ADVERTISEMENT 
that officer to his presence. Upon the Colonel's 
arrival, Sir Gore Ouseley proceeded to state, that, 
“ as the Representative of a British Sovereign, 
he conceived it to be his duty to acknowledge 
the disinterested hospitality shewn by the 
Colonel, and by the Cossacks in general, to those 
English travellers who had visited Tcherkask; 
and therefore he begged to bestow upon his 
family such a mark of his gratitude as it was 
then in his power to offer.” Having accompanied 
this declaration with a handsome present, Sir 
Gore further gratified his guest, by translating, 
from this work, all those passages which related 
either to himself, or to his countrymen; until 
the worthy Cossack, as he is kind enough to 
confess, “ shed tears of delight.” 
In relating a circumstance of this nature, an 
author may easily be credited when he pro- 
fesses himself not to be more indifferent to the 
honour thereby conferred upon his work, than 
to its general success 1 ; but no author will 
(I) Notwithstanding a ferocious attack made upon it in an American 
Review , it has passed through Three Editions in that country. The 
Agents for the Russian Government caused the article which appeared 
in the American Review, said to be written by a Russian, to be re- 
printed, and inserted in one of the minor Journals of England. An 
allusion 
