a86 GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



Plafey, betrayed by his generals, and fbon after taken in an ig- 

 nominious flight, and in lefs than thirty hours murdered by his 

 fucceffor, Meer Jaffier Ally Cawn, on whom we had beftowed 

 the NabobJJjip as a reward of his treafon. His condu6t did 

 not pleafe us ; we depofed him, and advanced to the Mufnud, 

 or throne of power, his nephew. Ally Cojfmi^ Mho began to 

 fhew a fpirit of independency, a crime intolerable ; we dif- 

 carded him alfo, and again placed that Nabob of flireds and tat- 

 ters, poor 'Jaffier, in his feat. That wretched cypher died in 

 1765. Heirs were wanting to the throne, and we very wifely 

 nominated ourfelves to the facceflion. 



We had every reafon to dread the abilities of JVf/r Coffim. He 

 colle£led troops from every part, and gave them the fulled difci- 

 pline which the time would allow. He formed a train of artillery ; 

 he made alliances ; he threatened to oppofe us in Benj^al, in the 

 form of a fecond Ayder AH, with all his cruelty, and all his ta- 

 lents ; and in the end might have proved equally formidable, 

 had we been lefs adlive in fuppreffing this rifing hero. 

 Rajahmahel. Rajahmabel is a town feated on the weftern fide of the river, 



in a parallel with Mauldah ; it was the refidence of the Soil- 

 bahs of Bejtgal, who came there on account of the quantity of 

 game of ch ace which the neighborhood aiforded. At Rajah" 

 rnahel is a moft venerable mofque, founded by Sultan Sujah^ 

 third fon of Sbab Jehan, and brother to Aurengzebe. Not 

 far from it is a palace built by the fame prince, and in the 

 fame ftyle. The mofque is fo large as to have received the 

 whole of the Engli/h part of the army, after the great viiftory 

 at Ouda Nulla. The battle was fought on the banks of the 



Ganges^ 



