colours, numbers, and the majestic size of the animals which formed the most prominent part of the groupe, produced an effect more pleasing in the eye of a poet or an artist, than the sprucest parade of an English review."

While the Bishop was changing his elephant, the Writer of the court circular stepped up to him, and begged to know his Lordship's name and titles at full length, in order to make a report of them to "the Asylum of the World."* As he mounted his new elephant, the attendants burst forth into the same sort of acclamation of "Bismillah! Ullah Akbar! Ullah Kureen!" which is usual on the arrival or departure of a Mohammedan grandee; followed by a proclamation of the Lord Bishop Sahib's name and title, so mangled as name never was before."+

LUCKNOW.

NEVER was English prelate saluted with such honours as graced the entrance of " the Head of the British Church in India," into the capital of Oude. "We now proceeded," says his Lordship, "three elephants abreast; that on which Mr. Lushington and rode, in the centre, Meer Hussun Khan on the right, and Captain Salmon on the left; with the motley multitude before, and the spare elephants behind. We thus ad

* Lord Valentia's arrival was thus announced to the Nabob by the court messenger: "Lord Saheb ka bhanja, Company ki nawasa teshref laia,”—literally, the Lord (Wellesley)'s sister's son, the grandson of Mrs. Company, is arrived. These titles, his Lordship says, "originated from a belief of the natives that the India Company is an old woman, and that the governors-general are her children."-Valentia, vol. i. p. 104.

See page 140 of this Volume. During the Bishop's stay in Lucknow, his chobdars and bearers learned the practice, and his Lordship felt unwilling to check the "pious custom,

vanced through a very considerable population, and crowded, mean houses of clay, with the filthiest lanes between them that I ever went through, and so narrow that we were often obliged to reduce our front; and even a single elephant did not always pass very easily. A swarm of beggars occupied every angle and the steps of every door; and nearly all the remaining population were as much loaded with arms as the inhabitants of the country; a circumstance which told ill for the police of the town, but added considerably to its picturesque effect. Grave men in palankeens, counting their beads and looking like moullahs, had all two or three sword and buckler lackeys attending on them. People of more consequence, on their elephants, had each a suwarree of shield, spear, and gun, little inferior to that by which we were surrounded. Even the lounging people of the lower ranks in the streets and at the shop doors, had their shields over their shoulders, and carried their swords sheathed, in one hand. As we advanced, the town began to improve in point of buildings, though the streets remained equally narrow and dirty. We passed some pretty mosques and some large houses, built like the native houses in Calcutta; and the bazars seemed well filled. At last, we entered a very handsome street indeed, wider than the High-street at Oxford, and having some distant resemblance to it in the colour of its buildings, and the general form and Gothic style of the greater part of them. We saw but little of it, however, as we immediately turned up through some folding gates into a sort of close, with good-looking houses and small gardens round it, and a barrack and guard-house at its entrance. One of these houses, I was told, belonged to the Resident; another was his banqueting-house, containing apartments for his guests; and a third was

pointed out as that which the King had assigned to receive me and my party; here, therefore, our companions took their leave, and Mr. Lushington and I found ourselves in a very prettily arranged and wellfurnished dwelling, with excellent stables and accommodations for our numerous followers."

Lucknow (Lakshmanavati),* which was first made the seat of government by Asof ud Dowlah, in 1775, stands on the south side of the Goomty, which is navigable for boats throughout the year; in latitude 26° 51′ N., longitude 80° 50′ E. The travelling distance from Calcutta, by the nearest road, is about 650 miles; from Delhi, 280; from Agra, 202; and from Benares, 189. The population, in 1800, was roughly estimated at 300,000, but is supposed to

*"Lacnou or Lacnav (Lucknow) does not yield to Adjudea (Oude) in antiquity, and surpasses it in point of grandeur and populousness. It was founded by Latshman or Lacman, brother of Rama, who gave his name to this city. It was repaired by Bikarmajit, King of Cojein. On the hither side of the Goomty, is an eminence on which Latshman had his residence. Aurengzebe, to extinguish all recollection of it, constructed on the site, a mosque with two minarets."-Bernoulli, vol. i. p. 256.

+ Hamilton, vol. i. p. 348. Tennant says, half-a-million of souls. The street which leads from the western suburbs to the palace, he asserts to be upwards of five miles in length, "more than half of which you wade through mire and filth. During the lapse of time, the streets sink from cleaning, or by the blowing away of dust while dry, so that they are fallen in the middle to the depth of ten or twelve feet, and are so narrow that two hackaries cannot pass." He never witnessed, he says, "so many varied forms of wretchedness, filth, and vice." Tennant, vol. ii. p. 404. Tieffenthaler, who spent five years in the province (about 1766-1771), gives the following account of the extent of the city. "Its length, from Recabgans on the south to Issagans on the north, is a mile and a half; its breadth, rather more than a mile; the circuit (about four miles." (The German mile is probably meant, about three and one-third miles English.) "It has a great number of houses of brick, but the greater part are of mud, covered with tiles, situated on scattered eminences. The larger part of the city extends

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