The mission on which he was dispatched to _Bushire_ originated in the following circumstances. Some years ago, the _Sheik_ had been required by the Governor of _Farsistan_ to furnish a certain sum of money. He pleaded poverty: he was ordered to borrow; and to obviate every difficulty, he was told that a particular person would advance the money, at an interest indeed prescribed by the same authority which dictated the amount of the capital. The _Nasakchee Bashee_ was now sent to enforce the immediate repayment of the capital and interest, which together had swelled to twenty-eight thousand _tomauns_, a sum nearly equal to the same number of pounds sterling. To save his authority, and perhaps his head, the _Sheik_ endeavoured to accommodate the present difficulty by offering to pay down five thousand _tomauns_, and to secure the rest by instalments. This, however, was refused; and the unfortunate _Sheik_ accordingly gave immediate and public notice of the sale of his effects, his horses, mules, and asses; and in the course of a few days raised fifty thousand piastres. Still the hope of a less rigorous arrangement was not entirely excluded: the _Sheik_, attended by the principal men of the town, and with a strong guard (so stationed that the signal of a moment could bring them to his assistance) visited the _Khan_. The _Khan_ indeed had sworn that he would not molest the _Sheik_ “at present;” though, when asked to extend the oath to every visit or opportunity, he replied that he would not answer for the directions which he might receive from his government. Two days after the visit, we observed a party of forty horsemen arrive at the _Khan_’s encampment, who probably bore the last orders of the Court. On the 25th of Oct. the Envoy received an intimation of a visit, jointly from the _Sheik_ and the _Nasackchee Bashee_; but he was so much occupied, that at the time he could not accept it. In a few minutes after we heard a great commotion among the servants, and an outcry that the _Sheik_ was seized. By the assistance, indeed, of our glasses we perceived the unfortunate man, with his arms pinioned, surrounded by about twenty horsemen, and dragged away at full speed towards the _Shiraz_ road. It appeared, that trusting in this conditional oath of the _Khan_, the _Sheik_ had accepted his invitation to visit with him the Envoy, and had gone forth from the town escorted by five men only. On his way to the Envoy, he called for the _Khan_; and when they were both mounted, the _Khan_ cried out to his men to seize, disarm, and carry off their prisoner.