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the field, than his conduct in private life, received an ill fated wound, of which he died, in a few months after Col. Parker, and the two regiments under his command, return-ed to Belgram. He was ſincerely, regretted by his brother Officers; by whom and his weeping Soldiers, his funeral was proceſſionally attended to the grave, and he was interred with due military honours. His afflicted widow erected a very handſome monument to his memory, near the ground where his own regiment uſually paraded.

Lecknow, the town; to which Maboab was ſent, is a place of conſiderable trade, and one of the principal factories in the Mogul's

dominions