One of the bills on the Company was for 8000_l._, and the other for 32,881_l._ 12_s._ 2_d._ He advises his agents of these bills on the 9th of November and 23d of December, 1758. Footnote 151: Clive expected the bills on Holland to produce 183,000_l._, but, after a vexatious delay, they were paid with great deduction. His father states the loss upon this transaction as amounting to 10,000_l._ Footnote 152: I consider the statement of the Committee of the House of Commons, of Clive's receipts at Moorshedabad, to be exaggerated; but we shall have occasion to notice this statement hereafter, particularly the note annexed to it, in which it is asserted, in direct opposition to truth, that Clive's jaghire was obtained at the same period as the donation from Meer Jaffier. Mr. Mill copies the statement and note without remark. (Vol. iii. p. 326.) Footnote 153: The following sums appear to have been given or settled upon his relations and friends:— Present to his sisters £10,000 Present to Captain Maskelyne and others 10,000 Money vested to produce an annuity for his father, of £500 Ditto, his aunts 150 Ditto, Colonel Lawrence 500 To keep a coach for his parents 300 ——— Yearly amount of annuities £1450 Sum vested to produce the above 30,000 ——— Total £50,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAP. XII. Clive remained in his native country between three and four years; and it will be proper briefly to narrate the events of his private life during this period, to notice the part he took in the political transactions of the times, and the connections he formed with persons of power and influence, whether in the direction of Indian affairs, or of the more general interests of the British empire. The knowledge of such facts, connected as they became with his future career, is quite essential to our subject. The constitution of Clive had never been robust. He had been, for the last two years in Bengal, freer than usual from the attacks of a spasmodic complaint, to which he appears to have been more or less subject from his earliest years. In 1759 he had a very violent attack of rheumatism, and feared, at one time, that it might settle into gout; but this apprehension vanished; and when he embarked at Calcutta he describes himself as in excellent health.