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who came one day to visit Sulaiman, reduced the tribe to a state of
impotence from which it did not recover for many years. The Bani
Lam also, upon the Tigris, were severely crippled by a sudden raid which
Ahmad made upon them.
Ahmad Pasha left no male heir; but his Kehiyah Sulaiman Pasha, to Government
whom, though originally a Georgian slave, he had given his eldest p-
aughter 'Adilah Khatun, a haughty and ambitious lady, in marriage, 1749°'
was considered to represent the family after his death and to be the
natural successor to the Pashaliq. The Porte, however, had other view.,
and while they made Basrah a separate Pashaliq and ultimately gave it
as a solatium to Sulaiman Pasha, they attempted to establish their own
immediate authority at Baghdad by sending three or four Pashas in
succession from Constantinople; but all of these were unsuccessful in
coping with the unruly Arab tribes of the country. The first of the
intruding Pashas of Baghdad was " Cour Vazier/' who, as he was bom
barded in his Sarai and expelled by the Janissaries before the 13th of March
1748, may have been merely some local official; and his place was taken
by Haji Ahmad Pasha, who had been originally destined for Basrah and
who had already appointed the Captain Pasha there to act for him until his
arrival. Early in 1749 Sulaiman Pasha, who had meanwhile been nomina
ted Pasha of Basrah, advanced up the Euphrates by Samawah and Diwani-
yah to the neighbourhood of Hillah. He was accompanied at the outset
by his personal guard only ; but ^Ali Agha, the governor of Diwaniyah,
secretly espoused his cause and at once left for Baghdad to seduce the!
troops of the governing Pasha—now apparently Tiryald Haji Muhammad,
an ex-Wazir—from their allegiance. This he did with such success that,'
when the two Pashas encountered near Hillah, the Baghdad Pasha, though
his force consisted of 14,000 men as against 800 with Sulaiman, was
obliged to fly; and before the end of the year Sulaiman Pasha was
recognised by the Porte as ruler of all the provinces that had been held
by Ahmad Pasha.
On the i2nd of February 1750 Sulaiman Pasha^s Mutasallim arrived
at Basrah and received charge of the place from a Captain Pasha who
had been acting as governor; the latter was evidently expected to resist
displacement, but instead he retired quietly to Manawi. A visit from
Sulaiman Pasha in person was anticipated at this time, " when it is very
certain numbers of worthless heads will be chopped off," but it appears
that he did not come; and the Captain Pasha may even have escaped the
fate that was predicted for him on account of his having insulted the
family of Sulaiman during thelatter's absence on his campaign against
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