VIZIER'S CHARACTER. 169 



phants. In the pursuit of such kind of amuse- 

 ments a variety of anecdotes are related of him. 



What I have written I think will be sufficient 

 to give a tolerably fair idea of his general cha- 

 racter ; in the account of which, I hope I have not 

 been so prolix as to exhaust the patience of the 

 reader. 



Sometime after having written the foregoing 

 description of the character of Asop-Ul-Dowlah, 

 and his method of sporting, I met with the fol- 

 lowing very interesting account of him in the 

 English Annual Biography and Obituary for 1819, 

 under the head of Vizier Ally ; and, as it far 

 exceeds my statement of his magnificence and 

 wealth, and at the same time most decidedly cor- 

 roborates what I have related of him, I trust the 

 reader will not be displeased with my inserting it 

 at large. To which I shall add an account of 

 Vizier Ally's magnificent wedding, celebrated at 

 Lucknow, in 1795. "Having succeeded to the 

 " musnud (throne) of Oude by the assistance of 

 44 the East India Company, he professed great 

 " partiality to the English. Mild in manners, 

 " polite and affable in his conduct, he possessed 



