Chap. II. 
On his Arrival there, that Prfhce was immediately fa- 
luted Shah by all the great Officers of the Crown, and 
the chief Commanders of the Army : He took Care 
to make himfeJf Mailer of the Fortrels of Calot, where 
he found all the immenfe Treafure of his deceafed 
Uncle, by raffing of which he had -made himfelf 
fo many Enemies, and by a wife Diftribution 
of which, his Succeffor has made a Multitude of 
Friends. r t • r 
The new Monarch, at the Time of his Inaugura- 
tion, took the Name of Adil Shah, which fignifies the 
juft Prince, and one of the firft Ads of his Reign 
was to publiffi a Manifefto, from whence we have 
taken moll of thefe Particulars, and in which, after 
inveighing bitterly againft the Mal-Adminiftration of 
his Predeceffor, who h^ fap received the juft Reward 
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of a Tyrant, he remits to the People all Arrears of thl* 
extraordinary Taxes impofed upon them, exempts them 
from every Impolition for two T^ears, and promifes ample 
Reftitution to fuch as have had their Eftates confifcated 
under the former tyrannic Goverment. He is faid how-^ 
ever to have thought it neceflary to his own Security, 
firft, to put out the Eyes, and then to poifon his three 
Nephews. Time will fhew whether this was an Ad of 
Neceflity, or whether it flowed from a Blood-thirfty 
Difpofition : In the mean Time he has given the 
ftrongeft Aflurances to the Grand Signior, and to the 
Czarina, of his Intention to maintain the Peace and 
Friendlhip, fubfifting between their Empires and his own, 
and is at prefent exercifed in fettling his new acquired 
Sovereignty upon the only folid Bafis, that of the Zeal 
and Affedion of all his SubjedSv 
of the Empire of Persia. 
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