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with Mr. Turton, leaving the elephants, kc. to follow at a distance. 
We were rapidly conveyed along the lines, where the guards were 
turned out, and presented arms as we passed along, our cavalry 
preceding and following us. By seven I reached my friend Mr. 
Grant's, who is Judge of the district, where I met with that cordial 
reception which I had every reason to expect. Mr. Webb, by 
directions of Major-General Ware, pitched our tents close to the 
garden fence. The General did me the favour of a call imme- 
diately afterwards, as did a Staffordshire gentleman, Mr. Claude 
Russell, Agent here for the Governor-General, with whom I have 
every reason to be pleased. 
August 9. — Imdaud Hossein Khan, Nawaub of Furruckabad, 
paid me a visit. Mr. Russell assisted me in receiving him. As the 
young man is by no means rich, he came with little parade. I 
received him with every attention in my power, having my escort 
under arms, who saluted him as he passed ; he was also compli- 
mented with thirteen guns. The presents were twenty-one trays, 
a horse, and an elephant, amounting in the whole to about 4000 
rupees. He is young, and has an expression of countenance by no 
means interesting. He succeeded to the musnud when a child, in 
consequence of the murder of his father, by his brother, a legiti- 
mate child by the present Begum, who herself was implicated in 
the crime. Poison was the means employed. The Nawaub of Oude, 
who, at that time, was the lord paramount of this province, im- 
mediately seized the parricide, who has been ever since a prisoner 
at Lucknow. The guardianship of the young Nawaub was intrusted 
to a regent, Kherrudmund Khan, his uncle; who, from the defor- 
mity of his person, and the gross manner in which he defrauded 
