Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.1.1

19.1.1

Ram-narain, Viceroy of Azim-abad, submits to Mir-djaafer-qhan — The Author's family greatly disappointed — Hazyr-ally, slave to the former family, seizes the province of Pùrania — Mirza-mehdi, a child of fifteen, youngest brother of Seradj-ed-doula, is barbarously put to death by Mir-djaafer-qhan's order — Qhadum-hassan-qhan, a very strange character, sent to Pùrania, expells Hazur-aaly — His conduct — His behaviour to an innocent astrologer — Ram-narain manages so as to put himself under the safeguard of the English Government — The Author recovers his Djaghir, or family estate — Shitab-rày makes his appearance on the stage of the world — Mir-abdollah, a gentleman of the Imperial family of Persia — Wretched administration of the Navvab's, and of his son — The troops, headed by two principal officers, conspire against him — The conspiracy is discovered and severely punished — Mir-cazem, an officer of importance, enveloped in the punition — Several illustrious but defenceless women sent into a loathsome confinement — The Navvab's detestable conduct renders Seradj-ed-doula regretted — Radja Sunder-sing, one of the most zealous friends of a revolution, is accidentally killed — The Imperial Prince, Aaly-goher, undertakes an expedition against Bengal — Is strongly recommended by his mother to our author's father, Hedaiet-ally-qhan — Mahmed-cùli-qhan, Lord of Ilah-abad, joins the Prince — Ram-narain tampers with the two parties — Our author rendered suspected on account of his father, justifies his conduct — The author sent on an embassy to the Shah-zada, or Imperial Prince — Faithless proposals of our author's rejected with indignation by his father, and by the General of the army — Azim-abad besieged by the Shah-zada — The siege raised on the report of the arrival of the Bengal Army, and of Mahmed-cùli-qhan's having been circumvented by his kinsman, Shudja-ed-doula — The Shah-zada joined by the Frenchman Moosie-Lass — Mahmed-c8li-qhan's army waylaid and stripped by his kinsman's troops, and his person confined — Resolute behaviour of an officer who stands upon his defence;