Guilver's Travel

“. . . [I]f his majesty, in consideration of your services, and pursuant to his own merciful disposition, would please to spare your life, and only give orders to put out both your eyes, he humbly conceived that, by this expedient, just might in some measure be satisfied, and all the world applaud the lenity of the emperor, as well as the fair and generous proceedings of those who have the honor to be his counselors. . . .”

Why would the passage above be most appropriate for a travel narrative, especially one written to establish business relationships?