text: " At Rundell and Bridge's to a view of the glittering treasures of whose establishment the Khan was next introduced he was not less astonished at the incalculable value of the articles he saw exhibited "where the precious metals and magnificent jewellery of all sorts were scattered about as profusely as so many sorts of fruit in our Delhi bazars"--as surprised at being informed that many of the nobles and even of the royal family here deposited their plate and jewels for safe custody; and that "though all these valuables were left without a guard of soldiers this shop has never been known to be attacked and plundered by robbers and thieves who not unfrequently break into other houses