BENARES. 
committed, justify every measure of security, and even of severity, 
which has been exercised towards him. That he was not the son of 
Asoph ud-Dowlah, has been incontrovertibly ascertained by Sir 
John Shore, who acted with the most scrupulous delicacy in the in- 
vestigation ; and the allowance he received, of a lac and a half of 
rupees per annum, was amply sufficient to maintain him, not only 
in affluence, but splendor. It is superior to the income of the Kutluc 
Begum and her son; and therefore Vizier Ali could have had no 
well-grounded cause of complaint. His haughty mind, however, 
was unable to brook the inferiority of a private station. He had, 
when on the musnud of Oude, lavished large sums on the soldiers, 
and considered himself as having many friends among them. Saadut 
Ali, his successor, from his parsimony, was by no means a popular 
character; he therefore looked forward with the hope that distur- 
bances would arise, which from his vicinity to Benares he might 
foment, till they ultimately replaced him in power. Conscious 
that this could only be accomplished by the extermination of the 
English, he appears to have endeavoured to form a Mussulmaun 
league to drive these heretics from the East. The papers, found 
in Madoodoss's garden, discover that this attempt was not unat- 
tended by success ; and the implication of Mirza Jumma, the son 
of Jehan Bukht, and of Shums-ud-Dowlah, the brother of the Nawaub 
; of Dacca, proves that no dependence is to be placed on the grati- 
tude or attachment of the highest Mussulmauns. Thave given in 
the Appendix, a translation of the letter found amongst Vizier 
All's papers, from Shums-ud-Dowlah to Zemaun Shah, conjuring 
.him to place himself at the head of the league, and liberate the 
. Mussulmauns of India. 
