CHAP. V.

NIZAM ALEE SEIZES THE GOVERNMENT. ADVANCES UPON POONA AND ALLOWS THE PLUNDER OF THE CITY HYDERABAD UNSUCCESSFULLY BESIEGED BY THE MAHRATTAS. JANO JEE BHONSLAY DESERTS NIZAM ALEE AND KILLS HIS PRIME MINISTER. — NIZAM ALEE ENTERS INTO A COMPACT WITH THE PEISHWA AGAINST JANOJEE. TREATY WITH GENERAL CALLIAUD. FURTHER TREATY WITH THE MADRAS GOVERNMENT. DIFFICULTY ABOUT THE GUNTOOR CIRCAR, DEATH OF ITS JAGHEERDAR, AND FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THAT CIRCAR. — GOVERNOR -GENERAL EXPLAINS PART OF THE TREATY OF 1768. NIZAM ALEE's MILITARY FORCE JOINS THE BRITISH AT SERINGAPATAM, 1790. MAHRATTAS BESIEGE NIZAM ALEE IN THE FORT OF KURDLAH ; AND THUS CONCLUDE A FAVOURABLE TREATY. ENGLISH SUBSIDIARY FORCE DISMISSED AND CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING ITS RECALL. — TREATY OF 1798. — FRENCH CORPS DISMISSED. THENIZAM'S ARMY AGAIN ACCOMPANIES THE BRITISH AGAINST SERINGAPATAM, 1799. NEW SUBSIDIARY TREATY OF 1800. COMMERCIAL TREATY OF 1802. DEATH OF NIZAM ALEE.

In little more than ten years' time, both of the two sons of Nizam-ool-Moolk, who had held the rule of Hyderabad, had come to an untimely end, and the third son, Nizam Alee had now seized the government. Within those ten years the name of Nizam Alee had become familiar in the Deccan for bravery in the affray in which his nephew Moozufnr Jung was killed and he himself had got wounded, and as the principal in the conspiracy that resulted in the murder of M. Bussy's agent, Hyder Jung. He was known to be clever, daring, restless, and ambitious. He had conducted the affairs of the State while