'A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816. With a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf. Together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. K.L.S. With two maps, and engravings from the designs of the author.' [‎213] (256/516)

INTRODUCTION OF EUROPEAN DISCIPLINE.
The serhaz or infantry were placed under the command of Major
Christie of the Bombay army, an officer of the greatest merit, who
inspired his troops with an esprit de corps, that manifested itself on
many occasions. Abbas Mirza, who was partial to the corps disci
plined partly by the French, and partly by himself, thinking that
it had acquired more steadiness from its having been longer em
bodied than Major Christie's, one day proposed a sham fight, in
which he would lead his corps, and Christie his. They were
drawn out, and the Prince s troops attacked with great vigour those
of Christie, who, however, ordering a charge of bayonets put the
others to flight. Christie's men, who perhaps did not fully under
stand that this was intended for play, and who had been warmed
by their success, were heard to exclaim, « Oh, that we had ball-
" cartridges !"
The Prince complained to the Ambassador, that even now, the new
system which he had introduced had a great many enemies, and the
most powerful one was his brother Mahomed Ali Mirza, who had
endeavoured to render him and his nezam (discipline) odious to the
Persians, by attempting to show that in adopting the customs of the
infidels he was subverting the religion of Islam, which to this day had
been upheld by the same sword and the same discipline that had served
Mahomed in its establishment. " In order to counteract this," said the
Prince, " I caused a passage in the Koran that is favourable to the im- "
" provement of the means of attack and defence in the cause of religion,
" to be copied, to be sealed and approved by the chiefs of the law in
" Persia, and disseminated throughout the country."
The English officers who were employed in Persia, notwithstanding
the Prince's zeal for improvement, still found many impediments
in their way, originating from the confined ideas which the Prince
himself had of military science. The necessity of a strict subordination
of ranks seemed to him incomprehensible. He did not see why the
lieutenant, the serjeant, and even the common soldier, should be
debarred the privilege of speaking to him upon matters of service;
and why every thing should first be reported to the commanding