1 5QS : DEFEAT AND DEATH OF THE VIZIER. CAp««i>nt,.
2 the advice or assistaoce of his mimBtet: the success he had met with, enooik
3 rae^d him to place greater reliance on his own resources, and at laattooppote
4 the M/iei 's wishes, and to treat liis advice with contempt.
5 The vmer's disafTection augmented m proportion a& im luduence declined;
6 awi'it llM .bMD iUflpected that h> WM the authogof aliattenyt which took
7 fbob at .tUt tittc^ fe6 nbe AMmm, one of Ibe conliaed nioeeii to the
8 throne. The jdan fkiiied» hat mn aot'irilihout serious camequeaeei^ u
9 ^ ah mood effected his escape during the confusion which it occasioned.
10 Nut long after, the \azier arrived from Cashmeer: he found the King
11 resolved to proceed to Sind, a step from which he used all his influence to
12 dissuade him i and iiavmg now ascertained tiiat lus power over his master
13 was gone, h« retolvcdtokwiiDtiiM inptadi|gaakoTO«ompliABtprlQ^
14 ihetimme* He aeooidii^ iialtod «l Cbtdnil, and
15 nection with Prints Kyser, whom he persuaded to enter into fait dangtt.
16 In the mean tinuillie King proceeded to Sind, and entered into an arrange-
17 ment with the governors, which gave so mucfi offence to thoir determined
18 enemy, Futteti Khaun, tliat he took the eariiest u|)puriunit^ of lyiitting the
19 army, with the three thousand troops under his command.
20 During these traiuactions, and probably before Futteh Khaun's flight, the
21 King received iMeU^gence that the insiirhMl firadetned Miee Kjaw King
22 at Cenbul; and not long after, he Icemed Aat the dty of Mbawer bad
23 fillra into the hands of tiie i^ls. He naolved to direct his first operatione
24 against that city, and he' "Succeeded in recovering it by tlie end of February.
25 About the same tune the vizier and Kyser arrived in the neighbourhood,
26 with a force amouniuig to twelve tiiousaud men ; and, aiier a truitless nego-
27 tiatioQ, the parties engaged on the 3d of Mirdh^iS^oS.
28 Hie n^ai troops woe broken at the first omet* and die Kii^ himself wm
29 about to quit the ficU^ wlien tlie virier, oerried on by fail nataml ooon^
30 and by the neer prospect of success, imprudently charged him at the head of
31 a handful nf men. The Khauns about the King made a desperate resistance,
32 and the vizier was shot in the struggle. The King's troop<; i-aiiied on Uwft
33 event, and the &te of the battle was soon turned in their lavour.
34 Hie King entered Bndiawer in triumph, die viaier's head was borne behind
35 bimonaapear.
36 lUa vielHy entirdy leeloved the Kii^t a&irs in BeAawer) but Oulv
37 meer 'atm held out Icir tlie viiier's party, undic bii son Atta Ifahommed
38 Khaun ; and the King wai^ prevented undertaking any thing in that province
39 by the more i^geut difficulties wltich subeitted in Cauhul and Candvhar*
40 Digitizer ^jQOgle