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London, England, 1828-05-16 00:00:00

molt important with respect to position than
mere extent of territory. We shall not be
surprised in a few years to see her armies in pos-
session of the Asiatic shores of the Black Sea,
and taking possession of Scutari as well as Con-
stantinople. In the face of her present opera-
tions and appropriation of territory, it is idle to
ay that her views are uninfluenced by ambition.
°nee in possession of Constantinople, the transi-
tion to Smyrna is by no means ideal

SURF-ARUM, MAY 7.
The territory and the population which Russia has ac-
quire by its late treaty with Persia, appear in themselves
°f trifling importance. The two Khanates of Erivan and
i,„
alitchivan, which, under the name of the province of
Tarls formerly made the extreme north and west corner of
tPeniian Empire, are scarcely 400 geographical square
kiln in superficial extent, or about equal to the kingdom
°f Wurtemburg. The population is said not to exceed
10,000 souls, so that this new Russian province has
shout as many inhabitants as the Grand Duchy of
"eizear. If these numerical data afford but little
matter for particular observation, this cannot be said
of these provinces in other points of view. The
most important perhaps is the circumstance of re1i-
.1441. With the Khanate of Erivan, Russia has obtained
Pktession of the monastery of Etchmiadzine, the residence
°l' the chief Patriarch of the Catholic Armenians, who en-
J,t extraordinary respect in the East. This monastery
,41t1to in great esteem as a place of pilgrimage, and is con-
dered to be equally holy with Jerusalem. In Asiatic
Turkey there are at least a million and a half of Arme-
kali Christians, and we have lately seen what attention the
won of Etchmiadzine to Russia excited in Constanti-
-4°,14, and what rigorous measures towards the Arnie-
._l444 of the capital, the Sultan Maluncaul was induced
I° adopt, in concert with the Patriarch of the opposite
arty. In a military point of view, the cession of this
, Iritory is perhaps equally important. Russia having
7ttined possession of .both banks of the Araxes, and cur-
:putting Mount Ararat on three sides, a Russian army way,
circumstances should require it, march in three columns
Aopt Erzerum, without touching the Persian territory. The
rtt way is from Tiflis through Kars; the middle one into
* vale of the Araxes, by Kagzeman or Kaghizmasin ; the
L'ird by Bajazid Kara-Kilissiah and Tobrao.Kaleh, through
..4tretnely fertile countries. From Erzerum is the great
rd to Scutary, by way of Tokal Emasia, Boli and
(Nicomedia). We are pretty well ac-
eaiated with this caravan road by the accounts of Taver-
i4rt s Tournefort, and Otter, and the late travellers,
411rier, Gardanne, Jaubert, and Macdonald Kinneir. It
trtla that an army might march by it without meeting
th any particular obstacles. The road besides runs at
distance of only 12 to 20 (German) miles from the
of the Black Sea, and with the possession of the ports
Trebisende, Platens), Sinope, Ammer°, &c., it seems
vlit it would not be very difficult to send supplies of pro-
Zfts and ammunition from these places to an army march-
et Iduhg that road. In fact, the Emperor Heraclius, at
Lbeginning of the '7th century, marched partly along
road against the Persians. Xenophon, with his little
'T) merely crossed it