1 viously (on a Sunday), and was' so satisfied, that with His own
2 hands he |>uv on my arms two pair of gold bracelet*, mid ordered
3 500 rupees to be given to ire, as nil additional spin to the
4 fKX) which I already received a, my monthly appointment.
5 This having been only an oral promise, I ent daily to the
6 durbar, in order to receive an authority in writing, and way
7 with him on the fatal Thursday on which he was assassinated.
8 Whilst this prime was being perpetrated by Ajeet ring, Lena
9 fiing, his uncle, murdered, in a garden in the neighbourhood, the
10 roval i rinee, Pertaub Sing, a boy only twelve years of age.
11 This innocent victim of party fury was cruelly cut into pieces
12 with sabres, at the moment when he was occupied with his Ilrah-
13 mins in prayers and giving alms to the poor; ior it was a San-
14 crot day, the first day of a Hindoo month, on which similar cere-
15 rnonies general I v took place. The guardian of the infant child, Bait
16 Goovumck Sing, Misser ilelee Ram (the first treasurer), and other
17 accomplices, did not wait long before they received retribution.
18 From Shahbcloro, the murderers hurried towards the fortress.
19 On their way they met Dhyan Sing, who was on his road to
20 Shfibbelore, and they informed him of what had been done, and
21 took him hack to the fortress to execute their project of placing
22 Runjeet Sing’s youngest son, Dulleep Sing, on the throne
23 Wlien they arrived in the fortress, they shot Dhyan Sing, cut
24 !i!s body into pieces, shut themselves up in tne tort; ss, and
25 proclaimed, by dram-beating, Dulleep Sing as king, and Ajeet
26 Sing Ins wmeer, liajah Hocra Sing, Dhyan Sing's sou, who
27 y as at liberty, having escaped being murdered, knew how to
28 gain the favour of the troops by his eloquence and proipises, and
29 they declared t belli salves ready to follow him. Confident with
30 this armed force, lie entered the city at midnight, surrounded
31 flie fortress, and blockaded it. The thundering of the cannon
32 lasted twelve hours, till mid-day, at which time the small garrison
33 was almost, exhausted. At that moment, Ueera Sing gave the
34 signal for storming. A Spanish colonel, named M. I Inchon, in
35 the service of the Sikhs, was one of the first on the battlenunls
36 of the dismantled walls. Those who laid down fkeir arms