"رحلة من إنجلترا إلى الهند في سنة ١٧٥٤ وسرد تاريخي لعمليات الأسطول والجيش في الهند، تحت قيادة الفريق واتسون والعقيد كلايف، في السنوات ١٧٥٥، ١٧٥٦، ١٧٥٧ ... ورحلة أيضًا من بلاد فارس إلى إنجلترا من طريق غير معتاد. مع ملحق يحتوي على تقرير عن الأمراض المتفشية في سرب الفريق واتسون، إلخ" [‎١‎٦‎٦] (٥٦٢/٢٠٣)

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ir ri. pencd, and Ihould he be fo fortunate as to find out the guilty perfbns, ht
^y~' would certainly fend them to the major to be punifhed. On the 27th
Major Coote wrote to Colonel Clive, informing him of the feveral occur
rences, and of the Nabob's declining to lee him. After he had finifhed his let
ter, he vilited Mahmud Ami Khan (who, with many other men of diftinguifhed
rank, though not in the command of a province, was commonly honoured
with the title of Nabob) and Meer Cajjim •, the one the brother-in-law, and
the other the brother of Jaffier Ali Khan: At night, both thefe gentlemen,
attended by fome of the chief Jamedars, returned the major's vifit, and
had a conference with him in private. The fubftance of what Mahmud
Ami Khan laid, touching the dependance the major ought to place on the
friendfliip of Ramnarain, was to the following purport; " that Ramnarairi%
views were to make hitnfelf independant of the Souhahdar Meer Jaffier, and
that he had the night before been advifed in council to fall upon the
major unawares, and cut off him and his whole party." On the 28th the
major wrote to Colonel Clive, acquainting him with what he had learned
from Nabob Mahmud Ami Khan \ and again requefted his diregions, whe
ther he fhould follow Mr. Law into Sujah Dowlah's country. He took
this opportunity alio of writing a complimentary letter to Nabob Jaffier Ali
Khan, on account of the affiftance which, by his Pcrwannahs, he intended
to render him, though in reality they proved but of little fervice towards
facilitating his expedition. Major Coote alfo now wrote a letter to the Nabob
of Oude, Sujah Bowlah, requefting him not to allow the French to enter
his dominions, but if they were already there, to feize and deliver them up
into his hands, or at leaft to permit him to advance into his territories
after them •, and concluded with telling him, that he Ihould exped an an-
fwer at his arrival on the borders.
The major finding, that his remonftrances to the foldiers on the 24th had
very little weight, and that a tendency to mutiny ftill remained, now thought
it neceffary to order a court martial, for the trial of the ring-leaders; ^o of
whom were fentenced to punifhment, which they received that afternoon;
by this timely feverity a total flop was put to any fuch diforders for the
future among the European troops. But on the 29th feveral of the major's
Dandies, Bazar , and black fervants delerted; and the Sepoys when they
were paraded to march off, grounded their arms to a man, and refufed to
go any farther. They complained bitterly of the great fatigues they had
already gone through, the immenfe diftance they were now removed from
their families, the promifes that had been made them at Madrafs, that they
mould go no farther than Calcutta, which afterwards were changed to
Chandevnagore, then to Muxadabad, and that now they faw no period to
their marching : They complained alfo that they had not received their
J1 pay- ^ ma jor, having inefFedtually endeavoured by fair words and
promiles to prevail on them again to take up their arms, pointed out to
t em the ill confequences which muft necefiarily arife to themfelves from
P r eient procedure : As, that they were then furrounded by the Rajah's
7 troops,