'The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.' [‎134] (163/786)

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THE HISTORY OF PERSIA.
chap.xviii prospect of success, he threw himself upon the generosity of Kurreem,
who did not hesitate to grant him the pardon* he solicited.
And throws -iiiiii
himself on Before Futteh Aly Khan surrendered, he had endeavoured, and
sity of Kur- apparently with success, to engage some of the principal nobles of
Kurreem Khan to enter into a conspiracy against the life of that
prince. The plot was discovered, and those concerned punished.
Some persons of high rank were put to death: and the Persian
historian -f* of Kurreem informs us, that it was for a participation in
this conspiracy that the gallant Shaikh Aly Khan was condemned to
lose his sight J. If this chief, who was related to Kurreem, and whose
valour had been so instrumental to his elevation, was tempted by
ambition to conspire against his life, he merited the dreadful sentence
that was passed upon him : and it is not consistent with that justice,
which we owe to the character of a ruler, who had the courage not only
to forgive, but to employ, some of the most inveterate of his enemies,
to suppose that he was led, by a cowardly jealousy of the increasing
reputation of a favourite general, to commit an act that combined,
if it proceeded from such a motive, the deepest guilt with the basest
ingratitude.
Kurreem Kurreem Khan had been, throughout the whole of his struggle
Khan's con- < 0
duct towards for power, partially supported by the Arab tribes, who inhabit the
tribes. Persian shore of the Gulf. A large body of these had, indeed,
* He some time afterwards forfeited, by misconduct, his title to clemency, and was
put to death. f Tuarikh Zundeah.
X Olivier (on what authority I know not,) places this act several years subsequent
to the period mentioned by the author of the Tuarikh Zundeah, and states, that it was
imputed to a jealousy of the reputation Shaikh Aly Khan had acquired with the army.