4m WRV^Y OF -THE GANGES. 



main streets lidt above one In five is inhabited ; of some, the roofs have 

 fallen in ; of others, the walls are rent asunder, and many lie a complete 

 heap ofTUiiis. JTherpakce of '-the Raja is exactly in the same situation; 

 some parts of -it are entirely dismantled, and others in so tottering a 

 condition, as to render it unsafe to pass under its walls. Many of the 

 mhabitantSj who: attended ms, expressed much sorrow at these events t 

 and. spoke of their former sovereign, with great marks of feeling. They 

 seemed to >have pleasure in relating little a^*ecdotes,- that 'brought him 

 to" their recollection; and talked, in the presence 6f -some Gurc'hdli 

 Sepdhis, m a manner that astonished .us. -''^.Orhese,^" cried one, *' were the 

 apartments allotted for the Rani aad "her 'attendants ;" *' in those," 

 iaid another^ " the: -Raja . held .liis ccourt, 'here 'he performed his religious 

 ievotiQns,-and there he used -to rr^eposein the heat of the day; but ail 

 is now gone.- to wreck, 'znd what 'the earthquake saved, the Guir'hdlis 

 have destroyed/' These sentiments were no doubt dictated by their 

 real feelings ; for whatever oppressions they might formerly have la- 

 boured under, they no doubt fell short of the exactions of the present 

 'day.^ 



.Under its Gurc'hdli iixleYS, the city is not likely to recover from this for- 

 lorn condition ; for all classes of people complain much of the peculation 

 ©f the chiefs, and of the injustices with the want of method, that attends all 

 their proceedings. On our putting the question to some of the complain- 

 ants, why they continued under so arbitrary a government, or why they 

 did not endeavor to procure a subsistence elsewhere ; they answered, that 

 k was the place of their births ; that a removal to the low lands, after a 

 certain age, was fatal to their constitutions ; and that habit had so far re- 

 conciled the existing evils to their minds, that of two illss .they preferred 



