Asuf-od Dowlah disliked living near his mother, after he came to the throne, and he settled at Lucknow, then a small village on the right bank of the Goomtee river.

This village, in the course of eighty years, grown into a city, containing nearly a million of souls.

Fyzabad has declined almost in the same proportion.
The Nazim has six regiments, and part of a seventh, on duty under him, making, nominally, six thousand fighting men, but that he cannot, he tells me, muster two thousand; and out of the two thousand, not five hundred would, he says be ready to fight on emergency.

All the commandants of corps reside at Court, knowing nothing whatever of their duties, and never seeing their regiments.
They are mere children, or Court favourites, worse than children.

He has, nominally, forty-two guns, of various calibre; but he, with great difficulty, collected bullocks enough to draw the three small guns he brought with him from Sultanpoor, to salute the Resident, on his entering his district.