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' The Two Jews Of Meshid.
that shed light on the captives in then * dungeon ? This they read ancl re-read with a growing interest ancl conviction . At length their friends succeeded in purchasing their release , and on the arrival of Pollock ' s force , they rejoined the British camp , and , half-ruined as they were , they recommenced then exertions in favour of the late hostages ancl captives to whom General
Pollock was precluded from affording more than the means of bare existence . Musa and Ibrahim supplied those who , like Mackenzie , were immediately ordered on service , with the means of recruiting and equipping themselves , and enabled those , who had wives and families , to travel ivith someAvhat less suffering than had been then * lot in captivity . Three things
Avere clone to vindicate British honour : 1 st , the gallant young Shahpiir , son of the murdered Shah Shujah , was made a puppet of ; his assumption of royal title and functions countenanced , if not formally sanctioned ; and himself and his adherents led to believe that the British had no intention of evacuating Afghanistan : so under the shadow of our protection they rejoicedand
, made no arrangements for securing their safety or carrying off their property . At the head of his Kazzilbashis , the brave boy ( he Avas but sixteen ) marched to Istalif , and Avas always foremost in urging
activity , and overruling , so far as lay in him , the cautious objections of the Kazzilbash chiefs . His presence at this crowning victory was of the utmost importance , not merely from the large body of auxiliaries he brought , but from throwing the whole weight and prestige that remained of the " Dour & nee monarchy " into the scale in our favour . Istalif ivas taken—we had no
further use for Prince Shahpiir , so we threw him overboard , to sink or swim , as he best could . He afterwards escaped with difficulty , and is now an exile at Loodiana , on the Sutlej , with a pension from the British Government , for himself , his mother , his brother , and their numerous adherents , of 40 Z . a month ! This was the first act in the drama of vindicated honour .
The second was like unto it . We blew up the Bala Hissar , the fort which kept Kabul in check , the citadel that we ought to have occupied . No such thing—we left it standing , and blew up the Char Chouk , the platea , or market-place , and ruined the peaceful Hindu merchants , who had remained , confiding in our assurance that we were not going to quit Afhanistan . This was
g act the second . Sir H . Wotton defined " an ambassador an honest man , sent abroad to tell hes for the benefit of his country . " The French Academy defined a crab , " a little red fish , that walks backwards ; " Cuvier entering , said , " It is not a fish , it is not red , and it does not walk backwards . With this
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' The Two Jews Of Meshid.
that shed light on the captives in then * dungeon ? This they read ancl re-read with a growing interest ancl conviction . At length their friends succeeded in purchasing their release , and on the arrival of Pollock ' s force , they rejoined the British camp , and , half-ruined as they were , they recommenced then exertions in favour of the late hostages ancl captives to whom General
Pollock was precluded from affording more than the means of bare existence . Musa and Ibrahim supplied those who , like Mackenzie , were immediately ordered on service , with the means of recruiting and equipping themselves , and enabled those , who had wives and families , to travel ivith someAvhat less suffering than had been then * lot in captivity . Three things
Avere clone to vindicate British honour : 1 st , the gallant young Shahpiir , son of the murdered Shah Shujah , was made a puppet of ; his assumption of royal title and functions countenanced , if not formally sanctioned ; and himself and his adherents led to believe that the British had no intention of evacuating Afghanistan : so under the shadow of our protection they rejoicedand
, made no arrangements for securing their safety or carrying off their property . At the head of his Kazzilbashis , the brave boy ( he Avas but sixteen ) marched to Istalif , and Avas always foremost in urging
activity , and overruling , so far as lay in him , the cautious objections of the Kazzilbash chiefs . His presence at this crowning victory was of the utmost importance , not merely from the large body of auxiliaries he brought , but from throwing the whole weight and prestige that remained of the " Dour & nee monarchy " into the scale in our favour . Istalif ivas taken—we had no
further use for Prince Shahpiir , so we threw him overboard , to sink or swim , as he best could . He afterwards escaped with difficulty , and is now an exile at Loodiana , on the Sutlej , with a pension from the British Government , for himself , his mother , his brother , and their numerous adherents , of 40 Z . a month ! This was the first act in the drama of vindicated honour .
The second was like unto it . We blew up the Bala Hissar , the fort which kept Kabul in check , the citadel that we ought to have occupied . No such thing—we left it standing , and blew up the Char Chouk , the platea , or market-place , and ruined the peaceful Hindu merchants , who had remained , confiding in our assurance that we were not going to quit Afhanistan . This was
g act the second . Sir H . Wotton defined " an ambassador an honest man , sent abroad to tell hes for the benefit of his country . " The French Academy defined a crab , " a little red fish , that walks backwards ; " Cuvier entering , said , " It is not a fish , it is not red , and it does not walk backwards . With this