CHAP. IX. 



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 observation,, with the few anec- 

 dotes I have heard, I will endeavour to com- 

 rnunicate, 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 Euro- 

 pean 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 



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