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The better to insure this, two companies of one of the King's regiments have been lately sent out with two guns, to see that the son is not molested in the possession.
The father was restored to his estate in 1850, and the son fled again to the Goruckpoor district.
He became reconciled to his father some months after, through the mediation of the magistrate, Mr.Chester, and returned to Toolseepoor.
The father and son, however, distrusted each other too much to live long together on amicable terms, and the son has gone off again to Goruckpoor. The Toolseepoor estate extends along from east to west for about one hundred miles, in a belt of from nine to twelve miles wide, upon the southern border of that part of the Oude Tarae forest which we took from Nepaul in 1815, and made over to the Oude Government by the treaty of the 11th May 1816, in lieu of the one crore of rupees which our Government borrowed from Oude for the conduct of that war.
The rent-roll of Toolseepoor is now from two to three lacs of rupees a- year; but it pays to the Oude Government a revenue of only one lac and five thousand, over and above gratuities to influential officers. The estate comprises that of Bankee, which was held by a Rajah Kunsa. Dan Bahader, the father of the present Rajah of Toolseepoor, attacked him one night in 1832, put him and some two hundred and fifty of his followers and family to death, and absorbed the estate.
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