She does not object to appear unveiled before gentlemen on any particular occasion; and, when Lord W.Bentinck was at Jubbulpore in 1833, I introduced, the old queen to him.

He seemed much interested, and ordered the old lady a pair of shawls.

None but very coarse ones were found in the store-rooms of the Governor-General's representative, and his lordship said these were not such as a Governor-General could present, or a queen, however poor, receive; and as his own 'toshakhana' (wardrobe) had gone on,[l4] he desired that a pair of the finest kind should be purchased and presented to her in his name.

The orders were given in her presence and mine.

I was obliged to return to Sagar before they could be carried into effect; and, when I returned in 1835,[15] I found that the _rejected_ shawls had been presented to her, and were such coarse things that she was ashamed to wear them, as much, I really believe, on account of the exalted person who had given them, as her own.