In appearance, indeed, the place was already tranquil; but the regulations which the _Khan_ enforced, were too little accommodated to the previous habits of the people to reconcile them to his administration. Some of the most respectable merchants prepared to emigrate, and all beheld with terror the officers of police displaying in the _Bazars_ the preparations for the bastinado, (the justice of Persia), with which they contrasted very favourably the lenient rule of their Arab Chief. In the progress of his government, the _Khan_ still continued to exasperate the principal inhabitants by extorting donations of their goods. When, indeed, MAHOMED JAFFER, the brother of the expected Governor, received in his turn such a demand, he not only returned a direct denial, but wrote to the townsmen to arm in revenge, and defend themselves against such requisitions. In a few days the same MAHOMED JAFFER, in obedience to new orders was proclaimed by the _Khan_, Governor pro tempore till the arrival of his brother; and was invested in this dignity by the girding of a sword on his thigh, an honour which he accepted with a reluctance perhaps not wholly feigned. When he was complimented on the occasion, he replied, “You see to what I am come at last; all would not do: I was obliged to put on this sword.” But the moment that he assumed the government, he followed in his turn all the rigours of his predecessor, and bastinadoed his new subjects without commiseration. His reign, however, was short: on the 7th of November he was seized by the _Khan_, (the _Nasakchee Bashee_), thrown into prison, and fastened to the wall by a chain, said to have been sent expressly from _Shiraz_ for his neck, but in reality intended for that of HAJEE SULIMAN, the late _Vizir_ of _Bushire_. The cause of his disgrace was his supposed instigation of the flight of the _Vizir_, who had contrived to escape by sea; and this punishment was to be enforced unless he delivered up the fugitive, or paid twenty thousand _tomauns_. As the Vice-Governor was unable or unwilling to conform to either requisition, he remained in prison. At length, however, he resolved on attempting the re-capture of the _Vizir_; and would have undertaken the voyage, if the security, which he offered for his own return, had been deemed sufficient by the _Nasakchee Bashee_. In the mean time his release was prepared on easier and surer terms. MAHOMED NEBEE KHAN, the appointed Governor of _Bushire_, though little friendly to his brother, was yet jealous of the honour of his family, and felt in his own person the indignity which the late punishment of the chain had inflicted on JAFFER. He swore, therefore, that he would not rest till the head of his brother’s enemy was cut off; and as the first act of his influence procured the immediate restoration of his brother to his former offices. JAFFER was accordingly released from the prison where he was chained by the neck, and again seated in the administration.