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Rh own necessities. This treasure was under charge of Shujah-khan, son-in-law of Jafer-khan, viceroy of Bengal. Abdullah-khan no sooner received the prince's order than he secured and converted part of it to the payment of his troops, and kept the remainder for his brother's use. He also prepared the artillery of the citadel and province for the field, and selected a number of pieces to compose his own train. Whilst thus engaged in pushing his preparatives with vigour, Jehandar-shah, informed of his rebellion, conferred the government of Behar on raja Mahomed-khan, whose lieutenant Seid Abd-ul-ghaffer-khan, a man of character, had orders to attack Abdullah-khan, for which purpose he had been supplied with twelve thousand cavalry and a quantity of artillery. Abdullah-khan, who had been all this while expecting his brother and the prince, confounded at their non-appearance, and conceiving his small force to be no match for the imperial troops, shut himself up within his citadel, after having sent one-half of the garrison to harass the imperialists on the march. The troops of Abdullah-khan, which hardly amounted to seven thousand men, cavalry and infantry, were under the command of his three younger brothers Nur-eddin Ali-khan, Nejm-eddin Ali-khan, and Seif-eddin Ali-khan, to whom he attached his own general Bakhshy Abd-ul-mohsen-khan, a native of