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»«Ulress (or \rliat most men uoisltl call {he meanest of hU subjects: at four. 

 a remoiistraiKx") soliditiniy a iclii'f IVoin dressed in t!ie most t^oiircoiis apparel, 

 both, should be prescntetl by rcspecfaliln lie showed Ijirnsclt" (o his |jc()j)lf, thru 

 itativc>s, wiio never till now <(iioslioned a^j^ain went to prayers, and afterwanfe 

 our policy, 4)nt who, on the contiaiy, transacted public business with iiis 

 bowed with checrt'niness, and submitted g-reat officers, uiu^n ho did not tail tu 

 wilb graiitnile and respect, to every act censure tlie eondnet, or dismiss froiii 

 of the government. ofTiee, those who had been guilty of 

 AURUNGZEBE. malpractices. IJis hall of state, calleJ 

 The remains of Atinmgzebc's palace the ball of tire flnfy pillars, was a most 

 bespeak twjthing ^rand or iniposin;; ; n)ap;nifi('cnt bniltliuvc. T!i(> rails « jjiclj 

 and from the rnins we shonid be led to divided the courts vu-rn of pure Roif!, 

 suppose it had ori;;inally been neither and the roof of tlie hall of silver; btsf 

 noble nor sjiaoious. He vv;is not a in:in •'mt of this place, and with his family, 

 who caretl much ab()ut his persoiial Anrnngs-i'be dressed in li)0 plainest 

 comforts, and was rather penurious in manner, lived on the phiinest food, 

 liis expenditure of money. Cunstuntly kept regular iionrs, aud was, in his re- 

 occupied by external war, and ot'len dis- tirement, a phitos(i|)her and anehoief, 

 turbed by internal comniotion, he had but in bis court a kiri^, and in the lieKl 

 other matters to employ his lime, and on au active and intrepid soldier. 

 which to expend his revenites, than on christian cowlksiov. 

 objects of pomp; and I linve been in- It was partly the topic of conversn- 

 formed that a great part <if the money tioii among a party of eight highly iv- 

 expended in the erection of the irreat speclable Hindoos and Mussnimans f 

 mausoleum was supplied by Kabea met by appointment in the garden-hotist- 

 Lersclf. of the venerable Shah Safit ; the mild- 

 It is necessary to offer a word or two iiess of whose manners, and the total ab- 

 on the once roval inhabitant of these senee of all bigotry in his conversation, 

 dilapidated walls, Aunmgzebe. He rendered him not only a pleasing, btit au 

 commenced his reign in the year of the iiistnietive, liiend. 

 flight (Hegira) lOfiH.or of the Christian Upon my mentionmg the well-known 

 era 1658, and died in the Hegira 1117, natne of Swariz, the company said that 

 or A.r>. 1707. In religious professions no renZ converts had ever been made; 

 lie was a thorough paced hypocrite. He that those who had professed Christian- 

 was niggardly to a proverb, but fond of ity were men who bad lost their caste 

 splendour and show, whicli he made his for crime, or some abomination, ami 

 nobles support, and to their forced <on- they were glad to become Christians ; 

 Iributions may be ascribed all the mag- or that those who were in the very <lc- 

 iiificetice that appeared at the Moghul graded ranks (the Sudra), having 

 court. nothing to lose by t'le change, born pol- 

 Aurungzebe had many good qualities; luted, aiid always avoided by the other 

 be was attentive to business, watchful ranks, would wish to assume another 

 of the condii<;t of his oflicers, accessible character, and that was always allaiti- 

 to the com|)laints and peiitions of his able by their becoming Cliristiaris; but, 

 people ; and, as far as tln^ disorganizi.d even with this w retched people, on*' 

 materials of which a Mahomedan go- success, dishonouralile as the converts 

 vernment wotdd permit, did all he conid were, was very trilling; and many, find- 

 to alleviate the miseries of the people, ing that nothing was to be gained by tlie 

 and to introduce justice and mildness change, and that the i)roniises held out 

 into the government of his provinces, to them had not been (iilfiileil, had re- 

 He had none of those danniing <pialities lapsed into tiieir former state. "Why," 

 so common in Mabomedan (niiices, who cvchiimed IMurraiic Sing (a Hindoo 

 ar(! geiKJrally dissi|ial(!d, iiisalia dy ava- who was present, and who could tead 

 ricious, boundless in extravagance, and Etiglish), " do you not convert the Jews, 

 jmmrxlerately addicted to «.omcn. 'I'o who live among )o'i> l<-i'ow your vrlues, 

 g'ralify and support these vices, they and the excellence of jour faith, and 

 slick at no enormity or crime. An- whose forefathers knew of the proplie- 

 riiiigzebe was an exception to these very cies, and saw the wonders mentioned in 

 common traits. Hi- rose at br( ak of your Vedas J" I replied, that they 

 day, baliied, ami went to prayers at were a i:tubborn rucc, anti the denuii- 

 seven o'clock: at eleven he attemled to cialions against their raei; had b(;eii fnl- 

 pul)lic business nt person, reci-iving ap- (illiul ; and I iMst;ni<;<'il the occasions 

 penis, andlislcniiig lo the complaints of and limes. "J hat is li.e inor;' intavoitr 



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