vernment of Bengal for its concurrence : Something preparatory
was to: be done. Such was the fpirit and zeal o f the General,
that he failed there in perfon at the moit tefnpeftuous time o f
the yeariif. He effected a meeting with Putty Sing, and obtained
from him a body of five thoufand horfe, and made every difpo-
tion for opening the campaign. But new plans were adopted
at Bengal, and the General had the mortification to find his
own totally fruftrated. In April 1782, he propofed to the feleit
committee o f Bombay a fecond plan of operations, o f great importance,
and calculated on moderate and limited principles :
this met the fame fate as the former.
S a i l s tor E u - The General continued at Bombay in a declining fiate of
health, worn out by the fatigues which he endured in his famous
march, and in his various campaigns, and àgitatéd perhaps
by thè mortification he felt at the failure of his plans. His
aitive and enterprizing fpirit made him eager to take the field
on every occafion, when the hardihip to which he expofed
himfelf contributed to deftroy a conftitution naturally delicate,
and put a premature period to his life. He failed for Europe
early in the year 1783. He arrived at Falmouth in a moft weak
fiate. The commanding officer at Pendennis Cajlle, happened
to be a fellow foldier o f his in the Carnatic campaigns, who
inftantly removed him into the caftle, and gave his friend every
DIES. relief in his power. All was in vain ; he expired in ten days
after his arrival, on July 7th, at the early age of thirty-nine,
and was interred in a vault at Eltham in Kent, made by his kinf-
* Much of this part is taken from a fenfible pamphlet, printed for Debrett; 1783, entitled,
“ A retrofpedtive View, &c. of India Airbus.1’
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woman Lady James (a Goddard), for the reception of her departed
relations. The General was of a refpeitable family in
Wilt/hire: he devoted himfelf to a military life at a very early
period; he went to India at the age of fixteen or ieventeen, C h a r a c t e r .,
and was employed on every important occafion that occurred,
firft on the coaft of Coromandel, under thofe great matters
Coote and Laihrence. He afterwards ferved in Bengal during
twenty years; and had, as has been mentioned, the honor to
bring the arduous march acrofs the peninfula to a glorious con-
clufion. Few men have quitted life fo high in character; he was
brave, generous and difinterefted, and equally as great in the
cabinet in planning his defigns, as he was aitive and fuccefsful
in the execution. In a letter to a friend, he exprefies the following
greatnefs o f mind, ‘ I have quitted the diamond mines
‘ without pofleffing myfelf of a trinket, and ihall ufe the fame
j conduit throughout the expedition, hopeful of preferving the
I honor o f the army, and my own reputation : and what I hold
‘ moft dear, the fame and charaiter.of the man * which is fo
‘ much conneited with the event of my operations! I
We now return to Calpy, and repafs the Jumnah. At Corah
Colonel Carnac, in 1765, gave the final overthrow to the Sujah
ul Dowlah. The remnant o f his army, difpirited by the defeat
at Buxar, fled ; and the Mahrattas, which compofed a part, dif-
perfed by our artillery, fecured tliemfelves beyond the river.
F r o m Calpy to Allahabad is a b o u t a h u n d r e d a n d f i f t y m ile s .
Moft of the courfe of the Jumna is fed by numbers of rivers
on both fides, particularly on the weftern, which are very ex-
* Mr. Haftings.
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