334 GOVEKNOK-GENEKALSHIP OF LORD WELLESLEY

renounced any intention of using the royal prerogative as a pretext for asserting English claims to ascendency over feudatories or to the exercise of rulership. With the avowed object of abolishing a titular sovereignty that hardly retained the shadow of its former substance, GEN. HAVELOCK'S ATTACK ON NANA SAHIB AT FATHPUR. and whose representative had been rescued by British arms from a state of extreme degradation and distress, he relegated Shah Alam to the position of a state pen- sioner, with royal rank and an ample income assured him. The arrangement lasted fifty years until it was suddenly extinguished in 1857, when the storm raised by the Sepoy Mutiny swept away the last relics of the Moghul throne and dynasty. The political outcome of Lord Wellesley's Gov-