RESIDENCE OF THE MISSION AT BUSIIIRE. 
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fore, the Envoy felt himself compelled to remark, that the correspon¬ 
dence during the negociation must be absolutely and in every view in¬ 
dependent r and He desired the Khan accordingly to intimate this de¬ 
termination to the Prince’s Minister. The representation was immedi¬ 
ately successful; and to the line of conduct thus enforced, both parties 
adhered throughout their future communications. 
When this matter was adjusted, much friendly conversation followed, 
and the affair of the cap and bald-head was laughed over. The Envoy 
expressed indeed his wish to render the Khan in his visit as comfort¬ 
able as possible; but repeated also his resolution to suffer no act of 
inattention before servants and strangers. The Khan accordingly 
(though as it was the Ramazan he would not smoke) left us seemingly 
well pleased. 
But in another instance the same want of respect was visible, though 
the effect probably of ignorance only. On the 30th Oct. he sent a 
present of some fruit and two horses, one for the Envoy and one for 
the East India Company’s Assistant Resident. Sir Harford imme¬ 
diately returned that destined for himself, to remind the Khan of the 
distinction. 
On the 8th of Nov. arrived, carried on fourteen mules, the balconah , 
the customary present to an Embassador. It consisted of the following 
articles 
50 Lumps of loaf sugar, 
35 Small boxes of different kinds of sweetmeats, 
1 Mule load of lime-juice, consisting of ninety-six bottles, 
23 Bottles of orange and other kinds of sherbet, 
22 Bottles of different kinds of preserves, pickles, &C. 
4 Mule loads of musk-melons, 
1 Ditto of Ispahan quinces, 
Half ditto of apples, 
1 Ditto of pomegranates, 
1 Ditto of wine, thirty-nine bottles^ 
The whole was accompanied by a letter from Nasr Oalah Khak, 
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