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TO THE 
FOURTH EDITION. 
Intelligence has lately reached the author 
of a transaction connected with the First 
Part of these Travels, which is so highly 
honourable to the individual whom it concerns, 
and to the Sovereign whom he represented, 
that it is hoped every one, interested in 
the character of the British Nation in foreign 
countries, will be gratified by its insertion. It 
was conveyed in a Latin letter from the Capital 
of the Don Cossacks, written by Colonel Alexius 
Papof, president and director of all their 
scholastic institutions ; to the following purport. 
Sir Gore Ouseley being upon his return from 
Persia, where he had resided in his capacity of 
British Ambassador to the Court of the Shah, 
came to the Cossack Capital. Here he de- 
spatched a messenger to Colonel Papof, inviting 
