“Here, my men, here’s a comrade wounded and unable to walk. Will you leave him to be butchered by the Indians?”
They stopped, and cast hesitating looks at the old boatswain, where he lay groaning1.
“There’s a-many of ’em about,” observed one man. “We can’t save them all, sir.”
“But this is an old friend of mine, who has saved my life before now,” I pleaded. And seeing them undecided, I went on, “What do you say; I will give you a hundred rupees—two hundred—apiece if you carry him safe into Calcutta?”
They brisked up when they heard this offer. A small tree with dark green leaves stood close by, from which they tore some branches, and quickly made out a rude litter. On to this they lifted my poor [Pg 245]old friend, and so carried him off, renewing his groans2 at every step.
I marched alongside till we caught up with the rear of the column. Luckily we were not molested3, for which I blessed the fog, though it was now showing signs of lifting away. Our progress was here extremely slow, the ground being broken up into a number of small rice-fields, separated by mud walls or mounds4 of earth, over which the field-pieces had to be lifted with infinite trouble, and in fact two of them were abandoned altogether, the sailors being too exhausted5 to draw them further. During this time I forbore to rejoin Colonel Clive, but used my freedom as a volunteer to remain with the sailors bearing old Muzzy, where I found my presence and encouragement very necessary to induce them to persevere6 in their task. As it was I was obliged to raise my offer to three hundred rupees before we had got to the high road.
The fog gradually clearing, we beheld7 parties of the enemy’s horse from time to time, threatening us, but they were easily dispersed8 by a few discharges of musketry, and gave us far less annoyance9 than the impediments of the ground. At the end of another hour of this toilsome work we at length arrived at the road, where we found a considerable body of horse and foot posted in front of the bridge across the Morattoe ditch into the Company’s territories, to prevent our passing.
At the same time the fog finally broke, and disclosed [Pg 246]another numerous squadron coming down against our rear. The sailors at once faced about to defend the artillery10, and I took my place among them, bidding the men with the litter press on towards the centre of the column. The Moors11 rode up with great determination, notwithstanding our fire, and one of them got near enough to me to aim a cut at my helmet, which I only avoided by bending my head to one side. At the same time I thrust my bayonet into his groin, and had the satisfaction of seeing him reel and fall from his horse as it turned and galloped13 off.
This charge being repulsed14, we turned about again and rejoined our comrades, who had quickly dislodged the force opposed to them in front. The whole column then crossed the ditch, in broad daylight, and marched without further mishap15 into the town, where we arrived about midday, having been on the march for more than six hours, through the midst of a great army.
Such was this extraordinary exploit, to which, as I am assured, a parallel is scarcely to be found in the history of any age or nation. Nevertheless, at the moment its effect was to cast a gloom over the spirits of the troops. The officers, who could never forgive Colonel Clive for not having been, like themselves, regularly bred to the military profession, grumbled17 at and criticised his action, which they described as that of a mere18 braggadocio19, who knew nothing of war. The fact was that the rules of war [Pg 247]contained no prescription20 for the conquest of an army of forty thousand men by one of barely two thousand; and though the hero who led us was ever ready to attempt impossibilities, he could not always perform them.
As soon as I had seen old Muzzy safely bestowed21 in the hospital, where the surgeons declared that it would be necessary to amputate his leg, I hastened to report myself to my commander. He received me with kindness and no little surprise, having fully22 believed that I was killed. Indeed he told me that a soldier of Adlercron’s regiment23 had assured him he had seen me fall. However, he fully approved of what I had done in rescuing my old comrade, only regretting it had not been in his power to save the rest of the wounded.
I found him much dispirited with the result of the morning’s work.
“I have done nothing, Ford,” he declared, “nothing. I have marched into the Nabob’s camp, and marched out again, like the King of France in the nursery rhyme. And here are these gentlemen of the committee clamouring for peace, that they may get their revenues back again, and their dustucks, and I know not what else, with the Nabob and his army at their gates. You see what it is to be a commander—would to God I were back in England, enjoying my rest!”
The next day put a different complexion24 on our affairs. Secret messages arrived from Omichund [Pg 248]to say that the Nabob had been terrified out of his wits, that he no longer considered himself safe even in the midst of his troops, and that we might depend on a peace being speedily concluded. Shortly afterwards a letter arrived, written by Surajah Dowlah’s instructions to Colonel Clive, in which he referred to the treaty on foot between them, and complained bitterly of the attack upon his camp.
“Now, Ford,” said the Colonel to me, when he had shown me this letter, “I feel a different man to what I did yesterday. Sit down and write my answer to this insolent25 Moor12.”
I took the pen, and he dictated26 the following letter, of which I have the draft still in my possession:—
“To his Highness Surajah Dowlah, Nabob of Bengal,
Bahar, and Orissa.
“Sir,—I have received your letter, and am unable to understand what it is that you complain of. I merely marched with a few of my troops through your camp to show you of what Englishmen are capable, but I had no hostile intentions, and was careful to refrain from hurting any of your soldiers, except such as imprudently opposed me. I have been, and still am, perfectly27 willing to make peace with you upon proper conditions.—I have the honour to remain your Highness’s obedient servant,
“Robert Clive.”
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This bitter jest completed the effect produced by the previous day’s work. That very evening we heard that the Nabob had broken up his quarters, and withdrawn28 to a distance of several miles from the Company’s territories; and a few days later he signed a treaty granting full restitution30 to the Company of all that they had lost by the sack of Calcutta. This was just six weeks from the time we had started from Fulta.
During the period that followed I spent much of my time in the hospital, sitting by old Muzzy’s bedside. He had borne the removal of his leg with great courage, but now that he began to mend I found him much depressed31 in his spirits.
“My day is over, boy,” he would say, “I shall never sail salt water more. Old Muzzy is a dismasted hulk, only fit to be hauled up on the mud, and broken up for tinder. Drown me if I don’t a’most wish the dogs had put a ball through my hull32 while they were about it, so that I could ha’ gone down in deep water, with colours flying and all hands on deck, and heard the broadsides roaring over me to the last! That’s the death for a British tar16, my fine fellow, in action gallantly33, and not to lie on the mud and rot away by inches like I’m fair to do.”
I tried to cheer him up as best I could, though indeed I felt sorry enough myself to see that strong man laid helpless as a child. I thought it my duty to try and rouse him to some interest in [Pg 250]better things, and brought a Bible to read to him.
In this I succeeded after a fashion. He listened very readily to the history of the Israelites, and expressed a huge admiration35 for Joshua and some of the Judges. But when I tried to pass on to the New Testament36 I must confess I met with more difficulties.
“No, no, don’t read me that; it’s too good for an old rakehelly tar like me,” he persisted in saying. “Them apostles was fishermen, d’ye see, and the fishermen and longshore folk always was more peaceable and quieter-like than us deep-sea bilboes. You read me about that there fellow as slaughtered37 the Camelites; I understands him better. By Gosh, he gave ’em a warm time of it, on my swow, didn’t he! Not much use them Camelites showing their heads when Joshua was in the offing! He swept their decks for ’em, clean, every time.”
He meant the Amalekites. I could not quite approve of the spirit in which he took the sacred history, but still I felt that to get him to listen to the Scriptures38 at all was something, and the good seed might come up later on.
I pleased myself with these efforts to reform my poor old friend, and yet perhaps I should have been better employed in seeking to amend39 my own life. For though I can truly say that I lived honestly and soberly, yet all this time my heart was given up to thoughts of ambition and revenge, and the desire [Pg 251]of riches; and the good impressions wrought40 upon me by my sufferings in the Black Hole had almost faded clean out of my mind.
I was not present at the taking of Chander Nugger, which was the next great event in the East Indies, and therefore forbear from describing it. But this affair served to display yet further the duplicity and shifting policy of Surajah Dowlah, whose conduct evidently changed from day to day as the passion of hatred41 of the English, or fear of Colonel Clive, obtained the mastery in his bosom42. On one day he sent permission for us to attack the French, on the next he wrote strictly43 forbidding it. Colonel Clive would have gone against them without waiting for the Nabob’s leave, but Admiral Watson was more scrupulous44, considering that to do so would be a violation45 of our recent treaty. Yet he did not shrink from upbraiding46 the Nabob in round terms, and sent him one letter in which he threatened, with the bluntness of a seaman47, to kindle48 such a fire in his country as all the water in the Ganges should not be able to extinguish.
Finally the Nabob gave way, induced partly by his fears of the Pitans, a savage49 predatory tribe on the borders of Afghanistan, who from time to time broke into the Great Mogul’s dominions50, and were now threatening to march as far as Behar. Accordingly a joint52 expedition was made, and Chander Nugger taken after a brilliant action, in which, as Colonel Clive fully acknowledged, the Admiral [Pg 252]signalised himself by conspicuous53 courage and seamanship.
All this time I lay ill in Calcutta of a low fever, which I had contracted in the hospital while attending on old Muzzy. It was now his turn to nurse me, which he did most assiduously, being now recovered, and able to get about well enough by means of a wooden leg.
As I lay there sick day after day I began once more to see things in a truer light. I longed most painfully to be at home among the scenes and friends of my youth, and I resolved, once I had risen from my sick bed, to let no motives54 of ambition or interest detain me any further in Indostan.
I communicated these sensible resolutions to old Muzzy, who thoroughly55 approved of them.
“And I tell you what, Athelstane, lad, we’ll make our passage home in company,” he said. “I’ve got a tidy bit o’ prize-money left somewhere, enough to take me back to England, and mayhap a bit over, to keep me out of the workhouse when I gets there.”
He put his hands into his hairy bosom and drew out a small canvas bag, which he shook out upon the coverlid of the bed. The contents made a small heap of gold and silver, amounting, as near as I could judge, to about ￡100 or ￡150 in English money, though the coins were of all countries—rupees, French crowns, moidores, and many others.
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The old boatswain put his head on one side, casting looks of affectionate pride on his treasure.
“There, my lad, that’s my little fortin’, enough to pay my freight through to Davy Jones’s locker56, I daresay. And if there’s any of it left over, by Gosh! you shall have it, for I’ve neither parent nor friend in the world, nor I don’t so much as know the place where I was born. And drown me if I don’t love you, my young matey!”
I was so weak at the time that these hearty57 expressions of the old fellow fairly melted me, though I could scarce refrain from smiling at the thoughts of the legacy58 which I was like to inherit.
“You shall come with me and welcome,” I told him. “We will start together as soon as ever I can get off this bed; and when we get to England I will bring you to my own home, and ask my parents to provide you with a shelter for my sake.”
“That’s right enough,” he answered, “and very kind of you. But, mind, old Muzzy ain’t looking for no charity. Where I goes, I takes my little fortin’, and them as takes care of me will get the benefit of it, d’ye see.”
He swept up the money into his bag again, and had just restored it to his bosom when there came a sound outside the door, and who should walk in but Colonel Clive!
I strove to raise myself in the bed as he entered, but this he at once prevented.
“Lie still, youngster!” he exclaimed, walking up [Pg 254]to the bedside, followed by Mr. Scrafton. “Why, how’s this; they never told me you were ill till I was on the point of starting for Chander Nugger, when I had no time to come and see you? But you are on the high road to recovery by this time, surely?”
“Thank you, sir, I am much improved,” I managed to stammer59 out, overwhelmed by this condescension60 on the part of so great a man. “And are the French beaten?” I asked anxiously, for I had not heard the news.
The Colonel turned to Mr. Scrafton and laughed.
“There’s my little purser all over!” he exclaimed, with evident goodwill61. “The French are beaten, and driven out of Bengal, I trust for ever, and their factories are become ours. And since you were unable to be present at the action, and to share in the spoil, I have remembered my promise to you, and brought you a sword instead.”
He took the weapon from the hands of Mr. Scrafton, who was carrying it, and laid it on the bed beside me. At the same time Mr. Scrafton handed me a paper, duly signed, containing my commission as an ensign in the service of the East India Company.
I could only murmur62 out my gratitude63 for these marks of consideration; while Mr. Clive went on to say—
“And now you must make haste and get about again, for as soon as you are able to travel [Pg 255]I have an important mission for you to discharge.”
“And what is that, sir?” I asked, not very heartily64.
The Colonel noticed my diffidence, and gave me a searching look.
“I ought to have said it is a very dangerous mission,” he observed.
I felt my cheeks turn red.
“Then sir, I think I am well enough to undertake it,” I replied, with some little temper. And I sat up in the bed.
Colonel Clive burst out laughing, and seizing me by the shoulders thrust me down again.
“There, that is right; there is not so much hurry about it as to drag you out of bed just yet. But as soon as you are well enough I mean you to go to Moorshedabad.”
I uttered a cry of surprise.
“I have some messages to send to Mr. Watts65, who is acting66 there on our behalf,” Mr. Clive explained. “The affair is too risky67 for me to trust the ordinary service, and besides, from all I hear, you have made a great impression on the Nabob, and may serve a useful purpose by remaining in Moorshedabad for awhile. But I will tell you no more till you are better able to hear it.”
And with this, and many kind expressions about my health, he withdrew.
It did not take long for me to shake off the [Pg 256]remains of my fever under these circumstances, and the moment I was able to go out of the house where I lay, I went to wait on my patron.
Colonel Clive received me in his private room in the fort, and dismissing everybody else, opened to me the nature of the mission entrusted68 to me. The late proceedings69 of his enemies against him in Parliament have made this business so notorious to the world that I shall be excused for expressing it very shortly in this place.
To be brief, the Colonel informed me that the moment for our long-delayed vengeance70 upon the wicked and bloodthirsty Surajah Dowlah was at length arrived. Tired with his cruelties, his own subjects had cast about for a means of getting rid of him, and overtures71 had been received from the principal men of the Nabob’s Court inviting72 Colonel Clive to take part in a concerted scheme for his overthrow73. A treaty had been drawn29 up between the parties, whereby it was provided that Colonel Clive should march against the Nabob’s army with his whole force, now increased by the arrival of other ships from the Coromandel coast, and should be joined on the battle-field by Meer Jaffier, who undertook to desert from his nephew and bring over the part of the army under his command to the English side. In return for these services, supposing the victory should be obtained, the Company was to receive a crore of rupees in compensation for the injuries inflicted74 by the Nabob, [Pg 257]while many millions were to be divided among Colonel Clive, the gentlemen of the Council and the officers and men of both services. Surajah Dowlah was to be deposed75 from the musnud, and his uncle, Meer Jaffier, elevated in his stead, the Meer binding76 himself to pay these sums out of the Nabob’s treasure, and the payment being further guaranteed by Jugget Seet, the great banker of Moorshedabad, whose connexions extended over all parts of Indostan.
This treaty having been signed and executed by Colonel Clive and the other gentlemen of the Company, he now required me to carry it to Moorshedabad, were it was to be sworn to by Jugget Seet, the Meer Jaffier, and the other high officers of the Court who were parties to the design. At the same time he enjoined77 on me to observe the utmost secrecy78.
“Remember,” he said, “that if once Surajah Dowlah or his minion51 Lal Moon should get an inkling of this plot, his rage would break loose against every one concerned in it. As it is Mr. Watts has had great difficulty in lulling79 his suspicions, and has several times been in great peril80. But I suppose you are not the man to shrink back on that account.”
“Give me the treaty, sir,” I replied, “and I undertake to carry it to Moorshedabad. Am I to deliver it into Mr. Watts’s hands?”
“Why, yes; that is, if you find him still there when you arrive. But you must use the greatest [Pg 258]caution in communicating with him. Above all, beware of the Gentoo Omichund, who has already once threatened to betray us. We have been obliged to provide a duplicate treaty to satisfy him, in which is included a stipulation81 for three millions of rupees to be paid to him on our success. But you will explain to Meer Jaffier that this is merely a trick to which we have been obliged by Omichund’s knavery82. He shall not have a farthing.”
Mr. Clive spoke83 these words very sternly. At the same time he handed me the two treaties, one drawn up upon white paper and the other on red.
“The red treaty is the one to be shown to Omichund,” he explained. “Both must be executed by the parties to the conspiracy84 in Moorshedabad, but only the white one is to be sworn to. Do you understand?”
“Perfectly, sir.”
I rolled up the two papers and put them into my pocket. I did not then feel, nor have I since been able to understand, all the indignation which has been poured on Lord Clive’s head for this artifice85, by which a treacherous86, overreaching scoundrel was robbed of the blackmail87 he had tried to extort88. As to the charge which has been made against that great man of having caused Admiral Watson’s name to be forged to the second treaty, I can only say that it was the general opinion at the time that the gallant34 Admiral was fully aware of what was being [Pg 259]done, and, since he took no steps to restrain the use of his name, it appears to be all the same as though he had affixed89 it with his own hand.
However, it is not my intention to dwell upon these disputes, to which I am only induced to refer by a spirit of loyalty90 to my old commander and friend, for such he permitted me to call him.
“Remember,” the Colonel said to me at parting, “above all, to show no fear of Surajah Dowlah. Mr. Watts is too modest in his behaviour, and for that reason the young tyrant91 despises and ill-uses him. But I think that is not a fault you are likely to fall into; indeed, I have heard that during your former residence there you fairly awed92 the Nabob; so I have good hope that you will do the same again. The moment you have secured the execution of the treaties it will be time to fly, and as soon as I hear you are safe I shall put my troops on the march to Plassy.”
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