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to rate his faithful' advisers soundly for deceiving him by keeping him in the dark about Mahomed Ali's antecedents. If this is true, why does not the Nawab Sir Asmanjah rid himself of these advisers?', it may be asked. Evidently the Nawab cannot get on without them—they are necessary evils that the State has to groan beneath, because it has got for its Minister a man who cannot help himself
The Bribery Commission has been sitting for some weeks past now, and it may sit for sometime longer—but that its enquiries will lead to any satisfactory results seems to be more than over a hoping against hope. The Nawab Akber Jung Bahadur, our City Kotwal, would have been an extremely useful person on the Commission. He knows and can know all that is going on in the City; and as one in touch with the City people, I may state without meaning any disparagement to Col. Ludlow, he is more competent to conduct an inquiry like the one in question than the Colonel who knows very little of the people and their language. Yet, he has been removed from the Commission.
"They say" said a friend in high position the other day "that Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick is a very clever man, a very intelligent man an astute politician. He may be all that; but that he can cope with the difficulties of the situation in a country like Hyderabad, is what I cannot believe. You will remember how the non-acceptance of Mushtak Hussain's resignation was brought about. Two of the friends went, one after the other, to Sir Dennis and made Mushtak's resignation out to be a public calamity. Sir Dennis believed them and at an interview with the Nizam he put it to him point-blank if it was true that he meant to send Mushtak Hussain out of service. The Nizam said "No" and according to that 'no' did not accept the resignation. Now, if Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick knew anything about oriental countries, oriental manners and customs, he would not have sought information on the subject of the resignation at an interview. He would have known that the exaggerated notions that orientals entertain of courtesy to a highly-respected
