A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.

  • Edward Ives
Date:
1773
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Credit: A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f ‘04 ] 1 •:» t ■ >! » , \ H AT.- IX. f ' Operations againjl Houghley, and burning Granaries.—'The Nabob marches with a great army towards Calcutta.—A hrijk cannonade between him and Colonel Clive.—MeJJrs. Walfli and Scrafton fent to the Nabob with pro- pofals of pence^ which prove abortive.—Colonel Clive attacks the Nabob in his camp.—The Nabob concludes a treaty of peace very advantageous to the Englifh Eaft \ndi\2i company.—Admiral^2x{qc\ refolves to reduce the French power in Bengal.—Correfpondence between the Admiral and the Nabob.— Account of the attack of Chandernagore.—The Englifli forces take pojfef- fion of the place.—Gallant behaviour of Captain Speke and his fon^ &c. 1757. after the fuccefs of our forces at Calcutta., fome of the council of —the French fettlement at Chandernagore, and alfo of the Dutch fettle- ment at Chinfura, came to pay their congratulatory compliments to the admiral and colonel. 7'he firft were empowered to propofe a formal con¬ firmation of the neutrality which had been hitherto ftriftly obferved between the two companies in the Ganges: they fuggefted, that /uch a neutrality was not only neceflary for the mutual interefls of both nations, but pleaded a claim of particular indulgence on account of the many good offices they had done the Englifh in the time of their diftrefies at Fulta. Thefe argu¬ ments certainly carried great force with them, and they were attentively liftened to by Admiral JVatfon, and our other principals; who would not have fcrupled to clofe with them, if the French in return would have joined our forces in the war we were now to carry on againfl the Nabob. But when this propofal was made to their deputies, they replied, that they were not invefted with proper authority to treat on that fubjeft. They therefore dcfired that they might be allowed to return to Chandernagore, to confult their governor and council on fo important a fubjedl. The uninterrupted train of fuccefies we had met with fince our firft entering the mouth of the Ganges, had ftruck the Nabob and his adherents with fuch a panic, that our commanders came to a refolution of lofing no time, but to pufli on the war with the greateft vigour. Accordingly Houghley, a very large and rich city belonging to the Nabob, fituate on the river about thirty miles above Calcutta, was fixed upon as the next objeift of our military ope-