A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.

  • Ives, Edward, -1786.
Date:
1773
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Credit: A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of* the court, attended this meeting. They too had their prefents^ V.—V—J And the admiral, to treat them, as he thought, the more genteely, ordered three or four dozen of bottles of white wine to be brought; but upon their tafting it, they fpoke of it as infipid, and, like the king, preferred brandy as the better liquor. Mr. Watfon apologized for his not having a greater flock of it •, but afiured them, and his majefty of Baba alfo, that the next time he made this voyage, he would not fail to bring them a much larger quantity. Before the audience broke up, the king alked the admiral, whether he had any doftor with him ? who replied, yes. He then afked, “A he a great doctor? Akin^s doblor?'^ to which the admiral replied in the affirmative. “ Let him, (rejoined the king) give me fome mahomets (that is, fome medicines) for my fick knee.” The admiral then fpoke to me, who flood near him; when ad- dreffing myfelf to the king, I gave him my word, that he ffiould not be many days without them. The admiral having mentioned to the king of Baba, the provifions he wanted for his fquadron, the latter gave orders to his purfers, that we ffiould immediately be fupplied with them: Then the admiral, after thanking the king for his civility and affiflance, took his leave. Before I clofe this feene, I cannot omit deferibing the grotefque drefs and figure of one of the favourites at this court, who in his younger days had been in England, where he acquired a tafle for the European faflaions. They called him Captain Eom Hill-, he was a little old man, had neither ffioes, flockings, breeches, nor fhirt on, but wore a wrapper round his thighs, and an old filk-waiflcoat next his flein, ornamented with a bugle-fringe: An old tattered blue coat, an old grey tye-wig, a filver-laced hat, and a fword with¬ out a fcabbard, made up the remainder of his drefs, and all together pre- fented a moft ridiculous figure. The generality of my readers, will probably look down with wonder and pity, if not with contempt, on the rude fimplicity and unpoliffied man¬ ners of the people now defciibed: But let them turn back to the annals of our Englijh hiflory not two thoufand years ago, they will have the mortifi¬ cation to find the ancient Britons equally unacquainted with the polite arts, and quite as barbarous and uncivilized as the Madagafearians *. And if our rude forefathers, by aperfevering virtue, a noble difintereflednefs, and- a paffionate love for their country, could ere(5l a kingdom, fo capable of ex¬ citing admiration as we have now the happinefs to boaft of; why ffiould not the defeendants of the brave Madagafearians, at fome future period, emu ¬ late the glory of our anceflors, and lay the foundations of an empire great and extenfive as our own, and as much celebrated for the glory of its arms,.. * Interiores plerique fiumenta non ferunt, fed la^le & came vivunt, pellibufque funt vef- titi. Omnes verb fe Rritanni vitro inficiunt, quod caerulcum cliicit colorem ; atque hoc horribiliore funt in pugna adfpediu :• capilloque funt promiffo, atque omni parte corporis ^ rafa, praeter caput & labrum fuperius. Uxores habent deni duodenique inter fe communes, & maxime Fratres cum Fratribus, Parentefque cum Liberia. Sed ii qui funt ex his nati eorum habentur liberi, a quibus primum virgines quasque duda; funt.. Casfar. de Bello Galileo, Lib. v. * height