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Ch. 51: The Piggott Diamond

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THE PIGOTT.
The Early Days of the Indian Empire—The Black Hole of Calcutta—The Successes of Clive—" Trifling Gifts "— A Lottery Prize—Sold to Ali Pasha for £30,000, and by him Destroyed—Only the Model of the " Pigott" remains.
HE name of Governor Pigott, connected as it is with that of the Subahdar Sooray-oo-Doulah, opens up a dark page in our Indian history. Mr. Drake, the Governor of the English settlement in Calcutta, with the Commandant, Captain Minchen, fled in the middle of the night, leaving the honor of their country, and the lives of a large body of their country­men, exposed to the frightful rancour of an inex­perienced, illiterate, self-indulgent prince, hardly eighteen at the time, marching with a numerous army, and within a few hours march of Cossimbazar, to seize the English possessions, and enrich himself with the fabulous wealth supposed to be stored up in their factories (a.d. 1756). Governor Drake and Commandant Minchen, possessed of the one idea that self-preservation was the first and only law which they had to observe, came to the conclusion that the Subahdar's army boded them harm, and therefore, that the thing to be done was to decamp
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