Transcripts of documents used by Samuel Hill when researching Bengal.

(1) pp. 1-899, Transcripts of Documents used by Mr. S. C. Hill in compiling his account of Bengal in 1756-57, presented to the India Office 1916. (2) p. 1, Tracing of a Plan (in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris) of the Dutch Settlement at Hugli. The references are in Dutch. (3) pp. 1-7, Printed copies of letters in French sent to Mr. Hill by M. A. Bourgoin, Conservateur de la Bibliothèque, Pondichéry, viz. Letters from the Council at Chandernagore to the Council at Masulipatam, the Captain of the French ship La Compagnie des Indes de France, Roger Drake (Governor of Calcutta), the Conseil Supérieur de l'Isle de France and M. de la Bretesche at Patna 26th April to 26th Dec. 1756. (4) pp. 13-647, Transcripts from French documents in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, viz. pp. 13-25, Voyage de M. le Chevalier d'Albert dans les Indes Orientales pendant 1724 et 1726, with, pp. 27-55, Remarques sur l'Ile Bourbon on Mascarin (including Diego Ruys and Mauritius); pp. 57-9, Discours sur la ville de Mazulipatam, Août 1725; pp. 61-3, État de Mahey, Sept. 1725; pp. 65-99, État de Pondichéry, son commerce et celui des différents endroits de l'Inde, Janvier 1726; pp. 101-253, Révolutions du Bengale (a French version of Scrafton); pp. 261-89, Letter from Chandernagore to M. Demontorcin 1st Aug. 1756; pp. 291-3, 345-7, 395-407, Letters from M. Fournier at Chandernagore to M. Dupleix 1st Aug. 1756, 18th Jan. and 3rd Nov. 1757; pp. 295-317, 349-93, Letters from M. Renault to M. Dupleix, Chandernagore 26th Aug. 1756, 4th and 30th Sept. 1757; pp. 319-25, M. Bausset to M. Dupleix, Chandernagore 8th Oct. 1756; pp. 327-43, Council of Chandernagore to the Syndics and Directors at Paris 18th Jan. 1757; pp. 409-31, Relation de ce qui s'est passé dans le Bengale depuis le 17 Octobre 1756 an 22 Janvier 1758 (not signed); pp. 433-9, Lettre qui parait être de M. Law concernant les affaires du Bengale, Pondichéry 9 Février 1758 (If this was from a M. Law it cannot have been from M. Jean Law, who at this time was in Upper India--possibly it was written by Jacques Law); pp. 441-87, Letter from. M. Renault to the Conseil Supérieure à Pondichéry, Pondichéry le 26 Octobre 1758; pp. 489-647, Mémorie de M. Madec. (See Le Nabab René Madec, by Emile Barbé 1894.) (5) pp. 651-731, Extracts referring to the loss of Calcutta copied by Miss E. M. Thompson from the London Chronicle, Read's Weekly Journal and the Scots Magazine 1756 and 1757. (6) pp. 733-839, William Tooke's Account of the Loss of Calcutta, from the Warren Hastings' Papers in the British Museum. Additional M.S. 29,209 (Printed in Hill's Bengal in 1756-57, I. 248); pp. 841-53, Another unsigned Account from the same volume. (7) pp. 855-87, ''An account of the late Maharaja Nubkissen Bahadur, required and delivered to A. Sterling, Esq., Persian Secretary to Government, on 30th April 1825,'' by (?) Maharaja Sir Radha Kanta Deb (Published in the Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society 1899); pp. 889-91, Note by Babu Nilmani Mukherjee on Maharaja Naba Krishna 24th July 1899. (8) pp. 893-7, References to and copy of Lieut. William Wills' or, more correctly, Wells' ''Plan of Fort William and part of the City of Calcutta'' with additions by S. C. Hill. (9) p. 899, Territory of Calcutta (from Orme) with additions by S. C. Hill from various sources.

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