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pillars holding up the fummit. In the back ground' is a fquare
periftyle of fquare pillars, fupporting a dome; other buildings
in view are round and plain. Numbers of fouterrains;
appear with entrances through pointed arches.
Cotfea-Baug, N° III. is a moft magnificent palace, built on the
banks of the Jumna, in the reign: of Akbar, by a lady of the
name o f Cotfea; Baug iignifies a garden. It has a moft exten-
iive front, with three rows o f falfe windows, with pointed
arches within each; at -each end is a beautiful angular pavil-
lion, with windows of lattice work, moft beautifully made oft
what I may Call ftone fillagree : the upper windows are bow.
Debit twice underwent the moft horrid maffacres. One in 1397,
in the time of Mabmood III. when it was entered by the Tartar
Tamerlane. A party o f his troops had been before fent to occupy
the city, deferted by the emperor. A dreadful fcene commenced r
the Hindoos, to prevent the pollution of their wives and daughters,
and themfelves from every fpecies of infult, firft fhut the
city gates, fet fire to- their houfes, murthered their wives and
children, and then ruihed in defperation againft the enemy.
The gates were forced, a general flaughter enfued, and the
ftreets rendered impaflable by the heaps of flain.
In our days, in the reign of Mahomed Shah, a fecond maffacre
took place, not lefs terrible. When Kouli Khan entered the city
in triumph, a fhot was fired at him from one of the houfes,.
which killed an officer by his fide. The fignal of flaughter was
given, and a hundred and forty thoufand people perifhed by the
troops of the unrelenting tyrant in the fpace o f three days. The:
city was plundered, and the emperor left a prey to his great
men. His dominions fell to pieces, divided among his viceroys,
j* - who
who left to him the empty ftate. He lived to the year 1747.
The death o f his faithful Vifier Cummir ul dien, on whom he
placed the fulleft confidence amidft all his misfortunes, put an
end to his exiftence. On hearing o f the account he fell into a
fwoon, and expired fitting on his throne.
Dehli, in 17 c6, was yet fated to undergo a third calamity. P l u n d e r e d b y
> A b d a l l a .
T he reign of Allumguire II. was ufhered in with the plundering
o f the capital. Abdalla, king of Candahar, juftly incenfed at
the perfidy of the Vifier, marched to Dehli, eftablifhed himfelf
in the citadel like Kouli Khan, and notwithftanding he was received
by the poor Mogul as a royal gueft, he gave the city to be
facked by the mercilefs Afghans. Every excefs was committed;
terror pervaded the inhabitants, and multitudes fell filicides to
their apprehenfions. Abdallab fent part of his army into" the
Dooab of the Jumna and Ganges to glean after the harveft of
Nadir, and to lay fiege to Agra, but he was compelled to recal
his troops, then attacked by the peftilence.
I n Dehli, in 1788, were exercifed the unheard-of barbarities S h a h A l d m .
on the unhappy Shah Alum, the laft of the Mogul emperors, de-
fcribed in the prophetic vifion in p. 57, by the Rohilla favage
Golawm Kauder. The prince, the pageant of every fuccefsfnl
party, was feized by that ruffian, and, probably through private
revenge for paft injuries, he here fuffered from him the moft
horrible effedts of his malice. The Villain was afterwards feized
by Madajee Sindia, the great Mahratta chieftain, and underwent
punilhment due to his deferts. His nofe, ears, arms, and
legs were cut off, and in .that condition fent to Shah-Alum, at
Dehli, but he died by the way. The wretched emperor be-
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