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 The fuppofedBHOW remained a prifoner in the Anmeins Cutcherry zv-Benaris, till Mr. Graham' ha*- 1 

 ving confulted the board at C. buna, received their orders to fend hkri to Cbunarghur, and deliver him 

 in ch <rge to the commanding officer there ; and they at the fame time di reded him to inquire particu- 

 larly into the truth or falsehood of his ftory. This perfan was accordingly Confined at Chunargbur 

 where Mr. Graham went feveral times, and Cent for- the prifoner-,* whom hequcftioned particularly ref- 

 peeling his whclc ftory ; the refult of which was, his feeling 'fome difpolkion to credit his beino- the- 

 Show, and cccafionally affifti-ng him with money. Soon after Mr. G r ah a-m. went ta.Gakutta carry- 

 ing with himan agent on the part of the fuppofed Ehow ; but in a fhort time after, he himfelf going to 

 Madras as Secretary to Sir Eyre Coote, nothing was determined refpeding that.affair, and the orrfortun-.. 

 ate man remained a prifonertill AuguH 1781, when Mr. Hastings the GovernorGeneral came to Rena* 

 res, and the troubles with R a j a Chiyt Sing commenced. During the time of fvtr. Hastings's re- 

 fidenc.fi at Chunargbur, he fent for the prifoner, and, after hearing his ilory, ordered -himixo bereleafedi : 

 she man returned to Benarh, where-he died foon after. 



Among others, Kassi Rajh Pundit; the aothorof this book, being at ^K^r/Vwlien rhe -'"""pofe'J 

 Show refided there, went to fee him, and faid ( as Balgobind had done) that the perfon exactly re- - 

 fembled the realBHOw, and that the marks upon him (the fame as mentioned in his Narrative &£jdis 

 Battle of Pan?$&t\ exactly correfponded, but that the manner and temper, were different... 



Thus the affair ftands at prefent, a fubjeet for unbounded conjectures, and the Benares"** how will -< 

 generally be claffed with Lambert Stmxel, Pe r ki n W-a r beck..-, the /c/^/a*.,. Deme r* 13,. and - 

 many others whom ill fuccefs has tranfmitted to poilerity as impoftors, when better fortune in the preca r 

 rious appeal to the fword, would perhaps have ftamped them the real much injured heirs of their do- 

 mains reftozed by the hand of heaven, to b-lefs their,- fubjefts by the. benign exerxife. of legi.tim.ate au=- 

 ihothy % 



at The vanquished rebel like a rebel dies : . 



'« The vidor rebel plumes him on -a throne." 



This man had writte-n a Hiftory of himfelf in the Per/tan* Language, which he ga.v-e to Mn .Thomas 

 Graham, who would have indulged me with the perufd of it, but having left it behind him when h® 

 went to the coaft with thekte Sir Eyes Coot2, in aplace not fufficieatly dry-, it was unfortunately def. 

 troyed by vermin. 



p. 1 33 a Sbumjbere,) This was the father of- Atv Behad-er., now- at Munr-a. (in- 17:90)- wkk 



TOKOJEE H.ULKER % 



p„ 133. He ixijbed.)' Thjs is the only hiftorical intimation that I remember to. have metwith of this. 

 fadl, yet it is extremely probable, and Lwas told by people of the firft authority, when I was at Debly,, 

 that the connection, which Ahmed. Sh ah Du r r am y formed with the Houfe of Tim,ur when he was, 

 SnHiNDoSTAN, was with that view. He himfelf married a Daughter of Mohammed Shah, and 

 gave a young Daughter of Alumghire Sani (confequently a filter or half filter of Shah Alum^ 

 to his fon Tjmur Shah who has fince fucceeded him in the throne of Kabul, &c. But his conftanft 

 apprehenfjons on the fide of Ptrjt a , and a difpofuion void of entcrnrife, have hitherto prevented TiM.ua 



