PRINTED AT: The Punjab Government Press, 1911

AUTHOR:  Captain Charles Pratt Kennedy

CHAPTER X IX.

D EATH OF THE HEIR-APPARENT OP DELHI AHD

QUESTION OF A SUCCESSOR, 1856-57.

1. From Simon Fraser, Esquire, Agent, Lieutenant- Governor,Forfh-Western Provinces, Eehlee, to C. B- Thornhill, Esquire, Officiating Secretary to Government, North- Western Provinces, Agra,—No. 59, dated Eehlee, 11th July 1856.

I HAVE the honor to report, for the information of theHon’hle the Lieutenant-Governor, the unexpected demise yesterday at 7 p. m. of His Royal Highness the Prince Mirza Mohummud Sultan Futteh-ool-Moolk Shah, Bahadoor, Heir-Apparent of Delhi, and to annex extract from the of Palace Intelligence, from which it will be observed that cholera was the immediate cause of death.