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with his numerous train of subordinate officers, who all have simi¬ 
lar reasons for supernumerary wealth, too often squeeze the poor 
inhabitants of bazar and field, till vacancy alone turn the rapa¬ 
cious emissaries out of doors; and thus continues the chain of 
injustice, linking the whole community in bonds of suffering, till 
it break at some overstrained part into all the bold licence of 
the mountain-robber. The present heir apparent to this old 
sceptre of misrule, is fully aware of its various points of mischief; 
and should he ever sway it, will render the stubborn iron, soften¬ 
ing under his father’s hand, still more malleable in his own. 
And in that case, the benign dispositions, integrity of mind, 
and happy talents for empire, with which Heaven has marked 
out this extraordinary Asiatic prince, are certainly likely to be 
assisted by the gradual importation of European just principles, 
brought by the continued influx, and passing to and fro of 
British, Russian, and other natives of Christian governments 
into this country: all of whom must unconsciously prepare the 
people of Persia, with whom they mingle in common, to under¬ 
stand the value of equitable laws, and of a sovereign likely to 
establish them. 
Abbas Mirza has already begun several very desirable objects 
in his own province, laying them down on European plans, and 
under European management. Two, indeed, have failed ; the 
mines at Koflan-Kou, which he attempted to work; and a ma¬ 
nufactory for our sort of paper, dropped on account of a want 
of material; the proper supply of linen rags. The mill erected 
for the paper, is now a powder magazine. A printing press is 
the next project, and will be conducted by two ingenious Ar¬ 
menians from Constantinople. The arsenal at Tabreez, formed 
on a British model, is the most successful hitherto of all his 
