Indian Antiquary Vol 47

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[ JANUARY, 1918
Hyder Ally Caun [Haidar' Ali Khan ] to solicit for it, and we were sensible if he succeeded, it would be out of his power to refuse obeying it.
The Resident has addressed the Nabob and represented to him in the strongest light how detrimental it will be to the Company if he gives the Prince an order to grant Mr Bolts an establishment in his country.
Letter from the Council at Tellicherry to the President and Council at Bombay, dated 17 June 1778.50
We wrote you last the 12th Ultimo ... A few days after we were informed that Mr Bolts paid a visit to Ally Rajah at Cannanore, and from thence proceeded to Callicut in one of his barges. We understand his principal errand was to find out a proper spot there or at Beypore [ near Calicut] to build a Factory, but have not learnt whether he has succeeded. On the 1st instant he proceeded to Seringapatam [ to Haidar 'Ali].
The Ship Joseph and Theresa on the 2nd of last month left Billiapatam for Goa, where she proposed staying the Monsoon, but was not able to reach that place, and returned to Billiapatam the 14th. On the 20th following, she passed this Port to the Southward, and we are since informed is gone to Pondicherry,51
On the 31st ultimo a Carrikar [ carrick, cargo-boat] arrived from Cannanore, and acquainted the Resident by order of Ally Rajah, that Mr Bolts had been soliciting a place at Cannanore for a Factory, but that Ally Rajah would not give him an answer before he knew if it would be agreeable or not to the Honble. Company. The Resident dispatched the Carrikar the day after, with a letter informing Ally Rajah that the Company expected, from the amity existing between them, that he would not grant Mr Bolt's request.
Letter from the Council at Tellicherry to the President and Council at Bombay, dated 27 November, 1778.62
Mr Bolts arrived at Mangalore from Seringapatam the 21st Ultimo, and immediately hoisted the Imperial Colours on the spot of ground granted him there for a Factory. One Mr Fife, a dependant of Mr Bolts, is left in charge thereof. On the 2nd instant he arrived at Billiapatam, but has not yet hoisted the Imperial Colours there or at Mattamy 63
Letter from the Council at Tellicherry to the President and Council at Bombay, dated 3 December 1778.5
The Imperial Ship Joseph and Theresa arrived at Billiapatam the 30th Ultimo from the Coast of Coromandel, and we learn that some time before she left the Coast, Mr Bolts's
50 Letters Received at Bombay (1778), XLIV, 204-205.
51 "The south-west monsoon having strongly set in on the Malabar coast, it was deemed unsafe to remain there any longer; we therefore took our departure from Mangalore on the 20th of May 1778, directing our course towards the gulph of Bengal; and in less than ten days, we came in sight of the Carnicobar islands In one of the bays formed within those islands, we moored in twelve fathoms, and there remained until the S. W. monsoon was quite over, which was in the beginning of September." Extract from the Diary of Nicolaus Fontana, surgeon of the "Joseph and Theresa," printed in Asiatic Researches, Vol. III, No. VII, pp. 149.163.
52 Letters Received at Bombay (1778), XLIV, 306.
53 I have not succeeded in identifying this place. It is probably an error for Madakara. See the letter of 4th February 1779, infra.
54 Letters Received at Bombay (1778), XLIV, 306.