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3 'SHAUIPS GOVCSMMENT.
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5 Afler this affair Ahmed Shaufi fought hi« way Uirough tlie greater part of
6 Khorassaiin, and passing the tbi utied places without attacking them, repaired
7 to Candahar, where he arrived with a fi»ee not exceeding two or thr^
8 thouHukl hon&
9 He there found that a treeaiire commg fitom bidiaftr Nandhr had[ just.been
10 seized by the Dooraunees, and he immediately claimed it for himself : some
11 of the chiefs at first hesitated to give it up to him, though liis authoritv as
12 head of the Sudduzyes v. n'; now backed hx :i militarv force. He put some of
13 the most obstinate to death, and met wiUi no tiirther opposition in his tribe.
14 lu October 1747 he was crowned at Candahar: Dooraunee» Kuzzlebausb,
15 Bdocfa^ and HuMitnt- ohieft are mentioDed ae aaristiag at the mronatlqn.
16 Ahmed Shauh was then very ynong s a contcM|iciaiy butocian auhca huu
17 only twenly'three years of age.
18 He spent the winter in Candahar, settling the country he had already
19 acquired, and arranging his army for future expeditions. In framing his
20 government he appears to have had the model of tliat of Persia before his
21 eyes. The forms of his court, the great oihcers of 8tate, tlie arrangement
22 of the annj, and thepretensibns of the crown, me^uetty Ae «anie aa thoae
23 of Naudir Shaoh $ but the di&renoe m the sHnationa 4^ the two mooardia
24 was apparent in the manner in which Ahmed Shauh was obliged to modify
25 Naudir's plan, both in the administration of his internal government,
26 and in the order of his meaaorea lor advancing his power at home an^
27 abroad.
28 The Persians had long been accustomed to entire submission to a despotic
29 govenunent^ and had alwaya been attached to their aovcreigns. Tht dynasty
30 which had long nded them waa omtumed by the A%haunss and in the
31 beginning of Naudir's career, Faiaia waa.gniamng under a fiireign yoke :
32 Naudir took on himself the character of the deliverer of his country, and the
33 restorer of its native kings : he connected himself by marriage with the royal
34 family ; and when he hail siifhciently secured tlie affections of the army, and
35 Che respect of the people, he coniined the lawiul King, and traiuiierred hia
36 authori^ to hin^etf. .
37 Suooeeding to an eatabliahed monaiehy, he mtat witfi no aerionaonpoaitioii
38 in Persia, and was enabled from the moment of Mi accemion, to empby the
39 whole force of the kingdom in foreign conquests.
40 Ahmed Shauh, on the contrary, had to found a monarchy over a warhkc
41 aud indepentlpnt peopk', by no means attached to that t'ortn of government j
42 those most accu&toincU to be governed by a King, hud only felt his power in
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