Deen, but on his death she returned secretly to Lucknow; and, in December of that year, her nephew, Fuzl Allee, who had been banished with her, returned also, and on the 31st of that month he was appointed prime minister, in succession to Aga Meer.  Hakeem Mehndee had been invited from Futtehghur to fill the office, and had come so far as Cawnpoor, when Fyz-on Nissa carried the day with the Queen Dowager, and he was ordered back.  In November, 1828, the King, at his mother’s request, gave him the sum of 21,85,722 1 11, the residue of the principal of the pension of Shums-od Dowlah, the King’s uncle, who had died.  The whole principal amounted to 33,33,333 5 4, but part had been appropriated as a fund to provide for some members of the King’s family.

In February, 1829, Fuzl Allee resigned the office of prime minister, and was protected by the Government of India, on the recommendation of the Resident, and saved, from the necessity of refunding to the State any of the wealth (some thirty-five lacs of rupees) which he had acquired during his brief period of office.  This was all left to his three daughters and their husbands on his death, which took place soon after.  He was succeeded in office by Hakeem Mehndee.  Shums-od Dowlah’s pension of 16,666 10 6 a-month, was paid out of the interest, at 6 per cent., of the loan of one crore, eight lacs, and fifty thousand rupees, obtained from the sovereign of Oude (Ghazee-od Deen Hyder, who succeeded his father on the 11th of July, 1814,) by Lord Hastings, in October, 1814, for the Nepaul war.  All the interest (six lacs and fifty-one thousand) was, in the same manner, distributed in stipends to different members of the family, and the principal has been paid back as the incumbents have died off.  Some few still survive.*

[* The ground, on the north-west side of Morowa, would be good for a cantonment, as the soil is sandy, and the plain well drained.  Water must lie during the rains on all the other sides, and the soil has more clay in it.]

January 7, 1850.—­To Mirree, twelve miles, over a plain of light doomuteea soil, sufficiently cultivated, and well studded with trees.  We passed Runjeet-ka Poorwa half-way—­once a large and populous town, but now a small one.  The fog was, however, too thick to admit of my seeing it.  From this place to Lucknow, thirty miles, Seetlah Buksh, a deputy of Almas Allee Khan’s, planted an avenue of the finest kind of trees.  We had to pass through a mile of it, and the trees are in the highest perfection, and complete on both sides.  I am told that there are, however, many considerable intervals in which they have been destroyed.  The trees must have been planted about sixty years ago.