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known to constitute a part of bene- 
volent and philanthropic society. 
All the urbanities of life were his, 
and he seemed, by nature, formed 
to attraét the most grateful. atten- 
tion; generally acquainted as he 
was, from his rank, as. well as from 
his sporting pursuits, with every 
éondition of persons, from the prince 
to the peasant, his conversation was 
happily suited to each, and equally 
winning with them all. 
The prince of Wales, when occa~ 
sionally visiting his lordship om a 
shooting party, saw at no other 
place such a profusion of game of 
every description—such a display of 
attendant gamekeepers—such a no- 
dle, though plain hospitality, as at 
Houghton ; and a park so curiously 
and infinitely stocked with every 
original, in beast and fowl of almost 
every country, from the African 
bull to the pelican of the wilderness. 
When an aétor, a poet, or a hero 
dies, if his reputation be sufficient 
for the posthumous exultation, we 
must look in Westminster Abbey ; 
if a great sportsman retires from the 
busy fashionable scene of life, his 
intrinsic worth can only be ascer- 
tained by a walk to Tattersal’s. 
In a short space of time after lord 
Orford’s decease, his greyhounds, 
(with various other sporting appur- 
tenances) came under the hammer of 
the auétioneer. 
An Account of the Historian, Golam 
Hossein Khan, from Tennant’s 
‘© Indian Recreations.” 
ry giving an idea of the literature 
of India, I cannot omit mention- 
ing Golam Hossein Khan, the late 
author of a work entitled, Seir Mu- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
province with all his connexions. 
takhareen; or, View of Modern 
Times. This work is regarded as 
classical Persian in point of style ; 
and contains a civil history of Hin- 
dostan, from the death of Aureng- 
zebe to the year 1781. ‘The bio- 
graphical anecdotes found in this 
work, concerning many of our coun- 
trymen, who are still living, renders it 
peculiarly interesting ; the details of 
the English conquests in India, and | 
his stri¢tures upon the British go. 
vernment in that ceuntry, conyey 
the ideas of a native, of high cha. 
raéter, upon subjects of the first im- | 
portance. This work, though trans- 
lated into something like English, by 
a renegado Frenchman, is but little 
known, even by Orientalists, except 
by name. 
This Mogul nobleman was a par- 
tizan of the present emperor during 
his fallen fortunes; but, like the 
great Clarendon, he delivers his sen- 
timents with spirit and impartiality ; 
and with a force, clearness, and 
simplicity of style, rarely to be found 
in Asiatic authors, and which justly 
entitle him to pre-eminence among 
the historians of his country. The 
history of his life, given by himself, 
is prefixed to his volumes: somé 
particulars of it I shall insert, for 
it must be interesting to know the 
history of an independent native, 
who has displayed so much penetra- 
tion, sagacity and knowledge, re- 
specting the conduct of the En- 
glish in the government of his coun- 
try. 
‘¢ Golam Hossein Khan was born 
in Shah Jehanabad, in 1140 of the 
Hegira; and being related by his 
mother to Aliverdi Khan, the future 
nabob of Bengal, he repaired to that 
‘¢ Soon after our arrival in Moor- 
shedabad,” says he, ‘* fortune be- 
; gan 
