He had been attacked and driven across the Ganges, in 1837, for contumacy and rebellion; deprived of his estate, and obliged to reside at Futtehgurh, where he first became acquainted with Hakeem Mehndee.

The Oude Government has often remonstrated against the protection which this contumacious and atrocious landholder receives from our subjects and authorities.* Crimes in this district are not quite so numerous as in Bangur; but they are of no less atrocious a character.

The thieves and robbers of Bangur, when taken and taxed with being so, say, "of course we are robbers--if we were not, how should we have been permitted to reside in Bangur ?" All are obliged to fight and plunder with the landholders, or to rob for them on distant roads, and in distant villages.
[* See the Resident's letter to Government North-Western Provinces, 3rd August, 1837.

The King's letter to the Resident, 7th April, 1837.
The same to the same, 19th May, 1837.

Depositions and urzies.