Over and above this force, he has nine regiments of Nujeebs, detachments of other Corps, Artillery, Pioneers, &c., amounting, in all, according to the musters and pay-drafts, to seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight men, for whom thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and ninety-three rupees a-month are drawn.

Of these, fifteen hundred are dead or have deserted, or are absent on leave without pay.

Their pay is all appropriated by the commandants of corps or Court favourites.

Fifteen hundred more are in attendance on the commandants of corps, who reside at the capital, and their friends or other influential persons about the Court, or engaged in their own trades or affairs, having been put into the corps by influential persons at Court, to draw pay, but do no duty.

Of the remaining four thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, one-third, or one thousand five hundred and ninety-two, are what is called _sufarishies_, or men who are unfit for duty, and have been put in by influential persons at Court, to appear at muster and draw pay.