The negociation was begun at _Bushire_. On the day after our landing the Envoy despatched his letters to JAFFER ALI KHAN, the acting English agent at _Shiraz_; and through him to the Prince HOSSEIN ALI MIRZA, Governor of _Farsistan_; to the Prince’s Minister, NASR OALAH KHAN; and to the Prime Minister at _Teheran_, MIRZA SHEFFEEA. These letters all contained the simple statement, that the writer had arrived as Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Great Britain to the King of Persia, in order to confirm and augment the amity which had so long existed between the two countries. On the 19th of Oct. we received despatches from JAFFER ALI KHAN at _Shiraz_; which, among the more immediate topics of the correspondence, contained naturally full accounts of the progress of the campaign with the Russians, (the most important object in the existing politics of Persia), and the general sensations which it had excited at _Teheran_. These details retain of course little interest; it is enough to add, rather as a sketch of national character, that the King, in consequence of his reverses, had distributed alms to the poor, had ordered prayers to be said in the mosques, and the denunciations of vengeance on all unbelievers to be read from the Koran. The military preparations also were hastened at _Shiraz_ (in some measure for a different object); and the Russian prisoners there were ordered to drill the Persian troops, who had been raised and equipped after a Russian manner. The account of this new corps was continued in other letters (which, on the 23d, we received in two days and a half from _Shiraz_). The Prince was instructed to form a body of able young men, to shave them if they had already beards, and to dress them in the Russian uniform. There was at this time at _Shiraz_, another body also of seven hundred hardy and active men, (of the _Bolouk_ or _Perganah_ of _Noor_ in _Mazanderan_), who were in the same manner to be subjected to the discipline of the Russian drill, to lose their beards, to substitute the firelock for the matchlock gun, (which they had been accustomed to use), and to assume the whole dress of the Russian soldiery. MAHOMED ZEKY KHAN and SHEIK ROOTA KHAN were appointed their commanders. The _Jezaerchi_ also, the men who use blunderbusses, were to wear the new Russian dress. The French at this time were very anxious to proceed to _Shiraz_, to drill the new-raised corps; but as the King prevented them in a former instance from sending a Resident to _Bushire_ lest they should have found that the English factory was still in Persia, he now equally prevented their advancing to _Shiraz_, lest the English in their turn should discover the arrival of their competitors. New gun-carriages after the Russian form were ordered (though those before made after the same pattern broke to pieces at the first fire), and five thousand new firelocks; but as the Prince found great difficulty in procuring the execution of a former order