1 INTRODUCTION.
2 He peremptorily refused liie money, but prayed fiir thto
3 And fiir nw^ and «ent « gratefld meiMge £»-my alten^^
4 i have now come to a point in my narrative, some acoonnt
5 of the state of affiun at the court is neoeMary, to expkm my <ywii
6 Shaiiii Shujau ool Moolk had succeeded to his half brother Shauh
7 Mahmood, who was deposed in consequence of a jiopular insurrec-
8 tion. He had reigned about six years, when 1 entered his kin*,'ii()m,
9 and as he had quashed an iniexpected rebeUion ot his own V izier
10 about a year before, he was considered as very firndv estaWished
11 on the throne ; and shortly before my ai ri%'ai, iSiiauh Aluhinood,
12 assiiiLed by i uLteh Khaun, head ol the clan of Baurikzyeii, had made
13 a fedjle attempt to recover the crowu. The King had, however, 8tn>>
14 coeded in lepffVMing kit fint attenqit at inauireotifln in Ite west, and
15 ftit -ao aeaiie flom lua dengnat that be nunwd eait to FetiuMrar»
16 wlieDioe he innediatdj despatdied Akram inimiw, witb aU tbe fiowe
17 a abo of the lebel^
18 lipiia vtrier. ...
19 Not long after their march, newt amvad of the aqptnie of* Caada-
20 hir hy Shaiih Mahmoodi irfiich at^first, oeoanoned lome depnameat
21 liiit that waa removed by &vouraUe rejports from the wert. . ^tha
22 nme time, newa daily arrived of Akram Khaun's successful ptofprieM,
23 and all Periiawer was in daily expectation of the fall of Caahmeer,
24 and the return of the army, whidi would, have been attended with
25 tiie immediate dispersion of the rebels in (he west. All these hopes
26 were quashed by intelligence which was received on the 23d of Aprtl»
27 of the entire defeat and destruction of Akram Khaun's army.
28 That minister had reposed r^ront confidence in Mofnwnllv, the hill
29 chief of Mozufferabad, and h;iti depended on liiin fin sii|)])lies and
30 guides ; at the same time, hi.s ungovernable pride ami a\ aiice led him
31 to offeTid this very man, in whose hands he had put the safetv of his
32 whole army. The effect of these mistakes was soon felt in the want
33 of supplies, but Akram had now arrived at the last pass, which
34 though defended by a wall and towers, would, probably, have soon
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