The Sun.
London, England, 1806-04-12 00:00:00

EAST INDLiI AFF,I IRS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE PAPERS LAID BEFORE THE
HOUSE OP •CO'SIMONS, BILATIVE TO THE
FAIRS OF

(Conti?!. Ufa' from our Nape• of Yetterlay.)

Zelteen Ali•Klyan states, 'that none of the en'-
n
nuchs in the service of-the late Nabobahimself ex-
cepted, can speak from' personal knowledge to the
above circumstances', but they are known tohoo
Loll, and a man named Go}aum Hossein, both of
whom were in the habit of purchasing women for
his Excellency. Golanm Hossein was turned 'out of
the Nabolfa service for theft, and bad hia 'iise cut
off, when the- Nabob went. to Bhotoar about the
month of May, 17)96: ' _Zehseen asserts that the.late
Nab-ob, Asoph ud Dowlah, was in reality father of
one son, 'waned thouhaun Ali Khaun, who died at
the age of two years and seven- months, '.about eight
or nine'years ago.; This boy's mother is alive), her
name is l'untia Bye and Khulaub Arzimandee. She
Was an the Zepana from the •time of the Nabob
Squiala UdaDovalah, and-never is-as peril-fitted to see
any other man, except the late Vizier. 'She is .a
Domence-,-Or Naomi? woman. -He also asserts, that
Asoph *ud•Doalali had another son,- who died when
only fifteen days old, 'when Colonel 'Harnage corn-
manded'at GOruckpoor. The child's mother is also
dead. She Was purchased at Delhi, by,a man named
Mackinrum, in Major Pollees Dewan, and to her
care the Present Nabob, Vizier -Ali, was intrusted
immediately after his birth. The: Nabob ereCted a
tomb to her memory at Mehai Dewa Bung, five
coss from Fyzahad, on the opposite side of the
Gogra.. Her death happened eight 'or nine years
ago; her name was Fyz-un-Kissa Khaunum.
As it occurs- to •my recolleetion that another son
of the deceased Nabob, and apparently older than
Vizier Ali, had been publicly introduced by him as
his son, I-called upon the. Resident.for the particia-
lark, which, with some information on the subjeCt,
are detailed in No. 4. I .afterwards 'ascertained the
adult' aae•of:the boy tobebetween sixteen and seven-
, teen, and younger than Vizier Ali. •
.'This is the-only positive information I have been
abld 'to colletk • zespeaiing the reputed- children of
Asoph ud Dowlah:. -• :J ' • --
The following particulars'will provethe Sentiments'
of :mapy,ofahe paincipal.ipiaahitaata at Lucnpw on
his elevation : •
ligaaain,Reza Khapp, obaeayeal to the Resident,•
soon Lataertheaaecesioaai4yj.Ficx Ali, that this itn-
portant, bnaineas had Ileen, hastily And, inconsiderately
settleda to me he, raamttioned; the prevailing reports
to theaprejudice of Ifaaier birth, with .his own,
concurrence, in the, traath of them. Healap inform-,
ed me, , as a corAprative ciacumstance'ofthegene-
ral-qpinioDop this subjet, that the marriage of the
second son Reza Alifrwith the, daughter aMirza
Jnigly. was, eoinpnlsiveon the latter, ‘Kkohast at the
time consulted him, and expressed his deb-at-nil/laden
rather to put an. end to his, existence than to sub-
mit to the ,disgrace of such a connexion ; that his.
repugnance aVas.aolely over-ruled by his advice Land
that since ahe death of, .the Nabob, Mirza Jungly,
had take;) hack•his daughtea.with with, determination 'to
dissolve the connexion, .a • ...a .
This acaionnt .;was, afterwards ,confit 'lied by the
Nabob Imarnuddeefi, brothea of the younger Begun";
wiclOaK of the de..eased Nabob, spoke of the
cOnduCt. of; jiaasein Reza
.ota this occasion in terms
of reptamah. The fact is notorious : in one amongst'
many conaersations which I hadwith the latter, after
my arrival at Lucuow, the course of it led to the fol-
lowing observationa on my part—a-that I feared we had
exposed
.ourselves toaimputationiby -what had passed;
his reply was, you have not, but the Blio Begam has:
she. made the decision in a hasty moment, when. her
faculties were overpoWereil.
Zehscen Ali Khann informed: me, that the
younger Begain' rettised --to see any of the sons
of the -Lite Nabob, and particularly Vizier Ali, when
the late Nabob wished to introduce him to her on
the occasion of his late nuptials. \ The propositiOn
Was carried by Zehseen himself, and the Begun
.with a civil answer to the Nabob, but
with a remark to Zehseen; that she Would net cisa
grace the dignity of her faMily by adaiiping Vizier
her presence.
'The truth-'of This information was verified by the
Begutn's. brother, and Wiliout his explanation might
have been imputed to the general usage of Hindostan,
which does not' perinit the"wiyes of Princes to see
other children of their husbands by different Women
The 13egum herself, in a letter to the-Minister, re-
ceived before my arrival at Lucnow, had used an
expression', that the, succession to the Musnud had
taken place With Out inquiry or consideration. I
asked her;6rother, the Nahob Itharnuddeen, the
meaning of it He then made the f6llOWing corn-
municat ion in' his own' and sister's nanie'i--That
Vizier Ali, andall the children
.ot the deceased Nabob,
Vt,ere unaoubtedly spurious, and that the eldvation
Trizier Ali, v..,hose tattier was a Fraush, News a E,tcis
to the- sons of Shujah ud Dowlah ; that
if the Nabob bad
,actually had 'a child of hiS own,
the Begun, hiS sister, would not haVe hesitated
to take-care'of it, but they were all base barn, which
the elder Beauna as wellats his sister,' kne'w,,and had
Often mentioned. This was alth statedby-Zehseen,
who,., with Almas, andathe Nabob' ilinarnuddeen,
Confirmed What has been repeated by many, that the
late Nabob had often himself called Yiaier Ali base-
born. Almas was absenttfroin Latcnow at the :ele-
vation of Vikier.Alil lipbn-his'arrival he. ;c
himself withot,t reserve, tbat.,b,i,ad no'dile
Musnud, and openly abused the Confidential servants;
Of the Bt2gurn for not preventing it. This wits re-
IsbitedlOthe Minister by otters, and ;subsequently
admitted hy,Alnias himself. •
Theibehaaiour Of the sons of Shujah ad Dowlah
i4'a cohffainatitin ofathe popular belief, and of'its
impression. They fOrrnally refused to attend the
Nabob., or 'Shea' liirr:any,marka.olexternal-respeCt;
a conduct' which would never have been ventured or
tblerated, but,under the universal impression that
his birth was.Spiarious. ,
Por the popular opinions on this subje&, as af-
feCtlng the right of the sops of Shujah .ud Dowlah,
and the justice and' reputation of the C.onapany in
acknowledging Vizier Ali, I refer-to the sentiments
collealed from the following persons
Meer Ahdil COsSitu; nepheW of Mocktar ud
Dowlah; formerly Minister.. • •

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Id i'Jblishat b) W ILLIAm ARldt,',K.R Sciirs,, of South Mo ton-street,<,:rosvenoi-squAre ;
for the Patier,Letters for the 'Efieor, &c. (tioNt-paid), inust
,be addressed.