1 fifiS WAK WITH THE KINO OF IK>KHAUBiL CAmvoo.
2 Mott w Muddud Khaun had nUni, wffdn caqNUtd Iks gomna^ ni
3 recovered the whole of SimL
4 Timoor Shauh allowed a considerable time to pass before he made any
5 fiirtlier aUcmin to reiiucr Sind, and it was proliaUiy a» late as 1786 diat he
6 sent auother army into that country, commanded by Ahmed Khaun Nooizye.
7 Thi« army was inferior to the fint io fince, and im Cfvideotly nnWIWI^
8 tmnmuM, Hut lUpoofCM did not now fly £nm Sbd» Imt riitilwd
9 tmopi — »^ novied ^jnwt itiim<>d KIimitij who iiiiflh'Pil hinwlf to Im ltd
10 into an ainbiMGade* was defeated with grwt loas, and compelled to MbMift
11 to i^iikarpoor. The Sindees who had before sent a vakeel to Timoor Shauh,
12 now redotibled their etibrts for an accommodation. Their ^ rikpcl appeased
13 the King by the most humble protessions, secured the ministers by great
14 bribes, and at last, on the Talpoorees agreeing to pay the fiarmer revenue to
15 tiM King, a lukkitmwM lined appointing the principal of tharii, liver I^rilah
16 Alii, to the government
17 The re(hiction of Asaud SUkBon's rdidlion in Caahmccr took place dunng
18 the interval between the expeditions to Sind and that against Bahawul Khaun,
19 in the beginning of 178R, but nothing of general importsmce to the kingdom
20 occurred till the sunmu r of that year, when a war h\:ok<j out with the LzUek
21 Tartars. Shauh Moraud Bey, King of Bokiiaura, iiad long beeu encroach-
22 iog on the Doofannee donuidoai, and dnriii^ the Kii^s expedition to Bahn*
23 viilpoMr» ho canied his aggreaaioni ao &r at to obl%tt Tfanoor Shauh to takt
24 Timoor l^auh wrote to Shauh Moraud on thia occasion, is in many peoplo^
25 hands at Caubid. It contains a distinct statement of the grounds of the war«
26 and g^ves a clear view of Shmih Moraud's policy at that time. It states *• that
27 •* Ahmed Shauh had always been on friendly terms witli the state of Bok-
28 •* haura. That Timoor had nwintainfd the aame relaticms : that l^wuh Moo*
29 t«od hod for aomo time been encroaching on the Dootaonoe oapire, and
30 «* had alwaifa amatod o war by ipoedy exptaoationa and hnmbb pupftaaiaaa i
31 ** taking care, however, always to secure the point ho had m view : that he
32 had at last seized Mour * (or Merve), and driven away the Sheeah inhabi.
33 " tants, and had given as a xeason, his wish to convert them to the true
34 ^ Jdahoromodan fiuth : it nxges, that no state can have a right to inter^aro
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