given Julius his nomination as a writer, but it was not confirmed by the Court of Directors for over a year, the ratification arriving in Bengal by the ships of August 1st, 1790. In January, 1792, he was appointed second assistant to the Collector at Murshidabad, and in August of the next year returned to Calcutta as registrar to the Court of Appeal. "He has as good an appointment as his Standing will permit," writes Turner in 1794, "and Brooke his principal in Office is very kind and friendly to him." It must have been at this time that he built on his portion of the Belvidere estate the house afterwards occupied by Charles D'Oyly (see supra, p. 199). In 1797 he was made Collector of Midnapore, and in 1799 his death is announced by Chapman, who "loved him as a brother." He had remained at his post, quelling insurrections and quieting a long-neglected district, when in bad health. From his will, and from the letters of Chapman and John Palmer, it is clear that he left three natural children, William, Charles, and John, the eldest about seven years old in 1801. Charles died in 1802, at the age of five. John, who is described by John Palmer as very dark in complexion, was to be educated in Calcutta, but Mr and Mrs Hastings express their willingness to receive William, who "has a fine countenance, mild, open, intelligent, and bears a strong resemblance to his poor Father," at Daylesford in the holidays, and to choose a school for him. He became a great favourite among their friends, but developed unsatisfactory traits of character as he grew older. When the clergyman to whose care he was entrusted had given him up in something like despair, it was determined to send him back to India, but his descent excluded him from the Company's Service, even at St Helena or Bencoolen, his nomination to which had been actually passed by the Directors. John Palmer was therefore asked to settle him in business, but he proved idle and fickle, and was frequently out of employment. His letters (signed at first William Fitz-Julius, and afterwards William Fitz-Julius Imhoff) become more rare, until all mention of him disappears. Just as this book goes to press, the present writer has received from a Calcutta correspondent some further information as to the family. The will left by Julius Imhoff was contested in 1817 by the Registrar of the Supreme Court on account of its glaring informalities, and William Fitz-Julius and his brother John petitioned the Prince Regent that their rights might be recognised. The Crown thereupon relinquished its claim, and the petitioners were legitimated by Royal Letter in 1824 or 1825. William died before the arrival of the Letter, but John lived for many years, marrying Maria Chambers, but dying childless. He was murdered in his father's house at Alipur, in the grounds of which his brother Charles had been drowned in a well with his nurse in 1802. In these grounds also, between Hastings House and the Judges' Court, is to be found the vault in which Julius Imhoff and his three sons are buried. APPENDIX II.1 THE FIRST MARRIAGE OF WARREN HASTINGS. So much misconception has hitherto prevailed with respect to this union, and its details are still enveloped in such uncertainty, that it seems worth while to give all the known facts, in the hope that complete light may yet be thrown on them. Glez, and following him, all the subsequent biographers, assert that in the winter of 1756, Hastings married Mrs Campbell, whom they usually identify as the widow of Captain Dougald Campbell, killed at the capture of Baj-baj. In a novel called Like Another Helen,' published in 1899, in which Hastings appears as one of the subsidiary characters, the present writer pointed out that either the identification or the date must be wrong. since Baj-baj was not captured until December 30th or 31st, 1756. The inference was that the marriage took place in the spring of 1757, but a kind correspondent, writing from Calcutta, pointed out that the error lay in another direction altogether. He forwarded a copy of the 'Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal' for July, 1899, containing a paper read at the Society's monthly meeting by the Rev. H. B. Hyde, M..A., who mentioned his accidental discovery, in a miscellaneous bundle of old Calcutta Mayor's Court records, of a "Petition of Warren Hastings of Cossimbazar, Gentleman, in behalf of his wife Mary Hastings, relict to John Buchanan, late of Calcutta,” asking for letters of administration to the estate of the said “Captain John Buchanan, late of Calcutta, Gentleman," who had died intestate. We know from Holwell that Buchanan was the only one of the senior military officers who showed any capacity, or even per 1 Some of the facts here adduced have appeared in 'Notes and Queries" over the writer's signature. * Captain Trotter (Rulers of In ha Series), confusing Campbell with an ther Captain Campbell who came with Kilpatrick from Mairas, says that he ded “of the prevalent disease." sonal courage, in the disasters of June, 1756, and that he was one of the victims of the Black Hole. The date of his death is at once seen to accord much better with that of the marriage than the death of Captain Campbell. The next step was obviously to seek evidence to support the new identification, and here it may be remarked that there are few things more curious than the almost complete absence of any mention of the first marriage in the vast mass of Hastings Papers at the British Museum. It can only be conjectured that the second Mrs Hastings discouraged so studiously any reference to her predecessor that even her name was lost, and that she removed all papers relating to her before entrusting her husband's MSS. to Gleig for the purposes of his biography. Thus thrown on his own resources, Gleig would appear to have followed some incorrect tradition, supported by the fact of Captain Campbell's death near the time of the marriage. But in a volume of copies of letters written from Murshidabad, and not included in the Miscellaneous Correspondence--probably because the majority are on questions of public business-a number of valuable facts appeared. Several of the notes concern the Letter of Administration, the petition for the grant of which Mr Hyde has found. In November, 1758, Hastings begs his friend Richard Becher to lose no time in getting the Letter, and complains of the delay, since he thought the documents he had already signed would have been sufficient. In the same month he says, "I will return an answer to Mr Smith concerning his Demand on Captain Buchanan's Estate as soon (as) the Letter of Administration which I expect daily is granted me. I have desired Mr Scrafton to act for me in the Administration of Captain Buchanan's Estate, which trust he has accepted of." For some reason or other, Scrafton, who had been Hastings' predecessor at Murshidabad, refused the request, and Hastings writes to Holwell to ask him to administer the estate, promising to send him a power of attorney. There are 1550 rupees due to Captain Grant, (Archibald Grant, who fought on the losing side at Culloden, and coming to Bengal, disgraced himself by escaping from the siege of Fort William with the Governor, Drake), and there is a claim for £200 on behalf of a Mr Macaully or Macouly in London, which Hastings believes has been already paid. this subject he writes also to a Mr Macreddee or Macredie, who Mrs Hastings tells him transmitted money to London for Buchanan, asking him for information about Buchanan's concerns in Europe, since all papers and accounts were destroyed in the troubles, and the only hope lies in appealing to his former acquaintance. Further evidence as to Hastings' having married Buchanan's widow is supplied by a group of letters dealing with another subject, the will of Colonel Caroline Frederick Scot or Scott, whom the Company appointed in 1752 Engineer-General of ail their settlements in the East Indies, Major of Fort William and third member of the Bengal Council. The will, which is dated March 20th, 1754, appoints Captain John Buchanan and Ensiga William Scott as executors, and leaves the whole of the estate to the testator's "dearly beloved friend Mrs Martha Bowdler, of the parish of St George's, Hanover Square," and in the event of her predeceasing him, to "these four children," Caroline, Francis, Martha, and Frederick Scott. Scott died on May 12th of the same year, and Hastings says that Buchanan handed in the accounts of his executorship to the Mayor's Court shortly before the Siege, depositing in Fort William, when the Nabob came against Calcutta, all the moneys he had received. These were, of course, lost, and Colonel Scott's legatees seem to have uttered some aspersion against Buchanan's memory, which Hastings resents warmly. "He was known to have no concerns in trade, had a handsome Income coming in, and bore bes des too fair a Character in the World to suffer it to be suspected that he would have made away with any part of the money entrusted to his Charge as Administrator to the late Colonel Scott's estate Mary Hastings adds "in writing all the particulars that she cann charge her memory with relating to Colonel Scott's deposit. " She saw Buchanan put Colonel Scott's money, with about 4000 rupees of his own, into a deal chest-bearing Scott's name on a lead or tin plate-which was so full that the lid would hardly shut. The servants can bear witness that this chest was carri d into the Fort. After the capture, it was seen lying empty, as can be testified by several of the survivors, notably Messrs Rider and Cartier. A further proof, if any be wanting, that Hastings' first wite was Mrs Buchanan, is found in the responsibility he acknowled for Buchanan's daughters. The baptism of one of these, Catherine Caroline, is entered in the Calcutta registers for May 1st, 1754; of the other, Elizabeth, there is no trace in the records. One of them-the Christian name is not mentioned—was being brought up by her grandmother at Arklow in February, 1759. When Hastings returned to India in 1769, he seems to have left both girls under the guardianship of Mrs Forde, whose husband, 1 For the details of Colonel Scott's appointment, his w, and other auteurs relating to the Bengal records, the present writer is it lebted to Mr W. Jam Foster, of the India Ofhce, whose keenness of research and great patiore are limited only by the limitations of his material. Colonel Forde, was one of the Supervisors appointed with Vansittart, and was lost with him in the Aurora, placing in the hands of this lady funds for their education, and allowing them £20 a year each. In 1773 Mrs Forde sends him a bad account of "Miss Buchannan." She had been apprenticed, but ran away from her place three months before her time was up. Mrs Forde took her home and engaged dancing-masters for her, intending to qualify her for India, as the best and genteelest provision possible, but the girl was soon tired of gentility, and at her own wish was sent back to her grandmother and aunt at Arklow, where she crowned her misdeeds by running off with a corporal. In 1784 Mrs Forde writes again about Catherine Buchanan, who is now Mrs Johnston. She is married a second time, but her husband is as bad as the former one. No one would marry her but for her assured income, and she is very thoughtless, and acts as if she had a great fortune at command. Her education, says Mrs Forde, was "among the very lowest sort of people." In spite of Hastings' care for their welfare, the two unhappy girls seem to have been much neglected by their mother's relatives, for Elizabeth Finley, "who was Miss Buckhannan," writes in 1797, in asking for help, "I must own that it is all my own fault. But Dear sir if you will But Consider that I had neither father Nor Mother to take Care of me in my Youthful Days Left me as I am." Apparently he gave her some additional assistance on this occasion, since for years afterwards she worries him and Woodman, through whom her allowance was paid, with perpetual importunity. An advance to enable her to open a shop-" half a year's money together "is the burden of her song, and she always demands an answer "by the return of the post." She is turned out of her lodgings, her husband has been "ballited for to go in the Militia," she is in danger of being sold up. "She is a sturdy beggar," writes Woodman in disgust, and Hastings at last hardens his heart to refuse her any further advances. If it may now be considered proved that the first husband of Mary Hastings was Captain Buchanan, the uncertainty as to her origin is as marked as ever. The only fact which remains to testify to her family is a letter to Holwell in the volume already mentioned. In it Hastings expresses his strong wish to send to Mr Creswicke two bills for £200 each. One is to be divided between his aunt and sister, the other is to be sent to Mrs Catherine Jones of Arklow:-"This Lady is the Mother of my Wife, who has sent this sum for her use, and a daughter of my Wife's by her former Husband." The discovery of this suggested, naturally, a search in the Arklow registers, but an application to the Rector elicited the fact that they had been |