Charles Manningham to Governor and Council, 1 Sept., with invoice of Jewels, plate, &c., received from the Nabob Jaffeir Cawn, &c. (p. 2474). (59) Letter from Messrs. Watts and Manningham to the Select Committee, Bengal, with Invoice of money and General Account or Jewels, plate, &c., received from Meer Jaffeir, 9 Aug. 1757 (p. 2472). (60) Letters from John Carnac, Aid du Camp, to Ensign Mathews, 27 March 1759 (p. 2619), 30 March (p. 2621). (61) Letters from John Carnac, Aid du Camp, to Monsieur Fleurin, 17 Jan 1759 (p. 2601), 24 Jan. (p. 2602), 31 Jan. (p. 2603), 23 March (p. 2618). (62) Letter from James Killpatrick to Messrs. W. Mackett, H. Doidge, J. Michie, and J. Pye, Agents for the Navy, and Messrs. P. Amyatt, G. Clive, and T. Maunsell, Agents for the Army, 31 Aug. 1757 (p. 2478). (63) pp. 2648-2669. Consultations, Letters and Correspondence relating to the Dutch expedition to Bengal. These are simply extracts from the Bengal (or Fort William) Public Proceedings of 1759 of all that concerns the Dutch expedition to Bengal in that year. Some of the letters and a number of documents on the same subject (not included here) will be found in Tract No. 417 (India Office Library), which contains both the Dutch and English official accounts. Forde's letter to Clive, dated Calcutta, 3 Oct. 1758, is printed in Col. Lionel Forde's, Clive's Right Hand Man, p. 189.

2, pp, 2670-2701/1-32. Translation of news from the Capital, Shah Jehanabad, dated the 5th of Rebia ul Awal 1175 answering to the 6 October 1761. Copied from 21. 9. Duplicate of IX. 14.

pp. [i-xiii]. Index, i.e. Table of Contents. The letters on pages 2350-2669 are entered in this Table under the names of the persons to whom they are addressed.