226 HAFIZ. 



Treaty of 1801 the Government charged itself 

 '^ with a suitable provision for the families of 

 the two preceding Nawabs, such to be dis- 

 tributed in the manner that the Nawab just 

 acknowledged should deem proper." On the 

 29tli September, 1801, Lord Olive fixed by a 

 minute of council the amount of the provision 

 which each stipendiary should receive, and even 

 that minute has been set aside, without the 

 least regard to good faith, by the reduction of 

 pensions. One of the sufferers by this, Hafiz 

 Sudr ool Islam Khan Bahader, has been eight 

 years in England, where his gentlemanly man- 

 ners and irreproachable conduct have gained 

 for him troops of friends and well-wishers. 

 Hafiz, I am proud to say, has been my own 

 personal friend for upwards of twenty years. 

 He was appointed by Lord Elphinstoue, in 

 1840, Justice of the Peace and member of the 

 Grand Jury at Madras, but having leisure hours 

 devoted them to the translation of legal and 

 historical works, which met the approval of 

 the best judges ; and since his arrival in Eng- 

 land in 1852 has so assiduously devoted him- 

 self to the study of law, as to elicit most flat- 

 tering testimonials to his qualifications from 



