A 
SECOND 
JOURNEY THROUGH PERSIA. 
CHAPTER I. 
Among the few circumstances which can now give novelty to a voyage 
to the East Indies, may be reckoned the company of a Persian Am¬ 
bassador and his suite; and, therefore, though I did not obtrude on 
the public the details of my first voyage with English passengers, I 
should not be justified in withholding all notice of an expedition under¬ 
taken with companions so different and so uncommon. 
The Persian Ambassador, whom I had conducted to England by 
Turkey and the Mediterranean in 1809, and who was known here by 
the name of Mirza Abul Hassan, to which has since been added the 
title of Khan, was now to return to his own country. It was settled 
that he should accompany a British Mission to Persia, and prepara¬ 
tions were accordingly made for the reception of the two Ambas¬ 
sadors, with their respective suites, on board the Lion, 64, Captain 
Heathcote, the same ship which eighteen years before had carried 
Lord Macartney to China. 
A Persian, who had been feasted and exhibited in London for nine 
months and had seen all its objects of curiosity, might almost have 
* See Appendix, A. 
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