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mitted at Basrah by Arabs of Najd,* in consequence, partly of a blood-
feud which had arisen between them and the Mutasallim^s body-guard,
and partly of the instigation of some Najdi merchants in the town who
considered themselves aggrieved by an order of the Baghdad Pasha in
regard to certain landed property and who wished to intimidate him.
On the ]6th July a party of Najdis entered Basrah and attempted, but
in vain, to capture the Government Sarai; they then plundered the
place, murdered a number of the inhabitants and withdrew, killing in
their retirement the f commander of a small body of Baluchis who were
advancing to assist the garrison of the Sarai.
In the summer of 1821 Dawud Pasha deputed his Kehiyah to Qizil-
robat to watch the Kurds and Persians, but the Kurds gained a victory
over him. The Pasha, on hearing of it, threw all the leading Persians at
Baghdad into prison in order to extort money from them; and Georgians
were marched from Baghdad to Karbala and Najaf to show " that, if
they cannot fight, they can plunder." About the same time cholera
carried off some thousands of persons at Basrah.
In the case of the M untafik, whose opposition had been the ruin of his
predecessor •'Abdullah Pasha, Dawud Pasha^s general policy of dividing
a troublesome tribe against itself was employed to good purpose. He
raised up a rival to Hamid-bin-Thamir, the principal Shaikh, in the
person of that chief's own nephew ^Ajl; and the result was an inter
necine war which paralysed the Muntafik as a tribe and incapacitated
them for mischief during a number of years,
In 1831 the Porte superseded Dawud Pasha, who had put to death at
Baghdad an emissary of the Constantinople Government, and appointed
in his place one Haji ''Ali Riza Pasha, otherwise known as Muhammad
'Ali Pasha, or simply as 'Ali Pasha. 'Ajl, the Shaikh whom Dawud Pasha
had set over the Muntafik, made a feeble effort on his patron's behalf
and called in the Ka'ab Arabs and those of Kuwait, whose fleets blockaded
Basrah and caused some alarm ; but this demonstration had no effect
on the course of events at Baghdad. Dawud Pasha, had he been able,
would have maintained himself in the Pashaliq by force of arms, and
he actually stood a siege of a few days in Baghdad ; but eventually he
sought shelter in the house of one Muhammad Agha, by whom he was
delivered up a prisoner to the enemy. His life was spared, but he was
sent to Constantinople.
* They are described as " Najedah" Arabs, but no such tribe is known, and the
" Nao-edah" merchants make it probable that natives of
reference to residence
^Najd are meant.
Kurdish and
Persian
relations,
1821,
The
Muntafik,
Deposition of
Dawud Pasha,
1831, and
character of
his administra.
tion.
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