'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [‎132] (349/684)

13-2 DYNASTY OF THE KAJARS.
continued to walk in the same perverse path.
Matters at last came to this pitch, that, even in the
royal presence, renewed complaints were openly and
publicly made against his tyranny. At this conjunc
ture, threats and menaces of incurring the royal
castigation became altogether useless : he neither
opened the eye of regard to his own state, nor de
sisted from such unseemly deeds ; nay, he even
uttered to different persons improper observations,
which merited severe punishment: besides this. Ins
frauds and embezzlement in the revenue exceeded
all bounds. At last, after proving his endless
crimes, the blackness of the pupil of his eye was
displaced with the knife, and his tongue was re
moved with the sharp-edged steel. His gold and
silver, and hidden treasures, the sources of his pride
and the fruits of his extortion, were all seized; and
imperative instructions were issued forth, to inflict
the punishment due to their evil deeds, on his sons,
brothers, and associates, in every part ol the well-
protected country. Thus the oppressed and weak
were rescued from the tyranny of this family : some
were deprived of sensation by tasting the cup of the
scimetar; in others, the lamp of sight became extin
guished : whatever heavy afflictions, in the course ot
life, they had inflicted on others now befel them
selves ; in the space of fourteen days, a splendor
and wealth which had never been equalled by the
Barmacides were exchanged for such degradation
and humiliation, that until the verge of the resm-
rection it will form the subject for conversation to
great and small. The great capital of wealth which
during so many years had been amassed by the