Khan, chief of Candahar, besieged Furrah, a dependency of
Herat; and Dost Mohammed Khan, chief of Cabool, commenced a system of
hostile intrigues even in India. The Ameers of Scinde were called upon
to join the league against the English even by the Shah himself; and his
efforts were seconded by the Russian emissary, who had so successfully
fulfilled his mission at Candahar and Cabool. But notwithstanding all
these efforts, the failure of the recent assault of Herat, together with
the debarcation of troops at Karrak, and the military preparations which
were being made in the north of British India, finally led the Shah to
comply with all the demands of the British ambassador, and to abandon
his enterprise: the camp broke up on the 9th of September, 1838, and
returned to Teheran. Later in the year Count Nesselrode disclaimed
on the part of the Emperor of Russia all intentions of disturbing the
tranquillity of the British possessions in India; and by the month of
February, after considerable negociation, harmony was restored between
the Russian and the British governments. The operations of the British
army in India were not, however, wholly set aside by these events. At
the time of the raising of the siege of Herat, and the retreat of the
Shah of Persia, "the army of the Indus" was encamped at Simla, and was
about to be put in motion for Feroze-pore, on the Sutledge. At Simla,
Sir Harvey Faroe, who commanded the troops, under the direction of the
governor-general, published a manifesto, which set forth the causes for
the assembling of the army, and the objects which the British government
had in view. As regarded the objects in view, the governor-general
said, in the manifesto, that he felt the importance of taking steps
for arresting the rapid progress of foreign aggressions towards our own
territories, and that his attention was naturally drawn to the position
and claims of Shah Soojah, who had, when in power, cordially acceded
to measures of united resistance against internal enmity; and as the
Barukzye chiefs were unfitted, under any circumstances, to be useful
allies to Great Britain, or aid us in our measures of national defence,
the governor-general felt warranted in espousing the cause of Shah
Soojah, whose popularity had been proved by the best authorities. A
tripartite treaty had, therefore, been concluded between the British
government, Runjeet Sing, and Shah Soojah, whereby the maharaja of the
Sikhs was guarant