Mss Eur Orme India J

pp. [i-iii]. Table of Contents. As the volume contains only printed papers, it is probably only the first volume of a collection of printed papers dealing with India, but as it is lettered on the back "India, 1753-1774, Vol. J," it has been included here.

1, pp. 1-4 (37 X 27 cm.) (cut down). By-Laws of the East India Company.

2, pp. 5-16 (33.5 X 21.5 cm.). Patents for a Portugueze East India Company, dated Lisbon, March 16th 1753.

3, pp. 17-32 (45.5 X 39 cm.). An Account of the Amount of all the Duties paid upon East-India Goods from the year 1756 to 1765, both years inclusive, distinguishing each year.

4, pp. 33-35 (27.4 X 18 cm.). An Account of all Expenses incurred by his Majesty's Forces employed in the East India Company's Service from the year 1756 to the year 1766, both years inclusive, distinguishing each year.

5, p. 36 (27.4 X 18 cm.). Account of the expences incurred by Government on account of the East India Company from the year 1756 to the year 1766, both years inclusive, so far as the same appears in the Office of Ordnance.

6, pp. 39-40 (38 X 28 cm.). (1) An Account of the Expences incurred by Govt. on account of the East India Company for victualling his Majesty's Navy from the year 1756 to the year 1766, both years inclusive, 12 Jan, 1767. (2) An Account showing the several Sums granted by Parliament to the East India Company during the course of the last War. (3) Navy Office, 13 Jan. 1767. A particular State of the Expences incurred by Government on account of the East India Cornpany from the year 1756 to the year 1766, both years inclusive, distinguishing each year as far as the same appear in this office.

7, pp. 41-54 (37 X 27 cm.). Russell Skinner and others, Agents for paying the Nabob's Donation to the Army in Bengal (Appellants). John Henry Meyers and George Burghell, Officers in the service of the East India Company (Respondents). Concerning the rights of certain Madras Officers, serving in Bengal, to share in the donation promised to tho army by Mir Jafar in 1763. The Respondents' case was heard in 1768.

8, pp. 55-72 (31 X 19 cm.). The East India Observer, No, IV., discussing adversely the proposal that the Company should give up its possessions to the Public. No. V. The same. No. VI. A letter violently attacking Vansittart's behaviour to Mir Jafar.

9, p. 73 (38.5 X 20 cm.). Proposals received by the Honourable East India Company, from the Right Honourable the Lord Clive, for assigning over his Lordship's Jaghire to the Company, 27 April 1764.

10, pp. 75-78 (33.5 X 20.3 cm.), The opinion of the Honble, Charles York touching Lord Clive's Jaghire, taken by the Court of Directors and read to the General Court of Proprietors, held at Merchant Taylors Hall, on Wednesday the 2nd of May 1764, Published in "A letter to the Proprietors of the East India Stock from Lord Clive, &c., &c." London, 1764. Reprinted 1773.

11, pp. 79-90 (32 X 18.5 cm) A letter to the Proprietor's of East India Stock relative to their present negotiations with Government, 1766.

12, pp. 91-93 (35 X 20 cm.). The Opinion of the East India Company's General Officers upon the conduct of Sir Robert Fletcher, Agreeably to the unanimous vote of a general Court of Proprietors on 23rd M arch 1768. A Letter, dated Hanover Square 30 March 1768, from Stringer Lawrence and John Caillaud to the Court of Directors, stating their opinion that the sentence pronounced by the Court Martial upon Sir Robert Fletcher in Sept. 1766, though partially correct, may be annulled in consideration of his otherwise good conduct, to which is appended a Letter, dated, 15 Feb. 1768, from James Murray, Governor of Quebec, to Sir Robert Fletchcr approving his conduct.

13, p.95 (33 X 20 cm.). Letter, dated 9 April 1766; from Henry Vansittart to the Printer of the Public Advertiser. Says that the attack made upon him in the" Public Advertiser" of this date is by Luke Scrafton.

14, pp. 97-102 (31 X 18.5 cm.). An East Indian Observer Extraordinary, containing an address to the Author of a letter to Henry Vansittart, Esq., in the East India Observer, No. VI. By Mr. J. Z. Holwell, dated 28 Dec. 1766.

15, p.103 (39 X 24 cm.). 1766. A list of ships abroad in the United East India Company's Service.

16, pp. 115-117 (35 X 20 cm.). The Report of the Court of Directors made this day to the General Court of Proprietors of the East India Company. Merchant-Taylors-Hall, 2 April 1767.

17, pp. 119-140 (35 X 20.5 cm.). An Account of all transfers of India Stock made from the 1st day of February last to the shutting of the Books in March, with the places of abode of the Persons to whom the said transfers were made, 1767.

18, pp. 141-160 (35 X 20.5 cm.). An Account of transfers of East India Stock which have been made since the opening of the books on the 9th of April 1767.

19, pp. 161-181 (33 X 20 cm.). Speech of Mr. George Johnstone in the General Court of Proprietors of East India Stock upon the subject of the restitution for private losses in the War against Cossim Ali Dawn (agreeably to the Treaty concluded 10 July 1763), with an Appendix regarding the evidence of "Nundcomar and of Nubkissen." Not dated, but subsequent to 1767. Justifies the overthrow of the Nawab Kasim Ali. In speaking of the murder of Messrs. Amyatt and Hay by the order of Kasim Ali, Johnstone says: "It is to be remembered also that Mr. Amyat and Hay were sacrificed as public ambassadors, and to their eternal honour be it recorded that even when they saw inevitable death and destruction as a certain consequence of a vigorous exertion in the Governor and Council, they privately sent Dispatches to beg their lives might not be regarded as the slightest obstruction in pursuing the interest of their country. This is not the fabulous relation concerning a Regulus or the embellished story of a Choultry ["Vide Orme's Miracles of Lord Clive" (Note by Mr. Johnstone). Apparently the "embellished story of a Choultry" refers to Clive's escape at Samayavaram (Orme's History, I. 223), which is "explained by Mr. Beaufoy (Biog. Brit., art. Clive, p. 650, note). See also Malcolm's Life of Robert Lord Clive, I. 116, note.] but the certain and unadorned conduct of Britons acting from principle and conscience in what they believed right, yet these are the men whom the malicious part of this Company would vilify and stigmatize by every act of meanness."

20, pp. 183-186 (33 X 20 cm.). Letter to the Proprietors of East India Stock on the subject of the Question to be balloted for on Friday 13th. Regarding negotiations with Government. Not dated, but subsequent to 1767.

21, pp. 187-194 (31.7 X 19 cm.). A Vindication of the Character and Conduct of a Noble Lord and of the three intended Indian Superintendants from the Aspersions of a Writer in the Gazetteer, who signs himself Indus. Berkley Square, 3 , July 1769. Satirical attack upon Lord Clive, Francis Forde, Mr. Henry Vansittart, and Mr. Luke Scrafton. It is stated in tho Index to be by Macleane and Stuart. Printed in Caraccioli's Life of Clive, Vol. II., p. 559.

22, pp. 195-196 (31.7 X 19 cm.). Extracts of letters from Lord Clive and others, read at the General Court of the East India Company on Friday 11 August 1769. Letter from Lord Clive, dated 11 July 1765, and letters from Mr. Francis Sykes, dated 24th and 28th July 1765, to the Select Committee, Fort William, and Proceedings of the Select Committee 23 Oct. 1768. All refer to the management of the revenues by Muhammad Raza Khan.

23, pp. 197-230 (33 X 20 cm.). Schemes of Accommodation with Government in 1767 by various Proprietors. Nos. 1-7 and 13, with notice dated 2 Feb. 1769 of the Question proposed to be ballotted for at his House (East India House) on Thursday next the 9th Instant.

24, pp. 231-238 (43 X 28.5 cm.). A list of the Names of those Mernbers of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies who stood qualified as voters on the Company's Books the 11th of October 1769. A number of the pages are missing.

25, p. 239 (31 X 20.5 cm.) Times ,and Terms of the following ships taken up for 1769. In manuscript.

26, p.241 (36.5 X 23.5 cm.). A list of ships abroad in the United East India Company’s Service. No. 24, 1769.

27, pp. 243-246 (37 X 26 cm.). Letter, dated 7 Feb. 1769, to the Proprietors of East India Stock, by "An Assertor of your rights and an Old Proprietor." Concerning the proposed vote of £400,000 continued to Government.

28, pp. 247-250 (33.5 X 20 cm.). Letter, not dated, from A Proprietor to the Proprietors of East India Stock, enclosing a number of letters to Lawrence Sulivan. Stated in the Index to be by young Rous.

29, pp, 251-257 (33.3 X 20 cm.). Advantages arising to the East India Company and the Public from the Establishment of Docks in Bengal.

30 (1), pp. 259-338 (33.5 X 20 cm.). Copies of Opinion of Council taken on the Legality of the Instruction to the Governor General and Council of Bengal, &c., prepared by the Committee appointed by the General Court of Proprietors of the India Company, 7 December 1773, for that purpose. (2) pp. 275-307. Two copies of Instructions to the Governor General [Warren Hastings] and Council of Bengal. (3) p. 311. Two copies of Instructions for the Governor General and Council in Bengal and for the Council of Cornmerce, with directions for the institution of a Board of Exchequer, drawn by the Committee of Proprietors of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies appointed for such Purpose. Counsel’s opinions are dated Dec. 27, 1773 and 14 January 1774.