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London, England, 1826-11-04 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1826.
KING WILLIAM 111. LANDIIII,--CLONC HOLIDAY.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The Bank, Stock Exchange,and Foreign market are closed, and
with the badness of the weather, cauges a very gloomy appearance
on 'Change, which is very thinly attended. Consols and South
Americans remain at the same price as yesterday.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Up to the present time, not a public bargein. has been done in
Consols, and they may be quoted at 111 A for the Account; they
have been done at this privately. Colombian may be quoted at 39,
and Mexican .n 64; nothing 14 doing in any other Foreign Secu-
rity. Few persons are on 'Change.

Flt ENCH FUNDS, PARIS, NOVILM era 1.
Five per Cents. . • • 991. 15c.
Three per Cents. . . . 681. 80c.
Rank Actions • • 2040 f. —c.
Bente. de Naples . . . 75f. 35c.
Spanish Bonds . . • .. 491.

Accounts fiom Paris mention the approaching de-
parture of Count GABRIAC, who is appointed Minister
from Franci to the Emperor of BRAZIL ; but it is not
known to what nation he belonged.
The schooner Francis, arrived at Newport (U.S.)
from Omoa, bringing M. P. de GAGRGO, bearer of
dispatches from the Government of Central America.
The relations between that Republic and the United
States being settled, it is understood that a Charge de
AffAires will be sent out, and that Mr. GONEZALL, for-
merly Secretary of Legation, will be appointed.

Letters from Lisbon, dated the kilt of. October,
state, that the Ratanr presided yesterday at a Council'
of Ministers, which sat from eleven to twelve o'clock;
when General DAUN, Minister of War, was entering
the Office, he was surrounded by upwards of one hun-
dred Officers, who solicited the favour to- be admitted
as volunteers, to be sent to Algarve. against the rebels.
The Baron QIJINTZLLA, Minister of Marine, will replace
General DALIN during his absence. The Tower of St.
Julien made signal that forty-eight sail was seen at a
distance, escorted by two frigates and two brigs, with
a number of transports.
The Journal de St. Pdersburgh of the sth October,
received this morning, has at length brought us ample
and official accounts of the origin and progress.of the
rupture between Russia and Persia. The following are
the details;

ST. PETERSBURG H, Ocrussa 4 (16).
OFFICCAL ARTICLE.
•

The accounts received froin Major-General Prince
Menzikoff, since his return to Tiflis, furnish ,bighlt
interesting information respecting the circumstances'
which induced the Court of Teheran suddenly to at-
tack Russia. • We annex these accounts as the Prince,
has given them ; and if the declaration of the Cabinet
of St. Petersburgh had not already proved that the
aggression of the Persians is distinguished by a degree
of injustice and perfidy, of which it would be difficult to
find a more melancholy example, the following details
would suffice to make Europe appreciate the generous
frankness with which Russia has constantly acted to-
wards Persia, and the entirely foreign and deplorable
causes which. have drawn the Schah into a war, at
a moment, when on the one hand the most friendly po.
licy, and on the other the great interests of his empire
impdtiouily called on him to maintain peace. We have
had occasion to announce, that after having been re-
ceived and treated with great respect at Tauris by Prince
Abbas Mirza, had left that city to proceed to the camp
of the Schah of Persia, at Sultanieh. On the road he
was suddenly passed by Abbas Mirza, who proceeded
thither with all possible speed. This unexpected joetney,
the haste with which it was made, the reports of war
with which it was accompanied, could not but strike
Prince Menzikoff. In fact, when he reached Sultanieh,
he found that war was resolved upon. We annex his
dispatches.*
SULTANIEH, Jinx 3 (15).
The principal Minister of the Schah is Alair Khan,
by birth a Kadjar, the son-in-law of his. Sovereign, and
brother-in-law of Abbas Mirza, who has married his
sister. He bears the title of Auefout-Dovli, which title
was created for him. The other Mini4rs-are depend-
ent on him. and all the decisions of the Schah pass
through his hands.

• Prince Mere Lhasa couriers were popped by he Persian Go.
•efitment, and he" could not send the series of his dispatches :in he
iteasked Tres. -

However, Alai 4r Khan's want of knowledge in basil:leis
has obliged hiaho have recourse to the other Minister:
in the transactions with Foreign Powers ; and they
especially Mirza-Aboul, Hassan Khan, and Mirza.
Abdoul-Wehab, have attempted to profit by this circus.
stance, to rein him, by proving to the Sultan his inca.
pacity, and offering at the same time to prove that this
Minister had robbed the Exchequer of 80,000 tomes.
The ruin of Alaiar Khan was *boat to be decided, when
he found a resource in extreme measures. War afforded
them. He joined with the Seid of Kerbelay, in whom
he found a support. On the other hand, he sent foe
Abbas Mime, who repaired full gallop to Sultanieh, to
support his brother•in-law. The:Mollah preached a reli-
gious war, and inflamed the people ; and Aliar Khaa
produced pretended petitions from the discontented in oar
provinces, inviting the Persians to their assistance; and
Abbas Mirza imisted on the opportunity for war. The
Schah fearing his sons, the Mollahs and the people
yielded, notwithstanding his aversion to war, and Alaiat
Khan, is at the height of his power.
The troops were ordered to march towards our fron-
tiers, and the appeal of the Mona]: to the people, was
dispatched to all the provinces to be read in the mosques.
All these resolutions were taken and executed during
My journey from Tauris to Sultanieh, where I arrived
under very unfavourable auspices. In these circum-
stances, the only useful end I can aim at is to gain time,
that the authorities in Georgia may be able to repel the
aggression, but I have little hope of protracting the
negnciation *bout the frontiers) for they are here resolved
to continue it, Only for form's sake, to make extravagant
pretensions, and to break it off when I reject what
cannot be accep:ed.

My arrival at Sultanieh has terminated the civilities
of the Persians towards me. My tent is surrounded
with guards, who prevent all communication. At the
public audience which the Schah granted me, they
affected not to pay me the honours which are usually
shewn even to the Charges d'Affaires who reside at
this Court, though the ceremony of my reception was
regulated beforehand. According to this, the Schott
was to take from my hands the Emperor's letter, ane
I had the positive assurance twice repeated thit he
would do so. Yet when I presented it to hiM he
would not take it, but made a sign with his hand
that I should lay it on a cushion. Now, according
to the custom of the country, this was a want
of respect to the Emperor. This proceeding war excused
on the pretext of misunderstanding. All is done at the
instigation of Abbas Mitza, who, always yielding to the
impulse of the moment, wishes, in his warlike ardour,
to push things to extremity.
sth (I7).—This morning I had a conference with the
members of the Schah, in which Alair Kban succeeded,
and he alone spoke.

He renewed strange pretensions, particularly insisting
on the restot ation of the Coast of Lake Goktcha.
opposed to this the letter of the Prince Royal to General
Yermoloff, by which he consented to give tip this ceast
to us in exchange for the tract betweet the Kapan and
the Kapanaktchay. He answered that the Schah had
neve!' given his consent or approbation to such an ex.
'change, and that it was inadmissible.

I observed that this change of intention was not known
to the Emperor when I left St. Petersbnrgh, and, conse-
quently, my instructions could not mention a fact of
later date, but that I would immediately apply to my
GUvernment for new orders. The Minister found
nothing to object, and only said, that as the Schah was
going to set out for Ardebil, I should be furnished with
means to return to Tiflis, and the negociations might be
continued in some frontier town, which should be agreed
upon fur holding the conferences.

The Prince Royal is gone this morning to assemble
troops on our frontiers of Xarabag : he fancies himself
already in possession of Tiflis, and dictating terms to
Russia. Indulging in the most flattering hopes, his
presumption is quite childish. He compares himself to
Tamerlane and Nudir Schah.

JULY 9th (27).—..The Prince Royal has sent a courier
from Miana, to his brother-iulaw, Alaiar Khan, to
desire him to save the appearances.of a first aggression.
It has consequently been decided, in a meeting held at
the Ministers, to propose some one to terminate the dif-
ferences respecting the frontiers, according to the stipu-
lations of the treaty of Ou%tan, giving them a meaning
which I could not adopt.
This resolution being adopted, Alaiar Khan trans-
Initted to me the annexed note, passing over the propo-
sal I had made him on the sth, and without mentioning
the resumption of the negodiatlons in a frontier town,
to which he had before assented. Mr answer is also
enclosed (2). I have sent a copy to Aboul Hassan
Khan, that he may communicate the contents to
the Schab.

Mr. Willock, the English Charge d'Affaires, came to
see me this eveniog, and told me the Schah has sent to
him, to ask him to speak to me on the means of avoid-
ing a rupture between the two States, and that he had
chosen him, because he could mot trust any of his Minis-
ten, 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 differences between Russia and Persia
arranged, and that before entering on particular., he
asked my pei mission to speak on the object of his visit.
I answered that 1 received his proposal with infiaiu
pleasure, and I assured him that the policy of the Ea-
peror was too frank and upright for me to conceal, my
1 proceedings from the a_gent of an allied Power, and that
I accepted his good offices without admitting his inter-
vention. After saying that this was his own meaning,
and after a long discussion, he proposed to me to take
wi.l) me to Tiflis a Persian negotiator, whose proceed.
ings I should second, and who should endeavour to
obtain from General Yermoloff the evacuation of the
coast of the Goktcha during the next winter, which
tumid be employed in arranging the points in dispute
.expecting the frontiers.

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I immediately assented to this proposal, which Mr. ,1
Willock thinks will afford the Schah a pretext to stop
the march of their troops, and which. besides, is absolu-
tely conformable to thi 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 Tautis. Mr. Cot-
mick, the Prince's English physician, has also refused
to accompany him ; and Abbas Mirta will have no
Europeans in his army except an Italian, named Ber-
nardi, who has served as a subaltern in the French
artillery, and who, daring the hundred days, was. an
officer, and perhaps an ex-sergeant of the English artil-
lery now in the pay of the Prince, and, con-equently,
independent of the Charge d'Affaires of his Govern-
ment. Mt. Willock intends to follow the Court to
Ardebil, but declaring to the Schah that if he should
approach our frontiers nearer than that point, he should
be obliged to leave him.
(23).—The proposal of Mr. Willock, mentioned
in my preceding, had just been acceded to by the Schah,
and 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 mas er of Lenkoran.
Alaiar Khan has taken advantage of this event, to
influence the Schah, who has resolved on war, and sets
out to. morrow for Ardebil, where he will art ive on the
18th (30) of this month : all the troops are io the camp
at Sultanieh. This determination having been taken, I
have everything ready for my departure.
TAUttIS, JULY 20. (Ist Auo.)
On arriving at Tauris, 1 learned that couriers whom
I dispatched on the 2i (14th) from Sultanieh, are de-
tained at Ahar. I found M. Ivanoff, and the Dragoman
Chah-NAzaroff attached to our mission under arrest, and
guarded in their respective lodgings. Two couriers sent
to me from Tiflis, have also been stopped, and their
papers seized. All these baneful proceedings are by
order of Abbas Mil za. I base demanded my papers,
which have just been given op 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 some soldiers
with their arms. _ .

TIFLIS, Sarrzosza 12 (24).
I arrived on the 4th (16th) of August at Eriern, where the
finder caused me to declare, under various pretexts, till the 9th
(20th), 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
frontiers of Turkey; and if I did not agree to this, he could not
assign the any other route but that through our Tartar Province at
Kazah, the fidelity 'of which at that time was at least suspicious. I
was warned at the same time, that the delay which I experienced
arose from the measures which the Sardar was taking, to plunder
my baggage and to seize on my person, as soon as we should be
one day's journey beyond the frontiers of Persia; and I was kb.,
formed at the same time who the Individuals were that were com-
missioned to execute these outrages.
During the discussions concerning my departure, Mires Ismael
brty Nlehmandar received orders from Alaiar Khan to detain me at
Erivan till further orders, under the specious pretext that it was
necessary I should wait for the answer which it was intended to
make to turtiote of 9th (21st) July.
I protested against so manifest a violation of the law of nations,
'writing both to Abbas blirza and to the principal Minister, and I
Informed the English Mission of the situation in which I was.
During this time, every day of my detention was marked by
Tome 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 she should be
set at liberty ; but that I might ransom myself by giving up td the
Chief 'Alittlster my plate, and the presents not yet distributed, which
had in my possession.
They endeavoured, but in vain, to bribe my dragomans. The
Bardar desieed.iny Mebmander to require of me the payment of
a parcel of cotton, which he had sent to Russia before the commence-
Ment of boatilities,Or to keep some persons of my suite as hostages
Being unable to bribe my dragomans, the Sardar expressed his
intention to keep thrill by force, as being birth native of the province
*of Karabag, which he already considered as a conquered province,

end a part of Persia.
I should write a volttme if I were to give your Excellency an az.
ount of all the vexatious attempts which I have been obliged to
resist, and to which the infective genius of my jailors every day
gave a new form, but always with a view to extort money or effects.
Seeing the time pass away, and the answers to my letters not ar.
'riving, and learning that the English Mission had left the camp of
the Schah to go to meet Mr Mk Donald, I persuaded my Mehman-
dar to oppose the pretensions of the Sardar of Erivan, and to insi-
nuate to the principal Minister, whose creature he is, that consi-
(let ing the antipathy of the Schah to the war, the enemies of Alalar
Khan could seize the first opportunity that a doubtful battle would
furnish to ruin him, if he did not think beforehand of peace ; and
the only means to conclude it on advantageous terms was, to let
toe depart as Soon as possible, because I was personally interested
in inducing our Cabinet to an accommodation.
This means succeeded; and I owe it to my liberation after 25
days detention, in the most unhealthy place in the environs of
Erivan, which has aeverily affected all the individuals of the Mis-
sion, both masters and servant!, including the physician and his
assistance, So that Lieutenant Count Tolstoy has been obliged to
act as Doctor, and have to let blood in order to assist the tick.
Mr. blactitinald,the new English Minister at the Court of Teheran,
learnt on his arrival at the camp of the Schah. that orders bad
already been given to let me pass freely; but fearing some new act
bf perfidy on the part of the Persians; he thought it advisable to
demand new Groans, and to send Major Monteith to sett that they
Were carried into execution ; however, Y had already reached Tiffs
when that officer arrived at the camp of the Sardar of Mean.
(2) In the conference of the sth (17th) Pribte Menaikoff, know-
ing that war was resolved upon, and not willing that the absolute
rejection of even an inadmissable proposal should afford Persia a
pretext for hostilities, declared, as he says, that he would ask for
past instructions, and would agree to Maier Khan's proposal, to
resume the negociatieos in a frontier town; yet on the 7th (lbth),
Alair Khan sent him a note, in which, passing over all that bad
preceded, or supporting by any proofs the "ague accusations
Which be made against the authorities on the frontiers of Geor-
gia, of not having shewn a conciliatory spirit in the differen-
ces between the two States, declared that the Schah would
never resume the negotiations except on the basis of the treaty of
Gulistan,haughtily requiring Prince Mentikaff to say whether Russia
would agree to this; adding that if it did not, the Court of St. Pe-
tersburg could not justly complain of what Persia might in the

Sequel resolve.
Wince Mensikors answer was very simple and judicious. He
merely recapitulatel what had been done by the Emperor of Rus-
sia, the consent given by Persia to the exchange of territory (men-
tioned in the Russian declaration of war), and the wish of his Ma-.
jesty the Emperor to maintain peace, and to consult the interest of
Persia. The Persian Minister did not receive this mite till the 30th
August (11th Septetnber), when Prince Mensikoff was monnting his
horse, to have the territory occupied by the enemy-, and to join our
troops. In this answer the Persian Minister held out a hope oldie com-
phance of the proposal to negotiate in a frontier town, and says not
a word of six weeks' flagrant hostilities and open war—of the Viola-
tion of our territory by an armed forte—bf the invasion of our
provinces beyond Elisabethpoi•—of the insurrection excited in all
the neighbouring countries among the Slahometan subjects of the
Emperor. It would be difficult to imagine a more flagrant instance
of bad faith.

We have received the Paris Papers of Wednesday,
and the Dille, dated Thursday. The iesiroel des Debate copies
from another Paper the accounts of the Russian army having passed
the Pruth on the 9th ult. This news is given upon the authority
Of a private letter from Brodi in Gafitsia.

By the Three Sisters, whish has. arrived at Cork,
Jamaica Papers have been received to the Bth September, two days
later than those of yesterday by the Packet, but they contain no
news from South America.
KINGSTON, 5.4.111111111111.
The rain and wind we learn were much more severe in the

I higher part of the adjoining parishes, than we expetieneed in the'
city. In the mountain district tbi plantation trees were in many 1
pans blown downs and the ripeTteit stripped kohl the Oahe trees ij

the-roads in the higher parts realse.d imps 'e fie tntellars
e'oneback.
• We have received=riipers to the 12th of
October, from which we extract the following
PROCLAMATION.
IT ma lITCZLLENCY 111 t 010DOR DON, &C. &C.
His Majesty being determined, in consonance with the state of
peace happily subsisting between Great Britain and the Powers of
Europe and America, to observe and cause to be observed, the
strictest neutrality towards all Belligerents, whose subjects or vessels
may frequent the ports dills Majesty's dominions, the Lieutenant-
Governor has been instructed by his Majesty's Secretary of State
for the Colonies, to make known these his Majesty's sentiments
within this Dependency. All subjects of any of the said Belligerents
are, therefore, hereby prohibited making the port of Gibraltar a
place of rendezvous for any warlike purpose, or with a view of ob-
taining facilities of equipment; and.further, are prohibited bringing
in (except in case of distress) any prize, or any part of the cargo of
prizes, which they may make on the commerce of their opponents;
and all persons residing in Gibraltar are hereby forbid, under pain
of his Majesty's high displeasure, aiding or abetting the armed ships
of any of the Belligerents in carrying on hostile operations against
the opposing party, should such armed ships attempt to rendezvous
in this port.
Given at Gibraltar, this 12th day of October, 11126-
G. DON, General and Lieutenant-Governor.
By Command, R. Mawrnr, Acting Civil Secretary.
At the date of the last letter. from: Capt. CLAPPIIII.
TON in the interior of Africa, be was within two days jo4-ney of the
place where Park was killed. The Niger, also, he adds, is onli two
days journey to the eastward ;And its course to the sea in the Bight
of Benin is no longer doubtful. Thus then we have at last the so-
lution of this important proUem. This termination of the Niger
would give it a singular course. The last journey of Captain Clap-
perton and Major Denham, though it did not actually discover the
source of the river, yet hemmed it in within very narrow limits on
the east; and if it terminates in the Bight of Benin, it must, from
what we know of its course eastward, make a remarkably sharp
turn to the south, in order to reach the Atlantic Ocean at this
point. There is nothing impossible in this, however. The coarse
of rivers is determinesi by.the nature of the grouted, by which they
maT be turned in any direction ; and if we have Captain Clapper-
ton s testimony to the fact, this of commends all further speculation.