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with accounts of necromantic endeavours against the Nizam's 

 life; casting another ridiculous ray of light on the folly of that 

 sill}' durbar. It seems suspected, that TTiiVNiAT an Nissa, 

 begum, (Sekander Jah's mother) and the minister Azim ul Om- 

 raii, are jealous of the superior talents, spirit, and generosity, of 

 Fkridun Jaii, his Higlmess's second son, and are using these 

 shameful practices to undermine his father's affections. Evidences, 

 manifestly suborned, affirm, that certain incantations have been 

 performed on a wooden figure, arrayed in a suit of clothes, pro- 

 cured for the unholy purpose by the mother of Feridun Jah, 

 from the Nizam's wardrobe, and that this effigy of his Highness 

 was buried. The figure has been dug up, and produced, with 

 some of the Nizam's hair, found drawn into its side; correspond- 

 ing with the local seat of his highness's paralytic affection ; his 

 barber has been arrested, on suspicion of having furnished the 

 hair. But the old prince seems to have sense sufficient to 

 disbelieve his son being capable of acting so basely; and says, 

 plausibly enough, that if he hath been palsied by sorcery, a dis- 

 covery thereof should, by all necromantic rules, break the spell, 

 and restore his withered limbs to their functions; whereas he con- 

 tinues as decrepit and helpless as ever. A Moghlani (or female 

 Mogul) in Azim ul Omrah's family, who pretends to hold con- 

 verse with spirits, has made all this stir. She affirms the Nizam 

 to be under the influence of sorcery; and that his present disease 

 is the effect of the incantations of no less than twenty-five magi- 

 cians of Hydrabad, whom she offers to point out; and has named 

 a nephew of an asseel, or bed-chamber woman of the Nizam, as 



