Ch.XXII, p.526, f.2
"Every one knew that the Babis had foretold the death of the prime
minister and predicted the manner of his going. It happened precisely, it
is said, as the martyrs of Zanjan, Mirza Rida, Haji Muhammad-'Ali and
Haji Muhsin had announced. Fallen into disgrace and pursued by the royal
hatred, his veins were slashed open in the village of Fin, near Kashan,
as the veins of his victims had been slashed. His successor was Mirza
Aqa Khan-i-Nuri of a noble tribe of Mazindaran, and erstwhile minister
of war. This new official took the title of Sadr-i-A'zam which is the
privilege of the grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire. This occurred in
1852. (Comte de Gobineau's "Les Religions et les Philosophies dans l'Asie
Centrale," p. 230.)