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able landscape of Claude Lorraine suspended near a board painted 

 with ducks and drakes. He sometimes gave a dinner to ten or 

 twelve persons sitting at their ease in a carriage drawn by ele- 

 phants. His haram contained above five hundred of the greatest 

 beauties of India, immured in high walls which they were never 

 to leave, except on their biers. He had an immense number of 

 domestic servants, and a very large army, besides being fully pro- 

 tected from hostile invasion by the company's subsidiary forces, 

 for which he paid five hundred thousand pounds per annum. His 

 jewels amounted to about eight millions sterling. I saw him in 

 the midst of this precious treasure, handling them as a child does 

 his toys." L. F. Smith. 



I do not insert Futty Sihng's nuptial invitation, nor any of his 

 letters to me during my residence at Dhuboy ; the contents were sel- 

 dom interesting, and the style far from elegant. A letter from 

 Mirza Zuminum, vizier at Cambay, has afforded one specimen of 

 Persian writing; the two following, from a Mabomedan and Hin- 

 doo sovereign, of very different characters, will be a sufficient 

 illustration of modern oriental epistles. For the first, from the 

 celebrated Hyder Ally Khaun, and the anecdote accompanying 

 it, I am indebted to Sir James Sibbald, formerly ambassador at 

 the court of that nabob : for the latter, to Sir Charles Malet, who 

 filled the same character at the Mahralta durbar. 



In the rainy season of 1?6S, during the war which the East 

 India Company were then carrying on against Hyder Ally, Sir 

 James Sibbald proceeded from Tellicherry to Coimbatoor, where 

 Colonel Wood commanded a detachment from the Madras army, 

 in order to obtain information of the state of the war in that part 



