[25] Ibid. pp. 70, 71.
[26] Biographia Britannica (2d edit.), art. Clive, written by Henry Beaufoy, Esq. M. P., from family papers and information: see also, Chalmers' Biographical Dictionary.
[27] Biographia Britannica (2d edit.), art. Clive.
[28] Mr. Mill in his History of India (vol. iii. p. 105.), in reference to these early occurrences of Clive's life, describes him, at this period, as of a turbulent disposition; but the justice of the application of such an epithet is not borne out by the facts.
[29] Colonel Lawrence's Narrative.
[30] Orme, War in Hindustan.
[31] This inattention to orders is referred by some native agents of the company to the parsimony of the English governor, in not making presents to the nabob, which was contrasted with the liberality of Dupleix, who well knew how to gain his objects at such courts.
[32] Colonel Wilks.
[33] Ghazee-u-Deen.
[34] Two lacs of rupees were given to the French, and eighty-one villages were ceded belonging to Karical, which place the French had seized in 1736, and built a fort there.