SUMR00, the name by which 1Valter Rein hardt was known to the natives of India, sup posed to be a dialectal variation from Sombre, which was the pseudonym applied to him by his French comrades. He was a native of Treve, in the Duchy of Luxembourg, half French, half Ger man, and had been a sailor in the French navy ; he deserted, and entered the British service aa a soldier ; next he de,serted the British and joiued the French ; then he entered the service of the Nawab of Bengal, and was the murderer of the 766 English Resident at Patna and all his followers in , 1763. lie obtained the command of a large body of men, with lands to support them, and soma years afterwards he married a remarkable woman, who was called, from his namo of Sombre, the Ilegnin Stunroo. The Begum was of Muham madan extraction. Sho became a !loutish Chris tian in 1781, and for ina»y years after Sombre's, death maintained a small army and ruled lier petty state at Sirdliamt with great vigour. She left her,' property to Mr. Dye° Sombre, son of Colonel Dyce, her minister or moaning num, who had married her husband's daughter. The son came to Eng
land to urge certaiii claims upon the Government. Ile married the daughter of a peer, held for a short time a seat in the House of Commons, was prominent in the law courts, and at last was declared to be insane.
The year of Suturoo's death at Agra has been stated at A.D. 1778. The Begtun built a large Banish church. During the Mahratta wars she led her troops into action, riding at their head , very gallantly. In 1792 She married Colonel Le Vaisseati. She died A.D. 183G.
SUN. The races of the Sun and Moon furnished two parallel lines of kings, who are supposed to have, reigned the Ayoclhya, and in the tract between the Janina and the Ganges respectively. From one or other of these all the ancient royal families of Ilindastan claim to have been de scended. The list of the Solar dynasty gives 95 names, and that of the Lunar race 48 names ; but the lists and the narrative are so full of absurdi ties that no part can be taken as a basis on which to found a system of chronology.