[15] Saturday Morning, Dec. 28th. 1728.
[16] Probably old style, and therefore 1729, N. S.
[17] Probably the name by which he designated his aunt Bayley.
[18] Manchester, June 9. 1732.
[19] His object is said to have been to get a smooth stone which lay on
this projecting stone spout, for the pleasure of jerking it.--_Biog.
Brit._ art. CLIVE.
[20] The Rev. Mr. Smithwick related this anecdote to me in 1827.
[21] Mr. Gilbert Davis confirms this anecdote, as having been told him
at Shrewsbury, upwards of forty years ago.
[22] Dated Fort St. George, Dec. 10. 1744.
[23] _Biog. Brit._ art. CLIVE.
[24] Orme, vol. i. p. 68.
[25] Ibid. pp. 70, 71.
[26] Biographia Britannica (2d edit.), art. CLIVE, written by Henry
Beaufoy, Esq. M. P., from family papers and information: see also,
Chalmers' Biographical Dictionary.
[27] Biographia Britannica (2d edit.), art. CLIVE.
[28] Mr. Mill in his History of India (vol. iii. p. 105.), in
reference to these early occurrences of Clive's life, describes him,
at this period, as of a turbulent disposition; but the justice of the
application of such an epithet is not borne out by the facts.
[29] Colonel Lawrence's Narrative.
[30] Orme, War in Hindustan.
[31] This inattention to orders is referred by some native agents of
the company to the parsimony of the English governor, in not making
presents to the nabob, which was contrasted with the liberality of
Dupleix, who well knew how to gain his objects at such courts.
[32] Colonel Wilks.
[33] Ghazee-u-Deen.
[34] Two lacs of rupees were given to the French, and eighty-one
villages were ceded belonging to Karical, which place the French had
seized in 1736, and built a fort there.
[35] The Patan Nabobs of Kurpa, Karnoul, and Savanore were the chief
persons in the conspiracy. They were discontented at the treatment
they received from Nasir Jung. They were joined by Shandraz Khan, and
other high officers of that prince. These latter are stated to have
considered themselves disgraced by the imprisonment of Muzuffer Jung,
whose submission they had obtained by the most sacred pledges of his
being kindly treated.
[36] Wilks, vol. i. p. 269.