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Rh overeigns were the greatet and mot arbitrary Monarchs in the worid. Their orders, though ever o extravagant, were fubmiively obeyed and their mandates oberved by the remotet nations. Their very names truck terror into the hearts of their enemies; but o rapid has been the decline of their power, that the race of the great Tamerlane is now little repected ince the days of Nizam Aimoulud. The royal tenure of the throne, is grown o inecure, that the Mogul has been, of late years, depoed at pleaure, to make way for uch of his ervants as could gain over the people, that great engine of power! to their caue. His authority, which prevailed.