'A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809, in which is included some account of the proceedings of his Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart., to the Court of the King of Persia. With twenty-five engravings from the designs of the author; a plate of inscriptions; and three maps.' [‎14] (23/524)

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numbers, attended by all the state and parade of the most respected
of the Khans and Mirzas, used daily to stand before the Sovereign at
his Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). .
On the loth of March, 1779, Kerim Khan died a natural death,
an extraordinary occurrence in the modern history of Persia, having
reigned (according to the different dates assigned to his accession,
from the deaths of different competitors) from nineteen to thirty years.
From the fall of Mahomed Hassan Khan the better epoch, his
conqueror lived nineteen years, with almost undisputed authority.
After his death all was again in confusion; and the kingdom pre
sented a renewal of blood and usurpation. It is scarcely necessary to
state the short-lived struggles of his successors: their very names have
ceased to interest us. It is sufficient therefore to add, that his sons
and brothers, and other relatives, attacked each other for fourteen years
after his death; till the fortunes of the whole family were finally over
whelmed in the defeat of Loolf Ali Khan, the last and greatest of
these claimants; and the dominion was transferred, in the year 1794,
to his conqueror, Aga Mahomed Khan, of the present royal race'
of Persia.
In latter years, during the war between the East India Company
and Tippoo Saib, under the administration of the Marquis Welles-
ley, the political relations of England and Persia were renewed. An
embassy, which Tippoo sent to Fatteh Ali Shah, the present King
of Persia, was followed soon after by a rival mission, which the Indian
government confided to the careof Mehede Ali Khan, a man of