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 by Admiral Watson's chaplain, Richard Cobbe, afterwards Chaplain of Calcutta in the room of the gallant old chaplain Jervas Bellamy, who perished in the Black Hole.

Mrs. Hastings died in 1759, at Cossimbazar, where her tomb still stands in the old Residency Burial-ground. Of the two children born of this marriage, a boy and a girl, the latter shared her mother's grave, the former was sent to England, where he died shortly before his father's arrival on his first visit home.

On the arrival of the Madras fleet at Fulta, the troops under Clive's command were landed on the eastern or Calcutta bank of the Hughly, and marched up to Calcutta, while Admiral Watson sailed his ships up the river.

When the troops arrived at Budge Budge they halted for the night within a short distance of a Mohammedan fort which was garrisoned by a small body of soldiers, who do not appear to have troubled themselves at all about the approach of the English. Clive proposed to attack the fort in the morning, but during the night one of the British soldiers, in a fit of drunken bravado, started off alone to reconnoitre the position. Climbing the wall of the fort unobserved, he stumbled into the midst of a party of the garrison who were beguiling their