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'* Mild equal rule, the government of laws, 

 * And all-protecting Freedom, which alone 

 " Sustains the name and dignity of man, 

 " These are not theirs !•" Thomson. 



After leaving Cambay I bad occasion to correspond with our 

 kind host the vizier Mirza Zummaun, when in disgrace, and barba- 

 rously treated by the nabob his ungrateful master ; his letters were 

 interesting and pathetic: I insert one as a specimen. It was in 

 answer to a letter of mingled condolence and congratulation which 

 I had written to him at the French-gardens in Surat, whither he 

 had escaped from the nabob's tyranny, under the protection of 

 Sir Charles Malet, then the English resident at the nabob's court, 

 who made the most generous exertions in behalf of the unfortunate 

 Persian, at the moment when the mute and bow-string, or some 

 species of murder equally private and expeditious, awaited him in 

 the nabob's durbar. With the letter I had sent him a drawing 

 which he had requested of the Temple of Fountains, at Dilgusha, 

 which is the picture the vizier alludes to in the following letter. 



Translation of a Persian Letter from Mirza Zummaun, late Vizier at 

 Cambay, to James Forbes, Esq. dated from the French Gardens 

 at Surat, 17 'th March, 1782. 



[After the usual Oriental compliments] 



" You keep an eye of pity and of favour on your friend Mirza 

 Zummaun; for this may Alia protect you, bless you with health, 

 and shower down upon you the dew-drops of felicity. May all 



