14, The Pitt Diamond and the Eyes of Jagannath (Puri). 
By Rev. H. Hosten, 8.J. 
On eens Colonel H. Yule’s account of the famous Pitt 
Diamond,' I was reminded of certain texts which escaped his 
researches and seem to dispose of some of the damaging stories 
related about Pitt. 
he Pitt Diamond, or the Regent, was sold by Governor 
Pitt in 1717 to the Regent Duke of Orleans for 2,000,000 livres , 
against 136 13 carats paneer to the French inventory of the 
royal jewels in 1792. Where Jaurchand, the jeweller, had 
obtained it, he rei not tell us 
Ss soon the di amond was placed on the market, 
reports were iinet that Pitt had obtained it in some 
from him the diamond, and then threw the slave into the sea. 
The murderer sold the diamond to Pitt for £1,000, spent the 
ones quickly in excesses of all kinds and eventually from a 
urderer became a suicide.’ 
Another story appeared i in the Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 
XLVI, 1776, page 64, J.C., the writer, stating that he had found 
it in the Journal des Scavans for July 1774, p. 553. From 
a letter of a French Missionary it appeared ‘‘ that one of the 
principal diamonds of the crown of France, and which was 
purchased of an Englishman, was one of the eyes of the god 

1 Cf. The cage’ sid W. Hedges, London, Hakluyt Society, 1886, Vol. 
i, PP. cxxv to cx 
Babi onncbias Chakravarti points out to me that Lord Rose- 
bery ‘ctiek ‘* £48,000 ’’ instead of pagodas in Chatham, His early life and 
euares “iat a page 4. 
3 Cf. The gon by W. we aes London, Hakluyt Society, 1886, 
Vol. Ui, sige story cof taken from Streeter’s Precious 
Stones and Gems beaded 1877, p. and was 5 hacnaded. Yule sug- 
gests, feern some work of the earlier heli of the XVIIIth century. 
