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2 WSAKNE88 OF THE OOVEBKMENT. CAmaao.
3 defeat of the KhyH+rees under Sbauh Shuja, and a viotoiy over the Uzbdu
4 iu Bulkli, tcx>k j>iace on tlie same day in Marcli, i8oa.
5 After this struggle, part of the Kiug's ibrce was detached to ravage the
6 Ghiljie country, and iff the eoune «f Hi opwtioiia* it dcfteted a body of
7 tentbcKUMid GIuliiea at MoaUnh SfaMidee.*, wliicli.ivM tbe kit. Hand nude
8 ligr thftt tribes
9 . . The seveiitiM of the government ceased with tlie campaign ; and after
10 tranquillity was restored, the Gfailjies eaq^ieriencedeiactly the aMne tieatnMai
11 as before their rebellion.
12 It lias already been mentioned that prince Shujau sustained a defeat on the
13 same day witii the three great Ghiljie battles : that prince had advanced
14 ^{■>n>t Peihawer it the. bead of twelve thmiiaiid Kfajbeiea^ and waaep-
15 poaed by tbe ngular troopa of tbe ci^s a battle took placid in wbick.llie
16 Khybeieei were detaed with great slaughter, and the battle happening in
17 aummer, vait munbeia perished from heat and thirst before they regained
18 their motintfim«. Shniaii, with difficulty, escaped to his former retreat.
19 The quiet ot tiie kingduiii was now entirely restored ; but the govenimeni
20 was leit in a state oi deplorable weakness; few oi' the provinces had been
21 ledneedj the Kbaun of the Beiochei» andmaiiyof liie A%hattn tribea^M*
22 ^naed to achnowjedge so unsettled a government} and. as the treasurfwaa
23 eaiply» the King was destitute of the naana of makiiv a vigofoua affiift te
24 restore the authority of the crown.
25 The Persians had profited by the distracted state of the monarchy, and
26 bad, iu one campaiirrj, HlinoHt completed the conquest of Persian Khora*»
27 saun. The last pbce they took was Meshhed, in wliich city Naudir Mirza,
28 and thirty-eight other persons of Naudir Shauh's family, were taken priso*
29 tieiai and carried to Tebwaun, where they wei« all put to deaUit esocft one
30 inftot.
31 <. A son of Ritteh AUi Shauh's waa stationed at Meshhed, as govemor of
32 Persian Khorasaaun ; and the conquest of that country by the Persians may
33 be dated from this period, though Toorshish was not reduced till 1810, and
34 Kelaut Naudiree, 1 believe, still holds out. Meslihed was taken in the sum-
35 mer of i8o». . . ■ ,
36 . At theciose of the Ghiljie war. and after the daAet of Shujau Ool Moollc»
37 the Court Ibnnd itself fieed from all inunediate danger, and at leisuxe to take
38 * tith of May, ilio«.
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