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homed Khan was allowed to retain the government as ,
a tributary; such, however, was his degradation, that
at the interview between the Governor-General and
Runjeet, in 1838, he was compelled to attend at the
Lahore Durbar to swell that monarch's train. The
Scindians threw off the yoke during the absence of
any power to compel their tribute. The King of
Bokhara possessed himself of Balk, and several wilder
and more distant districts maintained entire inde-
pendence. Shere Dil and his brothers maintained a
separate government at Candahar ; and Herat, though
deprived of its most valuable adjacent provinces, re-
mained in the hands of Mahmood, and consequently
of his son Kamran. During this convulsion, the
puppet king, Eyoob, fled from Caubul to Lahore,
where he remained a pensioner until his death.
The only one of the Barukzye brothers who has
exhibited any talent for governing, since the death of
Azeem Khan, is Dost Mahomed ; his rule was tolerably
equitable, and his provinces in the best order of any in
the country; and although, on assuming the autho-
rity of the Sirdarship, his position was a difficult and
precarious one, he managed by degrees to consolidate
his power and add to the extent of his possessions.
He made himself securely master of Ghuznee and
Jellalabad, to the governments of which he appointed
his brothers, Ameen Khan and Jubbar Khan. On
the death of the former, he bestowed the situation on
his own son, Hyder Khan. His eldest son, Meer
Ufzal Khan held the government of the adjoint dis-
tricts of Zoormut ; Azeem Khan had charge of
Bamean and the Hezarah country ; and a son of
Ameer Khan had 'that of the Kohi3tan. Jubbar
Khan subsequently returned to Caubul, and Dost
Mahomed appointed his favourite son, Mahomed
Akbar Khan, who has since become so fatally known
to the European community, to the government of
Jellalabad, and constituted him chief of the Ghilzies.
Attached to Sultan Mahomed's Government at Pesha-
wur, were two others of his family, his own uterine
brothers, Peer Mohamed Khan and Saeed Mahomed
Khan, who were entrusted with the petty govern-
ments of Hushtnuggur and Kohat, dependent on
Peshawur.

At Candahar the tyranny and exactions of the dif-
ferent brothers had reduced the country to the lowest
possible ebb of poverty and misery. The chief pos-
sessions attached to the province were the Barukzye
patrimony of Grishk, and the province of Zeminde-
war. They were engaged in constant hostilities with
Mahmood and Kamran at Herat, and frequently
under apprehensions of Persian invasion. It was
only on such occasions that anything like, family re-
gard or relations was exhibited between them and
their brother at Caubul, who, although separated by
counter interests and jealousies, always declared his
readiness to assist them against any foreign invasion ;
and in 1834, when Candahar was invaded by Shah
Soojah, and they were besieged in the city, Dost
Mahomed, although threatened on his own frontier
by the Seiks, hastened with a force to their assistance,
and saved Candahar by defeating Shah Soojiii
The number of the Candahar Sirdars was finally
reduced to Rehim Dil, Kohun Dil, and Meer Dil, who,
on the capture of Candahar by the British troops in
1839, sought refuge at the Court of Persia, where
they have since remained.
Having brought this memoir up to the date of our
invasion, and described the state of affairs at that pe-
riod, it is unnecessary to follow out the detail of
events that followed that occurrence; suffice it to al-
lude to the capture of Ghuznee, the flight of Dost
Mahomed from Argundah, the occupation of Caubul,
the victory over the Ameer at Bameean, supported by
the Wullee of Kooloom, and his surrender after the
affair at Purwundarrah ; since which period he has
been in honourable captivity in Hindostan, rendered
lately more constrained owing to the state of affairs
at Caubul. Mahomed Akbar Khan' his favourite son,
has lately earned a name of infamy by his assassina-
tion of the British Envoy, and the share he bore in
the treacherous destruction. of our force last winter,
that bids fair to be handed down with execration to
posterity. _ _ _ _

- He is now a wretched fugitive in the rohistan,
with every probability of being brought to the felon's
death he so richly merits.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
COURSING.
TARLTON MEETING, DEC. 19 AND 20.

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