FOOTNOTES: CHAPTER 11
[104]. Lord Northington.
[105]. 23d of February, 1757.
[106]. In a letter from Mr. Richard Clive, dated 18th of April, 1755, we find this subject mentioned. "I was glad," he writes to his son, "to hear from you last post; and though you banter me about the election at Dover, I think, as you are so near, and the electors so well disposed to oppose the ministry, you have a fair opportunity to disappoint the Duke of Newcastle; and after you are elected you can proceed on your voyage."
[107]. Mr. Richard Clive, in a letter to his son on the 22d of December, 1756, expresses his sentiments on this subject with all the warmth and partiality of a father. "Before I left London," he observes, "the Duke of Newcastle repeated his promise to do for me; and the last time I saw him, he told me it must be something in my own way.[[a]] I have little expectation, especially at this time of life: but the great and solid satisfaction I enjoy is to think I have a son, who is a benefactor to the public, as well as his own private relations; and though you may not have met with what might have been expected from your countrymen, 't is no discredit to you, but a reflection on them never to be erased."
[a]. The law.
[108]. The transfer of the title-deeds of Styche is stated in his father's letter of the 22d of July, 1756.
[109]. 22d of December, 1756.
[110]. In a letter from his father, dated 22d of December, 1756, we find the following curious account of the sale of Clive's establishment:—
| "The coach | £40 0 0 |
| "Pair of horses | 40 0 0 |
| "A grey riding horse | 12 12 0 |
"One horse broke his neck; another fell backwards; and one pair kept to go in a chaise."
From this statement of property, we infer that Clive, while in England, must have lived very expensively.
[111]. This is independent of the sum he had paid for Styche.
[112]. This appears, from Clive's letter to his agent, Mr. King, of 6th of October, 1756.
[113]. 29th of April, 1755.
[114]. Lord Powis.
[115]. Sir Edward Clive, a near relation, who always acted as one of Clive's agents.
[116]. 27th of December, 1757.
[117]. 27th of December, 1756.
[118]. 2d of November, 1757.
[119]. Extract of Mr. R. Clive's letter to his son, 1st of January, 1758.
[120]. 6th of December, 1757.
[121]. Mr. King, who highly disapproved of this attempt, informs Clive that the motion was made by a Proprietor at the suggestion of his father, but withdrawn on seeing it was not relished by the Directors.
[122]. Letter to Mr. Belchier, 21st of August, 1757.
[123]. 9th of August, 1757.
[124]. In Clive's letter to his agents, of the 21st of August, 1757, he directs 2000l. to be paid to each of his five sisters, Rebecca, Sarah, Judith, Frances, and Anne: this amount to be given for their use for ever.
[125]. The Reverend Mr. Clive, his cousin.
[126]. This order is repeated as one some time before given in a letter to Sir Edward Clive, Bart., and his other agents, dated 9th of November, 1758.
[127]. 25th of December, 1757.
[128]. I have not been able to ascertain the exact amount Clive gave Captain Maskelyne, but judge it must have been considerable from a passage in one of his letters.
[129]. 29th of December, 1758.
[130]. 23d of March, 1758.
[131]. 23d of December, 1758.
[132]. 29th of July, 1759.
[133]. Miss Sarah Clive.
[134]. 26th of December, 1758.
[135]. Letter to Clive, 24th of December, 1759.
[136]. Lady Markham is still alive, and, although upwards of ninety, in the enjoyment of all her faculties.
[137]. 23d of February, 1757.
[138]. What these objections were, or the cause of their termination, is not explained; but Mr. Clive's letter proves that the first part of the history was written before 1755.
[139]. 14th of September, 1759.
[140]. 24th of August, 1759.
[141]. Captain Coote commanded the troops detached to take Hooghley, and he was, before the battle of Plassey, sent with the advance to attack Kutwa.
[142]. Though Clive held the King's commission as Lieutenant-Colonel, he was always considered as a Company's officer.
[143]. 5th of August, 1757.
[144]. 1st of August, 1757.
[145]. A corge is twenty pair.
[146]. This anecdote of his father was communicated by Lord Powis.
[147]. It is added that he was sent to school in a wig; but, as may be supposed, was soon quizzed out of it by his play-fellows.
[148]. 11th of March, 1758.
[149]. Clive sent sixteen thousand gold mohurs to his agents at Madras, Messrs. Orme and Vansittart, with directions to purchase diamonds as a remittance.
[150]. One of the bills on the Company was for 8000l., and the other for 32,881l. 12s. 2d. He advises his agents of these bills on the 9th of November and 23d of December, 1758.
[151]. Clive expected the bills on Holland to produce 183,000l., but, after a vexatious delay, they were paid with great deduction. His father states the loss upon this transaction as amounting to 10,000l.
[152]. I consider the statement of the Committee of the House of Commons, of Clive's receipts at Moorshedabad, to be exaggerated; but we shall have occasion to notice this statement hereafter, particularly the note annexed to it, in which it is asserted, in direct opposition to truth, that Clive's jaghire was obtained at the same period as the donation from Meer Jaffier. Mr. Mill copies the statement and note without remark. (Vol. iii. p. 326.)
[153]. The following sums appear to have been given or settled upon his relations and friends:—
| Present to his sisters | £10,000 |
| Present to Captain Maskelyne and others | 10,000 |
| Money vested to produce an annuity for his father, of | £500 |
| Ditto, his aunts | 150 |
| Ditto, Colonel Lawrence | 500 |
| To keep a coach for his parents | 300 |
| ——— | |
| Yearly amount of annuities | £1450 |
| Sum vested to produce the above | 30,000 |
| ——— | |
| Total | £50,000 |