"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٢‎٨‎٢] (١٧٨٢/١٤٣٧)

mrmm
Kehijab.
1796.
Retourees of
the Baghdad
Pshsliq in
1796 —1797.
or Minister, tor whom he obtained at the same time the rank of a Pasha
of two horse-tails, and by whom for several years after that date th'
business of the Government, both foreign and domestic, was to a vJ
large extent transacted. Abont 1790* Sulaiman Pasha seems to u "
snggested to Ahmad Pasha that he shonld become bis son-in-law and
later to have promised that, if this took place, he won'd resi<- D ' th e
Pashahq himself and recommend Ahmad to the Porte as his successor
■ mad Pasha, however, was averse to the proposed match, because it
would involve, on account of the high rank of his master's tdau-hter tU
dismissal of his existing domestic establishment, including a Geo,' ia n
ady to whom he was greatly attached; and he continued to evade the
proposed honour. At length Sulaiman Pasha's daughter, having c ^
to know of the unwillingness of Ahmad, so unflattering to herself t,
change his condition, induced 'Ali, a Georgian slave who was her father's
Khaznabdar or treasurer, to undertake the removal of Ahmad, promis-
'T i "l. marl V i ' lm " IStei " 1 ' if he w ere successful. 'Ali found means to
cu is lie support of a number of Sulaiman Pasha's Georgian body-
guard, by whom Ahmad Pasha was already disliked; and one morning
a the Kehiyah entered the hall of public audience, where Sulaiman ™
LlfwiT ' WaS S,rUCk d0Wnb - V him in the
'Ali's f'r'' t a8ger ' aD ,vas tl'en mstantly despatched by some of
con ederatee in the body-guard. Sulaiman Pasha, though he
ad covered his face with a shawl instead of making a serious effort to
.ave his favourite, appeaxed at first to be genuinely affected by his death
and retired to an inner apartment; but Muhammad fiaig, one of his
Arab advisers, and 'Abdullah, a Jewish banker at his court, whom he
immediately summoned, persuaded him to acquiesce in the accomplished
Pn-l - a,( ' 0 " 18811 ed a proclamation announcing that Ahmad
and h . ^ ti " 1 1>Ut ^ 'k 901 hy his 0Wn orders for iDten, l«i treachery,
Pirator " aT / I the nUptials of ,,i8 Jatighter with the chief cons-
April 1796 ' 0 6 e! ' rated the 8ame evening. This event occurred in
which had ' """T y the reC0Very 0f the I>Ssha from 311 i" 11 ® 8
which had made him almost incapable of managing his affairs.
were l rea "!"'r; 0f tlle ' ia °' b<lad Pashaliq, both military and fiscal,
place in me 07 the Frencl1 traveller M - Olivier, whose visit took
' '' t0 be ccnsiderable. The Pasha's bodyguard then
*Thri account in t}i« * i <■ „
Olivier gives a different version of the T ^T T J ge8 ( Wahau h, pages 178-186).
took plnee when be was himself at g to thfl aS8aSN '"ation, which
wa, praoticaHj W i t „ f . Md by th/Fre/oi;^^^^' 1 " 6 ^
* ■» wa. the only daughter born in wedlock of Sulaia.Sa Pj,!,,.