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MOCHA. 
of Yemeii^ except in those instances where personal resentment 
is concerned. 
On September the 7th, the Vizier's brother, after several vain 
attempts to prevail npon the Dola to desist from measures hostile 
to the government, seized the opportunity, as he was taking re- 
freshments in the evening, to give into the Dola' s hands an order 
from the government to deliver up the command of Mocha to 
Syed Guderat, the Emir Muckatah, or commander of the troops. 
This dangerous commission was no sooner executed than he has- 
tily withdrew ; and as soon as the Dola saw the contents of the 
order, he called aloud to his soldiers to pursue the fugitive ; but 
before they could overtake him he had, fortunately for himself, 
reached the Emir's house. 
This officer on the following day went to the Dola, attended by 
an adequate guard, and officially required him to deliver up his 
charge. This the Dola still declined ; and a reference was then 
made to the troops, to ascertain whose authority they would re- 
cognise ; on this the old Mocha troops declared their acquiescence 
in the order from Sana, and in consequence delivered up the 
gates : the mercenary troops from Aden still remained attached 
to the Dola. 
On the same day an attack was made by the latter on the 
Emir's house, to which it was proposed to set fire, but on the 
approach of the party, and on one of the soldiers being wounded, 
the intention was abandoned. Soon afterwards, an assembly of 
the principal men in the town took place, and with some difficulty 
a suspension of hostilities was agreed upon, till reference could 
again be made to Sana ; and a tom-tom was sent round the 
