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the three, theKeni and the T/'^er, could be brought into adlion; 

 they fuffered moft feverely. Among the numbers of wounded 

 ■were Captain Spel^e of the Ke?2t, and his fon, a moft amiable 

 youth, who were ftruck with the fame fliot. The fequcl to 

 me, a parent, is too affedting to relate ; the fon furvived the 

 fatal blow only a fortnight; a great example of filial affetftion, 

 fortitude, and refignation. Mr. Ives gives, at p. 132, the narra- 

 tive with all the proof of a fenfible and good heart. 

 Of Admiral Vice Admiral Watfon^ commander in chief of our naval force 



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in India, died at Calcutta^ in Augujl of the lame year, of a pu- 

 trid fever, lamented equally by the natives as tliQ Eng/i//j. His 

 charadler was moft exalted. " His integrity, humanity, gene- 

 " rolity, and diftntereftednefs were fuch, as to become prover- 

 " bial even among the Indians *." His abilities as a feaman 

 kept pace with his moral reputation. Th.Q.EaJi India Company 

 paid him the fame pofthumous honors as it did to their military 

 commanders. A magnificent cenotaph was ereiled to his me- 

 mory in Wejlminjier Abby. He appears there in a grove of 

 palm-trees, ftanding, by a fenfelefs chronology, in a Roman 

 habit, prefenting a branch to a proftrate figure, defigned as the 

 genius of Calcutta, which had been relieved from the tyranny 

 of Sujah ul Dozvlab by the joint efforts of the Admiral and Clive. 

 Let me not omit that Sir George Pococke, the Admiral's fecond in 

 this and other gallant ac'lions, had the compliment of a iiatue 

 (in his life-time) placed between Clive and Stringer in the 

 India Houfe. Thefe, with that of Sir Eyre Coote, form a quater- 

 nion unparalleled in the annals of Hindoojlan. 



• Ives's Voyage, p. 179. 



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