was to be gained. However, I was o-. ver-periuaded by Mr Vanfittart and the other gentlemen (as a measure which they told me they imagined would be of great fervice to the Company) to go up to the army at Patna. Accordingly I defired they would give me inftructions to proceed by. Inftructions to Col. Coote on the Select Committee's proceedings, Fort William, April 21. 1761, read. By this, I believe, it will plainly appear the Governor and Council had two objects in view in fending me there. The one was, the fixing a plan of operations upon the fuppofition that we fhould be able to conduct the Mogul to Delhi; the other, to procure and protect Rannarrain in the province of Patna. Upon my arrival at Patna, I applied with the clofeft attention to the bufinefs on which I was fent there, I informed the Shah Zadda of the fentiments of the board towards him, and the defire the English had to affift him to the utmost of their power; which he feemed very fenfible of, and very defirous of having; at the fame time defiring, that he might be proclaimed and acknowledged by us, as he had been by different powers in Hindoftan; and he thought it very extraordinary, where he himself refided, there he was not acknowledged. Thofe matters I communicated to the board to receive their inftructions, as will be feen in the courfe of the correfpondence in July. I likewife informed Ramnarrain, that Į had orders from the Governor and Council to protect him, provided he would fettle his accounts with the Nabob; and therefore I defired him immediately to fet about it, informing the Nabob of the fame; as may be feen in my correfpondence with the Governor and Council. During thefe tranfactions, I received a letter from the board, recommending it to me to proclaim the King. I found, that had I immediately cam plied with the request of the board, it might prove of fatal confequence to the Nabob, and to the Company at that time; for he had given away feveral of the best provinces to different people that belonged to him, particularly Purnea; which will likewise be seen in the correfpondence. I therefore thought it, to the beft of my judgment, for the advantage of the Company and the Nabob, as it was the Shah Zadda's inclination, to let them go to Sujah Dowla. At the fame time I had got the Nabob to consent to that measure, and to pay a vifit with me to the Shah Zadda. There it was thought advifeable by the Nabob, and feveral of the Company's fervants who were prefent, that the Nabob for himself, and I on behalf of the English, should coin the ficcas, and acknowledge him Mogul on the day that he should pass the boundary of the province. This he seemed fatisfied with; and it was agreed, that Major Carnac with part of the army fhould efcort him; the Major inform ing me in proper time of the day he fhould join Sujah Dowla, in order that I might keep my promife; the Nabob confenting entirely to this matter, and at the fame time agreeing, that if we profecuted the expedition, and fettled matters with Sujah Dowla, he would advance the ten lacks towards the payment of our forces. The King was but a few days gone, when the Nabob feemed to alter his fentiments entirely with regard to the promises he had made, and turned his thoughts entire ly towards the feizing of Ramnarrain, for whom, if I would give him up, he offered feven lacks and a half of rupees, and whatever I pleased to the gentlemen of my family. This I communicated by letter to the Governor and Council, July 17, 1761. The Nabob finding he could not gain his point with regard to Ramnarrain, then thought it neceffary to write to the Governor, Mr Vanfittart, the moft fcandalous invectives and falfe accufations against me, and was determined that he would not declare the King the day we had both given our words of honour for doing its it. He had then a large army incamp ed on the outside of Patna, I was then in the city; and from the detachments which I had made, and which were fent for the collection of revenues with Major Carnac, I had not then under my command above 150 Europeans, (70 of whom were in the hofpitals), and I believe 3 or 400 Seapoys. I was with this force to protect the city and Ramnarrain, and to defend my own honour. The Nabob knowing my weakness, thought it a proper opportunity to get poffeffion of the city. He applied to me for leave to come into the fort of the city the day before the Shah Zadda was to be proclaimed. To which I agreed, (and he seemed thoroughly fatisfied), provided he only brought in the attendants about his E perfon. This he confented to. The pight or two before the Mogul was to be proclaimed, he fent me word, that he would not proclaim him, nor come into the city, unless he had the gates delivered up to him; which I would by no means confent to. At the fame time I informed him, that I had given my honour for declaring the Mogul on fuch a day, and I would have it performed in the city which would not appear proper in the eyes of the country, as 'he was Subah of the province; and I begged that we might have a conference upon the fubject: which he evaded having; and I was informed by my fpies, that that very night his camp was all in motion, and his artillery brought towards the city. I fent the next morning to one of his chief minifters, to learn the reafon of fuch a movement, and the meaning of the Nabob; which he told me was done by Coja Gregore, who was his head general, and he was not afraid to fay at the Durbar that it would be productive of mischief. Finding the next night the fame movements and difturbances in his camp, I thought it neceflary to go the next morning myfelf, and to fee him, if poffible. Accordingly I ordered a company of feapoys and a troop of thirty horsemen that I had, to get themselves in readinefs by fix in the morning; at which hour the next morning I fent Mr Watts to inform him of my coming. It was feven before I arrived at his tent; and Mr Watts informed me, that the Nabob was not to be feen; he had fent to him, but had not feen him. I went into the outer tent, taking piftols in my hand for my own fecurity, and fat down there, till I fhould hear farther. As it is a cuftom in India, when they mean ill to a perfon that vifits them in camp, to cut the tent cords, and let the tent fall on the perfon they mean to destroy, I defired Capt. Ifir to place two of the troopers round the tent, to prevent any mischief of that kind. Finding the Nabob would not see me, I rode away, and left Mr Watts to inform him of any bufinefs. This the Nabob reprefented to the Governor and Council as a grievous infult, for which I received feveral extraordinary letters from the board, which are upon the correfpondence, together with my answers: and at my return to Calcutta I defired a ftri&t inquiry might be made into the matter; and the inquiry was made. (To be continued.) REV VIEW. Confiderations on India Affairs; particularly refpecting the prefent State of Bengal and its Dependencies. By William Bolts, Merchant. 4to. 125. Boards. Almon. The first thirteen chapters of this work either prefent us with fome hiftorical account of the ftate of Hindoftan, or are explanatory of the form of government of the East India company in that country, A A View of the Rife, Progrefs, and Prefent State of the English Government in Bengal: including a Reply to the Mifreprefentations of Mr. Bolts, and other Writers. By Harry Verelt, Efq. 4to. 125. boards. Nourfe. But it is, perhaps, of greater importance to the public to acquaint them, that they will find in this work, a more copious and authenticated account of the company's affairs in India, than in any other narrative we have hitherto feen. We therefore recommend the perufal of it to all thofe who are defirous of information on that fubject. The Elements of Commerce, Politics, and Finances, in Three Treatises on thofe important Subjects. Defigned as a Supplement to the Education of Britih Youth, after they quit the public Universities or private Academies. 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Waller's works will always hold a confiderable rank in English poetry, His great abilities as a ftatefman and an orator are indifputable; and his moral character will be viewed with lenity by those whofe minds are actu ated by humanity, and who are properly acquainted with their own fail. ings; who confider the violence of the times in which he lived, and who are accustomed to think before they decide. This edition of the works of Waller is elegantly printed; and we should be glad to see the most eminent of the English poets undergo the like revifal, by editors who were properly qualifi ed, and would be at pains to collect ma terials for a more copious and authentic account of their lives. An Introduction to the Study of Hif tory. By R. Johnson. 12mo. 3s. few. ed. Carnan. Travels through Sicily and that Part of Italy formerly called Magna Græcia, And a Tour through Egypt. Tranflat ed from the German, by J. R. Foster, F. R. S. 800. 5s. Dilly. Tho whole of these travels through Sicily, Magna Græcia, and Egypt, appear to be related with great fidelity; and the account delivered by the authors is confiderably improved by the annotations of the ingenious Mr. Folter, who has added many learned and just remarks. Jean Hennuyer, Eveque de Lizieux. Such is the title of a new dramatic performance written by Voltair, of whom it may be truly faid 9 -nec tarda fenectus Debilitat vires animi, mutatque The fubject of this piece is the wellknown maffacre at Paris, the moft dreadful part of which happened in the night after the festival of St. Bartholomew, August twenty-third, 1 572. Our readers can no more judge of the merits of this little but finished piece, from our cold account of fome part of it, than they could acquaint themfelves with the power of the fun from a mere reflection of it in the water. HISTORY. From the LONDON PAPERS, TURK E Y. Conftantinople, Feb. 3. Two Ruffian officers, who arrived here fome time fince, were fent back the 24th ult. to Bucharest. The Porte ordered to be fent off yesterday 2000 purfes to pay the troops of our grand army their arrears of pay for half a year. POLAN D. Warfaw, Feb. 24. A courier is arrived here with accounts,that the Auftrians have abandoned Brodi, and that the Ruffians, who were in the caftle have entered the town again. The Auftrians took up the cafh the public revenues amounted to, which, it is faid, was about 200,000 florins, Warsaw, Feb. 27. The report that the peace between Ruffia and the Porte will not be concluded fo foon as was hoped, gains ground daily, though it is faid that the armiftice will be pro= longed. The following is a copy of the anfwer, which the Miniftry of Warfaw delivered to the Minifters of the three Powers, to their refpective memorials of the 2d of last month. "The under figned having made their report to the King of the declarations delivered to them the 2d of February by the Minifters Plenipotentiaries of the Courts of Vienna, Peterf. burgh, and Berlin, and his Majefty having thereupon taken the advice of the Senate, the under-figned have orders to answer thereto as follows: "The principles of condefcenfion, on which the King of Poland, and his Senate find themselves obliged to regu -to MARCH 26. late their conduct towards, the three Courts above-mentioned, being fufficiently known by the minifterial note of the 14th of December 1772, given in answer to the uniform declarations of of the three Courts of the 4th of the fame month, and by the facts analagous, which have followed the declaration of thofe difpofitions, the under-figned refer to it, confining themselves in the prefent. ift, To obferve to the Minifters of the three Courts, that the harshness and rigour of their proceedings, aggravated ftill more by the ftile of their expreffions, and the tone of inculpation and teproach affected in the above-mentioned declarations, have juftly afflicted the fenfibility of the King and the Senate, are equally remote from the regard due to the dignity of the King and the Republic, and the refpect which the circumfpect conduct of the King merited on their part. 2d, The under-figned are to inform the above-mentioned Minifters that the King, with the advice of the Senate, after having taken into confideration the ferious menaces and imminent dangers which have been announced to him in cafe of refusal, has yielded to the defire of the three Courts, and has appointed in confequence the 19th of April for the epocha of the Dyet. 3d, And lastly, The under-figned have orders to addrefs to the fame minifters the folemn requifition, that the King, with the advice of his Senate, makes to the three allied Courts, to procure the evaucation of their troops dur of the domains of the Republic, before the holding of the Dyetines Ante Comitiales, in order that the latter and the Dyet may proceed with fullliberty, and that the sense of the nation. may HOLLAND Amfterdam, March 12. Letters from Cologne, dated Feb. 28. gave an account, that a few days ago an infurrection happened at Aix-la-Chapelle (a free city in the Empire, where every Prince may have a prefs gang) among the citizens, who drove away the Pruffian prefs gang; and notwithstanding the refiftance of the latter, they were overpowered, and at laft obliged to quit that city. This event will undoubtedly be the caufe of the Pruffian Eagle being put up there by the laws of conqueft (as Frederick calls it.) Thefe letters add, that of late there have been difcovered feveral merchants at Francfort on the Mayne, who had the commiffion of buying horfes and tents for the French; but it was immediately put a stop to, and prohibited, under a heavy penalty. FR ANC E. Paris, March 8. The 17th ult. at ten in the morning, a young man, be tween feventeen and eighteen years of age, fon of the Sieur de Barre, furgeon to the guard at Paris, in endeavouring to loofe a boat, in order to convey himself across the Seine, fell into the river, and continued a long while under water before he was taken up, when there did not appear the leaft fymptom of life remaining. He was immediately brought to the Corps de garde at the island of Swans, where were immediately adminiftered to him the remedies ordered to be made ufe of in an Ordinance published in favour of drown. ed perfons, which had fo happy an ef fect that he foon recovered his fenfes, and recounted how the accident happened, after which he was conducted to his father's houfe, where he remains in perfect health. For eight days together at the end of laft month, on the coast of Normandy; they had the most violent winds ever remembered on that coaft, in confequence of which the fea overflowed part of the town of Havre,and its neighbouring villages; the banks, jettees and fluices, built to defend the town, were torn up, the houses fituate in the quays entirely overflown, and the inhabitants with the greatest difficulty efcaped with their lives; feveral boats and small vel fels were loft in the harbour, and many perfons drowned, but happily the fhipping efcaped pretty well. The waves that broke on the jettees were fo exceffive ftrong, as to throw a mafs of iron which weighed near 6000lb. to a confiderable diftance. Some veffels were loft on the coaft, and a great number of feamen perished. ENGLAND. From the LONDON GAZETTE. March 13. War-Office, March 13 1773Sixth regiment of foot. Lieutenant-general John Gore to be colonel, vice lieutenant general William Rufane, deceased. 20th |