[194]. Mr. Harry Clive.
[195]. Mr. Watts estimated Lord Pigot's fortune at 400,000l. It had chiefly been made (according to the same authority) by lending money at high interest to the Nabob, the chiefs, and managers of provinces. This practice was then too common to be considered as in any way discreditable; though it was soon afterwards discovered to be one of the most baneful and injurious to the public interests that the Company could tolerate in any of their servants, but above all, in those high in station.
[196]. 21st November, 1764.
[197]. Major Carnac, in 1760, came to St. Helena with Lord Clive, and from thence returned to Bengal.
[198]. June, 1764.
[199]. One of Lord Clive's letters to Mr. Vansittart is dated 17th December, 1762. The passage alluded to is as follows:—"I must again repeat my desire of having a large elephant embarked for his Majesty, if the thing be practicable, of which you must be a better judge than I, who are upon the spot; and if you can send me any curiosities, such as antelopes, hog-deer, nilgows or lynxes, I shall be much obliged to you."
[200]. One of the elephants was so large that it could not be embarked.
[201]. In this letter, which is dated January, 1764, Lord Clive observes; "I am sorry there should be any mistake about the elephant; and although I was somewhat affected at first at the commission you gave me to present the elephant to his Majesty in your name, instead of my own, yet the thing in itself appears to me to be of too trifling a nature for either of us to think any more about it. Your brother will inform you in what manner Sampson has acted, owing, I believe, to the instigation of Sulivan."
[202]. Mr. Walsh writes to Lord Clive, that Mr. Vansittart told him his fortune did not exceed 2,500l. per annum.
[203]. Afterwards Sir Archibald Campbell, Governor of Fort St. George.