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“ during the march with all the rigour and intemperance that generally 
44 befals a man in disgrace. The moment I reached Room , the King 
44 pronounced the order for my execution: I was already on my knees, 
44 my neck was made bare, and the executioner had unsheathed his 
44 sword to sever my head from my body, when the hand of the 
44 Almighty interposed, and a messenger in great haste announced my 
44 reprieve. I was indebted for my life to a man who had known me 
44 from my boyhood, and who had long cherished me as his son. This 
44 worthy man, by name Mirza Reza Kouli, the moment he heard 
44 the sentence of death passed upon me, threw himself at the feet of 
44 the King, and, pleading my youth and inoffensiveness, entreated that 
44 I might be pardoned. The King yielded to his entreaties; my par- 
44 don was announced; and I still live to praise the Almighty for his 
44 great goodness and commiseration towards me.” 
After his providential escape Mirza AbulHassan, (fearing that the 
King might repent of his lenity towards him) fled from his country, 
although he had received his Majesty’s order to go to Shiraz , and to re¬ 
main there: he left Persia with the determination of never more return¬ 
ing, until the disgraces of his family had been obliterated, and until the 
the wrath of the King against him had entirely subsided. He fled 
first to Shooster , the city in which he had so recently been all-powerful; 
and there he experienced the hospitality for which the Arabs are so 
justly renowned. As his administration had been lenient and temperate 
he found a host of friends ready to relieve him; and on quitting Shooster , 
miserable and destitute of even the common necessaries of life, the in¬ 
habitants came to him in a crowd and forced seven thousand piastres 
upon him. From Shooster he went to Bussora, he then crossed through 
the heart of Arabia, frequently obliged to proceed on foot, for want 
of an animal to carry him, until he reached Mecca. On this journey he 
visited DeriySh , the capital of Abdul Assiz, the then chief of the 
Wahabees. From Mecca he went to Medina; and having performed all 
the devotions of a pilgrim he returned to Bussora. At Bussora he learnt 
that the King was still inveterate against his family; and, finding an 
