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most Pattering hopes, his presumption is quite:ooA, Ile
compares himself to Tamerlane and Nadir Sash':
sokramen, 9 (21) aULY.
The Prince Royal has sent a courier from Mirza to his brother-
in-law, Alaiar Khan, to desire' him to save the appearances of a
first aggression. It has conserpiently been decided in a meeting
held at the Minister's, to propose to me to terminate the differ-
ences respecting the frontiers according to the stipulations of the
treaty of Gulistan, giving them a meaning which I could not
adopt. .
This resolution being adopted, Alaiar Khan transmitted to me
the annexed note, passing over the proposal I bad made him on
the stb, and without mentioning the resumption of the negoeis,
tions in a frontier town, to which he had before Assented.
11Iy answer is also inclosed.* I have sent a copy to Aboul-
Hassan Khan, that he may coonnunieate thq contents to the
Schab.
SULTAXIEII 9, (21) JULY.
Mr. Willock, the English Charge d'Affaires, came to see me
this evening, and told me the Schah has sent to him to ask him
to speak to me on the means of avoiding a rupture between the
tons States, and that he had chosen him, because he could not
strut any of his Aliuisters, who were divided in opinions and
interests. Mr. Willock added, he had charged himself with this
message, not officially, but from his personal wish to see the dif-
ferences between Russia and Persia arranged ; and that before
entering on particulars, he asked my permission to speak on the
object of his visit. I answered that I received his proposal with
infinite pleasure, and I assured him that the policy of the Emperor,
was too frank and too upright for me to conceal my proceedings
from the agent of an allied, power, and that I accepted his good
offices without admitting his intervention. After saying that
this was his own meaning, and after along discussion, he proposed
to me to take with me to Tiflis a Persian negotiator, whose pro-
ceedings I should second, and who should endeavour to obtain from
General Yerinaloff the evacuation of the coast of the Goktcha,
during the next winter, which should be employed in arranging
the points in dispute] respecting the frontiers.
I immediately assented to this proposal, which Mr. Willock
thinks will afford the Schah a pretext to stop the march of the
Troops, and, which, besides, is absolutely conformable to the spirit
of the note which I have written to-day to Alaiar Khan.
The English officers and serjeants, who exercise the Persian
troops, have received orders from Mr. Willock not to follow them,
but to remain at Tauris. Mr, Cormick, the Prince's English
Physician, has also refused to accompany him, and Abbas Mirza
will have no Europeans in his army, except an Italian, named
Bernardi, who has served as a subaltern in the French artillery,
and, who, during the 100 slays, was an officer, and perhaps
an Ex-Sergeant of the English Artillery, now in the pay of
the Prince, and consequently independent of the Charge d'Affaires
of his Government.
Mr. Wilk& intends to follow the Court to Ardsbil, but declar-
ing to the Shah that if he should approach our frontiers nearer than
that point, he should be obliged to leave him.
SULTANICII, JULY 11 (23).
The proposal of Mr. Willock, mentioned in my preceding, had
just been acceded to by the Schell, anti the Kaimacan was chosen
to accompany me to Tiflis, when an unexpected event defeated all
the plans for an arrangement. This is the revolt of the, Khan of
Talyche, who, after having massacred the little Russian Garrison
at Arkevan, asked assistance of Persia to make himself muter of
Lenkoran.
Alaiar Khan has taken advantage of this event to influense the
Schah, who has resolved on war; and sets out to-morrow for Ardebil,
where he will arrive on the 18th (30th) of this month With all
the troops in the camp of Sultanieh.
This determination having been taken, I have every thing ready
for my aepirture.

TAUktS, JULY 20, (Atm. I.)
On arriving at Thais, I learnt that couriers whom I dispatch-
td on the 2d (14th), for Sultanich were detained at Altar. I found
il. Ivanoff and the Dragoman Chah Nazaroff, attached to our
Mission, under arrest, and guarded in their respective lodgings.
Two couriers sent to me from Tißis have also been stopped, and
their papers seized. All these shameful proceedings are by order
fl Abbas Mints. I have demanded my papers, which have been
just given up to me. M. Ivanoff and Chah Nazaroff are set at
liberty, but the Hotel of the mission is surrounded by guards, and
nobody dares to go out without being accompanied by come Soldiers
with their arms.

TIFLIS 12 (24) fig n.
I arrived on the 4th (16) August, at Erivan, where the &whir
'caused me to be detained, under various pretexts, till the 9th (20),
and afterwards let me know that he could not permit me to join the
Russian troops, but that he would have me escorted to the fim-
.. tiers of Turkey; and if! did not agree to thiti lie could not.assign
hYshy
ether route but through our Tartar province at Kazah,
fidelity of which at that time was at least suspicious. I was
warne
d at the same time that the delay which I experienced arose
f,l)m the measures which the Sardar was taking to plunder my
h „lagg"ge, and to seize on my person as soon as we should be one
day's journey beyond the frontiers of Persia; and I was informed
tit the sane time who the individuals were that were commissioned
to execute these outrages.
During the discussions concerning my departure, Mirza Ismael,
ntY Mehmander, received orders from Alaiar Khan to detain me
at Erivan till further orders, under the specious pretext that it
rues necessary I should wait for the answer which it was intended
to snake to my note of 9th (21st) July.
I protested against so manifest a violation of the law of nations,
!exiting both to Abbas Mina and to the principal Minister; and
1 informed the English Mission of the situation in which I was.
During this time every day of my detention was marked by
some new insult ; it was insinuated to me from Alaiar Khan, that
the wife of the Khan of Talyche having been kept as a hostage at
the time of his revolt, I should be detained at Erivan till the
should be set at liberty, but that I might ransom myself by giving
bra 6 the Chief Minister my plate, and the presents not yet distri-
ed which I had in my possession.
, 'IIIY endeavoured, but in vain, to bribe my Dragomans. The
"Wu desired my Milunandar to require of one the payment of a
Parcel of cotton which he had sent to Russia before the commence-
ment of hostilities, or to keep some persona of my suite as hostages.
Being unable to bribe my Dragomans, the Sardar,expresited his
"!tention to keep them by force, as being both natives of the pro-
vince of Karabag, which he already considered as a conquered pro-
"race, and a part of Persia.
1 should write a volume if I were to give your Excellency an
4eenunt of all the vexatious attempts which I have been obliged to
tesist, and to which the inventivegenius of my jailors every day gave
* new form, but always with a view to extort money, or effects..
,teeing the time pus away, and the answers to my letters not
"in, and learning that the English mission had left the camp
the .Schap to go to meet Mr. Macdonald, I persuaded my Mels-
""ander to Oppose the pretensions of the Sardar of Erivan, and to
musts to the principal Minister, whose creature he is, that
toulsidering the antipathy of the Schist' to the war, the enemies of
I.44iiaerwKollltautit would seize the first opportunity that a doubtful
furnish, to ruin him, if he did not think before hand
nier,44Pet°4 and the only meant, to conclude it on advantageous terms
insste„,„,nri.dePart as soon as possible, because I was personally
Teie ~ our Cabinet to an accommodation.
eau* auctieed
'lays' detention ~ tud; , and I owe to it my liberation, after 25
van, which halt eeft,.:}tt unhealthy place in the environs of Eri-
.
both master., and ttereljnysffrt!d all the individuals of the mission,
ants, „, ,i," Lea. ontrit,Tt:teciing the physician and hie assist-
kr, and have ~ let blow, i:t:towy has bean obliged to set as doc-
k:* c to assist the sick.
Mr. Macdonald, the neer
Teheran, learnt, on his arrivalugaittsh Minister at the Court of
that had already been given to ;lilt° "ini' of the Schap,
in g some act of perfidy on the part of then'6l.'e pass eleielyLhouutglfietari; advisable to demand new firmest and to
see that they were carried into execution; linows,4,4trllhlaulitlirtehartloy
reached Tiflis when that officer arrived at the A amp of the Sevier
of Erivan.
Prince Menzikoff's answer was very simpleandttptleicrioortiosi
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merely recapitulated what had been done by thn u
sic; the consent given by Persia ,to the exchange of territory
{mentioned in .the Russian . declaration of war) and the wish of
his Majesty the Emperor, to maintain peace, and to consult the
interest of Persia. The Persian- Minister did not receive this
/Int* tin Aug. 80 (Sept. 11), when Prince Menzikoff was mount.
lug his horse to leave the territory, accompanied by the enemy,

* la the conference of tittt----54t• (17th), Prince Alenzikoif
knowing that war:was resolved upon, and not willing that the
altiolute rejection of even an inadmissible proposal, should afford
Persia a pretext fer hostilities, declared, es he says, that he would
salt for fresh instructions, and would agree to Alaiar Khan's pro-
'Potal to resume the negotiations in a frontier town; yet, on the
'7th (19th), Alaiar Klan sent him a note, in which, pass-
over all that had preceded, or supporting by any proofs
vague accusation which he made against the authorities on
the frontiers of Georgia, of not having shewn a conciliatory spirit
•in the differences between the two States, declared that the
ell Sch
L Would never femme the negotiations except on the basis of
the treaty of Gulistan, haughtily requiring Prince Alenzikoff to
say whethernussie would agree to this, adding, that if it did not i'n)Court of st., Petersburgh could nut justly complain of what.
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