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of Muh'ammed Shah's camp and post themselve 

 on the road that led to Delhi : this party received 

 accounts on the night of Tuesday the 15th, that 

 Saadet Khan, known by his title of Burhdn ul 

 Mulk, and one of the chief nobles of the empire 

 had reached MaJahat accompanied by an army of 

 30,000 men, a train of artillery, and a number of 

 elephants, and intended forcing a junction with Mu- 

 h'ammed Shah. 



With a view of intercepting this force, we marched 

 our army, two hours before day break, to the east of 

 Carnal, and occupied the road between that village and 

 Fanipet. This movement, we hoped, would force 

 Muh'j^mmed Shah from his entrenchments. About 

 an hour and a half after day light we had passed Carnal^ 

 and gained the east side of the Hmdustam camp, 

 when the advance guard made prisoners some stragglers 

 of Saadet Khan's party, from whose information we 

 learnt, that that general had succeeded in his design 

 of forming a junction with the emperor; in whose 

 camp he had arrived at ten o'clock the preceding 

 night. , 



On this Inteliigence we were pleased to order 

 our royal tents to be pitched on the ground which we 

 then occupied, opposite to the camp of Muhammed 

 Shah, from whom we were distant about one 

 farsakl). 



As the junction of Saadet Khan had been the 

 cause of Muhammed Shah's delays, he conceived on 

 that event his appointments to be complete ; and, 

 leaving two thirds of his cannon for the protection of 

 his camp, he advanced with a great part of his army, 

 a third of his artillery, and a number of his elephants, 

 at twelve o'clock the same day, lialf a farsakh in the 



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