Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-08-04
THE END OF A DYNASTY.
ny ALEXANDER BoNNEAU.

Translated Cor the Courier from La Prosso.-
The oldest dynasty in the world hes
just been subdued by the arms Of the Eng.
lish. Her last crowned reprr entative is
judged, in the name of q company OF
merchants, by some of its officers, unit 4
in a council of war. At the vcl time we
are writing he is on the painful road -
exile. The heir of many Mogul Empcr-
ors, the Patishah of Delhi, an old man of
nearly ninety, is condemned to 90 and a
wait death, or rather fined it in an un-
healthy island, covered with forests and
inhabited by hordes of savagcs.
The kings Of the elrth-io they not in
tend to put on mourning for this old mon.
arch, who is twice os old as their families? :?
Will they not shed tear upon the ashes,-
yet warm, Of that most illusrious race A.
mongst them all ? We at least pay to this
out-lawed Emperor, who dccends alive in
to the tomb, tribute of respect which
his supreme misiortunes claim.
What man, what prince, has not merit
ed, like Bohadour Shah SAM, the pity
which attaches itself to misfortune? Born
on the steps ofa throne already tottering {;
condemned in childhood to fly before the
enemies of his house, and to tremble b.
fore his protectors; reduced to the con-
fines of the palace Of his fathers; Obliged
to live from the parsimonious charity
which the STRANGER condccend d to allow
him, he was yilifcd by so much grief, his
spirits broken down by humiliation, and
all manner of degradation that could be
heaped upon him.
Only recently the blazing torch ofin-
Is1rrcction spread its flames from Calcutta
to Delhi; one hundred thousand subjects
of the great Mogul, sustained by the will
of twenty millions of Mussulmans and a
hundred millions of Hindoo7, invited him
to remount the throne of his fathers he
consented, and this was his crime. Should
we not say this was his fault. Fortune
very often conspires against our dorigns
by justice, where nothing more is wanting
to render it lawful OF victory. Forty or
fifty young princes, the hope of their,fam-
lies, were soon slaughtered, shot, or hung
by the MISUNDERSTANDING become masters
ogain Of Delhi-and even Bahadour only
owed his escape from this butchering of
kings to the imprudent generosity Of an
English lieutenant. OF this most gigan-
tic massacre, history has reserved a rec
ord, but of which the pretext would be
found in the atrocities committed at Del
hi, under the influence, and even, it is
said, at the instigation of these unfortu-
nate princes, too much imbued to prnci-
pies of revenge, admitted by Oriental civ
ilization.
Behold, into wha streams of blood, and
in what an abyss of misfortunes the great
Mongalean Dynasty is swallowed up,
whose origin is buried in darkness of
time, and which leaves for mark in the
annals Of mankind the illustrious names of
GengisShan, of Octai, of Houlagou, of
Koublai, Of Tamerlan, of Babcr, of Aclllar,
Of Djihanguer, and of Aureng Feb.
He had lived in better times, Bahadour
Shah SAM, would have made, without
doubt, the throne which he pos scssed on
ly in appearance, illustrious. He joined
to extensive knowledge, high intellectual
and moral qualities; was notsatisfed with
mere love Of letters, which he honored,
but he cultivated likewise the arts with
great success. Uuder the assumed name
Zaiar, which he had adopted as a sigma /.
ture to his words, he occupied the first
rank, under the modern poets of IIindos-
tan, in adouble point of fvew-originalitv
of ideas and perfection of style "Zafar"
says Mr.. Garieve de Tassy, "has produc-
ed all kinds of poetry, and numerous ga
-alcs, g,dts, the thumeris have become very
popular, and are sungat public assemblies,
and by women in the interior of their
DWELLINGS" .
We haveonlyindicated sketches themost
striking in the life and char ter of the
last success or of Gengiskhan. We have
nothing more TO add. His career has ter
minated an English ship transports
him to the island of Andaman ano her
English ship will not fal to bring the
news of his death J.S.
A AYAN KEE.
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