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RESIDENCE OF THE MISSION AT BUSHIRE. 
two days afterwards refused to sign, in the name of the Persian Govern¬ 
ment, the note of the terms on which they had agreed at their meeting: 
and at ten o'clock at night the Vice-Governor, and the two Moonshees , 
came to us. After a long debate they departed; and, to the satisfac¬ 
tion of all parties the business was finally settled the next morning, 
when, previous to his return to Shiraz , the Khan paid his farewell visit 
to the Envoy. 
Fie returned to Shiraz ; and, as we learned by our next dispatches 
from Jaffer Ali, immediately appeared before the Prince, where he 
talked for “ seven hours without stopping once,” on the Envoy and his 
merits. Jaffer Ali added, that he himself had dined with the 
Prince's Prime Minister, and that they also had talked till two o'clock 
in the morning on the same alluring subject. After having both 
agreed that, by the progress of the negociation, they had already ren¬ 
dered themselves immortal, they retired to rest, and the next morning, 
the Minister, on the appointment of a Mehmandar to the mission, 
asked Jaffer Ali for the Moodjdehlook , or customary present, for 
which accordingly he received a Cashmirian shawl. In general politics 
the dispatches stated, that the Russians had renewed hostilities, though 
General Gardanne, the French Embassador in Persia, had sent four 
of his officers to the Russian Commander to entreat that he would de¬ 
sist from any further operations; but the Russian answered, that his 
master had ordered him to fight on. The failure of this attempt had 
greatly contributed to disgrace the cause of the French; and the Court 
retrenched in consequence their daily allowances. 
The Mehmandar , v r ho was announced in these dispatches, was Ma¬ 
homed Zeky Kiian, (the chief of the Noory tribe, one of the new 
modeled corps) a great favourite at the Court of Teheran , and with the 
Prince of Shiraz, and advanced lately by the King to the dignity of 
Khan . It was added also, that his appointments were more magni¬ 
ficent than any which had ever before been annexed to the Mehmandar 
of an English Envoy ; and, as a further proof of the estimation in which 
His Majesty's mission was held, Jaffer Ali stated, that the Prince 
