text:  He is said to have sent off to the mountain strongholds of his family the famous _koh-i-noor_ diamond with great part of the royal treasure; and it was so generally supposed that he meditated ridding himself of the pageant king Dhuleep in order to assume in his own person the ensigns of royalty that the uncles of the young prince had made an attempt (which was however discovered and frustrated) to carry him off from Lahore and place him under British protection