pany the single division, will continue until the emigrants shall have arrived within the limits of our province. In order to fix on the spots which are to be assigned to the emigrants, for the furnishing of all possible aid and cooperation in the settlement, a Special Committee will be established, with the Provisional Government of Erivan, under whose guidance each division of the Armenians who have emigrated will be placed immediately on reaching our territories. From this Committee expresses will be sent to each division, who will accompany the wanderers, with the overseer attached to it, to the place of its destination. In Karabagh this will be entrusted to the care of the Superintendent of the district, Abchasow.

18. When you shall have entirely terminated your duties, you will be pleased to send in a detailed report of your proceedings, and especially an account of the sums which will be expended by yourself and your officers.

PASKEWITSCH.

PROCLAMATION OF COLONEL LAZAREW

ΤΟ

THE ARMENIANS.

(In the Armenian Language.)

CHRISTIANS !

Ir has come to my knowledge, that evil disposed persons endeavour not only to spread false and unfounded news, but even to inspire with great alarm those who wish to emigrate to the blessed Russia, thereby attempting to deter you from accomplishing the fond wish of your hearts.

In order to put an end to all this, I hereby declare, as well in virtue of the commission entrusted to me by the General, as on account of the attachment I bear to my countrymen, that the magnanimous autocrat of all the Russias will grant to those who desire to emigrate tranquil, peaceful, and happy dwellings in his extensive empire.

In the districts of Erivan, Nakshivan, and Karabagh, which you will choose for your settlement, you will be furnished with rich and fruitful fields, which are already in part sown; and of the produce of which you will only have to give the tenth to the Government. For six years you will moreover be exempt from all imposts; and those who are very needy shall even be supported.

Those who, after having settled their families, may have left behind them in Persia their fields and other immoveable goods, may, according to the stipulations of the Peace of

Turcomanchai, appoint, during a period of five years, people to sell them. A note of the name and the number of the goods that you leave behind shall be immediately sent by me to the agent accredited to the Crown Prince, Abbas Mirza, in order that they may be placed under the protection of His Imperial Majesty, whose subjects you will become. From Russia you may expect perfect toleration for all your religious usages; all other subjects of the Emperor enjoy the same rights as the Russians themselves. Here you will forget all the sorrow you have endured! Here, amongst Christians, you will find a new home, and never behold the holy faith oppressed! Here you will live under the shadow of the laws, and ever feel their beneficent influence! Here, in a word, you will find a blissful lot, and the little that you lose will be restored to you a hundred fold. True it is, you leave the paternal hearth which is dear to every man but reflect that you are inhabitants of the kingdom of Christ, and that you must ever bear in your remembrance the great home where all mankind shall meet.

Christians! scattered in the different provinces, you will henceforth, by God's assistance, be united in one spot,- and know ye how the autocrat of all the Russias will reward your devotion ? *

Hasten, then, oh, my friends; the time is precious; our armies will soon leave the Provinces of Persia. When this is done, many impediments may, perhaps, oppose your progress, and we shall be deprived of the means of supporting

* This appears to be an allusion to a certain sort of independence which the Armenians would be allowed to enjoy in Russia, which, however, it was by no means the intention of Russia to grant. But, in honour of the Armenian nation, the Chanats of Erivan and Nakshivan received, by an Imperial Rescript on the 17th of March, 1828, the name of the Province of Armenia.

and protecting you during the emigration. Sacrifice a little, and shortly you will richly possess all again, and that

for ever more.

(Signed)

CHASAROS LAZAREW,

Colonel and Cavalier of the Emperor of Russia.

30th March, 1828. In the Town of Ormi.

[In our next Number we shall give the Report of Colonel Lazarew of the manner in which he executed the commission entrusted to him, by which the reader will have an opportunity of judging of the humanity, political expediency, and results of this extraordinary measure.]

RUSSIAN MANIFESTO.

[It will be seen by the following Proclamation that the Emperor of Russia has ordered a general levy throughout the whole of his extensive empire, with the exception of two districts, in the proportion of five recruits to every thousand male inhabitants.]

St. Petersburg, August 24, 1836.

PROCLAMATION OF THE EMPEROR.

Desiring to facilitate to our subjects the fulfilment of their respective duties, and the execution of the regulations relative to conscriptions, we have thought proper to abolish in time of peace the general levy, replaced, by the manifesto of the 4th of August, 1834, by particular levies distributed between the two parties of the empire. After having established these general orders, our solicitude was directed towards the condition of the sub-officers and soldiers of our army, and we resolved to soften it, as much as possible, by abridging the time required for active service. To assure this result, we ordered that all soldiers or subofficers who had served twenty years without having incurred censure, either in the active troops or in the army of reserve, should have the right to