1 64 Chronological Table. 



A mutiny took place at St. Helena, consequent to the temporary relaxation of 

 martial law as directed from home. The insurgents killed the Governor, and dis- 

 armed and imprisoned the soldiers of the garrison. Captain Keeling sent out with 

 a force to reduce the island to obedience. — Bruce. 



A new charter granted on the 7th October (5th William and Mary) renewing that 

 of Elizabeth, with some modified and some extended privileges. — Bruce. 



1694. — Bengal, after Mr. Charnock's death, again made subordinate to Madras. 

 Sir J. Goldesborough, on his tour of inspection as Commissary General, dissented 

 from the high eulogium elsewhere passed on the late Mr. Charnock. He describes 

 him as having been irresolute and indolent. He superseded his successor Mr. Ellis, 

 and appointed the chief at Dacca, Mr. Eyre, to be agent. He also removed Captain 

 Hill, the military commandant, and sent him to Madras. In the midst of several 

 spirited reforms, Sir J. Goldesborough died, and was succeeded by Sir J. Gayer, 

 from Bombay. — Bruce. 



During this year a Dr. Blackwall, a medical officer, for a bribe agreed to deliver 

 up Fort St. David to the Mogul General. This treason was fortunately discovered, 

 and Blackwall seized and punished. — Hamsfeer. 



A letter from the Court stated that " every recruit sent from England cost £30." 

 A fortified settlement was made from Bombay at Anjengo. — Bruce. 

 1695. — The Pari ament of Scotland, on the 26th June, empowered the King (as 

 King of Scotland) to constitute a Scottish Company. The Governor of the London 

 Company, (Chairman) Sir T. Cook committed by the commons to the Tower, for re- 

 fusing to give an account of the money distributed in bribes. — Bruce. 

 The homeward bound fleet captured by the French. — Ditto. 



A large privateer having seized a Mogul ship, the Surat factory was seized upon, 

 and liberated only after much difficulty on the following year. — Ditto. 



1696. — Much distress occasioned by the interlopers : the crews of two Indiamen, 

 stated to have been seduced by them ; they rose and murdered their officers, and 

 turned pirates — such the extent of the contagion, that the Governor at Bombay could 

 not man a boat, for fear that the crew would desert ; and so low the state of the 

 garrison, there was not a trust- worthy soldier for promotion to the rank of sergeant 

 or corporal. — Bruce. 



The trade at Madras also similarly crippled, but its revenues and taxes said to 

 have amounted to 40 : 000 Pagodahs. — Bruce. 



ig97._ Mr. Pitt appointed Governor at Madras ; to be for 12 months independent 

 of the Commissary General, Sir J. Gayer. — Bruce. 



A rebellion of a Rajah Subah Sing having broken out in Bengal, it gave an opening 

 to the French, Dutch, and English factories to erect fortifications. But for this, so 

 jealous were the authorities, it would not have been permitted. — Stewart. 

 A new and favorable firmaun obtained from the Emperor of Persia. — Bruce. 

 jg93. — An act passed 10th William, cap. 44, incorporating anew " general society 

 trading to the East Indies." It was called the English East India Company, in 

 contra distinction to the old or London Company. 



On the passing of this act for another Company, the old corporation exerted 

 itself, " with a true Roman courage," as one of their mercantile letters states, in 

 advising their servants of an extensive equipment. They dismissed the President of 

 Surat, Mr. Annesley, (Mr. Colt to succeed ;) and permitted their establishments, 

 as an encouragement, to trade in jewels. At Madras all former factories or stations 

 were to be resumed, so as to exclude the new Company. Bengal was again made 

 independent of Fort St. George. 



Captain Kyd, the notorious pirate, formed his ships into squadrons, and fairly 

 blockaded the coasts : in consequence, the Mogul, who would not understand the 

 distinction between this outlaw and the other English, put the whole trade under 

 an embargo. 



The new English Company sent Agents to India, chiefly men who had been dis- 

 missed with disgrace, from the London Company. Sir William Norris was appointed 

 by the King's Commission, an Ambassador to the Mogul, to solicit privileges for 

 the new association. — Bruce. 



1699, Sir Edward Littleton was appointed President and Consul, in Bengal, of 



the new Company; he was also empowered to act as King's Consul. He was order- 

 ed to report on all the plans and trade of the London Company, to obtain from the 

 dismissed servants all possible information, copies of firmauns, &c. Sir Nicholas 

 Waite was appointed their President, at Surat. The new Company, however, at 

 this early stage, made approaches for an union between the rivals. — Bruce. 



The Mogul Prince Azeem Ooshan granted in 1698-99, the adjacent small villages 

 of Chutanuttee, Govindpore, and Calicotta, (dedicated to the goddess Calee,) the 

 whole soon taking the name of the last, or Calcutta. Sir Charles Eyre, recently 

 knighted, an old servant, was again sent to India, tobe principal servant in Bengal, 

 which they now constituted a presidency. The instructions to Sir C. Eyre, dated 



