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GOVERNMENTS OF THE PRINCES. 
all the barbarism of long civil broils. More than twenty years 
rest from such disturbances, the time since the accession of the 
present monarch, have allowed the population to increase in 
great numbers, and to settle into quiet and industrious habits. 
Hence, the younger generation growing up, are of a still more 
ameliorated character than their parents; and should Abbas 
Mirza be destined to place the diadem of his father peaceably 
on his head, many prosperous national results may indeed be 
anticipated. Yet some fear these hopes are visionary ; and that 
the Shah, by an act of intended parental munificence, has unwit¬ 
tingly “ sown the teeth of the Hydra,” in having planted so many 
of his royal progeny over the empire, with each his separate 
court, treasury, and army. But others, again, do not apprehend 
annoyance to the heir from any of these princes, excepting him 
who cast down his gauntlet from the first. The list of their 
(governments is as follows : — 
Mahmoud Ali Mirza, governor of Kermanshah. 
Abbas Mirza, governor of Azerbijan. 
Abdoolah Mirza, governor of Zenjan. 
Houssein Ali Mirza, governor of Shiraz. 
Ali Nackee Mirza, governor of Casvin. 
Hassan Ali Mirza, governor of Ghilan. 
Mahmoud Kouli Mirza, governor of Khorasan. 
Mahmoud Tuckeh Mirza, governor of Boorojird. 
Ali Shah Mirza, governor of Teheran. 
Sheik Ali Mirza, governor of Chumeen. 
Besides these sons, deemed of sufficient age to sustain such high 
civil authorities, his majesty has many younger, numbering in all 
thirty-nine. His daughters amount to one hundred and forty. 
While on the subject of the future tranquillity and consequent 
