PRETENSIONS OP MIRZA JAWAN BAKHT TO THE

OFFICE OF HEIR-APPARENT, 1856-67.

From Simon Fraser, Esquire, Agent, Lieutenant- Governor,North-Western Provinces, Dehlee, to 0. B. Thornhill,Esquire,officiating Secretary to Government, North-Western Provinces, Agra,—No. 84, dated Delhee, 29thOctober 1856.

Mr. Thomas Cavendish Fenwick was for a short time at delhi seeking employment and eventually obtained service with Nawab Zeenath Mahal Begum at a high salary

2. The object of the Begum was to employ him in advocating at Agra and Calcutta the pretensions of her sonMirza Juwan Bukht to the office of Heir-Apparent.

3. I communicated with His Majesty through the Royal Wukeel pointing out the fruitlessness of employing such agency under ordinary circumstances, and under the authority conveyed in the recent orders of the Supreme Government intimated that it was now especially unnecessary, as the claims the Mirza had already been finally disposed of.