Chap II. 
This was Mohammed-Khan^ his Father’s Prime Minifter* However, a Fad* of this fsfatiire could riot be frarifaded 
who had always fupported him even at the Hazard of his fo privately* but it was at laft difcovered ; and though the 
Intereft. The Emprefs, who hated that Minifter for ms- Murderers were Perfons of that Confequence, that the 
ny Reafons, and efpecially, becaufe he was the only Rival Emperor could not puniffi it in the Manner it dele rved* 
that her Brother Afaph-Khan had in the Emperor’s Favour, yet he, from thenceforward* determined to make his 
placed Things in fuch a Light to her infatuated Huf- Grandfon Bolaqui , the Son of Sultan Cofr&u , his Succeffor* 
band, that at laft he gave his Confent that this great who appeared to be a Prince of great Expeditions, and 
Man, who had deferved alike well of himfelf and of his then about feventeen Years of Age. This Prince there- 
Subje&s, ftiould be murdered. The Scheme laid for fore was brought to Court, and treated as the prdumptivb 
this Purpofe, had as much in it of female Management as Heir of the Crown, while Sultan Chorrom was commanded 
of Malic'e. A Company of Indians , who were polled in to retire to his Government of Decan. Here he (pent his 
a Hall through which he was to go to the Emperor’s Time in making Alliances with the neighbouring Rajahs*, 
Apartment, had Orders to ftab him in his Paffage. Had and by Prefents and Offers of Preferment, brought over 
this Commiflion been given to one refolute Man, the rnoft of the bell Officers in the Empire to his Party* 
Thing had probably been done ; but thefe People behaved while the old Emperor fpent his Days in the Amufements 
in fo cowardly a Manner, that they difcovered the Deftgn of the Seraglio, or over a Bottle, with his Friends , for 
without executing it, and Mohammed , who had much either the Sultanefs now indulged him in it, or ihe had 
perfonal Bravery, forced his Paffage into the Emperor’s not that Influence over him, as when her Charms were in 
Apartment, where, finding him furrounded by Officers, their Bloom. 
upon whom he could depend, he feized upon his Perfon, It was while Things remained in this Situation, that 
forced him to mpunt his Elephant, and then fearing him- Jehan Guire enjoyed the pleafan teft Part of his Reigm 
Pelf by him under the fame Canopy, with a Dagger drawn He fpent the hot Summer Months in the little Kingdom 
in his Hand, he fent the Emprefs Word by one of her own of Cachemirc , which all the Eaftern Writers reprefent as 
Spies, that the Life ok Jehan Guire fhould anfwer for it, if incomparably the fineft Country in the World. It is the 
any Attempt was made to hinder his Paffage. In this moil Northern Part of the Dominions of the Great Mo- 
Manner he conducted the Emperor to his own Palace, gul, and is* ftri&ly {peaking, no more than a Valley, fur- 
where he was very fafely guarded , for Mohammed was not founded by high Mountains. The Air is temperate and 
only General and Commander in chief of the Army, but wholfome, the Country rich and fruitful, and the People 
had it entirely at his Devotion ; fo that notwithftanding valiant in War, laborious and induftriou.s in Time of 
this furprifing Accident, there was not the leaft Stir Peace. It v/as in this beautiful Region that the Empe- 
amongft the Soldiers, nor any Attempt made to refcue ror indulged himfelf in all the Pleafures of a rural Life, 
the Emperor out of his Hands. While he had him thus His Palace was elegant and agreeable* but, at the fame 
in his Cuftody, he obliged him to continue fober, and time, rather convenient than magnificent * his Gardens 
reprefented to him, in very plain Terms, the bad State large, but irregular, and remarkable, rather for their Re- 
of his Affairs, and the bad Conlequences that muff necef- femblance to a Foreft, than for the Decorations that are 
farily attend the Intrigues of the Sultana. In the mean derived from Art. The Emprefs, that Ihe , might feem 
time, he direfted every thing as he was wont to do, in to comply with t;he Humour of fo kind a Hufband, 
the Emperor’s Name *, levied Troops, and made open eondefcended to fliare in thefe rural Delights, and particu- 
Preparations for War. The young Prince, who was all hx\j diverted herfelf with feeding tame Filh in her Ca- 
this Time in the Field, collected alfo a numerous Body of nals, fome of which were many Years afterwards known by 
Men, the belt Part of whom however were Indians for Fillets of Gold which fhe caufed to be put round them, 
having married a Wife of that Nation, and having always In the winter Seafon, when the rainy Weather makes it very 
ftudied to oblige the Rajahs , his chief Intereft lay among uncomfortable living in the Indies , Jehan Guire contrived a 
thofe People, who promifed themfelves great Things fingular Method ot amufing himfelf at Agra. or Labor. He 
whenever he came to the Crown. carried a kind of Fair to be kept in the Galleries of his 
But all their Hopes were dallied by Mohammed , who Palace, where the Omrahs and Rajahs kept Shops, and 
releafed the Emperor, defeated Cofrou , and fent him and attended them with their Wives and Daughters. The 
his Family Prifoners to the Citadel of Guallier. While Emperor and the Royal Family were their only Cuftom- 
the Prince remained in this Captivity, Hour Jehan made ers, and amufed themfelves in going from Shop to Shop, 
Mm an Offer not only of his Liberty, but to affure his cheapening Goods and hagling for them as if they were 
Succeffion to the Crown, if he would marry her Daughter, in earned: concerned, about laying out their Money 
whom fhe promifed to divorce from his younger Brother But thefe kinds of Pleafures were frequently interrupted 
Shehriar , as being an una&ive Prince, and never likely to by untoward Accidents in the Imperial Family, and fome- 
maintain himfelf upon the Throne, if he ftiould be placed times too by Caufes of another Nature. The wife and 
upon it. But fuch was Sultan Cofrou’ s Contempt, or Pre- potent Shah Abbas was, at that Time, Monarch of Perfia , 
judice to Hour Jehan’ s Family, or, as others fay, fuch was and a formidable Neighbour to the Mogul. He revived 
his Pafiiori for one of his Wives, that he refufed to comply the Pretenfions which his Predeceffors had on the Principal 
with her, even in thofe wretched Circumftances. Afaph lity of Khandahar ; and one Summer, when Jehan Guire 
Cham , Brother to the Sultanefs, alfo encouraged the un- was diverting himfelf in the Kingdom of Cachemire , the 
fortunate Cofrou to perfift in his Refolution, having an Inte- Schah lent an Embaffador to demand the Reftitution of 
reft to manage diftinbt from that of his Sifter’s , for Sul- that City and Country, agreeable to the Promife made by 
tail Chorrom, the third Son of the Emperor, as has been his Grandfather Amayum. The Emperor fent Orders im- 
obferved , ( had married his Daughter ; and if Sultan mediately to the Viceroy of Multan , which is the neareft 
Cofrou and Nmr Jehan ftiould be .reconciled, his Son-in- Province to Khandahar , to affemble, with the utmoft Ex- 
law could never hope to fucceed. But, to make all fure, pedition, an Army for its Relief ; but being informed that- 
left Sultan Cofrou , induced by the Hardfhips he buffered, the Thing v/as impoflible, he fent Inftruf lions to the Go- 
er the Hopes of a Crown, might, at length, be prevailed vernor of the Fortrefs of Khandahar, which is the ftrongeft 
on to comply with the Sultanefs, he procured the Emperor Place in the Indies , to fet a good Face upon the matter, 
to fend for Sultan Chorrom to Court, where they agreed and to deliver up the City and Caftle, as loon as the Per - 
together to caufe Sultan Cofrou to be privately murdered in Jtan Army appeared. The Governor, however, could not 
Prifon. It was firft attempted by Poifon, but the Prince believe his Eyes, and being a better Subject than a. 
fufpe&ed the Befign, and would eat nothing but what was Statelman, was unable to comprehend that any Reafons 
dreffed by his beloved Wife ; whereupon they refolved to could be ftrong enough to induce the Emperor to part 
take the flioiteft Way, and ordered the Captain of the with a Place of fb great Strength, and fo much Impor- 
Fortrefs to ftrangle him, which was executed without the tance •, he therefore defended it very bravely for fix Months, 
Emperor’s Knowledge. and did not even furrender it then, till the Breach was 
p This Diverfion has been much ufed by his Succeffors, but efpecially by his Grandfon ; though it has always given great Offence to the Omrahs 
and Rajahs, becaufe it obliges them to expofe their Wives and Concubines, which tho’ done only to the Imperial Family, is not born by them hut 
with infinite Uneafineft, aad the rather, becaufe this has foragtimes pccafioncd the carrying their Wives into the Imperial Haram, 
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