The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-11-28

,l,s rela,;ons of mutual kindness which are
,-,.hI;sbed between them since the eonclu-
SION If that act; the absence OF every sub
90 ,fserious difference; the mission with
which Major General Prince Menehikoff
has been charged to the Shah, to announce
TO him the accession of his Majesty the
Emperor to the throne, and to contract d
between the two nations rela-
tons of amity and good neighborhOod; the
which he received on his
arrival in the Persian territory; the res
poets which have been rendered to him
the amicable assurances which have been
SO lavishly made by the presumptive heir to
the Persian crown; all secured to predict
confirmation and continuance. But that TO
this mission the Court Of Teperan should
respond by a sudden attack; that these as
surances should be Immediately followed up
by war, without explanation, without pre-
vious declaration, without one pretext by
which it could be justified this is a Cir
cumstance- so strange, that the Imperial
Government cannot give credit to it, until
it shall receive full confirmation, and have
proved it's authenticity.
While, therefore, General Yermolof is
ordered to repel force by force, and to
purge our frontiers of the hordes which
have dared to overstep them, on the other
hand, solemn satisfaction will be demau-
lded of the Shah of Persia. Russiawill de-
mand of this Prince the immediate degra-
dation, and exemplary punishment, within
five days, of the commander who first vio-
lated her limits. If, contrary to all hope
this satisfaction should not be granted
General Yermoloff will forthwith move
I forward offensive operations will be COM
menced the justice of our cause will guar
ante the divine protection to our arms
and the chastisement will be signal, as the
perfedy and rashness of the crime.
The public will be regularly informed,
with scrupulous precision, of all which may
be communicated relative to the state of
things on the Persian side.
To the Editor O tile London Courier. :
SIR:-I again take the liberty of re-
Iucsring place in your columns, for the
same remarks which have been suggested
by the most recent intelligence from St.
Petersburgh. remain, sir, your very o.
bedient servant,
ROBERT LYALL.
IS, Haym0rket, Sept. 9, 1926.
Any individual ignorant of the Russian
Empire Of the character of its natives
of the perfidious policy of the autocrat cab
met, and Of the unbounded ambition Of
the Tzars, might justly suppose that this
nation was deeply aggrieved by the "ir-
ruption made by the Persians into several
parts of the Russian territory & the cant
in which we are informed "that the JUS
tice of their cause would ensure to their
arms the Divine protection" while it is a
proclamation of words and an insult to the
Deity might lead inst narsnn to infer
that Persia had acted with the greatest
wantonness, deceat, and treachery. Yet
such is the language of Russia nation
whose double-headed eagle has stretched
forth her talons to the north and to the
south, to the east and to the west, has
bounced upon her prey, and has held it
fast in the iron grasp of despotinl-of ma
ton which, for hundreds of years, has new
er been at rest, except for period suita-
bic to prepare her future means of attack,
and to await her projected aggrandizement
-of a nation which has added province to
province, principally to principality, and
kingdom to kingdom-in word, of a ma
ton which has engulphed every territory
which bordered its ancient frontiers.
With respect to Persia, facts tell US that
Russia has been insiduously seizing upon
her best provinces, in regular succession
that Gen. Yermoloff (who though but the
of the autocrat, may be al
most reckoned an absolute sovereign Of
the Caucaso Georgian provinces,) enter
tains the meanest opinions of Persia and Of
Persians as we'll as of their power-that in
the character of Ambassador to the Court
of the Shach, he behaved with the greatest
pride, and contempt, towards
all the constituted authorities; that he
boosted he was "the Ambassador of the
most poa0erful nation of the ,corld," (no
doubt forgetting that there was such an in-
significant empire as that Of Great Brittany
that in an animated discussion he dis
painfully threatened Mira Abdool We
hab, the Prime Minister of the Persian
Monarch, with the capture of the Persian
territory, as far as the Araxes-and that
ne scornfully remarked that he could even
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