MEMOIRS OF THE REVOLUTION IN _BENGAL_, ANNO. DOM. 1757. By which MEER JAFFEIR was raised to the Government of that Province, together with those of _Babar_ and _Orixa_. INCLUDING The Motives to this Enterprize; the Method in which it was accomplished; and the Benefits that have accrued from thence to that Country, our United Company trading to the _East Indies_, and to the _British_ Nation. [Illustration] _LONDON_: Printed for A. MILLAR, in the _Strand_. M.DCC.L.X. [Illustration] PREFACE. The Success that has every where attended the Efforts of the _British_ Arms, during the Course of this just and necessary War, will render this Period of our History resplendent, even to latest Ages. It seems, therefore, requisite to give the most accurate and distinct Accounts that can be obtained of these Successes in the remoter Parts of the Globe, that the Nature and Consequences of them may be the better understood here. The People of _Britain_ are as well entitled to know, and will with equal Pleasure read, what has been effected for their Service at _Bengal_, as at _Goree_; and accept as kindly the Laurels brought them from _Asia_, as those that come from _Afric_ or _America_. In this we follow only the Custom of other Nations. The _Portuguese_ and the _Dutch_ have not only general Histories of their Atchievements in the _Indies_, and separate Accounts of their respective Settlements, but numerous Memoirs of particular Expeditions, in which they have been exceeded by the _French_. We should therefore be wanting to ourselves, if, having performed as great Things as they, and having as authentic Vouchers, we should willfully suffer the Memory of them to be lost, and the Merits of our deserving Countrymen swallowed up in Oblivion. The following Pages will shew, how one of our finest Settlements in the _East Indies_ was suddenly sacked and subverted by the Impetuosity of a young Man, intoxicated with Sovereign Power; in what Manner it was recovered and restored; the Peril to which it was again exposed from the same Person; and the Means by which it was not only rescued from a Second Destruction, but the Causes of these Calamities removed; the _British_ Interest placed on a more solid Basis than ever; with additional Advantages that were never hoped; so that Stability may be truly said to have been extracted from intestine Troubles, and Public Miseries rendered the Source of Public Safety and Public Benefits.