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1 CINC:.I. DED T2OM OUR PAPER OF TIIVIISDAT.]
Dori: g nine months of the year there people
r.:r • t•,l it..iii,nary it their villages ; but after the
ot July they retire with their cattle to the
river Tebete, among the mountains, where they
l!ad a •Aa;!deting life till the fiat of Oetober. To
tht fleth of Jeer, fwine, and horfes, they' have an
aver lion. Their language is a fomewhat corrupted
dialat of the Tarta;ic.

A kind el borax, brought from Akalzi and
Wan, is fold at Tcflis, for the tile of the. gold-
fmithi, ut.ler the name of born *. At Oldi, near
the former of th.:fe places, about three days jour-
ney from Toth, And at 13aiilid, near the Latta.,
there am raid to he fprirgs, the water of filch is
Freenith. It is colleata in hone cifierns, where
it is loitered to remain three or four niontha with
flutings of leather, blood, and urine, till it be-
comes pntrid ; after which it is clarified, and
bailed in corer kettles. A concrete :Alt remains,
which is the Lora.

After a refidence of:Limon three weeks'at Teflis,
during which time we put our equipage again in-
to order, and purchafed frelh cattle, we fet out on
the 12th of Febtusuy, the weather being then as
mild as it is at Peterlburith in the fpring. ge-
sseral, ice is faldora Peen in the neighbourhood of
Teflis s and the weather in winter as, for the inoa
part, rainy. Some opinion refpe!ing the climate
of dais counts y may be formed from the fruit trees,
fuels as the pomegranate and fig-tree, which
grow
here in the open air in all the gardens, and yet
never flaky from the holt.

We had to repots the mountains, but the mad
now WAS not fo dangerous. On the 17th we arriv-
ed at the bottom of that height called the Ram-
ba kfche ridge. During there five days we had an
agreeable journey through a beautiful diftrie
every where intetfeaed by frnall Breams, and co.
vered with fruit trees of every kind. The inhabi.
tants of this agreeable dais id are, however, much
to be pitied, as they are continually ezpo(ed to the
depredations of the Lefghinions. In the comic
of one day's journey we taw thirteen villages
which thefe plunderers had deftroyed. To fuch
fcenes of decofiation the Georgians are often ix•
pnfed, as.the Lefgbinians reticle in the mountains
between Kachet and Dageflan, and are exceeding-
ly numerous and warlike. The Pacha of Achal-
niche every year takes from twp to three thqufand
of thefe people into his tervice, but gives them
little pay, as they rec:ive pertniffion from him to
indemnify thetnfelves in their march by what they
can plunder. To ftrengthen this corps he unites
with them tome Turkilh trooli.. Some time ago,
when three companies of our chalfeurs, under the
command of Major .Sengenberg, defeated the
Lefghintans, of the two thoufand killed, one half
almoft were Turks. On another occafion, when
four hundred remained on the field of battle, zo
Turks and two of their flandards were brought
into Teflis. Since that period the Lefghintans
have been afraid of our chaffenrs ; but the two
battalions which we maintained in Georgia were
not fidficient to defend it from theft robbers

On the tech our road lay over the cold fnow
mountains from Bamback. We were Bill eighty
vela from the firll Perfian town Eriwan, andhad
attended the ridge which extends tint vet
when all of a (widen, after having travelled five
acres, we were arafied by a violent wind; which
accumulated the fnow in heaps before us i fo that
we were obliged to return, to avoid being buried
alive : a cataftropbe which whole caravans fame.-
times experience among there mountains, as they
mull trued here flaty trails without finding any
tillage or place of &ter, and confequentii can
hope for no afiance when overtaken by a film!
_ _ _

On the 19th of February we purfued another
route, in order to avoid. in Come nsesfare, the
(bow mountains. This route, however, was fell
tso vents longer, and exceedingly dangerotwas
we were obliged to pals very near the Turkith bor.
den, which ate generally Welled by the Lefghi-
nians.
On the 33c1 we arrived at the village of Talin,
which belongs to Armenia the Lek. Scarcely
bad we got to our lodgings, when intelligence wan.
received that two thoufand Lefgbinians hid met-
ed the river behind its, and attacked a village
which we paired a little time before. Had we
fallen in with there people on the road, our Slyer
plate mum have been 1011.
On the lath we came to the celebrated Arme•
nian mcnaftery of Weds, or Edfch-mijazin (feven
churches), which is called alto the Monaftery of
Ararat, where the Armenian patriarch, the chief
of the etcleGafikal eftablifliment of that country,
has his refidence. Here we were received with
great hofpitality, lodged in an elegant 2partasent,
and waited on with great attention. Nen day I
made a drawing of the monaftery, together with
Mount Ararat and the neighbouring countzevp:
which pleafed the patriarch fo much when
to him by our commanding officer, that be re-
quited me to maks a copy of it for him, and to
encourage me to do fo he gave me a conliderable
preknt.
This monastery is Said to have been built up-
wards of 1300 years ago, in the reign of an Ar-
simian Xing, named Tenet t and, beyond all
doubt it is one of the richeft in the world, as it re-
ceives a great income from the Armenians (cater-
ed throughout Turkey. Perfsa. Georgia, and even,
Europe I above Soo pedants alto belong to it, and
a iarri
_ck of land, ou which soo head of (auks
soo and so camels, are kept for the
porpofes agriculture. When the patriarch
dies, a woeschofen from their fried ; and
an amount of this choice is then tranfmitted to
the Tor ii* Sultan, the Czar of Georgia, and the
Chan of rinban. The number of the touts
moose, to 'so, who are lodged in the Mosaftery,
where they =jot every •coireenience. Travellen
e ihewn here a fragment of Nosh's Ark, whigll
a moult isfaid to have obtained from an angel...—!
Tnis monk had refolved to atcc*d to the 611=4
• This is dIS ampere wawa Iskigisfilt iskilleiby
del sow the ism Pefforg•

of Mount Ararat, where the Ark relied ; but he
was prevented by the DEITY, who fent an angel to
convey him back ; and the angel, to confok him
for this dif4ppointment, brought him this frag
ment, refpcaing which many other wonderful
Itorics are told.

On the 16th we continued our journey to Eri.
wan, which is only fifteen 'verfis dillant from the
monallery. This city lies in a fruitful valley on
the river S.ngintfehey, at the bottom of the fnow
mountains. It is fortified by a double wall, fur.
nilhcd n ith a great many round towers at the dif-
tanc: of fitlr:en fathoms from each other, and each
mounted u ith four cannon : mortars are alfo
planted on the edge of the ditch by which the city
is furroonded. The city has only one gate, and
would be a place of ftrength if its fituatton were
mote advantageous. One half of it is furrounded
by mountains within cannon fhot ; but on the fouth
fide it is protected by infuperable rocks, which
extend, atmufl perpendicularly, to the banks of the
Liver Sangin. The houfes are in the fame (Lyle of ar.
chkature as thofe of Teflis.

The CL in, Achmet Mehemet, was about ten
years of age, and fucceeded his brother, who had
been aff.dfinated in the llreets about a year before.
The dittriet belonging to Eriwan forms a great
part of Armenia the Lefs : it is exceedingly fer-
tile, and brings to the Chan a confiderable income;
from which, however, he midi pay a tribute tothe
Czar of Georgia.
On the 27th our Colonel paid a vifit to the
Chan, all of us accompanying him in great parade
on horfeback. When we arrived at the Court of
the Palace we all difinounted, the Colonel except.
ed, who rode up to the Palace, where be was re-
ceived by one of the Chan's wails, who conduit.
ed him into the hall of audience, to which 231 the
officers followed him. Chairs covered with red
cloth were handed to ns ; after which we were
pretested with coffee, tea, and rweetmeats ; and
then with the !When, a kind of machine ufed for
fmoking tobacco through water. The audience
Tailed about half an hour, during which the Chas,.
(poke very little, and of courfe we had no oppor-
tunity for much eonverfation. When the audience
was ended, we returned to our lodgings in the
Chan's fumroer palace. ''The erects through which
we plied were fo full of people, that it was with
difficulty we could get along.
Ott the tit of March we continued our jour.,
ney towards Nachtfchiwan, the capital of Ar-
meniat but when we arrived at Derwifellar, 69
Tails from Eriwan, we were obliged, on account,
of the danger oldie toad, to return to Eriwan, as
the Cords along the river Aras were in a !late of
infurreaion, and had already committed many
ails of robbery. Thefe Curds are a people nearly
in a ravage Date, who Lead a roving life among
the mountains. Their habitations coniiit of a kind
of half tent wade of a fort of hair cloth, and which
bas a tefemblance to a piquet tent. Such tents
are inhabited by whole families. They live thief-
ly on vegetables, and their drefs is Torkilh.
On the 4th we arrived again at Eriwan, where
we, Llaid till the iSth, when we fet out, under the
el-con of rso men, for Nachtfchiwan, which we
reached on the rotis of March.

• Since that period Georgia has been annexed to the Au g=
Empire. Visit this Papa of the tads alt. nada the Bead l#s.

POLICE, &c.

TRANI' Ormcs.—Yellerday Same/ Tberaffoss, i
a petty officer, lately belonging to the Achilles
brig, bound to the Well Indies, brought from
Deal, along with Jacob Godfrey; on the loth of
lalt month, on fulincion of breaking up the cargo
of the faid•brig, about two months fine, and Real-
ists a large quantity of leather, Mk bonnets, &a
and afterwards of attempting to deftroy the Cap-
tain and Mate, by means of opium, was examined
alone, Godfrey having been rendered up to the ju-
rifilidion of the Admiralty, for mutiny on board
his Majefty's !loop Albanrife. •
ii It being charged that Thompfon was impliott-
' ed in the robbery on board the Achilles, after a
kl:ew;laitifeatn bAlelwrlndi committeds Iraq*" ci.via
perfefted his voyage, engaged bimfelf in a cram-
pon veffel, bat took care to convey about a bun-
died. weight of fugar from his former Ihip to Ms
birth in the Aiceeding one. He was adjudged
to pay the penalty of A and the property forfeited.
Gettnaasa..—Yellerday Mary Auflin was ex-
amined, charged upon the oath of Mrs. Wilton, of
Angal-alky,Wborfields, on fufpicion of robbing
her ready-furnifked lodgings of feveral articles of .
bed-furniture, &c. three months ago, the property
of the iaid Wilfon. Several pawnbrokers' thigh-.
cates were found upon her. She was committed
for reexamination.
• A predatory villain has lately committed feveral
footpad robberies on the Walfall road, leading
from Birmingham. A man riding from that town
to Walfall was flopped a few evenings fince nearly-
oppofite the Rev. Mr. Lane's, at I-Undfwortis, by
a robber, who knocked him off his horfe via 'a
bludgeon, and then rifled his pocket of five or fix
pound notes and tome flyer. Several women have
been lately (lopped and robbed in the tune neigh-
bourhood, and it is fuppokd by the fame perfnn.
On the t4th of November left, a woman in Ger-
many was brought to bed of a male child, a frill-
roan infant ; and on the 1 ith of December fol.
[owing, the was again delivered of a female child,
which died the moment of its coming into the
world.
Sir jaws' Waaa, in his Antiquities of Ireland,
takes notice, that about the year woo, fumames
began to be fixed in France, England, and Scot-
%ad, as well as in Ireland; &&-, indeed, among
the Nobility, and by degrees among the lower fort.
dg I think (kid a countrynum, the other day,
after laying down a Newfpaper, to repleoith his
Ope)—l di* that* paniaffent am be henO, after
all. Foe I lee, dallies. of them mind nothing
abaft who is la or who a eat fo be that the
hipline° la As fie, rotas any thing, 'ecod,
they are always ready to give bill a alai and
Make him fay far mere than he intended.—May-
hap, be does not tell Asa, before band, what he
means to do?...Bets borrow, it looks well on that
fide."