1 X was entrusted with the organisation of it. In this hospital,
2 an asylum for lunatics was established, and I also created
3 another, viz., nn hospital for prisoner*.
4 Rajah Lall Sing, who had risen from the rank of muleteer
5 to be minister of state, did not long eujoy the title of wuzeer;
6 being a crafty Brahmin, of great influence among his partisans,
7 and in possession of immense riches, which he acquired at the
8 time when he was Runjeet Sing’s treasurer (he neve: having
9 rendered any account of the funds under his charge), such a
10 man appeared to the English to be dangerous, and his removal
11 was considered necessary. Accordingly he was arrested as a
12 political intriguer, and sent to Agra, with a stipulated pension.
13 Tej King succeeded to Lall Sing, and at the same time Was
14 appointed Rajah of Seealkote, on account of his treachery to
15 his own country on the Sutlej. At the ceremony of his inaugu¬
16 ration, the ranee prohibited her son, Dulieep Sing, from making
17 the Tike (saffron sign) on T ejaV forehead, being fully per¬
18 suaded that he had caused the removal of Lall Sing, in order
19 to obtain his post. This inconsiderate behaviour of the ranee,
20 who exercised a great influence on her son, caused the Resident
21 to in we her inoffensiveness by exiling her to the fortress of
22 Sheg-Opur. But not having even there remained inactive
23 (in the revolt at Moultan), Kir Frederick Currie, the then
24 Resident, ordered her to be conveyed into another fortress ori
25 the Ganges, her plenipotentiary, Gangaram, and General Khun
26 Sing having previously been hung, as associates in the con-,
27 spiraey. But the cunning lady knew how to provide herself
28 with means, and to find out a method of escaping from her
29 prison; and it is reported that she is now living in Kutuifandotig
30 the capital of Nepaul, not, however, to the displeasure of the
31 English, who thus elfect a considerable saving.
32 Sir H. Lawrence, perfectly acquainted with ali the tricks of
33 the orientals, and knowing well how to treat those people,
34 succeeded in procuring their general esteem end approbation.
35 Nevertheless, a short lime after the English had occupied the.
36 country, a riot took place at the bazaar at Lahore, which was .so