[2] Annual Register, 1779.
[3] The 23rd Light Dragoons.
[4] The commissions of Sir Hector Munro, General Stuart, and Sir John Burgoyne were afterwards antedated to 9th May 1777, to ensure the succession of one of them to the command of the troops in India next to Sir Eyre Coote.
[5] 101st and 102nd.
[6] Madras Govt. Dispatch to Court of Directors 31st Oct. 1782.
[7] This was the reason given by the Madras Council. According to another account, the rice was not landed, because the Governor, Lord Macartney, had laid an embargo on it, and would neither give an adequate price for it, nor suffer it to be landed for sale to the people.
[8] Annual Register.
[9] Portuguese half castes and native Christians.
[10] “We conceive that there is a slight transition from refusal to employ the King’s troops upon a requisition by the Civil Government, to the employing them without a requisition, and we submit to you to what uses such an authority might be applied, and where the consequences might end.”—Letter to Court of Directors, December 1782.
[11] 13th August 1783.