Though the conduct of the negociations with Persia had no connexion with the mere change of masters in _Bushire_, which was effected during our residence on the spot, and there was, therefore, little direct political intercourse between the Envoy and the _Nasakchee Bashee_, (the Chief Executioner), who superintended those changes: yet as that officer was the ostensible representative of the Government of _Shiraz_, some communications naturally took place. Before the assumption of the administration of _Bushire_, (while the _Khan’s_ object was yet unattained), there was in this intercourse little unsatisfactory; but in his later conduct to the mission, there was something of the insolence of newly acquired power; he sent word more than once that he was coming to pay a visit to the Envoy, and as frequently neglected his engagement. At length he arrived, puffing in great haste; and as soon as he had seated himself, he pulled off his black sheep-skin cap, and begun to read a paper which he took from his pocket. The Envoy asked him, if he were reading a _firman_ from the court, which ordered him to sit bald-headed. The reproof startled him, and the Envoy continued; that, representing as he did his Sovereign, he could not permit the _Khan_ to do in his presence an act of disrespect which he would not do before his equals, and much less before his superiors. The _Khan_ immediately put on his cap, and in his shame waved his hand for his attendants to withdraw. Sir HARFORD also ordered his own Persians to retire, and as the suite were in succession leaving the room the _Khan_ had some leisure to digest the well-timed rebuke. The notice which the Envoy had been thus obliged to take of an apparent disrespect in the _Khan’s_ conduct was the more necessary, as He had that morning received a letter from the Prince at _Shiraz_, the form and terms of which required some explanation; and on which, therefore, the Envoy felt himself compelled to remark, that the correspondence during the negociation must be absolutely and in every view independent; and He desired the _Khan_ accordingly to intimate this determination to the Prince’s Minister. The representation was immediately successful; and to the line of conduct thus enforced, both parties adhered throughout their future communications. When this matter was adjusted, much friendly conversation followed, and the affair of the cap and bald-head was laughed over. The Envoy expressed indeed his wish to render the _Khan_ in his visit as comfortable as possible; but repeated also his resolution to suffer no act of inattention before servants and strangers. The _Khan_ accordingly (though as it was the _Ramazan_ he would not smoke) left us seemingly well pleased.