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Mss Eur Orme OV.222

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Mss Eur Orme OV.222

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Letters to England Mercantile. Commencing June 23rd 1757 and Instructions to Mr Alexander

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Copies of private letters from Robert Orme at Madras and London.

1, p. 1. 23 June 1757 to Richard Walpole, Esq., Commander of the "Houghton" Indiaman.
2, p. 1. 23 June 1757 to Messrs. Peter and Joseph Godfrey. These gentlemen appear to have been Orme's Agents in London.
3, p. 4. 23 June 1757 to Mr. Schoning.
4, p. 4. 22 June 1757 to Mr. Joseph Godfrey.
5, p. 4. 23 June 1757 to Mr. Joseph Godfrey.
6, p. 5. 23 June 1757 to Captain William Hutchinson.
7, p. 5. 23 June 1757 to Captain William Wilson.
8, p. 6. 23 June 1757 to Rev. Mr. Charles Mandeville.
9, p. 6. 23 June 1757 to Messrs. Levi and Reuben Salomons.
10, p. 7. 24 June 1757 to Captain Philip Joddrel. Proposes that he himself and Mr. Holwell shall pay each one third of a sum of money, belonging to Captain Joddrel but which had been placed by Orme with Mr. Holwell, and lost by the latter in the capture of Calcutta by the Nawab Siraj-ud-daula.
11, p. 10. 24 June 1757 to Mr. Thomas Godfrey.
12, p. 11. 24 June 1757 to Mr. John Zephaniah Holwell, signed R. O. and C. B.
13, p. 12. 24 June 1757 to Mr. J. Z. Holwell.
14, p. 13. 24 June 1757 to Mr. Frederick Pigou.
15, p. 14. 25 June 1757 to Capt. Philip Joddrell.
16, p. 15. 4 July 1757 to Messrs. Peter and Joseph Godfrey.
17, p. 16. A Commission sent by Mr. Delamettrie to Mr. Boyer at Paris to be sent to Pondicherry by the first opportunity addressed to Mr. Barthelemy, in his absence to Messrs. Chevereau or Tobin, and from Pondicherry to be sent to Mr. Orme at Madras. A present of various books and articles of apparel.
18, p. 17. 30 July 1757 to the Honble. William Murray.
19, p. 18. 8 Nov. 1757 to Captain Philip Joddrel.
20, p. 20. 9 Nov. 1757 to Mr. and Mrs. Hosea. Mentions that he left England on the 9 April 1754 and arrived at Madras the 10th Sept. following.
21, p. 21. 9 Nov. 1757 to Messrs. Peter and Joseph Godfrey.
22, p. 23. 10 Nov. 1757 to Mr. Judah Supino.
23, p. 23. 10 Nov. 1757 to Mr Humphrey Cotes.
24, p. 23. 10 Nov. 1757 to Mr Thomas Godfrey.
25, p. 24. 9 Nov. 1757 to Mr John Sergeant.
26, p. 24, 10 Nov. 1757 to Messrs. Levi and Reuben Salomons.
27, p. 25. 11 Nov. 1757 to Mr. Robert Wood. "It is a custom which I have established in my own Accompting House Madras, two and a half per cent. commission on all the Monies which I transact for persons residing in England, otherwise my clerks, to whom in this country I am obliged to pay high Salarys, might be employ'd the year round in the affairs of other people and that expence would become too great for me. You will observe that I have so drawn commission on Miss Mary Cope's Money, but as the situation of that young Lady is particular and I think she is likely to suffer hardships by the caprice of a Parent, and as a particular attention to her affair has been recommended to me by persons, whose inclinations will always have the weight of commands to me, I now do myself the honour to enclose you a bill of exchange for £60, which I beg the favour you will receive and present to the young Lady in my name."
28, p. 25. 11 Nov. 1757 to Mr. Richard Walpole.
29, p. 26. 13 March 1758 to Mr. Henry Speke and Capt. Nicholas Webb.
30, p. 27. 13 March 1758 to Mr. Henry Speke.
31, p. 28. 12 March 1758 to Captain Philip Joddrel.
32, p. 28. 12 March 1758 to Mr. William Belchier.
33, p. 28. 12 March 1758 to Mr. Thomas Godfrey.
34, p. 29. 13 March 1758 to Messrs. Levi and Reuben Salomons.
35, p. 29. 13 March 1758 to Mrs. Margaret Hosea.
36, p. 29. 13 March 1758 to Messrs. Peter and Joseph Godfrey.
37, p. 30. 13 March 1758 to Messrs. Peter and Joseph Godfrey. Instructs them to claim from the Company on his part, as owner of the Orixa, one-third of the prize-money due upon the Indien, a French ship captured by Commodore James, with the ships Revenge, Orixa, and Mahmudy, from Bombay to Calcutta in 1756-7.
38, p. 33. 13 March 1758 to Joseph Godfrey.
39, p. 33. 3 May 1758 to Captain Philip Joddrel.
40, p. 34. 6 May 1758 to Captain Philip Joddrel.
41, p. 35. 8 May 1758 to Messrs. Levi and Reuben Salomons.
42, p. 36. 15 May 1758 to Mr. Nathaniel Garland.
43, p. 36. 15 May 1758 to Messrs. Joseph or Peter Godfrey.
44, p. 37. 26 Sept. 1758 to Messrs. Peter and Joseph Godfrey.
45, p. 37. 26 Sept. 1758 to Messrs. Peter and Joseph Godfrey (No.2).
46, p. 38. 26 Sept. 1758 to Captain Philip Joddrel.
47, p. 38. 26 Sept. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander.
48, p. 39. 26 Sept. 1758 to Messrs. Abraham and Isaac Franco.
49, p. 39. 26 Sept. 1758 to Messrs. Levi and , Reuben Salomons.
50, p. 39. 26 Sept. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander.
51, p. 40. 26 Sept. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander (2).
52, p. 40. Note, dated 27 Sept., to Mr Bourchier.
53, p. 40. 28 Sept. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander. Makes over the property of Colonel Clive, which had been left in his charge when Clive left Madras.
54, p. 42. 28 Sept. 1758 to Mr. William Belchier.
55, p. 42. 28 Sept. 1758 to Mr. Henry Speke.
56, p. 43. 28 Sept. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander.
57, p. 43. 30 Sept. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander.
58, p. 43. 30 Sept. 1758 to Col. Robert Clive.
59, p. 44. 30 Sept. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander.
60, p. 44. 2 Oct. 1758 to Lieut.-Colonel Clive.
61, p. 44. 4 Oct. 1758 to the Honble. George Pigot. Asks permission to return to England.
62, p. 45. 4 Oct. 1758 to Messrs. Peter and Joseph Godfrey.
63, p. 45. 5 Oct. 1758 to Messrs. Peter and Joseph Godfrey.
64, p. 45. 7 Oct. 1758 to Messrs. Peter and Joseph Godfrey.
65, p. 46. 7 Oct. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander.
66, p. 46. 7 Oct. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander (No.2).
67, p. 47. 10 Oct. 1758 to Messrs. Peter and Joseph Godfrey.
68, p. 47. 10 Oct. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander.
69, p. 49. 10 Oct. 1758 to Mr. Charles Manningham.
70, p. 50. 11 Oct. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander.
71, p. 50. 11 Oct. 1758 to Mr. Charles Douglas in Bengal.
72, p. 51. 12 Oct. 1758 to Mr. James Alexander.

N.B. The remaining letters were written from London.

73, p. 53. 24 Dec. 1760 to Madame Marie Joseph Morel at Calais. In French.
74, p. 55. 24 Dec. 1760 to Monsieur le Comte de Breteuil. In French.
75, p. 56. 24 Dec. 1760 to M. Fector.
76, p. 57. Note, dated 3 Jan. 1761, of despatch of a letter to M. Tobin at Nantes.
77, p. 57. Note, dated 4 Jan. 1761, of despatch of a letter to M. Magon at Paris.
78, p. 58. Note, dated 4 Jan. 1761, of despatch of a letter to Madame Morel.
79, p. 58. Note, dated 4 Jan. 1761, of despatch of a letter to M. Morel Disque.
80, p. 58. Note, dated 5 Jan. 1761, of despatch of a letter to M. Montaudoin at Nantes.
81, p. 58. Note, dated 7 Jan. 1761, of despatch of a letter to M. Breteuil at Paris.
82, p 58. Note, dated 8 Jan. 1761, of despatch of a letter to M. Bachelier, of the Academy of Painting at Paris.
83, p. 58. Note, dated 8 Jan. 1761, of despatch of a letter to M. Arthur, Watchmaker, at Paris.
84, p. 58. Note, dated 8 Jan. 1761, of despatch of a letter to M. Grou at Nantes.
85, p. 59. Note, dated 13 Jan. 1761, of despatch of a letter to M. James Tobin at Nantes.
86, p. 59. Note, dated 15 Jan. 1761, of despatch of a letter to Lord Mansfield.
87, p. 59. 17 Feb. 1761 to Mrs. Hosea at Mr. Kelly's, Dublin.
88, p. 60. 17 Feb. 1761 to Messrs. Chabanel and Louis Teissier in Old Broad Street Union.
89, p. 61. Memorandum, dated London, 17 Feb. 1761, of Chintz, which Mr. Thomas Pelling is desired by Mr. Orme to get made at Madras.
90, p. 65. Copy of No. 61.
91, p. 67. 20 Feb. 1761 to Mr. Anselm Beaumont at Calcutta.
92, p. 67. 19 Feb. 1761 to Mr. Hosea, with copy of instructions to himself.
93, p. 68. 19 Feb. 1761 to Mr. John Zephaniah Holwell.
94, p. 69. 20 Feb. 1761 to Mr. Thomas Pelling, Madras.
95, p. 70. 21 Feb. 1761 to Mr. Josias Du Pré at Fort St. George. Asks him to destroy a "nonsensical fine suit of clothes. . . A man of more vivacity than judgment represented to my Taylor the necessity to make it as fine as if I had been going on an embassy to the Great Mogul."
96, p, 71. Note, dated 4 March 1761, of despatch of a letter to M. Breteuil at Paris.
97, p: 71. 11 March 1761 to Madame Marie Joseph Morel at Calais. In French.
98, p. 72. 11 March 1761 to Messrs. Minet & Co. at Dover.
99, p. 73. 15 March 1761 to Mrs Hosea.
100, p, 73. Note, dated 15 March 1761, to Mr Palk.
101, p. 74. 15 March 1761 to Mr. Charles Manningham.
102, p, 74. 15 March 1761 to Mr. Samuel Hough.
103, p. 75. 15 March 1761 to Suncarama.
104, p. 75. 16 March 1761 to Mr. Richard Bourchier.
105, p. 75. 18 March 1761 to Mr. Josias Du Pré.
106, p. 76. 23 March 1761 to Mr. Gerard Ellinkhuysen [or Hellinkhuysen] at Rotterdam.
107, p. 77. 23 March 1761 to Monsieur de Maupertuis. In French.
108, p. 77. 1 April 1761 to Monsieur de Maupertuis. In French.
109, p. 78. 1 April 1761 to the Chevalier Lucker at Nantes. In French.
110, p. 79. 1 April 1761 to Mr. James Tobin at Nantes. Criticizes Rousseau, but says that all that he writes on the education of children is sensible. "Our public schools are well calculated to make all boys fight, but all ideas of equality are lost at them by the constant example that the bigger boy may take the apple from the less."
111, p. 81. 3 April 1761 to Monsieur Montaudoin at Nantes. In French. Deals with literary subjects, Asiatic titles, Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloȉse, Sale's Koran:- "Parmi mes lectures je lis l'Alcoran qui était presque Arabe."
112, p. 84, 22 April 1761 to Messrs. Minet & Co. at Dover.
113, p. 85. Note, dated 28 April 1761, of despatch of letter to M. Kelero de Rossebo.
114, p. 85, 8 May 1761 to Monsieur le Comte de Breteuil. In French.
115, p. 86 8 May 1761 to M. Bachelier, painter at Paris. Says that he hears that his portrait is nearly finished and compliments him on the designs, especially those of birds, used in the manufacture of porcelain which he directs.
116, p. 88. 8 May 1761 to Madame Morel at Calais.
117, p. 88. Note, dated 8 May 1761, to Mr. Payne.
118, p. 89. 8 May 1761 to Messrs. Minet & Co. at Dover.
119, p. 89. 8 May 1761 to M. Kelero de Rossebo. In French. Promises to arrange his exchange with some English officer, prisoner in France.
120, p. 90. 19 June 1761 to Messrs. Minet & Co.
121, p. 90. 2 July 1761 to M. de Rossebo at Launceston.
122, p. 91. 4 July 1761 to Mrs Hosea.
123, p. 91. 10 Aug. 1761 to Messrs. Selwin & Foley at Paris.
124, p. 91. 11 Aug. 1761 to Mr. James Tobin.
125, p. 94. 11 Aug. 1761 to the Comte de Breteuil.
126, p. 94. 11 Aug. 1761 to M. Bachelier. In French.
127, p. 95. 17 Aug. 1761 to Mr. Joseph Godfrey.
128, p. 95. 20 Oct. 1761 to Mr. George Way.
129. p. 96. Letter dated Hanover Street, London, 2 Nov. 1761 to M. --. In French. Orme's residence in Hanover Street, Hanover Square, is not mentioned in the Life prefixed to his Historical Fragments.
130, p. 96. 13 Nov. 1761 to Mr. Luke Scrafton.
131, p. 97. 23 Nov. 1761 to Mr. Joseph Godfrey.
132, p. 97. 22 Jan. 1762 to Mr. Andrew Ross at Madras.
133, p. 97. 23 Jan. 1762 to Mr. Anselm Beaumont.
134, p. 98. 23 Jan. 1762 to Mr. Thomas Pelling.
135, p. 99. 23 Jan. 1762 to Mr. Josias Du Pré at Fort St. George.
136, p. 100. 23 Jan. 1762 to Mr. James Alexander.
137, p. 101. 23 Jan. 1762 to Mr. Robert Palk.
138, p. 105. 23 Jan. 1762 to Messrs. Robert Palk, Josias Du Pré and Mr. James Alexander.
139, p. 107. 8 Dec. 1762 to Mr. James Alexander.
140, p. 108. 8 Dec. 1762 to Mr. Thomas Pelling.
141, p. 109. 19 Nov. 1764 to Colonel Richard Smith from [apparently] Messrs. Gosling, Robert Gosling and Georgc Clive, enclosing his account.
142, p. 111. 19 Nov. 1764 to Col. Richard Smith. Mentions the deaths of the Duke of Devonshire, Mr. Legg, and the "famous poet Churchill, who died at Calais where he went with Humphrey Coles to meet Wilkes. He died it is said of a fever occasioned by intemperance on this occasion"; gives the news of the Court of Directors; says that "there is a long letter [probably Call's letter of the 18th Jan. 1764, see 27. 18] to you from Call about the Madura expedition, which I shall appropriate as a Memoir for my own History" - which shows that at this time Orme did not anticipate the cessation of his History in 1761. N.B. All Orme's letters to Col. Richard Smith begin "My dear friend," whilst to almost everyone else he opens formally with "Sir" or "Madam."
143, p. 114. 21 Nov. 1764 to [Lord Clive]. Says: "I have had permission to poke into the records of the India House and have discovered excellent materials for the exordium of my second volume, but the difficulty of getting them away is immense, for every scrap of an extract that I desire is submitted to the consideration of the Court of Directors, so that, in three months and after making twenty-five journeys to the [India] House, I have not yet got half what I want. All because they wont lend me old books of which not a soul in England suspected the existence until my rumages (sic) discovered them. . . . You, my Lord have treated me differently and pray continue to do so. Make me a vast map of Bengal. . . . I send you a skeleton of the Bengal Map (see 332. 2) I intend for my second volume, and I will hereafter send you the first sheets of the book itself (see No. 146 below and VII. 19), which will contain matter entirely new even to us East Indians, but that cruel India House and my paper constitution keeps me back most terribly." See Malcolm's Life of Clive II., p. 523.
144, p. 115. 27 Feb. 1765 to Mr. Machado.
145, p. 116. 25 April 1765 from Sir Francis Gosling, Robert Gosling and George Clive to Col. Richard Smith, with his account.
146, p. 118. 27 April1765 to Lord Clive. Sends him the first four sheets of his second volume.
147, p. 110. 27 April 1765 to Col. Richard Smith. A homily on the folly of extravagance and “ unnecessary parade for the sake of black fellows."
148, p. 120. 7 Jan. 1766 to Col. Eyre Coote. Asks his good services in favour of Colonel Joseph Smith, who wishes to return to Madras in the military way, but whose modesty has prevented the Court of Directors from being acquainted with his merit.
149, p. 121. 1 Feb. 1766 to Col. Richard Smith. Mentions a conversation with Lord Rockingham on Indian affairs, when his Lordship declared "that although he had lately differed from Lord Clive in his political conduct in English affairs, yet he should never oppose his interests in those of India, esteeming him the most capable man of re-establishing them"; says "your comparison of it" [Orme's History] "with that of Thucydides is a proof that you have read Thucydides with great attention and my History with great partiality; you are right in supposing that I had the Grecian in my view. I had so often heard and read such great commendation of his work that I had formed many conjectures of his manner of writing before I perused him, which was, as I shall always remember, in the beginning of the year 1755 soon after I arrived last at Madras. When I had read two books I , said to myself, is it possible to write a history in any other manner, and every hours progress confirmed me more and more in that opinion. Thus far he was undoubtedly my master, but from that time to this I have not read ten pages in him, for during the whole time I was composing I never sought for ideas, plan, style or arrangement but in my own subject"; expresses, however, some doubt as to whether he shall continue his History as he cannot always praise – “I have wrote one book which comprises the loss of Calcutta and I have looked forward into the subject far enough to see that the Bengal transactions will not do my countrymen so much honour as they have received from the first volume. There has been an amazing apathy in all those whose merits I have commemorated. I question whether there is a single individual, excepting Dalton (see III. 60 below), who thinks I have done him justice. What then must I not expect of ill will when truth shall command me to blame. However I go on but am not solicitous to publish hastily." Eyre Coote also was evidently well satisfied with Orme's treatment of his services. See 63. 15 (2).
150. 10 Feb. 1766 to Mr. William Hosea.
151, p. 125. 10 Feb. 1766 to Col. John Caillaud. Says that he counts on him for information regarding military affairs in Coromandel, and does not wish his book to appear until Caillaud has perused it. Of his first volume he says "not more than 900 of my books have been sold so that if there is any person who, for my sake, may wish my work damned, they will have the consolation to know that it is in a state of Purgatory without much chance of ever arriving at the higher regions of fame."
152, p. 126. 27 March 1766 to Colonel Joseph Smith.
153, p. 128. Col. Richard Smith’s Account with Sir Francis Gosling, Robert Gosling and George Clive.
154, p. 130. 28 March 1766 to Col. Richard Smith. Mentions Lord Clive's advice to the Company never to employ troops not entirely dependent upon them, and accordingly to take care that their own officers hold rank superior to that of any King's officers sent to India; says that Colonel Joseph Smith's proposal to erect a monument to Major Achilles Preston (killed at Madura) has been coldly received by Mr. Rous, but that it is only delayed; says that he has completed his History as far as the capture of Chandernagore; says that Lord Clive has not written to him and neglects him.
155, p. 132. 16 May 1766 to Col. Richard Smith. Says that his [i.e., Smith's] differences with Lord Clive are known in England, and advises less independence towards both Lord Clive and the Court of Directors.
156, p. 135. 16 May 1766 to Lord Clive. Advises him to be careful of his health and not to stay in Calcutta between the 15th of May and the 15th of October.
157, p. 136. 20 June 1766 to Mr. Panchaud.
158, p. 137. 24 June 1766 to Mr. Panchaud.
159, p. 138. 25 June 1766 to Earl Verney.
160, p. 138. 27 June 1766 to --.
161, p. 139. 1 July 1766 to Mr. Panchaud.
162, p. 140. 4 July 1766 to Mr. Panchaud.
163, p. 141. 23 Aug 1766 to Mrs. [Hosea].
164, p. 142. 15 Nov. 1766 to Mr. Isaac Panchaud.
165, p. 142. 21 Nov. 1766 to Lord Clive.
166, p. 143. 21 Nov. 1766 to Col. Richard Smith. "Your boy continues at Marybone; he is grown tall and shapes excellently, he is very handsome."
167, p. 144. 2 Dec. 1766 to Mr. Merry.
168, p. 144. 8 Dec. 1766 to Mr. Machado.
169, p. 145. 24 Jan. 1767 to Col. Richard Smith. Says that his scribe Spence is very deaf, that he has been ill-used by Rous and other Directors, expresses a somewhat pessimistic view of the future of Bengal when the terror of Clive's name is removed, for "it is fixed in human nature that a million of the natives should be eternally plotting to cheat the English of what they think the English have no right to. Severities will ensue, Disgust will follow, the whole Province will hate us. Other Provinces will think us striking at the universal dominion. An able man may appear, he may cause a suspension of the internal jealousies of Indostan. We shall be attacked on all sides, shall not be beat but be ruined by expenses."
170, p. 147. 24 Jan. 1767 to Colonel Joseph Smith. (Dear Colonel Joe.)
171, p. 148. 24 Jan. 1767 to [Mrs. Mackay]. "By the way, you have before now seen my most worthy friend Coja Alexander going in Council to Bengal and I make no doubt you have given him every kind of curry that ever was invented at Madras. He deserves it; he deserves a great fortune, for he has a noble spirit. Pray execute all his commissions from Bengal and make him send you sheep, sticked aprons and pickled mangoes."
172, p. 149. 25 Jan. 1767 to Col. Richard Smith.
173, p. 149. 25 Jan. 1767 to Mr. William Hosea.
174, p. 149. 25 Jan. 1767 to Col. Richard Smith.
175, p. 150. 25 Jan. 1767 to Mr. George Mackay. Mentions an Italian friend, one Signor Marchetti, who is travelling to India over the desert.
176, p. 151. 25 Jan. 1767 to Lord Clive. Notes that Lord Shelburne's appointment to be Secretary of State has lost Lord Clive a wager of £100 to "your poor Author and Historian [i.e., Orme himself "].
177, p. 151. 28 Jan. 1767 to Col. Richard Smith. Sends copies of his account with Colonel Joseph Smith, and of both their accounts with Sir Francis Gosling, Robert Gosling and George Clive.
178, p. 157. 28 Jan. 1767 from Orme and Robert Browne to Col. Joseph Smith.
179, p. 157. 1 Feb. 1767 to Col. Richard Smith. Thanks him for some maps, says that he has reached only the 120th page of his second volume and asks for information about Delhi, &c.; promises "I shall animadvert to your exploit at Nelore when I come to relate that story." Smith was very proud of this affair. See 25. 6 above and Orme's History II., p.205.
180, p. 159. 1 April 1767 to Mr. Lauchlin Macleane.
181, p. 159. 18 April1767 to --.
182, p. 159. Letter, without date, to Col. [Richard] Smith.
183, p. 160. 7 May 1767 to Mr. Lauchlin Macleane, with an undated interchange of notes appended.
184, p. 161. 20 July l767 to Mr. Thomas Anson. Mentions Clive's return to England.
185, p. 161. Note, dated 30 July 1767, to Mr. Goosetree.
186, p. 162. 18 Nov. 1767 to Mr. James Alexander.
187, p. 163. 20 Nov. 1767 to Col. Joseph Smith. Says that he would have preferred an alliance with Haidar Ali to one with the Nizam; advises him to avoid the receipt of presents "as the bane of every reputation in India."
188, p. 164. 11 Nov. 1767 to Col. Richard Smith. Says that Lord Clive appears hurt at his behaviour, but, not inclined to prejudice him. "The agreement of the rights between the Governor of Bengal and the Commander-in-Chief has given much umbrage to many of the Directors, but I have not yet learnt what they have said on it. It was decided last year for Madras that the Soldier is always to be under the command of the Governor. I myself would not govern anywhere, where it was not so"; hints that he is too ambitous.
189, p. 166. 18 Nov. 1767 to Col. Richard Smith. Disadvises his return to England; warns him that "the Parliament in less than two years will ring with declamation against the Plunderers of the East. How fair, how great it will then be not to see your name in the list. I do assure you Old Lawrence has a reputation in England which may well be envy'd (with all its fortunes) by the name of Clive. It is these cursed presents which stop my History. Why should I be doomed to commemorate the ignominy of my countrymen, and without giving the money story, that has accompanied every event since the first of April 1757, I shall not relate all the springs of action, that is I shall be a Jesuitical Historian, two terms which Voltaire says are incompatible, for no Jesuit could ever tell a true tale, much less write a true History."
190, p, 169. 4 Oct. 1768 to Col. Richard Smiith. In Orme's handwriting. Recommends young Fountain, son of the master of Marylebone School.
191, p. 170. 24 Oct. 1768 to Mr. James Alexander.
192, pp. 173-184. Index.

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Mss Eur Orme OV.222 : Letters to England Mercantile. Commencing June 23rd 1757 and Instructions to Mr Alexander

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