CARACCIOLLI'S LIFE OF LORD CLIVE

Sir,—Can you, or any of your readers, give me any information relating to Caraccioli's *Life of Lord Clive*? It is a book in four bulky octavo volumes, without date published, I believe, at different periods, about the year 1780—perhaps some years later. It enjoys the distinction of being about the worst book that was ever published. It bears, on its title-page, the name of "Charles Caraccioli, Gent." A writer in the Calcutta Review, incidentally alluding to the book, says that "it is said to have been written by a member of one of the councils over which Clive presided; but the writer, being…