HIS PREVIOUS CAREER. 19 



great advantage, having a very neat and soldier- 

 ly seat, indeed he always looks ''every inch a 

 king," and his frank and hearty address is pe- 

 culiarly taking. Although the Meer came to 

 England late in life, he at once adapted himself 

 to English habits ; and here it may not be out 

 of place to give a brief sketch of the previous 

 career of this, the last of the Ameers. Meer 

 Ali Moorad, the independent sovereign of 

 Khyrpoor, was, until recently, the ruler of 

 Uj^per Sindh, and, as such, in the possession 

 and government of territory yielding a revenue 

 of about eleven Lahks of rupees per annum, 

 or £110,000 sterling. His Highness was the 

 youngest child of Meer Sohrab, who very late 

 in life married a young wife, and had by her 

 this one son, Meer Ali Moorad. On Meer 

 Sohrab's death in 1822, Meer Ali Moorad suc- 

 ceeded under his father's will, according to the 

 usages of his country and of the Talpoor dy- 

 nasty, to an immediate patrimonial possession 

 of considerable extent and the reversion of the 

 sovereignty after the death of his elder brothers. 

 After the demise of Meer Sohrab, his eldest 

 son, Meer Roostum Khan, succeeded to the sove- 

 reignty of Upper Sindh ; his youngest brother, 



