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

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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$1757- \m 1» [ io8 ] On our taking of Houghley, and burning the granaries, xht Nabob thought ) proper to take fome notice of Admiral Watfon\ letter to him on his arrival at Fulta •, and the following is a tranflation of the letter fent by Serajah- Dowlah to xhQ admiral j dated 23d, 1757. YOU write me, that the king your mafter fent you into India to pro- te6t the company’s fettlements, trade, rights, and privileges: the inllant 1 received that letter, I fent you an anfwer * ; but it appears to me that my reply never reached you, for which reafon I write again. I muft inform you that Roger Drake, the company’s chief in Bengal, a6led contrary to the orders I fent him, and encroached upon my authority: he gave pro- tedlion to the king’s fubje(fls, who abfented themfelves from the infpeftion of the Durbar 'f, which practice I did forbid but to no purpofe. On this account I was determined to punifli him, and accordingly expelled him my country. But it was my inclination to have given the Englijh company permiflion to have carried on their trade as formerly, had another chief been lent here.. For the good therefore of thefe provi zts, and the inhabitants,. I fend you this letter *, and if you are inclined to re-eltablilh the company^ only appoint a chief, and you may depend upon my giving currency tcv their commerce, upon the fame terms they heretofore enjoyed : If the EngUJIj behave themfelves like merchants, and follow my orders,, they may reft alTured of my favour, protection, and alFiftance. If you imagine that by carrying on a war against me, you can. SSTABtlSH A TRADE IN THESE DOMINIONS, YOU MAY DO AS YOU THINK ?IT J. The Have of Allum-guesr, king of Tndojian, the mighty Conqueror, the Lamp of Riches, Shah Kuly Khan, the moft valiant among warriors.” To this letter, the admiral fent the following anfwer, dated 27th of January, 1757. ‘‘ YOUR letter of tlie a jd of this month T this day received. It has. given me the greateft pleafure, as it informs me you had written to me before; a circumftanGe I am glad to be aflured of under your hand, as the- , not anfwering my letter, would have been fuch an affront as 1 could not. have put up with unnoticed,, without incurring the anger of the king my mafter. * This alTertion was never credited; The court or levee of the Nabob. :}; This paragraph,, printed in Capitals', was written with the Nabob’s own*! hand; and the Reader is defired to obferve, that in the feveral letters which pafl'ed betweeiii the Admiral and Nabobs, here inlerted,,what, was written by themfelves is thus diilinguilhed. YoUt$

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