To examine the various plans which he furnished, both in India and Europe, for the improvement of the Company's affairs and establishments, as well as for the conduct of their external relations, though to one who traced the progress of Indian policy it might be no unimportant employment, would occupy more time than could be afforded in a Memoir like this. The materials are sufficiently ample. Lord Clive, even when on the worst terms with the managing servants of the Company, uniformly felt a strong attachment and warm gratitude to the body itself, to which his early feelings had bound him; and he was always ready to pour out his knowledge for its benefit. It was a subject in which he was at home, and he felt a laudable pleasure in the hopes of benefiting his early patrons, and the nations he had conquered and ruled, by the matured fruits of his observation and experience.
FOOTNOTES:
[168] Dated 9th May, 1771.
[169] This was on the illumination in consequence of the release from the Tower of the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver, who had been committed to custody for imprisoning a Serjeant-at-arms of the House of Commons.
[170] Then Secretary of State.
[171] 12th May.
[172] This was when a rupture was expected between the Courts of St. James's and Versailles.
[173] Dated 7th January, 1772.
[174] 21st January, 1772.
[175] Almon's Debates, for 1772, p. 360.; Annual Register, 1772.