WE enclose an order to the Aumil of Sumrputn [Bulhâry], directing him to forward your Palenkeen to you.

N.B. Then follows the order to the Aumil of Bulhâry.

It is difficult to say, in what sense the foregoing extract should be understood. It may imply, either that the Bukhshy was not at liberty to send for his Palenkeen, without the Sultan’s authority; or that, not possessing the means of getting it conveyed to him (that is, the necessary carriage), he had been obliged to solicit the Sultan to give directions for its being forwarded to him. The former sense would, no doubt, consist perfectly well with the despotic nature of the Sultan’s government, and with the general system of control and restriction which pervaded every branch of it: but as the latter interpretation is equally warranted by the original, I am inclined to prefer it, on the principle of putting, in all cases of absolute doubt, the most favorable construction on his conduct.