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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
![V - . [ 107 ] This promlfe Mr. Watfon moft pun<ftuall7 fulfilled, by giving him a commiffion, dated January 1757^. Mr. Hamilton^ another brave young gentleman, a mid^ipman alfo of the Kent, was killed upon the fpot. Mr. Owen and Mr. Samble, midfliipmen of the Tyger, were wounded, but not mortally. And in confequence of this expedition to Houghley, though not by the fliot of the enemy. Lieutenant James Roddam of the Kent, loft his life : he was a moft amiable young gentleman in every refpeft, and fo nicely fcrupulous of his honour, that when the expedition, took place, he carefully concealed from the admiral’s knowledge an indifpofition which he had laboured under for fome days, and chearfully fet off with the armament from Calcutta \ but through the great fatigue he underwent when the Bridgewater ran aftiore, his difeafe, which was a Diarrhcca and fever, fo much increafed, that it became abfolutely neceftary for Captain Smith to fend him back to the hofpital. He was received there on the iith, and died the 16th of greatly lamented by all his acquaint¬ ance, who refpedfed him not lefs for his focial than his military virtues. Lieutenant Clerke, (a fenfible and gallant young officer, a great favourite of the admiral’s, and who from his earlieft youth had been bred up at fea under him) had a very narrow efcape in this expedition, from a mufket-ball which entered at tlie fore-part of the crown of his hat, and went through it, but did him no kind of harm. Mr. Rye, ftorekeeper to the fquadron, who went a volunteer to Houghley with his friend Captain Speke, was very near lofing his life; a bullet from the enemy went through the breaft of a failor, and killed him on the fpot, as he was walking clofe by Mr. Rye's fide. Soon after the redudlion of Houghley, tlie admiral difpatched Captain Richard King in a floop of 60 tons, to England, with an account of our fortunate proceedings thus far-, and preparations were made for carrying the war as far as Dacca, by another branch of the river : had this expedi¬ tion taken place, doubtlefs it would have been attended with fuccefs, and confequently we fhould have been put in pofieffion of an immenfe treafure; for here were no Dutchmen to counteraft us in fecuring the perfons, and fecreting the effects of our enemies. But our attention was called off from this very definable and tempting objedt, by the alarming intelligence we received, that the Nabob, incenfed at the lofs of all his late conquefts, and alarmed at the rapidity of ours, had raifed a formidable army, and was marching at the head of it from his capital Muxadabad towards Calcutta, fully determined to drive the Englijh out of all his territories, and take ample vengeance for the difgraces we had brought upon him. ■* This gallant officer remained in the Eajt Indies after the author left that country, and ferved with great honour in all the fea engagements which happened betw'een the Englijh and French fleets under the command of Admiral, now Sir George Pocock. » P 2 On](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30410678_0133.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
