Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 18.5.6

18.5.6

and so much trust was reposed in that man, as well as so much power lodged in his hands, that the Grandees and Commanders, who had already conceived a dislike to the new Prince, on account of his levity, and his profligacy, as well as his harsh language, and the hardness of his heart, finding themselves subjected to those two new men, and especially to the latter, whose arrogance they could not bear, now set no bounds to their discontents; and every one of them sowed in his breast the thoughts of getting rid of so improper a Ruler; in so much that none remained attached to him, but a few young men, as profligate and as giddy as himself, all of whom had been suddenly raised to power and influence by his means. For as to the principal men in the city and army, every one of them, shocked to see such a man on the throne, were only intent on finding out the means of overturning his power, whether by art, by force, or by treason. And soon fortune favoured their wishes. Seradj-ed-doulah had, a little after his accession to the throne, conceived in his heart the design of wrenching the country of Purniah from the hands of Shaocat-djung, his own cousin, son to the late Saëd-ahmed-qhan; and with this view he had repaired to Radj-mahl. Such a sudden arrival threw Shaocat-djung, as well his favourites and Ministers into dismay. They were seized with a panic;