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Memoirs of William Hickey (1790-1890)
1890
Summary
Roger Ingpen the editor and annotator of perhaps the best of the many editions of.BeswelPs.Jo/ iron for the useful advice which out of his long experience he wall able to give rue in the prepartion of the early volumes. [...] On theft 14th the leitzwilliam and William Pitt Indiamen both full of troops and military stores arrived in the Roads to the unspeakable joy of Lord Oornwallis who-18 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HICKEY then only wanted the QlteeM and the Prince William Henry to complete the stock of expected stores. [...] This villain who was related to the most respectable families upon the coast of Coromandel and possessed great personal influenceTREACHERY IN THE BRITISH CAMP 19 from his abilities and connections ; rho had too been brought up from early infancy among the English was the chief agent employed to procure the requisite supplies of provisions for the British Army in the field likewise to engage s [...] At that season of the year we expected to have bean from twenty to twenty-five clays upon the passage the wind usually blowing fresh from the north-east and northward instead of which upon my getting up on the morning of the 20th I found the ship running at the rate of six knots an hour with the yards square studdinsails being sot on both sides. [...] According to the usual routine it was together with the whole of the proceedings sent to Lord Cornwallis in his double capacity of Governor-General and Coimnander-iChief when his Lordship instead of confirming or diapproving the sentence referred the matter to the Court of22 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HICKEY Directors who the ensuing SOILS011 sent out an order dismising Lieutenant-Colonel Sh
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