XXXI. An Account of the Mission of Yusuf Agha, Ambassador from Turkey to the British Court

doi:10.1017/S0950473700001208

XXXI. An Account of the Mission of Yusuf Agha, Ambassador from Turkey to the British Court

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Tuesday, the 8th of Rajab 1209 (29th January 1795), having been fixed upon for delivering, with splendour and ceremony, the imperial letters and presents entrusted to me, the , or officer acting as master of the ceremonies, and the secretary to the King, waited upon us three days previous, and announced that they had His Majesty's commands to regulate the forms and ceremonies of the audience, and that they were most anxious to do every thing in their power to honour and oblige us.

Type: Research Article
Information: Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , July 1834 , pp. 496 - 504

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950473700001208 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1834

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* Field-marshal Sir George Howard, Governor of Chelsea College.

* means a bundle of shawls or stuffs wrapped up in a handkerchief.

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† It seems the ambassador was aware that “bye-and-bye” was a phrase that would please the English; because, in a campaign in which both nations had fought together, bye-and-bye was the constant reply of the Turkish soldiers and marines., when roused arid pressed by the English sailors and soldiers, crying, Háideh! háideh! “Go on! go on!” Thus each of the two nations first learnt from each other the phrase most congenial to their character—the English that of activity, the Turks that of tardiness.