ABSTRACT
The Pasha received us with the smooth, kind, gentle manner that belongs to well-bred Osmanlees; then he lightly clapped his hands, and instantly the sound filled all the lower end of the room with slaves; a syllable dropped from his lips which bowed all heads, and conjured away the attendants like ghosts. The Pasha compliments the cutlery of England, and also the East India Company. A traveller writes and says that 'the Pasha of So-and-so was particularly interested in the vast progress which has been made in the application of steam, and appeared to understand the structure of machinery'. Dragoman, branch of Mudcombe, possible policeman of Bedfordshire, informs Pasha Highness that in England the talking houses have met, and that the integrity of the Sultan's dominions has been assured for ever and ever by a speech from the velvet chair. Dragoman wishes to have the opinion of an unprejudiced Ottoman gentleman as to the prospects of English commerce and manufactures.
