Footnote 114: Lord Powis. Footnote 115: Sir Edward Clive, a near relation, who always acted as one of Clive's agents. Footnote 116: 27th of December, 1757. Footnote 117: 27th of December, 1756. Footnote 118: 2d of November, 1757. Footnote 119: Extract of Mr. R. Clive's letter to his son, 1st of January, 1758. Footnote 120: 6th of December, 1757. Footnote 121: Mr. King, who highly disapproved of this attempt, informs Clive that the motion was made by a Proprietor at the suggestion of his father, but withdrawn on seeing it was not relished by the Directors. Footnote 122: Letter to Mr. Belchier, 21st of August, 1757. Footnote 123: 9th of August, 1757. Footnote 124: In Clive's letter to his agents, of the 21st of August, 1757, he directs 2000_l._ to be paid to each of his five sisters, Rebecca, Sarah, Judith, Frances, and Anne: this amount to be given for their use for ever. Footnote 125: The Reverend Mr. Clive, his cousin. Footnote 126: This order is repeated as one some time before given in a letter to Sir Edward Clive, Bart., and his other agents, dated 9th of November, 1758. Footnote 127: 25th of December, 1757. Footnote 128: I have not been able to ascertain the exact amount Clive gave Captain Maskelyne, but judge it must have been considerable from a passage in one of his letters. Footnote 129: 29th of December, 1758. Footnote 130: 23d of March, 1758. Footnote 131: 23d of December, 1758. Footnote 132: 29th of July, 1759. Footnote 133: Miss Sarah Clive. Footnote 134: 26th of December, 1758. Footnote 135: Letter to Clive, 24th of December, 1759. Footnote 136: Lady Markham is still alive, and, although upwards of ninety, in the enjoyment of all her faculties. Footnote 137: 23d of February, 1757. Footnote 138: What these objections were, or the cause of their termination, is not explained; but Mr. Clive's letter proves that the first part of the history was written before 1755. Footnote 139: 14th of September, 1759. Footnote 140: 24th of August, 1759. Footnote 141: Captain Coote commanded the troops detached to take Hooghley, and he was, before the battle of Plassey, sent with the advance to attack Kutwa. Footnote 142: Though Clive held the King's commission as Lieutenant-Colonel, he was always considered as a Company's officer. Footnote 143: 5th of August, 1757. Footnote 144: 1st of August, 1757. Footnote 145: A corge is twenty pair. Footnote 146: This anecdote of his father was communicated by Lord Powis. Footnote 147: It is added that he was sent to school in a wig; but, as may be supposed, was soon quizzed out of it by his play-fellows. Footnote 148: 11th of March, 1758. Footnote 149: Clive sent sixteen thousand gold mohurs to his agents at Madras, Messrs. Orme and Vansittart, with directions to purchase diamonds as a remittance. Footnote 150: