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Salt has had a severe attack of a bUioas fever, which has so com- 
pletely reduced him, that his accompanying me is totally out of the 
question. 
July ^3.^ — Colonel Scott gave a public dinner to me previous to 
my departure from Lucknow. His Excellency tlie Nawaub Vizier, 
and most of his sons, met me there. It was a conclusion of the most 
uniform series of attentions that could possibly be shown to me 
during my residence there. He is an able and active man ; his 
manners at first are cold and repulsive, but the coldness comes not 
from the heart, and on a friendly intercourse it totally disappears. 
The ability with which he executed the difficult task of arranging 
with the Vizier the treaty of ceding a part of his Excellency's 
territories, has been fully acknowledged by Lord Wellesley. The 
Vizier, I perceived, had an idea that the Colonel had always repre- 
sented his conduct in the most unfavorable light to the Governor 
General, and continued so to do. I used my utmost endeavours to 
remove this unfounded prejudice from his mind, and I flatter 
myself that I left them much better friends than they had pre- 
viously been. 
July 24. — As it was a matter of indifference whether the formal 
leave of the Nawaub was taken in the morning or evening, I ac- 
cepted his Excellency's invitation to dine with him this day. 
Accordingly, accompanied by Colonel Scott, we proceeded early to 
the Dowlat Khanah in the same state as when I paid him my visit 
on my arrival. The elephants and guards were paraded as usual, 
and he received us on the steps of the palace, whence we accom- 
panied him to the garden of his mother's zenana. We were seated 
in the same garden-house as on the former visits. Compliments of 
