Persia and China (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827. Excerpt: ... stop to; and Great Britain has of late assumed a somewhat more dignified attitude towards this haughty barbarian power, as mediator between the Courts of Tehraun and St. Petersburg. The last treaty of peace concluded between those two powers, and signed at Gulistan in October 1813, was negotiated under the mediation of Sir Gore Ouseley, the British ambassador at the Persian court. The want of precision in the demarcation of the frontier line, in that treaty, ' is represented to have been the remote cause of the renewal of hostilities. The commissioners respec was despatched, in 1801, on an embassy to Futteh Ali Shah, which had for its object to induce the Persian monarch to make a diversion by attacking the Affghan territories. The mission fulfilled all its objects. The Shah gladly embraced the opportunity to invade Khorasan; and his conquests had the anticipated effect of recalling the Affghan chief from his Indian expedition. In the treaty of alliance concluded between Persia and the British Government, which was to be binding for ever, all Frenchmen were to be prohibited from entering Persia. Many years, however, had not elapsed, when it was discovered that a French agent, M. Jouannin, was in the highest favour at the Persian court, where he was employed in disciplining the troops after the European manner. In 1800, the Shah sent an embassy to Paris, which was returned on the part of the French Emperor, with a very splendid mission under General Gardanne; and when General Malcolm was again sent out, to counteract, if possible, the intrigues of the French, he learned that their influence was quite paramount in the court of Persia, and proceeded no further than Busheer. But soon after this, the failure of the French in their promises to procure the evacua...