Note 4 — INTRODUCTION.

Ismael was said by his first patron, Ali Merdan Khan Backtyari, to be the son of Seyd Moustapha, by a daughter of Shah Hussein. Olivier, vi. 21. He was the pageant recognised by three several competitors; he was first proclaimed King by Ali Merdan, again in 1756, by Kerim; and a third time, in the same year, by Mahomed Hassan, who, like his immediate rivals, and like Nadir, still in his first successes professed himself to be the slave of the rightful monarch.