Report From the Select Committee Appointed by the House of Commons
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Excerpt from Report From the Select Committee Appointed by the House of Commons: Assembled at Westminster in the Session of the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain, to Enquire Into the Nature, State and Condition, of the East India Company, and of the British, Affairs in the East Indies Your Committee proceeded to enquire into the nature and extent of the privileges and powers claimed in Bengal by the Company, under Grants and Firmaunds from the Princes of the country; copies of which, for the information of the House, are annexed in the Appendix, N 2. Your Committee not finding traces of any very material disturbances in the enjoyment of those privileges and powers in Bengal, from the first establishment of the Company, to the death of Alli Ver di Cawn, in the year 1756, applied themselves to discover the causes of the troubles which ensued soon after that event, and brought on the loss of Calcutta; and for this purpose, your Committee read the consultations and correspondence marked in the Appendix, N 3. To the same purpose your Committee called Charles Manningham, Esquire. Your Committee think proper, in this place, to state to the House, that they have not been able for want of time to extract from their minutes the state of fact to succinctly as they would otherwise have done; and therefore they are under the necessity of laying before the House, in this and every other part of their proceedings, the evidence almost in the manner they received it. Charles Manningham, Esquire, informed your Committee, That in the year 1756, he was Third in Council, and Warehouse Keeper at Calcutta, and next to Mr. Drake upon the spot; that he thinks it is not in the power of any man to assign the reason for the origin of the troubles, and knows of no part of the conduct of the Company´s servants at Calcutta, that could incense the government; that the troubles commenced in June 1756. - Alli Ver di Cawn, the Predecessor of Serajah Dowla, died about the April preceding; that Serajah Dowla had always the character of a rash vicious young man; and it was supposed the first occasion of his coming against Calcutta was, that he was tempted by the idea of the place being likely to afford great plunder; that the first accounts the Factory had of his ill intentions towards them, was the beginning of June 1756. Being questioned as to what he knew of offence taken by the Nabob, in regard to protection given by the English to one Kissindass; he said, that Mr. Drake was governor of the settlement, and Mr. Watts was chief of Cossimbuzar, and believes, that Kissindass was at that time in the Dacca part of the country; that Mr. Watts wrote to Mr. Drake, to suffer Kissindass to land at Calcutta, in his way to Muxadavad, by way of refreshment, as his family had been useful to the English; that as Mr. Drake was absent at the time Mr. Watts´s letter arrived, the letter was sent under cover to the witness to be opened, and he is not quite sure whether that period was before or after the death of Alli Ver di Cawn; that Kissindass landed at Calcutta accordingly; that he never saw him, and that when Mr. Drake arrived a few days after, he delivered him the letter. The witness said, He was upon the spot when Serajah Dowla came down, and believes Kissindass was not then in the town; he does not recollect, that Serajah Dowla made any demand for the delivering up of Kissindass, but that if he did it would appear upon the public proceedings. Being further questioned, he repeated, That it was impossible to give any rational account of the origin of the troubles; and said, that he was at Muxadavad, at the time Lord Clive was there in July of the same year; that enquiry was then made with all possible attention, but without success, into the motives of Serajah Dowla´s conduct from his principal officers, a
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