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Persian extraction. In the mean time, indeed, Tippoo was killed; 
and his death left us in possession of the Persian councils. After this 
Captain Malcolm, in the year 1801, was sent to solicit the alliance 
of Persia against Zematjn Shah, King of the Afghans . That gen¬ 
tleman concluded a treaty,*' by which it was stipulated that Persia 
should attack Khorassan and the Afghan States, and that we should 
contribute our assistance in the expences of the war. The King of 
Persia carried his arms into Khorassan , and conquered that province. 
The mission of Captain Malcolm was returned by one from 
the King of Persia to the Indian Government. Hajee Kelil 
Khan was sent as the embassador, but unfortunately he was killed in 
a fray at Bombay , as he was attempting to quell a disturbance be¬ 
tween his servants and some Indians. To explain this untoward event, 
Mr. Lovett, a gentleman in the Bengal civil service, was dispatched; 
but he proceeded no further with his mission than to Bushire, and de¬ 
livered it over to Mr. Manesty, the East India Company's Resident 
at Bussorah . Another embassy was now sent from the Persian Court; 
and Mahomed Nebee Khan, the Envoy appointed, luckily reached 
Calcutta without any accident. 
Some time after, French agents were traced into Persia, and the 
views of France begun to be suspected. Monsieur Jo u annin, an 
intelligent Frenchman, succeeded in getting the Persian Court to send 
a mission to Buonaparte. The Envoy, by name Mirza Rega, 
went from Persia in 1806; and concluded a treaty with France at 
* The treaty forms the Appendix to General Malcolm’s Political History of India, 
p. 533-549. 5 
