The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-04 00:00:00

KENT ASSIZES.

These Assizes finished on Saturday night. Ot
77 prisoners for trial, thirteen were capitally con-
victed, and received sentence of Death.
William Hazleton, the supposed accomplice of
Hussey in the murder of Mr. Bird and his house-
keeper, and who still remaioed in custody, was
on Saturday put to the bar and formally arraigned.
No witnesses appearing against him, he was dis-
charged by proclamation. Soon after the appre-
hension of Hussey, the Rev. Mr. At 4les, the
Ordinary of the orison, apprized him of the fact;
Hazleton appealed struck with surprise, and im-
mediately hroke forth into the following extraor-
dinary declaration :—" Hussey taken ! well, I
am sorry, very sorry, that, he should be brought
into .trouble;' but now O.:at lie is once taken,
why it clears tue." Hazleton did not, see Hussey
on Saturday, nor since his condemnation.

denomination of the Persian Ambassador, was
once familiar to this Metropolis ; and who, during
one whole season, enjoyed the enviable distinction
among the circles of fashion, and was even con-
sidered as an indispensable appendage.to an elegant
party. Since that period, Princes, Dukes, Gene-
rals, and even Monarchs, have passed beforees,
in such rapid succession, that the pretensions of
all hut Royal Visitants must shrink into compa-
rative insignificance; but we remember when
Merza shone in solitary pre•eminence an object of
popular and universal attraction, when rival Belies
contended for the exhibition of his majestic beard,
and the repetition of his pithy broken English,
well or ill understood, snpplied an inexhaustible
fund of fashionable conversation. It is singular
that Mr. Morier, who had conducted this great
Personage to England, accompanied him in the
king circuitous route by which he returned to
Persia. " Among the few circumstances," says
Mr. Monier, " which can now giVe novelty to
a voyage to the East Indies; may be reckoned the
company of a Persian Ambassador. and his suite ;
and, therefore, though I did not .obtrude on- the
Pnblic the details of my first voyage with English
passengers, I should not be jusiiiieu in with-
holding all notice of our expedition, undertaken
with- companions so different and so un-
crrmtnon." Merza embarked with Sir Gore
the Briikh Amhas3ador to the Conn of
Persia, in the Lion, that ship, consecrated to
the interests A diplomacy; -ill 'which Lord
had fociacciy f,erFonneti his ceivbrat -
ell voyage to China. " A Persian," says Mr.
" ss 1w had been feasted and exhibited in
1,:tolon for nine months, and had seen all its ob-

!eels of curiosity, might almost have exclaimed,
his return to Persia, in the words of his coon-

trytnan in Nlontesgnicti, Jamais homme n' a taut
cte vu que /110 i ; but a series of new and distinct
adventures was still interposed between him and
his home, and he was to complete his probation
by passing seven months on the sea, an element
to which he had all
,the antipathy or his na-

ioth"

Tile de►ails of this voyage are highly curious
and entertaining. At Bombay,Mirza received from
his Sovereign a firmon, investing him with the
!hie of Khan, which he regarded as an invalu-
ible testimony of his esteem and approbation.—
A contest arose between Alirza and the Persian
Governor on the point of etiquette, which was,
however, conceded by the latter. "The In-
dians," observes Mr. Morier, " are more attached
to shew and parade than the Persians, whose
habits are more military."
After visiting ,Elephanta, and many curious
splits in the neighbourhood, the party re-em-
barked; proceeding by the tedious navigation of
the Persian Golph; towards Bushire, the charac-
teristic features of which are heat, dreariness, and
solitude. The Persians have no navy. To Nadir
shah alone belongs the honour of having con-
structed a man of war, the wreck of which is still
to be seen in the harbour of Bushire.

It may easily be conceived that the arrival of
the Ninbassy excited a vivid sensation, 'but the
circumstance of the Ambassador having brought
with himhia Harem operated most powerfully
on the public mind. " Although the Easterns,"
says Mr. Morier, " look upon it as indecorous to
make inquiries about each others women, yet still
we could observe how anxious they were' to know
something about ours." In general they appear
to have formed exaggerated ideas of European
beauty. The Ambassador having introduced the
Governor into the separate cabin of
_his wife,
where sat .another young lady, and two servant
maids, lie asked whether all those were the
Elchee's wives i—The reception of the Ambassa-
dor was grand, but his accommodation extended
not to comfort. After a tedious process of cere-
mony, each found himself installed in ' a tent,
pi!ched on a treeless desert of sand, with the sea
on one side and mountains on the other.
" It would, perhaps, be impossible to give to an inhabitant
of London a correct idea of the first impressions made upon
the European stranger on his landing in Persia. Accustomed,'
as his, eye hail been, to neatness, cleanliness, and a general
appearance of convenience in the exterior of life, he feels a
depression of spirits in beholding the vet y contrary. Instead
of houses with high roofs, well glazed and painted, and in
neat rows, he finds them low, flit roofed, without Wind uws,
placed in little connection. In vain he looks for what his
idea of a street ruay be, he makes his way through the

narrowest lanes, encumbered with filth, dead annuals, and
mangey dogs. He hears a language totally new to hiM,
spoken by people whose looks and dress are equally extra-
ordinary. Instead of our smooth chins and light dresses, he
finds rough faces marked with beards and mnstachios in
lung flapping eiotbsos He sees no active people walking
about with an appearance of something to do, but here and
there be meets a native lust crawling along in slipssimd shoes.
When he seeks the markets and shops, a new and original
scene opei!s upon him. Little open sheds in rows, between
_which is a passage, Arvin; as a street, of about eight feet is
Oreadth,,.are to be 4cen, instead-of our closely shut shops,
with windows gaily decked. Here the vender sits sot rounded
with his wares. In a country where there is so little ap-
parent security of property, it is surprising how a man so
easily exposes his goods to the pilfer of rogues. Compari-
sons might be made without end, but however distressing '
the transition from great civilization to comparative bar-
barity may be, yet it is certain that first impressions soon
wear off, and that the mind receives a new accession of feel-
ings, adapted precisely to the situation in which it is placed."
After an interesting though fatiguing march
the Embassy reached Shiraz, where they bad an.
arrerahle specinken of Persian flattery. The Mel:.
mangler *aid- to the Minister,lkow well thi'Elthsfes
talks Persian. Admi,rably, retnyed the 'Minis" •
ter : •he is superior to any Mollah:
" On paying a visit to Mirza Abul Hassan Minn, we were'
surprised to find his room darkened,, himself seated in a
corner weeping aloud, and apparently in the greatest grief.
The cause was easily to be guessed, 'for we had been inform-
ed, nearly on our first landing, that his only child, a son, of
four years old, had died during his father's absence, of the
small-pox ; and this circumstance, by order of the King, bad
hitherto been kept from his knowledge. A young eunuch
belonging to the Prince's mother, ignorant of the King's
orders, had heedlessly mentioned it to him, and thus destroyed
at once the hopes he bad so long cherished during his absence,
of seeing what he held most dear to him. He felt his mis-
fortune the more, as his-wife was too old to encourage the
hope of any inure offspring, and moreover, was so jealous as
to oppose a second marriage. She is a lady of superior rank
to himself, being the daughter of Hajee Ibrahim, the late
Grand Vizier of Persia; and it is said, that if her husband in
any manner ill-treated her, she Las such powerful relations
that they would soon avenge her. How forcibly this illus-
trates what Laban said 'to Jsideb; bn giving him his datntli-
ters!—lf tkou shalt afflict my daughters, .;r if thou shalt take
other 'wives besides my daughters, &c. &c. Gen. 3t. 5. 50.
"-We frequently visited him during his grief, and'had an
opportunity of hearing the sort of consolation which he re-
ceived from his own countrythen. The principal argument
they'brought forward to assuage his grief was kery -remark-
able, inasmuch as it shows a great similarity of feeling be-
tween modern and ancient Persians on a similar subject.
They said, ' If you had lost a brother, then, indeed, yon
might cry, for you cannot raise your father and mother; from
their graves to give you another; but why betssil a child,
witerryou still eau bogie to ,:raVe assother?' *hin.Doritrat
was surprised at the request of the, wife of 104phi:rues to
have the life of her brother spared, rather that*_ that of any
of her other relations, be asked her wl(y she preferred to pre-
serve her brother, instead of her hasban'd and children, who
were certainly more nearly connected to her, she answered,
'0 King ! if it please the Deitrl uiay have another husband ;
and if deprived of these, may have other children ; but asany
parents are both of them dead, it is certain I can have no
other brother*."fhe Persians appeared to make use of this -
phrase more as the common language of condolence, than as
excited by the peculiar circumstances of the case, and there-
fore we may suppose it to be an idiom that has maintained it-
self in the country from the most ancient times It could
evidently only have been used by natives, who, like the pre-
sent Persians, hare a plurality of wives; who, in consequence,
have no strong conjugal ties, and who, having a large pro-
miscuous progeny, have feeble parental affections. Mahomed
Zeky Khan, our Mehmander, in his attempt to console the
Mirza, said, ' Why do you grieve for one child? I have
lost more than one at a time,lsuni have never shed a tear.'

* Ilerodatus, Thalia, 119.
LT° be continued.]

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Alt (as amended on recommitment) for enabling Ec•
clesiastical Persons and others to make Leases of Tithes, so
as to bind their Successors.

A Return of the Quantities of Corn, Grain, Meal, and
Flour, imported into and exported from Great Britain, from
the sth of January l SW, to the sth of January 1818;
guisbin each year.

Accounts and Papers relating t. the Increase and Dimintt.
Con of Salaries, &e. in the rublic Offices of Great l3ritain,
from the Ist of January 1311', to the Ist of January 1818.

A Return of the different. Fees payable to and received by
the different Clerks of the Peace for the several Counties in
ngland and Wales, distinguishing their Rate and aggre-
gate Amount, during each of the Twenty years last past;
and also stating whether any and what Variation has taken
place in the Rate of any of the said Fees, and under what
authority any such Alteration may have taken place dining
that period; so far as Returns have been received at the Se-
cretary of State's Office for the Home Department.

A Return of the different Fees payable to and received by
the different Cie'.lts-of Assize in England ; distinguishing, &c.

as in the preceding.

The personal Estate of the late Alderman
COMBE was swot) in Doctors' Commons be
;inder the sum of 140,000 L His son. H RYCY
COMBE, Esq. is the sole Executor and R sidwlry
Legatee. The property is It t to tire wife and
children. There are no beq,lets ow, of the la.
may. Probate was granted on the 29at ult.