[Footnote BR: _Tárí[_kh_]-i-Jadíd_ (p. 202) names a fourth person, a certain Mullá Abú-Ṭálib, a friend of Mullá Ṣádiq-i-Muqaddas. His identity is unknown. A letter exists, written by Mullá `Alí-Akbar-i-Ardistání to the Báb, when he was seeking permission to visit Him. Since their chastisement, he says, he had been living in ruins outside [_Sh_]íráz. The letter makes it absolutely certain that he was the only one who had remained and that both Quddús and Muqaddas had gone.] The Governor-General of the province of Fárs was Ḥusayn [_Kh_]án, who was called Ájúdán-Bá[_sh_]í (the adjutant-major), and had also the titles of Ṣáḥib-I[_kh_]tíyár and Niẓámu'd-Dawlih. Ḥusayn [_Kh_]án was a native of Mará[_gh_]ih in Á[_dh_]arbáyján, and had served as Persian envoy both to London and Paris. In London, in June 1839, Lord Palmerston was at first inclined not to meet him, but then decided to receive him unofficially. At that time relations between Britain and Írán had reached a low point. Captain Hennell, the British Political Agent, had been forced to withdraw from Bú[_sh_]ihr, and at the same time a British naval force had occupied the island of [_Kh_]árg (Karrack). Palmerston thundered at Ḥusayn [_Kh_]án: 'Had the Admiral on arriving on board turned his guns upon the town [Bú[_sh_]ihr] and knocked it about their ears, in my opinion he would have been justified in so doing'.[4] When the envoy returned home, Muḥammad [_Sh_]áh was so displeased that he had him severely bastinadoed. Nor had Ḥusayn [_Kh_]án's mission to France, it would seem, been any more successful, although some obscurity surrounds his dealings with the French. In Paris he engaged a number of officers to train the Persian army, and there were irregularities in the matter of their travelling expenses. But more serious issues were involved, which are described by Sir Henry Layard[BS] in the following passage: