text:  It was too steadfast a rumour to have grown out of nothing; and our own belief is--that but for the intestine feuds then prevailing amongst the Suddozye princes (Shah Soojah and his brothers ) the scheme would have been executed; in which case falling in with our own great Mahratta struggle under Lord Wellesley such an inroad would have given a chance worth valuing that the sceptre might have passed from England--England at that time having neither steamers for the Indus nor improved artillery against Affghan jezails besides having her hands full of work