The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-08 00:00:00

no doubt now of the murder of the Shah ; for the circum-
stantial nature of the communication would of itself esta-
blish the fact, were there no other corroborative evidence to
rely upon. The letter will, we are sure, be perused with the
greatest interest by all classes of readers :
" The following news is from Caubul, 17th April. Nawab
Zaman Kham, and Jubar Khan (the Dust's brother), Oos-
man Khan, and Ameen Oolla Khan, having agreed on a plan
among themselves, went to the King, and having taken the
holy word (the Koran) with them, satisfied the King by the
agreement of both word and oath, inasmuch that lie con-
sented to go with an army, consisting of a general levy, to-
wards Jellalabad ; for which end it was settled that the King
himself having sent his tents out of Caubul, and made a
march to Seca Sung, should there muster and review his
whole army, and then march on to Jellalabad ; but before
this happened, the King, in strict and absolute privacy, of
his own authority, appointed the son of Ameen Oolla Khan
commander of his army. The Barukzye Sirdars being much
disgusted with the King's thus admitting the son of Ameen
Oolla Khan to his confidence, took it much to heart. They
then proposed to the King that they should assemble 25,000
soldiers at Caubul while the King went out to review his army
and march on Jellalabad. The King accordingly took forth
his tents, and went down to Seca Sung ; and the Barukzye
Sidars and the rest, with their force, also went forth, for the
purpose of being present at the muster of the army by the
King, as agreed ; so it was that on the first day the King
mustered his army at the place aforesaid, and at night re-
turned to the Bala Hissar, leaving Prince Futteh Jung at
Seca Sung; and the same night the King sent letters for the
men at Konibinat about Jellalabad, and to Khyber, and the
neighbourhood of Pehawur addressed to the Shahzedehs.—
N.N. This sentence is very confusedly written, but a sub-
sequent passage shows that Shahzadeh Mahomed Kasim and
others of the royal blood were concerned.

" In the morning the King, having made his preparations,
and having put on his dress of ceremony, took his seat in
his travelling chair of state (khasah,) and went forth out of
Cabool by the gate towards Shah Shaheed, to make his
march to Secca Sung; but on the road near Shah Shaheed,
Soojahood-Dowlah, the son of Nuwab Zeman Khan, had
placed in ambush fifty Jazalchees. When the King's retinue
reached the spot, these Jazalchees rose and fired on him ;
two balls struck, one in the brain, and one in the breast ;
five of the King's bearers were shot down by the volley ;
seven of the soldiers that formed the King's escort were also
struck, and fell ; the King died almost immediately. Soo-
jah-ood-Dowlah coming up with a body of horse, stood over
the King's corpse. Whatever property in jewels was about
the corpse—the crown, the girdle, and so on, the sword and
dagger—was plundered by them. When Shazadeh Futteh
Jung heard of the catastrophe he made his way back to the
Bala Hissar. The body of horse with Soojao-ood Dowlah
pursued the Prince at a smart pace, hoping to lay hands on
him ; but the Prince, by presence of mind and resolution,
made his way to the Bala Hissar; but, finding the gates
there guarded, and the troopers close behind him, lie fled
back to the city, and hid himself in the Fort of Muhmood
Khan Beeyat. Zeman Khan, and the other chiefs, said to
Muliwood Khan Beeyat, 'The King was our enemy, and we
slew him ; now give us over the Prince, as we are agreed to
make him King;' to which Muhmood Khan answered,' You
Barukzye Sirdars, in swearing a solemn oath to the King,
and afterwards killing him, have committed a heinous crime.
We of the tribes (Ooloos) of Cabool were against the deed.'
Zeman Khan replied, My son killed the King without my
wish or consent.' Muhmood Khan at night took Futteh
Jung out of his own fort, and lodged him with his women in
the Bala Hissar, when Ameen Ooliali Khan being in the
Bala Hissar, with nearly two thousand soldiers there assem-
bled, he placed Futteh Jung on the throne, and declared him
his king, writing letters to the Ooloos, his dependents, tel-
ling them to assemble about the Bala Hissar and throw in
supplies, while he himself prepared for action, guarding the
gates with artillery. Khan Sberim Khan, th Muhmood
Khan and the Koozilbash faction form one faction, while the
Barukzye Sirdars, and the Nawabs, and the men of the Ca-
bool tribes, ane the Kohistanees from the other."
It is unnecessary to point out to our readers, that should
the above extracted account of the circumstances which pre-
ceded the assassination of Shah Soojah prove correct, there
will not remain a doubt as to his Majesty's participation in
the insurrectionary proceedings. His crime, however—if be
has committed one—has brought with it its own punish-
ment.