1 troops, among whom the victim had a groat number < I' pariisans
2 and friends, • got information of the treacherous assassination,
3 and in revenge killed Jevahir Sing when riding on his elephant.
4 Jewalvr was aware what the troops meditated doing with
5 him, and endeavoured to avoid their invitation to enter their
6 camp*
7 To the latter period of Je-vahir Sing’s administration, we
8 lived under very critical circumstances; neither justice, order
9 nor security of ld'e were enjoyed by the community. The
10 soldiers, having lost all discipline, acted us each thought proper;
11 for instance, if a soldier cent into a bazaar to receive an old
12 debt, he took ii by force with tenfold interest. At the camp
13 of Meean. Mcrr, five miles front Lahore, there was a false report
14 that 1 had concealed in my house some English spies, who
15 were in communication with .Towahir Sing, to surrender the
16 country to the English. Colonel Mouton was die only one who
17 lived in my house, and who, ' ’ hurt time previously, had re¬
18 turned from France, in order to solicit a new engagement; and
19 now and then die Spaniard, ITiirhon, and St. Ainand, a painter,
20 called on me, these being the only Europeans at Lahore
21 On one occasion some soldiers whom I attended, told me
22 confidentially that the troops had resolved, if Jewdhir should
23 not come from the fortress into their camp on that afternoon,
24 to assail the fortiess and kill him there. Their intention, they
25 added, was'also hostile towards my dwelling, which they in¬
26 tended to plundu and burn, as they thought I was concealing
27 English spies who were conspiring with Jewahir Sing to
28 surrender the country to the English; they advised me there¬
29 fore, to carry anything of value to a secure place. It was
30 indeed, not before the last moment, when Jew ihir heard, by
31 tiie beating of the drums, that the troops were in fill 1 march
32 to assail the fortress, that lie resolved to leave his residence;
33 which turned out happily for the city and myself, for had
34 he not clone so, Lahore would have been plundered and sacked.
35 In leaving the fortress he was riding on an elephant, holding
36 little Du!Jeep Sing before him on his lap. To Ids Ilowda