1 Sing, arid gave him tH<: required sums, with which he allured
2 i tl)e N&hungs, »> order to bring him out of the city. He
3 succeeded immediately in attaching the discontented regular
4 troops to his party; and at the head of his partisans, he
5 aj 11 X'nred the next morning, on the place used for military
6 displays before the fortress, asking from .Uecra Sing the delivery
7 of Jcllah Pundit; I leera Sing obstinately refusing the request,
8 and feeling himself at the same time too teeble to opj ose openly
9 the mutineers, resolved to fly, as befor ? mentioned, with Meeau
10 Son Sing, Jellali Pundit and his partisans the monomincers,
11 &t„, directing their steps towards the river lUvee. Thus
12 the whole body'of the Sikhs became alienated from ms in¬
13 terest, and hi- most intimate friends, pursued him with the
14 army, and when he was overtaken, they killed all who could
15 Hot escape. I.al! Sing and Jewahir Sing re-entered the fortress
16 victoriously about noon, with their trophies, consisting of live
17 heads, whilst the ropber-pack, as rear-guard, eager for booty,
18 divided amongst themselves the riches which the fugitives had
19 taken with them. Every out* hastened to present his imer-
20 (present), mid to express his congratulation, and l did the
21 •umo; on which occasion tire new wuzeer, Jewahir Sing, who
22 replaced Uecra Sing, received me, noi only with a friendly
23 stnilo, hut. f obtained again on the same day my former position
24 as physician, and director of the powder-mill,
25 Jewahir Sing, like bis predecessors, did i. >t long enjoy the pos¬
26 session of his dignity. He ami tire celebrated slave-girl, Mur&cln,
27 formal one party of the opposition, whilst Hall Sing, and the
28 Ranee Chunda, were the other antagonists of the government.
29 On both parties depended the administration of the government,
30 while, on account of the contrast in their views, they could
31 not act in harmony. A pseudo son. of li.unjeet Sing, named
32 Peshora Sing, brother to Cashmere Sing (who was killed with the
33 high-priest), intended to excite a rebellion against the subsisting
34 government, and took the fortress of Attock. Jewahir Sing,
35 flattering him with promises, allured him out of tin- fortress
36 and gar, order" that lie should be secretly murdered. But tin