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instructions, dismissed Commander Foulertori with directions
to call on him again that evening at nine o'clock.
Having secured the services of a competent pilot, Commander
Foulerton took him on board the 'Semiramis,' and, having
informed Lieutenant Stradling that he would have to sail at
daylight the following morning, directed him to stop all com
munication with the shore. He then proceeded to the 6 Pun-
iaub' and gave orders to his first-lieutenant to have all the
boats manned and armed in readiness to betaken in tow by the
i gemiramis,' at daylight on Monday morning, but not to give
any orders till after eight p.m., and to stop all communication
with the shore. Commander Foulerton now proceeded to
Government House and reported the arrangements he had
made to the Governor-General, whom he found closeted with the
same gentlemen as in the morning, He then went on board the
t Punjaub,' and, a little before daylight, the 6 Semiramis,' with
the'PunjaubV boats in tow, got under weigh and anchored
off the palace of the King of Oude. The pilot at first ob
jected to take the 4 Semiramis' down, as he had no orders, but
Commander Foulerton warned him to refuse at his peril, and
he obeyed.
On arriving at Garden Reach, Commander Foulerton ordered
Lieutenant Stradling to send his boats to the banks of the
river and allow no one to leave the place, and himself landed
with all his crew and closed in on the palace. A few minutes
later. Colonel Powell appeared on the scene with five hundred
men of the 53rd Regiment, some Artillery, and the Governor-
General's Body-Guard, with which he surrounded the vast com
pound and enclosure, containing a perfect town of huts, where
it was said the King had gathered some fifteen hundred armed
followers. The affair was well planned and the surprise com
plete. When Mr. Edmonstone, accompanied by Colonel Powell
and Commander Foulerton, made his appearance in the King's
apartments, the poor tool of the mutineers, reduced by de
bauchery to a state of semi-imbecility, cried and begged not to
be removed from his palace, denying all complicity in, or sym
pathy with, the rebellion. But his protestations were of no
avail, and he was driven to Fort William, in a carriage escorted
by the Governor-General's Body-Guard, while the Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. Ali
Nuckee Khan, Tikaet Rao, the Dewan of the Chief Begum Courteous or formal title for (usually Muslim) women of elite status, especially of Turko-Mongol lineage. ,
Ahsun Hoossein Khan, and his son, were removed to the ghaut
and taken on board the 4 Semiramis,' in her boats. Commander
Foulerton, in a letter to us, describing his share in these critical
events, says of the interview with the King :—" Mr. Edmon
stone, three or four others, and myself, went into the house and
up to the King's bedroom. We were kept outside a short time;
I suppose, till he was ready to receive us. We then went in
and found him sitting on his bed, and some of his wives and
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