1 ' BULKH INVADED BY THE UZBEKS.
2 The princes of the royal familj made an nttempt to raise Abbasa to the
3 throne, but, though they behaved with much spirit, they shewed little skill:
4 their persons were secured by a stratagem : the gates of the Balla Hissar, or
5 citadel of C^bul, were seized by Zemauti's partisans } aiid tiuit prince was
6 decbured King in » hatly moetiag of tin Doonmwe cbieft. H« was imined--
7 itelj pfodaiined, m lugm «m imad to the ^larda, tbe prinoet w«» Mot
8 into oonflnement in the upper fort of Caubul ; andirom lint nioineot Shaiili
9 Zemaun entered quietly on the administration of the government.
10 Menns were taken for asscmbhng an army to establish the authority of the
11 new King, and to subdue the r^eUions that might be expected trom his
12 brothers. * -
13 His greatest apptdiemiMi irMfirom Hoan^oon* wbo wis oertunly «d-
14 tiiled to the Aroqe^ if -ptiniogemtnre gave a. dainit and who crnnmanded at
15 Candabar, in .the heart of the Dooiannee coontiy. Hem» however, un?
16 popular I he was deserted by some of his .adherents, was defeated by a small
17 force commanded by prince Shoojau (since King), and was compelled to take
18 refuge in Belochistaun. Shauh Zemaun tooii possession of Candabar, and
19 soon after received the submissions of Prince Maiimood (\\ho as 1 have men-
20 tioued, was governor of Heraut), and then set olf fqr CaubuL
21 - As soon as Shanb Zenumn had Mcuied himself fiom his oompetiton fiv
22 tiie throne,, he appears to have detennined on an invasion of Indian a meaF
23 sure to which he was stimulated by Merza Ahsun Bukht, a prince of the
24 royal family of Delly, who had fled to Caubul in Timoor's reign, as well as
25 b^ ambassadors wiio arrived about this time from Ti])poo Sooltaini, and who
26 made great pecuniary oilers to the King, ou condition that he uiiould attack
27 the British.
28 . In the. month .of December, 1793, Shaoh. Zemann marched to Peshawer,
29 with the intention of iaomedistdjr invading India} but this resolutton was
30 soon ilropt, from the Shauh's conviction that his own dominions were not
31 Rufficieatly settled, to admit of his embarking in foreign expeditions. Great
32 confusion had indeed arisen in the remote provinces immedi;ite!v on the
33 death of Timoor, when tiie suspension of tlie powers of government, and
34 tlie prospect of a disputed succestiiou, encouraged ibreign enemies, and in-
35 dnced ambitions sobjecti to attempt their own aggrandisement. .
36 ■ The most serious danger, that-wfaich threatened him on the aideof -Toor-
37 Idstanoy had, ,however» panod over by this, tiipe. Sbmh Moraud, who had
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