Search -
The Life of Charles Grant, Sometime Member of Parliament and Director of the East India Company
The Life of Charles Grant Sometime Member of Parliament and Director of the East India Company Author:Henry Morris General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II FIRST EXPERIENCE OF BENGAL AND RETURN TO ENGLAND A. D. 1768 TO 1773 Arrival at the Cape of Good Hope -- The Admiral Watson touches at Madras -- Arrival at Calcutta -- First letter from Bengal -- Position of the East India Company's affairs in Bengal -- Dual Government -- Letter to the Marquis of Hastings -- Grant's own description of the political situation -- Grant received into Mr Becher"s family -- Becher's removal to Murshidabad -- The Lake of Pearl -- Famine in Bengal -- Strenuous exertion of Becher and Grant to alleviate suffering -- Description of the famine -- Lord Curzon's comparison between the famine of 1770 and that of 1900 -- Accusation against Becher -- Grant ill with fever -- Return with Becher to England -- A cadetship obtained for Robert -- Recovery on the voyage -- Visit to the Highlands -- Meeting with uncle, sisters, and brother -- Letter to Robert -- Application at the India House -- Desire for Writership -- Tour on the Continent of Europe -- Kindness to his brother John -- Obtains a Writership -- Letter to the donor -- Refusal for permission to travel overland to India -- Marriage with Miss Fraser -- Engagement of his sister Catherine -- Arrangements for both sisters -- and for John -- Care for his Uncle John -- Accompanied to India by Mrs Grant's mother and sister -- Departure of the Vansittart. The earliest tidings of the youthful voyagers came from the Cape of Good Hope. Grant was most kindly received at Cape Town by Mrs Sumner's mother, to whom that lady had given him a letter of introduction. He was entertained, as he wrote, with "a profusion of civility, and e...« less