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# Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces/Ekteswar

EKTESWAR.
Two miles south-east of Bánkurá, on the left bank of the Darikeswara river, is the small village and temple of Ekteswar; the temple is remarkable in its way; the mouldings of the basement are the boldest and finest of any I have seen, though quite plain; the temple was built of laterite, but has had sandstone and brick additions made to it since; there are traces of three different restorations or repairs executed to this temple; the first was a restoration of the upper portion, which had apparently fallen down. In the restoration, the outline of the tower and general appearance of the temple before its dilapidation appears to have been entirely ignored, and a new design adopted. After this, repairs on a small scale were carried out, of which traces are to be seen in various patchy portions of brick and mortar; lastly, a series of brick arches were added in front of the temple. The object of worship inside is a lingam, which is said to have thrust itself up through the ground. Several pieces of sculpture, both broken and sound, and almost all Brahmanical, lie in groups on platforms outside, none of any special interest and none inscribed.
# Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces/Gondwa

GONDWA.
Sixteen miles south by a little west from Barâ Bâzâr, on the road leading from it to Cháibasá, near the villages of Gonda and close to the Demna Nala, are several rock inscriptions in large characters; the rock is known as Bijak Páhár; the inscriptions are cut on a rock at the foot of a hill to the east of the road. There are no remains of any sort about the place. The inscriptions are four in number, two in the curious shell characters, and two in a transition form of Uriya; these last, knowing that Rájá Mukunda Deva of Orissa at one time held Hugli, must be ascribed to some time near his reign; tradition ascribes the inscriptions to a Banjâra, and it is so far correct that the long inscription in the transition characters reads "Lakshmana prathama Banjara;" this, therefore, is a most curious record, showing that for a long time previous to Mukund Deb's reign no traffic was carried on, at least through this pass; but we cannot allow that this Lakshmana Banjâra was absolutely the first of his tribe who ever used this pass; for the records in the shell characters are undoubtedly older, and must have been written at a period long prior to Mukund Deb's reign, when the pass was used. The second record in the transition characters is worn and of no interest apparently, being a fragment. Of the two inscriptions in shell characters I can make nothing; they are injured to a great extent; whatever of them can now be made out I give here; one is
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I would ascribe these records to the reign of Sasangka, when we know the country to have been in a highly flourishing state; the form of the characters is certainly as old as the sixth century of our era.
If, then, those records belong to the century when Çaçangka reigned, and the later ones to Mukund Deb, we have a period of about 500 years (ascribing Çaçangka to the seventh century, and Mukund Deva to the sixteenth, and allowing even so much as four centuries after Çaçangka as a period of comparative quiet, if not of actual prosperity), during which traffic through Singbhum appears to have ceased. We know, from the remains of Telkupi and elsewhere in Mânbhum, that the country was flourishing at least in the tenth century, and perhaps even in the eleventh ​century, but from that time to the time of Rájá Mân Singh not a single temple or sculpture appears to have been executed; the Banjâra’s record is, indeed, the very earliest record of the revival of trade in the country. Coupling this with the fact that the fertile country of King Çaçangka appears to have been occupied by the votaries of Brahmanical or Jaina or other Aryan deities, but is now occupied by non-Aryan tribes who reject Brahmanical as well as Jaina deities, the conclusion seems irresistible, that the sudden collapse of all trade and industry was due to the irruption of the Kolarian tribes at some period between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries. On this point, for further observations, facts and legends, I refer to Colonel Dalton’s great work.
# Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces/Ghosrawan and Titrawan

GHOSRAWAN AND TITRAWAN.
Ghosrawan and Titrawan possess numerous remains, but they have been so fully noticed by General Cunningham, Captain Kittoe and Mr. Broadley, that I need only refer to their writings.
# Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces/Hasanpur Káko

​Hasanpur Káko is a largish straggling village situated near a large lake into which a branch of the Jamna empties; the country about is flooded during the rains, and in November I had to wade through a long stretch of water to get to the place. The principal remains of interest here are a dargah and some statues.
The dargah is an unpretentious brick building in a state of decay, situated on a high raised mound on the banks of the tank or lake; there is an outer court-yard where numerous slabs of stone, rough and sculptured, lie about, these are evidently taken from some Hindu shrines. The outer court-yard gives admission through a large gateway to a crooked passage and thence into an inner court-yard, whence a third doorway gives entrance into the innermost court-yard in front of the dargah itself. Into this sacred court I was not permitted to enter. The second outer gateway is battlemented, and has a long inscription in Persian or Arabic in five compartments; the inscription is cut in brick and has suffered greatly from the weather. At one corner of the inner enclosure to which this gate gives admission is a tower similar to the towers in the Begampur masjid in Patna, and I infer the other corners, or at least one other corresponding corner, had a corresponding tower; the enclosure walls have, however, notwithstanding extensive repairs, become greatly dilapidated. In the inner court-yard is an inscription on a long trapezoidal piece of bluish-black stone; the inscription is in four compartments of three lines each, and one long line running the whole length; the stone on which the inscription exists has split down the middle longitudinally. When I saw it, it was thickly covered with a most tenacious coat of dirt consisting of indurated layers of milk, ghee, curds, and lamp-black, the offerings of pious pilgrims. I was allowed to clean it, but not without sundry warnings of the risk I ran of incurring the displeasure of the saint.
The dargah contains the tomb of a local saint who, ​tradition says, came from Delhi and settled down here for a long time. At last he determined to return to his native country, but did not intend to take his wife with him; he set out and walked a good distance till overtaken by night, when he slept, but in the morning he found himself back at his house. Again he set out, but only to find himself back at his house next morning. A third time he tried, with the same result. He then gave up the attempt, and settled down here permanently with his wife, the efficacy of whose prayers had worked the miracles. She is said to have been so saintly that the water used by her for her ablutions would cure any disease.
Outside the dargâh, and to its east on a mound under a bat tree, is a large collection of statues in various stages of mutilation; they are mostly of no very ancient date, to judge from the execution. Among the fragments are those of Ganeça, Lakshmi, several lingams, a badly executed slab representing the Nava-graha, Hara Gauri, &c. The village of Hasanpur Kâko is situated on a high mound.
# Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces/Hilsá

HILSÁ.
Hilsá is a considerable village on the banks of the Kathar, or principal branch of the Lilâjan or Phalgu river. It is at the point where the old road from Gya to Fatuhá and the roads from Râjgir to Patna cross the river, and it must naturally have early risen to importance. The principal object of interest here is the masjid. This is avowedly built on the site of a Hindu temple, and under the great flooring slabs in the centre of the central arch is buried, so says tradition, the mighty Hilsa Deo, sealed down with the sacred seal of a local saint. Hilsá Deo was a powerful magician, and was overcome with difficulty. It is possible that the principal statue of the temple is buried here to be "trodden daily under foot by the faithful," but of course it is quite out of the question to try and ascertain this by actual excavation. There are a few statues in various parts of the city, but nothing else of any importance or interest.
# Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces/Gunaria

​Gunaria is situated 3 miles south-east of the Mándá hills; its ancient name Captain Kittoe discovered to have been Sri Guncharita, and it was the site of a large vihara and town; here are also the remains of numerous lingam temples. (J. A. S., Bengal, 1847, page 278)
# Royal Naval Biography/Innes, Alexander

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ALEXANDER INNES, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1810.]
Was made a Lieutenant in July, 1794; Commander, April 29, 1802; and Post-Captain, Oct. 21, 1810.
# Royal Naval Biography/Innes, Thomas

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THOMAS INNES, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1810.]
Received his first commission in Nov. 1790; and was made a Commander into the Pomona armed ship, on the ​North Sea station, Dec. 26, 1799. On the 7th Aug. 1804, being then in the Rambler brig, he attacked a French convoy near Isle Dieu, captured two vessels, and drove the remainder on shore. He was afterwards actively employed in the Childers brig, and Myrtle ship-sloop, until his advancement to post rank, Oct. 21, 1810.
Captain Innes’s lady is a sister to Captain George Sayer, C.B.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.
# Royal Naval Biography/Ingram, George

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GEORGE INGHAM, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in Jan. 1802; and served as such under Captain Henry Gordon, in the Wolverene sloop, until that ship was captured by a French frigate-built privateer, of very superior force, Mar. 28th, 1804. After suffering captivity for ten years, he was advanced to his present rank, June 10th, 1814.
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# Royal Naval Biography/Ingram, Robert

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ROBERT INGRAM, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in Sept. 1806, and commander on the 28th Oct. 1829. He married, Sept. 7th, 1806, Miss Wilmot, of Oyster Street, Portsmouth.
# Royal Naval Biography/Inglefield, Samuel Hood

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SAMUEL HOOD INGLEFIELD, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1807.]
Son of Commissioner Inglefield, R.N. Received his first commission, in Feb. 1798; obtained the rank of ​Commander, April 29, 1802; and was made a Post-Captain Oct. 6, 1807.
This officer served as fourth Lieutenant of the Theseus 74, at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre, in 1799; and was afterwards presented with a gold medal, by order of the Grand Seignior. During the first seven years of the late war he successively commanded the Hunter sloop, Bacchante 20, and Daedalus frigate, on the Jamaica station, to which he was sent with intelligence of the renewal of hostilities, in May 1803.
Whilst commanding the Hunter, Captain Inglefield captured a French armed schooner and five privateers, three of which were Spanish. In the Bacchante he assisted at the capture of another privateer; intercepted a Spanish armed vessel, and took le Griffon French national brig, of 16 guns and 105 men, after an action of thirty minutes, near Cape Antonio, in the island of Cuba. The Daedalus was one of the squadron under Captain Charles Dashwood, at the capture of Samana, and of two French privateers lying in that harbour, Nov. 11, 1808.
On the 3rd Aug. 1809, Captain Inglefield’s frigate was dismasted in a hurricane, off Porto Rico; and being found quite decayed she was paid off at Sheerness, in Sept. 1810. His next appointment was, Oct. 28, 1811, to the Malta 80, in which ship, bearing the flag of his brother-in-law, Rear-Admiral Hallowell, he was employed on the Mediterranean station during the remainder of the war. He now commands the Ganges 84, flag-ship of Sir Robert Waller Otway, K.C.B. on the South American station.
Captain Inglefield married, Oct. 21, 1816, the eldest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral William Albany Otway.
* ↑ See Vol. II. Part I. pp. 62–70.
* ↑ See Vol. I. Part I. pp. 298–308.
* ↑ See Vol. II. Part I. p. 458.
* ↑ Vice-Admiral W. A. Otway died at Ryde, Isle of Wight, July 30, 1815.
# Royal Naval Biography/Inglis, Charles

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CHARLES INGLIS, Esq [Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was first Lieutenant of the Jason frigate, commanded by the present Vice-Admiral Stirling, and greatly distinguished himself in the action with la Seine, of 42 guns and 610 men, as will be seen by the following extract from his Captain’s official letter to Admiral Lord Bridport, dated July 2, 1798:
“In the early part of the battle I had the mortification to be wounded, ​and was obliged to leave the deck; but my misfortune is palliated by the reflection that the service did not suffer by my absence, for no man could have filled my place with more credit to himself, and benefit to the state, than my first Lieutenant, Mr. Charles Inglis, whom I beg leave to recommend in the strongest manner for his bravery, skill, and great exertions.”
We next find Lieutenant Inglis serving in the Penelope frigate, under the command of Captain (now Sir Henry) Blackwood, at the capture of le Guillaume Tell, a French 80-gun ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Decrès, on which occasion he received the following letter from his friend Lord Nelson:
“My dear Sir, How fortunate I did not permit you to quit the Penelope, to be a junior Lieutenant in the Foudroyant. You will now get your promotion, in the pleasantest of all ways, by the gallant exertions of yourself and those brave friends who surrounded you on that glorious night. What a triumph for you what a pleasure to me! What happiness to have the Nile fleet all taken under my orders and regulations! Blackwood’s coming to me at Malta, and my keeping him there, was something more than chance. Ever, my dear Sir, believe me your truly sincere friend,
(Signed)“Nelson and Bronte.”
“To Lieut. Inglis, Gme. Tell, Syracuse.”
The subject of this memoir was subsequently made a Commander, and appointed to the Peterel sloop of war, which vessel he joined at Rhodes, in Oct. 1800. His post commission bears date April 29, 1802. His services during the greater part of the late war are identified with those of Admiral Sir George Martin, whose flag ship he at present commands.
Agents.– Messrs Goode and Clarke.
* ↑ For an account of the action see Vol. I, p. 403..
* ↑ See id. p. 643.
* ↑ Sir George Martin succeeded Sir James Hawkins Whitshed as Commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, in Feb. 1824. His flag is on board the Victory of 104 guns.
# Royal Naval Biography/Ingram, Nicholas

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NICHOLAS INGRAM, Esq [Superannuated Rear-Admiral.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant by Admiral Byron in 1778, and appointed to the Royal Oak, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, who promoted him to the rank of Commander in 1780; from which period he commanded the Star brig until the peace of 1783. His next appointment was in Oct. 1790, to the Shark sloop of war; and on the 3d of the following month he became a Post-Captain. From 1797 till the peace of Amiens; and from the renewal of the war in 1803 till the date of his superannuation as a Rear-Admiral (May 21, 1808), he commanded the Weymouth district of Sea Fencibles. He married, in 1811, Elizabeth Ann, daughter of the late Booth, Esq. of Bristol.
Residence.– Burton Bradstock, Bridport, Devon.
# Royal Naval Biography/Inglis, Charles (b)

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CHARLES INGLIS, Esq. [Commander.]
Eldest son of the late Commissioner Charles Inglis, R.N., who died at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, Feb. 27th, 1833.
This officer was made a lieutenant, July 1st, 1814, at the request, we believe, of the Emperor Alexander, whose attention is said to have been particularly attracted when reviewing the British fleet at Spithead, by a boat belonging to Captain Inglis presenting the miniature appearance of a perfect man-of-war. He subsequently served under Captains Francis Newcombe, Robert Tait, and Charles M. Schomberg, in the Chesapeake frigate, Larne 20, and Rochfort 80, the latter ship bearing the flag of Si. Graham Moore, commander-in-chief on the Mediterranean station. He obtained his present rank on the 23d April, 1829.
# Royal Naval Biography/Alexander, Thomas (b)

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THOMAS ALEXANDER, Esq. A Companion of the Moot Honorable Military Order of the Bath. [Post-Captain of 1814.]
This officer entered the naval service in April, 1795; received his first commission in Jan. 1802; and conducted an explosion vessel into Aix roads, April 11, 1809; at which latter period he was serving as Senior lieutenant of the Resolution 74. His promotion to the rank of commander took place soon after the performance of that gallant service.
Early in 1812, Captain Alexander was appointed to the Devastation bomb, in which vessel we find him very actively employed on the Baltic and North American stations, for upwards of three years.
The Devastation formed part of the squadron under ​
# Royal Naval Biography/Allen, George Bennett

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GEORGE BENNETT ALLEN, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1821.]
Entered the navy in Feb. 1793, at the age of thirteen years, and served the whole of his time as midshipman under Captain (afterwards Admiral) James Vashon, in the St. Albans and Pompée. His first commission bears date, Feb. 9th, 1799.
After serving for six months in the Wasp fire-brig, Mr. Allen was removed to the Apollo frigate. Captain (now ​Admiral) Peter Halkett, with whom he proceeded to the Jamaica station, where that ship was very actively and successfully employed until the peace of Amiens, as will be seen by reference to p. 574 of Vol. I. Part II. During the greater part of that time, he appears to have been senior lieutenant.
Early in 1803, Mr. Allen was appointed to the Princess Royal 98, then commanded by his early patron, where he continued until March, 1805; he then joined the Hibernia, a first rate, bearing the flag of Lord Gardner. We also find him senior lieutenant of the latter ship for several months, when Earl St. Vincent commanded the grand fleet, and displayed the union flag at the main. From May 1807, he held the same office under Lords Gardner and Gambler, in the Ville de Paris and Caledonia, until his advancement to the rank of commander, Aug. 18th, 1809.
Captain Allen’s subsequent appointments were, June 7th, 1814, to the Scylla brig of 18 guns; and Aug. 22d, 1815, to the Rifleman of similar force, fitting for the Jamaica station; where his health became so much impaired that he was soon compelled to return to England: he accordingly exchanged into the Royalist 18, which vessel he brought home, and paid off towards the end of 1816. This officer’s promotion to post rank took place July 19, 1821.
Agent.– Charles Clementson, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Allen, John

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JOHN ALLEN (a), Esq [Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant April 21, 1783; and a Post-Captain, April 29, 1802.
Agent.– William Marsh, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Aldham, George

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GEORGE ALDHAM, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1805.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant June 27, 1792; and obtained the rank of Commander in 1802. On the 9th Aug. 1804, we find him commanding the Nautilus sloop of war, and recapturing a ship of great value from Demerara bound to Liverpool. His post commission bears date Feb. 28, 1805. He married, in 1806, the widow of Captain Boger, R.N.
Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Aldridge, John Williams

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JOHN WILLIAMS ALDRIDGE, Esq. [Commander.]
Was a midshipman on board the Rippon 74, Captain Sir Christopher Cole, at the capture of the French frigate Weser, Oct. 21st, 1813. He passed his examination, at Plymouth, Nov. 3d, following; obtained his first commission on the 4th Feb. 1815; and subsequently served in the Tonnant 80, and Bulwark 76, flag-ships of the late Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew, at Cork and in the river Medway. His subsequent appointments were, – Oct. 3d, 1821, to the Genoa 74, Captain Sir Thomas Livingston, stationed at Sheerness; – Dec. 9th, 1822, to the Prince Regent 120, then on the stocks at Chatham, intended for the flag of Sir Benjamin Hallowell; – and ​June 6th, 1831, to be first of the Rattlesnake 28, Captain Charles Graham, fitting out for the South American station. He was made a commander on the 18th Nov. 1833; and presented with the honorary medallion of the Royal Humane Society, for rescuing a fellow-creature from a watery grave, Jan. 8th, 1894.
# Royal Naval Biography/Allen, John (b)

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JOHN ALLEN (b), Esq. [Post-Captain of 1815.]
Was made lieutenant, Sept. 14, 1807; commander, Feb. 4, 1814; and post-captain, Sept. 20, 1815.
Agent.– J. Hinxman, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Alexander, Thomas

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THOMAS ALEXANDER, Esq Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
This officer was a Lieutenant in 1790; commanded the Hope sloop of war at the capture of a Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay in 1796; and subsequently the Carysfort frigate in the East Indies, where he captured l’Alerte French corvette, of 16 guns. His post commission bears date Dec. 27, 1796. He was afterwards appointed in succession to the Sceptre, 64, Sphynx, a 20-gun ship, and Braave frigate.
On the 23d Aug. 1800, the Braave, in company with the Centurion, Daedalus, and Sybille, the whole under the orders of Captain H. L. Ball, entered Batavia Roads, captured five Dutch armed vessels, and destroyed two merchant ships, fourteen brigs, five sloops, and one ketch. Some time previous to this affair, Captain Alexander had intercepted la Surprise French vessel of war, bound to Europe with two Ambassadors from Tippoo Sultaun, whose treachery, while he was expressing a desire to receive an ambassador from Lord Mornington, the Governor-General, was fully established by the papers taken at Seringapatam.
Captain Alexander being obliged to resign the command of the Braave on account of ill health, came home a passenger in l’Imperieuse frigate, and arrived in England June 12, 1802. His next appointment appears to have been to the Renown, of 74 guns, which ship he left in the summer of 1808; and soon after joined the Colossus, of the same force, the command of which he retained until the peace. On the 19th Aug. 1815, he was appointed to the Vengeur, stationed as a guard-ship at Portsmouth; and on the 12th Aug. 1819, advanced to his present rank.
# Royal Naval Biography/Alexander, John

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JOHN ALEXANDER, Esq. [Commander.]
Served as midshipman on board the Royal George, first-rate, bearing the flag of Sir John T. Duckworth, during the expedition against Constantinople; and was badly wounded by the Turks, at the island of Prota, Feb. 27th, 1807. On the following day, he was promoted to the rank ​of lieutenant. We subsequently find him serving under Captain (now Rear-Admiral) Thomas Harvey, in the Standard 64. His commission as commander bears date. Mar. 14th, 1811.
This officer married, Aug. 22d, 1819, Anna Maria, second daughter of the Rev. J. Price, vicar of Merriott, co. Somerset.