1 150 SEYUD AHMED TAKES PESHAWUR. A. D. 1830.
2 an action, was defeated, so that Peshawur fell under the
3 temporary power of the fanatic Chief. Runjeet Singh
4 took the field with his army in the early part of 1830, to
5 punish this pretender. On his crossing- the Attuk, how-
6 ever, and approaching Peshawur, the insurgent force dis-
7 solved before him, and nothing tangible appeared oa
8 which he could wreak his vengeance. He returned to
9 Labor, leaving a strong detachment across the Indus, to
10 act as occasion might offer, and having restored Sooltan
11 MoHUMMUD to his government. This Chief, after the
12 departure of Runjeet Singh, found it convenient to
13 come to terms with Seyud Ahmed, who again came
14 down, and by a sudden attack carried Peshawur. The
15 Governor consented to allow free passage to men and
16 money proceeding to join the reformer — to place the
17 administration of justice in Peshawur in the hands of a
18 Kazee, and oflicers of the reformed faith and principles,
19 and to pay monthly to the Seyud the sum of 3000 rupees.
20 The city was on these conditions restored to Sooltan
21 MoHUMMUD, but the Seyud had no sooner retired, than
22 the Kazee and two Moolvees left to administer justice
23 according to his reformed principles, were slain in a popu-
24 lar tumult. Seyud Ahmed's difficulties increased, for the
25 Yoosufzyes took oflence at some innovations he desired to
26 introduce into the marriage ceremony, and were alarmed
27 by his announcing the doctrine, that a tenth of all income,
28 or revenue, should be subscribed for religious and state
29 purposes. The wild untutored mountaineers rose against
30 the preacher's authority, and not only rejected these doc-
31 trines, but compelled the Seyud, and his immediate fol-
32 lowers, to leave iheir mountains. He lied across the
33 Indus, and found a temporary refuge in the mountains of
34 Pekhlee and Dhumtour. RuNJBET Singh, however,