I must not omit as a specimen of Persian character, the mode of communication which notified this change at _Bushire_. The Prince’s Messenger that brought the intelligence from _Shiraz_ of the disgrace of the _Nasakchee Bashee_, came into the presence of MAHOMED JAFFER, and told him, “Come, now is the time to open your purse-strings; you are now no longer a merchant or in prison; you are now no longer to sell _dungaree_, (a species of coarse linen); you are a governor; come, you must be liberal, I bring you good intelligence: if I had been ordered to cut off your head, I would have done it with the greatest pleasure; but now, as I bring you good news, I must have some money.” The man that said this was a servant, and the man that bore it was the new Governor of _Bushire_. In a few days MAHOMED JAFFER paid us a visit, in appearance perfectly unconscious of the indignities which he had suffered. But the habitual despotism which the people are born to witness, familiarises them so much to every act of violence which may be inflicted on themselves or on others, that they view all events with equal indifference, and go in and out of prison, are bastinadoed, fined, and exposed to every ignominy, with an apathy which nothing but custom and fatalism could produce. On the 4th of Dec. the restored Vice-Governor was invested with a _kalaat_, or dress of honour, from the Prince at _Shiraz_; and his dignities were announced by the discharge of cannon. The form of his investiture was as follows:--Attended by all the great men, and by all his guards (the greater part of whom were the shopkeepers of the _Bazar_ armed for the occasion), the new Governor issued from the town to meet his vest. As soon as he met it he alighted from his horse, and making a certain obeisance was presented with it by the person deputed by the Prince to convey it. The whole party then rode to the spot appointed for the investiture; thither the _kalaat_ was brought in state on a tray, surrounded by other trays decked with sweetmeats. The Governor was here assisted to throw off his old clothes, and to put on his new and distinguishing apparel. The whole present consisted of a ponderous brocade coat with a sash, and another vest trimmed with furs, and valued altogether at one hundred and fifty piastres, though the receiver would pay for the honour (in presents to the bearer and to the Prince in return) the sum, perhaps, of a thousand _tomauns_. When he was invested, his late clothes were carried away as the perquisite of the servants. After this, the _firman_ was read, declaring the motives which had induced the Prince to confer so marked an honour on AGA MAHOMED JAFFER, and then every one present complimented him on the occasion, with a “_Moobarek bashed_, Good fortune attend you.” After this the company smoked, drank coffee, and eat sweet cakes; and then mounting their horses escorted the Governor into his town. The Governor, in his glittering but uneasy garb, re-entered _Bushire_,