1 SHAH ZADA MAHOMED SALEH. 511
2 on receiving authentic intelligence of the fall
3 of Ali Masjid, Mahomed Saleh with his party
4 advanced to Pindiali, then occupied by Sadat
5 Khan’s people, which he captured without
6 much resistance, at the period of our arrival at
7 Dhaka, on our way to Kabul. Further opera-
8 tions in that quarter being considered useless,
9 a letter had* been written to him from that
10 place to disband his newly levied troops, to
11 send the Durrani Sowars to camp, and to
12 return himself to Peshawr, and there to wait
13 the orders of his Majesty, who in fact did not
14 wish to be at the expense of retaining him,
15 although one of his own family. The pro-
16 posal did not please the young Prince, who
17 unfortunately determined not to lay down his
18 arms without trying to signalize himself by the
19 performance of some important military action.
20 Instead of obeying the order which he had
21 received, he proceeded to punish Nawab Khan
22 of Naowaghi, and besieged his fort. Mahomed
23 Saleh had now been joined by Mr. Carron
24 from Bajour, the chief of which territory still
25 avoided acting in concert with him. In his