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PARTING WITH GENERAL YARMOLLOFF. 
general took leave of his countrymen, and myself We looked 
after him, till the turning of the road shut him from our view, 
with those feelings of gratitude, and lively personal regard, the 
full extent of which can only be experienced in circumstances 
like these; in countries, far from a man’s natural friends; where 
services are offered, and accepted ; and those bestowed, not with 
the cold and niggard hand of formal office, but with the open 
and the kindly heart: the disposition, that receives a countryman, 
like a friend; and a stranger, like a countryman. Such was the 
man, to whom we had just bidden farewell. And being, in every 
other respect, liberal in his views, no one can be better adapted to 
the high station he holds in this country. His graciousness secures 
to him gratitude, and confidence, from the persons of all nations, 
to whom he is kind and serviceable; for this talent of gaining 
the heart is the first step to opening it. A churlish and penu¬ 
rious representative, abroad, of any great empire, may, therefore, 
be regarded rather as an enemy, who, by such vices, undermines 
the interests he was sent to promote, than as a faithful minister, 
whose first object should be the service, and extended influence, 
of the state which employs him. General Yarmolloff is, in every 
respect, what such a representative ought to be. And, by per¬ 
fectly understanding the people he is delegated to govern; their 
originally natural dispositions, and the contrary habits they have 
acquired, under contradictory oppressions; he manages both, 
with a greatness of aim, a gentleness in the means, and, at the 
same time, so unswerving a steadiness, that the proud and gloomy 
Georgians are daily becoming more sensible to the advantage of 
their own laws being exercised by such a foreign hand. It is natural 
that the mind should linger after old associations ; should, in re¬ 
membering times of past distinction, under brave and generous 
