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'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.' [‎219] (290/524)

The record is made up of 1 volume (438 pages). It was created in 1812. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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TEHERAN.
219
the dome which surmounted the whole, was composed. A handsome
chandelier was suspended from the centre, and three fountains of water
played beneath it.
On the 15th Mr. Bruce was sent to Bushire to proceed to India.
The French, in consequence of the Envoy's successful representations,
were preparing to leave Teheran immediately. Their Embassador,
General Gardanne , wanted to go to Russia through Georgia;
but the court of Persia justly fearing in such a quarter the influence of
that resentment, (which, since the signing of our Preliminary Treaty
the French had not scrupled to express) refused the permission; and
the King ordered his son, the Prince Governor A Prince of the Royal line who also acted as Governor of a large Iranian province during the Qājār period (1794-1925). of Aderbigian, to give
the French mission an escort of one hundred men, by the way of Arz-
roum, and on no account to permit any deviation from that route.
We went before the King; His Majesty's conversation was quite
enlivening. He swore that it was by Him that Buonaparte was
made the man that he is, and that in the course of the next year he
would be destroyed. We received His Majesty's letter to the King of
England. It was richly gilt and ornamented with flowers. The seal
was on a separate piece of paper, and placed at the foot of the letter;
according to an old Persian etiquette, when the King addresses an
equal: when He writes to an inferior, the seal is affixed to the top.
In composition, Persian critics pronounced this letter perfect; the
Chief Secretary had been employed in it several days; and that to the
Minister for Foreign Affairs was intended to be equally fine, and
indeed to comprehend all the politics of the world within its pages.
Under these circumstances, on the night of the 23d, a letter arrived
from the Governor-General in India, of which it might be improper to
disclose the contents, further than to remark, that they placed His
Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary in a situation of peculiar embarrass
ment, from which nothing but the most friendly disposition in the
Persian court could have relieved him. It is due to the King of Persia
himself to add, that He condescended to treat Sir Harford Jones
on this occasion with the most gratifying evidences of his protection
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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.

Publication Details: London : Longman, 1812.

Physical Description: xvi. 438 p. ; 4º.

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'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.' [‎219] (290/524), British Library: Printed Collections, W 2806, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023686207.0x00005b> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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