X PEEFACE.
own gai'deo witlioufc tlie attendance or offices of any priest whatever. In witness whereof I, the said
Robert Kjd, have to this my last -will and testament set my hand and seal, declaring this to bo
my last will and testament, and revokmg all former wills. Dated this eighteenth day of May in
the yeai- of onr Lord one thousand seyeu hundred and ninety-three.
Signed, sealed, published and declared by EGBERT KYD &
the above-named as his last will and testament
in the presence of us, who at his request,
in his presence, and in the presence of each
other, liaTB subscribed our names as witnesses
thereto in Calcutta, where no stamps are to be
had.
HKRB • HAKKIS.
A true copy carefully collated by me with
the original will which was delivered out of
Court b order of 2nd January 1794.
Wm. JACKSON,
Hegr. ¿f Not. Fub.
J. Fusmisg.
DAMEL TEMPLETOX.
I r is my desire that Mi-. Henry Wilsone keep up the establishment now employed of labourers
for keeping my garden in order, cousUting of a serang, four labom-ers, and a number of children,
and also the two Eui-opeans now in charge of the small vessel; that the two hoys Missah and George
be allowed to remain at the gardens until Major Kyd's aaTival, which may be expected in July. All
my loose papers in the several tin boxes had best be kept for Major Kyd's previous examination.
In addition to what is mentioned in my will respecting my being buriod in my own garden, that
my burial may be attended with no military ceremony, and that I trust my fiiend Captain Apsley
will pay due attention to this article, and see my last remains committed to the ground in my own
garden, on the west side of the pueka-walled tank near to where an alligator pear tree now stands,
and that my funeral expenses do not exceed three hundred rupees.
There are in the house at Sibpui' three boxes containing botanical drawings of the plants in
the envu-ons of this petty district; also a bos and several books containing an lonfinished collection of
the birds indigenous to this tract, as also of such as migrate here from the adjoining fi-ontiers during
the cold aud hot weather: also of the fish frequenting the Hooghly. These, having been collected
at the Company's expense, ore public property aud should be transmitted to the Court of. Directors,
although unarranged in botanical or artificial order which I had reserved for a future day.
EGBERT KTD.
A true copy carefully collated by me with the original
codicil which was delivered out of Coiu-t by order
of the said 2nd January 1794.
Wm. JACKSON,
Heffr. ^ Not. Pub.
Gardens, lUh 2Iay 1703.
I DC
of April
hereby certify that this is a true copy of the original in my custody, dated this 24th day
1893.
E. BELCHAMBERS,
Registrar of the Eigh Court of Judicature at
Fort W-ilUam in Bengal, Original Jurisdiction.
fro,:, CA™,. EOBB„X C.U.U.. i. C ™ « ..... MM
mh Fcbrmry 1773.
Too» son Saudy ai-meJ here t t e a w.eto ago and deUnrod mo yom lotto from Elio, datod
M. J last T h o t ^ w o h a « roo.ivod . 0 cort.in a«o.™t of y o „ do.lk, j . i h.a losa m.st bo
" o W . 1 as o e l m , seoing it is Bow tto,0 yo.xs sino, ho ..¡lod f,om this ri™ on a voyago to
ho ooa t Ôf Jnd he°has not yet hosn W of. So that tho army . . a tho only —
loft fo, yom- son, «id into that ho must ha™ ont.iod under groat drsadyantag»», whioh I mil no«
p o l t ont to yonl Erst, ho rn^t to. entered as a cadet; and there ar, n o , nror, than two
L d r . e d on that list, all of whom mnst hayo been eommissionod before hrm and tks eoajd no hay.
taken pl.oo m loss than two years, d.mng which time he would haye learned nothmg hero bnt what ho
already rossessos from hi. mdltary edneation at Do.ay, with the abnost inevr able nsk of »bjbmg
telL of th, yioes and prejudioes poediar to this olimato. This has detor-mrned m. to send h.nr homo
tho first ship Ovhioh sails in two or throe days)-, and the plan I bayo to lay down to km
and to vou is as follows. , . .
On Ms arrivai in England ho mnst proceed agam to Donay and qnaUy h.mself for an engineer
and artillery officer. And he assures me that, from his former aoquabtanco aud connections there he
will find no diffioulty of gaioiBg admittance into tho academy. Meaawhiie, you must lose no^ tmo
i„ using all your interest with G. Dempster and Sh J. Coekbuin, and with any other person m tho
direction, in ordé, to get him appointed an Ensign in the Corps of Engmeers, mf.ntry or artillery, on
tho Bengal establishment, and no other; and, failmg an en.igncy, ho mnst be appointed a cadet, m
which, I think, joa cannot fail. In this latter case, an Ensign's commission m tho K i n g . rn™,t likewise
bo honght: for, by the rules of this semoe, it will giyo him rank of all the e.dcts of he
season in which he comes out, aud will also entitle him to bo employed as an oiSccr upon his
a , ™ l . You must perceiyo that (e»I«siy. of the adyantages your sen wiU rcooivo &om en or tweta
months' study at Donay) he also will be further advanced in tho army in point of rank than if- ho
had remained here; and, in order that no time may be lost, I bayo lesolyod to aoeommodato him with
a sum of money, which ho himself thmks equivalent to the expenses that wUl be meurrcd durmg hn,
two yearV absence, which will in a great measure provide agamst the worst that cu. possibly happen,
namely of jour failing to procure bim either of tho aforesaid appointments from the India House.
1 have also mtroduced bin to semo of my friends here, who, in case of any accident happening to
myself, will receive and provide for him in a manner nerf to what he would have expeeted fi-om myself.
Eespecting your son's genius and parts, I am perfectly Batis6ed with them, and doubt not be will mal»
the desired ptoaoienoy in tho studies which I bayo ah-eady pointed out to bin.
This plan which I have laid down for your son may probably startle you upon first reading : and,
it upon duo consideration it should not appear to yon in the same light that it does to me, I am
confident that, upon yom' submitting it to any Indian lately returned from this part of the eontinent and
acquainted with the state of afiaiis, every part of what I now write to you will be confirmed. Nor
have I presumed on tho strength of my own judgment alone to decide in this matter, but I have the
nnanimons approbation of all the friends whom I baye consulted.
I have omitted mentioning your gettmg your son appointed to the civil branch on this establishment,
apprehending that this may be attended with too much difSenlty, if not espense ; but, if yon can
muster interest enough, by aU means do it ; but do not alter the plan of his education, for here it is
equally necessary to know bow to brandish the sword as to wield the pen.