Mss Eur Orme OV.2

p. 1. Table of Contents with note by Orme.

1, pp. 8-89. Mémoires de M. le Comte de Lally, lieutenant général des armées du roy, commandant en chef dans l'Inde, dédiés à monsieur de léry, gouverneur général pour le roy de tous les établissements français dans les indes Orientales, by Nicolas, officier major partisan. Original (see 134. 96). Copied in XIV. 2. There is a copy of this paper, in the same handwriting, in the Bibliothéque Nationale (at Paris). Nouv. Acq. Fr. 9362. These memoirs cover the period from "Lally's arrival at Pondicherry, April 27th 1758, to April 4th 1761, the day that the English began to demolish the Church of the Jesuits after they had taken possession of Pondicherry, January 15th 1761," and therefore overlap a part of the period dealt with in 1. 1 above. They are extracted below in 31. 20 and 158. 4.

2, pp. 99-159. Mémoires de ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquable à la coste coromandel, depuis le 15 janvier. 1761, jusques au 1er janvier 1763, dédiées à monsieur pigot, Equier, pour sa majesté britannique et gouverneur général de tous les établissements anglais dans les indes Orientales, by Nicolas, officier major partisan. Original. Copied in XIV. 3. Written, according to Orme, in the beginning of 1763. Extracted below in 31. 21. In this paper (p. 138) it is stated that Claud Martin (afterwards Major-General in the English service) deserted from the French service before the fall of Pondicherry owing to an insult which he and his commanding officer suffered at the hands of M. Gadeville. The reputation and subsequent career of this officer render the story very improbable.

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