Note 3 — INTRODUCTION.

The Cadjars, according to Olivier, are a tribe of Turkish origin, who took refuge in Persia under the reign of Shah Abbas I. and received there the name of Cadjars or fugitives. See Foster, ii. 198. The historians of Nadir Shah mention (as one of the chiefs of that tribe, in the time of Shah Tahmas,) Futteh Ali Khan. Olivier states that in 1723 he was nominated to the government of Mazanderan; and that, when Nadir Shah assumed the crown, he resisted his authority, was defeated and killed. In Jones’s Nadir, lib. i. c. xi. there appears a Fethali Khan, whose history accords better with the allusion in the text, p. 242. Compare the Phatali Khan of Bell, vol. i. and Fraser’s Nadir Shah, p. 89. His eldest son was Mahomed Hassan Khan, whose pretensions and rise and fall are stated fully by Olivier, vol. vi. 13-17-82, and whose history, (under his various names of Baba Khan, Mumtaz Khan, Fultra Alla Khan, &c.) is noticed in Franklin, p. 299. Ives, p. 220. Foster, vol. ii. 199. Tooke’s Catherine, ii. 60, Scott Waring, &c. &c.