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MURDER OF MR. BROWN. 
him on horseback behind one of the robbers, carried him still farther 
away. They gave up his gun, pistols, clothes, box of books, astrono¬ 
mical instruments, &c. which were brought back to us by the servants; 
but took from him 200 tomauns in gold. 
The Ambassador, immediately lipon hearing of this melancholy oc¬ 
currence, informed the Persian Government of what had happened, 
demanding that an active search should be made for the robbers. He 
also sent persons to the spot, in order to endeavour to trace their steps; 
but all that could be found were remains of clothes, near the Kizzil 
Ozan, which made us suppose that the murder was perpetrated near 
its banks, and the body thrown into the river. Suspicions fell upon 
many persons, the strongest upon the Shahisevends, a tribe who 
inhabit the country bordering upon the Kizzil Ozan; but we found it 
so difficult to fix the crime upon any particular set of men, without in¬ 
curring the evil of making punishment fall upon the innocent, that our 
researches for the offenders were, after all, attended with no success. 
During his stay at Tabriz, Mr. Brown, with the assistance of Captain 
Monteith, of the Madras engineers, and Mr. Snodgrass, of the Bom¬ 
bay army, endeavoured to settle the longitude of Tabriz, which they 
reduced to 47° 17' 46 " east of Greenwich, a meridian which I have 
adopted in my sketch of Aderbigian. 
The negotiations with the Russians had hitherto been mostly carried 
on by letter. But at length it was settled, that Plenipotentiaries from 
both nations should again meet, for the purpose of adjusting a preli¬ 
minary treaty of peace. General de Rtischeff, the Governor General 
of Georgia, was to act on the part of Russia; and Mirza Abul Hassan 
Khan was appointed on the part of the Shah. Gulistan in the Kara 
Bagh was the place of meeting. 
Affairs were in this state of forwardness, when a Russian Major, the 
principal Aide-du-camp of General de Rtischeff, escorted by a detach¬ 
ment of Don Cossacks, arrived at Tabriz, deputed on the part of the 
General to conduct the Persian Plenipotentiary to the place of con¬ 
ference. Some discussions being still necessary to the final adjustment 
