'A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809, in which is included some account of the proceedings of his Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart., to the Court of the King of Persia. With twenty-five engravings from the designs of the author; a plate of inscriptions; and three maps.' [‎42] (77/524)

42 RESIDENCE OF THE MISSION AT BUSHIRE.
two days afterwards refused to sign, in the name of the Persian Govern
ment, the note of the terms on which they had agreed at their meeting:
and at ten o'clock at night the Vice-Governor, and the two Moomhees,
came to us. After a long debate they departed; and, to the satisfac
tion of all parties the business was finally settled the next morning,
when, previous to his return to Shiraz, the Khan paid his farewell visit
to the Envoy.
He returned to Shiraz; and, as we learned by our next dispatches
from J affer A li , immediately appeared before the Prince, where he
talked for " seven hours without stopping once/' on the Envoy and his
merits. J affer A li added, that he himself had dined with the
Prince's Prime Minister, and that they also had talked till two o'clock
in the morning on the same alluring subject. After having both
agreed that, by the progress of the negociation, they had already ren
dered themselves immortal, they retired to rest, and the next morning,
the Minister, on the appointment of a Mehmandar to the mission,
asked J affer A li for the Moodjdthlook, or customary present, for
which accordingly he received a Cashmirian shawl. In general politics
the dispatches stated, that the Russians had renewed hostilities, though
General G ardanne , the French Embassador in Persia, had sent four
of his officers to the Russian Commander to entreat that he would de
sist from any further operations; but the Russian answered, that his
master had ordered him to fight on. The failure of this attempt had
greatly contributed to disgrace the cause of the French; and the'Court
retrenched in consequence their daily allowances.
The Mehmandary who was announced in these dispatches, was M a
homed Z eky K han , (the chief of the Noory tribe, one of the new
modeled corps) a great favourite at the Court of Teheran, and with the
Prince of Shiraz, and advanced lately by the King to the dignity of
Khan, It was added also, that his appointments were more magni
ficent than any which had ever before been annexed to the Mehmandar
of an English Envoy; and, as a further proof of the estimation in which
His Majesty's mission was held, J affer A li stated, that the Prince