"جولة إلى شيراز عبر طريق كازرون وفيروز آباد مع ملاحظات متعددة حول سلوك الفُرس، عاداتهم، قوانينهم، لغتهم، وأدبهم، أُضيف إليها تاريخ بلاد فارس من موت كريم خان إلى سقوط سلالة زند" [‎١‎٣] (٣٦٢/٣٧)

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for his embassy; but if one of them was to conciliate the Persians,
and to impress on their minds a just and accurate notion of the
power and character of the British nation, no embassy could
possibly be attended with more complete success. One embassy
had already preceded this, but the principles on which it was con
ducted were so different, as to make the Persians doubt whether
both could come from the same nation.
The success with which Major Malcolm's embassy is universally
supposed to have terminated, may be in a great manner attributed
to his transacting every thing himself; to his being capable of con
versing alike with the peasant and the king; and to his rejecting
the intervention of Persian or Indian agency. It requires, perhaps,
firmness and resolution to withstand importunity, and to dispense
with the services of a useful and able man; yet how satisfactory
must be the reflection, that what credit is gained is enjoyed alone,
not to be participated with an acknowledged agent. It is a
dangerous attempt to employ a native in any other line than his
duty; it excites hopes we do not mean to gratify; he is supposed
to have an influence he possibly does not possess; and if he has
an opportunity of being long useful, he gradually acquires an
ascendancy we do not ourselves observe. At best it is a system
full of hazard; and it must be admitted, that is a system which
may blast the fairest character, and ruin the brightest hopes. Where
conciliation is necessary, or where we wish to inspire confidence,
the intervention of natives must necessarily defeat our views; it
cuts off all kind of intercourse with the inferior classes of people ;
it is a constant source of suspicion and distrust to those who are
entrusted with the affairs of government, and who, of course, will
leave no means untried to induce the agent to disclose the secrets
of his master.
It is to an observance of a contrary system, that I would attribu te
the wonderful impression which has been made on the Persians in