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*Acce8sion of
Dawud Pasha,
1816-17.
Outrages
committed at
Basrah by
Arabs of
Xajd, 1820.
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known, was proclaimed interim Governor by the Qadhi of Baghdad
The selection must have been agreeable to the Saikhof the Muntafik, for
he testified his approval by accompanying: Sa'id on his public entry 'into
the capital. That event took place on the 16th March 1818, but the
news of Sa'id's confirmation as parmanent Governor did not reach Baghdad
from Constantinople until the 30th June following. The short adminis-
tration^ of Sa'id Pasha was disturbed by frequent troubles both at
Baghdad and at Basrah. The most serious of these was a rising at
Basrah, m the course of which a body of Arabs entered the town by
surprise, plundered the Sarai and beat the Mutasallim; in the end
however, they were expelled by the Mutasallim and tranquillity was
restored. On the 4th November 1816 orders from Constantinople for
the deposition of Said Pasha and his replacement by Dawud Effendi
arrived at Baghdad.
As Sa'id Pasha refused to submit to the commands of the Porte
Dawud was obliged to make good his right to the Pashaliq by force of
arms ; and his success was not immediate or easy. On the 7th January
18 he was attacked by the te facto Governor, and a large force which
he had brought with him was scattered; but, not loug afterwards, the
desart'on ofSa id p asha by a number of his troops and an insurrection
at Baghdad in which the Mamluks took part gave him the advantage
over his rival. On the 21st February he entered Baghdad in triumph,
and the city submitted to bis authority; on the 22nd he was proclaimed
Pasha ; and on the 24th the ex-Pasha Sa'id, who had endeavoured to hold
out m the citadel, was put to death by beheading.
The new Governor, who was described as « Pasha of Bagdad, Bussorah
and Courdistan was at first hardly more successful than his predecessor
in maintaining the general peace ; and by the middle of 1819 parts of the
country had fallen under the teiTorism of armed gangs, commumcations-
especially to the northward-had been interrupted, and trade at Baghdad
had come to a standstill. In 1820 a tseries of grave outrages was eom-
. 101 accoullt r'awud Pasha's career, see Stocqueler *a
gnmaye, \ olume I, pages 44-51.
oftteRelt'- T ' T" 0 " T T' 1 " 4 " t0 th68e Ba ' rah in his Frlei,
^T-t t i butherefe " ^ thoagh he mentions Hsji Yueof
•"d not HajiJsb.r, to a year later than 1827. Accoording to Lieut. Wilson liasml
extricated from^da ' ^ P&opleof Zabair and Najd; Ariz Agha, the Malasamm, ™
::LSa,:;. Mahammareh Ka,ab ■■ ^ ^
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