CHAP. X. 



A SHORT SKETCH OF THE CHARACTER OF NAWAUB 

 VIZIER ASOP-UL-DOWLAH. 



IF the foregoing description of the manner of 

 sporting has interested the reader, he may 

 perhaps feel a wish to know somewhat more of 

 the man who carried it on with so much splendour 

 and magnificence. I lament that it is not in my 

 power to delineate him as well as I could wish. 

 The little I knew of him from personal observa- 

 tion, with the few anecdotes I have heard, I will 

 endeavour to communicate, and I hope the account 

 will not be uninteresting ; although I designedly 

 omit some of his habits, which, in my opinion, 

 are better buried in oblivion. Many European 

 gentlemen resided long with him, and it is a 

 matter of surprise that none of them have ever 

 given to the public his history and character at 

 large. In this observation I may be mistaken ; 

 but I have never seen any thing more than 

 detached anecdotes of him. He was indeed a 



