1 308 NEWS FROM KABUL.
2 General Ventura promised to visit the latter to
3 expedite the production of the contingent.
4 14th.—The news from Kabul announced the
5 arrival at that place of an express Qasid from
6 Candahar, bringing a letter for the Amir from
7 his brothers, who are reported to have informed
8 him by that opportunity that he was to con-
9 sider that letter as their last, as they had
10 heard of the near approach of the Shah, and
11 urged the Amir to send them a reinforcement
12 with the least possible delay, otherwise their
13 destruction was certain. Dost Mahomed ex-
14 pressed his inability to comply with their re-
15 quest, on the plea that his subjects were
16 already in arms against him; and recom-
17 mended them to meet the Shah once in the
18 field, and if they suffered a reverse, to confine
19 themselves in the fort and make a resolute de-
20 fence. : Mr. Harland, an American, in the ser-
21 vice of the Amir, and lately absent at Qoon-
22 duz, was said to have been seized and confined
23 in Kabul on suspicion of being a spy of Shah
24 Shuje. Abdal Sami Khan, the ‘secretary of
25 the Amir, for whose return he had been ex-