Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-12-05
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IHE CAPTURE OF THE KING OF DFIHr-
DEATH oF HIS SoNs.-He who has borne the
titles of Great Mogul and King of Delhi lives
still. 1t is true, but his sovereignty, long viz
tually. is now actually at an end. His palace
Is III the hands of conquerors. His NEST in
ner and sacred apartments are the head-quar-
tiers OF the English army. In his white mar
BILE payiion-the 'Dewami Khas'' or private
Council Chamber-where among crowd Of
other inscriptions is inlaid the Persian coup
let, translated and adopted by Moore
sand OH if there be an Elysium on earth.
II is this It is this I"
was heard on the evening of the Dist a sound
such as had never broken the stiffness of its
former august splendor or of the squalid soli-
tude Of its later days 1t was the cheering
with which the Head quarter Staff received
from the General the nsme of the Queen of
England Never, surely was there a more
hitting place in which to give the health of
that royal lady than in the heart of the palace
OF the enemy who shad deied her power
never time more fitting than when tie ma
lesty OF the empire had been so signally vim
dleated, and the massacre of so many of those
VINO We're her sisters as well as her subjects
mad been IN part at least avenged. No won
ger mat the cheers rang out through the
marble arches into the courts aud gardens of
the palace; no wonder that the escort of
Ghoorkas, loyal as gallant. caught and re-
turned them. Was the shade of the 'magnif-
lcant son OF Akbar lowering near TO
listen to the sound that was the funeral kuell
OF his dynasty? But the last holder of the
title Of the Great Mogul. as have said, still
lives, On abandoning the city he took his
route TO hootub Ahnar. In that direction,
some six miles from Delhi, he had palace,
But whether he took himself thither, or
whether he took shelter at the stately tomb of
MS ancestor Hoomayon, aecouts seem to diff
fer. However, on the 21st he was brought in
from his hiding place prisoner by Lieuten-
ant Hodson, of the LIST Fusileers, with his
Irregular Sikh Cavalry.
The King was accompanied by his Begun.
Zeenut Mahal. He is said to have declined
to surrender till assured that his life would
be spared, and that such assurance was given
him, This may be so, but, when he could
have no option but to surrender, the propriety
Of acceding to his demand for terms seems
doubtful However, he is very old man
and may be allowed the remainder of his
days in peaceful captivity. But not so the
younger princes of his family. Of these, 8
were taken by Hodson at Hoomayoon's tomb
on the 22d, and his mode of dealing with
them will. doubt not, meet with the same
approval in England as it has met with here.
Taxed with their guilt as leaders in the rebel
hon, they craved for mercy. but stern justice
only was dealt to them. Their names were
Mira Moghul and Khisr Sutton, sons of the
hlng, and Abu Bukr. his grandson. Their
bodies were taken into the city and exposed
for two days at the Kotwallee or principal
police station, in the Chandnee Chouk.
The same correspondent writes
1t the slaughter that has attended the right
eous vengeance of the British General has
been less extensive and promiscuous than that
which followed upon the sanguinarv caprice
of the Persian tyrant yet the ruin Of the
Imperial city is more certain and complete
now in 1867 than it was then in 1739-The
excuses of Nadir were to the Mogul sover-
eignty as a violent but passing attack of illness
to an individual, which permanently weak
ems his constitution, indeed, but from which
though shaken, he yet RECEIVERS. The triumph
| Of the English strikes the debilitated patient
dead. Bombay Cores. London Times Oct. II.