CHAP. III. 
RESIDENCE OF THE MISSION AT BUSHIRE. 
CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE PERSIAN GOVERNMENT: INTRO¬ 
DUCTION OF THE EUROPEAN DISCIPLINE AT SHIRAZ—MILI¬ 
TARY PREPARATIONS—PERSIAN LETTER—(DERVEISHEs)—CON¬ 
DUCT OF THE NASAKCHEE BASIIEE—PRESENT TO THE ENVOY 
FROM THE COURT—MEHMANDAR-ARRIVAL OF AN OFFICER 
FROM SHIRAZ-DESCRIPTION OF HIS PARTY—HIS VISIT RE¬ 
TURNED-CEREMONIES OF A VISIT-FEAST OF THE BAI RAM- 
ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE AND RECAPTURE OF THE SYLPH 
—DEATH OF MR. COARE. 
The negociation was begun at Bushire. On the day after our land¬ 
ing the Envoy despatched his letters to Jaffer Ali Khan, the acting 
English agent at Shiraz ; and through him to the Prince Hossein Ali 
Mirza, Governor of Farsistan ; to the Prince’s Minister, Nasr 
Oalah Khan ; and to the Prime Minister at Teheran , Mirza Siief- 
feea. These letters all contained the simple statement, that the writer 
had arrived as Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Great Britain to 
the King of Persia, in order to confirm and augment the amity which 
had so long existed between the two countries. 
On the 19th of Oct. we received despatches from Jaffer Ali 
Kiian at Shiraz; which, among the more immediate topics of the 
