e wall to look at the execution of the Nawab. No person, in
consequence, ventured out till the execution was over, when they went
to see the Nawab himself converted into smoke; as the general
impression was that as life should leave it, the body was to be blown
off into the air by a general discharge of musketry and artillery.
Moghal Beg was acquitted for want of judicial proof of his guilty
participation in the crime.

Notes:

1. The author's remarks concerning military officers refer to
officers serving with native regiments, now known as the Indian Army.
Before the institution of the reformed police in 1861 the native
troops used to be much scattered in detachments, guarding treasuries,
and performing other duties since entrusted to the police.
Detachments are now rarely sent out, except on frontier service.

2. Firozpur, the Firozpur-Jhirka of the _I.G._, is now the head-
quarters of a sub-collectorate in the Gurgaon district. The three
Districts of the Delhi Territories in Sleeman's time seem to have
been Delhi, Panipat (= Karnal), and Rohtak, which were under the
jurisdiction of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western
Provinces. In 1858, after the Mutiny, they were transferred to the
Panjab. Since then, many administrative changes have occurred. The
latest took place on October 1, 1912, on the occasion of Delhi
becoming the official capital of India, instead of Calcutta. The city
of Delhi with a small surrounding area, 557 square miles in all, now
forms a tiny distinct province, ruled by a Chief Commissioner under
the direct orders of the Government of India. The Delhi Division has
ceased to exist, and six Districts, namely, Hissar, Rohtak, Karnal,
Ambala (Umballa), Gurgaon, and Simla, now constitute the
Commissioner's Division of Ambala in the Panjab.

3. _Ante_, chapter 31, text between [10] and [11]. Some great
landholders of the present day pursue the same policy.

4. The story of the murder of Fraser is told very differently in
Bosworth-Smith's _Life of Lord Lawrence_, where all the detective
credit is given to Lord L., apparently on his own authority. See also
an article in the _Quarterly Review_ for April 1883, by Sir H. Yule,
and another in _Blackwoods Magazine_ for January 1878.

Miniature medallion portraits of Nawab Shams-ud-din and his servant
Karim Khan are given on the frontispiece of Volume II in the original
edition.

5. The inglorious second administration of Lord Cornwallis lasted