All manner of means are resorted to to compel them: they and their families are seized and confined, and harshly or disgracefully treated, till they consent to sign the security bonds.
The plea that the bonds had been forced from them would not avail in any tribunal to which they might appeal: it would be urged against them that the money was for the State; and this would be considered as quite sufficient to justify the Government officer who had robbed them.

The brief history which I propose to give of Buksh Allee, the late contractor for the Russoolabad district, is as follows:-- Mokuddera Ouleea, one of the consorts of the King, Nuseer-od Deen Hyder, was the daughter of Mr.George Hopkins Walters, a half-pay officer of one of the regiments of British Dragoons, who came to Lucknow as an adventurer.

He there united himself (though not in marriage) to the widow of Mr.Whearty, an English merchant or shopkeeper of that city, who had recently died, leaving this widow, who was the daughter of Mr.Culloden, an English merchant of Lucknow, and one son, now called Ameer Mirza, and one daughter, now called Shurf-on Nissa.

By Mr.Walters this widow had one daughter, who afterwards became united to the King in marriage (in 1827), under the title of "Mokuddera Ouleea." Mr.Walters died at Lucknow, and the widow and two daughters went to reside at Cawnpoor.

The daughters were good-looking, and the mother was disposed to make the most of their charms, without regard to creed or colour.
Buksh Allee, a dome by caste, who had been by profession a drummer to a party of dancing-girls, served them as a coachman and table attendant.