Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 17.6.3

17.6.3

but I can say that after Sayd-ahmed-qhan's demise, I interested myself so earnestly with his son and successor, that I prevailed upon that young Prince to release a youth equally innocent, and ignorant of business, as well as incapable to pay; and I engaged the Prince to send him back to his family estate, where he might usefully employ himself in recalling his dispersed farmers, and in re-peopling that half ruined country. And thanks be to God Almighty, that the above service was performed on my part, without any mercenary view whatever of either retribution or reward; and as I hope that the reader will forgive me that digression, let us now revert to our anecdotes about Sayd-ahmed-qhan. My younger brother, Naky-aaly-qhan, was in his youth of a hasty violent temper, that never minded times or places. One day after rising from Sayd-ahmed-qhan's presence, he came and seated himself in the hall of audience, close to the Prime Minister, Radja Adjaib-ray, when there entered a Gentoo of the Catry tribe, a man very low-born in that very country, and who bore on his forehead a delineation of all the troubles and evils which he would cause one day. Young Shaocat-djung, who was created Grand-master of the artillery of P弈raniah by his father in imitation of Seradj-ed-doulah, who had been invested with a like office at M8rsh8d-abad, had thought proper to make of this man his Divan and confidant;