CJ4 An ACCOUNT OF 



Ahmed Shah' Durra-ny, after the defeat of D/>TTE\ Jib Putul 

 S india, cantoned his army in the diftriet of Ad/fla' upon t!:c 

 banks of the Ganges ; andDATTEA Jee Patul himfelf having teen killed 

 in an action with Nujeib-ul-Dowlah, the latter wts apprehenfive of 

 theconfeqtiences of the refentment of the Mahrattas, and therefore united 

 himfelf clofely with the Durr any Shah, who was himfelf excited to 

 invade Mindoflkn by a wiih to revenge the defeat of his General JeHan 

 Khan the preceding year, but frill by the folicitations of Nujeib-ul-dow- 

 lah, who agreed to bear the extra-charges of the Shah's army and* 

 being himfelf a man of great military reputation, as well as an able poli- 

 tician, had perfuaded all the Rohilla chiefs and the Patansglt Ferokhabad to 

 join the Durrany Shah. 



The Bhow, befides his own Decany troops, had brought with him 

 all the auxiliaries that he could collect in Malwa, Janfye, &c. under the 

 command of the feveral Aumils, fuch as Naroo Sh unker and others; and, 

 as joon as he arrived at the river Chum by I, he fent a confidential perfon to 

 Raja Surja Mdl chief of the Jauts, propohng a conference and that 

 Surja Mul mould enter into alliance with him. Surja Mul fent 

 him word in reply, that his negotiations with the Mahrattas had always 

 been conducted through the mediation of Mulhar Row and the Sin- 

 deas, and that, if they chofe to interfere on the prefent occafion, he was 

 ready to wait on the Bhow. The Bhow from neeeiTity afked thofe Chiefs 

 to aflift him in this matter, which they having eonfented to, as foon as the 

 army of the Mahrattas approached to Agra, Surja Mul paid his refpects 

 to the Bhow, and, the eonverfation turning on the moil advifable mode of con- 

 ducting the war, Surja Mul faid; " You are the mailer of Hitidojlan, 

 «' poifeiTed of all things : I am but a Zemindar, yet will give my advice 



