Gazette Of The United States

BAGDAD, December 29.

Every thing announces a speedy change in Persia which, influencing the powers, and especially the commerce of Asia, will interest the powers of Europe, but more particularly the Turks. Aga Mahomet Kan, an eunuch, having succeeded in defeating twice the young prince Lolo Ali Kan, and making himself master of Chiraz, as well as the treasures and families of the Grandees of Persia who were there, the latter retreated with the remains of his army to Kerman, where he has claimed the assistance of the Russians, promising to give them any advantages they pleased to ask. It appears that from these offers Russia has formed an idea of appropriating to herself the provinces she prefers, and several facts come in aid of this report. A Khan of Mazenderan, a partisan of Lolo Ali Kan, having marched with some troops to the Ghilan, the Russians, to the number of 1500, coming by the way of Astracan, disembarked and joined him, and took possession of Becht, which is the capital of Ghilan. We learn besides from Tiflis, the capital of Georgia, that prince Heraclius expected two Russian regiments, with which and his own Georgian troops he intended to enter the provinces of Shirvan and Aderbaijan; this prince is entirely at the order of the Russian court. It appears every where hereabouts that the Russians have really an intention of making an irruption into Persia.