'A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816. With a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf. Together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. K.L.S. With two maps, and engravings from the designs of the author.' [‎217] (260/516)

NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND PERSIA. SI?
not only have been an ornament to his country, but would have classed
with the best of men and the best of princes.
On our arrival at Tabriz, we found a Russian officer there, who had
been dispatched by the Russian Commander in Chief in Georgia, Ge
neral de RtischefF, to Sir Gore Ouseley, with letters, which contained
the wishes of the Russian government that a negotiation for peace
with Persia might be entered upon through British mediation. Some
recent disturbances in Georgia, favourable to their cause, had elated
the Persians so much, that they were not in a humour to listen to the
proposals which the Russians were inclined to make; but much being
still to be done through our interference, the Prince did not refuse the
Ambassador's wish of dispatching the Honourable Robert Gordon, in
company with the Russian officer, to Teflis, for the purpose of more
precisely ascertaining from General de Rtischeff what were the ulti
mate terms of Russia, and whether he had plenipotentiary powers
to treat. In one of our conferences with Mirza Bozurk, in which the
utility of Georgia to Persia as a possession was discussed, he made a
remark that was truly characteristic of an Asiatic logician. Taking
hold of his beard, he said, " This is of no use, but it is an ornament."
Not long after, we received letters from Mr. Gordon, at Teflis, in
forming the Ambassador that the General was invested with full powers
to negotiate; that he recommended an immediate armistice should
take place, to effect which he had ordered all incursions into the Per
sian territory to cease; and that he himself was ready to meet the
Prince on the frontier, for the purpose of entering upon the negotia
tion. When this letter came, I was dispatched by the Ambassador to
Abbas Mirza, who had been for some time encamped with part of his
army in the pasture of Yam, about eight fursungs from Tabriz, on the
road to Marand and Nakhjuwan.
I set off at sunset with two servants and a guide, and arrived at ten
o'clock at Soffian, where it was necessary to refresh myself and horses.
Carpets were spread for me at the top of the Ket Khoda's house, where
1 sat for an hour in the moonlight, refreshed by auh dough, a sort of
butter-milk; and three hours after we reached the Prince's camp, the
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