170 VIZIER'S CHARACTER FROM THE 



" no great mental powers; his heart was good 

 " considering his education, which instilled the 

 " most despotic ideas. He was fond of lavishing 

 " his treasures on gardens, palaces, horses, ele- 

 " phants, European guns, lustres and mirrors. 



" He expended every year about two hundred 

 " thousand pounds in English manufactures. 

 " This Nawaub had more than a hundred gar- 

 " dens, twenty palaces, twelve hundred elephants, 

 " three thousand fine saddle horses, fifteen hun- 

 " dred double barrel guns, seventeen hundred 

 " superb lustres, thirty thousand shades of va- 

 " rious forms and colours ; several hundred large 

 u mirrors, girandoles, and clocks ; some of the 

 " latter were very curious, richly set with jewels, 

 " having figures in continual movement, and 

 " playing tunes every hour ; two of these clocks 

 " cost him thirty thousand pounds. Without 

 " taste or judgment he was extremely solicitous 

 "to possess all that was elegant and rare; he 

 " had instruments and machines of every art and 

 " science, but he knew none ; and his museum 

 " was so ridiculously disposed that a wooden 

 " cuckoo clock was placed close to a superb time- 

 " piece which cost the price of a diadem : while 



