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had happened, that as soon as the General was gone, he ordered his 
master of ceremonies to be bastinadoed almost to death. 
Finding that the formal or diplomatic meeting of the Prince and the 
Commander-in-Chief was not possible, the Russians proposed that 
each party should send a Plenipotentiary, who should meet at Aslan- 
dous, on the banks of the Araxes. To this the Persians consented; and 
Mirza Abul Cossim, the Prince’s Vizier, was appointed on the part of 
the Persians: and it was also decided, that I should proceed imme¬ 
diately to the Russian camp, communicate with the Commander-in- 
Chief, and then return to the place of congress with his Plenipo¬ 
tentiary. 
I was accompanied by the treasurer of the Embassy, who was an 
Armenian of Teflis, by ten privates of the horse artillery, and by ten 
men of the Prince’s cavalry. 
