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up to hear what was their conversation, they were, found wrangling amongst 
themselves, whether , or no the figures that they saw upon the stage ' were 
real men and women or automatons. He was taken to see King Lear, and 
the story, which is likely to affect one whose natural respect for majesty is 
so profound, brought tears from him in great plenty, although he did not un¬ 
derstand the language in which it was acted. No people would have a greater 
taste for scenic representations than the Persians ; if we may judge from the 
effects which they produced on these individuals. ': 
When it is known that a Persian mejlis or assembly is composed of people seated 
in a formal row on the ground, with their backs against the wall, some idea 
may be had of the Persian Ambassador’s surprise upon entering an English 
rout. The perfect ease of his manners and unembarrassed conduct oh such occa¬ 
sions, will be as surprising to us, as the great crowd of men and women hotly 
pressed together for no one apparent purpose, was to him. He gave an enter¬ 
tainment of a similar description at his own house, to the astonishment of 
his domestics, whose greatest surprise was how little noise was made by such 
a crowd, for said they, “ What a different scene would such a number of people 
have made of it in Persia !” / 
‘ On his being taken to hear a debate at the HoUse of Commons, he imme¬ 
diately sided with a young orator, who gained him over by his earnest manner 
and the vehemence of his action ; and at the House of Lords, the great object 
of his remark was the Lord Chancellor, whose enormous wig, which he com¬ 
pared to a sheep-skin, awoke all his curiosity. There was considerable pleasure 
in observing his emotion when he was taken to St. Paul’s Cathedral, on the an¬ 
niversary of the Charity children, where he acquired more real esteem for the, 
institutions and the national character of England than he did from any other 
sight, for he frequently after referred to his feelings on that occasion. 
He was one day waited upon by a deputation from the Society for promoting 
Christian Knowledge, composed of three Reverend Gentlemen, wbo in their 
robes presented him with a Bible and prayer-book superbly bound, and addressed 
him with a speech written on parchment. As they spoke the address he was 
requested to stand up, which he williugly did; but when they had departed, 
his servants were all unanimous that he had been made an Isauvi, that is, a 
Christian. 
He frequently walked in Kensington Gardens by himself. As he was one 
day seated on a bench, an old gentleman and an old lady, taking him for one 
of his own attendants, accosted him. They asked him many questions: — How 
