Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-09-26
A." 14/pabam, SEPTEMBER e.

"44lpabam, September g.
" Agreeable to my Promfe, | tranttnit
you thort account of our Journey from
Shiraz to this place. We lei, Sh iraz on
the 9Th inf. and the roads and country
through which we paaed were excellent
generally leading through large extenfve
plains, OF a rich foil; but the traces Of
irduitry, CT the cultivating hand Of the
farmer, were evidently wanting, owiog
probably from the fcarcity of water, hu,
fill more 70 for the want of population.
On our way from Shiraz we viG,cd the
ruins OF the once celebrated city OF Psrfe-
polls bu, as we only continued there ore
day, we had bur very curtory view of it
yet Gill fufhcien, to forcibly imrrsS on tie
mino an idea of its former grarduer. Our
reception at Ifpahan was truly n,agn s.
cent the Berlerbeg's brother and fen, at
tended by nearly ten thoufaDd trccrs,
marched out the diRance Of eight miles
to meet US. and if | may be permitted &c
Judge from appearances, there ruf have
been not lels than thirty thouiand ipetta-
tors attended TO witneis the novelty oil
the fight. We have not yet paid Witt
to the city, but it pears to be Of in
menfe ex ent, and its whole arresr"ree &
notes the capital Of grea, and ext nfive
empire. One Of the palaces 9: ths SET
feiran Monsrchs is fitted up for cur 'ecep-
,ion, and we ihall take potIeGcn Of il .o-
morrow or next day; at prefent we are
encamped on the banks Of the river I ii.
derood, to the weAward Of the city. The
Beglerbsrs, Haiy Mahomend Hufan
Khan, has juis paid us vift; he is d re-
narkable pleafant old man, faid to be ex-
,remely rich, and made On elegant ard
and lhowy appearance in his drefs and
rquipage, We Propofc to leave this in
about 10 days, ard expect to be at the
Imperial Stirrup 1T about. three weeks al
forwards, at fartheN."
The number of capital convictions in
England is increadrg in mott alarming
degree. The EHgIiih p:pers ere Literally
crowded with accounts ct trials fc, mur-
ders, burglaries, &c. Who can read the
following remarks of Lord Kenyon, made
at the Chelmsford aG yes, without rain?
In the dfcharge Of my public duty,
l yeaetday was obliged to 90 'hr Ugh the
painful office of pronouncirs iensrce ct
death againa II prforers, accuied and
convicted of enormous crimes. This day
prefents 10 me 70 pr;fcners of tie flne
deicripsion. God krows it is Horrible
exhibition, and fuel, in pretty long
courfe of lie, dedicated TO the duties OF
painful protection, as / never have met
with. For ferries of years.. the Judges
OF this country have tried what mercy would
do, and whether humanity, aimo't @n-
6oandfdbxmanity, weuld reform the world,
would reform mankind, over Whole att'-
OBS it is their duty to watch. Iha; mer-
cy and that humanity have had no efetr.
The tables mutt now be turned, and
it mutt be leen what rigorous execution
of the laws can do, and whether puniih-
ment of delinquents will have fuch an Ell
feet, and hold our fuch an example to o.
theirs, as to bring them back to the paths
of truth and virtue. or keep them in fuch
cour4e as, to lead better lives. lou itana
here dreadful victims of the law you have
violated; and ! ought to remind allot soo,
that the ientence I am bourd TO pats upon
you, is but trivial to that which you NUT
meet withat the ! hrone Of Goo, unleis
you make ule Of the hort time thu, gillhe
allotted toyou in this word, ii, making
your peace with him, and betterrg yoor
lives for the fmall remn ant that remains
fhaIl have difchsrged my duty, when !
remind you 70 to do, and pats on you The
dreadful fentence of the law, which Is,
that yaa, asd each Of gar, be je0e'0ie)
t1I<s IL The bioce firm. 1rkeEee scr cane