THE RETURN OF THE CONQUEROR-STATESMAN, AND THE RECEPTION ACCORDED TO
HIM BY HIS COUNTRYMEN: HIS STRUGGLES; AND HIS DEATH
One of the ablest and most impartial of English historians, the fifth
Earl Stanhope, has thus summed up his appreciation of the results of
the second administration of Clive in India: 'On the whole it may be
said that his second command was not less important for reform than
his first had been for conquest. By this the foundations, at least,
of good government were securely laid. And the results would have
been greater still could Clive have remained longer at his post.' It
was impossible he could remain. In December, 1766, his weakness was
so great as to disable him from writing. He required rest, and as we
have seen he embarked for England at the close of the month
following, to find there, alas! no rest, but, on the contrary, the
bitterest, the most persistent, the most unscrupulous enemies; their
attacks prompted by the corrupt officials whom he had driven from the
posts they had abused, and who were able, nevertheless, to enlist in
their vile {193}persecution statesmen of great renown holding high
office under the Crown.
It is a pitiful tale, this persecution of a man who had rendered the
most magnificent services to his country. The one blot minute
investigation had been able to find in his career was the treatment
of Aminchand. But Aminchand was a blackmailer who had threatened to
betray a state-secret of enormous importance unless he were paid a
sum out of all proportion to the services he rendered. Such a man
deserves no commiseration. His treachery, if Clive had refused to
subscribe to his terms, would have involved the death of thousands,
and might have driven the English out of Bengal. Clive fought him
with the same Asiatic weapon Aminchand had levelled against himself,
and beat him. That his action was wrong in morals, unworthy of his
lofty nature, is unquestionable. But it is not so certain that, under
similar pressure, in circumstances so critical, those who most
bitterly denounced him would have acted otherwise. Some writers have
averred, and until recently it has been accepted, that the deceit
drove Aminchand to madness. But inquiry has dissipated this fiction.
He was, it is true, startled into insensibility by the discovery of
the fact that he had been imposed upon, but, after visiting the
shrine of a famous saint in Malwa, he returned to his business in
Calcutta and prospered till his death. As to the other part of the
same transaction, the signing of the name of Admiral Watson, Clive
stated on oath, in his evidence {194}before the House of Commons,
that although the admiral had refused to sign the document, he had,
to the best of his belief, permitted Mr. Lushington to affix his
name; and certainly amongst those who benefited by the transaction
was Admiral Watson himself, who, after the triumph of the
conspirators, claimed even more than he received. But it was on these
two points that the miscreants whom Clive, in his second
administration, had driven from the posts they had sullied, and their
allies, based a persecution which tortured the enfeebled frame of the
conqueror.
Clive's real fault in the eyes of the leaders of the persecution was
that he had become rich himself, and had prevented them from
fattening on the plunder of the country he had conquered. To most
men, in fact to all but a very few men, in England and in France,
India was a _terra incognita_ whither a certain few repaired young,
and whence they returned, in the prime of their manhood, rich, and
often with a great reputation. Why was it that such men were at once
subjected to the vilest persecution? The fact that they were so is
incontestable. Clive himself and Warren Hastings, whose reputation
has recently been splendidly vindicated by two great Englishmen,[1]
are cases in point in England; Dupleix and La Bourdonnais and Lally,
in France. It is the saddest of sad stories; the men who had rendered
the most brilliant {195}services to their respective countries
finding their bitterest enemies often amongst the Ministers of the
Crown. There is little to discriminate between the conduct of
parliamentary England and despotic France except in the degree of
misery and punishment to which they alike subjected the most
illustrious of their countrymen who had served in India.
[Footnote 1: Sir Fitzjames Stephen in the case of Nanda-Kumar: Sir
John Strachey in reference to the charges respecting Oudh and
Rohilkhand.]
To return. It will be remembered that in his second administration
Clive had purified the Civil Service of Bengal. The corrupt men whom
he had ejected had returned to England whilst he was still in India,
the charges made against them accompanying or preceding them in the
despatches transmitted to the Court of Directors. On receiving these
despatches the Court, having taken the opinions of their own lawyers
and of those of the Crown, resolved to bring the culprits to trial
for having accepted presents from the natives after they had received
the order from the Court making such acceptance penal. But the
inculpated men were rich and they resolved to appeal from the
Directors to the Proprietors. There had been a difference between
these two bodies as to whether the annual dividends should be
increased from ten, the amount recommended by the Court, to twelve
and a half per cent. At the annual meeting the votes of the men
dismissed by Clive enabled the Proprietors to carry their point. The
corrupt clique utilized this victory by proposing and carrying a
resolution that the prosecutions instituted against them should be
dismissed. This was accordingly done.
{196}Two months later, July 14, Clive landed in England. He was well
received. The King and Queen admitted him to private audiences. The
Court of Directors received him in full conclave, immediately after
his reception by their Majesties, thanked him for his splendid
achievements, and immediately convened a general Court to confirm the
proposal that the jagir, granted him by Mir Jafar, should be
confirmed to him for an additional ten years. This resolution was
unanimously passed.
So far there was no sign of the coming storm. Not a sound of the
distant hurricane had been wafted to the ears of Clive. He had
returned as ambitious as he ever had been, resolved to devote to the
service of his country the energies he had displayed in the East.
Already he had made arrangements to secure seats for himself and for
six of his relatives, when, to rest before the elections should take
place, he started for Paris (January, 1768) with Lady Clive and a
small party. He was very confident in the future. He had received
personally the King's commands to lay before his Majesty his ideas of
the Company's affairs both at home and abroad, with a promise of his
Majesty's countenance and protection in anything he might attempt for
the good of the nation and the Company. He had seen so much of what
he called 'the ignorance and obstinacy' of the Court of Directors,
who, he stated in a letter to his successor, Mr. Verelst, 'are
universally despised and hated,' that he felt sure his would be the
hand, in the coming meeting of the Court {197}of Proprietors, to stay
their fall or to renew their vitality. In a word, his confidence was
never greater, never did he feel more assured regarding the future.
Yet, during this confidence of the soul, this longing for political
warfare, his nearest friends could easily detect that he had not
sufficiently recovered from the strain of his last three years in
India. His body did not respond to the call of the ever active brain.
His friends and his physicians urged him then to take a complete rest
and holiday of fourteen to fifteen months in France. With difficulty
they induced him to stay eight months. Then he returned to find that
he and his six relatives had, in his absence, been elected Members of
Parliament.
His return produced a renewal of the activity of his enemies. They
filled London with stories of his rapacity. Sir Robert Fletcher,
whose shameful conduct during the mutiny of the officers I have
recorded, wrote against him a pamphlet which irritated him greatly.
He was hardly to be prevented from answering it. There were other
considerations which, at this time, affected his career. When the
general election at which he and his friends were returned had taken
place, the Ministry was presided over by the Duke of Grafton, Lord
Chatham being Lord Privy Seal and Lord North Chancellor of the
Exchequer. At the end of 1769 Chatham was forced by the state of his
health, which had long been bad, to resign; and in the January of the
year following, the Duke of Grafton resigned and was succeeded as
First Lord of the Treasury {198}by Lord North. Clive had not posed as
a supporter of either of these administrations. He had declared
himself to be a supporter of George Grenville, the head of the
Grenville Whigs, who were then in opposition. It has been claimed[2]
for him that Clive declined to commit himself to any party of the
Indian policy of which he was ignorant. But none of the members of
Lord North's Cabinet knew anything of India, and if Clive, commanding
seven votes, had been asked to join it, he might have educated his
colleagues on the subject. An opportunity of following such a course
seemed to occur when Mr. Wedderburn, an able lawyer and a personal
ally of Clive, joined the North Ministry, but Clive remained staunch
to the Grenville connexion, exercising but little influence, and
exposed all the time to the bitter shafts of his enemies, which
increased every day in intensity and venom. To make the situation
still less endurable George Grenville died (November, 1770).
[Footnote 2: Malcolm's _Clive_.]
Meanwhile affairs in India were not progressing satisfactorily. In
Bengal, indeed, Mr. Verelst, acting on the lines laid down by Clive,
had with the support of his colleagues succeeded in maintaining peace
and prosperity. But in Madras, the incursions of Haidar Ali, an
adventurer who by sheer ability and daring had climbed to the highest
place in the kingdom of Mysore, had caused the English in that
Presidency severe losses, and forced them to incur an expenditure
which deprived the Proprietors of Indian {199}Stock of all chance of
dividends for some time to come. To meet this financial embarrassment
the Crown and the Company could dream of no other device than the
futile one of sending to India three commissioners, who, under the
name of Supervisors, should have full power over all the other
servants of the Company. They nominated accordingly Mr. Vansittart,
who, from having been the warmest friend of Clive, had become his
bitterest opponent; and who, but for the successful opposition of
Clive and his friends, would have been appointed Governor in
succession to Mr. Verelst. With him they associated Mr. Scrafton, an
old and valued servant of the Company; and Colonel Forde, the
conqueror of the Northern Sirkars and of Biderra--both intimate
friends and adherents of Clive. These gentlemen sailed in the
_Aurora_ frigate in the autumn of 1769. The _Aurora_ reached the Cape
in safety, but was never heard of after she had quitted Simon's Bay.
It was supposed that she foundered at sea.
Some considerable time elapsed before it had been realized in England
that the Supervisors had failed them, and that it would be necessary
to take other measures to remedy existing evils. Meanwhile events had
happened which increased the necessity for immediate and effective
action. In 1770 the three provinces were visited by a famine
exceeding in intensity all the famines of preceding ages. There had
been, in years gone by, no beneficent strangers from the West to
make, as in later years, provision for the {200}occurrence of so
great a calamity. The rains had failed; the water in the tanks had
dried up; the rice-fields had become parched and dry. There were but
few stores handy to enable the foreigner to disburse the necessary
grain. It was the first famine-experience of the English, and they
too had made no provision for it. The misery was terrible. The large
centres of industry, the only places where there was a chance of
obtaining food, became thronged with the dying and the dead. The
rivers floating corpses to the sea became so tainted that the very
fish ceased to be wholesome food. In summing up, two years later, the
effects of the famine on the population, the Governor-General in
Council declared that in some places one-half, and, on the whole,
one-third of the inhabitants had been destroyed. It need scarcely be
added that this terrible calamity affected the Proprietors of East
India Stock in a manner, to them the most vital:--it destroyed their
prospects of large dividends.
To remedy this evil the brains of the Court of Directors could devise
no other scheme than that which the foundering of the _Aurora_ had
previously baffled: they would send out other Supervisors. But Lord
North had taken the matter in hand. He brought in a bill providing
for the constitution in Calcutta of a Supreme Court, to consist of a
Chief Justice and three Puisne judges, appointed by the Crown; giving
to the Governor of Bengal authority over the two other Presidencies,
with the title of {201}Governor-General, to be assisted and
controlled by a Council of five members. The great blot of this bill
was the clause which gave a controlling power to the Council. The
Governor-General had in it but one vote, and in case of equality, a
casting-vote. Mr. Warren Hastings who, twelve months before, had
succeeded Mr. John Cartier[3] as Governor, was appointed first
Governor-General of India.
[Footnote 3: Mr. Cartier had succeeded Mr. Verelst in 1769.]
The war with Haidar Ali and the famine in Bengal had brought India
and Indian matters very prominently into the parliamentary
discussions of 1771, 1772 and 1773, and during these the name of Lord
Clive had not been spared. The attacks against him were led
principally by General Burgoyne, a natural son of Lord Bingley, best
known in history as the commander who surrendered a British army,
5,791 strong, to the American colonists.[4] In April, 1772, this
officer had become Chairman of a Select Committee composed of
thirty-one members, to inquire and report on Indian affairs. Another
Committee, called Secret, and composed of thirteen members nominated
by ballot, was appointed, on the motion of Lord North, in November of
the same year, to take into consideration the whole state of the
Company's affairs. Into the other proceedings of these committees
this volume has no cause to enter; but they had scarcely been
constituted when they began to let fly their arrows at Lord Clive.
The chief cause of these attacks {202}is so well stated by the
sober-minded historian,[5] that I cannot refrain from quoting his
remarks. 'Besides the public wrongs of which he (Lord Clive) stood
accused, there was also, it may be feared, a feeling of personal envy
at work against him. His vast wealth became a more striking mark for
calumny when contrasted with the financial embarrassments of the
Directors in whose service he had gained it. And his profusion, as
ever happens, offended far more persons than it pleased. He had
bought the noble seat of Claremont from the Duchess Dowager of
Newcastle, and was improving it at lavish cost. He had so far
invested money in the smaller boroughs that he could reckon on
bringing into Parliament a retinue of six or seven friends or
kinsmen. Under such circumstances the Select Committee, over which
Burgoyne presided, made Clive their more especial object of attack.
They drew forth into the light of day several transactions certainly
not well formed to bear it, as the forgery of Admiral Watson's
signature, and the fraud practised on Aminchand. But at the same time
they could not shut out the lustre of the great deeds he had
performed. Clive himself was unsparingly questioned, and treated with
slight regard. As he complains, in one of his speeches: "I their
humble servant, the Baron of Plassey, have been examined by the
Select Committee more like a sheep-stealer than a member of this
House." And he adds, with perfect truth: "I am sure, Sir, if I had
any sore {203}places about me, they would have been found: they have
probed me to the bottom; no lenient plasters have been applied to
heal; no, Sir, they were all of the blister kind, prepared with
Spanish flies and other provocatives."'
[Footnote 4: At Saratoga, October 17, 1777.]
[Footnote 5: Lord Stanhope's _History of England_, vol. vii. pp.
353-4.]
Throughout these attacks Clive never lost his calmness or his
presence of mind. Never once did his lofty spirit quail. He stood
there still the unconquered hero, ready to meet every charge,
sometimes retorting, but always nobly, on his adversaries. His
friends rallied gallantly round him. His particular friend, Mr.
Wedderburn, then Solicitor-General, gave him a support as valuable as
it was unstinted. When his administration in Bengal was spoken of by
his old enemy, Mr. Sulivan, in the House in a manner which, whilst
not directly attacking it, conveyed the impression that there was a
great deal more in the background, Clive went through every phase of
his career in Bengal, defending his own action in a style which
gained for him admiration. It was not, however, until the month of
May, 1773, that General Burgoyne defined the vague charges which had
theretofore supplied the place of argument, and brought them forward,
as a vote of censure, in three resolutions. These resolutions ran as
follows: (1) 'that all acquisitions made under the influence of a
military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, did of right
belong to the State'; (2) 'that to appropriate acquisitions so made
to the private emoluments of persons entrusted with any civil or
military power {204}of the State is illegal'; (3) 'that very great
sums of money, and other valuable property, had been acquired in
Bengal from princes and others of that country by persons entrusted
with the civil and military powers of the State by means of such
powers; which sums of money and valuable property have been
appropriated to the private use of such persons.'
These resolutions named nobody. But in the speech in which they were
introduced Burgoyne took care that there should be no doubt as to the
person against whom they were directed. He dwelt, with a bitterness
not to be surpassed, on all the delinquencies, real and imaginary, of
the conqueror of Bengal. He traced all the misfortunes which had
subsequently happened to the Company to the treasonable compact which
had dethroned Siraj-ud-daula and placed Mir Jafar on his seat, and
denounced the conduct of the authors of that transaction as 'black
perfidy.' He denounced, also, in terms equally severe, the treatment
of Aminchand; the forging of the name of Admiral Watson; the
agreement, which, he said, had extorted from Mir Jafar enormous sums,
under the guise of presents, to the leading servants of the Company
in Bengal. On the second administration of Clive, which was really a
long struggle against the corruption by which he was surrounded,
Burgoyne railed as bitterly and as unsparingly. Nor was he content
with merely railing. Before he sat down he declared that if the House
should pass his resolutions he would not stop there, but would
proceed to follow them up with others, his {205}object being to
compel those who had acquired large sums of money in the manner he
had denounced to make a full and complete restitution.
The Solicitor-General, Wedderburn, conducted the defence for Clive,
and it was noticeable that the party styled 'the King's Friends,'
amongst many others, gave him their support. The Attorney-General,
Thurlow, supported Burgoyne, and the Prime Minister, Lord North,
voted with him. The voting on these resolutions did not, however,
indicate the real sense of the House, for many of those who supported
them thought it would be better for the cause of Clive that the
further resolutions threatened by Burgoyne should be proceeded with
in order that a decisive vote should be taken on a motion implicating
Clive by name rather than on resolutions of a vague and general
character. The resolutions, then, were carried.
Burgoyne then proceeded, as he had promised, to follow up his
victory. On the 17th of May he brought forward the following
resolution: 'That it appears to this House that the Right Honourable
Robert, Lord Clive, Baron of Plassey, in the kingdom of Ireland,
about the time of the deposition of Siraj-ud-daula, and the
establishment of Mir Jafar on the _masnad_, through the influence of
the powers with which he was entrusted as member of the Select
Committee and Commander-in-chief of the British forces, did obtain
and possess himself of two lakhs of rupees as Commander-in-chief, a
further sum of two lakhs and eighty thousand rupees as member of the
Select {206}Committee, and a further sum of sixteen lakhs or more,
under the denomination of a private donation, which sums, amounting
together to twenty lakhs and eighty thousand rupees, were of value,
in English money, of two hundred and thirty-four thousand pounds; and
that in so doing the said Robert Clive abused the power with which he
was entrusted, to the evil example of the servants of the public, and
to the dishonour and detriment of the State.'
No one could say that these charges were not sufficiently pointed.
Clive met them with his accustomed resolution. He rejoiced that the
real issue had come at last; that the great jury of the nation, the
House of Commons, was, after so long an interval devoted to calumny,
to abuse, to vague and shadowy charges, to record its vote on the
real question. On their decision on this resolution he would stand or
fall. The alternative which his fiercest fights had presented to him,
the necessity to conquer or to be disgraced, was presented to him
here. He had won those fights by the exercise rather of his lofty
moral qualities than by his skill as a soldier, and by the exercise
of the same qualities he would win this one also. And he did win it.
After Burgoyne, introducing his resolution, had traversed the same
ground he had followed in the preceding resolutions, and had
concluded by calling upon the House, like the old Roman heroes, 'to
strike when the justice of the State requires it,' Clive rose to
defend himself. Recapitulating the services he had rendered, he
reminded the {207}House that the transactions in Bengal, upon which
Burgoyne relied for a conviction, had been known in their general
tenour to the Company and the Crown when they had thanked him, not
once but repeatedly, for his services. He proceeded then to expose
the interested and revengeful motives of the clique which had
instigated the attack, not sparing even those in high places who,
from various causes, had allowed themselves to sanction it. Turning
from that point, he asked prominent attention to the fact that the
India Office, now his accuser, had almost forced him to proceed for
the second time to Bengal, and had expressed a deep regret that his
health had not allowed him to stay there longer. 'After certificates
such as these,' he added, 'am I to be brought here like a criminal,
and the very best parts of my conduct construed into crimes against
the State?' Stating then that the resolution, if carried, would
reduce him to depend on his paternal inheritance of 500 pounds per
annum, he continued: 'But on this I am content to live; and perhaps I
shall find more real content of mind and happiness than in the
trembling affluence of an unsettled fortune. But, Sir, I must make
one more observation. If the definition of the hon. gentleman
(Colonel Burgoyne) and of this House, that the State, as expressed in
these resolutions, is, _quoad hoc_, the Company, then, Sir, every
farthing I enjoy is granted to me. But to be called upon, after
sixteen years have elapsed, to account for my conduct in this manner,
and after an uninterrupted enjoyment of my {208}property, to be
questioned, and considered as obtaining it unwarrantably, is hard
indeed; it is a treatment I should not think the British Senate
capable of. But if such should be the case, I have a conscious
innocence within me that tells me my conduct is irreproachable.
_Frangas non flectes._[6] My enemies may take from me what I have;
they may, as they think, make me poor, but I shall be happy. I mean
not this as my defence, though I have done for the present. My
defence will be heard at that bar, but before I sit down I have one
request to make to this House: that when they come to decide upon my
honour, they will not forget their own.'
[Footnote 6: 'You may break, but you shall not bend, me.']
The debate was adjourned, and in the few days following some
witnesses gave evidence at the bar of the House. Lord Clive's
evidence, given before the Select Committee, was also read there. In
the debate that followed, Mr. Stanley proposed to omit the words
inculpating the honour of Clive. Mr. Fuller seconded this amendment,
going even further, and striking out the sentence referring to the
exercise of undue influence. His suggestion was accepted, and the
House proceeded to discuss the amendment as so altered. After a
protracted debate the division was called for, when it was found that
155 members had voted for the amendment and 95 against it. This
victory stripped Burgoyne's resolutions of all their sting. Vainly
did a member of his party attempt to restore the battle by moving
that Clive had abused the {209}powers intrusted to him in acting as
he avowedly had acted. The House refused to re-open that question.
Finally, at five o'clock in the morning, the House passed the
following resolution, which consummated the defeat of Burgoyne: 'That
Robert, Lord Clive, did, at the same time, render great and
meritorious services to his country.' On this conclusion to the
violent attacks on Clive, Lord Stanhope, well versed in Parliamentary
procedure, thus wrote: 'Such a vote might be deemed almost a verdict
of acquittal. Certainly, at least, it showed a wise reluctance to
condemn. It closed the whole case, and Clive had no further
Parliamentary attack to fear.'
But though the victory was gained, the struggle affecting the
personal honour and fortune of a proud and sensitive man had made
deep inroads upon the constitution of one who had been long suffering
from the acute agony caused by the malady contracted in India. Freed
from the attack of his enemies, he might, had his health been only
tolerable, have looked forward to a high command in the war just
about to break out with the colonists of North America. There he
would have been in his place; there, under the influence of constant
action, he would have forgotten his troubles; even his oft-recurring
spasms might have disappeared. But, after the Parliamentary contest
was over, with the waning of the ever-present excitement, his health
became worse. In vain did he repair to Bath to try the effect of its
waters. In vain, finding that for him the virtues of the Bath waters
had {210}departed, did he proceed to the Continent for travel. Rest
came not. A complication of disorders prevented sleep, and travel
failed to remedy the evil. His mind had no longer the sustaining
power which in former days had enabled him to meet with tranquillity
the frowns of Fortune. He returned to England in 1774, and shortly
afterwards, in November of that year, when apparently thoroughly
conscious,[7] fell by his own hand. 'To the last,' wrote Lord
Stanhope, 'he appears to have retained his serene demeanour and stern
dominion of his will.' It is difficult for us who have followed his
career to realise the terrible upsetting of the balance of the great
brain which had brought such an act within the bounds of possibility.
[Footnote 7: Lord Stanhope relates a story regarding the manner of
Clive's death, told by the Earl of Shelburne, afterwards the first
Marquis of Lansdowne, to the person from whom he (Lord Stanhope)
received it. 'It so chanced, that a young lady, an attached friend of
his (Clive's) family, was then upon a visit at his house in Berkeley
Square, and sat writing a letter, in one of its apartments. Seeing
Lord Clive walk through, she called him to come and mend her pen.
Lord Clive obeyed her summons, and taking out his penknife fulfilled
her request; after which, passing on to another chamber, he turned
the same knife against himself.']
'Such was the end,' says a French writer, 'of one of the men who did
the most for the greatness of England.' That foreign verdict is at
least incontestable. Caesar conquered Gaul for his country; Hannibal
caused unrest to Rome for nearly a quarter of a century; Wellington
drove the French from Portugal and Spain. The achievement of Clive
was more splendid than any one of these. He founded for this little
island in the {211}Atlantic a magnificent empire; an empire famous in
antiquity, renowned since the time of Alexander, whose greatest
sovereign had been the contemporary of Queen Elizabeth, more
enlightened than any of her predecessors, more tolerant, a more
far-sighted statesman even than she. He was, according to Lord
Stanhope, emphatically 'a great man.' But he was more than a great
man. Like Caius Julius, he united two personalities; he was a great
statesman and a great soldier. He was a man of thought as well as a
man of action. No administration surpasses, in the strength of will
of the administrator, in excellence of design, in thoroughness of
purpose, and, as far as his masters would permit, in thoroughness of
action, his second administration of Bengal. No general who ever
fought displayed greater calmness in danger, more coolness of brain,
than did Clive at Kaveripak, at Samiaveram, at Calcutta, when, on the
fog rising, he found himself enveloped by the Subahdar's army, 40,000
strong. Nothing daunted him; nothing clouded his judgement; his
decision, the decision of the moment, was always right. In a word, he
was a born master of men.
But, says the moralist, he committed faults, and at once the false
treaty made with Aminchand is thrown into the face of the historian.
Yes, he did do it; and not only that, he stated in his evidence
before the House of Commons that if he were again under the same
circumstances he would do it again. None of his detractors had had
the opportunity of judging of {212}the terrible issues which the
threatened treachery of Aminchand had opened to his vision. Upon the
decision of Clive rested the lives of thousands. To save those lives
there appeared to him but one sure method available, and that was to
deceive the deceiver. I think his decision was a wrong one, but it
should always be remembered that, as Clive stated before the
Committee, he had no interested motive in doing what he did do; he
did it with the design of disappointing a rapacious man and of
preventing the consequences of his treachery. He was in a position of
terrible responsibility, and he acted to save others. Let the stern
moralist stand in the same position as that in which Clive stood, and
it is just possible he might think as Clive thought. At all events,
this one fault, for fault it was, cannot or ought not to be set up as
a counterweight against services which have given this island the
highest position amongst all the nations of the earth. The House of
Commons, after a long debate, condoned it. Might not Posterity, the
Posterity which has profited by that very fault, be content to follow
the lead of the House of Commons? With all his faults, Clive was 'one
of the men who did the most for the greatness of England.' That fact
is before us every day. His one fault hastened his death, from the
handle it gave to the envious and the revengeful, and took from him
the chance of gaining fresh laurels in America. May not the
ever-living fact of his services induce us to overlook, to blot out
from the memory, that one mistake, which he so bitterly expiated in
his lifetime?
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INDEX
ADAMS, Major John, defeated Mir Kasim at Katwa, 156:
at Gheria, 156:
stormed strong position of Undwa Nala, 157:
his death, 157:
fought against Mir Kasim, 180.
AHMAD SHAH, succeeded on the death of his father, Muhammad Shah, 44.
AIN-I-AKBARI, Blochmann's, quoted, 118_n_.
AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, Peace of, 40 and _n_., 42.
AKBAR, mentioned, 17, 85, 118_n_.
ALI VARDI KHAN, Governor of Bihar, 85:
battle of Gheria, 85:
proclaimed himself Subahdar, 85:
died, 85:
succeeded by his grandson, Siraj-ud-daula, 85.
ALLAHABAD, occupied by the English, 157, 174:
conference at, 174:
clauses of Clive's demand at, 174.
AMBUR, Anwar-ud-din defeated and slain at, 45.
AMERICA, war with colonists of North, 209.
AMINCHAND, Calcutta merchant, 86:
negotiated for Clive and his allies, 86:
betrayed Siraj-ud-daula's confidence, 87:
demanded 20 lakhs of rupees, 87:
his name omitted from false document by Clive, 87, 134, 135, 193,
202, 204, 211:
informed by Mr. Scrafton that he was to receive nothing, 113:
his pilgrimage to Malda, 113, 193:
returned to his business in Calcutta, 113, 193.
ANGRIA, pirate chief at Gheria, 77:
his plunderings, 77:
Commodore Jones sent to attack, 77:
defeated by Watson and Clive, 78.
ANWAR-UD-DIN, suspected poisoner of Khoja Abdullah, 28:
appointed provisionally Nawab, a guardian of the young prince,
Saiyud Muhammad, 28:
suspected murderer of the young prince, 30:
Nawab of Arcot, 31:
appealed to by Dupleix, 33:
attempted to prevent hostilities, 34:
capture of Madras took him by surprise, 36:
tried to regain Madras, but failed, 39:
finally regained Madras, 41:
slain, 45.
ARCOLA, story of the bridge of, compared to the battle of Arni, 57.
ARCOT, Dost Ali at, 24:
Safdar Ali proclaimed Nawab at, 25:
Murtiza Ali declared himself Nawab at, 27:
Nizam-ul-Mulk with his army entered, 28:
Saiyud Muhammad murdered at, 29:
left almost undefended, 52:
taken by Clive, 53:
attacked by the French, 54:
French dispersed by Clive at, 54:
siege of, 55:
strong garrison placed in, 59:
Arcot mentioned, 183.
ARMAGON, English Settlement on the Coromandel Coast, 18.
ARMSTRONG, Captain, at Council of War, 93:
arrested by Clive, 114:
acquitted by court-martial, 114.
ARMY ADMINISTRATION, 179-90.
ARNI, battle of, 56-58:
French defeated at, 58:
its ruler declared for Muhammad Ali, 58.
ASAF JAH, title granted to the family of Chin Kilich Khan, 17.
_Asiatic Annual Register_, quoted, 39_n_.
AURANGZEB, died in 1707, 16:
placed the Subahs he had conquered under a Subahdar, or chief, 17:
mentioned, 85, 172.
_Aurora_, frigate, in which Supervisors sailed, lost, 199.
BAJ-BAJ, fort near Maiapur, taken by Clive, 82.
BAKAR ALI, Governor of Vellore, 23.
BAKHSHI, Siraj-ud-daula's Commander-in-chief, 86.
BAKSAR, battle of, 157, 181.
BANKIPUR, military cantonment of Patna, 185:
Sir R. Barker commandant at, 185:
ringleaders arrested at, 186.
BAPTA, Clive encamped at, 111.
BARDWAN, revenue of, granted money to Clive, 117.
BARH, Clive and Mir Jafar marched to, 118.
BARKER, Sir R., commandant at Bankipur, 185:
arrested ringleaders at Bankipur, 186.
BARNETT, Commodore, in command of squadron, 33:
died, 34.
BATH, Clive went to take the waters at, 209.
BATTA, 179:
Mir Jafar's double batta, 179:
discontinued, 180, 181:
double batta at Allahabad, 181:
single batta, 182.
BAYLEY, Mr., Robert Clive's uncle at Manchester, 9.
BEECHER, Mr., Member of Select Committee, 191.
BENARES, occupied by the English, 157:
interview between Clive, General Carnac, and Nawab-Wazir of Oudh
at, 173:
Zamindar of, 175.
BENGAL, Clive in, 85:
state of affairs in, 132:
Clive's achievements in, 133-6:
position of Bengal, 173.
BHAGIRATHI, 92.
BIDERRA, Dutch defeated by Forde and Knox at, 131.
BIHAR, Ali Vardi Khan, Governor of, 85:
Governor of, rebelled against Mir Jafar, 115:
Clive and Mir Jafar at, 117:
seat of saltpetre manufacture, 117:
Mir Jafar yields it to East India Company, 118.
BIJAPUR, king of, sold Puducheri to the French in 1672, named
afterwards Pondicherry, 20:
Muzaffar Jang, Governor of, 44.
BISNAGAR, Raja of, granted a small portion of land, called
Chennapatanam, to the English, 18, 19.
BLACK HOLE of Calcutta, 78, 79, 85, 132.
BLOCHMANN'S _Ain-i-Akbari_, quoted, 118_n_.
BOSCAWEN, Admiral, in command of fleet, 39:
laid siege to Pondicherry, 39:
sailed for England, 40.
BOURDONNAIS, M. de la, sent in command of a squadron, 33:
landed at Madras, 35, 194:
captured Madras, 35:
treaty, 35.
_Britannia_, ship on board which Clive returned to England, 191.
BROOME'S _History of the Bengal Army_, 90_n_., 95_n_., 96_n_.,
109_n_.
BURGOYNE, General, 201 and _n_.:
led attacks on Clive, 201, 203-9.
BURSLEM'S, Mr., school at Market Drayton, to which Clive went when he
was eleven, 10.
BUSSY-CASTELNAU, captured Gingi for the French, 47:
avenged the death of Muzaffar Jang, and caused Salabat Jang to be
proclaimed successor, 48:
retained at Dupleix's court, 60:
overtures with Siraj-ud-daula at Haidarabad, 87.
BUTE, Lord, Secretary of State, 143:
Prime Minister, 143:
Clive's suggestions to, 144:
indignant at Clive's opposition, 145.
CALCUTTA, Black Hole of, 78-9:
Manikchand, Governor of, 81:
surrendered to Clive, 82:
Watson took possession and handed keys to Drake, 82:
Select Committee of, 87:
Council of, 165, 179, 180.
CALLIAUD, Major, Commander of the Forces, 137:
fought against the King of Delhi and defended Patna, 151:
summoned to attend Council, 151.
CAMBRIDGE'S _War in India_, quoted, 43_n_.
CAMPBELL, Captain, at Council of War, 93.
CAREY, Mrs., among the prisoners in the Black Hole of Calcutta, 79.
CARNAC, General, 157:
placed by Clive at head of army, 159, 166:
met Clive at Benares, 173:
fought against Mir Kasim, 180.
CARSTAIRS, Capt.-Lieut., at Council of War, 93.
CARTER, Mr., Member of Select Committee, 191.
CARTIER, Governor after Verelst, 201 and _n_.
CHAMPION, Colonel, 187.
CHANAR, occupied by the English, 157:
ceded to the English, 174.
CHANDA SAHIB appointed Diwan by Saadat-ulla-Khan, 23:
sent with Safdar Ali to capture Trichinopoli, 24:
remained as Governor, 24:
went to Arcot to do homage to Safdar Ali, 25:
suspecting danger, left his family at Pondicherry, 26:
kept up the siege of Trichinopoli for three months, 26:
surrendered, 26:
taken off in custody, 26:
at Satara, 31:
released, 44:
Nawab of Arcot, 45:
marched to Trichinopoli, 46:
retreated to Pondicherry, 47:
besieged Trichinopoli, 51:
sent troops to join his son, Raja Sahib, at North Arcot, 54:
defeated, 56-8:
his army still in position before Trichinopoli, but much weakened,
59:
murdered, 73.
CHANDRANAGAR, taken by Clive, 84:
Clive's troops stationed at, 90:
Dutch defeated at, 131.
CHAPRA, in Bihar, meeting at, 175.
CHARLES VI, died in 1740, 31.
CHENNAPATANAM, granted to the English by the Raja of Bisnagar, 18-19:
renamed Madras, 19:
Fort St. George built, 19:
Madras raised to a Presidency, 19:
population at the end of 17th century, 19:
constitution of the town in 1744, 19.
CHIN KILICH KHAN, took steps to make the Subahdarship hereditary in
his family, 17, 23:
obtained titles of Nizam-ul-Mulk and Asaf Jah, 17:
ruler of Deccan, 18.
CIVIL SERVICE, reformed by Clive, 160, 169-70.
CLAREMONT, bought by Clive, 202.
CLARKE, Captain, in command at Devikota, 50:
at Trichinopoli, 51.
CLIVE, Robert, arrived at Madras as a writer in the service of the
East India Company in 1744, 9, 10, 11, 30:
his early years not promising, 9:
born at Styche, 9:
sent to his uncle, Mr. Bayley, at Manchester when three years old,
9:
sent to school at Lostocke, 10:
removed to Market Drayton, 10:
brief experience of public school-life at Merchant Taylors', 10:
private school in Hertfordshire till appointed writer, 10:
his character at his several schools, 10:
belonged to a 'fighting caste,' 10:
learned to lead, 10:
life of an attorney distasteful to him, 10:
duties and life of a writer not congenial to Clive, 12-13:
left England in 1743, 12:
delayed at Rio for nine months, 12:
insulted a superior functionary, 13:
assaulted by the Rev. Mr. Fordyce, 14:
regarded as a quiet member of society by his superiors, 15:
Mr. Morse, Governor at Madras, befriended him, 15:
state of India when Clive arrived described, 16-30:
Clive's fortunes affected by the hostilities between the French and
the English, 32-41:
conspicuous in the first siege of Pondicherry, 39:
retired to Fort St. David, 40:
joined the expedition to Devikota as a volunteer, 42:
under Major Lawrence stormed Devikota, which was ceded to the East
India Company, 43:
situation when Clive returned from Devikota described, 45-48:
appointed Commissary of the Forces, 48:
ill and ordered for a cruise, 48:
on his return he equipped a force for Trichinopoli, 48:
accompanied a larger force to Volkonda, 49:
objecting to Captain Gingen's commands and mismanagement he
returned to Fort St. David, 49:
volunteered to go with Mr. Pigot to accompany a force with
provisions to Trichinopoli, 49:
went as far as Verdachelam, 49:
returned to Fort St. David, 49:
determined to become a soldier, 50:
Governor of Madras gave him the commission of captain, 50:
directed him to go to Devikota with troops and join Capt. Clarke,
50:
and report from Trichinopoli to Mr. Saunders, 50:
Clive impressed by the depressed condition of the native prince and
English soldiers, 51:
resolved to remedy conditions, 51, 52:
returned to Fort St. David to consult Mr. Saunders, 52:
despatched to Madras with 200 soldiers, 52: 300 sipahis, 53:
reached Kanchipuram, 53:
went on to Arcot, 53:
defeated the natives at Timeri, 53:
sent for guns from Madras, 53:
guns intercepted at Kanchipuram, 53:
marched to save the guns, and in his absence the enemy attacked
Arcot, 54:
brought the guns into the fort and the enemy dispersed, 54:
siege of Arcot, 55:
took Timeri, 56:
marched to Arni to attack Raja Sahib, 56:
dispersed the enemy, 58:
marched to Kanchipuram and took possession, 58:
returned to Madras and then to Fort St. David, 59:
Dupleix attempting to reconquer Arcot, Clive was sent with troops
to meet him, 63:
reached Vendalur and marched on to Kanchipuram, 64:
after a short halt, proceeded to Kaveripak, where the French were
concealed, 64, 65: battle, 66: Clive won, 66:
baffled Dupleix, 67:
returned to Fort St. David, 67:
prepared to go to Trichinopoli, 67:
despatched by Lawrence to occupy Samiaveram, 68:
his engagements with d'Auteuil, 68, 69:
Clive surprised at Samiaveram, 70:
defeated the enemy, 72, 73:
captured Paichanda, 73:
forced d'Auteuil to surrender at Volkonda, 73:
Clive returned to Fort St. David, 73:
proceeded to Madras for rest, 73:
married Miss Maskeleyne, 74:
left Madras on sick-leave, 74:
Clive in England, 75:
Court of Directors gave him a great banquet, 75:
voted him a diamond-hilted sword, 75:
stood for St, Michael, returned as supporter of Mr. Fox, 76:
unseated, 76:
returned to India, 76:
appointed Lieut.-Colonel, and named Governor and Commander of Fort
St. David, with succession to the Governorship of Madras, 76:
took troops to India with instructions to convey them to Bengal,
76:
Clive and his troops attacked and destroyed Gheria, 78:
went along the Coromandel Coast back to Fort St. David, 78:
Clive sent to the Hugli, 80:
landed near Maiapur, marched to Baj-baj, 81:
surprised in the night by Manikchand, Governor of Calcutta, 82:
Calcutta surrendered to Clive, 82:
Admiral Watson took possession, 82:
Clive stormed Hugli, 83:
treaty with the Nawab, 84:
conquered Chandranagar, 84:
Clive's dealings with Siraj-ud-daula, 85-88:
preparations for war, 90:
the battle of Plassey, 91-106:
English loss small, 105:
Clive's great victory, 105, 106:
Clive's dealings with Mir Jafar, 109-11, 115-23:
with Aminchand, 113:
spoils of Plassey disputed, 113-7:
created Mansabdar, 118:
his dealings with the Princes of Southern India, 123:
the Dutch invasion, 124-30:
defeat of the Dutch, 130-2:
Clive's achievements in Bengal, 133-7:
leaves Bengal 1760, 137:
Clive's second visit to England, 138-48:
Clive's letter to Mr. Pitt, 139-41:
Clive's fame as a soldier, 141:
did not receive a warm welcome, 142:
ill health, 142:
made an Irish peer, 143:
not a supporter of the Bute Administration, 143:
Mr. Lawrence Sulivan, enemy of Clive, 144:
Sulivan's objection to the donation of the jagir to Clive, 145:
Clive voted against the Peace of Paris, 145:
Sulivan tried to exclude Clive from a seat in the India House, 145:
Clive defeated, 146:
disturbance in Calcutta caused a panic in the India House, 146:
Clive urged to accept the office of Governor-General, 146:
fresh election by the Court of Proprietors, and Clive returned,
147:
Clive's proposal regarding the jagir, 147:
Clive started for India, 148:
Clive appointed Vansittart to succeed him as President of the
Council in Bengal, 149:
disturbances arose about the successor to Miran, who had died
suddenly, 150-1:
war broke out, 156:
Clive returned to Calcutta, 157:
remodelled the army and the Civil Service, 159-60:
presents from the Natives to Civil Servants prohibited, 161:
Clive's dealings with the corrupt faction, 162-3:
his attempts to improve the Company's trade, 163-5:
re-constitution of the Calcutta Council, 165-6:
the Select Committee, 166:
his attempts to reform civil administration, 166-7:
Clive hated, 167:
his good influence over the younger members of the service, 169:
Clive's tour northward, 171:
Clive's instructions to the young Subahdar at Murshidabad, 171,
172:
he proceeded to Benares, 173:
after an interview with Nawab-Wazir, they proceeded to Allahabad to
confer with Shah Alim, 174:
Clive's demands, 174:
Nawab-Wazir granted all except the one regarding factories, 174-5:
the meeting at Chapra, 175:
league formed against Maratha aggression, 175:
question of the English frontier discussed, 175-6:
Clive's views regarding the Subah, the English to keep in the
background, the power to be in the hands of the Subahdar, 176-7:
'Lord Clive's Fund,' 178:
Clive's army administration, 179-89:
'double batta,' 179, 181-2:
conspiracy in the army, 184-9:
Clive's mode of suppressing it, 189:
Clive resigned in 1766, and returned to England in 1767, 191:
his persecutions, 192-6, 201-9:
visit to Paris, 196:
on return to England found he was elected Member of Parliament,
197:
affairs in India unsatisfactory, 198-201:
attacks on Clive, 201-9:
his acquittal, 209:
went to Bath to try the waters, 209:
went abroad, 210:
returned to England, 210:
his death, 210:
comments on the life of Clive, 211, 212.
CLIVE'S _Evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons_,
quoted, 96_n_., 135_n_.
CLIVE'S _Report to the Court of Directors_, quoted, 96_n_.
COCHIN, independent territory, 17.
COMMISSARY OF FORCES, Clive appointed, 48.
COOTE, Major Eyre, nominated Governor of Calcutta by Admiral Watson,
82:
Clive objected to the nomination, 82:
sent by Clive to occupy Katwa, 91:
at Council of War, 93:
sent with a detachment, after Plassey, 105.
COOTE'S _Narrative_, quoted, 96_n_., 103_n_.
COPE, Captain, mentioned in the account of the assault against Clive
by Mr. Fordyce, 14:
commander of Force sent to help ex-Raja of Tanjore, 42:
sent to Trichinopoli, 48.
CORNEILLE, Captain, at Council of War, 93.
CORNISH, Admiral, on the Arakan coast, 127.
COROMANDEL COAST, English Settlement at Armagon on the, 18.
COUNCIL OF WAR, 92-3:
question submitted to, 93.
COURT OF DIRECTORS feted Clive on his return to England, 75-6:
appointed Clive Lieut.-Colonel, and named him Governor and
Commander of Fort St. David, with succession to Governorship of
Madras, 76:
Clive's letter to, 98, 105-6:
appointed ten men to manage affairs in Bengal, 119:
constitution of, 138:
disputed Clive's right to the jagir, 142:
granted to Civil Servants right to private trade, 163:
summary of the state of Bengal by, 166-7:
batta, 179-81:
curtailed their allowances, 180, 181:
received Clive well in England, 196:
sent out supervisors, 199, 200.
CUDDALORE, Mr. Fordyce assaulted Clive at, 14.
CUDMORE, Captain, at Council of War, 93.
DABHOL, Commodore Jones recalled from, 78.
DAMALCHERRI, pass in the Karnatik, 25, 45.
DAUDPUR, 94:
meeting between Mir Jafar and Clive at, 105:
entire force united at, 105.
D'AUTEUIL, sent by Dupleix to take Law's place, 68:
approached Utatur, 68:
surprised Clive, 70:
defeated by Clive, 73:
retreated to Volkonda, 73:
surrendered to Clive, 73.
DECCAN, territories belonging to, 17:
territories independent of, 17.
_Decisive Battles of India_, by Colonel Malleson, 66_n_., 131_n_.,
156_n_.
DELHI, sack of, 16, 30:
Siraj-ud-daula's overtures to Court of, 88:
Muhammad Shah, Emperor of, 30:
King of, threatened rebellion against Mir Jafar, 121:
invasion of, 151:
defeated by Calliaud and Knox, 151:
Mir Kasim died at, 158.
DEVIKOTA, English tried to possess the Fort of, 42:
Clive sent to join Major Lawrence at, 50.
DHAKA in rebellion against Mir Jafar, 115.
DIAMOND HARBOUR, Dutch vessels at, 126.
DISRAELI, Isaac son of, mentioned, 10:
life of an attorney as distasteful to him as to Robert Clive, 10.
DOST ALI, appointed to succeed Saadat-ulla Khan as Nawab of the
Karnatik, 23:
sent his son to capture Trichinopoli, where he was slain, 25:
his son proclaimed Nawab, 25.
DRAKE, Mr., Governor at Calcutta, 78:
fled to the Hugli, 78.
DRAYTON, Market, _see_ Market Drayton.
DULAB RAM, _see_ Raja Dulab Ram.
DUMAS, M. Benoit, Governor-General of French possessions in India,
21:
at Pondicherry, 25.
DUPLEIX, M., succeeded Dumas as Governor-General of French
possessions, 21, 32, 60, 194:
received instructions from the Directors on account of the
impending war with England, 32:
ordered to join M. de la Bourdonnais, 33:
urged to arrange with the Government of Madras that the two
settlements should preserve neutrality, but not granted, 33:
he appealed to Anwar-ud-din, 33:
hostility stopped in the Karnatik, 34:
took Madras, 36:
sole director of French interests, 36:
sent a small force under Paradis to relieve Madras, 37:
slaughter at St. Thome, 37:
tried to expel the English from all their settlements, 38:
siege of Pondicherry, 39:
directed the defence, 39:
attempted to take Trichinopoli, 60:
sent Law in command of troops, 60: unsuccessful, 61:
urged Raja Sahib to proceed to reconquer Arcot, and, if possible,
attack Madras, 62:
attacked Punamallu, 62:
marched to Kanchipuram and Vendalur, 62:
Raja Sahib's army met by Clive at Kaveripak, 64:
Clive surrounded by the French, 65:
defeated by Clive, 66:
sent d'Auteuil to replace Law, 68.
DUTCH, monopoly of trade with the Moluccas, 124:
various conquests in the East, 124:
Dutch-Indian Company, 124:
settlement at Chinsurah, 124:
negotiations with Mir Jafar, 125:
Dutch fleet approaching Hugli, 126:
Clive demanded explanation from them, 126:
invasion of the, 126-30:
complete defeat of, 131.
_Early Records of British India_, by Talboys Wheeler, quoted, 177 and
_n_.
EAST INDIA COMPANY, Clive, writer in the service of, 9, 10, 11:
Bihar saltpetre manufacture farmed by, 118:
Directors of, 164:
Diwan of the three Provinces, 172.
EATON, Dr., private school at Lostocke, to which Clive was sent till
he was eleven, 10.
ELLIOT'S _History of India_, quoted, 31_n_., 44_n_., 100_n_., 176_n_.
ELLIS, civil officer, prepared to seize Patna, 155:
defeated, 156.
_Evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons_, by Clive,
quoted, 96_n_., 134_n_.
EYRE COOTE, Major, _see_ COOTE.
FACTORIES, not to be established by the East India Company in Oudh,
174:
Nawab-Wazir's opinion of, 174-5.
FAIZABAD, occupied by the English, 157.
FALTA, Major Kilpatrick with troops at, 80:
Admiral Watson's squadron at, 80:
Dutch attack off, 129.
FAMINE in the three Provinces, 199-201.
FISCHER, Captain, at Council of War, 93.
FLETCHER, Sir Robert, Commandant at Mungir, 185, 187:
tried by court-martial and cashiered, 189:
his pamphlet, 197.
FORDE, Colonel, sent by Clive to Vizagapatam, 122:
united with Raja's troops, 122:
expelled French from northern Sirkars, 122:
took their fortress, 122:
secured the influence for the English, 122:
fought against the Dutch, 128:
occupied Barnagar, 129:
marched to Shirirampur, 129:
Knox joined him, 130:
defeated Dutch, 131:
appointed Supervisor, 199.
FORDYCE, Rev. Mr., his assault against Clive, as reported by the
Board at Fort St. David, 14:
suspended, 14.
FORREST'S _Records of the Madras Presidency_ (1890), 14, 40_n_.,
41_n_., 50_n_., 52_n_.
FORT ST. DAVID, Board at, 14:
English officials from Madras escaped to, 38:
Clive helped to defend, 38:
French tried to take, 39:
Clive appointed Governor of, 76.
FORT ST. GEORGE, built at Madras, 19.
FORT WILLIAM, built by Job Charnock in the reign of King William III,
119.
FOX, Mr., Clive a supporter of, 76.
FRAIS, M. St., _see_ ST. FRAIS.
FRENCH COLONY, at Pondicherry, 20:
on the Malabar coast and at Chandranagar, in Bengal, 21.
FULLER, Mr., seconded amendment to the attack against Clive, 208.
GAUPP, Captain, at Council of War, 92.
GEORGE II, King, his opinion of Clive, 141:
his death, 143.
GHERIA, fort at, 77:
headquarters of Angria, pirate chief, 77:
taken by Watson and Clive, 78:
Ali Vardi Khan's battle at, 85.
GHULAM HUSEN, _see_ CHANDA SAHIB.
GINGENS, Captain, sent to Volkonda, 48:
mismanaged affairs, 49:
in command at Trichinopoli, 51.
GINGI, fortress of, 47:
captured by the French, 47.
GOLKONDA, Nizam-ul-Mulk retired to, after taking Trichinopoli, 28.
GRAFTON, Duke of, at head of Ministry, 197:
resigned, 197.
GRANT, Major, at Council of War, 92.
GRANT, Captain Alexander, at Council of War, 93.
GRENVILLE, George, 198:
Clive a supporter of, 198:
his death, 198.
GRIFFIN, Admiral, commanding squadron, 39.
GUDALUR, important town near Pondicherry, 38.
GUNDLAKAMMA, river in Madras, 17.
HAIDAR ALI, invaded Madras, 198, 201.
HAIDARABAD, overtures between Siraj-ud-daula and Bussy at, 87.
HASTINGS, Warren, mentioned, 194:
first Governor-General of India, 201.
HEBER, Bishop, quoted, 37_n_.
HIGH-ROAD from Hugli to Patna made by Mughal Government, 90.
_History of England_, by Lord Stanhope, 202_n_.
_History of Indostan_, by Orme, quoted, 20_n_.
_History of India_, by Orme, quoted, 95_n_., 109_n_.
_History of India_, by Elliot, quoted, 31_n_., 44_n_., 100_n_.,
176_n_.
_History of the Bengal Army_, by Broome, quoted, 90_n_., 95_n_.,
110_n_.
_History of the French in India_, by Colonel Malleson, 36_n_.
HOLLAND, 124.
HOLWELL, Mr., in charge during Clive's absence, 136-7.
HOPE HALL, the residence of Mr. Bayley, where Clive was brought up,
9.
HUGLI, river, fugitives in ships on the, 78:
Major Kilpatrick sent with troops to, 79:
Watson and Clive sent to, 80.
HUGLI, town, stormed by Clive, 83:
revenue of, granted money to Clive, 117.
_Indostan, History of_, _see_ _History of Indostan_.
INDIA passed to the Crown, 178.
INDIA HOUSE, Sulivan excluded Clive from seat in, 145:
proprietors forced the Governor-Generalship of Bengal on Clive,
146:
sent a new covenant to Calcutta, 161:
refused to increase salaries, 165.
IVES'S _Voyage and Historical Narrative_, quoted, 94_n_., 96_n_.
JAGIR, conferred on Clive, 123 and _n_.:
disputed by Court of Directors, 142, 145-7.
JALANGI, river, 91.
JENNINGS, Captain, at Council of War, 93.
JOHNSTONE, Mr. Gideon, received money for secret services, 161.
JONES, Commodore, sent to attack Angria, 77:
recalled from Dabhol, 78.
KALNA, Mr. Watts at, 92.
KALPI, English victory at, 157.
KANCHIPURAM, Clive on his way to Arcot halted at, 53:
guns intercepted at, 53:
siege of, 58:
taken by Clive, 58.
KARNATIK, territory of the Deccan, 17:
not immediately under the Subahdar, 17:
territory entrusted to a Nawab, 17:
its boundaries, 17, 18:
invasions and war in the, 21-31:
Khoja Abdullah, Nawab of the, 28.
KARRA, English victory at, 157:
held by the English, 174.
KASIMBAZAR, Mr. Watts, English agent at, 86:
Siraj-ud-daula sent an army to Plassey, in the island of, 88 and
_n_.:
troops at, 116, 119.
KASIPUR, seat of gun-factory, 83:
Clive at, 83.
KATWA, Major Eyre Coote sent to occupy, 91:
battle of, 156.
KAVERIPAK, battle of, 64-6, 183, 211:
Clive defeats the French and allies, 66:
occupied by Clive, 66.
KHOJA ABDULLAH, proclaimed Nawab of the Karnatik, 28:
poisoned, 28.
KILPATRICK, Major, sent from Madras to the Hugli, 79:
reached Falta, 80:
at Council of War, 92:
in command of troops at Plassey, 102:
marched against St. Frais, 102:
joined by Clive, 102.
KISHANGARH, revenue of, granted money to Clive, 117.
KNOX, Captain, fought against the Dutch, 128:
defeated the Dutch, 131:
fought against the King of Delhi and defended Patna, 151.
KOILADI, French attempted to intercept Lawrence at, 67.
KOLRUN, River, 68, 69.
LALGUDI, mud fort of, taken by Clive, 68.
LALLY, Count, sent to Pondicherry, 120:
marched to Tanjore, 120:
recalled Bussy, 120:
successes achieved by, 120, 194:
left northern Sirkars unprotected, 121.
LASCARS, with Clive at Plassey, 90, 95.
LAW, of Lauriston, sent by Dupleix to Trichinopoli, 60:
unsuccessful, 61:
fought gallantly at Pondicherry, 61:
replaced by d'Auteuil, 68:
defeated by Clive at Paichanda, 69-73:
surrendered, 73:
sent by Clive near Chandranagar with troops, 84.
LAWRENCE, Major Stringer, in command at Fort St. David, 40_n_.:
took a force to Devikota, with Clive as lieutenant, 43:
stormed Devikota, 43:
treaty, 43:
returned to Fort St. David, 44:
joined Clive, 67:
started with Clive for Trichinopoli, 67:
entered Trichinopoli, 68:
assisted by Morari Rao and the Dalwai of Mysore, 68:
sent Clive to occupy Samiaveram, 68.
LAWRENCE, Lord, quoted, 16_n_.
LE BEAUME, Captain, at Council of War, 93.
_Letters_, by Scrafton, quoted, 160_n_.
_Life of Clive_, by Malcolm, 103_n_.
'LORD CLIVE'S FUND,' 178.
LOSTOCKE, private school where Clive was educated till he was eleven,
10.
LUCAS, Captain, mentioned in the account of the assault against Clive
by Mr. Fordyce, 14.
LUCKNOW, occupied by the English, 157.
LUSHINGTON, affixed Admiral Watson's name to false document regarding
Aminchand, 194.
MA'AFUZ KHAN, son of Anwar-ud-din, sent to demand Madras, 37:
encountered Dupleix at Maliapur, St. Thome, 37:
defeated, 37:
taken prisoner, 45.
MADHUPUR, Clive despatched Watts and Walsh to, 111:
Clive marched to, 111.
MADRAS, Robert Clive arrives as a writer in the service of the East
India Service in 1744 at, 9, 30:
Mr. Morse Governor at, 15, 33:
originally Chennapatanam, 19:
granted to the English and re-named Madras, 19:
Fort St. George built, 19:
raised to Presidency in 1653, 19:
population at end of 17th century, 19:
constitution of the town, 19:
English trading colony, 20:
French colony, 20:
taken by the French, 35:
restored, 41.
_Madras Presidency, Records of_, by Mr. Forrest, mentioned, 14,
40_n_., 41_n_., 50_n_., 52_n_.
MAIAPUR, Watson and Clive at, 81.
MALCOLM, Sir John, mentioned, 143:
quoted, 169:
_Life of Clive_, 103_n_., 143_n_., 198_n_.
MALDA, Aminchand's pilgrimage to, 113.
MALIAPUR, battle between French and English at, 37.
MALLESON'S, Colonel, _History of the French in India_, 36_n_.:
_Decisive Battles of India_, 66_n_., 130_n_., 156_n_.
MANCHESTER, Clive sent to his uncle to be brought up and educated at,
9.
MANIKCHAND, Governor of Calcutta, 81:
marched to Baj-baj, 81:
retired, 82.
MANSURPET, pagoda of, taken by Clive, 68.
MARATHAS, took Trichinopoli, 25:
invasion of, 25, 26:
yielded Trichinopoli to Nizam-ul-Mulk, 28:
overtures with Siraj-ud-daula, 87:
Maratha ditch, 108:
defeated at battle of Panipat, 173:
advance of, 183.
MARKAR, the Armenian, commanded a special brigade, 154:
sent to Patna, 155:
drove the English out, 155:
took English prisoners, 156.
MARKET DRAYTON, Clive sent to Mr. Burslem's school at, 10.
MARTIN, Francis, leader of the French traders on the Coromandel
coast, 20, 21:
died 1706, 20.
MASKELEYNE, Miss, married Clive, 74.
_Memoir of Captain Dalton_, quoted, 49_n_., 52_n_.
MERCHANT TAYLORS', Clive spent a short time at, 10.
MIRAN, son of Mir Jafar, 119:
arrived with an army at Murshidabad, 132:
struck dead by lightning, 150.
MIR ASAD, appointed Diwan in place of Chanda Sahib, 24:
taken prisoner by the Marathas, 25.
MIR JAFAR, in command of Siraj-ud-daula's forces, 79:
joined Clive, 86:
quarrelled with Siraj-ud-daula, 88:
reconciliation, 88:
swore fealty and to fight against Clive, 88, 91:
his interview with Mr. Watts, 92:
renounced Watts as a spy, 92:
threatened to destroy the English, 92:
favourable despatch from, 94:
position of his troops at Plassey, 97:
his interview with Siraj-ud-daula, 100:
lingering of his troops, 103:
requested an interview with Clive, 105:
escorted to the camp to be proclaimed Subahdar, 107:
his conditions and agreements with Clive, 107-8:
noble family in Bihar, 109:
officer of Ali Vardi Khan, 109:
married Ali Vardi Khan's sister, 109:
Bakshi of the army, 109:
took Calcutta, 109:
his meeting with Clive, 110:
went to Murshidabad, 111:
received Clive, 111:
proclaimed Subahdar, 112:
applied to Clive for assistance, 115, 121:
his army at Rajmahal, 116:
attempt to coerce Bihar, 116-8:
met Clive, 116:
at Patna, 117:
marched with Clive to Barh, 118:
returned to Murshidabad, 118:
treasury exhausted, 121:
conferred the jagir of the Zamindari on Clive, 123:
forced to resign, 153:
to reside under English protection, 153:
displaced by Mir Kasim, 153:
restored by the English, 158, 159:
his death, 159, 160:
bequeathed money to Clive, 178:
formation of Lord Clive's Fund, 178.
MIR KASIM, son-in-law of Mir Jafar, 119, 152:
envoy of Mir Jafar, 152:
wished to succeed Miran, 152:
his bribery successful, 152:
Mir Jafar to be displaced by, 152:
proceeded to Patna, 153:
installed as Subahdar, 153:
good ruler, 153:
removed his fortress to Mungir, 153:
reformed his army, 154:
abolished transit duties, 155:
prepared for war, 155:
his army under Markar set out for Patna, 155:
drove the English away, 155:
sent Samru to Baksar, 156:
intercepted the English and beat them completely, 156:
defeated at Katwa, 156:
defeated at Gheria, 156:
on the fall of Patna, took refuge at Oudh, 157:
defeated at Baksar, 157:
died at Delhi, 158.
MIR MADAN, Siraj-ud-daula's general, 97:
killed at Plassey, 100.
MIR MEHDI KHAN, commanding Mir Jafar's troops, 155:
went to Mungir to report to Mir Jafar, 155.
MOLITORE, Capt.-Lieut., at Council of War, 93.
MORARI RAO, famous Maratha soldier, left to guard Trichinopoli, 26:
sent to help Clive at Arcot, 55:
marched with Clive to Arni, 56:
defeated the French, 57, 58:
assisted Lawrence, 68.
MORSE, Mr., Governor of Madras, 15, 33:
befriended Clive, 15:
declined proposal from the French Governor that the two settlements
should preserve neutrality, 33:
demanded in vain for protection from Anwar-ud-din, 35.
MOSES, Mr. Levy, mentioned in the account of the complaint of the
assault of Mr. Fordyce against Clive, 14.
MUGHAL DYNASTY receives a blow from which it never rallied, 16, 85,
173:
high-road from Hugli to Patna, 90.
MUGHAL, Great, called on Clive to help repress the rebellion of his
son, 123.
MUHAMMAD ALI, forced to flee to Trichinopoli, 45:
rival of Chanda Sahib in the Deccan, 45:
at Trichinopoli, 51:
his treasury exhausted, 51.
MUHAMMAD RIZA KHAN, nominated Deputy-Nawab, 161, 168.
MUHAMMAD SHAH, Emperor of Delhi, 30:
died, 44.
MUIR, Captain, at Council of War, 93.
MUNGIR, Mir Kasim removed his capital to, 153:
Sir Robert Fletcher at, 187:
mutiny at, 187-8.
MUNRO, Sir Hector, his victory at Baksar, 157:
occupied Benares, Chanar and Allahabad, 157:
overran Oudh, 157:
occupied Lucknow and Faizabad, 157:
defeated enemy at Karra and Kalpi, 157:
Nawab-Wazir of Oudh surrendered himself to, 157.
MURADBAGH, palace of, Clive at, 111.
MURSHIDABAD, capital of Siraj-ud-daula, 78, 85:
bankers and merchants of, join Clive, 86:
Mir Jafar's interview with Mr. Watts at, 92:
Clive entered, 111:
treasury of, granted money to Clive, 117:
Clive at, 171.
MURTIZA ALI, Governor of Vellore, 27:
poisoned his brother-in-law, 27:
proclaimed himself Nawab, 27:
his flight, 27:
present at the royal wedding, 29:
sudden disappearance, 30:
suspected murderer of the young Prince, 30.
MUZAFFAR JANG, claimed succession to the Deccan, 44:
Governor of Bijapur, 44:
enlisted service of Marathas, 44:
proclaimed himself Subahdar of the Deccan, 45:
marched to Trichinopoli, 46:
at Tanjore, 46, 47:
retreated on Pondicherry, 47:
taken prisoner, 47:
released, 47:
acknowledged Subahdar, 47:
slain on his way to Aurangabad, 47.
MYSORE, an independent territory, 17:
sent an army to assist Muhammad Ali, 54:
assisted Lawrence at Trichinopoli, 68.
NADIR SHAH, invasion of, 16, 17, 25, 30, 85.
NEGAPATAM, squadron cruised off, 34.
NAPIER'S, Sir W., _Peninsular War_, quoted, 60_n_.
_Narrative_, Sir Eyre Coote's, quoted, 96_n_., 103_n_.
NASIR JANG, son of Nizam-ul-Mulk, succeeded in Southern India, 30,
44:
slain by his own levies, 47.
NEWCASTLE, Duke of, 143.
NEWCASTLE, Dowager Duchess of, sold Claremont to Clive, 202.
NIZAM-UL-MULK, title granted to the family of Chin Kilich Khan, 17:
Nawab of the Karnatik, 18:
Subahdar of the Deccan, 23:
objected to the appointments in the Karnatik made by
Saadat-ulla-Khan, 23:
gave the Marathas permission to attack Trichinopoli, 25:
entered Arcot with a large army, 28:
marched on to Trichinopoli, 28:
compelled the Marathas to yield, 28:
proclaimed his own commander Khoja Abdullah to be Nawab of the
Karnatik, 28:
Nawab poisoned, 28:
he appointed Anwar-ud-din, provisionally, and to act as guardian to
Saiyud Muhammad, 28:
died, 44.
NORTH, Lord, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 197:
First Lord of the Treasury, 198:
his Bill, 200-1.
'NORTHERN CIRCARS,' territory of the Deccan, 17.
NUJM-UD-DAULA, Nawab-Nazim, 172.
OMAR BEG, sent to escort Mir Jafar to Clive's camp, 107.
ORME, Mr., quoted, 20_n_., 30, 81_n_., 95_n_., 96_n_., 103_n_.,
109_n_., 111_n_.
OUDH, overtures of Siraj-ud-daula to the Nawab-Wazir of, 88:
Nawab-Wazir of, threatened rebellion against Mir Jafar, 121:
Nawab-Wazir of, protects and aids Mir Kasim, 157:
throws himself on the mercy of the English, 157, 159:
Clive's dealings with Nawab-Wazir of, 171, 173-8.
PAICHANDA, taken by Clive, 73.
PALMER, Captain, at Council of War, 93.
PALMYRAS, Cape, 80.
PALTI, town on the Kasimbazar river, 91.
PANIPAT, battle of, mentioned, 16, 173.
PARADIS, sent by Dupleix to relieve Madras, 37:
entered Madras, 38.
PARKER, John Neville, tried by court-martial, 189:
reinstated, 189.
PARSHAW, Capt.-Lieut., at Council of War, 93.
PATNA, capital of Bihar, Clive accompanied Mir Jafar to, 117:
Clive entered and subdued, 123:
Mir Jafar conferred jagir on Clive at, 123:
Patna stormed, 151:
English plunders at, 155:
Mir Kasim died at, 158.
PEACE OF PARIS, Clive voted against, 145.
PEERAGE, Clive raised to an Irish, 143.
_Peninsular War_, by Sir W. Napier, quoted, 60_n_.
PEYTON, Commodore, commanded squadron on Commodore Barnett's death,
34:
cruised off Negapatam, 34:
sailed for Trincomalee, 34.
PIGOT, Mr., sent with provisions, 49.
PITT, Mr. (afterwards Lord Chatham), Secretary of State, 139:
Clive's letter to, 139:
Clive describes Miran as unfit to succeed, 139, 150:
points urged in the letter, 140:
Pitt unable to answer the letter, 141:
Pitt's opinion of Clive, 141:
resigned, 143:
Lord Privy Seal, 197:
resigned on account of ill health, 197.
PLASSEY, army recalled by Clive from, 84:
Siraj-ud-daula sent an army to, 88:
Clive's army reached, 94:
battle of, 94-106, 183:
spoils of Plassey, 107-17:
effects of the spoils, 136.
PONDICHERRY, French settlement, 18:
French squadron anchored off, 34:
Dumas, Governor of, 25:
siege of, 39-41:
English officials from Madras sent as prisoners to, 38:
siege of, 39:
armies of Chanda Sahib and Muzaffar Jang retreated on, 47:
Law distinguished at siege of, 61.
PRAGMATIC SANCTION, England upholder of, 31.
PROPRIETORS, Court of, 145-7.
PURNIAH, Raja of, rebelled against Mir Jafar, 114-5:
went with Clive to Murshidabad to make peace with Mir Jafar, 116.
RAGHUJI BHONSLA, leader of the Marathas, 25.
RAJA DULAB RAM, joined Clive, 86:
position of his troops at Plassey, 97:
treacherously advised Siraj-ud-daula to flee from Plassey to
Murshidabad, 101:
Finance Minister, 107, 114:
retired to his palace, 114:
refused all intercourse with Mir Jafar, 114:
reconciliation with Mir Jafar, 117, 168.
RAJA SAHIB, son of Chanda Sahib, in command at North Arcot, 54:
joined by the French, 54:
siege of Arcot, 55:
retreated to Vellore, 55:
defeated at Arni, 57-8:
took Punamallu, 62:
repaired damage at Kanchipuram, 62:
encamped at Vendalur, 62-3:
quitted Vendalur, 63:
in ambush at Kaveripak, 64:
remarkable battle of Kaveripak, 64-6:
defeated by Clive, 66:
retreated to Seringham, 68.
RAJMAHAL, Siraj-ud-daula discovered hiding at, 112:
Mir Jafar and Clive at, 116.
RIO, Clive delayed for nine months at, 12:
Clive picked up a little Portuguese at, 12.
RUMBOLD, Captain, at Council of War, 92.
SAADAT-ULLA KHAN, Nawab of the Karnatik, 23:
died in 1732, 23:
appointed Dost Ali, his nephew, to succeed, 23:
Bakar Ali to be Governor of Vellore, 23:
and Ghulam Husen or Chanda Sahib to be Diwan afterwards, 23.
SAFDAR ALI, son of Dost Ali, sent to capture Trichinopoli, 24:
proclaimed Nawab, 25:
persuaded Marathas to advance on the Karnatik, 26:
siege of Trichinopoli, 26:
surrendered, 26:
sent his family to Madras, 27:
took refuge at Vellore, 27:
poisoned by his brother-in-law, 27:
his son proclaimed Nawab by the army, 27.
SAIYUD MUHAMMAD KHAN, son of Safdar Ali, proclaimed Nawab, 27:
Anwar-ud-din appointed his guardian, 28:
murdered, 30.
SALABAT JANG, proclaimed Subahdar on the death of Muzaffar Jang, 48.
SALLUSTIAN MOTTO, quoted, 16.
SALT MONOPOLY, 164, 165.
SAMIAVERAM, occupied by Clive, 68:
battle at, 69-72:
Clive's victory, 73, 183, 211.
SAMRU, Armenian, in command of a special brigade, 153-4:
sent to Baksar, 156.
SARFARAZ, son of, at Dhaka, in rebellion against Mir Jafar, 115.
SATARA, Chanda Sahib, prisoner at, 26, 31:
Muzaffar Jang proceeded to, 44.
SAUNDERS, Mr., Governor of Fort St. David, 49:
sent Clive under Mr. Pigot to take provisions to Trichinopoli, 49:
gave Clive his captaincy, 50:
sent him to Devikota, 50.
SCOTT, Colonel, nominated Commander, with Clive as second, 77:
his death, 77.
SCRAFTON, Mr., sent to escort Mir Jafar to Clive's camp, 107:
informed Aminchand of false document, 113:
appointed Supervisor, 199:
_Letters_, quoted, 160_n_.
SELECT COMMITTEE appointed, 147, 161, 191:
opposition of, 166.
SERINGHAM, island to which French retreated from Trichinopoli, 68,
69.
SET, banking-house of the Set family, 168.
SHAH ALIM, troops of, repulsed the invasion of Bihar, 153:
installed Mir Kasim as Subahdar, 153:
Clive's dealing with, 171:
his capital occupied by the Afghans, 171:
meeting with Clive at Allahabad, 174.
SIRAJ-UD-DAULA, Subahdar, 78:
seized factory at Kasimbazar, 78:
marched to Calcutta, 78:
took possession, 78:
Black Hole of Calcutta, 78-9:
Murshidabad capital of, 78, 85:
grandson of Ali Vardi Khan, 85:
overtures to Bussy at Haidarabad, 87:
to the Marathas, 87:
to Delhi, 88:
to Nawab-Wazir of Oudh, 88:
quarrelled with Mir Jafar, 88:
reconciliation with Mir Jafar to fight against Clive, 88:
sent his army to Kasimbazar, 88:
Clive sent declaration of war to, 91:
at Plassey, 95:
fled to Murshidabad, 101, 112:
discovered hiding at Rajmahal, 112:
made over to Mir Jafar, 112:
interview with Mir Jafar, 112:
stabbed, 112.
SIVAJI, built a fort at Gheria, 77.
SMITH, Captain F., 187:
at Mungir, 187.
SMITH, Colonel, 186:
commanding at Surajpur, 186:
nominated Commander-in-chief by Clive, 191.
SMITH, Major, 186:
commanding at Allahabad, 186:
arrested officers, 186.
STANHOPE, Earl, quoted, 192, 209, 210 and _n_., 211:
_History of England_, 202_n_.
STANLEY, Mr., proposed an amendment in the attack against Clive, 208.
ST. FRAIS, Mons., commanding French at Plassey, 96:
formerly member of Council of Chandranagar, 96:
commenced action at Plassey, 98:
remained when Siraj-ud-daula fled, 101:
met by Kilpatrick, 102:
retreated, 103:
his final resistance and death, 104.
STERLING, Mr., private school in Hertfordshire, where Clive went on
leaving Merchant Taylors', until he was nominated writer in the
service of the East India Company, 10.
STYCHE, Robert Clive born at, 9.
SUBAH, province, 17, 166, 177.
SUBAHDAR, chief of a subah or province, 17:
Nizam-ul-Mulk, Subahdar of the Deccan, 23:
on his death struggles for succession, 44-7:
Ali Vardi Khan, Subahdar of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, 85:
Siraj-ud-daula succeeded him, 85:
attempts to dethrone the Subahdar, 86.
SULIVAN, Mr. Lawrence, Chairman of Court of Directors, 144:
enemy of Clive, 144, 203:
excluded Clive from seat in the India House, 145:
elected at Court of Proprietors, 145:
his candidates for second election defeated, 147.
SUMNER, Mr., accompanied Clive to Calcutta, 148, 159.
SURAJPUR, Colonel Smith stationed at, 186.
SYKES, accompanied Clive back to Calcutta, 148, 159:
agent at Murshidabad, 166:
member of Select Committee, 191.
TACITUS, quoted, 139.
TANJORE, troops sent from Fort St. David to help the ex-Raja, 42.
THOME, St., battle at, 37.
THURLOW, Attorney-General, supported Burgoyne in his attack against
Clive, 205.
TIMERI, Clive's victory at, 53:
Clive takes the fort of, 56.
_Transactions in India_, quoted, 156 and _n_.
TRAVANCORE, independent territory, 17.
TRICHINOPOLI, kingdom claimed by the Nawabs of the Karnatik, 18:
death of the ruler of, 24:
captured by Dost Ali, 24:
Chanda Sahib, Governor of, 24:
taken by the Marathas, 25:
siege of, 26:
surrender of, 26:
yielded by the Marathas to Nizam-ul-Mulk, 28:
Clive escorted troops on their way to, 49:
sent with Major Lawrence to report from, 50:
besieged by Chanda Sahib, 51:
Law in command of French troops and sipahis before Trichinopoli,
61.
TRINCOMALEE, the English squadron sailed away from the French to, 34.
UNDWA NALA, taken by Major Adams, 157.
UTATUR, d'Auteuil at, 68.
VANSITTART, successor to Clive, 136, 149:
his character, 149-50:
bribed by Mir Kasim, 152:
forced Mir Jafar to resign, 153:
appointed Supervisor, 199.
VELLORE, Safdar Ali took refuge at, 27:
Murtiza Ali, Governor at, 27.
VENDALUR, French encampment at, 62-3:
French quit, 63:
Clive at, 64.
VERDACHELAM, the point to which Clive accompanied the troops with
provisions for Trichinopoli, 49.
VERELST, appointed Governor by Clive, 190, 196, 198.
VIZAGAPATAM, Colonel Forde at, 122.
VIZIADRUG, harbour of, 77.
VIZIANAGRAM, letter to Clive demanding troops from Raja of, 121.
VOLKONDA, Clive sent under Captain Gingens to, 48:
surrender of d'Auteuil at, 73.
_Voyage and Historical Narrative_, by Ives, quoted, 94_n_., 96_n_.
WAGGONNER, Captain, at Council of War, 93.
WALSH, sent with Watts to Madhupur, 111:
Clive's secretary, 140:
charged with the letter to Mr. Pitt, 140.
WANDIWASH, Saiyud Muhammad Khan and his mother sent to, 27.
_War in India_, by Cambridge, quoted, 43_n_.
WATSON, Admiral, in command of squadron, 78:
destroyed Gheria, 78:
sent to the Hugli, 80:
arrived at Falta, 80-1:
anchored at Maiapur, 81:
nominated Major Eyre Coote, Governor of Calcutta, 82:
took possession himself, 82:
handed keys to Drake, 82:
objected to sign false document regarding Aminchand's demand, 87.
WATTS, Mr., English agent at Kasimbazar, 86, 87:
at Kalna, 92:
his letter to Clive with news of Mir Jafar's faithlessness, 92:
denounced as spy, 92:
sent to Madhupur, 111.
WEDDERBURN, Mr., able lawyer and ally of Clive, 198:
Solicitor-General, 203.
WELLESLEY, Marquess, mentioned, 122.
WHEELER, Talboys, quoted, 177 and _n_., 178_n_.
WHITE TOWN, a division of Madras, 19.
WILSON, Prof. H. H., quoted, 37_n_.
WILSON, Commodore, sent by Clive to demand apology from the Dutch,
failing which, to attack their squadron, 130:
Dutch refusal and consequent attack, 130:
completely defeated Dutch, 131.
WRITER in the service of the East India Company, duties of, 12:
Clive appointed, 10, 11, 12:
not congenial to Clive, 12.
YAR LUTF KHAN, a commander in Siraj-ud-daula's army, 86:
offered to join Clive to displace Siraj-ud-daula, and to become
himself Subahdar, 86, 107:
position of his troops at Plassey, 97.
ZAMINDARI, conferred on Clive by Mir Jafar, 123.