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to separate the combatants. In the confusion he was not known, 
and a chance shot in a moment put an end to his life. Several of 
his followers also perished, but they deserved their fate ; for they 
had irritated the sepoys by the most insulting language, and the 
severest ridicule of their religious prejudices. The Ambassador's 
nephew, though severely wounded, recovered, and received the 
kindest attentions from the officers of the Bombay Government, 
who were fully exculpated in his mind from any blame respecting 
the untimely fate of his uncle. 
The Marquis Wellesley learned, soon after his arrival in India, 
that attempts were making by Tippoo to form a close alliance with 
Zemaun Shah, Sultaun of Gabul, and to induce him to attack the 
British in the North, at the time when he should occupy their at- 
tention by hostilities in the Peninsula. To render the projects of 
Tippoo abortive, his Lordship sent a respectable native, Mindi 
Alii Khan, to the Court of Ispahan, to open a communication with 
the present sovereign, who was at that time engaged in hostilities 
with Zemaun Shah, He was directed to urge the King to approach 
the frontiers of Korasan, as soon as his enemy should move towards 
the Indies; and, if he should find a favourable reception, Mindi 
Alii Khan was to announce the Governor General's intention of 
sending a public embassy to arrange a commercial treaty, and 
cement a close alliance between the two countries. The King of 
Persia was fully aware of the importance of the British alliance, 
and complied with the request made to him. Zemaun Shah, who 
had advanced as far as Lahore, immediately returned back, and 
his brother, taking advantage of his unpopularity, deposed him, 
and, with the barbarity so common in Asia, put out his eyes. India 
