New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-04-20
From Blackwood's Magaz
DOsT MHAMMED,
THE HERO OF AYFGHANIsTAS.

r1,st interest, tnat a siicnt naTF1t!Nc ~ liz
It's late sovereign MAJ serve 10 ccaruP some Q. ''''
narratives on the subject. portion o, tac troops
Of Nad!r Shah. in this invasion OF India a.pus a
century since we're ,i.hans-a race OF oafpariah',
#ioha6i.inc a c-uutry whose Alpine temperature N
,yi,I,., and whose fertility in summer, rendered
Them ono Of the mos, v;gorous and athletic races
of Northcru India. Nadir, though brilliant so'-
.l;er wa. j tyrant. and Therefore hateJ; but, on
=bi re,,,rn 10 Persia he became a sot. and was
circ,,rn:cn,ed bv court caba. Poison ana
tho dapycr are the Eastern Bill of Rights. y cen
oi,,,y was formed against MIN, and he va. stab
sed when living in his tent, probab! drunk
Tor;oa of General convuisoa followed in which his
il;arv troop, fought each other, dispersed 10
tloir o.n homes. In the general disruption, the
principal officer of the Aighans, Ahmed Saah,
seized q conv-y Of treasure belonging TO Nadlr re-
turned with his b.rbarians 10 his mountains drove
all opposition before him. and giving himself the
picturesque title Of the :. Pearl OF the Age
decree Dooraaec,) became monarch Of AiSha-
nistnn.
lhmsa lad begun life ~ !. robter on large
scale. and he continued his trade increasing
one. as long "a he lived He must have bcen=a
formidable ncighbor, for he made four invasions
of India; fell heavily on the decavlng house OF
Aurunczebc, and robbed and vHassacrcd without
mercy Wherever he conquered. AZ length. a
qnartcr Of u century of proiligacy, p.sndeT, and
,o in The pursuit OF both, brou. Int the founder OF
the Ahgla.. throne his grave Tic died in 1913,
;,bos, twenty wears after Give had laid the foun-
iotions of The British Indian Empire, by the bat
lie Of P!aSscv.
La the East the conqucror is always succeeded
b. :. coyvnr,i-;l,d the founder of Il Kingdom by
fool bltlhe kingdom sometimes escapes the natu-
raj tul! OF the dynasty. Tmuur Shah, the son OF
hut.
dom survived him, though he reigncd ahoutas long
n his ;trtivc and clever father.
On his death four OF lis crowd of sons were
rivals for the throne. funlaioon. the eldest, at
tempted to proclaim himself king at Candahnr,
but was attacked BIZ the army of Shah Lemaun.
lis brother, who had seized or Cabul, and as
suned the throne and by that brother had his eyes
put out, and was thus rendered, in the Indian
stye. incapable of empire. India is the land Of
conspiracy, and conspiracy was now formed
against Zanaun, OF his vizicr, or both. The
spirators seized, and had their heads cut off.
But, they had been powerful clieftoins-tlier clans
vowed revenge Mahmoud third brother, put
himself at their head left Elerat, of which he had
been govctnor and seized Candahar All those
affairs were bloody, but thoroughly Indian. Ze-
nluun who had been preparing for an excursion Of
robbery to Hindostau, now stopped on his marsh,
and fastened back to crash i he rebcllion; but MS
troops either tired Of him, or corrupted by his
brother no sooner saw Malmoud's lines than
half Of them marched over to him. Tn: vizicr
and the monarch had only to turn their horses
heads and fly. They csca ped TO one q! Inc noun
tain tribes, but Mahmoud's gold followed them
there They were both delivered up; Zcmaun, by
a retnbutary fa.. was blinded, aad the vizier,
more for'..rnic, put TO death But in this tr-
rloms family, there vas a fourth brother ShooJat,
who had been left in charge of Iemaun 5 principal
levels Mt leshawur. An nsurrcction-liow raised
Is among the secrets Of Cabul .diplomacy-sud-
denly hurst round Malmpud in the mids, OF Il life
OF rcvclry he was dchroned, and the lowcl-kccpcr
placed in his room. Shoolah was now King.
Blu, the AL: han throne was again to he bcsct by
=insurrcclion Alahmoud escaped from hi, prison,
and Shooia! was forced 70 leave his hnrcui raise
nm army and pursue him. He had at tic same
time an army fighting in Cashmere The horizon
nov began to grow cloudy all sides. His
Atlclanrliim army was attacked and ruined in sim
gle battle; the next Intelligence was tina, Nah
mould, general, Futtcll kalan, "A chcttaln OF re-
narkablc bravery aud talent, had taken Candahar:
this was about 1910. Shah Shooja then advanced
to meet the rebels, with powerful army; but he
was beaten in two pitched battles and forced to fly
to the Punjaub, the torritory of liunjcct Sing.
Nlnhmoud monarch once moro. and, like
savage, forgetting what nc owed 20 the talents ana
bravery of his vizier, Fut,cll Khan, or probably,
Jealous of his popularity he blinded him. and
shortly ,.!tcr pet him to death This act Of afro
city proiuced the consequences whichif deserved;
the brothers of the vi7icr flew 10 arms.
Dost Mohammcd Khan, Of them, who has
since figured SO largely in the history of this dis
tr,c,cd country, made himself master of Cnbul.-
Two others seized Cundahnr, Cashmere, and the
rest Of the dominions.
Slab Shooah, under the protection of Rnrjcct
Sing, was still unluckv: he was plundcrcd of his
Jewels. The i Lion OF the Punjanb'' starved the
fugitive prince, until he gave up especially the ia
NOUS diamond named :. The Mountain of Light:
and. at cagtb Runicct having no more to gctiron
him. Sulah and his family We're suffered to make
their way to the British territory in 1914.
Thcorign of the war with Dost AIohammcd is
s,illinyolvcd in some oh,curity. The Persian AZ
tack on Hcrot, openly directed by Russian GER
rral, naturally excited suspicion of the loose hcl-
i,y Of the afghan king l, was ,nqucs,iouabc
tha, hc had commenced correspondence with
Russia, under prctcnce of protecting himself
against the asgrcssions of Ranjcet Sing The
British encouragement, unaccoun,ahlv forget
ting the absollte icklcneSs of the h4rbaria. char
actcr and the notorious facility with which it is
swaycd by money is said to have refused utivan-
chg a subsidy OF 100000, which the DoSt''
(prcr) declared to DC absolutely necessary to ii>
throne; aud u march across India and "a war were
preferred, which have already cost, on n general
calculation, about twenty times the subsidy. or Sc
ven millions sterling aud may cos, an unlimited
sum before quic, is restored. Blu, the sallun,rv
OF the British troops shone conspicuou.y in this
brief, but dangerous campaign. Dos, Mohammcd
was beaicn and taken prisoner; and now after
two years of nominal triumph The whole struggle
i. 70 be begun again
But ia new display of sentiments actually fa;-
tcning itself on this unrrouising subject; and the
Wings and Radicals are beginning TO cxal, the
Ans hans into patriots, heroes, and all other fine
things os the Radical school. The orators saw that
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