TEHERAN. 
220 
and individual favour: and His Ministers united in displaying the 
greatest personal kindness towards us. Throughout the whole manage¬ 
ment of a new and very delicate situation, their proceedings were so 
plain, so upright, and so cheering ; so eager to shew respect and con¬ 
fidence to the Envoy, that we regarded them with the liveliest grati¬ 
tude ; and felt relieved by finding among strangers all the heart and 
principle of countrymen and brothers. 
The French Embassador was already dismissed; and in a few days 
the King sent an order to the remainder of the legation to quit Tehe¬ 
ran immediately. The people were then as inveterate against the French 
as they had before been disposed to court them. When Messrs. Jou- 
annin and Nerciat prepared to obey this order, and were leaving 
the city, the mule-drivers (hired by the King for the conveyance of 
their baggage, and sent forwards in the usual form) stopped at the gate, 
and cutting the lading from their beasts, threw every thing upon the 
ground, and ran off. One of the Frenchmen struck a mule-driver in 
the breast with his dagger. 
On the 29th Mirza Abul Hass an, brother-in-law to the Ameen-cd- 
Donlah , and nephew to the late Prime Minister Hajee Ibrahim, 
was appointed as Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Persia to 
accompany me to England. The particulars of his history, which, I 
learned on good authority, may afford some lights on the internal ad¬ 
ministration of his country, and will at least be acceptable to those 
who were interested by his appearance at the Court of London. 
Mirza Abul Hass an was born at Shiraz in the year of the Hejera 
1190, or 1776 of the Christian iEra. He was the second son of Mirza 
Mahomed Ali, a man famous in Persia as an accomplished scholar, 
and who was one of the Chief Secretaries and Mirzas of the celebrated 
Nadir Siiah. His father's services had nearly been requited by an 
ignominious and cruel death, when the hand of Providence interposed 
for his safety, to strike with more severity the head of his atrocious 
master. Nadir Shah, in one of those paroxysms of cruelty so com¬ 
mon to him during the latter years of his life, ordered that Mirza 
