Gazette Of The United States

The Nabob of Oude, has at length finished his new palace, at Lucknow it is four miles in circumference. but is built so contrary to all order, that every apartment seems to belong to different persons—the last room that has been fitted up, is the most magnificent thing that can be imagined; it is entirely of ivory and silver. The Nabob is particularly partial to hunting and he is the only one of the Asiatic despots that hunts in the true eastern style of magnificence; his train in general, consists of 750 elephants, 5,000 horse, and 40,000 foot—half a dozen tigers of a morning are to him a breakfast, and a rhinoceros, with two or three panthers, a luncheon, before dinner.