Storia do Mogor : or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian ; tr., with introduction and notes, by William Irvine.

Storia do Mogor, or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian ; tr., with introduction and notes, by William Irvine.

  • Manucci, Niccolò, 1639-approximately 1717.
Date:
1907-08
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Credit: Storia do Mogor, or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian ; tr., with introduction and notes, by William Irvine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (? 1694). In the last of these he states that he has just heard of the fell of Pondicherry, and that F. Martin was a prisoner. There are other letters from him to the directors of Septem- ber 27, 1693, and January 25, 1694. Pondicherry had surrendered to the Dutch on September 6, 1693 (N.S.) and F. Martin, his family, and the garrison were transported to Batavia. On arrival there he was allowed ; at his earnest request to return to India, and on February 15, 1694, rejoined his son-in-law Deslandes at the French factory I on the Hugh. There he remained until the restoration of Pondicherry to the French under the Peace of Ryswick (1697). We find several letters in that period signed either by F. ’ Martin alone or jointly with Boureau-Deslandes, viz. : Decem- l ber 28, 1694; July 10 and 25, November 21, 1696; January 15 : and 16, October 19, and December 30, 1697. On January 5, : i69f, Martin passed Calcutta in a ship taking him back ) to Pondicherry (India Office, ‘ Factory Records,’ Calcutta, p. 3). There are passing mentions of Deslandes in the Calcutta ] records of December 6 and 14, 1690, and June 30, 1698. In 1 February, 1700, he wrote to the governor at Calcutta condoling : on the loss of the East India Merchant, and sent two sloops to assist in the work of salvage. Boureau-Deslandes remained in charge of Chandarnagar, as is shown by the letters of I January 4, February 8, and December 12, 1700, and the list of the company’s servants at Hugh, dated January 10, 1700. From the letter of January 9, 1701, signed by B. Deslandes, I Dulivier, and Pelé, we learn that a month before that date 1 Deslandes had decided to act on the permission he had 1 received to retire on the ground of family cares and poor i health. Some farrndns that had long been desired had just I been obtained, and he believed that affairs could now go on ' without him. He meant to sail by the Phelypeaux, and gave overcharge to Dulivier (Pelé and Renault, members of council). On January 10 he embarked for Pondicherry, which he reached on February 3. Manucci, Part IV., fob 54, also speaks of his being at Pondicherry in February, 1701. He left for France on February 23, and reached that country on August 28, 1701.^ In April, 1703, Boureau-Deslandes received from Louis XIV. letters of nobility for himself and his posterity in reward for his services in India. On November 28 of the same year he The statement of Dr. Jules Sottas, ‘ Histoire de la Compagnie Royale des Indes, 1664-1719,’ Paris, 1905, p. 105, note, that Deslandes died off St. Helena of scurvy is due, as that author informs me, to an oversight. It was the commander of the vessel, Captain Le Quentiac, who died.
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