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Of the present political state of Affghanistan.
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1824
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Scope and content : Home Miscellaneous Proceedings: copy of an extract from an undated letter from William Moorcroft to George Swinton, Secretary to Government in the Political Department, received 28 September 1824; forwarded to England for the attention of the Board of Control and received 18 March 1825.'Parcelled out amongst a contentious aristocracy and deprived of a regular government, the former kingdom of Affghanistan is disturbed by intestine commotions and by foreign invasion, yet without suffering at present all the physical and moral evils ordinarily appertaining to convulsion and anarchy...'
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