6 5 B The HISTORY of the Book I. 
quifite for that Purpofe in puniflfing the Offenders ; which waited on him, who having made great In tercefiion for 
Proclamation had fuch an Effedty that very exadt Difci- the City, the Soldiers were ordered to defift, and it was 
pline was maintained* and none of the Mogul’s People proclaimed by Beat of Drum, that none of the Inhabi- 
fuffered any Injury. tan ts ftiould be any longer molefted. The Slaughter con- 
On the 10th, an Order was lent to open the Maga~ tinued from Eight in the Morning till Three in the After- 
zines in the Corn-Market, and to fee that Commodity noon ; above 400 Kuzzlehajh were killed, and of the Citi- 
fold at a reafonable Rate, which was abfolutely neceffary,. zens, great and fmall, 120,000 were flaughtered, others 
as things were then circumftanced. A Mob, however, computed them 150,000; what Treafure and Effects were 
was railed upon this Occafion, and thofe who would not plundered, fome Nadir-Sbab had, and a great deal was 
fight for their Country, took up Arms rather than part deftroyed by the Fire. 
with their Com at a fair Price. In ihort, the Perfian Of- In feveral of the Plindu £ Houles, where one of a Fami- 
ficers were kill’d, as alfo a good Number of their Men, ly furvived, he ufed to pile thirty or forty Carcaffes a-top 
and in a few Hours Time the whole City was in Confu- of one another, and burn them, and fo they did in the 
fion. About Eight the next Morning, Nadir-Shah Streets*, notwithftanding which, there Hill remained fa 
mounted on Horfeback, in order to quell the Tumult, many, that for a confiderable Time there was no fuch thing 
and in his Paffage through the Streets, feeing Abundance as palling any of the narrow Lanes. When the Slaughter - 
of his own Soldiers dead Bodies lying about, he was ex- began, thofe who raifed the Commotion difappeared in an 
treamly provoked, yet He moderated his Paffion fo much, Inftant, and left the innocent Shopkeepers, Bazaris , and 
as to give very juft and favourable Orders, though at the many honeft Families, to be butchered by the enraged Kuz~ 
fame Time he detached a ftrong Body of Horfe and Foot zlehajh. Several, jealous of their Honour, not only kill- 
to reduce the People that were in Arms to Reafon. There ed their Women, but laid violent Hands upon themfelves. 
were fome very dirty Circumftances in this Affair, which One of thefe unfortunate Wretches in particular, when 
it is neceffary foould be explained. Some of the Mogul’s the Soldiers came near his Houfe, burned about twenty 
Min ifters had premifed Nadir-Shah a Prefent of a Crore Women of his Family, and was in Expectation of their 
of Rupees , that is, a Million and a Quarter of our Mo- entering every Minute, and killing him ; by Chance they 
ney, on his coming to Dehly , which however they did not miffed that Houfe, but he was 1 b infatuated, that finding, 
raife, but privately excited this Tumult, by giving out, himfelf difappointed, he went out, and bringing fome of 
that Nadir-Shah was killed in his Quarters, and other them back, ftiewed them the Way to his. own Houfe,. 
fuch like Stories, calculated for the Underftanding of a telling them, there was a good deal of Money and Ef~ 
Mob, and keeping up their Fury. The Troops that fefts therein. After they had plundered the Houfe, they 
were detached to reduce them, had ftriCl Orders not to went their Way without killing him, which fo enraged 
proceed to Extremities, till fair Means were found inef- him, that he difpatched himfelf. There were great Num- 
feClual, and even then, they were ordered to be very bers of People, efpecially Women and Children, burnt in 
careful in diftinguilhing between the Innocent and the their Houfes. The very next Day, the Prifoners, and ef- 
Guilty, by firing on none but thofe that were in Arms, pecially the Women, were, by Nadir-ShaFs Order, con- 
and buffering fuch as remained quiet in their Houfes to re- eluded back to their own Houfes, to the Number of fifty 
fide there undifturbed. But as Mobs are apt to miftake thoufand. About ten thoufand Women, in the midft of 
Mildnefs for Fear, and gentle Perfuafions for a Dread of the Confufion, had thrown themfelves into Wells, of 
their Force, fo the People of Dehly , inftead of difperfing, whom there were many taken out alive, two or three 
affembled in Crowds upon their Terraffes, and from thence Days after. 
they furioufly began to throw Stones, and either from one On the Thirteenth, Nadir-Shah having an Account 
of thefe Terraffes, or a Window thereabouts, a Mufket that a Detachment of his Troops that had been fent to 
was defignedly foot at Nadir-Shah , which miffing him, feize the Cannon at the Serai of Roub Allah Khan , had 
killed one of his Officers who flood next him. This been cut oft' by the People, a ftrong Body was fent thither 
made him give way to his Paffion, and to order a general to punifti that Offence, which they did by cutting to 
Slaughter to be commenced from that very Place *, the Pieces five or fix thoufand of them, and bringing in three 
Soldiers in an Inffant getting upon the Walls and Ter- hundred of the principal Perfons Prifoners, who had their 
raffes, began to plunder and kill. Heads ftruck off. The fame Day Proclamation was 
This bloody Scene extended from the Sarafa Ardui r made that every Man ftiould retire to his Houfe and Era- 
which is before the Caftle, to the old Eidgah , which is ployment, without Fear of the Soldiers. Two Days 
three Cofs Diftance, on one Side as far Jittli Tomb, and after, as the great Number of dead Bodies that lay about 
on the other as far as the Tobacco Mandavi , and Paul the Caftle, and in the Bazars , and other Places, caufed a 
Meetai , the whole Streets of the Bazar , and the Alleys very offenfive Stench, they preffed raoft of the People 
and Wards on all Sides the Khanums Bazar , and round they met with in the Streets, and employed them in re- 
about the Jdmih Misjidd , and the Cotton and Jewellers moving the Bodies ; fome, by tying Cords to the Feet, they 
Bazars , were all plundered *, feveral Places were fet on dragged without the City ; fome they threw into the Ri~ 
Fire, and whomfoever they found in the Wards and ver, and thofe whom they imagined to be Hindus , they 
Houfes, Streets, Alleys and Shops, great and fmall. Men piled forty or fifty of their Bodies' a-top of each other and 
and Women, they put to the Sword, even the brute Crea- burnt them, with the Timber of the demoliftied Build-* 
tures did not efcape their Fury ; feveral Women were mgs. 
made Prifoners. Loutf Ali Khan, the Officer who was On the Sixteenth, a Firman , to exempt the Dominions 
appointed to {laughter and plunder, towards the Square of of Perfia from Taxes for three Years, was drawn up, and 
Saad Allah Khan, and Dehly Gate, when he came as far difpatched by a Choppar, at the fame time the Arrears 
as Sirbullind-Kbat ? s Houfe, he, in a great Surprize and formerly due to the Soldiers, as alfo one Year’s Pay before- 
Fright, came out to meet the laid Officer, and reprefent- hand, and fix Month’s Pay as a Gratuity, was given to 
ing to him, that the People of that Quarter were not to all his People, even his Servants, and thofe who traffick- 
blame, he made him defift, and ftop his Men, on promi- ed for Neceffaries in the Camp. On the Seventeeth, Na» 
fmg they ftiould pay a Sum of Money ; but in other dir-Shah fent for Sirbullind Khan , and told him, that he 
Places the Slaughter, Plundering and Burning went on, apprehended his Pretenfions of old Age and Infirmity, 
in a moft barbarous Manner. , Nadir-Shah ,. after he had were calculated purely to retard the railing of the Money, 
given the Orders, returned back to the Caftle. About and therefore he would advife him, for his own fake, to 
Two o’Clock Mohammed-Shah, and Nizam al Muluek be more expeditious, becaufe it was a Thing that would 
* In order to underftand this Word, it is neceffary to obferve, that Hindu, Aridity taken, fignifies a fwarthy, dark-coloured Perfon, and was there- 
fore given to the original Inhabitants of the Country, round about Dehly , from whence it received, in Procefs 01 dime, the Name of Hindojlan, or 
as we commonly write it, Indofian ; that is, the Country of the Hindu s, and many have believed, that from thence the Europeans derived the Name 
®f India , which, however, feems more probably to have been taken from the River Indus. As for the Natives of this Empire, they are ftill dif- 
finguifhed by their old Name of Hindus ; becaufe of that Mixture of Nations which now inhabit their Country, fuch as Moguls, Pattans, Perfi - 
ans. Sic. They are a very harmlefs, inoffenfive People, very laborious and induilrious, but exceedingly contemned and defpifed by the Mohamme- 
dans in general. 
admit 
