19^ BOMBAY. 
having been thus relieved from immediate alarm, Major Malcolm 
was, in 1799, sent to the Court of Ispahan, where he completely 
conciliated the sovereign and his ministers, and induced them to 
refuse to receive a person deputed with the most conciliatory 
propositions from Bonaparte in Egypt. Commercial arrangements 
were also entered into, and every required security was granted to 
the British for more freely carrying on their trade. 
The unfortunate fate of the Ambassador, w^ho was sent to repay 
the compliment of Major Malcolm's mission, has been before ob- 
served ; but there was no reason to suppose that it would have any 
effect in diminishing the friendship between Persia and India ; 
since the Governor General immediately sent off an explanation of 
the transaction by a Mr. Loveit, who was directed to carry the 
letter to Persia. Unfortunately for the East India Company, he 
became alarmed at Busheir, and delivered the letter to Mr. Man- 
esty, who immediately raised himself into an Ambassador, and 
departed for Ispahan, determined to rival Major Malcolm in im- 
portance. He had already drawn for a lac and forty thousand 
rupees, which would not pay half his expenses. Lord Wellesley, 
at first, ordered the bill to be refused payment, but on consider- 
ing that it might effect our credit in Persia, he altered his intention, 
but directed that Mr. Manesty should be made responsible for the 
amount. 
The King of Persia, engaged as he was in a difficult, and rather 
disastrous war with Russia, rejoiced to hear that another embassy 
had arrived from India, and hastened to meet it at Balk, where 
he received the Ambassador with the highest honours. It was 
immediately urged by the King, that we should afford him assist^ 
