B idjegu rF o r t .
Governor-General, all the E rrgljh, and many of the faithful -natives,
-to make a hafty flight for fecurity within the walls o f
Cbunar-gar. That this Aumeldar was a corrfiderable perfon is
evident, for the quarrel arofe from a demand being made of
him o f an aid o f two thoufand ‘horfe. After the flattghter,
Cheyt Sing was refcued, and a general infiurreftion broke out in
the provinces of Benares.
On this he fled over the Ganges to his fort Btdjegur, above
fifty miles to the weft; there he ufually lodged his treafure.
He ftaid there no longer than to remove part of his treafure,
and removed to a more diftant place, leaving his mother to defend
the place. Bidjegur is feated on a lofty hill, in a country of
his moftly cloathed with timber. It would have been impregnable
had it not been for an adjacent hill which wholly commanded
it. The Britijh colonel fent to reduce the place fooh
■compelled it to furrender. The mother of Cheyt »'«¿-.'-and
other ladies found in the fort, were treated with the utmoft delicacy.
Cheyt Sing had left behind him in treafure to the value
o f three hundred tlioufand pounds. Our commandant in-
ftantly divided the wealth, and founded the divifion on a letter
of Mr. Hajiings, in which he fays very loofely, that he confi-
dered it as the property o f the captors: Surely they were fully
cleared. Mr. Broome has written an admirable pamphlet ill
vindication of Mr. Hajiings from the articles of impeachment.
Never was a broom fo deterfive, for, excepting in a few in-
ftances, it has not left a fpeck of the pas atque venenugn fo
plentifully befpattered on the Governor-General by the moft
eloquent of Britijh orators. He amazes with the verfatility of
his language !
Mr.
Mr. Hodges, in-his travels, gives a fine view o f the foreft fide L utterfpoo*
F o r t .
o f Bidj'egur, at p. 86, and in vol. i. tab. X. of his views, another
o f the lofty fide oppofed to the plain country, which extends
quite to Benares. Lutterfpoor, tab. IX. o f the fame work, is another
fort belonging to Cheyt Sing, about twenty miles north
from the former. It is immerfed in a deep bamboo-wooded
valley, guarded by wooded hills on every fide. The buildings -
extend far. Major Crabb was directed to make himfelf mailer
o f the place, at that time occupied by Cheyt himfelf. On Sep-'
tember 21ft, 1781,- he took pofieffion of' it, and found it abandoned
by the Rajah.
A f e w miles below Benares, thatlingular river the Goomty River G oomty,
falls into the Ganges, riling due north, in Lat, 28° 40', near the:
fouthern fide of the great chain -of Kimaion. It has an almoft
direft courfe of about three: hundred and fifty miles, but with
fo crooked a channel as to give it the name of Goomty, o f twijled,-
which it is to a. degree vermicular. It divides lengthways the
Dooab, or interamna of the Ganges and the-great river Gogra.
The firft place of note on the Goomty is jtonpoor, feated about
thirty miles above its difcharge into the Ganges. It is remarkable
for the. tomb or Musjid erefted; by Cbaja Jehan, Vilier to
Sultan Mabomed.Sbah, in 1393, who, duringthe trouhles occa-
fioned by the cruel invafion by Tamerlane, ufurped the- pro--
vince of Bakhar, under the title o f SultawSbinM, or King of the
Eaft, and fixed his refidence at Jionpoor- In- this magnificent:
temple tomb he worihipped the deity, and at the farhe time had ’
before his eyes the repofitory o f his future alhesf The front
refemhles a great portico, with; a v a ff pointed arch, and muld-
tndes of pointed windows. Behind is a -moique,-with-a-lofty-' .,
dome.