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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 a.m. SEPT., 1917.
Exchange to the amount of 13000 rs. as I
desired. The Barrs Perceave likewise the
Merchants sent away for Rajemaul the 14th
Currt., and that they went in Gurreebs
Charge as I left ord[er] about it with Sittull-
mull and Collo Cawn,* and agreed with the
Merchant [t]hat the siccaes should be re-
turned in Charge of my Servant and kept in
our Factory till we had advice from our
friends in Pattana either of the acceptance
or payment of the Bill, which might have
cleer'd all trouble and jangling on that
score. I suppose before they will be coyn'd
into Siccaes and return' d for Cassambuzar,
I shall be arrived with you, intending, God
willing, to leave this place and Proceed
towards You on Thursday Evening, and
have this day sent forwards pur Budgraj
to stay for us about 2 dayes journey from
hence, and then at my arrivall with her on
the Company s boate here to proceed on her
for Pallassy, J where hope to arrive on Sunday
[next therefore intreate you on satturday
to send away a Pa[llanke]en with 8 Cahors
for Mr Vincent, to await our arrivall them,
inordr[ing] two horses to stay for us at
Burwa-Surray.H Let them pu[t my] Sadie
and furniture on the Bay horse (if well) and
Mr Vincen[ts on] the Turky or white horse
and speake to Collow Cawne t[~> thir]e and
[?send] 5 or 6 Pions with them and the
Pallankeen, if my Punes be [not return]ed
from [torn away]. The [torn awayjf have
now a Correspondency here, and we are
now goeing to give them a Visit, soe shall
not inlarge at Present, referring all buissness
till our meeting, and now Conclude with the
subscription of
Your Faithfull friend to serve you
JNO: MARCH
[Endorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards Merchant
Present In Cassumbuzar
R. C. TEMPLE.
(To be continued.)
- Kalu Khan.
t Travelling boat. See Letter X.
Plassey (Palasi), about 20 miles south of Kasimbazar, on the left bank of the Bhaglrathi, the scene of Olive's victory in 1757.
Kahar, palanquin-bearer.
II Barwa Sarai, the " Barrua " of Bennell's ' Atlas of Bengal.' It is on the road from Hugll to Kasimbazar, some ten miles north of Plassey.
H The initial letter, which is all that is left of this word, is D, and the word is probably Danes. The Danes at this period made an ineffectual attempt to establish themselves in Bengal. See Bowrey, ' Countries round the Bay of Bengal,' ed. Temple, pp. 184-90.
AN ENGLISH " COMMANDANT " AT BRUS-
SELS IN 1815-16. When Wellington's army
advanced to Paris in 1815, my grand -uncle
Major George Evatt, 55th Foot, Assistant-
Adjutant-General at Waterloo, and re-
cipient of the Waterloo Medal, was appointed
Commandant de Place for English and
Hanoverian troops left behind at Brussels.
He is the " Major Evatt " referred to by the
Duke of Wellington in his letter to the
Duchess of Richmond (written from Paris)
as to the sick and wounded soldiers at
Brussels ; see Wellington's 'Correspondence/
1815.
In 1816 Major Evatt was promoted to lieutenant-col oneJ, and later to colonel, and died in 1840 as Commandant of the Royal Military Asylum at Southampton. His brother Capt. John Hamilton Evatt, 57th Foot, commanded No. 7 company of that regiment at Albuera, 1811. Capt. Evatt' g great-grandson, my son Capt. G. R. K. Evatt, 1st Middlesex Regiment, late 57th Foot, was killed in action in the trenches at La Boutillerie, 3 miles south of Armen- tieres, North France, Nov. 14, 1914, com- manding " A " company in his great-grand- father's regiment, the old 57th Foot, "the Die-Hards." GEORGE J. H. EVATT,
Sxirgeon-General.
Junior U.S. Club, Charles Street, St. James's.
THE ANTI-VAUXHALL. At Denbies, near Dorking, Jonathan Tyers, the first true founder of Vauxhall Gardens, lived for several years. A MS. note occurring amongst some Surrey documents furnished information on the arrangement of the grounds as intended to provide an antithesis to the popular London resort. This wanted confirmation until I found it had also been described in J. W. Anson's Dramatic Almanack for 1871, p. 17. The writer, H. C., is probably accurate, although his style lacks conviction :
" At Denbies Tyers passed much of his time in planning several theatrical allusions [illusions ? and in rendering the spot a perfect contrast the bewitching routine of gaiety or merrime with which he electrified his metropolitan votarie This anomaly is said to have been conducted \ strict adherence to effect .... The principal sc was a wood of eight acres denominated Penseroso,' where he contrived to represent terrific similitude ' The Valley of the Shadow ol Death.' Here instead of protracted vistas < festive lamps with their matchless reflection, ai long rows of boxes containing groups of live gallantry, was the stillness of the mazy w" Instead of the choral [ic] orchestra, a s. temple on which were numerous inscriptioi calculated to produce the most gloomy effect their reader."
