"رحلة أوترام وهافلوك في بلاد فارس، بقلم النقيب ج. هـ. هانت، ٧٨ هايلاندرز. يوجد في المقدمة ملخص عن التاريخ الفارسي، تقرير عن الاختلافات المتعددة بين إنجلترا وبلاد فارس واستفسار عن أصل الحرب السابقة. بقلم جورج تاونسيند، مؤلف كتاب "ملخص أوروبا الحديثة لراسل"". [‎١‎٣‎٨] (٣٩٠/١٥٩)

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
have subsisted for many years between the
British government in India and the court of
Lahore,—and, more than all, the total neg
lect with which the British government had
hitherto treated these Afghan chiefs,—had led
them to regard England with feelings of jea
lousy rather than of attachment; and had in
duced them to seek, in alliances with Persia
and Russia, protection against the dangers
with which they believed themselves to be
threatened from the East. The chief of Cabul
sent accredited agents almost simultaneously
to the courts of Tehran and St. Petersburg,
soliciting from both assistance against the Seiks.
The chiefs of Candahar also sent agents into
Persia ; but as the greatest danger which they
apprehended was from the power of Kamran,
prince of Herat, their chief object was to con
cert with Persia a combined attack for the
destruction of that power.
" But although the chiefs of Cabul and
Candahar thus found in the nature of their
external relations a reason for seekins; to con-
nect themselves more intimately with Persia,
there were also circumstances in the internal