V 
Chap. II. Mogul 
to the Door of the Royal Tent, and the Emperor was 
alighted, Nadir Shah came forth to receive him ; having 
embraced him, he feated him clofe by himfelf on the fame 
Mulnidd r . After the accuftomary Forms of Salutation, 
and the Enquiry after each others Health were over, Nadir 
Shah addreffed him thus : “ It is Arrange that you fhould 
44 be fo unconcerned, and regardlefs of your own Affairs, 
44 that notwithftanding I wrote you feveral Letters, lent 
44 an Ambaffador, and teftified a Friendfhip for you, your 
44 Minifters fhould not think proper to fend me a fatiff 
4 4 fadtory Anfwer, and by reafon of your want of Com- 
44 mand and Difcipline over your own People, one of my 
44 Ambaffadors, contrary to all Laws, has been killed in 
44 your Dominions. Even when I entered your Empire, 
44 you feemed under no Concern about your Affairs, nor fo 
44 much as fent to afk who I was, or what was my De- 
14 fign. When I advanced as far as Labor , none of your 
® 4 People came with a Meffage or Salutation, nay, not 
44 with an Anfwer to my Salutation to you. Afterwards, 
44 when your Omrahs were awakened out of their Le- 
44 thargy and Indolence, they prevented all Means of a 
44 Reconciliation, and coming tumuituoufly with an In- 
44 tent to flop my farther Progrels, they brought them- 
44 felves into one general Snare, without having the Fore- 
44 fight to leave any behind, who, upon an Emergency, 
44 could make Head and retrieve their Affairs. Befides 
44 this, you have foolifhly cooped yourfelves up in your 
44 Murchas, as not confidering, that if your Enemy was 
44 ftronger, you could not remain within thole Barrica- 
44 does, without either Water or Grain; and if he was 
44 weaker, it was both unneceffary and difgraceful, to fuffer 
44 yourfelves to be befieged by him. Befides, if you 
44 thought lightly of him, and imagined him a rafli in- 
44 conficierate Man, without expoffng your own Perfon 
44 and Reputation fo much, you ought to have detached 
44 a faithful and experienced Officer, who, in a little 
44 Time, might have found Means to diftrefs and cut 
44 him off ; but if you dreaded his Experience and Con- 
Kt du£t, you had ftill the lefs Reafon (after provoking 
54 him thus far) to venture your all at one Blow. Even 
44 when you had thus entangled yourfelf, I fent you Of- 
64 fers of an Accommodation, but you was fo puffed up 
44 with your own childifh Conceits, and foolifh Refolu- 
44 tions, that you would not give ear to any honourable 
44 Overtures, or confult your own Intereft, until at laft, 
44 by the Affiftance of the Creator of the World, and 
44 the Strength of the Arms of the victorious Warriors, 
44 you have feen what has happened. Moreover, your 
44 Predeceffors were wont to take Jefiah , or Poll-Tax 
44 from the Infidels, and you in your Reign have given 
64 it to them; having for thele twenty Years fuffered the 
44 Empire to be over-run by them ; but as hitherto the 
44 Race of Limur have not injured, or mifbehaved to- 
44 wards the Sejfi Family, and the People of Perfia. I 
^ fhall not take the Empire from you, only as your Indo- 
44 lence and Pride have obliged me to march fo far, and 
44 that I have been put to an extraordinary Expence, and 
44 my Men, on account of the long Marches, are much 
44 fatigued, and in want of Neceffaries, I muff goto Deh- 
44 /y, and there continue fome Days, until the Army is 
44 refrefhed, and the Peijhcujh that Nizam al Muluck has 
44 agreed to, is made good to me : After that, I fhall 
44 leave you to look after your own Affairs.'” Mohammed- 
Shah gave no Anfwer during the whole Speech, but con- 
tinued in a fixed Silence, which teftified a good deal of 
Confufion and Shame. 
There were only three of his Minifters prefent at this 
Conference, and the Emperor having remained fome 
Hours in Nadir Shah* s Quarters, returned in the Evening 
to his own Camp. Fie continued there three or four 
Days, without well knowing what Iffue things would come 
to. On the 23d, Nizam was fent for to the Perfian 
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Camp, where he was kept, and about Eight \ the fame 
Night, the Vizir received a Firman from Nadir Shah, to 
tliis Import ; 44 Kammir 0 din Khan Vizir , Know, that 
44 To-morrow, Mohammed-Shah , Sirbullind-Kha w. Mo- 
44 hammed-Khan Bungujh , and Azim Allah-Khan , fhall 
44 come into the Prefence ; therefore look well to your 
44 People, that they be not dilperfed, or ftraggle abroad ; 
44 when you have fecured that Point, come you hither al- 
44 fo. ” When the Emperor was apprized of this, lie fent 
for Sirhullind-Khan , and all the other Omrahs, with whom 
he held Council until Midnight. At laft the Emperor 
declared, that Affairs were now gone beyond his Power, 
and that he muff do one of thefe three things ; To-rfforrowto 
march out and make one de'fperate P.ufh, to determine his 
Fortune at once, or put an End to all things and Mifery 
by a Dofe of Poifon, or elfe ftibmit peaceably to what 
Terms might be impofed. The Emperor’s Inclination, 
though he did not then declare it, was for the laft of 
thefe. On the 24th, Sirhullind-Khan , Mohammed- Khan, 
&c. were ready, each with his own Men, that in cafe 
the Emperor fhould make a Pufh, they might not be un- 
prepared, and if on fubmitting, he fhould go to Nadir , 
and bid them come, they fhould follow his Fate, At 
Night arrived a Note from Nadir Shah , to this Eftecft ; 
44 Sirhullind-Khan , be of good Cheer, perfectly compofed, 
44 get yourfelf hither, before Mohammed-Shah fets out. ,5 ’ 
On the 25th, Sirbullind-Khan having obtained Leave, 
marched towards Nadir-Shah' s Camp, and according to 
an Order, leaving his Men and Baggage on the Right- 
hand thereof, he with Khan , Zad- Khan, three Florfemen, 
and four or five Servants, entered the Camp, and pitched 
a Imail Tent for himfelf, near the Bargah , clofe by Saadit- 
Khan's Quarters. About 9 o’Clock that Morning, Mo- 
hammed-Shah, according to an Order, being feated in a 
royal Litter, with a Canopy and Umbrella, let out for 
Nadir-Shah's Camp, attended only by Emir-Khan , JJhah- 
Khan , and fome Eunuchs. On his Arrival, he alighted 
at a Tent which had been pitched the Day before, by Na- 
dir-Shah's Order, for that Purpofe, in the Front of the 
Camp, where he was allowed to have as many of his Do- 
mefticks of all Sorts as were neceftary, and 1000 Kuzzle- 
hajh liorfemen were detached as Guards round him. A- 
bout Eight o’Clock in the Evening, Mohammed being 
called, went to wait on Nadir-Shah , After three Hours 
ftay, he returned to the Camp, and there was an Order, 
that none of the Omrahs fhould be allowed to go to fee 
him. In this uncomfortable Situation he palled all that 
Afternoon, and the fucceeding Night. The next Day, 
all the Ordnance, and the Emperor’s Baggage, were feized 
for the Ufe of the Conqueror, who Elected out of the 
former two hundred Pieces of Cannon, and fent them 
away ; after which, out of the Treafure he had taken, he 
rewarded his Army with three Months Pay by way of 
Gratuity, and took Care that it fhould be diftributed to 
every Man in the fame Proportion as his Pay s . 
On the 1 ft of March , Nadir-Shah began to move to- 
wards the City of Deht’y , having Mohammed-Shah in his 
Hands, guarded by ten thoufand Horfe. On the 8th of 
the fame Month, the Emperor entered the Caftle of that 
Capital, under a Guard of four thoufand Horfe, before 
it was light, and the fame Morning Nadir-Shah alfo 
made his Publick Entry into the City, at the Head of 
20,000 Horfe, and proceeding thro’ it to the Caftle, was 
there received by Mohammed-Shah , who entertained him 
at Breakfaft. They fpent the whole Day together, and 
Nadir-Shah did not retire till towards Evening, behaving 
all the i ime towards him with much Civility and feem- 
ing Affection. The Shah likewife, at his Requeft, ifllied 
out a Proclamation, forbidding, on very fevere Penalties, 
any of his Soldiers from infulting the Inhabitants, at the 
feme Time ftri&ly enjoining the proper Officers to fee this 
Proclamation duly executed, ,and £0 fpjire no Severities re- 
r Thr Mufntd-.l is a Fart of the Di-van, which is raifed higher than the reft, and is large enough for two or three People to fit upon. It is co- 
vered with a fine Carpet, and over that there lies a Quilt of fine Linnen. The placing the Emperor here, was a very high Mark of Kelpeft and 
treating him as an equal, fince this was a Place to which none of Nadir-Shah' s Minifters were ever admitted. 
5 This was a thing conftandy praclifed by the Perfian Conqueror, on his becoming Mailer of any great City. He did the fame thins? after the 
taking of Kandahar, where he found immenfe Riches, and he did much more, when he .became Mailer of the whole Wealth of tliis Empire as we 
fhall fee hereafter. It was by thefe Aids of Genefofity, that he kept his Army fo perfectly attached to him j from the Conflderation that in ferv- 
ing him, they ferved themfelves, ■ and that he was not. more their Monarch than their Benefactor. 
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