DISSUADE Urshud Baig Khân from his vain purpose of repairing to the House of God [Mecca]. Try, at first, as far as you may be able, the effect of fair persuasion; and if this should not succeed, you must, of necessity, confine him. You must, likewise, imprison the courtezan, who has been the cause of this affair.

N.B. Upon Urshud Baig’s “coming again to his senses,” as it is expressed in the original, he was restored to his office; and the woman in question was released, and “driven” from Calicut.