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General kotlerefskj, and wag finally forced to accept the con-
ddions that were originally proposed by Russia and laid down
111 ?, rea ty ^ l,llstan ’ concluded 12th October, 1813.
While still at Tabriz, Sir Gore Ouseley heard certain
rumours of a reconciliation between Great Britain and Russia
and instructed the British officers in Persian service not to take
an\ further part in the Russo-Persian campaign still proceeding.
Abbas Mirza, however, pleaded so urgently, that two officers,
bhnsne and Lindsay, and thirteen serjeants were permitted to
stay Christie paid the penalty with his life, being killed on
the battlefield of Aslanduz, 31st October, 1812. He was
succeeded m command of Abbas Mirza’s infantry by Major
Hart, of the Royal army, who, until his death of cholera at
labnz m June, 1830, occupied a position unequalled by that of
an> other British officer in Persia. Ho acquired an extra
ordinary influence over the Shah and over Abbas Mirza, the
former entrusting him with the money for the payment of the
Azerbaijan troops, “ having more confidence in the honour of
an English major than in that of his own son,” and the latter
never tailed to support him.
The termination of the Perso-Russian war by the Treaty of
Guhstan m 1813 was followed by a third Anglo-Persian treaty
based on the preliminary treaty of March, 1809, and signed at
leheran in November, 1814. In pursuance of the terms of
this treaty the British Government continued to supply officers
tor drill and discipline, arms and munitions, and the material
and workmen for a foundry at Tabriz, where guns and shot of
every description were cast, gun-carriages built, and powder
manufactured at a cost of about fourpence per pound. The war
with Russia being, however, at an end, and no immediate peril
oveihanging, Abbas Mirza, who, like most members of his
family, was lacking in stability of purpose or character, began
to lose interest in army reforms, and even treated his English
officeis with some suspicion. In 1815, in consequence of a
dispute between England and Persia about the continuance of
the subsidy of 200,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. per annum, all English non
commissioned officers in the Persian service were ordered by
the British Minister to leave the country. Among the officers
who remained in Persia were Majors Lindsay, D’Arcy, Hart,
McIntosh, Captain Monteith, Lieutenant Willock, and others.
I) Arcy was soon after sent to England with two Persian
youths, one to learn surgery, the other military engineering.
'ITe French have done their best to belittle the work of the
English officers during this period, and E. Flandin, who accom
panied De Sercey, French Minister to Persia in 1839, evidently
led away by the traditional anglophobia of Frenchmen,
epitomised French opinion by writing:—
“ It is known how the English succeeded in ousting the French Embassy
m 1809, and all the officers attached to it. They pointed out to the Persians
how advantageously English officers would replace those of Napoleon, and
then, with the sole object of delaying or neutralising the military instruction
of the Persian soldiers, they pretended to continue "the work commenced by