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Dowla, Zaf-ul-Mooluk, Sip alii Sala, Kahn Jelian, 
Kahn Bahadoor, Boostum Junge ; which severally 
imply — Champion of the State, Sword of the Empire, 
Commander Supreme, King of the World, Lord 
and Prince, the Boostum of Battle. The day follow- 
ing his lordship’s visit was the anniversary of the 
emperor s birth, and it happened that a laughable 
scene occurred, which had like to have terminated in 
an usurpation of the emperor s musnud. The effigies 
of omras still remaining at court, having assembled 
in the presence-chamber, were waiting to pay their 
homage before escorting his majesty to the public 
thanksgiving at the Jumma Musjid ; when a mad- 
man, who, though in truth but a humble sweetmeat 
vendor in the opinion of his fellow-citizens, had for 
some years lived the life of a monarch within the 
world of his own mind, gained admittance, and be- 
lieving himself to be the true Great Mogul, made an 
attempt to mount the royal throne, just as the 
emperor entered the durbar. The chobdars and 
hircarras in attendance succeeded in preventing this 
desecration of a seat sacred to those who can be 
styled u Befuge of the Universe ; ” and seizing the 
culprit by the hair, began to buffet and cudgel him 
very unmercifully ; but the emperor, being informed 
that he was insane, graciously ordered the- wanderer 
to be taken care of, and had his castigators severely 
punished for their cruelty. It is a fact, however, 
that the same musnud was once occupied, with all 
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