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ROBERT LORD CLIVE.
London. Published by John Murray. 1836.
THE
LIFE
OF
ROBERT, LORD CLIVE:
COLLECTED FROM THE FAMILY PAPERS
COMMUNICATED BY
THE EARL OF POWIS.
BY
MAJOR-GENERAL
SIR JOHN MALCOLM, G.C.B. F.R.S. &c.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
WITH A PORTRAIT AND MAP.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
MDCCCXXXVI.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF POWIS,
&c. &c. &c.
My Lord,
This Life of your illustrious Father is dedicated
to your Lordship, in the conviction
that, had the Author been spared to complete
this, his last and favourite work, he
would have thus endeavoured to testify
his gratitude for your unvaried kindness,
and his affectionate esteem for your public
and private character.I remain,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's faithful Servant,
Charlotte Malcolm.Warfield, April, 1836.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The present work was commenced in consequenceof the possession of a body of unpublisheddocuments, which, having been preserved amongthe family records at Walcot, were thrown opento the author by the friendship of the Earl ofPowis. These consisted chiefly of the wholecorrespondence of Lord Clive, containing theoriginals of nearly every letter which he had receivedfrom the time when he first filled a publicsituation in India, down to the period at whichhe finally quitted that country; with copies ofanswers to many of the most important of them.They contained also several memoirs regardingthe chief enterprises in which he was engaged,and minutes of council on the leading measuresof his government.
From these sources, aided by the Reports ofthe different Parliamentary Committees, andother authentic materials, published and unpublished,Sir John had completed the introduction,and the first thirteen chapters, beforehe left India, in 1830. The fourteenth andfifteenth he finished after his return, and wasengaged with the sixteenth, when death put aclose to his labours.
The author was accustomed to bestow hisfinal revision upon