APPENDIX. 
NOTE A. — Page 1. 
As the Persian Ambassador attracted much interest in England, it may be 
gratifying to his friends, and not unacceptable to others, to receive some 
account of his residence in this country. 
His first surprise on reaching England, was at the caravanserais, for so, though 
no contrast can be greater, he called our hotels. We were lodged in a gay 
apartment at Plymouth, richly ornamented with looking-glasses, which are 
so esteemed in Persia, that they are held to be fitting for royal apartments 
only: and our dinners were served up with such quantities of plate, and of 
glass ware, as brought forth repeated expressions of surprise every time he 
was told that they were the common appendages of our caravanserais. The 
good folks of the inn, who like most people in England, look upon it as a matter 
of course that nothing can be too hot for Asiatics, so loaded the Ambassador’s 
bed with warm covering, that he had scarcely been in bed an hour, before he was 
obliged to get out of it; for having during all his life slept on nothing but a 
mattrass on the bare ground, he found the heat insupportable, and in this state 
he walked about the greatest part of the night, with all the people of the inn 
following him in procession, and unable to divine what could be his wishes... 
One of the public coaches was hired to convey his servants to London ; 
and when four of them had got inside, having seated themselves cross-legged, 
they would not allow that there could be room for more, although the coach 
was calculated to take six. They armed themselves from head to foot with 
pistols, swords, and each a musket in his hand, as if they were about to 
make a journey in their own country; and thus encumbered, notwithstand¬ 
ing every assurance that nothing could happen to them, they got into the 
■coach. His Excellency himself greatly enjoyed the novelty of a carriage, and 
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