[Footnote 89: Procopius represents the practice of the
Gothic court of Ravenna (Goth. l. i. c. 7;) and foreign
ambassadors have been treated with the same jealousy and
rigor in Turkey, (Busbequius, epist. iii. p. 149, 242, &c.,)
Russia, (Voyage D'Olearius,) and China, (Narrative of A. de
Lange, in Bell's Travels, vol. ii. p. 189 - 311.)]