[Footnote 130: These statues were executed by Scheemaker, and placed, Pocock's in the centre, over the Chairman's seat, Clive's on the right hand, in an advanced and speaking attitude, and Lawrence's on the left. The statues are larger than life, and in the Roman costume.] [Footnote 131: Clive's letter to Orme, 29th September, 1765.] [Footnote 132: 1764.] [Footnote 133: 9th December, 1765.] [Footnote 134: Letter to Lord Clive, 17th May, 1766.] [Footnote 135: 26th September, 1766.] [Footnote 136: 6th May, 1767.] [Footnote 137: The preceding narrative is chiefly extracted from notes of Sir Henry Strachey on the subject.] [Footnote 138: 30th July, 1766.] [Footnote 139: Letter, 22d November, 1766.] [Footnote 140: Also a member of the Administration.] [Footnote 141: 25th November, 1766.] [Footnote 142: 4th March, 1767.] [Footnote 143: Letter to Lord Clive, 4th March, 1767.] [Footnote 144: 30th December, 1766.] [Footnote 145: 12th June.] [Footnote 146: 29th June, 1767.] [Footnote 147: 6th May.] [Footnote 148: 18th March, 1767.] [Footnote 149: 25th March, 1767.] [Footnote 150: 23d September, 1767.] [Footnote 151: Letter, 2d October.] [Footnote 152: Letter, dated Thursday, apparently 1st October.] [Footnote 153: Letter, dated Walcot, 6th October, 1767.] [Footnote 154: Letter to Harry Verelst, Esq., dated Bath, 7th November, 1767.] [Footnote 155: Paris, 9th February, 1768.] [Footnote 156: Letter to Mr. Beecher, dated Montpelier, 3d March, 1768.] [Footnote 157: Letter, dated Wotton, 28th May, 1769.] [Footnote 158: Defect in the MS.] [Footnote 159: Letter, dated 10th February, 1769.] [Footnote 160: 10th February, 1769.] [Footnote 161: 5th March, 1769.] [Footnote 162: 22d December, 1769.] [Footnote 163: 8th April, 1771.] [Footnote 164: 5th March, 1769.] [Footnote 165: This letter fills forty-eight pages, and is a very curious and valuable document in Indian history.] [Footnote 166: 12th November, 1768.] [Footnote 167: Clive, in many of his letters, warns those who were placed in offices of trust against that easy good-nature which can find its proper place only in private life. Writing to Sir Robert Barker, one of the friends whom he most valued (8th October, 1766), in answer to a letter which contained some remonstrances on certain opinions which he was said to have expressed, he remarks, "The part I have acted towards you ought to have precluded every suspicion injurious to the sufficiency of your abilities, or to the integrity of your conduct, and shown that my doubts (if they can be so called) of your not at all times acting up to your character and station, could only proceed from the knowledge I have of your great good-nature and mildness of disposition,--qualities which though amiable in private life, have ever some ascendency over the dictates of reason, and will sometimes, in public life, enervate even the principle and spring of action."] CHAP. XVIII.