'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' [‎287] (504/684)

dynasty of the kajars. 287
by the people of Derbend, by the guidance of the
Russians, were hatched in fraud and treachery ; and
that Shaikh Aly Khan, intoxicated with the wine of
self-conceit, had discarded all attention to State
affairs, and abandoned all care of military concerns :
so that, in this posture of affairs, Pir Kuly Khan had
set out on his return to Juwad, by way of Bakoa ;
and that therefore the period of the arrival of re
inforcements (if sent), and that of the hosts of win
ter, would be the same. The Prince Viceroy, con
sidering these circumstances, deferred the expedi
tion to Erivan, and ordered the army to move from
Ak Su: and Mustafa Khan, from weakness of in
tellect, shortly after this movement of the exalted
arm y, marched a numerous body of men to the
site of the royal encampment. The Prince Vice-
joy by chance had left a body of the heroic Ghoo-
ams, under Hasan Khan Kajar, as a rear-guard;
hey encountered this force of Mustafa Khan's, and,
a g on them like some sudden plague, soon be
reft their general, Malek Makem, of his existence;
bus depriving him, at once, of the vital principle and
he power of governing*: and such became the for-
u ne of many others. They made many prisoners;
J J hose who escaped slaughter or capture wan
ted heedlessly in the regions of adversity. Pir
11 y Khan was ordered to Mughan with a detach
ment of the vengeance-breathing army; and with
mstructions to halt there, if he thought it advisable;
0 * otherwise to remove the people of Shirwan,'
, and Mughan, and proceed to Taulish. At
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