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(f playing tunes every hour; two of these 

 " clocks cost him thirty thousand pounds. 

 fc Without tiste or judgement he was ex- 

 " tremely solicitous to possess all that was 

 " elegant and rare; he had instruments and 

 " machine* of every art and science but he 

 fc knew none; and his museum was so ridicu- 

 (C lously disposed that a wooden cuckoo clock 

 ec was placed close to a superb time-piece 

 <( which cost the price of a diadem : while a 

 sc valuable landscape of Claude Lorraine's was 

 " suspended near a board painted with ducks 

 " and drakes. 



C( He sometimes gave a dinner to ten or 

 cs twelve persons,, sitting at their ease in a car- 

 cc riage drawn by elephants. His harern 

 ef contained above five hundred of the great- 

 " est beauties of India, immured within high 

 ff walls, which they were never to leave ex- 

 (C cept on their biers. He had an immense 

 cc number of domestic servants, and a very 

 fc large army, besides being fully protected 

 (f from hostile invasion by the Company's 



