text:  Hitherto the khan had been unaccountably silent on the subject of the "Frank moons brilliant as the sun " (as the English ladies are called by the Persian princes who from the first lose no opportunity of commemorating their beauty in the most rapturous strains of Oriental hyperbole;) but his enthusiasm is effectually kindled by the blaze of charms which meets his eye in the "bazar of beauty and garden of pleasure " as he terms the Park his account of which he sums up by declaring that "were the inhabitants of the celestial regions to descend they would at one glance forget the wonders of the heavens at the sight of so many bright eyes and beautiful faces! what therefore remains for mortals to do?" The Opera is he says "the principal _tomashagah_" (place of show or entertainment) in London and best decorated and lighted;" though he does not go the length of affirming as stated in the account given by the Persian princes that "before each box are forty chandeliers of cut glass and each has fifty lights!"--"I could not " continues the khan "understand the subject of the performances--it was all singing accompanied with various action as if some story were meant to be related; but I was also told that the language was different from English and that the majority of those present understood it no more than myself