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XXXI. An Account of the Mission of Yusur Acua, Ambassador from Turkey 
to the British Court. Written by himself, and translated from the Turkish 
by the Ritter Joseph Von Hammer, F.M.R.A.S. 
Read the 19th of May 1832. 
Turspay, the 8th of Rajab 1209 (29th January 1795), having been fixed 
upon for delivering, with splendour and ceremony, the imperial letters and 
presents entrusted to me, the lyse or officer acting as master of the 
ceremonies, and the secretary to the Krne, waited upon us three days 
previous, and announced that they had His Majesty’s commands to regulate 
the forms and ceremonies of the audience, and that they were most anxious 
to do every thing in their power to honour and oblige us. 
Barges having been prepared for our passage up the Thames, we begged 
to be favoured with a journey by land, as the winter was uncommonly 
severe, and the greater part of the river was frozen over, on which account 
the way by water would be attended with many inconveniences and diffi- 
culties. Our wishes were complied with, and it was intimated that a field- 
marshal* was appointed by the king to prepare refreshments for us at Chelsea 
(which is an hour’s distance from London, situated on the river Thames) ; 
that we should there find infantry and cavalry; that the field-marshal would 
come to meet us at the aforesaid palace, and declare his satisfaction in 
having been appointed to so honourable and distinguished a service; that a 
royal carriage with six horses would be sent for us, another for the secretary, 
the bearer of the Imperial credentials, and two others empty, to dignify our 
procession; that carriages would also be sent from Her Majesty the QuEEn, 
and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wates (heir to the throne), from 
the second and third sons of the Kine, from his brother, and from other 
great lords, and in each of them an honourable person, making altogether 
about twenty carriages; that the first chamberlain of the Prince of Wates, 
my Lord Jersey, had been appointed our mihmdndér ; that on the day 
* Field-marshal Sir Gzeorcz Howarp, Governor of Chelsea College. 
