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.

70/560 (page 46)

$:[ -46 ■] . C H A P. IV. ‘i’he /([uadron leaves Bombay and arrives at Madrafs.—Defcripion of Madrafs or Fort St. George. —The buildings and Indian inhabitants. —A lijl of the feveral forts of fervants employed India, their names., wages, religion, and employments.—Account of the nature and genius of their mechanics.—The phy~ fical pradiice of their black-dodlors.—Manner of inoculating for the fmalU pox. ^755‘ A t)MlRAL IFatfonh^d long been defirous of getting round again with ■< —jl\. his fquadron to the Coromandel Q02.d.-, but the heaving down and refit¬ ting the (hips, had taken up fo much time, that feveral days mDecember had lapfed, before this neceflary work could be accompliflied. On the 15th however, •we took our leave of governor Bourchier and the gentlemen of the council; and on the 16th we weighed anchor, and flood for the offing. A freffi gale fortunately fprang upj which foon ran us down the Malabar coaft, and to the fouthernmofl point of the ifiand of Ceylon. On the 13th of January 1755, we arrived in Fort St. Davids road, (having made an unufual quick pafiage for this feafon of the year), and on the i8th in that of Madrafs:^ where, to our great facisfadlion, we found riding'at anchor his majefty’s fhip ' the Cumberland, Commodore Pocock', and in eight days afterwards we were joined by the Tyger, Captain Thomas Latham, who had failed from England with Mr. Pocock. Here we learned, that during Admiral Watfon’s flay Bom- hay, a conditional treaty had been adjufted between Monf. Godeheu and Mr. Saunders, which was to continue in force until it ffiould be either rati¬ fied or rejefled by their refpeilive companies •, fo that there was no profpeil of hoftilities recommencing here, at lead for eighteen months *, and in this Jong interval, the French had a fine opportunity of acquiring riches fufficient to carry on another war: for by this conditional treaty, they were to con¬ tinue in pofleffion of thofe many important countries, as well in the Carnatic as the Deccan, which by their intrigues they had fecured to them- felves, and whofe revenues brought them in almoft a million fterling; whilfl our poffieffions did not annually bring more than the fame number of rupees.. Indeed, this was by all deemed to have been a mafterly ftroke of French politics: on the contrary, the advantages refulting from this treaty to the Englifh Eafi India company, were beyond every ones comprehenfion; for it was by every body known, that at this time, exclufive of our naval force, our troops on the coaft exceeded thofe of iht French in number on^ thoufand.$

Licence and re-use

Contents