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peace concluded between Turkey and Russia; and it was only by the 
personal influence and active interference of our Ambassador, that His 
Majesty was prevailed upon not to use coercive measures for reinstating 
Abdurakhman Pasha in the possession of Sulimanieh. 
During the whole of these transactions the Turkish government had 
a resident Minister at the Court of Persia, in the person of Yasin Zadeh 
Efiendi, who took but little share in them. He resided at Tabriz at 
the same time as we ; and it was hinted to him, how useful to the 
interests of his state would be a visit from him to the English Ambas¬ 
sador, whose influence hitherto had prevented the Persians from attack¬ 
ing Bagdad. The Eflendi acknowledged how much his government 
was indebted to the interference of the English Ambassador, but said 
that as he had most positive orders from his Court not to visit him 
first, he was running the risk of his life if he disobeyed those orders, 
and that therefore he must stay at home. 
By order of the Ambassador I visited Yasin Zadeh, whose house was 
situated in a remote part of the city, and was introduced into a room, 
where, contrary to the Persian mode of furniture, cushions were placed 
against the wall. The Eflendi came in soon after, and although we 
were in the middle of summer (3d July) he was heaped over with fur 
pelisses. He was a shrivelled old man, clean in his dress, of placid 
appearance, and of very polished manners. The few words which he 
spoke, at the commencement of our interviev/, were expressive of his 
thanks for the attentions of our Ambassador, and he hinted with satis¬ 
faction at the long and ancient friendship which so long had existed be¬ 
tween Turkey and England. His slow and methodical manner was 
strongly contrasted to that which we had been accustomed to see in the 
lively and animated Persians ; but little by little he became more com¬ 
municative, particularly when he found that I had been at Constanti¬ 
nople, and was acquainted with its localities. Stambol, to a Turk, is 
the centre of all earthly joys ; and as soon as we got upon that subject 
he became quite garrulous. He made a long list of complaints of all 
the miseries he had endured in Persia; how the water was bad, the 
bread coarse, the climate disagreeable; and how constantly he bewailed 
