THE LIFE OF ROBERT, LORD CLIVE: COLLECTED FROM THE FAMILY PAPERS COMMUNICATED BY THE EARL OF POWIS. BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JOHN MALCOLM, G.C.B. F.R.S. &c. IN THREE VOLUMES. WITH A PORTRAIT AND MAP. VOL. III. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. CONTENTS MUTINOUS. Combinations among the Officers of the Army. - - Clive's Transactions in England. - Honours paid him.- - 173 against Lord Clive. His Answer in the House of Com- mons, 1772. Secrecy, 1772.-Resolutions moved by Burgoyne. — Agreement between the East India Company and the Right Honourable Lord Clive respecting the Fund established for Relief of the Honourable Company's Military; dated April 6. 1770: together with general Regulations for MEMOIRS OF LORD CLIVE. CHAPTER XV. DIFFICULT as was the situation in which Lord Clive was placed when he adopted those active measures to remedy the abuses in the civil administration of Bengal, which have been already described, a much more arduous task awaited him; that of carrying into execution the positive orders he had received from the Directors, to reduce the allowances of the officers of the army of that presidency. This excited a spirit of mutinous defection from their duty in that body, which it required all the energy and decision of Clive to subdue. The subject has importance in various ways, and in none more than as it is so singularly illustrative of his character. To make it clearly understood, it will be use |