Mss Eur Orme OV.62

pp. [i-ii]. Table of Contents.

1, pp. 1-16 (31.5 x 20 cm.). List of the Country Correspondence, Fort St. George, for the year 1758, classed, the letters under their heads, with an Index showing in what page and column of the left (sic) the Person’s name is to be found.

2, 17-41 (32.5 x 19.5 cm.). Letters from Balagerow, Gopaulrow, Morarerow, Washadavapunt, from 5th Jan. to 15th -Oct. 1758., Copies. Affairs of Salabat Jang.

3, pp. 43-47 (22.6 x 18 cm.). What passed at Aurengabad from the murder of Hyder Jung, May 11th, until Salabadjing and Mr. Bussy returned to Hyderabed, July 15th, prepared at Paris for Mr. Bussy's inspection, who said I [Orme] was right. In Orme's handwriting and in French.

4, pp. 49-54 (32 x 20 cm.). Letter, dated York, 18th-- 1776, from General Joseph Smith to Orme. Original..Encloses an account of the expedition against Turaiyur in 1758. Though writing twelve years after the execution of Muhammad Yusuf, Smith speaks of him as " the gallant Issoof Cawn."

5, p. 55 (32.5 x 20 cm.). Letters from the Maravar and the Nawab regarding Madura and Tinnevelly, October 1758. Copies.

6, pp. 58-62 (22 x 18 cm. and 32.5 x 20 cm.). Returns of the French and English fleets, 1758. In Orme's handwriting.

7, pp. 63-69 (23 x 18.5 cm.). Letter, dated Powick, near Worcester, 2 Sept. 1776 from Captain Stephen Smith to Orme, with replies to Ormes queries regarding Draper’s sally [14 Dec. 1758], when Madras was besieged by Lally. Original. Printed in Colonel H. D. Love's Vestiges of Old Madras, II. 555. Captain Smith says that he was at this time a Lieutenant in the Grenadiers, and that it was his men who were mistaken by Count d'Estaign for Lally's Regiment, that the Count when he discovered his mistake tried to escape, but his horse fell and he would have been killed if Smith had not interfered and sent him under escort to Colonel Draper. If correct, this disposes of the sensational story that d'Estaign was captured by his own countrymen who had deserted to the English.

8, pp. 71-74 (23 x 18.5 cm.) Major, Pascall’s account of Draper's sally, taken from him, Oct. 6th 1776. In Orme's handwriting, having been taken down by Orme during a visit paid him by Major Pascall, who was in the sally and brought up the rear. Mentions a surgeon named Sprat as attending him when he was carried into the town. He also mentions seeing the results of a desperate hand to hand fight in a small room between English and French soldiers. Five or six on each side were lying dead killed by bayonet wounds, and an Englishman was in a standing position fixed to the wall by a bayonet through his heart.

9, p. 75 (23 x 17.5 cm.). Letter, dated 8th Oct. 1776, from Gen. R. Smith to Orme. Original. Confirms Pascall's account of Draper's sally.

10, pp. 77-85 (32 x 20cm.). Extracts by me [i.e., Orme] from the Journal, concerning the siege of Madras from the 22nd Dec. 1758 to Jan. 3rd 1759. Mahomed Issoof’s advance to Chinglapett. The Journal referred to is probably the “Journal of Transactions during the siege of Fort St. George," compiled by Mr. Josias Du Pre, Secretary to Government (Madras Public Department Sundry Book, Vol. XIII.), see Colonel Love's Vestiges of Old Madras, II. 539.

11, pp. 87-90 (23 x 18 cm.). Letter, dated Whiteford, near Callington, 22nd Sept. 1776, from John Call to Orme. Original. Describes the fight of Trivambore (Tiruvamiyur), and contains a rough sketch illustrating the action.

12 (1), pp. 93-103 (32.6 x 19 cm.). Dates of letters to and from, Preston, 12th Dec. 1758 to 9th Feb. 1759, and Extracts concerning Preston and Mahomed Issoof, from Jan. 16th to Feb. 3rd, from their letters and the Company's Records. In Orme's handwriting. (2) pp. 105-106 (20.3 x 32 cm.). Additional extracts.

13 pp. 107-122 (15.3 x 19 cm.). Caillaud's Journal of. His expedition to Tanjore to obtain assistance for Madras, 1st Dec. 1758 to 7th Feb. 1759. Original.

14, pp. 123-126 (32.5 x 20 cm.). Questions to General Caillaud, 17th Nov. 1776, concerning the action at the Mount, the 9th February 1759, with his replies. In Orme's and Caillaud's handwriting.

15, p. 127 (32.5x20cm.). Account of Guns and Mortars disabled during the siege of Fort St. George. Copy.

16, p. 129 (20 x 15.5 cm.). Money sent out during the siege. In Orme's handwriting. This money was sent partly to the Nawab and partly to Preston and Muhammad Yusuf.

17, pp. 131-143 (32.5 x 19 cm.). Cotsford’s' description of the Fortifications of Madrass when besieged by Lally, written for me [Orme] 1776. Original. This has been printed in Colonel H. D. Love's Vestiges of Old Madras, II. 531-34.

18, pp. 145-155 (32.5 x 23.5 cm.). Bengal Presidency, their account with Fort St. George, and Fort St. George, their account with Bengal, to explain monies sent this year from Bengal to Madras. Copy.