6 S. C. Hill —Account of late Maharaja Nubkissen Bahadur. [No. 1, 
with the highest approbation of Government who were pleased to 
appoint him to the office of a Moonshee of the East India Company and 
granted him a Palankeen with Bearers for his conveyance and 200 
Rupees for Dress. 
After the above the Nowwab Seraj-ud-dowlah attacked Calcutta 
with a grand Army in June 1756, and the English having but a small 
force did not engage in hostilities, and the Governor and most other 
English gentlemen retired to Madras 1 on board of ships and the rest 
were imprisoned in the Black-hole, and all the inhabitants of Calcutta 
fled to different places. The Nowwab having taken Calcutta, named it 
Alinugur and dominated one Rajah Manickchunder Governor of Ali- 
nugur, and returned to Moorshidabad. Mr. Drake and the former 
members of Council having arrived at Madras brought Colonel Clive 
on board of one of Admiral Watson’s fleet who landed with his force 
at Fulta (otherwise Colpy) 2 within six months and took the Forts of 
Budge Budge, Tana Magooa, and Aligur 3 (which was built and so named 
by Manickchunder) and defeated the Nowwab’s Army and surprised 
Rajah Manickchunder who was then amusing himself at Nautches and 
caused him to flee to Moorshidabad and took possession of Calcutta, in 
January 1757, when Moonshee Nobocrishna waited upon Colonel Clive, 
and resumed his Office. 
Subsequently in 1757 Nowwab 4 Seraj-ud-dowlah attacked Calcutta 
again, and encamped in Amirchund’s garden called Hulsy Baug 
whereupon Colonel Clive deputed Moonshee Nobocrishna with an 
Engineer Officer under the pretence of making proposals of peace and 
sending presents to the Nowwab and his attendants. The above two 
Officers of English Government brought with them in writing a particu¬ 
lar account of their encampment and Colonel Clive marched his force 
up to the Nowwab’s Camp at the end of the night and blew up the 
Nowwab’s Tent and those of his Sirdars by the first fire from Cannon, the 
Nowwab however saved his life by having prudently removed to another 
Tent during the night and so escaped with the loss of the greatest part of 
his Troops and battle and Colonel Clive followed him to Plassey where 
he fought a dreadful battle with the Nowwab’s Commander-in-Chief 
1 The English retired only to Fulta where they were reinforced from Madras. 
2 Colpy or Kalpi, about 20 miles below Fulta. 
3 Tanna Muckwa in Rennell’s Map. Hunter’s Gazetteer says :—“ An old port on 
the Hughli River, opposite Fort Aligarh in Garden Reach, an old suburb in 
Calcutta.” It is said that the old Fort of Tanna was on the site of the house occu¬ 
pied by the Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens. 
4 Better known as Omichand, the great banker, who threatened to betray 
Clive and the English to Seraj-ud-dowlah and was himself outwitted. 
