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in 1795. fe Having succeeded to the musnud 

 <c [throne] of Oude by the assistance of the 

 ff East India Company, he professed great 

 (< partiality to the English. Mild in manners, 

 f< polite and affable in his conduct, he pos- 

 " sessed no great mental powers; his heart 

 fc was good considering his education, which 

 (( instilled the most despotic ideas. He was 

 " fond of lavishing his treasures on gardens, 

 " palaces, horses, elephants, European guns, 

 " lustres and mirrors. 



" He expended every year about two hun- 

 " dred thousand pounds in English manufac- 

 " tories. This Nawaub had more than a 

 " hundred gardens, twenty palaces, twelve 

 " hundred elephants, three thousand fine sad- 

 " die horses, fifteen hundred double barrel 

 " guns, seventeen hundred superb lustres, 

 " thirty thousand shades of various forms 

 (( and colours; several hundred large mirrors, 

 " girandoles, and clocks ; some of the latter 

 " were very curious, richly set with jewels, 

 " having figures in continual movement, and 



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