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being sick, and prevented from marrying a Rajpoot princess, was cured by Mr. 

 Hamilton, and the Surgeon, with the same disinterested zeal, as shown by Dr. 

 Boughton on a former occasion, used his influence only to procure the object of the 

 Embassy, and obtain more favorable terms for the United Company. — Stewart's 

 Hist, of Bengal. 



The French Company, though their affairs were desperate, obtained a renewal for 

 ten years. --Rai/nal. East India Ckron. 



17 16. — The marriage of the Mogul Emperor intervening, the Embassy could not 

 deliver their petition until January of this year. — Mill. 



The Governor of the French settlement of Pondicherry announced to the British, 

 at Fort St. David, that there were off the Malabar Coast, two 40-gun vessels, under 

 imperial colours, from Ostend. The Ostend Company were not regularly chartered 

 till some years afterwards. — Grant. 



1717. — The objects of the Embassy of 1715 attained in July. Thirty-four favora- 

 ble grants or patents were issued by the Mogul, and the English allowed to purchase 

 37 towns contiguous to Calcutta, The privileges now granted were long considered 

 as constituting the great charter of the English in India. — Rennell's Memoirs. 

 Grant. 



17)8. — The Ex-Sultan Guelemot, of Anaksoongay, in Sumatra, raising a force, 

 destroyed the town of Ippoe, with the British Resident and all his people. — Grant. 



1719. — A native force obliged the English to evacuate Fort Marlborough, and 

 take refuge on their ships. — Grant. 



Feroksere deposed and murdered : four successors appeared and passed away in 

 as many months. — Or me. 



1720. — The French took possession of the island, called by the Dutch, Mauritius, 

 who (iossessed it for a short time ; but abandoned it for the Cape of Good Hope. 

 The French peopled it from the Isle of Bourbon, and named it the Isle of France. — 

 Raynal. East India Chron. 



Jos. C.)llet, Esq., Governor of Madras, succeeded by Francis Hastings, Esq. — 

 Eust India Chron.\ 



1721. — The natives of the Island of Sumatra, fearing the Dutch more than the 

 English, whom they had expelled, allowed the latter, in the hope of their counter- 

 acting the intriguing activity of the Dutch, to resume their Sumatran establish- 

 ments. The English now remained at peace for many years, increasing in prosperity 

 and in influence over the natives. — Grant. 



Francis Hastings, Esq., Governor at Madras, succeeded by Nat. El wick, Esq. — 

 East India Chron. 



1722. — The Emperor granted this year a regular Charter to the " Ostend East 

 India Company," to the great discontent of all the European maritime powers, 

 except Spain*. — Salmon and others. East India Chron. 



1723. — The Ostend Company had fully established themselves, under the Nawaub's 

 patronage, at Bhany Bazar, 15 miles above Calcutta, at the eastern side of the 

 river. — Stewart. East India Chronologist. 



1724. — Shuja Addeen Khan, afterwards Nawaub of Bengal, though of liberal 

 disposition, about this period, was incensed against the English, in consequence of 

 their public servants taking advantage of the late grants of the Emperor, and insist- 

 ing upon passing their own private trade free of duty. The Foujdar of Hooghly, 

 stopped a boat laden with silks, upon which a party of soldiers was dispatched 

 from Calcutta, and forcibly released the boat. The English were finally obliged to 

 pay a heavy fine, and apologise for this act. — Mill. Sketches of Bengal. 



1725. — Nathaniel Elwick, Esq., Governor of Madras, is succeeded by James 

 Macrae, Esq.— East India Chron. 



During the quinquennial period, from the year 1720 to 1725, the English had ex- 

 ported to Iudia, £578,155 of goods, and 2,770,238 of bullion.— Grant. 



J726. — By letters patent, dated August, George I., complied with the petition of 

 the United East India Company, and established, at the three Presidencies of 

 Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta, regular Courts of Record, for the discharge of both 

 Civil and Criminal Justice. The Courts to consist of a Mayor and nine Aldermen, 

 of whom seven were to be natural born subjects. The Mayor to be elected by the 

 Aldermen, and to continue in power for one year. Appeals allowed to the Governor 

 in Council. The Governors and Senior Members created justices of the Peace, and 

 empowered to hold quarter sessions. — Grant. 



So flourishing were the affairs of the Ostend Company, in spite of the opposition 

 and edicts of the rival nations, that this year, one-third of the original subscription 

 of the proprietors, which remained due, was paid up from the gains alone of the 

 trade.— Mill. 



The East India House erected in Leadenhall-street, London.— E. I. Chron. 



* Mill states, that the Charter was granted in August, 1723. 

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