Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFATORY NOTE to Vol. III
- Errata and Addenda
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THIS VOLUME
- PART V DOCUMENTARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS PITT, INTERLOPER, GOVERNOR OF FORT ST. GEORGE, AND PROGENITOR OF AN ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY
- Episode of the Pitt Diamond
- PART VI EARLY HISTORY OF THE COMPANY'S SETTLEMENT IN BENGAL
- PART VII EARLY CHARTS AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE HÚGLÍ RIVER
- Comparative topography of the old and the modern charts from the sea to Hoogly Point
- INDEX to Vols. II and III
- Plate section
PART V - DOCUMENTARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS PITT, INTERLOPER, GOVERNOR OF FORT ST. GEORGE, AND PROGENITOR OF AN ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFATORY NOTE to Vol. III
- Errata and Addenda
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THIS VOLUME
- PART V DOCUMENTARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS PITT, INTERLOPER, GOVERNOR OF FORT ST. GEORGE, AND PROGENITOR OF AN ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY
- Episode of the Pitt Diamond
- PART VI EARLY HISTORY OF THE COMPANY'S SETTLEMENT IN BENGAL
- PART VII EARLY CHARTS AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE HÚGLÍ RIVER
- Comparative topography of the old and the modern charts from the sea to Hoogly Point
- INDEX to Vols. II and III
- Plate section
Summary
In the Diary of William Hedges we find repeated reference to a Captain Pitt or Pitts (as he is called indiscriminately), a prominent and notorious interloper who pressed his commercial adventures iu defiance of the Company's claims to exclusive trade, and was only too successful in seducing from their fidelity, and involving in his own quasi-contraband business, a number of the Company's servants in “the Bay”.
I think it well to begin by bringing together here, either in abstract or extract, the chief passages in which Hedges takes notice of this adventurer.
On the outward voyage of Hedges and his party, on the Defence, when eleven weeks from the Downs, they speak a ship proving to be the Crown (Capt. Dorrel), which had left home some three weeks after them, an interloper bound for Húglí, and carrying, with other passengers, “Mr. Pitts” (p. 20).
On the arrival of Hedges at Balasore they see a ship in the roads:
“They told us the Ship we saw in Port was the Crown, Capt. Dorrel, with Mr. Pitts, who had been here 11 days before. That Mr. Pitts had hired a great house at Ballasore, carried divers Chests of money ashore, and was very busy in buying of goods” (p. 31).
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1887