text: " A lengthened correspondence ensued at the rate of a letter or two daily till the end of January--in which the Sultan with all the tortuous tact of an Asiatic endeavoured without expressly pledging himself on the main point to stipulate in the first instance for assistance in the shape of artillery and ammunition against the hostile tribes in the neighbourhood and other advantages for himself and his family particularly for the retention of their jurisdiction over the _Arab_ residents in Aden: and he at last quitted Aden for Lahedj without absolutely concluding any thing but having authorized a merchant of the former place named Reshid-Ebn-Abdallah to act as his agent