"سلالة كاجار مترجمة من المخطوطة الفارسية الأصلية ومقدمه من فاتي علي شاه إلى السير هارفورد جونز بريدجيس...ومعها تقرير موجز في البداية عن تاريخ بلاد فارس قبل تلك الفترة موضحة بألواح وخرائط لغربي بلاد فارس" [‎٢‎٦‎٠] (٦٨٤/٤٧٧)

DYNASTY OF THE KAJARS.
requiring the re-establishment and restoration to
authority of Abd-ur-rahmin Pasha. Aly Pasha, how
ever, had recourse to foolish excuses, and endea
voured to retard the execution of the royal orders
by sending worthless presents: in appearance,
he shewed himself ready to obey the kings com
mands without making difficulties about it; but in
reality, as he observed the ever-victorious troops
were on one side much engaged in the Russian war;
and on the other, occupied in fighting against the
Afghans of Kandahar and Herat, and the Uzbegs
of Merv and Turkistan ; he foolishly imagined the
royal camp to be wholly destitute of experienced
soldiers; and, from his contracted understanding,
making an attempt to soar on high, rushed into the
path of rebellion ; and did not suffer the recol
lection of the long-established and ancient friend
ship between the two States of Othman and Iran
to pass before his mind. He marched out of the
Bagdad territory with 30,000 cavalry and infantry,
a park of artillery, and every other military equip
ment ; and proceeded, by way of Zahab, to r i W"
Ktirra; where he halted, having dragged his artil
lery over hills and mountains. This intelligence
came to the wide-ruling king in the Plain of Sulta-
niyah ; and as his most equitable majesty had never
contemplated the possibility of such an absurd and
desperate movement, nor ever thought of hostili
ties against the Othman Empire (with which treaties
and conventions of amity had subsisted for years),
he had considered the continuance of firm friend-