Star.
London, England, 1815-09-16 00:00:00

AIR GORE OUSLEr.

The return of this Gentleman from his mission
the Court of Persia, we regard as a circuinstence
pileisasiaccgcuinratetremt acquaintance
the
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manners of Asia, which was the qeelificatian
recontmended him, about the year 1811, to a distils.
guished Nobleman, then Secretary for Foreign
fair, has enabled hint to ma to the bee, accouat list
opportunities afforded him, both by the scene of his
seri in, and the crisis is which he was engaged, ee
serving the cause of European liberty, and
large additions to our scanty knossiedge of the A:.
tiquities, and ieleterai 1-listory of the Last.
Sir Goat: OUSLET ;s, beyond dispute, the Srh Pe.
sian scholar now in Europe. He found the keen •
ties) of an interpreter sevely uaelesseowards the :a:,
tenence of his most C,elicate illations with tile haa.
and Minia:ers of Persie, a ntaemel peint towards ac,
(tithing their coalidence, end ircluoiiiiig his infileree
over t:te intractable policy of a despot: We liven!.
ti ust that the annals oi Great lh nail: will ytt ce
riched by a work from the pea of some wtiter wortil
of such an undertekieg, giving us the deteits of 44
embassy so impot taet and successful, as well as nr
literary and antapierian rese rdies which ielieved las
labours of the Cahinet. Sir Geerge Stauutoa's .
tory of Lord Islacastney'e Embassy to China, thou;;.
unquestionably a production of censidernlits
ness, contains nothing that can bear a monsese's
comparison, whether for curiosity or public trea.
nitude, with the subjects embraced by the operatic,
of Si: Gone Ouseee during the last four year._
' To his political measures we shall make a bhi.rt is.
ference bye and bye. With respect to scimce
natural history, we pnderstand th.a he has hro:aa
'home a !aorta: riccut of Caucasian pleats, th. o.;a.
complete one existing in the world, except that le
longing to the Emperor ALEXANDER, of which
Gone Ouseev's is the duplicate. His join-Dies tee
long, frequent, and fatiguing. Toe last which
undertook was at the special salicitatioa of the li.e!:;
of PERSIA, to conclude the peace her ween him and CI
Russian Empire. It was lull of dillizulty and dange,
but interesting in the most extreordinery degree. L
compelled him to traverse the perilous, though bete
tiful region of Georgia—the wilds of Ceocesus—e.
territories of the Don—the extensive provinces i);
Russia, by Moscow to St. Petershurgh, a di•aance
nearly WOO miles ; but it enabled hint at tht sari...
time to make vast aoqaisitions its minerelegy
botany ; and to bring to England a rare aad pieciee
Imeiefesak. of drawings by a German artist, comeee
,R 7, the most picturesque deline aions of the tzer._:l
of Georgia, the C tucasus, and Nlinerclie, with vain..
other aroc,es of iiiestrinetile valise to the stateki:ry,
!be historian, and the natua,lie. Amongst
tisX
curiosities is a silver coin or GrUERATIEWS, MOTIAta
of the ancient Bacttia, the tote th coin of that kiea
dom, which is known to have e.er been colt:cted;—
lof these treaaires sundry articles have alrealy bar
submitted to the learned--but use actual stat::
:GORE Ouseev's health, impaired by a lone No _ca (4.
lab e-ions services, hardly.admits the hope that t:.:4
can be speedily arranged.
We cannot dismiss the subject without adv if;N7
briefly to the political-y*6ldt, of Sir Gone ObSte.l%
embassy. While BOSAPA Mt yet only meaina
the iovasion of Russia, he bad L`..ti.c.l P;.:4
Government to attack her south easter. fru:itier.
GORE OUSLET was dispatched to (rust: it. eis it
trigne, fatal to Europe in its possible consequeocesa
a necessary distraction of the Ruei in force. A.
the moment when the invaders passed the ?cis.
thenes, the Persian war was at its height. t:
British Ambassador, acting skilfully on the spike
his instructions, mediated the peace at this isef.
decisive juncture, and released a large a' my of Ke
slim troops, who were instantly marched oil to aviz
in the destruction of BONAPARTE. It is SO:::.!
tirnony to the fair and equitable principles nn whicl
thii peace was concluded, that both Sove-07
expressed their obligations to the successful
diator—the Persian Monarch having invested Cs)
with the grand National Order of the Sun and him
and the Russien Emperor aids that of St. Al.a.tude
the decoration of which in diamonds he took from,
own neck, to place it on that of Sir Goias Ocsur
The PRINCE Romer, who has for many yeers tile'
strongestmemoir hasper
justly appreciatedsonalkindnes
stowairidiss
tt.e subject of chi
rendered at a season so eminently critical ; and,
testified in a liberal and becoming manner the seer:
bation which be feels of those collates al researcit
by which the Ambassador has powerfully contribov
to the spread and progress of oriental knowledge.

The plague rages at Mecca; and, it is said, 70,00
of the inhabitants of Cairo had falleii victim; to'
dreadful malady at the end of Jun:.
Captain MAITLAND, the Comtn,tnder of the Pella:
phon, arrived in town on Thursday, and delivrrei
Sir litassos Lowe, the new Governor of St.llclen.
the 4000 gold Napoleons found attiont,,r the pt 'r
Of BONAPARTE. It is said that the (lovano;
ter!tin this money in his possession, to be o'ol
BONAPA RTE in such proportions as may not be ioc,
4stetit with the proper security of his person.
A letter from Frankfort, dated September '2,
Our fair begins to grow very lively, and we ell
it will turn out well. In the course of this wick,
English manufactured goods have risen 101"'r``'
The Saxon and Swiss goods are likewise moot
demand."
Letters. from Paris dated the Bth, contain a
meats to the following effect : It seems pos°
that the Treaty of Peace between the Alliel roe.
and France is signed, and that the cunditi.);:i, "
be made known about the beginning of next m
in the mean time the following particul Ars Are c.'
lated in the best informed circles. The
France is recognized with the following r1;01;'.
;ions ; Savoy is restored to the King
the Bishopric of Potenttuy is ceder: to liaije
sle;
uinguen is to be rased, and its fortificatiOns
to be restored ; Landau, with a ratific itibn
frontiers, is ceded to the German Empire i thefc
of the Duchy of Lexemtiourg, of the owl
Natinr; and of Hainanit, as well as some
places in French Flanders, shall return to isel
of SArl.
Besides this, France is to pay a part of the
of the war, to restore all the works of scienc:.,
&Mt carried off from foreign countries, and.2oro,
of the Allied troops will occupy the prillcr
tresses for the space of two years."