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SCENES IN INDIA. 
a scene of perpetual violence, outrage, and devas- 
tation. 
This state of things was at length ameliorated by 
the intervention of the British supremacy in India, 
and finally put a stop to by the Company taking the 
sovereignty of Oude under their protection. A treaty 
was concluded on the tenth of November 1801, by 
which the Newaub ceded to the British Government 
certain portions of his territory, yielding a gross re- 
venue of thirteen millions five hundred and twenty- 
three thousand four hundred and seventy-four rupees, 
on condition that it would relinquish every financial 
or other claim upon that state. 
As an equivalent for these cessions, which in the 
year 1813 yielded an additional revenue of four mil- 
lions of rupees, the English Government undertook to 
defend the dominion of Oude from all foreign invasions, 
and to subdue the internal anarchy into which the 
country had so unhappily fallen. It was thus soon 
released from all foreign and domestic enemies, and 
restored to perfect tranquillity in consequence of the 
awe inspired by its European allies. 
“ Oude is much celebrated in Hindoo history as the 
kingdom of Dasaratha, the father of the great Rama, 
who extended his empire to the island of Ceylon, 
which he conquered. At an early period after the 
first invasion it was subdued by the Mohammedans, 
and remained, with different vicissitudes, attached to 
the throne of Delhi, until the dissolution of that em- 
pire after the death of Aurungzebe. The first ancestor 
upon record of the present reigning family was Saadet 
Khan, a native of Rishapoor, in the province of Kho- 
