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*ppofirion to the vizier. The difputes grew fo high, that 
the brothers left off attending the court, levied troops, 
and fortified themfelves in their palaces; while Ferokh- 
f’ere held councils againft them with Meer Jumlah, Mo¬ 
hammed Ameen Khan, and Khan Dowran; but from 
unpardonable irrefolution, his plans were changed from 
day to day, and nothing was determined. At length the 
emperor’s mother went to Abdallah Khan, and latisfied 
his mind, by agreeing that his troops fliould garrifon the 
citadel, while he and the emir ul omrah vifited her fen. 
Accordingly, the brothers went to court, afked pardon 
for their offences, and complained of the emperor's fufpi- 
cions of their attachment from the infinuations of intri¬ 
guing perfons. Taking off their fwords, they laid them at 
his feet, faying, “ If we are guilty, here are our heads, 
and there the inftruments of punifhment; but if, from 
regard to our fervices, our deaths fliould be uneafy to the 
royal mind, difpiace and diftnifs us from the prefence, 
that we may gather purity in a pilgrimage to Mecca, and 
the holy tombs of our iiluftrious anceffors. If it is the 
royal will to ufe our fervices, and keep us in the prefence, 
to liften to the calumny of the faftious, and injure and 
difgrace us, is contrary to the practice of juft fovereigns, 
and the rules of prudence.” Ferokhfere declared himfelf 
fatisfied ; and it was fettled that Meer jumlah, being pro¬ 
moted to the foubadary of Bahar, fliould be baniflied the 
prefence, and the emir ul omrah marched to the Deccan, 
as governor or viceroy. 
After thefe arrangements, the emperor celebrated his 
marriage with the daughter of the Maharajah Ajeet Sing. 
The emir ul omrah conducted the feftivities on the part 
of the bride; and the marriage was performed with a fplen- 
dour and magnificence till then unfeen among the princes 
of Hindooftan. The illuminations rivalled the planets, 
and feemed to upbraid the faint luftre of the ftars. High 
and low fliared the feftivity, and joy thrilled through the 
veins of all. It was during this happy interval of peace 
and feftivity, that the Englifli Eaft-India Company firft 
obtained from Ferokhfere their firmaun of free trade in 
Hindooftan. 
After the fplendid celebration of thefe nuptials, the 
emir ul omrah, Houffein Ali Khan, was difpatched with 
a fuitable cavalcade to take poffeftion of liis viceroyalty 
of the Deccan. The emperor however had appointed 
Daood Khan, the chief of an Afghan tribe, to aft as de¬ 
puty to the emir ul omrah ; hut with fecret orders to cut 
him off. Daood Khan, therefore, foon began to aft as if 
independent; upon which the emir ul omrah fent a mef- 
fage to him, that, as the government of all the Deccan had 
been conferred upon him, it was neceffary he fliould not 
draw his foot from the circle of obedience, but come to 
meet him fubmiflively, or retire to Delhi. But Daood 
Khan, difregarding this, pitched his camp under the walls 
of Burhampour, and called to his afliftance Neemajee Scin- 
dia, a Mahratta chief, wlio had been taken into the im¬ 
perial iervice by Shah Aulum, and enjoyed the rank-of 
omrah of feven thoufand. The emir ul omrah marched 
to Burhampour; and Daood Khan prepared to receive 
him. The engagement was very bloody on both fides. 
Daood Khan had given orders to his elephant-driver to 
make his way through every obftacle to the emir ul om¬ 
rah, whom he was reiolved to challenge to fingle combat. 
His bravery began to’ carry every thing before it; and at 
length he approached the perfon of the emir ul omrah; 
whofe army, feized with a panic, fied on all fides, leaving 
him with only a few confidential attendants. At this crifis, 
a matchlock-ball ftruck Daood Khan ; who fell dead on 
the feat of his elephant. His followers inftantly dil'perfed, 
and the emir ul omrah founded the trumpet of viftory, 
commanding the body of Daood Khan to be dragged 
at the tail of an elephant round the city of Burhampour. 
On this occafion the following circumftance is related. 
Daood Khan, while foubadar of Guzerat, had married the 
daughter of a zemindar of that province, and flie was at 
the time of his death feven months gone with child. De¬ 
termined not to furvive her lord, lhe ripped open her 
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womb, fo as to fave the life of the infant, and died. 
When the emperor received intelligence of thefe events, 
he was much afflifted, and began again to meditate the 
deftruftion of the two brothers. 
Thefe contentions, however, were for a time fuperfeded 
by a frefti infurreftion of the Seiks. The leader of the 
feft was Bunda, fupported in the command of the infur- 
gents by many refolute chiefs. Abed ul Summud Khan, 
governor of Cachimere, was now promoted to the fouba- 
daiy of Lahore, and fent againft the rebels with a great 
army. After many fevere engagements, he forced Bunda 
to take refuge in a fortrefs, which was blockaded fo ef- 
feftually, as to cut off every fupply. The garrifon was 
reduced to the neceftity of eating cows, horfes, and other 
animals forbidden by their laws ; when at length, having 
no provifion of any fort left, and being reduced to the 
extremity of famine and difeafe, they begged for quarter. 
Abed ul Summud Khan, having planted a ftandard on 
the plain, commanded them to come out, and lay their 
arms under it. He then divided the meaner fort among 
his chiefs, who cut off their heads, and threw their bodies 
into a river near the fortrefs. Bunda, and the other chief 
captives, were fent to Delhi; through which Bunda was 
carried in an iron cage; while his attendants and follow¬ 
ers were covered with fheep-fkins, with the wool out¬ 
wards. The Seiks bore the intuits of the populace with the 
greateft firmnefs ; and fteadily refufed the emperor’s offers 
of life, if they would embrace the Mohammedan faith, 
They were put to death, an hundred each day, for feven 
days. On the eighth, Bunda and his _on, with their re¬ 
maining friends, were executed without the city. A dag¬ 
ger was put into the hands of the chief, who was com¬ 
manded to kill his infant fon; but refufing, the child 
was flain by the executioner, his heart torn out, and forced 
into the father’s mouth. Bunda was then put to death, 
by the tearing off his flefli with red-hot pincers, and other 
tortures, which he bore with the gfeateft conftancy ; and, 
had he not infiifted fimilar cruelties on others, he might 
be regarded a? a martyr to his faith. It is faid, he made 
the following reply to Mohammed Ameen Khan, who 
had remonftrated with him on his conduft: “ When the 
fins of a people become exceffive, the divine Avenger 
fends forth among them a tyrant, like myfelf, to punifli 
their crimes ; but, when the rneafure of juftice is filled, 
commits him to the hands of one more powerful, that he 
may receive the reward of his aftions. What are the cru¬ 
elties and opprefiions of the wicked, if they fliow not the 
rod of the Almighty ?”• 
Shortly after this tragical feene, the eed al .fitter, or 
faft of Ramazan, occurred, when the emperor went in 
ftate, attended by the nobility and troops, to the place of 
public worflrip without the city; and it was rumoured, 
that’ on this day the vizier Abdallah Khan would be 
taken priloner, or affaflinated. The vizier attended, but 
no attempt was made againft him. Jealoufies and appre- 
henfions had however arifen to fuch a height, that he no 
longer thought himfelf fafe without his brother; and ac¬ 
cordingly wrote him to haften to Delhi, as Ferokhfere was 
daily planning fchemes for their deftruftion. 
The emir ul omrah, Houffein Ali Khan, enraged by 
this intelligence from the vizier his brother, refolved to 
haften to his afliftance, and by one decifive blow deftroy 
their enemies. Ferokhfere was now filled with dread, and 
attempted a .reconciliation with the vizier ; who, in order 
to gain time for the arrival of his brother, took a frefli 
oath of fidelity, as did the emperor of regard and attach¬ 
ment; but there was no fincerity on either fide. The 
vizier, by beffowing jaghires, and promifing various ad¬ 
vantageous offices of the ftate, had gained over mod of 
the omrahs and nobility; fo that Ferokhfere had no per¬ 
fon of confequence or ability attached to him, but Jey 
Sing, rajah of Ambere. He advifed the emperor inftan- 
taneoufly to take the field, and truft liis caufe to the bra¬ 
very of his troops ; butinvain. Ferokhfere, cowardly, and 
funk in the voluptuoufnefs of the harem, would not quit 
the walls of his palace, where he continued; at one time 
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