“I kept Prethee Put confined for two months, when Rughbur Sing sent for him, on pretence that he wished to send him to Lucknow.  He kept him till the end of the year, when he was superseded in the contract by his uncle, Incha Sing, who released Prethee Put at the intercession of Maun Sing, the brother of Rughbur Sing, who expected to make a good deal out of him.”  Prethee Put, of Paska, was attacked on the morning of the 26th of March, 1850, in his fort of Dhunolee, by a force under the command of Captains Weston, Thompson, Magness, and Orr; and, on their approach, he vacated the fort, separated himself from his gang, and took shelter in the house of a Brahmin.  He was then traced by a party from Captain Magness’s corps; and, as he refused to surrender, he was cut down and killed.  His clan, the Kulhunsies, refused to take the body for interment.  The head had been cut off to be sent to Lucknow as a trophy, but Captain Weston opposed this, and it was replaced on the body, which was sewn up in a winding-sheet and taken into the river Ghagra by some sipahees, as the best kind of interment for a Hindoo chief of his rank.  The persons employed in the ceremony were Hindoos, who knew nothing of Prethee Put’s history; but it was afterwards found that the place where the body was committed to the stream was that on which he had killed his eldest brother, and thrown his body into the river from his boat.  This was a remarkable coincidence, and tended to impress upon the minds of the people around a notion that his death was effected by divine interposition.  All, except his followers, were rejoiced at the death of so atrocious a character.  Dan Bahader, the eldest son of the brother he had murdered, being poor and unable to pay the usual fees and gratuities to the minister and court favourites, was not, however, permitted to take possession of his patrimonial estate, and he died in December, 1850, in poverty and despair.  Dhunolee and Bhumoree have been levelled with the ground.

December 9, 1849.—­In the news-writer’s report of the 3rd December, 1849, it is stated—­“that Ashfakos Sultan, Omrow Begum, one of the King’s wives, reported to his Majesty, that a man named Sadik Allee had come to Lucknow while the King was suffering from palpitations of the heart, and, in the disguise of a Durveish, hired a house in Muftee Gunge, and taken up his residence in it.  He there gave himself out as one of the Kings of the Fairies (Amil-i-Jinnut); and the fakeer, to whom his Majesty’s confidential servants, the singers, had taken him to be cured of his disease, was no other than this Sadik Allee.  The King, on hearing this, sent for Sadik Allee, who was seized and brought before him on the 2nd December.  He confessed the imposture, but pleaded that he had practised it merely to obtain some money, and that the singers were associated with him in all that he did.  The King soothed his apprehensions, and conferred upon him a dress of honour, consisting of a doshala