THE COURT OF THE AMEER.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
3i11,—With reference to the article headed "The Court of the Ameer" in the Spectator of December 14th, may I venture to point out that Baber and Akbar were not "ancestors "of Abdurrahman, though, as former masters of Kabul, they were his predecessors ? Again, if the late Ameer's Auto- biography may be trusted, it is not correct to say of the present Ameer, Habibullah Khan, that "for many years he has directed the foreign affairs of his country." At p. 99, Vol. II., of the Life of Abdurrahman, edited by Mir Munshi Sultan Alahomed Khan, may be found a passage which seems conclusive on this point :—" Habibullah Khan, my eldest son, has the same duties to perform as I myself or other Amirs of Afghanistan have had to do, with the exception of some new offices, such as the Foreign Office, which I have kept for my-
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