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the man represented on the English stage with every princely 

 virtue ; 



" The scourge of lawless pride, and dire ambition. 

 " The great avenger of a groaning world ! 

 " Well did he wear the sacred cause of justice 

 " Upon his prosperous sword. Approving heaven 

 " Still crown'd the righteous warrior with success; 

 " As if it said, go forth, and be my champion, 

 " Thou most like me, of all my works below." Howe's Tamerlam 



Although Timur-lung and other tyrants made such horrid de- 

 vastation in Hindostan, the Mogul annals do not date its final 

 conquest until 1525; when sultan Baber, a descendant of Timur, 

 seated himself on the musnud at Delhi, and assumed the command 

 of the empire. His son Ilumaioon, a mild prince, succeeded him 

 in the imperial dignities, and extended his conquests, as there 

 were still some of the smaller Afghan governments unsubdued; 

 and the kingdom of Guzeiat, with its capital Ahmedabad, pre- 

 served its independence for fifty years longer; when, during the 

 reign of sultan Mahmood, the last of the Pathan dynasty, it 

 yielded to Akber, son of Humaioon, and became a part of the 

 Mogul empire. From that period it formed one of the twelve 

 grand soubahs, and was generally governed by a son of the em- 

 peror, as soubah-dar or viceroy; sometimes that honour was con- 

 ferred upon a favourite omrah, under the title of nawab, or 

 nabob. 



In the beginning of the eighteenth century, when many of 

 the distant provinces shook oft* their allegiance to the Mogul em- 

 peror, and these nabobs established themselves as independent 



