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Mahomed Ali should be burnt alive, together with two Hindoos, who 
also had incurred his displeasure. The unfortunate Mirza , on hearing 
his sentence, remonstrated with the tyrant, entreating him that he might 
at least be permitted to die alone; and that his last moments might not 
be polluted by the society of men, who were of a different faith from 
his own, and on whom he had been taught to look with a religious ab¬ 
horrence. To this the Shah consented, remitting his death until the 
next morning, whilst the Hindoos suffered in that same hour. That 
very night Nadir Shah was assassinated in his tent, and Mirza 
Mahomed Ali was saved. 
The family of Mirza Abul Hassan rose to its greatest power during 
the reign of Aga Mohamed Shah, predecessor to the present King. 
The Mirza’s father died in the service of Kerim Khan; his uncle 
Hajee Ibrahim Khan (uncle by his mothers side) attained the post 
of Prime Vizier, whilst himself and the other branches of his family 
enjoyed the greatest share in the administration of the affairs of the 
state. It was somewhat before the death of Aga Mohamed Shah, 
that Hajee Ibrahim bestowed his daughter in marriage on his nephew, 
after a long and singular courtship. A sister of his wife's is married 
to Mahomed Taki Mirza, one of the King's sons; and a second 
to the Ameen-ed-Doalah , the second Vizier. 
The family, however, was not always prosperous; after some time 
the King ordered Hajee Ibrahim to be put to death, his relations to 
be seized, his wives to be sold, and his property to be confiscated. His 
nephews of course partook of the disaster: one was deprived of his 
sight, and remains to this day at Shiraz ; the youngest, then twenty 
years of age, died under the bastinado; and the second, Mirza Abul 
Hassan, who was then the Governor of Shooster, was dragged to the 
capital as a prisoner. The circumstances of his seizure and escape 
from death are better described in his own words. He told me, “ I was 
“ asleep when the King's officers entered into my room: they seized 
** me, stripped me of my clothes, and, tying my hands behind my 
“ back, dragged me to Koom , where the King then was; treating me 
