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. III. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. MDCCCXXXVI. London: Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square. CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. CHAPTER XV. Mutinous Combinations among the Officers of the Army.--Repressed by Clive.--His general Conduct towards the Army, 1766 Page 1 CHAP. XVI. Proceedings regarding the Salt Trade.--Gold Coinage.--General Measures of Clive's Government.--He resigns in January, 1767 81 CHAP. XVII. Clive's Transactions in England.--Honours paid him.--Prolongation of Period of holding his Jaghire.--His ill Health.--Disorders in the Company's Affairs.--Share which the Government take in them.--Clive's Politics.--Death of Mr. Grenville.--Letter to Mr. Hastings.--1771 173 CHAP. XVIII. Increased Disorder of the Company's Affairs.--Charges against Lord Clive.--His Answer in the House of Commons, 1772.--Select Committee and Committee of Secrecy, 1772.--Resolutions moved by Burgoyne.--Debates.--Votes of the House, 1773.--Parliamentary Proceedings.--Clive's Death and Character 263 APPENDIX. Agreement between the East India Company and the Right Honourable Lord Clive respecting the Fund established for Relief of the Honourable Company's Military; dated April 6. 1770: together with general Regulations for transacting the Business of the said Fund, and Instructions for the Pensioners 397 MEMOIRS OF LORD CLIVE. CHAPTER XV. Difficult as was the situation in which Lord Clive was placed when he adopted those active measures to remedy the abuses in the civil administration of Bengal, which have been already described, a much more arduous task awaited him; that of carrying into execution the positive orders he had received from the Directors, to reduce the allowances of the officers of the army of that presidency. This excited a spirit of mutinous defection from their duty in that body, which it required all the energy and decision of Clive to subdue. The subject has importance in various ways, and in none more than as it is so singularly illustrative of his character. To make it clearly understood, it will be useful to give a concise account[1] of the whole transaction.