"سرد لإقامة في كردستان وفي موقع نينوى القديمة؛ مع مذكرات رحلة إلى بغداد عبر نهر دجلة ووصف زيارة إلى شيراز وبرسبوليس." [‎١‎٨‎٠] (٤٥٠/٢١٥)

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GREEK INSURRECTION.
[LET. I
was done before he had got my public reports, or
had heard of the Pasha's ultimate aggressions; so
we may every day expect something important.
My spirits are much raised by Lord Stranglord s
conduct.
The Russian war turns out to be a Greek insur
rection, which will however very likely terminate in
one. Poor Scanavi* and his good-natured son-in-
law have been put to death at Constantinople, with
the Patriarch, many Greeks oi distinction, and a
crowd of others ot less note.
The Kiahya of Bagdad is gone out with an army
towards Kizzelroobat, to watch the Koords and Per
sians.
I am delighted by the way in which our young
friend Taylor comes forward to assist me, and he is
a very efficient assistant.
I have written till my brain is quite addled ; I
have been in a continual bustle since the arrival ot
the packet. I shall give your packet separate to
Captain Hill, of the Bombay merchant; he intends
getting under way to-night ; he is already in the
outer roads. There is a bare chance that he may
" I should not have thought of troubling your Lordship on this
affair, had 1 not learned, from good authority, the Turkish Charge
d'Affaires in London will probably be instructed to lay it before
his Majesty's government."
* He was governor of Cracovia in Wallachia, when we passed
through it in the year 1814, on our way from Constantinople to
Vienna; and we were most hospitably entertained by this gentle
man and his family.— Ed.