194 VIZIER'S 



or in witnessing the combats of tigers and 

 buffaloes, or elephants. In the pursuit of 

 such kind of amusements a variety of anec- 

 dotes are related of him 



What 1 have written I think will be suffici- 

 ent to give a tolerably fair idea of his general 

 character ; in the account of which I hope I 

 have not been so prolix, as to exhaust the pa- 

 tience of the reader. 



Sometime after having written the forego- 

 ing description of the character of Asop Ul 

 Dowlah, and his method of sporting, I met 

 with the following 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 corroborates what I have 

 related of him, I trust the reader will not be 

 displeased \\ith rny inserting it at large. To 

 which I shall add an account of Vizier Ally's 

 magnificent wedding, celebrated at Lucknoi$ 



