After having interrupted our narrative by relating these little occurrences, we shall revert to the stream of our history. The inhabitants of the province of Adjmir and the city of Ahmed-abad-G8djerat, being dissatisfied with their Governor, who was the Navvab Radja Djehi-sing, they sent some of their body to complain of him at court. They found that the Radja, out of hatred to the two Sëid brothers, and also out of partiality against the Mussulmen in general, with whom he was eternally at variance, had been guilty of various excesses. These complaints having been found grounded, the Radja lost both his appointments, and Haïder-c8ly-qhan was appointed to the government-general of Troubles in G8djerat. the G8djerat, which was conferred upon him in the amplest manner, comprehending the Fojdary of all the districts relieving of the Imperial Qhalissah, together with the Divanship and Controul-office, to all which were added the command and receipts of the city and port of S8ret-bender (Surat). Cazem-phan, one of the Mansobdars of the province of G8djerat, was appointed Naïb-s8bah, or Lieutenant-governor, with three thousand horse added to his grade, and two thousand to command; moreover, he was decorated with the surname of Shudjaat-qhan, and with a standard and a Nagara,* as was his brother, Moorteza-c8ly-beg, with the grade of a thousand horse, and the command of five hundred, and the surname of Rostem-aly-qhan. To these distinctions were added the Deputy-governorship of the several Purgunnahs or districts dependant on Bröudah. Distinctions were likewise bestowed on Räy-rag8nat, Divan to Haïder-c8ly-qhan. He was first promoted to an increase of grade and an addition of command, and then ordered to attend to the finances of the G8djerat and of the port of S8ret-bender; and as a com­pensation to Camer-eddin-qhan, who had heretofore enjoyed the collection of that port, he received the Fodjdari of M8rad-abad, vacant by Haïder-c8ly-qhan’s promotion. The government of the province of Adjmir was bestowed on Muzafer-aly-qhan, a noble­man who had been introduced at court by Qhandö8ran and Radja Djehi-sing-sevai. He was further presented with a Serpitch,* of jewels, a Qhylaat, and an elephant, and then dismissed to his government. Atyah-ollah-qhan, son to Yanïet-ollah-qhan, was appointed to the office of Postmaster, as was Fazl-aly-qhan, to the superintendency of the elephant office, vacant by Terbïet-qhan’s dismission, and both received their Qhylaats, or dresses of honour. Saad-eddin-aly-qhan, who had come on the part of Nizam-el-mulk, to pay his obeysance, and who on that General’s recommendation had been promoted to the grade of five thousand horse, with the command of three, and to a Nagara, was now honoured with a Qhylaat.

News came about this time that Radja Adjet-sing’s Naib or Deputy in Ahmed-abad, being informed that his master’s office was vacated, and sensible that he would himself soon meet with his reward for the oppressions he was guilty of against all ranks of men, resolved before a successor should come upon him, to enjoy a full revenge against the inhabitants, by plundering the merchants and sacking the city, and committing as much mischief as he could, before he should take his leave finally. But he was mistaken in his reckoning. There was then in the city a noble­man, called Mehr-aly-qhan, who having been Paymaster of the forces and Deputy-governor on the part of the Radja Adjet-sing, had fallen under the lash of the auditing office, and now lived discontented and upon ill terms with his former master, as well as with the new Governor Haïder-c8ly-qhan, who on his side was dissatisfied with him, as well as with a friend of his, Sefder-qhan-babi. These two men joined together to rid themselves of the Deputy-governor’s violence, and resolved to render such a service as should evince their zeal and acquire some right upon the new Governor’s gratitude and good opinion. Calling to their assistance a number of Afghans and a multitude of inhabitants, they fell upon the Deputy, and after a bloody engagement, in which they killed a vast number of Radjpö8ts, and wounded the rest, they drove him out of the city. The Naïb having taken shelter in the house of a nephew of Sefder-qhan-babi’s, was besieged Troubles in Adjmir. there, and at last got out of the city with the utmost disgrace. In his flight to Djudeïpoor, his country, he took care to plunder some villages and districts that were on his way. Mehr-aly-qhan and his colleague having taken a full revenge of that miscreant, sent word to Naher-qhan, Divan of Ahmed-abad, who was also one of the dependants of the Sëids, requesting him to abstain from meddling with the public money in the treasury and with the affairs of government. The man, who felt himself strong, asked them their authority and wanted to quarrel; and the matter was proceeding to an open rupture, when Shudjaat-qhan arrived with a patent under the hand and seal of Haïder-c8ly-qhan, on sight of which Naher-qhan evacuated the city, after having made peace; and this little disturbance accelerated some promotions intended by the court.

Sëid Nusret-yar-qhan, Soobadar or Viceroy of Azim-abad, received the title of R8c8n-ed-dö8lah, with the addition to his grade of a thousand double horse.* Shir-efken-qhan was promoted to the government of M8ltan, and to the title of Yzzet-ed-dö8lah; and news coming from Ecber-abad that Saadet-qhan had besieged four forts betwixt Mahtra and that capital, which served as shelter to a multitude of banditties and Zemin­dars that infested the country, and had taken them with the loss of four hundred of his men, and a vast slaughter of the besieged, orders were given for sending to that General a letter of con­gratulation with a Qhylaat and a poniard studded with jewels. The Emperor, at the same time, although by disposition little fit­ted with that keenness and firmness of temper required for a steady attention to matters of distributive justice, and little inclined to attend to them, yet to shew his inclination to do good, Curious expedient of the Emperor’s to render his per­son more accessible. and his disposition to afford justice, he ordered that a bell should be made fast to a long chain, and the chain hung down on the out­side of the Octagon tower that looks towards the water side, to put it in the power of any one who should think himself oppressed, and could not find admittance at the gate of the castle, to repair to the chain and to ring the bell. The ninth of Shevval the Emperor’s accession to the throne was celebrated with the utmost pomp and magnificence. Before the end of this year, Muzaffer-aly-qhan, having been appointed to the government of Adjmir, was for want of means and a proper equipage, loitering his time at Revari, which is only at three cosses from the capital, when news coming that Radja Adjet-sing had marched to that country from Dj8dep8r with an army of thirty thousand horse, swelled by a number of Zemindars and Radjpt8s, the new Governor was now in earnest obliged to make a further stay. Adjet-sing having meanwhile possessed himself of the city of Adjmir, first of all, published by beat of drum, that all shop-keepers and handicrafts-men should keep themselves quiet and attend to their callings as usual, without any fear; and secondly, to recover his character, much sullied by his former ill usage of the Mussulmen, he sent for the rectors and attendants of the mosques, recommended their performing their religious rites as usual, and appointed a sum of money towards the repairs of those holy places. After which, having assembled all the crown-officers and all the men in station, he produced in the middle of them an Imperial patent signed with the impression of the Emperor’s whole hand,* purporting under the most sacred oaths, and most solemn promises, the gift to him of the two governments of Adjmir and Ahmed-abad for life. As the Radja was a friend of the Sëids, and a man of great power, whom it was important to gain over, the patent had been put in his hands, by the Empress-mother, on the first intelligence of Refi-ed-derdjat’s drawing to his end, and of her son Roshan-aqhtar’s being intended to succeed him in the Imperial throne. Of this patent the Gentoo prince ordered authentic copies to be taken by the Imperial Divan, and he sent them under the same cover with supplications of his own, both to Qhandö8ran and to Zaafer-qhan, the two principal Ministers. The purport of his representation was: “That although to deprive him of both governments was contrary to the faith given, yet in compliance with the Imperial pleasure, he had complimented away the province of Ahmed-abad-g8djerat; but that after such a sacrifice, to be deprived of the province of Adjmir also, would so deeply affect his honour in the eyes of his own clan and of the whole world, that he could no more shew himself; and that as honour had been at all times dearer than life to men of generous feelings, he hoped that, out of regard to his situation, they would condescend to leave him one of those two governments, as his life and head were staked on that single point.” This year also in the month of Zilhidj, Troubles in Adjmir. Padeshah-begum, daughter to Aoreng-zib, a Princess that went by the name of Zinet-en-nessa, departed this world.*