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noble river of the Shut -el- Arab. A inarch on 

 Sinister had been determined upon, and a good under- 

 standing brought about with the chiefs of the Chab 

 Arabs, the establishment of which, there appeared 

 every probability, would have brought us into camp 

 as many baggage -animals, in the shape of camels 

 and mules, as were requisite for the advance of the 

 army into the interior. A few weeks more would 

 have seen Sir James Outram at Shuster, and there, 

 awing the capital, with a victorious army at his 

 elbow, he would have dictated his own terms ; but 

 diplomacy, which had failed so completely in all its 

 efforts at the commencement of the Persian difficulty, 

 again stepped in, and stayed the sword, to whose sole 

 arbitration the matter very justly had been deferred. 

 Whilst Sir James Outram had been planning a 

 campaign, the carrying out of which would have 

 brought the Prime Minister to his senses, and would 

 have forced him to accept any terms, however advan- 

 tageous to the English, Lord Cowley and Ferukh 

 Khan had been busy with their pens at Paris. The 

 result of their operations was, that a victorious gen- 

 eral was stopped in mid-career, and a treaty of peace 

 drawn out, in which the conquered power treated 

 apparently on equal terms with the conquering. In 

 due course of time, when one morning the camp was 

 astir as usual, at an early hour, busy with the pre- 

 parations for a march into the interior, the despatch 

 bearing the treaty of peace arrived. When the news 



