them any kind of arms; but the crier, seemingly retaining in his recollection only the words arms and sentries, gave out after his ’Oyes, Oyes,’[23] that the sentries had orders to use their arms, and shoot any man, woman, or child that should presume to go outside the wall to look at the execution of the Nawab.  No person, in consequence, ventured out till the execution was over, when they went to see the Nawab himself converted into smoke; as the general impression was that as life should leave it, the body was to be blown off into the air by a general discharge of musketry and artillery.  Moghal Beg was acquitted for want of judicial proof of his guilty participation in the crime.

Notes: 

1.  The author’s remarks concerning military officers refer to officers serving with native regiments, now known as the Indian Army.  Before the institution of the reformed police in 1861 the native troops used to be much scattered in detachments, guarding treasuries, and performing other duties since entrusted to the police.  Detachments are now rarely sent out, except on frontier service.

2.  Firozpur, the Firozpur-Jhirka of the I.G., is now the head-quarters of a sub-collectorate in the Gurgaon district.  The three Districts of the Delhi Territories in Sleeman’s time seem to have been Delhi, Panipat (= Karnal), and Rohtak, which were under the jurisdiction of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces.  In 1858, after the Mutiny, they were transferred to the Panjab.  Since then, many administrative changes have occurred.  The latest took place on October 1, 1912, on the occasion of Delhi becoming the official capital of India, instead of Calcutta.  The city of Delhi with a small surrounding area, 557 square miles in all, now forms a tiny distinct province, ruled by a Chief Commissioner under the direct orders of the Government of India.  The Delhi Division has ceased to exist, and six Districts, namely, Hissar, Rohtak, Karnal, Ambala (Umballa), Gurgaon, and Simla, now constitute the Commissioner’s Division of Ambala in the Panjab.

3. Ante, chapter 31, text between [10] and [11].  Some great landholders of the present day pursue the same policy.

4.  The story of the murder of Fraser is told very differently in Bosworth-Smith’s Life of Lord Lawrence, where all the detective credit is given to Lord L., apparently on his own authority.  See also an article in the Quarterly Review for April 1883, by Sir H. Yule, and another in Blackwoods Magazine for January 1878.

Miniature medallion portraits of Nawab Shams-ud-din and his servant Karim Khan are given on the frontispiece of Volume II in the original edition.