IX. 



Translations of two Letters of Nadir Shah, 

 with Introductory Observations in a Letter 

 to the President. 



BY brigadier general JOHN MALCOLM. 

 to HENRY COLEBROOK, ESQ. 



President oj the Asiatic Society. 



MY DEAR SIR, 



In the course of researches into the history oi Persia, 

 my attention was particularly drawn to a collection of 

 letters, and original state papers, of Nadik Shah, pub- 

 lished after his decease by his favourite secretary Mir- 

 2A Mehedi. This collection is held in the highest 

 estimation in Persia, not only from the light it throws 

 upon the history of that nation, but from the stile in 

 which it is written, and which is considered to be the 

 best model for those who desire to attain excellence in 

 this branch of writing. 



I HAVE the pleasure to transmit, for the considera« 

 tion of the Asiatic Society, translations .of two of these 

 letters which appear to be strongly illustrative of the 

 character of Nadir Shah, and the history of the pe- 

 riod at which they were written, and which may per- 

 haps be deemed on that account not unworthy of a place 

 in the Society's Researches. ' 



The first is addressed to Mubammud Ali Khan, 

 Beglerbeg* of Pars, and must from its tenor have been 



* Governor of Persia pro^ cr- 



