1 AiMmv.3 XNVASION OP THE FUMJAUB. SQd
2 master, who, though proud and imperious, was easily led by flatterers, and
3 who, with all his fondness lor activity and ej it erpri/e, li.ul not patience of
4 application sutticient for managing the details ol bu5iuei3& He was ambitious,
5 md,htaj^hty UtlSbot^yiAioini^dbm andjedodft <^$uiy
6 wlHi.could attempt to rival him in pover or fiivouri but Ub affogiiice Mid
7 rowfiHraiTft in-oooneil veie equalled by hts timidity when exposed to peraooii
8 danger ; a circumstance which added contempt to the dislike with which he
9 was otherwise regarded. His elevation and his subsequent conduct disgusted
10 the Dooraunec<, and, sensible of the ill will they bore liiin, he used every
11 art to iniusc jealousy and dissension between that tribe and the King. His
12 avariee wai not lew hoftful to the state than hie eadntion : the govemmeiita
13 efpimiees end other eflioetirare opealy aoUftfldipn^ udthededtee
14 4iftiiai«f«oiieb whkA waatheconaequeDcacf hi*emhfmtleni6nta end Uweee^
15 Ub creebire^ was severely felt under a Prince whose opecatioiie were fo
16 expensive as Shauh Zeniaun's, and who had ao flhttce of the Older and
17 jecouomy which distinguished his predecessor.
18 The rest of Shauh Zemaun's reigu was ^pcut in attempts to invade India,
19 firom which he was always cecailed by the pressure of the dangers which he
20 hedleft unpnifidedforinthe weat Had.hebeco ellowed tobave ponoed
21 his plan without intenuption, its original defects would We been only 1^
22 more conspicuous: he might have teken Delly fVom the Mahrattas, but the
23 ])lunder would not have paid the expences of his advance, and if the invita- ,
24 tion of the Kohilhts, and the temptation of seiiiing the wealth of the vizipr
25 had led him on towards Lucknow, he wouid have been opposed by the army
26 then fonned for that purpose under Sir James Craig ; there can be little
27 doubts fion the Doofaonee mode of worn that he would have engaged in
28 it,andstiniemtfaatthe leedt wouldlmve putan endtohispioleclsi^ Indii^
29 Shauh Zsmautt's first invasion of the Punjaub was commenced at the dose
30 of the year 1795. He crossed the Indus by a bridge of boats at Attok, and
31 advanced three marches to Hussun Abdaul, from which place he tjetachcd a
32 large Ibrce under Ahmed Ktiaun Sliauheenchee Bauchee, to take pos^sion
33 of Rotass. This detachment succeeded in its object, aud was joined by
34 many Gnckem, Juts* and other Mnswilmane of the Fliojeub^ while fbeSike
35 fled in dismay to the mountains or beyond the Hyphaais*
36 Their alann was however soon dissipated *, for the King had only bean a
37 week at Hussun Abdaul, when he received intelligence of the invasion of
38 the west of Khorassaun by Agha Ma!ionied Khaun Kujjur, King of Persia ;
39 this attack determined him immediately to. return to the d^ence of iua
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