AN

ACCOUNT

OF THE TRANSACTIONS

OF

HIS MAJESTY'S MISSION

TO THE COURT OF

PERSIA,

IN THE YEARS 1807-11,

BY

SIR HARFORD JONES BRYDGES, BART.

K.C., LL.D.,

LATE ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY
TO THE COURT OF TEHERAN.

TO WHICH IS APPENDED,

A BRIEF HISTORY

OF THE

WAHAUBY.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

JAMES BOHN, KING WILLIAM STREET, WEST STRAND.

MDCCCXXXIV.

When YOUR MAJESTY graciously con

descended to allow a former Volume to bear Your august name, I had the nature of its contents to offer, as an excuse in some sort, for venturing to ask so great a favor: there was little in it really my own, it principally contained a part of the Persian Annals turned into English.

The present Volume is materially different in its composition; and although YOUR MAJESTY has carried Your condescension so far, as to grant me permission to lay it at Your feet; yet, when I reflect how frequently in it I am obliged to mention myself, unbounded as I believe Your kindness of heart to be, I am almost afraid to lay such a Work